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Assistive Technology Interview
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Barrett Family Wellness Center
Overview of Center
Due to the lack of responses from various assistive technology specialists and educators, I turned to the worldwide web to conduct a research for therapy centers using assistive technologies to improve learning in children with disabilities. During the research process, I discovered the Barrett Family Wellness Center, a center working with children from birth to teenage years with a variety of learning and physical disabilities. The specialists at Barrett use a variety of assistive technologies and software to improve the abilities of students with a variety of communication and speech disabilities.
The center conducted its own video interview with two specialists, Andrea Quinn and Jill Johnson, both speech specialists at the Barrett Family Wellness Center. In the interview, the two review four iPad software programs used in at the center and display how to use each, including a description of the needs addressed through each program. Below you will find compiled responses to interview questions based on the video interview.
10 Interview Questions
- Choice of technology
The choice of technology used in the interview include the iPad and iPad software, Pogg, Articulation Station, My Play Home, and Proloquo2Go.
- How is the technology implemented?
The technology is applied by way of activities and application of the Ipad. Pogg is an alien app used to express and perform various actions like completing sentences and expressing through language. For example, if a child says the command Pogg eat, Pogg, the alien responds by eating food. This app helps students with language building and expression. Articulation Station is an app that assists students with articulation, It works with either letters, words, or sentences and allows users to record and play back information. This app works to assist with speech, specifically articulation of language. My Play Home is an app that also assists students that have language and speech delays through allowing users to explore familiar parts of life such as family and school life with language identifiers. Lastly, Proloquo2Go is an app used with children who have difficulties communicating. The app allows students to express a variety of wants and needs, such as wanting to drink of water or something to eat.
- Funding (Did they receive grants, or where did the funds come from? How were funds allocated?) It is not specified how the center goes about purchasing the assistive technology devices.
- Population served
The assistive technology used at the Barret Family Wellness Center is intended to meet the needs of children from birth to teenage years.
- Who is impacted? (Is there a universal impact, or does it affect one student?)
The assistive technology has a universal impact, intended to assist with communication and speech inabilities resulting from a variety of disabilities and set backs.
- Incorporation into the curriculum
Due to the fact that the technology is used in a therapy center, it is not specified how it is incorporated into the curriculum; however, are specifically used to develop speech, articulation, and communication skills.
- How is training offered for the device(s)?
The therapy center assists with determining what device is suitable to meet the needs specific to each child. The center also provides workshops and appointments to discuss specific cases and needs.
- How are the technology devices maintained? (What happens if one breaks?)
The technologies are used and maintained by the specialists.
- Review likes and dislikes
The specialists seem to like using the assistive technology devices displayed in the video.
- Do they have any way to track whether it is beneficial to student learning? If so, how? If not, why not and how could they? It is not specified whether there is a process for evaluating the effectiveness of the programs but my personal opinion says that improvements in speech and communication are illustrations of the benefits.
Strengths, Weaknesses, and Recommendations
The Barrett Family Wellness Center stated the importance of staying up to date and current with trends concerning learning improvements and programs. The efforts to stay current with the next best thing is the greatest strength for this center, it ensures that they will be up to date with the current flaws, additions, and upgrades to software. I actually have no recommendations for them, they already use the program I have posted about a number of times about, Proloquo2Go. The best method of supporting individuals with disabilities, as The Barrett Family Wellness Center does, is state current with changes or trends in technology and using research and practice to determine the best device to meet individual needs.


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Two basic components are required for generating a geometric fractal: an initiator and a generator. Multiple traversal strategies for both initiator and generator segments are proposed. It is shown how to generate many fractal images by changing the traversal strategies for the given initiator and/or generator. These fractals are referred to as traversed geometric fractals. A notation for representing and identifying segments of the initiator and the generator is presented. This notation is essential in producing traversed geometric fractals and deriving their properties. The generators are classified into various categories useful in analyzing the generated fractals' visual features.
Uday G. Gujar, Sthephen Y.M. Choi, Virendra C. Bhavsar, Prem K. Kalra, "Traversed Geometric Fractals", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 13, no., pp. 61-67, September/October 1993, doi:10.1109/38.232099
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Where do you begin when you want to move an entire studio, including the walls, and everything in the room? In some ways Francis Bacon's studio was like a jigsaw puzzle. A specially trained team of people, including archaeologists, noted the exact location of everything in the studio by making drawings and maps of the studio. There were over 7000 items in Francis Bacon's studio and these included his brushes, paint tubes, drawings, canvases, music records, photographs, books and letters he had written and received from his friends. When drawings and photographs of their location were made, all Francis Bacon's belongings were carefully placed in boxes and brought to Dublin.
In Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane each item was studied and the information gathered was put onto a computer database so more can be learned about how Francis Bacon painted and what his inspirations were. The studio was reconstructed and each item was carefully replaced piece by piece exactly where it was.

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How do criminal groups organize, operate, and govern in Denmark? We argue that organized crime groups face governance challenges in the form of principal-agent problems and transaction costs. Based on interviews with law enforcement officers, former gang members, and prisoners, we provide evidence for how people involved in crime respond to these organizational dilemmas. We find that the more severe the principal-agent problem, the more gangs vet possible members during recruitment. We also find that as transaction costs rise, people who are engaged in illicit activities that are more complicated will rely more on internal structure and centralization. Our findings support existing rational choice theories of criminal organizations.
Bibliographical notePublished online: 10 March 2021.
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Definition of Gene array analysis
Gene array analysis: A way of analyzing the differential expression of thousands of species of mRNA (messenger RNA) at the same time in two different samples (as, for example, in normal vs. tumor tissue, or at different developmental stages). Gene array analysis involves synthesizing labeled cDNA (complementary DNA) from 2 or more sources, and hybridizing them to identical gene arrays. This procedure can be done in standard molecular biology laboratories with basic instrumentation.
Gene array analysis is an extraordinarily powerful tool in molecular biology today and is expected to shape the molecular medicine of tomorrow. Many diseases will be defined in a "customized" fashion according to the array of genes in the particular patient affected. Not only diseases, but also optimal treatments, will be put into discrete categories according to the diagnostic gene array of the person being evaluated. Medicine will not be practiced in the same way in 2050 as it was in 2000, thanks in part to gene array analysis.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary
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The present invention is a method for producing a non-polar a-plane GaN thin film on an r-plane sapphire substrate using metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) technique. Particularly, the method provides suitable growth conditions for GaN layer during MOCVD by controlling V/III ratio, reaction temperature and flow rate of reactants, but not limited thereto. It was found that such method could provide non-polar a-plane GaN thin film on r-plane sapphire substrate with reduced lattice mismatch between each layer.
- UMCIC File Number: 603/1114
- Patent: PI 2016 703999
- Patent status: Pending
- Malaysia patent: Method for Producing A Non-Polar A-Plane Galllium Nitride (Gan) Thin Film on an R-Plane Sapphire Substrate.
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Luke Swank, who is regarded as one of the major American photographers of the 20th century, only became interested in photography when he was 40 years old.
Self-taught, Swank made images from the mid-1920s through his early death in 1944. His photographs reveal a unique appreciation for bold composition, geometric elements, and creative use of intense highlight and shadow while simultaneously capturing familiar people and daily scenes from the steel industry, the visiting circus, and more. Beginning in 1935, he was the official photographer for the University of Pittsburgh. In his lifetime, his five-part mural "Steel Plant" was included in Murals by American Painters and Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the first exhibition at that institution to include photography. Also in New York, he joined the ranks of Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Walker Evans, and others who were championed by the influential Julien Levy Gallery. Little known at the time of his death, his work has since been recognized through recent scholarship, which led to a major exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2005, Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer. Carnegie Museum of Art ownsover 300 works by this signature American artist.


text: A total of around 760.000 Soviet citizens were buried in Germany as a result of the Second World War, most of them soldiers of the Soviet Army and forced labourers. The Soviet-Russian Second World War Cemetery Simmerath-Rurberg holds the remains 2.322 of them – men, women and children. Only fifty-five of them rest in individual graves, the others in mass graves. Just a small number is known by name. Here in Simmerath-Rurberg almost all of the buried were also prisoners of war or forced labourers. They died in consequence of hardship in the labour camps or as a result of Allied bomb strikes. After the war was over many small Soviet cemeteries were established all over Germany. The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge united 38 of these cemeteries in the region of Monschau, Erkelenz, Geilenkirchen, Aachen, Jülich, Düren and Schleiden in Germany and Rurberg in Belgium. Most of the dead were transferred from Düren, where in the course of the war 1.522 forced labourers died in arms factories. The Simmerath-Rurberg Cemetery was officially opened in 1961.


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Safety Evaluation for Expressways: A Comparative Study for Macroscopic and Microscopic Indicators
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Objective: This article is to assess the performance of 3 macroscopic safety indicators (speed, speed dispersion, and volume) and two microscopic potential crash risks (time to collision and deceleration rate to avoid crash) on safety evaluation for expressways. Methods: Field data were collected at 3 locations for 4 different time periods on an expressway in Beijing, China. The speed of each vehicle, headway time, and vehicle length were recorded by a traffic management system. The 5 safety indicators were thus calibrated on the basis of the collected data. Further, consistency and comparative analyses were applied to assess the performance of indicators. Results: According to the analyses, speed dispersion was a better predictor of the two microscopic potential risks compared to the two macroscopic indicators. Conclusions: Speed dispersion is recommended to proactively assess road safety because (1) it provides consistent risk evaluation with microscopic potential risks and (2) it makes data collection easier. © 2014 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers?
This paper addresses whether there are productivity differences between men and women among blue-collar workers. We compare the wages under pieceand time-rate contracts of men and women working in the same occupation in the same establishment in three countries: the U.S., Norway, and Sweden. The findings are summarized in four points. First, the gender wage gap is smaller under piecethan under time-rate work. According to the interpretation put forth here, two thirds of the gap at the occupationâestablishment level is due to productivity differences, while one third is not "accounted for", but could be due to discrimination or experience or other factors. Productivity differences between sexes in typically male-dominated blue-collar industries are however very small, of 1â3%: Sweden 1%, U.S. 2% and Norway 3%. Second, in age groups where women on average have extensive family obligations, the wage gap is larger than in other age groups. Third, under time-rate work, the wage gap is more or less independent of supposed occupation-based productivity differences between men and women, while under piece-rate work, the wage gap mirrors quite closely assumed productivity differences, with women receiving a wage premium in female-advantageous settings and a penalty in male-advantageous settings. Fourth, in contrast to Sweden, in Norway and the U.S. women sort more often into piece-rate work than men.


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Packaging and High-Temperature Characterization of a 650 V, 150 A eGaN HEMT
In this work, a commercial 650 V, 150 A enchancement mode GaN (eGaN) HEMT from GaN Systems was packaged and characterized for its static properties at temperatures up to 250° C. The eGaN HEMTs studied in this work were purchased from GaN Systems with the part number of GS-065-150-1-D rated at 650 V, 150 A. Copper was the surface finish on all the gate, source, and drain pads, and the backside of the chip was finished with silver.
Fig. 1 is a cross-sectional view of the package design. Silver sintering was used for attaching the device chip on direct-bond-copper substrate, and gold wire-bonding for interconnections. Fig. 2 shows the fabrication process of the high-temperature package.
The packaged device was tested at temperatures up to 250 ° C to determine the effects of temperature on its static characteristics. It survived multiple heating/cooling cycles between room temperature and 250° C as it underwent static testing on a curve tracer. Compared to the characteristics at room temperature, at 250 ° C, the threshold voltage was reduced by about 30%, the saturation current was down below 45% of the rated current, and the leakage current was increased by tens of times.


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Let $\mathbb T^2=(S^1)^2$ be the 2-torus, for convenience. $\def\Imm{\operatorname{Imm}}$ Consider the Frechet manifold of immersion $\Imm(\mathbb T^2, \mathbb R^3)$ and the smooth mapping $R:\Imm(\mathbb T^2,\mathbb R^3)\to C^\infty(\mathbb T^2,\mathbb R^3)$ which is given by $$ R(f) := \partial_x f\times \partial_y f = f_x\times f_y, $$ where $\times$ denotes the vector product. Note that $R(f)$ is the unit normal to $f(\mathbb T^2)$ times the the density function of the area measure, parameterized.
 - Question: Roughly, given $g\in C^\infty(\mathbb T^2,\mathbb R^3)$, can one solve $R(f)=g$ for $f$? Can one reconstruct $f$ from $R(f)=g$ up to translations? Are there local solutions in $\mathbb R^2$? Of course one expects that the image $R$ is at best a codimension 6 submanifold of $C^\infty(\mathbb T^2,\mathbb R^3)$ because of the two periodicity conditions.
The tangent mapping of $R$ is $T_fR.h = f_x\times h_y + h_x \times f_y = f_x\times h_y - f_y\times h_x$. This is not elliptic in $h$. The symbol of $T_fR$ is $$ \sigma(T_fR)(\xi,\eta) = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & \gamma & -\beta \\\\ -\gamma & 0 & \alpha \\\\ \beta & -\alpha & 0 \end{pmatrix} \quad\text{ where }\quad \begin{matrix} \alpha = f^1_y.\xi - f^1_x.\eta \\\\ \beta = f^2_y.\xi - f^2_x.\eta \\\\ \gamma = f^3_y.\xi - f^3_x.\eta \end{matrix}. $$
 - Easier question: Is $T_fR$ injective? Is it surjective onto a codimension 6 linear subspace?
The interest in this problem comes from the fact that variants of $R$ like $f\mapsto |R(f)|^{-1/2}.R(f)$ pull back the flat $L^2$-metric on $C^\infty(\mathbb T^2,\mathbb R^3)$ to a weak Riemannian metric on $\Imm(\mathbb T^2,\mathbb R^3)$ which is invarint under the action of the diffeomorphism group of $\mathbb T^2$.
The related mapping for closed curves has been used successfully here. For the diffeomorphism group of $\mathbb R$ it has been used here.
The related problem for the unit normal for convex surfaces is classically called the Minkowski problem and there are solutions available, see [JFM 34.0649.01 Minkowski, H. Volumen und Oberfläche. (German) Math. Ann. 57, 447-495 (1903)] and [MR0478079 (57 #17572)
Pogorelov, Aleksey Vasilʹyevich. The Minkowski multidimensional problem. Translated from the Russian by Vladimir Oliker. Introduction by Louis Nirenberg. Scripta Series in Mathematics. V. H. Winston & Sons, Washington, D.C.; Halsted Press [John Wiley & Sons], New York-Toronto-London, 1978. 106 pp.]
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By Gauss-Bonnet, the normalization of $R$ is a degree-zero map $\mathbb T^2 \to S^2$. – Ryan Budney Apr 23 '13 at 6:56
It's certainly not always solvable globally on the torus. For example, take $R(f)=w$ to be constant and unit length. Then there are many local solutions, just take any area preserving immersion into a plane perpendicular to $w$. However, since the torus cannot be immersed in the plane, there cannot be a global solution. I have worked out the local solvability in the general case, but I don't have time to write out the solution right now. If I have time later today, I'll do that. – Robert Bryant Apr 23 '13 at 12:27
_USER_: I look forward to your description of the local solvability, many thanks. – Peter Michor Apr 23 '13 at 14:32
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I may have to enter this as a sketch and fill in details later, but I thought that I'd go ahead and get the main ideas out there.
The first thing to notice is that the given problem is equivalent to the problem of solving $\rho(f)=g$ where $\rho:\mathrm{Imm}(T^2,\mathbb{R}^3)\to\Omega^2(T^2,\mathbb{R}^3)$ is the differential operator $$ \rho(f) = f_x\times f_y\ \ dx{\wedge}dy $$ taking values in (nonvanishing) $\mathbb{R}^3$-valued $2$-forms on $T^2$. The advantage of considering $\rho$ instead of $R$ is that $\rho$ is well-defined, independent of coordinates on $T^2$.
The second thing to notice is that the inner product on $\mathbb{R}^3$ is something of a red herring. The cross product is really just the wedge product followed by the orientation-and-metric induced canonical isomorphism between the second exterior power of $\mathbb{R}^3$ and $\mathbb{R}^3$ itself.
Let's undo all this, and consider, instead, a $3$-dimensional vector space $V$ and a surface $\Sigma$ and define an operator $\rho:\mathrm{Imm}(\Sigma,V)\to\Omega^2\bigl(T^2,\Lambda^2(V)\bigr)$ that, in local coordinates $(x,y)$ on $\Sigma$, has the expression $$ \rho(f) = f_x{\wedge}f_y\ \ dx{\wedge}dy. $$
Now we want to ask the question "Given a nonvanishing $\Lambda^2(V)$-valued $2$-form $g$ on a surface $\Sigma$, when can it be written in the form $g = \rho(f)$ for some immersion $f:\Sigma\to V$ and in how many ways?" This question is interesting both locally and globally. Locally, it is three (nonlinear) first-order equations for three unknowns, but, as we shall see, it is highly degenerate, even when $g$ is 'generic', so that, for example, there is no hope of writing it in Cauchy form.
One distinct advantage of formulating the equation in this way is that its full equivariance is manifest. Not only does $\rho$ not depend on a choice of local coordinates on the surface, if $L(v) = Av + b$ is any invertible affine transformation of $V$, then one has $\rho(L\circ f) = \Lambda^2(A)\bigl(\rho(f)\bigr)$. In particular, replacing $g$ by $\Lambda^2(A)(g)$ does not change the problem, which shows that one can use the geometry of linear transformations of $V$ to uncover invariants of $g$ that will determine properties of the solution.
For example, in the (very degenerate) case in which $g$ is a $2$-form that takes values in a line in $\Lambda^2(V)$, one can write $g = e_1{\wedge}e_2\ \Phi$ where $e_1$ and $e_2$ are linearly independent and $\Phi$ is (nonvanishing) $2$-form on $\Sigma$. Then the only possible solutions $f$ to $\rho(f)=g$ are to have $f$ immerse $\Sigma$ into a $2$-plane $P$ parallel to the subspace spanned by $e_1$ and $e_2$ in such a way that it pulls back the volume form on $P$ dual to $e_1{\wedge}e_2$ to be $\Phi$. This is now essentially one equation for two unknowns and is always locally solvable, though there may well be no global solution. This is a trivial special case, though, and doesn't give you any sense of the general case.
On this first pass, I will avoid discussing the singular and intermediate cases and go directly to the 'generic' case, the case in which the projectivization of $g$, i.e., $[g]:\Sigma\to \mathbb{P}\bigl(\Lambda^2(V)\bigr)\simeq\mathbb{RP}^2$ is an immersion. In this case, the problem reduces to either an ellipt


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The sp_EnableTriggers system procedure is used to enable triggers in a database. Triggers can be enabled for the current user or for all users. To enable triggers for the current user, specify empty or NULL strings for ObjectName and Parent and specify FALSE for AllUsers. To enable triggers for all users and all triggers of a database, specify empty or NULL strings for ObjectName and Parent, but specify TRUE for AllUsers. To enable all triggers for a specific table, specify the database table name for ObjectName and NULL or an empty string for Parent. To enable a single trigger, specify the database trigger name for ObjectName and the table name that contains the trigger for Parent. When enabling a single trigger or all triggers for a specific table, the AllUsers flag is ignored. The setting will then affect all database users.
The disabled state of a trigger is determined using the following hierarchy: user, database, table, trigger. This means that the user level disabled state has precedence over the database level. Likewise, the table level disabled state has precedence over the trigger level. Furthermore, the disabled state of a level cannot be altered when a higher level is already disabled. For example, a table's disabled state cannot be altered if triggers are already disabled on the database level. However, this does not apply to the user level in that a user may enable triggers on the database or lower levels despite their current user disabled trigger state.
Changes in the disabled trigger state will take effect immediately. If a user has already begun firing a trigger, the trigger will run as it would normally. However, if a user is in the middle of a recursive trigger or a referential integrity cascade for example, a trigger's disabled state could change in the middle of the overall operation.
Appropriate ALTER permissions are required to enable triggers on the database, table, and trigger levels. For example, ALTER TABLE permissions are required on a table to enable triggers on it. In contrast, no permissions are required for users to enable triggers on themselves.
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How well do you know your hometown's history? Try taking this quiz. Don't worry, this is a fun one. The answers are drawn from material which appeared in the 175 original Hometown History articles since the column was inaugurated in February of 1995.
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1) Shelton was originally a part of ________, a town which was first settled in ____.
a) Stratford, 1717
b) Milford, 1698
c) Stratford, 1639
d) Milford, 1717
2) European settlement began in Shelton around 1700. Which area was the first to be settled?
a) Long Hill
b) Huntington Center
c) downtown Shelton
d) Oronquage Plain.
3) Shelton's oldest church building is
a) Huntington Congregational
b) Shelton Congregational
c) St. Paul's Episcopal
d) White Hills Baptist Church.
4) Shelton's oldest remaining cemetery is
a) Behind St. Paul's
b) Next to White Hills Baptist
c) Lower White Hills on Maple Avenue
d) Long Hill Burial Ground.
5) Shelton's most famous Revolutionary War Hero is
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b) Gen. David Wooster
c) Commodore Isaac Hull
d) Gen. Benedict Arnold
6) Commodore Isaac Hull, who spent his childhood at Huntington Landing, was the famous commander of the USS ________, better known as "Old Ironsides".
7) Huntington Landing is disappeared. It was located on
a) Riverview Park
b) near Indian Well
c) on Riverdale Avenue
d) near Huntington Center
8) Shelton's Civil War Monument is located
a) On Huntington Green
b) On Derby Green
c) On Riverview Park
d) In front of City Hall
9) During its initial development in the 1870s, the downtown was called
a) West Birmingham
d) All of the above
10) The most pivotal event in 1870 was
a) Building a new covered bridge over the river
b) Building the Ousatonic Dam and canal
c) The elimination of the toll booths on the Huntington (Rte. 108) and Wells Hollow (Bridgeport Ave.) Turnpikes
d) The catching of a 145 lb. sturgeon in the Housatonic
e) All of the Above
11) Pine Rock Park was originally conceived as
a) a balloon launching site
b) a tuberculosis clinic
c) a nature preserve
d) an amusement park
12) White Hills' Lincoln Spruce, is so named because
a) it was planted the day President Lincoln was inaugurated
b) it was planted the day President Lincoln was assassinated
c) a family named Lincoln lived nearby
d) it was planted on Lincoln Day
13) Shelton is named after
a) Daniel Shelton
b) Sheltonshire, England
c) Dr. Gould Shelton
d) Edward N. Shelton
14) Clarence Chamberlin was buried at Lawn Cemetery in 1976. He is best known as
a) the first person to fly across the Atlantic with a passenger
b) author of the best selling novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
c) A long-time missionary to China
d) One of the organizers of the Smithsonian Institution
15) 1975 is best known for
a) The firebombing of Sponge Rubber Plant 4
b) The Shelton Teachers' Strike
c) The opening of the new Route 8 expressway
d) The dedication of the new Shelton High School
e) A helicopter crash in Huntington
f) All of the Above
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My last blog introduced the idea of using Microsoft Visual Studio Code to work with Power BI Models. For this article, I build on that idea by showing how you can use a TOM based script to automatically generate measures in your model Power BI (or Azure Analysis Services) model.
For simplicity, the example in this blog will do the following:
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This study examines student teaching of elementary teacher preparation programs in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the United States of America (USA). Two programs comparable in program design, course requirements and goals were selected for exploration. The key aspects that were studied about student teaching include its unit ratio in a program, features of placements, written work by student teachers and evaluation. Findings indicate that these programs share the same basic elements related to student teaching but differences exist in student teaching sequence, focus on candidates' practice to assume teaching responsibilities, participation in evaluation and level of peer interaction. The PRC program places an emphasis on teamwork of candidates and makes them active evaluators in a three-step sequence including mock mini lessons. The USA candidates are required to gain considerably more field and teaching experience in duration and number of lessons to teach cross multiple subjects. They also reflect on their practices regularly in addition to fulfilling other credential requirements beyond the program. Educational implications are discussed regarding the characteristics of the programs in an international context.
Student Teaching Practice in Two Elementary Teacher Preparation Programs.
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Of course, different racial minorities experienced the 1950s in ways that were at least somewhat different from one another. We can generally say, however, that minorities experienced the 1950s as a more negative time than whites did.
The most prominent minority group in the US during the 1950s was African Americans. During this decade, they were still experiencing much discrimination. This was the decade of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the harshly negative reaction among whites to the integration of the high school in Little Rock. Things went beyond mere discrimination as well. This was also the decade in which Emmett Till was killed for talking to a white woman the wrong way.
Hispanics and Native Americans also experienced the 1950s negatively in some ways. This was the decade in which the federal government was willing to try to deport large numbers of illegal immigrants and felt that it was appropriate to name the program "Operation Wetback." Native Americans suffered in this decade as the government tried to pursue a policy called "termination" that was meant to disband Indian tribes and force Indians to assimilate into mainstream society.
Thus, while not all minorities experienced the '50s in the same ways, minorities generally had a poorer experience in this decade than whites did.
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 1. A technique used in behaviour therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
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In the realm of nutritional supplements, one name has been making waves in recent times, promising a "Red Boost" in the realm of male sexual health. The Red Boost Supplement has garnered attention for its claim to offer a host of benefits, particularly in addressing various aspects of male sexual health. This article explores what makes Red Boost unique, delving into its natural composition, and how it can help men combat internal disorders that may be adversely affecting their sexual health and overall well-being.
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Red Boost is distinctive in its approach to addressing the root causes of poor sexual performance. One of the major culprits behind diminished male sexual health is oxidative stress. This silent assailant wreaks havoc on the body's cells and contributes to a host of health issues, including poor sexual performance. Red Boost Supplement takes a bold step in combating oxidative stress, which sets it apart from many other supplements in the market.
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Outdoor 2021
One of the most distinctive symbols of the Biennale is the Outdoor section, the beating heart of the event with monumental cardboard sculptures. The works are made during a residence in which the chosen artists are hosted for a month in Lucca, to realize his monumental sculpture. The artists hosted, meet daily in a workshop where they have at their disposal the material, equipment and all the support they need in order to realize their artistic vision. This opportunity allows to compare the different cultures and technical knowledge of each artist.
At the beginning of the event the works are located in the beautiful squares of Lucca, becoming a real wonderful attraction for all visitors to the city.
The call for the 10th Edition of Lucca Biennale includes as its theme "Fear and Desire", a dualism studied and developed by artists to give life to unique works. For 2021 there are 6 artists selected from all over the world. Curious to know them? Find out who they are!
 - Claudio Acuña
 Claudio Acuña
 First of all, movement
 Claudio Acuña Jiménez is a Designer, Artist and University professor. His works stand out for using paper and its derivatives as a support, studying and perfecting the technique of origami and sculpture, He has developed his own techniques highlighting paper and its possibilities, becoming recognizable. In 2010, he created the "Paper Factory" Project as a way of creating large-scale projects in public spaces, with the theme of representing the human being and his life in society.
 ARTWORK: The work to be done at the Lucca Biennale is a large-format installation, which will invite reflection on social behavior; that forces us to take a side when making decisions and how those decisions when multiplied are those that generate movements, which define the ways of life today.
 Claudio Acuña
 - TOMA!
 The Amazon
 María Dolores del Sol Ontalba & Antonio Nardozzi collaborate on both research in the field of architecture and in the analysis of complex geometries and technics through TOMA!, a building workshop where most of their work is based on the application of experimental concepts to design and architecture at any scale. Backed by their distinct paths and various experiences, in a continuous exchange and confrontation, they try to enrich each other by encouraging further common thinking. Over the years, TOMA! [team of manufacturers architects] allowed them to share ideas and points of view on architecture and the most urgent social issues related to it.
 ARTWORK: The work presented for Lucca Biennale 2021, shows a large forest where we find that trees are made from the remains of cardboard boxes. Fear and desire coexist together in a small artificial forest. Those boxes that populate our homes and we can't wait to open, often contain objects of desire induced by consumerism and advertisements, superfluous objects protected by a precious material such as paper. In the current scenario of deforestation and strong climatic changes, the amazon wants to make people think about the thin thread that binds desire and fear, consumption and pollution, useful and useless.
 - Papier Atelier
 Papier Atelier
 The Paper Atelier is an artistic duo composed by Türker Akman, who studied architecture and Deniz Yılmaz Akman who instead studied sociology. Together, they are creating paper sculptures and installations.
 ARTWORK: While thinking about the theme "Fear&Desire", the story of "1001 Nights" appeared in their minds. And focused on Shahryar's dilemma about the fear of being cheated on and the desire to hear the end of the never-ending tales of Scheherazade. They decided to reflect this in-between situation with a wire walker scene. The fear of falling down and desire to hear the end of the tales push Shahryar to walk across the wire. The artists want to reflect on two different fear factors with this piece. Firstly, the character's hardly balancing posture will reflect the fear of falling. Secondly, the viewer's fear of passing under the massive looking sculpture.
 Papier Atelier
 - Sebastian Blomqvist
 Sebastian Blomqvist
 Crossing borders
 The artist have been experimenting with cardboard and papier mâché as a sculpting medium for about eight years. He has evolved a strong interest in exploring architecture and the anatomy of the human body using only cardboard these days.
 ARTWORK: For Lucca Biennale 2021 he will build a bull, using architectural elements existing in the city of Lucca to emphasize the story that has inspired him: the greek myth of Europa. Europa was a princess, in what is now Syria and Lebanon. In the myth, Zeus, disguised as a bull, takes the princess across the Mediterranean sea, hence creating the cultural seed that has become the western civilisation. Europa was in a way a refugee, escaping the rage of the goddess Hera, and the bull as the vessel that made her journey possible. The artist find interesting, the way that the myth reminds us today about the refugees making the same journey to the ports of Europe.
 Sebastian Blomqvist
 - Ankon Mitra
 Ankon Mitra
 Clouds of illusion
 Ankon Mitra is an architect and artist of international repute. Recipient of the All-India Gold Medal for Sculpture in 2018 and the Lexus Design Award for Craft Design in 2020, his work has been exhibited in India, Italy, France, UK, USA, Japan and most recently the Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale in 2019. He is a finalist at the Arte Laguna in Venice, a TEDx speaker and a warrior for'making connections across disciplines', with 'Oritecture = Origami + Architecture', Mitra shares a unique vision of a universe forming and dissolving from acts of folding. He is also a recipient of the Outdoor Award of Lucca Biennale in the previous edition of 2018.
 ARTWORK: The work that will be presented at the Biennale 2021 represents a cloud made of money that floats over our entire living existence. We never got rid of it; almost nothing we do is spared from the power and influence of these clouds. It is the oil that moves human civilization. Viewers walk through a dense forest of clouds made of money, immersed and lost in illusion, not realizing that money has taken their imagination completely, and has become the most important element that feeds reality.
 Ankon Mitra
 - Amber Dohrenwend
 Amber Dohrendwend
 Sleep Walker
 Amber Dohrenwend is an American artist based in Tokyo, Japan. She constructs post-consumer cardboard sculptures, costuming and installations with soft, organic curves and textures. Her technique transmits a feeling of transparency and levity through the cardboard and the material is unexpectedly transformed from something flat and lifeless into something much warmer and more alive. She sees cardboard as the perfect medium for creating objects that can exist in a moment, meet people where they are, and then be reduced to material again.
 ARTWORK: For the Biennale she has created a work titled, "Sleep walker," which imagines form and movement in the space that exist between the extremes of fear and desire.
 Amber Dohrenwend
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Proof that $\sqrt[3]{3}$ (Just need a check)
Let $\sqrt[3]{3}= \frac{a}{b}$ both a,b are integers of course. $\Rightarrow 3=\frac{a^{3}}{b^{3}}$ $\Rightarrow$ $3b^{3}=a^{3}$ $\Rightarrow$ 3b=a $\Rightarrow$ $3b^{3}=27b^{3}$ and this is a contradiction because the cubing function is a 1-1 function. Does this work?
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Why is that $3b = a$? – Makoto Kato Sep 27 '12 at 5:10
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No, $3b^3=a^3$ does not imply that $a=3b$. In fact if $a=3b$, then $a^3=(3b)^3=3^3b^3=27b^3$. What $3b^3=a^3$ does imply is that $3\mid a^3$, which then further implies that $3\mid a$. Then you have $a=3m$ for some integer $m$, and $3b^3=a^3=(3m)^3=27m^3$. Divide through by $3$ to get $b^3=9m^3$. Now $3\mid b^3$; what does this tell you about $b$? If you had begun by assuming (as you certainly may) that $\frac{a}b$ was in lowest terms, how would this be a contradiction?
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Let $n \ge 2$ be an integer. Let $m \ge 2$ be a square free integer. I claim that $\sqrt[n]{m}$ is irrational. The claim that $\sqrt[3]{3}$ is irrational follows immediately.
Suppose $\sqrt[n]{m} = \frac{a}{b}$, where gcd$(a, b) = 1$. Then $b^n m = a^n$. Let $p$ be a prime number such that $p|m$. Since $p|a^n, p|a$. Hence $p^n|a^n$. Since $m$ is square free, $p^{n-1}|b^n$. Since $n \ge 2, p|b^n$. Hence $p|b$. Since gcd$(a, b) = 1$, this is a contradiction.
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Below are a few ways to prove $\,3^{1/3}\,$ is irrational.
By the Rational Root Test, any rational root of $\rm\:x^3 - 3\:$ is an integer, contradiction.
$\rm\,3^{1/3} = a/b\:\Rightarrow\: a^3 = 3b^3\, $ contra unique factorization: the number of $3$'s in $\rm\,a^3\,$ is a multiple of $3$, versus one more than a multiple of $3$ in $\rm\,3b^3.$
Irrationality proofs for cube roots follow from irrationality proofs for square roots!
This inductive proof generalizes to higher-degree.
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Supposing $\sqrt[3]{3}$ is a rational solution of an equation, we can assume $x=\sqrt[3]{3}$ and $x^3=3$. But $x^3=3 \Rightarrow x^3-3 =0$. The rational-root theorem tells us that for a polynomial $f(x) = a_nx^n + a_{n−1}x^{n−1} + \ldots + a_1x + a_0$ all of whose coefficients ($a_n$ through $a_0$) are integers, the real rational roots are always of the form $\frac{p}{q}$, where $p$ is an integer divisor of $a_0$ and $q$ is an integer divisor of $a_n$. In this equation the possible rational roots could be $3,-3,1,-1$ and there wasn't any $\sqrt[3]{3}$. So $\sqrt[3]{3}$ is an irrational number.
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A living museum is a type of museum which recreates historical settings to simulate past time periods, providing visitors with an experiential interpretation of history. It is a type of museum that recreates to the fullest extent conditions of a culture, natural environment or historical period. Sometimes, a drama performing group of historical reenactment of historical scenes in historical buildings is considered as a living museum.
Comparison with open-air museum
An open-air museum is a special kind of a living museum. In a living museum, a visitor is using their senses. The objective is total immersion, designing exhibits so that visitors can experience the specific culture, environment or historical period using all the physical senses: sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. In an open-air museum, the exhibits are shown outside buildings, especially collections of houses, buildings, machines, rails etc. An open-air museum can be also a living museum, but this is not necessarily the case.
Authenticity and living history museums
A major concern at living history museums is the idea of authenticity. Living historians define authenticity as perfect simulation between a living history activity and the piece of the past it is meant to re-create. A major difference between living history museums and other historical interpretation is that at living history sites, the interpretation is usually given in the first-person present, versus the third-person past narratives given at other sites. Living history museums seek to convey to visitors the experience of what it felt like to live in the past. Critics of living history museums argue that replication of past states of mind is impossible, and therefore living history is inherently inaccurate.
- "The Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums". Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- Handler, Richard; William Saxton (August 1988). "Dyssimulation: Reflexivity, Narrative, and the Quest for Authenticity in "Living History"". Cultural Anthropology 3 (3): 242. doi:10.1525/can.1988.3.3.02a00020. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
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PhilosophyI've worked with dozens of rest API's and also created a few. Some conventions are very simple and easy, some are complex.
When creating an API you have three players to think about:
- The developer (probably you)
- The client developer
- The end user
The developer (you)You are your own client, and so are the developers that will inherit and maintain your code. Creating a self-explanatory API means making it easily expandable.
If you are developing a service layer or a controller layer, I suggest adding their name to the path, right after the host:
For the same reason, immediately after, put the short name of the function that handles the parameters:
The client developerIf you only had the client on your mind, using query parameters for everything would be the best choice, their order is non-abiding and they are all optional. But this will require creation of a special function for navigating to the right controller and make it imparseable to the user.
The end userIf you were only to think about the end user, you would probably use very few query parameters (e.g. id=123) and mostly path sections (e.g. photo/id/123). Path sections are cleaner looking and use one simple delimiter character ("/"), so users have an easier time navigating your API. But this is where user simplicity ends, and developers' complexity begins:
- Using a path for dynamic data like a user's id could cause some trouble:
- if the function can handle a null value
- if it includes special characters.
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TOOLS: First Steps in CraftShare on LinkedIn
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In the process of mastering techniques, for making gift items, three tools are vital:
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Dust from Syria blows along the course of the Euphrates River into Iraq in this natural-color image from June 18, 2010. The web of green that surrounds the river is only faintly visible through the veil of light-colored dust.
The dust appears to be coming from salt pans or dry lakes in northern Syria, west of the Euphrates River. Visible only in the large, full-resolution image, the salt pans are lighter in color than the surrounding desert. Salt pans form in desert regions when water evaporates from a lake, leaving behind fine silt and minerals. Wind easily lifts the light, loose silt. Salt pans are among the most frequent sources of wind-blown dust in the world.
Some of the dust may also be coming from dry areas along the Euphrates River. Drought decimated the region, shrinking the river in 2008 and 2009. Regardless of good rains in the winter of 2009-2010, some areas along the river are probably still dry and prone to dust storms.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image on June 18, 2010. The large image is the highest-resolution version of the image. The image is available in additional resolutions from the MODIS Rapid Response Team.
- al-Hasani, S. (2010, June 4). Baghdad urged to tackle water crisis. Institute for War and Peace Reporting, published on ReliefWeb. Accessed June 18, 2010.


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Thank goodness we have mathematics to solve the world's most pressing dilemmas, such as "What's the speed of light?" and "How do I make the world's tastiest pancakes?" Dr. Ruth Fairclough, a mathematics professor at Wolverhampton University, set out to solve the latter problem, and has now unveiled her formula for the perfect pancake—coincidentally, just in time for International Pancake Day.
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Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A prickly West Indian gourd whose immature fruit is pickled. 2. A small pickled cucumber.
Notes: Today's Good Word is a curiosity: one of a very few English words beginning with GH. The H, of course, is irrelevant, a'silent' H. Its oddness is probably responsible for the fact that it is a lexical orphan, without related derivations.
In Play: Moms, here is how you can spice up your discussions with your children using today's word: "Aha! Caught you jerking a gherkin out of the jar! Put it back or you'll ruin your dinner." There isn't much room in this word's meaning for metaphor, so we are stuck with its literal meaning: "I wouldn't insult my guest with gherkins on their hamburgers; I serve only large dills."
Word History: This English word is the result of mistaking Dutch gurken, the plural of gurk "cucumber", as a singular form. The Dutch word is a shortened form of agurk, borrowed from a Slavic language, either Polish ogorek or Russian ogurec. The Slavs probably got their word from late Greek angourion "watermelon". The Greeks may have taken the word from Persian angarah or aguron, but no one knows for sure. (We might have been in a pickle had Jackie Strauss not provided us with this Good Word when she did.)
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Helen Steiner Rice's poem "When I Must Leave You" gives her loved ones instructions for living on after the speaker's death – to be happy and smile, to be useful and active instead of giving into loneliness, and to wait to be reunited in the afterlife. The poem is example of her inspirational occasional verse dealing with the death of a loved one.Continue Reading
Known as the poet laureate of inspirational verse, Helen Steiner Rice often wrote of deep religious faith, briefly alluded to in the phrase, "For a little while" in the second line of the poem. This dovetails with the closing lines of the poem, "And never, never / Be afraid to die, / For I am waiting for you in the sky!" – references to loved ones reunited after death in heaven.
Following in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti – author of such devotional poems as "When I Am Dead, My Dearest " and "Remember" – Rice's speaker hopes that her survivors don't mourn long, asking that they not "shed wild tears / And hug your sorrow to you / Through the years." Instead, the speaker asks for her sake that they "live on and do / All things the same," and on days when they're feeling lonely for her, stay busy and be productive to honor her life.Learn more about Poetry


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A fried egg is a food made from an egg fried whole with minimal accompaniment. They are traditionally eaten for breakfast, lunch or tea in English-speaking countries, but may be eaten at other times of the day in other cultures. Fried eggs are distinguished from other forms of eggs cooked in a frying pan, such as scrambled eggs and omelettes, in that the white and yolk are kept distinct rather than beaten or mixed together.
In 1991, Harry Potter was in charge of frying the eggs for Dudley Dursleys birthday. In 1992, Vernon Dursley had remains of fried eggs in his moustache while he was yelling at Harry. Later that year, Ron commented "You could have fried an egg on your face. You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter Fan Club," after seeing Harry's reaction to his singing Valentine from Ginny.


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|The SEQDESIGN Procedure|
|Summary of Methods in Group Sequential Designs|
There are three different types of methods available in the SEQDESIGN procedure: fixed boundary shape methods for specified boundary shape, Whitehead methods for boundaries from continuous monitoring, and error spending methods for specified error spending at each stage.
The fixed boundary shape methods include unified family methods and Haybittle-Peto methods. The unified family methods include Pocock, O'Brien-Fleming, power family, and triangular methods.
Pocock derives the constant boundary on the standardized scale to demonstrate the sequential design while maintaining the overall and levels (Pocock 1977). The resulting boundary tends to stop the trials early with a larger -value. This boundary is commonly called a Pocock boundary, but Pocock himself does not advocate these boundary values for stopping a trial early to reject the null hypothesis, because large -values might not be persuasive enough (Pocock and White 1999). Also, the nominal -value at the final stage is much smaller than the overall -value of the design. That is, the trial might stop at the final stage with a small nominal -value, but the test is not rejected, which might not be easy to justify.
O'Brien-Fleming boundary values are inversely proportional to the square root of information levels on the standardized scale (O'Brien and Fleming 1979). The O'Brien-Fleming boundary is conservative in the early stages and tends to stop the trials early only with a small -value. But the nominal value at the final stage is close to the overall -value of the design.
The power family method (Wang and Tsiatis 1987; Emerson and Fleming 1989; Pampallona and Tsiatis 1994) generalizes the Pocock and O'Brien-Fleming methods with a power parameter to allow continuous movement between the Pocock and O'Brien-Fleming methods. The power parameter is for the Pocock method and for the O'Brien-Fleming method.
The unified family triangular method (Kittelson and Emerson 1999) contains straight-line boundaries on the score scale. For a one-sided trial with early stopping either to reject and to accept the null hypothesis, the method produces a triangular continuation region. The boundary shape is specified with the slope parameter.
The unified family method (Kittelson and Emerson 1999) extends power family methods to incorporate the triangular method, which contains straight-line boundaries on the score scale.
The Haybittle-Peto method (Haybittle 1971; Peto et al. 1976) uses a value of for the critical values in interim stages and derives the critical value at the final stage. With this method, the final-stage critical value is close to the original design without interim monitoring. The SEQDESIGN procedure extends this method further to allow for different or nominal -values for the boundaries.
Whitehead methods (Whitehead and Stratton 1983; Whitehead 1997, 2001) derive the boundary values by adapting the continuous monitoring tests to the discrete monitoring of group sequential tests. With early stopping to reject or accept the null hypothesis in a one-sided test, the derived continuation region has a triangular shape on the score-scaled boundaries. Only elementary calculations are needed to derive the boundary values in Whitehead's triangular methods. The resulting Type I error probability and power are extremely close but differ slightly from the specified values due to the approximations used in deriving the tests (Jennison and Turnbull 2000, p. 106). The SEQDESIGN procedure provides the BOUNDARYKEY= option to adjust the boundary value at the final stage for the exact Type I or Type II error probability levels.
The error spending method uses the specified and errors to be used at each stage of the design to derive the boundary values.
The error spending function method uses the error spending function to compute the and errors to be used at each stage of the design and then to derive the boundary values for these errors. The following four error spending functions are available in the SEQDESIGN procedure:
The Pocock-type error spending function (Lan and DeMets 1983) produces boundaries similar to those produced with Pocock's method.
The O'Brien-Fleming-type error spending function (Lan and DeMets 1983) produces boundaries similar to those produced with the O'Brien-Fleming method.
The gamma error spending function (Hwang, Shih, and DeCani 1990) specifies a gamma cumulative error spending function indexed by the gamma parameter. The boundaries created with are similar to the boundaries from the Pocock method, and the boundaries created with or are similar to the boundaries from the O'Brien-Fleming method.
The power error spending function (Jennison and Turnbull 2000, p. 148) specifies a power cumulative error spending function indexed by the power parameter. The boundaries created with are similar to the boundaries from the Pocock method, and the boundaries created with are similar to the boundaries from the O'Brien-Fleming method.


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The Cystatin C with eGFR test contains 1 test with 2 biomarkers.
To screen for and monitor kidney dysfunction in those with known or suspected kidney disease. Cystatin C is a relatively small protein that is produced throughout the body by all cells that contain a nucleus and is found in a variety of body fluids, including the blood. It is produced, filtered from the blood by the kidneys, and broken down at a constant rate. This test measures the amount of cystatin C in blood to help evaluate kidney function.Cystatin C is filtered out of the blood by the glomeruli, clusters of tiny blood vessels in the kidneys that allow water, dissolved substances, and wastes to pass through their walls while retaining blood cells and larger proteins. What passes through the walls of the glomeruli forms a filtrate fluid. From this fluid, the kidneys reabsorb cystatin C, glucose, and other substances. The remaining fluid and wastes are carried to the bladder and excreted as urine. The reabsorbed cystatin C is then broken down and is not returned to the blood.


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- You want to learn how to import Polar data to a CoachMePlus user.
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- You want to save time and spend more time with your athletes by inputting all data into one system and generate reports instantaneously.
Importing Polar Data into CoachMePlus:
This article will demonstrate how to import your Polar data to the CoachMePlus system.
Here is a sample Polar spreadsheet:
The boxed area is where you will find the Unique Polar Identifier/Alias. The data contains the Athlete's Full Name and the dates of the information collected. To learn how to add an Polar user, click here.
Here is the required Polar date format for import into CoachMePlus:
Step One: On the homepage, click on Data Tools => Devices => Polar => Import on the menu on the lefthand side. For this example, we will import Polar Team 3 (Pro).
Step Two: You will be brought to a the Import Tool to start your import. Choose the file you would like to import by clicking on the Upload File button.
Step Three: Select the file you would like to import to the system. After you have selected the file, click Open.
Step Four: The file will appear on the page ready for you to save.
Step Five: You will then be brought to the Import Template page. Select Next.
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'Trial by Google' the new threat to privacy, Leveson warns
Trial by media? Trial by Google is the real threat to privacy, Lord Justice Brian Leveson told a Sydney audience today -- fresh from delivering his media ethics report to the UK government.
"There is not only a danger of trial by Twitter, but also of an unending punishment, and no prospect of rehabilitation, via Google," warned Lord Justice Brian Leveson in Sydney this morning.
"Instances of naming and shaming are relatively commonplace. It takes but a minute to record someone doing something in a public place and to upload it up to the internet. Once on the internet the episode, the behaviour, is there for the world to see and is there permanently at the click of a mouse."
The resulting harm can be "both permanent and disproportionate".
"Children and the young do not appreciate that uploading a compromising photograph for a laugh can have consequences for the long term future because once the photograph is in the public domain, it can be found, copied and reproduced," he said.
Leveson was giving the keynote address to today's "Privacy in the 21st Century" symposium, organised by the Communications Law Centre at the University of Technology Sydney. He set his warning in an historical context.
The gossip-filled "penny press" of 1830s England, the tabloids of their day, were wildly popular and seen as a threat to members of society. So were the emerging technologies such as the telephone, the wiretap and photography. But in time the excesses of the new media operations were reined in by new laws and new social norms.
"In many ways we've been here before," Leveson said. But he also also saw key differences when it came to the internet.
While newspapers and other traditional news media might push the boundaries when it comes to invading privacy, they're generally held in check by commercial pressures as much as the law, said Leveson. Not so for the internet.
"With some exceptions for bloggers who carry advertising and tweeters who are sponsored, online bloggers or tweeters are not subject to the financial incentives which affect the print media, and which would persuade the press not to overstep society's values and ethical standards. Equally, there is a view that blogging or tweeting is publication without responsibility or accountability and that, in this sense, the internet is beyond the reach of the law," he said.
Leveson pointed to the 2011 "super-injunction spring" in England and Wales, when interim injunctions were granted prohibiting the disclosure of both the substantive content of the injunction and the very existence of the injunction itself. Traditional media complied. Bloggers and tweeters didn't.
"Rumour and speculation regarding the number of such injunctions was rife. Twitter in particular and various blogs circulated and discussed names of individuals who were said to have obtained such injunctions. Names of various celebrities swirled around the internet," he said.
"Bloggers rejoice in placing their servers outside the jurisdiction where different laws apply."
But internet users are not actually beyond the reach of the law, Leveson said, citing as examples the prosecution of individuals involved in the UK's autumn 2011 riots, and Twitter users being sued for defamation for wrongly identifying someone as a p-edophile.
"Given that the internet is not entirely out of the law's reach it is likely in time that, as with the media in the 19th century, it will start to have an effect in individuals' behaviour. It will start to modulate behaviour, and curb its wilder excesses. Time and proper application of the law will play the same role for the internet as it has done in all other areas of our lives. It will shape our behaviour and help to reinforce social norms," Leveson said.
"This is not to say that social norms may not change over time. Our view of what is, for instance, private information may change. Our view of privacy may change. I imagine though that individuals will always seek to preserve some degree of privacy and will seek the law's protection to protect it."
Leveson did not comment on his recent report on media ethics to the UK government. "I treat the report as a judgement, and a judgement must speak for itself," he said.
The symposium continues this afternoon.
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 1. Peter Shute
 And he is correct but will face the fury of many in the media, tech writers, bloggers and such who believe they have the freedom to name, shame or invent conspiracies often citing each other as 'evidence'.
 Witness the McAlpine falsehoods that jumped the shark where mainstream media began to parrot and dip their toes into David Icke's weird conspiracy claims that say the royal family are reptilian devil worshippers running a pedo ring.
 The MSM is floundering to such an extent that today we have press agent arrested in the UK in the Jimmy Savile matter- a man who sold stories about another infamous one arrested in the same matters,to the mainly Murdoch tabloids.
 But bloggers and their media supporters rejoice in corporate entities like Google, Twitter, Facebook and the rest who base themselves off-shore, pay minimal tax and suck the life out of advertising revenues.
 Far from freedom, the advent of the internet and Google with the falsehood that somehow it is free and uncontrolled, hastens fascist style control.
 2. John Bennetts
 What is privacy? Where did it come from? Who has privacy and who has not? What is the social cost of privacy, and what is the social benefit?
 I imagine that out there somewhere, there are well considered books on this subject.
 In trisecretsbal life, privacy is close to zero. Everybody knows everybody else's actions – or soon will, especially if they are antisocial.
 In pre-industrial society, privacy was more or less available to the upper classes but not to the remainder of the population. The lord of the manor had secrets, mistresses: privacy for the few, it could be argued, came at the expense of the many whose circumstances limited privacy to the basics.
 So, is privacy a right or a construct? Wgere does it start and how much privacy is too much? Is privacy a universal right?
 In an increasingly open and communicative world, with millions of public security cameras and digital recognition software, cross-matched files of personal tax, finance, education and social matters, what forms of privacy are essential?
 Last, why is it an invasion of privacy when a royal lass has her upper torso photographed or a prince has his bottom published for all to see but is not an issue when millions of others, similarly disrobed, are photographed by others annually? Did they not disrobe voluntarily?
 Putting modern laws aside, what ethical, moral and philosophical issues are at foot regarding the history and practice of privacy in modern, electronic, Western society?
 Where is the intellectually rigorous book on the subject?
 3. John Bennetts
 trisecretsbal = tribal, sorry. Typo.
 4. Kaye Uiterwyk
 The dream of a "free" internet is finished. It was a liberal geeky dream that had its origins in the vaguely-hippy-communal-freethinking culture of the 60s and 70s. Now "free" has become a Trojan Horse. Advertising and data mining pays for everything. Bloggers are as beholden to their advertisers as old media. More beholden because there's so much more competition for the advertising dollar. Old media had a monopoly on the production and distribution of media. So it had the luxury of separating editorial from advertising. On-line media doesn't have this clout. There are thousands and thousands of blogs recycling the same old rubbish. So much for diversity. Somebody or something has to pay the bills. Journalism, in print and on-line, is at its lowest ebb. We need to start paying for things. We'll only have a free press when we start coughing up some our hard-earned to pay for it.
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Chapter, Toward a More Fully Reflexive Feminist Geography, authored by Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, UNO faculty member.
This is the first feminist geography text devoted to methodology and provides a basic framework for students wishing to undertake gendered work in the discipline. Accessible yet intellectually challenging, it encourages readers to take on, think about, and do feminist research in geography and offers practical suggestions for going about it.
The text comprises original contributions from feminist geographers around the world who address all aspects of the research process from choosing a topic and designing a project, through to conducting interviews, doing cross-cultural ethnographic research and analysing data. The varied backgrounds of the contributors illustrate the powerful impact feminist geographers are having on research, both in geography and in feminism. The book also features substantial pedagogical material, developed with students in the classroom, and including discussion questions, group project initiatives, research project topics, and suggestions for practical research activities.
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Finding the minimum information for passenger lists
To find the name of the port of exit on a passenger list, you must at least know the individual's full name and the approximate date of arrival. However, the more information you know, the better. For example, if you know the individual's nationality or the port of arrival, you will be able to narrow down your search. If you do not have the minimum information to find a passenger list, you can either:
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Knowing the port of entry may help you find the passenger list that you need. Contact the state archives or National Archives branch in the vicinity of the port of entry and find out what type of ship arrival records they have for that port. Once you know the names and dates of ships that came through the port of entry, you can begin looking up passenger lists under various ship names. You don't have to look up the lists for all of the ships that came through that port, but only for those that came from a likely port of exit and arrived on the date you think your ancestor entered the country. Eventually, you may come across the passenger list that contains your ancestor's name.
If you don't know the port of entry, then you can make some educated guesses. For example, many people moved hundreds of miles away from their port of entry, but others stayed in the general area. If you can make an educated guess, you at least have a possible place to start looking for passenger lists. If you don't know exactly where an individual lived when they arrived in the United States, you may be able to take a guess at it by finding out where they were at other points in their life. For example, where did they get married? Where were their children born? Where did they die? Where were they at the time of each census? The answers to these questions may help you out. For assistance finding any of this information, return to the main Step-by-Step topic.
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If you know that your ancestor departed from Hamburg, you should check the departure records that are available through the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The departure records for Hamburg are indexed by year from _PHONE_, and usually give the individual's town or village of residence in Europe.
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Communications of the ACM, 39(3), March, 1996.
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Next: Nested Data-Parallelism and NESL Up: Work and Depth Previous: Why Work and Depth?
Relationship of Work and Depth to Running Time
Work and depth can be viewed as the running time of an algorithm at two limits: one processor (work) and an unlimited number of processors (depth). In fact, the complexities are often referred to as tex2html_wrap_inline1665 and tex2html_wrap_inline1667. In practice, however, we want to know the running time for some fixed number of processors. A simple but important result of Brent [9] showed that knowing the two limits is good enough to place reasonable bounds on running time for any fixed number of processors. In particular he showed that if we know that a computation has work W and depth D then it will run with P processors in time T such that
This result makes some assumptions about communication and scheduling costs, but the equation can be modified if these assumptions change. For example, with a machine that has a memory latency of L (the time between making a remote request and receiving the reply), the equation is tex2html_wrap_inline1679.
Let's return to the example of summing. Brent's equation along with our previous analysis of work and depth (W = n-1, D = log2 n) tell us that n numbers can be summed on P processors within the time bounds
For example 1,000,000 elements can be summed on 1000 processors in somewhere between 1000 ( tex2html_wrap_inline1687 ) and 1020 ( tex2html_wrap_inline1689 ) cycles, assuming we count one cycle per addition. For many parallel machines models, such as the PRAM or a set of processors connected by a hypercube network, this is indeed the case. To implement the addition, we could assign 1000 elements to each processor and sum them, which would take 999 cycles. We could then sum across the processors using a tree of depth tex2html_wrap_inline1691, so the total number of add cycles would be 1009, which is within our bounds.
Communication Costs
A problem with using work and depth as cost measures is that they do not directly account for communication costs and can lead to bad predictions of running time on machines where communication is a bottleneck. To address this question, let's separate communication costs into two parts: latency, as defined above, and bandwidth, the rate at which a processor can access memory. If we assume that each processor may have multiple outstanding requests, then latency is not a problem. In particular, latency can be accounted for in the mapping of the work and depth into time for a machine (see above), and the simulation remains work-efficient ( i.e. the processor-time product is proportional to the total work). This is based on hiding the latency by using few enough processors such that on average each processor has multiple parallel tasks (threads) to execute, and therefore has plenty to do while waiting for replies. Bandwidth is a more serious problem. For machines where the bandwidth between processors is very much less than the bandwidth to the local memory, work and depth by themselves will not in general give good predictions of running time. However, the network bandwidth available on recent parallel machines, such as the Cray T3D and SGI Power Challenge, is high enough to give reasonable predictions, and we expect the situation only to improve with rapidly improving network technology.
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Mother Knows Best?
What makes the best mother? Is it a mother who is completely dedicated to her children and will defend them at all costs or one who is supportive, letting their children make their own decisions, even if they are mistakes? The answer is not easy because there are all types of good mothers that share a mix of these qualities. Unfortunately the answer is even harder when talking about the animal kingdom. For many animal mothers, rearing offspring can seem to be more about keeping the species strong, then being what a human would consider a good mother.
This brings me to the subject of bad mothering. How can we determine what makes an animal a good parent if their unusual actions helps makes them a successful species. Acts that may seem atrocious to humans like infanticide or the mistreatment of unsuccessful offspring may be what makes their species successful.
None the less, as humans, we still consider their mothering practices as offensive. Here is a list of some of the most offensive yet interesting mothers in the animal kingdom.
Happy Mother's Day!
Everyone's favorite classroom pet is well known for eating their babies. First-time hamster mothers will eat their babies if they feel intimated by the babies or if the babies are undersized/ abnormal. Hamster owners are advised not to touch a hamster's litter for the first two weeks or the mother hamster will eat or ignore her babies
Dracula Ant
Dracula ants practice "non-destructive cannibalism". The queen and her workers chew holes into larvae in order to feed on the haemolyph for its nutritional value. Larvae act not only a potential next generation but also as a food source.
Giant Panda
It is common for panda to give birth to twins even if they only have the resources to take care of one. In the wild the mother panda will ignore her weaker offspring in favor of taking care of the stronger one. Another murderous habit pandas have is they have been know for rolling over in their sleep and accidently crushing their babies who are only a fraction of the size as their mothers.
Black Bear
Black bear motherly habits are kind of the opposite of the pandas. Black bears usually have litters of 2-3 cubs but mother bears prefer to raise multiple cubs at a time for economic reason, it's just as easy to raise more than one. If a black bear has a litter of only one cub she will abandon it and wait for the next year to raise a larger family.
Burying Beetle
Burying beetles raise their young inside dead mouse carcasses. They then eat the mouse and regurgitate it back to their larvae. There is usually not enough mouse to go around so only the first larvae to get the mothers attention get fed. The mother then eats her larvae that don't get proper nutrition from her.
Male horses have been known to kick and kill foals that are not their own. In order to protect her foal when a mother horse realizes she is pregnant, she will have sex with all the stallions in order to confuse them as to who is the father. If she is unable to achieve this it is possible for her to have a spontaneous abortion.
Cuckoo Bird
Instead of raising their own chicks cuckoo birds lay their eggs in the nests of other unsuspecting species. The cuckoo chick will usually hatch earlier then the other birds eggs, hogging all the food and attention.
House Sparrow
Male house sparrows tend to have multiple families. In order to get the father sparrow to bring all his attention to her chicks mother sparrows have been known to kill the chicks of competing mothers.
When a pride of lions gets a new dominant male he will kill all lions under the age of two and chase off any other competition. Lionesses, unable to anything about it, go into heat.
Galapagos Shark
A mother Galapagos shark will eat anything she comes upon while looking for food, even if it is her own offspring.
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text: The Human Rights Archive recently acquired the papers of journalist and human rights activist Robert J. Cox. Born in England, Cox arrived in Argentina in 1959 to begin work at the English language Buenos Aires Herald where he would eventually rise to the position of Publisher and where he would remain until his exile in 1979. During his tenure at the Herald, Cox witnessed and reported on the turbulent events of Argentina's modern history including the growth of left wing guerrilla groups such as the Montaneros and right wing paramilitary groups such as the AAA, the short-lived but tumultuous presidency of Isabella Peron, and the massive human rights abuses of the military dictatorship which ruled the nation from 1976 to 1983. During the dictatorship Cox worked closely with human rights groups and activists including Marshall Meyer and Patt Derian whose papers are also part of the Human Rights Archive collections, to expose the crimes of the dictatorship and to help the abducted and disappeared as well as their families. Detained, jailed, and threatened, Cox and his family went into exile in 1979, but he continued to work on human rights issues in Argentina as well El Salvador and Nicaragua.


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count Dracula was a vampire and he was nocturnal (only out at night) and he fed of blood. He came from Transylvania. but most importantly he is only a legend.
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EU extends sanctions against Russia
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According to the decision, the activities of EU citizens and companies in the Crimea and Sevastopol regions are limited with the extended sanctions.
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EU citizens or companies cannot invest and provide financial services in Crimea and Sevastopol.
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In particular, the provision of technology and technical support for oil, natural gas and mineral exploration, extraction and production is prevented.
Russia illegally annexed the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol in March 2014. After the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the events in eastern Ukraine, the EU, the USA and some countries began to impose sanctions on Russia.
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