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Lasers set to replace spark plugs in car engines
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Spark plugs in petrol engines are set to be replaced by laser ignition systems, following development of new manufacturing techniques by Japanese boffins.
The new research is to be presented to the world at an optics conference in Baltimore next month by Takunori Taira of Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences and his colleagues. Taira and his team have been working with spark-plug firms and Toyota subsidiaries to address the problems facing ordinary petrol-engine ignition.
At the moment, as any automotive fule kno, the fuel-air mixture in a petrol engine's cylinder is ignited by a plug which generates a spark between its electrodes using high-voltage electricity. The spark plug is the limiting factor on how "lean" - how low in fuel - the mixture can be: in order to ignite a leaner mixture the spark must be hotter, and past a certain point this destroys the electrodes.
But designers would like to make leaner-running engines as this would improve fuel economy and cut down on emissions.
Lasers would potentially offer hotter ignition, and they have other advantages too. The timing of ignition would be more precise than with sparkplugs - on the very brief timescales over which cylinder mixtures change, the exact point at which a plug will spark is quite unpredictable.
"Timing – quick combustion – is very important," says Taira. "The more precise the timing, the more efficient the combustion and the better the fuel economy."
Ignition by photon beam would also offer the option of focusing the hot spot in the centre of the cylinder rather than generating it at the top. This would allow the "flame front" of the exploding mixture to spread out in all directions and act more efficiently.
All in all, then, laser-ignition engines would be a boon. But the trouble thus far has been that the necessary laser machinery is large. It can't practically be deployed at the cylinder head, and there's no option to pipe the laser pulses in as they are of such frequency and energy as to destroy optical hardware.
"In the past, lasers that could meet those requirements were limited to basic research because they were big, inefficient, and unstable," Taira says.
But not any more. The Japanese boffins have come up with a way of making small, high-power lasers out of ceramics. Their protoype unit is made from two yttrium-aluminum-gallium (YAG) segments, one doped with neodymium, the other with chromium. It is just 9mm in diameter and 11mm long, and by using bursts of pulses less than a nanosecond in duration it can ignite a volume of lean fuel-air mix at two points simultaneously - this develops power more quickly and efficiently than lighting at just one point.
The ceramic laser material is thought to be easily tough enough to stand up to conditions in a running car engine. The tech ought to permit much more efficient, lower-emission petrol cars in years to come - perhaps swinging the pendulum back towards petrol and away from diesel engines, which in recent times have become the fuel-sipping low-emissions choice.
As petrol is somewhat cheaper than diesel to buy, and petrol engines are somewhat cheaper to make, this could be very popular.
Taira and his colleagues will present full details of their work at the 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics in Baltimore on 2 May. ®


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Are you the owner of a Smartphone with the android operating system, which has experienced suddenly memory on your Smartphone leaving little capacity? Yes, a lot of people on social media suffer for it. Do not worry, I will explain in detail the causes and the exact solution to overcome the problem:
1. Watch your android Cache!
Cache is always there in Android. Cache is used by Android to run app faster. unfortunately, it can be turned into negative if the cache is too piled up. You should regularly clean cache to free up memory space. You can install cache cleaner to clean the app cache
2. Watch others file except your Applications and Game!
To find out how many files except application and game that fill up your memory, open settings and find storage. If you are using a Smartphone Jelly Bean and have the sdcard, try to move the files from the internal memory to the sdcard by selecting "transfer data to sdcard". If you are still using Ice Cream Sandwich then move the files manually through the file explorer.
3. Notice your Browser!
If you are using browser in the long term, the more "traces" left by the data. So in order to more effective and efficient, do the elimination through the entrance to the settings option in Browser.
4. Note Folder and Your Trash File!
Each time you uninstall an applications or games, usually they leave the data files or folders that are useless. It is ok to clean it. There is an application that can automatically search for useless files left behind. The application is a Clean Master. With this application you can choose clear the junk files
If you do all of them, your space of memory capacity will increase significantly
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the dove is a symbol of peace.
These doves can be made
and hung as if flying around your room,
or sent with a message to your Peace Pal.
You will need:
- Start with a square piece of paper which you can make from any rectangle simply by folding up a short edge diagonally to meet the long side and cut off extra. Open flat.
- Fold square paper in half into rectangle and unfold again to lay flat.
- Fold (2) corners in to center line.
- Fold paper in half with triangles inside.
- Fold head down about 1/4 of top edge, creasing well.
- Fold head backwards on the same crease again creasing well.
- Fold (2) Return head to original position and push down on top fold, reversing the middle crease.
- Draw triangle shape and cut away shaded area to make wing and tail.
- Fold up wing. Turn Dove over and fold up other wing.
- Completed Dove can be decorated or hung just like this.


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Activities: Coin Rubbing
Break open the piggy bank and make coin rubbings!
- Artist:Your kid.
- Coins:A few coins won't buy you much these days, but they will buy your kid's attention to create some artwork!
- Paper:Thin printer paper.
- Crayons:Hola, Crayola®!
- Have your kid place a coin on a hard surface, like a table or the floor, and cover it with a piece of paper.
- Then have her rub the crayon over the hidden coin to make a coin rubbing. The image of the coin will magically appear on the paper.
- Next, have her flip the coin over and rub the other side to create a different image. (Now might be a good opportunity to throw in a few presidential facts about the faces shes scribbling over!)
- She can use different color crayons—red, orange and blue—to create a colorful image. Bet Lincoln would look lovely in purple!
- Encourage her to make a cool design, like a rainbow or circle, by tracing a series of coins. It'll look like a million bucks!
- Did you know that the penny's end may be near? Pressure is building to get rid of the copper coins. You can't buy anything with them and absurdly, they cost more than a cent to mint. Economists estimate that the US loses approximately $900 million a year on penny production and handling. Just think how many pairs of shoes that kind of money would buy!

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How to trigger a workflow during termination of Contingent Worker?
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Employee Central - Contingent Worker
Step 1: Create a Business Rule with Work Order as base object.
Step 2: Assign this rule to Work Order object under Configure Object Definition > Save Rule
Step 3: Go to Employee's Profile > Take Action > Edit Work Order Information and change the End date. Workflow will get triggered.
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Find and Replace Basics
Bluefish offers a wide range of find and replace methods in the Edit menu, also available through the contextual menu within a document. Here we will explore the most basic ones. For advanced find and replace methods, see Section 5, "Find and Replace".
10.1. Searching for a word within a whole document
Choose the Edit → Find... (Ctrl+F) menu item. A Find dialog will be displayed. Enter the word (or string) to search for in the Search for: field. Then click OK.
If the search is successful, the document window scrolls up to the first occurrence of the string to search in the document and highlights it.
Below is an example of a search applied to a mediawiki document.
To find a subsequent occurrence of the string, use the Edit → Find again (Ctrl+G) menu item. If no further occurrence is found, a dialog will be displayed notifying you that no match was found.
10.2. Setting limits to the search scope
You may want to search for a string from the cursor location till the end of the document. Here is an example to search all name == occurrences within a python script from a given location.
Procedure V.2. Searching from selection
- Put the cursor where you want to start the search from in the document window
- Open the Find... dialog
- Enter your search string in the Search for: field
- Choose Current position till end from the Starts at: pop up menu
- Click OK.
Here is the result:
Notice that the search does not take into account the occurrence of the same string at line 50, since it is outside the search scope.
You can also limit the search scope to a selection range. In that case, highlight the selection before the search, and choose Beginning of selection till end of selection from the Starts at: pop up menu in the Find dialog.
10.3. Case sensitive search
By default, the search process is case insensitive. If you want to make it case sensitive, just check the Match case box in the Find dialog.
Here is the result applied to a ruby script:
Notice again that the result does not catch the XML string at line 45, since the search string was xml and case sensitive search was requested.
10.4. Overlapping searches
It may occur that the document contains some kind of palindrome you want to search for. The "normal" find process does not retrieve all occurrences of that kind of string.
In this case, you have to check the Overlap searches box in the Find dialog to retrieve all occurences of the string.
The search (with Ctrl+F, then Ctrl+G) will give the following results:
10.5. Retrieving previous search strings
Notice that the pop up menu to the right of the Search for field in the Find dialog allows you to retrieve previous search strings. They are listed in reverse order by search history, providing quicker access to the most recent searches.
10.6. More on find
For an explanation of the Bookmark results box of the Find dialog, see Section 4.1, "Generating several bookmarks at once".
You will find details on Find Again and Find from Selection in Section 5, "Find and Replace".
For a quick way of switching from HTML entities to other types of encoding and changing letter cases, see Section 5.1, "Special find and replace features".
10.7. Replacing features
The Edit → Replace... (Ctrl+H) menu item works the same way and has all the features, the Edit → Find... (Ctrl+F) menu item offers.
The Replace dialog is also accessible through the contextual menu within a document.
For the features common to the Find dialog, see 10.1, "Searching for a word within a whole document".
Here we will explain the features unique to the Replace dialog.
10.8. Retrieving previous replace strings
As for the Search for field's pop up menu, the Replace with field's pop up menu allows you to retrieve previous strings used for replace, the most recent ones being at the top of the list.
10.9. Changing letter case when replacing
If you want to change letter case when replacing, use the Replace type pop up menu.
The default choice is Normal, that is the case is not changed.
With the Uppercase replace type, the search string will be replaced with its uppercase translation.
Likewise, with the Lowercase replace type, the search string will be replaced with its lowercase translation.
Notice that in this case, the Replace with field is deactivated, thus not taken into account even if you have entered some string in it.
10.10. Choosing strings to replace
It may occur that you do not want to replace all search strings retrieved by the search process, but only some of them.
In this case, check the Prompt before replace box. A Confirm replace dialog will appear for each retrieved string where you can choose to Skip this string, i.e. leave it as it is, Replace it, Replace all strings within the search scope, or Close the dialog, i.e. cancel the process.
If you want to replace only the first occurrence of a search string, check the Replace once box instead.
10.11. More on replace
For further explanation on replace features within Bluefish, see Section 5, "Find and Replace".


twitter beachEarlier this year, Pew Research Center and the Social Media Research Foundation released a report that identified six structures of social media crowds that shape Twitter conversations. The research found that these structures are dependent on the topic being discussed, the sources of information cited during the conversations, the social networks of the people who are talking about the topic, and the leaders of the conversation.
The report identifies these six social structures as divided, unified, fragmented, clustered, inward hub and spokes, and outward hub and spokes. Since social media conversations and social media referrals are so important to content publishing growth, let's take a look at each structure and consider if the conversations happening about your content are actually happening among the right audiences.
The Polarized Crowd
The first social structure identified in Twitter conversations is referred to as the "divided" or "polarized crowd" and typically occur around topics that can be polarizing with extreme points. The members of one polarized crowd are unlikely to interact with other polarized crowds who don't agree with them. The two groups get their information from very different sources and will be highly divided as they discuss the same topic. Polarized crowds are often found in discussions related to politics.
For some content publishers, the polarized crowd could be very appealing. Certainly, the content from some political websites that focus on a specific point of view will perform well when delivered to the right polarized crowd.
The Tight Crowd
On the other end of the spectrum are "unified" or "tight crowds" where members are strongly connected with one another. They share ideas, information, and help each other around a common interest such as professional topics, hobbies, conferences or events, and so on. The only participants are members of the community.
For example, the community could be loosely formed around photography or more formally formed around a journalistic photographers conference. These groups are not intentionally polarizing themselves from other groups and don't shun alternate points of view, but the value of the conversations comes from having those conversations with other people who are equally invested in the topic.
For content publishers, getting the right content in front of these highly focused groups can be extremely effective.
The Brand Cluster
The next social structure identified in the research is referred to as a"fragmented" structure or a "brand cluster" because it is formed based on mutual interest in a product or celebrity. Since products and celebrities can have global recognition, these social structures can grow quite large on Twitter and beyond. However, they're typically fragmented into smaller groups of people all discussing the broader topic amongst themselves. There is little connection with people outside of the smaller, fragmented clusters.
For content publishers, it is important to understand that just because a celebrity or public event is popular on Twitter, that doesn't mean you can write about it and expect to have your content go viral. A better strategy is to connect that celebrity or event in a highly focused way to your content topic, and then seek out the fragmented groups on Twitter and across the social web who would be most interested in that focused content.
The Community Cluster
The "clustered" structure is made up of "community clusters" that form in order to discuss global news and events as well as popular topics with wide appeal. The smaller community clusters form around a collection of news sources for discussion but they are not connected with people outside of their smaller community clusters. Therefore, their conversations are not necessarily intended to be polarized but can be as a result of the small, disconnected social structure.
For content publishers, it's important to understand that even "broad appeal" conversations could be received by community clusters in very different ways. Find the community clusters who would be most interested in your content and focus on joining their conversations and sharing your content with them.
The Broadcast Network
The "in-hub and spoke" social structure is also referred to as a "broadcast network" and is typically quite large. They're most often centered around a celebrity or media organization that has a lot of followers who actively retweet the content published by that celebrity or media organization regardless of its content. There is little interaction among group members but a great deal of pass-along content from the hub is shared.
For content publishers, this is often the least effective social structure to spread your content. Even if this group retweets your content, that's all they'll do with it. There will be little or no engagement beyond clicking the retweet button.
The Support Network
Finally, the "out-hub and spoke" social structure (also called the "support network" structure) is usually created when a company, organization, or government agency responds to a customer complaint or request. For example, the _USER_ Twitter profile, which provides customer support, is a perfect example of a support network social structure. Members post messages to the company (at the center of the hub) and the company replies to customers (the spokes). However, there is rarely interaction between members of the support network.
For content publishers, an out-hub and spoke social structure could develop around your Twitter profile, but be careful. A support network structure is useful to help customers who might have problems, but it doesn't provide the interactivity that you need to truly build your audience and achieve publishing success.
You can follow the link at the top of the article for all of the details from the Pew Research Center report. It's well worth it to spend some time evaluating whether or not your content is reaching the right groups on Twitter.
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In the spiritual world omens are everywhere and there are no such thing as coincidences. You can use signs around you to guide your life and your workings if you only know how to interpret them. 7 day candles have long been used by rootworkers to read a specific working and determine its effectiveness, or warn of any problems or solutions. Just like reading tea leaves, the burnt candles can provide valuable insight.
The soot on a candle is one of the most recognizable results of burning a candle. While in the mundane world one might say this was merely soot, in the spiritual we know there is a message to be interpreted in that soot.
BLACK SOOTBlack soot is a sign of negativity and witchcraft.
- If the soot does not travel all the way down the glass, is only at the top or perhaps stops in the middle, the negative influence or obstacle has been unblocked.
- If the black goes down the entire length of the candle it means your working has been blocked and there are still things preventing you for attaining your desired result. It could also indicate someone has casted against you or has significant spiritual protection. If this is the case burn another candle to try to break through their defenses.
- If the soot is at the bottom of the candle it is a warning that negative influences are being sent to you. This can be the case when someone casts against you.
WHITE SOOTWhite soot is another matter all together. This can indicate spiritual communication, purity, and exorcism. It could indicate that the spirits have heard your prayers and removed the negativity from the working. This is especially true in unhexing rituals. Again, look to the amount of soot to tell you if it is completed or not.
- If the soot only goes half way down or less, the cleansing was successful.
- If the soot is carried through the length of the candle you may need further cleansing and spiritual work.
- If the soot is at the bottom of the candle, it signifies the presence of outside aid or help either spiritually or physically.
- If the candle burned half black and half white this means that one aspect is overriding the other. Look to which is on top to see what was undone. If black is on top, your spirits cleared it. If white is on top the spirits of another have combated your attempts.
- If the soot is on only one side of the candle, this is a sign that what you are doing is incorrect. Either the candle fixing wasn't appropriate or the spirits aren't happy with the candle itself.
The flame is by far the most important part of any candle working. The subtle actions of the flame can tell you a lot from the moment you light it, to the moment it goes out. Let start with lighting the flame.
- If the candle does not light this means that this type of working will not work for what you need and another type of spell should be used.
- If the candle lights and splits into two or more flames, this indicates the presence of others, either spirits, deities, or human, getting involved. Look to the rest of the candle to interpret whether this person is good or bad.
- If you are trying to split up a couple and both flames stay lit, the couple will stay together.
- If you are doing a working for attract a lover and the second flame seems to rise out of the wax your working will be successful especially if both flames grow into one large flame.
- If the candle flame is high it means there is a lot of power behind the spell and little resistance. If the candle burns low it means there is a strong opposing spiritual force and a cleansing and or banishing may be needed.
- If the flame makes a crackling or popping sound it indicates conversation. Either the spirits are trying to talk to you or the target is talking about you. Look to the purpose of the candle and the other actions of the flame to determine which is which.
- If the flame flickers there is a spirit around. If the flame pops while flickering it is the spirit trying to communicate to you. Open yourself up to it. If it is a devotional candle and it is flickering it means you are in contact with your deity and any prayers or petitions will be heard.
- If you attempt to blow out the flame and it does not go out this means the spirit does not want you to extinguish it. The same can be said if you blow it out and it flicks back on. Let the spirit complete its work, something important may be in the works that you do not want to interrupt. If you are uncomfortable ask the spirit to protect the candle or ask for permission and try to extinguish it again.
- If the entire top of the prepared candle catches fire it means all the resources of the prepared candle are being used due to spiritual influences creating obstacles. Look to the other signs to see if the candle was successful. If the preparations do not collect along the glass as the candle burns, but remain pooled together, it means all the resources are needed and will burn at the end of the candle. The soot, flame, and glass should be read for the outcome.
- If the flame burns high and calm and produces no soot you are in the presence of a larger entity or guardian spirit, most likely benevolent. The same can be said for high aggressive flames that flicker in large strokes. These tend to be darker spirits and deities, both are there to listen or aid you.
- If the flame goes out while burning this means the spirits cannot help you and the answer you seek is already determined. This can also happen if you unexpectedly get the result before the candle is finished.
- The glass retains the story of the working through the soot and preparation but the glass itself can tell you things about the spell.
- If the glass cracks but does not break it means there was some type of opposition that was broken. It may have been sent to the spell to try to deflect it or it may have been encountered along the way. If it does not break or shatter then the spell is protected and was successfully defended.
- However, if the glass breaks or shatters it means you are up against something larger than yourself. Malicious forces have either protected your target or have been attracted to your working and are trying to interfere. It can also indicate someone is casting against you and you are not spiritually protected or strong enough as what was thrown at you was larger than what you were sending out. Either way, do a stronger working and light another candle to try to combat it.


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IBPS Clerk Important (Top30) Previous Interviews Questions Download
Recently Institute Of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conduct the online examination for the post of Clerk and lakh of students had appeared in the online examination and also qualified the exam and now they after the result they are preparing for interview round because board has been sent a call letter to every qualified candidates to appearing in interview round. Before appearing in interview candidates should know that what types of question are asked at the time of interview by the interviewer. Here we will help to qualified candidates to prepare his final round which is interview.
Some basic Interview Questions for IBPS ClerkHere we are providing you field wise interview questions which are generally asked in interview-
- Tell me about yourself?
- Tell me something about your family?
- What are your hobbies?
- What is your name? what is the meaning of it?
Regarding to this job-
- Don't you think you are overqualified for this post?
- If not selected, what will you do?
- Have appeared at bank interview earlier? Where and what was the result?
- Why did you not get selected last time?
- What improvement have you done to be selected this time?
- What do you think about your selection?
- If I select you, what will do for this bank?
Banking/ Maturity Level-
- Do you feel nervous?
- Why don't you try for the officer grade when you have qualifications?
- Do you know about the pay scale of bank?
- What is the work of clerk?
- Why do you want to come in banking sector?
Banking and Finance level-
- What is repo rate?
- What is CRR?
- What is SLR?
- Differentiate between debit card and credit card?
- What is Demand draft?
- What is cheque?
- What is sub prime crisis?
- What is money laundering?
- What is NEFT?
- What is RTGS?
These are the basic questions which can be asked in interview of IBPS clerk.


(programming) An object or routine for accessing items from a list, array or stream one at a time.
By extension, the term can be used for an object or routine for accesing items from any data structure that can be viewed as a list. For example, a traverser is an iterator for tree-shaped data structures.
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Dramatica Do-er vs. Be-er
A Dramatica student asks:
In Dramatica theory, are all Objective Characters be-ers and all Subjective Characters do-ers?
My reply:
No, there is no assignment of be-er or do-er to objective characters at all. Objective Characters, such as the archetypes, are all defined by their functions only, when seen in terms of structure.
Naturally, in storytelling, you layer on a personality for each objective character to help the readers or audience connect to them as real people. And that personality, which is independent of structure, could be a do-er or a be-er, but it is not assigned by structure.
Conversely, Subjective Characters, of which there are two: Main and Influence, will be do-ers or be-ers, based on which domain you have chosen for them in your structural storyform. Universe (Situation) and Physics (Activities) are both externally focused areas of exploration, so if your Main character resides in one of these, he or she will be a do-er as a result.
And, since the Influence Character is diametrically opposed in outlook to the Main Character, they will be positioned in the domain opposite that (diagonally) to the Main Character. So, if your Main Character is in one of the external domains, your Influence Character will be in one of the internal domains: Mind (Attitude) or Psychology (Manner of Thinking), which will make it a be-er.
So, to sum up, only the two subjective characters are structurally mandated as be-ers or do-ers, they will be opposites.
Melanie Anne Phillips
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Camtasia Studio for Windows: Record your First Screen Capture Tutorial Today! | Jerry Banfield | Skillshare
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I hope this course motivates your to create your first screen capture tutorial, today! Camtasia Studio makes video production easy, and it is the most productive software I have ever used as an entrepreneur online. This lesson is a brief introduction to Camtasia on Windows, and I will show you the basics to produce your very first video. Below is a list of topics that will be covered in this class:
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1. Introduction to Camtasia Studio on Windows.: Welcome to Camp Tasia Studio. This is an introduction to the most productive software I have ever used. Camped Asia Studio helps me quickly make screen capture videos on my Windows computer. Now, technically, I'm recording this with wire cast, which I'll show you later in the course on You know me because it's easier to record this instead of trying to record it while I'm doing it. So this is Camped Asia Studio, and this is what I've used to fill most of my videos on using May I've also used Camped Asia to which is the Mac version of the same thing. You can find out more about camped Asia if you don't know much already, or if you don't have it on the Tech Smith website at tech smith dot com slash kemp. Tasia. This is why I originally bought Camped Asia, and I actually bought it in a bundle with the snag It software also, so you can go do that and you can get 1/2 off coupon also if use the free trial version and email them for it. So thank you very much for being here. These are the basic features of camp Tasia studio that are most helpful to know right here is your clip bin and right here is the timeline, so I can show you that quickly. By recording something very fast, I'll go into more detail on each feature. I'll get you off of the fast start now. So you click record screen and you see this little green bar around here. That's what How I know I'm according I've got the Web cam off in the audio on, and you can select your audio sources here. It's important to recording a good resolution 10 80 p or 7 20 p. I'll go into that more so once you hit record, this is what happens. You get to record and it records the screen. Now it's very easy to make a good course if you just show what you're doing on your screen. Because people all over the world can relate to a screen capture tutorial, you can show things like Here's how you browse the Camp Tasia features. Here's how you go get the free trial for Camp Tasia, etcetera. So this is how you do screen capture tutorials. This is how they work. And then once you're done. You just bring up the record window. And now, if you don't like that clip, you just recorded it all. You can just delete it. If you do like it, you get stop. And then I hit saving exit because that allows you to go in and edit, or you can it produce. If you're sure it's absolutely perfect from the go, which usually it's not. So then you have a place. You save the raw recording file the raw recording file, and that's where you can work with it from now. This is then your clip, Ben. So where the actual videos are that you're working with? So this the Camp Tasia recording file and automatically when you record it puts it down here on the timeline. Now I've recorded the system audio and the screen with the microphone audio together, so there's two tracks here. The track that's on top is the one shown, So if you want to get rid of something, you select it. Hit, delete. And then I deleted the system audio right there. So this is where the work gets done, so to speak. This is your Whatever you've recorded is right here. and blue. And when you zoom in, the easiest way to edit is to go pull out the part before you started talking. Now the microphone I used is a little far away because I'm not technically recording on this computer. So your audio should be higher up here, and usually, once you go down and trim based on the audio, you can shrink here, trim out, say the audio ends there you can tell based on just watching it. So if you get play, then the video that was shown right up here. So when you get playing, you can skip to the end, you can fast forward, or you can grab the little play point here to move around than this allows you to zoom in or zoom out so you can see different parts. For example, I'm zoomed out here. This is 20 minutes of video. I zoom in here. This is now down to 10 seconds of video. In the timeline, you have the different options. You can go to your library to pull other clips. In here, you can make call out so little symbols and arrows and things on the video. You can zoom in on the video itself. I always leave it just the way it is because I don't want things to be pixelated. I figure if I'm screen capturing, it's better to just leave it the way it is to start. You can do your audio here, your transitions here, and I'll go into most of this more in detail. If you want to record the camera that's in the MAWR option, it took me a while of fine, so if you want to record the camera, it's right here. So between all of these, you have a powerful studio set up that you can use, and once you're done, you hit produce and share, and I'll show much more on this. I usually select my screen cast custom that I've set up that way. Make sure it's an editing dimensions. 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"Do You Want to See My Hornpipe?": The Traditional Irish Dancing Body at Play in the Work of Jean Butler and Colin Dunne.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
This chapter considers the radical re-imaginings of traditional Irish step dance in the recent works of Jean Butler and Colin Dunne. In Butler's Does She Take Sugar (2007) and Dunne's Out of Time (2008), the Irish step dancing body is separated from its historical roots in nationalism, from the exhibitionism required by the competitive form, and from the spectacularization of the commercialized theatrical format. In these works, which are both solo pieces performed by the choreographers themselves, the traditional form undergoes a critical interrogation in which the dancers attempt to depart from the determinacy of the traditional technique, while acknowledging its formation of their corporealities; the Irish step dance technique becomes a springboard for creative experimentation. In order to consider the importance of the creative potential revealed by these works, this chapter will contextualize them within the dance background from which they emerged, outlining the history of competitive step dancing in Ireland, the "modernization" of traditional Irish dance with the emergence of Riverdance (1994), and the experiments of Ireland's national folk theatre, Siamsa Tíre.
|Title of host publication||The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity|
|Publisher||Oxford University Press|
|Publication date||Dec 2013|


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Who to select:
The most important aspect of a MJTA workshop is team selection. In addition to the technical competence required, participants should have:
- The ability and willingness to clearly and accurately describe their experience and knowledge.
- The skill of listening respectfully to the views of others and participating effectively in group discussions without dominating or being dominated.
- The disposition toward not overreacting to criticism or having their contributions analyzed/reorganized.
- The disposition toward being a team player an wants to participate in the process.
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Ptah is male and describes the attribute of a Birkeland Current which is resonant negative charge. He holds the Sceptre through a Djed Column as he describes the process of how electrical power is received through a dielectric, known as the Birkeland Current.
Ptah is father of Nefertum, as he provides the conductive medium known as a Birkeland Current shown by the twisted flax hieroglyph, for inducted charge to flow along.
Hapi explains that many operating resonances create the Birkeland Current, which is a provider of electrical nourishment.
Heqet explains that a Birkeland Current is field aligned current.
Ptah is often shown standing on the plasma pinch hieroglyph, because Birkeland Currents are also one of a class of plasma phenomena called a z-pinch, so named because the azimuthal magnetic fields produced by the current pinches the current into a filamentary cable.
At the Ramesseum Temple, Luxor Sekhmet is shown holding Ptah representing the solar ejection from the anodic Sun nourishing negative charge to the Birkeland Current Ptah, powering a range of phenomenon.
Ptah is often shown flanked by Sekhmet, as Sekhmet is the projected power from the plasma sieve photosphere.
At a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2012, Tom Bleier described the electric currents associated with large earthquakes as "lightning underground," often exceeding 1 million amperes, and he states that static electricity is the key to predicting earthquakes (Lovett, 2013). Some have pegged the trigger for these currents, and the resulting seismic and volcanic events, to be solar activity (Odintsov 2007; Khain 2007/2008; U-yen 2014). This is also what the hieroglyphs confirm.
What was originally understood as the "High Priest of Ptah" is actually hieroglyphs that describe the dynamics of projecting electrostatic power charging Earth events...
Negative charge Electrostatic Collected, Project power to Electric field
And the hieroglyphs for "Sem priest of Ptah'...
The Earth is a capacitor described by Nephthys, and the charge/discharge phases of a capacitor model are dictated by Sekhmet, the primary source of her power being the Sun.
Ptah combined with Sekhmet describes the process powering natural events on the Earth...
Scientists describe a displacement current that occurs with an Earthquake. Along with heating effects, you have sudden change in the magnetic field and before the Earthquake, compression of the ionosphere, which is a change in the electric field visible seen as Earthquake Lights.
Resonance of negative charge is 'collected and incident (or as the hieroglyphs describe sewn in) to the ground'.
Between the Ionosphere and the Earth is a dielectric insulator - air; so the Earth is a big capacitor explained by Nephthys and a Djed Column.
The Earth has layers of electric potential. On Earth's surface there's a net charge of about one million Coulombs and between the surface and the stratosphere there's a potential difference of about 300,000 Volts and it fluctuates all the time.
The electric field or capacitor works as layers, upon layers from externally to underground. For example: the first Van Allen Radiation Belt consists mostly of positive and negative charges.
If you move towards the outer layer of the Van Allen Radiation Belt, it's mostly negative charges. If you go back to the surface of the Earth, on average, its negative charges; so it's a charge alternation of positive and negative and positive and negative.
So by having charge separation there you have a capacitor and an electric field. When you have an electric field you can have stress and this is represented by the Djed Column.
Stress always exists in mediums when charges are separated, natural disasters are the result of energy released from stress, then restoring locally.
If that stress is in the upper lithosphere, and if there's a huge amount of charge just moving along then the stress build up in those rocks can cause Earthquakes.
So when the charge accumulates up to a sudden point, as a threshold, so you have a current discharge occur between two conductors where there's dielectric store of energy; so you can have Earthquakes occur underground, which is a sudden phenomenon.
Scientists describe a displacement current that occurs when the Earthquake occurs. Along with heating effects, you have sudden change in the magnetic field and before the Earthquake occurs, we also have compression of the ionosphere, which is a change in the electric field visible seen as Earthquake Lights.


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Tackling Indigenous smoking: can the promise be kept?
The previous post highlights some of the challenges ahead for the new Health Minister Tanya Plibersek. Reducing Indigenous smoking rates is one of them, says Associate Professor David Thomas from the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin and the Lowitja Institute.
Can Plibersek fulfil Roxon's promises on cutting Indigenous smoking rates?
David Thomas writes:
Reducing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking has been a central element in the Government's efforts to Close the Gap. What does the new Health Minister Tanya Plibersek think of Nicola Roxon's promise to halve the prevalence of Indigenous smoking by 2018?
Unlike us, politicians do not have an annual cycle of New Year's resolutions that are quickly broken or forgotten by mid-January. Politicians can make rash, seemingly bold, promises to fill a sound bite on any day. These may be achievable or be proven to be embarrassingly impossible. Everyone remembers Hawke's promise that no child will live in poverty. Most are, of course, forgotten by all but a few pedantic political tragics and political foes. And timelines (like 2018) are usually so distant that the promising politician will be long gone and not accountable.
A new report (abstract freely available**) outlines the size of the task ahead.
It is well-known that Indigenous smoking prevalence is more than double that of other Australians. What is less well known is that Indigenous smoking prevalence has been coming down since the first reliable national survey in 1994.
Smoking among Indigenous men fell by about 0.4% each year, in both remote and non-remote areas, from 58.5% in 1994 to 52.6% in 2008. Smoking in Indigenous women also fell by 0.5% p.a. in non-remote areas.
These trends are about the same size as the absolute falls in smoking prevalence among all Australian women, and about half the size of the falls among all Australian men. However smoking was still increasing in Indigenous women living remote areas.
In spite of few quit support services or campaigns targeting Indigenous people, apart from those provided routinely by doctors and health services, the report found a consistent increase in quitting from 2002 to 2008. The percentage of Indigenous people who had ever smoked but had now quit increased by about 1% p.a. in men and women in remote and non-remote areas.
These encouraging trends occurred when there was little attention to reducing Indigenous smoking. This Government has committed $100m to reducing Indigenous smoking, with many new Indigenous tobacco workers, an Indigenous social marketing campaign (including television ads), and improved access to Quitline services and nicotine replacement therapy. This complements improved mainstream tobacco control policies such as the tobacco tax excise increase, the national social marketing campaigns, plain packaging, and improved smokefree and retail display legislation.
But to meet Roxon's promise, Indigenous smoking prevalence will have to fall more than six times as quickly as these historical trends, and much faster than smoking fell in the whole population in response to other campaigns in Australia or America.
Roxon's promise may be very difficult for Plibersek or her successors to realise, but at least it has been matched with clear intent and real funding by this Government.
Indigenous smoking will eventually be half the current prevalence, but maybe not by 2018, hopefully soon after. Smoking has been causing far too many deaths and too much sickness in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities for too long.
In response, the Coalition has only grumbled waste and duplication, rather than come up with its own funded plan and targets.
- David Thomas is head of the Tobacco Control Research Program at the Menzies School of Health Research, and Associate Director, Research and Innovation at the Lowitja Institute, Darwin.
-• Croakey is happy to provide the full paper: leave your details below or send an email.


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Akbar troops invade Khandesh
The annexation of Khandesh in 1601 by Akbar was an event of great military and economic importance in the history of Mughal India. Khandesh provided a territorial link between the north and the south. The Mughals realised this; they made use of its resources to promote, preserve and protect the imperial interests. The region, in fact, assumed far greater importance under the Mughals than it had under the Faruqis. For a century and a quarter (_PHONE_), Khandesh as a Mughal province played a vital role in the history of medieval Deccan.
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DELTA, a pneumatic-electronic linear fire detector, analyzes the rate of temperature rise within monitored regions to confirm the presence of a fire or overheating. It senses the fire via stainless steel tubing routed within the protected zone, providing optimal detection coverage.
The DELTA measures and analyzes the Rate Of temperature Rise (RoR) as well as, measuring the absolute temperature change above ambient conditions, while enhancing fire detection reliability.
The DELTA is compatible for both commercial and military applications:
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Military: Single-zone protection for a wide variety of land vehicles and marine vessels.
A flame or overheat detector responds when the temperature rises at a rate exceeding a predetermined value. The Rate-of-Rise heat detector operates on a rapid rise in element temperature over time, irrespective of the starting temperature.
A temperature change of 10 degrees per second has a different interpretation than the same change over 3 hours.
A highly accurate and sensitive mechanism detects direct and indirect fire exposure, while sensor sensitivity can be calibrated according to zone environmental conditions. Fire events, faults and signal peaks are stored in the detector's Non-Volatile Memory, and can be downloaded at any time through a USB interface.
Internal thresholds can be configured for those values and the detector can drive a "Pre Alarm" and "Fire Alarm" Relays accordingly.
The lightweight, compact, and user-friendly Delta combines the DELTA detector as well as audiovisual indications, providing a complete detection, alarm and activation solution in one unit. The built-in visual and audio alerts include: Fire Indication / Fault Indication / Power Indication.
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Why do people love to play guitar?
Why do people love to play guitar?
The guitar is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Some people love to listen to it, while others try their hand at playing one, whether it's acoustic, classic or electric. You may wonder what the appeal of playing the guitar is though.
They love the sound
The first thing that attracts a person to an instrument is the sound. If listening to an instrument is akin to nails on a chalk board for you, then you won't want to play it. However, if you love the sound when it is played well, it will make you more likely to give it a try yourself. Guitar has a very distinctive sound.
It's soothing
The process of playing each note is actually quite soothing, once the movements have become second nature. You don't necessarily have to play a well known song. Some people use partycasino.com to relax, but sometimes it's quite therapeutic to play guitar and see where it goes.
Because they want to get girls
I wouldn't say these people are the most successful guitar players in the world. In fact, I wouldn't recommend taking up guitar if your main aim is to impress the opposite sex. However, if you take it up for that reason, and happen to love it and carry on, at least you got one good thing out of it.
Guitar is portable
The guitar is one of the most portable instruments in the world. Certainly the most portable one which can produce multiple notes, and this makes it more appealing than a keyboard, because you can zip it up in its case and carry it on your back.
Easy to teach
The guitar is relatively easy to teach at its most basic level. You don't have to read sheet music, instead learning the chords and feeling them out as you go. One of the best ways to teach someone, is by teaching them how to play certain songs.
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Please see Prism Objects for a generic introduction to prism concepts.
Prism library maintains some long-living objects that are needed for correct operation of prism objects. This includes:
- Parsed schemas (
SchemaRegistry). Prism parses static schema when the system is initialized and keeps them in memory. Processing the schemas may be costly. Storing them in memry avoids the need for expensive re-parse of the schemas on each use.
- Initialized instances of parsers and serializers (such as JAXB)
These instances are kept in an umbrella class
PrismContext. Prism context is usually maintained as singleton. Instance of prism context is needed for vast majority of operations with prisms. However, prism objects, definitions and items keep a reference to the prism context instance. Therefore the use of prism context is often hidden.
Prism Context Initialization
MidPoint initializes prism context as a part of its normal system initialization. Prism context is exposed as a spring bean. Therefore manual initialization of prism context is usually not needed when working in midPoint environment. In case of need to manually initialize prism context a use of prism context factory is recommended. Please look for classes implementing
PrismContextFactory interface as an example of prism context initialization.
Creating Objects Using Compile-Time Classes (JAXB)
Perhaps the most convenient way how to create an object is to use its generated compile-time class. These classes are generated from the static schema for all prism object types. You can directly instantiate the class and fill it with data using Java getters and setters:
UserType is class generated by prism at compile-time. It correstponds to the
UserType schema type (in XSD schema definition). It has getters and setters for prism properties and containers defined in the schema.
UserType can be instantiated directly using a default constructor. However an object which is instantiated in this way has no connection with the prism context. It will work just fine for most basic operations. But advanced operations will fail unless the object is associated with a prism context. The association can be done in a very simple way by invoking
adopt method of prism context. It is a best practice to adopt new objects as soon possible. This has two major advantages: Adopting the object immediately after instantiation means that you will not forget to adopt it later. Adoption of the object will also associate the object with its schema definition (if possible). Therefore the subsequent operations will be able to do better checks of the object content.
Instantiated (and adopted) object can be populated by data. Getters and setters are available for single-valued properties. For multi-valued attributes only getters are available. Such getters return a collection that can be changed as needed e.g. by adding a new value into the collection.
Prism objects (as the name itself suggests) are multi-faceted. The same object can be inspected and modified using several interfaces:
- Native prism interface (
PrismProperty,...). This is the most powerful interface but it may be slightly difficult to use. It can be used to iterate over the objects, closely inspect every item, iterate over them, inspect (or modify) their schema and do almost any kind of magic imaginable.
- Compile-time class interface (
Containerable). This interface is using classes generated at compile time. It is very similar to JAXB (in fact it is based on JAXB) but it works for more data formats not just XML. The objects are accessed using simple getters and setters. This interface is very convenient to use. But it is only limited to the parts of the schema that was available at compile time.
- DOM interface (W3C DOM) used to access the objects as DOM elements. The implementation of this interface is not complete yet.
- Map interface (java.util.Map and Collection) might be able to access the prism objects as simple Java Maps and Collections. This is planned. The implementation haven't started yet.
Any prism object can be represented using any interface. At the same time. Each representation can be converted to any other representation using methods such as
The important thing to remember is that these are just different representations of the same data. They are not copies. Therefore modifying the data using one representation will have immediate effect on all other representations of the same object.
Parsing and Serializing Objects
Prism context contains a set of processors to support various data formats:
- DOM processor supports parsing of XML data structures represented in DOM form (or parsed into DOM form).
- JAXB processor supports parsing of XML data structures represented in JAXB form (e.g. as JAXB elements). This is not a standalone processor by itself. Due to the JAXB limitations this processor usually cannot be used by itself. It cooperates with DOM processor (and vice versa). The interplay of these two processors is quite intricate. And quite fragile. We are sorry for this. But haven't found a better way how to work around the limitations of these XML libraries.
- JSON processor supports parsing of JSON-formatted objects. This is currently in development.
The processors can be invoked to parse the objects stored in appropriate forms:
Parsing will process the objects in their input form (File, stream, string,...) and it will return complete and initialized prism objects. On the other hand serialization will work on initialized prism object and it will output it in an appropriate form for storage, transmission over the network, etc. Serialization is also invoked by using processors:
PolyString and PolyStringType
PolyString is a special type of string that is designed to very easily support text operations in international environment. Most properties that contain human-readable names are represented as PolyString in midPoint data model. Using polystrings instead of strings may be a bit of nuisance during development but it is more than worth the trouble. As a developer you would usually only care about
orig part of the polystring. This is what you will be usually displayed. You also need to set just the
orig part of the polystring when setting a new value. The other polystring values (e.g.
norm) will be computed transparently by prism code when polystring is added to any prism property.
Unfortunately due to implementation limitations we have two classes that represent polystrings:
|PolyString||Prism native interface (PrismProperty)||Manually written from scratch, part of prism core|
|PolyStringType||Compile-time classes (UserType, etc.)||JAXB class (almost) generated from XSD||In UserType use PolyStringType|
The reason for this confusion is mostly caused by a limitation of JAXB framework. We are using JAXB framework to parse XSD schemas and generate compile-time classes. As the origin of all generated compile-time classes are in XSD definition also all of their property types must also have XSD definition. This includes PolyString. Although we have modified and customized significant part of JAXB we haven't found a way how to avoid this confusion.
As you might have already noticed native prism interface makes a heavy use of generics. Although Java generics has its limitations this approach gives us at least some compile-time type checking.
Prism object are designed to be serializable using Java IO serialization (implement interface
java.io.Serializable). This is needed for GUI to store this objects in web session, etc. However, only items (PrismObject, PrismContainer, PrismProperty,...), values (PrismPropertyValue,...), definitions (PrismObjectDefinition,...) and deltas (ObjectDelta,...) are serializable. Infrastructure classes such as prism context or processors are not.
You can serialize the prism objects directly using standard java serialization. These objects contain reference to prism context but that reference is transient. This also means that you need to restore this reference after you deserialize the objects. Use
adopt method of prism context to do so.
- Components: "prism" component and "schema" component
- Dynamic schema
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Peach Blueberry Crumble
Summertime and fruity desserts go together and one of my family's favorite is a Peach Blueberry Crumble. Sweet, juicy fruit is very important – large white or yellow peaches and plump blueberries – but for me it's all about the crumble – the more the better. A few years ago I started making a peach crumble from a recipe in Cooks Illustrated but adapted it to my tastes:
- more crumble topping
- blueberries and peaches instead of just peaches
- more almond flavor by using almond flour (not toasted) and almond extract
- instead of corn starch I use a product called "Pie Enhancer" made by King Arthur Flour to help thicken the juices from the fruit
There are two parts to making this dessert: partially pre-baking the crumble and then compiling and baking the fruit crumble. It's very simple to make.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Cut a piece of parchment paper so that it covers and overhangs a standard cookie sheet.
- In a food processor, blend the flours, sugars, and salt for 15 seconds.
- While running, pour the vanilla and almond extract down the feeding tube and blend for 10 seconds.
- Add the butter and mix in the food processor until the crumble starts to come together, about 30 seconds.
- Add the slivered almonds to the crumble and process 1 second.
- Pour the crumble on the parchment paper.
- Bake for 20 minutes – the crumble should be a beige color, not a brown color.
- Remove from the oven and turn the oven heat up to 350 degrees.
- Place the peach slices in a large mixing bowl.
- Add blueberries and gently stir to mix the fruit.
- Pour the lemon juice over the fruit and gently stir.
- Sprinkle the sugar over the fruit and gently stir.
- Sprinkle the pie enhancer over the fruit and gently stir.
- Sprinkle the cinnamon, nutmeg and salt over the fruit and gently stir to blend.
- Lightly butter the bottom and sides of an 11 x 8.5 x 2 inch glass baking dish (the glass allows you to see the fruit which is an important part of the presentation – expect major oohs and aah's when placed on the table).
- Pour the fruit into the greased pan.
- Scoop the pre-baked crumble on top of the fruit. Lift the parchment paper up by the sides and pour the crumble that can't be scooped up, to cover the fruit.
- Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
- Remove from the oven and let sit for 30 minutes before serving.


Turning Toward the Heart, Awakening to the Sufi Way, Forty Questions and Answers with Shaykh al-Tariqat Hazrat Azad Rasool
Excerpt from: "Question 35: Awakening the Heart
What does it mean for the heart to become "awakend" or "enlightened"?
turning_heart……As the salik devotes more time to muraqabah (meditation), the heart continues to be polished until it becomes like a mirror, accurately reflecting events and circumstances around it. The heart is "open" when the remembrance of God engages it fully. Light suffuses the heart, revealing aspects of reality that previously lay hidden. There dawns a new, more complete understanding of life in all its aspects. In short, the seeker is enlightened.
The Indian master Sayyid 'Abd al Bari Shah (r.a.) (d. 1900) once said, "To restore life to a dead person is not a miracle." His student Hazrat Hamid Hasan 'Alawi (r.a.) (d.1959) asked in amazement, "If reviving the dead does not constitute a miracle, what does?" Sayyid 'Abd al-Bari Shah (r.a.) replied, "The greater task is to awaken a lifeless heart. To awaken a dead heart is not within the reach of any person unless and until the grace of God supports this effort".
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GAINING HEALTH WHILE GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
Older adults who volunteer in troubled urban schools not only improve the educational experience of children, but realize meaningful improvements in their own mental and physical health, say researchers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
The Johns Hopkins investigators base their conclusion on the first randomized clinical trial testing the health benefits of participating in an established volunteer program called Experience Corps in Baltimore.
"While our results are preliminary, what we found is a 'win-win' for everyone involved," says the study's lead author, Linda P. Fried, M.D., director of the Center on Aging and Health at Johns Hopkins. "Giving back to your community may slow the aging process in ways that lead to a higher quality of life in older adults," she adds.
"Physical, cognitive and social activity increased in volunteers, suggesting potential for Experience Corps and similar programs to improve health for an aging population, while simultaneously improving educational outcomes for children," she said. "It potentially could have great social impact if taken to a large scale."
The study is published in the April issue of the Journal of Urban Health, which also includes companion studies by Johns Hopkins researchers that found Experience Corps to be cost effective and detailed the educational boon to students.
Started in 1996, Experience Corps is an award-winning program that places teams of older adults in urban public schools as tutors and mentors. Currently, more than 1,000 Experience Corps members are volunteering in 100 elementary and middle schools in 18 cities across the country. But the program was also designed to help adults keep healthy, say the Johns Hopkins researchers.
"Evidence is mounting that remaining active and engaged is beneficial as one ages, but our society has not developed approaches that support such activity for the broad spectrum of older adults," says Fried. "That's why we were eager to see if this program might work to provide such benefits."
To test, in a scientifically valid method, whether Experience Corps improves key aging risk factors declines in physical, cognitive, and social activity a research team designed a two-year pilot study that compared 128 Experience Corps volunteers, ages 60 to 86, to a comparable control group.
Participants in the study, predominantly African-American women, volunteered at six Baltimore public schools, helping children in kindergarten to grade three. The volunteers were organized into teams and worked in the schools 15 hours per week, usually over three to four days. They were trained to help children improve their reading skills, to support library operations and help pick out books and read, to solve problems and play cooperatively. A small stipend of $150 to $200 a month was offered to the volunteers to reimburse for expenses.
Volunteers signed up for "generative," not health-related reasons, says Fried. The majority, almost 88 percent, either said they loved children, or wanted to help them. Of the rest, about 11 percent said they wanted to make a difference in their own lives, or help themselves "feel good," and only 2 percent said they volunteered to "stay active."
Most of the volunteers, 71 percent, had a high school education, and 14 percent used a cane.
To determine any health advantages that came with participation, the researchers evaluated the control and intervention groups before and after the trial. They found that 98 percent of participants in the intervention group reported being satisfied with their experience, and 80 percent returned the following year. Such a high retention rate reflects the "health promotion potential" of Experience Corps, the researchers say.
The investigators also found evidence for short-term change in health outcomes. Among them:
- At follow-up, 44 percent of Experience Corps participants reported feeling stronger, compared with 18 percent of controls, and there was a 13 percent increase in those who reported their strength as very good to excellent, versus a 30 percent decline among controls.
- Cane use decreased in 50 percent of users in the intervention group, compared with 20 percent in the control group. Falls also decreased.
- In terms of social activity, Experience Corps volunteers reported a significant increase, compared to a decline in the control group, in the number of people they felt they could turn to for help.
- In measuring cognitive benefit, the researchers say that increases in cognitive activities in the school were not offset by a decrease in book reading and other such mental activities at home in participants. TV viewing, considered the "most common low intensity activity," declined by 4 percent in volunteers and increased by 18 percent in the control group. "In contrast to other programs that target health care beneficiaries, the Experience Corps program is designed to attract all adults, including those less likely to participate in formal health-promotion programs," says Fried. "We show it can lead to meaningful short-term improvement in healthy behaviors for older adults while they, at the same time, offer social capital that is highly valued," says Fried.
While Experience Corps may be expensive for the short-term health improvements it offers volunteers, when potential benefits for students and possible long-term benefits are factored in, the program could be highly cost-effective, say Johns Hopkins researchers.
This study, published in the same issue of the journal as a companion to the Johns Hopkins pilot study of the health benefits inherent in the Experience Corps program, found cost per volunteer (assuming 500 volunteers were enrolled) was $3,613, or about $7 per hour of volunteer time. Short-term improvements in older adult health resulted in medical care cost savings of $273 per volunteer.
When long-term benefit for students was factored in, the program became fiscally sound, says lead author Kevin Frick, Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "If only 12 students who would not have graduated otherwise eventually graduate, the program becomes cost-effective
In yet another related study, the Experience Corps program was found to lead to selective improvements in student reading, academic achievement and classroom behavior while not burdening the school staff, say researchers who studied 1,194 children from six urban elementary schools who
participated in this phase of the pilot trial.
At follow-up, third-grade children whose schools were randomly selected for the program had significantly higher scores on a standardized reading test than children in the control schools, and office referrals for classroom misbehavior decreased by about half in the Experience Corps schools but
remained the same in the control schools.
"Taken together, the results from this pilot trial lead us to conclude that the Experience Corps Baltimore program can potentially make an important difference in the lives of young children and their schools, even after a relatively brief exposure period," says the study's lead researcher, George W. Rebok, Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The lead study was funded by The Retirement Research Foundation, the Erickson Foundation, the State of Maryland, the State of Maryland Department of Education, the Baltimore City Public Schools, the Baltimore City Commission on Aging and Retirement Education, the Johns Hopkins Prevention Center and the Corporation for National Service. Co-authors include Michelle Carlson, Ph.D., Kevin Frick, Ph.D., Joel Hill, M.S.,George Rebok, Ph.D., James Tielsch, Ph.D., Scott Zeger, Ph.D., Barbara Wasik, Ph.D., from Hopkins; Teresa Seeman, Ph.D., from the University of California at Los Angeles; Marc Freedman, from Civic Ventures Inc.; and Sylvia McGill from The Greater Homewood Community Corporation, an umbrella community organization in northern Baltimore.
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To all that previously contacted Measurement Canada in support of fair billing standards, your voice was heard. Measurement Canada has now made this matter a priority and is collaborating with EV industry stakeholders to ensure that EV billing is made transparent and fair for all EV drivers.
Public EV charging operators currently bill EV drivers on a time-basis (per-minute or per-hour), because Canadian metering rules were not designed with EV charging in mind. After hearing from EV drivers and enthusiasts across the country, like you, Measurement Canada is now working on a plan to develop metering standards to allow EV charging to be priced on the amount of energy received (kW per hour). Tesla will continue to monitor the development of the standard and may, from time to time, share news with those who have opted-in to our Tesla Policy mail list about any proposals that would negatively impact consumers and the transition to sustainable energy.
The current rules would require the utilization of a pre-approved and inspected utility-grade electricity meter, which would increase the costs of charging infrastructure, and therefore the cost to charge an EV.
While EV charging and pumping gas are entirely different experiences, the equivalent would be like paying for gas based on how long a customer is using the pump -- regardless of the amount of gasoline transferred to their vehicle. Similarly, it would be like paying for groceries based on the amount of time spent in the supermarket, rather than the products in your cart.
As you may know, EVs charge at different speeds for a variety of reasons:
Different cars charge at different rates on the same charging station
- Different vehicle models are equipped with different onboard chargers and have different charging capabilities.
- DC-fast charging speeds also depend on the vehicle's capabilities and other factors.
Identical cars on different charging stations may charge at different rates
- Two stations with identical per-minute billing but different power ratings will result in the same bill, for a different amount of energy delivered.
Two identical cars, on two identical charging stations may charge at different rates
- DC charging speeds depend on a battery's state of charge, battery temperature and ambient temperature.
- Some charging technologies use power management technology to reduce the flow of power to a vehicle in order to optimize for efficient use of the utility service connection. While this can be useful for charging operators, drivers often have no knowledge of power limiting or power-sharing capabilities. Such technologies are likely to become more commonplace, which is why per kWh billing is more appropriate.
Measurement Canada's role is to protect consumers by ensuring that they pay for what they're getting. However, the practice of time-based billing, which EV charging operators have had to adopt, does just the opposite. It lacks transparency, it undermines the principles of consumer protection, and it is unfair for EV drivers like you. The fairest and most transparent way to bill EV charging is based on the amount of energy received, measured in dollars per kilowatt hour ($/kWh).
Many EV owners and enthusiasts like you asked Measurement Canada to allow kWh-billing as early as possible, and:
 - Temporarily pause the current requirements for EV charging equipment to be registered and certified as electric (utility) meters, so that charging operators can bill their customers on a per-kWh basis.
 - Set a clear timeline to consult EV charging manufacturers, EV drivers, and other key stakeholders and develop measurement specifications for EV charging stations. As a consumer protection agency, engaging with EV drivers should be a top priority.
 - Exempt residential and workplace stations from metering specifications and give multi-unit building owners flexibility in how to set up billing for home charging in larger buildings.
Enabling kWh-billing for EV charging will provide more transparent pricing and ensure that EV drivers are not penalized for slower charging sessions. There is still a lot to be done, but we are pleased to learn that Measurement Canada has begun the process to implement new metering rules for EV charging technologies.
Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy, and with your help, we are ensuring that all EV drivers feel confident that they're getting billed for the electricity they're really using. Thank you again for your advocacy efforts.
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Hospitalist Service Benefits Everyone. But How Much?
Dr Wes opined about his interpretation of the benefit a hospitalist service can offer its hospital. I hope to set a few of his opinions straight and explain that the reality is not all that meets the eye. Let me clarify several things as I see them from a hospitalist service in the trenches. When you present $268 as the bottom line, you miss out on a whole lot of other lines that an excellent hospitalist service brings to the table.
Lets start with that $268 figure. Let us assume that a 300 bed hospital is always full. Let us assume the average hospital stay is 5 days long. How many admissions or diagnosis related groups (DRGs) can a hospital collect in a year? A 300 bed hospital at maximum load will have 109,5000 patient days. If the average length of stay is 5 days, that represents 21,900 admissions to the hospital or DRGs.
Now imagine if all those 21,900 DRGs, all were taken care of by internists. Then the following year, all of them were taken care of by hospitalists. What is the savings from a well run hospitalist service? That total is $268 * 21,900 or 5,869,000 dollars. Almost six million dollars could be earned by a hospital if all medical admissions once cared for by community internists were instead cared for by a hospitalist service. Obviously in a hospital, not all admissions are handled by internists. Some are surgical, some are observation, some are family practice, so the benefit in direct resource utilization is not quite as high.
Now let us take my hospitalist service for example. Let us use a daily census of 75 as an example. If you plug in this same data, and assume a LOS of 5 days, then our hospitalist service will see on average 5475 DRGs a year. If all were previously admitted by community internists, that $268 just became 1.5 million dollars a year in direct costs savings from resource utilization. So what may seem like chump change, is in fact a huge chunk of change in the tight margins of hospital economics.
Now, this $268, is actually the smallest benefit by far to the hospital. Imagine a full hospital system. If your hospital is at maximum capacity and payment is based on DRG, then the quicker you get them out, the more room you have to admit other patients of higher potential margins from Medicare. The reason it pays to get medical patients out as quick as safely possible is because medical admissions generally loose money to a hospital system. So even $268 per DRG is a WIN-WIN.
But let us go back to the length of stay benefit of 0.4 days. Let us dissect that number. Imagine again our 300 bed hospital at maximum load. Let us again imagine a LOS of 5 days. That gives 109,500 patient bed days. If the average LOS is 5 days, that gives 21,900 DRG payments. Hospitals are paid on diagnosis related groups (DRGs), so if you are in the hospital for 2 days or 20, they get paid the same (with some minor adjustments). Let us just use a DRG payment of $5000 for simplicity.
Revenue for that hospital for the year would be 21,900 * $5000. Or $109,500,000, without the hospitalist service. Now let us imagine if the hospitalist service admitted every single patient to the hospital and was able to shave just 0.4 days off the hospital stay. How many DRGs could a hospital collect in that year?
Well, at a LOS of 4.6 days instead of 5, at a 300 bed hospital, at full capacity, that equates to 23, 804 DRGs, an increase of 1904 DRGs. Let us use that $5,000 average DRG payment (which would actually go up as better paying procedural admissions were made possible with open beds) and you see that a hospital can collect an additional $9,520,000 in DRGs based solely on a decrease length of stay of less than 1/2 day per patient, if a hospitalist service had their mittens on every patient brought into the hospital.
This is where the actual direct costs savings come into play. By allowing the hospital to optimize their staffing (the nurse will get paid the same whether there are 21K or 23K DRGs, every additional DRG is pure profit to the hospital. Making beds available for those elective total knees and bypass surgeries increases the average DRG payment, the stuff that drives profit.
All of this is the result of The Medicare National Bank's fantasy land economics and has resulted in skewed incentives for the development of specialty based procedural hospitals which can, in the long run improve quality and decrease costs. Unfortunately, it also puts an unfair burden on full service hospitals which require the skewed economies/DRG reimbursement of procedures to make up for my money losing pneumonia admissions.
$10 million dollars a year. That's how much a hospitalist service could bring to the table. If you imagined a hospitalist group getting 4 million dollars a year in support to see all 300 patients every day in the hospital (at maximum efficiency that would require a group of about 40 docs ), the yearly return on investment of 4 million dollars is 250%, starting at year one. The per doc support would be about $100,000.
Can you think of any other business decision that result in immediate 250% ROI? I can't. That's why hospitalist services and hospitalist compensation are in demand.
This is a simple run down on why a hospitalist service makes sense and why administrators that get it are willing to support a WIN-WIN solution. The benefits don't stop at money. I can't tell you how many times I have had nursing staff tell us they are so glad we are here. We are much more accessable in emergencies. The ER loves us because we are there to improve throughput in the ER. The specialists love us because we can quickly do floor consults for routine management of medical problems like diabetes and hypertension and to quickly evaluate a decompensating surgical patient.
The primary care docs, whose patients we see at their discretion, love us because we see their patients for them, we do a great job and we allow them to increase their office practice with 100% paying customers. Families love us because we have time to talk to them and to give them the time of day. Our satisfaction surveys are routinely higher from all comers.
Your point about finding a new doctor is well taken. But I must also remind you that this fragmentation of care occurs among all specialists that we work with as well. Every week the ID, the cardiologist, the GI, the nephrologist and even the surgeon changes. They go through their week of hospital rotation and then their partner comes on.
To single out a hospitalist service is in my book unfair. A changing service is universal in hospitalized patients. As far as "bonuses and production", the last time I checked, salary compensation based on length of stay was illegal. If you think about it, this is actually counter intuitive, and the opposite of what you suggest. The longer you hold onto patients, the more RVU's you will generate and therefore more production and more money. But also less benefit of the length of stay, and therefore less benefit of the program in general. That's why I am a staunch believer in a well run private practice hospitalist program where the administration understands the value hospitalists bring to the table.
Let the private practice hospitalist service sort out the details reimbursement/staffing/bonuses/benefits. The hospital's only job is should be to ensure that their hospitalist group survives and thrives. The benefits will come to the bottom line and to all those around it.
I can assure you in my 5 years of private practice, there has never been one patient I have ever discharged where I felt it was based on any type of financial reward to me. I discharge a patient when I feel they are medically stable. My malpractice risk doesn't afford me to practice any other way. In a well run program the limitations are mostly overcome. The transfer of information is quick, between hand offs, between hospitalist and primary care doc.
The one trade off of having a hospitalist vs primary care doc? Well, we are not their outpatient doc. You have correctly stated that fact. But we are highly professional doctors who can efficiently care for very sick people. And do so quickly. I once had a consult at midnight on a surgical patient for "high blood pressure." Hypotension causes me to jump. So does unexplained hypertension in a young one. It was presented to me as non urgent, but when I saw the patient, that night, it became quite clear to me the patient was in florid alcohol withdrawal. I had, in fact had the patient intubated that night. There is nothing that compares to the bed side evaluation, something outpatient doctors are not available to do at all hours of the day.
So the trade offs are all relative.
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About the Trial Courts
Tennessee's 95 counties are divided into 31 judicial districts. Within each district are Circuit Courts and Chancery Courts, as provided by the state constitution. Some districts also have legislatively established Criminal Courts and Probate Courts. Judges of these courts are elected to 8-year terms.
Circuit Courts are courts of general jurisdiction in Tennessee. Circuit court judges hear civil and criminal cases and appeals of decisions from Juvenile, Municipal, and General Sessions Courts. The jurisdiction of circuit courts often overlaps that of the chancery courts. Criminal cases are tried in circuit court except in districts with separate criminal courts established by the General Assembly.
Chancery Courts are courts of equity that are based on the English system in which the chancellor acted as the "King's conscience." A chancellor, the judge who presides over chancery courts, may modify the application of strict legal rules and adapt relief to the circumstances of individual cases. Chancery Courts handle a variety of issues including lawsuits, contract disputes, application for injunctions and name changes. A number of matters, such as divorces, adoptions, and workers' compensation, can be heard in either chancery or circuit court.
Criminal Courts were established by the legislature to relieve circuit courts in areas with heavy caseloads. In addition to having jurisdiction over criminal cases, criminal court judges hear misdemeanor appeals from lower courts. In districts without criminal courts, criminal cases are handled at the trial level by circuit court judges.
Probate Courts were created by the legislature and given jurisdiction over probate of wills and administration of estates. Probate judges also handle conservatorships and guardianships.


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I'm trying to plot an implicit function satisfying a complex transcendental equation. The code is the following:
ContourPlot[(e (-1 + e^2) l (-3 + 2 e^2 - l^2) Cosh[2 Sqrt[1 - e^2]] +
 (-1 + e^2) (-1 + l^2) (e l Cos[2] - I (1 + l^2) Sin[2]) + Sqrt[1 - e^2]
 (I - I l^4 - 2 e (-2 + e^2) l Sqrt[-e^2 + l^2]) Sinh[2 Sqrt[1 - e^2]]) == 0,
 {l, 1, 2}, {e, -2, 2}]
I need a real solution of e as a function of l and also e<=Min{1,l}. I don't know why it's empty in the plot. I don't think it's because the solution is out of the range since I tried l=1, and there are several solutions, one of which is e = 0. Thus I think there must be something wrong with the plot.
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Your expression is not real, but complex. Think about how you want to turn your expression real. The documentation states
At positions where f does not evaluate to a real number, holes are left so that the background to the contour plot shows through.
So what you probably want is to test Abs[f[..]]==0 which gives you the lines where the whole left side vanishes. Unfortunately, they are not in your plot region. Therefore, take a look at this and hover with the mouse over the region borders to see the iso-value.
f[l_, e_] := (e (-1 + e^2) l (-3 + 2 e^2 - l^2) Cosh[
 2 Sqrt[1 - e^2]] + (-1 + e^2) (-1 + l^2) (e l Cos[2] -
 Sqrt[1 - e^2] (I - I l^4 - 2 e (-2 + e^2) l Sqrt[-e^2 + l^2]) Sinh[
 2 Sqrt[1 - e^2]]);
ContourPlot[Abs[f[l, e]], {l, 1, 2}, {e, -2, 2}]
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Thanks for answering. I don't quite understand why only the real part of function is zero. The equation is complex does not mean the solution of e has to be complex, right? – Knightq Oct 18 '13 at 4:18
I see what you mean, but this does not equivalent to the original equation anymore. I try Im[f]==0, the solution is different. Seems like my equation is problematic.. – Knightq Oct 18 '13 at 4:24
I just wanted to point out where the issue lies. You don't have to (and probably shouldn't) use Re. What you want is probably Abs[f[l,e]] but this is for you to decide. – halirutan Oct 18 '13 at 4:26
Thanks a lot, I see where I got wrong. And it seems to me that ContourPlot ignores isolated solution, doesn't it? – Knightq Oct 18 '13 at 6:52
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