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Working with the World Bank, RAND researchers used robust decision methods to provide the first continent-wide evaluation of the potential effects of climate change on such investments. They also examined the potential impacts of climate change on five specific hydropower and irrigation projects.
The RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition was established in 2001 through a generous $5 million pledge from RAND alumnus Frederick S. Pardee. The RAND Pardee Center aims to enhance the overall future quality and condition of human life by aggressively disseminating and applying new methods for long-term policy analysis in a wide variety of policy areas where they are needed most.
The Pardee Center organizes its activities around two main themes: (1) advancing the state-of the-art in conducting long-term policy analysis so organizations can implement better long-range policy; and (2) developing and disseminating approaches that will help make proper stewardship for the future be more commonly practiced.


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Geology and Geography Information about Portage County Wisconsin
We will provide as much historical map information as possible about the county. Google Map of Our Museums.
How Wisconsin Was Surveyed
The methods used to survey land is largely unknown to the general public. But, the Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records: Original Field Notes and Plat Maps site offers a complete explanation of this method as well as access to the original field notes and maps compiled by the surveyors.
This section has links to our maps as well as external links to free printable map providers.
- Map of Portage County (33k).
- Map of Wisconsin (285k).
- Map of Central Wisconsin (30k).
- Map of Townships (7k).
A Portage County Plat Book for 1895 has been photographed using a digital camera.
The following maps are from "Page-Size Maps of Wisconsin" published by: University of Wisconsin - Extension and Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, 3817 Mineral Point Road, Madison WI., 53705-5100.
- Bedrock Geology of Wisconsin (168k).
- Ice Age Deposits of Wisconsin (150k).
- Early Vegetation of Wisconsin (126k).
- Landforms of Wisconsin (109k).
- Soil Regions of Wisconsin (180k).
The following maps are in pdf format. Maps available from the Wisconsin Historical Society also.
- British Era fur trading posts _PHONE_.
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- American Forts and Exploration ca 1820.
- Military Roads _PHONE_.
- Wisconsin counties 1835.
- Wisconsin counties 1850.
- Wisconsin counties 1870.
- Wisconsin counties 1901.
- Wisconsin Railroads 1865.
- Wisconsin Railroads 1873.
- Wisconsin Railroads 1936.
- From National Atlas, a government agency, are printable maps of all the states and more.
- This link is located in France and provides free printable maps covering all countries.
The Society will embark on a project during the summer of 2009 and continuing onward to provide county maps with geotag information locating:
- Small Communities.
- Cemetery Locations.
- Locations of School Houses, one-room and others of historic value.
- Catholic Churches.
- Lutheran Churches.
- Other Churches.
- Historic sites within the communities
Portage County Ice Age Trail
Here is a list of all the Historical Makers in the State of Wisconsin.

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Data loggers are one of the most important elements in data acquisition systems. These systems take in data by scanning variety of measurement sensors. These systems help in storing the entire data in memory after some programmed calculations by converting the data to measurements of different units. So, looking at the present day requirements of data acquisition systems, data loggers have become widely useful. These systems are not just used for storing data and performing calculations. They are also used to transmit data for sharing, analysis and controlling external devices. These devices are equipped with microprocessors and have internal memory for data storage. So, data loggers are used widely for some purpose or the other. Being one of the most important devices to be used now, reliability is one factor that has to be taken care of. That's what is taken care of by Photonplay.
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Photonplay is one stop solution provider for Data Loggers used for data acquisition. Being, in the domain for years now, has helped Photonplay know the requirements of the customers and that is one added advantage that our customers get along with quality products that are there in store. Along with Data loggers, Photonplay also offers Data Terminals and other products which are used immensely in today's market.
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- They have internal memory of 10 MB flash used for data storage and dedicated 2 MB for operating system which may differ with the type of product.
Now, there are various benefits having these products as they are multi-purpose products and can cater to wide range of requirements. Being, multi-purpose is not just what the products are, these also have very low maintenance cost and can operate at very low powers. These benefits make these products power efficient as they can work efficiently with less power input.
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1.6 billion working people witnessed drop in their incomes due to COVID-19 pandemic
Women working in tourism, retail and food sectors hit the hardest by pandemic says Gallup US survey
The Gallup US survey has revealed that every second working person on the earth has lost income in last one year due to COVID-19 pandemic. People in low-income countries remained the hardest hit by job losses and cuts to working hours.
US-based polling company Gallup surveyed 300,000 people in 117 countries and found that half the people who were employed now earn less than they earlier did owing to the pandemic. This implies that 1.6 billion working adults across the world witnessed dips in their income.
"Worldwide, these percentages ranged from a high of 76% in Thailand to a low of 10% in Switzerland," researchers announced in a statement.
Massive income drops were reported in Bolivia, Kenya, Myanmar, Indonesia, Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador where over 70 per cent people claimed that they were now taking home less income than before the pandemic. In the United States, the number stood at 34 per cent.
Women were among the worst hit due to the pandemic, which are generally overrepresented in low paying sectors like food, tourism and retail. A study done by Oxfam, the international charity group said that the pandemic cost women $800 billion in income losses around the world.
In 57 countries including Zimbabwe, the Philippines, India, Kenya, El Salvador, Bangladesh, over 65% people said that they were forced to stop working at one point during the pandemic. The Gallup poll found that over 50% of people had to temporarily stop working. This figure amounts for over 1.7 billion adults worldwide.
Countries that reported the least change among people who were already working were mostly developed high-income nations like Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Less than one out of 10 people in these countries said that they had to temporarily stop working due to the pandemic. In the US, 39 per cent people had to stop working due to the pandemic.
According to the poll, one in three people across the world lost their job due to the pandemic implying over one billion people globally were left unemployed due to the pandemic.
But this figure varies from country to country. Lower income countries like the Philippines, Kenya and Zimbabwe reported that 60% people their jobs while 13 per cent people in the United States reported the same. In Switzerland, the number remained as low as 3 per cent.
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 1. Yes,This pandemic has resulted less income and increased miseries in third world working class.
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In the field of computational linguistics, a morphological dictionary is a linguistic resource that contains correspondences between surface form and lexical forms of words. Surface forms of words are those found in any text. The corresponding lexical form of a surface form is the lemma followed by grammatical information (for example the part of speech, gender and number). In English give, gives, giving, gave and given are surface forms of the verb give. The lexical form would be "give", verb. There are two kinds of morphological dictionaries: aligned and non-aligned.
Aligned morphological dictionaries[edit]
In an aligned morphological dictionary, the correspondence between the surface form and the lexical form of a word is aligned at the character level, for example:
(h,h) (o,o) (u,u) (s,s) (e,e) (s,), (θ,)
Where θ is the empty symbol and signifies "noun", and signifies "plural".
In the example the left hand side is the surface form (input), and the right hand side is the lexical form (output). This order is used in morphological analysis where a lexical form is generated from a surface form. In morphological generation this order would be reversed.
Formally, if Σ is the alphabet of the input symbols, and \Gamma is the alphabet of the output symbols, an aligned morphological dictionary is a subset A \subset 2^{(L^*)}, where:
 L = (( \Sigma \cup { \theta } ) \times \Gamma) \cup (\Sigma \times ( \Gamma \cup { \theta } ))
is the alphabet of all the possible alignments including the empty symbol. That is, an aligned morphological dictionary is a set of string in L^*.
Non-aligned morphological dictionary[edit]
A non-aligned morphological dictionary is simply a set U \subset 2^{(\Gamma^* \times \Sigma^*)} of pairs of input and output strings. A non-aligned morphological dictionary would represent the previous example as:
(houses, house)
It is possible to convert a non-aligned dictionary into an aligned dictionary. Besides trivial alignments to the left or to the right, linguistically motivated alignments which align characters to their corresponding morphemes are possible.
Lexical ambiguities[edit]
Frequently there exists more than one lexical form associated with a surface form of a word. For example "house" may be a noun in the singular, /haʊs/, or may be a verb in the present tense, /haʊz/. As a result of this it is necessary to have a function which relates input strings with their corresponding output strings.
If we define the set E \subset \Sigma^* of input words such that E = { w: (w,w') \in U }, the correspondence function would be \tau : E \rightarrow 2^{\Gamma^{*}} defined as \tau(w) = w' : (w,w') \in U.
List of online morphological dictionaries[edit]


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Molecular formula: BaSO4
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CAS No.: 13462-86-7
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Model NumberBA45BA25BA13BA388
BaSO4 (%)97956096
Whiteness (%)86858890
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Specific Gravity (g/cm3)
Oil Absorption (g/100g)12 - 1411 - 1310 - 1212 - 14
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Water Soluble Matters (%)
Barium Sulfate (or Sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula BaSO4. It is a white crystalline solid that is odorless and insoluble in water. It occurs as the mineral barite, which is the main commercial source of barium and materials. The white opaque appearance and its high density are exploited in its main applications.
Plastics: Excellent hiding power. Outstanding mechanical characteristics and wears resistance. Non qualitative white powder. Non toxic, not soluble in water, soluble in smoking sulfuric Acid, slightly soluble in boiling hydrochloric Acid. Chemical property is stable, it'll reduce to Barium Sulfide when heat with carbon. As a stable chemical filler, it can enhance the strength, weatherability and gloss of plastic products.
Barium sulfate is commonly used as a filler for plastics to increase the density of the polymer in vibrational mass damping applications. It has an effect of increasing acid and alkali resistance and opacity. Such composites are also used as X-ray shielding materials due to their enhanced radiopacity. Composites with high mass fraction (70–80%) of barium sulfate perform better than commonly used steel shields.
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text: The Equator Principles (EP) are international guidelines for project finance; they target socially and environmentally responsible projects related to large infrastructures and industrial plants, such as energy plants, oil refineries, mines, transports, and telecommunications infrastructures. The aim of this work is the set-up of a methodology for the assessment of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions, that can support the decision-making process of an EPC Company when evaluating different technological alternatives, to select the best available, economically profitable, and environmentally sustainable option, in line with the application of the EP. The assessment of the GHG emissions has gained importance with the issue of latest EP's version (Equator Principles IV, in force since 2021) that require to perform a Climate Change Risk Assessment associated to Projects. The methodology has been applied, as part of an Energy Efficiency Project, to two different units of an existing Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) Plant built and set into operation by Tecnimont S.p.A. in the last decade: the steam boiler system and the main compressors (reactor effluent compressors). The methodology for GHG accounting has been applied both to the technical solutions currently implemented in the plant ('base' cases) and hypothetical 'alternative' technical solutions, with the final goal to assess efficiency and effectiveness of the measures that can be taken to reduce the emissions. For each 'base case' and its corresponding 'alternative solution' a cost estimate has been performed too. The results provide useful information both in terms of carbon footprint and the costs related to the application of the Equator Principles, even in Projects in which their application is not mandatory.


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Our Campaign Goals are:
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 3. Create UKNEST Best Practice Knowledge Transfer Guidelines
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 1. Create a UKNEST Brand and associated guidelines
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A London-based architect created a remarkable design for a yacht, called the Tetrahedron Super Yacht.
The futuristic vessel, designed by Jonathan Schwinge, levitates due to a vertical strut that's attached to a torpedo-shaped hull -- and includes an outdoor dining area, a significant amount of deck space and a "flying speed" of 38 knots.
The vessel is made from carbon fiber and stainless steel, and can accommodate six passengers and four crew members. Schwinge said his design allows for the yacht to travel smoothly through rough waters.
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"The design is instigated by the rethinking of the form, superstructure and propulsion of the modern superyacht into a radically simple enclosure and an elevated mode of travel above the water line," Schwinge said in a statement.
"A three-based pyramid consisting of four faces and six leading edges provides fundamental stability and enclosure. Its form produces a pure, precise, logical and mathematical "roof" for which to connect to the hull assembly. Generally, simple forms are not known in ship and motor yacht construction through restrictions in ocean-going hull design. Long distances are achievable with reduced out-of-water drag and stormy ocean conditions would incur virtually no slamming."
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f is a function from domain X to codomain Y. The yellow oval inside Y is the image of f.
In mathematics, the image of a function is the set of all output values it may produce.
More generally, evaluating a given function f at each element of a given subset A of its domain produces a set, called the "image of A under (or through) f ". Similarly, the inverse image (or preimage) of a given subset B of the codomain of f, is the set of all elements of the domain that map to the members of B.
Image and inverse image may also be defined for general binary relations, not just functions.
The word "image" is used in three related ways. In these definitions, f : X -> Y is a function from the set X to the set Y.
Image of an element
If x is a member of X, then the image of x under f, denoted f(x),[1] is the value of f when applied to x. f(x) is alternatively known as the output of f for argument x.
Image of a subset
The image of a subset A? X under f, denoted, is the subset of Y which can be defined using set-builder notation as follows:[2]
When there is no risk of confusion, is simply written as. This convention is a common one; the intended meaning must be inferred from the context. This makes f[.] a function whose domain is the power set of X (the set of all subsets of X), and whose codomain is the power set of Y. See § Notation below for more.
Image of a function
The image of a function is the image of its entire domain, also known as the range of the function.[3]
Generalization to binary relations
If R is an arbitrary binary relation on X×Y, then the set { y?Y | xRy for some x?X } is called the image, or the range, of R. Dually, the set { x?X | xRy for some y?Y } is called the domain of R.
Inverse image
Let f be a function from X to Y. The preimage or inverse image of a set B? Y under f, denoted by, is the subset of X defined by
Other notations include f -1 (B)[4] and f - (B).[5] The inverse image of a singleton, denoted by f -1[{y}] or by f -1[y], is also called the fiber over y or the level set of y. The set of all the fibers over the elements of Y is a family of sets indexed by Y.
For example, for the function f(x) = x2, the inverse image of {4} would be {-2, 2}. Again, if there is no risk of confusion, f -1[B] can be denoted by f -1(B), and f -1 can also be thought of as a function from the power set of Y to the power set of X. The notation f -1 should not be confused with that for inverse function, although it coincides with the usual one for bijections in that the inverse image of B under f is the image of B under f -1.
Notation for image and inverse image
The traditional notations used in the previous section can be confusing. An alternative[6] is to give explicit names for the image and preimage as functions between power sets:
Arrow notation
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Star notation
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Other terminology
 - An alternative notation for f[A] used in mathematical logic and set theory is f "A.[7][8]
 - Some texts refer to the image of f as the range of f, but this usage should be avoided because the word "range" is also commonly used to mean the codomain of f.
 1. f: {1, 2, 3} -> {a, b, c, d} defined by
 The image of the set {2, 3} under f is f({2, 3}) = {a, c}. The image of the function f is {a, c}. The preimage of a is f -1({a}) = {1, 2}. The preimage of {a, b} is also {1, 2}. The preimage of {b, d} is the empty set {}.
 2. f: R -> R defined by f(x) = x2.
 The image of {-2, 3} under f is f({-2, 3}) = {4, 9}, and the image of f is R+. The preimage of {4, 9} under f is f -1({4, 9}) = {-3, -2, 2, 3}. The preimage of set N = {n? R | n < 0} under f is the empty set, because the negative numbers do not have square roots in the set of reals.
 3. f: R2 -> R defined by f(x, y) = x2 + y2.
 The fibres f -1({a}) are concentric circles about the origin, the origin itself, and the empty set, depending on whether a > 0, a = 0, or a < 0, respectively.
 4. If M is a manifold and?: TM -> M is the canonical projection from the tangent bundle TM to M, then the fibres of? are the tangent spaces Tx(M) for x?M. This is also an example of a fiber bundle.
 5. A quotient group is a homomorphic image.
Counter-examples based on
f:R->R, x?x2, showing
that equality generally need
not hold for some laws:
f(A1?A2)? f(A1)? f(A2)
f(f-1(B3))? B3
f-1(f(A4))? A4
For every function and all subsets and, the following properties hold:
Image Preimage
(equal if, e.g. is surjective)[9][10]
(equal if is injective)[9][10]
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Multiple functions
For functions and with subsets and, the following properties hold:
Multiple subsets of domain or codomain
For function and subsets and, the following properties hold:
Image Preimage
(equal if is injective[13])
(equal if is injective[13])
(equal if is injective)
The results relating images and preimages to the (Boolean) algebra of intersection and union work for any collection of subsets, not just for pairs of subsets:
(Here, S can be infinite, even uncountably infinite.)
With respect to the algebra of subsets described above, the inverse image function is a lattice homomorphism, while the image function is only a semilattice homomorphism (i.e., it does not always preserve intersections).
See also
 2. ^ "5.4: Onto Functions and Images/Preimages of Sets". Mathematics LibreTexts. 2019-11-05. Retrieved.
 3. ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Image". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved.
 4. ^ "Comprehensive List of Algebra Symbols". Math Vault. 2020-03-25. Retrieved.
 5. ^ Dolecki & Mynard 2016, pp. 4-5.
 6. ^ Blyth 2005, p. 5.
 7. ^ Jean E. Rubin (1967). Set Theory for the Mathematician. Holden-Day. p. xix. ASIN B0006BQH7S.
 8. ^ M. Randall Holmes: Inhomogeneity of the urelements in the usual models of NFU, December 29, 2005, on: Semantic Scholar, p. 2
 9. ^ a b c See Halmos 1960, p. 39
 10. ^ a b See Munkres 2000, p. 19
 11. ^ a b c d e f g h See p.388 of Lee, John M. (2010). Introduction to Topological Manifolds, 2nd Ed.
 12. ^ a b Kelley 1985, p. 85
 13. ^ a b See Munkres 2000, p. 21
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How do I resolve Error 4320?
An attempt to log in without proper administrator rights or User Access Control permissions may result in error 4320 ("Operator or Administrator has refused the request").
Follow these instructions to ensure you have proper User Access Control permissions on the host computer you are attempting to access. This will allow you to access the host computer even if you are unable to be added as an administrator at the operating system level.
 3. Under User Access Control, click Show details....
 Result: The User Access Control window is displayed.
 4. Under Users, select your user name from the list. You may need to browse for additional users.
 Tip: For example, if you sign in using a Computer Access Code, you may need to add the user named LogMeInRemoteUser: Click Browse > List users of selected domain and find LogMeInRemoteUser on the list.
 5. Under Edit Selected User, you must select at least the Login permission to resolve the 4320 error.
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Scotland presses on as Vetting & Barring Scheme is put on hold
The UK government's decision to place the planned Vetting & Barring Scheme (VBS) on hold for England, Northern Ireland and Wales has been swiftly followed by confirmation that a similar initiative in Scotland is to go ahead from 30 November 2010.
Voluntary registration with the VBS outside of Scotland was due to start on 26 July but will now be halted to allow for a remodelling of the scheme to what the government described as "common sense levels". Short-term the change means independent social workers will not have to pay the £64 fee to register in England or Wales, or £58 if they live in Northern Ireland.
In Scotland, however, a new scheme aimed at strengthening protection for vulnerable groups is set to commence on 30 November 2010, children's minister Adam Ingram revealed on 29 June. Confirming the launch date for the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme (PVG Scheme) he also announced the publication of a number of guidance and training materials [visit for details]. The Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme (PVG Scheme) is a new membership scheme that will replace the current disclosure arrangements for people who work with vulnerable groups.
During the first year after the PVG Scheme goes live, it will only be available to those who are joining the vulnerable groups' workforce for the first time, moving posts, or whose employment circumstances have changed. Existing members of the vulnerable groups' workforce will then be phased in over a three-year period. The phasing in period is expected to commence towards the end of 2011, subject to legislation in the Scottish Parliament.
In Scotland news of the plans to scale back the VBS in other parts of the UK were broadly welcomed as offering a chance to introduce a more 'proportionate' model closer to the Scottish PVG Scheme.
A number of other related reforms introduced in England, Northern Ireland and Wales in October 2009 remain in place, however. Organisations that are engaging individuals to work in regulated activity with children or vulnerable adults should continue to use their existing safeguarding practices, including the use of enhanced CRB disclosures where these are required by law or regarded as appropriate by employers [see summary below].
A summary of the changes still in place as a result of the formation of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) last year.
 1. It is now a criminal offence for barred individuals to apply to work with children or vulnerable adults in a wider range of posts than previously. Employers also face criminal sanctions for knowingly employing a barred individual across a wider range of work.
 2. The previous barring lists have been replaced by two new barred lists administered by the ISA rather than several government departments. Now, checks of these two lists can be made as part of an Enhanced CRB check.
 3. Additional jobs and voluntary positions are covered by the new regulations, including moderators of children's internet chat rooms and large numbers of NHS and justice sector staff.
 4. Employers, local authorities, professional regulators and inspection bodies are now under a duty to refer to the ISA any information about an individual where they consider them to have caused harm or pose a risk of harm to vulnerable groups, such as why they stopped, or considered stopping, an individual working with vulnerable groups.


Bonas, the Courts in Saskatchewan upheld a 'common law rule', referencing the 1864 English case of Nicholl v. Greaves, that a dismissed domestic servant is entitled to one month pay in lieu of notice.
Though the 'rule' has occasionally been referred to in other contexts, there is relatively little recent case law actually considering its merits or applicability in 21st-century Canada.
In 2001, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal summarized the doctrine in Burton v. Howlett, and while they didn't expressly reject it altogether, they expressed serious scepticism about the merits of this 'common law rule'.
Personally, I am unaware of any case law of contemporary relevance which either accepts or expressly rejects the doctrine from Nicholl v. Greaves. It was not mentioned in the Pascua decision, even though - if it is good law - this probably would have been a case for its application.
That being said, I doubt whether or not it could be held to be enforceable today, and one might reasonably argue that it is, in fact, incompatible with our current employment standards framework.


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Signature authentication has had a great attention in the field of biometrics since it is a traditional method to personal verification. Most of the work available in the literature use kinetic (e.g. axial and normal forces), kinematic (e.g., position, velocity, acceleration, inclination angle) and spatiotemporal features (e.g., stroke durations, stroke length, in-air time) for the
signature authentication and have ignored the writer's biomechanics. Therefore, this project studies the grip patterns that people use when writing in order to use these features to identify a person's identity. We are proposing to use the biomechanics of handwriting for signature authentication by using a special instrumented pen while writing the signature on a digitizing tablet. This pen measures how hard you press on the page. It also measures how you hold the pen. This information will help us to describe the uniqueness of each person's writing pattern and be able to identify an authentic signature from a forged signature. This research which is funded by NSERC and Syngrafii Corp. could lead to the development of a new device that will recognize signatures. Many industries (e.g. government, banks, retail and hospitals) can benefit from this device as a new anti-fraud tool that can improve security and privacy.
This project will answer the following questions:
- What are the intra-individual variability of grip forces while writing a signature between different days and different times within the same day?
- What are the features that can be used to discriminate between forged and authentic signatures based on the collected grip force data?
- How does the grip force parameters, velocity, fluency and in-air time change with age, gender and handedness?
Progress and Future Plans
A massive amount of genuine and forged signatures is being collected using a digitizing tablet and an instrumented writing utensil that measures the individual dynamic grip forces while writing. Adults of 18 years or older with no history of musculoskeletal injuries or neurological impairments are participating to make this data base. 500 genuine signatures are being collected from 5 participants in the Prism Lab and 6000 forged signatures will be collected from 300 adults visiting the Ontario Science Center.
Once the data is available, pre-processing techniques will be needed to prepare the data for analysis. Few analysis techniques will be performed including topographical analysis in order to find the grip force features that best discriminate between the authentic and forged signatures. These features can then be combined with other kinematic and spatiotemporal features to improve the verification results.
Ervin Sejdić, Ph.D.
Evdokia Anagnostou, M.D.


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Cambodian Refugees Suffer from Psychiatric Illness at High Rates Two Decades After Escaping Homeland Terror
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Published in: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 294, no. 5, Aug. 3, 2005, p. 571-579
Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2005
CONTEXT: Little is known about the long-term mental health of trauma-exposed refugees years after permanent resettlement in host countries. OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence, comorbidity, and correlates of psychiatric disorders in the US Cambodian refugee community. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A cross-sectional, face-to-face interview conducted in Khmer language on a random sample of households from the Cambodian community in Long Beach, Calif, the largest such community in the United States, between October 2003 and February 2005. A total of 586 adults aged 35 to 75 years who lived in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge reign and immigrated to the United States prior to 1993 were selected. One eligible individual was randomly sampled from each household, with an overall response rate (eligibility screening and interview) of 87% (n = 490). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Exposure to trauma and violence before and after immigration (using the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and Survey of Exposure to Community Violence); weighted past-year prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression (using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview version 2.1); and alcohol use disorder (by the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test). RESULTS: All participants had been exposed to trauma before immigration. Ninety-nine percent (n = 483) experienced near-death due to starvation and 90% (n=437) had a family member or friend murdered. Seventy percent (n=338) reported exposure to violence after settlement in the United States. High rates of PTSD (62%, weighted), major depression (51%, weighted), and low rates of alcohol use disorder were found (4%, weighted). PTSD and major depression were highly comorbid in this population (n=209; 42%, weighted) and each showed a strong dose-response relationship with measures of traumatic exposure. In bivariate analyses, older age, having poor English-speaking proficiency, unemployment, being retired or disabled, and living in poverty were also associated with higher rates of PTSD and major depression. Following multivariate analyses, premigration trauma remained associated with PTSD (odds ratio [OR], 2.08; 95% CI, 1.37-3.16) and major depression (OR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.24-1.97); postmigration trauma with PTSD (OR, 1.65; 95% CI, 1.21-2.26) and major depression (OR, 1.45: 95% CI, 1.12-1.86); and older age with PTSD (OR, 1.76; 95% CI, 1.46-2.13) and major depression (OR, 1.47; 95% CI, 1.15-1.89). CONCLUSION: More than 2 decades have passed since the end of the Cambodian civil war and the subsequent resettlement of refugees in the United States; however, this population continues to have high rates of psychiatric disorders associated with trauma.


($\bigtriangledown$) operator to create a few different double combinations of the Del (gradient operator):
$$\bigtriangledown \bullet (\bigtriangledown F) = \bigtriangledown^2$$ $$\bigtriangledown \times (\bigtriangledown F)$$ $$\bigtriangledown(\bigtriangledown F)$$
Only the first one is the Laplacian in $R^3$. The laplacian is n-dimensional though...but I've seen $\bigtriangledown^2$ used to refer to the laplacian in n dimensions, even though I think $\bigtriangledown$ is primarily an operator in $R^3$. In Griffiths, he describes the second one as the Curl of the gradient or something...I don't remember, but it is useful for describing magnetic fields given an electric one, or something like that.
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Is France the third largest country in Europe?
What is the third largest country in Europe?
Rank State Total area (km2)
1 Russia* 3,969,100
2 Ukraine 603,628
3 France* 551,695
4 Spain* 498,511
What are the 3 largest countries in Europe by population?
Rank Country Population
1 Germany 80,523,700
2 France 65,633,200
3 United Kingdom 63,730,100
4 Italy 59,685,200
What are the 10 largest countries in Europe?
 - Russia (6,599,921 square miles)
 - Ukraine (232,951 square miles)
 - France (212,954 square miles)
 - Spain (195,313 square miles)
 - Sweden (173,814 square miles)
 - Germany (137,846 square miles)
 - Finland (130,632 square miles)
 - Norway (124,988 square miles)
What are 3 countries in Europe?
Countries in Europe:
# Country Subregion
1 Russia Eastern Europe
2 Germany Western Europe
3 United Kingdom Northern Europe
4 France Western Europe
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Is Canada in Europe?
Which country is biggest in the world?
Area in square kilometers
Russia 17,098,242
Canada 9,984,670
USA 9,833,517
China 9,596,960
Which country is the richest country in Europe?
What is Europe's largest city?
Largest urban agglomerations in Europe in 2020 (in millions of inhabitants)
Population in millions
Istanbul (Turkey) 15.19
Moscow (Russia) 12.54
Paris (France) 11.02
London (UK) 9.3
Which is the smallest country of Europe?
1: Vatican City
What are the big 5 European countries?
The EU's big 5 economies – France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK – dominate the EU by dint of their sheer size, accounting for 71% of GDP in 2013.
What is the most famous country in Europe?
The Most Visited European Nations
Rank Country International tourist arrivals (2017)
1 France 86.9 million
2 Spain 81.8 million
3 Italy 58.3 million
4 United Kingdom 37.7 million
See also Question: Which is the longest road in the world?
Who is the biggest country in Europe?
Located on a whopping 6.6 million square miles of land, Russia is by far the largest country by land mass in Europe, and in the world.
What is best country to visit in Europe?
The 15 Best Places to Visit in Europe
 1. Paris, France. Paris has it all, which is why it's as close to a must-see as there is in Europe. …
 2. Florence, Italy. …
 3. Santorini, Greece. …
 4. Amsterdam, Netherlands. …
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What countries are not in Europe?
The European countries that are not members of the EU:
 - Albania*
 - Andorra.
 - Armenia.
 - Azerbaijan.
 - Belarus.
 - Bosnia and Herzegovina**
 - Georgia.
 - Iceland.
Is UK under Europe?
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At times, you may want to make the form unavailable and communicate the status to your users. You have two choices. You can take the form offline immediately, or you can take it offline automatically at a specified date and time. You can also edit the message that users see.
- In the Form Designer Toolbar choose Settings > Extensions > Form Availability. The Form Availability Settings window, appears.
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5 Ways to Encourage Someone in Need
What do i know about encouragement? Well, I have been at the receiving end of heaps of it this year so i can tell you just how powerful it is.
The word encourage comes from the Old French word encoragier, meaning "make strong, hearten". Have you ever thought of how meaningful the gift then is? You have the ability to help strengthen someone. That is amazing! There have been so many expressions and variations of this that i have experienced recently. It has taught me a huge lesson. One worth remembering and spurring me on to be more purposeful in encouraging others in my life.
Here are 5 ways of encouraging someone who really needs it…and truthfully you might just end up feeling encouraged yourself.
1. When you find yourself thinking of someone, tell them! That might seem like i'm stating the obvious, but how often do you think, "i really need to send a note to _____ (fill in the blank)" and then two weeks later you realize you haven't done it. In the day of texting, it's as quick as picking up your phone and sending a message that you are thinking of them RIGHT NOW. I cannot tell you how many texts and emails i received that had ironic and beautiful timing. You never know when your words will be received at just the necessary time.
2. Meet a practical need. Sometimes life's circumstances make even the simplest tasks overwhelming. That's where we can all step in. Help by either asking specifically what needs to be done or filling a need that you know might lighten the load. One way my "load" was literally lightened was in the laundry department. For the four weeks following surgery, i had my laundry picked up, cleaned and returned…might i add smelling better and folded more perfectly than i had ever done myself!
3. Handwrite a note. Such a lost art that is highly treasured now. Putting something on paper allows the receiver to keep your words close at hand and be able to re-read when they need an instant pick-me-up. There is something special about receiving a sealed envelope with your name on it (other than a bill or junk mail!!). I actually keep handwritten notes in a shoebox and refuse to get rid of them. They have too much value.
4. Time is a gift that cannot be replaced. We all know this but often fail at the execution (i'm talking to myself here!). Just being in the presence of someone you love can bring comfort. Our oldest daughter, Lexi, gave this gift to me. Shortly after i was diagnosed, she began to ask me to watch some tv with her each evening. It was a time where we lost ourselves in a bit of mindless tv…together. 6 months later it is a routine now. Even if it's only for 10 minutes. It's our time together. Companionship often requires no words…just company.
5. Build into the lives of their loved ones. I am so overwhelmed at the love that our kids have received. Countless people…family members to school mates to our friends to their sports/dance teams… filled in the gaps in an effort to keep all three kids lives as normal as possible. Lincoln's hockey team embraced him this season and kept him happily busy on the ice. They also acknowledged what was going on in his life by taping their sticks with pink tape. It was a safe place for him. And any mom out there will agree that is a gift that can't be given a value. Knowing that he had his hockey "family" looking out for him was hugely encouraging to me!
We all have different ways that we feel more comfortable "putting ourselves out there"… so i hope one of these five tips speaks to you. I should add that it's also totally acceptable to go beyond your comfort and reach out in ways that might stretch you beyond that! I need to work on this. One thing is for sure: encouragement gives hope and helps us through challenging times. I know it to be true.


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Boston Public Schools, MA, Speech-Language Pathologist
I am a speech therapist in an inclusion K-8 Boston Public school. Many of the students I work with have significant difficulties with reading and writing. I introduced Clicker Books to my students during their SPOT (Speech and Occupational Therapy) sessions. The students created an obstacle course and then used Clicker Books to create a book depicting each step of the course.
Even though my students have significant issues with reading, writing, and formulating sentences, they were able to create this book with minimal assistance. They were so proud of what they had created and were eager to show all their classmates.
One of my students has significant difficulties speaking, as well as reading and writing. He has apraxia of speech and is very difficult to understand. The entire school community was studying the Taino culture. This student needed to create a project about the Taino, but all the options involved a significant amount of speaking, reading, and writing. Using Clicker Books, he was able to create a project of which he was truly proud. This student used an augmentative communication app to interview a student from each classroom about what they had learned while studying the Taino. He then used the word banks to create a book that clearly depicted all the learning that was happening at the school. When his project was done, the pride on this student's face was priceless. He had created a high quality project and something that he was eager to share with everyone.
The Clicker Apps are a wonderful support for the students I work with. They provide an excellent way for them to show what they know. The speech support and word banks allow my students with significant difficulties to access the curriculum and to create work of which they can be proud. I would definitely recommend the Clicker Apps!


The Renzy Copper-Nickel Mine 197 Days to Production
CIM Bulletin, 1970
R. M. KLEINE, Mine Manager, New Hosco Mines Ltd. - Renzy Project, Lac de Renzy, Quebec
In the fall of 1968, Sheridan Geophysics leased the Renzy Mine property 50 miles northwest of the town of Maniwaki, Quebec. A 500-tpd flotation mill was dismantled at Belleterre, Quebec, trucked into the mine over a winter road and re-erected during extreme winter conditions. Approximately one billion gallons of water were removed from Renzy lake to expose the orebody. A 3,000-hp diesel generating plant and a self-supporting community were set up during the early part of 1969. This was a remarkable achievement considering that most of the work, including the pouring of foundations and the draining of the lake, had to be done during the winter months. Despite this, the project was completed ahead of schedule and one million dollars below budget. The mill is now treating an average of 800 tpd.
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Act 1
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NPCs involved
Experience gained
XP type
XP level
Outcomes & Rewards
Let Nonton and Ingroed leave
 - 50 Copper pands (cp)
Tell them to get out of your sight
 - No reward
Let them leave and select the benevolent option
Report them or attack them
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Vengeance from the Grave is a task in Pillars of Eternity.
Synopsis[edit | edit source]
While exploring the Valewood wilderness, you happened upon a small cave where a great bear lived. In that cave was a half eaten corpse and a spirit that revealed the final moment of the man's life.
Overview[edit | edit source]
 1. Talk to Nonton in Valewood.
 2. Read Perly's soul in the cave in Valewood.
Walkthrough[edit | edit source]
 - Optional: After arriving in Valewood for the first time, head south over the road until you reach a tent and a man named Nonton, and speak with him. He will inform you about the bear cave.
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ID Objectives
0 Vengeance from the Grave
10000 While exploring the Valewood wilderness, I happened upon a small cave where a great bear lived. In that cave, I discovered a half eaten corpse and a spirit that, through some work of magic, revealed to me the final moments of a man's life.
1 Confront Nonton.
10001 In the Valewood, I happened upon a curious hunter who told me his friend had been killed by a large bear in the area. After exploring the area, I found the cave, the bear, and Perly's remains. I experienced a vision of Perly's last moments, which revealed a far more sordid truth: His friend, Nonton, hamstrung him as he attempted to escape the bear. What reasons Nonton had for this are unclear. Perhaps I will find more answers by confronting the man himself. Nonton lives in the nearby town of Gilded Vale.
2 Find the man with the red cloak
10002 In the depths of the Valewood cavern, I happened upon a large bear feasting upon the body of a man who, by the look of things, had recently stumbled upon this den himself. When I approached the body, I had a sudden vision of the man's final moments, and knew him for a hunter from Gilded Vale. In the vision, he was led into the cave by a friend of his. When the bear attacked, his fellow hunter hamstrung him and fled, leaving him to be devoured. The culprit's only recognizable feature was his red cloak.
End states
Yes Accepted Bribe
30000 Having heard Ingroed's side of things, I decided to let her and Nonton leave Gilded Vale. Perhaps they can make a new life for themselves somewhere far from here.
Yes Killed the Couple
30002 I killed Ingroed and Nonton for the parts they played in Perly's death.
Yes Killed Nonton, Told Ghost
30003 I slew the hunter Nonton, only to find evidence of his crimes against an old friend within a cavern in the Valewood. I told Perly's spirit that his murderer was slain. Perhaps now his troubled soul will pass into the next life.
Yes Killed Couple, Told Ghost
30004 I slew Ingroed and Nonton, only to later find evidence of Nonton's crimes against an old friend within a cavern in the Valewood. I told Perly's spirit that his murderer was brought to justice. Perhaps now his troubled soul will pass into the next life.
Yes Killed the Couple before confronting them
30005 I killed Nonton, the man from the vision, and Ingroed with him. Whatever the tale behind Perly's death, it dies with them.


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Creating a Plot Plan in Home Designer Pro
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I would like to know how to create a plot plan in Home Designer Pro. How is this accomplished?
Once you have created a floor plan, you are probably ready to create your plot plan. Use the following procedure to learn how to create a basic plot plan, then take what you learn and apply it to your own design.
To begin creating a plot plan
- Launch Home Designer Pro, and select File> New Plan.
- Next, select CAD> Lines> North Pointer, then click and drag a North Arrow straight up in your floor plan view.
- Next, select CAD> Points> Place Point, and click one time to place a point to the lower left as a start point for the property line.
The entire property line may be relocated later, so don't worry about exactness at this time.
- Once the point is on the screen (it should look like an x), select CAD> Lines> Input Line to display the New CAD Line dialog.
- Click on the Num Style button to display the Number Style / Angle Style dialog, and make the following changes:
Note: These settings only apply to numbers displayed in the specification dialogs and status bar. They do NOT apply to objects display in plan and other view windows.
- Under Number Style, move the radio button to Decimal Feet.
- Under Angle Style, move the radio button to Quadrant Bearing.
- Click OK to return to the New CAD Line dialog.
- In the End Point section of the dialog, make the following selections:
- Click the radio button beside Relative to Start Point.
- Place a check in the box beside Polar.
- Next, using the numbers that follow, enter the information to define the property line.
Press the Next button to stay in the dialog to enter the next value.
Distance = 122.21', Angle = N82° 49'E
Distance = 98.75', Angle = N2° 17'W
Distance = 143.56', Angle = N87° 47'W
Distance = 122.33', Angle = S12° 20'E
The above coordinates serve as an example only. Use these coordinates to learn how to create a plot plan. Once you understand the process, you can substitute in your own coordinates.
- Press OK after entering in the last value to close the dialog and return to floor plan view, where we can see the polyline we created.
- Next, use the Select Objects tool to select the polyline you created, and click on the Open Object edit too to display the Polyline Specification dialog.
- Go to the Line Style panel, and in the lower right of the dialog in the Display Options category, check the boxes beside Show Length and Show Angle then click the OK button to return to your floor plan view.
Note that it defaults to having lengths of inches and angles in regular degrees. Most property lines are shown in bearings and decimal feet.
To change the display to decimal feet and bearings
- Select Edit> Default Settings.
- Expand the CAD category, select General CAD, and click on the Edit button.
- In the CAD Defaults dialog:
- Under Display Line Angle as, select Quadrant Bearing.
- Under Display Line Length as, move the radio button to Decimal Feet.
- Click OK to apply the change and close the CAD Defaults dialog.
- Click Done to close the Default Settings dialog.
- In Home Designer Pro 2012 and newer, to increase the size of the Length and Angle displayed on your Plot Plan polyline, select Tools> Display Options.
- Navigate down to the CAD, Default layer, click to highlight its name, and use the Text Style drop down menu to select the Plot Plan Text Style and click OK.
Now the property line should display properly.
If you want to add details such as the property offset, now is the time to make these changes.
To create setback lines
- Select Edit> Preferences and under the Edit category, select Behaviors.
- Under Edit Type, move the radio button to Concentric, and in the Jump field, type in the setback distance required by your local planning department, such as 10'.
- Click OK to close the Preferences dialog and return to floor plan view.
- Using the Select Objects tool, click the plot plan polyline to select it, then click the Copy/Paste edit button.
- Place your cursor over a corner edit handle, click and drag towards the center of the polyline until a copy of the polyline appears inside.
- Select the inner polyline and click the Open Object edit button to open the Polyline Specification dialog.
- On the Line Style panel, select a dashed line style from the drop-down list, then uncheck Show Length and Show Angle, and click OK.
- When you have finished creating your concentric copy, select Edit> Edit Behaviors> Default to restore the default edit behavior.
- Finally, select CAD> Points> Delete Temporary Points to remove the point that we started our plot plan polyline from.


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Present your projects with videos
Plan, film, and edit a video presentation about one of your digital maker projects.
Plan a session with this activity
You will need
 - Access to a computer
 - Access to the internet
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Notes and handout (Present your projects with videos)
PDF – 2.5MB
Before you begin
 - You can film anywhere (as long as you have your project there), but you'll need access to computers for editing.
 - It works best if each group has access to a computer, but you could take it in turns if you need to. You could also look in to visiting a local library or school to use their computers.
 - You'll need an Adobe Spark account for this activity. You could create a shared account for everyone (or one for each small group) that the adult leading the activity has access to. If people are over 13, they could create their own accounts and use them to edit their videos.
Set the scene
 1. Everyone should split into small groups. It's useful if everyone in a group worked together on the same project.
 2. Each group should decide which project they'd like to make a video about. People often learn the most from times they struggle or make mistakes, so it often works well for people to focus on a project that didn't go perfectly.
 1. Everyone should use the 'Notes and handout' to guide them as they plan everything out and create a storyboard and basic script.
Make the film
 1. Everyone should use the activity handout to help them shoot a great film. The handout has plenty of tips about lighting and camera angles.
 1. Once they've finished filming, everyone should follow their activity handout to transfer their footage to a computer.
 2. Everyone should get stuck in to editing their film. They should follow the activity handout to get the scenes in the right order and add a backing track and captions.
 3. Once everyone's films are ready, people should take it in turns to share them with the group.
 4. The person leading the activity should check that no one can be identified from anything in the video, that there's no identifying information (such as full names), and that they have proper consent from everyone in the film.
 1. Everyone should check out the information in the activity handout and decide whether to publish their film.
This activity was all about communicating. How was making a video presentation different to presenting something live? People might think about how they could make edits or film things more than once to get it exactly right. How did people feel when it came to showing others the video? Do people think videos made it easier to understand what others were trying to say? Video presentations can also be widely shared. How can people make sure their videos are accessible for as many people as possible? People could think about adding subtitles or translating them into different languages.
This activity was also a chance for everyone to develop skills. What skills did people use to make their videos? Were they confident before they started? How did they feel when they watched their finished video? Was it useful to use videos to reflect on the skills they used when making their digital projects?
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This is motivated by the discussion here. The usual definition of the etale fundamental group (as in SGA 1) gives automatic profiniteness: Grothendieck's formulation of Galois theory states that any category with a "fiber functor" to the category of finite sets satisfying appropriate hypotheses is isomorphic to the category of finite, continuous $G$-sets for a well-defined profinite group $G$ (taken as the limit of the automorphism groups of Galois objects, or as the automorphism group of said fiber functor). In SGA1, the strategy is to take finite etale covers of a fixed (connected) scheme with the fiber functor the set of liftings of a geometric point.
One problem with this approach is that $H^1(X_{et}, G)$ for a finite group $G$ (which classifies $G$-torsors in the etale topology) is not isomorphic to $\hom(\pi_1(X, \overline{x}), G)$ unless $G$ is finite. Indeed, this would imply that the cohomology of the constant sheaf $\mathbb{Z}$ would always be trivial, but this is not true (e.g. for a nodal cubic). However, Scott Carnahan asserts on the aforementioned thread that the "right" etale fundamental group of a nodal cubic should be $\mathbb{Z}$, not something profinite.
How exactly does this work? People have suggested that one can define it as a similar inverse limit of automorphism groups, but is there a similar equivalence of categories and an analogous formalism for weaker "Galois categories"? (Perhaps one wants not just all etale morphisms but, say, torsors: the disjoint union of two open immersions might not be the right candidate.) I'm pretty sure that the finiteness is necessary in the usual proofs of Galois theory, but maybe there's something more.
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Check out Section 2 of Noohi's paper "Fundamental groups of topological stacks with slice property"
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Thanks. This (in particular, Theorem 2.16) is very nice. – Akhil Mathew Jul 18 '11 at 18:04
In "The pro-étale topology for schemes" (, Bhatt and Scholze introduce the pro-étale fundamental group which seems to give a good answer to your question (see, e.g., Theorem 1.10). The pro-étale fundamental group also compares well against the usual étale fundamental group and the "SGA3 étale fundamental group".
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Thank you! I've been meaning to look at this paper for some time now. – Akhil Mathew Nov 29 '13 at 22:14
Besides the references already given above, one can also mention:
SGA III 2 LNM 152 exp X /S 7 where Grothendieck sketches the theory of an enlarged fundamental group ("groupe fondamental élargi").
This was later on formalized in terms of Galois toposes in Olivier Leroy's Phd "Groupoide Fondamental et Theoreme de van Kampen en Theorie des Topos" which unfortunately does not seem to be widely available. Roughly, it goes at follows. A topos $E$ is locally Galois if it is locally connected and if every object is a sum of locally constant objects: $SLC(E)=E$ (equivalently, if it is generated by its Galois objects [ a Galois object is a locally constant non-empty object that is a pseudo-torsor under its automorphism group]). Such a locally Galois topos can be recovered from the groupoid (in the categorical sense) of its points in the sense that the functor $E\rightarrow (Point(E))^\wedge$ defines an equivalence of toposes (here for a groupoid $C$, $C^\wedge$ denotes the topos of presheaves on $C$). To sum up, $E\mapsto Point(E)$ defines an equivalence between locally Galois toposes and groupoids. You can find more details in Vincent Zoonekynd's paper The fundamental group of an algebraic stack at this address
Then starting from a scheme $X$, you can consider the topos $SLC(\widetilde{X_{et}})$ of locally constant sheaves for the étale topology. This is a Galois topos, the automorphism group of a point is Grothendieck's enlarged fundamental group. If instead the étale topology you stick to the finite étale topology $X_{fet}$, where covers are given by surjective families of finite étale maps, your recover the traditional profinite fundamental group of SGA1.
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As Leroy's notes are difficult to find, it might be worth mentioning that this Galois theory for topoi has been rediscovered by Ieke Moerdijk in his paper "Prodiscrete groups and Galois toposes", Nederl. Akad. Wetensch. Indag. Math. 51 (1989), no. 2, 219–234. – Denis-Charles Cisinski Jul 19 '11 at 17:41
Interesting. Thanks for these references! – Akhil Mathew Jul 20 '11 at 4:32
(iii) $F$ preseves strict epimorphisms.
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In Dubuc and de la Vega's very nice write-up of Grothendieck's Galois theory they cover the pro-group case when the fibre functor is representable (see section 5.5):
Consider a category $C$ and an object $A \in C$. Axioms on $C$:
R1) $C$ has a terminal object and pullbacks (thus all finite limits).
R2) $C$ has coequalizers.
R3) $C$ has coproducts.
Axioms on $A$ (in terms of the representable functor $[A, −]$):
R4) $[A, −]$ preserves coequalizers.
R5) $[A, −]$ preserves coproducts.
R6) $[A, −]$ reflects isomorphisms.
Note that $[A,-]$, a priori a functor to $Set$, lifts to $Set^{Aut(A)}$, the category of $Aut(A)$-sets. Given these axioms, we get an adjoint equivalence between $C$ and $Set^{Aut(A)}$. Clearly this is a step in the right direction, but not what you are after.
In section 6.2 they mention the more general case -- prorepresentable but not finite -- and say they will develop it elsewhere. There is also a reference to SGA IV 2.7, where some of this is stated but not proved (as an aside, of course there is the usual warning that topos in SGA means Grothendieck topos, elementary topoi not being invented yet).
I'm not sure where this 'elsewhere' is, but likely to be written down in the guise of representation theorems for Galois topoi.
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Thanks. This is indeed very close to what I was looking for. Though it seems that there is no reason to expect a "universal cover" in the etale sense. – Akhil Mathew Jul 17 '11 at 16:31
Of course. There are some hints in the paper I linked to, such as strengthening the behaviour of the fibre functor to preserving not just finite limits, but all copowers with a fixed object. I think the answer is out there, but I didn't have time to hunt it down, and I suspect it is not phrased in the usual language. Perhaps something like 'A connected Galois topos with a pro-point is the topos of continuous actions of a progroup' or something like that. – David Roberts Jul 17 '11 at 22:44
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Wolaytta is a North Omotic language spoken in the Wolaita Zone and some other parts of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia by between 1.6 and 2 million people. The language is also known as Borodda, Ometo, Ualamo, Uba, Uollamo, Walamo, Wallamo, Welamo, Wellamo, Wolaita, Wolaitta, Wolataita, Wolayta and Wollamo.
Wolaytta was first written in the 1940s by a team of missionaries led by Dr. Bruce Adams. They translated the Bible into Wolaytta, finishing it in 2002. Other publications, including textbooks, have been published in Wolaytta.
This is Wakasa's practical alphabet used in Motomichi Wakasa's 2008 Ph.D. thesis, A Descriptive Study of the Modern Wolaytta Language.
The sound written nh, a nasalized glottal fricative, is very rare and only appears in a few words. The sound written D is said by some scholars to be an implosive, but Wakasa calls it glottalized.
Information about the Wolaytta language
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Hercules military transport planes operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force that land at Jan Mayensfield, which only has a gravel runway. The planes fly in from Bodø Main Air Station eight times a year. Since the airport does not have any instrument landing capabilities, visibility is required, and it is not uncommon for the planes to have to return to Bodø, two hours away, without landing. For heavy goods, freight ships visit during the summer, but there are no harbours and the ships must anchor up.
The island has no indigenous population, but is assigned the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code SJ (together with Svalbard), the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD).no (.sj is allocated but not used) and data code JN. Its amateur radio call sign prefix is JX. It has a postal code, N-8099 JAN MAYEN, but delivery time varies, especially during the winter.
People Population: no indigenous inhabitants
Government Country name: conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Jan Mayen
Legal system: the laws of Norway, where applicable, apply
Flag description: the flag of Norway is used
Communications Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA (there is one radio and meteorological station) (1998)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 13 (Jan Mayen and Svalbard) (2000)
Transportation Airports: 1 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2007)
Ports and terminals: none; offshore anchorage only
Military Military - note: defense is the responsibility of Norway
Transnational Issues Disputes - international: none


text: On occasion, a hydraulically fractured tight gas well does not perform up to its potential because of slow or incomplete fracture fluid cleanup. A number of papers have been written to address individual factors related to fracture fluid cleanup, but there are still many unanswered questions as to which factors mostly affect gas production from such wells. Numerical reservoir simulation is one of the best methods to study the fracture fluid cleanup problem. Continuing from our previous publication (SPE 117444) on the impact of gel damage on fracture cleanup, we used reservoir simulation to analyze systematically the factors that affect fracture fluid cleanup and gas recovery from tight gas wells. We first developed a comprehensive data set for typical tight gas reservoirs, and then ran single-phase flow cases for each reservoir and fracture scenario to establish the idealized base-case gas recovery. We then systematically evaluated the following factors: multiphase gas and water flow, proppant crushing, polymer filter cake, and finally yield stress of concentrated gel in the fracture. The gel in the fracture is concentrated due to fluid leakoff during the fracture treatment. We evaluated these factors additively in the order listed. We found that the most important factor that reduces fracture fluid cleanup and gas recovery is the gel strength of the fluid that remains in the fracture at the end of the treatment. This paper illustrates the complexity of the fracture fluid cleanup problem and points out the need to use reservoir simulation and to include all the pertinent factors in order to rigorously model fracture fluid cleanup. The procedures presented can provide a useful, systematic guide to engineers in conducting a numerical simulation study of fracture fluid cleanup.


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|Breast Cancer Screening for First Nations in Manitoba (Canada)|
Improving equitable access to Breast Cancer Screening for First Nations in Manitoba (Canada)
Imagine you are a woman living in the Canadian province of Manitoba as part of the First Nations indigenous population. Living in the rural North you have to travel long distances to access medical services. The costs for traveling in the North are very high. There are known benefits to screening for breast cancer. However, given your socio-economic barriers, how and when could you find the time to get screened for breast cancer?
What's the issue? Breast cancer in a Canadian First Nations Population
Within Manitoba there is a significant population of indigenous people in the northern part of the province. In 1996, 128,910 Aboriginal people lived in Manitoba, accounting for 11.7% of Manitoba's total population. The Aboriginal proportion of the population has been increasing rapidly over the past 20 years.1 Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Manitoba women and the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths among women. From 1995 to 2004, the incidence of cancer among First Nations women doubled, from 178/100,000 to 391/100,000. During the same time, the incidence of cancer among non-First Nations women increased by just 1.5%.2
Research to Practice: Making Breast Cancer Screening Mobile
Manitoba has a publicly funded Breast Screening program which operates in four cities and towns. Breast cancer screening with a mammogram, a specialized x-ray of the breasts, is a way of detecting cancer. Access to breast cancer screening plays a major role in the timely detection and treatment of cancers in women. Monitoring breast screening participation rates showed the inequities for northern and rural women and the mobile program was introduced to address the disparities.
Ensuring Canada's First Nations have access to breast cancer screening, specifically the "geographically isolated" Manitoban Aboriginal women, and adapting it to cultural context is an example of how investment in research for health can be beneficial in promoting health equity with regards to gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. Mobile screening units have been created to reach women who live outside of the four cities and towns housing the screening program. To date, mobile screening programs operate in over 80 rural and northern communities every year and in 10 Winnipeg city locations.
The breast screening program works with First Nation communities to address cultural issues. The program developed posters that include aboriginal women and invitation letters are translated when needed. The local health workers arrange the appointments as some women don't have phones. The clinics are advertised over the local community radio station and the local health workers often visit women to explain the program.
This example makes clear that to achieve health equity, access to the products of research, such as cancer screening technologies, need to consider the social determinants of health. Outreach initiatives should be culturally appropriate, as shown in the example of the Aboriginal Cancer Strategy.3 The guiding principles include a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual approach to health in conjunction with a grass-roots approach that gives voice to the community.
What next: Improving Access to Breast Cancer Screening by Promoting Innovation
Despite the universal screening program, access remains a challenge. For example, mobile units have rigid schedules making it difficult to switch dates when bad winter weather or equipment failure interrupt schedules and it is not always possible to accommodate changes. The mobile unit may not return for another year or two, leading to wide variability in the use of mammograms among eligible Manitoba women. In the two year period from April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2004, just 60% of women aged 50 to 69 years had a mammogram. Women in the rural south were most likely (63%), and women in the north were least likely (53%), to have had a mammogram. In fact, all Regional Health Authorities in the rural south had higher participation rates in mammography than did Winnipeg (59%).4
These differences in breast screening participation can be related to income, jobs, children, high travel expenses and long travel times due to an inadequate infrastructure that make it difficult for northern women to travel, especially from isolated communities in the North. Thus, even reaching a mobile screening unit is perceived as an obstacle for some women. Also, competing socio-economic health issues and immediate needs such as daily bread and shelter are often considered more important. In addition, some women have family members affected by breast cancer. Such bias sometimes results in increased likelihood towards cancer screening, but sometimes also in aversion due to fear.
It is in the hands of the community health workers to raise awareness. The challenge for research is to find ways to expand equitable access to breast cancer screening for all under-screened indigenous women. This can be achieved by enhancing the favorable balance between the benefits and risks of screening and by finding ways to make the units more mobile and flexible. Looking into the future, new technologies such as more compact digitalized mammography or blood testing for cancerous cells should be at the forefront.
For further information:
Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization


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The largest insect known to have existed looked like a gigantic dragonfly. It is not known whether it is a direct ancestor of modern dragonflies but it is more directly related to a griffinfly. The largest of these was the Meganeuropsis Permiana, which could reach a wingspan of 28″ or 71cm. There are many theories as to what caused the creatures to get so big but one is that the early atmosphere on earth had 20% more oxygen than we have now.
How big is that? Well, it's gigantic. The largest dragonfly that currently exists only has a wingspan of 7.5″ so the ancient relative is nearly four times as large. Even in body mass, it was the largest insect. It was even large than this thing:
In fact, here's a to scale model of it on a log:
Well, at least it wasn't a mosquito!


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Alevi ritual practice is a significant means in (re)producing a specific Alevi habitus and cultural identity. It is well known that the
Alevi ritual practice is a significant means in (re)producing a specific Alevi habitus and cultural identity. It is well known that the cem ritual and the emblematic semah were formative in the so-called Alevi revival. Representations of such performances became core symbols of 'Aleviness'. Despite this, Alevis often complain of a lack of 'authenticity' of the contemporary Alevi ritual. And yet, contemporary rituals and ceremonies still preserve rites and ritual elements constitutive for the Alevi tradition. By drawing on a large body of audio-visual material collected from 2003 to 2010, this lecture will present examples from a systematic analysis of the repertoire and structures of transnational ritual practice, focussing on its aesthetics.
holds an M.A. (Islamic Studies, Cultural Anthropology) and a PhD, both from the University of Heidelberg, where he was appointed 'Privatdozent' with a venia legendi for 'Islamwissenschaft' in 2016. Since October 2017, he has been a senior researcher at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, responsible for the research area 'History of Religions'. He conducted fieldwork in Iran, Turkey, Armenia, and Germany among Zoroastrians, Alevis, Yezidis, and Twelver Shiites, both as a member of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Dynamics of Ritual' (University of Heidelberg) and as a research group leader at the Department for the Study of Religions (University of Bayreuth).
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Cabinetmaking is a specialty area within the field of carpentry and building trades. This field of study includes basic woodworking as well as more advanced cabinetmaking and furniture-making techniques. Cabinetmaking can be done within a production, manufacturing environment, or as an individual artisan specializing in custom design and building.
SUNY Delhi offers a one-year Cabinetmaking certificate as part of the Carpentry and Building Trades curriculum. This certificate program can be taken by itself, or it can be combined with further instruction in Carpentry to yield an associate's degree. This program's objective is to educate students in both the theory and practice of woodworking and cabinetmaking. The program includes extensive laboratory hours during which students develop and practice the skills of the cabinetmaker.
Students who enroll in the Carpentry and Building Trades associate's degree programs have the option of including one or two semesters of woodworking/cabinetmaking in the second year of their program.
The job titles associated with graduates of the Cabinetmaking certificate program are:
There are career opportunities in residential construction, in sub-contracting, and in sole ownership of a cabinetmaking shop. Students who continue on for the associate's degree increase their options for employment in the carpentry and construction fields.
Graduates of the associate's degree programs also have options for further study at the bachelor's degree level. For example, the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) at Syracuse offers a B.S. degree in Wood Products Technology.
A related career option would be to transfer to a school with a Technology Education or a Vocational Education bachelor's degree, which would lead to a teaching career at the high school level. In New York State, two schools that offer this degree are SUNY Oswego and SUNY Buffalo.
SUNY Curriculum Code: 0923


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the goat a longer time to grow.
There are also people who believe that when a goat wakes up, it simply decides that it wants to get out of the area before its day is done.
Because this happens so frequently throughout the winter months in the Southern Hemisphere, there is no doubt that this is indeed the most common explanation for why a goat might decide to wake up and go for a long lazy walk around the pasture.
Then again, some people say that even if a goat's feet are warm, it does not mean that it wants to step outside into the cold. It just happens that the feet get cold and the goat's coat needs to protect itself from the cold. As it turns out, the goat's coat does not actually get cold, but it protects itself from the cold.
The most common explanation for why a goat might wake up at night is because the flock is in danger of being caught by predators.
If the predators catch the flock, not only will the goats get hurt but other birds and animals will be harmed as well, which is why the goat has to wake up in order to defend his flock.
Of course, some people say that this is completely unreasonable, considering that most goats will run away from predators when they hear their calls. But it does happen sometimes, and the goat simply has to wake up in order to save his goats. In any case, this type of behavior does not really harm the goats themselves, but it does inconvenience other people.
Sleep is Not the Most Important Item on the Goats to Do List
- Sleep is not the most important thing on the goats to do list. Sleep is important but not the most important. Sleep is like a friend that comes to shake you awake in the middle of a nightmare.
- Goat need to sleep and you will sleep as long as you want, but you cannot depend totally upon it.
- Goat still wake up sometimes in the middle of the night when I cannot shake the feeling that should go back to sleep, but I must stay conscious and alert to what is going on around me, and try to assess the situation before deciding to go back to sleep.


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Two things are central to the success of the Divisions of Family Practice model: building awareness of Divisions' mission to improve the primary care system for all involved and engaging B.C.'s family physicians in that process. Effective communications play a key role in supporting both of these objectives.
In response to physician input, the GPSC has introduced incentive fee changes to support the goal of expanding and enhancing team-based care. >
The GPSC made two operational changes to improve linkages with local and regional collaborative tables, and provide more flexibility to support turning provincial policy and strategy into action. >


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World, she claims that pain is language destroying, essentially
establishing a barrier between the self and reality that eliminates
meaningful communication with the outside world. Therefore, not only is
it impossible to adequately describe pain, but the possibility of empathy
is all but destroyed. This panel seeks critical and creative
presentations that explore and engage the question: How can a subject
effectively communicate the experience of pain? How can a community
understand or empathize with that subject? Topics may include specific
writers â€" such as Sylvia Plath or Philip K. Dick â€" or a more general
theoretical study.
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See how Stencil fits into the entire Ionic Ecosystem ->
Stencil is part of the Ionic Ecosystem ->
Local Assets
Components usually need assets, such as images, videos or any kind of data files, Stencil includes certain features to make this task easy.
Component's assetsDirs
Lets dive in and look at an example of how to use local assets:
Below is an example of your Component's folder structure containing the component, the stylesheet, and an assets directory.
Below is the stencil-asset.tsx file which will correctly load the assets based on a property called src.
import { Component, Prop, getAssetPath, h } from '_USER_/core';
 tag:'stencil-asset',
 styleUrl:'stencil-asset.css',
 assetsDirs: ['assets']
export class StencilAsset {
 _USER_() image = "sunset.jpg";
 render() {
 return
As you can see from this example, the component decorator has the assetsDirs property, which points to the./assets folder, this instructs the Stencil compiler to copy that folder into the distribution folder (dist or www).
Then, within the component's logic, the getAssetPath function (imported from _USER_/core) is used to determine the absolute path from where the assets should be loaded from.
Use Cases
Some use cases we have come up with are:
 - Loading from a collection of SVGs
 - Loading and applying fonts on demand
 - Loading images or videos


Recently, I was approached by a member of our Board of Trustees about putting together a primer on institutional advancement. As I thought about the idea, I came to see it as a golden opportunity to educate and inform our Board about what institutional advancement does and why it is important.
Many people think of advancement exclusively in terms of fundraising, and of fundraising only in terms of asking for money. Advancement professionals know that's not the case, but we ought not assume such knowledge among Board members. Each member of the Board brings his or her own unique skills and abilities to the table, but that does not necessarily mean they have an understanding of the aims and functions of advancement, or the various constituencies it serves.
A brief, well-written primer on advancement can benefit Board members in four important ways…
 1. It can inform their understanding of the integrated approach to alumni relations and development.
 2. It can dispel certain myths about fundraising.
 3. It can provide concrete suggestions for how they can get involved with advancement.
 4. It can show them how to become advocates for advancement itself, and why that is important.
The Integrated Approach
In 1792, Yale became the first institution to start formally organizing alumni gatherings. By 1823, Brown University began the first annual development effort with its "Alumni Fund." From the beginning, alumni relations and development led largely separate lives, and often operated in separate buildings on campus. Over time, however, professionals in these fields began to see how the work of each influenced the other. While there are some institutions that still maintain a separation of the two, the modern trend has been towards an integrated model. The goal of a primer should be to show how interdependent alumni relations and development personnel are, and that the success of each requires a carefully coordinated effort.
Dispel Fundraising Myths
One common misunderstanding people have about fundraising is that it is all about asking for money. Advancement professionals have an obligation to explain to their Boards that making "the ask," while important, is only one step in a cyclical process that also involves a number of other critically important steps. It is not necessary to go into lengthy detail a primer. Rather, it is sufficient to simply convey the following…
Fundraising is a continuous and cyclical process
that values the relationship with the donor
more than the size and frequency of gifts.
How one communicates that message can vary, but it needs to be the key takeaway for Board members. The mechanics of fundraising can always be discussed later if needed.
Encourage Involvement
Another important message to communicate is the need for Board members to get involved in the advancement effort in some way. Not everyone is comfortable asking for money, so it is important to suggest other ways one might lend a hand. This might include hosting an alumni event, spreading the word about the organization to as many people as possible, or connecting the institution with potential donors or volunteers with valuable expertise. The goal of a primer should be to list the myriad ways a Board member can be involved with advancement, with or without asking for money.
Advocate for Advancement
One often-overlooked way that Board members can help with advancement is by being advocates for advancement itself. The functions of advancement require adequate staffing and resources in order to be effective. In their oversight capacity, Board members can help ensure advancement's effectiveness by making sure the alumni relations and development operations have all the personnel and resources they need to deliver on desired outcomes.
Question: What are some things you wish your Board knew about advancement, and how would you best communicate them?
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I help nonprofits accomplish their missions and achieve their visions for a better world through donor-centered fundraising and comprehensive development work.
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The origin of the word Blackmail as defined by webster 1913 is from the term mal. This is an Old English word borrowed from the Old Norwegian language. It was carried across to Britain by the Vikings and it originally meant'speech'. The vikings weren't well known for their speeches and since generally the only time they engaged in such activities was to demand something at axeblade the understanding became distorted to mean 'tax' or 'payment in tribute'. The Vikings split in two directions: one branch headed south to Italy and formed the Mafia and the other stopped in Scotland. Here they started their own protection racket on the Scottish border. By this time mal had become spelt'mail'. So if one cherished the value of one's crops, the life of your family or even your daughters virginity, then you paid mail to the neighbourhood chieftains; and the victims, in due course, came to call it black mail.
Blackmail, a certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or the like, anciently paid, in the N. of England and in Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, to be protected by them from pillage. It was carried to such an extent as to become the subject of legislation. Blackmail was levied in the districts bordering the Highlands of Scotland until the middle of the 18th century. In the United States, the word is applied to money extorted from person under threat of exposure for an alleged offense; hush-money.
Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.
Black"mail' (?), n. [Black + mail a piece of money.]
Sir W. Scott.
3. Eng.Law
To levy blackmail, to extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation.
© Webster 1913.
Black"mail', v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackmailed (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Blackmailing.]
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Interactive timeline of Anglo-Dutch exchanges (50BC-1830)
This interactive multimedial timeline on Anglo-Dutch relations from antiquity to 1830, uses MIT's Simile technology and is based on the manuscript 'The Stranger's case : a timeline of Cross-Channel Interactions' by Jaap Harskamp, curator of the Dutch and Flemish collections at the British Library, in which he has compiled and annotated a comprehensive list of over 800 events relating to Anglo-Dutch relations throughout the centuries. It is part of the Open Learning Environment in early modern Low Countries history (_URL_
|Added On:||22 Jul 2010 05:35|
|Creators:||Jaap Harskamp & UCL Dutch|
|Tags:||ukoer;, virtualdutch;, dutch;, low, countries;, anglo dutch, relations;, netherlands;, belgium;, luxemburg;, holland;, flanders;, brabant;, history|


Where Did the Expression "for the Love of Pete" Come From and What Does It Mean?
This phrase and others like it, for example "For Pete's sake", are euphemisms for the phrases "For the love of God/Christ" or "For God's/ Christ's sake" and hail from a time when those phases were considered blasphemous.
Nowadays phrases like "For the love of God" are commonly used, but the euphemisms are still used as well.
Other phrases with similar origins are "Zounds", archaic British slang, a contraction of "Christ's wounds"; "Oh my goodness" and "Oh my gosh" for "Oh my God; and "Gosh darn it" for "God damn it."


What Is The Person Giving An Offer Called?
What is a better word for has?
What is another word for has?ownspossessesboastshas in keepingholdsmaintainscarriescontrolsenjoyshas possession of3 more rows.
What's another word for best?
What is another word for best?finestleadingprincipalsuperiorunparalleledunprecedentedunrivaledUSunsurpassedchiefmatchless218 more rows
What is an example of an offer?
Offer is to put forth or suggest for consideration, acceptance or rejection. An example of offer is to make a bid on a house. … An example of offer is the act of putting in a bid on a house. An example of offer is the suggested sum of $30 per hour for tutoring.
Whats is an offer?
What other name can an offer be called?
What is another word for offer?proposalpropositiontenderbidinvitationrecommendationrequestplanapplicationidea51 more rows
Can buyers offeror?
In the context of the purchase of goods, the buyer will generally be the offeror. For example, if a merchant has a store filled with goods and a person picks up goods from the store and presents it to a cashier, the buyer is making an offer on the terms of the invitation to treat (advertised price).
What is the opposite of awful?
What's your offer meaning?
""What's your offer" woukd be the seller's first inquiry in a bartering transaction. Neither side (usually) is willing to be the first to state a price, since the seller would probably aim high and the buyer would aim low.
What does it mean when someone offers something to you?
To suggest or propose doing something on behalf of someone or for someone's benefit. Jim offered to cook dinner because I wasn't feeling very well. She offered to speak to the boss to clear the issue up. 2. To suggest or propose giving to someone as a gift, favor, payment, compensation, etc.
What is a cross offer?
A cross offer is made when both the parties make identical offers to each other without knowing that the other has made a similar offer. It lacks acceptance and communication. Thus, it does not form a valid contract.
Can an offeror revoke an offer?
An offeror may revoke an offer before it has been accepted, but the revocation must be communicated to the offeree, although not necessarily by the offeror. … However, an offer may not be revoked if it has been encapsulated in an option.
What is a special offer?
special offer | Business English goods that are sold at a lower price than usual: … a product or service that is offered free or at a very low price to encourage people to buy or use another product or service: The special offer includes an extra night's stay at the hotel for corporate customers.
Who is an offeror?
The offeror is the party who makes the offer. The offeree is the person who either accepts or does not accept the offer. … Once this offer is made to the offeree, something called power of acceptance comes into play. Power of acceptance means that the offer is now being controlled by the offeree.
Is it an offer or a offer?
An offer is the amount of money that someone says they will pay to buy something. The company accepted a takeover offer of $29.835 a share. … An offer is the amount of money that someone says they will pay to buy something.
What is a cross offer what is its effect?
Cross-offer is a contract law term that refers to an offer made to another in ignorance that the offeree has made the same offer to the offeror. In a cross offer both parties state to each other the same proposal.
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By Creation Ministries International, CREATION.COM
Researchers led by Gábor Horváth of *Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, examined cave artwork and modern paintings and statues of animals including horses, bulls and elephants. They found the majority of depictions of animals walking or trotting had the legs wrongly positioned. However, cave paintings had the lowest error rate of 46.2%. The highest error rate, 83.5%, was in modern era artworks before the late 19th century. Leonardo da Vinci was famous for his anatomical drawings, but he, too, "got it wrong when he tried to portray animal movement".
The error rate decreased to 57.9% after the 1880s thanks to Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering detailed studies of animal gait. But illustrators of moving animals still could not match cave art for accuracy.
The researchers wrote: "Cavemen were more keenly aware of the slower motion of their prey animals and illustrated quadruped walking more precisely than later artists."?


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another problem for the practice exam. i think this too requires an application of schwarz lemma, but i can't even get started. any help is appreciated! thank you.
Let f: D(0,1)-->C (where D(0,1) is the unit disk and C the complex field) be an analytic function such that |f(z)|<1 for all z in D(0,1).
(a) Next, suppose there exist two distinct points a,b in D(0,1) such that f(a)=a and f(b)=b. Show that f(z)=z for all z in D(0,1).
(b) Finally, suppose there exist a in D(0,1), a not equal to 0, such that f(a)=0=f(-a). Show that
What can we conclude if |f(0)|=|a|^2