How To Spot A Trend Versus A Fad
How To Spot A Trend Versus A Fad
Nils Vesk (pictured below) is an innovation architect who's delivered programs for some of the most prestigious organisations in the world, including Microsoft, IBM, Commonwealth Bank and Nestle. In this guest post for B&T, he shows you how to spot a lasting trend that's not merely just another passing fad…
The importance behind learning to differentiate a trend from a fad is that no business wants to waste time and energy developing a new product, just for it to reveal itself further down the line as a short-lived fad. As such, a key skill any innovator must learn is how to identify the difference between the two early on.
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First things first, a fad can be defined as something that people believed would be a long-term trend, but that then disappeared as people quickly lost interest.
So, what is a trend? And why are they so important in business? Often when people hear of trends, they think of a something that appears overnight, becoming instantly popular, before disappearing in the same manner. In actual fact, trends can be longer-term, in some cases sticking around for many years.
In business in particular, it's crucial to be able to identify trends that will disrupt your industry and capitalise on them before your competition. The ability to do this will give you the head start, allowing you the opportunity to create new products and services and even create a new market by spotting a gap before others.
When it comes to trends, we can break them down into three compartments: uncertainties, disruptors and trends. In business, it's important to identify the key uncertainties that could impact our customers and industries as a whole. Following this, it is key to then be able to identify is what disruptors are arising, the impacts that they might have and then finally the specific trends that are emerging around or from these drivers and uncertainties.
Here are the five phases of a trend:
 1. Dawning – an emerging trend
 2. Developing – a trend that is gaining momentum and is being developed by various parties
 3. Developed – a trend that is fully fledged and has hit mainstream interest
 4. Decaying – a trend that has done it's time and is becoming 'old' in the mind of users or customers
 5. Discarded – a trend that is no longer in demand and has been superseded by something more exciting, superior, different or by adding new value
Clearly, it makes no sense to begin working on a developed, decaying or discarded trend, but instead to succeed it's imperative to jump on a dawning or even early stage developing trends. To become an innovator, we must learn how to scan the business world to discover these dawning trends and potential disruptors.
A number of determinants can affect a trend's duration, including:
 - Differentiation – This refers to how unique and memorable the new trending product or service may be. Differentiation is more important for some industries than others, and can be critical to their success. Essentially, when assessing an emerging trend ask yourself "Is this unique or really different to what currently exists?" as well as "Is this product/ service remarkable i.e. does it give me something to remark about?"
 - Superiority – How well does the product or service compare to its competitors? It's important to understand how effective and efficient a product is, whether it could be of more value to your audience, and whether it is more affordable than other similar products on the market.
 - Newness – How long has the product or service been on the market? Do your research and see if there are existing similar products on the market. If similar products do exist, when did they first come onto the scene?
 - Performance – How well does the product perform in relation to customer expectations? Does it do what it is advertised to do? Does this satisfy customer needs or desires?
 - Customer community – How does the user or customer community interact with and use the new product or service? How large is the potential audience of this trend? Communities can play a big part in the success of a product or service, and part of this can sometimes be made up by the 'why' of the product. Having a cause creates bigger community participation and trend duration and creates purpose for the product. Also ask yourself "Does the trend exclude a crowd?" Some trends are successful simply because they exclude people and therefore appeals a nice/specific customer group and caters to their specific needs/wants which in turn increases the loyalty of the trending product or service.
 - Aesthetics – This refers to how timeless the design of the product or service experience may be. Will the service and its design still be relevant in a few years?
 - Ground-breaking – Does the product cause a total revolution or a simple evolution? Does it solve/alleviate a problem? Will it change peoples' life in some way? Will this signal the end of an era or create a new one?
 - Market category – Does the trend, product or service create a new market category? Does it extend on current products and services and take a portion of market share, or does it create an entirely new category?
Once you've assessed the trend according to the above criteria, you can use a polar chart to map out the impact that a certain trend may have, which is crucial for businesses when deciding whether a trend is worth pursuing.
Vesk will be hosting 'The Next Big Thing' Masterclasses throughout May and June in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane where business leaders will discover the trends that will impact their industry, their team and their customers, and how they can capitalise on them.
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Teach young children the science of color with this unique lightbased color mixing tool. Use the peg board and translucent pegs along with the activity sheets to mix color right on our Educational Light Cube. The light shines through the activity sheets and illuminates the pegs which allows the colors to interact. Content: 4 peg boards 15 x 15 cm, 600 pegs (red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange and 12 colour mixing activity sheets.
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What does the first stanza describe in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson?
The first stanza of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" describes the gentleman caller who appears in order to take the speaker with him in his carriage. This caller is Death personified.
As readers of this poem peruse the stanzas, they realize the gentleman caller is Death. He appears to the speaker in the form of a man, but the mention of the carriage containing only the speaker, driver, and Immortality indicates the driver's role: he is transporting the speaker from her earthly house to the "House" that seems but a "swelling of the ground" with a scarcely visible roof. In other words, Death is carrying the speaker through her life to its end, the grave. As they ride, the speaker views her youth as the children playing at recess in school. She then views the "Fields of Gazing Grain" that represent her maturity into womanhood. Finally, they pass "the Setting Sun" as she reaches the end of her life.
In the final stanza, the speaker addresses her audience from the grave as she recalls her realization that her caller was transporting her "toward Eternity."


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Jan. 6, 2000: Computer Glitch Fouls East Coast Air Traffic
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2000: Less than a week after Y2K passes without a global computer meltdown, a glitch in a 1960s computer at the air traffic control center in Washington, D.C., slows and shuts down airlines in the Northeast.
Anybody who has ever listened to an air traffic controller knows they operate like a well-oiled machine, talking at speeds that would make a tobacco auctioneer envious. But the downside to the finely tuned system that directs air traffic across the skies is that even the smallest hiccup can cause nightmarish delays for travelers.
One of those hiccups led to a virtual shutdown of air traffic on the East Coast on January 2000. The problem occurred at what is colloquially known as Washington Center, one of the 20 Air Route Traffic Control Centers that handle aircraft once they have left the immediate airspace around major airports. Washington Center handles flights covering roughly 200,000 square miles of the mid-Atlantic region, including much of the traffic flying south out of New York City.
Normally when a flight is completed or leaves the airspace, the flight plan is deleted. A glitch in the 1960s software that day meant the computer was no longer deleting the flights. As new flight plans came in, the system was overloaded and shut down.
To keep that from happening repeatedly, air traffic controllers couldn't use their computers to hand off flight plans from one controller to the next. As a workaround, they went old-school and used small strips of paper with the necessary flight information typed out. These slips were then carried from one controller to another by hand.
This sneakernet system works just fine, and is still in existence today as a backup. The problem is that it's a bit slower to walk a slip of paper across a room than it is to click a mouse.
So instead of handling hundreds of flights per hour, the system grinds to a crawl that ripples throughout the country as delayed flights stack up. On that day, hundreds of flights from Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., were directly affected, and soon flights around the country experienced related delays.
Interestingly, this air traffic gridlock was apparently unrelated to the fear that had gripped the country just a week earlier. One of the major Y2K fears was that air traffic control computers wouldn't be able to handle the big 2000. Turns out it wasn't about the extra two digits, but simply a good old-fashioned software problem. Earlier in that same first week of 2000, a similar kind of computer problem shut down air traffic control in New England.
In the early days of aviation, controlling where airplanes were flying wasn't a problem. There simply weren't enough of them in the air, and pilots tended to fly when conditions allowed them to see each other if they should be sharing the same airspace. But by 1926, the United States started to implement rules for air traffic, and by 1930 the first radio-equipped control tower was installed in Cleveland.
By the mid-1930s there were several control towers, and a handful of airlines agreed to start coordinating their flights to and from Chicago, Cleveland and Newark airports. The first air traffic control center was established in Newark by 1936, the same year the federal government took over control of the airway traffic.
Also in the early days, there was no radar to keep track of flights. There wasn't even direct communication with the aircraft. Instead, controllers simply used a blackboard and maps with small models to estimate the location of airplanes as reported from airports, radio operators along the routes and the airlines themselves.
Numerous control towers and airway radio-reporting centers had been established around the country by the end of World War II. But it was after the war that air traffic control began to resemble what we see today with the implementation of radar. Now air traffic controllers use a combination of radar, satellites and good old-fashioned eyesight to keep track of more than 85,000 flights a day in the United States.
More than $1 billion was spent during the late 1990s to modernize the computers and software used by air traffic controllers around the country. The first of the new systems was installed at Seattle Center in 1998 (pictured above). By the end of 2000, all 20 of the regional centers had received the new equipment.
With GPS and extremely precise radar, air traffic controllers today do a remarkable job of handling dizzying numbers of flights daily. New technologies in recent years have also given pilots the ability to "see" other aircraft from the cockpit.
Future advances using technologies such as ADS-B are part of the next generation of air traffic control system. Adding even more capabilities on the ground and in the air should reduce future aerial gridlock and keep fliers safe.
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Photo: Air traffic controllers work the Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center in 2007.
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text: Figure 2. Climate and malaria suitability data for the Kericho area from the global gridded climatology data, including meteorologic and malaria suitability time series. Minimum (bottom), mean (middle) and maximum (top) monthly temperature (a) total monthly precipitation (b) and mean vapor pressure (c) are all plotted with a 25-point (month) moving average (bold) to show the overall movement in the data. The number of months per year suitable for malaria transmission (d) are also plotted. Suitability was determined if rainfall exceeded 152 mm and temperature exceeded 15°C in any month (1,4). The significance of these movements is presented in Table.

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Windows Programming
.NET 1.1+
Mouse Clipping
Specialised applications can require that the mouse pointer is limited to a fixed portion of the screen, known as a clipping rectangle. This region can be determined and controlled by reading and setting a property of a standard.NET class.
Clipping Rectangles
Under normal circumstance the mouse pointer can be moved freely within the rectangle defined by the screen. This area is the clipping rectangle. You can change the boundaries of the rectangle to restrict the pointer movement. This is useful for specialised applications where the user should not click items outside of the rectangle.
Changing the mouse clipping rectangle should be done with care. Although the clipping is removed by switching between applications or by showing the Windows Start menu, adding clipping can be frustrating for novice users. Those who are unaware of keyboard controls may decide to power down their system unnecessarily to remove the clipping.
Getting the Clipping Rectangle
You can retrieve the current clipping rectangle boundaries using the Clip property of the Cursor class. This static property returns a Rectangle structure containing the position and size of the clipping region. The Cursor class is found in the System.Windows.Forms namespace and Rectangle is in System.Drawing, so add the following using directives:
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
The code below shows the current clipping rectangle in a message box:
Setting the Clipping Rectangle
The Clip property may be used to constrain the mouse pointer within a specified rectangle. If the mouse pointer is not within the rectangle and the application changing the Clip property is active, the pointer will be moved to a valid position. The following sample code restricts the pointer to a 101 pixel square at the top left corner of the screen:
Cursor.Clip = new Rectangle(0, 0, 100, 100);
A common way to limit the pointer is to use the boundaries of a Windows control. First you convert the client rectangle of the control to screen co-ordinates and then apply them to the Clip property. The code below limits the mouse pointer to the boundaries of a panel control named, "MyPanel".
Cursor.Clip = MyPanel.RectangleToScreen(MyPanel.ClientRectangle);
Clearing the Clipping Rectangle
When you no longer require the clipping you should remove it. To do so, set the Clip property value to Rectangle.Empty, as follows:
Cursor.Clip = Rectangle.Empty;
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Milan Escape Room
Milan Escape for Students
A teaching escape room in Milan for school trips (primary, lower and upper secondary)
Offering play rooms suitable for children of all ages, Trap Milano is a great venue for city trips or extra-curricular activities for pupils from primary through to high school.
 If you are organizing a school trip to Milan or want more information, please write to us at or click the button below.
Escape room in Milan for schools and students: why should you try it?
Escape rooms are popular with adults and also children from primary through lower and upper secondary school who love playing at detectives, explorers and investigators.
 An escape room is an ideal activity for school trips and outings: it's a team game that requires cooperation, communication and collaboration, as well as observation skills and quick-thinking.
 It's not only fun, it's also constructive, helping to train the mind and hone logical-deductive reasoning.
Children enjoy the group side of it, in an "all for one" spirit. Participants have to work together to decipher clues, solve puzzles and find a way out of the secret room.
 Trap Milano's secret rooms are studied in detail to create unique and fascinating settings: the labyrinthine interiors of an Egyptian pyramid, a ghost pirate ship, a mysterious house in the woods, a remote scientific base at the edge of the world… players have to work together to complete the narrative plot and spend an alternative and constructive afternoon, learning through play!
Discover the Escape Rooms in Milan to organize a school outing with one or more classes, or contact us for more information!
Escape Room for children of all ages, how does it work?
Solve a mystery, hunt for clues and figure out how to use the information collected to overcome a challenge: to do so, students are required to use their intuition, logic, time management and problem solving skills to achieve a common goal: escape.
Participants have the help of a Game Master, the rooms require no physical effort, just comfortable clothing and a willingness to put yourself to the test.
 The game is designed to give everyone the chance to be an active part of the plot, no one excluded.
The maximum number of participants varies from room to room, from a minimum of 7 to a maximum of 13 in "Pirate Cave", one of the most popular rooms, along with "The Pyramid".
 For large groups we can run multiple game sessions at the same time:
 Trap Milano can host a maximum of 48 players at the same time across both venues (and up to 26 players at a single venue).
Contact us to organize an escape room for your school: we have the expertise to design something really special and turn your school trip into a memorable event!
Why is the Escape Room a learning experience?
It encourages collaboration and listening skills.
It hones reasoning and problem solving skills.
It forges cooperation and communication between students.
Fun guaranteed for all students!
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Is it possible to build and operate school buildings that create dynamic teaching spaces for kids, conserve energy and cost less?
A new study from CSU found that Poudre School District in Fort Collins did just that.
Poudre School District has adopted a complete, top-to-bottom approach to sustainability and is now saving roughly more than $1 million per year.
Schools across the nation face serious budget deficits, and in most public schools, energy costs are the second largest expense after employee salaries. Efforts to reduce these costs often are focused on building standards and new technologies. Jennifer Cross, assistant professor of sociology at CSU, led a research team that looked beyond these traditional ideas to determine how schools can change their energy use habits through cultural change within the organization.
Three key factors
Researchers ultimately identified three main factors that allowed the district to develop a conservation-oriented culture:
- Organizational change
- Appropriate framing
- Network collaboration
Since 2000, Poudre School District (PSD) has constructed six new energy efficient schools – Zach, Bacon, Fossil Ridge, Kinard, Rice and Bethke – one office building, and has made significant improvements to the efficiency of existing buildings. The district has received more than 30 awards recognizing its commitment to sustainability and energy conservation in buildings. On average, PSD spends 37 percent fewer dollars per year on energy expenses than other Colorado school districts.
This is a significant cost savings that is truly the result of the district's firm commitment to sustainability. The district is literally using less energy and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars less than other districts. When budgets are tight as they are, other school districts need to pay attention to how PSD was able to accomplish this. In fact, what happened in Poudre School District was inspired by budgets being a problem a decade ago.
Read more here.
Written by Dr. Jeni Cross, assistant professor of Sociology, Colorado State University


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Most of the covered bridges in New England are known for their picturesque qualities, but Emily's Bridge in Stowe, VT, has a more infamous reputation. Built in 1844 to carry what came to be known as Covered Bridge Road over Gold Brook, "Emily's Bridge" is a single-lane, 50-foot-long bridge. Its wooden frame is dark and weathered, and it was here, if legend is to be believed, that a girl with a broken heart committed suicide.
In the mid-1800s, Emily was supposed to meet her paramour at what was then called Gold Brook Bridge to elope. When he never showed, Emily killed herself in a savage fit of desperation, hanging herself from the rafters of the covered bridge. In the ghost story that followed, Emily is apparently an angry specter. Tales of claw-like gouges down the sides of cars passing through the bridge and bloody scratches down the backs of pedestrian crossers are bandied about just as much as the sound of loosely dragging feet on the roofs of cars or the noise of a strange voice emanating from inside the short tunnel.
Interestingly enough, it's not just called Emily's Bridge by supernatural enthusiasts. The name has carried over into the tourist products of Stowe, whose shops sell quaint little postcards and souvenirs featuring the bridge against the cozy backdrops of fall and winter and labeled in pretty script, "Emily's Bridge."
Adapted with Permission from: The New England Grimpendium by J.W. Ocker


Lesson 10.4: Bug Fix – Removing multiple items from GroupedInventory
Mickey noticed a bug in the code, from the changes in Lesson 10.2, adding a GroupedInventory property for LivingEntity.
When we try to remove multiple items, like when completing a quest, it only removed one item. This lesson will fix the bug.
Lesson Steps
Step 1: Modify Engine\Models\LivingEntity.cs
There is a problem getting the "groupedInventoryItemToRemove" object on lines 147-148.
For unique items, we want to get the item that exactly matches the parameter. If a player has multiple swords (which will be unique items), we want to get the exact item, and remove it.
For non-unique items, we only need to get the GroupedInventory object with an ItemTypeID that matches the parameter's ItemTypeID.
So, change lines 147-148 to this:
GroupedInventoryItem groupedInventoryItemToRemove = item.IsUnique?
GroupedInventory.FirstOrDefault(gi => gi.Item == item) :
GroupedInventory.FirstOrDefault(gi => gi.Item.ItemTypeID == item.ItemTypeID);
This is a "ternary operator". It evaluates the calculation before the question mark. If that calculation is "true", it returns the first result (the part before the ":"). If it is "false", it returns the second result (the part after the ":").
It's another way to do a simple "if…else" statement.
So, if the passed-in object is unique, we will look for the first item that completely matches it. If it is not unique, we will find the first item with the same ItemTypeID.
We really should have unit tests for this project. So, after I finish this batch of refactoring lessons, I'll start creating those.
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2 thoughts on "Lesson 10.4: Bug Fix – Removing multiple items from GroupedInventory
 1. There's no real benefit. In fact, I would bet that both end up compiling into the exact same CLR (Common Language Runtime) code.
 I just like using the ternary operator when the condition of the "if" statement is not too long, and we're only using the "if" to assign a value to a single variable. It's fewer lines than writing an "if" statement with curly-braces (which is how I write all my "if" statements, to be consistent and clear), and slightly easier to understand the intent of the "if" (to set the value of a variable).
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How To Customize Sound On iPhone 5
You can set iPhone to play a sound whenever you get a new message, email, call, Tweet, Facebook post, voicemail, or reminders. You can also set sounds for appointments, sending an email, keyboard clicks, and when you lock iPhone. Continue reading on how to customize it.
Change sound settings:
- Go to Settings > Sounds. Available options include:
- Set whether iPhone vibrates when get a call.
- Set whether iPhone vibrates when you turn on silent mode.
- Adjust the ringer and alerts volume.
- Prevent the side buttons from changing the ringer volume.
- Set the ringtone. To set a ringtone for a person, go to their card in Contacts.
- Set alert and other tones.
- Turn on keyboard clicks and a sound for when when iPhone locks.
Set vibration patterns:
- Go to Settings > Sounds and choose an item from the Sounds and Vibration Patterns list.
- Tap Vibration to select a pattern.
Define a custom vibration pattern:
- Tap an item in the Sounds and Vibrations list, and then tap Vibration. Tap Create New Vibration then define the pattern by touching and tapping the screen.
This article will work on all iPhones using iOS 6; including iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 5.


Shepherds Rest
Shepherd's Rest
Located 8 leagues south of Buckhorn, Shepherd's Rest gained its name from the legendary song of the lowly shepherd who fell asleep for twenty years after drinking from a faerie spring, only to awaken with a great white beard and sorrow in his heart. Other local legends tell of a group of shepherds who were slaughtered by brutes, and their flesh cooked in with the lamb to make a vile stew, which to this day the brutes love to eat. In any case, the village of Shepherd's Rest was completely wiped out over a decade ago. After a group of heroic adventurers defeated the brutes that had made it their home, civilized men braved to rebuild the village. Unfortunately, the War destroyed the village once more, and there are officially no current efforts to rebuild it.
Recently, it has been discovered that a lone faithful monk is building a shrine and hostel in the ruined village, and intends to make the place his home, welcoming all travelers and pilgrims.
Principality of the Golden Reaches
Kingdom of the Lake
Shepherds Rest
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Background: To evaluate the safety of thiopurines in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. To identify predictive factors associated with the development of thiopurine-induced adverse events.
Methods: Long-term incidence of adverse events was estimated in patients from a prospectively maintained Spanish nationwide database using Kaplan–Meier analysis. Cox regression analysis was performed to identify potential predictive factors of adverse events.
Results: Three thousand nine hundred and thirty-one patients were included. Ninety-five percent of patients were on azathioprine. The median follow-up with thiopurines was 44 months (range, 0–420). Adverse events occurred at a median of 1 month after starting treatment. The cumulative incidence of adverse events was 26%, with an annual risk of 7% per patient-year of treatment. Most frequent adverse events were nausea (8%), hepatotoxicity (4%), myelotoxicity (4%), and pancreatitis (4%). Four patients had lymphoma. Female and Crohn's disease increased the risk of having nausea. The risk of hepatotoxicity was lower in females and higher in Crohn's disease. The risk of myelotoxicity was significantly higher in patients treated with mercaptopurine and in females. The risk of pancreatitis was higher in Crohn's disease. Overall, 17% of patients discontinued thiopurine treatment due to adverse events. Thirty-seven percent of these patients started thiopurines again and 40% of them had adverse events again.
Conclusions: As many as 1 of 4 patients on thiopurine therapy had adverse events during follow-up. A relatively high proportion of patients (17%) had to discontinue the treatment with thiopurines due to adverse events. However, more than half of patients that restarted thiopurine treatment after its discontinuation due to adverse events tolerated it. Several predictive factors for some adverse events have been identified.


How to use the synonym function to check if you have the disease September 8, 2021 September 8, 2021 admin
The synonym search tool is an extension of the Google search box.
It lets you search for the word 'muscle' to find out if it's the cause of muscle loss.
But it also shows you whether it's a synonym for 'muscular'.
The Google search bar is located at the top of the page and lets you select your synonym.
If you click on the word muscle, you'll see a list of synonyms.
If you click one of the other synonyms, you will see the list of other synonym searches available.
You can also search for 'dyskinesia' to see if it is a synonymous word for muscle wasting.
And if you're not feeling lucky, you can also browse through the list to find other synomys that are synonyms for the same word.
If you have trouble finding the word that's synomised with muscle, the synonyms are there for you to check out.
Find out more about the synomedia search functionHere's how to find synonyms using the synamer.
Find synonyms in the dictionaryThere are a number of ways to find words in the English language.
Some of these can be difficult to search for, and so Google's search bar doesn't let you click the search button to search.
The search bar will let you search a word to find its synonym in the dictionaries of other words.
There are two options for searching the dictionary.
The first option lets you click 'Show search results' to show all the search results for a word.
You can use this to check for synonyms and the other searches.
But if you need more than the first option, you may want to use Google Translate to try and find synonym meanings.
The other option lets your Google account be used to translate the word meaning into your native language.
You will need to register with Google to access the Google Translator.
This is useful if you want to translate a word meaning 'skin' into another language, or you need to add a word or phrase that has no meaning in the other language.


What Are Affiliated Companies?
Companies are affiliated when one company is a minority shareholder of another. In most cases, the parent company will own less than a 50% interest in its affiliated company. Two companies may also be affiliated if they are controlled by a separate third party. In the business world, affiliated companies are often simply called affiliates.
The term is sometimes used to refer to companies that are related to each other in some way. For example, Bank of America has many different affiliated companies including Bank of America, U.S. Trust, Landsafe, Balboa, and Merrill Lynch.
Key Takeaways
 - Two companies are affiliated when one is a minority shareholder of another.
 - The parent company generally owns less than a 50% interest in its affiliated company, and the parent keeps its operations separate from the affiliate.
 - Parent businesses can use affiliates as a way to enter foreign markets.
 - Affiliates are different than subsidiaries, which are majority-owned by the parent company.
Companies may be affiliated with one another to get into a new market, to maintain separate brand identities, to raise capital without affecting the parent or other companies, and to save on taxes. In most cases, affiliates are associates or associated companies, which describes an organization whose parent has a minority stake in it.
Understanding Affiliated Companies
There are several ways companies can become affiliated. A company may decide to buy out or take over another one, or it may decide to spin off a portion of its operations into a new affiliate altogether. In either case, the parent company generally keeps its operations separate from its affiliates. Since the parent company has a minority ownership, its liability is limited, and the two companies keep separate management teams.
Affiliates are a common way for parent businesses to enter foreign markets while keeping a minority interest in a business. This is especially important if the parent wants to shake off its majority stake in the affiliate.
There is no single bright-line test to determine if one company is affiliated with another. In fact, the criteria for affiliation changes from country to country, state to state, and even between regulatory bodies. For instance, companies considered affiliates by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may not be considered affiliated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Affiliates Versus Subsidiaries
An affiliate is different from a subsidiary, of which the parent owns more than 50%. In a subsidiary, the parent is a majority shareholder, which gives the parent company's management and shareholders voting rights. Subsidiary financials may also appear on the parent company's financial sheets.
But subsidiaries remain separate legal entities from their parents, meaning they are liable for their own taxes, liabilities, and governance. They are also responsible for following the laws and regulations where they are headquartered, especially if they operate in a different jurisdiction from the parent company.
An example of a subsidiary is the relationship between the Walt Disney Corporation and sports network ESPN. Disney owns an 80% interest in ESPN, making it a majority shareholder. ESPN is its subsidiary.
In e-commerce, an affiliate refers to a company that sells the products of another merchant on its website.
SEC Rules Surrounding Affiliates
Securities markets around the world have rules that concern affiliates of the businesses they regulate. Here again, these are complex rules that need to be analyzed by local experts on a case-by-case basis. Examples of rules enforced by the SEC include:
 - Broker-dealers must maintain and preserve certain information regarding those affiliates, subsidiaries, and holding companies whose business activities are reasonably likely to have a material impact on their own finances and operations.
Tax Consequences of Affiliates
In nearly all jurisdictions, there are important tax consequences for affiliated companies. In general, tax credits and deductions are limited to one affiliate in a group, or a ceiling is imposed on the tax benefits that affiliates may reap under certain programs.
Determining whether companies in a group are affiliates, subsidiaries, or associates is done through a case-by-case analysis by local tax experts.


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Tissue harmonic imaging: why does it work?
Thomas JD; Rubin DN
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1998 Aug;11(8):803-8
The recent utilization of harmonic frequencies in the imaging of both tissue and contrast
agents has dramatically improved echocardiographic image quality. In contrast
harmonics, the harmonic frequency energy is generated on reflection from the
microbubble contrast agent. In tissue harmonics, the harmonic frequency energy is
generated gradually as the ultrasonic wave propagates through the tissue. Critical to the
utility of tissue-generated harmonic frequencies is their origin beyond the chest wall and
their nonlinear relation to the fundamental frequency energy strength. These two
characteristics of tissue-generated harmonics ensure that the echoes most likely to
produce artifact are least likely to produce harmonic waves. Armed with an understanding
of how these images are produced and with data emerging as to their clinical utility, we
anticipate that harmonic imaging will become the standard for assessing regional and
global left ventricular function in technically difficult studies.
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Religioossed motiivid „Rooma päevikus" ja „Hingede öös". Võrdlevaid tähelepanekuid / Religious motifs in Roman Diary and All Souls' Night: comparative observations
This article examines the symmetry between two novels by Karl Ristikivi (1912–1977), All Souls' Night (1953) and Roman Diary (1976). The poetic and structural landmarks in the configuration of All Souls' Night are compared to their counterparts in Roman Diary. These are discussed under the keywords spatial shift, spiritual guidance, widows, sepulchral monuments, and judgement. The most significant conclusion of the analysis is that all the listed motifs that first appear in All Souls' Night, acquire a powerfully religious tone in Roman Diary. The protagonist's existential crisis in All Souls' Night has been supplanted in Roman Diary by the narrator's religious rebirth. In All Souls' Night, the first-person protagonist's main problem is existential – the difficulties of life and living. In this very personal work, veiled with symbols, Ristikivi tries to come to grips with the shattered reality where he must live the rest of his life. In Roman Diary, the first-person protagonist is no longer facing life, but death. His reality is more visionary and brimming with references to the beyond. Questions about death and the afterlife are more important than anxieties about existence and life, and the afterlife is, understandably, linked to religion and faith, particularly to Christianity. Death is seen as one's most direct way of communication with God, and Roman Diary tries to make sense of both faith and death. The faith of a living person, the common attribute of Ristikivi's idealistic characters who want to make things right in the world, turns into a faith of a dying person. In Roman Diary, his last novel, Ristikivi deals primarily with a metaphysical world and the afterlife. The article also examines Roman Diary's close relationship to Ristikivi's other works and to works by other authors mentioned in the novel. In the article author's opinion, the primary element linking these works is the process of unification and nationbuilding throughout European history, a significant theme in all of Ristikivi's works. Numerous characters from his earlier works appear in Roman Diary. Many of Ristikivi's characters are unifiers and/or maintainers of stability. Ristikivi's yearning to write about a unified Europe was related to his personal fate as a refugee and his trauma of homelessness.


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the Kalmar Nyckel or arrived while New Sweden was still in existance. Anna Holstein, a nineteenth century genealogist, wrote that according to family tradition the first Holstein, Matts or Matthias, was a carpenter who was born in New Sweden in 1644 whose father had arrived on the Key of Calmar with Peter Minuit. There is some evidence for this being true. The one passenger on the first voyage of the Kalmar Nyckel (the only voyage with Peter Minuit aboard) who remained to settle in New Sweden was named Claes Jansen. He was a carpenter. The custom at the time was for children to derive their last name from their father's first name, so Claes Jansen's children would have been named Claesson. Indeed, Matts Holstein's original last name was Claesson, and if they were both carpenters, the shared occupation might suggest a family link. However, there are problems with this story. The reason the surname was changed from Claesson to Holstein was most likely because the family was from Holstein, which was then part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Claes Jansen, however, was from Niewkerck, in Holland. A contemporary genealogist, Peter Stebbins Craig, has found a church record indicating Matts Holstein's birthplace as Dittmarschen, in Holstein, in 1642. That pretty much settles things, except for two other church records that appear to provide potential contradictory evidence. I have seen reference to a record in the Old Swedes Church that indicates Matts was baptized there in 1642. The record referred to may be the 1683 Gloria Dei church census (it is not certain because several churches were known as the Old Swedes Church). Stebbins cites that record for determining that Matts Holstein was born in 1642, but he doesn't mention the baptism record. Not having seen the document, I can only guess that difference might be in accuracy of translation. The other record is from a 1693 Gloria Dei church census, where old Matts Holstein is listed, but not marked as a member who was born "in the homeland." If "in the homeland" meant back in Europe, that suggests he was born in New Sweden, but if "in the homeland" meant specifically Sweden, a person born in Holstein would not have been included. Craig also indicates that Matts Holstein came in 1663 to New Amstel, which means he came after the Dutch had incorporated New Sweden into New Amsterdam. New Amstel was the Dutch name for the place that started out as Fort Casimir, then became Fort Trinity [Trefaldigheets], but as New Amstel was then an expanded settlement. One year later, when the English took over, New Amstel became Newcastle [or New Castle]. Craig does not indicate his source for the date nor the name of the ship on which he might have been a passenger. There were two ships that arrived in New Amstel in 1663. The St. Jacob came in July with over a hundred passengers, only a handful of whom were listed by name. In December the Purmerender Kerck arrived with over 150 passengers, only four of whom were named.
It is through the wives of several generations of Matts Holsteins that we can trace at least five ancestors who came to New Sweden aboard the Kalmar Nyckel: Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, Peter Larsson Cock, Sven Gunnarsson, his wife [whose name is not known], and their daughter Gertrude Svensdotter, who was only a year old when she traveled to New Sweden. Three of Peter Larsson Cock's daughters married three of Peter Gunnarsson Rambo's sons, and oldest of these men's granddaughters, Britta Rambo, married Matts Holstein's son, who was also named Matts Holstein. Our connection to Gertrude Svensdotter and her parents is through her great granddaughter, Magdalen or Maudlin Hulings, who married Matthias Holstein, the third in that line with the same name. There most likely were additional ancestors of ours aboard the Kalmar Nyckel, but the records are too incomplete, especially in providing women's names, to provide clear evidence.
There is controversy about the first Matts Holstein's wives. In 1892, Anna Holstein named Britta Gostenburg as his wife. Craig's research, with some speculation, pointed instead to Lasse Cock's eldest sister, who was probably named Helena, as Matts' first wife, with whom he had four sons. After his first wife died, again according to Craig, Matts married his housekeeper Catharina Månsdotter, daughter of Måns Pålsson and Elisabeth Pålsdotter, both of Finnish ancestry. Catharina bore two sons and a daughter.
Tracing Elisabeth Pålsdotter's line back further, her parents Margareta Andersdotter and Pål Jönsson Mullica had come to New Sweden in 1654, a year before New Sweden came to an end. Pål seems to have been a good law-abiding citizen, but Margareta was a bit of a trouble-maker. It was she, not her husband, who made a legal complaint against a neighbor in a land dispute, and after she had became a widow twice, she was found guilty and fined 100 guilders (meant to be a devasting amount so as to discourage potential rebels) by the English government for being a conspirator in the Long Finn Rebellion.
Peter Gunnarsson Rambo was both typical and extraordinary among the New Sweden colonists. Since he was the longest living of the original settlers, he later became known as the Father of New Sweden. It is not known for sure whether or not he came to New Sweden voluntarily. He was indentured by the company to plant tobacco on the New Sweden Company's plantation just outside the fort. It is also not known whether his ethnicity was Swedish or Finnish. He was living in Gothenburg before he came to New Sweden, but many Finns were living there then, and his wife was from a Finnish region of Sweden, although he did not marry her until he had been in New Sweden for eight years (and three years after he had become a freeman). In 1644, upon his freedom, he had relocated to the eastern shore of the Schuylkill River in what is now West Philadelphia [If you are interested in seeing the old Rambo haunts, you will likely be disappointed, since the land is now occupied by a Sun Oil refinery]. He became a prosperous farmer, orchardist, and something of a land speculator. He made his mark rather than sign his name on some legal documents, but that does not necessarily mean he could not read and write. His mark on one document was simply the letters P R B, and in another a very stylized X:
The senior Rambo was honored and trusted enough that he served as a ruling judge of Upland Court even as the control of the colony changed from Swedish to Dutch to English. When Upland Court was finally ended when the colony of Pennsylvania was created, Rambo continued to serve as a judge. He didn't always get along with the authorities, however. In 1654, he was charged by Governor Printz for illegally selling grain to the Dutch, and in turn, he was one of the twenty-two freemen who signed the petition of complaint against Governor Printz. Peter Rambo's word was also valued by his Indian neighbors, and through his actions an armed conflict with the Indians was prevented. In 1668, Rambo met with members of the Mantas Indians after two members of the tribe had murdered three settlers. Rambo convinced those he met with to pledge to capture the two fugitives and return them to justice in the English courts. Only one was caught and returned, but the crisis was averted. As part of the settlement, Rambo informed the English authorities that the "Indyans in those parts have desired that there be an absolute prohibicon upon the whole River on selling Strong Liquors to the Indyans." After his long life and public service, Rambo was so revered by his church that after his death, when a new building, the Gloria Dei, was constructed, instead of moving Rambo's grave, they built the church around his remains.
Information about old Peter Rambo is found in an addenda of notes to a supplementary diary published as an appendix to Peter Kalm's Travels in North America. Kalm's travelogue of his adventures from 1748 to 1751 has been available in English since 1770, but his supplementary diary was first translated in 1937. In an entry on the early Swedish settlers, Kalm reports on a conversation with Peter Rambo, grandson of Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, on 30 January 1749. The grandson told him that the elder Peter Rambo told the English that his hands had been the very first to sow seeds in the settlement of New Sweden. He also spoke of apple seeds and other tree and garden seeds that old Peter brought with him in a box. The Rambo apple is now a rare variety, but it was once very popular, especially in the mid-Atlantic states. The first Rambo apple tree might have been grown from a seed in that box. The seeds may have come from Sweden, but it is also possible that he had picked up seeds while in port in Holland, since he resided there for most of a year waiting for repairs and the hiring of a new crew. If the


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AutoPlay is a feature in Windows that will automatically scan a device when it is connected to your computer and based on your settings, will either perform a specified action or do nothing at all. In order to understand AutoPlay, though, you also have to understand another very similar feature called AutoRun.
Most people think AutoRun and AutoPlay are just two terms for the same thing, but that is not accurate. AutoRun is a feature that first came out in Windows 95! What was the point of it exactly? To make installing apps for non-techies easier. If a CD contained a file called autorun.inf in the root directory, Windows would detect it automatically and follow the instructions in that file.
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 This file is normally very simple and basically just points to a file on the disc, usually the setup file or install file. Here is an example of one below:
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 In Windows XP and earlier, the file would be read and automatically run without any kind of prompt. If you have ever popped in an install CD/DVD for a piece of hardware or a program in Windows XP or earlier, it would just start running the setup program.
 This obviously posed serious security risks and Microsoft introduced AutoPlay as a way to fix the problem. AutoPlay's job is to examine a newly connected media device, determine what kind of content is on it, and then display a dialog that allows the user to launch an application to play, run or display the content.
 Now depending on the operating system you are running, AutoRun and AutoPlay will work differently. In all versions of Windows earlier than Windows Vista, AutoRun is executed before AutoPlay, unless AutoRun is disabled. If it's not disabled, AutoRun will execute and it will search for the AutoRun.inf file.
 In Windows XP, if the autorun.inf file is found, AutoRun can go ahead and bypass AutoPlay altogether and launch the application without asking the user first.
 In Windows Vista and higher, AutoRun cannot skip past AutoPlay. If there is an AutoRun.inf file, it will still be read, but instead of the application being launched automatically, a dialog box will pop up with a list of choices, some of which could be from the autorun.inf file.
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 In Windows XP, the disc is read, an autorun.inf file is found and the MSI setup program automatically pops up on the screen.
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 As you can see, it's trying to run the DVDsetup.exe file mentioned in the autorun.inf file, but now you get the option to choose. The same is true for Windows 10. Here you first get a notification on your screen.
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 Overall, even though you can disable the AutoPlay feature in Windows 7 and higher, it's not going to harm your computer because no program can be executed without your permission. All AutoPlay does is detect the media and display the options for you.
 If you're running Windows XP, on the other hand, it might be a good idea to disable AutoRun because on that operating system, programs can still be run without user consent.
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This free webinar has been developed by ITE Student Chapters for ITE Student Chapters and will focus on the Student Leadership Summit (SLS). Students who attend this webinar will receive background information on what SLS is and why it is important for chapters to be involved. The webinar will also share some brief statistics on other ITE Student Chapters' involvement with SLS, including budgets, attendees, and qualitative assessments on how SLS has helped their chapters.
Furthermore, students attending this webinar will receive tips on how they can maximize the value of attending SLS for their chapter. In terms of hosting SLS, the information will be provided to help student chapters determine if hosting is right for them. Useful advice from students who have recently hosted an SLS will also be provided to help student chapters overcome common challenges and barriers.
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Security and economic interests continue prevailing in the EU's policy and institutional approach to migration and development, says CONCORD in their new policy paper "Coherence for migration and security – and what about development?".
This paper addresses EU migration policies and Policy Coherence for Development, and the extent to which EU policies have effectively contributed to bring about sustainable development in developing countries.
CONCORD deeply regrets that the development goals, amongst which poverty eradication and the respect of human rights, are undermined by the emphasis on border controls and security concerns, both in terms of political priorities and financial and technical assistance.
"The EU and its members have signed up to the SDGs, acknowleding the positive contribution to migrants and migration to sustainable development. Its policies however shift towards reducing migration, preventing migrants from coming to Europe and encouraging their return" says Bob Van Dillen, Chair of the CONCORD Migration and Development Task Force.
CONCORD is convinced that migration can work for development and benefit the migrants, the EU destination countries and countries of origins. Therefore, CONCORD identified key recommendations to enhance the development perspective, translated in the integration of policy objectives that put humans, their rights and their legitimate aspiration for a decent life at the centre, while tackling the systemic issues as well as preventing forced migration and displacement in its external migration policies.
"Migrants are key development actors. Development potentials can evolve and be of benefit for both their residence and origin countries only when Human Rights are at the heart of migration policies" says Johannes Trimmel, CONCORD President. "CONCORD will keep advocating for rights-based migration and development policies to de-mystify misconceptions and avoid incoherence."
The current policies are pushing people towards irregular migration channels by, on one hand, building walls, following restrictive visa schemes, hardly offering opportunities for labour migration and on the other hand, contributing towards the conditions forcing people to move. The implementation of the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals is an opportunity to reemphasize the need for rights-based EU external migration policies and to promote coherence with longer-term development objectives.


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From laptops to smartphones, having many portable devices at our fingertips makes daily life easy to manage. We can perform various business operations, expand our entertainment options, keep track of different schedules, and find the answers to almost any question instantly.
We can do these things from almost anywhere, thanks to broader wireless network coverage. However, the devices that we take with us run on special batteries. Like any electronic unit that does not have its power source, the battery is a crucial part that maintains its functionality, especially when we are on the go.
Nowadays, power banks fill a void between simple battery use and main power from dedicated outlets. Thanks to these accessories, we can recharge the batteries on our devices without access to a primary power source.
Some people might wonder about the mechanics and makeup of power banks, and we will try to answer some of the uncommon questions they might have in our article below.
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Why Do Power Banks Have Two Ports?
Once you purchase a power bank, you may notice its dual ports. It contrasts with many other accessories that only use a single port. Of course, various manufacturers make different models of power banks to their specifications, but all such products on the market should have at least two ports.
When we talk about the different ports this way, we usually skip over the minor input port you might see. As the name suggests, the input port is the one you will use when you need to plug in the power bank itself to top up the internal power pack that stores the energy it gives out. However, you may notice at least two USB ports on any power bank you purchase.
You can use the different ports on your power bank to charge two devices simultaneously at their most basic level. Although it is the quickest way to get your devices running again, your power bank will use more energy.
However, you might also notice that the different USB ports with your charger display different wattages when you look at the headings the manufacturer prints alongside the ports. Although these readouts have other numbers, they still deliver the same wattage. We can use hypothetical numbers such as 12 and 18 watts to illustrate this point.
In most cases, manufacturers will convert the wattage numbers you see on your power bank into amp values. Therefore, higher base numbers will produce a more significant number of amps. With more amps, you should be able to charge your devices faster than you would otherwise.
However, it is a good idea to remember that some devices may have hardware limitations that slow down their charging capacity. It is true even if you switch the unit to a port with a higher value.
For some power banks, the ports may list amp values. For example, some power banks indicate that they have 1A and 2A outputs, respectively. You can use these numbers as a guide to figure out which port you might need. Some devices may only need the one with a smaller value. If this is the case, it will not affect how fast the bank charges the device. It is true even if you plug your device into the faster port.
Do Portable Chargers Come Fully Charged?
Generally, most power banks you purchase won't have a full charge when you take them out of the box. However, it is not uncommon for them to have at least some of the charge. That's because manufacturers charge these devices before shipment.
Even if the power banks have a full charge based on the manufacturer's preferences, the internal supply could be less than its full capacity if it has been sitting on a shelf waiting for someone to purchase it.
Whatever the case, many companies will recommend that users take the time to charge their new power banks up to their full capacity before using them.
Why Do Power Banks Have Flashlights?
Some power banks come with functional flashlights. Although there could be a few reasons for this additional feature, one of the most common is power outages. During a power outage, you won't be able to charge any of your devices. Therefore, fully charging your electronics is crucial for such situations. In addition, it helps you stay in touch with others or call for help.
A power bank is beneficial during this time, but you don't want to lose it in the dark. The flashlight helps you keep the bank in sight. Additionally, you can use it to find your way around a dark house when you are searching for your other devices. Keeping the light on allows you to see things like a phone or tablet. Furthermore, the accessory is excellent for helping you find the ports you need on both units to make a solid connection between them for charging.
Can a Portable Charger Charge Itself?
Technically, a power bank can charge itself. It is due to the difference between the voltage of its internal cell and its output. While true for some power banks, it is not meaningful or practical for the average user to try this.
The conversion rates and charging factors that a bank like this would use will not be the total capacity necessary for proper charging. In short, even if you could set a power bank with itself, the device would draw more power than it can put back into itself.
If your goal is to refill the power bank's capacity, these limits make doing so in this way entirely pointless. It may be more accurate to say that, while a power bank could charge itself, its discharge rate will always be greater than its charge rate.
Why Does My Power Bank Automatically Turn Off?
There are a couple of possibilities why your power bank seems to turn off by itself. First, we have the legitimate feature of fully charging the device you attach to the power bank.
Most manufacturers build their power banks in ways that allow the units to sense when the devices you might connect to them charge up fully. Once the banks fill the batteries, they detect that the units connected to them no longer draw power. So the power banks will turn off automatically to conserve their remaining energy.
If you leave your device connected to a power bank, it may discharge a tiny bit of its energy over time. When this happens, the power bank will probably switch on again to top up the battery in the device.
Secondly, you may find that some power banks shut off automatically after only a few minutes of use. It can be true even if you know the device you connect to has not reached its full charge.
In this scenario, you could be dealing with a faulty product you need to replace. Otherwise, you may have an old power bank on your hands. If your power bank is new, it is worth checking if you got it from a reputable brand.
Some lesser-known brands may use inferior parts that hold a fraction of the capacities they might list on the label. Always try to go with power bank brands that the community knows and trusts.
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# if B was a true probability function
ShouldBe1 := add(op~(2, PointwiseB)):
# Normalize B:
PointwiseB := [ seq([x, B(rhs~(NE)[]) / ShouldBe1], x in [$0..Xmax]) ]:
evalf(add(op~(2, PointwiseB)));
# Draw the approximate cumulative function
c := CumulativeSum(op~(2, PointwiseB));
ApproximateCDF := zip((u, v) -> [u[1], v], PointwiseB, convert(c, list)):
plot(ApproximateCDF); # not an exact representation... should be a stepwise function
c := Vector(4, {(1) = ' 1.. 101 '*Array, (2) = 'Data Type: '*float[8], (3) = 'Storage: '*rectangular, (4) = 'Order: '*Fortran_order})
# Sample ApproximateCDF:
# 1/ draw u from a Uniform(0, 1)
# 2/ find the
U := RandomVariable(Uniform(0, 1)):
ListTools:-BinaryPlace(op~(2, ApproximateCDF), Sample(U, 1)[1]);
SampleB := map(u -> ListTools:-BinaryPlace(op~(2, ApproximateCDF), u), Sample(U, 1000));
SampleB := Vector(4, {(1) = ' 1.. 1000 '*Vector[row], (2) = 'Data Type: '*anything, (3) = 'Storage: '*rectangular, (4) = 'Order: '*Fortran_order})
[0 = 550, 1 = 177, 2 = 92, 3 = 42, 4 = 24, 5 = 16, 6 = 13, 7 = 10, 9 = 5, 8 = 9, 11 = 7, 10 = 7, 13 = 3, 12 = 3, 15 = 3, 14 = 2, 19 = 1, 17 = 2, 22 = 4, 23 = 1, 20 = 1, 21 = 1, 27 = 1, 26 = 1, 31 = 3, 30 = 2, 36 = 1, 39 = 2, 33 = 3, 34 = 1, 44 = 2, 41 = 1, 40 = 2, 42 = 1, 63 = 1, 56 = 1, 73 = 1, 77 = 1, 67 = 1, 90 = 1, 94 = 1]
scale := MAX/B0;
window := [0..20, default]:
 Histogram(SampleB, frequencyscale=absolute, discrete, thickness=10),
 plot(scale*B(rhs~(NE)[]), x=0..1, color=red, thickness=3),
 plot(scale*B(rhs~(NE)[]), x=1..100, color=red, thickness=3),
plot(scale*B(rhs~(NE)[]), x=0..1, adaptive=true)
Sorry, you're right, I forgot the "1/3" in the coefficient of x^3.
Not applicable: see tomleslie's answer
You got a wrong result with Optimization:-NLPSolve (?)
Given fexact is monotone decreasing over [0, 2] and its values are between [0, 1], given fapp is monotone increasing on [0, 2] with fapp(2) > 6789*2, it is obvious that the the maximum M of abs(fapp-fexact) is reached for x=2.
Then M = subs(x=2, fapp-fexact) = - sin(2)/2 which is about 30543.54535 and not 2827.54535.
Using instead Optimization:-Maximize( abs(fapp-fexact), x=0..2) returns the good value.
More of this: your two calculations (L2 norm and L1 norm) give strangely the same result: could it be that Optimization:-Maximize( abs(fapp-fexact), x=0..2, maximize) does not do what you were expecting for?
I apreciate these non-gurus explanations.
Thanks Tom
Thanks acer for all these technical explanations.
For my understanding: I guess than you writting :-'+'(a, b) is a shortcut for Tolerances:-'+'(a, b) isn't it?
If so, is it not an unsafe way to proceed ifyou use two different packages containing different functions with the same name (I recently met this situation with packages simplex and geom which both contain functions named convexhull)?
_USER_ Love
I had noticed the '+' returned by the command line < with(Tolerances); > but I forgot that '+' does not operate on a list but on a sequence; thus I forgot to use op or [] before running '+'.
I like your ('+'_USER_) solution, easier to understand than using subsindets(Z, :-'+', '+');
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Ascription is assigning some quality or character to a person or thing. Ascription in a sense is also the assigning to a cause or source. The principle of merit is consistent with liberal theory and assumes equality of opportunity and occupational advancement based on achievement rather than ascription. Meritocracy is rule by those chosen on the principle of merit. Open class ideology claims that society's status system is based on achievement and not on ascription.
What is ascription and third party ascription?
Ascription is the process whereby in the event of a parent failing to return the ethnic group collection form, the school can use its best judgement to determine the ethnic group of the pupil. This process is also known as "third party" ascription. If ascription is to be carried out, there are certain safeguards that need to be in place:
The information should be requested from the parent by post along with a letter that explains that the school will ascribe an ethnic group to their child if there is no response and parents do not formally refuse to provide this information.
If a formal refusal is made, schools must not ascribe an ethnic group.
Parents should be informed of the school's decision and given the opportunity to see, amend or remove the ethnic group record. After such ascription, the ethnic group record will be marked as "ascribed by the school."
When should schools decide if ascription is necessary?
To ensure that schools have a consistent policy on ascription for all pupils, we recommend that the decision to undertake ascription is taken before any correspondence to parents have been sent out. The letter to parents should then be amended to include a paragraph on ascription as shown on the model letter contained in the guidance document.
Why is ascription voluntary rather than compulsory for schools?
We want to give schools the option to carry out ascription if this is the only opportunity that schools will have to collect this data in order to make monitoring possible. Head teachers with the support of their staff are best placed to make the decision whether ascription is desirable or not in their schools. Therefore ascription is voluntary and schools should not be put under pressure to undertake ascription.
What if I am put under pressure to ascribe an ethnic group for those pupils whose parents have not returned the ethnic group data collection form?
Individual members of staff should not be put under pressure to ascribe. However, ascription, if properly conducted according to DfES guidelines, meets the requirements of data protection legislation and has the support the Commission for Racial Equality.


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How to Specify Timber Veneer
1. Specify the species
2. Specify the face quality one side or both sides
3. Choose the grain direction. For example:
2400mm x 1200mm the grain will run parallel with the 2400mm long length of the sheet this is known as 'Long Band'.
1200mm x 2400mm the grain will run parallel with the 1200mm long length of the sheet this is known as 'Cross Band'.
4. Choose the panel size
5. Choose the panel thickness
6. Choose the substrate – which may be MDF, Particle Board, Plywood, Blockboard, X-Board Plus, or Fleecebacked Veneer
for example: 2 sheets of 2400mm x 1200mm STD MDF Hoop Pine G1S DG
The above represents the practice in Australia - some countries do specify differently, so it is always recommended that where doubt may exist, the grain direction should be clarified before ordering.
Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) is used as a substrate for wood veneers, particularly for applications where it is desirable for the edges to be moulded and exposed.
Particleboard, being strong, stable and inexpensive, is an excellent substrate for veneered products.
Plywood is constructed from three or more layers of veneer bonded together and is used as a substrate for veneer for special applications.
Blockboard is a composite panel comprising a core of wood strips bonded together as a slab faced on each side with two layers of wood veneer. Blockwood is mainly used in the manufacture of solid core doors.
X-Board Plus is made from recycled fibre-waste and becomes a strong, firm, environmentally green panel that is lightweight, functional and aesthetically pleasing.
Pressing is the process of binding veneer layons to substrate using specialised pressing equipment, which generally applies heat and pressure. Most products are supplied, trimmed and sanded; however this is optional.


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1. Design and implement classes. (21 pts) Design a class named Person and its two subclasses named Student and Employee. Make Faculty and Staff subclasses of Employee. A person has a name, address, phone number, and email address. A student has a class status (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior). Define the status as a constant. An employee has an office, salary, and date hired. Define a class named MyDate that contains the fields year, month, and day. A faculty member has office hours and a rank. A staff member has a title. Override the toString method in each class to display the class name and the persons name.
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Qt for Python & fbs
fbs provides a powerful environment for packaging, creating installers, and signing your application. It also lets you manage updates to your application. Since fbs is based on PyInstaller, it supports Linux, macOS, and Windows.
For more details, see the fbs tutorial and the fbs manual.
Installing fbs (>= 0.7.6) is done via pip:
pip install fbs
If you're using a virtual environment, remember to activate it before installing fbs.
After the installation, you can use the fbs executable.
Starting a new project
fbs provides useful features for you to create a base project structure with the following command:
fbs startproject
This command prompts you to answer a few questions to configure the details of your project, like:
 - Application name
 - Author name
 - Qt bindings (PySide2 or PyQt5)
 - Bundle indentified (for macOS)
Afterwards, you have a src/ directory that contains the following structure:
└── src
 ├── build
 │ └── settings
 └── main
 ├── icons
 │ ├── base
 │ ├── linux
 │ └── mac
 └── python
Inside the settings directory, there are a few JSON files that can be edited to include more information about your project.
The main file is in the python directory, and its default content is:
from fbs_runtime.application_context import ApplicationContext
from PySide2.QtWidgets import QMainWindow
import sys
if __name__ == '__main__':
 appctxt = ApplicationContext() # 1. Instantiate ApplicationContext
 window = QMainWindow()
 window.resize(250, 150)
 exit_code = appctxt.app.exec_() # 2. Invoke appctxt.app.exec_()
This example shows an empty QMainWindow. You can run it using the following command:
fbs run
Freezing the application
Once you've verified that the application is working properly, you can continue with the freezing process using the following command:
fbs freeze
After the process completes, you see a message stating the location of your executable. For example:
Done. You can now run 'target/MyApp/MyApp'. If that doesn't work, see
Now, you can try to run the application. The result is the same window as the one you saw with the fbs run command:
cd target/MyApp/
This is the case for Linux. For other platforms like macOS, you need to enter the directory: target/MyApp.app/Contents/macOS. For Windows, you need to find the MyApp.exe executable.


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Computational modeling of platinum recovery.
The increased value of platinum has led to intensified efforts to recover this precious metal from effluent streams. The streams usually contain large amounts of other metals that are not wanted (such as iron) and one therefore needs to selectively recover the platinum. Although a lot of progress has been made experimentally, where amine-substituted activated carbon (AC) is used to recover the platinum, little is known about the molecular-level mechanism of the adsorption of platinum onto the functionalised AC. Increased knowledge at the molecular level will hopefully assist in identifying new methods for selective adsorption, as well as improving existing methods.
In these studies we model the AC carbon by attaching oxy-functional groups on graphitic structures (oxygen containing functional groups are known to exist on the AC). The interaction between the amine groups and the functionalise AC is then studied, to ascertain which functional groups are most likely to be important for the adsorption of the amine groups. These studies are performed at neutral pH to accurately reflect the experimental conditions. The adsorption properties of the platinum complex ions and the adsorbed amine groups are then studied in order to understand the chemistry of the platinum adsorption.
The figure below shows the system containing the Pt complex, amine group and the carboxylic functional group.
This research, which is performed in close collaboration with the experimental studies at Tswane University of Technology, South Africa, is funded by SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency).


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Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube
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The Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube, along with its Weighted Companion Cube variant, is the most common and basic testing element in Portal and Portal 2. It is used throughout the testing courses of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.
- The Weighted Storage Cube is a device used for solving cube-and-button based puzzles in the various Test Chambers found throughout the Enrichment Center.
- In Portal and the Single Player campaign of Portal 2, Weighted Storage Cubes are to be placed on a Super Button to allow Test Subjects to advance.
- In the cooperative campaign of Portal 2, the Weighted Storage Cubes are to be placed on Cube Buttons.
- Weighted Storage Cubes appear either via an Aperture Science Vital Apparatus Vent or are already in a test chamber.
- It can be picked up by using the "use" key and can also be taken through portals.
- The Weighted Storage Cube can also be used as a makeshift weapon against an Aperture Science Sentry Turret by dropping it on the Sentry Gun from a Portal, or as a makeshift shield to block turret fire and energy pellets.
- Like most objects, the Weighted Storage Cube will disintegrate upon touching an Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill.
- In Portal 2, the cubes have a circular blue light on each side, and when left on a button it changes to a yellow light. They are also notably smaller in size than in Portal.
- The Weighted Companion Cube in Portal 2 bears a resemblance to the standard Cubes, their only difference is that they have a heart on each face of the Cube and emit a pink light.
- A special type of Storage Cube, the Weighted Companion Cube appears in both Portal and Portal 2. It is identical to the regular Weighted Storage Cube in both games, except that it has a heart where the Aperture Science logo would be. At the end of the Test Chamber 17 in Portal, the player is forced to throw it into an Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator. Narrative provided by GLaDOS and Doug Rattmann suggests that the Companion Cube is designed to test emotional stress by having subjects develop affection for it before being forced to destroy it.
- In Portal 2's second chapter Test Chamber 07, GLaDOS reveals that there are warehouses full of Weighted Companion Cubes shortly after disintegrating two of them. She also contradicts her statements from the first game, openly stating that they are sentient. As the Material Emancipation Grill for that chamber is not functioning, Chell can remove the companion cube from that chamber (earning the player the "Preservation of Mass" achievement/trophy), only to have GLaDOS destroy it herself shortly before reaching the elevator.
- It is unknown whether the Companion Cube can communicate openly in any way. Although generally the Cube actually talking seems to be a sign of madness, if the "Preservation of Mass" achievement is earned, GLaDOS claims the Cube was about to say "I love you," and in Portal 2, the Cube produces a chime, which foreshadows the Turret Opera.
- Twentieth century prototypes of the Storage Cubes were seen in the old condemned parts of the Aperture Science Innovators test chambers, where they also served a similar purpose for weighing down buttons. These cubes can react to the Mobility Gels, as well. It is unknown if the early cubes were simple crates with nothing inside, or if they were actually weighed down to help push down and hold in place the early Aperture Science Super Buttons. These cubes also appear to be made of wood, held together by staples. No analogue of the Companion Cubes appear.
|Do whatever it takes to survive.|
|Drop Box (20G)|
|Place a cube on a button without touching the cube.|
|Preservation of Mass (20G)|
|Break the rules in Test Chamber 07.|
|Schrodinger's Catch (20G)|
|Catch a blue-painted box before it touches the ground.|
|Iron Grip (20G)|
|Never lose a cube in Chamber 6 of the Mass and Velocity co-op course.|
|Party of Three (25G)|
|Find the hidden companion cube in co-op test chamber.|
|Never lose a cube in Chamber 6 of the Mobility Gels co-op course.|
Behind the scenes
- The Weighted Companion Cube was invented because playtesters often failed to realize that the puzzle required you to take the cube with you, so they made it unique and more noticeable, and had GLaDOS put a great deal of emphasis on it in her voiceover.
- A Weighted Companion Cube plush and fuzzies are available to purchase online at Valve online.
- A Companion Cube prop can be unlocked for Xbox Live avatars by completing the Portal 2 Single Player campaign.
- The teaser trailer version of GLaDOS' Incinerator Room features the burned Companion Cube.
- The Companion Cubes seem to replace Storage Cubes in the Aperture Investment videos.
- The Companion Cube from Portal is implied to have never been completely incinerated during the ending sequence of Portal 2. This is noted by the amount of burns marks it has sustained, also implied from statistics of the Portal Gun which can endure temperatures of up to 4000 kelvin, that subsequent Aperture products are also able to. In addition, the Companion Cube in Portal 2 sports a new design, but the cube in the ending sequence is the Portal design.
- In Portal 2, when held, the Companion Cube causes the game to play a type of tune or chime specific to it, much like how certain music plays during the activation or use of certain testing elements of functioning Aperture Science technology (eg. Aerial Faith Plate). The tune is a loop that foreshadows the upcoming Turret Opera at the end of the campaign.
- In the Xbox 360 game Fable III, a crate with a heart painted on each of its sides can be found in one of the game's dungeons, being worshipped by a creature called a Hobbe. On the table next to the cell in which the Hobbe is being kept, there is also a Cake.
- In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 there is an unlockable title called "Companion Crate" on hearts background, most likely referring to Portal and Portal 2
Weighted Storage Ball, the model of which is shared with that of the simplified Personality Core.
Weighted Storage Cubes being delivered by Aperture Science Pipe Network.
Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube icon in Perpetual Testing Initiative.
List of appearances
- ApertureScience.com (Non-canonical appearance) (Not before Christmas 2007)
- Portal: First Slice
- Portal: Still Alive (Non-canonical appearance)
- Portal ARG
- PotatoFoolsDay ARG
- Portal 2: Lab Rat
- The Final Hours of Portal 2
- Randolph the Red-Nosed Turret (Toy only) (Non-canonical appearance)
- Portal Pinball (Non-canonical appearance)
- Lego Dimensions (Non-canonical appearance)
- Weighted Pivot Cube
- Edgeless Safety Cube
- Cube Button
- Edgeless Safety Cube Receptacle
- 1500 Megawatt Super Button
- GDC 08: Portal Creators on Writing, Multiplayer, Government Interrogation Techniques on Shacknews
- RPS Interview: Valve's Erik Wolpaw on Rock, Paper, Shotgun
- Scott Klintworth's official website
- The Final Hours of Portal 2
- Weighted Companion Cube Plush at the Steam store.
- Weighted Companion Cube Fuzzies at the Steam store.


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Key Difference – Anthem vs Hymn
Although the two terms anthem and hymn both refer to a song, there is a distinct difference between anthem and hymn. A hymn is a religious song of praise to God or a deity whereas an anthem is an uplifting song that symbolizes a particular group or cause. The key difference between anthem and hymn is the fact that hymn is a religious song whereas anthem is not.
What is an Anthem?
The term anthem basically refers to a song of praise, loyalty, happiness or celebration. This song serves as a symbol for a particular group, body or cause.
A national anthem is a patriotic song officially adopted by a country as an expression of national identity. A national anthem usually pays homage to the history, traditions, culture and struggles of the people and provoke patriotical feelings. "La Marseillaise" (France), "The Star-Spangled Banner" (the USA), "God save the queen" (the UK), "Jana Gana Mana" (India), etc. are some examples of national anthems.
When the national anthem is being played, the people should always stand at attention. Although different countries have different etiquettes, standing during the national anthem is a common practice.
The term anthem can also refer to a musical setting of a religious text to be sung by a choir during a church service, particularly in Anglican or Protestant Churches.
What is a Hymn?
A hymn is a religious song or poem of praise to God. Technically, the term hymn refers to the written text which is intended to be sung. The singing or compositions of hymns are called hymnody. A collection of hymns is known as a hymn or a hymn book. A hymn is addressed to a deity or deities and is specially written for the purpose of adoration or prayer. Hymns may or may not be accompanied by instruments.
Although the term hymn is usually associated with Christian churches, hymns are used in various religions, particularly religions in the Indian subcontinent.
What is the difference between Anthem and Hymn?
Anthem is a song of praise, loyalty, happiness or celebration.
Hymn is a religious song, addressed to a deity.
Anthem is used as a symbol for a particular group, body or cause.
Hymn is only used for religious purposes; it's not used as a symbol.
National Anthem is officially adopted by a country as an expression of national identity.
Hymn has no official purpose.
Anthem is not addressed to a deity.
Hymn is addressed to a deity or deities.
Anthems are usually accompanied by music.
Hymns may or may not be accompanied by music.
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