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Tracy Coenen, CPA, CFF
One of the most important tools a family lawyer can use in a divorce case is a lifestyle analysis: the process of tabulating and analyzing the income and expenses of the parties in order to confirm or refute a spouse's income claims, among other uses. This updated edition of Lifestyle Analysis in Divorce Cases: Investigating Spending and Finding Hidden Income and Assets discusses these subjects in logical, easy-to-understand manner, bringing clarity to a topic that could be confusing for attorneys and judges who often lack an accounting or finance background.
A financial expert or forensic accountant can play an integral part in a divorce case involving complex financial matters. One of the most important tools they can use is a lifestyle analysis, a component being employed in an increasing number of divorces.
Lifestyle Analysis in Divorce Cases walks through the critical documents used in the lifestyle analysis, as well as the process used to complete a thorough and accurate analysis. The book discusses in detail the information that can be gleaned from tax returns, financial statements, bank statements, and other financial documents. The lifestyle analysis is then used to determine the standard of living for all parties, which will influence important support calculations and may affect property division. Additionally, a lifestyle analysis can uncover hidden sources of income and be used to evaluate the finances of each party in a prenuptial agreement.
Author Tracy Coenen, CPA, CFF, discusses these subjects in a manner that is logical and easy to understand, bringing clarity to a topic that could be confusing for attorneys, judges, and juries who often lack an accounting or finance background. The book begins with the critical factors to use in analyzing a couple's standard of living, followed by a discussion of the various types of income and why they should be either included or excluded from calculations in a family law case.
To help an attorney determine whether a lifestyle analysis is necessary for a particular case, the author discusses the numerous red flags that may indicate hidden income or assets or other financial irregularities, including sources for obtaining information, the documents needed for a lifestyle analysis and a strategy for gathering and managing these documents, and discovery from the perspective of the financial expert. Additional chapters focus on key elements included in a lifestyle analysis, including:
- Analyzing historical spending
- Locating hidden assets
- Business lifestyle analysis
- Reporting and testifying
Appendices include a financial discovery checklist, sample Form 1040 and related schedules, and a direct examination checklist.


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Meet AV1: A Robot that Helps Sick Kids Remain Present in the Classroom
By Cait Etherington
March 24, 2018
There have been many recent reports about the role telepresence robots are about to play in our lives, but one Norwegian-based startup is already using them to transform people's lives on a profound level. No Isolation recently launched the AV1, which the company describes as "the world's first telepresence robot specifically developed for children and young adults with long-term illness."
Karen Dolva and colleagues, Marius Aabel and Matias Doyle, met in 2012 at Norway's largest launch pad for tech startups. From the start, they imagined coming up with a tech solution to a pervasive problem: social isolation. As they brainstormed their idea, they realized the far-reaching impacts of social isolation and loneliness. In 2015, they launched No Isolation. In the company's own words, No Isolation "tackles loneliness and involuntary social isolation by developing communication tools that can help those affected."
eLearning Inside News recently caught up with CEO Karen Dolva to learn more about No Isolation, the AV1, and the company's mandate to tackle social isolation with tech solutions.
How and Why the AV1 Came to Life
Cait Etherington: What initially led No Isolation to develop AV1? How did you realize there was a need for a telepresence robot in classrooms?
Karen Dolva: Both AV1 and No Isolation came as the result of meeting Anne Fi Troye, a mother who lost her teenage daughter, Cornelia, to cancer in 2005. Reflecting on her loss, Anna Fi noted that in the years following her diagnosis, the level of solitude Cornelia felt was "much worse than the diagnosis, the pain and the treatment." Anna Fi was already trying to find ways to reduce the loneliness of other children in Cornelia's situation when we met, and I knew I needed to help.
I, with my co-founders at No Isolation, immediately began researching the solutions that already existed and was shocked to learn that there was very little technology in place to help those suffering from long-term illness stay connected to the outside world. From speaking with various charities and organizations we knew that we wanted to build a tool that would allow children to participate both in their studies and in their social lives, so that they'd not fall behind in any area.
We actually didn't know we'd be making a telepresence robot when we started – it was only through testing ideas with different children that AV1 began to form.
CE: Why is AV1 a better option than simply a remote monitor? After all, couldn't students just use Facetime or Skype to be present at a distance? Why is this a more effective option?
KD: The main difference is security and control – with AV1 the child chooses when they log on and where they look, and it is safe and secure in a classroom situation because no data is stored – everything is transferred in real-time.
Also, the difference between AV1 and something like FaceTime or Skype is that AV1 has a one-way camera. During our prototype testing, we found that children preferred this, as they didn't need to worry about how they looked to their classmates, especially if they were feeling particularly poorly on any given day.
Additionally, No Isolation's AV1 is a physical robot that can mimic certain human gestures. For example, the user can use the robot to physically turn and look at whoever is speaking and can use their controller to nod, shake their head and move around on a 360-degree axis. We also added a 'whisper mode', where the user can speak quietly via their AV1 in class, rather than projecting their voice to the whole room. This creates a much more compelling and physical presence.
Most importantly though, AV1 is designed to be picked up and moved around. Our users can go out to the playground or the canteen at break time and won't miss out on socializing with their friends. AV1's also go on field trips and on family outings. We know of AVs that have been to the zoo, have been kayaking and that have been to concerts and theatre shows. By creating an avatar that is physically present, it is easier for the child to feel as though they are actually there, and for their classmates to involve them.
Reactions to the AV1
CE: How do children who are present in the classroom respond to No Isolation's AV1? Do they think it's weird to have their classmate mediated by a robot, or does the presence of the robot, in fact, add to the classroom dynamic?
KD: Interestingly, we find that the younger the kids, the more quickly they adapt to the technology! After a few minutes, they forget that there is a robot in class, and view it simply as their friend. It is the adults that take a little longer to get used to the idea.
Speaking with our users in the UK, we've heard that their classmates have all been very excited when an AV1 has been introduced into the classroom, and have asked lots of questions about how and why the technology is helping their friend. In fact, we've even heard that one child actually told a mother of a user that he wished his other friend who was currently off school with a long-term illness had access to an AV1, which is incredibly heartwarming.
No Isolation's Success Stories
CE: Can you share a success story?
KD: One of our users is a 12-year-old boy called Elliot, who is recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumor. As a result of his treatment, surgery and recovery, Elliot has been forced to miss a lot of school. He's also been incredibly self-conscious about his appearance, as a result of his illness, so has been reluctant to see his friends.
His teachers at Preston School, Somerset, were incredibly keen to help him get back up to speed, and so raised funds to purchase an AV1 for him to use. Now that Elliot has access to an AV1, he is able to attend class remotely – meaning that he is catch up on his studies and slowly begin to re-integrate himself back into school life on his terms.
CE: How much will it cost for schools or families to adopt an AV1? Do you have plans to make access to AV1 accessible, even to families who may be struggling financially?
KD: AV1 is available to rent in the UK, with prices for parents beginning at £280/month (including insurance and support) for users who expect to be away for less than six months, extending to £1800/year (including insurance and support) for those who have to be away for more than six months.
Organisations in the public sector, such as schools, can purchase AV1 through Atea – Northern Europe's market leader in IT infrastructure. Each avatar is sold at £2200 with a £90 extra monthly fee for 4G, support, and insurance. This monthly fee enables the school to contact No Isolation for tech assistance or a change of user, should the school wish to recycle the avatar once the pupil has returned to school.
We understand that loneliness and isolation affect thousands of people of varying financial circumstances, which is why an AV1 can be donated to a user or a school by a company, organization or foundation.
No Isolation's New Project Aims to Transform Seniors' Lives
CE: What's next for No Isolation? Do you have other projects in development at the moment or plans to expand AV1's presence in other contexts?
KD: Our next product, KOMP, is aimed at solving the loneliness epidemic among seniors. We have conducted extensive research into this topic and found that many seniors wished they could talk to their family more, while the family members felt guilty for not talking to their elderly relatives enough. We also learnt that while many families would give their elderly relatives devices like tablets and computers, many seniors found the systems too complex and not adapted for reduced hearing, touch and eyesight. We wanted to create something that would address all of these issues and reduce loneliness in seniors.
KOMP allows seniors to passively receive images, messages and video calls. It has one button, a large screen, and quality loudspeakers. The button allows for the device to be turned on and off, as well as controlling the volume. There is no touchscreen, and there are no pop-up messages, log-in details, emails or passwords.
The content in KOMP is managed from the connected app. Family and friends send messages, images and start video conversations. When video calling, the KOMP screen lights up and automatically starts counting down from 10. If the user wants to receive the call they just let it count down and it automatically starts, while if they want to reject the call they turn their KOMP off. If it is turned off already, the KOMP will call as a normal phone and the senior needs to turn it on to receive the call.
Having proven its success in Norway, with more than 200 seniors using KOMP, No Isolation's product will be coming to the UK very soon, and is available for pre-order now.


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European Union Meets South Korea: Bureaucratic Interests, Exporter Discrimination and the Negotiations of Trade Agreements
by Manfred Elsig and Cédric Dupont, World Trade Institute
Who in the European Union drives the process of pursuing bilateral trade negotiations? In contrast to societal explanations, this article develops a novel argument as to how the European Commission manages the process and uses its position in strategic ways to pursue its interests. Rooted in principal–agent theory, the article discusses agent preferences and theorizes the conditions under which the agent sets specific focal points and interacts strategically with principals and third parties. The argument is discussed with case study evidence drawn from the first trade agreement concluded and ratified since the EU Commission announced its new strategy in 2006: the EU–South Korea trade agreement.
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A novel wavelet-based algorithm for real-time detection of epileptic seizures using scalp EEG is proposed. In a moving-window analysis, the EEG from each channel is decomposed by wavelet packet transform. Using wavelet coefficients from seizure and nonseizure references, a patient-specific measure is developed to quantify the separation between seizure and nonseizure states for the frequency range of 1-30 Hz. Utilizing this measure, a frequency band representing the maximum separation between the two states is determined and employed to develop a normalized index, called combined seizure index (CSI). CSI is derived for each epoch of every EEG channel based on both rhythmicity and relative energy of that epoch as well as consistency among different channels. Increasing significantly during ictal states, CSI is inspected using one-sided cumulative sum test to generate proper channel alarms. Analyzing alarms from all channels, a seizure alarm is finally generated. The algorithm was tested on scalp EEG recordings from 14 patients, totaling 75.8 h with 63 seizures. Results revealed a high sensitivity of 90.5%, a false detection rate of 0.51 h-1 and a median detection delay of 7 s. The algorithm could also lateralize the focus side for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

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Common seals of Yeovil
Examples of Portreeve's Seal 1815 and Borough Seal 1877
Yeovil was officially designated as a Borough in 1854 and at left is an example of the Seal of the Borough of Yeovil used by the Corporation. It is from a document in my collection dated 1877 and is based on the original fourteenth century town seal used by the town's Lord and his Portreeve.
The main shield depicts Saint John the Baptist, standing beneath an arch with trees either side. He is holding a shield with a representation of the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God.
The seal is a device for making an impression in wax, or other medium, and is also the impression thus made. The purpose was to authenticate the document.
The sealing process is essentially that of a mould, with the final image represented on the device for making the impression by a mirror-image design, incised in sunken relief, or intaglio. The seal-making device is also referred to as the seal matrix or die; the imprint it creates as the seal impression.
The seal impression in this photograph measures three inches (75mm) across and is reproduced here almost actual size (depending on your screen resolution). Impressed into red candle wax, it was placed on a bright green silk square attached to the vellum (calfskin) document.
The Portreeve's Seal photographed below, is from a document of 1815.
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, sugar, and coffee into which platform robot) is not visible from the timing diagram. It is only visible from the trace window or log file.
- Blue bubble 5. Task1_3 pours coffee into platform robot 1.
Comparing figures 4 and 6, route 1 is almost busy all the time. Therefore, the throughput of the coffee machine with two platform robots is increased.
But, if looking carefully, the machine with two platform robots can be even faster. The reason is that the coffee robot can serve another platform robot while milk and sugar robots are serving one platform robot, if the time of putting one cup on the platform is shorter than the time of pouring coffee by the coffee robot.
To increase the speed of the coffee machine, an engine design with different route configuration is used. Route 1 represents the actions of serving sugar, milk, and coffee to platform robot 1. Route 2 represents the actions of serving sugar, milk, and coffee to platform robot 2. The design of route 3 and 4 are the same as before. Figure 7 is the timing diagram of a new coffee machine.
Figure 7. New concurrency of higher system throughput for the coffee machine with 2 platform robots
The five blue bubbles in figure 7 are explained as follows:
- Blue bubble 1. Task4_1 puts cup onto platform robot 1.
- Blue bubble 2. Task1_1 and Task1_2 pour milk and sugar into empty cup at the same time to the cup platform robot 1. The cut robot starts to put a cup on platform 2 since it is free at this time.
- Blue bubble 3. Task2_2 starts to add sugar into cup 2 on platform robot 2. The reason that this action can happen is that the sugar robot just finishes adding sugar for cup 1 on platform robot 1. It is also clear that the milk robot is still busy pouring milk into cup 1. Therefore, cup 2 only has sugar for now.
- Blue bubble 4. Task2_1 starts to pour milk into cup 2 since it just finishes pouring milk for cup 1 on platform robot 1. Coffee robot begins to add coffee into cup 1 on platform robot 1.
- Blue bubble 5. Cup robot begins to serve cup 1 to customer since coffee is done for cup 1.
It is obvious that the choreography of this new coffee machine is different from that of the previous coffee machine. It appears to a user that its robots are smarter and works more intelligently since it starts to do the next job more promptly.
The above three samples demonstrate the following:
- It is easy to model and to analyze the concurrency of machine control with the JEK Platform.
- To adapt to a new hardware configuration, the JEK SDK helps achieve new system concurrency with minimum code changes.
- JEK Studio can visually identify system throughput potential quickly so that better throughput can be achieved.
- The samples demonstrated in these solutions have a pretty simple architecture (see downloaded code).
If not using the JEK Platform, can we solve the problem quickly? A few questions are raised here.
- If several teams, such as marketing, hardware, and software, are working on the product, they might stop when solution 2 is working. Do they know that solution 3 is the best solution? Can they figure it out quickly?
- Team members might be satisfied when they see that robots are working in parallel. If it is found that improvements can be made, how much code change is needed from solution 2 to solution 3 if implemented with synchronization objects in the Operating System?
- How much competitiveness a company would gain to have a more efficient and reliable machine?
How to Get the Two Samples
Please go to _URL_ to download the complete JEK Platform which includes the two samples.

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6 Tips to Use HipChat While Still Getting Things Done
Stefan Kleineikenscheidt
Stefan Kleineikenscheidt
On April 11, 2017 about teamwork hipchat
We started using HipChat a few years ago and it has been working like a charm – no wonder chat apps like Slack and HipChat are experiencing tremendous growth. While live chat helps us keep pace in an environment of fast-moving projects and teams, it can also be a source of constant distraction: detrimental when you need to get things done. Jason Fried of Basecamp sums it up nicely: "Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda."
I'll gladly share a few habits I've developed that help me and the K15t Software team stay focused and get things done.
 This blog post is based on a lightning talk I gave at K15t Software to share best practices about how to work with HipChat. That is why the following tips feature HipChat-specific examples. Of course, the basic principles behind these examples also apply to other chat apps.
Chatting doesn't replace talking
They may appear to be the digital equivalent to having a conversation by the water cooler, but chat apps shouldn't replace real-life discussions.
Compared to real conversations,
 - your attention isn't completely fixed on the person you are talking to
 - you spend time typing what you want to communicate, which is slower than talking
 - you don't hang around until you get a response, unless it's within a couple of seconds
 - you receive message notifications
 - it's completely realistic to follow three or four (maybe even more) conversations simultaneously
 - you can follow discussions you are not really a part of
when using HipChat. Chat communication doesn't flow: it starts and stops suddenly, is interrupted, and can be picked up again hours later. That is why chats have the potential to continuously disrupt our work and break our concentration.
In order to avoid distracting noise you need to use HipChat to send and receive quick, brief, and informal information – not to have conversations or discussions.
Sending with others in mind
Even if you use HipChat to send quick, brief, and informal information, sending always carries the risk of potentially distracting people. Perhaps you've used HipChat to quickly jot down a question and immediately sent it to a colleague instead of waiting because you wanted to make sure you don't forget – I certainly have. Or maybe colleagues have complained about receiving too many distracting messages and you thought "just ignore them until there is time to respond." In principle this is true but the following also applies:
The more information you produce, the harder it gets to identify what is relevant.
These tips can help you send only relevant information in order to keep everyone's productivity-groove going.
Tip #1: Think twice before sending
Do you really need to send that comment, opinion, or question? Is your contribution really that important, relevant, or helpful? No? Then just don't do it.
Tip #2: Choose the right audience
Think about exactly what you want to convey, and whom your message is for. This will help you choose the correct room to post your message in. Being selective helps reduce the volume of distracting messages in rooms that lots of people are monitoring. And don't shy away from creating temporary, private rooms to talk to two or three specific people – or actually speak face-to-face during your coffee break. Delivering concise messages to the right people ensures others aren't unnecessarily distracted.
At K15t Software we use three kinds of HipChat rooms that help us choose the right audience: project, service, and team rooms.
 - Team rooms allow people to exchange information that concerns their fellow team members (e.g. all teams, customer service, marketing, etc.)
 - Service rooms such as internal systems give people a place where they can request help or other services ('Internet is down, please help') from experts
 - Topic rooms are temporary and collect specific project-related information targeting involved team members.
Tip #3: Don't author content in HipChat
Chats are meant for quick, informal communication. If you find yourself writing more than four lines of copy, perhaps HipChat isn't the right channel. This is especially true if you are communicating really important information, such as product or company announcements. Chats move quickly, and as soon as messages move up the app window and out of sight, it is safe to assume people won't see them. If you are using Atlassian Confluence maybe a blog post or wiki page would be more appropriate.
Tip #4: Make room for fun
Obviously, we can't stay focused all the time and need distractions (we all love cat videos, right?) to replenish our mental energy. However, HipChat messages that are meant to distract should live in a designated room.
Receiving without breaking concentration
Remember that you are the boss and can make your chat program obey your commands (enjoy this moment of power). You control the way you receive information in your chat app, and can therefore make sure it doesn't break your concentration.
Tip #5: Don't let HipChat catch your attention
There are a couple of things you can do to minimize your chat program's attention-grabbing features.
HipChat settings that won't catch your attention
 1. Change your HipChat settings so that the notification icon only bounces once instead of until clicked.
 2. Change your profile status to 'Do not disturb' to disable all notifications.
 3. Adjust your settings so that notifications only appear when someone @- mentions you directly.
 4. Quit HipChat if you really need to batten down the hatches and get things done.
Tip #6: Leave that room if you aren't contributing
Other people's chatter is distracting, especially if it isn't relevant to you. Leave conversations (organized into rooms in HipChat) you are not continuously contributing to. (How relevant can a conversation be to you if you have nothing to say? Spying excluded (wink)).
Of course, sometimes you need to join a specific topic room to ask a question or get information. No problem, just leave the room again after you got what you came for.
Conversation example that merits leaving the room after it's done
Example of quick exchange, that doesn't require constant monitoring
It depends on how
Whether your group chat turns out to be helpful instead of getting in your way depends on how you use it. I hope the aforementioned tips will assist you in your use of live chats, but perhaps you have additional thoughts or tips? I'm looking forward to discussing with you in the comments below.
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Disease largely to blame for worsening mental illness life expectancy gap: study
By Francene Norton
The study found the overall gap in life expectancy was 15.9 years for men and 12 years for women.
Reuters: Shannon Stapleton - file image
A new study has found mental illness sufferers in Australia are dying up to 16 years earlier than the general population, with most deaths due to disease rather than accidents or suicide.
A University of Queensland team followed 300,000 people in Western Australia who were diagnosed with mental illnesses, and compared health experiences and death rates to the general population over a 20-year period.
Diagnoses included alcohol and drug disorders, schizophrenia, psychoses, neurotic disorders, depressive, and other mental health disorders.
Patients with alcohol or drug disorders had the lowest life expectancy, with a gap of more than 20 years.
Dr Steve Kisely from UQ's School of Population Health has told the ABC most deaths are due to physical causes such as cardiovascular disease and cancer, rather than suicide or accidents.
He says people with a mental illness may sometimes miss early signs of illness or have worse access to specialised treatment.
"For instance, people who have breast cancer or colon cancer diagnosed - people with a mental health problem have actually less of a chance of getting the operation than someone with the same disorder who didn't have a mental health problem," he said.
Gap widens
Dr Kisely says the gap is worse than for smokers and similar to Indigenous Australians, but receives far less attention.
"There has been a very understandable focus in terms of closing the gap of life expectancy between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians," Dr Kisely said.
"But the gap for people with mental illness is even greater - people still think of increased mortality as due to suicide."
"Obviously we need to address suicide, but we're dealing with a problem that's nearly 10 times as great as suicide and there isn't nearly the same amount of attention given to it."
The study also found the differential in the gap increased by about two years between 1985 and 2005.
"Whatever we're doing, we're doing it worse, rather than better," Dr Kisely said.
Dr Kisely says closing the gap for people with mental illness requires a multi-faceted approach.
Lifestyle factors
He says lifestyle factors are an important first step.
"We know that with people with schizophrenia, about 90 per cent of them will smoke and will spend about 40 per cent of their disposable income on tobacco products," he said.
"Clearly helping people to stop smoking would be a great help."
He says the next thing is to make sure people are registered with their general practitioner and see them regularly.
"We also need to encourage family doctors to have a high index of suspicion when people with a chronic mental illness come to them with new symptoms," he said.
"Don't attribute them to their underlying mental illness, but explore more to see if it's the start of a new medical condition.
"Lastly, when a problem is recognised, ensure they get the right specialist treatment."
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The vitality of rural areas is improved through various projects strengthening collaboration and a sense of community and improving the infrastructure. In the countryside, services and their accessibility require a great deal of work, collaboration and innovations. Improved telecommunications connections provide rural entrepreneurs with better operating possibilities and make rural areas more pleasant for residents. Projects concerning leisure and cultural activities, for instance, activate young people and open up new opportunities for them. Services for the elderly and their and quality of life can also be improved through projects.
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Serve up drinks at a Halloween party with these spooky spiderweb coasters!
- Two colors crafts felt (we used green and purple)
- Black and green embroidery floss
- Tissue paper
Assemble the Coaster:
1. Download the coaster pattern below. Lay the tissue paper over your pattern. Use a pen or marker to trace the spiderweb pattern onto the tissue paper. Cut out the tissue paper circle and set aside.
2. Pin the coaster pattern to one piece of your crafts felt. Cut the circle shape out. (See tips for pinning and cutting patterns here.) Repeat with your second piece of crafts felt. You will now have two circles.
3. Pin the tissue paper circle to the felt circle you want on top of your coaster (we used green felt). Pin in place.
4. With black embroidery floss, start sewing the spiderweb through both the felt and tissue paper from the center using a backstitch. See how to backstitch here. Continue until all drawn lines are covered with stitches. Tie a knot on the back when done to hold stitches in place.
5. Tear the tissue paper off. The stitches should perferate the tissue paper so it comes off easily in pieces.
6. Stack the two felt circles on top of each other with the embroidered side facing up. Pin in place.
7. Use coordinating embroidery floss to sew a running stitch around the outside of the two felt circles. See how to do a running stitch here.


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Piece of cloth or cloth pouch
- Midsummer herbs
- Piece of red string or yarn
- Midsummer flowers
- Gold or yellow robe, shirt or dress
- Yellow or gold candle
- Summer fruit
Prepare for the Summer Solstice ritual by gathering a piece of cloth or cloth pouch and midsummer herbs. Use any combination of sage, rosemary, thyme, basil, lavender, Saint John's wort and vervain that appeals to you. Meditate on your pain, troubles, sorrows and illnesses. Tie up the cloth or pouch with a red string or yarn and save it for the ritual.
Think about the qualities of fire because the Summer Solstice ritual is a fire ritual. Contemplate what you need protection from (debt-collectors, a jealous friend, an abusive family member). Write down in what aspects of your life you need strength because the Summer Solstice ritual is a time to gather courage.
Collect flowers for your Summer Solstice ritual that are golden yellow, deep red, white, pink and purple. Whatever you wear, choose a gold or yellow color to honor the sun. Use a gold or yellow candle to represent the god in ritual.
Cook dishes with midsummer herbs such as basil, sage, thyme and rosemary. Tomato soup or sauce, with its fiery red color, is suitable for the season. Eat fresh fruit or fruit salad at the close of the ritual for a sweet end to summer.
Set up your altar with your summer flowers, golden candle, pouch of herbs and any other tools you wish to use and cast the circle. At the point most suitable to you during your Summer Solstice ritual, hold the pouch of herbs in both hands. Mentally pour all your troubles, sorrows and pain into it. At the end of the ritual, bury the pouch deep in the ground.
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(P3) A motorbike is designed for one or two people. However, it is possible to fit up to 8 people on a single motorbike as you can see in the photo above.
(P3) A person in a car took a video of the motorbike with eight people on it. The person was worried about the safety of the passengers.
(P3) The photo shows one man operating the motorbike while three children sit at the front. Behind the operator, there are three people to include one woman with a toddler on her back.
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VOCABULARY: designed, up to, safety, while, toddler
 2. Do you think it's dangerous to ride a motorbike? Why or why not?
 3. Do you think it's unsafe to have more than 2 people on a motorbike? Why or why not?
 4. Should people be educated on how to operate a motorbike safely? Why or why not?
 1. What's the maximum number of people a motorbike is made for?
 2. Who caught the 8 people on a video?
 3. The person who took the video was only concerned about posting it on Facebook. (T or F)
 4. How many children are on the motorbike?
 5. Where is the baby on the motorbike?
What do the following expressions or phrases mean?
 - it is possible (P1)
 - took a video (P2)
 - worried about the safety (P2)
 - operating the motorbike (P3)
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Electronic Clearing System (ECS)
Electronic Clearing System (ECS)
Electronic Clearing System (ECS) is an electronic method of fund transfer from one bank account to another. It is generally used for bulk transfers performed by institutions for making payments like dividend, interest, salary, pension, etc. ECS can also be used to pay bills and other charges such as payments to utility companies such as telephone, electricity, water, or for making equated monthly instalments payments on loans as well as SIP investments. In this article, we look at the working process of ECS in detail.
Types of ECS
ECS can be used for both ECS credit and ECS debit.
ECS credit is used for allowing credit to a large number of beneficiaries by raising a single debit to the customer's account, such as dividend, interest or salary payment.
The benefits of ECS credit given to the clients are as follows:
- The end beneficiary need not make frequent visit to his bank for depositing the physical paper instruments.
- Delay in the realisation of proceeds, which used to happen in the receipt of the paper instrument, is eliminated.
- The ECS user helps to save on administrative machinery for printing, dispatch and reconciliation.
- Provides the ability to make payment and ensure that the beneficiaries account gets credited on a designated date.
Working of ECS Credit System
ECS payments can be performed by any institution (ECS user) that has to make bulk or repetitive payments to a number of recipients or beneficiaries. They initiate the transactions after registering themselves with an approved clearinghouse. ECS users also have to obtain a consent such as the account particulars of the beneficiaries for engaging in the ECS clearings.
Under the scheme, the beneficiaries of the repetitive or regular payments can also require the paying institution to make ECS (credit) for payment. The ECS users expect to effect payments and to present the data in a prescribed format to any one of the recognised clearinghouses. The clearinghouse will debit the account of the ECS user through the user's bank on a particular day and credit the accounts of the recipient banks, for providing onward credit to the accounts of the ultimate beneficiaries.
ECS debit is used for raising debits to a number of accounts of consumers or account holders for affording a single credit to a particular institution, in cases such as utility payments like electricity bills and telephone bills.
Advantages to Clients
The benefits of ECS debit given to the clients are as follows:
- Trouble-free: Eliminates the need to go to the collection centres or banks and the need to stand in long queues for payment.
- Easy to track: Customers are not required to track down payments by last dates. The ECS users would monitor the debts. The ECS user saves on administrative machinery for collecting the cheques by monitoring their realisation and reconciliation.
- Better cash management: Chances of frauds due to fraudulent access to paper instruments and encashment are avoided.
- The realisation of payments on a single date is enabled instead of fractured receipt of payments.
Working of ECS Debit System
ECS debit is a scheme in which an account holder can authorise an ECS user to recover a prescribed amount by raising a debit on his account. The ECS user has to receive an authorisation which is called ECS mandate for raising such debts. These mandates have to be approved by the bank branch maintaining the account.
Any ECS user participating in the scheme has to register with an approved clearinghouse, an ECS user should receive the mandate forms from the participating destination account holders with the bank's acknowledgement. A certified copy of the mandate should be available with the drawee bank.
The ECS user has to submit the data in a specified form through the sponsor bank to the clearinghouse. The clearinghouse would pass on the debit to the destination account holder through the clearing system and credit the sponsor bank's account for onward crediting the ECS user. All the unprocessed debits have to be returned to the sponsor bank's account for onward crediting the ECS user. All the unprocessed debits have to be returned to the sponsor bank, within the time frame specified. Banks treat the electronic instructions received through the clearing system at par with the physical cheques.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has deregulated the charges to be imposed by sponsor banks from institutions. The destination bank branches have been staying focused on affording ECS credit free of charge to the beneficiary account holders.


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CHAPTER 12 – The Arc
Why Arc was a game changer? Because it allowed explosion of all other GBs. The details would be explained below.
This is an important graph that you need to understand how Arc works.
The X axis is level of onwer's Arc that is being worked on
The Y axis is net cost of Arc (it means that total FPs required MINUS FPs earned by donor including donor's Arc bonus). This means total FPs required to complete GB after maximum FPs are harvested from rewards.
Different lines represent different Arc bonuses of donors. The better the donor bonus, the less the owner of GB has to pay for his GB because more FPs is coming back from the rewards.
Positive overall Y value means that GB owner must contribute to level GB, while negative value means that GB owner can actually profit from leveling a GB.
This graph assumes that GB owner works with 5 other donors that have the same arc value (different lines).
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The reason why you have such a graph pattern is because the reward although it is unknown, it appears to be linear, while total FPs of Arc is exponential (next level total FPs = previous level total FPs *1.025). During levels 0-10, the total FPs values are fixed, while rewards are small. This is why you have such an increase in cost. During levels 10-50, the exponential function is early stage and is overrun by linear function of rewards. While after lvl50, the exponential function (total FPs) explodes with respect to linear function (rewards), making GBs very pricey. You can appreciate the impact of the increasing rewards by noticing that after lvl10 the different color lines are further and further apart, while after lvl60 they start to come closer again becasue rewards become insignificant with respect to overall cost of GB.
The Arc increases to 30% in first ten levels, then by 1% to level 60, then for next 20 levels by 0.5% until 190% total, and then 0.1% per level afterwards.
In early spring 2016, we were able to develop this graph when our Arc's were just started to grow. We understood that if Inno made 1% per level or even 0.5% per level, we could have huge profits (we assumed that initial lvl20, lvl40, lvl60 pattern would follow and there was possibility that overall cost of GB would be negative). However, Inno correctly assigned 0.1% after lvl80, still theoretically possible to achieve a time when certain GBs levels become free of real cost, but limiting these levels to narrow range of 40-60 only when huge arc bonuses are provided as donors.
Notice that for "average" player who gets a little bit extra on top of his reward maybe 100% or 120% or 140%, the cost really increases with level. Majority of players will not be able to break through the "cheap" levels, and they will be stuck in expensive range lvl5-20 forever. Even if they do, starting from lvl 20-30, they will start to be heavily sniped as GB is much more attractive with rewards and this increasing the cost for the host again. This is basically 95-99% of all players. First, you need to get to higher level, and second you need donors with high arc to provide the combination that does the magic.
The costs pattern is not identical for each individual GB and that goes beyond of this topic, but it follows similar patterns.
Majority of average experienced players (unless they do not earn horrendous amounts of FPs) stop their GBs around lvl60-80. If you follow the teal line which represents the 100+90% arc (lvl80) donor, the line starts significantly creep up after owner of GB reached lvl60, and shoot up vertically after lvl80.The rule of thumb is that even with all 90% arcs, the lvl80 for most GBs costs about 1000 FPs, and that is often too much.
The reason players choose to take their arc from lvl60 to lvl80 is because there is a significant in GB leveling cost reduction from purple line (80%) to teal line (90%). It might appear initially that there is a little difference between 180% and 190% in sniping, but that is a big difference. If the sniping profits margins are small e.g. 10%, additional 10% might double the profit making the large investment into Arc reasonable. There are players that rush their Arc beyond 90%, but in reality that will not have a significant impact. In order to provide costs on such investments these players will have to hoard FPs left and right, snipe day and night, and employ an army of noobs that will feed Fps in variety of ways to them. This action is often driven by wanting to have highest GB in the ranking. The cost of leveling arc 80->180 lvl is about few million FPs, and that is just too pricey for 10% extra bonus for 99.999% players.
This graph also explains why levels 30-70 are so prone to sniping from outside. This is because the rewards are increasing significantly with respect to not so fast increasing total FPs making GB attractive to stealing what could have been used to level the GB, but then leaving the empty unfilled gap, and if it is done on correct GB, the GB owner is usually forced to cover the remaining.
The little Zig-Zaging of the function line is due to rounding to nearest "5fp" on GBs, and it has no significant effect overall.
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CHAPTER 13 – GvG HQ and Defense Bonus
One of most annoying thing that can happen is when an inexperienced member with trusted rights moves HQ, and that person has minimal understanding of the consequences and mechanism of HQ bonus distribution that can easily lead to your guild losing several additional sectors.
50% and especially 75% sectors are a deterrent. They can be killed by larger guilds pretty quickly, but in repetitive fights when filled with correct defense units especially when attacker is forced to go auto, it can cause significant damage to the attacker. 0% sectors are much more vunerable and easier to kill, and often attacker losses less than half of units than defender. An action from one person placing HQ correctly and understanding how 50% bonus is applied to sectors can often cause more damage to other guild than several fighters. That skill can give an edge when war is pretty even.
The specific age defense points are different to the Support Pool Bonus that guilds receive from guild level. However, they are linked by support factor.
(Support Pool Bonus + Total defense bonus from all defense GBs in guild) / Support Factor for specific age = Total defense points for specific age
> Support Pool Bonus
A guild receives these points for higher level. It is the number with a shield.
> Total defense bonus from all defense GBs in guild
Every defense GB contributes extra points on top of Support Pool Bonus. St. Basil contributes 3 points (for 1st 10 levels), Deal Castle contributes 3 points (for 1st 10 levels), and observatory contributes 10 points.
> Support factor
It is a number that is preset. They can be derived by solving the equation above when it is only the variable missing. It can be derived also from the ratio of support factors when you know total defense points for specific age. Also other numbers from that equation can be derived for example, you do not have to add all your defense GBs within the guild, but you can derive the total.2
I derived them previously, but I can be wrong if I do not remember them correctly. Please let me know if I got it wrong.
IA - 1.0
EMA - 1.5
HMA - 2.0
LMA - 3.0
CA - 4.0
InA - 6.0
PE - 8.0
ME - 10.0
CE - 12.0
TE - 14.0
TF - 16.0
AA - 16.0
> Total defense points for specific age
This is a total number of % that is redistributed to sectors as a defense.
For most (higher ages) the maximum % defense for HQ is 75% and other sectors is %50
Exceptions include (HQ/other sectors)
InA 25%/0% | EMA 35%/10% | HMA 45%/20% | LMA 55%/30% | CA 65%/40%
These lower values make sectors less stable and easier to take making it less attractive to older and larger guilds.
In our case = Support Pool Bonus (8540) + Total defense bonus from all defense GBs in guild (3092) = 11632 total bonus
Specific age (AA) total defense bonus = 11632 / 16 = 727 (%)
In other words, we can fill one HQ (75%) and 13 other sectors (13*50%=650%) total of 725% before next sectors will not have full bonus.
The defense bonus is distributed in concentric circles from HQ, which means the closest sectors to HQ have the priority to receiving it. Here is how priority of sectors would look like on these arrangements. If there is enough defense bonuses on HQ, it would spread to 1-away-from-HQ, if all sectors have enough bonus that are 1-away, then 2-away would receive defense bonus and so on.
On this image the


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Directed by Penny Lane. With Sam Mercurio, Rich Pell. For decades, Sea-Monkeys won the hearts of children everywhere and quickly transformed into cultural phenomena thanks to inventor, marketing genius, and complicated eccentric Harold von Braunhut. What Are Sea Monkeys? Despite their name, a sea monkey isn't an amazing underwater primate. Instead, they're a species of brine shrimp. This species, known as Artemia NYOS, is a hybrid of several types of naturally occurring brine shrimp.The creators wanted to create a hardy breed that was large enough for children to see since most brine shrimp are nearly microscopic. The sea monkeys or sea pets will adapt to the water, but don't throw in salt unless you have thrown in a lot of fresh water. In this case it will be a shock on them. Use the salt from our salt rocks only to break of a pinch to add to the water. Only add small amounts of distilled water or bottled water as a general rule so that they can adapt.
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Power to the Power Users: Advancing Your Use of Smart Lists
Barista pouring coffee into tea. Represents combining filters in Marketo smart lists.
Welcome back to another session of Power to the Power Users! In this series, we explore some common questions that pop up when taking the next step beyond becoming a Marketo Certified Expert and becoming a seasoned architect.
Last time around, we started talking about filter-level steps you can take to make your Smart Lists faster and more efficient. The natural follow-up question to that, though, is: how do I use that knowledge with multiple filters?
Filter combinations are one of the harder skills to master when it comes to using Marketo, because it's often not something we have to think about—after all, as long as you have all your criteria set out, you should be fine, right? Unfortunately, slow Smart Lists come back to haunt you when doing complex work. At the same time, this topic can be difficult to talk about, so I've grabbed a couple of examples from real-world users; we'll take a look at these and see how we can apply what we've learned to make speedy queries.
Combining Filters
Once you've determined how to most effectively select your individual filters, you'll need to combine them together—after all, how often do you have just one filter in a Smart List? However, we'll want to take some of the same concepts from SQL best practices and use them here as well to maximize performance.
When you use multiple filters together, they're evaluated in order to constrain down to the list you're looking for. For example, if I have three AND filters for:
 1. Mailable Segment is Mailable
 2. Region Segment is LATAM
 3. Annual Revenue is greater than 100,000,000
This will, in turn, cause the query to:
 - Select every record that has the Mailable segment as Mailable
 - From that first selection, select the subset that has their Region Segment as LATAM
 - From that subset, select the second subset that has Annual Revenue over 100,000,000
This makes the order that you place your filters in important, even if you're selecting ANY or ALL in your logic—because this will define how big or small your subsequent subsets are, and thus how long they'll take to evaluate. That generally means you'll want to:
 - Place your fastest filters at the top of your filter lists, since they'll narrow down records faster than your slower filters.
 - Choose fast filters that will narrow down more records first. For example, if you want to target people whose first name is Marina and live in Latin America, it makes more sense to go "First Name is Marina, Region Segment is LATAM", because statistically, there are probably fewer records with the first name Marina than are in your LATAM segment. Let's say you had 100 LATAM records, 8 Marina records and 4 Marinas in LATAM. Going from 8 Marinas to 4 Marinas in LATAM takes less time to process than going from 100 Latin Americans to 4 Marinas in LATAM.
 - Avoid using nested Smart Lists whenever possible. A nested smart list is a filter using "Member of Smart List is [your list here]", and is a non-SARGable filter on steroids: first, Marketo must process everything in that Smart List to proceed to the next filter in your Smart List. Instead, either try to recreate the Smart List's criteria inside your Smart List or look at using segmentation or a special field if it's a recurring audience.
 - Try to avoid using a lot of filters or complex groupings of filters when possible. While there is no hard and fast rule of "over X amount of filters will cause issues," it's worth examining why complex filters are being used—and if such combinations would be better served with static lists, segmentations, special fields, or other ways of consolidating who you're looking for.
 - Custom objects are handled a bit differently in Marketo's architecture than other core Marketo items—person data, company data, activity data, and such—and as a result, have different performance levels than standard items being queried. The closest analog these filters have to traditional queries are inner joins in SQL, and so some of the same cautions apply. These should be treated as the slowest filters and placed as the last part of your filter criteria.
With all these rules in mind, how do you translate them into a faster Smart List? Let's take a practical look at this example:
Marketo smart list filter example
Now, if we apply our rules here, we notice a few things immediately:
 - There are "Member of Smart List" filters inside this filter, which causes slowdown
 - There are Smart Lists that are mutually exclusive and could be broken down to an ongoing segmentation--Mailable and Bounced
 - There are "Member Not in List", which is not a SARGable filter
 - The filter order is inefficient
How would we fix this?
 1. Make a Mailable Segmentation (which removes Filters 2 and 4, as well as optimizes them from being Smart Lists).
 2. We can convert the criteria for "Newsletter Subscribe", which checks for people filling out newsletter subscription forms, into a Marketo-only field.
 3. Suppliers and HR Candidates likely can also be grouped into a Segmentation or share a field called "Record Type" to streamline the search
 4. We can reorganize this list to constrain records more effectively
The resulting Smart List would look something like:
 1. Mailable Segmentation is Mailable
 2. Newsletter Subscription is false
 3. Record Type is not Suppliers, HR Candidates
 4. Member of Program is False for "Make the Case for Content" with certain progression statuses
 5. Member of Program is False for "Active Play in Engagio" with "Added to Play" status
This setup is faster with the side effect of being easier for the marketer to read/understand as well as being simpler to create and iterate as needed. However, this is a straightforward example. What happens when we apply these same rules to a more complex query? Let's take a look at another example:
Complex Marketo smart list example
There's a lot to unpack in this list, but the following actions can be taken:
 1. Commit to good data hygiene and standardize Billing Country/Country values to consistently be some form of "United States" or "US" based on naming conventions.
 2. Group Job Category and Job Title together in a segmentation or in one field, as in this company's case the two are never conflicting values—they're just stored in different places and not every record has one or the other filled out. Again, this may also be solved with data hygiene.
 3. The filters for Corporate Activity Products and Company Name have multiple values, but can actually be distilled to use "Does not Start with" for 2-4 values each rather than the lists of "Is Not".
 4. The filter order is unoptimized, especially with a custom object "Has Sponsored Asset" and a Mailable segmentation out of order.
As this Smart List is today, it takes 49.86 seconds to process.
When we adjust this list to the following:
Advanced Filters: 1 and (2 or 3) and (4 or 5) and 6 and 7 and 8 and 9
 1. Mailable Segment is 'Mailable'
 2. Country is 'United States'
 3. Billing Country is 'United States'
 4. Job Title or Category Segment is 'IR'
 5. Corporate Activity Products is in (12)
 6. Vertical is 'Corporate'
 7. Account Type is not 'Consultant'
 8. Company Name is not (29)
 9. Has Sponsored Asset is false
This takes the Smart List performance down to 15.68 seconds—less than a third of the time of the original lists. If you do further optimization by changing the Corporate Activity Products is in (12) to start with "Share" and Company Name to not starts with (4), this takes the search down to 7.57 seconds.
That's over 85% faster than the original Smart List. Ultimately, the list retrieves the exact same records, but it does so in a much more database-friendly way. You can see how this sort of tweaking and optimization can really add up over time—as these rules can apply to anything needing a Smart List, and thus all sorts of programs you build throughout Marketo.
I'd encourage you to take these practices to heart when building your own Smart Lists in the future. Start small—apply one or two concepts—then iterate from there to optimize your work.
Have any best practice questions you'd like us to tackle? We're here to deep-dive on subjects that give you definitive answers to the questions you've got on day-to-day work. Just shoot us an email at _EMAIL_ or contact us here and keep an eye out—you may just find the answers here!
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Create, add conditions and optimize a transatlantic route – Part 1
The TIMEZERO software program provides all the resources for preparing and organizing your trips out to sea exactly as you like. The advanced features multiply the possibilities, all while providing more safety.
The Weather Routing module is an optional feature. The most direct route isn't necessarily the best route and that is why a feature such as the Weather Routing module is so interesting.
There are numerous factors that should be considered during the creation of a route, notably if you are planning a long trip that takes multiple days. While there is not a perfect way to create a route, there are a few tips that we will present in this article.
Context : Diego de Miguel, TIMEZERO Ambassador and head of the Sailing living lab project
The Sailing Living Lab is an innovative project and quite unique. The Acrobat is a real laboratory of the seas open to companies and institutions interested in new maritime technologies. The boat is capable of sailing in the most difficult and farthest flung zones of the planet. On-board, the captain Diego de Miguel, creator of the project and a sailor since he was 7 years old! The team is made up of engineers, reporters and scientists that together carry out tests, studies, research and discoveries.
After two years of navigating at sea in the Mediterranean, the project is taking another direction as a transatlantic crossing looms. Starting from the Canary Islands, they must travel to the Caribbean before travelling up the East Coast of the USA, carrying out studies.
To carry out the transatlantic voyage, our TIMEZERO Ambassador Diego de Miguel presents us with his strategy for such a trip. He depicts with precision, the features of the Weather Routing module available for TZ Navigator v3.
From downloading weather data to the creation of a route, discover the different steps for preparing a transatlantic voyage safely and efficiently with TIMEZERO, under the guidance from an experienced professional.
Step 1 : Create a route between the Canaries and Cape Verde
To create a route with TZ Navigator, you have to start by downloading the weather forecast data from the "Update" workspace. The first step is that you have to select the type of weather data that you want to get. In our case, we chose wind, waves and currents. For the number of days, we selected a duration of 7 days. Knowing that on average, you will need 5 days to cross the Atlantic. With an internet connection, the software extracts the files and integrates them automatically.
From there, we go to the "Planning" workspace to create the route. It's from the workspace that we can see the weather data displayed as a layer over the chart and we can see the evolution over time by using the time bar on the bottom of the screen.
The tool bar is located on the left side of the screen. You just need to select the tool "Launch Routing" to create the Weather Routing module feature with a departure point (the Canaries) and an arrival point (Cape Verde).
The software calculates the best itinerary based on the meteorological weather data that you downloaded and the unique features of your boats sail performance (polars). The boat polars should be pre-entered from the "Polars" workspace.
With TIMEZERO, you can access simply and directly the polar files in order to adjust them based on the state of the sea, the wind speed, and the different sails. The polars of your boat are provided by the boat manufacturer but TIMEZERO has a library of 150 different types of polars to choose from as well. You can then adjust the polar percentages in the software program to get the data as precise as possible which can change in function with unique factors that effect every boat (age, weight, modifications, etc.)
Watch the video which demonstrates using the Weather Routing module to sail from the Canary Islands to Cape Verde:
Step 2 : Create a route between the Canary Islands and the Caribbean using the Weather Routing module
In this simulation exercise, the Weather Routing we created was from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean. A crossing that takes multiple days, around 2 weeks give or take. The TIMEZERO software offers the ability to download up to 16 days of weather forecasts. To ensure that the route is reliable, the weather data has to be reliable. For the sake of simplicity, we are going to make the assumption that the weather data is reliable to the full extent of its duration. After all, this exercise is primarily about seeing the power of the algorithm within TIMEZERO.
Once the weather data has been downloaded from the "Update" workspace, we can draw a route between the Canary Islands and the Antilles. The software calculates and draws the optimal route. This time, the presented route is not what you might personally view as the correct way to go and this is because the software program might indicate that a heading to the west while you would personally have the notion to want to head south. The route will most likely have a zig-zag pattern. This is so as not to have the wind directly behind the boat otherwise it is too slow. You always need to angle against the wind.
Watch the video which demonstrates using the Weather Routing module to sail from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean:
In part 2, discover how to set conditions to the route you created. Furthermore, our TIMEZERO ambassador Diego de Miguel unveils how to optimize the download of your meteorological data, notably for a multiple day crossing on a budget.
If you want to find out more about the Weather Routing module available for TZ Navigator, go to our website:


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Multispatial probe, Extreme Risk
USS Voyager's multispatial probe
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Long range sensor scan of a multispatial probe
The multispatial probe was an advanced probe designed by Lieutenant Commander Tuvok of the USS Voyager in 2375. It was equipped with unimatrix shielding, also designed by Tuvok.
On the probe's first flight, a Malon export vessel, eleventh gradient attempted to steal it so they could locate suitable planets as dumping grounds for antimatter waste. To stop them, the crew of Voyager sent the probe into the atmosphere of a class 6 gas giant. The probe was later retrieved by the newly-constructed Delta Flyer, ahead of a competing salvage team sent by Malon Controller Vrelk. (VOY: "Extreme Risk")
Later in 2375, the crew of Voyager used the multispatial probe to explore a pocket of subspace beyond a subspace sinkhole, where a shuttlecraft carrying Tuvok, Tom Paris and The Doctor had crashed. The probe subsequently served as a transporter relay, allowing them to be rescued. (VOY: "Gravity")
When Voyager and the bounty hunter race known as the Hazari began to think of plans to defeat a smart group known as the Think Tank, Tom Paris suggested they use the probe to scout subspace, where the group's ship was known to hide. However, B'Elanna Torres dismissed it, due to the supposition that it would take weeks to scout the area. (VOY: "Think Tank")
In 2376, B'Elanna Torres piloted a shuttle on a solo mission to retrieve the multispatial probe, after it entered an ion storm. (VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
In VOY: "Blink of an Eye", the CGI model of the multispatial probe was also used to represent a standard class 5 probe.
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Ontario dairy cows Tweet about their teats
When dairy cows start tweeting is it safe to say that Twitter is slowly taking over the world? OK maybe not, but a group of 12 dairy cows in Brant County, Ontario, have recently started "teat tweeting" and even have their own website.
It's all thanks to a collaboration between Marcel O'Gorman (head of the University of Waterloo's Critical Media Lab) and Ron Broglio (an English professor from Georgia Gwinnett College in the States). This new social media project, affectionately named the Teat Tweet Dairy Diary, aims to show consumers the often highly technological nature of farming and how the industry is changing.
I for one don't imagine robotic milking machines (effectively creating a self-serve milking bar for the cows) when I think of Ontario's dairy farms, but Voluntary Milking System (VMS) technology is becoming more and more popular among farmers in Ontario and beyond.
Farmer Chris Vandenberg of Buttermine Farms (who's cows are doing all the tweeting) told me that he isn't the only one using this new robotic milking technology, there are about 25 farms using VMS in southwestern Ontario alone. It's even more widely used in Europe, where the technology originated.
The system works by linking the cows to robotic milking pens through an electronic RFID collar. The collar tells sensors at each milking pen when the cow last gave milk, how much she gave, and how long it took. If there hasn't been enough time since the last milking, the robot won't let her into the pen.
The inspiration for the project came to O'Gorman and Broglio through talking to Chris and other farmers using VMS technology. They came to realize how drastically it's changing dairy farming.
With cows able to milk themselves any time they like, farmers using a VMS system act more like information managers than they do farmers. Dairy Diary was conceived as a way to both allow the farmer to regain intimacy with his cows, and allow people to learn more about where their milk comes from.
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So how do the cows tweet? Marcel O'Gorman and the crew at the University of Waterloo's Critical Media Lab didn't want to share all their secrets, but they did tell me that data individual to each cow is pulled from the robotic milking system and that tweets are generated for specific cows based on their interactions with the robots. The messages are drawn at random from a database, sort of like a chatbot.
For example, the sassy bovine Attention Please (_USER_) might tweet something like "I just squirted 11.8 kgs of milk out of my teats in 5:11 seconds. What did you do today?"
Other things the cows share in their tweets? How often they get shot down by the robots (SNAP!), how much they ate while in the milking pen, which of their teats is the slowest, and how good the automated cow brusher feels.
I have been following Attention Please for a couple of months now, and the tweets are often quite funny. The project recently landed itself on The Huffington Post's "9 CRAZIEST things that can Tweet" list.
Dairy Diary was launched back in December and will be running for a year. You can check out pictures and bios of each cow on the Teat Tweet website, and follow them on Twitter (but they all tweet pretty much the same things, so you really only need to follow one): _USER_, _USER_, _USER_, _USER_, _USER_, _USER_, _USER_, _USER_, _USER_, _USER_, _USER_, _USER_
Photos by Gerbrich Vandenberg.
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Seen a Dolphin in the Thames? Story behind the lamps on the Thames Embankment
Many capital cities around the world have a river running through them. However, when it comes to the Thames, one thing that makes it so recognisable is the striking Victorian lamps lining the Embankment. The street lighting in question are called the 'Dolphin lamps', but actually appear to be sturgeon fish.
Prior to Victorian times, the Thames was a lot wider in the centre of town, but was slimmed down by the building of the Victoria Embankment on the north side in the late 19th century. Sir Joseph Bazelgette came up with a scheme to reclaim some 22 acres of marshland and built a new road and sewage system for the rapidly expanding capital. While this transformed the city, it also meant many riverside buildings were demolished, such as York House. Building of the Victoria and Chelsea Embankment meant Londoners had somewhere new to stroll beside the river so of course, some attractive new street lighting would be required.
Step forward George John Vulliamy, the Superintending Architect of the Metropolitan Board of Works, who created the unique riverside lamps built into the retaining river wall in 1870. Many different designs were submitted, including one by Bazelgette, however Vulliamy's designs were chosen for the centre of town. The cast-iron lamps featured two sturgeons with their bodies wrapped around the lamp column. Facing the Embankment, the face of Neptune peered out with the year 1870 inscribed underneath him. Vulliamy was said to have been inspired by the dolphin sculptures on the Fontana del Nettuno in Rome's Piazza del Popolo during his extensive travels around Europe. As well as the lamps, Vulliamy also designed the pedestals and sphinxes for Cleopatra's Needle – the ancient Egyptian obelisk gifted to London by Egypt in 1819.
For decades, these lamps only stood on the Victoria Embankment. However, in 1977, city authorities decided to create replicas on the opposite Albert Embankment on the Southbank to commemorate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Instead of the year underneath Neptune on the Victoria Embankment, 'EIIR' was inscribed to mark Queen Elizabeth II.
For another blog post on the history behind the City Of Westminster's 'Coco Chanel' lampposts, read Can lampposts be fashionable? The myth of the Coco Chanel street lights or to find about one of the rare surviving pieces of the houses destroyed to make way for the Victoria Embankment, read Who moved the Thames? York Water Gate at Embankment Gardens.
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Anticipatory Anxiety Automatic Thought Record Worksheet
Worksheet updated on May 11th, 2018
Anticipatory anxiety is a struggle for many people. Often we see things like catastrophizing when people experience anxiety about upcoming events. When it comes to anticipatory anxiety the thought of the worst case scenario is enough to have a patient be overcome with worry, which will sometimes affect performance and their mental and emotional health. That's why it is important for a patient who has a tendency to catastrophize or experience anticipatory anxiety to be able to rationalize their expectations with the evidence they know to be true.
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This ATR walks patients through their worries and brings to light their active catastrophizing tendencies. This worksheet serves as great practice for breaking down cognitive distortions, anxiety reactions, and triggers. It also helps the patient see and understand how their anxiety affects how they make expectations about the future.
It first asks the patient to identify the worry, rate the worry on a scale to one to 10, and identify what triggered the worry. It then has the patient list the evidence to support and not support the expectation for the most adverse outcome. Finally, after working through the worry with a logical break down of what the patient already knows, the patient is asked for the most likely outcome and asked to re-score their anxiety.


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How To Identify a Means of Egress
2. Identify: If the tactic of using observation to ascertain the location of a means of egress is unsuccessful, please execute this more advanced protocol.
a. Attempt to use logic to identify the means of egress. For example, anything that is transparent is most likely a window. This is a means of egress, but not the preferred one (See step 3).
b. If the previous effort is unsuccessful, look for these telltale signs a surface is a means of egress:
i. It has a knob
ii. It has a hinge
iii. It is in a frame
iv. It has a sign indicating that it is a means of egress
c. If you remain unable to deduce a means of egress, proceed to step 3.
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Question: Can You Study Too Much In One Day?
How much is too much studying a day?
How many hours a day should you study?
Does studying too much make you do worse?
Because new research shows that kids who study too much actually perform worse on standardized tests. And that's not all. Stanford researchers found that high school students who are swamped with homework often suffer from poor mental and physical health because they're studying instead of exercising or sleeping.
Is studying 8 hours a day too much?
I'm sure many people do well by studying 8 hours a day for months, but if you do that it will likely hurt your grades and other areas of your life. I'm not saying you shouldn't study a lot for the test, or that it's easy if you just do it the right way. It is still difficult and it still takes a lot of work.
Can I study for 8 hours a day?
I'm sure your first reaction when you see someone studying for 8 hours is that you think it's impossible. It is not, it's work, like those who work from 9 to 5 in offices. The trick is to have diversified tasks to do. Such as challenging tasks, easy, long and short.
What happens to your brain when you study too much?
To start off, cramming in information and over-studying can turn into extra, unwanted amounts of stress and tension that can burn out. … Researchers also say that too much stress from studying can cause brain inflammation and result in memory loss and depression. Even working, in general, can hurt people.
Is studying 12 hours a day too much?
12 isn't healthy but using a pomodoro timer works well. It's scientifically proven that it's better to study 1 hour per day rather than 2 hour per day. The reason is, you learn less per hour when you cram more information.
Can homework kill you?
Can too much studying be bad?
Studying too hard and too much can easily lead to burnout and leave your mind frazzled on the test date. You'll want to take breaks away from studying and focus on the rest of your life, fun, and school work. When you create your study calendar, make sure to account for breaks as well as entire days off.
Can I study for 15 hours a day?
Yes you can study 16-20 hours during your exam days, but not everyday and even if you will able to do so, you will stop studying in a month or two. Hence, take good amount of sleep and concentrate on the quality instead of quantity.
Is it healthy to study everyday?
Studying everyday, impacts your brains a lot, it is increase your memory power as well as quick leaning skills and also we help you to increase your IQ. student who studied everyday faces 75% less stress than student who don't. It increases your focus and concentration.
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When You Learn, Your Brain Swells with New Cells — Then It Kills Them. Every time you learn a skill, new cells burst to life in your brain. Then, one after another, those cells die off as your brain figures out which ones it really needs. … Researchers have long known that brains change in response to learning.


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What is the difference between putting $DB::single=1 and $DB::single=2 in your code? Both seem to have the identical effect of halting execution at the statement following the assignment when I do a 'c' on the perl debugger command line.
perldebug says that a value of 1 is equivalent to having just pressed's' to get to the next statement, and 2 is the same as 'n', but what difference does it make how you got to the statement?
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If you set $DB::single to 2, it's equivalent to having just typed the n command (which executes over subroutine calls), whereas a value of 1 means the s command (which enters subroutine calls).
That much you know already.
From a user point of view, I'm pretty sure there is no difference. I base this on an examination of the actual DB.pm source code.
Let's follow this logically. You may want to refer to the source code. I've simplified some of the code to remove unnecessary detail but you should be able to get the idea from my descriptions.
When you are executing code in the debugger, there are (at least) two important variables, running and single. The combination of these is what decides whether code is run:
running single description
 0 ? not running
 1 0 running flat-out
 1 1 single stepping, execute into function
 1 2 single stepping, execute over function
The DB() function is executed for every single line, and it contains the following snippet which will stop the running if single has been set (it always executes the current line regardless):
if ($DB::single) {
 $DB::single = 0;
 $running = 0;
That's why, if you set the variable in your Perl code, it will break (by break, I mean "stop running the code", not "damage somehow") the debugger at the next line.
When running is 0, the DB() function enters this little loop:
# Now sit in an event loop until something sets $running
do {
 $c->idle; # call client event loop; must not block
} until $running;
In other words, it waits on a user command which sets running back to 1. This can be done by one of the following three functions:
sub next {
 $DB::single = 2;
 $running = 1;
sub step {
 $DB::single = 1;
 $running = 1;
sub cont {
 $DB::single = 0;
 $running = 1;
You can see that these three commands set up a different combination of single and running which will be used while executing the next Perl line (see the earlier table to see what these combinations mean).
The ability to use either 1 or 2 in your Perl code is a direct result of the fact that you're using a sneaky but clever trick to break execution from your Perl code itself, by setting a variable that would normally be set by a debugger command.
That's why it's not the value that matters so much as the fact you're forcing the debugger into a particular state.
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not sneaky, well documented. – ysth Dec 20 '10 at 21:54
It may be well documented now but I'm of the opinion that it was a simple side effect of the way DB.pm worked, that someone discovered was useful (even if that someone was the original author). No-one in their right mind would design an API like this :-) They would have provided a function to do it so as to not expose the inner workings, not just let a variable be set to two different values, the difference between those values being absolutely nothing in terms of the use. – paxdiablo Dec 20 '10 at 23:23
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Do Bearded Dragons Play Dead? How To React
Do bearded dragons play dead?The worst situation ever is the one in which you come up to your bearded dragon's habitat only to find them in a position indicating they are dead. You begin to worry. You may touch your dragon, in hopes that they will come back to life. But are they really deceased?
Do bearded dragons play dead? Bearded dragons have the ability to hold their breath for a REALLY long period of time. In some cases, the vet may have to intubate because they cannot get the animal to breathe in the anesthesia. If you suspect your dragon may be deceased, wait a while to make sure they are not playing dead.
 Now you know that bearded dragons can play dead. Why do they do this, and what can owners do to help bring them back to their normal way of life? Keep reading to find out.
Why Is My Bearded Dragon Playing Dead?
Stories from around the internet from other bearded dragon owners indicate such instances happening when the dragon is under some sort of stress.
For instance, one owner told a story in which her dragon would do this every time he had to undergo a bath. Another user told a story similar to that in which her dragon opened up an eye as soon as she picked him up again.
In the wild, they do that to escape predators. Some predators lose interest when their prey is dead or they start to relax and don't pay close attention anymore because dead prey can't run away.
As soon as the predator starts to relax and does not pay close attention to the "dead" bearded dragon, the dragon takes advantage of the situation and runs away.
The video below shows a bearded dragon that seems to be very stressed during bath time. As you can see it also plays dead for a while either to "escape" the situation or the water might be too cold.
How To React When Your Bearded Dragon Is Playing Dead
Bearded dragons can hold their breath for ten minutes, so don't jump to conclusions right away if you see your bearded dragon lying motionless. Give it some time and come back to check on the dragon.
However, bearded dragons do not play dead for fun. If you see this behavior in your bearded dragon, you might have done something wrong.
It is very important to reflect on the situation that could have caused that behavior and to do things differently in the future so that your bearded dragons can live stress-free.
Another thing to take into consideration is the possibility of brumation. It is a time in which bearded dragon owners who are inexperienced get nervous about their beardie. Let's learn what it is and how you can know what to expect.
Brumation 101: Know the Signs
Brumation is the reptile version of going into hibernation, which is what bears do during the wintertime.
The metabolism of the bearded dragon slows down and leaves them looking lethargic and lacking in appetite.
The bearded dragon actually has evolved to do this action over the years. It is a response to the seasons changing.
Signs that your bearded dragon is getting ready to begin brumation:
 - They don't want to be handled
 - They don't want to bask
 - They have trouble waking up
 - They lose their appetite
 - They lack energy
 - They bury themselves in their sand
 - They eliminate less and less
Many beardie owners who don't know about these dragons may assume their reptile has contracted a disease or parasite or is impacted.
Dragon owners not in the know may try to force-feed or play with their reptile as a means of waking him up, but don't do this. Brumation is a natural process, and your dragon is just following his instincts.
When Will Brumation Happen?
Brumation depends on whichever hemisphere you reside in. When it comes to beardies that live in the Southern Hemisphere, like Australia, their brumation will start around March or April, and they can stay brumating as late as August.
And then, when THOSE beardies begin waking up, the Northern Hemisphere dragon will start falling into brumation! These include dragons in Canada, the USA, UK, and Europe. You can expect a beardie in these hemispheres to brumate during September to March.
The point? Your bearded dragon will brumate as a way of answering the change in seasons. When temps get low around winter and autumn, you can be sure your dragon will probably start brumating around that time.
It should also be noted that not every bearded dragon who lives in captivity will brumate. It is very possible that your bearded dragon will never brumate, meanwhile others will go through that every year.
You may even see some bearded dragons go into brumation during the spring and summer months, even when they live in the Northern Hemisphere.
During brumation, you should offer a hide, which gives the dragon a place to settle down and stay safe during brumation.
Many dragons enjoy this on the cool side of the tank, so put it there for the best results. These hides come in many sizes to accommodate bearded dragons of all lengths.why do bearded dragons play dead?
How Do I Know If My Dragon Is Sick, Brumating, or Deceased?
In this section, we will take a look at the difference between sick, brumating, and deceased dragons.
Brumation Vs Death
First, don't make any quick decisions or jump to conclusions. Bearded dragons are very good at playing dead. Dead beardies have rigor mortis set in, and they are also very cold to the touch.
Their color will be different, and they may have a foul smell as a result of being deceased.
Here is a test you can do: Lay the dragon on his side and see if he moves. If no movement is spotted, try putting them on their back. A dragon that is alive will try to upright themselves, but if you see no movement, chances are the dragon is deceased.
Brumation Vs Illness
Look at the physical condition of your bearded dragon for the best results.
A dragon that is sick may have fat pads that have been totally depleted, mouth mucus, abnormally colored scales, or sunken in eyes. Mostly, these dragons do not look like themselves at all.
A dragon entering brumation will not display any of these signs. Dragons getting ready for brumation most often change up their behavior patterns as compared to their physical ones.
How To Become Better At Telling If Something Might Be Wrong With Your Bearded Dragon
Seeing a bearded dragon playing dead can be a shock. However, that is not the only behavior that can shock you when it comes to bearded dragons.
Have you ever entered the room, just to see your bearded dragon colored completely black? That can be extremely scary and stressful!
I know that most people are worried about their bearded dragons all the time even if their beardies don't show extreme behavior like that. They are just afraid that they are doing something wrong and their beardie might end up sick.
I totally get that, because I also worried a lot about my reptiles in the past. The good thing is, that you can actually become more confident when it comes to your bearded dragon's behavior.
All you need for that is knowledge.
If you know how to distinguish between a sick bearded dragon and a healthy bearded dragon, or if you know (for example) how to tell by your beardie's body language that the tank is too cold or too hot, you will be a much more confident beardie keeper.
Just because you know how to read your dragon.
To help you with that, we have created the Beardie Behavior 'n' Health ebook.
This ebook will show you how to spot diseases in your beardie and how to help, how to read a bearded dragon's body language, how to care for a beardie during brumation, and much, much more. You can get our ebook here!
Bearded dragons can and will play dead when they feel like it. Often this takes place when they feel afraid or threatened in some way. It is crucial for owners to understand what this looks like, so they know not to jump to conclusions or act in a rash way.
Bearded dragons can hold their breath for ten minutes, so don't worry just yet. If your reptile appears motionless, give him some time to come back. You should also try the test I mentioned earlier where you place the dragon on his side and then his back.
Dragons are great, but they sometimes can alarm us-know what to look for, so you don't end up scared or confused!
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St. Francis of Assisi reminded us to preach the Gospel at all times and to use words when necessary. Perhaps you may be like me and need of some words to help you remember historical facts and especially those events dealing with the Catholic Church. You can download and incorporate a five-page resource to create a 14th Century Timeline Notebook. This resource offers a peek at key events of the 1300s. It begins with the 1300 Jubilee year when coins of Florence were accepted as first International currency and ends with the death of Death of Bl. Raymond of Capua in 1399. Catholic events are highlighted in blue, and space has been left to write about additional events of the 14th century.
The second resource shared by Shell today is an Academic Diary for 2012-2013. This 24 page printable resource can be printed single or double sided and can be the simple help you need to keep track of events in the church calendar, the liturgical year and, of course, your own daily or weekly activities. The calendar runs from September 2012-August 2013. The accompanying diary pages are laid out with a simple design allowing for lines and spaces and some poetic inspiration.


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Alternate Wetting and Drying: AWD
Alternate Wetting and Drying is an irrigation method that helps save water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in rice production.
Typically, rice is produced in constant flooded conditions. Saturated soils tend to produce methane through natural processes. By carefully managing irrigation water and allowing soils to temporarily oxygenate throughout the growing season, a process known as Alternate Wetting and Drying, this natural methane production process can be minimized. Our previous investments in technologies like Zero Grade make it possible for us to manage this technique on some portion of our farm.
Diagram Credit: Dr. Joe Massey