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Cultural Landscapes is an open-access, online academic journal of Cultural Studies based in the Cultural Studies Program at Columbia College Chicago. The journal has a special commitment to publishing the work of undergraduate students, graduate students, and emerging scholars in the field of Cultural Studies.
Our journal provides a critical and much-needed forum in which diverse work in the Humanities and Social Sciences can be published. We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies. At the same, we demand a rigorous engagement with issues of cultural research, theory, and practice. We especially encourage work that explicitly seeks to link the humanities and social sciences, combining a variety of methods of interpretation and analysis to explore the production, distribution, and consumption of cultural phenomena in their social context.

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Description of the Our House animation
Curiousgirl introduces this animation by asking players if they want to grab their telescope and find out who comes to Parliament house.
This animation opens with two discs, containing symbolic representations, moving clock-wise in a circle, backed by a duotone image of Australia's Parliament House and the screen title 'Our house'. At the same time as the circles appear, the sound of clap sticks and didgeridoo are heard. The two discs are located at opposite positions on the circular path. One has an image representing Australia's Parliament House and the other is a design representing an Aboriginal meeting.
As the two images rotate around the screen the text'meeting place' appears in the centre of the screen. After a few seconds a third disc containing an image of members of parliament in the House of Representatives chamber appears at the same time as a speech is concluded. The central text changes to 'for politicians'.
After a few seconds a fourth disc containing an image of people in the foyer appears with the sound of a guide welcoming a group of visitors to Parliament House. The discs are arranged equally around the circular path and the central text changes to 'for the public'.
In a few seconds, a fifth disc containing an image of a media crew interviewing a politician appears and the central text changes to 'for the media'. At the same time a female news reporter introduces the top news story on a news program called PEO news hour.
Next a sixth disc containing an image of a demonstration outside Australia's Parliament House appears. The audio suggests an angry protest. The central text changes to 'for protestors'.
Following this a sixth disc containing an image of Crown Princess Mary of Denmark appears as a familiar Australian tune begins. The central text changes to 'for international guests'.
Finally, the central text fades out and the discs move off the screen and the background image of Parliament House lights up to full colour. The text 'Australia's Parliament House' appears and the audio fades to complete the animation.
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This paper reports a numerical investigation of a periodic metallic structure sandwiched between two quartz plates. The volume comprised between the quartz plates and the metallic structure is infiltrated by a mixture of azo-dye-doped liquid crystal. The exposure to a low power visible light beam modifies the azo dye molecular configuration, thus allowing the wavelength shift of the resonance of the system. The wavelength shift depends on the geometry of the periodic structure and it also depends on the intensity of the visible light beam.
Optical Society of America. Journal B: Optical Physics, 2014, Vol 31, Issue 2, p. 360-365


Building new, weird CPUs in FPGAs
40 thoughts on "Building new, weird CPUs in FPGAs
 1. The HAD summary is very confusing. There's a lookup table with 32 bit target address, and this lookup table uses index values based on an 8-bit value in the program, and the value of the Program Counter. So, the PC defines a certain window in the table, and you use the 8 bit index to select a value.
 1. The description here at hackaday is wrong. The jump is made indirectly, but the index addresses a location in a sliding window. The window slides as a function of the PC, but in an entirely different memory space.
 1. Indirect addressing is standard on all CPUS i know, including the 6502. Am I missing something? Otherwise the "sliding memory window" is something that is supported by the MMU in modern (after 1990) CPUs.
 2. It's basically a constant pool of jump targets. Why not just use it as a constant pool of 32 bit values, which can be used either as addresses, or as any other 32 bit constant?
 It also needs a better escape mechanism for when the constant pool is full.
 1. Arlet, you are right. It is a bit like the constant pool, but better since it can be shared across multiple functions.
 When the window is full you can always jump to another place in memory. The compiler can see that the window is close to being full and put some padding (or insert some data) before the function to create room in the table. In my forth work this happened pretty rarely.
 Thank you for your great 6502 core, BTW.
 3. Is this already possible to some extent by adding an immediate value to the PC? (Though this only gives four bits of resolution plus some shifting.)
 I realise that if someone's gone to the trouble of modifying a processor instruction set, they're going to know it pretty well and if there's already a workable variant they're not going to bother reinventing the wheel.
 4. Nothing against doing something just for the practice, but it'd be nice to see some actual analysis of the problem, and how this solution will help. Eg. have a simulated processor run some realistic code not specifically engineered to showcase far jumps, with performance measurements. Also lacking is details of how this will affect the CPU pipeline, and how compilers can take advantage of this feature.
 5. Sounds a lot like how the TI-99/4 and 4A operated. "Only the Program Counter, Status Register, and Workspace Pointer registers were on the chip; all work registers were kept in RAM at an address indicated by the Workspace Pointer. 16 registers were available at any given time, and a context switch instruction which changed to another workspace automatically allowed fast context switches compared to other processors which may have had to store and restore the registers."
 Imagine that concept running on a current speed CPU, with many more workspace pointers and much larger workspaces.
 1. There's an even better way – keep those registers with you.
 Heavily pipeline, but make the pipe wide enough to carry the instruction, PC and "registers" (operands/result/src/destination addresses) along in one cycle, then just switch to the next thread every clock.
 It means that one thread takes ~ 100 clks per "instruction cycle"- to and from memory a couple of times, via operation units, in lots of little steps. All the "registers" are in memory somewhere, apart from the specialized units used as fifos or rendevous between threads. (or to initiate a run of subthreads, or to collate results).
 The reason the very next clock can't be operating on the same thread is because such pipelining causes hazards – the "instruction" hasn't actually completed yet!
 But then you get to run up to n threads concurrently without impacting any threads performance. (if the round trip for one "instruction" worth of thread – from one instruction fetch to the next in the same thread – was n clks.)
 This also makes time management easier, as you can easily calculate how long a thread will take to execute, regardless of what else is running. (once you know the map of the specific layout, at least).
 Add a way of "holding" low priority threads in a round-robin manner, and you can have any number of user threads at uncertain speed, plus a few "real-time" system threads doing time-critical IO type tasks.
 One would then swap having a "ALU" that can *optionally* perform different operations, for a bank of dedicated adders/multipliers, fifos/semaphores etc. This way the "opcode" becomes in effect an address used to route the "instruction" in flight. This means extending the architecture is really easy as well, since a given packet doesn't need to execute always in the same operational unit – it carries its payload/operands with itself anyway, in parallel.
 One could also conceive of reconfiguring a block of operational units to change the number/type of such dynamically, on an as-needed basis. If the adders are running flat out but some of the extra multipliers are stalled, reconfigure the excess multipliers as more adders.
 It should achieve much better performance/watt overall, at the cost of not running any one thread particularly fast, by modern standards. If many op units aren't needed, power them off. The idea is to contruct the architecture from the "worker's" point of view, IE: keep the op units busy! This is in contrast to conventional design, which is to make one thread go as fast as possible, then try to extend to many. Better would be to make any "high priority" thread *always* execute in the same time, regardless of whatever else is happening, then to allow many other things to happen so as to use up all the op unit's schedules.
 It's a bit of a stretch to call such a thing a CPU though, since it's the opposite of a central processing unit – more a decentralized computation grid. (or maybe, substrate?)
 All the above is free for whoever to try their hand at it – I have been "putting off" sitting down with an FPGA to implement this for about three years now. I am well familiar with the "character building" nature of detailed computer engineering. The article is spot on about that!
 For all I know, all those threads in flight will encounter sticky "traffic jam" issues.
 That or the whole width will end up just too wide. But I suppose it doesn't necessarily have to have every part bit of the width in the same place – so long as the path takes the right number of clocks to get to where it needs to.
 Anyway, an interesting paradigm flip which may or may not help. It's interesting, however, that modern supercomputer architecture chips do exactly this sort of 'fine grained' SMT – usually across their fairly shot pipelines.
 6. those real programmer stories reminds me of those nascar guys who refused to wear those safetybands on their neck for avoiding breaking the neck and obviously borke their necks
 7. Thanks for your feedback. Many of you seemed to have missed the point – this is not indirect jumping at all. The jump is made through a sliding window that looks into a different memory space which contains only pointers. As the PC moves along, the sliding window slides, retiring old pointers and allowing for new ones.
 The reason to do this is to allow an 8-bit index to address any amount of RAM.
 1. I think I get what you mean. The window slides up and down as CALLs and RETs are issued. An 8-bit short-cut to a 256(say)-element lookup table that contains the actual addresses. The 8-bit shortcuts are just representative tokens of the real address. Since CALLs tend to be paired up with RETs, as the pointer moves up and down, it's effectively an infinitely long list, or a long enough one. IE very few programs call up data from 300 positions down the stack. Most stack accesses use the most recent few bytes placed there.
 1. Close. Since the base of the window of 256 available targets is relatted to the PC at runtime, the window does not slide, it is instantly located where it belongs. At compile time, each subroutine has its own space, and since calls are target-localized (that is a subroutine that has been used is likely to be used again nearby and much less likely far away), there is a lot of overlap within the window – pointers in the table get reused.
 8. I have mixed feelings about this: on one hand, the 8 bit tokens sound like the code density could be really good. On the other hand, storing the lookup table is going to take a significant amount of memory, so it might in fact be both easier and more efficient to just store the 32 bit value right where you need it.
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It's time to don your anorak and help the Curtz with a fact or two. When does a kitten become referred to as a cub? For instance does a Scottish wild cat have cubs or kittens? What are a lynx offspring called? Do cubs start at puma or leopard?
Regards Davey C


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CPN Vision and Goals
The CPN overall vision is to develop the Capital Region's capacity to more effectively attract, welcome and integrate newcomers into our community, workplaces, organizations and institutions.
The following goals have been identified:
- Raise awareness among community leaders and business managers of the need to create more welcoming and inclusive communities and workplaces in the Greater Victoria region. To help people to recognize and understand that 'inclusion' is their concern and to reach out and build pods of advocates within organizations and across sectors.
- Strengthen the collective knowledge and skill-set of partnering organizations and develop an ongoing professional learning network and learning opportunities.
- Identify and apply solutions to known barriers to inclusion. Ask leaders, employers, service and learning agents, policy/program decision makers, front-line staff and others what types of organizational and educational needs will enable them to facilitate immigrant integration. Facilitate opportunities, provide useful tools and establish new relationships.
- Create a Local Immigration Partnership (LIP). A community based initiative to coordinate and create a strategic plan for the settlement and integration of immigrants in the community.
"Greater Victoria is a community where old neighbours and newcomers alike can build trusting relationships through respectful curiosity and openness to learning about themselves and others. It is a place with transparent local governance processes and public services that dignify all members, and support their efforts to make valuable contributions in our community. – CPN Member"


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The National Huguenot Society
Bloomington, Minnesota. The National Huguenot Society is an organization devoted to: 1. Coordinating activities of member societies, and promoting and supporting fulfillment of their common purposes which include: a. perpetuating the memory and promoting the principles and virtues of the Huguenots; b. commemorating the great events of Huguenot history; c. collecting and preserving historical data and relics illustrative of Huguenot life, manners, and customs; 2. To give expression to the Huguenot tenets of faith and liberty, and to promote their understanding for the good of the United States; 3. To encourage and foster the organization of new member Societies within states, territories of the United States, and the District of Columbia where none currently exist.


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text: Image text transcribed for accessibility: A beam with rectangular cross section is subjected to the load shown in the picture, F = 5 kips, E = 1. 75 times 103 ksi, Izz = 2. 25 in4. Determine: The reactions at A and C. The flexural and shear stress in the cross section B at a distance y = 0. 25 in from the neutral axis. Sketch Mohr's circle for the state of stress found in (b). Plot the stress state in (b) on the Mohr's circle. Determine the principal stresses and their orientation with respect to the +x-axis and show them on a properly oriented stress element.


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What do those certifications mean?
Certifications Defined
You've probably seen the NSF and UL labels while shopping for restaurant equipment (and many other products) before. And you probably already have an idea that they represent information about sanitation and safety. But many people, especially those who are new to the industry, may not realize the importance of these small icons on a product. Armed with knowledge about the meanings of these symbols, business owners can make an educated decision about products that will greatly impact their business.
NSF Certification
NSF International (formerly known as the National Sanitation Foundation) is an independent organization that certifies foodservice equipment and ensures it is designed and constructed in a way that promotes food safety. NSF-approved equipment is designed to follow health department rules and helps operators improve inspection scoring.
NSF Food Equipment Certification is a product level certification that addresses the acceptable sanitation requirements for equipment and materials intended for commercial foodservice. NSF Certification is not a one-time activity. The certification programs require regular on-site inspections of the manufacturing facilities and periodic re-testing, as required by policies.
NSF Certified Rethermalizer
This is an additional level of testing done by NSF that is indicated on our product descriptions with our own icon. It applies to our food warmers that pass the NSF test for rethermalization, which is to ensure food is quickly heated to a safe temperature before bacteria has an opportunity to grow. If you're wondering about the symbol itself, it was home grown by our marketing department; there is no "official icon" set by NSF.
cULus Listed Certification |
The UL Listing mark is one of the most common UL marks. If a product carries this mark, it means UL found that representative product samples met UL's safety requirements. These requirements are primarily based on UL's own published standards for safety. This type of mark is seen commonly on appliances and computer equipment, furnaces and heaters, fuses, electrical panel boards, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, fire extinguishers and sprinkler systems, personal flotation devices, bullet resistant glass, and thousands of other products.
There are three variations of UL's Listing mark: one used only in the United States, one used only in Canada and one for both the United States and Canada. The C-UL mark is applied to products for the Canadian market. The products with this type of mark have been evaluated to Canadian safety requirements, which may be somewhat different from U.S. safety requirements. The optional C-UL-US mark indicates compliance with both Canadian and U.S. requirements. UL encourages those manufacturers with products certified for both countries to use this combined mark, but they may continue using separate UL marks for the United States and Canada.
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The CE symbol placed on a product means that the manufacturer or person placing the product on the market or putting it into service claims that the unit meets all essential requirements of the relevant European Directive within the European Economic Area.


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Male-like face and body hair in women is called Hirsutism and may signal the presence of a hormone imbalance or a hormone-producing tumor. Its cause could be Genetic, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Adrenal Disorders or Ovarian Tumors.
About Hirsutism
Hirsutism is the growth of long, coarse hair on the face and body of women in a pattern similar to that found in men. Besides being cosmetically distressing, hirsutism may also signal the presence of a hormone imbalance or a hormone-producing tumor.
Normal hair growth
Each hair grows from a follicle deep in the skin. As long as these follicles are not completely destroyed, hair will continue to grow even if the shaft, which is the part of the hair that appears above the skin, is plucked or removed.
Adults have two types of hair, vellus and terminal. Vellus hair is soft, fine, colorless, and usually short. In most women, vellus hairs grow on the face, chest, and back and give the impression of "hairless" skin. Terminal hairs are the longer, coarser, darker, and sometimes curly hairs that grows on the scalp, pubic, and armpit areas in both adult men and women. The facial and body hair in men is mostly of the terminal type.
What causes hirsutism?
Most often, excess facial and body hair is the result of abnormally high levels of androgens or male hormones in the blood. Androgens are present in both men and women, but men have much higher levels. These hormones cause hairs to change from vellus to terminal. Once a vellus hair has been transformed to the coarser terminal hair, it usually does not change back. Androgens also cause terminal hairs to grow faster and thicker.
Both the ovaries and the adrenals produce androgens. To some degree, estrogens and progesterone, female hormones, prevent the effect of androgens. The circumstances described below can lead to high androgen levels, which in turn can cause hirsutism.
 - GeneticsThere are very obvious family and racial differences in hirsutism patients. In some women, the skin is very sensitive to even low levels of androgens and their follicles produce primarily terminal (coarse and dark) hairs. If your mother, grandmother or sister experienced the disorder, then you are at a greater risk of developing it.
 - Polycystic ovarian syndromeThis is the commonest reason for hirsutism in infertile women. Polycystic ovarian syndrome causes the ovaries to develop many small cysts and to overproduce male hormones. The disorder is often associated with hirsutism, irregular ovulation, menstrual disturbances and obesity.
 - Ovarian tumorsOn rare occasions, androgen-producing ovarian tumors cause hirsutism. When this is the case, hirsutism progresses rapidly; and may even cause virilisation - in which the woman starts developing masculine characteristics, such as a deep voice and an enlarged clitoris.
An ovarian mass may be detected during a pelvic examination. Tests may also need to be done to make sure that tumors are not present when male hormone levels are high.
 - Adrenal disordersThe adrenal glands, which are located just above each kidney, also produce androgens. The most common disease of the adrenal gland that can result in hirsutism is an inherited disorder called late onset adrenal hyperplasia. Adrenal tumours and other adrenal diseases such as Cushing's disease can also cause overproduction of androgens.
â€‹Read moreHirsutism and how it affects your fertility
Determining the cause
When trying to determine the cause of hirsutism, several blood tests need to be done to measure androgen levels. These tests are done by radioimmunoassay in a specialised laboratory - and include levels of: testosterone; androstendione; 17-hydroxyprogesterone; and DHEA-S ( dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate). These tongue-twisters are simply the chemical names of androgens produced in the body.
Which particular hormone is increased will tip off the doctor as to where the problem lies -whether in the ovaries or in the adrenal glands. A pelvic ultrasound or special x-ray studies may also need to be done to detect ovarian or adrenal tumors. Hormone suppression or stimulation tests which further evaluate the function of the ovaries and adrenal glands may also be required.
During these tests, blood is measured for hormone levels both before and after the administration of a specific hormone medication. For example, the ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) stimulation test is conducted in order to check for the presence of late onset adrenal hyperplasia.
Of course, the priority will be to correct the problem of infertility - thus for example, if the problem of hirsutism is due to anovulation due to polycystic ovarian syndrome, the primary goal will be to induce ovulation.
Low doses of steroids called dexamethasone or prednisone may also be prescribed if the adrenal gland is overactive. This medicine is usually taken at bedtime and serves to suppress production of the ACTH hormone which stimulates the adrenal gland.
Hormone treatment may prevent new hairs from developing. However, it usually takes many years for the excess hair to develop, and a significant decrease in the rate of hair growth will not be seen for at least six months of hormone treatment. Once a hormone treatment has proven to be effective, it may be continued indefinitely. However, terminal hairs that are already present will not fall out or disappear with hormonal therapy and must be removed by other means.
Cosmetic therapy
For temporary hair removal, many women with mild hirsutism pluck the unwanted hairs. Waxing, another alternative, is essentially the same as plucking.
Depilating agents are chemicals that dissolve the hair shafts on both facial and body hair and may also be used to remove unwanted hair. These chemicals can cause irritation and facial skin is particularly sensitive.
Shaving is probably the simplest and safest temporary hair removal procedure. Although frequently required, it is virtually painless and seldom has side effects. Contrary to popular belief, shaving does not make hair grow faster. An electric razor produces less skin irritation than a blade.
Electrolysis is the only permanent way to remove unwanted hair. During this procedure, a very fine needle is placed next to the hair shaft into the follicle. A mild electric current is sent through the needle and permanently kills the hair follicle. It is not possible to use this technique to remove hairs from very large areas of the body because each hair must be treated individually.
In addition, the technique, although quite effective, is expensive, time consuming, and moderately uncomfortable. If hormonal therapy is being started, it is best to delay electrolysis for at least six months so that the growth of new terminal hairs will be reduced.
Laser treatment
The latest cosmetic technique to remove hair uses a laser to kill the hair follicles very precisely, and this is now becoming increasingly popular. Laser depilation is speedy, relatively painless, efficient and possibly permanent. A Ruby Laser produces red light which is highly absorbed by the melanin pigment in the hair and only minimally absorbed in skin. This means that the hair is selectively targeted by the light and hence destroyed without any damage to the skin around the hair follicle.
Authored by : Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD and reviewed by Dr Anjali Malpani.
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Non-local response in a lattice gas under a shear drive
Tridib Sadhu 1 Satya N. Majumdar 2 David Mukamel 3
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Institute of Physics: Hybrid Open Access, 2014, 47, pp.505005
In equilibrium, the effect of a spatially localised perturbation is typically confined around the perturbed region. Quite contrary to this, in a non-equilibrium stationary state often the entire system is affected. This appears to be a generic feature of non-equilibrium. We study such non-local response in the stationary state of a lattice gas with a shear drive at the boundary which keeps the system out of equilibrium. We show that a perturbation in the form of a localised blockage at the boundary, induces algebraically decaying density and current profile. In two examples, non-interacting particles and particles with simple exclusion, we analytically derive the power-law tail of the profiles.
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 - 3. Weizmann Institute


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IMBISA Bishops call on Leaders of the Member States of the Southern African Development Community, SADC, to respond to the Challenge of Migration caused by Economic Hardships and Conflicts in the Region
The Bishops of the Interregional Meeting of Bishops in Southern Africa, IMBISA, have written a letter to the leaders of the countries that make up the Southern African Development Community, SADC, to give more attention to the economic challenges and conflicts in the region. They note that many people in the region are migrating for economic reasons and going to neighbouring countries in search of survival while others are forced to leave their homes and countries by conflicts. Mention is given of the economic situation in Zimbabwe which has forced thousands of Zimbabweans to migrate to other countries as economic refugees. Another example is Mozambique where the conflict between the government and RENAMO forces has forced hundreds to flee their homes. The Bishops encourage the home countries of the refugees and the host nations to work together to find solutions. They point out that the protection of the lives of the refugees and their families is of paramount importance to the church. They appeal to the SADC leaders not to wait until the situation is out of hand, when foreign powers will come and act as policemen, which is so humiliating for Africa. IMBISA is an association of Catholic Bishops Conferences comprising Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Sao Tome e Principe, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe. Most of the economic refugees in these countries are attracted to go to Botswana and South Africa which are the regional big economies.


A react-spring driven masonry-like grid with enter/exit and shared element transitions.
How to use
import { Grid } from'mauerwerk'
 // Arbitrary data, should contain keys, possibly heights, etc.
 // Key accessor, instructs grid on how to fetch individual keys from the data set
 keys={d => d.key}
 // Can be a fixed value or an individual data accessor (for variable heights)
 // If you leave it undefined it will assume 100% container height
 heights={d => d.height}
 // Optional: number of columns (make it responsive yourself using react-measure/react-media)
 // Optional: space between elements
 // Optional: removes the possibility to scroll away from a maximized element
 // Optional: delay before minimizing an opened element
 // Optional: animates the grid in if true (default)
 {(data, open, toggle) => (
 {open && Opened/maximized content here}
 {open? 'Close' : 'Open'}
You feed mauerwerk any data-set (an array of objects most likely), give it accessors so it can access keys (which can be names, hashes, etc., the same keys you'd normally hand over to React), and either a fixed cell height or individual heights. You render out each individual cell via render-prop. You'll receive three arguments:
 1. data, the item from your data-set
 2. open, the cells state, depending on whether it is true or false you can display varying content or use further animation prototypes to transition from cell-state to maximized-state
 3. toggle, use this to maximize/minimize your cell
You probably don't want flip between open/closed content using static conditions. mauerwerk comes with two simple to use effects:
 - Fade will fade contents in according to the show property. It's a simgple wrapper around react-spring's Transition, you can feed it the same properties (config, from, enter, leave, update). By default it will just move opacity from 0 -> 1.
 - Slug lets elements "crawl" in. It's a wrapper around react-spring's Trail. By default it will move opacity from 0 -> 1 and translate y from 40px -> 0px.
These two would work outside the Grids context if you wanted to use them elsewhere.
import { Grid, Slug, Fade } from'mauerwerk'
 {(data, open, toggle) => (

 Opened content
 Some text
 Close

 Cell content
 Some text
 Open
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Distances from Yanguas de Eresma
As the Crow Flies
The distance between Yanguas de Eresma and New York City is 5,702 kilometers (3,543 miles).
Yanguas de Eresma is located in Castille and Leon, Spain. New York City (Population: 8,244,910) is located in New York, United States.
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Time Offset
The time zone of Yanguas de Eresma is Central European Summer Time (CEST), the local time is 1:36 AM. The time zone of New York City is Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), the local time is 7:36 PM.
The time difference is 6 hours.
Exchange Rate
The currency of Spain is Euro. The currency of United States is US Dollar.
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Binge eating in surgical weight-loss treatments :Long-term associations with weight loss, health related quality of life (HRQL) and psychopathology
Objective. Previous studies that have investigated the relation between binge eating and long-term outcome of bariatric surgery have shown mixed results. Does binge eating before or after bariatric surgery affect long-term BMI, health related quality of life (HRQL) or psychopathology after surgery? The objective of the present study was to address these questions that might help decide to what extent binge eating needs to be addressed in the context of bariatric surgery. Method. We assessed 173 bariatric patients, preto 3 years after surgery, regarding weight, binge eating, HRQL and psychopathology.Results. Binge eating, preand post-treatment, were unrelated to long-term BMI outcome. Binge eating post-treatment was associated with more psychopathology, and lower HRQL.Conclusion. Preor post-treatment binge eating does not predict long-term BMI outcome, hence exclusions from surgery for only this reason is difficult to motivate. However, results show that binge eating post-surgery is common, and is associated to more psychopathology and lower HRQL. The poor psychological health status of post-surgical patients with binge eating also motivates studies with longer follow-ups, to investigate whether post-surgical binge eating might increase the vulnerability for future weight regain and complications, beyond three years. The high rate of binge eating after surgery and its negative association with HRQL and psychopathology indicates that we need to be observant of the occurrence and potential effects of binge eating in the context of bariatric surgery.
Source Type:Doctoral Dissertation
Keywords:MEDICINE; medicin; Medicine
Date of Publication:01/01/2009


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For more than 5 years Playscan AB has been actively providing Responsible Gambling solutions. Professor of Clinical Psychology at Stockholm University, Per Carlbring, with his extensive expertise within online-based self-help programs, has received funding for an independent evaluation of Playscan™.
– Playscan is a very interesting tool and we need to evaluate and analyze the true value of Playscan™ as a proactive Responsible Gambling Solution. We need to find out if and in what way it works, says Carlbring.
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December 11th, 1987 is a Friday. It is the 345th day of the year, and in the 50th week of the year (assuming each week starts on a Sunday), or the 4th quarter of the year. There are 31 days in this month. 1987 is not a leap year, so there are 365 days in this year. The short form for this date used in the United States is 12/11/1987.
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Where did the Italian Albini family come from? What is the Italian Albini family crest and coat of arms? When did the Albini family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Albini family history?The surname Albini is an Italian patronymic surname; that is, it was a name created from the first name of the father. Albini is derived from a "pale" or "pure" person, and is a variant of the Latin personal name Albinus which was originally derived from the Latin albus, which means white.
Italian surnames come in far more variations than the names of most other nationalities. Regional traditions and dialects are a decisive factor in this characteristic. For example, northern names tend to end in "o", while southern in "i". Also important, but not unique to Italy, was the fact that before dictionaries and the printing press most scribes simply spelled words according to their sounds. The predictable result was an enormous number of spelling variations. The recorded spellings of Albini include Albigni, Albini, Albindo, Albinati, Albinelli, Albinetti, Albino, Albinoni, Albinotti and many more.
First found in the tiny town of Sestola, just south of Bologna. In 1629 the Albinelli family was registered here. This same year the family moved to Modena and were immediately made nobility. They were also made citizens of the city of Ferrara, nearby. Also in this year, Giambattista Albinelli was made a Cappuccinian monk in Modena.
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Miles Guo: chicken prices in China will soar. China is facing food shortage crisis
China has reported at least two million pigs have died as a result of African swine fever in China. The pork prices are soaring in mainland China. As a result, many Chinese people are looking to buy other meats such as chicken, beef, and mutton. This led to another rise in the wholesale price of meat nationwide. The price of pork rose 11% to 51.21 RMB from 46.13 RMB per kilogram last week from October 14 to October 20, and the increase was another 2.4%, which was closer to the price of beef and mutton, which rose 1.2% and 1.7% to 65.81 RMB, 62.73 RMB per kilogram respectively.
Blue indicate: pork | Orange indicate: chicken | Graph: Ministry of Agriculture
According to the Ministry of Agriculture's national wholesale market price information system, the prices of pork, mutton, beef, eggs and chicken, which were monitored from October 18 to October 24, rose 144.8%, 19.0%, 16.2%, 23.1% and 30.7%, respectively, compared with the same period last year.
On top of that, Chinese grain producers have been hit by what can only be called a plague of a dangerous pest called "Fall Armyworms," that devastates rice and other grain crops. The combination hitting China as its leaders are in the midst of an escalating major trade war with the United State.
The food shortage, economic and financial pressures in China will pose a threat to communist party leaders and their regime. Because in the past Chinese history, when there was a shortage of food and the domestic economy was severely damaged, the Chinese people would stand up and overthrow the political party and start the so-called revolutionary movement. This is exactly what happened in 1911 when the Chinese people had a problem with food shortage, and immediately the South was in turmoil. This is why Beijing is now doing whatever it can to quell the Hong Kong issue, or their regime will be threatened.
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Cinnabar, or mercury sulphide (HgS) is a highly toxic, naturally occurring form of mercury mineral, which was used in the ancient past for producing a bright orange (vermillion) pigment on ceramics, murals, tattoos, and in religious ceremonies.
The primary prehistoric use of the mineral was grinding it to create vermillion, and its earliest use known use for this purpose is at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey (7000-8000 BC), where wall paintings included cinnabar's vermillion.
Recent investigations in the Iberian peninsula at the Casa Montero flint mine, and burials at La Pijotilla and Montelirio, suggest the use of cinnabar as a pigment beginnning ~5300 BC. Lead isotope analysis identified the provenance of these cinnabar pigments as coming from the Almaden district deposits. (see Consuegra et al. 2011).
In China, the earliest known use of cinnabar is the Yangshao culture (~4000-3500 BC). At several sites, cinnabar covered the walls and floors in buildings used for ritual ceremonies. Cinnabar was among a range of minerals used used to paint Yangshao ceramics, and, at Taosi village, cinnabar was sprinkled into elite burials.
Vinca Culture (Serbia)
The Neolithic Vinca culture (4800-3500 BC), located in the Balkans and including the Serbian sites of Plocnik, Belo Brdo, and Bubanj, among others, were early users of cinnabar, likely mined from the Suplja Stena mine on Mount Avala, 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) from Vinca. Cinnabar occurs in this mine in quartz veins; Neolithic quarrying activities are attested here by the presence of stone tools and ceramic vessels near ancient mine shafts.
Micro-XRF studies reported in 2012 (Gajic-Kvašcev et al.) revealed that paint on ceramic vessels and figurines from the Plocnik site contained a mixture of minerals, including high purity cinnabar. A red powder filling a ceramic vessel discovered at Plocnik in 1927 was also found to include a high percentage of cinnabar, likely but not definitively mined from Suplja Stena.
Huancavelica is the name of the largest mercury source in the Americas, located on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Occidental mountains of central Peru. Mercury deposits here are the result of Cenozoic magma intrusions into sedimentary rock. Vermillion was used to paint ceramics, figurines and murals and to decorate elite status burials in Peru in a range of cultures including Chavín culture [400-200 BC], Moche, Sican and the Inca empire. At least two segments of the Inca Road lead to Huacavelica.
Scholars (Cooke et al.) report that mercury accumulations in nearby lake sediments began rising about 1400 BC, probably the result of the dust from cinnabar mining. The main historic and prehistoric mine at Huancavelica is the Santa Barbára mine, nicknamed the "mina de la muerte" (mine of death), and it was both the single largest supplier of mercury to the colonial silver mines, and the major source of pollution in the Andes even today. Known to have been exploited by the Andean empires, large-scale mercury mining began here during the colonial period after the introduction of mercury amalgamation associated with the extraction of silver from low-grade ores.
Amalgamation of poor quality silver ores using cinnabar was begun in Mexico by Bartolomé de Medina in 1554. This process involved smelting the ore in grass-fired, clay-lined retorts until vaporization yielded gaseous mercury. Some of the gas was trapped in a crude condenser, and cooled, yielding liquid mercury. Polluting emissions from this process included both the dust from the original mining, and the gases released into the atmosphere during smelting.
Theophrastus and Cinnabar
Classical Greek and Roman mentions of cinnabar include that of Theophrastus of Eresus (371-286 BC), a student of the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Theophrastus wrote the earliest surviving scientific book on minerals, "De Lapidibus", in which he described an extraction method method to get quicksilver from cinnabar. Later references to the quicksilver process appear in Vitruvius (1st century BC) and Pliny the Elder (1st century AD). See Takaks et al. for additional information.
Cinnabar was the most expensive pigment used by the Romans for extensive wall paintings on public and private buildings (~100 BC-300 AD). A recent study (Mazzocchin et al. 2008) on cinnabar samples taken from several villas in Italy and Spain were identified using lead isotope concentrations, and compared with source material in Slovenia (the Idria mine), Tuscany (Monte Amiata, Grosseto), Spain (Almaden) and as a control, from China. In some cases, such as at Pompeii, the cinnabar seems to have come from a specific local source, but in others, the cinnabar used in the murals was blended from several different regions.
One use of cinnabar not attested in archaeological evidence to date, but which may have been the case prehistorically is as traditional medication or ritual ingestion. Cinnabar has been used for at least 2,000 years as part of Chinese and Indian Ayurvedic medicines. Although it may have some beneficial effect on some illnesses, human ingestion of mercury is now known to produce toxic damage to kidney, brain, liver, the reproductive systems and other organs.
Cinnabar is still used in at least 46 traditional Chinese patent medicines today, making up between 11-13% of Zhu-Sha-An-Shen-Wan, a popular over-the-counter traditional medicine for insomnia, anxiety and depression. That is about 110,000 times higher than allowable cinnabar dose levels according to the European Drug and Food Standards: in a study on rats, Shi et al. found that ingestion of this level of cinnabar does create physical damage.
Consuegra S, Díaz-del-Río P, Hunt Ortiz MA, Hurtado V, and Montero Ruiz I. 2011. Neolithic and Chalcolithic--VI to III millennia BC--use of cinnabar (HgS) in the Iberian Peninsula: analytical identification and lead isotope data for an early mineral exploitation of the Almadén (Ciudad Real, Spain) mining district. In: Ortiz JE, Puche O, Rabano I, and Mazadiego LF, editors. History of Research in Mineral Resources. Madrid: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España. p 3-13.
Contreras DA. 2011. How far to Conchucos? A GIS approach to assessing the implications of exotic materials at Chavín de Huántar. World Archaeology 43(3):380-397.
Cooke CA, Balcom PH, Biester H, and Wolfe AP. 2009. Over three millennia of mercury pollution in the Peruvian Andes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(22):8830-8834.
Gajic-Kvašcev M, Stojanovic MM, Šmit Ž, Kantarelou V, Karydas AG, Šljivar D, Milovanovic D, and Andric V. 2012. New evidence for the use of cinnabar as a colouring pigment in the Vinca culture. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(4):_PHONE_.
Mazzocchin GA, Baraldi P, and Barbante C. 2008. Isotopic analysis of lead present in the cinnabar of Roman wall paintings from the Xth Regio "(Venetia et Histria)" by ICP-MS. Talanta 74(4):690-693.
Shi J-Z, Kang F, Wu Q, Lu Y-F, Liu J, and Kang YJ. 2011. Nephrotoxicity of mercuric chloride, methylmercury and cinnabar-containing Zhu-Sha-An-Shen-Wan in rats. Toxicology Letters 200(3):194-200.
Svensson M, Düker A, and Allard B. 2006. Formation of cinnabar—estimation of favourable conditions in a proposed Swedish repository. Journal of Hazardous Materials 136(3):830-836.
Takacs L. 2000. Quicksilver from cinnabar: The first documented mechanochemical reaction? JOM Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society 52(1):12-13.


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Cajon Valley Union School District, an exemplar in Digital Convergence, is on a mission to realign public education to meet the demands of life after graduation. They have developed a Modern Curriculum that reflects the district's revolutionary approach to what it means for students to be successful. At the heart of their efforts is a cohesive, district-wide vision: happy kids engaged in meaningful relationships on a path to gainful employment.
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Topic: "O Sensei"
I have heard some Japanese martial arts students address their teachers
with "O Sensei," and also "Osu Sensei." Are the two
forms of address derived from the same source?
Actually the two terms are quite different. "O'Sensei" means
a venerable teacher while "Osu Sensei" is an acknowledgment,
such as, "Yes Sensei", "I understand Sensei," "Okay
Sensei", "I get it Sensei," or "Hello Sensei."
With "O'Sensei" it is a common misconception that the character
for "O" is just the alternate pronunciation for the character
"Dai," as in "Dai Sensei," which means "big Sensei."
But this is not the case. The character for "O" (in O'Sensei)
is another pronunciation for the character meaning "Okina" which
means "old man," or "venerable." An old Japanese dictionary
(gakken kanwa daijiten) says that it is a way of giving respect to an
older man. In Japan it is used to follow a name, acting as a suffix. This
is the same with such terms "san" and "Sensei." They
follow a name.
In the west, however, most people do not say a name followed by a suffix,
but instead lead with it. Thus we hear "Sensei" followed by
a name and the use of "O'Sensei." The term, however, is rarely
used. In the west it is most often associated with the founder of aikido
Morihei Ueshiba, but Ueshiba actually copied it from his teacher (daito
ryu) Sogaku Takeda.
Osu is a somewhat universal term that is commonly associated with many
traditional dojos, especially those in karate. It is a rather course sounding
word that is somewhat curt and almost abrasive to some Japanese ears outside
the martial arts and other situations. The term is also sometimes used
in the military as well as in sports activities, but probably not be used
at home or in more formal occasions.
Tadashi Nakamura's book "Karate, Technique and Spirit" explains
that "Osu" is a contraction of the phrase "Osu shinobu"
and was used in ancient times as a greeting and salutation meaning patience.
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Gaven Morris, Director of News, Analysis and Investigation at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, talks to your host Vahe Arabian of State of Digital Publishing. Gaven talks about working for a legacy media broadcaster, the transformation process that they have undergone to become a leading online publisher and their future ambitions during this live episode at the ABC offices in Sydney, Australia.
- Gaven Morris shares his personal background as a journalist.
- What has been the impact of budget cuts?
- What other funding options are available?
- How can they push for a bigger budget?
- What is their video content?
- Mainstream media doesn't generally feel that they are ahead of their audiences.
- What are Gaven's thoughts around mainstream media's approach to paid content?
- Is there a way to bridge digital and broadcasting to reach wider audiences?
- How does he motivate his team?
- Great stories that are told well will never go away.
- What is his key lesson for people looking to tell great stories?
3 Key Points:
- The Australian Broadcasting Corporation isn't allowed to sell advertising for funding.
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation is still pushing high-quality programming on the digital online side.
- Gaven's belief is that there are parts of the community where ABC needs to focus more attention on providing relevant value to.
- "How do you maintain all those things that are good about your broadcasting heritage while knowing that you have to really develop a digital content plan and a distribution plan that can ensure your relevance." – Gaven Morris
- "Try to maintain the quality of our services, even if that means we offer fewer services." – Gaven Morris
- "We have gone from being 7th or 8th in the digital news markets to up to around the second spot, and I think that has been focusing on the quality of our content." – Gaven Morris


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WSDOT cultural resource specialists help the agency comply with state and federal cultural resource laws that apply to:
- historic structures
- culturally important areas
Transportation Projects and Archaeological/Historic Resources Management
Washington State has a rich and diverse prehistory/ history that have left evidence across the landscape. When WSDOT embarks on a project, federal and state laws require that impacts to archaeological, historical and cultural resources be considered. To assess potential impacts, cultural resource specialists:
- Coordinate with the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) to complete transportation projects with limited impacts to archaeological and historic resources.
- Identify archaeological remains and historic structures eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places located within a project's area of disturbance.
- Consult with the State Historic Preservation Officer (DAHP), Native American Tribes, and the public concerning the appropriate treatment of archaeological and historic resources that cannot be otherwise avoided.
For more information on how WSDOT complies with historic preservation laws, regulations, and polices, visit the Cultural Resources Compliance page.
Creative Mitigation Efforts
It is WSDOT policy to avoid adverse effects, where practical, to historical, archaeological, and cultural resources in planning, constructing, operating or maintaining the state's transportation system. If it is not practical to avoid them, such effects will be mitigated. A sample of creative mitigation options developed for various WSDOT projects are provided below:
Gee Creek Archaeological Site- I-5/ SR 502 Project
|Lacey V. Murrow ("The Skipper") held the position of Director of the Washington State Department of Highways (1933- 1940) and Chief Engineer of the Washington Toll Bridge Authority (_PHONE_). Appointed at age 28, Murrow is the youngest person to ever hold the Director's position. Notable projects include: |
This documentary outlines the life and career achievements of one of our state's most influential figures in transportation history.
- Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge (Galloping Gertie)
- Deception Pass Bridge
- Lake Washington Floating Bridge, the first concrete pontoon floating bridge in the world built on Lake Washington (later dedicated as the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge).
Remembering The Ebey Slough Swing Bridge, SR 529 (wmv file)
The Simpson Avenue Bridge: A Case Study in Maintenance Success, US 101 (wmv file)
They Called Him 'The Skipper'; The Life and Times of Washington's Lacey V. Murrow (wmv file)
The Manette Bridge: Bringing People Together for 81 Years, _PHONE_, SR 303 (wmv file)
- pod casts
- archival photo documentation
- lesson plans (grade K-12)
- historical essays for journal publications and cyberpedias
I-5 Nuclear Fallout Shelter- "Waiting for the the End of the World: Prototype Fallout Shelter Under Interstate 5 in North Seattle" by Craig Holstine, WSDOT Historian, appearing in the Journal of Northwest Anthropology
- information centers for the public
SR 16 Tacoma Narrows Bridge ProjectBridge History
Hood Canal Bridge - Port Angeles Graving Dock
Gee Creek Archaeological Site- I-5/ SR 502 Project
Washington State Historic Bridges
McMillin Bridge, 1934
A National Register Listed Historic Bridge of significant and rare architectural style.
Visit the WSDOT Historic Bridges site to view highlights of Washington's most significant Transportation structures.
Pacific Northwest Ethnobotany
The Ethnobotany and Cultural Resources List identifies plants found along the highway Right-of-Way in Western Washington of traditional cultural significance and use.
Cultural Resources Training (CRT)
Each spring, WSDOT partners with the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation and Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission to offer a multi-day Cultural Resources Training (CRT) at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington.
CRT promotes awareness, preservation and stewardship of Washington's cultural resources and is the only comprehensive training of this kind in the state. Enrollment is open to anyone with a need or desire to learn about cultural resources, cultural resource management laws and regulations, and the importance of preservation.
||Training participants will explore historic and archaeological sites in the Kittitas Valley and Columbia River Gorge.|
|Historic Homestead Cabin at Olmstead Place State Park in Kittitas County.
Using classroom and field exercises, participants work with some of the region's most qualified instructors to learn the skills necessary to address cultural resource management issues. This award-winning training is held only once a year and space is limited. 2014 Cultural Resources Training
When: Spring 2014
Where: Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
- Check back for information on Registration for Spring 2014.WSDOT
staff interested in attending may contact Erin Littauer, Cultural Resource Specialist at _PHONE_ or _EMAIL_
to register. For general registration
(non-WSDOT): Please contact Russell Holter, Preservation Design Reviewer with the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation at _EMAIL_
If you have attended CRT in the past and it has been over 5 years, you are encouraged to enroll again this year as cultural resource laws and regulations have changed. Please note, preference for enrollment will be given to new attendees.
Cultural Resources Program
Contact the Cultural Resources Program Manager or refer to our Frequently Asked Questions.
Specific Project or Region Activity
Contact that region's or program's Cultural Resource Specialist (CRS) (pdf 51 kb).
Native American Tribes
Contact the WSDOT Tribal Liaison Office site.


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Oregon Certified Court Interpreter Credential via Reciprocity
Oregon allows examination reciprocity for interpreters who have taken examinations in some other Consortium member states or who have taken the Federal Court Interpreting Examination. Oregon also allows examination reciprocity for RID ASL interpreters holding the Specialist Certificate: Legal (SC:L) who are not Oregon residents. Examination reciprocity is the first step leading towards certification reciprocity and is met by interpreters who have achieved an appropriate score on the:
- Federal Court Interpreting Examination (FCICE) or,
- Court Interpreting Oral Examination or,
- RID Specialist Certificate: Legal Examination
and meet the following requirements:
- All segments of the examination must be passed in one sitting,
- The examination must be administered and rated in accordance with Oregon requirements,
- The minimum scores on each section must meet Oregon requirements, and
- The candidate must not have tested in another state for certification during the previous 12 months.
Each candidate who has met the requirements for examination reciprocity above must also meet the following requirements:
- Submit verification that the interpreter remains in good standing in the Consortium state, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, or with the RID.
- Pass a criminal history check.
- Attend an Ethics Orientation conducted by CLAS.
- Achieve a passing score on the Ethics Examination.
- Complete and submit documentation of at least 150 hours of court interpreting services during the 12 months prior to application in courts of record in Oregon or Consortium member states, federal courts of record, or where the interpreter is sworn in and the record can be presented into evidence.
- Complete the application process.
- Take the Interpreter's Oath administered by an Oregon State Court Judge.
Prior to completing the Application for Oregon Reciprocity Certification, or the Application for Oregon Reciprocity ASL Certification, contact the Certification and Training Program by emailing _EMAIL_ to ensure that you meet the reciprocity requirements.


Keynote Presentations for Conferences
Andrew Hall is an engaging, internationally-renowned, speaker focussed on sharing his insights on safeguarding.
Andrew's current presentation aims to motivate people to take action and shape children's futures by understanding their own 'why'.
Effective Safeguarding has the Power to Change Lives
Everybody wants to change the world. Not least anyone who works with children and young people. What can be more life-changing than developing a new generation? Effective safeguarding can build that legacy, and, in this presentation, Andrew Hall will share a solid framework to help you have the greatest impact, now and in the future.
 - Why an effective safeguarding model needs everyone to be involved
 - How a strong safeguarding system underpins everything we do
 - What risks and challenges are affecting our children and young people
 - Why great safeguarding doesn't happen by accident


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Have you ever wondered about where Christmas trees are grown before you're able to buy them in your local area?
Learn more today directly from Michigan farmer Tom Trechter!
The Q&A with Tom included:
- What does a Christmas tree farmer do on a regular basis throughout the year?
- What makes the perfect holiday tree?
- How long, and when, is a sale season for Christmas tree farms?
- Where is the farthest a Michigan farmer sells trees?
- What other products are marketed from a wholesale farm like Tom's?
- Why is a real tree a smart idea for this year's holiday decor?


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Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
Sharon R. Krause
Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice? Can we do so? The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of impartiality as a cornerstone of fair decision making, but they wrongly assume that impartiality means being disengaged and passionless. In Civil Passions, Sharon Krause argues that moral and political deliberation must incorporate passions, even as she insists on the value of impartiality. Drawing on resources ranging from Hume's theory of moral sentiment to recent findings in neuroscience, Civil Passions breaks new ground by providing a systematic account of how passions can generate an impartial standpoint that yields binding and compelling conclusions in politics. Krause shows that the path to genuinely impartial justice in the public sphere--and ultimately to social change and political reform--runs through moral sentiment properly construed. This new account of affective but impartial judgment calls for a politics of liberal rights and democratic contestation, and it requires us to reconceive the meaning of public reason, the nature of sound deliberation, and the authority of law. By illuminating how impartiality feels, Civil Passions offers not only a truer account of how we deliberate about justice, but one that promises to engage citizens more effectively in acting for justice.
Sharon R. Krause is associate professor of political science at Brown University. She is the author of Liberalism with Honor.


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on the road
When are the peak periods for animal collisions?
Animal collisions on Australian roads are unfortunate but common, particularly outside cities. Both wild and domestic animals can appear on the road unexpectedly – leading to major vehicle damage to vehicles and potentially expensive claims.
Take extra caution when driving in rural areas where animals might be nearby.
Are animal collisions covered by GIO?
If you have an unintentional collision with an animal, GIO Comprehensive Car Insurance may cover damage to your car.
If you instead hold a Third Party Property Damage or Compulsory Third Party (CTP) Insurance policy, you won't be covered for any vehicle damage. However, if you or a passenger are injured due to a wildlife collision, CTP Insurance may offer some cover. Be sure to read the PDS for more information on these policies.
Peak periods for animal collisions
What are the most common times for animal collisions?
Animal collisions occur most frequently at dusk and dawn. This makes sense – the poorer visibility, combined with many animals' natural feeding time, may increase the odds.
In which season are most animal collisions?
Claims data suggests that winter sees more animal collisions on average*.
Low visibility during winter months, as well as slippery roads, can make it difficult to spot animals, and to slow down for them.
Where are animal collisions most likely to occur?
You're more likely to encounter wildlife on country roads, compared to more built-up areas – especially the larger animals, like kangaroos and wombats, that can cause the most serious damage. As such, be extra careful of animals when driving outside of cities and towns. Roads will often have signs that indicate areas where animal crossings are common, but animals don't stick to signed areas – keep an eye out all along our roads to stay safe.
Staying safe on the road
What can you do to avoid animal collisions?
- Stick to the speed limit. It'll be easier to spot animals and slow down if necessary.
- Be extra careful around dawn and dusk.
- Take extra caution when driving through rural and regional areas, and pay close attention to signage.
- Stay alert and aware of what's around and ahead. Seeing one animal, or roadkill, is an indicator of more wildlife in the area – slow down and pay extra attention.
- Never swerve to avoid an animal. Slow down and brake without turning, as swerving can put you at risk of losing control of your vehicle, and lead to collisions with other drivers or obstacles.
What should you do if you hit an animal while driving?
Unfortunately, there are times when avoiding an animal collision isn't possible. If it happens, consider the following:
- Ensure your safety first. Check on you and your passengers, and move off the road if possible. Turn on your hazard lights.
- Check the animal. If it appears the animal has left, thoroughly check your vehicle. The animal may be trapped in your vehicle's grill or engine bay.
- Contact your local wildlife rescue service. Many regional areas have signs with information on who to call.
Need to make a claim?
- your policy number,
- your contact details,
- type of claim,
- date, address and details of the collision, and
- personal details of any other parties involved (if applicable).
Depending on the circumstances of the claim, we may also need to ask for extra details.
- What to do if you've had a car accident
- What is the car repair or replacement process after a crash?
- What you need in your car emergency kit
* Claims data collected from Suncorp Group's network of brands including: AAMI, Suncorp Insurance, GIO, Apia, Shannons, CIL, Vero Insurance, Bingle and Essentials by AAI.
Insurance is issued by AAI Limited ABN 48 005 297 807 trading as GIO Insurance. Consider the Product Disclosure Statement before buying this insurance. The Target Market Determination is also available.
The information is intended to be of general nature only. Subject to any rights you may have under any law, we do not accept any legal responsibility for any loss or damage, including loss of business or profits or any other indirect loss, incurred as a result of reliance upon the information. Please make your own enquiries.


Programming Catch % Calculator
Discussion in 'Technical Projects' started by Corpsecreate, Nov 4, 2010.
 1. Corpsecreate
 Nov 4, 2010
 Hey all. So I had a look on the formulas that dealt with the chance of catching Pokemon and man it seemed pretty nasty. So I wrote up a program (in Java) that combines all those evil formulas into a compact easy-to-use program. The program isnt' 100% complete as of yet (although in its current state it pretty much does everything thats needed) and so I am looking for constructive criticism. If you see something you dont like, tell me why you dont like it and what suggestions you may have for improvement and I'll see if I can add that in.
 It can be downloaded here. (You will need Java installed).
 And now for a little bit of explanation about some of the features of the program that may be either confusing or go unnoticed.
 1. You can click the visible HP bar to automatically set the HP % depending on where you click. The HP bar reflects the 3 colors depending how much HP the enemy has left (Green, Yellow, Red).
 2. You can click the Mew/Pikachu pictures to play a sound effect. The Pikachu has a 1/5 chance of making an alternate sound while the Mew has a 1/8192 (chance of a shiny pokemon) chance of playing a "THIS IS SPARTA" sound file. See if you can get it!
 3. The "Capture Rate" Text Field is sometimes written in green and other times is written in red. It is written in green when the number in the field matches the catch rate of the Pokemon you have selected and is colored red when they do not match. The catch rate of the selected Pokemon is always right next to the Pokemon name as a reminder.
 4. You can hover your mouse over most labels to get a short description of what it means.
 5. Catch Confidence and Desired Chance are a little bit more difficult to understand what they mean so I will describe them here in a bit more detail.
 Catch Confidence - This percentage is how confident you want to be that you will catch the Pokemon after some number of attempts. The "Throws Needed" label ties in directly with this percentage. So for example, if you have a 50% chance of catching the Pokemon and you set the Catch Confidence to 75%, the number of throws needed to reach that confidence would be the number of times you would need to attempt capture (at 50% chance each time) before the effective percentage after that number of tries reaches 75%. In mathematics this is known as Binomial Probability.
 Desired Chance - This percentage is what you want your catch chance to be. The "Maximum HP" label ties in directly with this percentage. Now you may ask, "Why would I ever put a number other than 100%?". The reason is because you may be happy with having only a 90% or 95% chance of capture or because a 100% chance on that particularly Pokemon is not achievable (the displayed Maximum HP value will be a negative number when this is the case).
 So let say you have a Pidgey that you want to catch with 100% chance and you plan on using an ultra ball. According to the program, at full HP you will only have a a 66.66% chance of capture however the Maximum HP number thats displayed says 75%. This means that when the Pidgey has 75% of its health left, you will now have a 100% chance of capture and any more damage done to it will be useless. You can click the Maximum HP value to automatically set the Pokemons HP to that percentage.
 6. Heavy Balls are the only balls that does not have a multiplier. Instead it acts as an addition to the Pokemons catch rate. A general rule on when to use a Heavy Ball is this.
 if HeavyBallBonus is greater than CatchRate*(BallMultiplier-1) then its better to use a Heavy Ball.
 Where the BallMultiplier is the multiplier of the alternative ball that you could use in place of the Heavy Ball. In general, Heavy Balls are only useful on any legendaries that weigh more than 451.5 lbs.
 Now guys I'm no programming master, I'm more of a mathematician if anything so there may be some features that I'm unable to put in but I will do my best :)
 Things to do:
 1. Add these explanations within the program somewhere.
 2. Duck92
 Jul 1, 2009
 Assuming this is in C++...
 Create a visual form, and pop all the data in a text box. Name it Info.
 _TAG_ "Info.h"
 Add to the header of the file launched (Probably main, or Form1)
 Add this for the button script:
 Info Form1;
 if(Form1.ShowDialog() == System::Windows::Forms::DialogResult::OK)
 Good Luck. (I'm assuiming you're using Visual C++.)
 If in the slightest chance, you're using vB.net
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Sandal Castle is a ruin near the town of Wakefield in West Yorkshire and overlooks the River Calder. It is near to the site where the Battle of Wakefield is said to have taken place in 1460, which resulted in the death of Richard, Duke of York.
The Castle was first constructed by the Normans, and its first occupants were the de Warrens.
In 2003, Sandal Castle was given a wooden walkway, to allow people to walk to its summit without causing erosion. This was intended as a measure to stop people permanently damaging the ruins. However, there has been a strong outcry from those who feel that the walkway has corrupted the historical environment provided by the castle.
There is a visitor centre about 100 metres from the castle proper.
The contents of this article is licensed from _URL_ under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details


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The Value of a GIft
Why Your Gifts Matter
Alumna Michele Karnash Mandell '69 discusses how scholarships played an important role in her education at Cal U and the financial challenges that students face today and Alexandra Brooks talks about the hardships she faced as a teenager and how a Cal U scholarship broke her cycle of life.
See how a coal miner's sacrifices continue to inspire generations of teachers and students.
Watch the stories of peer mentoring participants and see the impact of giving time to help others.


This exercise is part of the first assignment for the computational design studio and
aims to learn decoding the logic of complex facade systems.
The design of the facade that has been made in grasshopper is based on the two facades
shown below.
Parametric facade by Archi Union Architects: Michler, A. (2018). Photo: Inhabitat
Parametric facade by ROB technologies: ROB Technologies. (2018). Photo: ROB Technologies.
Pseudo code for parametric brick facade:
1. make a brick with variable length, width, height;
2. create a open offset within the brick;
3. make sliders for the length, height and depth of the wall;
4. make a serie of points with the length of the wall and randomness in y direction;
5. make a curve from the points;
6. repeat 3 and 4 to create a new curve;
7. move the curve from step 5 to z direction using the slider for the height of the wall;
8. loft the two curves;
9. make contours between the two curves with the height of the bricks as steps;
10. divide contours with points to place bricks;
11. place the brick on all made points in 9;
12. flatten the bricks to open the wall.
Parametric Facade of Bricks is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture
of Catalonia developed at Computational Design in 2018/2019 by:
Student: Axel van der Vegte
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, David Andres Leon


Web 2.0 and social media has transformed users from passive audiences to active participants in new production and distribution. The change is particularly prominent in a few digital news portals that encourage users to register as news reporters. While the juxtaposition of users-generated news (UGN) and organization-generated news (OGN) has significantly affected news industry, scientific understanding of this phenomenon remains scant. To fill the research gap, this paper proposes an integrated model to investigate the difference between UGN and OGN in their linguistic feature and temporal pattern, and examine their subsequent effect on circulation performance. The research model will be tested with 450,514 news crawled from Jinritoutiao.com, a popular online news portal in China which embraces both UGN and OGN on its platform. This paper is expected to contribute to literature by revealing the strategic behavior of UGN in pursuit for circulation performance.


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7 Things to know about CSC Access to Information Act requests
- Kate Mitchell
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Inmates seeking to get records from the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) can make requests under the Access to Information Act. Below are a few points relevant to federal inmates making requests under the act:
- Any information the government controls can be requested. Requests do not need to be limited to paper documents; information in any medium or form can be requested. This includes videotapes, audio recordings, emails, pictures, etc.
- An application must be submitted to CSC's Access to information and Privacy Division. A letter can be sent describing the requested records or an Access to Information Request Form can be filled out and submitted.
- There is a $5 application fee. This is an initial fee that covers 5 hours of searching and 125 pages of copying. Additional fees may be charged if the request requires more time ($10 per hour) or printing ($0.20 per page).
- Applications take time to process. CSC has 30 days to respond, but the act allows for extensions if the request cannot reasonably be completed within the 30 day time limit. CSC may grant itself several extensions and ultimately take several months to respond to the request.
- CSC has the authority to refuse to disclose records for a variety of reasons. For example, it may not release any records that contain personal information or that, if disclosed, "could reasonably be expected to be injurious to the security of penal institutions". The various exemptions are set out in sections 13-29.
- A complaint can be filed about CSC's response to an Access to Information request. If an individual is dissatisfied with the response, then a complaint can be filed with the Information Commissioner of Canada within 60 days of the response.
- Personal information can be requested through the Privacy Act. This act gives individuals the right to access their own personal information. Request under the Privacy Act are free to make, and individuals can also make requests to correct their personal information.


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Interest continues to grow in our industry for the flexibility and ease-of-use that comes with history-free direct modeling. Unfortunately there is still much confusion out there about just what direct modeling is and what value it adds to the process of product development. One of the many high value opportunities that come with direct modeling is in "large assembly design and management". Direct modeling technology can offer some unique advantages over traditional history-based modeling that can greatly improve design, interaction and management of large assemblies.
Based on the technology behind direct modeling, large assembly design and management can be fast and easy. As direct modeling does not record the modeling steps used to create the model, memory requirements and file sizes can be considerably smaller than with traditional parametric history-based modeling. With PTC CoCreate Modeling, for example, I have found file sizes to be 60% to 80% smaller than the same model created in most any traditional history-based system. This would indicate that these parts and assemblies will also consume much less memory when loaded.
In a traditional history-based CAD system, an assembly is basically a collection of references and relationships to other individual history trees. These history trees represent individual parts and sub-assemblies The history trees can be large and complex. The assembly references and relationships between these trees can be even more complex. With direct modeling an assembly is simply a collection of solid models that are organized in a hierarchical structure. There is no history tree. There are no hidden references or relationships. What you see is what you get. It's as simple as that.
I've been doing some large assembly testing with several different CAD systems. It has been startling to witness how poor many of the most popular CAD tools perform with large assemblies, even with "dumb solids". The assembly that I am using in this example is made up of 29,455 part and assembly objects. The STEP file of the entire assembly comes out at just over 302mb. The native CoCreate package file of the entire assembly comes in right at 100mb. This is not a large assembly compared to many of the assemblies I have witnessed CoCreate users working with. Most CoCreate users would consider a large assembly to be somewhere around 100,000 to 250,000 parts. (By the way, the native geometry resolution/accuracy of a model developed in CoCreate Modeling is 1.0E-6 mm by default – about 2500 times higher accuracy than any other CAD system on the market, and yet it is still possible to manage these large assemblies.)
Below is a picture of the assembly I have been working with. It comes from a company in Europe. This is a coagulator used in the cheese making process. CoCreate Modeling was used from beginning to end to support the design process.
For the video below I loaded this assembly in its entirety. All parts are loaded as high accuracy solid models. None of the parts were loaded as lightweight, graphics only or in some suppressed mode. Based on the privileges controlled by the PDM system, every part and/or assembly can be quickly and easily modified. As you will see, in-context design is simple and fast, even in the context of 30,000 other parts.