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Skills gaps still present a major barrier for small local charities and community organisations across the UK, with more training still cited as a solution to the problem. However as one size will not fit all, the challenge for umbrella support bodies who provide training is to flex their delivery models to meet the needs of small and local charities and community groups. We must come together to offer a blended learning experience, meeting the needs of those who live in well-connected urban centres to those who live and work in rural settings, to respond to the requirements of paid staff and the differing
requirements of volunteers, and to those who prefer or require distance learning to those who seek face to face support. Read the Small Charity Skills Survey 18/19.
- Skills areas with the poorest performance ratings include lobbying (57%), government relations (54%) and the latest HR laws (52%).
- Skills areas which respondents rated strongly include basic IT skills (76%), organisational skills (76%) and people management (72%).
- Fundraisers remain the most challenging vacancy to recruit for, according to 23% of small charities.
- Salary is the most commonly cited barrier to why vacancies are hard to fill, identified by 18% of respondents.
- In fundraising, legacy fundraising (72%), online fundraising (70%) and major donor fundraising (69%) were the top three categories in need of most upskilling by small charities.
- Trustee governance (28%) was selected as the area that most needed upskilling amongst trustees.
- 75% of small charities believe trustees ought to play an active role in fundraising, while only 46% actually do play an active role.
- Within financial management, 36% believed fundraising required the most development.
- Business planning (28%) was identified as the area requiring most upskilling by management specialists.
- Within the field of public policy, 57% indicated lobbying as requiring the greatest upskilling.
- Website development (43%) was selected as needing further upskilling the most within IT.
- First aid was indicated by 27% of respondents as requiring further upskilling within Health and Safety.
- In marketing and communications, structuring communication plans was identified by 50% of respondents as needing upskilling.
- Securing resources (36%), such as sponsorship and income, was selected as the area requiring greatest upskilling by respondents in project management roles.
- Lack of funding for training and development (64%) and lack of time available for employees to attend training (51%) remain as the primary causes for skills gaps within their small charity.
- The main impacts of skills gaps identified were an increased workload for colleagues (48%), increased time to
deliver work (45%) and decreased ability to take on new work (42%).
- The most common action believed to be the best solution, and also taken to address skills gaps, was further training provision (47%).
- Only 16% perceived using volunteers instead of paid employees as a solution, yet 36% took this as an action to address skills gaps.
- The majority (69%) reported having a formal business plan, but only 15% have an annual training plan linked to the business plan.
As previously stated, they support those most in need and so must be supported themselves to continue to carry out the services they deliver. Both government and other public funders should take action to ensure that they give these charities the opportunity to be self sustaining through investment in building their capacity to thrive, part of which is the development of skills across the sector.
1) Government and other public funders to take the lead by demonstrating long-term commitment to affordable skills development and capacity building.
It has been proven time and time again that smaller charities and community groups are a clear route to accessing and supporting the needs of the most vulnerable in our society. Government and other funders, especially the vital Trusts, Foundations, Livery Companies and other private funders, play a vital role in ensuring the health of civil society and their ability to make long-term funding commitments is therefore crucial. We ask Government and private funders to invest in developing the skills of smaller charities to ensure their future.
2) Infrastructure organisations to come together to work collaboratively to ensure that the support they offer is connected, easily identified and accessible tailored to meet the diverse needs of smaller organisations. This should include a blend of face to face and remote learning so that smaller organisations who are not able to access face to face learning are also afforded opportunities to develop skills.
Together infrastructure bodies can offer so much more and can ensure that more small charities are aware of the support that is available to them. We urge all infrastructure organisations to come together to share their programmes to ensure that as many small charities as possible are offered the opportunity to participate in skills development.
3) Trustees of smaller charities make a commitment to the organisational and personal development of both staff and volunteers withing their charities.
We cannot expect others to invest in us if we do not take every opportunity to invest in ourselves. We urge trustees to lead their organisation by making budgets available for trustee, staff and volunteer training. We urge those working in small charities to use all opportunities whether that be formal training or skills sharing between organisations, to increase their knowledge and skills.
- The report states that 952 small charities responded to the first 6 surveys – a total of 952 responses were received from 433 individual charities, as the data was collected through 6 different surveys.
- Section 2 'Fundraising' received significantly higher responses (1,625 total from 810 individual charities) as it was collected from attendees at FSI training through existing pre-training survey mechanisms.


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Hardboiled Eggs
To cook hardboiled eggs with no green ring around the yolk (which occurs when the egg is cooked for too long or at too high a temperature), place the eggs in a pan large enough to hold them in a single layer and cover them with cold water by an inch. Bring to a boil, and as soon as the water boils, cover the pan and remove it from the heat. Let the eggs sit in the covered pan for about 15 minutes, then peel. (Thanks, Jane!)
Marcella spends several months a year in the Colorado Rockies at about 7500 feet. Because water boils at a lower temperature at altitude, you must keep the egg in the hot water for a longer period of time. At 7500 feet, add about half again as much time, so keep the egg in the water for between 20-25 minutes. You will have to experiment at different altitudes.
Fresher eggs are harder to peel, so try to use older eggs when hard-boiling.


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Novolac Epoxy Resins:
Novolac epoxy resins generally contain multiple epoxide groups. The number of epoxide groups per molecule depends upon the number of phenolic hydroxyl groups in the starting phenolic novolac resin, the extent to which they reacted and the degree of low molecular species being polymerised during synthesis. The multiple epoxide groups allow these resins to achieve high cross-link density resulting in excellent temperature, chemical and solvent resistance. Novolac epoxy resins are widely used to formulate the moulding compounds for microelectronics packaging because of their superior performance at elevated temperature, excellent mouldability, and mechanical properties, superior electrical properties, and heat and humidity resistance.
Resins for flooring
Almost 90 % of epoxy resins used for industrial epoxy flooring are Bisphenol A epoxies.Novolac epoxy resins have greatly improved chemical and heat resistance compared to the much more common Bis A epoxies.They have higher heat distortion temperatures. Generally Bis A epoxies will begin to soften in the 50-70 degree °C range. Novolac epoxies initially raise this value by about 14 degrees °C. All epoxies will reharden when the elevated temperatures fall below this transition temperature. However, Bis Novolac epoxies will continue to cure when exposed to temperatures of about 65 degrees °C for a few hours. After this 'additional curing' they generally can withstand about 150 degrees °C (dry environment) without problems.
The chemical resistance test shows that epoxy floor made with good quality Bis A epoxy are persistant to 70% sulfuric acid and epoxy floor laid with novolac epoxy are persistant to 98% sulfuric acid. Because of all this improved characteristics Novolac epoxy resins are much more expensive than regular epoxies.
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A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Joinery
What is Japanese Joinery?
Centuries before the invention of screws and fasteners, Japanese carpentries created their own beautiful and effective woodworking joints (known as joinery), closely related to Japanese architecture. It is the work of tightly slotting together pieces of timber or lumber to hold together and produce more complicated items. Joinery does not require materials such as stitching, glue, and nails because of the elaborately carved interlocking wooden joints.
The advantages of having Japanese joinery is the fact that they are incredibly durable, tough, flexible, visually appealing and material efficient. These characteristics depend on the properties of the materials involved and the purpose of the joint, with many diverse types of joinery for meeting differing requirements. For example, the joinery used to construct a house is different from what would be used to make furniture, granting some joinery designs overlap.
The four Japanese carpentry professions
Though all Japanese carpenters follow the same practise, they can be split up into four different and distinct woodworking professions. Their experience with various forms of joinery, as well as the wide variety of joints they craft, and the tools they use to make them separate out the different types of carpentry. The four professions are listed below:
Miyadaiku 宮大工
Here the carpenters practice the construction of Japanese shrines and temples, which is known for their use of elaborate joints to make well-structured and extremely long lasting structures. In fact, these buildings they construct are frequently found among the world's longest surviving wooden structures.
Sukiya-daiku 数奇屋大工
These carpenters are more famed for their particularly delicate and aesthetic constructions. They typically construct treehouses and residential type structures, such as staircases and window frames.
Tateguya 建具屋
These people are interior finishing carpenters who build shōji 障子 (Japanese sliding doors). They also create carved, small wooden wall decorations that are known as ranma 欄間.
Sashimono-shi 指し物師
These carpenters are similar to Tateguya but they craft more general furniture such as sofas, chairs, cabinets and more.
So why has this joinery now become so insanely popular?
Japanese joinery has recently resurfaced thanks to the digital age and the mesmerising GIFs that we now have the technology to create. Because of the incredible beauty of the joinery designs, and how incredibly fascinating and satisfying these GIFs are, you'll see for yourself why they've gone viral.
Check them out! Below we've collated some of the coolest designs for you to ogle at. Pretty cool, huh?
A big factor towards the popularity is the mystery element of Japanese joinery. Even until recent times, the techniques for making certain joinery designs were kept a fiercely guarded secret of family carpentry guilds, and away from public knowledge.
However, several years ago, a young Japanese man who had a passion for Japanese joinery collected joinery books from all over the world to gain more understanding about them. Sadly, he found that the books were not helpful because the two-dimension stills made it difficult to visualise how the joints come together.
So then he came up with a solution, using all of the books he found he used his woodworking experience to create three-dimensional, clear to understand illustrations in a program called Fusion360. These animations created a satisfying and easy way for the public to appreciate how these joinery designs work, and now the world can visualise them for the first time ever.
This young Japanese man solved the mystery of Japanese joinery and now we get to see the incredible art that goes into this beautiful and intriguing carpentry. You can see his full collection of joinery illustrations on his Twitter: _USER_
Although having revealed the secrets of the Japanese joinery trade, the carpenter himself remains an unnamed mystery.
The man behind the revolution though has hopes that Japanese joinery will always be a popular way to create structures, and in sharing some of the techniques online has ignited further passion in the joinery industry.
The complex cuts needed to create these joints have traditionally been too expensive to use in standard homes for structural building or furniture. However, with the constant rise in technology and 3D-printing techniques, not only will it be more affordable and reliable, it will continue to get easier to create complex forms with digital designing software.
Enjoy this article? Share this new trend and be part the innovation! Or if you share one of the cool designs above, include our handle _USER_ so we can see which you liked the most!
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In this article, we will learn the calibration procedure to calibrate temperature transmitter thermocouple.
Where higher-temperature measurement is required thermocouple is used. The thermocouple is not as accurate as RTD but very efficient in measuring high temperature.
In this article, we will be discussing calibration of the thermocouple.
Equipment required for calibration :
1. Temperature transmitter
2. Power supply
4. Millivolt source (Documenting process calibrator) or can use a temperature bath with 10-time accurate reference.
Do the connection as shown in the below figure,
Put ammeter in series to measure milliamps. Here millivolt source is used to source mV. The transmitter converts that mV to mA which is then measured by the ammeter.
Let assume our calibration range is between 0-200 degree Celcius
now to feed mV we can calculate mV for K-type thermocouple by using below formula,
mV = °C * 0.0416
If we want mV at 100°C temperature then,
mV = 100 * 0.0416
= 4.16 mV
Like this way, we can calculate for our 5 points 0, 50, 100, 150 and 200.
Now we know the value of mA corresponding to the temperature. If any error exists in reading then connect HART in parallel and trim the input or output or if there is the only error in between zero and span then adjust that screw to match it with mA.


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New brazing alloys improve thermal barrier in jet engine hot section
Material scientists and ceramics component manufacturers have been developing new materials and processes that let engines run hotter and hotter in response to the aerospace industry's focus on higher performance and lower costs.
In gas turbine engines a large amount of air from the compressor is used to cool the turbine vane and blades. The amount of air needed is determined by turbine temperature and the materials that need to be cooled. If the turbine materials need less cooling or can be made from materials that can withstand higher temperatures, this would make more air available for propulsion. Increasing the turbine's temperature capability is thus key to improving engine efficiency. However, engines run hotter as processing temperature is increased, and this increased heat tends to degrade metals.
Inside turbines, pre-sintered preforms (PSPs) are being used to repair vanes that are breaking down due to excessive heat and wear. PSPs, with a small amount of braze alloy mixed with the parent metal, are used primarily in the turbine section for repairing vane cracks and wear areas. As temperatures continue to climb in these zones, new materials and technologies are being developed to create a better thermal barrier. This is expected to significantly lower maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) costs. Examples include the development of advanced braze alloys, the use of ceramics on high temperature metal to ceramic components, and the introduction of active brazing, which allows metal to be bonded directly to ceramic without metallization. Braze alloys developed for high temperature applications
Braze alloys are used in a variety of advanced military aircraft and commercial aerospace engine components and grades are being developed that directly bond ceramic to metal or other materials. Alloy compositions vary and include those designed for functional use in very high-temperature applications (750-850°C).
Alloys are selected to meet the specific service temperature conditions as well as the requirements of all the components to be joined. Examples include alloys used in new turbine hot sections, brazing silicon nitride ceramic to new super alloy engine parts. See Table 1
for an overview of available braze alloys, showing the engine part it is used in and the component/base material.
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Graphology: Sexual deviations as seen in handwriting, by Marie Bernard
, a German born artist, psychologist and graphologist, who wrote on a usually not much dealt with topic.
The large and thick tom demonstrates through many samples of famous people how sexual deviations can be recognized through their handwriting.
Sexual conflicts, problems, deviations, disturbances and feelings of one's own self in relation to sexuality can be detected through handwriting and the reader can learn something about what are the tell tale signs and graphic syndromes.
It is important to note that while the book was written, homosexuality was still treated as deviation, while today it is no longer understood to be that way by the DCM IV, the "catalogue" of psychiatric disorders. Marie Bernard herself recognizes this by an opening remark about how it is not important whom we love, but how well we do.
Many of the samples, which include well known figures, artists, poets of the past as well as of unknown writers, do belong to homosexuals; hence the term "Deviation" has better be ignored. Instead the reader is advised to simply learn how homosexuality, just like any other human personality dynamic and structure, is seen through the handwriting.
Names to be found in the books along with many photos, samples and even work of arts are Maurice Bejart the famous dancer and French ballet and opera director and choreograph, Nijinsky the famous ballet dancer, the painter John Singer Sargent, the American writer Nethaniel Hawthorne, the French writer Collette, the singer Liberace, Marcel Proust the French writer and even Michealangelo. Marie Bernard uses the to show how indeed sexuality in its quirkiness and differences finds expression in the handwriting, an ultimate show of mental and physical expression.
Marie Bernard deals with her subjects with wisdom and love without undue judgement and prejudice.
Published by The Whitston Publishing Company, 1990 NY


Until February 11, 2020, the Government had regulated or notified 37 categories of medical devices as drugs,
On February 11, 2020, the government exercised its powers to notify one or more categories of medical devices as "drug" to actually notify a new definition of medical devices. As per the notification, effective April 1, 2020, the medical devices that fall under the following definition will be regulated as "drug" under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Medical Devices Rules, 2017:
 1. Diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of any disease or disorder;
 2. Diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation or assistance for, any injury or disability;
 3. Investigation, replacement or modification or support of the anatomy or of a physiological process;
 4. Supporting or sustaining life;
 5. Disinfection of medical devices; and
 6. Control of conception.
The above new definition is intended to cover all medical devices, as per technical discussions that preceded the notification of the above definition. Thus, by virtue of this definition, all medical devices sold in India will come to be regulated by DCA and MDR from April 1, 2020, when the definition takes effect.


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Marine Litter is a global problem affecting the world's oceans. State of the art techniques are needed for the detection and quantification of floating marine plastics and remote sensing can be particularly useful for monitoring large areas. As the scientific community works towards the specification of sensors for the monitoring of marine litter, there is a direct need for marine debris indicators for the detection, classification, quantification and tracking of marine litter.
Detection of marine litter with remote sensing datasets is essential, and proof-of-concept studies have demonstrated the classification of the marine plastics in the laboratory and in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using hyperspectral imaging. Remote sensing is one of the tools necessary for the detection of floating marine plastics because of the extensive area coverage and frequent observation. While floating plastics are reported in high concentrations in many places around the globe, no referencing dataset exists either for understanding the spectral behavior of plastics in the real environment, or for calibrating remote sensing algorithms and validating their results. To tackle this problem, we initiated the Plastic Litter Projects (PLP), with the objective to construct large artificial targets and to deploy them on the sea surface. The PLP's scope is:
The first PLP was conducted in 2018 (PLP2018) as an innovative exploratory application of open-access satellite imagery and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) data for the remote detection of floating marine plastics in natural waters. Three large artificial 10×10 m plastic targets were designed and constructed, matching the Sentinel-2 RGB and NIR bands spatial resolution. During the second PLP (PLP2019), 10 smaller targets were created in order to be closer to reality and to examine the limitations of the detection with Sentinel-2 images. In PLP2020 we worked towards creating a reference target for the scientific community, and extending deployment duration in real conditions with the construction of semi-permanent targets. In PLP2021 we will test our reference target for its duration in real environment. A dedicated mooring system will anchor the plastic target in our new experiment position, in Gera Gulf, Lesvos Island, Greece.
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ASPIRE Centre for Disability Sciences
This research group investigates the basic science of movement, not just in humans but many species. By understanding the underlying mechanisms of movement, and the extremes in performance that different species have evolved, the Centre can also develop ways to maximise performance in humans through conditioning and training. The team have developed a wide range of performance measuring devices that can be used in the field to study the movements of animals ranging from ostriches to kangaroos to elephants, in their natural environments. The technologies they have developed are now being used to study the challenges faced by people with disabilities in our built environment. These technologies can also be used to enable people to live independently and safely at home in so-called "Smart Houses".
Disability Biomechanics and Systems Integration
A key focus of this group is the prevention of secondary complications of disabilities, particularly spinal cord injury. The Centre has four main areas of research at present:
Pressure ulcer prevention
Although people with spinal cord injury face particular risks for developing pressure ulcers, this problem is in fact much larger, with as many as 20% of inpatients in district general hospitals throughout Europe and beyond experiencing pressure ulcers. The ACDS team is tackling the problem on several fronts:
- Development of new methods for measuring the properties of cushions and mattresses and understanding how these properties influence pressure ulcer risk. Recent work has included using a new technology (radiographic stereo analysis, RSA) for modelling the internal stresses within cushions and tissues so that the effective of particular materials and designs can be accurately predicted.
- Using advance pressure mapping and spectroscopic methods assess how the configuration of profiling beds and tilt in space wheelchairs affect vulnerable tissues.
- Using new opto-electronic technologies we are developing methods for assessing pressure ulcer risk so that resources can be directed to help patients at greatest risk for developing pressure ulcers.
Immediately after a spinal cord injury, bone density begins to diminish below the level of injury. The loss can be as great of 40% a year or two after injury. Research at ACDS is investigating the underlying mechanisms to determine whether in addition to inactivity, changes in blood flow to the bone associated with spinal cord injury, influences the rate of bone density loss. In an initiative led by the past ASPIRE Chair, Professor Ferguson-Pell, ACDS in collaboration with UCL and RNOH has created a unique facility for studying bone density using a combination of DXA and pQCT scanners. ACDS research physiotherapist, Zillah Bloomer, is currently studying the effects of vibration and intermittent pneumatic compression to determine if they modify bone blood flow and the rate of loss of bone density in newly injury people with spinal cord injury.
Over-use injuries associated with wheelchair propulsion
ACDS has created a unique in UK facility for the measurement and assessment of wheelchair users and their carers. There is extensive evidence that shows that prolonged over-exertion during wheelchair propulsion can result in chronic damage to the shoulder joint and other structures. The research team, which includes clinical researchers Lynne Hills (OT) and Lone Rose (PT), have developed new ways to assess whether individual wheelchair users are excessively stressing their upper limbs. They are investigating measures to reduce the risks of injury associated with long term wheelchair use. Studies are also underway, led by research PT Helena Palmer, to investigate whether children with spinal injuries are generating even higher stresses in their shoulder that adults, due to their lower strength and, in relative terms, the greater proportion of the weight they have to propel associated with their wheelchair.
PhD student Catherine Holloway, working with Professor Nick Tyler (Head of Civil Engineering at UCL), is studying how to improve the safety of carers and wheelchair occupants where the carer is propelling the wheelchair. There are significant risks for accidents in the built environment when wheelchair is pushed by a carer. These studies are identifying the risks and how to reduce them by improving the design of the built environment and also the design of carer-propelled wheelchairs. Central to this work is a simulated pedestrian research lab called PAMELA, that has been established by UCLs Civil Engineering Department.
Measuring muscle activity and composition
Measurement of muscle activity at complex structures such as the shoulders presents particularly challenging problems because the muscles are small, interwoven and deep within the joint structures. Traditional EMG is very limited for measuring muscle activity in these situations as the surface electrodes are too big to detect each muscle uniquely. Wire electrodes are invasive and may not give clear information about the functioning of the whole muscle, only perhaps muscle tissue in the immediate vicinity of the fine wire. Research student Liping Qi is studying a new technique for measuring muscle activity call acoustic myography. Minute microphones are used to "listen" to the stretching of the muscles, The sounds they make when analysed using a sophisticated technique called wavelet analysis may provide much better spatial discrimination of individual muscles and also give an insight into the mix of different muscle fibres that influence the power and endurance of the muscle.
Technologies for living independently
The developed world faces rapid growth over the next 30 years in the number of elderly people and a decrease in the number of younger people to care for them. There is intense interest in the development of Assistive Technologies that can enable frail elderly people to live independently and safely at home. Professor Ferguson-Pell has worked closely with NHS Innovations London to fund a new centre in East London (AT Care) that will be a national centre for the design and development of assistive technologies. AT Care has attracted substantial interest from companies like BT, IBM, Intel and O2 all of which have an interest in the backbone infrastructure to support assistive technologies including Smart Homes, Tele-rehabilitation, Tele-care and Tele-medicine. Substantial funding is being provided by the London Development Agency to support the development of AT Care and ACDS is providing a leading role in its development.
Motion Analysis Laboratory
ACDS in conjunction with the RNOH supports the operation of a state of the art motion analysis laboratory that specialises in the measurement of movement for clinical purposes. A central role of the Motion Lab is the measurement of walking in children with cerebral palsy. The measurements obtained are used to plan surgeries that can significantly improve walking and movement development in these young children. Recently RNOH Spinal Injury Unit consultant Dr Angela Gall has undertaken studies to determine whether Motion Analysis techniques can be helpful in the planning of Botox injections improving walking patterns in some incomplete injury spinal cord injured patients.
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Here you will learn the basic steps to Michael Jackson's Thriller dance.
 1. 1
 Take four steps forward starting with your right foot first. Then take four steps back with your right foot first. Repeat.
 - This should start right when the music turns into a 1-2-3-4 beat.
 2. 2
 Nod your head to one side on beat 1 and skip on 2 and again on beat 3 and 4. This part should begin right when MJ starts to sing.
 3. 3
 Turn to the side and stick your arms out straight: One if front and one behind and bend your knees. Stick your butt out and wiggle it up and down. Then take a step forward and wiggle. (I know it sounds stupid but there's no other way to describe it.)
 4. 4
 Stick your hands out like claws and pull like your ripping through a bush or something. Do that two times then switch sides you're pulling at.
 5. 5
 Now you are just standing straight. Throw your head back and lean back a bit with one leg out in front. Then take two hops forward. You start in the MJ pose,knees bent slightly, one leg out, the other to the side and stick your hand on your belt NOT your crotch!! The other hand will be out straight to your side.
 6. 6
 Go down with your whole body. The reason it is called 'down ha!' is because when you come back up you make a face like you are yelling "HA!". Do that move 4 times.
 7. 7
 Right after "down ha!" bring your hands up and clap your hands right over your head. Bring them down slowly and drag your feet to one side. Shrug your shoulders and turn your head to one side and repeat the move going the other way.
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 There will be an 8 count pause where you just go zombie crazy for a second. (In the actual video they are spreading out since there's like 50 zombies.) Next shake your hands in front of you and do a kind of disco pose with one hand up and one down then do that famous with...
 9. 9
 Claws up, out to the side start walking forward 3 counts then turn to the other side then back then back and now you should be walking the direction you came from first (the opposite your going now) and go 3 counts.
 10. 10
 Jump! Then bend over and basically touch your toes two times. Look cool for 4 counts then turn around and look cool for 4 counts then come back around and throw one hand over your head and come back down to "air guitar position." Swivel your feet a beat and then bring your arm back up and bring it down but this time it should stop and take 5 counts to make it down. Grab the air on one side of you then punch it four times on your other side.
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 Turn your head 4 times then turn your body around with 6 steps until you are facing the other direction. Look behind you and slap your leg then take 10 steps backwards. You're trying to time this to exactly before he starts the chorus for the second time in the song because that is where your next step comes in. So go slower or faster depending on how close you are.
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NI, the provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world's greatest engineering challenges, announced that major automotive manufacturers like Subaru are using NI hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) technology to simulate actual road conditions for electric vehicle testing, eliminating environmental factors to reduce test time and costs.
Traditionally, engineers have conducted vehicle tests using finished cars on test courses or public roads to check the vehicle's performance and safety response. However, certain limitations, such as weather and fluctuating road surface conditions, can make it difficult to conduct reproducible tests on roads in a timely manner. Moreover, electric vehicles are extremely complex due to their many subsystems, which are all interdependent on each other. This complexity makes the job challenging for automotive test engineers with short development cycles and pressure to limit costs.
To combat these issues, Subaru replaced the roads in the validation tests with a NI HIL simulation solution built on NI PXI products and LabVIEW software. With the HIL system, Subaru can eliminate environmental factors and thoroughly and efficiently test a vehicle's embedded controller in a virtual environment before running real-world diagnostics on the complete system.
"By using NI PXI products and LabVIEW, we were able to completely implement a customized HIL system in just one to two weeks and develop our software in-house," said Daisuke Umiguchi, Electrified Power Unit Research and Experiment Dept., Subaru Corporation. "This helped us keep product purchasing costs to around one-third of the cost of adopting solutions from other companies, and, because of our familiarity with LabVIEW, keep our software development costs to around one-sixth of the cost of commissioning an outside developer."
Subaru further outfitted its vehicle test solution with a controller-driven dynamometer by HORIBA and CarSim vehicle dynamics simulation software deployed by Virtual Mechanics. Together, they produce load conditions equivalent to those generated on actual roads. This driving system transmits the calculated values to the NI HIL system in real time to create closed-loop control between the models on the HIL system and the driving system. As a result, the HIL interaction system can apply the appropriate load to the vehicle throughout the tests.
Subaru plans to use this test system at the final stages of development for electric vehicles as a final quality check, and eventually expand its use for all car types. By adopting this system, Subaru anticipates reducing labor hours by half compared to conventional methods.


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What is life? An illusion…a shadow…a story…for all is a dream and dreams themselves are sure to end; for what remains is a discordant melody.
Eighty years ago from October 19 to October 30 of the current year, the world was plunged into another world war; World War III (WW3), although lasting briefly (as people claim), the war was mostly between two opposing great powers and alliances of the Kings of Aura. This battle ended with the destruction of the Colorless Clan and the Green Clan; or so what the world was left to believe. Now today, Shizume City, found in what was once known as the city of Tokyo. It is the location all the Clans and their Kings call home. The city's police force is called Scepter 4, which is also led by the Blue King. With robotic cleaners, convenient means of transportation and other great advancements in technology, the city maintains a high standard of living. Some parts of Shizume City are controlled by their respective gangs, fuming a rivalry between different groups. However, the real problem comes from the fight between the King Clans in Shizume City. It is shown that that world is aware of the existence of the Clan and their Kings, as many have heard the rumors which made them want to join HOMRA. The remnants of war have been left as a memory and the original reason behind the war has been forever lost. As time continued moving forward and technology continued to advance the use of the Clans began to lessen and the number of members started to become smaller and smaller, however the remaining clans in the world which have based themselves in Shizume City are more present than ever before. Behind the expanding city fought in the shadows is a secret war, that only those whom follow one of the remaining Kings are allowed to take part, these battles have been proving to be more dangerous every night, as of late. A new threat has appeared that is threatening to send the world into another world; an organization name GREMLIN but their name is just as mysterious as they appear. One thing is for certain the war between the Kings is more furious than ever.


Global communications makes the world smaller – how does that work? How can policymakers affect who says what to whom, when, and how?
In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time? Kirsten L. Rodine-Hardy argues that international organizations – not national governments or market forces – are the primary drivers of policy convergence in the important arena of telecommunications regulation: they create and shape preferences for reform and provide forums for expert discussions and the emergence of policy standards. Yet she also shows that international convergence leaves room for substantial variation among countries, using both econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons of eight European countries.
Rodine-Hardy, Kirsten. 2013. Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139136884.
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are not so desperate will find it difficult to obtain their help.
When they're not worrying about their job, Capricorns become very attentive and surprise their friends with their tact and sensitivity. However, they avoid interfering excessively in the lives of others and usually limit themselves to listening, showing their solidarity and, at best, giving some advice.
They don't usually talk about their problems, and only their closest friends know what's happening in their lives. Capricorns are very self-sufficient, they find it hard to accept anyone's help.
Capricorns who, besides giving, also learn to receive will have taken a giant step in their search for happiness.
Capricorn Friendship Compatibility
Capricorns have much in common with the other earth signs, with which they maintain easygoing and lasting relationships.
The melancholic and imaginative water signs, and Pisces in particular, encourage Capricorns to express their feelings. Capricorns usually establish good bonds of friendship with the water signs.
The vital and hyperactive fire signs get Capricorns to take risks and explore new territories. Although conflicts are likely to arise between them, their friendship is usually beneficial to both parties.
The air signs provide mental stimuli for Capricorn, although they'll never become friends unless they try to reconcile their small differences.
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In your interface, you can formally declare an instance variable between the braces, or via _USER_ outside the braces, or both. Either way, they become attributes of the class. The difference is that if you declare _USER_, then you can implement using _USER_, which auto-codes your getter/setter for you. The auto-coder setter initializes integers and floats to zero, for example. IF you declare an instance variable, and DO NOT specify a corresponding _USER_, then you cannot use _USER_ and MUST write your own getter/setter.
You can always override the auto-coded getter/setter by specifying your own. This is commonly done with the managedObjectContext property which is lazily loaded. Thus, you declare your managedObjectContext as a property, but then also write a -(NSManagedObjectContext *)managedObjectContext method. Recall that a method, which has the same name as an instance variable/property is the "getter" method.
The _USER_ declaration method also allows you other options, such as retain and readonly, which the instance variable declaration method does not. Basically, ivar is the old way, and _USER_ extends it and makes it fancier/easier. You can refer to either using the self. prefix, or not, it doesn't matter as long as the name is unique to that class. Otherwise, if your superclass has the same name of a property as you, then you have to say either like self.name or super.name in order to specify which name you are talking about.
Thus, you will see fewer and fewer people declare ivars between the braces, and instead shift toward just specifying _USER_, and then doing _USER_. You cannot do _USER_ in your implementation without a corresponding _USER_. The Synthesizer only knows what type of attribute it is from the _USER_ specification. The synthesize statement also allows you to rename properties, so that you can refer to a property by one name (shorthand) inside your code, but outside in the.h file use the full name. However, with the really cool autocomplete that XCode now has, this is less of an advantage, but is still there.
Hope this helps clear up all the confusion and misinformation that is floating around out there.


Fast 2D Simulation of Superconductors: A Multiscale Approach
V.M. Rodriguez-Zermeno[1], M.P. Sørensen[1], N.F. Pedersen[2], N. Mijatovic[2], and A.B. Abrahamsen[3]
[1]DTU Mathematics, Lyngby, Denmark
[2]DTU Electrical Engineering, Lyngby, Denmark
[3]Materials Research Division, Risø, DTU, Roskilde, Denmark
This work presents a method to calculate AC losses in thin conductors such as the commercially available second generation superconducting wires through a multiscale meshing technique. The main idea is to use large aspect ratio elements to accurately simulate thin material layers. For a single thin superconductor, several standard test cases are simulated including transport current, externally applied magnetic field and a combination of both. The results are in good agreement with recently published numerical simulations and show even faster time to solution. A couple of examples involving several thin conductors in different circumstances are also shown.


Soda Versus Mushrooms: A Case Study
Is 182 calories worth of soda the same as 182 calories worth of mushrooms? Let's find out…
The Soda
A 22-ounce soda has 44 grams of sugar, 182 calories and that's it. Nothing else. The stomach quickly absorbs the sugar which causes a spike in blood glucose levels and a variety of bad chemical reactions in the body, including, increases in storage of belly fat, increases in bad cholesterol and blood pressure, and may even contribute to infertility in women!
All that insulin also blocks leptin, the hormone that controls appetite. As people become more unaffected by leptin, they never register that they are satisfied. Never feeling satisfied can lead to overeating, out of control cravings and adds fuel to the sugar addiction fire. This domino effect leads to bad eating habits, and cravings for sugar.
The Mushrooms
Mushrooms are also carbohydrates, but instead of being simple sugars like soda, they are complex carbs that digest slowly in the body. They will not cause blood sugar spikes, but instead be digested slowly and they provide essential nutrients, like potassium, fiber, protein, iron, vitamin D, and magnesium, healing the body instead of causing immense harm.
The quality of nutrition in the mushrooms supports tons of healthy results in the body, and also helps protect against chronic disease, including cancers and heart disease.
The nutritional profile, slow digestion, and fiber found in mushrooms makes you feel full and satisfied; that will take care of the out of control cravings and over eating. Will mushrooms contribute to weight gain? NO WAY! (unless they are stuffed mushrooms with crackers and sausage and creamy sauce…)
The difference between the calories in soda and mushrooms is massive. In fact, as opposed to the soda that is all harmful, there is not one thing in mushrooms that is.
One study looked at the correlation of sugar and calories to risk of diabetes found that adding 150 calories a day to a diet barely raised the risk for diabetes, however when those calories were from soda the risk increased by 700%!
The Volume Is Impressive Too
Oh, by the way, 186 calories of mushrooms is about 9 cups, that's a lot of mushrooms (especially in comparison to the 22 ounces of soda).
OK, most people will not eat 9 cups of mushrooms in one sitting, but think about how much more food you can actually eat when choosing quality food?
What Does This Mean for Eating And Counting Calories?
Eat slow digesting foods and skip the simple sugars!
Very Little Or No count
Look at food labels for foods that contain a high amount of fiber. Plant foods naturally have a great deal of indigestible fiber that will bulk up the stool and won't be counted as "real" calories because they are not digested or absorbed in the body. Vegetables are always your best choices, and low sugar fruits like berries.
More Count
Meats, proteins, and other low fiber foods are more digested and absorbed, so those foods will count more than vegetables.
Highest Count
Do you eat high fiber foods?
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Prajapati, S. K.; Sarma, R.
Total Character of a group $G$ with $(G,Z(G))$ as a generalized Camina pair
We investigate whether the total character of a finite group $G$ is a polynomial in a suitable irreducible character of $G$. When $(G,Z(G))$ is a generalized Camina pair, we show that the total character is a polynomial in a faithful irreducible character of $G$ if and only if $Z(G)$ is cyclic.
Keywords:finite groups, group characters, total characters
2. CMB 2013 (vol 57 pp. 449)
Alaghmandan, Mahmood; Choi, Yemon; Samei, Ebrahim
ZL-amenability Constants of Finite Groups with Two Character Degrees
Categories:43A20, 20C15
3. CMB 2006 (vol 49 pp. 285)
Riedl, Jeffrey M.
Orbits and Stabilizers for Solvable Linear Groups
Categories:20B99, 20C15, 20C20
4. CMB 2006 (vol 49 pp. 127)
Lewis, Mark L.
Character Degree Graphs of Solvable Groups of Fitting Height $2$
Given a finite group $G$, we attach to the character degrees of $G$ a graph whose vertex set is the set of primes dividing the degrees of irreducible characters of $G$, and with an edge between $p$ and $q$ if $pq$ divides the degree of some irreducible character of $G$. In this paper, we describe which graphs occur when $G$ is a solvable group of Fitting height $2$.
5. CMB 2005 (vol 48 pp. 41)
Dixon, John D.; Barghi, A. Rahnamai
Degree Homogeneous Subgroups
Let $G$ be a finite group and $H$ be a subgroup. We say that $H$ is \emph{degree homogeneous }if, for each $\chi\in \Irr(G)$, all the irreducible constituents of the restriction $\chi_{H}$ have the same degree. Subgroups which are either normal or abelian are obvious examples of degree homogeneous subgroups. Following a question by E.~M. Zhmud', we investigate general properties of such subgroups. It appears unlikely that degree homogeneous subgroups can be characterized entirely by abstract group properties, but we provide mixed criteria (involving both group structure and character properties) which are both necessary and sufficient. For example, $H$ is degree homogeneous in $G$ if and only if the derived subgroup $H^{\prime}$ is normal in $G$ and, for every pair $\alpha,\beta$ of irreducible $G$-conjugate characters of $H^{\prime}$, all irreducible constituents of $\alpha^{H}$ and $\beta^{H}$ have the same degree.
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There are notable examples of computers "proving" results discovered by mathematicians, what about the opposite:
Are there interesting conjectures "discovered" by computers and proved by humans?
Possible example in graph theory is "Some Conjectures of Graffiti.pc (2004-07)," suggested by Joseph O'Rourke in another answer.
The question might not be well defined because "discovered" is controversial.
Added This question may be a duplicate (or refinement) of (2) in Experimental Mathematics as Kristal Cantwell pointed out.
I am mainly interested in examples where the program is designed to make conjectures which are not known identities to the program and later proved.
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A related MO question: mathoverflow.net/questions/28651/… – Andrey Rekalo Mar 25 '12 at 11:44
Several of the 26 finite sporadic simple groups were first constructed on computer, and only later proved to exist with a help of computer. Does this qualify? – Dima Pasechnik Mar 25 '12 at 13:48
oops, I meant "proved to exist withOUT a help of computer" – Dima Pasechnik Mar 25 '12 at 14:08
_USER_ sure, this is interesting. The question is community wiki anyway. – joro Mar 25 '12 at 14:15
It might be more revealing to talk about how presentation of data leads to insight. The result mentioned here mathoverflow.net/questions/11885/… occurred because the program Roger wrote displayed results in a certain lexicographic order. Since then I have often wondered on automated ways of rearranging and displaying data to allow conjectures to be formed. Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2012.03.25 – Gerhard Paseman Mar 26 '12 at 0:59
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Much of the early work on the Mandelbrot set was of this type. You see something strange in the computer images, then you try to prove that it really happens.
Here is one example: Pi and the Mandelbrot set. From conjecture in 1991 to paper in 2001.
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Lovasz told me the following interesting story. He had read a paper containing a long list of computer generated conjectures, did not like most them, but suddenly found one, which turned out to be an interesting and deep question. Then he realized that the same question had been asked earlier by humans. See _URL_
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The story is on pages 7-8 and footnote 2 of the paper? – joro Mar 25 '12 at 14:53
Yes, exactly that one. – Péter Komjáth Mar 26 '12 at 5:23
The starting point of the mathematical theory of solitons for the Korteweg-de Vries equation was the numerical experiment of Kruskal and Zabusky in 1965, showing that solitons of different amplitudes, hence traveling at different speeds, crossed each other and reemerged (almost) undisturbed. I think this is an appropriate example in this thread, since this is an actual new phenomenon, totally unespected, discovered by computer simulation, then rigorously proved and widely generalized to constitute a whole new mathematical theory.
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About 1960 Ed Lorenz observed the "sensitive dependence on initial conditions" in a very simple weather model he was running on a computer. He later coined the term "butterfly effect" for this phenomenon.
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In our paper The numerical measure of a complex matrix (Comm. Pure and Appl. Math.,65 (2012), pp 287--336), T. Gallay and I proved that the restriction to some zones of the numerical density of an $n\times n$ matrix is polynomial of degree at most $n-3$. The only reason why we were led to this result is because of numerical experiments shown some evidence. Does it qualify?
Later on, we found that this polynomiality is related to the so-called lacunas for hyperbolic differential operators.
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Sure, thank you Denis Serre – joro Mar 25 '12 at 14:14
This is not precisely a conjecture, but the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment seems to be the first time mathematicians and physicists realized that lack of integrals of motion does not necessarily lead to chaos or ergodicity, thus paving the way for KAM theory.
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One problem that perhaps fits in this category is the exact solution of the hard hexagon model by Rodney Baxter. In this case computer calculations revealed surprising patterns which suggested that the model was solvable, but it required someone like Rodney Baxter to first recognise these patterns, and then go ahead and find the solution. A large grey area in the nature of the question is the extent to which the computer "discovered" the solution.
This discovery is described in Ch. 14 of Rodney Baxter's book "Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics".
There must be other examples of computer discoveries in the field of solvable models in statistical mechanics, as to some extent this is the nature of field. However, to me this example stands out, as to the best of my knowledge there was no a priori expectation that the model was solvable before the computer calculations were performed.
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No one has mentioned the case of commutative algebra. The appearance of computer algebra systems allowed researchers in commutative algebra and/or algebraic geometry to generate lots of examples which then lead to conjectures, later proved by hand. Look at this quote from Eisenbud's home page, for instance:
"Ever since the early 70s I've used computers to produce examples in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, and I've developed algorithms to extend the power of computation in this area. I recently joined Mike Stillman and Dan Grayson in the project to (further) develop the Macaulay2 system for symbolic computation. "
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Interesting. To what extent generation of conjectures is automated? – joro Mar 26 '12 at 13:21
Ok, maybe this doesn't correspond exactly to what you wrote in the last gray box. It is to a rather primitive extent, since there should be some conjecture already. Then examples may be generated (which would be too lengthy/tedious to compute by hand) that could support or refute the conjecture. – Camilo Sarmiento Mar 26 '12 at 14:41
You seem to be asking about computers formulating conjectures later proved by humans. As one not having had much exposure to the issue, I wonder how to teach a computer (maybe with some form of heuristics?) assessing it has found a plausible conjecture: in this case computer misses the comfort of knowing a result is true for it has proven it's true, while human mathematicians can use instinct or some kind of common sense. However, I found this:
A Symbolic Finite-State Approach For Automated Proving of Theorems in Combinatorial Game Theory
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Thanks. I edited the question asking about conjectures. – joro Mar 25 '12 at 10:06
I agree that it may be difficult to program a computer to find conjectures which it can't then prove, but can then be proven by humans. Much easier seems to be to find and prove theorems, or to search for counterexamples to conjectures.
That's why I am thinking at another possibility: explore mathematical constructions using computer programs, and from the observed patterns and regularities, suggest conjectures. So, not the program will be the one which suggest the conjecture, but he human user. Exploring mathematical constructions is done in experimental mathematics. On this Wikipedia page there are some examples of patterns observed when using numerical and graphical simulations, under the titles "Finding serendipitous numerical patterns" and "Visual investigations".
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There is a related question on experimental mathematics here.
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Thank you, haven't seen this question. This one may be a duplicate/refinement of 2). – joro Mar 26 '12 at 5:54
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Contested wills: Why legal disputes don't stop after death
It all goes back to a particularly gruesome episode of grave robbing.
In 1614, Englishman William Haynes caused widespread disgust when he was caught digging up corpses to steal the sheets in which they were wrapped, before re-burying the bodies.
The court had to decide who he had stolen from: the corpses, or the people who had carefully wrapped their loved ones. In the end, the court ruled that Haynes had robbed from the living, since corpses cannot own property.
In death, we have fewer rights than we might think.
After a 15-month review, the Victorian Law Reform Commission last month recommended the state government introduce laws giving people the right to leave binding instructions over the disposal of their body (that is, whether they are buried or cremated), what rituals should accompany their funeral, and how they would like to be memorialised.
The commission was overwhelmed with submissions from people who told how their family had been riven by disputes after the death of a loved one.
One, who wished to remain anonymous, told of how their father remains buried in an unmarked grave, years after the man died.
They had remained close to the old man, visiting him often on his sickbed. But another of his children, a son from whom he had been estranged, took charge on the morning the father died; signing off on the paperwork at the funeral home and organising for the older man to be buried.
That son is yet to agree to the father's grave site having a plaque, a viewpoint causing deep distress to other family members.
Victorian Law Reform Commission chairman Philip Cummins says most people don't realise they have no say over what happens to their body after their death, even if they have made their wishes explicit before they die.
Instead, the right to decide what happens to a person's body rests with their executor, if they have a will, or administrator if they do not. This means it could fall to an accountant or lawyer to decide whether to honour a client's desire to be cremated and scattered at sea.
"People may reasonably expect funeral and burial arrangements to reflect their personal values and choices," Mr Cummins says.
"At the same time, if there is more clarity around people's wishes for their funeral, it will reduce the number of family disputes that occur after a person's death."
Tasmanian man Ben Jago knows first-hand the grief that can come from these fights.
In January 2015, he found the body of his long-term partner, Nathan Lunson, who had died by suicide after a long battle with mental illness. The pair had spent five years building a life together. They owned a house, shared a bank account, had filed joint tax returns and had been engaged for a year. They planned to marry in New Zealand.
But Ben says that when Nathan died, it was as if he had never existed. He says Nathan's mother took over the funeral arrangements and he was locked out of the process – further compounding his heartbreak.
Ben says Nathan wanted to be cremated in Hobart; he was instead buried in his home town, near his family. He and Ben's relationship was not so much as mentioned during the service.
Mr Jago puts this down to two factors: Nathan not having a will, and the pair not having registered their relationship, or married.
"If we'd been considered equal under the law, then absolutely things would have been different," Mr Jago says. "I actually didn't grieve for a long time. I don't know if I properly have yet. I'm still fighting."
For most people involved in end-of-life legal disputes, though, the tussle will centre on who stands to benefit from the dead person's will.
Partly, this is due to the rapid increases in life expectancy. A century ago, many people could be assured that the money they received from a parent's estate would go at least some of the way to help them set up a family home of their own. But Australians now live an average 25 years longer than they did then.
Kathy Wilson is the Law Institute of Victoria's head of succession planning, and Principal at law firm Aitken Partners.
She says disputes over wills generally take one of two forms. The first is challenges to the validity of a will, where a family member might claim the person who died did not have the mental capacity to make their will, understand what they were doing, or were forced to do so. They might even claim a will had been forged.
The second type of challenge, which is more common, is to the content of the will itself, where one person will challenge the amount of money or property they were bequeathed.
Ms Wilson says that as people live longer, and society shifts, the number of challenges to wills is increasing.
"There's no doubt about that, because society now recognises less formal sorts of relationships, like domestic relationships," she says.
In 1998, the Victorian government changed the law to allow more people to challenge wills, so long as they could show the person who died had been obliged to provide for them, and they had a corresponding need to be looked after.
But just four years later, the Victorian Law Reform Commission launched an inquiry into succession laws, amid fears the laws had become too liberal.
Lawyers cited the cases of neighbours, carers – and, in one case, an interstate house-sitter – being able to join a host of long-lost relatives to legally challenge for a share of an estate.
From January 1, 2015, Victorian law again imposed a limit on who can legally qualify as an "eligible person" to challenge wills, including children and step-children, former (with conditions) and current spouses and domestic partners, carers and grandchildren.
Ms Wilson says there is strong anecdotal evidence showing the number of challenges to the contents of wills is falling since these limits were reimposed.
More and more people are recording video wills, although Ms Wilson advises against this. Video testimonies raise eyebrows among succession planners: they can be more easily edited than can written testimonies.
Lawyers will be quick to tell you that a formal will, witnessed by two people aged over 18 is the most effective way to ensure your wishes are followed. But, says Wilson, "it can be on a paper napkin" – so long as the deceased person had intended that document to be their final will.
In the end, she says: "Sometimes you can meet with people and find out it's not about the money... it's about their place in the deceased person's life. Sometimes it's about control. Sometimes it's about religious and cultural beliefs."
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Writing a will
 - Discuss your plans with your family
 - Make your wishes known
 - Write them down, in front of two witnesses who aren't executors or beneficiaries
 - Think about who you should provide for
 - Talk to a lawyer, and
 - Take their advice
Source: Kathy Wilson, Law Institute of Victoria
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If I could have any superpower, it would be to fly. The experience would be incredibly exhilarating and provide me with a new perspective. But if human beings were supposed to fly, God would have given us wings. Although bats and insects also fly, birds are by far more pleasant to watch.
To minimize the effects of gravity, birds are as light as possible. Here are some adaptations that help make them light:
- Hollow bones
- Babies don't grow and develop inside the mothers' bodies. They develop in eggs.
- Birds eat foods that are very high in usable calories so they get as many calories as possible from a small amount of food.
- Birds don't have bladders so they carry no useless weight from urine.
- The bones of a bird's wings are small compared to the size of the wings. All wing bones and muscles are in the front and covered with feathers to streamline flight.
- Most of a bird's weight is in its center of gravity with very little weight in front or behind.
- Birds don't have teeth or a nose which are heavy and too far forward. The gizzard is located near their center of gravity.
- Their tail and wing bones are very short.
- Bird lungs don't fill up with a lot of heavy air.
We can fly emotionally and spiritually by letting go of things that weigh us down:
- Watch what you are thinking. Stinking thinking will prevent you from flying. Change your perspective and change your life.
- Minimize wasted time spent on things that are not uplifting.
- Stop focusing on your past failures.
- Drop bad habits.
- Find things that bring you joy.
- Get a job that makes you want to wake up in the morning.
- Steer clear of negative people.
- Choose a healthier lifestyle.
- Cease overdoing and appreciate being still.
- Let go of needless fear.
- Reduce stress.
- Love yourself.


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I am trying to solve two equations that take the form:
$W_0 \sqrt{1+\left(\dfrac{z}{\lambda\,\pi\, W_{0}^2}\right)}=W_1\;\,\quad \ldots(1)$
$W_0\sqrt{1+\left( \dfrac{z+0.1}{\lambda\, \pi\, W_{0}^2}\right)}=W_2\quad\;\, \ldots(2)$
The quantities $\lambda, W_1, \text{ and } W_2$ are known parameters. I am trying to solve for the unknowns $W_0\text{ and } z$. How would I go about doing this. The result is to be in the $\mathbb{R}$. My attempts are below:
Attempt 1:
Solve[{W Sqrt[1+(z/(\[Lambda] \[Pi] W^2))^2]==A,W Sqrt[1+((z+0.1)/(\[Lambda] \[Pi]
Attempt 2:
FindInstance[W Sqrt[1+(z/(\[Lambda] \[Pi] W^2))^2]==A&&W Sqrt[1+((z+0.1)/(\[Lambda]
\[Pi] W^2))^2]==B,{W,z},Complexes]
Attempt 3:
W^2))^2]==B,{{W,1.03 10^-3},{z,4.0 10^-1}}]
My question is what is the best method to solve equations such as these and what will yield the best numerical or analytical result.
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If you are trying to do this symbolically, remember to avoid introducing approximate numbers--change 0.1 to 1/10, for example. The result of Solve[{W Sqrt[1 + (z/(λ π W^2))^2] == A, W Sqrt[1 + ((z + 1/10)/(λ π W^2))^2] == B}, {W, z}] // FullSimplify is IMO quite nice. – Oleksandr R. Sep 23 '12 at 0:21
If you check your code then W (or W_0 in TeX) comes out to be at the power 4 under square root. In your TeX code it is at the power 2. – Vitaliy Kaurov Sep 23 '12 at 0:39
_USER_. I've heard this before: changing 0.1 to 1/10. Why is that? – drN Sep 23 '12 at 18:15
_USER_: halirutan's answer explains why. – Ｊ. Ｍ. Sep 30 '12 at 23:38
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All you need is already mentioned in the comment. Let me give you some more information, how you could have prevented your mistake. When I solve something, I almost always try to get an analytic solution first, because then you not only having an answer, but you can investigate under which circumstances your solution is true.
What you have to understand first, that it is crucial in Mathematica, to give problems in the right form: And here I mean, the right form of numeric quantities. You have 3 types of numeric quantities in Mathematica:
 - Analytic (exact) values like 1,100,Exp[2],Pi
 - Machine numbers 1.0, Exp[2.0], N[Pi]
 - Arbitrary-precision numbers 1.0'10, N[Exp[2], 10]
Please read the Numerical Precision carefully to understand the differences. The first thing to know is, that whenever you use exact values only, Mathematica will never do a computation where you lose information. It will only do mathematical correct transformations. See the difference
 Out[17]= -1
Exp[I*Pi + 0.0]
 -1. + 1.22465*10^-16 I
In the last example I forced Mathematica to leave the save field of exact evaluation by using 0.0. This told Mathematica to solve the expression numerically introducing some roundoff error.
And now you know, why you don't want to use 0.1 in your equation. This forces an numeric evaluation which gives you only numeric output instead of analytic.
Therefore, replace the 0.1 by 1/10 and use Solve or Reduce.
 W Sqrt[1 + ((z + 1/10)/(\[Lambda] \[Pi] W^2))^2] == B}, {W, z}]
If you try Reduce, you may have to wait half an hour and you'll get output which takes 10 sheets of paper, but you get conditions which have to hold for an particular solution. Maybe not for this, but for smaller problems this can be very insightful.
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Great detailed answer on this topic – kale Sep 23 '12 at 3:46
Excellent! This was a great response I was looking for, and has also shed some light on me for going about solving equations more efficiently as to the type of solution I want out of it. +1... Thanks. – night owl Sep 30 '12 at 21:28
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The French village of Allouville-Bellefosse is famous for the Chêne Chapelle (Oak Chapel), which is literally a chapel built into an oak tree. The amazing architecture consists of a wooden staircase spiraling around the ancient tree, leading up to a couple of chambers. These rooms have always been used as places of worship by the village locals.
The tree is known to have been growing as far back as the thirteenth century, during the rule of Louis IX. It is also known to have survived the Hundred Years War against the English, the Black Death, the Reformation, and Napoleon's rule. Local folklore dates it a 1,000 years old, when it is said that the acorn took root. However, tree experts say it could only be around 800 years old.
The oak has seen its share of tough times. In the late 1600s, when it was around 500 years old, it was struck by lightning one stormy night. Although a hollow was burnt right into the centre of the tree, new branches and leaves continued to grow. In view of the miracle that had occurred, the tree was pegged as a sort of holy spot, deserving of a pilgrimage. The staircase and chapel were built soon after. (via)


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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926
Grazia Deledda
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Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia
The First Italian Woman to Receive the Nobel Prize in Literature
by Anders Hallengren*
A Wintry Nordic Night in 1927
At 6:45 p.m., during the lunar eclipse of an exceptionally dark and frosty winter evening on December 8, 1927*, a small Italian woman arrived at Stockholm Central Station after a three-day trip by train and ferry. This was her first trip to northern Europe. From her passport, issued in Rome just two weeks before her arrival in Stockholm, we get a generic picture of the shy woman who would soon be the center of attention: Height: 1,55 m; Age: 56; Eyes: Chestnut; Hair: White; Complexion: Rosy; Date of Birth: September 27, 1871. Place of Birth: Nuoro, Sardinia.
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda, married Madesani, was jubilantly received at the station by a committee headed by the poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. Deledda was greeted with bouquets in the national colors of Sweden and Italy.
As sometimes happens, the Nobel announcement of the prize for literature surprised some people, but this amazingly popular Italian author had been among the nominees for a number of years. Her first nomination recorded by the Academy dates from 1913, when she was put forward by Italian academics. Indeed, her name had been mentioned continuously for almost two decades. Deledda had devoted readers in the Swedish Academy and among literary critics, many of whom knew Italian. She was suggested as a candidate by one of her Swedish translators, Karl August Hagberg, and repeatedly by the Swedish minister in Rome, Carl Bildt. In the early twentieth century, Deledda's international reputation as a writer had been solidly established by novels such as Elias Portolu and Cenere (Ashes), both published in 1903.
The Private and the Public
At the time of the announcement, Deledda lived a quiet life in Rome, caring for her adult sons, the eldest named Sardus after the legendary founder of Sardinia, and her niece Grazia. When informed that she had won the Nobel Prize, the unassuming woman said simply, "Già!" (Already!) and proceeded to her office to continue her regular writing schedule. She had just finished a new novel, Annalena Bilsini (1927), which she was adapting for the theater, and was already well into her next, Il vecchio e i fanciulli (The Old and the Young), which was to be published in 1928.
At home, Deledda had a pet crow called Checcha (onomatopoetic, to be sure, but also suggestive of checché, "whatever", and reminding of the evasive Cheshire cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). When journalists and photographers crowded the house the following day, they were astonished to find Checcha fluttering through the rooms. When the crow finally escaped the hullabaloo and flew away, Deledda asked the visitors to leave also, so that the bird would return. "If Checcha has had enough, so have I," she reportedly said as she showed her guests to the door.
In Stockholm, the scene was not so tranquil. She was fascinated by Sweden, as is evident from her letters home and the report of her Stockholm trip that she published in Corriere della Sera. But she was also amazed at being surrounded by dignitaries, royalty, ambassadors, and ministers of state and felt almost dwarfed by everyone she met. It all seemed to her to be a scenario out of an old fairy tale, however, so she did not lose her head amid all the pomp and celebration. At the Nobel ceremony, when the literary historian Henrik Schück solemnly praised her in a long, incomprehensible speech delivered in her honor, and she breathlessly heard her name announced and knew she was supposed to rise and approach the king to receive the prize—at that moment she thought she heard Checcha cawing. Writing to her young son Franz a day after, she reminded him to feed the bird and take good care of it.
Deledda left Stockholm on December 15. Back in Italy, publicity and public attention were harder to face, as the fairy tale turned into hard reality. Benito Mussolini, who had recently come to power, wanted to profit from Deledda's fame. The writer felt compelled to participate in an embarrassing ceremony where the mark of honor awarded to her was a portrait of Mussolini with a dedication that Il Duce proudly read aloud to the audience: "For Grazia Deledda with profound admiration from Benito Mussolini."
In private, Grazia Deledda referred to these Fascist festivities as a farce, alien to her nature; but they appeared to her to be inescapable, the price of fame. Once, Mussolini asked her if he could do anything for her; she immediately requested the release of her friend and fellow-countryman Elia Sanna Mannironi, imprisoned for anti-Fascist activities. She also seemed to have shared sympathies with another jailed Sardinian, Antonio Gramsci, known for his Prison Notebooks. But the worst embarrassment to her—and to the Swedish Academy as well—was the rumors abroad that suggested that her prize was an act of political ingratiation, arranged by Italian diplomats. This, despite the fact that her name had been in nomination even before the Fascist Party was founded in 1915, as has been noted.
A Life in Books
Grazia Deledda was to live for another ten years after receiving the Nobel Prize, years marked by a painful and slowly spreading breast cancer—the incurable malady of her protagonist Maria Concezione in the fine novel La chiesa della solitudine (The Church of Solitude). The novel was her last, published in the year of her death. Deledda died on August 15, 1936.
Despite her disease, Deledda kept to her schedule, beginning the day with a late breakfast, hours of reading, rest after lunch, and then writing for two or three hours in the afternoon, seven days a week, year after year. She produced four handwritten pages each day. Her writing was her life. She was a quiet and reserved woman, who did not speak much. She enjoyed friendly, intimate talk and traditional feasts and celebrations, but not political debates, serious discussions, parties, or society. Yet, in her quiet way, she was gathering the material for her books, listening and observing intently, just as she had done since her childhood. The outcome was over thirty novels and some four hundred short stories, most of them collected in nineteen books. She also wrote many articles, some plays, an opera libretto, and poems.
Even after her death, she seemed to continue to produce books. In a drawer there was found the carefully stored manuscript of the novel Cosima, written in ink on light-blue paper. The book was published posthumously. Its eponymous heroine was named after the author herself, whose middle name was Cosima, and the autobiographical tale tells of Deledda's life until her first trip by train, to the capital Cagliari in southern Sardinia on October 21, 1899. That journey resulted in her marriage in January 1900 to Palmiro Madesani, a state official, and a new life in Rome. Cosima recalls the first half of Deledda's life, the Sardinian world that is the soul of her writings. It also explains how she became an author.
Sardinia, a Land Apart
Sardinian villages have been isolated from one another through the centuries. This is particularly true of the town of Nuoro, standing on high ground at the foot of Monte Ortobene, and the surrounding Barbargia area in the mountainous and once thickly wooded center of the island, with a rich and peculiar fauna. Sardinia has a language of its own, Sardo, with many dialects. And, within the Sardinian dialects, the Nuoro dialect is special.
Nuoro in Italy
The Nuoro neighborhood - setting of early experiences and works.
Photo: Anders Hallengren
Thus, Grazia Deledda's mother tongue was not standard Italian but logudorese sardo, an Italian dialect that can be regarded as another Roman language. Deledda grew up with Sardinian legends and folklore and native customs that preserved cultural traits and themes from ancient times. For cultural even more than historical reasons, Deledda called her dear Nuoro "a bronze-age village." Its geographic location also explains another peculiar fact: the island girl Grazia Deledda never saw the sea during her childhood years.
Deledda was born on the first anniversary of the unification of Italy, and going to school and learning to read and write thus meant learning a "foreign" language, the language of a distant Italy, a language much different from the spoken idiom of her native Sardinia. Yet, despite her limited schooling in this tongue, it was to be the language in which she produced all of her written works. She became, as it were, a writer in a foreign language, una paràula furistera, as it is said in Logudorese—or, in Italian, parola straniera.
Deledda's achievement is even more remarkable because her official education


Raccoons — new foreign menace?
Masked critters face kill for badgering farms, city folk
by Reiji Yoshida
Raccoons were strangers to Japan until around 1977, when a television cartoon about an American boy befriending one of the cute little carnivores led to the animals being imported as pets.
But the relationship since "Raccoon Rascal" aired in Japan has soured. Owners, fed up with trying to tame the wild species to be cute little critters like the one in the cartoon, dumped them in the wild — where, lacking a natural predator — they have proliferated and are now perceived as pests, occasionally damaging crops and bothering people.
There are now mounting calls to eradicate raccoons in line with a law taking effect in April geared toward protecting Japan's native ecosystem from alien species.
The controversy has pitted farmers, urban dwellers and scholars on one side of the debate and animal rights activists on the other, who fear a mass kill is in the offing.
Raccoon eradication advocates argue that the animals cause serious damage to crops, pester neighborhoods and threaten to disrupt the nation's ecosystem.
The new law will allow local governments to hunt and kill certain wildlife designated as harmful — raccoons being a main target — regardless of other legislation designed to protect specific wild birds and animals.
"Some people feel certain animals are cute, and because of this, argue that they should be spared," said Kunio Iwatsuki, a professor at University of the Air. "But it is very dangerous if an ecosystem undergoes rapid change without the outcome being understood."
There are many cases in which nonnative species have multiplied rapidly in a new environment if there are no natural enemies, disrupting the biodiversity of the host habitat.
Iwatsuki, who helped the government draw up the bill for the new law, said the Environment Ministry probably will target three animal species for eradication when the law takes effect: raccoons, mongooses and nutria, a beaverlike rodent from South America.
Although no national raccoon tally is available, the animal is believed to have spread rapidly across the country.
Hokkaido blamed raccoons for some 33.3 million yen in crop damage in 2002 — the same year the prefecture hunted down and killed more than 1,000 of them.
Hokkaido now plans to kill 2,000 raccoons a year. But officials say their goal of total eradication is not in sight.
Besides crops, raccoons have also become a nuisance in developed areas.
The city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, fielded 1,600 queries from residents reporting raccoon trouble over the past four years. In that period the city killed 758 of the animals.
"Raccoons often get into and nest in attics or under floors in old houses, scratching and causing other noises," municipal official Hideshito Watabane said.
This scares elderly residents and disturbs their sleep, Watabane said, adding that raccoon urine has also been known to leak from ceilings.
Trapping and killing raccoons just in the city proper is only a Band Aid solution, Watabane said, because Kamakura is separated from adjacent communities by wooded hills that allow the animals access to many neighborhoods and easy hiding places.
"We need measures that cover wide areas, not only in the city of Kamakura," he said. "To this end, we welcome the new law."
But Sayoko Yamada, chairman at the Kanagawa Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is critical of the legislation.
The government must first put stricter curbs on the import of animals and plants to lessen their impact on Japan's environment and to reduce the chance they will later be subject to cruel eradication measures should they eventually be deemed a nuisance.
The new law will effectively have a black list banning the import of certain creatures deemed potentially harmful to Japan's ecosystem.
Yamada said, however, that the government should also adopt a "white list" that would allow certain safe species to be brought in.
Yamada says more emphasis should be placed on respect for life, suggesting sterilization, instead of killing, could be an option.
Chikako Fujii, who has a 12-year-old pet raccoon in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, agrees.
"Some people say raccoons are driving away 'tanuki' (raccoon dogs). But how does the value of one life differ from that of another?" she asked. "Should they be killed simply because they are foreign? I really don't understand that."
Raccoon eradication proponents argue that adult raccoons, if agitated or feel threatened, could hurt people with their sharp teeth and claws.
But Fujii, who has kept her raccoon for more than 10 years, said the animal is gentle if not pestered by people, and is actually timid.
A raccoon can turn violent if it feels threatened in some way, she said.


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Spencer Ochieng is in the business of connecting remote villages in Kenya with water. But to do so he relies on an unusual tool. When most people dig down to check the water table below, Ochieng digs into his right pocket.
"The first thing we check for is availability of a strong mobile phone signal," says Ochieng, general manager of Grundfos Lifelink, an organization that uses technology to provide safe drinking water to communities throughout the developing world.
Currently, there are nearly 1 billion people around the world with no access to clean water, and 13 million in Kenya alone with no access to a so-called "improved water system" – NGO-speak for anything that improves on collecting dirty water from rivers, lakes or ponds.
The Lifelink project was set up to tackle this problem using a solar-powered pump and a pay-per-use water tap, designed specifically for Kenya's mobile-centered society.
The setup is relatively simple. Protected water is drawn from sources up to 250m underground by solar powered pumps. This is then held in an elevated storage tank, which is used to supply a tap in a secure, concrete kiosk. To access water, customers must first load money into their M-Pesa account — the ubiquitous mobile money payment and transfer service in Kenya used by more than 70% of the adult population. Then, through a simple text message, customers top-up the balance of their personal pre-paid Lifelink fob key. Once at the tap, customers simply wave their key at a sensor; money is debited from their account, and out flows 20 litres of pure drinking water.
"There's a real need to provide drinking water to communities in a sustainable way," Ochieng says. Every year thousands of deep wells, pumps, and boreholes are installed across the African continent by development organizations. Unfortunately, when funding dries up, so too does the water source. Studies have shown that as many as half of these projects are no longer working after two years. Pumps break. People stop paying. Wiring erodes. Parts vanish.
Ayaz Manji, head of water and sanitation at Kenya Red Cross, which helps Grundfos identify water-poor communities, says that the problem is all too common in Kenya. Although organisations typically form local 'water committees' to collect fees from users for repairs, Manji says that corruption and misappropriation is rampant.
"People use that money for other needs, or groups become politically inclined and that money disappears," claims Manji.
The Lifelink system gets around this by collecting the fees people pay for water in a community M-Pesa account. It's used to fund all repairs and maintenance and reduces the chance of corruption by keeping the money at arm's length and all transactions virtual.
It's a vital part of the system because maintenance is not cheap - Grundfos requires communities to save about 215,000 Kenyan Shillings (£1,500) a year for the service. This equates to customers paying roughly 3-4 Shillings (around two pence) per 20-litre jerry can of water, making it affordable to even the poorest. Any amount generated beyond the required savings amount is returned to the community.
To date, Grundfos has sold 38 Lifelink systems across Kenya, mostly purchased by development organisations, Kenya's Water Board, or through Grundfos' own corporate responsibility programs. Many serve hospitals, orphanages, and schools in remote areas.
According to the company, 75% of their systems are now self-sustaining. But the other quarter struggle to generate the necessary income for a mix of reasons. For example, the system has not worked in some northern regions of Kenya populated by nomadic herders. These herders tend to migrate with the seasons in search of fertile grazing pastures and water for their livestock, so there is not enough demand all year round. In other areas, people collect seasonal rainfall, meaning that the systems are underused and under-funded parts of the year.


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Dr. kaylan is an ecologist who studies bird behavior. she sets up an experiment to test which type of food crows are most likely to eat when given a choice between walnuts, corn, and sunflower seeds. to perform her experiment, dr. kaylan places three food bins in an area frequented by cows. each bin contains one of the three food types. then, she measures how much of each food type is eaten every day for a month and summarizes the results of her experiment in the pie chart below. based on her results, dr. kaylan concludes that crows choose to eat corn more frequently than other food sources because it has a higher nutritional value. what is a reasonable alternate conclusion that can be drawn from dr. kaylan's data
mendel's first law states that during the formation of reproductive cells, pairs of hereditary factors for a specific trait separate so that offspring receive one factor from each parent.
the dark variety, as they are not visible on the dark tree barks
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When we first went out....
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