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What is the conjugate training system?
Also known as the "Westside Method" because it was devised by Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell gym in Columbus, Ohio, the conjugate training system has its roots in powerlifting. However, the effectiveness of this program extends well beyond the world of powerlifting.
I first began training the conjugate method for powerlifting purposes, but quickly saw that it had a great carryover when training youth athletes. Why? Well, beyond the fact that the method gets results, young people have a tendency to get bored. The conjugate system sees you utilize the same movement pattern over and over, but frequently varies how you train that pattern. So while you may know that the "main" lift in a given workout will be a squat, it could be a Front Squat, Zercher Squat, Back Squat, etc. This constant variety keeps things interesting and also allows new PRs to be set quite often (since the more exercises you train, the more chances for PRs you give yourself).
This article is intended to be a basic primer on the conjugate training system. I'd like to outline the basic premise of the program and the reasons I believe it to be beneficial, and if it sounds like something that might intrigue you, I'd encourage you to research it further.
So what exactly separates the conjugate method from any other training system? It's attention to detail and accessory training. The conjugate method breaks training down into 4-5 weekly training sessions:
- maximum effort upper (Bench Press)
- maximum effort lower (Squat and Deadlift)
- dynamic effort upper
- dynamic effort lower
- one extra day for posterior chain and weak point training
Let's say you're training the Bench Press for max effort. You'll begin with a quick warm-up routine followed by lifting a Bench Press variation until you reach a one-rep max. As soon as the max is reached (without failing), you'll move on to accessory training. Accessory movements should make up roughly 80% of your session. Here's a quick mock-up of a max effort upper training day in the conjugate training system:
- Barbell Floor Press x 10/8/6/4/2/1/1
- Strict Pull-Ups 4x8
- Rope Face Pulls 4x12
- Tricep Skull Crushers 4x10
- Bicep Hammer Curl 3x15
As you can see, only 20% of the workout is barbell-specific work used to train the main lift. The remaining 80% is made of specialty exercises trained for volume to help build the supporting muscles of the main lift. Repeat in similar fashion for the lower body max effort day, remembering to rotate through variations of the main lift and accessory lifts.
So how do I train on the dynamic effort days?
Dynamic effort is essentially training a load that is less than your one-rep max for maximum speed. In similar fashion to the max effort, you'll train a barbell lift followed by accessory movements. The barbell lift will vary similar to max effort, but you'll choose a percentage of your max to train as fast as possible while maintaining good form.
It's important to note that the separation of max effort and dynamic effort should be approximately 72 hours. If you train max effort lower body on Tuesday, the dynamic lower body should be on Friday to allow for adequate recovery. I believe that the dynamic effort is key in building explosive power in athletes, because it forces the athlete to move a sub-maximal weight with the highest rate of force possible. In order to continually progress, the percentage should raise roughly 5-10% each training session until a new max is established.
For example, a person with a 400-pound squat max would squat 50% (200 pounds) week one, 55% (220 pounds) week 2, and 60% (240 pounds) week 3. These percentages can be changed to ensure the athlete is moving the bar with max force. Accommodating resistance can also be added by rotating various bands and chains to the bar. If you decide to add bands or chains, lower the bar weight, but make sure the bar and accommodating resistance don't total more than 60-80% of your max. If you have a 400-pound Squat max, the total weight of the bar and the accommodating resistance should never exceed 320 pounds.
The conjugate training system places a high priority on physical preparedness. Sled Walks, Lunges, Jumps and Carries ensure that the athlete is prepped and ready for their given event. The system is also easy to scale for novice athletes; if you're not able to bench with proper form, Chin-Ups, Push-Ups or dumbbells can replace the barbell lift. For lower body; swings, jumps and bounds can replace the Squat and Deadlift.
The conjugate system is great at allowing the coach and athlete to design a program that fits the athlete's specific needs. Instead of opting for a one-size-fits-all training system, the conjugate method can easily accommodate an athlete who has a weak low back or hips by swapping in exercises to address their individual needs. By changing the variation on max effort days, you allow the athlete to set a new PR each session, allowing them to physically and mentally become a stronger athlete.
Here's a sample week of the conjugate program:
Monday: Max Effort Upper
- Incline Barbell Bench up to a 1 rep max
- Lat Pulldowns 4x12
- Shrugs 4x8
- Tricep Rollbacks 3x20
- Planks 3 x 45 seconds
Tuesday: Dynamic Lower Body
- Box Back Squat (using 50% of Back Squat 1-Rep Max) 8x2
- DB RDL 3x15
- Goblet Squat 3x12
- Box Jump 30 total reps
- Palof Press 3x10 each side
Wednesday: Off Day
Thursday: Dynamic Upper Body
- Barbell Bench Press (using 50% of 1-Rep Bench Press max) 6x3
- DB Floor Press 4x12
- 1-Arm DB Row 4 x 8 each side
- DB Hammer Curl 4x12
- Close Grip Push Up 3 x Failure
Friday: Max Lower Body
- Sumo Deadlift up to a 1 rep max
- Heavy DB Lunge 4x8 Each
- Band Hamstring Curl 4x15
- GHR 3x10
- Ab Wheel 3 x Failure
Next time you're searching for a system that'll make training exciting while also catering to the needs of your athletes, consider the tried and true conjugate method!
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 - A Basque Dancer from Head to Toe
 While Basque country is home to many styles of dance, each with variations in dress, there are some basic elements that dance costumes have in common. Most of these pieces are based on traditional everyday clothing, with some embellishments so the dancers are really dressed to impress.
 Six traditional Basque dance troupes will be performing at the Folklife Festival. Even though these groups are from California, Nevada, Idaho, and Utah, they retain many of the classic movements and costumes of performers from their homeland. How many can you spot at the Festival?
 Illustration by Dulcia Halliday
 Illustration by Dulcia Halliday
 The beret, or txapela, is a Basque icon. While the felt hats had been worn by farmers all over northern Europe, Basques made it fashionable. Even Napoleon Bonaparte thought the "Basque berets" were hip, so now they are known as basco in Italian, baskeri in Finnish, and baskenmütze in German.
 Some men's costumes include a cloth sash, or gerriko, either tied around the waist or across one shoulder. Most often these are bright red or green, representing the Basque flag.
 Male dancers wear small bells sewed to a piece of cloth or leather and tied around their shins. Others wear larger bells fastened to their waists. Following a widespread early European superstition, the noisy bells are meant to drive away evil spirits.
 These simple sandals, called abarketa in Basque, are made from either canvas with rope soles or from leather, similar to ballet shoes. Once worn by peasants, then by laborers and military, espadrilles have become fashionable around the world.
 Illustration by Dulcia Halliday
 Illustration by Dulcia Halliday
 Women often wrap a white scarf over their heads. This is the first part of the poxpolin, a costume popularized when women began performing men's dances.
 They usually wear their hair in braids, tied with a ribbon at the top called zintamuxko.
 Around their necks, women and men tie square handkerchiefs, or lepozapi. The colors can indicate the dancers' club, town, or region.
 Rainbows of ribbons are woven into berets, braided into hair, and wrapped around ankles to lace up shoes. They add color to the dancers' costumes and accentuate their motions. Some dances incorporate ribbons into the movements, like the zinta-dantza, a Basque version of the Maypole dance.
 Women dance in long wool skirts. The color and stripes at the bottom traditionally indicate their home region. Over time, it has become more fashionable to shorten the skirts, from just above the ankle to around the knee, exposing voluminous petticoats.
 Color Guide
 According to some Basques, the colors of cloths and ribbons in costumes symbolize certain things. Here is a short guide to those meanings.
 Red = Life, love
 Blue = Heavens
 Green = Regeneration of nature
 White = Purity, innocence
 Join us at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to see Basque dance performances and learn some steps for yourself. In the Festival Marketplace, located inside the Arts and Industries Building, you will find berets, handkerchiefs, and espadrilles to take home.
 Elisa Hough is the editor for the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Dulcia Halliday is a graphic design intern for the Folklife Festival; she studies graphic design at SUNY New Paltz.


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Seven Tasks for Seven Books
Oct 30, 2007
SEVEN TASKS, SEVEN BOOKS
While each book was awaited with great anticipation, speculation roared regarding the content of the next book. One popular theory looked at each task Harry had to endure to get the the stone in the first book, as a clue toward the subject matter of the other books.
The seven tasks have been discussed in various threads discussing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. These threads include:
GREAT WIZARDING EVENTS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY:
CURRENT BOOK CLUB:
The Play up! Play up! and Play the game!, GOF and the 4th task to find the Philosopher's Stone discussions can be viewed in the Special Events Archives.
Other archived Book Club threads include POA and the 3rd task to find the Philosopher's Stone, Do they show how 7 PS/SS tasks match 7 books?
1.Voldemort's plan to spread chaos – Shard.
2.The mystery of the number seven – Memsylfn1

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Damages in Comparable Coaches' Contracts to Assess a School's Economic Damage from the Loss of a Successful Coach
Richard T. Karcher
Professor of Law
Florida Coastal School of Law
This Essay addresses the difficulty of proving financial harm that results when a head coach departs during the contract term and the school thereby abruptly loses a valuable asset, that being a successful and stabile athletic program. Due to the unique and specialized nature of head coaches' services and the industry they work in, ordinary measures for assessing damage based on substitute performance and transaction costs are insufficient. The author offers a theory of measuring a school's damages within the construct of a lost income-producing asset valuation, using a methodology based on liquidated damage amounts in comparable coaches' contracts.


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The Lesser Key of Solomon
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The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as the Clavicula Salomonis Regis[note 1] or Lemegeton, is an anonymous grimoire (or spell book) focused on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-seventeenth century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older.[1][2] It is divided into five books, the Ars Goetia, the Ars Theurgia-Goetia, the Ars Paulina, the Ars Almandel, and the Ars Notoria.[1][3]
Ars Goetia[edit]
The most obvious source for the Ars Goetia is Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in his De praestigiis daemonum. Weyer does not cite, and is unaware of, any other books in the Lemegeton, indicating that the Lemegeton was derived from his work, not the other way around.[1][4] The order of the spirits was changed between the two, four additional spirits were added to the later work, and one spirit (Pruflas) was omitted. The omission of Pruflas, a mistake that also occurs in an edition of Pseudomonarchia Daemonum cited Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft, indicates that the Ars Goetia could not have been compiled before 1570. Indeed, it appears that the Ars Goetia is more dependent upon Scot's translation of Weyer than Weyer's work in itself. Additionally, some material was used from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and the Heptameron by pseudo-Pietro d'Abano[note 2][1][5] and from the Magical Calender.[6]
Weyer's Officium Spirituum, which may be related to a 1583 manuscript titled "The Office of Spirits",[7] appears to have ultimately be an elaboration on a fifteenth century manuscript titled Le Livre des Esperitz (of which 30 of its 47 spirits are nearly identical to spirits in the Ars Goetia).[2][5]
In a slightly later copy made by Dr. Thomas Rudd, this portion was labelled "Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia," and the seals and demons were paired with those of the seventy-two angels of the Shemhamphorasch,[3] who were intended to protect the conjurer and control the demons he summoned.[8] The angelic names and seals were derived from a manuscript by Blaise de Vigenère, whose papers were also used by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in his works for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.[5] Rudd may have derived his copy of Liber Malorum Spirituum from now a lost work by Johannes Trithemius,[5] who taught Agrippa, who in turn taught Weyer.
This portion of the work was later translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and published by Aleister Crowley under the title The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King." Crowley added some additional invocations previously unrelated to the original work, as well as essays describing the rituals as psychological exploration instead of demon summoning.[9]
The Seventy-Two Demons[edit]
 1. King Bael
 2. Duke Agares
 3. Prince Vassago
 4. Marquis Samigina
 5. President Marbas
 6. Duke Valefor
 7. Marquis Amon
 8. Duke Barbatos
 9. King Paimon
 10. President Buer
 11. Duke Gusion
 12. Prince Sitri
 13. King Beleth
 14. Marquis Leraje
 15. Duke Eligos
 16. Duke Zepar
 17. Count/President Botis
 18. Duke Bathin
 19. Duke Sallos
 20. King Purson
 21. Count/President Marax
 22. Count/Prince Ipos
 23. Duke Aim
 24. Marquis Naberius
 25. Count/President Glasya-Labolas
 26. Duke Buné
 27. Marquis/Count Ronové
 28. Duke Berith
 29. Duke Astaroth
 30. Marquis Forneus
 31. President Foras
 32. King Asmoday
 33. Prince/President Gäap
 34. Count Furfur
 35. Marquis Marchosias
 36. Prince Stolas
 37. Marquis Phenex
 38. Count Halphas
 39. President Malphas
 40. Count Räum
 41. Duke Focalor
 42. Duke Vepar
 43. Marquis Sabnock
 44. Marquis Shax
 45. King/Count Viné
 46. Count Bifrons
 47. Duke Vual
 48. President Haagenti
 49. Duke Crocell
 50. Knight Furcas
 51. King Balam
 52. Duke Alloces
 53. President Caim
 54. Duke/Count Murmur
 55. Prince Orobas
 56. Duke Gremory
 57. President Ose
 58. President Amy
 59. Marquis Orias
 60. Duke Vapula
 61. King/President Zagan
 62. President Valac
 63. Marquis Andras
 64. Duke Haures
 65. Marquis Andrealphus
 66. Marquis Cimeies
 67. Duke Amdusias
 68. King Belial
 69. Marquis Decarabia
 70. Prince Seere
 71. Duke Dantalion
 72. Count Andromalius
Ars Theurgia Goetia[edit]
The Ars Theurgia Goetia mostly derives from Trithemius's Steganographia, though the seals and order for the spirits are different due to corrupted transmission via manuscript.[10][5] Rituals not found in Steganographia were added, in some ways conflicting with similar rituals found in the Ars Goetia and Ars Paulina. Most of the spirits summoned are tied to points on a compass, four Emperors tied to the cardinal points, sixteen Dukes tied to cardinal points, inter-cardinal points, additional directions between those. There are an additional eleven Wandering Princes, totaling thirty one spirit leaders who each rule several to a few dozen spirits.[11]
Ars Paulina[edit]
Derived from book two of Trithemius's Steganographia and from portions of the Heptameron, but purportedly delivered by Paul the Apostle instead of (as claimed by Trithemius) Raziel. Elements from The Magical Calendar, astrological seals by Robert Turner's 1656 translation of Paracelsus's Archidoxes of Magic, and repeated mentions of guns and the year 1641 indicate that this portion was written in the later half of the seventeenth century.[12][13] Traditions of Paul communicating with heavenly powers are almost as old as Christianity itself, as seen in some interpretations of 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 and the apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul. The Ars Paulina is in turn divided into two books of its own, the first detailing twenty four angels aligned with the twenty four hours of the day, the second (derived more from the Heptameron) detailing the three hundred sixty spirits of the degrees of the zodiac.[14]
Ars Almandel[edit]
Mentioned by Trithemius and Weyer, the latter of whom claimed an Arabic origin for the work. A fifteenth century copy is attested to by Robert Turner, and Hebrew copies were discovered in the twentieth century. The Ars Almandel instructs the magician on how to create a wax tablet with specific designs intended to contact angels via scrying.[15][16]
Ars Notoria[edit]
Editions and Translations[edit]
 - Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, (1898). Later republished as "The Secret Tradition in Goetia," includes large portions of the Lemegeton, particularly the Goetia.[9]
 - Shah, Idries, The Secret Lore of Magic, (1970). Contains portions of Ars Almandel and split sections the Ars Goetia, missing large portions of the the rituals involved.[9]
 - Peterson, Joseph H. The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (2001), ISBN 978-1-57863-220-6. Considered "the definitive version"[21] and "the standard edition."[22]
 4. ^ a b The Book of Ceremonial Magic, part I, chapter III, section 2: "The Lesser Key of Solomon"; Arthur Edward Waite; London,


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To fix runtime error 217, you should understand the concept of Runtime error 217 and identify the causes of it firstly. What is Runtime error 217?
What Causes Runtime Error 217
There are many causes of runtime error 217, some of which will be displayed below:
- One of the causes that makes the runtime error 217 appear is one or more DLL files fail to register when you install an application. Incorrect DLL's after a program has been installed is one of the most common causes of runtime error 217.
- Another cause is a file called Msvcrt.dll (a Microsoft Visual C++ file) is outdated
- Another cause of the runtime error 217 is incorrect regional settings.
- An outdated Stdole32.dll is one of the causes of runtime error 217.
- Viruses can also cause this error
- Incorrect registry entries and even damaged ones can cause the runtime error 217 to occur, also.
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As the title says, I need to draw a shape/polygon in Farseer using debugview. I have this piece of code which converts a Texture to polygon:
//load texture that will represent the tray
 trayTexture = Content.Load("tray");
 //Create an array to hold the data from the texture
 uint[] data = new uint[trayTexture.Width * trayTexture.Height];
 //Transfer the texture data to the array
 //Find the vertices that makes up the outline of the shape in the texture
 Vertices verts = PolygonTools.CreatePolygon(data, trayTexture.Width, false);
 //Since it is a concave polygon, we need to partition it into several smaller convex polygons
 _list = BayazitDecomposer.ConvexPartition(verts);
 Vector2 vertScale = new Vector2(ConvertUnits.ToSimUnits(1));
 foreach (Vertices verti in _list)
 verti.Scale(ref vertScale);
 tray = BodyFactory.CreateCompoundPolygon(MyWorld, _list, 10);
Now in DebugView I guess I have to use "DrawShape" method which requires:
DrawShape(Fixture fixture, Transform xf, Color color)
My question is how can I get the variables needed for this method, namely Fixture and Transform?
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Have you looked at the sample implementation of the DebugView? It draws shapes perfectly for me. – Vaughan Hilts Aug 5 '12 at 22:30
You will find Fixtures and Transform in created body: FixtureList and GetTransform – krzat Feb 1 '13 at 20:45
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Have you tried the official documentation?
The getting started section shows how to create a fixture:
Fixture A fixture attaches (fix) the shape to the body so that the centroid of the shape becomes the body's position. Whenever you move the body, you also move the shape. Once a collision occur to the shape, the force is calculated and applied to the body.
Her is the code to create a World with a single body:
 1: //Create a World object with zero gravity
 2: World world = new World(Vector2.Zero);
 4: //We create a body object and make it dynamic (movable)
 5: Body myBody = world.CreateBody();
 6: myBody.BodyType = BodyType.Dynamic;
 8: //We create a circle shape with a radius of 0.5 meters
 9: CircleShape circleShape = new CircleShape(0.5f);
 11: //We fix the body and shape together using a Fixture object
 12: Fixture fixture = myBody.CreateFixture(circleShape);
You can also use the fixture factory
 Fixture fixture = FixtureFactory.CreateCircle(_world, 0.5f, 5, new Vector2(10, 0));
You can probably create a default transform (that doesn't transform anything) using:
Transfrom transform;
Note that you can also use the Box2D manuals, since Farseer offers the same features.
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Hi Roy. Farseer documentation is just obsolete since it's made for version 2.X. FixtureFactory have been removed in Version 3, and another problem is I don't want a circle shape! I want my own custom shape which is made from the texture. – keyvan kazemi Apr 7 '12 at 16:49
It's true that the V3 docs are way basic, but I pulled this from them. I haven't installed Farseer, but have you looked at the other methods of the FixtureFactory, I'm sure there are more options :). – Roy T. Apr 7 '12 at 18:31
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Colour selection for your garden
Designing your garden is an art. Like any good painting, you must plan it out, with a view to balance, colour and lines. Today, we are going to learn about colour selection for gardeners, using a garden of frangipanis as a case study.
Before you start purchasing plants and dumping them in your garden, you need to settle on a colour scheme. There are a handful of ways to pick a colour scheme that is pleasing to the eye, yet there are easily hundreds of ways to make a colour scheme that is an awful mess.
First, think about how many colours you want. We are going to consider the colours of frangipanis as an example. Frangipanis come in pink, red, orange, yellow and white (as well as combinations of the abovebut this is a topic we will reserve for a future, more advanced lesson). Notice how we have arranged red, orange, yellow and white in order. Pink is an odd case; it is not a colour of the rainbow, rather it is a light, undersaturated red. You may notice white is also not a colour of the rainbow, but it is the colour you get when you combine an entire rainbow together.
Now, you can either pick colours which are next to each other, or you can skip entire sections of the colour wheel. There are many places online where you can actually make a perfect designer colour scheme, but you can also do it on your own.
If you are planting frangipanis, consider how many different colours you want. One colour is boring, so go with two, three or four. Five is too many.
Then, choose colours which are next to each other, such as red and orange; or skip alternative colours, such as by choosing red and yellow.
Translating this in terms of frangipanis, you could plant a pink frangipani, lulus blood for instance, with a white frangipani. Remember, colour selection for gardeners is about rules, not unfettered creativity.


Species object
Options for compartment species
The SimBiology® species object represents a species, which is a chemical or entity that participates in reactions, for example, DNA, ATP, Pi, creatine, G-Protein, or Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK). Species amounts can vary or remain constant during a simulation.
To add species that participate in reactions, add the reaction to the model. The process of adding the reaction to the model creates a compartment object (unnamed) and the necessary species objects.
Alternatively, create and add a species object to a compartment object, using the addspecies method at the command line.
When you use the SimBiology desktop to create a new model, it adds an empty compartment (unnamed), to which you can add species.
See Property Summary for links to species property reference pages. Properties define the characteristics of an object. Use the get and set commands to list object properties and change their values at the command line. You can graphically change object properties in the graphical user interface.
Constructor Summary
Method Summary
Methods for species objects
copyobj (any object)Copy SimBiology object and its children
delete (any object)Delete SimBiology object
display (any object)Display summary of SimBiology object
get (any object)Get object properties
rename (compartment, parameter, species, reaction)Rename object and update expressions
set (any object)Set object properties
Property Summary
Properties for species objects
BoundaryConditionIndicate species boundary condition
ConstantAmount Specify variable or constant species amount
InitialAmountSpecies initial amount
InitialAmountUnitsSpecies initial amount units
NameSpecify name of object
NotesHTML text describing SimBiology object
ParentIndicate parent object
TagSpecify label for SimBiology object
TypeDisplay SimBiology object type
UserDataSpecify data to associate with object
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- Solar Block/Cancellation/Nullification
The user can negate solar energy and any solar-using attacks, ignoring their effects, such as the sun's heat, the sunlight, the radiation, etc.
- Power Negation
- Solar Energy Absorption
- Solar Energy Manipulation
- Solar Manipulation
- Sun Blocking
- May not work at night.
- Does not work against those with negation immunity.
- Negating solar energy may have harmful effects on the area.
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(you) can't fight city hall
cliché You cannot defeat or prevail over a bureaucratic system or its rules. You might as well pay those parking tickets now because you'll never win in court. You can't fight city hall, after all.
See also: city, fight, hall
go fight city hall
One cannot defeat or prevail over a bureaucratic system or its rules (despite the connotation of the phrase as an encouragement of action). Good luck fighting those parking tickets—you might as well go fight city hall!
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(You) can't fight city hall.
Fig. There is no way to win in a battle against a bureaucracy. Bill: I guess I'll go ahead and pay the tax bill. Bob: Might as well. You can't fight city hall. Mary: How did things go at your meeting with the zoning board? Sally: I gave up. Can't fight city hall.
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can't fight City Hall
Unable to overcome bureaucratic rules, as in Brad couldn't get a permit without going through channels-you can't fight City Hall! This term transfers the seat of city government to a more general sense of bureaucracy in any sphere. [Mid-1800s]
See also: city, fight, hall
You can't fight city hall
sent. You cannot fight a bureaucracy. You can't fight city hall. Pay the parking ticket and forget it.
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can't fight City Hall, one/you/they
An ordinary person cannot overcome bureaucracy. The term is American in origin, for it is mainly in the United States that the seat of a city government is called City Hall (and has been since the late seventeenth century). The idea of combating the city bureaucracy is believed to date from the nineteenth century, when Tammany Hall was a powerful political machine that controlled the New York Democratic Party and, in effect, the city government.
See also: city, fight, one
you can't fight City Hall
See can't fight city hall.
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go fight city hall
The futility of challenging entrenched politicians or establishment. Although sounding like a call to action, the phrase means that any effort to succeed against bureaucracy is doomed to failure. It was popularized, although not coined, in the book Go Fight City Hall by Ethel Rosenberg, who with her husband Julius was later executed after being convicted of spying for Russia.
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References in classic literature?
The evening passed in song and laughter, and when darkness fell the Danes lay down to rest in the hall as of old.
"Jim Hall," said Judge Scott, and father and son looked significantly at each other.
"Now, listen; I'm going to teach you something," Hall commanded, a large round rock poised in his hand above the abalone meat.
So easily and smoothly had Dempsey and the board done their preliminary work that many in the hall had not noticed the checking of the fascinating O'Sullivan's social triumph.
The old Palais would be standing still, with its ancient grand hall; I should be able to say to the reader, "Go and look at it," and we should thus both escape the necessity,--I of making, and he of reading, a description of it, such as it is.
They passed through the hall and the small oak parlour, on the table of which stood the three tumblers and the empty rum-bottle which had served for Sir Pitt's carouse, and through that apartment into Sir Pitt's study, where they found Miss Horrocks, of the guilty ribbons, with a wild air, trying at the presses and escritoires with a bunch of keys.
"It is out of my power to send you to Redwood Hall at once," she resumed.
Pearl accordingly ran to the bow-window, at the further end of the hall, and looked along the vista of a garden walk, carpeted with closely-shaven grass, and bordered with some rude and immature attempt at shrubbery.
If he will adopt these regulations, in seven years he will be clear; and I hope we may be able to convince him and Elizabeth, that Kellynch Hall has a respectability in itself which cannot be affected by these reductions; and that the true dignity of Sir Walter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle.
In a hall, the height of which was greatly disproportioned to its extreme length and width, a long oaken table, formed of planks rough-hewn from the forest, and which had scarcely received any polish, stood ready prepared for the evening meal of Cedric the Saxon.
Braithwaite that I was dining at the hall. She was busy cooking, and I felt prepared for her unpleasant expression; but she showed no annoyance at my news.


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ALTER GROUP groupname ADD USER username [,... ] ALTER GROUP groupname DROP USER username [,... ] ALTER GROUP groupname RENAME TO newname
ALTER GROUP changes the attributes of a user group. This is an obsolete command, though still accepted for backwards compatibility, because groups (and users too) have been superseded by the more general concept of roles.
The first two variants add users to a group or remove them from a group. (Any role can play the part of either a "user" or a "group" for this purpose.) These variants are effectively equivalent to granting or revoking membership in the role named as the "group"; so the preferred way to do this is to use GRANT or REVOKE.
The third variant changes the name of the group. This is exactly equivalent to renaming the role with ALTER ROLE.
The name of the group (role) to modify.
Users (roles) that are to be added to or removed from the group. The users must already exist; ALTER GROUP does not create or drop users.
The new name of the group.
Add users to a group:
ALTER GROUP staff ADD USER karl, john;
Remove a user from a group:
ALTER GROUP workers DROP USER beth;


Teacher Besties
We are all aware of those two students that are always spending time together, who share each and every secret, and are a pair made in heaven. But have you ever wondered how well the teachers know their teacher-best friends? Here we ask our teachers how well they know the colleagues they interact with the most and see how close the friendship is between the Tompkins staff.
What is their favorite color?
Crestani guess: Blue Olenius guess: Green
Crestani answer: Yellow Olenius answer: Peacock green
Davis guess: Blue Sandoval guess: Blue
Davis answer: Pink Sandoval answer: Red
Cherry guess: Maize Grisdale guess: Blue
Cherry answer: Crimson Grisdale answer: Navy
Walton guess: Maroon Daigle guess:Green
Walton answer: Green Daigle answer: Blue
What is their favorite type of food/cuisine?
Crestani guess: Mexican Olenius guess: Italian
Crestani answer: Italian Olenius answer: Mexican
Davis guess: Mexican Sandoval guess: American
Davis answer: Mexican Sandoval answer: Mexican
Cherry guess: Steak Grisdale: üburrito
Cherry answer: Mexican Grisdale answer: Italian
Walton guess: Mexican Daigle guess: Chinese
Walton answer: Chinese Daigle answer: Thai
What is their favorite thing to do in their free time?
Crestani guess: Movies Olenius guess: Travel
Crestani answer: Cook Olenius answer: Ride horses
Davis guess: Soccer Sandoval guess: Golf
Davis answer: Golf Sandoval answer: Soccer
Cherry guess: Boating Grisdale guess: Read
Cherry answer: Movies and music Grisdale answer: Work out
Walton guess: Reading Daigle guess: Robotics
Walton answer: Reading Daigle answer: Watch football
Where were they born/ where is their hometown?
Crestani guess: Victoria, TX Olenius guess: Houston TX
Crestani answer: Houston, TX Olenius answer: Victoria, TX
Davis guess: Brenham, TX Sandoval guess: Texas
Davis answer: Midland, TX Sandoval answer: Brenham, TX
Cherry guess: Cheboygan, MI Grisdale guess: Indiana
Cherry answer: Clayton, IN Grisdale answer: Cheboygan, MI
Walton guess: Houston Area Daigle guess: Texas
Walton answer: Texas Daigle answer: Sugarland, TX
Do they have any pets?
Crestani guess: Hedgehog Olenius guess: Labrador retriever
Crestani answer: A Labrador retriever Olenius answer: Dog, hedgehog and a fish
Davis guess: No pets Sandoval guess: No pets
Davis answer: Two dogs Sandoval answer: No pets
Cherry guess: A dog Grisdale guess: A dog
Cherry answer: A dog Grisdale answer: A dog
Walton guess: A dog Daigle guess: No pets
Walton answer: No pets Daigle answer: Two dogs
Are they more of a early bird or a night owl?
Crestani guess: Night Owl Olenius guess: Night Owl
Crestani answer: Night Owl Olenius answer: Early Bird
Davis guess: Night Owl Sandoval guess: Night Owl
Davis answer: Early Bird Sandoval answer: Night Owl
Cherry guess: Early Bird Grisdale guess: Night Owl
Cherry answer: Early Bird Grisdale answer: Early Bird
Walton guess: Early Bird Daigle guess: Early Bird
Walton answer: Early Bird Daigle answer: Early Bird
When is their birthday?
Crestani guess: Sometime during summer Olenius guess: During the summer
Crestani answer: June 23 Olenius answer: June 11
Davis guess: October Sandoval guess: Spring
Davis answer: October 15 Sandoval answer: October
Cherry guess: Fall Grisdale guess: Spring
Cherry answer: August 6 Grisdale answer: October 31
Walton guess: June Daigle guess: April
Walton answer: Spring Daigle answer: Winter time
What is their favorite genre of music?
Crestani guess: Country Olenius guess: 70s rock
Crestani answer: 70s rock Olenius answer: 80s and 90s music
Davis guess: Country Sandoval guess: Country
Davis answer: Country Sandoval answer: Rap
Cherry guess: 70s and 80s rock Grisdale guess: Soft pop rock
Cherry answer: 70s music Grisdale answer: Classic rock
Walton guess: Alternative Daigle guess: Classical
Walton answer: Alternative rock Daigle answer: Soul music


University of Pennsylvania
 - Fifty years of shipwreck excavation opens new windows on history
 By Fabio Esteban Amador - Natgeo Newswatch
 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of George Bass's first-ever submarine mapping and excavation of a complete shipwreck and the dawn of modern underwater archaeology.
 This potential archaeology was inaccessible for a long time and beyond anyone's imagination. However, it was just a matter of time before a unique and inspiring individual came along and began the age of underwater archaeology.
 George Bass, a University of Pennsylvania archaeology graduate student, was asked in 1960 if he would be interested in studying a Late Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. "I had never dived except once in a YMCA swimming pool before leaving for Turkey in 1960," George explains. His desire to explore and document the ocean's floor became the foundation for what now is the field of underwater and maritime archaeology.
 Dating to over 3,000 years old, the first shipwreck studied by George Bass was at the time the oldest ship ever found. His research at Cape Gelidonya would be like none that came before - it would literally change our notions of archaeology and the ocean forever.


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Could someone explain how I would find the derivative of the following function? I am completely lost: $$f(x) = e^{i(x!^{\log x})}$$
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Do you really mean "$x!$"? – Arturo Magidin Jun 10 '12 at 3:07
$\,x!=\Gamma(x+1)\,\,,\,\,x+1\neq\,$ non-positive integer? – DonAntonio Jun 10 '12 at 3:09
_USER_ Yes, it is, but then I ask just what, apparently, Arturo meant to ask: how would you define $\,x!\,$ for a positive non-integer? – DonAntonio Jun 10 '12 at 3:17
Well, then is what I asked before! You're going to need the derivative of the gamma function, the polygamma: – DonAntonio Jun 10 '12 at 3:30
_USER_: You can't restrict $x$ to positive integers and ask about derivatives. The computation of the derivative requires you to evaluate the function arbtirarily close to the point you want. Even if the "point you want" is an integer, points arbitrarily close to it will not be. So, no matter what, you'll end up having to deal with the derivative of the Gamma function. – Arturo Magidin Jun 10 '12 at 3:35
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For complex $\,z\,$ with $\,\operatorname{Re}(z)>0\,$, $$\Gamma'(z)=\int_0^\infty t^{z-1}e^{-t}\log t\,dt$$ so $$\left(e^{ix!^{\log x}}\right)'=e^{ix!^{\log x}}\left(ix!^{\log x}\right)'$$ Now, since $\,\displaystyle{x!^{\log x}=e^{\log x\log(x!)}}\,\,and\,\,\log x!=\log\Gamma(x+1)$, we get$$\left(ie^{\log x\log x!}\right)'=i\left[\frac{\log x!}{x}+\log x\frac{\Gamma'(x+1)}{\Gamma(x+1)}\right]e^{\log x\log x!} $$Now put together all the above and have sweet mathematical nightmares.
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+1 for mathematical nightmares! – AvatarOfChronos Jun 12 '12 at 14:50
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Chikanobu, Carp Jumping under a Wisteria Tree at the Chiyoda Palace
Toyohara Chikanobu (1838 - 1912) Carp Jumping out of the Pond under a Wisteria Tree at the Chiyoda Palace (Chiyoda Ooku Ohanami), 1894. Oban triptych.
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This perfect and exquisite print, the delicate survivor of earthquake, fire and world war is a picture of longing… longing for a delicate and refined past by an artist obsessed with the pace of change, intrigued by the present and drawn to a disappearing history.
The Chiyoda Inner Palace (Chiyoda no Ooku) series of _PHONE_, together with his 1897 series Chiyoda Outer Palace (Chiyoda no on-omote), provided detailed depictions of life in and around Edo Castle before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. In the Chiyoda Inner Palace set, Chikanobu documented various annual ceremonies in the women's quarters, especially those at New Year's, and seasonal activities, particularly those conducted in the palace gardens...
The Palace itself is the Chiyoda Palace or Edo Castle as it was known. It was built in 1457 by the warrior Edo Shigetsugu in what is now the Honmaru and Ninomaru part of the Castle. It later became the seat of the old Tokugawa shogunate who rebuilt it in 1593 and completed it in 1636, but after centuries of power and total domestic and military dominance, the old regime, weakened and no longer relevant, were required to vacate the old Edo Castle in the revolution of 1868. Like so much of Japan's past, the bulk of the medieval castle was pulled down. Chikanobu shows an idealised scene of palace maids wandering under flowering wisteria, carp leaping out of the water.
These prints of the Chiyoda precincts are very beautiful and quite collectible. They only really shine if like this, they are in outstanding condition. The print is backed with album paper, colour, condition and impression are all fine.
Published by Fukuda Kumajiro.
73cm x 37cm.


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Should there be mandatory national service?
Multiple countries around the world require mandatory national service for citizens who are of a certain age, gender, and health. This institution has been highly controversial in recent decades, due to the rise of democracy and creation of paid and voluntary standing militaries.
No, mandatory service should not exist
Mandatory service should not exist because it is an infringement on individual rights and freedoms. Mandatory service forces people to serve in conditions that have a high risk for danger and death.
Mandatory service requirements infringe on civil rights
Mandatory national service is a violation of civil and individual rights. Mandatory national service forces citizens into harmful and dangerous situations against their will, with little to no benefit.
Mandatory service requirements are easily manipulated
Mandatory national service requirements can easily be manipulated by the wealthy to avoid conscription and service. This would make mandatory service requirements affect certain populations disproportionally.
Yes, mandatory service is essential
Mandatory service is essential to keep a nation's economy, safety, and political system thriving. Citizens should give back to their nation by serving to keep it safe.
Mandatory service keeps the country safe
Mandatory national service ensures there is never a shortage of people to keep the nation safe. Mandatory service requirements maintain stability in the safety of the nation.
Mandatory service promotes patriotism and unity
Mandatory service provides a sense of patriotism and duty for citizens. An increased level of pride from an individual to their nation leads to a healthier population.
Mandatory service can save governments money
Mandatory service can save governments money on ads and commercials to promote volunteer service. Mandatory national service also helps keep the economy stable because people who serve their nation are more likely to keep steady jobs and give back to the nation.
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What is PhD life like in the Netherlands?
Eva Lantsoght
Eva Lantsoght
7 Nov '19
Some time ago, a reader asked me: "Eva, what are the opportunities for doing a PhD in the Netherlands, and how is it different from a PhD in other parts of the world?" That's an excellent question, and perhaps you are not aware of the differences between the PhD in the Netherlands and in other parts of the world.
On the internet and in the academic literature on doctoral studies, we mostly find references to PhD programs in the UK and the USA, with the odd reference to Australia or New Zealand. Few references and blogs deal with the PhD in continental Europa.
Since I did my PhD in the Netherlands and my husband in the USA, we often discussed how very different the programs are. If you are contemplating applying to a PhD position in the Netherlands, it may be good to know what is like, and how it is different from the many descriptions you find online about PhD life in the UK and USA.
Here are a few things that are different in the Netherlands:
1. You are a university employee
In the Netherlands, you either are hired as a university employee (one year contract first and then extension, or four years' contract) or as a scholarship student. Getting hired as a university employee is quite common, and is the typical arrangement when your PhD is funded by a research project. There are many advantages to being hired as a university employee, which include social security, employee protection, building up retirement savings etc. It also means of course that you have to pay taxes on your salary.
2. You apply to a project
The common path in the Netherlands is to apply to an advertised PhD position. This position will only be advertised when the project is already funded. In other words, part of the research and deliverables are already defined before you start. The proposal is already approved and funded. This approach is different from programs where you apply to work with a certain professor, and then propose your project, and defend your proposal.
3. Coursework is very limited
Traditionally, the PhD program in the Netherlands is a research-only program. In recent years, some universities have started doctoral schools, which require you to take a number of courses. Some of these courses are related to research skills, whereas other courses are related to your field of study. However, a number of these courses can be organized as intensive courses or summer schools. As such, your day to day life will still be mostly focused on your research.
4. People tend to treat their PhD like a job
You will see that in the Netherlands, PhD candidates tend to treat their PhD like a job with relatively steady hours. It may also be a requirement that you are in your office between certain blocks of time. University buildings tend to have opening and closing hours. Working around the clock or during odd hours is thus much less common than in the US.
5. Defense after publication of the thesis
In the Netherlands, your committee will approve your thesis, then you send your thesis for publication and printing, and at the very end you will have your defense and graduation ceremony in one event. In the USA and the UK, you finalize your thesis after the defense instead. So, in the Netherlands, the defense is much more of a ceremony and rite of passage (and a very formal one indeed) than in other parts of the world.
6. Your working environment may be partially Dutch-spoken
While the lingua franca of academia in the Netherlands is English, and you will most likely publish your thesis in English and give all academic presentations in English, part of your working environment will be in the Dutch language. When you have funding from industry or the government, it can be to your advantage to speak Dutch if you are the only person during meetings who does not speak the language. Try to learn the language early on, so that you can work more easily with partners outside of academia.
About Eva Lantsoght
Eva started writing about doing a PhD while studying concrete structures at TU Delft and since then blogs about the non-scientific skills you need during a PhD and life as a PhD.


> > How can we participate in the preservation of our playgrounds while practising our favourite sports?
This is what the Outdoorvision digital platform (_URL_ offers. Thousands of outdoor sports and nature enthusiasts want to help territories make eco-responsible decisions by sharing their GPS routes on the platform, thus preserving their practice areas.
Why share your tracks?
By sharing your tracks (and only tracks, other data is not processed or recorded), you help territories to ensure that their sites are adapted and maintained (installation of garbage cans, dry toilets at the starting points for example).
The OutdoorVision program is the result of a partnership between spaces, federations and brands, and is anchored in a responsible and innovative approach, with the aim of contributing to the development and planning of territories.
How to participate?
Share your GPS tracks with the Outdoorvision platform by connecting your Garmin Connect or Sunto account, or communicate your GPS tracks directly.
It's up to you! : Let's meet on Outdoorvision _URL_
Votre navigateur n'est pas à jour!


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These fragments of a child's riddle or conundrum-type alphabet plate were found in Structure 5. A complete example of this plate is seen at right. The riddle on this plate reads "WHY IS THIS GEOMETRICAL FISHING?" The answer is "BECAUSE IT IS A TRIANGLE." This plate was manufactured in England and most likely dates from the mid-19th century (Riley 1991: 82-83; Lindsay and Lindsay 1998: 136).
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Heart of Darkness Topic Tracking: Wilderness Imagery
Wilderness Imagery 1: Marlow describes for his shipmates the wild state of nature that must have existed when the Romans first visited England.
Wilderness Imagery 2: Marlow watched the jungle from his ship, seeing pure wilderness for the first time.
Wilderness Imagery 3: Marlow describes the wild and varied vegetation he saw on his journey, and the oppressive impression it had on him.
Wilderness Imagery 4: Marlow had an image, at the Central Station, of the surrounding wilderness waiting to outlast the invasion of the Company.
Wilderness Imagery 5: Marlow imagined the forest looking back at the manager and his uncle--the wilderness is personified.
Wilderness Imagery 6: The vegetation and wild natural state along the river overwhelmed Marlow--he imagined it observing him from all sides.
Wilderness Imagery 7: Marlow looked back and could see no trace of where the ship had come from--it was as though the jungle was closing in behind them.
Wilderness Imagery 8: Marlow says that the wilderness had taken control of Kurtz.
Wilderness Imagery 9: When he leaves the ship to look for Kurtz, Marlow ends up in the midst of the living, wild jungle he had been fearing all along.
Wilderness Imagery 10: Kurtz, cursing the wilderness, asked Marlow to close the shutters to keep him from seeing the "curtain of trees" around him.


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Donald Cockcroft, a Professor in the Division of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the College of Medicine, has been elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Dr. Cockcroft has made several significant contributions to asthma research and helped develop one of the earliest sets of asthma guidelines. He developed a method for methacholine challenge that is widely used around the world to assess airway responsiveness and diagnose asthma. His research was also important in the recognition of asthma as an inflammatory disease. His work with the AllerGen Network of Centres of Excellence Clinical Investigator Collaborative has leveraged industry funding for clinical research, standardized testing protocols for potential asthma drugs, and helped identify potentially effective treatments at an early stage of development. Dr. Cockcroft is a former president of the Saskatchewan Thoracic Society and the Canadian Thoracic Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. In 2006, he was awarded a Career Achievement Award in Clinical Health Research from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation.
Dr. Donald Cockcroft is a renowned and highly cited expert in asthma who has made significant contributions to respiratory medicine. His pioneering achievements have played a key role in our understanding of asthma and have impacted asthma diagnosis and management. He has been heavily involved in developing asthma guidelines with organizations such as the Canadian Thoracic Society. He is one of the founders of the AllerGen Network of Centres of Excellence Clinical Investigator Collaborative, a world-leading initiative to identify and accelerate development of potential new asthma medications. He also developed the widely used Cockcroft-Gault formula for predicting creatinine clearance.


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NTRIP (Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol)
NTRIP is a protocol for streaming Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data over the Internet. Based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP/1.1. NTRIP began as an RTCM standard designed for disseminating differential correction data (e.g in the RTCM-104 format) or other kinds of GNSS streaming data to stationary or mobile users over the Internet, allowing simultaneous PC, Laptop, PDA, or receiver connections to a broadcasting host.
NTRIP is designed to be an open non-proprietary protocol and has gained wordwide recognition as a useful means of transporting GNSS data.
Wireless Internet services and Mobile IP Networks like GSM, GPRS, EDGE, or UMTS are all quite capable of carrying NTRIP streams.
Major characteristics of Ntrip's dissemination technique are:
- Based on the popular HTTP streaming standard; comparatively easy to implement when having limited client and server platform resources available.
- Application not limited to one particular plain or coded stream content; ability to distribute any kind of GNSS data.
- Potential to support mass usage; disseminating hundreds of streams simultaneously for up to thousand users possible when applying modified Internet Radio broadcasting software.
- Considering security needs; stream providers and users don't necessarily get into contact, streams often not blocked by firewalls or proxyservers protecting Local Area Networks.
- Enables streaming over any mobile IP network because of using TCP/IP.


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What are the minimum requirements of SecuRe Pay that are most relevant for MIDAS Alliance
The full 42 page guidance is available at:
The changes to its definition of Strong Authentication are of the greatest relevance to the MIDAS Alliance:
Definition of Strong Authentication – SecuRe Pay mandates multi-factor authentication, but in addition it also brings in some interesting caveats as to how these factors are handled, so that one or both of these factors;
- Must be mutually independent, i.e. the breach of one does not compromise the other(s);
- Should be non-reusable and non-replicable (except for inherence);
- Designed in such a way as to protect the confidentiality of the authentication data;
- Not capable of being surreptitiously stolen via the internet.
SecuRe Pay in addition lays out the following requirements for every issuing bank to conform to based on the use of two or more of the following elements:
- Something only the user knows, e.g. static password, code, personal identification number;
- Something only the user possesses, e.g. token, smart card, mobile phone;
- Something the user is, e.g. biometric characteristic, such as a fingerprint or face recogniton.
In addition for SecuRe Pay, the elements selected must be mutually independent, i.e. the breach of one does not compromise the other.
"At least one of the elements should be non-reusable and non-replicable and not capable of being surreptitiously stolen via the internet. The strong authentication procedure should be designed in such a way as to protect the confidentiality of the authentication data."
The purpose of the SecuRe Pay guidelines is to define common minimum requirements for the internet payment services listed below, irrespective of the access device used:
- The execution of card payments on the internet, including virtual card payments, as well as the registration of card payment data for use in 'wallet solutions'
- The execution of credit transfers (CTs) on the internet
- The issuance and amendment of direct debit electronic mandates
- Transfers of electronic money between two e-money accounts via the internet.


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Latin American Studies
The LAS program at UW-Eau Claire has come to distinguish itself as a unique program for its focus on international immersion experiences and its expectation of a high level of language proficiency from its students. Along with developing language proficiency in Spanish, students also gain in-depth knowldge and understanding of Latin America and Latinos/Hispanics in the United States through an array of courses from multiple disciplines including economics, geography, political science, art history, religion, history, anthropology and public and environmental health.
Your Gift Supports:
Support the general needs of the Latin American Studies program with a gift of any amount to the Latin American Studies Advancement Fund, which is used to meet the needs of the program that cannot be met by the state-assisted university operating budget. The fund enables the department to take advantage of opportunities to advance its cause.
- Scholarships and general funds to provide the greatest level of flexibility for operations and ongoing program development.
- An endowed Latin American Studies Scholarship to ensure a guaranteed source of annual scholarships. The initial endowment goal is $15,000, with an ultimate goal of a $100,000 scholarship endowment. This will provide a guaranteed pool of $4,000 to be awarded for scholarships.
- Flexible support for student programs, recruitment of faculty and students, and exploration opportunities out of the classroom. Ideally, we would like to have an endowment of $25,000, which would provide an annual allocation of $1,000 to be used to meet the greatest needs of the program.


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Noun: snapper sna-pu(r)
 "the snapper fumbled the handoff";
 - center [US], centre [Brit, Cdn]
 2. Flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
 - cracker, cracker bonbon
 4. Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
 - Chrysophrys auratus
 5. Any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
 6. Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
 - common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina
Derived forms: snappers
Type of: favor [US], favour [Brit, Cdn], food fish, lineman, party favor [US], party favour [Brit, Cdn], percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, saltwater fish, snapping turtle, sparid, sparid fish
Part of: Chelydra, Chrysophrys, family Lutjanidae, genus Chelydra, genus Chrysophrys, Lutjanidae
Encyclopedia: Snapper


text: Isabel Lopez was chosen as the Faculty Focus Friday employee for elementary schools. Ms. Lopez is a 2nd and 3rd grade Special Education teacher at Winchester Elementary School. Her teaching practices are vital to the learning of our special education students. Ms. Lopez is known for her fair, consistent, and caring demeanor that she demonstrates to all students. She is truly a dedicated educator and is passionate about helping students grow and learn each and every day. Thank you Ms. Lopez for your dedication and continued efforts to improve the lives of the students at Winchester!


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At what age do hens start laying eggs?
On average, pullets, or juvenile hens, start laying eggs at about 6 months of age, depending on the breed. Larger, heavier birds like Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks and Orpingtons will lay on the later side whereas lighter, smaller breeds like Leghorns, Stars, and Australorps will start laying sooner. However, if your birds come into maturity at the coldest, darkest part of the year, they will sometimes not begin laying until spring: six months is just the average! We guarantee you that every day past five months that they haven't begun to lay will seem like an eternity!


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NEW MEXICO CLIMATE CENTER
New Mexico Crop Information
Cotton Water Production function or the relationship between Evapotranspiration and yield
Et = evapotranspiration or water used by crop.
y= 134.87 +14.25Et where y is kg/ha and Et is cm. The coefficient of determination is 0.66
The reference for this work is Sammis T. W. 1981. Yield of Alfalfa and Cotton as Influenced by Irrigation. Agronomy Journal 73:323-329
Cotton coefficient(k) to calculate evapotranspiration(ET) where Et=k*Eto
Eto = reference evapotranspiration or potential evapotranspiration referenced to grass.
Crop Coefficients use growing degree days (GDD) accumulated from planting based on the averaging method of calculating GDD with a maximum temperature cutoff of 30 C and a minimum cutoff temperature of 12.5 C. The Base Temperature is 12.5 C. To convert from GDD to Date get the accumulative heat units for the current year from the weather convert page. Use the metric format because the GDD days are metric units. To convert GDD in degree C to GDD in degree F multiply the value by 1.8.
The equation for the crop coefficient (k) is: k=4.24E-4 +1.20E-3 Gdd +4.62E-7 GDD^2-5.77E-10 GDD^3 with an R^2=0.76 based on data from Artesia and Las Cruces NM. The crop coefficient equation is appropriate for a furrow irrigated crop with cotton yield around 1800 kg/ha or 1600 lb/ac
The reference for this work is Sammis T. W., C. L. Mapel, D. G. Lugg, R. R. Lansford, J. T. Mc Guckin 1985. Evapotranspiration Crop Coefficients Predicted Using Growing Degree Days ASAE 28(3):773-780


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Blow molding is a method of printing hollow workpieces by blowing air into a molded material. From the results of the process, the specification of a product must be met by the manufacturer in fulfilling orders from the customer. The thickness of the bottle wall and the snap dimension is one of the most difficult specifications to be controlled on a 500 ml chemical bottle product. This will be resolved if the machine operator knows the optimal combination of parameters at the time of operation. In this experiment the method used is Design of Experiments with Taguchi Gray Relational Analysis method approach to get the combination between two responses taken to obtain optimal parameters. By doing a total of 27 experiments,the experimentd were implemented on a 500 ml chemical bottle product as per specified specification. Data were collected using a digital microscope for wall thickness and dimensions vernier to snap. The result of analysis with Taguchi Gray Relational Analysis method shows that the parameters which have significant effect on wall thickness and snap bottle dimension are blowing pressure and blowing time. While the parameter of melt temperature and stop time have less significant effect. The optimal parameter setting is blowing pressure of 9 bar, melt temperature of 260 ° C, blowing time for 7 seconds and stop time for 2 seconds.


text: This paper describes the implementation of controlling physical parameters through IoT applications with GSM module. The ever increasing requirements for information being accessible at any time, from any place, regardless the type of remote device or planned operation, together with the need of complete control of a specific scenario or device has paved the way towards the next technological revolution: Internet of Things (IoT). In this project, the parameters are sensed by the respective sensors and are monitored by the individual microcontrollers. Finally, the values are displayed with the help of individual LCD displays. The microcontroller is connected to the PC through zigbee bus and the output will be displayed in that PC with the help of RS232 serial communication. This data is stored in the Pc and uploaded to the cloud. The system is reliable and stable. It is the most effective and most economical means of equipment safety monitoring.


Lansweeper treats the monitors in your network as separate devices with their own asset page. Because a monitor does not directly connect to your network, Lansweeper adds it as an asset when it scans the connected Windows computer. Lansweeper finds this information in the computer's registry
Any IT network usually contains a considerable number of computer screens. Although they have their own asset page, they do not count towards the assets limit of your Lansweeper license.
Scanned monitor information
Like with most other devices Lansweeper will retrieve the basic information from your monitor, including but not limited to:
 - Asset type
 - Device description
 - Manufacturer
 - Model
 - Serial number
For certain brands (Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo), Lansweeper attempts to retrieve warranty information from the manufacturer.
Automatic Relations
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The statements offered by QS150 cover the diagnostic reporting and organisation of haematological cancer services for people of all ages and managing haematological cancers in people aged 16 years and older. It is expected to contribute to improvements in the following outcomes:
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Currently, I am developing an octree data structure. And I need it to be fast. To this end, I would like to have a fast way to extract the $m$ binary digits "after the dot" of each entry in a matrix of machine precision numbers. This matrix is of size $n \times d$ where $d$ is the space dimension (say $d=3$) and represents a set of $n$ points (shift and rescaled to lie in the unit box) to which the octree has to adapt. The number $n$ is typically in the range of a couple of 100 thousands and a few million. So, the input parameters are, e.g.,
n = _PHONE_;
d = 3;
m = 32;
x = RandomReal[{0., 1. - $MachineEpsilon}, {n, d}];
For performance, it is crucial that the resulting $n \times d \times m$ tensor is a packed array of Integers. As you can see below, I have tried already several things. But in view of the fact that actually nothing has to be computed as the mantissas of the machine precision numbers are actually stored in binary, the timings are really disappointing.
ToPack = Developer'ToPackedArray;
cf = Compile[{{z0, _Integer}, {base, _Integer}, {n, _Integer}},
 IntegerDigits[z0, base, n],
 CompilationTarget -> "C",
 RuntimeAttributes -> {Listable},
 Parallelization -> True,
 RuntimeOptions -> "Speed"
digits1 = ToPack[RealDigits[x, 2, m, -1][[All, All, 1]]]; //
 AbsoluteTiming // First
digits2 = ToPack[IntegerDigits[IntegerPart[x 2.^m], 2, m]]; //
 AbsoluteTiming // First
digits3 = Transpose[Table[Mod[IntegerPart[x 2.^k], 2], {k, 1, m}], {3, 1, 2}]; //
 AbsoluteTiming // First
digits4 = Transpose[cf[IntegerPart[x 2.^m], 2, m], {1, 2, 3}]; //
 AbsoluteTiming // First
digits1 == digits2 == digits3 == digits4
I have also tried to use BitGet but that was a couple of times slower than RealDigits.
In practice, I do not know in advance how many digits I need. So it would be even better to retrieve only the $k$-th digit at a time. In this case, the timings look as follows:
k = 4;
digit1 = ToPack[RealDigits[x, 2, 1, -k][[All, All, 1, -1]]]; //
 AbsoluteTiming // First
digit2 = ToPack[
 IntegerDigits[IntegerPart[x 2.^k], 2, 1][[All, All, -1]]]; //
 AbsoluteTiming // First
digit3 = Mod[IntegerPart[x 2.^k], 2]; // AbsoluteTiming // First
digit4 = cf[IntegerPart[x 2.^k], 2, 1][[All, All, -1]]; //
 AbsoluteTiming // First
digit1 == digit2 == digit3 == digit4
So, Mod and IntegerPart seem to do quite a good job, but still, there is a multiplication involved for each digit to be extracted.
Does anybody know of a fast, low-level way to retrieve the digits?
 - $\begingroup$ What I'd try for raw speed is write a C plugin where you cast the double into an unsigned long long int and extract the bits directly by masking, using info from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 $\endgroup$ – Roman Jan 20 '19 at 20:40
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 $\begingroup$ Correction: I've written a minimalistic C plugin that extracts a single binary digit directly by bit masking a uint64_t version of the double number. Even with all safety checks off, and MTensor processing inside the C function (i.e. only one function call for a large list of input numbers) this plugin just about as fast as your digit3. Not worth the trouble. In any case, as your digit3 takes only about 8 nanoseconds per conversion, I'm wondering what speed goal you had in mind? $\endgroup$ – Roman Jan 21 '19 at 17:16
 - $\begingroup$ Thank you _USER_. This is both disappointing and encouraging at the same time. ;) $\endgroup$ – Henrik Schumacher Jan 21 '19 at 17:35
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 $\begingroup$ It's a shame BitAnd and BitShiftRight don't do what you think they would do on reals. $\endgroup$ – Chip Hurst Feb 4 '19 at 15:37
Not a complete answer
We can squeeze out a bit more speed by using BitAnd instead of Mod and BitShiftLeft instead of multiplication in your digit3 calculation.
Mod[IntegerPart[x 2.^k], 2]; // RepeatedTiming // First
BitAnd[IntegerPart[BitShiftLeft[x, k]], 1]; // RepeatedTiming // First
Mod[IntegerPart[x 2.^k], 2] == BitAnd[IntegerPart[BitShiftLeft[x, k]], 1]
I sought a solution that masked the bits via combinations of BitAnd and BitShiftRight, but to my surprise they don't work on Real as you might think.
BitAnd[1.0, 1]
BitAnd[1, 1.]
BitShiftRight[1.0, 1]
Though in its defense, C doesn't support bitwise operations on floats or doubles without casting to an integer type first.
Something like
double x = 1.0;
long n = *((long*)&x);
n >>= 1;
x = *((double*)&n);
gives 1.11875e-154 rather than 0.5, and it behaves how we might expect it to.
We can do something similar in WL through BinarySerialize and extracting bits by masking.
MantissaDigit[arr_?Developer'PackedArrayQ, k_Integer] /; $ByteOrdering == -1 && $SystemWordLength == 64 && 1 <= k <= 52 :=
 Block[{blvl1, blvl2, dims, start, bytes, bits},
 blvl1 = 6 - Quotient[k+3, 8];
 blvl2 = 8 - Mod[k+4, 8, 1];
 dims = Dimensions[arr];
 start = blvl1 - 8(Times @@ dims);
 bytes = BinarySerialize[arr][[start ;; -1 ;; 8]];
 bits = BitAnd[BitShiftRight[Normal[bytes], blvl2], 1];
 ArrayReshape[bits, dims]
Note that this implementation depends on $ByteOrdering and $SystemWordLength.
This however is slower than the digit3 technique:
MantissaDigit[x, k]; // RepeatedTiming
{0.021, Null}
One bottleneck is applying Normal, which is needed since bitwise operations don't work on ByteArray.
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text: The US Patent and Trademarks Office recently awarded TalentSphere its first patent. This award relates to its "reciprocal publishing system" and related methodologies, that were originally conceptualized in the late 1980s and developed during the 1990s in TalentSphere's incubator, Digital Discoveries. This invention remains at the core of many of TalentSphere's present WRYM systems. This approach enables a more informed workplace through the effective and balanced exchange of information between workers and management as well as between candidates and recruiters. Various other patents related to the WRYM solutions are pending.


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Sessions refers to the number of concurrent connections allowed to a SQL database at a time. Workers can be thought of as the processes in the SQL database that are processing queries. The maximum number of sessions and workers allowed depends on your databases's service tier. Blue Matador monitors the sessions_percent and workers_percent metrics so you can know when you've hit the limit.
When the sessions limit is reached, additional connections to the database will be rejected. When the worker limit is reached, clients will receive an error message and will be unable to query your database.
The two possible fixes for reaching the maximum number of sessions: reduce the amount of sessions used by your application, or increase the service tier for your database so there is a higher limit. If your application is using connection pooling, you can configure it so that idle connections are terminated, and limit the number of connections allowed by your application to prevent hitting the limit.
The number of used workers is harder to control since it is not directly tied to the number of sessions. Worker usage can go up during high-usage periods since backed-up queries will consume workers. If you have high worker usage but not session usage, you can use Query Store to analyze your queries to see if specific ones are causing high worker usage.
If you decide to upgrade your database, consult the service tier limits can be found on the following pages to choose an appropriate tier for your session and worker requirements:


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3D Video Converter for 3D TV
Do you want to convert 2D video to SBS 3D video so that you can enjoy it on your 3D TV? Then what you need is a 3D video converter. DVDFab Video Converter is a professional 3D video converter for 3D TV that can convert any 2D videos into SBS 3D videos in AVI, MP4, MKV, etc. formats that are supported by 3D TV. The following is a detailed guide to show you how to convert 2D video to SBS 3D with DVDFab Video Converter.
Step 1: Load the source
Run DVDFab 10, go to Converter module and load the 2D video you are going to convert.
Step 2: Choose a 3D profile
Navigate to the profile library on the top left corner of the main interface, choose Format > Video > Filter, check the 3D option and choose a 3D video format you want.
Step 3: Set SBS 3D format
Click the "Advanced Settings" icon, you can go into the Advanced Settings panel. Here you can set the video/audio parameters as well as the 3D type. In "3D Format" part, click the drop down list to choose "Split Screen" (SBS) as the 3D type, and choose the Left/Right or Top/Bottom format according to your 3D TV. After all settings are done, you can go back to the main interface to change the video name, choose the audio tracks and subtitles you want (you can add external subtitles). You can also click the "Editor" icon to edit the video.
Step 4: Select a directory and start the converting process
Click the "folder" icon at the bottom to select a directory to save the output video. And then you can click the "Start" button to start the process of converting 2D video to 3D video that can be played on 3D TV.
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① Convert videos from one format to another for compatible devices
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transactions: if a snoop transaction returns data, the same data must be returned to the master that requested the data through its read data channel.
 - Sequencing transactions: transactions that access the same location have specific sequencing requirements by the Interconnect. This will be dealt with in detail in the next post in this series.
In this post, we have described the testing strategy and the key aspects of coherent transaction testing. In the next post, we will focus on some of the details of the specification relative to accesses to overlapping addresses.
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Broadheads kill by cutting blood vessels, unlike the high-energy shock of bullets. Hemorrhage is typically the result. A responsible bowhunter will use razor-sharp broadheads and only take shots that allow a clear, close shot to the vital area of the game animal.
Many archers' injuries come from broadheads. Broadheads must be kept razor-sharp for hunting, which creates a safety problem if they are handled carelessly.
To prevent injury:
- Use a special wrench to screw on broadheads. This device covers the blades while a broadhead is being tightened on an arrow. If a wrench isn't used, the slightest slip can cause a serious cut. When sharpening broadheads, always stroke the blade away from your hands and body.
- Keep broadheads covered with a quiver while traveling to and from the field. Many arrow injuries occur while loading or unloading equipment in vehicles.
- While dressing bow-killed game, remember that the broadhead may remain in the animal. Use great caution until all parts of the broadhead have been found.


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Blue-faced rail (Gymnocrex rosenbergii)
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Blue-faced rail description
A rare, ground-dwelling bird known from just two islands in Indonesia (2), the blue-faced rail (Gymnocrex rosenbergii) is most easily distinguished by the patch of bright cobalt blue skin around the eyes (2). This blue is particularly prominent against the purplish-brown upperparts and black crown, tail and underparts (4) (5). Like all rails (those in the Rallidae family), the blue-faced rail has short wings, long legs, and its strong feet bear sharp claws (6). Male and female blue-faced rails are similar in appearance (2) (3).
- Also known as
- Bald-faced rail, Schlegel's rail. Top
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IUCN Red List (November, 2010)
- del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (1996) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 3: Hoatzin to Auks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
- Stattersfield, A. and Capper, D. (2000) Threatened Birds of the World. Birdlife International, Cambridge, UK.
BirdLife International (November, 2010)
- Evans, A.H. (1900) Birds. In: Harmer, S.F. and Shipley, A.E. (Eds.) The Cambridge Natural History. Macmillan and Co., London.
- Mobley, J.A. (2009) Birds of the World. Marshall Cavendish Corporation, Tarrytown, New York.
- BirdLife International (2001) Threatened Birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.
- Sibley, C.G. and Monroe Jr, B.L. (1990) Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut.
- Thomson, E.D. (1964) A New Dictionary of Birds. Nelson, London.
BirdLife International (2003) Saving Asia's Threatened Birds: a Guide for Government and Civil Society. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK. Available at:
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Blue-faced rail biology
A largely ground-dwelling bird, the blue-faced rail is only able to fly for short distances (2) (3). It is thought to feed mainly on snails, beetles and other insects (2) (7). Breeding is suspected to take place around January and December (2) (7).Top
Blue-faced rail range
The blue-faced rail lives on the island of Sulawesi and the nearby island of Peleng in Indonesia (3).Top
Blue-faced rail habitat
Although primarily an inhabitant of dense, wet lowland forest (7), the blue-faced rail also occurs in abandoned rice fields (2) (8). It is thought to prefer areas with a thick understory of small saplings, palms, rattans and bamboos, near forest streams and pools. It has been recorded at a range of altitudes, most commonly between 150 and 900 metres (3).Top
Blue-faced rail status
The blue-faced rail is classified as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List (1).Top
Blue-faced rail threats
The small population of blue-faced rails is believed to be declining, placing this species at risk of extinction (4). The main cause of this decline is the destruction, degradation and fragmentation of its habitat (3). In the past two decades there has been a rapid loss of lowland forest in Sulawesi and Peleng, primarily as a result of agriculture (10).
Such destruction has frequently been the result of a growing human population. In Indonesia there has been a policy for many years to re-settle people from the large islands to less populated regions such as Sulawesi. These schemes often have very negative effects on the environment: forests are cleared for agriculture, new roads and housing developments, and there is often increased hunting and unsustainable slash-and-burn farming (10).Top
Blue-faced rail conservation
The blue-faced rail occurs in five protected areas: Borgani Nani Waterbone, Lore Lindu, Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Parks, Gunung Klabat and Pengunungan Palu (4), which will hopefully offer its habitat some protection. However, further efforts to conserve forest on Sulawesi and Peleng are needed to ensure the blue-faced rail's survival. Recommended measures include promoting more efficient agricultural practices, to help reduce pressure on the remaining natural habitat, developing greater community participation in forest management and conservation, and cancelling logging concessions within existing or proposed protected areas (10).Top
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Gaspar Correia or Gaspar Corrêa (c. 1496 - c. 1563 Goa) was a Portuguese historian, author of "Lendas da Índia ( "Legends of India"), one of the earliest and most important works about Portuguese rule in Asia, being referred to as a Portuguese Polybius.
There is little information about the life of the author. It is known that he lived mostly in Portuguese India, were he reported to have come very young, around 1512-14, to serve as a soldier and was chosen as secretary to Afonso de Albuquerque, of which he was very proud. He come back to Portugal in 1529 but returned to India. His work Lendas da Índia, though written in a rude style, is considered an important contemporary reference, having profited from thirty five years of Correia's work in India, and privileged sources unknown to Fernão Lopes de Castanheda or João de Barros. He made the first European account on Asiatic Cholera. One theory states that he was murdered in Malacca, by order of governor Estêvão da Gama, the son of Vasco da Gama.
Although some authors state that there was a issue of his work in 1556, it is most probable that manuscript copies of his 3.500 pages compendium had circulated among chosen recipients only, after having been brought from India to Portugal by Miguel da Gama shortly after Correia's death. His family retained the manuscript of the original "Legends of India", which was first printed in 1858 (first part) and 1864 (second part) by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.


Top 10 biggest Historical Mysteries
Our history has enormous stories including some we haven't yet found. These biggest historical mysteries bewildering researchers for many years but still, these have remained uncertain. Perhaps the new generation may find out them. We have a list of some mysteries in them that haven't solved yet. Maybe you know some of them. Have a look at the 10 biggest historical mysteries.
10: Mystery of Bermuda triangle
The Bermuda triangle is also notorious for the "Devil's Triangle". It situates in the western part region of the North Atlantic Ocean. Here numerous ships and aircraft have disappeared mysteriously. Nobody knows about this mystery that what happened with them. In one article by Miami Herald in 1950, published the disappearance about it. Many trustworthy sources denied this idea of mystery. Even the surrounding areas of the Bermuda triangle are extremely traveled lanes in the world. Many ships cross through it for the ports of America, Europe, and the Caribbean island. Almost regularly the cruise ships and crafts sail through it and aircrafts flyover from it. According to many people, it is still a mysterious land and counts in the biggest historical mysteries in the world.
09: Mysteries about Pyramids in Egypt
The mysteries about pyramids in Egypt also includes in biggest historical mysteries in the world. Pyramids are one of the familiar symbols of the historical Egyptian Pharaohs. Even these multifarious tombs built only the divergent portions of their civilization. It built around the 1st dynasty with a unique shape. One of the durable mysteries of the pyramids axis is how they were built and what was the purpose of making this type of tomb. Maybe some secrets behind it included still one of the mysteries.
08: Mystery of Green Children
During the 12th century, the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England had reportedly two children with unusual skin color. They conversed in a strange language and ate just raw beans. Ultimately they learned to eat other foodstuffs and gradually lost their green color. But the boy couldn't survive in that environment became sick and died soon. After that girl adjusted in her new life and learned the English language. She told that they came from Saint Martin's land, a subterranean planet. Still, it counted in the biggest historical mysteries that haven't solved.
07: A mysterious Manuscript
The Voynich manuscript, recognized as an old book for almost 500 years. It wrote in a mysterious language that still no open can understand. In 1912, this book got the name after Wilfrid Voynich who bought this book in Italy. Many people tried to understand this book but no was succeeded yet. It counted in one of the biggest historical mysteries. Now a recent theory told that it could be a women's health medical book but quickly it was debunked.
06: Phaistos Disc
Likewise the Voynich manuscript, the Phaistos Disc is also an additional mystery in the biggest historical mysteries that nobody can interpret. It is a clay disc made of some time during the Bronze Age that revealed in 1908. It enclosed with puzzling mysterious symbols. Some proposed that it might have been a type of board game or desired to the supernatural being of fertility. Hence, it is still unsolved.
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05: The lost colony of Roanoke
Roanoke Island placed on the coast of North Carolina. It recognized by the English settlers in 1587. John White departed it for most supplies in England. He left his wife and children here. Because of the impending war with Spain, he couldn't come back early. When he returned here in 1590, he saw the whole colony had vacant. No one was there. The fortune of the first colonist of Roanoke Island is still a mystery. It is one of the American's biggest historical mysteries in the earth.
04: Mysterious Antikythera mechanism
The Antikythera mechanism was a historical analog computer in the world. It believed to make by ancient Greek scientists around 100-150 B.C. This included one of the biggest historical mysteries in the world. It used to predict astronomical positions and even though tell about eclipses. It remained a mystery because mechanical clocks made in the 14th century, Europe.
03: Mysterious Dancing Plague
In the 15th century, a mysterious plague hit the Strasbourg. It recognized as "dancing plague" A woman whose name was Frau Troffea turned into a slender street and suddenly start dancing. Unintentionally the dancing fever gripped her for many days. After that, it began to suffer others. Because of this around 400 people became infected with the so-called mysterious dancing plague. Even some of them died due to heart attacks and fatigue by this plague. In its climax, probably this plague killed almost 15 people daily. The doctors thought that it was due to hot blood that urged them to dance. However, the mystery is still unsolved that what the reason was for. It consisted of historical biggest mysteries.
2: Mystery of Taboot-e-Sakina
Firstly the Taboot-e-Sakina blessed to Hazrat Adam (A.S) then afterward others prophets according to inheritance. Taboot held some important things like Lauh-e-Quran, Hazrat Musa's Aasa, the original version of Tauraat and some special utensils, etc. It believed that Taboot bestowed to Hazrat Dawood (A.S). He decided to make it for the temple but it didn't complete in his life. After that it completed in Hazrat Suleman (A.S)'s life, that's why it named the Haikal-e-Suleimani. The Taboot remained saved until the attackers of Babul. After attack Taboot-e-sakina misplaced and still didn't find. Some believed that many be Babylon attackers who took it with them. It is one of the biggest historical mysteries in the world.
01: Mysterious Mohenjo-Daro
Mohenjo-Daro was mysterious land of Pakistan that emerged around 4500 years ago. It was advance, prosperous and fully furnished with the latest technology. Its water supply system, disposal system was unique in ancient time. It is the biggest historical mysteries in the world that how they knew the latest technologies and what happened with it that it destructed. It is still a puzzle for many of us.


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How to boost your exam grade
We all get a bit stressed out and nervous before important exams but according to new research, a simple bottle of water could help improve your grade
As a student, hours of revising, plenty of research and the correct exam equipment are high on the check list for important exam preparation, but it seems you could be missing one simple thing: a bottle ofwater. New research has found that bringing in refreshments to the exam hall could boost exam results by a whole grade.
CAN YOUR FOOD CHOICE HELP YOU IN EXAMS?
The study looked at hundreds of university students and compared the results of those who took in a bottle of water and those who went in empty handed. The results demonstrated those with a drink did around 5% better then those who didn't.
DID YOUR A LEVELS PREPARE YOU FOR UNIVERSITY?
While it is not completely clear why staying refreshed help in an exam helps, the study does suggest that staying well hydrated can improve the flow of brain cells and calm any pre-exam nerves, yay! It also suggested that many students can dehydrate mid-exam and good old H20 is best to combat this.
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Other research from the University of East London also showed that children who drink water did better on tests of visual attention and memory.
So not only can water boost our skin it can boost exam results too! Still or sparkling anyone?