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Christianity most likely arrived in Ethiopia in the first century. The conversion of King Ezana in 330 c.e. led to its official acceptance and the minting of coins bearing one of the earliest uses of the cross as a Christian symbol. Although the silver pendant crosses in the Museum's collection are from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their forms have a considerably longer history, as the much older copper, wood, and iron crosses here demonstrate.
Hand crosses, which are used by priests, are either hand-held or suspended from a cord around the neck. They are kissed by the faithful to receive a blessing. Processional crosses are carried on long poles in religious processions. Prayer staffs are used to mark rhythms during sacred dances and as supports to lean on while standing for long hours during Orthodox church services. Together, all of these crosses are emblems of the Ethiopian Orthodox church's ongoing authority.
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- Culture: Amhara
- Medium: Copper alloy
- Place Made: Ethiopia
- Dates: 13th or 14th century
- Dimensions: 10 x 4 3/4 x 1 in. (25.4 x 12.1 x 2.5 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Arts of Africa
- Museum Location: This item is on view in South Gallery, 1st Floor
- Accession Number: 2000.95.1
- Credit Line: Gift of Eric Goode
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Amhara. Processional Cross, 13th or 14th century. Copper alloy, 10 x 4 3/4 x 1 in. (25.4 x 12.1 x 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Eric Goode, 2000.95.1. Creative Commons-BY
- Catalogue Description: Cast bronze processional cross with rectangular openwork superstructure and socket with decagonal cross section. The superstructure has a central motif of five small cutout Greek crosses arranged in a larger Greek cross design. Two sets of three crosses form the vertical edges of the composition. Condition: Good overall
- Record Completeness: Best (83%)


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I saw mention of a 'dish' hold, and cannot figure out what this means exactly from Google searches. There are many sites selling dish holds like this one, but I don't understand what 'dish' means from the pictures. Plates? Something to do with their flatness?
"Dish holds" are holds that are (in relation to their total size) rather flat.
That seems to be their defining property - they can be round, have pockets, edges or other interesting features on them, but the one thing they have in common is their flat shape. This is in contrast to e.g. large jugs or slopers etc. which stick out more from the wall.
From my experience, a dish hold is one containing a smooth, shallow concave indentation, generally looking like the shape of a bowl or dish. I think it would fall under the sloper category, although slopers include both smooth concave and convex surfaces.
Below are some examples:
The indentation on the right would be considered a dish hold.
Another example of a dish hold.

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Use a marker to draw lines on the square piece of sheet metal where it's to be bent. Use metal snips to cut one line on each corner of the metal to the point that it intersects with another line.
Place the metal on the brake's platform, and align the point to be bent with the seam on the platform. Place the brake bar on top of the sheet metal. Use C-clamps to tighten the brake bar (Image 1). Pull the levers on the metal brake to an upright position to make the bending point (Image 2). Loosen the C-clamps and repeat steps 1 and 2 to make additional bends on the remaining sides of the metal.
When folded, the box will have protruding squares of metal. Fold each of these to the outside of the box, against the sides. Drill a hole through each corner of the box as pilot holes for the rivets (Image 1). Use a rivet gun to rivet the corners of the box to secure the sides (Image 2).
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IRS Rules: Restructuring in Today's Regulatory Climate
Some nonprofits have been forced to restructure their organizations due to the economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, IRS rule changes from a couple of years ago make the restructuring process far easier than it once was. If you're considering such a change, here's what you need to know.
How have the rules changed?
Under previous IRS rules, a tax-exempt organization was required to file a new exemption application when it made certain changes to its structure. Each of these circumstances was seen as creating a new legal entity that must file an exemption application. An unincorporated association that incorporated was generally considered a new legal entity required to file an application, as well.
To apply for new exempt status, a restructuring organization would need to file a final Form 990 under its initial Employer Identification Number (EIN), obtain a new EIN and apply for exemption for the new entity. In addition to being a time-consuming and often expensive process, the new organization risked failing to receive the desired tax-exempt status. This also required changing the EIN on all bank and investment accounts, which is part of the administrative burden of a restructuring.
Then change arrived under IRS Revenue Procedure 2018-15. Restructuring nonprofits are now only required to report significant organizational changes on their Forms 990. However, the restructuring must satisfy certain conditions.
What are the requirements?
To avoid the application process, the original organization must be 1) a U.S. corporation or an unincorporated association, and 2) tax exempt as a 501(c) organization. It also must be in good standing in the jurisdiction where it was incorporated or, in the case of an unincorporated association, formed.
The reorganization must involve one of the following:
 - Changing from an unincorporated association to a corporation,
 - Reincorporating a corporation under the laws of another state after dissolving in the original state,
 - Filing articles of domestication to transfer a corporation to a new state without dissolving in the original state, or
 - Merging a corporation with or into another corporation.
The resulting, or "surviving," organization must carry out the same exempt purpose that the original organization had. If it's a 501(c)(3) organization, the new articles of incorporation must continue to satisfy the IRS's organizational test for such nonprofits. The test requires that the nonprofit's organizing documents (for example, its articles of incorporation) limit its purposes and use of its assets to exempt purposes.
Any exceptions or caveats?
The new rules don't apply if the surviving organization is a "disregarded entity" (an entity the IRS doesn't consider to be separate from its owner for tax purposes), limited liability company (LLC), partnership or foreign business entity. They also don't cover the incorporation of exempt trusts, or mergers of organizations into LLCs. Nor do the new rules include reorganizations in which the surviving organization obtains a new EIN. Surviving organizations that aren't covered by the new rules must submit a new exemption application to be recognized as exempt.
Covered surviving organizations don't escape without any reporting obligations, of course. The IRS still requires survivors to report the restructuring on any required Form 990 for the applicable tax year. In the case of a domestication or reincorporation in a different state, the surviving organization also must report its change of address on Forms 8822-B and 990.
Note, too, that the surviving organization will need to reapply for exemption if there's been a material change to the exempt purpose or type of exemption from the original organization. An example would be switching from providing outreach services to having an advocacy mission.
The new rules apply only to federal income tax exemptions. Your state's laws could require you to file a new exemption application.
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If you're considering restructuring, reach out to us. We can guide you through the process and help position your organization for future success.


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Bloomberg BNA's Daily Labor Report recently published an article coauthored our Epstein Becker Green colleagues Kara M. Maciel and Adam C. Solander: "For Employers with High Turnover and Large Numbers of Seasonal Workers, the ACA Creates Unique Compliance Issues." (Click to download the article in PDF format.)
Following is an excerpt:
The Affordable Care Act provides unique compliance obligations for employers in certain industries, such as the retail, lodging, restaurant, and grocery sectors, many of which employ large numbers of part-time and seasonal employees, and may comprise multiple smaller employers.
Of paramount concern for these employers, as for all employers, is the impending application of the shared responsibility rules. The guidance to date has been very much a mixed bag for these high-turnover industries. Some of the shared responsibility provisions will have a greater impact on these industries because of their size and employee mix, while others provide useful interpretations that will lessen some of the negative impacts of these rules.
This article will briefly examine the four major steps required under the shared responsibility rules in the context of these industries. These include: (1) determining whether the business is subject to the shared responsibility rules; (2) identifying the number of full-time employees a particular employer may have; (3) examining the way the shared responsibility rules relate to high-turnover industries; and (4) identifying strategies for compliance.
As background, the employer shared responsibility rules provide that ''applicable large employers" with 50 or more full-time employees (including full-time equivalent employees) will be subject to a tax penalty if any full-time employee receives a premium tax credit or cost-sharing reduction to purchase health coverage through a health insurance exchange.
Generally, an employee is eligible for a cost-sharing subsidy if: (1) an employer does not offer the majority of its full-time employees (and their dependents) the opportunity to enroll in coverage; or (2) an employer offers its full-time employees the opportunity to enroll in coverage, but the coverage is ''unaffordable" or does not provide ''minimum value."
Conceptually, the shared responsibility rules are not difficult to understand. However, as with all things ACA, the devil is in the details and the details are what complicate shared responsibility compliance for highturnover industries.


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Conservation work completed on one of Glasgow's most historic buildings
27 February 2013
Glasgow Cathedral has recently received £30,000 worth of conservation work by Historic Scotland to repair the damage inflicted by last year's gales.
Despite being the only medieval cathedral on the Scottish mainland to have survived the 1560 Reformation virtually complete, the weathercock and spike on top of the landmark did not escape last year's merciless strong winds unscathed.
The spike of the church was no longer vertical due to corrosion and a closer examination of the weathercock showed damage to some of the rivets with the tail being completely blown off. A further structural inspection also found an area of the steeple was in need of re-pointing.
Overseeing the conservation work was Historic Scotland's District Architect, Ian Lambie. While the conservation itself was a fairly simple task, it was made more complex by the height of the building and the narrow conditions.
Ian Lambie said: "The only way of accessing the spire head was by climbing up inside the steeple using steep narrow ladders and squeezing and crawling through small windows at the apex. Making repairs at this sort of height has its challenges but it's always worth it for the view!"
Now that the necessary repairs are complete, the weathercock should be able to withstand the worst of the wind and the re-pointing should hold for at least another ten years.
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Historic Scotland around the web:
- Historic Scotland is an executive agency of the Scottish Government charged with safeguarding the nation's historic environment. The agency is fully accountable to Scottish Ministers and through them to the Scottish Parliament.


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Question: What Foods Increase Blood Volume?
What is normal blood volume?
Adults: The average adult weighing 150 to 180 pounds should have about 1.2 to 1.5 gallons of blood in their body.
This is about 4,500 to 5,700 mL.
Pregnant women: To support their growing babies, pregnant women usually have anywhere from 30 to 50 percent more blood volume than women who are not pregnant..
Does salt increase blood volume?
When sodium is retained, less urine is produced, eventually causing blood volume to increase.
What should you eat after losing blood?
What juices are high in iron?
Iron Rich Indina Juices using VeggiesCarrot Spinach and Parsley Juice.Amla Ginger Juice.Palak, Kale and Apple Juice.Pineapple and Coriander Juice.Pineapple Sweet Lime Drink.Watermelon and Guava Juice.Pineapple, Apple and Cucumber Juice.Pineapple, Apple and Cucumber Juice.
Does losing blood make you tired?
How can I restore my blood?
Which juice is good for blood?
Beetroot Juice Beetroot is rich in nitrates. Nitrates help relax blood vessels and improve blood flow. Beetroot juice is believed to lower systolic blood pressure in just a matter of few hours.
Are Bananas high in iron?
Does Honey increase platelets?
Honey samples showed moderate inhibition of platelet aggregation with IC(50) 5-7.5%. The coagulation assays showed that at higher concentrations (>15%) honey samples increased whole blood clotting time.
How do you increase blood volume?
What can I drink for blood loss?
Does garlic lower platelet count?
Conclusions: Platelet function is not impaired by single and repeated oral consumption of a dietary dose of garlic in healthy volunteers. Dishes containing socially acceptable doses of raw garlic are unlikely to increase the risk of perioperative bleeding.
What foods increase blood plasma?
1. Food Rich in FolateDark and leafy vegetables like spinach and Brussels sprouts.Beef liver.Black-eyed peas.Fortified cereals and alternatives.Rice.Yeast.Kidney beans.Orange and orange juice.
Does drinking more water increase blood volume?
Is blood a volume?
A typical adult has a blood volume of approximately 5 liters, with females and males having approximately the same blood volume. Blood volume is regulated by the kidneys. Blood volume measurement may be used in people with congestive heart failure, chronic hypertension, kidney failure and critical care.
Is plasma found in food?
Blood plasma is a versatile product, which is used in food industry as a binder in meat products, egg replacer in bakery, in protein-enriched pasta, fat replacers, or even polyphosphate or caseinates substitute (Ofori and Hsieh, 2012; Hurtado et al., 2011, 2012).
Which fruit is good for blood increase?
What causes blood volume to increase?
Hypervolemia occurs when blood volume is increased and can occur through renal failure, congestive heart failure, liver failure, excessive sodium intake, or any other dysfunction of sodium regulation. [8] Furthermore, prolonged hypertension may result in renal damage eventually culminating in fluid imbalance.


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The Kratom Drug Test Guide: What To Know If You Use Kratom
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There's a reason why the kratom industry is worth an estimated $5 billion in the United States. The natural herb is becoming increasingly popular for both medicinal and recreational use.
Unfortunately, there are still some negative stigmas surrounding the plant. In many states, the substance remains legal, but some have decided to impose bans on it. This means that some users may be worried about the substance appearing on a drug test.
So, is this fear well-founded? Or does a kratom drug test not exist? In this article, we'll answer everything you need to know about drug testing surrounding the substance. Let's get started!
How Can You Take Kratom?
Kratom is consumed in powder form. However, the way you consume this powder depends on your personal preference. Many people enjoy a simple toss and wash.
With this method, you measure out the amount you need, place it in your mouth, and swirl it around. Just make sure you don't do too much this way or can throw up. Another popular method is drinking it in tea form.
Simply boil up some water, add the powder and let it sit for thirty minutes. This method relieves a lot of the negative effects of taking it straight, but it does take a little longer.
If you don't like the concentrated taste, then you can try putting it into food or drink. Yogurt or a protein shake works great at masking the flavor.
Does Kratom Show Up in a Drug Test?
The answer to this question depends on the type of test you take. On the traditional five-panel test the alkaloids found in kratom usually do not show up.
However, tests that involve blood or urine may reveal some of these alkaloids, specifically mitragynine which is found in all types of kratom. Unfortunately, there is one type of test used specifically for identifying kratom in the system.
This type of test is known as a ten-panel test. Typically, this type of test can detect kratom for seven days after the user takes it. However, it's important to note that this period depends on a variety of factors. We'll go into them in the next section.
What Factors Determine How Long Kratom Stays in Your System?
Everyone's body is different which means everyone reacts differently to kratom being in their system. The first factor that determines this period is the weight. Heavier individuals will need to wait longer before kratom leaves their system.
The next factor is age. In general, elderly people metabolize drugs more slowly than young individuals. That means that trace amounts will stay in their body longer. The faster a person's metabolism the quicker the body will flush the alkaloid out of the system.
The amount that the person takes is also important. It can take a week or two longer to get rid of all the kratom alkaloids found in a heavy user's body. You should also factor in whether the person is taking other types of substances.
When other types of drugs are combined, then it can affect the rate at which they're removed from the body. The last factor is the health of the individual. For example, if a person has liver problems, then their body will not metabolize the substance as quickly.
What Are the Benefits of Kratom?
There is a lot to like about taking kratom. For one thing, it improves your mood and reduces anxiety. It also helps reduce pain. This makes it great for dealing with chronic illnesses.
While kratom is not an opioid, it does bind with the opioid receptor in your brain. This makes it ideal for people suffering from opioid withdrawal.
Many people also use kratom for stimulation. When taken in low doses it can greatly improve your energy and mental activity. If you take kratom at higher does, then it can act as a sedative and combat insomnia.
What Are the Drawbacks?
The biggest problem surrounding kratom use is addiction. While the substance is effective at treating opioid addiction, many people unintentionally get addicted to the kratom.
As such, people with addictive tendencies should be particularly careful when using the substance. Other negative side effects come from prolonged use of the kratom. These can involve things like insomnia, constipation, and potential psychotic symptoms.
Unfortunately, more often than not these negative side effects come from using a sketchy product. So how do you find a vendor that you know offers the real thing? We'll discuss this in the next section.
How Do You Find a Kratom Supplier You Can Trust?
As we mentioned before, a lot of the drawbacks that occur with kratom happen when a person takes a low-quality product. More often than not, this has to do with dishonest vendors.
Some of these fake suppliers offer a low-quality product or one that isn't even kratom. This accounts for many of the negative health effects that people experience when they take it. So how do you find a supplier you can trust?
Reviews are a good place to start. However, it's also important to do your research. An honest vendor will give you a lot of information about the product. Look for information like where it's sourced, the specific strain, and how they package it.
All of this info is a good indication that the supplier is legitimate. If you want more help telling good sellers from the bad, then check out this guide for kratom vendors.
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We hope this article helped you learn more about what a kratom drug test entails. To find kratom in your system, individuals must use specific drug tests. Why do people administer these types of tests?
Because ultimately, kratom does have many opioid and stimulant properties that can interfere with workplace responsibilities. As such, it's important to always buy from a reputable vendor and use it responsibly.
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By: ISU Communications and Marketing Staff
March 25, 2011
Teaching third and fourth graders about math, science, engineering and technology came as second nature to a group of Indiana State University students.
The volunteers from different academic backgrounds are helping with this year's "Go Figure" events at the Terre Haute Children's Museum. The program, which was created in collaboration with the ISU Center for Mathematics Education, features different lessons teaching local third and fourth graders about science, technology, engineering and math. Several ISU technology education students planned the first two program sessions of this semester with a simple approach: teach what you know.
For Alexis Strain, an ISU senior from Terre Haute, it meant that getting the soybeans needed for a children's activity during the "Math on the Farm" session was much simpler than it would be for most people.
"I grew up farming and stuff," Strain said, "so it was fun to go to my grandpa's farm and dig them out of the planter to bring them in."
This semester's program consists of five sessions, which run every Thursday from Feb. 24 to March 31, though there was no event on March 10. The technology and engineering education students first got involved with the program after their professor, Kara Harris, last fall met with Patty Butwin, chairperson of the advisory board of the ISU Center for Mathematics Education and co-creator of Go Figure.
Butwin and Harris discussed the idea of the students participating, and it quickly grew from there.
"This would give our students, of course, another opportunity to get involved in both formal and informal education, and in my mind, you cannot get enough experience before you go out to teach," Harris said. "It also gives them the opportunity to give back to the community as well."
Each session included ISU students presenting information about how math and science helps in certain activities. During the first session, "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing and More," children learned about protective equipment that racecar drivers wear and aerodynamics involved with drag racing. The ISU students even created a simulated drag race track, and the third and fourth graders in the program raced wooden cars similar to a drag race.
The session "shows you how much prep time that you have to put into something," said Dan Lewellen, a junior technology and engineering education from Clayton, Ind. Lewellen was responsible for planning the activities for the first Go Figure session.
Go Figure is currently in its third semester. It started last year after Butwin and junior Katelynn Moats created the program as a creative way to encourage children to explore math and science.
"We really want to enrich students and encourage them that math is in their everyday life in the things that they do on a daily basis," Moats said, "and as we've progressed with our sessions, we choose topics that they see every day, like baseball, for instance, or farming, so they can make that connection."
When the program first started, eight ISU students volunteered to run the program, Butwin said. This semester that number has more than doubled to 20, though that doesn't include others, such as the technology and engineering education students, who created specific programs.
During the second session of Go Figure this semester, the technology and engineering education students had three different activities to teach kids about technology used in farming. One group taught young children about how GPS technology is used, while another group discussed how soybeans are utilized for an array of products consumed every day. A third volunteer group taught children about biotechnology through various kinds of chickens that lay eggs.
Since the program started, almost 90 children have enrolled to participate, though some of them, such as participant Maddie DeBaun, have participated more than once.
"One of my favorite subjects at school is math," Maddie said, "and since I've heard that this is about math and so I just wanted to see what it was, and it's a lot of fun."
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Indiana State University students Alexis Strain and Sarah Pemberton lead a presentation during "Go Figure" at the Terre Haute Children's Museum. ISU students volunteer for the program, which uses creative methods to teach math and science to third and fourth graders.
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An example of deem is thinking a child has done something wrong when they have a guilty look on their face.
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Overview of canvas-app connectors for PowerApps
Data is at the core of most apps, including those you build in PowerApps. Data is stored in a data source, and you bring that data into your app by creating a connection. The connection uses a specific connector to talk to the data source. PowerApps has connectors for many popular services and on-premises data sources, including SharePoint, SQL Server, Office 365, Salesforce, and Twitter. To get started adding data to a canvas app, see Add a data connection in PowerApps.
A connector may provide tables of data or actions. Some connectors provide only tables, some provide only actions, and some provide both. Also your connector may be either a standard or custom connector.
If your connector provides tables, you add your data source and then select the table in the data source that you want to manage. PowerApps both retrieves table data into your app and updates data in your data source for you. For example, you can add a data source that contains a table named Lessons and then set the Items property of a control, such as a gallery or a form, to this value in the formula bar:
You can specify the data that your app retrieves by customing the Items property of the control that shows your data. Continuing the previous example, you can sort or filter the data in the Lessons table by using that name as an argument for the Search and SortByColumn functions. In this graphic, the formula to which the Items property is set specifies that the data is sorted and filtered based on the text in TextSearchBox1.
For more information about how to to customize your formula with tables, see these topics:
To connect to data in an Excel workbook, it must be hosted in a cloud-storage service such as OneDrive. For more information, see Connect to cloud-storage from PowerApps.
If your connector provides actions, you must still select your data source as you did before. Instead of selecting a table as the next step, however, you manually connect a control to an action by editing the Items property of the control that will show your data. The formula to which you set the Items property specifies the action that retrieves data. For example, the app won't retrieve any data if you connect to Yammer and then set the Items property to the name of the data source. To populate a control with data, specify an action such as GetMessagesInGroup(_PHONE_).messages.
If you need to handle custom data updates for action connectors, build a formula that includes the Patch function. In the formula, identify the action and the fields that you'll bind to the action.
For more information about how to to customize your formula for custom updates, see these topics:
This table has links to more information about our most popular connectors. For a complete list of connectors, see All connectors.
|Common Data Service||Office 365 Outlook|
|SQL Server||OneDrive for Business|
|Office 365 Users||Dropbox|
Standard and custom connectors
PowerApps provides standard connectors for many commonly used data sources, such as those listed above. If PowerApps has a standard connector for the type of data source that you want to use, you should use that connector. If you want to connect to other types of data sources, such as a service that you've built, see Register and use custom connectors.


Why do I get "Driver Not Capable" errors and what does it mean?
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This error indicates that: the operation is valid but not supported by either the driver or the data source.
For example, if the user is trying to use the callable statement to call a stored procedure but the database does not support stored procedures, then the operation will fail and give this error.
To provide robust code, you should always work with the DatabaseMetaData to find out whether the operation you are trying to perform with your database specific classes is supported by the underlying database and have alternative mechanisms in place to carry out the desired operation.
If you know that the database supports the operation and you get this error, then change to a more robust JDBC driver.


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Principles Of International Environmental Law And Effects Of Electric Vehicle
I. Introduction
Until recently, the automotive industry's primary focus has been to reduce road transport's contribution to urban air pollution and move towards carbon neutrality through hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles, with electric vehicles having taken the lead. When it comes to climate change and air quality, electric cars are clearly preferable to petrol or diesel cars. In this article, it is examined the international principles of environmental law briefly and the impact and benefits of electric vehicles on environmental law.
II. General Principles of Environmental Law
1. Sovereignty and Responsibility Principle
International environmental law has developed between two (2) contradicting principles. First principle is that states' have sovereign rights over their natural resources. Second, states should not damage to the environment. However, the concept of sovereignty is not absolute, and state's general duty is not to cause environmental damage to the environment of other states. 1992 Rio Declaration stated that: "states have, in accordance with principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction."1 Therefore, In those areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, such as the high seas, the applicable concept is not one of sovereignty, but is one of common heritage of humanity. In the other words, global property is open and its wealth cannot be appropriated by states.
2. The Precautionary Principle
Since scientific certainty often comes later for politicians and lawyers to protect against environmental danger, the burden of proof is switched. To wait for scientific proof regarding the impact of pollutants discharged into the environment may result in irreversible damage to the environment and human suffering. The precautionary principle requires that, if there is a strong suspicion that a certain activity may have environmentally harmful consequences, it is better to control that activity now rather than to wait for incontrovertible scientific evidence. This principle is expressed in the Rio Declaration, which stipulates in principle 15 Rio Declaration, where there are "threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."2
3.The Prevention Principle
The pollution prevention principle should be differentiated from the duty to avoid environmental harm. Under this new rule, a state is under the obligation to prevent damage within its own jurisdiction. Preventing environmental harm is cheaper, easier, and less environmentally dangerous than reacting to environmental harm that already has taken place. The prevention principle is the fundamental notion behind laws regulating the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste and laws regulating the use of pesticides.
4. The "Polluter Pays" Principle
The "polluter pays" principle has been a dominant concept in environmental law. A state responsible for a violation of international law has to stop the injurious conduct which may be a cause for damage environment and revised the condition that existed prior to the wrongful conduct. According to this principle if the state cannot to re-establish the condition due to its impossibility, the state should pay compensation.
It is a common opinion that international law lacks absolute or strict liability as a general rule. There is no single basis of international responsibility applicable in all circumstances. Therefore, international environmental law is not conclusive and definite on the standard of care to environmental obligations. Such treaties may regulate the absolute liability for these activities. However, strict or absolute liability is challenging to impute for activities that are not ultrahazardous.3
5. Sustainable Development Principle
The principle of sustainable development has been defined by the 1987 Brundtland Report4 as a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
The concept of sustainable development difficult to apply in many cases, primarily because the results of long-term sustainability analyses depend on the particular resources focused upon. For instance, a forest that will provide a sustained yield of timber in perpetuity may not support native bird populations. However, sustainable development, as reflected in international agreements, encompasses at least three elements: (i) intergenerational equity (ii) sustainable use of natural resources (iii) integration of environment and development.
III. Electric Vehicles in the context of Environmental Law
1. What are the environmental benefits by using electric vehicles?
There are several great benefits to electric vehicles than conventional petrol/diesel cars:
i. Less Pollution: Driving an electric car provide to reduce harmful air pollution from exhaust emissions since an electric car has zero exhaust emissions.
ii. Renewable energy: An electric car is recharge with renewable energy and it supports to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions even further. It is recharged by solar energy system during the day. Another idea is to purchase Green Power from the electricity retailer. Then, even it is recharged from the grid, the greenhouse gas emissions are reduced.
iii. Eco-friendly materials: Not only is the operation of electric vehicles more environmentally friendly, it is also observed that a trend towards more eco-friendly production and materials of the cars. For instance, a car company considered the most fuel-efficient compact car with savings of up to $9,000 in 5 years. It is not only reducing greenhouse gas emissions but is also made up of recycled materials and the padding is made out of bio-based material.5
1. How the make electric vehicles more sustainable and environmental?
European Environment Agency has been published the Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism report ("Report")6 regarding the progress of EU transport sector towards its environment and climate objectives. This Report brings a circular economy perspective to the electric car discussion, giving a lot attention to reuse, remanufacturing and recycling.
Firstly, it is necessary that make sure the electricity supply used for making and running electric cars comes from renewable sources and this is the significant influence factor on their environmental and health performance. Secondly, according to Report, these cars should last. In other words, squeezing the mileage out of every electric car that is being produced is vital. Therefore, if they are just driven for 70.000 kilometres and then scrapped, their overall environmental performance does not look good compared to conventional cars due to the extra energy used for their production. However, they are driven for 150.000 kilometres or more, the comparison strongly favours electric cars. This issue may help to increase the sustainability of electric cars and reducing the gas emissions.
Environmental law includes several significant principles which should be applied by countries and governments. These principles are (i) sovereignty and responsibility principle, (ii) the precautionary principle, (iii) the prevention principle, (iv) the "polluter pays" principle and (iv) sustainable development principle. The conventional car which run with petrol or diesel may be considered the biggest hazard for environment and air. Therefore, to provide environmental sustainability, to prevent environmental pollution, it is significant that crate awareness for using and manufacturing electric car and provide the continuance of this car.
1. United Nations Convention on the Rio Declaration of Environment and Development, June 15, 1992, principle 2, 31.
2. United Nations Convention on the Rio Declaration of Environment and Development, June 15, 1992, principle 15.
4. Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Report).
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- For the moth genus, see Idia (moth).
was the mother of Esigie
, the Oba of Benin
who ruled from 1504 to 1550. She played a very significant role in the rise and reign of her son. She was a strong warrior who fought relentlessly before and during her son's reign as the Oba (king
) of the Edo
people. When Oba Ozolua
died, he left behind two powerful sons to dispute over who would become Oba. His son Esigie controlled Benin City
while another son, Arhuaran, was based in the equally important city of Udo about twenty miles away. Idia mobilised an army around Esigie, which successfully defeated Arhuaran, and Oba Esigie became the 16th king.
Subsequently, the neighboring Igala peoples sent warriors across the Benue River to wrest control of Benin's northern territories. Esigie conquered the Igala, reestablishing the unity and military strength of the kingdom. His mother Idia received much of the credit for these victories as her political counsel, together with her magical powers and medicinal knowledge, were viewed as critical elements of Esigie's success on the battlefield.
Idia became the first Iyoba (Queen Mother) of Benin when Esigie conferred upon her the title and the Eguae-Iyoba (Palace of the Queen Mother).


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Much of the Northeast has been experiencing rainy, soggy conditions over the past few weeks. Several agronomic and playability challenges have been observed as a result of the wet weather including:
- Mechanical damage from mowing wet putting greens, teeing grounds, fairways, and rough.
- Soft and slow putting greens.
- Pitting ball marks and scuffing/indentations from aggressive golf shoes.
- Golf cart damage from use on wet fairways and rough.
- Thick, penal rough.
- Grass clipping clumps in fairways and rough.
- Bunker washouts and puddling in poorly draining bunkers.
Lost revenue has been common at many facilities, especially those forced to close due to the weather. At many courses, saturated soils have highlighted areas where additional drainage is needed. Although drainage may not be an exciting project, it is a crucial part of golf course infrastructure and should take precedence over many other projects.
NovaSource announced a recall of ArmorTech Alt 70 and Viceroy 70DF fungicides due to herbicide contamination issues which resulted in moderate/severe decline on Poa annua and creeping bentgrass putting greens, collars, and putting green surrounds. The damage severity is not completely understood but many courses are either overseeding or sodding areas that experienced severe decline. Superintendents had no way of knowing these materials were contaminated before using them.
Finally, bermudagrass is now rapidly growing in the southern portion of the region. Bermudagrass has been slow to break dormancy this season, which has resulted in tight lies in fairways and thin rough. These conditions should quickly improve as growth rates steadily increase.
Source: Adam Moeller (_EMAIL_)
Northeast Region Agronomists:
David A. Oatis, regional director – _EMAIL_
James E. Skorulski, agronomist – _EMAIL_
Adam Moeller, agronomist – _EMAIL_
Elliott Dowling, agronomist – _EMAIL_
Addison Barden, agronomist – _EMAIL_


Thursday Throwing Tips –How to Throw a Curve Ball
The debate whether throwing curve balls is bad for the young arm or not will rage forever, I assume. Regardless, at some point kids need to learn how to throw a curve ball correctly. Additionally, it is important for most position players to stay on top with their throws. This does not mean that throwing with a three quarter delivery is not OK, but it is important for kids that throw sidearm to learn to get on top more, at least for position players.
how to throw a curve ball.
how to throw a curve ball
Baseball Drill for How to Throw a Curve Ball
I have players bring an empty, plastic water bottle to practice. Players pair off and begin throwing their bottles to each other at the same time. This way they are getting more reps and there is no danger if the bottles collide. The object is to have the bottles thrown to where they spin head over head in a twelve to six rotation. This should be practice with the regular fastball grip with twelve-six rotation and with a curve ball hand action with the same spin. Once players get the feel of spinning the bottle correctly with both the fastball (hand behind) action and the curve ball (Hand on side like throwing a football), players try the same with a regular baseball, but with only one thrown at a time.
Coaches can also have players count the number of twelve six rotations they can get with the empty bottles. This how to throw a curve ball drill helps players understand the pitch, too, a good first step to perfecting the pitch.
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This past week marked the anniversary of a truly terrible and bizarre piece of Boston history; the great molasses flood of 1919 when a tsunami of molasses covered two blocks of Boston's North End with a 15 foot wave of hot, sticky molasses. If you take a look at these pictures from the Boston Globe you'll see the absolute devastation that the molasses flood brought to the densely packed neighborhood. Boston was the center of the molasses universe in those days as the area was home to many rum distilleries. Because of its abundance, molasses also was a key ingredient in local cuisine.
Molasses was the main sweetener for early settlers too. American style baked beans were introduced to the Pilgrims by local Indian tribes. While the Indian tribes used maple syrup and, the Pilgrims used molasses that was readily available and familiar because it was imported to Europe from the West Indies. The early settlers used molasses to sweeten everything from bread to beans to desserts such as Indian Pudding. While many Americans are not familiar with Boston Brown Bread and Indian Pudding, almost everyone is familiar with baked beans. While even today in northern New England they still use maple syrup, using molasses to sweeten the beans turns plain baked beans into Boston Baked Beans. It's no surprise that the combination of beans and molasses became so popular that it earned Boston the name "Beantown".
Traditional Yankee cuisine is still available here, although it's a little harder to find than it used to be. Baked beans and brown bread were the traditional Sunday meal for much of New England for hundreds of years because it can be made ahead of time and kept warm; so locals could observe their religious rules of not cooking on the Sabbath. Now, there are restaurants that still serve traditional baked beans, but they are more of a novelty than a sought-after dish, except maybe by tourists. The real exception to this is Durgin Park – a touristy, yet all the same historical restaurant that still serves traditional Yankee fare. Here you can still get Yankee pot roast, baked beans, brown bread, Indian Pudding and cracker crumb cod. I worked right next to Durgin Park for several years, and it is where I was first introduced to Yankee cooking.
Whenever I want to tackle a traditional dish I'm torn between modernizing it or embracing the traditional recipe. Never has this been more so than with baked beans. Living in New England I feel obliged to make such a traditional dish the way it was intended: the way I first encountered it at Durgin Park fifteen years ago. But, that's just foolish, because I want to make them vegetarian; that's not the way they were intended. So, with this recipe I've thrown out the rule book and instead embraced the spirit of the original recipe. This is still a hearty winter dish full of rich sweet flavors, but I've replaced the fatty pork belly with a hearty dose of veggies. Not really an even trade is it? All the same, this is still a full meal, especially when paired with a slice of the heavy and hearty classic brown bread.
The brown bread is another traditional recipe. For this one I have adapted several very old recipes which I found in a few ancient cookbooks I have around. They all have variations of the same recipe. Most of them call for equal parts of rye and graham flour and corn meal. All of them call for sour milk and baking soda. I noticed that most new recipes for brown bread use whole wheat flour, white flour and corn meal, not rye flour, but why add white flour to a recipe that traditionally calls for something much healthier? The quick bread is sweetened with molasses and steamed – always. I use a Bundt pan (or you can use a tube pan) placed in a dutch oven for steaming instead of the traditional can, but the finished product is still hearty, sweet and the perfect accompaniment for the beans. It's even better toasted with butter and jam the following morning. Enjoy!
These beans re-heat beautifully in the microwave. Just add a half cup of water, cover and cook for 10 minutes on 50% power, stirring once half-way through the cooking time.
2 cups great northern or navy beans soaked overnight
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, chopped fine
1 carrot, chopped fine
1 celery stalk, chopped fine
1 apple, peeled, cored and chopped fine
4 cups water, divided
1/2 cup molasses
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup tomato paste
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon dry mustard powder
1 tablespoon whole-grain mustard
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Heat a medium sauce pan over medium heat. Add the oil and heat until it begins to simmer then add the onions, celery, carrots and apple. Cook until the onions are translucent, about five minutes. While the vegetables are cooking combine the molasses, brown sugar, tomato paste, cloves, bay leaf, mustard powder, whole-grain mustard and vinegar in a small bowl. Add the molasses mixture once the vegetables are soft. Add two cups of water and bring the mixture to a boil.
Place the soaked beans in a large oven-safe dish. Pour the vegetable and molasses mixture over the beans and seal tightly with a piece of foil. Put the baking dish on a baking sheet and place in the oven. Cook for 2 hours.
When 2 hours have passed, remove the pan from the oven and stir the beans. Add the salt dissolved in another cup of water. Recover the beans with foil and return to the oven. Check once an hour stirring the beans and adding more water as needed. The finished beans should be a rich brownish-red in color and very tender. The total cooking time will vary depending on the type of bean you use; about 4 hours for navy beans and 6 hours for the larger great northern bean.
Steamed Boston Brown Bread
Makes 1 large tube pan loaf, about 30 slices
This is essentially a graham flour bread that is leavened with baking soda instead of yeast. Most of us don't have a steamed pudding pan hanging around, and I don't even have a 1 pound coffee can. So, this recipe is adapted to use a large dutch oven and a standard metal loaf or Bundt pan. This means that it produces a much larger than normal loaf. If you're not that into brown bread, you can half this recipe and steam it in a 1 pound coffee can (oh, and the cans really don't hold one pound of coffee anymore, but people still refer to them as such). Do not use a glass loaf pan for this as it could shatter when steamed on the stove.
2 cup rye flour
2 cup graham flour
2 cup corn meal
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup molasses
3 cups buttermilk
Grease a 12-cup tube pan or Bundt pan and set aside. Bring 1 inch of water to boil in a large dutch oven set over medium-high heat. While the water boils, combine the flours, salt and baking powder. In another bowl combine the molasses and buttermilk. Pour the buttermilk mixture into the flour mixture and mix until just combined. Scrape the batter into the loaf or Bundt pan and lower the pan down into the boiling water. Cover the pot and reduce the heat to low. Cook the bread until it is firm to the touch, about two hours.
When the bread has finished steaming use a pair of tongs inserted into the center of the tube to raise the pan out of the pot of water. You can use a paper towel to soak up any water or moisture that has collected around the edges of the bread. Heat an oven to 325 degrees. Bake the bread for about 20 minutes to dry out the edges of the bread and prevent the bread from becoming sticky. When the bread is done, remove and cool for ten minute before turning the bread out onto a wire rack. Serve immediately warm or toasted the following day. Can be kept covered for three days or frozen for two months.


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Is it Time to Revisit Your Hedge Fund Structure?
A typical "master-feeder" private investment funds structure uses a combination of corporate entities, including companies, limited partnerships and/or limited liability companies. Investment managers should consider the consequences associated with choosing one form instead of another early in the structuring process.
This article contemplates a structure that involves both US and Cayman Islands-domiciled "feeder funds" and suggests that, because of the enhanced complexity of Cayman Islands companies, it may be a good time to consider structuring a "master-feeder" fund solely using limited partnerships. Furthermore, this article will:
 - describe a typical "master-feeder" structure;
 - discuss the role of directors in Cayman Islands companies, which are frequently used as offshore feeder funds in "master-feeder" structures;
 - briefly discuss increased scrutiny and potential regulation of directors; and
 - suggest some advantages of a "master-feeder" structure that does not employ directors.
Basic hedge fund structures
A "master-feeder" structure is used primarily by hedge fund managers to address investor tax and regulatory concerns, some of which are discussed below. In a typical structure, a master fund will be formed in a tax-efficient jurisdiction to serve as the primary trading vehicle. Investors invest in the master fund indirectly through a feeder fund that contributes all or substantially all of its assets to the master fund.
A few of the well-known advantages of a typical "master-feeder" structure include the following:
 - ease of trading — all investment assets and most counter-party and service agreements are held in and with one entity (i.e., the master fund);
 - fundraising flexibility — multiple feeder funds can be added to the structure to accommodate future investors with different terms and conditions; and
 - tax and regulatory flexibility — multiple feeders can be added to accommodate the tax requirements of different classes of investors.
Potential disadvantages can include the cost of establishing the entire structure, especially in the case of smaller hedge funds seeking a cost-efficient structure, as well as the accounting and administrative complexity involved in administering a master fund with multiple feeders.
The choice of fund entities and jurisdictions is largely driven by regulatory and tax considerations (and investment managers should consult tax counsel early in the structuring process):
 - US Taxable Investors: Feeder funds established in the United States, or for investors that are already subject to the US federal income tax regime, typically will be established as entities that provide "flow-through" income tax treatment for US federal income tax purposes. In such case, both the US feeder fund and the master fund will not be subject to US federal income tax and each investor will be allocated its allocable share of the master fund's gains, losses, income, deductions and credit. The US feeder fund would typically be structured as a Delaware limited partnership or Delaware limited liability company because each of these entities is treated as a "flow-through" entity for US federal income tax purposes (unless elected otherwise) and Delaware has proven itself to be a stable jurisdiction in which to conduct business.
 - Non-US Investors and US Tax-Exempt Investors: Non-US investors (to the extent they are not already subject to the US tax regime) typically will seek to avoid being subjected to US federal income tax on income that is "effectively connected" with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States and US tax-exempt investors typically will seek to avoid the potential US federal income tax consequences of recognizing "unrelated business taxable income". Feeder funds offered primarily to these investors typically will be established in a non-US jurisdiction as an entity that is taxed (or elects to be taxed) as a corporation for US federal income tax purposes (where limiting the activities of the master fund to alleviate these concerns is not ideal or practical).
The Cayman Islands is a popular jurisdiction in which to establish both offshore feeder funds and offshore master funds, in part for a number of reasons:
 - entities formed in the Cayman Islands are generally not subject to Cayman Islands tax;
 - as with Delaware, the Cayman Islands is generally considered to be a stable jurisdiction in which to conduct business and is familiar to both investors and to investment managers; and
 - the jurisdiction boasts a robust network of service providers thereby facilitating fund establishment, accounting and administration.
For these and other reasons, hedge fund managers may prefer to use a Cayman Islands exempted company (which is governed by the Companies Law (2012 revision), a Company) as the offshore feeder fund in a "master-feeder" structure and a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (which is governed by the Exempted Limited Partnership Law (2012 revision), a Partnership) as the master fund. Note that, for offshore funds, some managers may use Companies as master funds and Partnerships as offshore feeder funds. Other offshore entities, such as trusts, are sometimes used but are considered by many to be too expensive or legally rigid.
Under US federal income tax law, a Cayman Islands Partnership (as well as many other types of non-US entities that are treated as "flow-through" entities for US federal income tax purposes) may file an election with the US Internal Revenue Service (a so-called "check-the-box" election) electing to be treated as a corporation for US federal income tax purposes. A Cayman Islands Partnership that is treated as a corporation for US federal income tax purposes (i.e., by filing a "check-the-box" election) may prove, in certain situations, to be more efficient to use as an offshore feeder fund than a Cayman Islands Company. Alternatively, the investment manager may use Cayman Islands Partnerships (with no "check-the-box" elections) as the offshore master fund and offshore feeder fund and interpose an entity that is treated as a corporation for US federal income tax purposes between the offshore feeder fund and the master fund.
The role of Company Directors in a "master-feeder" structure
Companies are required to have directors (each, a Director) but investment managers, and indeed some Directors, may not understand the various legal obligations and duties associated with the position. An affiliate of the investment manager typically holds the "management shares" of a Company used in a "master-feeder" structure; "management shares" generally hold the power to appoint the Directors. Those Directors have a number of statutory duties (maintaining registers, certain reports and books of account, among others) and must approve certain actions taken by the Company. Directors (in their role as Directors) do not manage the business or make investment decisions. This is because, in the context of a Company used in a hedge fund structure, the Company hires the investment manager to run the investment program and, in the management agreement with the investment manager, the Directors delegate to the investment manager all powers permissible under governing law.
The legal role of Directors is not ministerial, however, which investment managers should consider when appointing them. Not all Director duties can be delegated to the investment manager and Directors are subject to personal liability for a breach of certain fiduciary duties, which will be discussed below. Cayman Islands case law has established a number of principles relating to Directors' fiduciary duties, perhaps the most pertinent of which is that Directors must act in what they bona fide consider to be the best interests of the Company.
This duty is owed to the Company itself, i.e. the offshore feeder fund, and not to subsidiary or affiliated entities and not necessarily to investors. In the context of a "master-feeder" structure this means that Directors primarily consider the interests of the offshore feeder fund, when structured as a Company, and not those of the master fund or any other feeder fund. If the "master-feeder" structure uses a Company for both the offshore feeder fund and the master fund, then the master fund will have Directors whose duties are owed to it and not to the offshore feeder fund. Some fund complexes use the same Directors for the offshore feeder fund and the master fund, which may give rise to irreconcilable conflicts of interest.
In the case of hedge funds, Directors are typically one of two types: "insiders" (employees of or entities controlled by the investment manager); or professional Directors that are not affiliated with or otherwise employed by the investment manager (Independent Directors). Independent Directors generally either work for a financial services company, which may perform separate administrative services to the fund complex, or work independently.
There may be costs involved in employing Directors. Independent Directors, and some insiders, are typically paid a salary for their work that is not tied to the fund's investment performance. Directors' compensation and other fees are generally paid out of the assets of the Company itself.
Increased demand for the use of Independent Directors
In the past it was fairly common for all of the Directors of a Company used in a hedge fund structure to be insiders, which is efficient because they are known to the investment manager and generally share the investment manager's views. However, investor demand for Independent Directors has increased since the financial crisis as investors seem to associate them with added security in that an Independent Director may look more carefully into the investment manager's business practices than an inside Director.
A 2011 case in the Cayman Islands, Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund Limited (In Liquidation) v. Stefan Peterson and Hans Ekstrom, received wide attention from lawyers and investment professionals. The court found the directors of the fund guilty of a violation of their fiduciary


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Stories of Hope-Barbara Reynolds
The stereotypical image of a 1950s housewife is one of a life limited to the domestic scene, concerned with raising children, maintaining the household, and quietly accepting the status quo. For the majority of her early life, Barbara Leonard Reynolds, by her own admission, embodied this stereotype.
However, a life-altering trip around the world led her to the path of peace activism.
Rather than returning from her journey to a life unconcerned with world events, Barbara concentrated her efforts on bringing to the world the story of the hibakusha. The word hibakusha, meaning "explosion-affected people," refers to any person (including an unborn child) who was within the city limits of Hiroshima or Nagasaki when the atomic bombs were dropped, came into the cities within two weeks of the bombings, or had direct contact with bomb victims. Barbara dedicated herself to helping the hibakusha share their experiences and their message that atomic bombs should never again be used by any nation.
- _PHONE_: Growing Up with Taro and Tak
- _PHONE_: The Housewife and the Bomb
- _PHONE_: Meeting Japan
- _PHONE_: Adventure and Awareness
- _PHONE_: Sailing in Restricted Waters
- _PHONE_: Spreading the Message
- _PHONE_: Working for Peace
- _PHONE_: Global Community
- _PHONE_: The Wonder Woman Never Quits
- A Lasting Legacy


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Poker Chips - Construction and Production
It's a common mistake that people usually think poker chips a made of clay only. If it was really so, they would be simply breakable and that can't be practically used in casinos.
So we clearly understand now that casinos can't use the only one material for producing poker chips, right? So let's now show the real state of affairs, what exactly is poker chips made of.
Well, the material is certain-proportions mixed ingredients which interact and take on a cast of a perfect poker chip. Of course they will include the clay but not only. Some of the chip manufactures use ceramic chips, some of the Las Vegas casinos are a good example to prove the issue. Ceramic chips are also frequently used for home poker games.
Play of Components and Tricks of Manufacturers
Despite the fact that most people think that chips are made of clay only, it may sometimes include some earth materials as chalk or sand. Though on practice some manufactures (as for the chips for personal usage) will try to assure you that the chips they produce are "absolutely the same as in Las Vegas casinos" or "are produced of the same components", in real, they are sometimes may be made from simple plastic and include some steel parts in it. After all, most of people are still sure their home poker chips are authentic. As for the Las Vegas casinos, their poker chips are made mostly of clay or are simply made of a specially processed ceramic.
The Actual Process
The process including the range, value and weight of materials used is kept in secret. Even though, some of the process-undergoing features are known. The chips edges are colored differently not because they are actually colored with paint, but because the manufacturers removed some tiny pieces of clay with different colored clay. This process is actually done before the large cylinder was cut into small pieces.
So you have probably understood that before making the chips form round and flat, the materials are combined in a certain form, a cylinder.
Once a cylinder is cut into the forms of chips, the outer engraving is added. That is done one step before the shaping process starts. Engraving is individual for every casino. The engraving is not like engraving in common sense. Actually it is made of paper including a small and thin layer of plastic. These components are placed on the chips before the neat step of giving them an appropriate rounded shape.
To form and press the chip, every chip is put in its own vessel to make a needed shape. Then the chips are slowly compressed and heated at 300 degrees Fahrenheit. One this process is being made; the clay and other materials are fused together.
Ceramic and Plastic Chips
Such kinds of chips are the mostly popular among casual poker lovers. As for the ceramic chips, they are often called clay chips and that exactly was the idea of those who produced them. Actually the manufacturers add some resin to make ceramic chips sound as real clay chips or very closely.
Other chips are just made from plastic and such chips are considered the cheapest ones.
From now on you can freely tell that you know everything about poker chips. Good luck in poker practicing and don't forget to have fun in the process!
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Build a real-time chat app with Node-RED in 5 minutes
08 August 2014
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Sign up for IBM Bluemix
This cloud platform is stocked with free services, runtimes, and infrastructure to help you quickly build and deploy your next mobile or web application.
Node-RED is a new open-source tool created by the IBM Emerging Technology team that lets you build applications by simply wiring pieces together. These pieces can be hardware devices, web APIs, or online services.
We'll show you how to build a real-time chat application on Node-RED using Bluemix in just a few minutes.
On IBM Bluemix it's easy to create a new Node-RED runtime. With just a few clicks you have a working environment, ready for you to create your new application. In this article, we'll show you how to build—in just a few minutes—a real-time chat application on Node-RED using Bluemix.
What you'll need
 - A Bluemix account
 - Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We provide all the necessary code, but a basic understanding of these technologies will help you understand the details.
Step 1. Create your Node-RED application
 1. Log in to your Bluemix account and create a new Node-RED boilerplate.
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 2. Give your application a name and click CREATE.Give your Node-RED app a name
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 3. On the Bluemix dashboard, navigate to the URL provided for your newly created application to launch Node-RED's main page.Node-RED URL on Bluemix
 4. Now click Go to your Node-RED flow editor to open the flow editor.Node-RED's main page
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 5. You should see a blank sheet where you can start building your app. When using Node-RED we build our apps using this graphical editor interface to wire together the blocks we need. We can simply drag and drop the blocks from the left menu into the workspace in the centre of the screen and connect them to create a new flow.New empty sheet on Node-RED
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Step 2. Import the code
Every Node-RED application can be imported and exported using the JSON format. So let's import our chat app into the new sheet.
 1. Access the project repository on IBM DevOps Services and open the nodechat.json file.
 2. Copy the entire file's content, then go back to Node-RED in your browser.
 3. Click on the menu button in the top right corner and select Import from… > Clipboard…
 Import menu on Node-RED
 4. Paste the file's content that you copied from the repository and click Ok.Area to paste code to be imported
 5. Click somewhere on the blank sheet to add the nodes that were imported.
 Importing an app in Node-RED
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We will explain what each piece does later on this article, but now it's time to deploy and run your application.
Step 3. Deploy and run application
 1. Click the red Deploy button next to the menu button to make your application live.
 Deploy button on Node-RED
 2. You should see a success message appear on the top, and the blue dots on the nodes will disappear. These dots indicate when a node has been changed but not yet deployed.
 Success message
 3. Now open a new tab on your browser and go to http://[app name], changing [app name] to the name you gave your application.
 Running our chat app
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 4. You now have your chat application running. Enter a username in the field on the left, write a message on the box on the right, and press Send.
 Sending a message using our chat
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 5. Open the chat in a second window or send the link to some friends and have fun. You should receive the messages instantaneously.
 Real-time conversation with multiple users
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Step 4. Explaining the code (optional)
In this section, we explain the code behind our application in more detail. You can skip this section, but we recommend you read through it to better understand how the app is built and to learn more about how Node-RED works.
 1. In the first section, we have three nodes:
 - WebSocket in
 - Function
 - WebSocket out
 First flow of the application
 These are the blocks responsible for creating the communication channel and processing the messages in real-time using the WebSocket protocol. The Function block is very simple. It only removes the value for _session from the msg object so that the message is broadcast to all clients connected to the WebSocket.
 Code to broadcast message
 2. The second flow is responsible for the client-side code. It has an HTTP in node, a Template to render an HTML page, and an HTTP out node for response. Second flow in thr application
 The HTTP in node ([get] /chat) creates an endpoint to receive GET requests and forwards those requests to the Template. The HTTP out node creates the proper response to be sent back to the user after the template has been rendered.
 3. The template can be broken into three parts: page structure, message handling, and visual.
 4. The page structure is a simple HTML page that contains a div that will receive all the chat messages, and a footer that holds the fields for sending messages. HTML structure of the app
 5. Message handling is done using JavaScript. First, we open a connection to the WebSocket endpoint we created using Node-RED.
 Openning a WebSocket connection
 Next, we register event handlers for the ws object to handle events such as opening and closing connections with the server and receiving new messages.
 Registering event handlers
 6. When the user sends a message we create an object with the username and the message, which is sent to the server using the send method in our ws object. Code to send a new message
 7. The visual part is done with some simple CSS rules that are not covered in this article.
Node-RED simplifies code development by providing us with a set of nodes ready to be wired together and used. As shown in this article, it takes very little work to have a server set up on Bluemix to use in your projects. You can enhance this simple chat application even more by adding new nodes and creating new flows to connect to the existing ones.
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Skincare trends are closely related to general wellness trends, and precious stones are no exception. The natural properties of jade are being used to benefit skin in the form of hand-held rollers that are easy to find and use. Curious? Read on to learn more about this hot trend.
The benefits seem endless:
- Aids in product absorption – when used alongside moisturizers and serums, jade rollers can help the products penetrate the skin more easily.
- Helps offset signs of aging – use of a jade roller has been known to improve skin elasticity, tone facial muscles, and decrease wrinkles.
- Promotes healthy bodily functions – blood flow, circulation, lymphatic drainage, and collagen production are all known to get a boost from jade rollers.
- Reduces unwanted issues – using a jade roller can help eliminate inflammation, toxins, and jawline breakouts, as well as sinus pressure and sinus headaches. Stress and tension can also be lessened.
- Makes skincare feel special – incorporating a jade roller into your skincare routine can help it feel like a self-care ritual and less like a chore, allowing a good habit to form easily.
There aren't many downsides:
- Bacteria can grow – if not cleaned regularly, jade rollers can develop bacteria that's harmful to your skin. Clean regularly or after each use to avoid these kinds of issues.
- Too much pressure can be detrimental – jade rollers are intended to be used with light pressure. Anything beyond that can lead to irritation, inflammation, or it can aggravate pre-existing conditions.
Everyone loves insider tips and tricks:
- Use your nose – the bridge of your nose is a great reference point for how and where to use your roller. When in doubt, rolling upwards and out from that central point is a good practice.
- Store your roller in the fridge – the cooler the stone is, the more it will soothe your skin.
- Pair with sheet masks – Using the roller after applying a sheet mask to your face can help the mask adhere and promotes better absorption of the mask's ingredients.
- Choose the type of stone you need – rollers made with jade are very popular, but other stones are being used now as well. Rose quartz and amethyst are common, so do a little research on the properties of each to determine the best stone for you.
Combining healthy skincare practices with beneficial stones seems like a win-win situation! If you're looking at incorporating a jade roller into your routine, feel free to give Dr. Manning and team a call for their insight on the best approach.


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Let $X$ be a closed irreducible subvariety of projective $n$ space. Let $k$ be the dimension of a maximal linear subspace not intersecting $X$. Then one can define $dim(X)=n-k-1$ (see Harris page 134). Why is $dim(Y) < dim(X)$ for two properly contained such varieties?
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This is also mentioned in Shafarevich (p.71), but the development may be different. The dimension of an irreducible quasi-projective variety $X$ is defined as the transcendence degree of the function field of $X$. Then the fact that one can equivalently define dimension as you mention is proved as a corollary of the following theorem: If a form $F$ is not $0$ on an irreducible projective variety $X,$ then $\operatorname{dim}(X_F)=\operatorname{dim}(X)-1.$ This is a bit of a work-around though, maybe you prefer a direct geometric proof!
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The way in which Harris phrased this conclusion made me think that there should be a very easy direct proof from the definition I gave. – Wuggletruggle Jul 19 '12 at 19:01
I agree, I just happened to be holding Shafarevich when I saw the question. – Andrew Jul 19 '12 at 19:17
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Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Pisano, Dominick, 1943-
Dominick Pisano Papers, circa _PHONE_
This accession consists of the papers of Dominick A. Pisano, curator of aeronautics. These records document the research and writing of his dissertation and book on the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), To Fill the Skies with Pilots: A History of the Civilian Pilot Training Program, _PHONE_.
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
- Pisano, Dominick, 1943-
- Civilian Pilot Training Program (U.S.)
- To Fill the Skies with Pilots: A History of the Civilian Pilot Training Program, _PHONE_ (Monograph)
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Hi all,
As a part of a research I'm working on (involving derandomization of linear threshold functions), I'm trying to understand the following problem:
Is there a small (polynomial rather than exponential) family of hash functions, from [k] to [n] (k much smaller than n, say n^{epsilon}), which guarantee a "high inner product" with constant probability for every vector in R^n?
"high inner product" should be interpreted as following: The result of the hash function represents a vector in the binary hypercube, with 1 in every bucket which a coordinate of [k] is mapped into, and -1 elsewhere. Given a vector v in R^n, I would like at least a small constant factor of my hash functions to have an inner product which is above the expectation.
Is this possible? Does someone here have an idea for some pointers?
Thanks, Guy
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(This should be a comment, but I don't have enough reputation to post a comment.) I have some clarifications regarding the question.
 1. I guess I can think of each hash function as just a $\lbrace \pm 1 \rbrace^n$ vector $u$ with at most $k = n^\epsilon$ ones. Is this correct?
 2. Also I don't understand the "above the expectation" condition. Why can't you just take two (arbitrary) vectors $u_1$ and $u_2$ with $k$ ones each, and at least one of them will have inner product at least equal to the expectation? Is it important that you strictly exceed the expectation? Do you want a constant fraction to be $\delta$ more than the expectation for some small $\delta > 0$?
_USER_: please feel free to use the latex features of this site; it makes reading remarkably easier.
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Thanks for the answer - this was my first question, and I apologize for not knowing about the latex here.
About the comments in the previous post (Srivatsan):
 1. This is correct - I'm trying to build an epsilon net for linear threshold functions, and this would be an important part of it. The "hash function" notation looks useful to me, since this reminds me of perfect hashing and similar concepts, where we are looking for some sort of "independence" or something similar between hash functions.
 2. Since I'm trying to build a polynomial-size epsilon net, I need my family of vectors ("hash functions") to be very small in comparison with the family of all possible vectors, but still have a "good" inner product with $every$ other vector (at least for a constant factor of them). So I cannot take $u_1$ and $u_2$ as you ask and take their product, but I'm rather given an arbitrary vector $v\in\mathbb{R}^n$, and must find $u$ in my family which achieves a better inner product than the expectation (taken over the choice of any random vector with $k$ coordinates equal to 1).
Thanks, and hope this was a little clearer.
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Research Article - Biomedical Research (2017) Volume 28, Issue 15
Changes in the size of breast lesions during menstrual cycle observed by ultrasound: An initial study
Purpose: We aimed to evaluate changes in size of breast lesions during menstrual phases.
Material and Methods: In this prospective study, 46 women aged 18-35 years old who were referred to our radiology clinic for breast sonography and had cystic or solid breast lesions larger than 5 mm were enrolled to the study. Breast ultrasound (US) was performed at two different times; one within 5 days before and one within 5 days after menstrual bleeding. Anteroposterior and transverse length of the lesions were measured.
Results: In total, 145 breast lesions were detected by US. Of these lesions, 6 were visualized in premenstrual phase but were not observed in postmenstrual phase. 6 lesions different were not visualized in premenstrual, but were detected in postmenstrual phase. One hundred and twenty-three lesions were visualized by US both in luteal and follicular phases.
Conclusions: Timing of breast US might cause false results and unnecessary further investigations. Therefore, we suggest that breast US in women should be performed in follicular phase of the menstrual cycle.Author(s): Emine Dagistan, Arzu Canan, Siddika Halicioglu, Zeliha Cosgun, Safiye Gurel


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Hi i m using given below method to convert in to string its working fine chrome but in IE its through exception Input string was not in a correct format. at this line
 s = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(Convert.ToDouble(time));
these are values i m passing to it
600, 298.8, 65505, 69, 70, 20.5, 20.5, 20.5, 20.5, 1840.4, 682, 1040.3
in chrome its working but in IE it gives exception on second value when i change the culture to french language please help me out what is the problem
public static String ConvertTimeToString(this string time)
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 TimeSpan s;
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 s = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(Convert.ToDouble(time));
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The failure is probably in the call Convert.ToDouble. Your code probably executes in a CultureInfo that has ',' as decimal separator, but your values use '.'. I would advice you to use Double.TryParse using a CultureInfo that has '.' as decimal separator instead:
Double value;
if (Double.TryParse(time, NumberStyles.Any, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"), out value))
 s = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(value);
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You need to specify an IFormatProvider when you use Convert.ToDouble(time):
Convert.ToDouble(time, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
Specifying CulturInfo.InvariantCulture specifies a culture that expect floating points written as 1.234 (note the period). The source of your problem may be that you time is in the format 1,234 (note the comma). Or maybe it is the reverse: You don't specify an IFormatProvider and the current culture of you ASP.NET process uses comma as a decimal separator, but the string provided uses period?
If the decimal point used isn't consistent you should either fix it at the source (not sure what the source is here) or as a last resort you can replace comma by period:
Convert.ToDouble(time.Replace(",", "."), CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
However, trying to parse a string and not knowing the what to expect is not the best thing to do.
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Thank you all very much specially Mr. Martin Liversage its working Fine now thanks again – Zaq Oct 11 '12 at 9:03
_USER_: However, that is not related to the browser the client is using. – Tim Schmelter Oct 11 '12 at 9:10
_USER_ it may be, I think. If the ASP.NET app is has in its config the browser may influence the CultureInfo of the executing code. – Fredrik Mörk Oct 11 '12 at 9:30
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1. The name of the Association is 'European Chess Union'. It is hereinafter called by its acronym "ECU".
2. The registered office of the ECU shall be at such place as may be determined from time to time by the Board.
3. The ECU is established for the objects and activities stated in the Memorandum of Association.
4. In these Articles, unless inconsistent with the subject or context:
(a) words importing the singular include the plural and vice-versa;
(b) words importing the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter genders and vice-versa;
(c) the word person includes moral entities having a separate legal personality;
(d) " Board" means the ECU Board;
(e) " ECU Dues" mean a Member's or an Associate Member's subscription, Tournament Fees, Bid fees and shares of prize funds for ECU events and events sanctioned by the ECU and fees for ECU services;
(f) "General Assembly" means a meeting of the General Assembly or an Extraordinary General Assembly meeting of the ECU;
(g) "Members and "Associate Members" shall have the meaning and rights defined in the Memorandum of Association and "Members" means both, Members and Associate Members; and
(h) "simple majority vote of those present and voting" means 50% plus one of the votes cast excluding blank and invalid votes and abstentions.


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The creature artificial intelligence (AI) has been overhauled in Dysotopia to provide players with new challenges and unique combat situations. Creatures now have individual personalities (timid, fearless, etc) and will react to different situations depending on their personalities. Creatures may form parties, make camps at night, run away from threats or even run for their lives when critically wounded.
Morale is one of the new personality traits of creatures. Creature morale is constantly adjusted in combat and checked in certain circumstances. Because the engine is relative complex we will demonstrate how morale works with some example situations:
Overwhelming Challenge
If a creature with low morale encounters a threat that seems overpowering they will often decide to avoid the threat entirely by keeping their distance. If engaged by a powerful creature they may even turn and flee combat entirely or possibly become paralyzed with fear.
On the other hand, a creature with an extremely high morale score may take on challenges they are not suited for. These encounters often result in their instant death or severe wounds which drastically lowers their morale thus eventually ending up in their desire to leave combat against powerful foes. There are exceptions and some creature will fight to their death.
When creature are wounded they undergo additional morale adjustments and checks. A creature who through it was up for a challenge may still change it's mind and flee after a powerful blow from an opponent.
If a number of creatures come together in the same area and one or more of them has a high charisma score and more hit dice than others, the lower level creatures may agree to follow the charismatic creature into battle. The size of creature parties are limited by the charisma bonuses of the leaders. Keep in mind that creatures with underlings may also serve masters, for example:
 - Four level 2 goblins decide to follow a level 5 goblin shaman
 - Five level 1 goblins decide to follow a level 4 goblin sorcerer
 - Both the level 5 goblin shaman and level 4 goblin sorcerer decide to follow a level 7 goblin champion
In the situation above you now have a small army being led by the goblin champion that consists of 12 creatures. These encounters are exceedingly rare but are possible with the AI enhancements.
Situational Awareness
Creatures that have formed parties and are engaged in combat pay attention to their surroundings. If their leader comes under attack they may stop to buff or heal them, or even switch targets and engage their threats. If their leader is slaughtered in front of their eyes their morale may be lowered and they may tun and flee from battle.
Special Attacks
Some powerful creatures may have special attacks that even further challenge players to think on their feet. An example of this may be a powerful lich who combines fallen skeletons into more powerful skeletal constructs or a dimensional creature who teleports it's foes around the stage of battle.


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The Regionalist art movement reflects a distinct period in U.S. history, including the efforts by artists to define a uniquely American style. This concentration on a specific geography and culture would emanate, in its purest form, from the American Midwest of Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. Regionalism and the Art of the WPA includes works by these and other artists who drew their inspiration from their immediate surroundings, both rural and urban. In a collaborative endeavor between GVSU and the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Art Gallery will host this exhibition of more than 40 works drawn from the MMA's collection. The collaboration is in conjunction with the MMA's hosting of 1934: A New Deal for Artists, organized and circulated by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., and scheduled in Muskegon for February 16 through May 6, 2012. A series of interdisciplinary programs are planned for students and the public at the GVSU Art Gallery, the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, and the Muskegon Museum of Art.
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Playing a Part in the Performance of a Child's X-ray Procedure
A poster presented virtually due to COVID-19 at the UK Imaging and Oncology (UKIO) congress June-July 2020.
This PhD study aims explore the communication that occurs during a child's non-urgent X-ray procedure and examine children and their parent's perceptions of this communication and the procedure. There is increasing evidence of children's engagement in health services. Less is known about children's experiences of X-ray procedures or the ways they communicate during the procedure. Data were generated through non-participant observations of children undergoing X-ray procedures. Children and their parents were invited after the procedure to take part in a semi-structured interview. Children, parents and radiographers played specific parts during the X-ray procedures and this influenced communication. Three different categories of communication were developed but are not presented as a hierarchy of the communication children preferred. The first category was communication where a child was involved; children's voices were sought with the expectation that they could influence what happened during the procedure. The second category was communication where a child was interrupted; children's voices were replaced because of the bigger roles adults played. The third category was communication where a child was ignored; children's voices were overlooked, silenced or not sought by adults. Children in these procedures had a small role and little power to influence what happened during their procedure. The findings have been discussed using dramaturgical metaphors of roles, scripts and front and back stage performances that unified the three developed categories and lead to the theorisation of a core category of 'Playing a Part in the Performance'. Children are able and value being engaged in meaningful communication during their X-ray. Different roles and interactions can close down or open up children's opportunity and ability to play an active role in their procedure.


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Form Builder is a powerful development tool for building robust, enterprise-class applications that enable end users to retrieve, enter, modify, and save information in the database.
In this lesson, we'll discuss the anatomy of a simple application, and show you how to use Form Builder to create and manipulate its building blocks, or objects.


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The modern Lydian musical scale is a rising pattern of pitches comprising three whole tones, a semitone, two more whole tones, and a final semitone.
The Lydians were an Anatolian people living in Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian group.
Lydian was an Indo-European language spoken in the region of Lydia in western Anatolia (present-day Turkey).
Lydian script was used to write the Lydian language. That the language preceded the script is indicated by names in Lydian, which must have existed before they were written.


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- The definition of a handicap is a race where the competition is evened out by giving advantages to the weaker competitor and making the race more difficult for the stronger competitor, or something that is a disadvantage.
- An example of a handicap is a race where heavier people have to carry less weight and the lighter people have to carry more weight.
- An example of a handicap is a broken leg.
- Handicap is defined as to cause a disadvantage.
An example of handicap is to pour a slippery substance over an obstacle course.
- a race or other competition in which difficulties are imposed on the superior contestants, or advantages given to the inferior, to make their chances of winning equal
- such a difficulty or advantage
- something that hampers a person; disadvantage; hindrance
- a physical or mental disability
Origin of handicaporigin, originally a game in which forfeits were drawn from a cap or hat ; from hand in cap
- to give a handicap to (contestants)
- to cause to be at a disadvantage; hinder; impede
- Sports & Games a. A race or contest in which contestants are given advantages or compensations to equalize the chances of winning.b. Such an advantage or penalty.
- Usage Problem A physical or mental disability. See Usage Note at handicapped.
- A disadvantage or inconvenience. See Synonyms at disadvantage.
transitive verbhand·i·capped, hand·i·cap·ping, hand·i·caps
- Sports & Games To assign handicaps or a handicap to (a contestant).
- To cause to be at a disadvantage; impede.
Origin of handicapFrom obsolete hand in cap, a game in which forfeits were held in a cap.
- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
- Age is often a handicap.
- An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
- The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters.
- A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.
- (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
- A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
(third-person singular simple present handicaps, present participle handicapping, simple past and past participle handicapped)
- To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
- (by extension) To place at disadvantage.
- The candidate was heavily handicapped.
- To estimate betting odds.
- Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.