What is his purpose and why does Steinbeck put Noah in The Grapes of Wrath?
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Functionally and superficially, Noah has several roles. We can also look at his character thematically.
Functionally, Noah is the eldest son and so should hold a certain position of authority in the family. He does not fulfill the role assigned to this position however as he is tempermentally incapable of doing so. He is just not a leader. In this way, Tom becomes the leader of his generation, having overcome this formal obstacle.
(Formal obstacles and arbitrary hurdles often seem to get between Tom and his goals. Overcoming them is part of his development and part of what makes him the protagonist of the novel.)
Superficially, Noah's presence brings the family number up to twelve (Ma, Pa, Uncle John, Noah, Tom, Rose of Sharon, Connie, Al, Winfield, Ruthie, Granpa, Granma). This has a Biblical resonance when considered alongside the presence of the preacher, Casy.
Thematically, Noah is an example of how the family breaks up under stress as well as under more overtly physical demands.
When [Tom] tells her about Noah, Ma feels the "family's fallin' apart."
Death and despair reduce the family to eight by the time the Joads leave their first camp in California. Noah represents some of this despair, saying that he is "sad" and has to stay by the river.
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The Building of Metropolitan residence
Built in the 80s of the 19th century, the current building of the Metropolitan residence is the only and unique construction in the area and beyond.
It was built by local builders with decorations on the facade that are made especially for it. Due to their decorativeness, specificity, they are original creative works and what is the most interesting, although they are reliefs made in plaster, they were made on the principle of woodcarving and woodcut technique. According to that principle, it belongs to the only objects decorated in this way in general. Each floor's facade in the Metropolitan building has friezes with different content and meaning.
Митрополија - Битола
The symbolism of these numerous decorative elements makes this building extremely rich and lavish.
The most dominant are the Christian symbols: vines, flowers and stalks intertwined in the form of crosses, as well as certain letters that are in the form of flowers.
Both in the exterior of the facade and inside the building, a special Macedonian baroque is preserved, worthy of study as a construction and stylistic tradition from which began a specific architecture that can be freely inscribed in the world cultural heritage.
Митрополија - Битола
In fact, it is a proof that the overall architectural, cultural, historical, and creative heritage in Bitola is a kind of cultural and historical world mark that, due to its originality and uniqueness, can earn a worldwide reputation from that period.
Митрополија - Битола
 - How to get there
 The building is located on Vlatko Milenkovski Street near the Old Bazaar and is the seat of the Prespa-Pelagonija Diocese
 - Parking
 - Wheelchair accessibility:
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In this lab you will learn to use spot ID characters and dichotomous keys for identifying specimens in the major orders of insects.
The main objectives of this lab are to help you:
- learn to identify major orders of insects based on key characters
- identify (to order) the adult insects that you will submit with your insect collection.
You will need the following materials for this lab:
- Your collected insects
- How To Know The Insects 3rd edition, by R. G. Bland and H. E. Jaques
- Stereoscopic microscope or hand-held magnifier
- Date/Locality labels
- Labeling pen
- Step Block
- Cork observation block
During this lab session, we will focus on the orders of insects (adult stage) that you are likely to see and collect this semester.
1. Assemble your insect specimens, microscope, cork observation block, and labeling equipment.
Your insects should already be pinned, pointed, or spread according to the protocol you were given in Lab #1 (Meadow Field Trip). Each specimen should have a Date/Locality label showing where, when, and by whom it was collected (see Collection Instructions). Handle your specimens with great care. Once they are dry, they become very brittle. Using the cork observation block to position your specimens for viewing under the microscope helps reduce accidental breakage.
2. Learn Spot ID characters for identifying insects to order.
Spot ID characters are physical traits that help you accurately distinguish one type of insect from another. Using these characters will save time and effort when you identify insects for your collection and will also improve your performance on the lab practicals. It can be risky to base your identifications on general appearance because many insects survive by "mimicking" other species. Using the Spot ID characters will keep you from being fooled, for example, by a fly that looks like a bee or a wasp. Very few people have learned to identify insects, so don't be surprised if you become the local "expert" after taking this course!
Print the list of Spot ID Characters and then view the narrated slide show that illustrates how to recognize each character. The orders in this slide show are the only ones you will be expected to identify on a lab practical.
3. Use a Dichotomous Key for identifying insects to order.
Occasionally you will find an insect that's hard to identify because it doesn't seem to "fit a pattern" or else the spot ID characters are ambiguous. In such a case you will need to "key out" the insect using a stepwise logic tool called a Dichotomous Key. This is a series of paired statements or descriptions that are designed to gradually narrow down the field of possibilities until a conclusion is reached. Each step in the process involves a choice between two (sometimes more) alternatives. If you have never used a dichotomous key, you may wish to learn more about how they work at:
A dichotomous key to the orders of insects begins on page 40 of How to Know the Insects by Bland and Jaques. Practice with this key on a few "easy" specimens until you understand how it works.
Using a dichotomous key can be time-consuming -- that's why it's so important to learn the spot ID characters. You should be able to spot ID most of the insects you collect and just use the dichotomous key when you get stuck.
4. Identify the insects you have collected
Go through all the insects you have collected and sort them into orders based on spot ID characters.
Use the dichotomous key in How to Know the Insects for any specimens you cannot spot ID.
You can also get help with identification by posting a photo or description to the "What's This" discussion board or bringing the specimen to my office. Either way, be sure to note when and where the insect was collected -- that often helps narrow down the possibilities.

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University of Tartu cognitive and law psychology professor Talis Bachmann and doctoral candidate and lector at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences Inga Karton carried out experiments to determine whether it is possible to affect the likelihood of lying by stimulating the human brain.
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (a part of the brain neocortex) regulates short-term memory, plays an important role in directing intellectual processes, and also takes part in morality-related decisions. This region has also been shown to play a significant role in several deceptive activities, including cheating and lying.
The experiment was carried out on 16 volunteers who were shown colourful circles on a computer screen and given the task of reporting the circle's colour. The experiment guidelines gave them a chance to choose freely between telling the truth or lying without any risk.
During the experiment, the subjects' dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was affected by a strong magnetic field using transcranial magnetic stimulation, a technology that makes it possible to channel electricity directly into the brain. The process is painless and subjects only reported a mild tickling sensation.
When the magnetic field was affecting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of the left hemisphere, subjects tended to lie more. Stimulating the same region in the right hemisphere increased the likelihood of telling the truth.
Karton I, & Bachmann T (2011). Effect of prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation on spontaneous truth-telling. Behavioural brain research, 225 (1), 209-14 PMID: 21807030

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How can I use Voice dialing on my Nokia device (Series 40 phones)?
 1. Press and hold the right selection key to activate Voice dialing. For the first time, you will be prompted to train voice recognition.
 2. After the training, press and hold the right selection key, the device will beep and a short tone is played.
 3. Say the voice command clearly. If the voice recognition is successful, a list with matches is shown. The device plays the voice command of the match on the top of the list. After about 1.5 seconds, the device dials the number. You can also quit at any time during the dialing process.


decay of the test state by simply turning off the encoding and decoding sequences in the procedure used to measure the decay of the DFS-encoded state.
We applied decoherence to the test and encoded states during a delay time of ∼25 μs (Fig. 1). The coherence without applied noise is ∼0.69 for the test state and ∼0.43 for the encoded state; they depart from 1 because of imperfect logic gates and detection, due in part to laser intensity fluctuations and heating of the ions (17, 21). For white-noise intensity fluctuations of the Stark-shifting beam, we expect C to decay exponentially for the test state, as shown by the fit line. The small decay rate of the test state between 0 and 2.5-μs noise duration arises because the intensity fluctuations of the noise beam have finite bandwidth (dc to 100 kHz) (6). We therefore extract the decay rate of the test state by excluding the point with zero applied noise from the fit. We also fit the coherence of the DFS state to an exponential decay for comparison. The decay rate of the test state is 0.18 ± 0.01 μs−1, whereas the decay rate of the DFS state is 0.0035 ± 0.0050 μs−1, consistent with zero decay. To investigate the eventual decay of the DFS state, we increased the delay time to ∼200 μs and applied decoherence for up to 100 μs during the delay time. The DFS state coherence dropped by 50% for 100-μs applied noise relative to its value for the same delay time and no applied noise, but we think that this decay was not due to collective dephasing. The decay was Gaussian, rather than exponential, and is consistent with the effect of differential dephasing due to small departures from equal illumination by the Stark-shifting beam. We think that ambient sources of differential dephasing are much weaker than the differential dephasing caused by the Stark-shifting beam.
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Decay of the DFS-encoded state (circles) and the test state (crosses) under engineered dephasing noise. The noise is applied for a fraction of the delay time of ∼25 μs between encoding and decoding. Coherence data are normalized to their values for zero applied noise. The fit lines are exponential decay curves. The test data are predicted to decay exponentially for white noise, so we exclude the point with zero applied noise from the fit. The DFS data are fit for comparison. The decay rate of the test state is 0.18 ± 0.01 μs−1, whereas the decay rate of the DFS state is 0.0035 ± 0.0050 μs−1, consistent with zero decay.
We also measured the storage times of the encoded and test states under ambient conditions in our laboratory (Fig. 2). Here we measure the coherence as a function of the delay time between encoding and decoding to give the ambient noise a variable time to act, rather than leaving a fixed delay time and applying noise for some fraction of the delay time. The coherence data for this case are normalized in the same way as the data with applied noise. The decoherence of the test state is dominated by ambient fluctuating magnetic fields whose frequencies lie primarily at 60 Hz and its harmonics. These fields randomly shift ω0 through the Zeeman effect. Because these fields are roughly uniform across the ion string, they induce collective dephasing similar to that created by the engineered environment. We empirically find the decay of both test and encoded states to be roughly exponential, as indicated by the fit lines. The decay rate of the test state is (7.9 ± 1.5) × 10−3μs−1, whereas the decay rate of the DFS state is (2.2 ± 0.3) × 10−3 μs−1. Although Fig. 1 presents only normalized contrasts, the data show that the unnormalized contrast of the DFS state is higher than that of the test state for delay times exceeding 150 μs. The DFS-encoded state maintains coherence much longer than the test state, so we conclude that collective dephasing from magnetic field noise is the major ambient source of decoherence for the test state (26). The loss of coherence of the encoded state is consistent with degradation of the decoding pulses (19, 22, 27), due to heating of the ion motional state over the delay time (17).
Figure 2
Decay of the DFS-encoded state (circles) and the test state (crosses) under ambient decoherence. We vary the delay time between encoding and decoding to give the ambient noise a variable time to act. Coherence data are normalized to their values for zero applied noise. The fit lines are exponential decay curves for purposes of comparison and are not theoretical predictions. The decay rate of the test state is (7.9 ± 1.5) × 10−3 μs−1, whereas the decay rate of the DFS state is (2.2 ± 0.3) × 10−3 μs−1. Because the coherence time of the DFS-encoded state is much longer than that of the test state, we see that the chief source of ambient decoherence is collective dephasing.
We have demonstrated reversible encoding of a qubit stored in one ion into a DFS of two ions. The DFS-encoded state can store a qubit at least 10 times as long under applied noise as a single ion can, and appears immune to collective dephasing. Under typical ambient conditions, the DFS encoding also improves storage time considerably, showing that collective dephasing is indeed the limit to quantum memory using our physical qubits. Even without normalizing for the overhead incurred in encoding and decoding, the encoded state retains more coherence than the test state for long storage times in ambient conditions. The DFS encoding therefore currently provides an improved single-qubit quantum memory for ion-trap quantum computing applications. The loss of coherence incurred in encoding and decoding is a drawback to our scheme, but in the future, practical quantum computing will in any case require logic gates of a much higher fidelity than those used in this work. We therefore expect that, once the technical problems of ion heating and laser fluctuations are solved, the scheme presented here should be a practical method for long-term storage of qubits with near-perfect fidelity.
Our results suggest applications in quantum communication and large-scale quantum computing. Single photons have already been shown to transmit quantum information over long distances with high fidelity (8, 9), and the information in a single photon can be mapped onto a single atom (28, 29). With our encoding technique, the quantum information received by a single ion can be mapped into a DFS for robust storage. Our encoding technique will also be essential in scaling up ion-trap quantum computers. In one model of large-scale ion-trap quantum computing (19), qubits reside in a large array of interconnected ion traps. To perform oneor two-qubit logic gates, the relevant ions are moved into "accumulator" regions where they interact with lasers that drive the gates. One obstacle to this quantum computing architecture is that the magnetic field strength must be well-characterized across the entire device. Otherwise, the ions will constantly accumulate unknown relative phase during transport, leading to decoherence. Encoding into the DFS solves this problem, because the phase of a logical qubit in the DFS does not depend on the local magnetic field strength as long as the field strength is the same at each physical qubit. Thus, we can entangle two logical qubits, move them far apart, and perform operations on them in separate accumulators without losing phase information.
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Origin of Introductions
Regulatory officials need to know the origin of the ALB infestations to be able to prevent further introductions from the same sources and to understand the spread of existing infestations. Also, there are some biological differences between the populations that may require slightly different eradication methods used so knowing the origin will be critical.
Developing molecular methods to identify the origins of North American infestations of ALB. Several different DNA marker types will be used.
Origins of infestations will be identified.
The mtDNA haplotype of beetles from Carteret, NJ differed from that of New York City/Jersey City beetles by 18 nucleotide sites, from that of Toronto beetles by 17 nucleotide sites, and from the Chicago/New York City mtDNA haplotype by 4 nucleotide sites. Ranking them in terms of genetic distance from the New York City/Jersey City, population, we have the Chicago/New York City mtDNA haplotype most similar (4 different nucleotide sites) followed by the Toronto mtDNA haplotype (7 different nucleotide sites) followed by the Carteret mtDNA haplotype (18 nucleotide sites) as indicated by clade distances. We show that beetles from the Toronto and Carteret populations each have their own unique mtDNA haplotype. This suggests that these invasions were initiated separately from each other and from the primary New York/Jersey City invasion. This data does not support the hypothesis that beetles dispersed from New York City/ Jersey City to Carteret. All of the Jersey City beetles share only one of the two mtDNA haplotypes found in the New York City beetles. This might indicate that one or only a few beetles spread from one of the populations in Queens to found the Jersey City population, and that it was not a separate introduction event. We can say that two distinct haplotypes invaded New York. They must have been introduced from distinct source populations or from one heterogeneous population. Research is ongoing to sample potential source populations across China and Korea.
Maureen E. Carter, E. Richard Hoebeke, Richard G. Harrison, Steven M. Bogdanowicz, Melody Keena and Alan Sawyer. Analysis of mtDNA sequence data for the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis): evidence for multiple invasions in North America Proceedings, 16th U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species 2005 GTR-NE-337 pp 3
- Maureen E. Carter, Cornell University Dissertation Research
- E. Richard Hoebeke, Cornell University
- Richard G. Harrison, Cornell University
- Steven M. Bogdanowicz, Cornell University
- Melody Keena, USDA-Forest ServiceNRS Research Entomologist
- Alan Sawyer, USDAAnimal and Plant Health Inspection ServicePlant Protection and Quarantine Ecologist
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Small space-dwelling lifeforms attaching to a larger one
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Sensor scan of a small space-dwelling lifeform
Native to the Delta Quadrant, this space-dwelling lifeform was a spaceborne species. They propelled themselves through space via flagellation much like protozoa and were capable of approaching speeds up to 3,000 kilometers per second.
Space-dwelling lifeforms traveled in lightly dense swarms consisting of fewer than two thousand organisms. Among them was at least one dominant organism, physiologically similar to the others but much larger. This larger lifeform attracted mates by emitting a stream of plasma, causing the smaller lifeforms to attach themselves to the larger lifeform. In the process, the smaller lifeforms rolled over and changed their color from a dark red to a bright blue to indicate submissiveness.
The larger lifeforms also used their ability to emit plasma as an aggressive tactic, particularly towards a sexual rival.
These lifeforms did not appear to have a digestive system; instead, they had an extremely porous outer covering which they used to absorb particles directly from space. In addition, they were capable of generating their own magnetic wake.
USS Voyager encountered a swarm of space-dwelling lifeforms in 2371. While observing the creatures, the starship was pulled into the swarm by its magnetic wake. Aboard Voyager, the electrophoretic levels created by the swarm caused Kes' metabolic activity to increase. As a result, the young Ocampa entered a premature elogium.
During Voyager's attempts to escape the swarm, the smaller lifeforms became sexually attracted to the starship's nacelle emissions and began attaching themselves to its hull. This was due to the fact that the vessel's subspace signature matched the plasma stream emitted by the larger, dominant lifeforms. Sensing a rivalry, one of the dominant lifeforms attacked Voyager. Determining the creatures' behaviors, the Voyager crew had the ship roll over and vent plasma residue to make the ship appear blue, signaling its submissiveness to the dominant creature. Voyager was then able to leave the swarm and continue on its journey towards the Alpha Quadrant. (VOY: "Elogium")
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Installing example files in the Data Integration demo project - 7.2
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After importing the Data Integration demo project and opening it for the first time, you are required to install the example files that are used in the example Jobs.
 1. Expand the Contexts node in the Repository tree view, and open the context group globalContext.
 2. If needed, change the value of the root variable to define the directory where the example files will be generated, C:\TalendDemoFiles\ being the default value.
 3. Change the value of the workspace variable according to the path of the local workspace of your actual Studio installation.
 4. Click Finish, and then click Yes to propagate the modifications.
 5. In the Update Detection dialog box, click OK to update the selected items.
 6. Open the beforeRunJobs Job, and press F6 to execute the Job.
All the example files are generated in directory you specified with the root variable.


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I have an umlaut as part of my family name. It sucks that in most official documents they never include it.
In Spanish, the combination of 'g'
is special. For other vowels, there are two sounds, 'j'
For example, 'ja'
would sound something like 'ha'
(harsh sound) while 'ga'
sounds like 'gah'
(soft sound). Same with 'o'
But for 'e'
the sound is always harsh 'ge' == 'je'
which sound like 'heh'
and 'gi' == 'ji'
which sound like 'hee'
To get the softer sound, you need to put an 'u'
in between: 'gue'
, resulting in 'geh'
(more or less).
The umlaut is used when the 'u'
should be pronounced normally in those instances, so 'güe'
sounds something like 'gooeh'
sounds something like 'gooee'
Several languages use diaeresis over the letter U to show that the letter is pronounced in its regular way, without dropping out, building diphthongs with neighbours etc.
In Spanish it is used to distinguish between "gue"/"güe" and "gui"/"güi": antigüedad (antiquity), pingüino (penguin). This is also the case for the Nicaraguan demonym, Nicaragüense. Similarly in Catalan language,
"gue~güe" are [ɡe]~[ɡwe],
"gui~güi" are [ɡi]~[ɡwi],
as in aigües, pingüins, qüestió, adeqüi. Also ü is used to mark that vowel pairs that normally would form a diphthong must be pronounced as separate syllables, examples: Raül, diürn.
So yeah it is a little complicated.
Back on topic, I guess the umlauts are used for visual effect; Adding uncommon symbols makes the text stand out from other game titles.


Many of the boar that are killed land on the plates of diners across Germany, but it is forbidden to sell meat containing high levels of radioactive caesium-137 — any animals showing contamination levels higher than 600 becquerel per kilogram must be disposed of. But in some areas of Germany, particularly in the south, wild boar routinely show much higher levels of contamination. According to the Environment Ministry, the average contamination for boar shot in Bayerischer Wald, a forested region on the Bavarian border with the Czech Republic, was 7,000 becquerel per kilogram. Other regions in southern Germany aren't much better.
Hunting officials have been experimenting with Giese salt (a cesium-binding chemical mixture that's been used to facilitate the excretion of radiation in farm animals), but the radioactive boars aren't going away anytime soon. According to Joachim Reddemann of the Bavarian Hunting Federation, "The problem has been at a high level for a long time [...] It will likely remain that way for at least the next 50 years."
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Of course, the debate is not new. But have the two sides of the argument really heard each other?
Many see Piet as a harmless tradition, associated with fond memories of childhood and family. Yet an increasing number of people throughout the Netherlands question Piet's history as tied to historical forms of entertainment that mocked the appearance and character of black people. So where exactly does the tradition come from? And what, if anything, does it have to do with practices of blackface and minstrelsy in other parts of the world? And why should any of it matter to a traditional Dutch person seeking to celebrate Sinterklaas as it has been done for more than 100 years?
John Helsloot (folklore historian from the Meertens Institute) will provide the historical background of Zwarte Piet's origins as Sinterklaas' servant and his rise to popularity. Then both sides of the pro vs. anti-Piet discussion will be represented in a moderated discussion, followed by audience comments.
Date:Tuesday November 29th, 8 pm
Location: CREA Muziekzaal
Admission: students free, others € 5,-


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Using Hotstrings in AutoHotKey to Perform Group Emails
Lots of people use online email like Gmail nowadays, but one functionality these types of email hosts lack is the ability to refer to a group of contacts and have every email in that group receive the mail.
If you want to send the same email to twenty people or 100, you need to write their addresses (or copy them and paste them) each time.
You can automate this using AutoHotkey, the scripting language described in this recent DevX article, by using the HotStrings functionality of the language.
First, download AutoHotKey, install it, and write a script called emailgroups.ahk in NotePad or another text editor.
In the script, write your groups like this:
::emailgroup1:: _EMAIL_, _EMAIL_, _EMAIL_,
And so forth. Use whatever separator your online email service uses to separate addresses from each other. For example, Gmail uses a comma, as in the example above, but others might use a semicolon.
Likewise, you would email multiple groups by defining more hotstrings:
::emailgroup1:: the string of email addresses you want to replace your hotstring with
::emailgroup2:: the string of email addresses that belong to this group.
To use this, place your cursor in the To: field of your online email form and then write the name of the group of email addresses you want placed in the field. AutoHotKey will write the addresses for you.
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Two-thirds of beneficiaries of the Group's Solidarity Sourcing programme are women. A total of 48,061 beneficiaries come from 66 projects specifically related to the emancipation of women in 30 countries, with the support of 17 associations and NGO partners. These Solidarity Sourcing projects support the following women:
- producers of raw materials such as shea, argan or galanga grown and harvested in accordance with fair trade principles;
- hailing from various vulnerable local communities, or who have assumed positions usually reserved for men;
- beneficiaries through support for Women-Owned Businesses (suppliers owned, controlled and led by 51% or more women);
In 2021, the Group continued to accelerate its strategy to support female entrepreneurship, reconfirming its involvement in WEConnect International and multiplying by 3.8 the number of suppliers led by women supported in 16 countries.


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KJM5911 Lab Exercise 3 - Gamma Spectroscopy
After completing this exercise you should:
- Understand the processes by which gamma radiation is absorbed in the detector.
- Understand how the detector (and it's electronics) transform the absorbed energy from the gamma rays into electrical pulses which is continuously sorted according to pulse height and presented as a histogram (number of events vs. energy) - a "spectrum".
- Know the basic parameters of a spectroscopy system (spectrum, real time, life time, dead time, channels, etc.).
- Know the relationship between channel number and energy, how to derive this relationship ("energy calibration") and be able to evaluate it's uncertainty.
- Recognise the different parts of a gamma-ray spectrum.
- Know how "peaks" in the spectrum are analysed and understand the results (you should understand terms like: ROI, gross count, net count, peak fitting, FWHM, etc.). You should understand how the software calculate and subtract the background under the peaks.
- Know the relationship between number of counts and gamma-rays emitted by the source (and the disintegration rate). I.e. how to perform an efficiency calibration.
- Introduction to Gamma Radiation
- Gamma Spectroscopy and Detectors
- The Theory behind Calibration of a Gamma Detector


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What is the Probability of Profit (POP)?
It is the chance of making at least $0.01 on a trade
The Probability of Profit, or more commonly referred to as POP, is the theoretical probability of your equity/etf position(s) making at least $0.01 on a trade. POP uses a set of variables such as position type, whether you are long or short, time, and volatility (for the distribution curve).
What is the Equity Probability of Profit (ePoP)?
It is the chance that your portfolio's equity/ETF positions make at least $0.01.
The Equity Probability of Profit (ePoP) is the theoretical probability of profit of your portfolio's equity/ETF positions (stock & options) making at least $0.01. ePoP does not apply to futures or futures options positions.
Where can I view POP or ePoP?
Profit Probability displays two different ways–a per position level or portfolio level
POP displays during order entry in the trade details area. Additionally, after you open the position, you may view PoP in the Positions tab by adding the POP column.
You can view your Equity PoP, or ePoP, by adding the column to your Account Header Details on the desktop platform. Additionally, ePoP displays to the left of the Account drop-down menu at the top of the web-browser platform.
How do you calculate POP & ePoP?
The POP algorithm has two different modes behind the calculation
Currently, PoP graph view is only available on the web-browser platform. We plan on extending this feature to the desktop platform with future updates. That said, both calculation methods use the portfolio's beta-weighted symbol. By default, the platform beta-weights to SPY. To learn how to change your portfolio's beta-weighted symbol, please click here.
Single Underlying (POP)
When viewing the POP of a single underlying, POP bases it on a simple P/L graph of the underlying. The example below illustrates a single iron condor. Furthermore, a distribution curve based on the portfolio's beta weight is applied (default is SPY). That means if you have a position with a 7-days-to-expiration (DTE) option and a 21 DTE option, then the POP calculation will use the 21 DTE distribution curve (or the volatility index) of the portfolio's beta-weighted symbol. As a result, the total area under the distribution curve when profit goes to 0 equals 1 (shaded yellow) The beta-weighted area in the distribution curve where the position generates a profit (shaded green) is subtracted from 1, thus producing the POP.
Multiple Underlyings (ePoP)
When viewing portfolio ePoP of a portfolio, a single P/L graph of the portfolio generates based on the portfolio's beta-weighted symbol (default is SPY). Similar to the way a single underlying P/L graph generates, the total area under the distribution curve (or volatility index) when profit goes to 0 equals 1 (shaded yellow). The beta-weighted area in the distribution curve where the portfolio generates a profit (shaded green) is subtracted from 1, thus producing the ePoP.


IAF inducts second SU-30 squadron in northeast
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
CHABUA - The Indian Air Force Tuesday inducted a second squadron of its frontline Sukhoi-SU30 combat jets in the northeast as part of a strategic deployment of advanced assets close to the Chinese border, an officer said.
A single Su-30 has presently been stationed at the Chabua air base, about 450 km east of Assams main city of Guwahati, with the strength of the squadron gradually being raised to 18 aircraft.
The idea is to ensure that the skies and the borders in the east are well protected and secured. The Sukhois can be used for both offensive as well as defensive purposes, Air Marshal K.K. Nohwar, air officer commanding-in-chief of the Eastern Air Command, told reporters after the formal induction ceremony.
As part of the formal induction, the fighter jet staged an impressive flypast.
The IAF had inducted its first SU-30 squadron at Tezpur in northern Assam in June 2009.
The decision to deploy the Su-30s, the most potent fighter in the IAF inventory, follows repeated instances of Chinese incursions in Arunachal Pradesh in the last few years.
The Tezpur and the Chabua air bases are within striking distance of the India-China border along the mountainous state of Arunachal Pradesh.
According to the defence ministry, there have been about 350 violations by Chinese soldiers in the western, middle and eastern sectors of the border since 2008.
Beijing had in 2003 given up its territorial claim over the Indian state of Sikkim but still maintains that vast stretches of Arunachal Pradesh belong to China.
Arunachal Pradesh shares a 1,030-km unfenced border with China. This frontier is defined by the McMahon Line, a notional boundary that is now known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC). China has never recognised the McMahon Line, and claims 90,000 sq km or almost all of Arunachal Pradesh. India also accuses China of occupying 8,000 sq km in Kashmir.
India and China fought a bitter border war in 1962, with Chinese troops advancing deep into what was then called the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) and inflicting heavy casualties on Indian troops.
Capable of carrying nuclear weapons and tailor-made for Indian specifications, the Russian designed Su-30 is being manufactured under license by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The aircraft was inducted into the IAF in 1997.
"Forty-four Sukhois are being inducted into the IAF, taking the number of the jets to 270," Nohwar said.
The IAF currently operates six squadrons of the Su-30s, with three stationed at Lohegaon in Pune, two at Bareilly, and one Tezpur. Chabua is the seventh squadron. Each squadron generally comprises 18-20 aircraft.
The Chabua air base was built in 1939 and during World War II was a major supply point for ferrying supplies to allied forces in and around Kunming in China to fight the Japanese. This was known as "Flying the Hump".
The Tezpur airfield was constructed in 1942, during the Second World War. It lies between Bhutan, Tibet, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Ever since its inception, it has been one of the most active bases in the northeast from where a variety of fixed and rotary wing aircraft have been operating.
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why are the product-rules as they are?greenspun.com : LUSENET : quaternions : One Thread
A short historical intro: When Hamilton was thinking about the 3D-complex number x+iy+jz he (1)assumed jj=-1 and (2)added a fourth complex number k so ij=k (et voila, quaternions).
I was wondering why he made these choices (1) and (2). Because when you write down the productmatrix for x+iy+jz it looks very logical to choose the following products: ii=j, jj=-i and ij=ji=-1. Was this ever an option, does it not make any sence, or what?
PS: You can make the mandelbrot fractal in 3D with these rules (as I have done using Mathematica, notebook available).
-- Jan Harm Moes (_EMAIL_), January 20, 2005
Hamilton was trying to accomplish two objectives. The first was to parallel normal complex number arithmetic where:
C= a + ib C*= a - ib
(C)(C*)= a^2 + b^2
as you can see if you do the multiplication. If you create a hyper-complex number, and want the same result, you won't get it:
H= a + ib + jc H*= a - ib - jc (H)(H*)= a^2 + b^2 + c^2 - 2ijbc
That extra term, 2ijbc is the killer. You want to get rid of that, and the only way to do so is to stipulate that: ij= -ji. Your alternative, even though it is logical, doesn't do this, since if: ij= ji= -1, then: (H)(H*)= a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + 2bc.
Secondly, Hamilton wanted a complex number arithmetic analog of 3-D vector arithmetic. Hamilton's rules:
i^2= j^2= k^2= ijk= -1
accomplish this. If you do the multiplication on a hyper-complex where these rules apply:
H= a + ib + jc + kd H*= a - ib - jc - kd
(H)(H*)= a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + d^2
where the other terms containing complex components cancel out since they occur in anti-commutative pairs. If you do the actual arithmetic, you will see that you get these rules:
ij= k ji= -k jk= i kj= -i ki= j ik= -j
These parallel the cross products of the unit vectors in the Cartesian system:
u(y) X u(z)= u(x) u(z) X u(y)= -u(x) u(z) X u(x)= u(y) u(x) X u(z)= -u(y) u(x) X u(y)= u(z) u(y) X u(x)= -u(z)
What you proposed does not: ii= j doesn't compare to u(x) X u(x)= 0. This also can't be a dot-product, since dotting vectors gives a scalar, not another vector. While your rules are logical, and may have applications; paralleling vector arithmetic isn't one of them.
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workouts may trump land-based exercise for people with chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD), says an article by Reuters Health based on a study published in European Respiratory Journal.
their investigation, Australian researchers randomly assigned 53 participants
to workouts in a hydrotherapy pool, gym-based training, or standard medical
care without exercise. The exercise programs include 3 weekly 1-hour sessions
over 2 months. Forty-five patients completed the study.
they worked out on land or in water, patients were able walk faster after the
training than when they just got usual care. But patients who exercised in the
pool reported less fatigue and developed more physical endurance than those who
trained in the gym.
endurance shuttle walk test, patients who'd exercised in water outpaced the gym
trainers by 228 meters (748 feet).
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functional aspects of their daily life such as improved stamina and ability to
complete tasks such as walking long distances when shopping," said lead
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Apple releases iOS update to patch Spectre chip flaw
The latest version of the iPhone operating system addresses a major flaw in the processor that could leak sensitive information.
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Apple on Monday released an update to iOS, the software that runs iPhones and iPads, that fixes a major problem that haunted the processors in those devices.
The flaw, dubbed Spectre by the researchers who found it, made the silicon chips vulnerable to a hacking attack that could reveal secret information your devices normally keep locked down.
The update comes less than a week after news broke that chips made by Intel, ARM and AMD contained the flaw. Researchers also found that most Intel chips have a second variation of the vulnerability, called Meltdown. The revelation of the flaws has been followed by a flurry of announcements by chip-makers, computer manufacturers and cloud service providers reassuring customers that they are finding ways to prevent hackers from using them.
Both flaws let attackers take advantage of a design flaw that temporarily makes sensitive information like passwords and encryption keys more easy to steal. For the attack to work, hackers need to install malicious software onto your device before taking advantage of the flaws.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said going forward, the company will make chips that don't have the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. For the hundreds of millions of devices in the world that contain the flawed chips, software updates like the one released by Apple will be the next best thing.


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3. Accurate performance and reporting of select laboratory tests.
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Echoing server information such as user IP, current date etc using SSI
Another common and practical usage of SSI is to display basic information about your server or your visitors, such as the last modified date of the webpage, current server time, visitor IP address etc. These are all tasks that client side languages such as JavaScript cannot accomplish, but can be done using the _TAG_ command of SSI.. Here's a quick overview of some of variables you can use with SSI's _TAG_ to display useful information:
DATE_GMT The current server date, in Greenwich mean time. Format using _TAG_.
DATE_LOCAL The current server date. Format using _TAG_.
DOCUMENT_NAME The file name of the current document.
DOCUMENT_URI The virtual path of the current document.
LAST_MODIFIED The last modified date of the document. Format using _TAG_.
HTTP_REFERER URL of the document the client derived from to get to current document.
REMOTE_ADDR IP address of the visitor.
_TAG_ Command to display last modified date/time of a document or file on the server. Format using _TAG_.
_TAG_ Command to display file size of a document or file. Format using _TAG_.
To echo something using SSI, the syntax is:
Lets see how to use these variables exactly.
Echo current server date and time
To display the current server date and time, use either the "DATE_GMT" or "DATE_LOCAL" variable. In its simplest form:
Output: Saturday, 28-Nov-2015 18:35:38 MST
Not bad eh for one simple line of code.
Echo last modified date of current document or file
It's very useful at times to show the last modified date of a web page:
This document last modified:
Output: This document last modified: Tuesday, 12-May-2015 10:07:21 MDT
Echo last modified date of any document or file
You can also display the last modified date of any document or file on your server besides the present, by using another command called _TAG_ instead of _TAG_:
greenday.mp3 last modified:
Index page last modified:
Sample output: greenday.mp3 last modified Thursday, 06-Jan-2005 05:35:27 EST.
Echoing visitor IP address
This is also a commonly requested question and answerhow to display the user's IP address:
Your IP:
Output: Your IP:
Displaying file size of a document
Finally, you can display the file size of any document on your server using _TAG_, by using a different command called _TAG_.
This document's file size:
The file size of main index page:
Sample output: This document's file size: 8.4K
Interesting Uses of SSI
The interesting thing to note about using the output commands of SSI is that they can be embedded anywhere inside your HTML source, even in unexpected places to do interesting things. For example, you can use SSI echo to populate a JavaScript variable with the visitor's IP address, then continue to use JavaScript to react accordingly:


Different Images of Knowledge and Perspectives of Pedagogy in Confucius and Socrates
Zhong Jianwei
Confucius and Socrates, two cultural icons of the East and West, both declared they did "not know," which, however, held different concepts for them. First, I will critically examine their dialogue teaching practices to analyze the implications of "knowing" and "not knowing." Second, I will explore the different images of knowledge and visions of pedagogy each held.
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Prytanée National Militaire
The Prytanée National Militaire is a French school managed by the military, offering regular high-school education as well as special preparatory school classes, equivalent in level to the first years of university, for students who wish to enter French military academies. The school is located in western France in the city of La Flèche.
René Descartes was one of the first and most illustrious students of the school from 1607 to 1615, and introduced the school in his Discourse on Method under the phrase "I was in one of the most famous schools of Europe".
In 1808, Napoléon renamed the school "Prytanée Militaire", in a classic reference to the Greek prytaneis (literally "Presidents"), an executive body acting as the religious and political heart of ancient Greek cities.
Today the Prytanée starts from the high school level, and has "Classes préparatoires ", that is, preparatory classes to the entrance examinations of the French elite Grandes Écoles, such as École polytechnique, the Navy École Navale, the Army École de Saint-Cyr, the École de l'Air and various civilian engineering or commercial graduate schools.
Besides René Descartes, the Prytanée has trained various military and non-military celebrities, including Claude Chappe, inventor of the optical telegraph, Marshalls of France such as Bertrand and Gallieni or Pélissier, actors such as Jean-Claude Brialy, and recently spationautes such as Patrick Baudry and Jean-Francois Clervoy.
The school's students are nicknamed "Brutions", as a classic reference to the inhabitants of the Bruttium region of Roman Italy, who had a reputation for their roughness and fighting spirit.
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Quest for Team Excellence
Through challenging activities participants use team skills to achieve goals. The result - participants have identified skills necessary for enhancing their actual team performance. Past attendees have uniformly agreed that the Quest for Team Excellence seminar has made a dramatic difference in their workplace. They have turned discovered knowledge into applicable team skills.
For example, participants have noted:
Quest for Team Excellence is a one or two-day seminar designed to allow individuals the opportunity to learn how to actively build working relationships, effectively manage conflict and use personal leadership to support and assist others in a mutual effort to achieve the organization's mission. Teamwork is the ability to work together to accomplish a common goal. Each team is unique. Quest for Team Excellence assists in identifying this uniqueness and how it may be used to breakthrough to excellence. The result – guaranteed enhanced performance.
Awareness - Through experiential learning activities, participants will discover knowledge that can be turned into skills immediately
Feedback - Feedback from seminar participants and the facilitator will identify priorities for improvement
Practice - Using feedback and models to verify the benefits of applied skills
Planning - Fifteen percent of Quest for Team Excellence is devoted to developing action plans


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- Support the lower end of the Recorder with your right hand.
- Place the thumb on your left and cover the hole on the back of the Recorder.
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There will be a lot of singing at WEPA, which is the best way to begin exploring music. The children will have the exciting opportunity to perform to friends and parents for the various concerts and events this year.
- Sit up straight
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Birrong, is located 22 kilometres from Sydney central business district.
The Aboriginal word Birrong meaning star, was adopted as the suburb's name around 1927.
Birrong Girls High School is a public girls high school that was established as a girls' comprehensive high school in 1957. There are 820 students (2006 estimate) from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds enrolled in the school. 84% of students are from non-English speaking background (NESB) which represents 46 language groups.
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This page was originally created by Whizzball1 - [1].
Mystcraft is a mod that provides you with the ability to create new dimensions to play in, known as Ages. At first the Ages you visit will be random, but as you continue you'll gain the ability to shape these new worlds to your desires.
Ages can vary wildly in appearance. They can be similar or near-identical to the Overworld, or somewhat similar to the Nether, or sky islands similar in style to the End; or they can be completely alien, with strange crystals or tendrils, brightly coloured skies and too many suns.
Safely using Mystcraft requires knowing how to make Linking Books and Descriptive Books, as well as what to keep in your hotbar. It is possible to get stuck in an age, and be unable to return to the Overworld, or any other dimension, without cheating. This is both known, and intentional; this mimics the source material the mod is based on.
Setting Up
In order to start creating new ages you will need:
 - A steady supply of sugarcane for paper
 - A large supply of cows or leather for books
 - A nearby water source capable of spawning squids for ink sacs
 - A couple of glass bottles for Ink Vials
Main article: Linking Book
Linking Books allow you to teleport from anywhere in any dimension to the location where that Linking Book was linked. This is the first type of Mystcraft book that you will want to create. The other type are Descriptive Books, sometimes called Age books, which allow you to create and travel to a new Age. Linking Books are how you get back out of an Age, and are often the only way to return: If you die in an Age, you will respawn in that Age.
To make a Linking Book, you need an Ink Mixer, in which you can use Paper and Ink Vials to create Link Panels. Combine a Link Panel with a piece of Leather to make an Unlinked Link Book. Take it to the location you wish to link to, and face in the direction you want to come out facing in, then right click with the book to create the link.
Warning to server operators: Linking books permit extremely cheap and almost unrestricted teleportation between any place your players have been to. If you want to restrict the free teleportation, look into Linking Tweaks.
Bookstands and Lecterns
Bookstands and Lecterns serve to hold books in safety. Both are identical in function, differing only in their aesthetic appearance.
When you travel through a book, the book you use will stay behind. If you use a book from your inventory, you will drop it as you teleport. Dropped books appear as an entity, not as an item, and can take damage; a book that gets wet, including on the ground when it rains, will take damage, and will eventually be destroyed. A book that is placed in a Lectern or Bookstand will never take damage.
New Ages
Main article: Age Creation
Once you have Linking Books which link back to your home, you can begin to consider going to new Ages. A random Age can be made by putting a linking panel and leather into a Book Binder. Additional pages can be added if you want to influence the resultant world, but are not needed.
For safety, you want to bring at least the following items with you to the new Age:
 1. Three return linking books home. Two in the hotbar, one in inventory.
 2. Two bookstands or lecterns, in hotbar.
 3. A chest, in hotbar.
 4. Some light sources (such as torches, glowstone, etc.), in hotbar.
 5. Recommended: A Potion of Night Vision. Your new age may be a Cave World, which have a similar terrain generation to the Nether, but lacking the natural background lighting and glowstone.
 6. Recommended: Backup weapons, tools and armor. If you die, these might come in handy.
On arrival, plan to do the following:
 1. Immediately place one bookstand/lectern, and place one of the books from your hotbar into it. This is your primary way home. Place down some lighting around it.
 2. Look around. Assess the immediate area, and see what's in the distance. If the world appears to be highly unstable, you can use the book you just placed down to escape.
 3. If you plan to stay for any length of time, then move a short distance away, place down the chest, and into it put the spare linkbook and spare bookstand/lectern from your inventory.
 4. If you brought any backup weapons/tools/armor, leave those in the chest as well. If you die, you'll respawn where you entered, close to this chest.
 5. The third linking book remains in your hotbar at all times. This is your emergency exit, so keep it available!
If you die in this new Age, you will respawn in the Age at the location where you first entered. Upon respawning, the very first thing you should do before anything else is retrieve the backup book from the chest, and place it on your hotbar. Don't forget to replace the book in the chest once you're able to! Alternatively, you may wish to immediately leave the Age using the primary book on the stand/lectern, and retrieve tools/weapons/armor and a new linking book from your home base before returning.
Never remove the last return home linkbook from your hotbar. Keep it available at all times. Regard this as the number one rule of Mystcraft in all cases.
Further reading
There are several topics you can look at to do more with this mod.
The Writing Desk will let you make copies of symbols, and is useful as a place for storing and organising notebooks.
You can use a Notebook to store pages; these can be placed in the writing desk, or used to transfer pages to and from the book binder. (In later versions, the Notebook has been replaced with the very similar Collation Folder and the Symbol Portfolio.)
Archivist villagers can be found in approximately half of the villages generated, and will trade you symbol pages.
Libraries are found in every Mystcraft age. These always have some wood, and stone, as well as lecterns. You will often find Pages in Libraries; this is the main way in which you'll locate new symbols. The wood and stone will always give you access to basic tools, even if the world you are in has no trees or stone ground to work with. Furthermore, if you destroy the book cases there will be a chest in one of the corners; this chest contains pages and sometimes a notebook. Note that in some cases, you might not be able to reach the Libraries.
Crystal blocks can be found in some ages. These glowstone-like blocks can be used to make portals, that a linking book can be placed into. Such a portal can be almost any size (limited by loaded chunks), and will permit arbitrary entities to pass though -- including minecarts (chest, hopper, etc). Some mods, such as RotaryCraft, permit interactions across these portals.
Getting Home Without Linking Books
If you get into trouble, this is what you want to know.
Without Cheats
Every Age has a roughly one in ten chance of containing a Star Fissure, which appears as an irregular-shaped hole located close to the Age's spawn point which passes all the way down through the bedrock into the void. Jumping into a Star Fissure will return you to the Overworld, near spawn - this is the in-game mechanism for getting home, without cheating. You may also be able to find a page for a Star Fissure in a library; if so, you can use that in a book binder to create an Age that is guaranteed to have one.
If you are playing in multiplayer, you may be able to get a friend to enter the Age you are in and bring linking books for you both to leave again.
Using Cheats
If you need to cheat to get home (for example, if you are trapped in a rapidly decaying or otherwise deadly Age), the command to use is "/tpx 0". If you are in single player, and cannot normally use cheats, you can "Open to LAN", and enable cheats there.
If a server op needs to get someone else home, then "/tpx playername 0" will work.
Main article: Instability (Mystcraft)
Instability affects some Ages and manifests itself in various ways; the effects of instability can range from non-stop lightning and detrimental potion effects, to sunlight so intense that it will light you on fire. At its most extreme, the terrain of the Age can be torn apart and consumed by the spread of Decay.
There are two main sources of instability which a player will typically encounter.
Worlds whose symbols cause them to generate extra resources will be unstable. This is often the result of the Dense Ores symbol being used, or a result of a particular terrain feature being made out of a valuable block or liquid. The more valuable the resource, as well as how abundant it is, will determine the amount of instability. The most frequent source of instability tends to be oceans of some mod-added liquid -- Ages with these will generally be so unstable that the Age will need to be abandoned.
The second, usually lesser source of instability is badly written worlds (if you are using the book binder to make customized worlds). If symbols are included in the


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We have a map for farming land in a country. The whole farming land of the country is divided into a set of disjoint farming regions. Each farmer owns only one farming region in this country. There is a boundary fence between two neighboring farming regions. The farmland map for this country can be represented in a plane graph. The following Figure-1 shows one example.
Figure-1: Farmland graph G(V,E)
There are two types of edges, boundary edge and non-boundary edge. All edges of G(V,E) except (v8, v6) and (v11, v10) are boundary edges which are between two neighboring farming regions. The "proper farming region" in a Farmland graph is a closed region bounded by a simple cycle and it should not contain any vertices or edges inside. In this figure, the polygon < v1,v9,v8,v7 >is a proper farming region, and the region < v2, v1, v7, v8, v2, v5, v4, v3 >is not a proper farming region since its boundary cycle is not simple.
We assume that the farmland graph G(V,E) is a simple connected graph, which does not allow self-loops (Figure-2 (a)) and parallel edges (Figure-2 (b)).Also in Farmland graph G(V,E), we do not consider the outer face of G(V,E).You can see that there are 2 proper farming regions in G(V,E) shown in Figure-1,namely < v1,v9,v8,v7> and < v2,v3,v4,v5>, since there are no vertices or edges inside. But the polygon< v1,v7,v8,v2> is not a proper farming region since vertex v3, v4, and v5 are located in that region. Similarly, the region is not a proper region because a vertex v10 is inside the region.A degenerate polygon < v6, v8> is not a proper region because it has no valid area inside.
Figure-2: (a) self-loop < v1,v1>, and (b) 3 parallel edges { < v1,v2>,< v1,v2>, < v1,v2>}
There are other assumptions for input farmland graph data.
1. There is at least one proper farming region.
2. The position of each vertex in Farmland graph is distinct.
3. There is no edge crossing, which means the graph G(V,E) is a plane graph.
4. Farmland graph G(V,E) is simple and connected.
Let us define the "size" of proper farming region. The size of proper farming region is the number of boundary edges of that region. For example, the size of the proper farming region < v2,v3,v4,v5 > is 4.
The problem is to find the number of proper regions that have a specified size.If you are requested to find the number of proper regions with size of 4 in the graph given in Figure-1, you must answer that there are 2 proper regions whose sizes are 4 because farming regions < v1,v9,v8,v7 > and < v2,v3,v4,v5 >are proper regions and their sizes are 4. If there are no such regions, then you have to print 0.
The input consists of M test cases. The first line of the input contains a positive integer M, the number of test cases you are to solve. After the first line,input data for M cases follow. The first line of each test case contains a positive integer N (>=3), the number of vertices. Each of the following N lines is of the form:
i xi yi di a1 a2 a3 ..... adi
"i" is the vertex number, xi and yi are the coordinate (xi, yi) of the vertex i, and di is the degree of the vertex i. The following { ai } are the adjacent vertices of the vertex i. The last line gives k, the size of proper regions that you have to count.
Note that M, the number of cases in input is less than 10. N, the number of vertices of a given farmland graph is less than 200. All vertices are located on grid points of the 1000 x 1000 lattice grid.
The output must contain M non-negative integers. Each line contains the answer n to the corresponding case of the input.
Sample Input
1 2 6 3 9 7 2
2 5 6 4 5 3 1 8
3 3 5 2 4 2
4 3 4 2 3 5
5 4 4 2 4 2
6 7 4 1 8
7 2 3 2 8 1
8 5 3 5 7 2 9 12 6
9 1 2 3 11 8 1
10 3 2 1 11
11 2 1 3 10 9 12
12 6 1 2 8 11
1 2 2 2 2 3
2 1 1 2 1 3
3 4 1 2 1 2
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5 Powerful Benefits of 5G for Businesses
Are you wondering how 5G can benefit your business? Read on and find out how 5G can take your business to greater heights.
In today's highly digitized world, businesses that leverage innovative technology will likely gain an advantage. For instance, wireless technology, such as 5G for business, presents several opportunities for enterprises of all sizes, including small industry players.
If you're curious to learn how 5G can help improve your business, this article is for you. Read on and discover the benefits and opportunities in using 5G for business.
What is 5G?
5G is the fifth generation of wireless network technology, which is engineered to connect everything and everyone virtually. It helps deliver high data speeds, improved reliability, ultra-low latency, and a more consistent user experience.
5G wireless technology has a widened capacity, providing more connectivity and new services, and enabling next-generation experiences. With superior reliability, 5G is seen to impact all industries, paving the way for digitized logistics, safer transportation, and more.
5 Ways 5G Can Help Improve Your Business
So, how can 5G help your business move forward exactly, especially in a post-pandemic world? Let's take a closer look at the benefits of 5G for business.
1. Team Productivity
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed businesses to develop whole new ways to work. 5G can play a pivotal role in keeping teams productive despite the limitations.
High-bandwidth connectivity could prevent spotty conference calls, resulting in improved virtual communications. Additionally, it could assist employees in running analytics and streamlining warehouse operations.
With higher speeds, 5G can reduce intermittent network connections, allowing teams to efficiently collaborate in a remote setup. As a result, you can stay on top of things while your team maintains its productivity rate.
2. Sales
Probably one of the most significant advantages of 5G for business is its ability to empower salespeople. With a higher bandwidth connection, your sales team can boost their ability to sell.
They can maximize 5G by utilizing augmented or virtual reality to offer a more immersive customer experience. Additionally, 5G opens new doors to train people in innovative ways.
For instance, augmented reality can provide contextual diagrams for technicians. As a result, they can learn how to work on new machinery much easier.
3. Customer Experience
5G is designed to work faster than its predecessors. It enables video download to take just seconds as compared to minutes with 4G.
With this kind of performance, it makes perfect sense how it can improve the customer experience dramatically. Video streaming will one day become more seamless with virtually zero lags.
In retail, businesses can use ARVR to let customers view items from any angle. Even better, 5G can enable customers to try on a brand's new product styles digitally, from anywhere.
4. Connectivity
The Internet of Things (IoT) allows businesses to accomplish more by maximizing the potential of data and smart devices. In the future, 5G for business is also seen to support IoT that automatically responds to data.
For example, the agriculture industry could use low-power sensors to monitor crop health. With the help of 5G, it can prompt automated actions, like irrigation calibration or fertlization depending on weather conditions.
In a nutshell, 5G-powered IoT could help businesses, from inventory monitoring, efficient management, and automated data responses. With its powerful connectivity, 5G can assist businesses of any size, particularly in problem solving.
5. New Opportunities
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Pioneers of Love
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Pioneers of Love
By Robin Oliver
SBS has a fine tradition in indigenous matters, but seldom has it offered such a beautifully stated piece of close focus as it does in this two-part account of Leandro Illin, a Russian nobleman who fled rising Bolshevik unrest and in 1910 arrived in Queensland. With 11 other Russians, he took up a parcel of land in wild country in the Atherton rainforest. Their Utopian community became known as Little Siberia.
Leandro was 28 when he met Kitty Clarke, a 20-year-old Aboriginal widow with three children. His upbringing had made him respect justice and equality and he scorned the white man's law that made it a criminal offence to have sex or even "sleep under the same blanket" as an Aborigine. As his diary of 1912 states, it was "difficult to make a home without a woman". So, in the language of the day, he "had connections" with Kitty.
When this relationship produced a child, Leandro applied to marry Kitty, whereupon John Bleakley, the Chief Protector of Aborigines, a man determined to maintain the purity of the white man "when there is a degrading race living in those conditions", sent Constable Pike to investigate. Pike was impressed and believed Leandro and Kitty should be married.
Bleakley refused and ordered the children seized. The family hid deep in the bush. How Leandro confronted Queensland Premier William Gillies at Atherden railway station to plead his case, how Gillies sent consent to marry via Constable Pike and how Leandro and Kitty, avoiding Bleakley, made an arduous journey to get married in Innisfail is a grand story, superbly illuminated by Leandro's daughters.
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Nested loop (loop over loop)
In this algorithm, an outer loop is formed which consists of few entries and then for each entry, and inner loop is processed.
Select tab1.*, tab2.* from tabl, tab2 where tabl.col1=tab2.col2;
For i in (select * from tab1) loop
For j in (select * from tab2 where col2=i.col1) loop
The Steps involved in doing nested loop are:
a) Identify outer (driving) table
b) Assign inner (driven) table to outer table.
c) For every row of outer table, access the rows of inner table.
In execution plan it is seen like this:
When optimizer uses nested loops?
Optimizer uses nested loop when we are joining tables containing small number of rows with an efficient driving condition. It is important to have an index on column of inner join table as this table is probed every time for a new value from outer table.
- No of rows of both the table is quite high
- Inner query always results in same set of records
- The access path of inner table is independent of data coming from outer table.
Note: You will see more use of nested loop when using FIRST_ROWS optimizer mode as it works on model of showing instantaneous results to user as they are fetched. There is no need for selecting caching any data before it is returned to user. In case of hash join it is needed and is explained below.
Hash joins are used when the joining large tables. The optimizer uses smaller of the 2 tables to build a hash table in memory and the scans the large tables and compares the hash value (of rows from large table) with this hash table to find the joined rows.
The algorithm of hash join is divided in two parts
- Build a in-memory hash table on smaller of the two tables.
- Probe this hash table with hash value for each row second table
In simpler terms it works like
For each row RW1 in small (left/build) table loop
Calculate hash value on RW1 join key
Insert RW1 in appropriate hash bucket.
For each row RW2 in big (right/probe) table loop
Calculate the hash value on RW2 join key
For each row RW1 in hash table loop
If RW1 joins with RW2
Return RW1, RW2
When optimizer uses hash join?
Optimizer uses has join while joining big tables or big fraction of small tables.
Unlike nested loop, the output of hash join result is not instantaneous as hash joining is blocked on building up hash table.
Note: You may see more hash joins used with ALL_ROWS optimizer mode, because it works on model of showing results after all the rows of at least one of the tables are hashed in hash table.
Sort merge join
Sort merge join is used to join two independent data sources. They perform better than nested loop when the volume of data is big in tables but not as good as hash joins in general.
They perform better than hash join when the join condition columns are already sorted or there is no sorting required.
The full operation is done in two parts:
- Sort join operation
get first row RW1 from input1
get first row RW2 from input2.
- Merge join operation
while not at the end of either input loop
if RW1 joins with RW2
get next row R2 from input 2
return (RW1, RW2)
else if RW1 < style=""> get next row RW1 from input 1
get next row RW2 from input 2
Note: If the data is already sorted, first step is avoided.
Important point to understand is, unlike nested loop where driven (inner) table is read as many number of times as the input from outer table, in sort merge join each of the tables involved are accessed at most once. So they prove to be better than nested loop when the data set is large.
When optimizer uses Sort merge join?
a) When the join condition is an inequality condition (like <, <=, >=). This is because hash join cannot be used for inequality conditions and if the data set is large, nested loop is definitely not an option.
b) If sorting is anyways required due to some other attribute (other than join) like "order by", optimizer prefers sort merge join over hash join as it is cheaper.
Note: Sort merge join can be seen with both ALL_ROWS and FIRST_ROWS optimizer hint because it works on a model of first sorting both the data sources and then start returning the results. So if the data set is large and you have FIRST_ROWS as optimizer goal, optimizer may prefer sort merge join over nested loop because of large data. And if you have ALL_ROWS as optimizer goal and if any inequality condition is used the SQL, optimizer may use sort-merge join over hash join


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Template metaprogramming (also template meta-programming, or just TMP) is a metaprogramming technique that involves the use of templates. It essentially works by generating temporary code as compile-time, and it is able to do work then instead of at run time. TMP is turing complete, so literally any run time instructions can be shifted to compile-time, enhancing performance.
Simple Examples Edit
A common example used to demonstrate TMP, is the 'Factorial Snippet'. It is presented here:
_TAG_
using namespace std;
template
struct FACTORIAL {
 static const int value = N * FACTORIAL::value;
template <>
struct FACTORIAL<0> {
 static const int value = 1;
int main() {
 cout << FACTORIAL<4>::value << '\n'; // == 24
What happens in this example, is that the template FACTORIAL will be instantiated, and it's member value is accessed. To properly set value, it will instantiate itself with its value minus one. This continues until a instantiation of 0 is encountered. The template specialization handles 0 specifically, ending any infinite loops.
More Elaborate Examples Edit
Loop Unrolling Edit
By using recursion, TMP can hard-write the code of any loop into an executable. This means things such as for loops can be rewritten in a faster way (They are faster because there is no run time expression checking). For example, the song '99 bottle of beer' is commonly coded using a loop to count. This can be easily achieved in TMP:
_TAG_
_TAG_
using namespace std;
typedef unsigned int uint;
const string x = " bottles of beer";
const string a = " on the wall. ";
const string v = "Take one down, pass it around! ";
const string e = "No more bottles of beer on the wall. No more bottles of beer. Go to the store, buy some more! 99 bottles of beer on the wall :)";
template
void bottles() {
 cout << num << x << a << num << x << ". " << v << num-1 << x << '\n';
void bottles<0>() {
 cout << e;
int main() {
 return 0;
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adcc: Seamlessly connect your program to ADC¶
This documentation page is still under construction.
ADC-connect – or adcc in short – is a Python-based framework to connect to arbitrary programs and perform calculations based on the algebraic-diagrammatic construction approach (ADC) on top of their existing self-consistent field (SCF) procedures. Four SCF codes can be used with adcc out of the box, namely molsturm, psi4, PySCF, and veloxchem.
The range of supported algebraic-diagrammatic construction (ADC) methods includes the ADC(n) family up to level 3, including variants such as spin-flip and core-valence separation. For all methods transition and excited state properties are available. See the Performing calculations with adcc for more details. Recently we submitted a paper about adcc, see [HSF+19].
Getting a first taste¶
The next code snippet should give you an idea, how adcc works in practice. It shows how an ADC(3) calculation for 3 singlet excited states of water can be performed on top of a restricted Hartree-Fock reference computed using PySCF.
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt from pyscf import gto, scf import adcc # Run SCF in pyscf mol = gto.M( atom='O 0 0 0;' 'H 0 0 1.795239827225189;' 'H 1.693194615993441 0 -0.599043184453037', basis='cc-pvtz', unit="Bohr" ) scfres = scf.RHF(mol) scfres.conv_tol = 1e-13 scfres.kernel() # Run an ADC(3) calculation, solving for 3 singlets state = adcc.adc3(scfres, n_singlets=3) # Broaden the peaks and plot the resulting spectrum state.plot_spectrum(broadening='lorentzian') plt.show()
- Performing calculations with adcc
- Overview of supported features
- General ADC(n) calculations
- Calculation parameters
- Parallelisation in adcc
- Plotting spectra
- Reusing intermediate data
- Programmatic access to computed data
- Spin-flip calculations
- Core-valence-separated calculations
- Restricting active orbitals: Frozen core and frozen virtuals
- Further examples and details
- Theoretical review of ADC methods
- adcc reference
- Connecting host programs to adcc
- Developer's notes
- adccore: C++ core library
- libadcc: Python bindings for adccore


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Coat of arms of the Republic of Hungary, since 1990
Coat of arms of the kingdom of Hungary, prior to 1918 (click here for another depiction, from the castle in Buda, 1880))
Other GIF images of maps and shields of Hungary available by anonymous FTP at See also a page on Hungarian coats of arms.
The arms of Hungary from 1867 to 1918 were as follows: Quarterly, 1. Azure, three leopards' heads affrontés, crowned or (Dalmatia); 2. Chequy Argent and Gules (Croatia); 3. Azure, a river in fess gules, bordered argent, thereupon a marten proper, beneath a six-pointed star or (Esclavonia); 3. per fess azure and or, over all a bar gules, issuing therefrom a demi-eagle displayed sablem addextré in chief of the sun in splendour, and senestré of a crescent argent, in the base seven towers 3 and 4, of the third ( Transylvania); enté en point Gules, a double-headed eagle proper on a peninsula vert, holding a vase pouring water into the sea argent, beneath a crown proper with bands azure (Fiume). En surtout: an escutcheon per pale Hungary Ancient (barry of 8 gules and argent) and Hungary Modern (gules, on a mount vert a crown or, issuant therefrom a double cross argent), over all an escutcheon bearing Habsburg-Lorraine (tierced in pale Habsburg, Austria and Lorraine). Crown: Saint Stephen's crown. Supporters: two angels. Motto: bizalmam az ösi erényben.
A Note on Hungarian Heraldry
What follows was originally posted on the newsgroup rec.heraldry some years ago. Note, however, that the author was looking at color depictions of coats of arms that are discolored and misleading; his conclusions about metal-on-metal should therefore be taken with caution.
From: rice) Thomas Barnes/Lothar von Katzenellenbogen
I've recently been studying the pictures in Ot Evszazad Cimerei: A magyar orszagos leveltar civeres levelein by Nyulaszine Straub Eva (Corvina, Magjelent: 1987). It is appearantly a listing of all the grants of arms made by the Holy Roman Emperor/Austro-Hungarian Emperor from 1404 to 1918 and held in the National Library in Budapest (it is therefore not complete). It has over 50 color plates of arms from grants of arms and over a thousand black and white redrawings of arms with the correct heraldic hatchments. It is the most impressive armorial I have ever seen in publication. It is available via Inter-Library Loan (at least in the U.S.) and is probably still in print.
Hungarian heraldry is unlike any other style of heraldry I have ever seen. It flagrantly breaks virtually every heraldic convention even in the period that we think of as being the "classical" period of heraldry before the decadent period of the Baroque and Enlightenment periods. Tamas's assertion that Hungarian charges need to be supported by a mount comes from the 18th and 19th c. practice of putting many charges on a mount. Early Hungarian heraldry (ca. 1400) differs from German heraldry only in the fact that it tends to use more demi-beasts, crowns, and mounts or bases that German heraldry from the same period. Some Hungarian heraldry from this period is very simple. For example: Per bend sinister embattled Argent(??) and gules, two roses counterchanged.
Based on a study of the book, here's what I've discovered:
 1. Hungarian heraldry ignores the rule of tincture more often than it obeys it. For example:
 - Or, a stork (statant?) argent. Tetenyi (Kapy) 1405
 - Azure, a stork rousant contourny sable beaked and jambed gules crowned and engorged or and maintaining in its beak a snake Or. Somkereki Erdelyi 1415
 - Azure, a castle of three towers gules and issuant from dexter and sinister chief a dexter and sinister arm vested gules issuant from clouds argent maintaining in honor point a crown Or. A Vadkerti, a Pataki Nagy es a Szentgyorgyi Vincze 1415
 These examples are NOT deliberately selected, they are the first three plates in the book! I most cases Hungarian heraldry ignores the rule of color on color. Sable or dark-colored proper fields are very common, as are gules charges on dark fields. Then of course there is the infamous green mount which occurs less often than you might expect.
 2. Many charges in Hungarian heraldry issue from crowns, lines of division or bases. There are a remarkable number of "demi" creatures. In many cases this is because the charges on the shield duplicate the crest which in many cases is a demi-creature issuant from a crown. In other cases the creature emerges from the fess line of a per fess field division or a base.
 3. Most fields in Hungarian heraldry are azure or gules with a sprinkling of Or, argent and sable. Vert or purpure fields are never encountered. No field treatments other than barry or bendy are used. There seems to be no use of vair or ermine variant field treatements at all.
 4. Ordinaries are almost never used. When they occur they tend to be fesses or bends. Chevrons, palls, and palls do not appear. Field divisions tend to be per fess (quite common) or per bend (rarely). Bases are very common.
 5. Charges tend to be a single central charge. When multiple charges occur they are generally arranged around a large central charge. The arrangements "an X between two Ys" or "an A between in chief two mullets and in base a B" or "an A between in chief a mullet and an increscent and in base a B" are not uncommon. Any other arrangement is unusual.
 6. "Stylized" heraldic charges (maunches, water bourgets, millrinds, etc.) are almost never seen.
 7. Demi-beasts, arms couped at the shoulder (and possibly issuant from clouds), creatures arranged so as to "support" or "maintain" a central charge, and human figures occur much more frequently in Hungarian heraldry than in any other national style I have seen.
 8. Hungarian heraldry occasionally will use quite complex "picture heraldry", especially in the 16th and 17th centuries. For example:
 - Gules, on a base vert a representation of a Hungarian man passant vested azure armed proper statant upon the body of a turk fesswise vested gules turbaned argent proper and upon the base to sinister a column argent enfiled of a vine vert crowned Or. Szentmartoni, 1549. p. 149
 9. Animate charges maintaining objects are not uncommon. Animals are also likely to be pierced by arrows or vulned by swords.
 10. Hungarian heraldry is much more "bloody" than other heraldry. In addition to the various representations of Hungarians killing Turks from 1540 onwards, you also have severed Turks heads, animals pierced by arrows, disembodied arms, human figures brandishing weapons, or occasionally animals attacking other animals.
 11.. Occasionally, Hungarian heraldry will arrange charges in peculiar ways. For example there is a device where a dragon is in annulo and another where a ram is eating the plant which forms the primary charge.
Hungarian heraldry is difficult to blazon because of this. If you have an arm issuant from clouds statant upon a crown striking a turk's head it is difficult to know where to begin to blazon!
Hungarian heraldry is very different from the Anglo-Norman heraldry that most people on this newsgroup are familiar with. Many people will probably think of it as being "ugly" because of this. Heralds in the Society for Creative Anachronism will be outraged by it since it repeatedly defies all of the rules for submission of SCA heraldry. However, it is fascinating because it is so different. Once you get past the reaction of "who would want THAT on their arms!" you begin to see that Hungarian heraldry is, like Polish herby or German hausmarken a unique style and is worth study on its own terms.
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4 March 2013
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We describe a new method that uses DNA to identify historical events that have shaped present-day populations. In particular, the approach exploits modern large-scale genetic collections to unearth times in the past where two or more genetically distinct groups interacted and exchanged DNA. The method dates precisely when such events occurred, characterizes the amount of DNA exchange, and describes the genetic composition of the (perhaps extinct) groups involved. We highlight the model's advantages over currently available techniques in the field, including its improved parameter estimation and the additional information it contributes beyond any available methods. Our inference, based entirely on DNA, provides a powerful complement to anthropological resources, helping to resolve existing archaeological controversies, determine precisely how much DNA exchange accompanied known historical periods, and discover previously unknown events. We describe an application to data collected from 95 world-wide geographic regions, in which we characterize over 100 DNA exchange events occurring in the past 3000 years.
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What are the components of the soil?
The soil is a thin non-compacted superficial layer which covers the Earth crust, and it is a very important part of the environment, There are different types of the soil that are different in color and texture.
Where the color of the soil helps the scientists to identify the elements and the minerals inside it and the texture of the soil is smooth or granular or rocky rough.
The soil components
The soil is made of many components such as the water, the air, the silt, the humus and pieces of rocks (which is composed of the sand, the clay, the minerals and the gravels).
The rocks are the main source of the sand and the clay which are the main components of the soil, The humus is the decayed remains of the animals and the plants mixed with the soil components, and its color is dark brown or black.
How is the humus formed?
When the living organisms (the plants or the animals) die, their bodies decay forming the humus, So, The animals and the plants affect on the soil composition.
The humus adds the nutrients to the soil and it affects on the color of the soil, So, the color of the soil is dark brown or black, The soil is composed of the minerals mixed with different microorganisms and the decayed materials of the dead organisms.


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Redevelopment of Catalunya Square
- El Masnou
Roger de Flor Street, the old riverbank, acts as a connection axis between Vallmora Park and the beach. The redevelopment project of this axis is based on the idea of merging these two contexts (sea and mountain) through a draining mixed pavement, large landscaped tree pits and coloured chairs with different inclinations reminiscent of beach hammocks.
The project proposes the recovery for public and recreational use of the residents of a street invaded by cars and garbage collection and an underused square due to its slopes. It is proposed to eliminate all visual and accessibility obstacles (wall that separated the square from the passage of vehicles, sidewalks, stairs,...) preserve and integrate the existing vegetation (banana trees and palmettos) and convert the street into a pedestrian zone integrating the square with a slight curb that saves the existing slopes. It is also recovered the riverside gate that was boarded up and used to protect the adjacent streets from flooding.
The intervention has allowed to recover the crossed visuals between the streets and the square, getting a sense of open space and a naturalized environment. This much friendlier environment has to invite neighbors to occupy and enjoy a public space much more designed for people than for vehicles.
The new trees are proposed as large boxes of resistant plant soil that allows optimal root growth and helps to store rainwater and reduce the flow of water to public networks.
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Saint Sava Temple
One of the largest Orthodox churches in the world
In the center of Belgrade
It was built in the Serbo-Byzantine style. Construction of the church has lasted for more than a century, mostly because of the wars and the unfavourable political conditions. The church is so large that it can accommodate more than 10,000 people at the same time.
The temple is dedicated to the famous Serbian medieval personality and archbishop Saint Sava (Rastko Nemanjic), the son of the powerful Serbian ruler Stefan Nemanja, the founder of the ruling Nemanjic dynasty. The temple was built on the site where the Ottoman Turks publicly burned the remains of his relics in the 16th century, following an uprising in which the Serbs used icon depictions of Sava as their war flags.
Come and visit Saint Sava Temple, the largest orthodox place of worship in the Balkans.


Set Up Opening and Closing Rituals to Form Better HabitsS
When you are looking to form a new habit, it might be wise to set up rituals to start and stop, says Hannah Braime, author of The Ultimate Guide to Journaling.
They're about creating a boundary around our time and saying "OK, brain, this is your chance to tell me what's going on for you—no distractions, nothing else vying for my attention, it's just me and you".
Braime talks about the merits of setting up rituals in a blog post about journaling, but the advice is more universal to any habit you want to cultivate. It's similar to having triggers, which is one of the best ways to trick your brain into creating new habits. But instead of just the starting point, Braime's method lets you put yourself into a "zone" of sorts to implement the action, disconnecting it from other activities.
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies Center
The "Bull of Quivira" (one of the Plains "cities of gold"), woodcut of a bison by Christoffel Jegher [_PHONE_]
Texas Tech University, although established in 1923, is rooted in the middle ages and the Renaissance. This is true of the abstract ideals of the university and of its arts curricula. It is also true of the campus architecture, a Spanish Renaissance theme based ultimately upon the Administration Building's recapitulation of the plateresque style of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, built in 1553. It is literally true of the earliest European presence here on the High Plains, where the expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado left behind chain mail, crossbow bolts, and vellones minted during the reign of Enrique IV of Castille (1454-75), perhaps the oldest circulating coins ever discovered in U.S. territory.
The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center (MRSC) is dedicated to the advancement of Medieval and Renaissance studies at Texas Tech, in the State of Texas, and in the lands beyond. It currently supervises a graduate certificate program in medieval and Renaissance studies, provides some conference participation support for students working in these areas, and sponsors guest lectures and other activities related to medieval and Renaissance studies. Whereas traditional academic programs are organized to support their own specific perspectives and programs, the Center seeks to unite faculty and students interested in medieval and Renaissance area studies that transcend disciplinary boundaries. It seeks is to enhance campus, state, and national knowledge about Texas Tech programs already in place. The Center, approved in 2011, is located administratively within the College of Arts and Sciences but is also funded in part by the College of Visual and Performing Arts.


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Love making best thing to stop mind wandering
People spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about something other than what they are doing, a study revealed today.
Researchers at Harvard University found that people's minds wander on average 46.9 per cent of the time, when they think about things that aren't going on around them.
Participants in the survey, which analysed behaviour recorded on an iPhone web app, said they were distracted no less than 30 per cent of the time during every activity, except making love, when they were more focused than usual.
The research, published in the American journal Science, also showed that mind wandering typically made people unhappy.
People were at their happiest when exercising or engaging in conversation, but least happy when resting, working or using a home computer.
Psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, the authors of the study, found that the 2,250 volunteers spent time thinking about past, future and hypothetical events while going about their daily lives.
"Mind-wandering appears ubiquitous across all activities," said Mr Killingsworth, a doctoral student at Harvard. "This study shows that our mental lives are pervaded, to a remarkable degree, by the non-present."
The participants, aged between 18 and 88, were asked to select one of 22 general activities and record how happy they were while doing it, as well as whether they were thinking about their current activity or something else.
Mr Killingsworth said: "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.
"Mind wandering is an excellent predictor of people's happiness.
"In fact, how often our minds leave the present and where they tend to go is a better predictor of our happiness than the activities in which we are engaged."
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