Socket.Connected Property
Gets a value that indicates whether a Socket is connected to a remote host as of the last Send or Receive operation.
Namespace: System.Net.Sockets
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
public bool Connected { get; }
Property Value
Type: System.Boolean
true if the Socket was connected to a remote resource as of the most recent operation; otherwise, false.
The Connected property gets the connection state of the Socket as of the last I/O operation. When it returns false, the Socket was either never connected, or is no longer connected.
The value of the Connected property reflects the state of the connection as of the most recent operation. If you need to determine the current state of the connection, make a nonblocking, zero-byte Send call. If the call returns successfully or throws a WAEWOULDBLOCK error code (10035), then the socket is still connected; otherwise, the socket is no longer connected.
If you call Connect on a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) socket, the Connected property always returns true; however, this action does not change the inherent connectionless nature of UDP.
The following code example connects to a remote endpoint, checks the Connected property, and checks the current state of the connection.
//.Connect throws an exception if unsuccessful
// This is how you can determine whether a socket is still connected.
bool blockingState = client.Blocking;
 byte [] tmp = new byte[1];
 client.Blocking = false;
 client.Send(tmp, 0, 0);
catch (SocketException e)
 // 10035 == WSAEWOULDBLOCK
 if (e.NativeErrorCode.Equals(10035))
 Console.WriteLine("Still Connected, but the Send would block");
 Console.WriteLine("Disconnected: error code {0}!", e.NativeErrorCode);
 client.Blocking = blockingState;
 Console.WriteLine("Connected: {0}", client.Connected);
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Can subjective resilience indicators predict future food security? Evidence from three communities in rural Kyrgyzstan
Recent attempts to develop a standardised tool to quantify levels of household resilience to climate extremes have typically generated very large household surveys, which take a number of hours to complete. Moreover, there are significant questions over which resilience capacities to measure, how to measure them, and how to weight them for their relative importance in facilitating or hindering resilience in any given context.
This paper is the first to quantitatively compare the power of subjective and objective resilience measures to predict future wellbeing (in this case, represented by household food security) in the face of socio-environmental shocks and stressors. It finds that subjective approaches to resilience measurement may offer an attractive alternative to objective surveys.
Key points for decision-makers
- A subjective approach asks respondents to rate their overall perceived resilience. Therefore more emphasis is placed on what resilience means to local people and it leaves the choice of which capacities, in what combination and quantities up to them.
- The study used a household panel data set collected in three contrasting rural Kyrgyzstan villages. The results reveal that subjective resilience indicators are strong independent predictors of future food security.
- The subjective indicators capture variance that is not picked up by standard objective indicators and increase the accuracy of models that predict future levels of household food security.
- There is tentative evidence that the subjective resilience indicators may be comparable across contexts, but more research is required to confirm this early-stage observation.
This work was undertaken as part of the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE) project.
ISSN 2515-5717 (Online) – Grantham Research Institute Working Paper series
ISSN 2515-5709 (Online) – CCCEP Working Paper series

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In this work, we address two coupled tasks of gaze prediction and action recognition in egocentric videos by exploring their mutual context. Our assumption is that in the procedure of performing a manipulation task, what a person is doing determines where the person is looking at, and the gaze point reveals gaze and non-gaze regions which contain important and complementary information about the undergoing action. We propose a novel mutual context network (MCN) that jointly learns action-dependent gaze prediction and gaze-guided action recognition in an end-to-end manner. Experiments on public egocentric video datasets demonstrate that our MCN achieves state-of-the-art performance of both gaze prediction and action recognition.
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published: Mon Jan 07 2019 15:10:07 GMT+0000 (UTC)


Beranger surname meaning, origin - french surname Beranger
The meaning of the surname Beranger is: From the given name BÉRENGER.
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Stones of the number 3 for the surname Beranger: amethyst, jet, sapphire, turquoise, chrysolite, hematite (Bloodstone), spinel (Lal), tourmaline-sherl, tiger's eye.
Planet of the number 3: Jupiter.
Zodiac Sign of the number 3: Sagittarius.
Good years for the surname: 1902, 1911, 1920, 1929, 1938, 1947, 1956, 1965, 1974, 1983, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2019, 2028.
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 2. A person employed to select and purchase stock or materials for a large retail or manufacturing business, etc
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 2. A buyer is any person who contracts to acquire an asset in return for some form of consideration.
 3. In the retail industry, a buyer is someone who decides what items will be stocked in a store, based on his or her predictions about what will be popular with shoppers. Retail buyers usually works closely with designers, and attend trade fairs and fashion shows to observe trends....
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I am thinking on the following problem:
If $|G|=12$ and there is no element of order $2$ in its center then $3$-Sylow subgroup of $G$ cannot be normal in $G$.
I was told that to assume the $3$-Sylow subgroup of $G$, say $P$, is normal in the group and go to reach a contradiction.
My attept: $|P|=3$ so it is cyclic, $P=\langle x\rangle=\{1,x,x^2\}$. As above hint, I would have for all $g\in G$ two possibilities: $gxg^{-1}=x$ or $gxg^{-1}=x^2$. Cannot to go any further. I am in doubt if the hint leads me to a contradiction properly and if so, it does with a long proof. Any help or any other way are welcome to me. Thanks for your time.
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This is a followup to math.stackexchange.com/questions/158339/… – Jack Schmidt Jun 24 '12 at 19:10
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Hint #1: Show that all Sylow 2-subgroups are abelian. So if an element of a Sylow 2-subgroup commutes with the elements of $P$, then it belongs to the center.
Hint #2: At this point the questions you should ask from yourself are: 1) What possibilities (up to isomorphism) are there for the Sylow 2-subgroup H? 2) Given that $P$ was assumed to be normal, what possibilities are there for the conjugation action for the non-trivial elements of $H$. Remember that conjugation action is a homomorphism from $H$ to $Aut(P)$.
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:About you first hint: That the Sylow 2-subgroups is abelian is obvious cause they are of order 4. So I should show that an element of one of these subgroups COMMUTE with $x$. Thanks. As you said me later, you put a loop in my mind finding the result. :-) – Babak S. Jun 24 '12 at 10:14
Correct (re: the 1st hint). Be a bit careful in that the element of $H$ that commutes with $P$ should be of order two. It doesn't really matter much in this case, but for full credit... :-) – Jyrki Lahtonen Jun 24 '12 at 10:29
I am on the way you paved. Yes, with that element say $y$, I can see that $G$ is being generated by $x$ and $y$. Thanks. Thanks. – Babak S. Jun 24 '12 at 10:38
To follow your attempt:
For every $g \in G$, we have $gxg^{-1} = x$ or $gxg^{-1} = x^2$. Thus $x$ has $1$ or $2$ conjugates, in other words, $[G : C_G(x)] = 1$ or $[G : C_G(x)] = 2$. In both cases, $2$ divides the order of $C_G(x)$, and thus $C_G(x)$ contains an element $y$ of order $2$. This gives us the desired contradiction. Can you see why $y$ must belong to the center of $G$?
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Thanks for your answer. It solves my problem in detail. :) – Babak S. Jun 25 '12 at 5:39
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Rule-Based Modeling as an Analysis Tool
Implications for Resource Allocation Within the Strategic Air Command
Examines the potential of rule-based modeling as an analysis tool for investigating resource allocation policy issues. Focus is on resource allocation within B-52 flying organizations of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). A rule-based computer system, DOSS (Decision Oriented Scheduling System), is demonstrated to provide a valid model of many variables that affect resource allocation of aircrews and aircraft. DOSS is then used to analyze effects on wing performance of several alternative decision rules and policies. Analysis focuses on the capability of SAC bomb wings, given current resources, to increase the SAC alert force and to fly more training sorties. The analysis has implications for the particular policy issues examined, but its more general aim is to illustrate the potential of DOSS for examining a broad range of resource allocation policy issues within SAC. A number of implications are discussed regarding the potential of rule-based modeling for improving organizational decisionmaking in general.


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Prima::VB::CfgMaint - maintains visual builder widget palette configuration.
The module is used by the Visual Builder and cfgmaint programs, to maintain the Visual Builder widget palette. The installed widgets are displayed in main panel of the Visual Builder, and can be maintained by cfgmaint.
The Visual Builder widget palette configuration is contained in two files - the system-wide Prima::VB::Config and the user ~/.prima/vbconfig. The user config file take the precedence when loaded by the Visual Builder. The module can select either configuration by assigning $systemWide boolean property.
The widgets are grouped in pages, which are accessible by names.
New widgets can be added to the palette by calling add_module method, which accepts a perl module file as its first parameter. The module must conform to the VB-loadable format.
This section describes format of a module with VB-loadable widgets.
The module must define a package with same name as the module. In the package, class sub must be declared, that returns an array or paired scalars, where each first item in a pair corresponds to the widget class and the second to a hash, that contains the class loading information, and must contain the following keys:
class STRING
Name of the VB-representation class, which represents the original widget class in the Visual Builder. This is usually a lightweight class, which does not contain all functionality of the original class, but is capable of visually reflecting changes to the class properties.
icon PATH
Sets an image file, where the class icon is contained. PATH provides an extended syntax for indicating a frame index, if the image file is multiframed: the frame index is appended to the path name with : character prefix, for example: "NewWidget::icons.gif:2".
module STRING
Sets the module name, that contains class.
Sets the default palette page where the widget is to be put. The current implementation of the Visual Builder provides four pages: General,Additional,Sliders,Abstract. If the page is not present, new page is automatically created when the widget class is registered.
Sets the module name, that contains the original class.
The reader is urged to explore Prima::VB::examples::Widgety file, which contains an example class Prima::SampleWidget, its VB-representation, and a property lineRoundStyle definition example.
add_module FILE
Reads FILE module and loads all VB-loadable widgets from it.
Returns string declaration of all registered classes in format of classes registration procedure ( see "FORMAT" ).
Loads class and pages information from either a system-wide or a user configuration file. If succeeds, the information is stored in _USER_ and %classes variables ( the old information is lost ) and returns 1. If fails, returns 0 and string with the error explanation; _USER_ and %classes content is undefined.
Returns array of page names
Reads information from both system-wide and user configuration files, and merges the information. If succeeds, returns 1. If fails, returns 0 and string with the error explanation.
Erases all information about pages and classes.
Writes either the system-wide or the user configuration file. If $backup flag is set to 1, the old file renamed with.bak extension. If succeeds, returns 1. If fails, returns 0 and string with the error explanation.
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SCIENTISTS have created glow-in-the-dark MONKEYS to help understand how genes are passed down to offspring.
Researchers in Japan first created a genetic virus containing a green fluorescent gene.
They exposed female marmoset primates to it so it merged with their DNA and was passed down to their offspring a world first.
The baby monkeys feet then glowed bright green under ultraviolet light.
Scientists will study them to find why certain genes cause diseases in some babies but not others.

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There are records in the Nuremberg city annals of Friedrich Staedtler's activities as a pencil-making craftsman as far back as 1662. Generations later, his descendant would create one of today's most useful artist's tools.
J.S. Staedtler invented the first colored pencil in 1834. It was a colored oil pastel pencil which could be "sharpened to a point just like a pencil". In 1835, the city council granted him a manufacturing license, with permission to produce black lead, red chalk, and pastel pencils.
Staedtler had gained expertise from working with his father, Paulus Staedtler, at his workshop. He transferred this expertise to his industrial efforts. By the year 1840, his company was already making 63 different types of pencils.
Staedtler is now Europe's largest manufacturer of black lead and colored pencils, but its original headquarters have always remained in Nuremberg, Germany. More than two thirds of all the writing instruments Staedtler produces are made there. The quality seal of "Made in Germany" has become an integral part of the Staedtler Company. [ visit manufacturer website ]


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Calculate the mass of ice required to lower the temperature of 300 g of water 40°C to water at 0°C.
(Specific latent heat of ice = 336 J/g, the Specific heat capacity of water = 4.2J/g°C)
Let m be the mass of the ice to be added.
Heat energy required to melt to lower the temperature is = mL = m x 336
Heat energy imparted by the water in fall of its temperature from 40°C to
0°C = mass of the water x specific heat capacity x fall in temperature
= 300 x 4.2 x 40°C
If there is no loss of heat,
m x 336 J/g = 300 g x 4.2 J/g°C x 40°C
':. m = (300 xx 4.2 xx 40)/336'
∴ m = 150g


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The Role of Cold and Carbonic Maceration in Wine Production
Cold maceration is skin contact before the beginning of the fermentation process. Some winemakers allow the skins to remain in contact with the must after fermentation is finished. This is known as extended maceration.
Carbonic maceration allows grapes to ferment without intentionally breaking the skins. Must is the mixture of solids and grape juice before fermentation begins. Up to a quarter of the must is skins and other debris, known as pumice. The amount of contact with these solids is one of the major ways a winemaker can craft the wine.
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UC Davis offers innovative programs and policies that helps balance work-life and cultivates a culture of wellness.
We work to maximize the potential of each individual on campus. Engaging in these resources can help support you year-round and through the changing stages of your life and career.
Wellness encompasses two of the seven aspects of the realm of WorkLife at UC Davis:
 1. Caring for Dependents:
 2. Health and Wellness
 3. Workplace Flexibility
 4. Financial Support for Economic Security
 5. Paid and Unpaid Time Off
 6. Community Involvement
 7. Transforming Organizational Culture
How do we define a life well-lived?
After surveying people in more than 150 countries, partnering with leading economists, psychologists, sociologists and physicians for several years, Gallup News has uncovered five distinct factors of wellbeing that transcend countries and cultures:


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The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a sweet, affectionate dog breed, and people love these dogs for their friendliness. These dogs are excellent pets because they are intelligent and get along well with humans and children. However, as Cavalier King Charles Spaniels have long fur, many people are afraid to get this breed due to the potential shedding issues.
So, do Cavalier King Charles Spaniels shed a lot?
It's true that these dogs shed, although the shedding is typically moderate and not that alarming. There are other breeds that shed much more, so this shouldn't be a dealbreaker when considering this breed for a pet. If you'd like to know more about Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, their shedding, and how to manage it, keep reading the rest of our article.
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel – More About the Breed
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are a toy spaniel breed with a medium-length coat. These canines are active, yet they love to relax and spend time with people. They make excellent companions, which is why many people choose them for their pets.
If you're considering getting a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, it's a good idea to know a bit more about them.
These puppies are typically healthy, although they are prone to certain health problems¹, including:
However, as long as you take your Cavalier to regular vet checks, it will live a long and happy life.
Cavaliers have medium-long, silky coats that typically require a lot of attention to keep their coats in good condition. You should brush your Cavalier daily, as brushing reduces potential shedding and keeps its coat smooth and tangle-free. It's a good idea to dedicate a specific time every day that you'll brush your Cavalier, as it can be an excellent bonding experience for the two of you.
It's also advisable to wash your Cavalier once every 2 weeks and trim its nails once a month to keep them in shape.
Training and Exercise 🎾
Although Cavaliers were first bred as companion dogs, they are very active and love sporty canine activities. These puppies will gladly exercise, while they can also spend the whole day just lying around.
As this breed is quite intelligent, you shouldn't have any issues teaching your Cavalier new tricks, and it's best to begin from an early age to help your Cavalier develop proper manners.
Cavaliers don't require special nutrition, but you should give them age-appropriate food. However, it's important to mention that these dogs can develop obesity problems. Also, a poor diet could lead to increased shedding.
Because of that, it's crucial to watch your Cavalier's calorie consumption, provide high-quality foods and promote exercise whenever possible. When giving treats to this breed, try to do it in moderation because of the obesity problems these canines can have.
Does This Breed Shed a Lot?
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels shed, but their shedding is typically moderate. Most categorize their shedding as average compared to dogs of similar breeds and coats. They shed evenly throughout the year, but their shedding is less noticeable during autumn and spring.
Their coats are medium length; the hair on their faces is shorter, whereas it's longer around their ears. Cavaliers have a topcoat that makes it easy to maintain their hair, as long as you brush it regularly. If you don't brush their coats frequently, they can easily get tangled, causing more problems down the way.
What Can Cause Excessive Shedding in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels?
While these dogs shed moderately, there are several different things that can lead to excessive shedding in this breed. Cavaliers shed more during their puppy years because their adult coat is still developing. It's nothing abnormal, and the shedding will reduce once your Cavalier reaches adulthood.
Another thing that can affect the amount of shedding in your Cavalier is the time of the year. These canines shed more during spring and fall. It's also common for females to shed more during pregnancy, after they have a litter, and during heat cycles.
The food you give your Cavalier will also have an impact on shedding. Cavaliers with a poor diet are likely to shed more than Cavaliers that consume high-quality foods. Try to avoid any foods with cheap fillers, including:
You could even notice excessive shedding if your Cavalier has fleas or ticks. If you notice scratching in your Cavalier, take it to the vet to get appropriate treatment, resolve the problem and reduce shedding.
Another health issue that could lead to your Cavalier King Charles Spaniel shedding a lot is Cushing's disease¹. It's a severe genetic disorder that leads to an array of issues, from abnormal shedding to increased appetite and lethargy. In case you notice these symptoms, it's crucial to take your dog to the vet, as the outcome could otherwise be lethal.
Is This Breed Suitable for People with Allergies?
Cavaliers are not hypoallergenic, so their coats can cause allergies. Also, purebred dogs of this breed can cause a lot of harm to your sinuses. Because of that, people with allergies should avoid this breed, and look for other suitable breed options instead.
There are a couple of Cavalier mixed breeds, like the Cavapoo and Bichon Frises that shed less and are more hypoallergenic so they might be a better choice. If you have allergies, but still insist on getting a Cavalier, you can follow these tips to reduce your allergy reactions:
Overall, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels shed moderately, and it's nothing you should be particularly worried about. However, it's important to keep your Cavalier's coat in good shape, offer healthy meals, and watch out for possible health conditions because that will help reduce shedding.
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The Health Situation Room is a digital platform that displays HIV and health related data visually with the aim of supporting decision-making at programming level in countries. IOD PARC in partnership with IMC Worldwide conducted the evaluation of the Health Situation Room was conducted between May and October 2020. The evaluation aimed to achieve both organizational learning and accountability through assessing the relevance, effectiveness and sustainability of the initiative. Using a theory-based, non-experimental approach the evaluation looked at the programme as a whole, and the individual country experiences. The implementation of the evaluation was redesigned at the start of the process to adapt to the travel and movement restrictions imposed due to COVID-19.
Four main activities were undertaken during the evaluation: a stocktaking of the Health Situation room's implementation over the past five years, an assessment of the demand and usage of the situation room, an assessment of collaboration and transparency elements, and an assessment of country ownership and sustainability. A synthesis report brings together the findings from the evaluation that were developed through in-depth case studies ('stocktakes') of four of the nine countries in which the programme was launched (Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe), and reviews of the remaining five (Côte d'Ivoire or CIV, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia).
UNAIDS Health Situation Room Evaluation Report and Briefing: Link to report


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nandor (Qenya)
Main article: Nandor
nandor is a Qenya word meaning "farmer".[1]
While listed by Helge Fauskanger in his Neo-Quenya wordlists, he notes that the word is "perhaps obsolete in LotR-style Quenya, clashing with the name of the Nandor".[2]
[edit] Cognates
 2. Helge Fauskanger, "English-Quenya Wordlist (Quettaparma Quenyanna)" at Ardalambion (accessed 16 June 2011)


EV1527 and Learning Code Remotes Explained Simple
So what is EV1527 and Learning Code?
EV1527 is a format of learning code receivers commonly used by radio frequency transmitters such as garage door remotes. The format was designed to allow a large keyspace (number of possible unique remote identifiers) and a practical number of possible channels on each remote while still remaining cost effective.
To put it simply, learning code systems have fixed codes assigned to each remote (which do not change). These codes are then learnt into the receiver which allows them to change the state of a relay. This learning function is usually performed through a button on the receiver being held down while pressing the desired button on the transmitter.
The EV1527 data transmission format uses the following layout to identify the remote and buttons:
Each bit can be either a 0 or 1 in value. Using 20 bits for identifying the remote allows 2^20 possible remote identifiers which is a little over 1 million. This means that there is a 1 in 1 million chance of another remote having the same identifier. For this reason, the EV1527 format is not used for high security applications.
The 4 bits for button identification are a great strength of the EV1527 format. This allows for 16 channels to be controlled through one remote transmitter. This feature is perfect for systems which require activation of many different relays via one remote.
These chip-sets can be found in devices ranging from 3V to 12V. It is important to note that the transmission distance of EV1527 chip-sets is limited by the voltage of the device.
EV1527 is often used in residential alarm systems, gate control and garage door controllers. When compared to traditional fixed code formats such as PT2262 (key space of 6561 unique addresses), EV1527 offers a much more secure and practical list of applications.
Higher security options
If EV1527 isn't going to make the cut for your setup, try a rolling code systems.


Berlekamp-Massey algorithm is an algorithm that will find the shortest linear feedback shift register (LFSR) for a given binary output sequence. Here we present a web-based implementation to compute the shortest LFSR and linear span of a given binary sequence. If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact Bo Zhu.
Please enter the binary sequence (separated by commas):
LFSR: Linear Span: Time Used:
Please note the output polynomial is using the form that its degree is always equal to the linear span. For example, x^3 + x + 1 means tap positions are 0th and 1st (not 0th and 2nd).
If the input sequence is too long, it may take a long time to process. As a result, the Google App Engine server may cut off HTTP connections, so the final result won't be sent back. In this case, please download the Python source code from here, and run it on local computers.


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Turning Packaging From Trash to Toys
by Adele Peters
December 17, 2012
How can food packaging have a useful life after you've eaten whatever's inside? One solution, from a Greek design company, is to create a box that can easily be converted into a toy that kids want to keep.
Matadog Design needed to create a new brand for a snack company that sells small boxes of raisins. Initially, their assignment was to add a toy inside the package. They realized that if the box itself could become the toy, then they'd be able to eliminate waste.
As the designers studied paper toys, they discovered that most are somewhat complicated to construct—they usually require scissors and glue or tape, and a lot of time. After building countless models, they created a series of designs that are truly kid-friendly: they don't require any tools, and they're simple enough that kids can put them together by themselves.
The boxes come in 10 different designs, so kids will want to keep buying the snacks—and so they have a reason to keep more packaging out of the trash.
Photos courtesy of Matadog Design
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Patient Rule Induction Method with Active Learning
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|Kurzfassung||PRIM (Patient Rule Induction Method) is an algorithm to create hyperboxes that are human comprehansable. But PRIM requires relatively large datasets. It has been shown, that using ML models (e.g. Random Forrest) that generalize faster can increase performance by around 75%.
In this Thesis we are trying to increase the overall performance even further, using an active learning approach in order to train the models. Acquiring labels for a given dataset can be quite costly, with active learning only a small part of the dataset has to ben labeled (if at all). Furthermore, a preliminary experiment indicated, that combining these methods does indeed increase performance even further.


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Undergrads Research Bread & Roses Strike of 1912
By Sandra Seitz
Serious historical research involves dusty documents, endless rolls of microfiche and long hours in spent in libraries. So why are these students smiling?
Six undergraduate students contributed significantly to understanding aspects of the Bread & Roses strike of 1912, a landmark event in the history of the United States, when 20,000 people went on strike for a living wage.
Their research was part of a course titled Work, Labor and Society, taught by Sociology Assoc. Prof. Mignon Duffy and Susan Winning, coordinator of the Labor Extension Program. It's the foundational course for UMass Lowell's new minor in Work, Labor and Society
The Bread & Roses strike, while primarily associated with Lawrence, also spread to Lowell. The students showed posters they had created about the Lowell strike action of 1912 at a reception in the Boott Cotton Mills Museum, where their work will become part of the permanent exhibit.
The Not-So-Dusty Work of Research
Juniors Jacqueline DiPersio, sociology major, and Janelle Bourgeois, history major, worked in a group to research the grievances that led to the strikers' demands.
"We studied the newspaper articles that were published around the time of the strike, reading them on microfilm," says DiPersio. "Others in the group worked on finding photographs and we met on Saturdays at the museum to compare notes."
"The working conditions leading up to the strike were especially brutal," says Bourgeois. "We had original source material in a collection of interviews conducted at the time and some of them were heartbreaking to read. It was also fascinating to see how much money the mill owners made – there was a huge wage gap."
Freshman students Makenna Campbell and Nikki Gaspari, both psychology majors, worked together to research the various ethnicities of the strikers, a majority of whom were recent immigrants and spoke 20 languages among them. Campbell, whose grandparents worked in the Lowell mills, says, "The research made it real – it brought the people to life."
"Someone had kept a scrap book of 1912 newspaper articles," says Gaspari. "Reading those made the research work even more involved and interesting."
The students also learned about methods of historical research from History Prof. Robert Forrant, chair of the Bread & Roses Centennial Committee, and graduate student Ethan Snow, research assistant to the Committee.
"We started by presenting the students with an unattributed strike photo of a march to scrutinize for clues," says Snow. "They could read a sign for 'Chagaruly's Apothecary' and that led to the city directories, where we could find who lived and worked in those blocks. Then, working from contemporaneous newspaper articles and a 1906 city atlas, we discovered that the strikers had paraded in a loop around the city and determined that our photo must be at the end of the parade, right by the strike headquarters.
"That blew the students away," he adds. "Especially for those students with a connection to Lowell, it was amazing to them how the city had changed."
One Family, Both Sides of the Labor Struggle
Snow has his own family connections to the mills and to labor history.
"Both my dad and I are active in labor unions and my paternal grandfather worked for a shoe factory in Brockton," he says. "But his family had owned that same shoe factory a few generations before, until a nephew lost it all."
Ironically, his mother's father graduated from the Lowell Textile Institute and worked briefly as an efficiency clerk in mills in Connecticut – "doing the work that the unionists would have most opposed," says Snow.
The Bread & Roses in Lowell event was sponsored by the Tsongas Industrial History Center
; Lowell National Historical Park; the Bread & Roses Centennial
Committee; the UMass Lowell Work, Labor and Society program; the Center for Lowell History; the American Textile History Museum and the Revolving Museum.


Diane Morgan on Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding
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Comedian and actor Diane Morgan chooses the life of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding. Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding is best known for his role in the Battle of Britain. He is widely regarded as the architect of Britain's unlikely victory, using an intelligence strategy known as the Dowding System. The Battle of Britain was at the very end of his military career - his nickname by then was "Stuffy" Dowding - and shortly after he was side-lined. But he cared deeply for every one of his pilots, and following his retirement he became focused on what had happened to all his "dear fighter boys" lost in the war. He wrote extensively on the after life and spiritualism - many bereaved families wrote to him seeking answers as a result. He met his second wife after a medium suggested he take her out for lunch having received a communication from her late first husband from beyond the grave. Together they were prominent advocates of spiritualism, and of animal rights, with Dowding giving his maiden speech in the Lords about the need for ethical standards in slaughterhouses. Diane picked up Dowding's book by pure chance through her local book shop during the first lockdown, and has since become fascinated by the life of this man. Together with Dowding's stepson, David Whiting, and historian Victoria Taylor, Diane discusses Dowding's legacy. Is there a paradox between this great military figure's career, and subsequent fascination with spiritualism and ethics - or does it all make perfect sense? Presented by Matthew Parris Produced by Polly Weston
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Are moth balls harmful to cats?
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Mothballs are toxic and can cause health problems, but they work in keeping cats from using gardens and plants for litter boxes. Tea leaves sprinkled around gardens and plants is a safe alternative. Cats do not like lavender(nor do deer) or geraniums and keeping those plants would be beneficial. Rue and pennyroyal are two other plants they abhore.
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Absolutely. Package has warnings. If you need to use them, place them inside two layers of socks and secure inside clostet so the cat cannot walk off with the sock.
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Moth balls are very harmful to cats as they contain an offending chemical called naphthalene which is toxic to them.
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If your cat ate 1 or 2 he/she should be fine however, if you cat ate a bunch of them you should take him/her to the vet right away. Moth Bolls do contain harmful chemicals but they usually only have a few MG of the active ingredient so it would take a few to cause harm.
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Cats don't eat anything that is not appealing to them. Very unlike dogs, that will eat anything. With their keen sense of smell, a cat would back away from moth balls.
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Study On The Inner Axlebox Type Light Rail Bogies Design
In the various tracks of the existing traffic patterns, light rail, with its low cost, small footprint, traffic volume flexibility, is highly appreciated. At present, Shanghai light rail line has been built in Beijing, Wuhan and other cities are also actively preparing for the light rail line. Light rail transit will become an important mode of urban transportation systems, thus, light rail vehicle bogie design is also a growing concern.
1 light rail bogies structure characteristics and performance requirements for light-rail lines often snaking through the city center, affected by the restrictions of the city streets and buildings, their lines with a small curve, curve radius, so, compared with conventional bogies, applies to bogie LRT line should have its own structure and performance requirement:
(1) axle load is small, usually 11t~12.5T. In order to make full use of urban space, are mostly elevated light rail lines and light rail is a medium-capacity transport mode, vehicle sections smaller than the subway, shorter in length, the use of articulated form.
(2) the wheelbase is small, usually 1.8M~1.9m. A smaller wheelbase for ease with small radius curves, minimum curve radius of 25m light rail lines.
(3) high light requirements. Due to the bogie axle small bogie a limited amount of space, in order to maximize volume, requiring vehicles to light weight, the lightweight design of the bogie is one of the important links.
(4) the layout and compact structure. Due to the smaller wheelbase, especially for the bogie, and in the limited space motor, coupling, gear box and brake equipment.


Expressions used in Everyday Spoken English in Social and Professional contexts
shake on it
shake on it
1) shake hands in agreement
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 - let's shake on it
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 This phrase is usually one that is spoken. When you say 'let's shake on it' you are sealing a deal or shaling hands in order to formally agree on something. "Are we both happy with all of the terms here? I think we have a deal, let's shake on it." This is a friendly way of finalising an agreement or ending a negotiation.
 - Professional Examples (Basic)
 1. Buyer: "Would you accept 100 Euro for the goods?" Seller: "Okay, let's shake on it."
 2. After hours of negotiations, they shook hands on a deal worth millions of pounds. All that was left to do to make it official was to finalise the contract and have both parties sign it.
 - Social Examples (Basic)
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Acidity increases with increasing s character. propane is sp3 hybridized, propene is sp2 hybridized, propyne is sp hybridized.
Is propane most acidic?
The proton on ethanol is the most acidic proton. Spartan calculations indicate that this proton has the largest positive electrostatic potential suggesting that it is the most acidic proton. It is followed by cyclopropane and propane is the least acidic of the three.
Is propene a strong acid?
the right ans is propene,bcoz evey one kNkws that a weak acid has strong conjugatef base. so here we know propeme is weak acid as compared to propyne, bcoz acidity decreases with decreasing s cheracter.
Is propene acidic or basic?
Acetylene is more Acidic than propene, as propene have a CH3 group attached to sp-hybridized C atom so it provide +I effect & hence protonation is easy in acetylene than propene.
Is c2h4 more acidic than water?
Therefore, we can conclude that R-OH is a weaker acid that water. The correct order is: Ethyne> Ethene >Ethane. This can be explained with the Hydrogen donating tendency of hydrocarbon, carbon which is more electronegative will create high positive charge on hydrogen, hence that hydrocarbon will me most acidic.
Is phenol more acidic than water?
Hence, phenol is more acidic than water.
Is Ethanoic acid a vinegar?
Acetic acid, also known as ethanoic acid, is a clear colourless liquid which has a pungent, vinegar-like odour.
Which is more acidic Ethyne or propyne?
Ethyne is more acidic than propyne. in propyne methyl group is present which cause + I effect. due to the + I effect methyl group more electron density is present near triple bond hence the release of proton from propyne is difficult than from ethyne.
Which is more acidic propene or propyne?
The order of increasing acidity is, propane < propene < propyne < water.
Are propane and cyclopropane isomers?
Answer: No cyclopropane is not the isomer of propane(C3H8). Propane has no isomer. it is because in an isomer the number of carbon and hydrogen atoms are same.
Why is propene more reactive than propane?
There are ten single bonds in propane, eight between carbon and hydrogen atoms, and two between carbon atoms. In contrast, there are seven single bonds, six between carbon and hydrogen atoms and one between carbon atoms. … On the other hand, propene is more reactive due to the presence of weak pi bonds.
Is propylene heavier than propane?
The following figures compare the relative vapor density of fuel gases with that of air: Natural Gas 0.55 LIGHTER than Air Acetylene 0.91 Air 1.00 Propylene 1.42 MAPP* 1.48 HEAVIER than Air Propane 1.56 Butane 2.05 It is important to note that acetylene and natural gas being lighter than air will rise in air.


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Phase 3 of the Champlain Sea is defined as the interval that followed the retreat of the Laurentide ice from the Saint-Narcisse Moraine. Events included are the retreat of ice from major valleys in the Laurentian Highlands, invasion of these by the Champlain Sea and regression of the Champlain Sea from its entire basin.
In the lower Saint-maurice Valley, post-Saint-Narcisse retreat of an active ice-front is recorded by the Cossetteville parallel ridges. Transverse ridges of the middle Saint-Maurice Valley and Lac du Missionnaire indicate the presence of an active ice-front in these valleys. Elsewhere, ice-frontal constructions and raised outwash trains were formed at the mouth of valleys, e.g. the proglacial delta perched at an altitude of 200m, at the mouth of Lac Mekinac.
The Champlain Sea extended into the Laurentian Highlands in the form of brackish or freshwater bodies considered as paramarine basins (Occhietti, 1977)
At the close of Phase #, considerable shoaling had already taken place and waters in the Champlain Sea basin turned fresh upstream of Quebec. (Elson, 1969) called this freshwater body Lake Lampsilis, "after a freshwater clam commonly found as a fossil near it's shores" (Elson,1969). Development of Lake Lampsilis in the basin was in conjunction with the time-transgressive retreat of the saltwater wedge. Surface waters had turned fresh in the lower reaches of the Ottawa Valley by about 10.3ka. Marine waters however continued to penetrate into the fresh waters of Lake Lampsilis until very late in the Quebec area, presumably because of strong tides. Retreat of the saltwater wedge, which marked the end of the Champlain Sea Phase 3, was diachronic at the scale of the basin; its age ranges from about 10ka in the Ottawa Valley to about 9.3ka in the vicinity of Quebec.


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The purpose of the 'Linking Land Protection & Stewardship' project was to bring together conservation partners in key communities, identify common goals and seek opportunities for enhanced cooperation. The Ontario Farmland Trust along with the Ontario Stewardship and the Ontario Land Trust Alliance began the initiative in early 2012. A web-based survey was designed to gather information about current levels of collaboration among local land conservation groups was first distributed. Additionally, the survey was also intended to help identify challenges and opportunities relating to stewardship and securement of natural heritage and agricultural lands. The survey groups included stakeholders such as land stewardship organizations, land trusts, conservation authorities, municipalities, agricultural groups and farmers. Following the administration of the surveys, OFT co‐hosted six information and networking workshops in six different regions throughout Southern Ontario:
- Prince Edward County
- Perth-Huron Counties
- Niagara Region
- Wellington County
- York Region
- Halton Region
The workshops were intended to bring local conservation groups together to share information about each others' work and brainstorm opportunities for enhanced collaboration. The goal of this one‐year initiative were to:
- – Develop strong working relationships between OFT, stewardship organizations, local land trusts, conservation authorities, municipalities and other environmental and agricultural groups;
- – Enhance the ability of stakeholders to collaborate on common goals related to land securement, stewardship and conservation, and landowner outreach and education;
- – Strengthen awareness of land protection and stewardship options among farmland owneroperators and other rural landowners for agricultural and natural heritage lands.
This project provided a forum for meaningful dialogue between groups that previously lacked opportunities to discuss challenges, overlapping priorities and mutual interests. Workshops also provided a learning opportunity for those working in land protection and stewardship, particularly around the work of the Ontario Farmland Trust, the multitude of land securement tools available to them, and understanding how to build stronger relationships with the farming community.
Workshop participants shared over 100 unique recommendations for new or enhanced cooperation between conservation groups in their local communities. Despite variation in comments between geographic areas, common themes emerged that highlight substantial opportunities for expanded collaboration in the pursuit of common land conservation goals. The project was completed in February 2013.
This project was generously supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation
(an agency of the Government of Ontario).


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Double-peak Splitting in High-order Harmonics Generation
- WANG Yingsong, LIU Yaqing, YANG Xiaodong, XU Zhizhan
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When the intensity of the driving pulse is much higher than the saturation intensity of the media involved, the double-peak splitting in frequency domain emerges in the generated high-order harmonic spectra. The possible origins of this splitting are carefully investigated. The ionization of the gas media and the propagation effect of harmonic field are the main reason for the double-peak splitting observed.
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Noun: nitrate 'nI,treyt
 1. Any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid)
Verb: nitrate 'nI,treyt
 1. (chemistry) treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate
 "nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating glycerol"
Derived forms: nitrated, nitrates, nitrating
Type of: chemical compound, compound, process, treat
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 if (order[i] > total){
 order[i] -= total;
 order[i] += 1;
// apply the new order
Now, some explanation:
As stated in the comment, in order to reorder the pages, you will need to know on what page number your table of contents starts. In order to do that, you need to store the page number as a variable when you add the table of contents:
int toc = writer.getPageNumber();
Once you have finished adding all your content to the PDF, call:
If you are reordering pages, it is a requirement to add a new page. The page will not actually be inserted into your document.
To grab the total number of pages in the document run:
int total = writer.reorderPages(null);
Then we are going to create an array of integers:
int[] order = new int[total];
These integers are going to be our page numbers.
We are going to loop through each page. To keep the title page as page one, we will set the first integer in the array to 1 (page 1).
 if (i == 0){
 order[i] = 1;
Next, we will make the second integer in the array the first page of the table of contents.
else if (i == 1){
 order [i] = toc;
Essentially, we are saying, if we are at page 2, set it to page x (x being the first page of the table of contents).
For each subsequent page, we have to check if it is an additional page in the table of contents section, or if it is the rest of the actual document.
else {
 if (order[i] > total){
 order[i] -= total;
 order[i] += 1;
What we are doing here is looking at the index of the array, subtracting one so the pages of the table of contents will remain sequential. Imagine we have ten pages, and the last three pages are the generated table of contents. Index 0 is page 1. Index 1 is page 8. Now, the next index is 2 (what will be the third page), so we are going to add the index to the table of contents page number to increment through the table of contents. 2 +8 is 10, not 9. So until we have finished going through the table of contents, we have to subtract 1 from the index. Otherwise we skip a page, and we will end up missing a page in the end. Actually, the code will just fail.
We check to see if the table of contents is finished by asking if the page number at index "i" is greater than the total number of possible pages. The last page of the document is the last page of the table of contents. So if the page number exceeds the total, then we are going to subtract the total from the current page number. Again, in our ten page PDF example: Index 4 - 1 is 3. Then we add the toc page number (8) to get 11. That is now the current page number of index 4. When we check to see if that page is outside the total possible pages, we find that it is. So we subtract the total possible pages (10). Then we are left with index 4 equalling page number 1. But we are already referencing page 1 in index 0. Remember we subtracted one from the index in the previous operation? Well, we are just going to add that back now that we are finished iterating through the table of contents. So index 4 is now correctly referencing page 2.
Once we have iterated through the entire array, we set this new order (using our 10 page example, the new order would be: 1, 8, 9, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) as the order of the document using this method:
Then we close the document and go about our merry way.
 2010-09-21T07:01:54-04:00 _URL_ When I was 9, I pictured my life very differently at this point. According to my nine year-old desires, my daily activities should include preforming heart surgery in the morning, teaching a class of fifth graders in the afternoon, and polishing off the next great American novel. As I age, I constantly think my years of creation and productivity are gone. I know, I know. This is naive of me, and completely unfounded. In fact, it's somewhat insulting to those I admire and respect around me. The world is replete with examples of individuals who stretched themselves well into adulthood. Maybe it's Hollywood, but I have this misconception that has been percolating in my subconscious that the only time I will do anything truly groundbreaking and lasting is in my twenties. Oh, how awful this world would be if that single decade of transitioning adult years was the only time we could follow our passions.
Television shows like American Idol and others show the young phenoms out there. We drool over individuals who are preternaturally gifted at a young age. The three year-old who can play the drums like John Bonham. Or the 10 year-old opera singer. We shower praise on the golfer who has been playing since he was three, and many are left in the shadow of the 18 year-old drafted to the NBA straight out of high school. And of course, who can forget the 23 year-old billionaire? Seeing the many examples of early stardom, I sometimes get stuck with this feeling that if I didn't steel/invent Facebook by the time I was 20, then I should settle down as a happy cog in someone else's world.
We don't have to settle for who we have become, because we have complete control over who we are going to be.
But the world is also filled with examples of people who are more like the rest of us. As Marge Simpson says, "Slow and steady wins the race." Don't pay attention to the 14 year-old phenom– get out there and make it happen! Who do you look up to who had a "late start" in their new careers?
At 37Signals, there was an article that mentioned Vincent Van Gogh. They pointed out that:
He wasn't some child prodigy (he was 27 when he started painting), he learned his craft by hard work.
He only practiced art for the last 10 years of his life. Granted, at that point, he suffered from mental illness and died penniless. So I am not saying we should emulate every aspect of the guy's life, but look at what he was able to achieve. This really struck me because growing up in Holland, I always pictured this man painting and drawing obsessively as a child, but that was not the case. He worked at his craft, poured his soul into it, but not until he was older. Do you have to be insane, though, to do what Van Gogh did? No.
How many of us can say we have truly poured ourselves into a craft with same gusto as Van Gogh? Whether it be academic study, or learning to sew, or becoming more focused, or learning to program? Is it ever too late to start? No. It's not.
 2010-03-02T23:46:16-05:00 _URL_
I find myself consuming far more than I produce. We live in a world, or a nation at least, of constant intake. It would be interesting to personally figure out how much time I (not a statistical model of me) spend looking at the television screen watching movies, TV shows, reading blogs or books, playing games. You could even boil it down to how much time do I spend in front of a screen. In fact, as I write, I am watching Caprica on the screen behind the screen on which I am typing.
I wake in the morning and open a laptop screen on which I can spend upwards of an hour or two reading about what other people are doing: retro video game decorations for your bedroom, game design articles, video processing algorithms, insurgent militia actions in the Middle East, death squads in Dubai, using the telephone wires in your home to make a whole-house stereo system, geeky comics about math and computers, finding movies to watch online. Since I work during the day and have a 3-month old in the house, my time in the morning is pretty much the only time I have to pursue my personal dreams and interests (and that time will become increasingly more valuable and precious as my family grows). Yet I spend ALL THAT TIME consuming other people's ability to do, while letting mine languish in the lost time of an ever-increasing digital diet. I suffer from media obesity.
Taking in more calories than you burn will cause your body to become soft. Does consuming more content than you produce make your brain soft?
I hate those people that tell me that television shows are pointless or movies a waste of time, I don't believe that at all. If I spend my time ingesting a lot of junk-food content, however, I essentially fill up faster on empty calories. I remember listening to an interview with director Edgar Wright of Shuan of the Dead fame (


MouseLeave Event
UIElement.MouseLeave Event
Occurs when the mouse (or the stylus) leaves the bounding area of a UIElement.
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Assembly: System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)
public event MouseEventHandler MouseLeave
The MouseLeave event is raised in response to the mouse (or the stylus) leaving the object's bounding area.
You can define multiple MouseLeave events for objects in XAML content. However, if a child object and its parent object both define a MouseLeave event, the parent object's MouseLeave event occurs before the child object's MouseLeave event. This is not a case of a bubbling event; it indicates only that the mouse (or the stylus) has entered both objects, potentially at different times depending on the object layout and composition of the visual tree.
Unlike the MouseEnter event, the MouseLeave event does not provide the mouse (or the stylus) position in event data, because the position of the mouse pointer relative to the object is unknown when it is out of bounds. Because it is always null, you generally should not use the event data from your MouseLeave event handler, although you may still be interested in the sender parameter.
MouseLeave and OnMouseLeave
Controls that inherit MouseLeave can provide handling for the event that acts as handler for all instances, by overriding the OnMouseLeave method. OnMouseLeave can be useful either for setting visual state, or for public or internal state properties. For instance, Slider implements OnMouseLeave in order to check the Thumb element's value for IsDragging (which cancels a particular behavior mode), and also to set visual state. For more information, see OnMouseLeave.
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Why is Oymyakon so cold? (info + photos)
September 20, 2009
Oymyakon or Ojmjakon in winter. Yakutia, Siberia/Russia. Photo by Bolot Bochkarev
I found the question "Why is it so cold in Oymyakon?" in the list of keywords that have brought some traffic to my weblog, and I recalled Nick Middleton, an Oxford geography lecturer and the creator of the four-series TV show "Going to Extremes." The first part, btw, depicted his travel to Oymyakon, the world's coldest inhabited place on Earth. While staying in the village of Oymyakon, he gave a detailed explanation of why the Oymyakon area in eastern Yakutia was able to keep the cold as low as -71.2 degrees Celsius (-96.16 degrees Fahrenheit).
The same explanation he gives in his book Going to Extremes: Mud, Sweat and Frozen Tears, in which he ventures to the hottest, driest, coldest, and wettest inhabited places on Earth. He wants to know not only how people manage to live in these places, but also why they settled there in the first place. And, most intriguing of all—why they stay. He follows Stalin's "Road of Bones" across Siberia's icy wilderness to the world's coldest village of Oymyakon, and Nick Middleton's account of his journey to the edge is never less than fascinating.
I am not a pro geographer, so I wouldn't be able to give such a thorough information on Oymyakon weather specifics as Mr. Middleton did, but I'll try to do it in a more simple way.
Oymyakon as well as the whole Yakutia is located at northern latitude and relatively far from oceans to not be dramatically affected by streams. Besides, mountains surround the Oymyakon village so tightly that they turned out the area to be a mere trap for air. The chilly air is literally kept and not allowed to go up and dispersed. Moreover, it continues being refrigerated, because of its inability to be warmed up in the course of the short daytime. That makes Oymyakon possible to hold the chilly distinction of being the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth.
Photographs of Oymyakon, Yakutia, Siberia/Russia. The world's coldest inhabited village!
I took the below Oymyakon pictures during my trip with friends. See more photo sets in the post A Journey to the Pole of Cold.
Answer to the question, Why is Oymyakon so cold?
So why did people choose to live in such a chilly trap as Oymyakon, and how do they manage to survive in extreme cold, according to Nick Middleton?
His answers can be found in the interview he gave to the National Geographic Channel. Below, please, find the Q&A.
Why would people choose to live in such an inhospitable place?
Before the 1920s and 30s, Oymyakon was a seasonal stop for reindeer herders. But the Soviet government, in its efforts to settle nomadic populations—claiming they were difficult to control and technologically and culturally backward—made the site a permanent settlement.
What is there to eat so far north?
All people eat is reindeer and horsemeat. Medics say the reason they don't suffer from malnutrition is that there must be lots of micronutrients in their animals' milk.
There is a short summer season during which people can grow things. But for the most part people don't eat fruit or vegetables.
How do people keep warm?
Fur. Fur is considered a luxury in the West but it is the only thing that keeps you warm. Most of my crew wore synthetic fibers, and they were cold and miserable. My hat was raccoon, my coat was made from the skins of a flock of sheep, and I had knee-high reindeer boots. Reindeer fur is particularly good at keeping you warm, because the shaft of each hair is hollow, and the air [in the shafts] has an insulating effect.
You had a pretty icy introduction to Siberia when you arrived. You became a member of the Walrus Club [a group of people who swim in rivers and lakes in winter, sometimes called polar bear clubs in other parts of the world]. How did it feel to take an ice bath in the frozen river?
It was short and sweet, but my biggest concern was that I would have a heart attack. It isn't so much the water but getting out that is the worst—that brief moment between the water and contacting the air, which is about -22 Fahrenheit (-30 Celsius).
I lost it within minutes of getting out—it was as if I went into a state of shock. I began to lose feeling in my body and, for about 24 hours, walking was tricky and I felt out of it. It was difficult to think and remember, and I felt groggy, as if I had a bad hangover. I have no doubt that if the walrus club had not been there, I would have frozen to death.
What are some other consequences of living in such a frigid environment?
Dealing with dead people. In permafrost zones, where the top few feet of ground tends to thaw in the summer and then refreeze, large buried objects tend to rise to the surface. This is particularly bad when buried coffins rise to the surface after several years.
The whole tradition of burial is not a Siberian one—it came from Europeans. Siberians used to perform sky burials where they would wrap the bodies in canvas and hang them from the trees, but the Soviet government probably discouraged this.
Sadly, a little girl died from pneumonia while we were visiting. To dig a grave, the townspeople lit a long bonfire for about an hour, which allowed the ground to thaw a little, then dug a couple of inches and repeated the process for a couple of days before they were able to bury the coffin.
Transportation can't be easy in those temperatures. How do people get around?
Cars and trucks housed in heated garages are fine. But diesel freezes at -58 Fahrenheit [-50 degrees Celsius]. It's a pretty common practice to light a bonfire beneath the fuel tank to keep it from freezing. Axle grease also freezes and is warmed with a blowtorch.
What effects did the cold have on your expedition? Did you run into any problems in Oymyakon?
Pen ink freezes. Batteries lose power faster. Metal sticks to skin. The first time I tried to take some stills with my camera the metal stuck to my nose.
We had severe difficulties with filming. The eyepiece froze, and you couldn't see through it. The camera lenses did strange things, because the metal casings and screws holding the lenses in place were made of different metals that contracted at different rates and distorted the images—so really we had absolutely no idea whether we were actually shooting anything.
All the electronics in the video camera froze so film was the only technology that worked. But even the film would get brittle and crack.
What adaptations have the people of Oymyakon had to make to live in this environment?
In the last ten years, post-Soviet Union, people have returned to a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Everyone owns some livestock, and they rely on this livestock for food and for barter.
There are times when coal deliveries are irregular and the local power station—which makes indoor life bearable—must burn wood to keep hot water flowing to the homes. If the power ceases, the town shuts down in about five hours, and the pipes freeze and crack.
One of the guys who runs the power station hasn't been paid in nine months, but he keeps doing his job. There is a great sense of community. People do what they need to do to survive. For them, extreme [subzero] temperatures are normal.
Interviewed by Bijal P. Trivedi
Via National Geographic Channel
A short explanation regarding Oymyakon weather phenomenon given by tanetahi, a Flickr pro user:
- The reason Oymyakon gets so cold in winter is the combination of its elevation above sea level and its being sited in a valley between two mountain ranges. The valley behaves as a frost-hollow in calm anticyclonic weather during the Siberian winter, so yes, it does kind of make its own weather.
- The World's Coldest Road Trip. Yakutsk – Oymyakon – Magadan. Winter 2012-2013.
- 6-Day Travel Yakutsk to Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited village on Earth.
Find more facts & photographs in Oymyakon-related posts.
Check also a report of our fascinating Journey to the Pole of Cold, Oymyakon.
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Archaeologists find coffin related to Israelites' exodus from Egypt
Archaeologists unearthed an ancient coffin in northern Israel, and linked it to the age of pharaohs and the Israelites' exodus from Egypt, officials said.
Scientists at the burial site also found a golden scarab which had the seal of Egyptian pharaoh Seti I, who ruled in the late Bronze Age, according to Israel's Antiquities Authority.
Seti I was the father of Ramses II, whom some scholars have identified as the pharaoh who ruled during the Israelites' escape from slavery in ancient Egypt.
"We discovered a unique and rare find: a cylindrical clay coffin with an anthropoidal lid surrounded by a variety of pottery, consisting mainly of storage vessels for food, tableware, cult vessels and animal bones," according to a statement by the antiquities authority.
The mystery man inside this coffin was most likely a regional official who served under his pharaoh ruler around the 13th century BC.
Or he could have been a wealthy local man who wanted a funeral fit for a pharaoh.
"Since the vessels interred with the individual were produced locally, we assume the deceased was an official of the Canaanite origin who was engaged in the service of the Egyptian government," according to researchers.
"Another possibility is that the coffin belonged to a wealthy individual who imitated the Egyptian funerary customs."
The sarcophagus was discovered in recent months during digs in northern Israel's Jezreel Valley.
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Recently as some of us were getting ready to take a walk through the snow, somebody said to me "you're wearing sensible shoes". Now my shoes haven't developed cognitive abilities so far as I know (and I spend enough time with them that I think I would notice), but everyone there knew what this means. It's a common phrase in my experience, but it got me wondering. The adjective sensible here, while syntactically bound to the noun shoes, really applies to another noun in the sentence instead. Is there a term for this sort of modifier migration, or is this sentence technically ungrammatical?
I checked for alternate or obscure meanings of sensible but found none, and a Google search on the phrase turned up uses but no explanations. I also don't think this construct is limited to this particular phrase, but I don't have any more clever ideas.
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What do you mean when you say "The adjective sensible here, while syntactically bound to the noun shoes, really applies to another noun in the sentence instead"? What is the other noun? – Irene Feb 12 '12 at 20:34
_USER_, the other noun is "you" -- the speaker is saying that I was sensible for choosing those shoes, not that my shoes of their own volition made some sensible decision. – Monica Cellio Feb 12 '12 at 20:40
No, I don't think that applies. I agree with _USER_ Loy's answer. I saw his link, it gives a sound explanation of a further meaning of the word sensible (which, curiously enough, isn't included in other dictionaries I've checked). – Irene Feb 12 '12 at 20:42
A parallel that occurs to me is this sentence. "Bacon is not a very sensible thing to have for breakfast if your cholesterol is high". My bacon is about as cognitive as your shoes. – user16269 Feb 13 '12 at 10:14
Clearly the reason we describe your shoes as sensible is that they're able to be sensed. – Nathan Long Feb 13 '12 at 14:35
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An adjective modifying the "wrong" word in a sentence is known as a transferred epithet. This can be used for poetic or humourous effect, or, as in this case, the epithet may have become so strongly associated with the noun that it has no particular literary effect on the listener.
A simple example is "I spent a sleepless night" (it is I who was sleepless, not the night). My English teacher was rather fond of "a schoolboy once again in shivering shorts" from John Betjeman's Original Sin on the Sussex Coast. Of course, the schoolboy is shivering, not his shorts.
Wikipedia has a brief entry on the more general hypallage. I have rarely heard this term used in reference to English grammar or literature.
As noted by other answerers sensible shoes in particular has jumped the chasm from literary device to creating an alternative accepted meaning of sensible. Another example of such a jump is curious, as in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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Thank you! I see from the other answers here that I chose a poor example, but it is the construct, not "sensible" in particular, that I was asking about. "Sleepless night" is a great example of this. – Monica Cellio Feb 13 '12 at 1:06
+1 Hypallage sounds common to me as a term used in classics. – Cerberus Feb 13 '12 at 2:32
+1 Everyone knows why but not everyone can explain it so well. – Kris Feb 13 '12 at 14:10
The kind of answers that EL&U must have been conceived for!+1. Refreshing to see something other than the (now) jarring "What is the word/term/phrase for..... – Vaibhav Garg Feb 15 '12 at 4:21
The OALD lists sensible to mean useful rather than fashionable when referring to things like clothes. The CALD also lists sensible to mean practical rather than being attractive.
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Thanks; I hadn't seen that definition formalized anywhere before. – Monica Cellio Feb 12 '12 at 20:57
My local dictionary offers a similar definition: "sensible - (of an object) practical and functional rather than decorative." – MrHen Feb 12 '12 at 22:00
+1 An entirely plausible alternative. And undeniably right. – Kris Feb 13 '12 at 14:11
Of course sensible has a meaning "Characterized more by usefulness or practicality than by fashionableness, especially of clothing". Etymonline says, regarding sensible:
But note that terms like "sensible walking shoes" were in use already in the 1820's:
...oot wi' such daft-like things in such weather; they're liker dancin' schule pumps than sensible walkin' shoes. (The Inheritance, Susan Ferrier, 1825)
There's a very slight possibility that the term sensible shoes may have some relation to horseshoeing. Beginning in the early 1800's, sensible frequently appears in agricultural publications about horseshoes:
...with common shoes there is no pressure tracts,... The artificial frog, which is intended to the sensible frog, without any respite, must receive cover... (The Complete Farmer, 1807) has some defects in common with other shoes. It is attached with nails, and these nails may pinch the sensible parts within... (Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, 1831)
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Surely sensible in your last quotation means sensitive. The word has many meanings, but most aren't relevant here. – TimLymington Feb 12 '12 at 21:26
I don't think it's an unusual construction at all: would you think a clever idea had out-thought the originator, or a stupid joke likely to be teased by the other figures of speech? Quite a few adjectives can be applied either to the originator or the result: whether it's "the same meaning" may depend on your definitions.
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"Clever idea" was an intentional choice in my question. :-) Does this kind of construction have a name? – Monica Cellio Feb 12 '12 at 20:55
Oops, didn't see that :( It might be a transferred meaning, but I don't see how you determine which was the original. – TimLymington Feb 12 '12 at 21:23
It's not the shoes that are sensible.
Rather, "You have made a sensible choice in electing to wear this particular pair of shoes on this given occasion."
Your interlocutor simply cuts to the chase and states:
"You're wearing sensible shoes."
But the above meaning is implied. Humans are like that. They rely on a high degree of context to communicate meaning.
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Right, that's my point -- "sensible" applies to me, not to the shoes, but semantically the shortened sentence is problematic. I'm wondering if there is a language construct/rule that covers this, or if it's a case of "we all know what it means so it's ok". – Monica Cellio Feb 12 '12 at 20:55
"We all know what it means" is the basis of all communication. Meaning, we can't productively abstract this or any other utterance from its context. So, I think it a futile endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or interpret meaning independent of context. That, in my opinion, is simple a red herring. – Jack Robbin Feb 12 '12 at 21:02
_USER_: Based on my own dictionary and answers other than this one, the shoes are sensible. They are sensible shoes. Sensible just has an additional meaning when applied to objects. – MrHen Feb 12 '12 at 22:02
I don't doubt that sensible could have an additional meaning that applies to objects. However, I think it sensible to assume that in the first instance this meaning is applied to people and then extended to objects that relate to people. That is to say, the object is as sensible as it is in relation to a valuation made by people. – Jack Robbin Feb 13 '12 at 6:01
In other words, high-heels at the beach would not be sensible, but flip-flops would. – Jack Robbin Feb 13 '12 at 6:10
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How can I tell whether I should be using Dentro vs. Adentro? I've read that they both mean 'inside' and looked at some examples, but I still can't always figure out which one to use. Are there any good rules to learn the difference, or examples that illustrate this difference particularly well? Also, is the word 'en' sometimes used to mean 'inside' as well?
¿Como puedo saber si debería usar Dentro vs. Adentro? He leído que ambos significan 'inside' y visto algunos ejemplos, pero no siempre tengo claro cual usar. ¿Existen algunas buenas reglas para aprender la diferencia, o ejemplos que ilustren esta diferencia especialmente bien? Además, ¿la palabra 'en' también se usa a veces para decir 'inside'?
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Nice question!! – Alfredo Osorio Dec 7 '11 at 2:27
Tambien vease un ejemplo given by Javi en mi pregunta – Tomas Jan 5 '12 at 23:42
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Both dentro and adentro mean "inside" but the latter is used with verbs of movement. For example:
 1. Nos fuimos adentro. —> (The verb "ir" means "to go"; movement);
 2. El perro está dentro del coche. —> (no movement involved).
You can see the official reference here for dentro and for adentro.
As it is said in the articles, in some parts of America, sometimes "adentro" is used when "dentro" should have been adopted.
"En" can also be used in the same way as "in" is used in English, so you can use "en" (but "dentro" emphasizes it more)
El perro está en el coche.
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Ah. Es similar a "dónde" y "adónde", ¿no? – user682 Apr 25 '12 at 4:18
_USER_ Sí. Lo mismo pasa con "fuera" y "afuera". – Javi Apr 25 '12 at 8:29
Both are adverbs of location and both can be translated as inside, the difference is that dentro is used to express in the interior, inside and adentro goes with verbs indicating movement and it is used to express towards the interior. Some examples:
Dentro de mi corazón (inside my heart).
Lo llevé hacia adentro (I took it inside).
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Is it safe to say it's the same as the difference between in/inside and into? – Flimzy Dec 7 '11 at 2:12
_USER_: I'd say yes at least in the cases I could think of, but I am not a native English speaker, so I wouldn't put my hand in the fire for that "yes". – Gonzalo Medina Dec 7 '11 at 3:28
Can't you also say "Estoy aquí adentro"? – jrdioko Dec 7 '11 at 17:29
_USER_: yes; adentro sometimes is also used as en la parte interior (in the interior), but this use is common in certain regions of Latin America. – Gonzalo Medina Dec 7 '11 at 17:34
In addition to the excellent answers given let me point out that dentro can also be used to denote the end of a period of time as seen from present: llámame dentro de quince minutos. Which is roughly the same as llámame en quince minutos, while there is no such exception for adentro which is always location/movement-based.
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"Dentro" should only be used in the prepositional phrase (frase prepositiva) "dentro de":
La guitarra está dentro de su funda.
(The guitar is inside its case.)
On the other hand, "adentro" should only be used as a standalone adverb:
La guitarra está adentro.
(The guitar is inside.)
In short: "Dentro de " means "inside of ", while "adentro" means simply "inside".
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In addition to the other answers: dentro implies inside in relation to a specific place (stated after the preposition "de" or by context).
El niño está dentro de la casa.
Mi estuche está dentro de la sala.
At least in Chile, adentro de is very uncommon, this "dentro de"/"adentro de" comparison also shows it.
By the way, the rules for dentro/adentro can be used for fuera/afuera.
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