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The Shining is a unique horror film; it is so widely understood as having subtext not usually associated with the Horror genre that a documentary titled Room 237 explores both acknowledged and ridiculed theories of subtextual content. The most well-known and acknowledged subtext is that The Shining is a commentary on the Native American genocide. While for over a decade that context was ridiculed as well, it is now considered obvious.
Also some people do not view The Shining as scary, even if they admit to its superbly cinematic construction, and interesting and oblique subtext(s). If one is not in the mood to receive The Shining as a horror film, it can be laughable; that does not diminish its greatness nor ability to horrify when in the "right mood," nor its success of communicating ideas beyond the surface narrative. The relevance of The Shining will become clear as I discuss Jordan Peele's Us, but Us is best understood with an underpinning of Get Out, his previous film.
In the first few seconds of Get Out, in the first few lines of dialog, a character says, "It's like a fucking hedge maze out here." I assert that no well-read filmmaker (and Peele is certainly cinematically well-read) would reference a hedge maze without the deliberate intention of invoking The Shining; the hedge maze is uniquely iconic to that film.
Us is a vastly different movie from Get Out, but maintains a lineage with the first movie, and continues the lineage from The Shining. The most obvious linkage with Get Out, because it is entirely separate from either the text or any subtexts of Us, is when a Frisbee lands on a spotted towel on the beach. It is given visual importance but is entirely unexplained, until one remembers the significance of Bingo cards in Get Out.
And while one might dismiss a line of dialog in Us which says, "Get out!" because it is a valid line of plot-necessary dialog, one would be less justified dismissing "Get Out" painted on the trees to either side of the mirror funhouse. Of further interest is that the mirror funhouse is renamed "Merlin's Forest" in subsequent scenes, but in the first scene it is "The Shaman's Vision Quest", which due to lineage we can appropriately infer refers to The Shining. As other articles have posited, it can refer to many other and equally compelling ideas.
In the Shaman's realm, we hear something vague about spiders over the speaker. "Itsy-bitsy spider" is whistled. Spiders appear later (a toy tarantula with a live spider beneath it), as does a web-like crack in glass, and one might be reminded of Chief Seattle's quote: "This we know the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." It would be well to come back to this paragraph after reading the end of this blog.
Peele's mise en scene is meticulous. Every painting, child's toy, book, or drawing (and literally every other prop) has a utility beyond set dressing. The baseball bat used as a weapon is the RX 9000, indeed a curative prescription. The ambulance toy used to block a door open mirrors the ambulance the in which the family ultimately escapes. The videotapes flanking the TV in an early shot include C.H.U.D. (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers), The Man With Two Brains, and Nightmare on Elm Street. The direct analogy with CHUD needs no explanation. In a movie all about mirroring and doppelgangers, TMWTB is equally obvious. And when a character describes her cold metal toys cutting her fingers, Freddy Krueger's glove of revenge is a useful image. Absolutely every element of every frame has import, to a degree rarely found in even the most erudite art house film.
These multitudinous references are not merely gimmicks or games; they illuminate and then support powerful subtexts. But first: Subtexts are completely different from text. To use The Shining to illustrate: The text is that a man goes crazy and attempts to murder his family, and this holds together narratively. The subtext of Native American genocide is something like, "Colonial America (specifically white people) murdered almost everyone in North America (specifically Native Americans)." This does not hold together narratively; no white person murders a Native American. It is suggested by signs and symbols and must be inferred. A river of blood pouring from an elevator did not happen during the Trail of Tears, but that does not mean it is erroneous to suggest perhaps that is one valid interpretation of that elevator scene. In subtexts, direct linear correlation is not necessary or even desired. So when it appears that one subtext of Us is a discussion of American slavery, it does not hinder the subtext that nobody in the film is actually a slave as described in US history.
But before investigating the slavery subtext, let's look at another subtext, more illustrative of the actual text. Doppelgangers are out to murder their "originals." In horror movies, death is very often deserved, a retribution or punishment or karma. In the simplest incarnation, kids who participate in drugs or premarital sex or who otherwise "sin" are killed. But what have the originals in Us done wrong? One subtextual possibility revolves around materialism. Our protagonist family is well-off; we are shown immediately that they drive a Mercedes-Benz, they have a summer home, and they've just purchased a boat, the quintessential American icon of economic prosperity. However, they are unsatisfied, "spoiled" in a direct quote from the father, even as he is invested in keeping up with his neighbor's prosperity.
Further, they have failed to help others; Hands Across America did not solve any problems, and as explicitly stated at the end, one character escaped from the underground and "into the light" at the expense of another. Some characters had "sunlight and freedom" while pursuing their materialism, at the expense of an entire group of "others." This is one view of why they're being punished. There is text that explains this, and subtext that supports it. The set design of the Underground and the behavior of the "shadows" is also reminiscent of Romero's Dawn Of The Dead, which itself contains a subtextual condemnation of American consumer culture. Peele knows his cinema.
There is no textual reference to slavery, but it is illustrated in subtext. There are four legible books on the shelves: two travelogues (one on Mexico, the other maybe on the Philippines) and two on slavery: Roots and The History of Slavery (or something close to that, many clues are fleeting and the bookshelves are not in focus). The chains used to bind characters are icons of slavery. When one character describes the connection between those underground and those above, it can clearly be read as a description of slave/owner dynamics. Does this mean the Shadows are literal slaves? No, and that does not damage the subtextual discussion. Neither does the fact that our main family is Black, and clearly are not implicated in slave ownership; the critique of America and the discussion of slavery is still valid, and can even be seen to dovetail with the materialism subtext. The movie ceases to be a horror movie and becomes a thought experiment on the human condition. Is it possible, that so many years after slavery, that we all are still culpable? If we failed with Hands Across America, is it success that the Shadows have come into the light and performed (one character calls it "performance art") their own Hands Across America? Who are the monsters? Is it... Us?
There are volumes of additional material to discuss, but one final symbol that may require a unique perspective to decode: In the first ten minutes of the movie there are three Black Flag t-shirts, an obvious symbol due to the repetition, but of what? There is nothing in the movie to suggest a reference to the actual band, or punk music. So what else is invoked by "black flag"? Pirates? Perhaps, because there are sail ships anchored off the Santa Cruz shore, but those may be more appropriately seen as slave ships. What other black flags are there? Perhaps this one, described to me by a Black classmate in 4th grade: "Do you know about the Black flag? Black, red, and green? Black for the color of our skin, red for the color of our blood, and green for the color of the land we will one day take back from our oppressors." Subtext indeed.


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You can create a new user mailbox from scratch in Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 or you can create a user mailbox from existing user account in an active directory domain. When you create a mailbox from an existing account, their information is pulled from active directory domain. When you create a new user in Exchange Server 2016 and provide complete detail, it's user account is already created in active directory domain.
In this article, we will look into the method of creating a new user mailbox in Exchange Server 2016 by providing details.
Create a New User Mailbox in Microsoft Exchange Server
1. Log in to Exchange Admin Center (EAC) with administrator account on following URL,
https:///ecp
2. In mailboxes tab, click plus sign -> User mailbox
3. Choose new user, type first name, last name, type the user's alias in user logon name, type password and confirm password, and click Save. The newly created user will be added in Users container in active directory.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


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Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is an XML-based framework used to define and access information about learning objects so they can be easily shared among different learning management systems (LMSs). SCORM was developed in response to a United States Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to promote standardization in e-learning.
The DoD had been frustrated by problems they encountered when trying to share distance learning courses among different learning management systems used within the Department, so in 1997 they formed the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) specification group to create a way to make learning content portable across various systems. ADL created the first version of SCORM, which originally stood for Shareable Courseware Object Reference Model. It was designed to facilitate moving course content and related information (such as student records) from one platform to another, to make course content into modular objects that can be reused in other courses, and to enable any LMS to search others for usable course content.
The SCORM specifications, which are distributed through the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative Network, define an XML-based means of representing course structures, an application programming interface (API), a content-to-LMS data model, a content launch specification, and a specification for metadata records for all components of a system. The ADL specification group's next challenge is to motivate vendors to comply with SCORM specifications.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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Understanding the Nuances of Law Creation
In an innovative joint venture program between eighth grade Humanities and twelfth grade AP Government classes, students worked together in their study of US government.
The twelfth graders first assumed roles of political party leaders and taught the eighth graders about basic current political party stances and its influence in creating bills. Then, during the eighth grade prep and during their model senate simulation bill debates, the twelfth graders assisted the eighth graders with the writing and or revision of their bills.
During the eighth grade model senate bill debates to the class (on the "Senate Floor"), the seniors took the roles of lobbyists and interest groups challenging and questioning the eighth graders to understand the complexities and difficulties in creating laws.


Where Is Onion Skin In Photoshop?
What keyboard key will play the timeline?
What the Keyboard Shortcuts DoSpacebar: This key controls both playing and stopping video in the timeline.
Left & Right Arrows: Pressing either one of these keys will allow you to progress or regress through the timeline, frame by frame.More items…•.
What are onion skins?
How do you go to the next frame in Photoshop?
Left Arrow or Page Up moves to the previous frame, Right Arrow or Page Down moves to the next frame. Add the Shift key to move 10 frames at a time. Shift + Up Arrow moves back in time 1 second, Shift + Down Arrow moves forward 1 second in time.
What is onion skin in animation?
How do you animate in Photoshop 2020?
How to make an animated GIF in PhotoshopStep 1: Set up the dimensions and resolution of your Photoshop document. … Step 2: Import your image files into Photoshop. … Step 3: Open the timeline window. … Step 4: Convert your layers into frames. … Step 5: Duplicate frames to create your animation. … Step 6: Set the delay time of each frame.More items…
How do you make a new frame in Photoshop?
What is onion skin called?
How does Onion change skin color?
In the Drawing tab, in the Onion Skin section, click on the colour swatch of the onion skin display you want to change. In the Colour Picker window, select the colour. 6. Click OK to confirm the colour.
What is a keyframe in animation?
A key frame (or keyframe) in animation and filmmaking is a drawing or shot that defines the starting and ending points of any smooth transition. These are called frames because their position in time is measured in frames on a strip of film or on a digital video editing timeline.
What is tweening in animation?
Inbetweening or tweening is a key process in all types of animation, including computer animation. It is the process of generating intermediate frames between two images, called key frames, to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image.
Is there onion skin in Photoshop?
Paint or add content to the layer. (Optional) In the Timeline panel, choose Enable Onion Skins from the panel menu to enable the onion skin mode. … You can add a blank video frame, duplicate a frame, or delete a frame from the blank video layer by choosing Layer > Video Layers and then choosing the appropriate command.
How do you turn onion skin on?
The onion skin tool lets you preview the previous and next drawings. There is a few ways you can turn the onion skin on. From the top menu, select View > Onion Skin > Show Onion Skin. You can also go to the Timeline View, click on the Onion Skin button next to the layer.
Can I animate with Photoshop?
In Photoshop, you use the Timeline panel to create animation frames. Each frame represents a configuration of layers. … You can also create animations using a timeline and keyframes. See Creating timeline animations.


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Figure 1. Box plot of data from the Michelson–Morley experiment
In descriptive statistics, a box plot or boxplot is a convenient way of graphically depicting groups of numerical data through their quartiles. Box plots may also have lines extending vertically from the boxes (whiskers) indicating variability outside the upper and lower quartiles, hence the terms box-and-whisker plot and box-and-whisker diagram. Outliers may be plotted as individual points. Box plots are non-parametric: they display variation in samples of a statistical population without making any assumptions of the underlying statistical distribution. The spacings between the different parts of the box indicate the degree of dispersion (spread) and skewness in the data, and show outliers. In addition to the points themselves, they allow one to visually estimate various L-estimators, notably the interquartile range, midhinge, range, mid-range, and trimean. Boxplots can be drawn either horizontally or vertically.
Types of boxplots[edit]
Figure 2. Boxplot with whiskers from minimum to maximum
Figure 3. Same Boxplot with whiskers with maximum 1.5 IQR
Box and whisker plots are uniform in their use of the box: the bottom and top of the box are always the first and third quartiles, and the band inside the box is always the second quartile (the median). But the ends of the whiskers can represent several possible alternative values, among them:
 - the minimum and maximum of all of the data[1] (as in Figure 2)
 - the lowest datum still within 1.5 IQR of the lower quartile, and the highest datum still within 1.5 IQR of the upper quartile (often called the Tukey boxplot)[2][3] (as in Figure 3)
 - one standard deviation above and below the mean of the data
 - the 9th percentile and the 91st percentile
 - the 2nd percentile and the 98th percentile.
Any data not included between the whiskers should be plotted as an outlier with a dot, small circle, or star, but occasionally this is not done.
Some box plots include an additional character to represent the mean of the data.[2]
On some box plots a crosshatch is placed on each whisker, before the end of the whisker.
Rarely, box plots can be presented with no whiskers at all.
Because of this variability, it is appropriate to describe the convention being used for the whiskers and outliers in the caption for the plot.
The unusual percentiles 2%, 9%, 91%, 98% are sometimes used for whisker cross-hatches and whisker ends to show the seven-number summary. If the data is normally distributed, the locations of the seven marks on the box plot will be equally spaced.
Figure 4. Four box plots, with and without notches and variable width
Since the American mathematician John W. Tukey introduced this type of visual data display in 1969, several variations on the traditional box plot have been described. Two of the most common are variable width box plots and notched box plots (see Figure 4).
Variable width box plots illustrate the size of each group whose data is being plotted by making the width of the box proportional to the size of the group. A popular convention is to make the box width proportional to the square root of the size of the group.[1]
Notched box plots apply a "notch" or narrowing of the box around the median. Notches are useful in offering a rough guide to significance of difference of medians; if the notches of two boxes do not overlap, this offers evidence of a statistically significant difference between the medians.[1] The width of the notches is proportional to the interquartile range (IQR) of the sample and inversely proportional to the square root of the size of the sample. However, there is uncertainty about the most appropriate multiplier (as this may vary depending on the similarity of the variances of the samples).[1] One convention is to use +/-1.58*IQR/sqrt(n).[3]
Adjusted box plots are intended for skew distributions. They rely on the medcouple statistic of skewness.[4] For a medcouple value of MC, the lengths of the upper and lower whiskers are respectively defined to be
1.5 \times IQR \times e^{3 MC}, ~\qquad~ 1.5 \times IQR \times e^{-4 MC} if MC \geq 0
1.5 \times IQR \times e^{4 MC}, ~\quad~ 1.5 \times IQR \times e^{-3 MC} if MC \leq 0.
Observe that for symmetrical distributions, the medcouple will be zero, and this reduces to Tukey's boxplot with equal whisker lengths of 1.5 \times IQR for both whiskers.
Figure 5. Boxplot and a probability density function (pdf) of a Normal N(0,1σ2) Population
The box plot is a quick way of examining one or more sets of data graphically. Box plots may seem more primitive than a histogram or kernel density estimate but they do have some advantages. They take up less space and are therefore particularly useful for comparing distributions between several groups or sets of data (see Figure 1 for an example). Choice of number and width of bins techniques can heavily influence the appearance of a histogram, and choice of bandwidth can heavily influence the appearance of a kernel density estimate.
As looking at a statistical distribution is more intuitive than looking at a box plot, comparing the box plot against the probability density function (theoretical histogram) for a normal N(0,1σ2) distribution may be a useful tool for understanding the box plot (Figure 5).
See also[edit]
 1. ^ a b c d McGill, Robert; Tukey, John W.; Larsen, Wayne A. (February 1978). "Variations of Box Plots". The American Statistician 32 (1): 12–16. doi:10.2307/_PHONE_. JSTOR _PHONE_.
 2. ^ a b Frigge, Michael; Hoaglin, David C.; Iglewicz, Boris (February 1989). "Some Implementations of the Boxplot". The American Statistician 43 (1): 50–54. doi:10.2307/_PHONE_. JSTOR _PHONE_.
 3. ^ a b "R: Box Plot Statistics". R manual. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
 4. ^ M. Hubert; E. Vandervieren (2008). "An adjusted boxplot for skewed distributions". Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 52 (12): 5186–5201. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2007.11.008.
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Kickstarting R - Descriptive statistics
Writing a descriptive stats function
Assume that we want a function that will give us the mean, variance and valid n for one or more numeric variables in a data frame. Here's a very simple example of such a function, dstats().
Note that two things have been done before any calculation. First the function checks whether the required argument x is missing, then it checks whether x is a data frame or matrix. This avoids any messy errors that would result by calling the function without any arguments or with objects that didn't make any sense to the function. If these checks fail, a simple usage message is printed to inform the user.
After all this preparation, what does the function do? First, it works out which columns of the input data are numeric. It then computes the vector of means as above. Then it makes almost exactly the same call, except using the function var() to get the variances. You won't find the third function in the R help listing.
validn<-function(datavec) {
All it does is add up the vector of TRUE and FALSE values (which happen to equal 1 and 0) produced by the function and reversed by the NOT (!) operator. That value is the number of valid (NOT NA) observations in the object passed to it, which will be each column of the incoming data to dstats(). So validn() had to be written before dstats() would run. This is a good time to consider when it is worth writing a separate function to do something. validn() has the advantage that it returns a useful value that might be used by many other functions. Also, it's slightly easier to use a function name in sapply() than writing in the function definition. It has the disadvantage that it is a one-liner and could simply be inserted into the code of the other functions rather than a call. Your own style of programming will probably dictate at what point you begin to write separate functions.
dstats() then calls rbind() to stick the three vectors together into a matrix row by row, and calls rownames() to assign the desired row labels to the matrix. Finally, dstats() assigns the class of "dstat", which will allow objects produced by it to be recognized as a specific sort of object. The object dstat is then returned, which means that it will be displayed, and optionally assigned to another object.
Assume that you would like to have more control over which variables are included in the output. You know that the mean is a suitable description for age and parity. dstats() as written allows you to pass a vector of either integers or names that will specify the variables to be used.
So, why do we go to all this trouble to define a special object and write a function to produce it? I find that an object that contains means, variances and ns allows me to easily display a summary and produce a basic plot, including error bars, etc. It also allows functions to recognize the object as the correct sort without extensive testing of the contents. Apparently other people have noticed the same thing, and there is at least one other "dstat" object out there. One of the really valuable things about being able to program your stats is that you can customize such objects to suit the sort of work that you do. Therefore, I encourage readers to devise and refine their own objects, a good way to learn the capabilities of R and more importantly, to get what you want.
What about median and mode?
Say that you wanted the median and mode in your dstat object. You could add a call to the median() function and include that in the object returned. mode is a bit more difficult. We can use the tabulate() function to calculate it - if the data are all positive numbers:
> x<-sample(1:10,30,TRUE)
xmode<-which(xt == max(xt))
if(sum(xt == max(xt))>1) xmode<-NA
xmode will be the value of the first category that has a frequency equal to the highest frequency in the table. If there is more than one category with the maximum frequency, xmode will be set to NA.
For more information, see An Introduction to R: Vector arithmetic.
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Strategies for finding the right email frequency
Stefan Pollard at Email Labs has written a good article that looks at the factors that dictate how often you should send marketing emails.
Clearly, finding the right frequency for emails is vital - emailing customers too often can put them off, while not emailing often enough can cause the same problems.
Stefan outlines three strategies for determining the correct frequency:
1. Understand who controls frequency
Stefan points out that customers are becoming savvier when managing inboxes, and many will delete, unsubscribe from, or report as spam any emails they may find annoying.
In addition, customers will often consider annoying emails as spam, even if they have a relationship with that company. In a DoubleClick survey, 49% of respondents classified spam as '"email from a company I have done business with but that comes too frequently''.
This means that customers are the ones who should be determining the frequency of emails they receive.
2. Listen to customer feedback
Take note of what people are saying when they unsubscribe. They may be telling you they are receiving too many emails, or that the ones they receive are irrelevant to them.
Give customers a chance to tell you how many emails, and what kind of emails they are happy to receive, either when they opt-in in the first place, or through the emails you are sending them. The more relevant the messages you send, the more frequently you can send them.
3. Respect your subscribers' choices
You should stick to your promises about email frequency, even if you have a deal you know your customers will love. While many will forgive one or two extra emails, it could be the tipping point for others.
Stefan recommends:
"Instead of sneaking in another mailing, refine your list description that specifies a general number but allows you to reserve the right to send relevant messages between regular scheduled mailings.
"Specify a range of mailings in a given time rather than a specific number, but be as realistic in your expectations as you can."
The article also warns against not sending emails often enough, as customers may forget they subscribed after a while and treat your email as spam. He recommends that customers should be emailed at least monthly.
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Preferences and Choice
Leander Otto Wiesheu
Student thesis: Master thesis
"Preference" and "Choice" are assumed to be intimately related. A common assumption is that preferences determine choice and that choices reveal preferences. The most preferred option will be chosen. In the present paper, these assumptions will be critically assessed. This will be done by discussing the formal properties of the preference relation and by discussing the underlying action-theoretic assumption of the thesis that the best available option is chosen. The phenomenon called "weakness of the will" will pose a problem for this interpretation. It will be concluded that preferences and choices cannot generally be defined in terms of each other.
EducationsMSc in Philosophy, (Graduate Programme) Final Thesis
Publication date2020
Number of pages41
SupervisorsThomas Poulsen


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About the Workshop:
This high-value leadership workshop is being conducted across all major cities of the country to make participants realize their Self-Actualization needs and how aligning the decision-making with Universal Principles results into very high performance in personal and professional life of a person.
1. Registration and settling down (15 minutes)
2. Context Setting (30 minutes)
3. Learning Session 1: Difference between a leader and a Self-Actualized Change Leader (90 minutes)
4. Tea Break (15 minutes)
5. Learning Session 2: Eternal Principles (90 minutes)
6. Buffet Lunch Break (60 minutes)
7. Learning Session 3: Principle of Cause and Effect (90 minutes)
8. Tea Break (15 minutes)
9. Learning Session 4: The Absolute Observation (90 minutes)
- Self-Actualized Leadership seekers.
- Rational Spirituality Seekers.
- CEOs, Directors and Heads of companies
- HR, L&D, BD and Freelance Professionals
- Professional association seekers
Opportunities to collaborate after workshop:
You can associate with following professional networks for actualizing your potential into tangible leadership work?
Defined Values Trainers Network (DVTN)
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Self-Actualized Leadership Network (SALN)
Self-Realized Mentorship Network (SRMN)


Stefan; Shukla, Nikunj M; Salyer, Alex C D; Lambrecht, Bart N; et al. (2016-07-19)
 Agonists of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are potent activators of the innate immune system and hold promise as vaccine adjuvant and for anticancer immunotherapy. Unfortunately, in soluble form they readily enter systemic circulation and cause systemic inflammatory toxicity. Here we demonstrate that by covalent ligation of a small-molecule imidazoquinoline-based TLR7/8 agonist to 50-nm-sized degradable polymeric nanogels the potency of the agonist to activate TLR7/8 in in vitro cultured dendritic cells is largely retained. Importantly, imidazoquinoline-ligated nanogels focused the in vivo immune activation on the draining lymph nodes while dramatically reducing systemic inflammation. Mechanistic studies revealed a prevalent passive diffusion of the nanogels to the draining lymph node. Moreover, immunization studies in mice have shown that relative to soluble TLR7/8 agonist, imidazoquinoline-ligated nanogels induce superior antibody and T-cell responses against a tuberculosis antigen. This approach opens possibilities to enhance the therapeutic benefit of small-molecule TLR agonist for a variety of applications.


Based on this intuition, try solving on our own before looking at the code.
If we have an array of length n we know "smallest missing positive integer" must be in between 1 and n+1(inclusive).
For example:
[3,1,2,8,9] in this case we have an array of length n=5, so our smallest missing positive integer must lie between 1 and 5+1 = 6(inclusive).
Clearly, those values that are greater than n(5) should not be in here. Because if we have any value greater than n those values are occupying some smaller values place. For example, 8 is occupying index 3 where we should have either 4 or 5 and also 9 is occupying index 4 where we should have either 5 or 4.
The same goes for any value less than or equal to 0.
For example:
-1 is at index 0 where we should either 4 or 5, the same is true for -2 as well.
So, values that are >n and <=0 are all garbage. We don't need those.
Let's modify the array:
[3,1,2,8,9] will become [3,1,2,1,1]
[-1,-2,3,1,2] will become [1,1,3,1,2]
Why are we putting 1 in place of those values?
We know that, 1 is the smallest positive integer from 1 to infinity.
So if our array does not contain 1 then we know for sure that 1 is going to be the answer. There is no point checking further.
But, if we do have 1 as an item inside the array then some other value[ >1 && <=n ] inside the array which is missing will be the answer. If none are missing then n+1 will be the answer.
With that in mind when we see any garbage value that should not be in this array we replace that value with 1, which we already knew is present in the array. Between garbage value and 1, only 1 is allowed to be present in our modified array.
Once we are done processing our array, we know all the values inside the array should lie between 1 & n(inclusive).
One more processing needs to happen before we look for the answer.
As an easier example, let's say after processing up till this point we got an array like this:
In an ideal case we should have had [1,2,3,4], if all the values were present. Now in this case which one is not present? How can you tell?
If we take each value of each index and update the corresponding value to it's negative then we will have an array like this [-1,-2,-3,3].
How? Take i=2, update whatever is present to negative:
 int index = Math.abs(nums[i])-1;
 nums[index] = -Math.abs(nums[index]);
[1,2,2,3], similarly:
After that, we will check for the first index where the value is still positive. Our answer will be that index+1.
If this is not the case then our answer will be n+1 since all the values between 1 and n are present in the array.
Hope this will help anyone who is not looking for code but explanation.
 public int firstMissingPositive(int[] nums) {
 boolean oneFound = false;
 for(int a:nums){
 oneFound = true;
 int n = nums.length;
 if(nums[i]<=0 || nums[i]>n){
 nums[i] = 1;
 return i+1;
 return nums.length+1;
 return 1;


text: If you and your partner are trying to conceive, it's important to keep the testicles cooler than the normal body temperature of 98.6 (98 point 6) degrees. Sperm need a cooler environment, around 93 degrees, for successful production. During the day, you can do this by wearing boxer shorts instead of briefs and not sitting down for long periods of time. At night, to keep your testicles from overheating, sleep with as little clothing on as you can. Avoid electric blankets, heated waterbeds, or other sources of artificial heat, and don't curl up into a ball to keep warm. Remember that the testicles are naturally located outside of the body to keep them at a cooler temperature. Preserving this cooler environment can help sperm production and eventually conception.


It is 1885 during the reign of Queen Victoria and two ships from the British Empire set sail on the high seas for the imaginary kingdom of Rundoon.
On one ship, The Neverland, three orphan boys encounter a smart and witty girl named Molly Aster, the daughter of an English lord and minister to the queen. Also on board is a trunk full of precious starstuff that Molly has promised to protect. One of the orphans, known only as Boy, is bitter and unpleasant. Once he meets Molly, his lonely and miserable world is turned upside down.
On the other ship, The Wasp, Molly's father, the famous starcatcher Lord Aster, guards a decoy trunk from pirates who are in search of treasure. The pirate captain, Black Stache, discovers the ruse and goes after The Neverland.
A violent storm ensues, and Molly and the orphans find themselves trying to save the valuable trunk from Black Stache, his men, and the both of the ships' crews. The Neverland is torn asunder in the storm.
In the midst of all the upheaval, Boy meets Black Stache who gives him the name of Peter while trying to convince him to become a pirate. The trunk is almost in secure hands, when in order to save himself from drowning, Peter rides it through the waves to a nearby island.
And the adventures have only begun! What becomes of Molly, Peter, and the other lost boys? Why is everyone after the starstuff and what does it do? Does anyone—or anything—ever stop Black Stache and the pirates? Discover more than ever about these classic characters you thought you knew.


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Product Labels In Relation To Imported And Exported Goods
By Ian Renton | Labelling Laws, Product Labels | 5 Jun 2014 |
Product Labels In Relation To Imported And Exported Goods
Ian Renton | 05/06/2014 | Labelling Laws,Product Labels
import export The Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act of 1905 is over 100 years old but is still used to determine the legality of all imported products that come into Australia. This Act, despite containing 17 parts, simply requires that all goods coming into Australia are labelled correctly. In fact, it is imperative that the trade description applied to your goods via your product label or any other covering such as a bottle, box, glass, vessel, capsule, case, frame or wrapper of any sort is accurate. Your trade description would include the following:
 1. Quantity of your goods
 2. Quality, class and purity of your goods
 3. Size or weight of your products
 4. Nature of your goods
 5. Country where the goods were made
 6. Name of the manufacturer or producer
 7. How the goods were manufactured, produced or packed
 8. The ingredients or materials consisting in the goods
 9. The existence of any patent or copyright over the goods.
Of course, your product labels should be kept simple and be graphically appealing to the consumer at the same time. There is a conflict when it comes to designing product labels in terms of the need to sell versus the need to be compliant. In this conflict, it is always best to err on the side of compliance. If your packaging is non-compliant then you simply will not have a product to sell. Much of the information required by Australian law in relation to providing a trade description on your products that is accurate and cannot be interpreted as being misleading is something that you would want to be doing anyway. Rather than fear the law, it is best to work within its guidelines as these laws will provide valuable information to your consumer and at the same time assist you in selling your products in Australian markets. A false trade description not only applies to information that is false but it also applies to information that is omitted. Also, the same laws apply to exporters. If you are involved in importing and exporting, then it is worthwhile familiarising yourself with the Australian government requirements of the trade description of your goods. Here is the relevant link for the accurate definition of a trade description and its components. _URL_ The above information is just a very brief summary of your requirements as an importer or exporter of goods coming into and going out of Australia. If you are a major importer or exporter, then you should definitely seek legal advice in terms of your product labels on your goods and the packaging of these goods. However, my reading of the law is that compliance is really not that difficult as the government's laws on trade descriptions seem very logical to me. Importing and exporting is vital for our global economy and I feel confident that Australia has laws that are strict enough to protect Australian consumers and also international consumers of our products. In fact, it is the strictness of our laws that makes Australia a comfortable place to live for consumers. Similarly, Australian exporters enjoy a strong international reputation that is partly due to the enforcement of the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act of 1905.
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Note: To learn the most, please follow all the links that are provided. If you are just joining us, please refer to Sewing Lesson Index to start at the beginning of the lessons.
Be sure you have purchased and followed all directions in Sewing Lesson 5 in order to learn the most and be prepared to follow these lessons through to the end.
At this time your fabric should be pre-shrunk and pressed. Now we will open the pattern envelope and find the pieces that we will need in order to make the robe that we started exploring in Lesson 5.
Open the envelope, and locate the direction sheet, which is out lined in red in the photo.
Fabric Care: This refers to pre-shrinking the fabric and pressing it before you begin. Believe me, this is not a step to skip. You will only skip it once, if your fabric decides to shrink after you have put the work into making a garment!
Pattern Sizing: This is the area we explored in Page 3 Of Lesson 5
Master Patterns: This area tells you about tracing your pattern if you want to be able to use the other sizes in the future. Be sure to press the pattern pieces and the tracing material flat before you attempt to trace. Even a small mistake will magnify itself in a fitted garment or in trying to fit the pieces together while you are sewing.
Cutting: "Place pattern on fabric with straight-of-grain lines parallel to salvage." First let's decide what is the straight grain. This is the threads of the fabric which run parallel to the salvage edge. Look at a pattern piece and you will see a line with arrow ends (usually near the center of the piece). This is the straight-of-grain marking that you will be measuring to the salvage edge of the fabric, so that your garment will be on the straight grain of the fabric.
Notches: The directions bring up a point about cutting the notches outward. You will see these notches on the edge of pattern pieces. Many times people cut these notches inward. This will weaken the amount of strength in your seam. Please cut them outwards as the pattern instructs.
Next the directions detail cutting one layer of fabric at a time and how to turn over the pattern pieces. This will be necessary if you have 45" wide fabric as indicated in the diagram at the bottom of the first page. This is important or you could end up cutting out two left sides. Mark your traced pattern if necessary so that you can see the difference in the sides of the pattern pieces.
Read all of the details in this section. It explains why some pattern pieces are shaded in the pattern Layout. Although it states that the layout of some of the small pieces may vary, it is still important that the pieces are on the straight of grain.
The next column, explains which pattern pieces you will need for which view. The directions in the lesson will be for view B. Scan down to view B and find the pattern pieces that are listed on this section. Press the pattern pieces and trace them if you would like to be able to use the other sizes in the future.


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Dr.Web AV-Desk 10.1 released
December 14, 2017
Dr.Web AV-Desk 10.1 server upgrades include:
- The addition of the ability to search for hosts by user account;
- The Agent and Preventive Protection settings are now located in different sections of the Dr.Web Control Center;
- Agent entries in the anti-virus network tree can now be sorted by various criteria;
- Some anti-virus network tree data can now be exported;
- The Dr.Web Server log can now be configured via the Dr.Web Control Center;
- If the License Manager is used, a license key file can be applied to the Everyone group automatically;
- The Dr.Web Server task scheduler now supports asynchronous tasks. Also, tasks can now be transferred from the default schedule;
- Tasks on protected hosts can now be run according to UTC or using the local time zone of the host;
- Administrators who only operate with specific groups are prohibited from approving new anti-virus network hosts;
- The host count routine for the group installer has been revamped;
- Routines for generating installer packages for Linux and macOS have been upgraded to reduce package-generation time and data volume in the cache;
- Routines for interacting with the Dr.Web Server database have been optimised;
- The size of a memory-mapped database file can now be adjusted via the Dr.Web Control Center;
- Web API queries have been optimised for working with administrators, hosts and host groups;
- The administrator permission section has been redesigned;
- A primary group can be assigned for a host in accordance with membership rules;
- The Dr.Web Control Center Help section has been updated.
Resolved Dr.Web AV-Desk 10.1 server issues:
- An issue allowing an administrator with restricted privileges to roll back server software using a backup;
- An issue involving incorrect information about error types and actions appearing in the Threats and Errors tables;
- An issue that could affect the performance of Dr.Web Server and Dr.Web Control Center if tasks were being processed in multi-thread mode;
- A database shrinking issue that occurred during clean-up operations under Windows;
- An error that could prevent new hosts from being approved to connect to the Dr.Web Server;
- A problem resulting in an error when large files were loaded and unloaded via the Dr.Web Control Center's Repository Contents and Quarantine sections;
- An error that occurred while the number of hosts on the anti-virus network was being determined if the corresponding request had been sent via Dr.Web API—particularly when data was being transmitted to the Dr.Web Mobile Control Center;
- A defect that interfered with the ability to check the virus database status on protected hosts;
- A problem that might result in an error in the Quarantine section of the Dr.Web Control Center.
Changes made to the agent software include:
- Dr.Web AV-Desk Agent (126.96.36.19960) and the module Dr.Web AVD Agent for Windows supporting Active Directory (11.00.12060) have been updated to the release version.
- Also resolved was a Dr.Web AV-Desk Proxy (REL-1000-AV 201711250) issue that prevented agent software with no ID from being installed if the proxy server was under heavy load.
Providers should consult Doctor Web specialists in order to upgrade their Internet service. The Dr.Web Anti-virus service software will be updated automatically.
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Overnight fat burners are weight loss supplements that are taken before bedtime to help the body burn fat while sleeping. They typically contain ingredients such as caffeine, green tea extract and other stimulants, which can help boost your metabolism and increase energy levels throughout the day. Although not confirmed, there have been studies that suggest that overnight fat burners may be more effective than other types of weight loss supplements. However, some products may contain ingredients that may have adverse effects If taken for a prolonged period. Hence, it is advisable to consult your doctor before taking any weight loss supplement – especially one meant to be used at night.
The science behind overnight fat-burning supplements
The popularity of overnight fat-burning supplements has continued to increase, especially among those desiring to lose weight quickly. But what is the science behind these products? Generally speaking, overnight fat-burning supplements help to burn fat while you sleep by increasing your metabolism. This is done through a combination of ingredients that help to boost your energy levels and increase thermogenesis, which is the process of producing heat in the body. Some of the most common ingredients in these supplements include caffeine, green tea extract, guarana seed extract and capsaicin. Caffeine helps to stimulate your metabolism and increase thermogenesis, while green tea extract contains antioxidants that can help reduce inflammation and improve overall health. Guarana seed extract has been shown to have appetite-suppressing properties, while capsaicin can help to boost your metabolism even further. All these ingredients work together to help you burn more calories throughout the night to wake up feeling energized and ready for the day ahead.
Weighing up safety and efficiency when choosing a weight loss supplement
Safety and efficiency should be your top priorities when choosing a weight loss supplement. Conducting thorough research should be one of the first steps before making any decisions. Read up on the ingredients and make sure that all the ingredients are natural and safe for consumption. Also, check if any studies have been conducted on the product and what results they have yielded. It's also important to consider the length of time that it will take for you to see results from taking the supplement. Some supplements may work faster than others, so choose one that fits your timeline. Finally, ensure that the supplements that you are taking won't interfere with any existing health conditions or medications you may be taking.
Understanding how you can benefit from an overnight fat burner
Overnight fat burners are a great way to help you reach your weight loss goals. They increase your metabolism while you sleep, allowing you to burn more calories and fat throughout the night. This can be especially beneficial for those with trouble sticking to a strict diet or exercise routine during the day. Overnight fat burners can also help reduce cravings and hunger pangs, making sticking to a healthy diet easier. Moreover, they can help boost energy levels so that you feel more motivated and energized during the day. Finally, overnight fat burners can help improve your overall health by providing essential vitamins and minerals that may be lacking in your diet. These benefits make overnight fat burners an excellent choice for anyone looking to lose weight and improve their overall health.
How long does it take for night-time diet pills to kick in?
The length of time that it takes for the nighttime pill to affect your body usually depends on the type of pill you are taking. Generally, most diet pills take between 30 minutes and an hour to start working. This time, however, greatly varies depending on the ingredients contained in the pill. This is because some pills may contain stimulants that can cause a faster onset of action, while others may contain natural ingredients that take longer to absorb. Ensure that you carefully read the label of any diet pill you consider taking and follow the instructions carefully. Also, it is best to consult your doctor before starting any new supplement or medication regimen.
Frequently asked questions about using night-time diet pills
A few frequently asked questions come up, especially when it comes to the usage of night-time diet pills. The first is whether or not these pills are safe to use. Generally speaking, night-time diet pills are considered safe when taken as directed. However, speaking with your doctor before taking any supplement is essential, especially if you have any underlying health conditions or take other medications. Another common question is how long the effects of the pill will last. This can vary depending on the type of pill and its ingredients, but most night-time diet pills should provide at least 8 hours of appetite suppression and energy boost. Finally, people often ask if they should take the pill every night or when needed. Again, this depends on the type of pill and its ingredients, but generally speaking, it's best to take it every night for maximum effectiveness.
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How far would you go for a gameshow host?
Gameshow hosts are powerful people.
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Gameshow hosts are powerful people. Photo / Thinkstock
Gameshow hosts have so much power over people that contestants are willing to do anything they're told, including torture each other to death, research suggests.
Psychologists from the University of Paris simulated the recording of a new programme in a real TV studio with an audience and a well-known weather girl as the host.
Recruiters found 80 contestants to take part in what they thought was a show called Zone Xtreme. They were introduced to another contestant called 'Jean Paul', played by an actor, who was sent to a separate part of the studio where he could be heard but not seen.
Each of the contestants was told by the host to ask 'Jean Paul' a series of 27 questions and apply what they thought was an electric shock of increasing strength for each wrong answer.
More than eight in ten - 64 contestants - administered the maximum 460 volts, which could cause death, despite hearing 'Jean Paul' cry out, scream and beg to stop the game.
If they wavered, Miss Young intervened with lines such as "Don't let yourself get upset" and "Go on, we are taking all the responsibility for this".
Only 16 of the 80 contestants refused to continue with the programme.
The experiment was broadcast as part of a documentary entitled Game of Death for French network, France 2, in 2010, but the analysis and findings have just been published in the European Review of Applied Psychology.
"It has long been known that television and television hosts had influence on viewers," the researchers said.
"We suspected they could also have prescriptive powers to [influence] people's behaviour, including cruel and immoral behaviours. Until now this had never been shown."
The experiment was a twist on the 1960s research by US academic Stanley Milgram, who examined why ordinary people were prepared to commit horrific atrocities in Nazi Germany.
He found 80 per cent of his subjects inflicted pain on a stranger when ordered to do so by a figure in authority such as a scientist.
The French experiment reveals that this "authority figure" is far broader than previously realised.
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The mass-metallicity relation at z 1.4 revealed with Subaru/FMOS
We present a stellar mass-metallicity relation at z ~ 1.4 with an unprecedentedly large sample of ~340 star-forming galaxies obtained with FibreMulti-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) on the Subaru Telescope. We observed K-band...
NIR spectroscopy of star-forming galaxies at z similar to 1.4 with Subaru/FMOS : The mass-metallicity relation.
We present near-infrared spectroscopic observations of star-forming galaxies at z similar to 1.4 with FMOS on the Subaru Telescope. We observed K-band selected galaxies in the SXDS/UDS fields with K <= 23.9 mag, 1.2 <=...
Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) for the Subaru Telescope
Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) is the first near-infrared instrument with a wide field of view capable of acquiring spectra simultaneously from up to 400 objects. It has been developed as a common-use instrument...


Congaree National Park
Situated along the meandering Congaree River in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park is home to champion trees, primeval forest landscapes, and diverse plant and animal life. This 22,200-acre park protects the largest contiguous tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the United States. Known for its giant hardwoods and towering pines, the parks floodplain forest includes one of the highest canopies in the world and some of the tallest trees in the eastern United States.
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The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced up to $43 million in funding to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies
Funding will enable power generators to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment.
The FLExible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program seeks to develop technologies that address difficulties in decarbonization of electricity systems, focusing specifically on complications in CCS design, operations, and commercialization potential with the increasing penetration of high VRE sources such as wind and solar power.
"Flexible CCS technology has the potential to achieve unprecedented carbon capture that will revolutionize the market," said Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette. "The FLECCS program will quickly advance our carbon capture technology to bring us closer to flexible, low-cost, net-zero carbon electricity systems."
FLECCS projects will develop retrofits to existing power generators as well as novel systems with carbon-containing fuel input and electricity output.
- Mountains are the future of long-term energy storage – IIASA
- US president selects next Energy Secretary
- World energy industry needs rapid and far-reaching changes – IEA
The program will have two phases. Phase 1 will focus on designing and optimizing CCS processes that enable flexibility on a high-VRE grid. Phase 2 will focus on building components, unit operations, and small prototype systems to reduce the technical risks and costs associated with CCS systems. Projects will be selected to move from Phase 1 to Phase 2 at the conclusion of the initial funding period, based on the output and capacity expansion analysis of the projects.
A portion of the funding will be made specifically available for qualifying small business applicants under ARPA-E's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.


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- Vegetables: tomatoes
- Crop Production: fertigation, organic fertilizers
- Production Systems: general crop production
Many farmers are growing organic greenhouse tomatoes, but using organic fertilizers in a drip irrigation system has proved problematic. This project will test adaptations to a drip irrigation system and fertilizer dilutions to overcome this problem. The size of the tomato plants will be measured, and yield and quality data of the fruit will be collected and analyzed. Outreach will be through a grower field day, an article, and grower presentations.


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Triangular Trade
The Triangular Trade is a route to recieve slaves. It got it's namefrom the three routes that formed a triangle. The first route carried fish, lumber, and other goods from New England to the West Indies. In the West Indies they picked up sugar and molasses which is a dark brown syrup product made from sugar cane. This was used to makes rum. From the West Indies merchants carried the rum, along with guns, gunpowder, and tools to West Africa. Here, they traded these items for slaves, they carried the slaves to the West Indies where they were sold. Traders would take the profits and buy more molasses.
The slaves were treated so harshly that some of them didn't make it to the West Indies. Traders were so greedy that they wanted to bring as many slaves as possible. The slaves were chained and crammed together below the deck. There was hardly any sitting room or standing room. The slaves even have fresh air. The air was so stifling that some suffocated to death. Others tried to starve themselves to death or jump over board. Most died from diseases.
When the slaves reached the Americas they were auctioned off. Many families were broken up and never seen again. I hope you have a better understanding of the Triangular Trade


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Leahy, Trisha and Pretty, Grace and Tenenbaum, Gershon (2008) A contextualized investigation of traumatic correlates of childhood sexual abuse in Australian athletes. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6 (4). pp. 366-384. ISSN 1612-197X
This study examined the traumatic sequelae associated with childhood sexual abuse from a contextualized perspective, taking into account childhood physical and psychological abuse experiences and adult trauma. Participants were 90 (45 men and 45 women) competitive athletes, purposefully selected to balance the distributions of sex and reported childhood sexual abuse across the sample. The study comprised a cross-sectional, retrospective investigation using well-established, standardized, selfreport questionnaires and a semi-structured interview. Results revealed that, within the total sample, childhood sexual, physical, and psychological abuse were strongly correlated. Reported childhood psychological abuse was the primary unique correlate of current posttraumatic and dissociative symptomatology. Reported childhood sexual abuse and psychological abuse were uniquely correlated with posttraumatic and dissociative symptomatology in the male sample. The unique correlate in the female sample was childhood physical abuse. The study provides initial data that support recent work in the trauma field with non-athletes, indicating that contextualized, trauma-based assessment and intervention is an appropriate therapeutic approach when working with athlete survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Specifically, the long-term traumatic sequelae associated with childhood sexual abuse need to be assessed and treated within a context that is sensitive to psychological abuse issues. Sex disaggregated analyses suggest that the social context of childhood sexual abuse may be qualitatively different for men and women. Implications for sport psychology practice, training, and research are discussed.
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Numbers run
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A numbers run is a geocaching trip focused on finding a very large number of geocaches, possibly 100 or more finds in a day.
A numbers run requires advance planning. Choose a cache-dense location that is near enough not to require a long drive to reach, yet far enough that you haven't found many caches there. Use a pocket query to identify a large number of traditional caches that can be found quickly. Focus on clusters of caches with lower difficulty ratings, located near convenient parking. Plan a route that minimizes driving time (e.g., avoiding left turns and known traffic problems), and plan more caches than you expect to find, so you can skip some (depending on what happens the day of the hunt) and still hit your target number.
Do not include multi-caches. If you're feeling ambitious, then you can solve some puzzle caches in advance and include them if they look like a quick find. Avoid caches with recent DNFs, or that require stealth. You may want to avoid known nano-caches, both because they can be hard to find and because signing and rerolling the log takes too long.
Include plans for bathroom breaks, food and beverages, fuel stops, etc. Decide in advance how you'll sign the logs, perhaps with a team name that is short, or with adhesive labels. Also decide how you'll keep track of which caches were found, which were skipped, etc., and how you're going to share the responsibility for driving.
Before the big day, get plenty of sleep, make sure you're hydrated, and generally take care of yourself. Make sure you have multiple GPS receivers with the selected caches, plenty of extra batteries, snacks, clipboards, etc. Basically, prepare for an all-day hunt.
The day of the numbers run, start early and just keep going. Once you start the hunt, everything is about efficiency. It isn't about individual finds; it's about the numbers run. If a cache is taking too long to find, then skip it and move on.
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Ténéré Tree
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Coordinates: 17°45′00″N 10°04′00″E / 17.75000°N 10.06667°E / 17.75000; 10.06667
Tree of Ténéré (1961)
The Ténéré Tree (French: L'Arbre du Ténéré) was a solitary acacia, of either Acacia raddiana[1] or Acacia tortilis,[2] that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth[3]—the only one for over 400 kilometres (250 mi). It was a landmark on caravan routes through the Ténéré region of the Sahara Desert in northeast Niger, so well known that it and the Arbre Perdu or 'Lost Tree' to the north are the only trees to be shown on a map at a scale of 1:4,000,000. The Tree of Ténéré was located near a 40-metre (131 feet)-deep well. It was knocked down in 1973, supposedly by an apparently drunk truck driver.
Commander of the Allied Military Mission, Michel Lesourd, of the Service central des affaires sahariennes [Central service of Saharan affairs], saw the tree on May 21, 1939:
Death and replacement[edit]
Metal sculpture of the tree (1985)
The Tree of Ténéré was knocked down by an allegedly drunk Libyan truck driver in 1973. On November 8, 1973, the dead tree was moved to the Niger National Museum in the capital Niamey.[4]
In popular culture[edit]
The sculpture representing the Tree of Ténéré and the Tree's story feature prominently in the 2006 film La Gran final (The Great Match). In the film, a group of Tuareg nomads in the Sahara races to find a power supply and broadcast reception for their television in time to watch the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final between Germany and Brazil, eventually using the tree sculpture as a makeshift antenna.
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 1. ^ Riedacker, A. (1993). Physiologie des arbres et arbustes en zones arides et semi-arides: séminaire, Paris-Nancy, 20 mars-6 avril 1990 (in French). John Libbey Eurotext. p. 406. ISBN 2-7420-0019-4. Retrieved 2009-08-11. L'Hote (1961) note dans son article sur l'arbre du Ténéré (Acacia raddiana) que l'on aurait retrouvé ses racines à 30 métres de profondeur.
 2. ^ Le Roy, Robert (1998). Méhariste au Niger: souvenirs sahariens (in French). Karthala Editions. p. 108. ISBN 2-86537-778-4. Retrieved 2009-08-11. It avait fallu à cet acacia tortilis une belle vigueur et une fameuse chance pour subsister là, seul, jusqu'à élever son feuillage hors de portée des gazelles.
 3. ^ Wagensonner, Eric (2007-01-15). "Eastern Mali to Niger to Timbuktu - 2-19 September 06". Border-Crossings. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
 4. ^ a b c L'Arbre du Ténéré, Part 2
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Trees of Wisconsin
Hamamelis virginiana L.
American witch-hazel
Family: Hamamelidaceae
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The leaves of Hamamelis virginiana are simple and alternate and the margins are usually "wavy" or with a few large, irregular blunt teeth. The terminal buds are very distinctive, often exceeding one cm in length and stalked. They are also naked buds, but this character is difficult to recognize because the surface is covered with a dense layer of yellow-brown hairs and scales, which often extends over the adjacent tip of the twig. The flowers, with 4 conspicuous elongate, narrow, yellow petals open in fall. The fruit is dry and woody and tends to stay on the branches through the winter, after expelling the seeds in the fall. The growth form is often of multiple stems from the base, reaching a height of 5-8 meters and might be either small tree or a shrub.
Hamamelis virginiana ranges across most of the eastern U.S. to about the Mississippi River, and a little farther west in the south where it reaches eastern Oklahoma and Texas. In Wisconsin it is found throughout the southern 2/3 of the state, and becomes patchy in the most northern counties as it reaches the northwest extreme of its range. Habitat is usually moderately dry forest with thin or patchy canopies.
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Gladstone and Disraeli
Published February 15th 2005 by Routledge – 208 pages
Gladstone and Disraeli surveys and compares the careers of these two influential Prime Ministers. Stephen J. Lee examines how Gladstone and Disraeli emerged as leaders of the two leading parties and goes on to consider their time in power, analyzing many different aspects of their careers.
Using a wide variety of sources and historiography, Lee compares and contrasts the beliefs of Gladstone and Disraeli, their effect on the economy, social reform, the Irish problem and parliamentary reform, and on foreign policy.
Introduction. Outline Chronology 1. Gladstone and Disraeli Before 1868 2. The Ideas of Gladstone and Disraeli 3. Social, Economic and Institutional Reforms 4. Constitutional Reforms 5. Foreign Policy 6. Imperialism and Empire 7. Ireland 8. Gladstone, Disraeli and Their Political Parties
Stephen J. Lee is Head of History at Bromsgrove School. His many publications include The European Dictatorships, _PHONE_ (2nd edition, 2000) and in this series, Imperial Germany, _PHONE_ (1998), Hitler and Nazi Germany (1998), The Weimar Republic (1998) and Lenin and Revolutionary Russia (2003).


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The roots of the Akzidenz-Grotesk® typeface date back as early as 1880. The designs are rumored to have been a derivative of the Walbaum or Didot serif fonts. When the serifs are removed from these designs, the proportions are very similar to those of Akzidenz-Grotesk. The Akzidenz-Grotesk family is actually a collection of numerous grotesque typefaces from different designers, unified to create a complete family.
Once unified as a single family, Akzidenz-Grotesk remained unchanged until Berthold's Günter Gerhard Lange enhanced the family by adding an additional 33 styles. The revisions and extensions preserved the original 19th century details while adding additional versatility to the family.
Berthold added to the family once again in 2006, releasing Akzidenz-Grotesk Pro in the OpenType® format. With the release came Central European, Baltic, Turkish, Danish and Esperanto character sets. Cyrillic and Greek characters were added in 2007.
Other variations of Akzidenz-Grotesk have been created since its inception, including Akzidenz-Grotesk Book, Akzidenz-Grotesk Book Rounded, Akzidenz-Grotesk Old Face and Akzidenz-Grotesk Next.
Typedia - Akzidenz-Grotesk
The initial design of Azidenz-Grotesk was used in scientific publications by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in the 1800s.
The American Red Cross uses Akzidenz-Grotesk in logos and printed materials.


See Also
Auction System
The Open Multithreaded Transaction (OMTT) model is a transaction model that provides features for controlling and structuring not only accesses to objects, as usual in transaction systems, but also threads taking part in transactions. The model allows several threads to enter the same transaction in order to perform a joint activity. It provides a flexible way of manipulating threads executing inside a transaction by allowing them to be forked and terminated, but it restricts their behavior in order to guarantee correctness of transaction nesting and isolation among transactions. Lightweight and heavyweight concurrency are treated in the same way in the open multithreaded transaction model, meaning that what is called thread here might as well be a process executed on a single machine or in a distributed setting.
OPTIMA is an object-oriented framework that provides the necessary runtime support for open multithreaded transactions. AspectOPTIMA is a purely aspect-oriented implementation of the framework.
The auction system case study has shown how the inherent complexity of a dynamic, distributed, concurrent application can be reduced by structuring the execution with open multithreaded transactions. Reasoning about fault tolerance issues and consistency of the overall system is also made a lot easier. Without open multithreaded transactions, the application programmer had to deal with threads, object creation and deletion, and exception propagation in an ad hoc way, making the process error prone.
Due to the isolation property and disciplined exception handling, open multithreaded transactions act as firewalls for errors, since they can not propagate to the outside. This fact, together with the ability to nest open multithreaded transactions, makes them ideal units of fault tolerance.
Any thread can start a transaction. A thread wishing to work on behalf of an already existing transaction can do so by joining it. In order to join, it has to learn (at run-time) or to know (statically) the identity of the transaction it wishes to join. Threads working on behalf of an open multithreaded transaction are referred to as participants. External threads that create or join a transaction are called joined participants; a thread created inside a transaction by some other participant is called a spawned participant.
Within an open multithreaded transaction, threads can access a set of transactional objects. Although individual threads evolve independently inside an open multithreaded transaction, they are allowed to collaborate with other threads of the transaction by accessing the same transactional objects.
All participants finish their work inside a transaction by voting on the transaction outcome. Possible votes are commit and abort. Voting abort is done by raising an external exception. The transaction commits if and only if all participants vote commit.
Once a spawned participant has given its vote, it terminates immediately. Joined participants are not allowed to leave a transaction, i.e. they are blocked, until the outcome of the transaction has been determined. If a participating thread "disappears" from a transaction without voting on its outcome, the transaction is aborted, as this case is treated as an error.
The figure above shows two open multithreaded transactions: T1 and T1.1. Thread C creates the transaction T1, threads A, B and D join it. Threads A, B, C and D are therefore joined participants of the transaction T1. Inside T1 thread C forks a new thread C' (a spawned participant), which performs some work inside the transaction and then terminates after voting. Thread B also forks a new thread, thread B'. B and B' perform a nested transaction T1.1 inside of T1. B' is a spawned participant of T1, but a joined participant of T1.1. In this example, all participants of T1 vote commit. The joined participants A, C, and D are therefore blocked until the last participant, here thread B, has finished its work and given its vote.
The open multithreaded transaction model incorporates disciplined exception handling adapted to nested transactions. It allows individual threads to perform forward error recovery by handling an abnormal situation locally. If local handling fails, the transaction support applies backward error recovery and reverses the system to its "initial" state.
The model distinguishes internal and external exceptions; the latter ones are also called interface exceptions. The set of internal exceptions for each participant consists of all exceptions that might occur during its execution. There are three sources of exceptions inside an open multithreaded transaction:
 1. An internal exception can be raised explicitly by a participant.
 2. An external exception raised inside a nested transaction is raised an an internal exception in the parent transaction.
 3. Transactional objects accessed by a participant of a transaction can raise an exception to signal a situation that violates the consistency of the state of the transactional object.
All these situations give rise to a possibly inconsistent application state. If a participant does not handle such a situation, the application's correct behavior can not be guaranteed.
A participant must therefore provide handlers for all internal exceptions. If such a handler it is not able to deal with the situation, it can signal an external exception. If any participant of a transaction signals an external exception, the transaction is aborted, the exception is propagated to the containing context, and the exception Transaction_Abort is signaled to all other joined participants. If several joined participants signal an external exception, each of them propagates its own exception to its own context.
In the open multithreaded transactions model participants perform their work by invoking operations on transactional objects. To guarantee the ACID properties, operation invocations made by participants must be controlled at two levels: Guaranteeing the isolation property of all updates made within a transaction with respect to other transactions running concurrently is the first concern. This can be achieved using existing optimistic or pessimistic concurrency control techniques. The second concern is data consistency. To ensure correct updates, operations performed concurrently by participants of the same transaction must be executed within mutual exclusion. This can be achieved by using monitors or similar techniques found in modern concurrent languages.
Early error detection and consistency of application state is important for modern applications. Existing transactional systems mainly rely on the programmer to write a transaction in such a way that it preserves consistency. In the open multithreaded transaction model, developers of transactional objects can help the transaction programmer to write consistency-preserving code by developing so-called self-checking transactional objects, that is to introduce invariants while designing them. Methods of transactional objects are to be decorated with preand post-conditions. When an invariant, preor post-condition is violated by the execution of a method, and the object is left in an inconsistent state, an exception is propagated to the participant that has invoked the operation. The participant must then handle this internal exception in order to address this inconsistency. If handling fails, the transaction is aborted, all the changes made to transactional objects on behalf of the transaction are undone and an external exception is propagated to the calling context.
Publications on Open Multithreaded Transactions
 1. Maxime Monod, Jörg Kienzle, Alexander Romanovsky: "Looking Ahead in Open Multithreaded Transactions", in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Object and Component-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 53 - 63, April 2006.
 2. Jörg Kienzle: "Open Multithreaded Transactions - A Transaction Model for Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming", Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN: _PHONE_, 2003.
 3. Jörg Kienzle, Alexander Romanovsky, Alfred Strohmeier: "Auction System Design Using Open Multithreaded Transactions", in Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems - WORDS'02, IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 95 - 104, January 2002.
 4. Jörg Kienzle, Alfred Strohmeier, Alexander Romanovsky: "Open Multithreaded Transactions: Keeping Threads and Exceptions under Control", in Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems - WORDS'01, IEEE Society Press, p. 197 - 205, January 2001.
 5. Jörg Kienzle, Alexander Romanovsky: "Combining Tasking and Transactions, Part II: Open Multithreaded Transactions", in Proceedings of the 10th International Real-Time Ada Workshop, Ada Letters XXI(1), ACM Press, p. 67 – 74, March 2001.
 6. Jörg Kienzle: "Combining Tasking and Transactions", in Proceedings of the 9th International Real-Time Ada Workshop, Ada Letters XIX(2), ACM Press, p. 49 – 53, June 1999.
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Low levels of education attainment among Hindus
Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling, according to a Pew Research Center global demographic study that shows wide disparities in average educational levels among religious groups.
These gaps in educational attainment are partly a function of where religious groups are concentrated throughout the world. For instance, the vast majority of the world's Jews live in the United States and Israel – two economically developed countries with high levels of education overall. And low levels of attainment among Hindus reflect the fact that 98% of Hindu adults live in the developing countries of India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
But there also are important differences in educational attainment among religious groups living in the same region, and even the same country. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, Christians generally have higher average levels of education than Muslims. Some social scientists have attributed this gap primarily to historical factors, including missionary activity during colonial times. (For more on theories about religion's impact on educational attainment.
Drawing on census and survey data from 151 countries, the study also finds large gender gaps in educational attainment within some major world religions. For example, Muslim women around the globe have an average of 4.9 years of schooling, compared with 6.4 years among Muslim men. And formal education is especially low among Hindu women, who have 4.2 years of schooling on average, compared with 6.9 years among Hindu men.
Yet many of these disparities appear to be decreasing over time, as the religious groups with the lowest average levels of education – Muslims and Hindus – have made the biggest educational gains in recent generations, and as the gender gaps within some religions have diminished, according to Pew Research Center's analysis.
At present, Jewish adults (ages 25 and older) have a global average of 13 years of formal schooling, compared with approximately nine years among Christians, eight years among Buddhists and six years among Muslims and Hindus. Religiously unaffiliated adults – those who describe their religion as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular" – have spent an average of nine years in school, a little less than Christian adults worldwide.
But the number of years of schooling received by the average adult in all the religious groups studied has been rising in recent decades, with the greatest overall gains made by the groups that had lagged furthest behind.
For instance, the youngest Hindu adults in the study (those born between 1976 and 1985) have spent an average of 7.1 years in school, nearly double the amount of schooling received by the oldest Hindus in the study (those born between 1936 and 1955). The youngest Muslims have made similar gains, receiving approximately three more years of schooling, on average, than their counterparts born a few decades earlier, as have the youngest Buddhists, who acquired 2.5 more years of schooling.
Over the same time frame, by contrast, Christians gained an average of just one more year of schooling, and Jews recorded an average gain of less than half a year of additional schooling.
Meanwhile, the youngest generation of religiously unaffiliated adults – sometimes called religious "nones" – in the study has gained so much ground (2.9 more years of schooling than the oldest generation of religious "nones" analyzed) that it has surpassed Christians in average number of years of schooling worldwide (10.3 years among the youngest unaffiliated adults vs. 9.9 years among the youngest Christians).
Gender gaps also are narrowing somewhat. In the oldest generation, across all the major religious groups, men received more years of schooling, on average, than women. But the youngest generations of Christian, Buddhist and unaffiliated women have achieved parity with their male counterparts in average years of schooling. And among the youngest Jewish adults, Jewish women have spent nearly one more year in school, on average, than Jewish men.
These are among the key findings of Pew Research Center's new demographic study. A prior study by researchers at an Austrian institute, the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Human Capital, looked at differences in educational attainment by age and gender. The new study is the first comprehensive examination of differences in educational levels by religion. Wittgenstein Centre researchers Michaela Potančoková and Marcin Stonawski collaborated with Pew Research Center researchers to compile and standardize this data.
About one-in-five adults globally – but twice as many Muslims and Hindus – have received no schooling at all. Despite recent gains by young adults, formal schooling is neither universal nor equal around the world. The global norm is barely more than a primary education – an average of about eight years of formal schooling for men and seven years for women.
At the high end of the spectrum, 14% of adults ages 25 and older (including 15% of men and 13% of women) have a university degree or some other kind of higher education, such as advanced vocational training after high school. But an even larger percentage – about one-in-five adults (19%) worldwide, or more than 680 million people – have no formal schooling at all.
Education levels vary a great deal by religion. About four-in-ten Hindus (41%) and more than one-third of Muslims (36%) in the study have no formal schooling. In other religious groups, the shares without any schooling range from 10% of Buddhists to 1% of Jews, while a majority of Jewish adults (61%) have post-secondary degrees.
Over three recent generations, the share of Hindus with at least some formal schooling rose by 28 percentage points, from 43% among the oldest Hindus in the study to 71% among the youngest. Muslims, meanwhile, registered a 25-point increase, from 46% among the oldest Muslims to 72% among the youngest.
Christians, Buddhists and religious "nones" have made more modest gains in basic education, but they started from a higher base. Among the oldest generation in the study, large majorities of these three religious groups received at least some formal education; among the youngest Christians, Buddhists and religious "nones," more than nine-in-ten have received at least some schooling. The share of Jews with at least some schooling has remained virtually universal across generations at 99%.


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To identify the atomic number of superheavy nuclei produced in 48Ca-induced fusion-evaporation reactions, an experiment aiming at measuring characteristic X-rays is being prepared at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany. The gas-filled separator TASCA will be employed, sending the residues towards the multi-coincidence detector setup TASISpec. Two ionoptical modes relying on differing magnetic polarities of the quadrupole magnets can be used at TASCA. New simulations and experimental tests of transmission and background suppression for these two focusing modes into TASISpec are presented.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy(all)


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DiskOnChip (DOC) is a flash drive that is manufactured by M-Systems. The use of flash drives is emerging as a substitute for Hard Disks in embedded devices. Embedded Linux is gaining popularity as the operating system of choice in the embedded systems community; as such, there is an increased demand for embedded systems that can boot into Linux from flash drives.
Much of the documentation currently available on the subject is either incorrect or incomplete; the presentation of the information which is provided by such documents is likely to confuse novice users.
Another fundamental problem is that most of the documents assume the DiskOnChip to be a NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) device, and proceed to describe the booting process for NFTL devices. DiskOnChip architectures come in two variants, each of which requires different booting procedures: NFTL and INFTL (Inverse NFTL). Dan Brown, who has written a boot loader known as DOCBoot, explains the differences between these variants in a README document, which is included with the DOCBoot package: _URL_
An INFTL device is organized as follows:
Partition 0 (BDK or BDTL)
(Optional) Partition 1(BDK or BDTL)
.. Up to at most Partition 3
Under Linux MTD partitions are created for each partition listed in the INFTL partition table. Thus up to 5 MTD devices are created.
By contrast the NFTL device is organized as follows:
Under Linux, normally two MTD devices will be created.
According to the above excerpt, the process used by the boot loader when fetching the kernel image for an INFTL device is different from the method used for NFTL devices, since both devices have different physical layouts. (repetitive)
Using a 2.4.x kernel for an INFTL DiskOnChip device is complicated by the lack of native support in pre-2.6.x kernels (although native NFTL support is present). Such functionality is only available by patching the kernel; an approach which is ill-advised.
Patching the kernel with external INFTL support is discouraged; the developers of the MTD driver, the open source driver available for DiskOnChip, are apprehensive of this approach as well. For more information on this matter, feel free to peruse the mailing list conversation on the subject at _URL_
The drivers that provide native INFTL support in the 2.6.x kernels failed to identify the DiskonChip device used for this exercise, and the following message was reported by the system:
INFTL no longer supports the old DiskOnChip drivers loaded via docprobe. Please use the new diskonchip driver under the NAND subsystem.
So then we decided to use the drivers provided by M-Systems (manufacturer of DiskOnChip). However, according to the documentation provided by the vendor on these drivers, they were designed for NFTL devices only. As such, we decided to write this HOWTO which will address the use of INFTL devices. We have taken special care to remove any ambiguity in the steps and also tried to give reasons for the need of a particular step so as to make things logically clear. We have explained things in such a way that a person with less experience on Linux can also follow the steps.
This document aims to act as a guide to:
Use M-Systems DiskOnChip 2000 TSOP as an additional storage drive along with an IDE HDD running Linux on it.
Install Linux on DiskOnChip 2000 TSOP and boot Linux from it.
Install the Development Tool-Chain so as to compile and execute programs directly on DiskOnChip.
The method described here has been tested for DiskOnChip 2000 TSOP 256MB and DiskOnChip 2000 TSOP 384MB.


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Networked computers have the advantage of sharing resources. No longer do you have to use discs or flash drives to move data from one computer to another. Mapping drives on your computer is a feature Microsoft Windows offers to allow you access to files from another computer over a network. Mapping a network drive allows you to treat a hard drive located on another computer as if it were on your own computer. With a mapped network drive, you can easily share data with every other computer on the network.
Click the "Start" button and select "Computer" from the system menu of the computer containing the hard drive you want to share on the network.
Select the folder you want to share.
Right-click with your mouse and select "Properties" from the menu.
Select the "Sharing" tab.
Click the "Advanced Sharing" button.
Check the box next to "Share this folder."
Note the default name of the shared folder. Click the "OK" button, and then click the "Close" button. This folder is now available to share on the network.
Click the "Start" button on the computer you will use to access the shared folder. Select "Computer" from the system menu.
Select "Tools" and "Map network drive" from the menu.
Select a drive letter you want to assign to the shared folder using the pull-down menu from the "Map Network Drive" window.
Click the "Browse" button to locate the name of the computer where you created the shared folder. Click on that computer name and select the shared folder name as it appeared in Step 7. Click the "OK" button. You will now see the folder shared from the other computer available on your computer using the drive letter you selected in the previous step.
- Even though Windows uses the term "folder," the term also applies to selecting the entire hard drive.
- Use the "Permission" tab in the Advanced Sharing dialog box of the folder properties window to select which users on the network can access the shared folder.
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How Smart Class Software can help Teachers to Get Rid of Classroom Distractions?
Smart school software is one step ahead in imparting quality education and helping students learn in a smart way. But with the advent of technology, there are multiple distractions which can hamper student's performance in the long run. Children are hooked up to their cellphones and while learning, it becomes tough for them to focus completely on the topic. Again, there are various other forms of disturbances like games, social media, etc which adds up to the distraction. Taking help of Smart school software, teachers can now confront this dilemma with lesser efforts.
Read on to learn various ways how smart school software can help teachers to get rid of classroom distractions:
1. Smart school software increases student engagement in lectures
When the activity is challenging and interesting, students won't mess around so often. Instead, they will actively participate in the learning process. Other than this, with such a huge audience, students will rarely get time to think of anything but studies.
Hence, smart school software is designed in such a way that they help students to remain busy throughout the session. By doing so, they seldom get distracted as they are highly focused during the entire duration of the lecture.
2. Reduces interest in digital distractions
When you are learning online, you are left with limited time. In fact, the competition increases manifold. This automatically removes all sorts of distractions caused by digital devices like tablets and cell phones.
Less usage of digital devices ethically increases student's concentration in the subject. Now the lectures are no more boring, students don't need gadgets and devices to entertain themselves and pass time.
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3. Smart school software tackles the myth of multitasking
Imagine teaching a group of students and noticing a student playing game on his tablet as well as trying to pay attention to the lecture. He might be doing both the tasks, but none of them is done perfectly. Reason being, multitasking reduces the quality of work done.
Thus, smart school software is designed so as to help students concentrate on the subject without diverting attention towards unnecessary stuff.
4. Smart school software gives a lot to learn in less time
Traditional teaching methods were confined to normal lectures given by teachers and students noting down relevant stuff for future reference. But with smart school software being used in schools, students don't have to waste much time on noting down things.
Smart school software gives access to many tools and features which helps them to learn more in lesser time, which automatically increases student interest in the subject, resulting in less distraction and higher level of concentration. It also fosters healthy learning habits, thereby increasing student smartness.
Thus, other than the points mentioned above, smart class software can help teachers in many other ways to reduce distraction. Thus, smart school software is being used increasingly in the schools to keep distractions in limit and increase student concentration in the class. In this world full of distractions, smart school software is indeed a bliss to the teachers.
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