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"As an intern, I see how engaging Jewish peers on issues that matter to them creates more meaningful Jewish experiences. These interactions can shape their Jewish identity and provide a foundation that they can build upon for the rest of their lives." - Andrew, Intern at Penn Hillel
Today, there are more than 546 interns on 60 campuses. Since its inception in 2006, the engagement project has invested in 3,682 student interns who have cultivated 132,000 relationships.
(See Our Impact)
Hillel Student Interns have engaged more than
Students previously univolved in Jewish life
Hillel understands that students relate best to other students.
Engagement is the act of reaching others, getting to know them, and connecting with them on the basis of their interests, ambitions, and passions. Hillel attempts to engage others, seeking first to understand them, and then to identify common interests, offerings, or experiences that meet them where they are. With a focus on relationships and not on participation, we create vibrant, relevant, Jewish life across campus, enhancing the accessibility of Jewish experiences for all students through conversations with peers.
Hillel invests in training student interns to serve as engagers, organizers and educators of their fellow students.
Our engagement interns tap their personal social networks (fraternities or sororities, business majors, foodies, artists) to connect friends and friends of friends to each other, and to launch student-run Jewish initiatives on campus. They learn to build authentic relationships, create new Jewish experiences, expand communities, and impart sophisticated and relevant Jewish content.
We understand that the success of this initiative depends upon deep and meaningful supervision. That's why intern supervisors include Senior Jewish Educators; authentic Jewish teachers, relationship builders, and community organizers who have a deep knowledge of Judaism and considerable educational skills. The educators mentor and teach the interns, and meet students through the interns' social networks and their own engagement efforts.
The takeaways from this internship stay relevant once the internship concludes and after graduation: Hillel is creating a pipeline of future Jewish leaders, prepared to create accessible Jewish experiences with and for their post-college communities.
The engagement structure can be leveraged with other organizations as well. In partnership with Hillel, BBYO, Union for Reform Judaism and United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism help support 26 interns on 13 campuses. These interns help engage even more students in meaningful and relevant Jewish life, using their past associations as a connecting point.
An independent study (PDF File) has found that Hillel's "educators and interns make a measurable difference on the students they meet."


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Eating Meals With Men May Mean Eating Less
It turns out that the gender of your dining companions makes a big difference in what you eat and how much you eat. The new research on dining habits — although small — adds a new dimension to the study of risk factors for obesity, and could also shed new light on eating disorders such as anorexia.
Both men and women appear to choose larger portions when they eat with women, and both men and women choose smaller portions when they eat in the company of men, according to new research published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
The study, conducted among a sample of 127 college students, suggests that both men and women are influenced by unconscious scripts about how to behave in each other's company. And, these scripts change the way men and women eat when they eat together and when they eat apart.
Molly Allen-O'Donnell, then a graduate student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, wanted to find out if what we eat is influenced by our peers. Allen-O'Donnell sat at a popular college eatery and observed how much food people purchased for lunch and dinner.
"I sat in a table so I could see what people were purchasing without really being intrusive," she said.
Allen-O'Donnell then observed whether students ate alone or with company. If they sat in groups, she counted the size of the groups. After asking permission from the people she'd observed, Allen-O'Donnell also documented whether people sat with friends or romantic partners, and whether or not they thought themselves overweight.
While multiple factors were correlated with how much people ate, Allen-O'Donnell and her co-authors found that the gender of people's dining partners seemed decisive.
When women sat with other women, for example, they ordered an average of 833 calories. When they ate with men, on the other hand, they purchased only 721 calories on average.
Allen-O'Donnell and co-author Marci Cottingham at the University of Akron said in interviews that they expected women would choose to eat less food when they ate in the company of men, since cultural norms in the West tell women to peck at their food in the company of men.
Prior research has suggested that women's beliefs about what constitutes appropriate eating portions in the presence of men could be responsible in part for eating disorders such as anorexia.
The surprise was the men – think of a group of guys holding back on the wings at a tailgate party or a Superbowl pigout. But when men sat with other men, they ordered an average of only 952 calories. When they sat with women, they ordered 1162 calories.
Allen-O'Donnell and Cottingham also acknowledged it was possible that unconscious scripts about how much to eat were at work when people sat down to a meal with someone of their own sex, not just when people sat down with someone of the opposite sex.
None of the participants that Allen-O'Donnell spoke with said they were aware that the gender of their dining partners affected how much food they purchased.
The point of the research, the researchers said, was to get people to realize that context mattered — even when it comes to food. Once people were aware that they could be unconsciously influenced in their dining choices, they might make eating decisions more deliberately.

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RTC Build Traceability with UrbanCode Deploy
There have been great developments in the past 12 months or so to improve the traceability between builds managed by RTC and UrbanCode Deploy.
 1. RTC build definitions now have built-in support for post-build deployment steps. If you use the Jazz Build Engine as your build engine, you can specify connection information and component information in the build definition itself to allow the build process to push a new version of the build result into a new component version. This is great and makes it simple and easy to accomplish getting your builds to the deployment engine. See Freddy's blog entry from about a year ago on this very topic for more details. There are of course some limitations to this feature. It assumes you want to push your build result into a single UrbanCode Deploy component. This is fairly unrealistic in that most applications of even modest complexity will most likely have more than one component in their application. If you build each component individually, then you are all set. However, if you have a single build file for the entire application (or for more than one component), this feature won't cut it. To solve this, you can always use the old tried and true method of adding ANT tasks to your build.xml to create a new component version and push the contents into that version.
 From a forward traceability perspective, RTC build results records also have links that you can add. A common practice is to create a link to the UrbanCode Deploy component that gets created.
 2. UrbanCode Deploy also has a feature that allows you to create links associated with component versions. These links can be URLs to anything you want, but the best use of this feature is to provide a link back to the build entries that produced the component version. In the case of RTC, a simple link to the build result record gives you that backward traceability. If you use another build engine like Jenkins, for example, you can also create another link that points back to the Jenkins job that produced the build.11-20-2014 12-03-08 PM
 And there are REST and command line API calls that allow you go GET and PUT links. This makes the creation of the link something you can do as part of the build step of pushing a new component version to UrbanCode Deploy.
So both RTC and UrbanCode Deploy have the ability to create and maintain links to and from build result records and component versions. But let's examine a bit closer how these links can be used to enhance the visibility of code as it walks down the release pipeline.
But first a quick aside. RTC has the concept of baselines and UrbanCode Deploy has the concept of snapshots. At some point in time someone needs to lay out some strategies on how these two concepts can be used together. The concept of a baseline in RTC collects together all of the code versions of all the files in all the selected components (RTC component here) into a single entity. This make sense to do at build time. At the same time, UrbanCode Deploy has the concept of a snapshot that essentially does the same thing but at a build output level. There may be additional components in a snapshot that don't have a corresponding build equivalent, but marrying the two concepts is something I hope the Rational development teams consider. Being able to build all components of an app, take an RTC snapshot of the code that corresponds to that build, push all the components into UrbanCode deploy as new component versions, and create a snapshot of the application with the new component versions seems like a logical thing to do. I am sure there are many scenarios where this simple case breaks down, but the concept is solid. Adding links to more element types in UrbanCode deploy will help make this a reality.
OK, now back to our story. We have the bi-directional traceability between RTC build results and component versions via links on either side. But as the components get deployed to new environments as they move down the release pipeline, there is no indication of that movement in the RTC build record. How can we make this happen? Let's build a plug-in.
The concept of the plugin is that each time a component version gets deployed to a new environment, let's put some type of indication in the build result record to indicate that it has been deployed to environment X. This way anyone observing the build result record will know how far into the release pipeline, if at all, the build output has made it. The easiest way to do this is to use the tag field of the build result record. Tags can be anything so let's add some tags to indicate deployment to environments.
In order to do this programmatically, we need to take advantage of the RTC Java API. For any release of RTC, you can get a zip file of the Java API jars that can be used to write java programs that manipulate RTC elements. There were a few jazz.net articles here and here that I used to help come up with the code I wrote. I also made the plug-in step that adds the tag a two step java plug-in (the plug-in calls a java program that then collects properties and then spawns another java process to do the work). This was for a specific reason. The code that does the work needs the RTC Java API jar files in its classpath. For the latest release of RTC, there are about 100 jar files that make up the classpath list. I didn't want to include that entire set in the plug-in. Therefore, I ask the user to provide a path to the directory that holds these jar files. I then spawn a second java process that includes this directory in its classpath. This also keeps the plug-in RTC version-independent as long as the Java API for builds doesn't change that much and it puts the onus on the user to get those jars.
So I created a plug-in step that adds a tag to the list of tags of an RTC build result record. The information needed for this step is relatively small: the RTC URL, a username and password, and the UUID of the build result record, and the tag to add. The java for this took a bit of time but again using existing examples made things much easier.
The other step in the plug-in that I created was getting the RTC build result ID from the component version link. The URL to an RTC build result looks something like this:
The id fragment at the end is the UUID of the build result record. So the plugin step needs to get the link from the component version, then parse that link to get the build record UUID, and then create an output property to hold that value so that the previously mentioned java step can use it. There is a REST API call that can be used to get the link from a component version. Groovy can then be used easily to parse the full URL and retrieve the id.
So here is a working example. I envision that at the end of a component deployment process you would add these two steps to update the build result record.
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Here is the details for the first step, GetBuildId. It takes the parameters mentioned above. Using component name and version name properties makes this step dynamic. The link name comes from the process of creating the link through an ANT task when building the component. And the output property is simply whatever you want to call it.
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Here are the properties for the second step. The RTC parameters are self explanatory. The build result record UUID is the property that is set by the previous step. And the Java API location is where the user has unzipped the RTC Java API files on the agent server. The tag value also uses the current environment name property so that this step works for any environment.
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Both of these steps work in my environment without a hitch. If you are interested in trying it out, you can get the plug-in source code here in this IBM DevOps Services project. Let me know how it goes.
2 thoughts on "RTC Build Traceability with UrbanCode Deploy
 1. HI Darrell,
 I found this blog very interesting. I have a related question. Have you ever used the RTC Work Items plugins that ships with UCD? I am wondering how you get the work item ID into the steps included in this plugin. Is it a manual thing? Or is there a way to pass the work item id as part of the post-build deploy? I thought I could use build properties to set a component version property, but the former are immutable.
 Thanks for you thoughs.
 - Vincent,
 Yes, the RTC plug-in expects a work item ID in the property. How you get it there is up to you. You can manually enter it but that isn't practical. Or you could use the very same process that I am using here with a component version link. As part of the build process, you can add a link to your RTC work item via the command line method. Then use the exact same process I am using to retrieve the ID from the link create a step property out of the ID and then pass it to the RTC work item plug-in step the same way I am passing it to my custom step.
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2 types of Avoidant Coping to Catch Yourself Doing
Avoidant coping is about trying to avoid experiencing painful thoughts, feelings, memories, or sensations.
Here are two types you should try to learn to recognize in yourself.
Type 1. Avoiding situations.
Type 2. Avoiding behaviours.
Doing either of these types is likely to be limiting your happiness and success so it will help you to learn how to spot 'em.
For example, someone who is anxious about committing in relationships might
1. avoid getting into emotional relationships (thereby avoiding situations likely to trigger his/her commitment anxiety).
2. Once in relationships, avoid enacting behaviours that increase his/her commitment anxiety (e.g. avoid saying I love you, avoid making joint purchases)

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Faith In Action: Body of Anger (30 minutes), Session 12: From Anger to Kindness
In "Love Will Guide Us," a Tapestry of Faith program
Materials for Activity
- An old T-shirt and pair of pants, both light-colored, adult size, and ready to be recycled
- Markers that will write on fabric
- Handout 1, Three Choices to Reduce Anger
- Optional: Face or body paint
Preparation for Activity
- Invite parents to join the group for this activity.
- Read the Description of Activity. Then, invite an appropriate adult volunteer, preferably male, preferably someone with whom the children already are comfortable.
- Copy Handout 1 for all participants/families.
- Clear an open area where the volunteer can stand and be seen by everyone. Set face paint and fabric markers on a work table.
Description of Activity
Participants discover how their bodies react when we become angry. When we can recognize signs of anger in our bodies, we can better understand ourselves.
Have the volunteer put on the old clothes. Introduce your volunteer to the group. Say, in your own words:
Our bodies can tell us when we are angry. For each person the signs are different. Each person has to find out what their own signs are, so they will realize when they are getting angry. The important thing to controlling anger is recognizing that you are becoming angry so you can act responsibly instead of lashing out and saying or doing something that is hurtful.
Ask the group to think of ways their bodies react when they feel angry; encourage the children to speak and adults to listen. As participants name different signs of anger, use the volunteer (dressed in old clothes) as a living "visual" and write or draw each example on their body using either markers or face paint. For example "rapid breathing" could be written on the chest to represent lungs; "red face" on a cheek.
Follow up with questions such as:
- Which body reaction do you have when you get angry? (Use the volunteer as a visual list of body reactions the children have mentioned.)
- How do you control your anger?
- Is anger always bad? When is anger good?
Thank the volunteer and invite them to remove the signs of anger by stepping out of the old clothes. Distribute the handout to adults. Invite families to review it at home.
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Translation of angora in Spanish:
- (before noun) (sweater/scarf)Angora cat/goat/rabbit
de angoragato (masculine) /cabra (feminine) /conejo (masculine) de angoraExample sentences
- Fabrics that are derived from animal hair (including angora, cashmere and basic wool blends) are most susceptible to insect damage.
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In association football, an assist is a contribution by a player which helps to score a goal. Statistics for assists made by players may be kept officially by the organisers of a competition, or unofficially by, for example, journalists or organisers of fantasy football competitions. Recording assists is not part of the official Laws of the Game and the criteria for an assist to be awarded may vary.
Most commonly, an assist is credited to a player for passing or crossing the ball to the scorer. It may also be awarded to a player whose shot rebounds (off a defender, goalkeeper or goalpost) to a teammate who scores; or to a player who wins a penalty kick for another player to convert. An attacking player may be awarded an assist for contributing to an own goal.1 Players cannot be awarded an assist for a goal they themselves score. Usually one but a maximum of two players can be awarded assists per goal.
Record of assists was virtually not kept at all until the end of the 20th century. The North American Soccer League kept assist statistics from its foundation in 1968, as its forebears the United Soccer Association and National Professional Soccer League had done the previous year.2 Analogous statistics were already being kept in basketball and in ice hockey, both established North American sports.
- An assist was awarded to the player who had given the last pass to the goalscorer.
- In addition, also the last but two holder of the ball could get an assist provided that his action had decisive importance for the goal.
- After goals from rebounds those players were awarded an assist who had shot on target.
- After goals scored on penalty or by a directly converted free-kick the fouled player received a point.
- In case that the goalscorer had laid on the goal for himself (dribble, solo run), no assists were awarded.
- No assists were awarded, either, if the goalscorer took advantage of a missed pass by an opponent.
- Where goals resulting from penalties are concerned, the player who is fouled in the area receives an assist point (unless, that is, the player who is fouled subsequently executes the penalty himself).
FIFA started officially keeping track of assists in World Cup tournaments at the 1994 edition.7 This was popularly ascribed to the popularity of detailed sports statistics among American fans.7 1994 was also the first World Cup in which assists were used as a tie-breaker in determining the Golden Shoe award for top scorer.78 In the event, both Hristo Stoichkov and Oleg Salenko finished with 19 points, from 6 goals and 1 assist.8 FIFA's Technical Study Group is responsible for awarding assist points.9
It is official practice for certain leagues to keep record of assists. The United States' Major League Soccer, for instance, formerly awarded the MLS Golden Boot based on 2 points per goal scored and one per assist. The all-time leader in assists in Major League Soccer is midfielder Steve Ralston, with 135 assists as of August 2011.10 The French league, Ligue 1, awards the Trophée de Meilleur Passeur ("best passer trophy") to the leader in assists following every season, the 2007–08 recipient being Jérôme Leroy.11
The NCAA makes regulations for statistics, including assists, in college soccer in the U.S.12 Two players may be credited with assists if the second did not have to beat a defender before passing to the scorer.13 No assist is awarded for winning a penalty.14 If a goal is scored after a save, block, or rebound from the goal frame, the first shooter gets an assist.15
In Britain, all game statistics, including assists, for the Premier League, the Scottish Premier League and the Football League are provided by PA Sport under the Actim brand.16 Since the 2006–07 season, assists have been factored into the Actim Index of Premier League player performance.17
- "Haverford College vs Alvernia College". Haverford College. 2007-09-18. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- "NASL Top Scorer Award". midfielddynamo. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- FIFA Technical Study Group (1986). "1986 World Cup Technical Report, part 4". FIFA. p. 198. Retrieved 2008-07-29. Unknown parameter
- FIFA Technical Study Group (1990). "1990 World Cup Technical Report, part 6". FIFA. p. 281. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- "World Cup 1966 statistics". Planet World Cup. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- "World Cup 1986 statistics". Planet World Cup. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- Bryan, Rebecca (11 July 1994). "Football by the numbers". Los Angeles: Agence France Presse. "the assist has gained enough ground to earn a place in the calculations for the Golden Boot award, which in every previous World Cup has been awarded solely on the basis of goals scored. Under the formula, players get three points for a goal, and one point for an assist. "We made a two point difference because we do not want someone who did not score winning the award," a FIFA official said."
- "Romario is voted the top player of World Cup '94 and winner of the FIFA/adidas Golden Ball award; Salenko and Stoichkov tie as leading scorers for World Cup USA '94". Business Wire. 17 July 1994. "[FIFA] has announced Oleg Salenko (Russia) and Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) as [...] winners of the prestigious adidas Golden Shoe award [...] who made six goals and one assist each. Kennet Andersson (Sweden) with 5 goals and 3 assists, will receive a Bronze replica of the Predator [...] Throughout World Cup '94, three points were awarded for each goal scored and one point for each assist leading to a goal, with a maximum of two assists per goal. Assists are only taken into account if two or more players scored the same number of goals."
- "adidas Golden Shoe Award". FIFA. Archived from the original on 26 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- "All Time Leaders: Assists". Major League Soccer. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- "Classement Passeur". Lfp.fr. Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
- "Section 5: Assists". Official Soccer Statistics Rules; Approved Rulings and Interpretations. NCAA. 2009. p. 2. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- NCAA Official Soccer Statistics Rules, §5.Art 1.(1)
- NCAA Official Soccer Statistics Rules, §5.Art 1.(3)
- NCAA Official Soccer Statistics Rules, §5.Art 1.(8),(9)
- "Actim Stats Frequently Asked Questions". PA Sport. Archived from the original on 2 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- "Actim Index Explained". PA Sport. Archived from the original on 2 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
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Battle of Bloody Ridge
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Coordinates: 38°15′18″N 128°02′16.8″E / 38.25500°N 128.038000°E / 38.25500; 128.038000
Battle Kara of Bloody Ridge
Part of the Korean War
Date August 18 – September 5, 1951
Location Yanggu County, Gangwon Province, South Korea
Result United Nations victory
 United Nations
 North Korea
 People's Republic of China
United States 2nd Infantry Division South Korea 36th Regiment 15,000
Casualties and losses
2,700 [1] 8,000 dead
7,000 wounded [2]
The Battle of Bloody Ridge was a ground combat battle that took place during the Korean War from August 18 to September 5, 1951.
Located in hills north of the 38th parallel north in the central Korean mountain range, the battle was fought between the communist North Korean forces of the Korean People's Army (KPA) and United Nations forces consisting of Republic of Korea Army (ROK) units and the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division.
By the summer of 1951, the Korean War had reached a stalemate as peace negotiations began at Kaesong. The opposing armies faced each other across a line which ran (with many twists and turns along the way) from east to west, through the middle of the Korean peninsula, a few miles north of the 38th parallel. UN and communist forces jockeyed for position along this line, clashing in several relatively small but intense and bloody battles.
Bloody Ridge began as an attempt by UN forces to seize a series of hills forming a ridge which they believed were being used as observation posts to call in artillery fire on a UN supply road.
The 36th ROK Regiment made the initial attack. It succeeded in capturing most, but not all, of the ridge after a week of fierce fighting that at times was hand to hand. It was a short-lived triumph, for the following day the North Koreans recaptured the mountain in a fierce counterattack.
The next UN assault was made by the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Division. The battle raged for ten days, as the North Koreans repulsed one assault after another by the increasingly exhausted and depleted U.S. forces. After repeatedly being driven back, the 9th succeeded in capturing one of the hill objectives after two days of heavy fighting. The weather then turned to almost constant rain, greatly slowing the attacks and making operations almost impossible because of the difficulty in bringing supplies through "rivers of mud" and up steep, slippery slopes.
Fighting continued, however, and casualties mounted. The 2nd Division's 23rd Infantry Regiment joined the attack on the main ridge while the division's other infantry regiment, the 38th Infantry Regiment, occupied positions immediately behind the main ridge which threatened to cut off any North Korean retreat. The combination of frontal attacks, flanking movements and incessant bombardment by artillery, tanks and airstrikes ultimately decided the battle. Over 14,000 artillery rounds were fired in a 24 hour period. Finally, on September 5, the North Koreans abandoned the ridge after UN forces succeeded in outflanking it.
After withdrawing from Bloody Ridge, the North Koreans set up new positions just 1,500 yards (1,400 m) away on a seven mile (11 km) long (11 km) hill mass that was soon to earn the name Heartbreak Ridge.
The American soldiers called the piece of terrain they had taken "Bloody Ridge", which indeed it was: 2,700 UN and perhaps as many as 15,000 communists were casualties, almost all of them killed or wounded with few prisoners being taken by either side. The much higher communist casualties were probably caused by:
1. Discipline in the KPA was poor, and constraining orders so strict to the point where subordinate leaders were often not allowed to withdraw under any conditions, in which case the entire unit would be blooded. Even when permission was granted for a withdrawal, it often came only after the large majority of troops in the unit had been killed.
2. In most battles, UN forces had an overwhelming advantage in artillery and air support; indeed, the communists had no air support. An enormously destructive "rain of fire" could be brought by UN units against North Korean and Chinese forces which they could not answer in kind.
 1. ^ [Korea: The First War We Lost, Bevin Alexander, pages 440-42 ISBN 978-_PHONE_]
 2. ^ [Korea: The First War We Lost, by Bevin Alexander, pages 440-42 ISBN 978-_PHONE_]
 - Blair, Clay (1987). The Forgotten War. New York: Times Books. ISBN 5-550-68614-7.
 - T. R. Fehrenbach (1964). This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-881113-5.
 - (2002). Spencer C. Tucker (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History. New York: Checkmark Books. ISBN 0-8160-4682-4.
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Bidirectional cross-filtering is a new feature for SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services and Power BI Desktop that allows modelers to determine how they want filters to flow for data using relationships between tables. In SQL Server 2014, filter context of a table is based on the values in a related table. With bidirectional cross-filtering, the filter context is propagated to a second related table on the other side of a table relationship. This can help you solve the many-to-many problem without writing complicated DAX formulas.
We just released a whitepaper that describes this feature in detail, available now for download. The whitepaper covers how the feature works and how it solves problems like the traditional many-to-many scenario. It also points out other interesting use cases such as using it for a date table, and how it solves dynamic security much easier than before.


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Completeness of Birth Registration in the United States in 1940
The article describes in details the steps taken to assess the completeness of birth registration in the US in 1940, by comparing infant cards (cards with information about the children born in four months before the 1940 US population census) with registration records in each State. The assessment shows that most of the US States were able to maintain 90% and above level of registration, while some are below 90% coverage.
The article was prepared by Robert F. Lenhart in 1943 and published on American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 33, June 1943, Pages 685-690.
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Why Do Horses Weave?
Why Do Horses Weave?
Horses that weave often do so while standing at the stall door. Increasing visual or physical contact with other horses and optimizing turnout time can help reduce weaving.
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Q. I'm curious about my horse's weaving. I know that excess calories/energy can play a factor, as can stress or some other trigger (though I haven't really been able to spot a consistent "trigger" for my horse's episodes—it can range from being handled in his stall to standing and the apparent anticipation of being tacked up), but what I'm most curious about is at how early of an age would a horse begin weaving, and why would he pick that over some other habit—is weaving simply something that just "felt right" to him, when he was scanning the stereotypy catalog? Is it the kind of thing where one kid might start chewing her nails in class while the other taps his foot? And, while I'm on the topic of foot-tapping, are some horses more "rhythmic" than others? I know this might sound strange, but I've noticed my horse sways ever so slightly (though not with his head/neck) when his feet are being handled by the farrier. It reminds me a little of the YouTube video of the horse bobbing his head to a song on YouTube, for instance, only not as charming (to the farrier, at least!).
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A. Weaving is a rhythmic swaying in place that usually involves a lateral excursion of the head and neck and a concurrent shifting of weight between the front feet, such that the entire front end of the horse is usually involved, as well as sometimes the hindquarters. Usually the horse does this standing right at the stall door. A number of researchers are working hard to better understand weaving in horses but realize our knowledge of all stereotypies is ever evolving. Always remember horses are built to walk and eat and have social relationships, and when these are thwarted, behaviors that we find undesirable or disconcerting can result.
Why did your horse "pick" weaving out of the catalog? Weaving and other locomotory stereotypies seem to be associated with the urge to walk, forage, and socialize. In part, we think this because one thing that seems to reduce weaving is the placement of a mirror in the horse's stall. Increasing visual or physical contact with other horses and optimizing turnout time also can reduce weaving. And, interestingly, bedding on straw may reduce weaving, perhaps because the horse can forage on straw when other feed isn't available. So this is opposed to an oral stereotypy suck as cribbing, which we tend to link with early (like creep feeding) and contemporary high concentrate diets more than thwarted movement and socialization.
Many believe that the genesis of stereotypies is some management factor or stressor in young horses, often around weaning time and around the 2-year-old mark when early training begins. Certain diet and feeding regimens (such as high concentrates and limited foraging) seem to be a common factor in the development of stereotypies. Weaving specifically has been associated with foals weaned alone, in a box stall, as opposed to a group-weaning scheme. I saw one study that reported 60 months (5 years) as the median age for weaving to begin. Obviously, not all horses will develop a stereotypy even though exposed to early "risk factors." Genetics, predispositions, and intervening management all might play a role.
Researchers think more proximate triggers can be any one of the following, as you have already experienced. A big factor is predictability in routine and his ensuing anticipation of an activity. Another is a too short duration of a rewarding or natural activity, such as turnout or feeding, so he will weave after these events are over. Another is frustrated access to something he wants, such as exercise or social contact.
Early on, there could be a learned element, such an inadvertent reward when he's weaving. Then the horse weaves because of anticipation or frustration. Finally, the weaving becomes "emancipated" from any specific triggers and, perhaps as you are seeing, he just does it with no apparent trigger at all. Remember too, all stereotypies seem to become internally rewarding to the horse.
In summary, the origin of the weaving might have been long ago and, as such, is well out of your control. Trigger factors might be hard to identify and not feasible to really change. There are management schemes that could serve to reduce the urge to weave.
As far as the subtle swaying with the farrier, it could be that is your horse's manner of weaving with a foot held up in the air. But I always have to consider a horse that shifts or sways when one foot is held up that maybe there's some discomfort either with flexion of the up leg, or more weight-bearing on the other legs. Not a red alert, just something to tuck away for future reference.
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Film poster of Walkabout
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
Produced by Si Litvinoff
Screenplay by Edward Bond
Based on novel by James Vance Marshall
Starring Jenny Agutter
Luc Roeg
David Gulpilil
Music by John Barry
Cinematography Nicolas Roeg
Edited by Antony Gibbs
Max L. Raab-Si Litvinoff Films
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
May 1971 (1971-05)
(Cannes Film Festival)
June 1971 (US)
October 1971 (UK/Australia)
Running time
100 minutes[1]
Country Australia
United Kingdom
Language English
Yolŋu Matha
Budget A$1,000,000 (estimated)[2]
A teenage schoolgirl (Jenny Agutter) and her much younger brother (Luc Roeg) become stranded in the wilderness after their father (John Meillon) goes berserk. After driving them far into the Australian outback for a picnic, the father suddenly begins shooting at his children. When they run behind rocks for cover, he sets the car on fire and shoots himself in the head. The girl conceals what has happened from her brother and, after she has salvaged what food she can, the pair head out into the desert.
By the middle of the next day, they are weak and the boy can barely walk. Discovering a small water hole with a fruiting tree, they spend the day playing, bathing, and resting. By the next morning, the water has dried up. They are then discovered by an Aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil); although the girl cannot communicate with him, her brother mimes their need for water and the newcomer cheerfully shows them how to draw it from the drying bed of the oasis. The three travel together, with the Aboriginal boy sharing food he has caught hunting. They learn to communicate using words and sign language.
Despite their being lost, the Aboriginal boy does not assist the children in returning to civilisation. While in the vicinity of a plantation, a white woman walks past the boy, who subsequently ignores her when she speaks to him. She also spots the other children but they do not see her, and they continue on their journey. The children also discover a weather balloon belonging to a nearby research team working in the desert.
The trio then find a deserted farm and discover a paved road nearby, presumably leading to civilisation. The Aboriginal boy hunts down a water buffalo and is wrestling it to the ground when two white hunters appear in a truck and nearly run him over. He watches as they shoot several buffalo with a rifle. The boy then returns to the farm and catches the girl dressing. Later, he initiates a mating ritual by painting tribal markings on himself and performing a courtship dance in front of her. Although he dances outside all day and into the night until he becomes exhausted, she cannot understand the nature of his actions and ignores him. In the morning, the brother wakes his sister and tells her their companion is dead. After they wash and dress in their school uniforms, the brother takes her to the Aboriginal boy's body, hanging in a tree. Before leaving, the girl wipes ants from the dead boy's chest. Hiking up the road, the siblings find a nearly deserted mining town, where they are met by a surly white man who directs them towards a nearby hotel and, presumably, civilisation.
Years later, a businessman arrives home as the now grown-up girl prepares dinner; while he embraces her and relates office gossip, she daydreams, imagining a scene in which she, her brother, and the Aboriginal boy are playing and swimming naked in the deep pool in the outback.
Production details[edit]
The movie was the second feature directed by Nicolas Roeg. He had long planned to make a film of the novel Walkabout, in which the children are Americans stranded by a plane crash. After the indigenous boy finds and leads them to safety, he dies of influenza contracted from them, as he has not been immunised. Roeg had not been able to find a script he was happy with, until the English playwright Edward Bond did a minimal 14-page screenplay.
Roeg obtained backing from two American businessmen, Max Raab and Si Litvinoff, who incorporated a company in Australia but raised the budget entirely in the US and sold world rights to 20th Century Fox. Filming began in Sydney in August 1969 and later moved to Alice Springs.[2]
Roeg, a British filmmaker, brought an outsider's eye and interpretation to the Australian setting, and improvised greatly during filming. He has commented, "We didn't really plan anything—we just came across things by chance…filming whatever we found."[4] The director's son, Luc Roeg, played the younger boy in the film.
In the USA, the film was originally rated R by the MPAA due to nudity, but was reduced to a GP-rating (PG) on appeal.
Actor David Gulpilil is miscredited in the film as David Gumpilil.
John Barry composed and conducted the music, while Phil Ramone produced the music.
The poem read at the end of the film is Poem 40 from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.
Reception and interpretation[edit]
Walkabout fared poorly at the box office in Australia. Critics debated whether it could be considered an Australian film, and whether it was an embrace of or a reaction to the country's cultural and natural context.[4]
The film is an example of Roeg's well-defined directorial style, characterised by strong visual composition from his experience as a cinematographer, combined with extensive cross-cutting and the juxtaposition of events, location, or environments to build his themes.[5] This use of intellectual montage creates symbolism by juxtaposing two shots that are not literally connected.[original research?]For example, in one scene the Aboriginal boy is seen killing and dismembering a kangaroo, a passage interrupted by several brief clips of a butcher at work in his shop.[original research?]
The film is noted for its cinematography and is interspersed with numerous images of Australian plant and animal life, along with its varied landscapes. The director often uses those images to emphasise events in the plot and set the emotional tone, most notably during the violent scene involving the rifle hunters.[original research?]Though many of the events are improbable in a natural setting—in one scene a wombat wanders past the sleeping children in the middle of a desert—they create a backdrop of a populous, varied environment. In Walkabout, an analysis of the film, author Louis Nowra wrote:
"...I was stunned. The images of the Outback were of an almost hallucinogenic intensity. Instead of the desert and bush being infused with a dull monotony, everything seemed acute, shrill, and incandescent. The Outback was beautiful and haunting."[6]
Film critic Edward Guthmann also notes the strong use of exotic natural images, calling them a "chorus of lizards".[7]
Critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the great films."[8] He writes that it contains little moral or emotional judgment of its characters, and ultimately is a portrait of isolation in proximity:
"Is it a parable about noble savages and the crushed spirits of city dwellers? That's what the film's surface suggests, but I think it's about something deeper and more elusive: the mystery of communication."[8]
Commenting on the film's enduring appeal, in 1998 Roeg described the film as:
"…a simple story about life and being alive, not covered with sophistry but addressing the most basic human themes; birth, death, mutability."[9]
At the online review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a score of 93% based on 27 critical submissions, with an average rating of 8.2 out of 10 (showing however, as of 31 January 2013, "no consensus", on the site's Tomatometer.)[10]
Walkabout features numerous scenes of animal hunting and killing, most notably a kangaroo being speared and bludgeoned to death. The Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937 makes it illegal to distribute and exhibit material of which the production involved inflicting pain or terror on an animal. Since the animals did not appear to suffer or be in distress the film was deemed to not contravene the Act. The film also includes numerous scenes of full-frontal nudity featuring Jenny Agutter, who was 17 years old at the time of filming. The scenes did not pose a problem when submitted to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in 1971 and later in 1998, since the Protection of Children Act 1978 permitted the distribution and possession of indecent images of people over the age of 16; however, the Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the age threshold to 18 which meant the actress' age was a factor when the film was re-submitted in 2011. The BBFC reviewed the scenes in regards to the law and deemed them to not be "indecent" and passed the film uncut. Had this not been the case, the film would have been refused classification and it would have effectively made it illegal to possess a copy of the film, including copies that had been purchased legally at the time.[11]
 1. ^ "Walkabout". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
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I have $Q_8=\{I,A,A^2,A^3,B,AB,A^2B,A^3B\}$ where $A=\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$ and $B=\begin{pmatrix} 0 & i \\ i & 0 \end{pmatrix}$
Now I take a look at $Q_8/N$ for all $N\unlhd Q_8$ (i.e for which G is there an isomorphism $Q_8/N\cong G$??)
I know that $|N|\in\{2,4\}$. If $|N|=2$ then $N=\{I,-I\}$ and clearly $Q_8/N\cong V$ where V is Klein-Four group.
What if $|N|=4$?
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The quotient group in that case is of order $2$. – Lubin Dec 10 '12 at 20:40
So they probably will be isomorphic to $\mathbb Z_2$ and $\{I\}$ but how do the $Q_8/N$ look explicitly? – Voyage Dec 10 '12 at 20:45
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Let's work out explicitly what the quotient looks like by a subgroup of order 4. Specifically, let's quotient by $\left = \{1,A,A^2,A^3\}$.
$Q/\left$ is, by definition, the set of cosets of $\left$ in $Q$. As pointed out, there must be two cosets because 8/4=2. One of these cosets, $S_1$, contains the elements of $\left$, and the other, $S_2$, contains the leftovers: $\{B,AB,A^2B,A^3B\}$.
Strictly speaking, these two cosets are the elements of $Q/\left$. The group operation is defined as the usual product for two subsets of a group. If $S$ and $T$ are subsets of group $G$, their product $ST$ is said to be the set $\{st|s\in S, t\in T\}$.
Under this product, the two cosets of $\left$ in $Q$ form a group. You can verify directly that $S_1S_1 = S_2S_2 = S_1$ and $S_2S_1=S_1S_2 = S_2$. These relations demonstrate that $Q/\left$ is cyclic of order 2.
This is a relatively unexciting example. If there were more than two cosets, you might have to compute several pairwise products before discovering the structure of the quotient group. Because $|Q/\left|=2$, there was only one possibility for a group structure. Also, if you were to take $G/H$ with $H$ not normal in $G$, you would find that the cosets would not form a group under the product we defined.
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I've been doing a lot of thinking lately - especially as I drew my very handsome male shoveler duck in pen and ink - about needing to practice line drawing in a two value Notan sense if I'm going to have a go at lino-cutting.
I've decided to practice by reviewing how to convert photos into just two tones using the PS Elements Cut Out Tool so that I can see if I can develop a better "eye" for doing two tone work
First a quick reminder about what Notan is - plus some links to previous posts on this blog for readers not familiar with the concept.
Notan is a Japanese concept involving the placement of lights and darks next to the other to read as flat shapes on the two-dimensional surface. This use of lights and darks differs dramatically from the means by which artists had traditionally manipulated these elements to create seemingly three-dimensional forms on the picture plane.Some readers will recall I've written about this previously
Line melts into tone through the cluster of many lines. Direct study of tone-intervals begins with composition in two values - the simplest form of Notan.
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- Georgia O'Keeffe Month: Learning about Notan #1 - which explains what Notan is
- Georgia O'Keeffe Month: Learning about Notan #2 - particularly instructive about processes for two value Notan and composing using Notan
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- Georgia O'Keeffe Month: Learning about Notan #3 - which highlights the problems experienced when introducing colour into the design
So this post remedies that omission!
How to reduce a photo to a two value image
I'm also going to drop in one or two of the Arthur Wesley Dow's recommendations for how to make Notan work
focus first on ensuring that the line design works before beginning to darken certain shapes within the overall design with black
- Locate the cut out tool in PS Elements. This is one of the artistic filters. So the menu selection in PS Elements goes Filter/Artistic/Cutout.
- Note how many ways you can vary the cutout. There are three controls Number of Levels, Edge Simplicity and Edge Fidelity. I'll describe each in terms of what happens at the extremes.
- Numbers of Levels: There are eight levels. 1= one value/colour. 8 = 8 values and values/shades of grey between black and white
- Edge Simplicity: There are ten levels 1= picks up all the tiny marks; 10= extreme simplicity/very abstract/subject is unrecognisable
- Edge Fidelity: There are three options. 1 = simplest; 3 = most accurate. 2 looks like it might be a good level for lino-cuts
- Select a photo to adapt and create a two value image (for a linocut). (Squint!) Check whether it has interesting lines and whether the big value shapes are distinctive. Basically any mental screening you do is trying to identify pattern and balance and to imagine what it would look like with no colour.
- Save the photo with a new file name
- Select Image/Mode/Greyscale and convert to greyscale
- Start to play around with the three controls. While keeping the other two at mid points, check what happens when you take any of the to the two extremes. Make a note of what you find out and note what each does to value, shape and line.
- Repeat for each of the three controls
- Now select two levels to produce a two value image. Do a basic check on whether it looks like it still has the potential to be interesting.
- Then vary the simplicity of the edge. Find a level which looks like it could be feasible to draw and cut on lino!
- Then vary the difference of the fidelity and see what happens.
- Try varying fidelity first. Hold simplicity at 5 and then vary fidelity.
The realistic standard always tends to the decay of artI've got an example from a photo of my Shoveler. I liked the patterns in the water and thought the duck shape was also quite distinctive - but I wasn't sure how it would work when reduced down to two values and some fiddling with edges!
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Here are the results.
- Numbers of Levels: 2
- Edge Simplicity: 5
- Edge Fidelity: 5
In version 2 I increased the simplicity (i.e. made it more faithful to reality) and then reduced the fidelity! It produces more slight lines which are areas of no line on the other two.
- Numbers of Levels: 2
- Edge Simplicity: 6
- Edge Fidelity: 1
In version 3 I reduced the simplicity and increased the fidelity
- Numbers of Levels: 2
- Edge Simplicity: 4
- Edge Fidelity: 3
Now can I do this by eye alone - or do linocutters also look to PS for help?
If you want to take a look at somebody who regularly does linocuts - take a look at Sherrie York's linocut gallery on her website and her blog Brush and Baren. I also recommend taking a look at her Great Crested Grebe Linocut and reading an excellent interview with her on Printsy - which I think one or two other lino cutting students have already spotted - hi Robyn!! ;)
Lino Cutting Note: My information site to store all my bookmarks for lino cutting is already in draft. Inevitable really - as soon as I started to look at equipment and materials! Any recommendations for links to useful sites will be much appreciated. I'll let you know when I start to cut!
Please leave a comment below (and a link to your example) if you have a go at using this technique.


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The tuning heads on guitars are worm gears.
The tuning heads on guitars are worm gears.
In the world of manufacturing and machinery, a worm drive is a geared arrangement that is generally used to either change the rotational speed of a larger mechanism or modify the amount of torque applied. The arrangement gets its name from the worm gear, a cylindrical gear in the shape of a screw. When the worm gear turns, the threads of the screw rotate and apply motive force to a gear wheel, which in turn rotates and transmits power to the larger mechanism.
The term "worm drive" can be a confusing one, as it is common to use the term when talking about only the worm gear itself, even though the definition covers the entire gear system. To further complicate matters, "WORM drive" was an early term for drives that burned data to CD-R discs. WORM stood for Write Once, Read Many in that context. This usage of the term, however, has fallen into disuse, so most contemporary usages of the term refer to the gear system.
Worm drives are commonly used due to their relative small size and simplicity. Since the rotational force of the worm gear and the gear wheel mesh at a 90° angle, the gears can be placed in line with, or on top of, each other. This allows for a more compact arrangement of the gears. Since the gear ratio depends on the length of the screw and number of teeth along the shaft of the worm gear, the ratio can be readily modified while maintaining a small volume. In addition, a basic worm gear usually will only turn in one direction, which means the worm drive is self-locking unless specifically engineered to be otherwise, either through precision engineering of the gear meshing angles and surfaces or through the addition of additional worm gears. Finally, due to their simplicity, worm drives tend to be reliable, long-lasting and relatively easy to maintain.
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XmlConfiguration. For any other types, there is no magic—you have to help to make conversion happen by writing a type converter.
The generic type conversion implies that the managed types are simple enough so that their instances can be represented by a single string. This isn't really a big problem because the individual configuration settings are typically either primitive types or otherwise very simple types such as
Size etc. (And even if a type instance cannot be represented with a single string, it can always be broken down to pieces that can.)
In any case, the
XmlConfiguration doesn't limit support to only built-in FCL types. It can work with user-defined types as well, provided that you implement a
TypeConverter-derived type converter for them. The source code package comes with a simple example that shows how to build one.
Search and Removal
From time to time you'll want to check if a single key or node exists, remove it, or even erase the complete hierarchy. The following example shows these operations:
bool valueExists = cfg["/Database/Login/Username"]!= null;
cfg["/Database/Login/Username"] = null;
ConfigurationNode n = cfg.FindNode("/Database/Login");
bool nodeExists = n!= null;
bool hasSubNodes = n.HasSubNodes;
bool hasKeys = n.HasKeys;
bool isEmpty = n.Empty;
bool removed = cfg.RemoveNode("/Database/Login");
Most of the configuration settings are inherently static: they get stored in a fixed, predefined location in the configuration hierarchy and their data size is constant. Managing this kind of settings is easy because everything is known in advance: a setting can be referenced using a hard-coded path and the code can make safe assumptions about the content structure.
On the other side, some configuration settings, such as the list of most recently opened documents, have a dynamic structure: the size of the data is variable and it may even happen that there is no data at all. In terms of configuration elements, a node that represents dynamic settings contains a variable number of subnodes and key/value pairs.
In order to read the content of a dynamic setting, the content has to be made discoverable. For that reason the
TreeConfiguration class exposes the node content in the form of collections of subnodes, keys and values. These three collections are accessible through corresponding named properties
ICollection subNodes = cfg.Nodes["/node1/node2/node3"];
foreach (ConfigurationNode n in subNodes)
ICollection keys = cfg.Keys["/node1/node2/node3"];
foreach (string key in keys)
ICollection values = cfg.Values["/node1/node2/node3"];
foreach (object value in values)
(Make sure you check the file Test.cs for concrete examples.)
Managing culture-specific data
Type conversion quite often results in formatted strings: for example, numbers are presented with decimal and thousands separators, dates are presented with date and time separators etc. The resulting string format is culture-dependent.
Storing culture-sensitive formatted strings without culture information used to produce them is often an expensive mistake. The initial version of the
XmlConfiguration did not store any culture information, often making it impossible to correctly read a configuration file in an environment that has a different regional setting from the one the file was created in.
To reliably convert formatted strings back to concrete types,
TypeConverter needs the information about the culture used for the conversion. This is why the
XmlConfiguration type now exposes a string property named
Culture to identify the culture used in type conversions.
By default, if
Culture property is not set, the
XmlConfiguration will use
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture for all type conversions. When specifying the culture use standard names, as in the following example:
XmlConfiguration cfg = new XmlConfiguration(...);
cfg.Culture = "fr-FR";
Culture info can also be specified for each individual
ConfigurationNode node. Culture info specified for a concrete node applies to all its subnodes and key/value pairs. In fact, setting the
XmlConfiguration.Culture property just sets the
Culture property of the root
ConfigurationNode. If there are no subnodes that override the root node setting, culture info applies to the whole configuration. The following example shows how to set and override culture info:
XmlConfiguration cfg = new XmlConfiguration(...);
float number = 123.456F;
DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
cfg.Culture = "fr-FR";
cfg["/french/number"] = number; cfg["/french/date"] = now;
ConfigurationNode rootNode = cfg.FindNode("/");
ConfigurationPath path = new ConfigurationPath("southafrican");
ConfigurationNode subNode = rootNode.CreateSubNode(path);
subNode.Culture = "af-ZA";
subNode["number"] = number; subNode["date"] = now;
(For a more detailed example, check the Test.cs file.)
Can't wait to try it! What's in the package?
The package contains two projects:
TreeConfiguration class library.
- Files that implement the actual functionality: TreeConfiguration.cs, ConfigurationNode.cs, ConfigurationPath.cs, XmlConfiguration.cs, CustomTypeConverter.cs and TreeConfiguration.xsd;
- Home-made unit testing framework: UnitTest.cs;
- Functionality tests executed by the unit testing framework: Test.cs;
- Documentation: docs\*.xml files, a help file generated by NDoc, and an NDoc project file used to build it.
- A sample console application that does nothing but runs all the tests against the
A home-made unit testing framework was added to the package only to avoid having dependencies to a third-party framework that some readers might not have on their machines. Under normal circumstances, something like TestDriven.NET would be more appropriate.
The tests in the Test.cs file not only verify the correctness of the given functionality but also demonstrate all aspects of usage. This file is the first place to look for the answers to any questions you might have.
In order to test the serialization of certain FCL classes, the TreeConfiguration project contains a few otherwise unnecessary references to assemblies such as
To build the documentation help file such as the one that is part of the package (TreeConfiguration.chm), you will need NDoc. The project source code files themselves contain no comments—only references to external files where the actual comments are. When the project gets built, all those references to individual documentation files in the docs subfolder get analyzed and the corresponding files get compiled into a single resulting XML documentation file. NDoc uses that file to build a help file in a number of different formats.
And that pretty much rounds up this idyllic story about the
TreeConfiguration. I just hope that the reality won't distort it too much, and that you'll find the code usable.
- Added support for managing data stored in a culture-specific format.
- Fixed reading of manually created XML configuration files that contain comments.


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Redefining Success: The Importance of Character Development in Midwest Baseball
Welcome to Baseball Prospect Digest (BPD), your trusted source for unparalleled insights into the Midwest baseball scene. In this article, we highlight an often overlooked aspect of player development: character development. Join us as we delve into the importance of cultivating strong character traits in Midwest baseball players and how they contribute to their overall success both on and off the field.
The Foundations of Character Development
Baseball Prospect Digest (BPD) recognizes the significance of character development in molding well-rounded individuals. In this article, we explore the foundational character traits that play a crucial role in the overall development of Midwest baseball players.
We discuss the importance of integrity, work ethic, leadership, resilience, and sportsmanship. These traits not only shape players' behavior and actions during games but also lay the groundwork for success in their personal lives. By fostering these character traits, Midwest baseball programs can develop athletes who are equipped to excel in all aspects of their lives.
Building Strong Team Cultures
Baseball Prospect Digest (BPD) emphasizes the role of strong team cultures in character development. In this article, we delve into how Midwest baseball teams can create an environment that fosters character growth and cultivates a sense of unity, support, and camaraderie among players.
We discuss the significance of coaches as role models, setting expectations, and promoting a positive and inclusive atmosphere. A strong team culture not only enhances player performance but also nurtures character traits such as accountability, respect, and empathy. By building a positive team culture, Midwest baseball programs can create an environment that promotes character development and sets the stage for success both on and off the field.
Character and College Recruitment
Baseball Prospect Digest (BPD) explores the connection between character and college recruitment in Midwest baseball. In this article, we delve into how college recruiters increasingly value players with strong character traits, alongside exceptional athletic abilities.
We discuss how the character traits of Midwest baseball players, such as leadership, coachability, and perseverance, make them attractive to college programs. College recruiters understand the importance of recruiting athletes who not only possess the physical talents but also have the grit, work ethic, and values necessary to thrive at the collegiate level. By emphasizing character development, Midwest baseball players can enhance their college recruiting prospects and open doors to future opportunities.
Life Lessons Through Baseball
Baseball Prospect Digest (BPD) highlights the life lessons that can be learned through baseball. In this article, we delve into how Midwest baseball provides a platform for character development and teaches players valuable skills they can carry with them beyond the game.
We discuss how baseball teaches perseverance in the face of failure, teamwork, accountability, time management, and the ability to handle adversity with grace. The skills and values instilled through the game contribute to the personal and professional growth of Midwest baseball players, preparing them for success in any endeavor they pursue.
Baseball Prospect Digest: Shaping Well-rounded Athletes in Midwest Baseball
At Baseball Prospect Digest (BPD), we celebrate the importance of character development in Midwest baseball. Our mission is to provide unparalleled insights and resources that emphasize the holistic growth of players both on and off the field.
Stay tuned to BPD for more articles that focus on character development, share success stories from Midwest baseball programs that prioritize character, and offer guidance for coaches, parents, and players on fostering character traits. Let's continue to redefine success in Midwest baseball by nurturing character and developing well-rounded individuals.
Join us as we shape the future of Midwest baseball, and honor the dedicated individuals who contribute to the character development and success of players through their unwavering commitment to character growth!


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by Richard Prior
The Roe Deer is the first comprehensive book in English covering the biology, reproduction and behaviour of this beautiful animal and its place in modern Britain. It is the essence of a lifetime's experience in the management and conservation of the species, written in layman's terms with extensive references for students. A detailed bibliography is included.
Throughout, the author's deep understanding and affection for the species makes this a book which can be read equally for instruction or pleasure by anyone concerned with deer and the world they inhabit.


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This page contains bill sponsorships in the Senate and House.
Bill sponsorships indicate the topics that legislators are most interested in, and spend the most time on.
Decided Aug 2, 2004
Bill Sponsorship: the Northern Uganda Crisis Response Act
Source: Bill sponsored by 9 Senators
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should: Became Public Law No: 108-283.
- support efforts for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in northern and eastern Uganda;
- work with the Government of Uganda and the international community to make available sufficient resources to meet the relief and development needs of the towns and cities that are supporting large numbers of displaced people;
- urge the leaders and members of the Lord's Resistance Army to stop the abduction of children, and urge all armed forces in Uganda to stop the use of child soldiers, and seek the release of all individuals who have been abducted;
- urge the Government of Uganda to improve the professionalism of Ugandan military personnel currently stationed in northern and eastern Uganda, with an emphasis on respect for human rights and civilian protection;
- work with the international community to assist and increase the capacity of Ugandan civil institutions to monitor the human rights situation in northern Uganda;
- make clear that the relationship between Sudan and the United States cannot improve unless no credible evidence indicates that authorities of the Government of Sudan are providing support to the Lord's Resistance Army.
- Topic: Foreign Policy
- Headline: Monitor human rights in Uganda-Sudan crisis
- Key for participation codes:
- Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
- Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
- Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
- Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred
- Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.
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As summer ends and your child gets ready to go back to Fremont Elementary School, you probably have a lot to do to prepare. If your child wears hearing aids, consider taking these extra steps to ensure they are set to have a successful new year.
Talk to Your Child's Teachers About Hearing Loss
If you are able to, talking to your child's teachers, school staff, and/or coaches before the start of the school year can be incredibly helpful. Doing so can give you the opportunity to:
- Discuss your child's specific hearing loss needs.
- Work with their teacher to figure out how to maximize your child's ability to hear well in the classroom, such as making sure they get a seat up in the front of the class.
- Show them how your child's specific hearing aid model works. Especially if your child is younger, it can be helpful for school staff to know how to troubleshoot the device or change batteries if needed.
- Keep an open line of communication between you and their teachers throughout the school year.
Communication with your child's teachers can be especially important since observational studies have shown that many children with hearing loss don't wear their hearing aids when they are in class and that their parents are often unaware of this.
Make Sure They Have All Their Hearing Aid Supplies
It's important for children who wear their hearing aids in class to have all the accessories and supplies necessary to keep their device safe and working throughout the day. Some things you should consider making sure they have with them include:
- Extra batteries
- A soft dry cloth or hearing aid cleaning kit
- Adhesives or clips to keep hearing aids from falling off and getting damaged
- Hearing aid sleeves for gym class or practice to protect their device from moisture
- Fabric softener sheets to limit built-up static electricity
- A notecard with troubleshooting directions in case their hearing aid stops working
- A hard-shell storage kit to keep all these accessories safe and in one place
If your child has hearing loss, making sure they wear their hearing aids correctly and consistently is one of the best ways to help them succeed academically and connect with their peers.
If you have concerns about your child's hearing and would like to speak with an expert or schedule an appointment, call Advantage ENT & Audiology today.


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Background: On the basis of the Framingham risk algorithm, overestimation of clinical events has been reported in some European populations. Electron-beam computed tomography-derived quantification of coronary artery calcification (CAC) allows for non-invasive assessment of coronary atherosclerosis in the general population and may thus add important in vivo information on the path from risk factor exposure to formation of clinical events. The current study was undertaken to compare the relationship between risk factors and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis between non-Hispanic white cohorts in Germany and US-America, the hypothesis being that subclinical coronary atherosclerosis might be less prevalent in Europe at the same level of classical risk factor exposure. Methods: The Heinz Nixdorf Recall (HNR) study, conducted in the German Ruhr area and the Epidemiology of Coronary Calcification (ECAC) study, conducted in Olmsted County, Minnesota, both recruited large unselected cohorts, men and women aged 45-74 years, from the general population. All subjects with no history of coronary artery disease (CAD) or stroke were included (n = 3120 in HNR, n = 703 in ECAC). Coronary risk factors were assessed by personal and computer-assisted interviews and direct laboratory measurements. Cardiovascular medication use (antihypertensive, lipid-lowering, and anti-diabetic) was noted. CAC scores were determined using the Agatston method in an identical fashion in both studies. Results: Adverse levels of risk factors were more prevalent, and the Framingham risk score was higher (10.6 ± 7.6 versus 9.3 ± 7.1, p < 0.001) in HNR than ECAC, respectively. There was no difference in body mass index (BMI). CAC scores were greater in HNR than in ECAC (mean values, 155.7 ± 423.0 versus 107.2 ± 280.0; median values, 11.9 versus 2.4; p < 0.001, respectively). When subjects were matched on CAD risk factors, presence and quantity of CAC were similar in the 2 cohorts. Risk factors significantly associated with CAC score in both studies included: age, male sex, current and former smoking, systolic blood pressure, and non-HDL-cholesterol. Inferences were similar after excluding subjects using lipidor blood pressure-lowering medications. Using the same risk factor variables for modelling, the predicted CAC scores were comparable in both cohorts. Conclusions: In the higher-risk German cohort, presence and quantity of CAC were greater than in the lower-risk US-American cohort. Risk factor associations with CAC were very similar in both unselected populations. We could not demonstrate a relative increase in subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in the US-American cohort. It appears possible to compare CAC as a measure of subclinical coronary artery disease in different populations on different continents, and accordingly, scanning guidelines might be translated across these populations.
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|State||Published - Nov 2007|
- Cardiovascular risk factors
- Coronary artery calcification
- Coronary artery disease
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine


Iridium-191 Isotope Applications:
Iridium-191 isotope (Ir-191 isotope, 191Ir isotope)
 - Iridium-191 isotope is used for Iridium-192 (Ir-192 isotope, 192Ir isotope) radionuclide (radioisotope) production (can be used as a radiation source in radiographic testing and radiotherapy);
 - Iridium-191 isotope is used for Osmium-189m (Os-189m isotope, 189mOs isotope) radionuclide (radioisotope) nuclear isomer production (can be used in life science for healthcare and medical applications and pharmaceuticals industries);
 - Iridium-191 isotope is used for geological studies;
Iridium-191 isotope is available to order from in Iridium-191 metal (Ir) chemical form. Please contact us via request a Iridium-191 quote to order Iridium-191 isotope, to get Iridium-191 price and to buy Iridium-191 isotope.
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Iridium-191 Safety Data Sheet (SDS) in metal form - Download pdf file
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Properties of Iridium-191 Isotope:
Properties of Iridium-191 Isotope:IRIDIUM-191
Natural Abundance (%)37.3
Atomic Mass (Da)190.960594
Relative Isotopic Mass190.960594
Neutron Number (N)114
Atomic Number (Z)77
Mass Number (A)191
Nucleon Number (A)191
Proton Number (Z)77
Quadrupole Moment0.816
g-factor (g value)0.1005
Electron Configuration Blockd
Melting Point (K)2719
Boiling Point (K)4403
Specific Heat0.133
Heat of Formation669
Thermal Conductivity147
Dipole Polarizability 54
Electron Affinity (kJ/mole)1.56436
Electronegativity (Pauling scale)2.2
Atomic Radius (pm)135.5b
Covalent Radius (pm)135
VDW Radius (pm)236
Lattice Constant3.84
Crystal StructureFCC
Jmol color#175487
Iridium-191 Information
Iridium is a very hard and brittle, silvery metallic transition element. It has a yellowish cast to it. Salts of iridium are highly colored. It is the most corrosion resistant metal known, not attacked by any acid, but is attacked by molten salts. There are 2 natural stable isotopes of iridium. Totally iridium has 39 isotopes. The most stable being Ir-192 with a half-life of 73.83 days. Ir-192 decays into Platinum, while some radioisotopes decay into Osmium. Iridium is used in high temperature apparatus, electrical contacts. Iridium was discovered by Smithson Tennant in England in 1803. The name Iridium comes from the Greek word Iris, which means rainbow. Iridium metal is generally non-toxic due to its relative unreactivity, but iridium compounds should be considered highly toxic.
Iridium is used with osmium to tip gold pen points, to make crucible and special containers. It is used also to make alloys applied for standard weights and measures, and heat-resistant alloys. Iridium is used as hardening agent for platinum too.
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FAQ about Iridium-191 Isotope:
What is Iridium-191 isotope natural abundance?
Answer: 37.300 %
What is atomic mass for Iridium-191 isotope?
Answer: 190.96059 Da
What is isotopic mass for Iridium-191 isotope?
Answer: 190.96059
How many neutrons does Iridium-191 isotope have?
Answer: 114
How many protons does Iridium-191 isotope have?
Answer: 77
How many electrons does Iridium-191 isotope have?
Answer: 77
What is atomic number for Iridium-191 isotope?
Answer: 77
Is Iridium-191 isotope stable?
Answer: Yes
Is Iridium-191 isotope radioactive?
Answer: No
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A major challenge in high-resolution x-ray free-electron laser-based coherent diffractive imaging is the development of aerosol injectors that can efficiently deliver particles to the peak intensity of the focused X-ray beam. Here, we consider the use of a simple convergent-orifice nozzle for producing tightly focused beams of particles. Through optical imaging we show that 0.5 μm particles can be focused to a full-width at half maximum diameter of 4.2 μm, and we demonstrate the use of such a nozzle for injecting viruses into a micro-focused soft-X-ray FEL beam.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Condensed Matter Physics


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Willamette Student Researcher Thumbs Nose at Breathe Right Strips
You see them all the time, athletes and weekend warriors alike sporting those adhesive strips on their noses. Professional athletes like football great Jerry Rice do television commercials for Breathe Right Nasal strips, claiming the funny looking pieces of adhesive worn across the bridge of the nose help them breathe easier, run faster and play better. Are the claims true? Do those little adhesive nasal strips really improve athletic performance? Maybe not, says Gregory Boggs, a student researcher at Willamette.
"The makers of Breath Right Nasal strip claim that you can breathe easier with their product," says Boggs. "But how do you define breathing easier? I measured one of the best physiological indicators of exercise performance and found the strips didn't improve performance."
Boggs, a senior majoring in exercise science, won a $2,500 Carson Grant, a prestigious competitive award given to students who want to research an original idea or an area of research beyond what they can study in class. He had eight physically fit female athletes work out on exercise bicycles at increasing levels of resistance until they reached exhaustion and had to stop. The group performed twice, once using the Breathe RightÃ¤asal strips and once without strips. Blood samples were taken from the subjects throughout the test and then three minutes into recovery after exercise.
Unlike other researchers who have measured factors like resistance to airflow in the nostrils and the amount of inhalation/expiration (ventilation) occurring in the nose, Boggs chose to measure blood levels of lactate, a byproduct of metabolism. As exercise increases, the body produces more and more lactate until the body is unable to remove the lactate from the muscles (called the lactate threshold). At this point, the body is performing without much oxygen (anaerobically). The excess lactate causes the muscles to be unable to work properly.
Lactate threshold is one of the physiological measures of athletic performance. Trained athletes, who are able to take in and use oxygen efficiently, are able to physically work harder and longer before reaching the lactate threshold than untrained individuals. "Lactate threshold is an important measure of aerobic performance," explains Boggs. "It's a good measure of whether you're using oxygen for energy or whether you're working anaerobically or without oxygen. For best performance, we want to be working with oxygen."
If a product like Breathe Right can make more oxygen available, wearing the nasal strip would delay the onset of the lactate threshold and therefore enable the wearer to work harder and longer. A person working at the same intensity should have less lactate in their blood compared with someone not wearing the strip. However, Boggs found no significant differences in the lactate threshold levels of the athletes when they wore the strips or when they didn't. His is not the first to conclude the little nasal strips don't work.
"A lot of research agrees with my conclusion although none of the other studies use lactate levels to measure performance," says Boggs. "Most of the research measures whether a person is able to inhale and exhale more air with the nasal strip. Some of that research shows the strips work and some of it shows it doesn't.
How does he explain the popularity of the strips, despite evidence that they don't change blood lactate levels?
"Maybe it's psychological," young researcher speculates. "I've tried them and it does feel like it opens up your nostrils a little bit and makes it feel easier to breathe. Maybe if it feels easier to breathe you perform better. Or maybe because they said this would help athletic performance, the strips just caught on. Now everybody uses them whether or not they really work."


What is u in military alphabet
What is U in the phonetic alphabet?
NATO Phonetic Alphabet
Symbol Code Word Phonic (pronunciation)
V Victor VIK TAH
W Whiskey WISS KEY
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What is the meaning of the military alphabet?
The military alphabet, officially the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, consists of 26 code words. Each represents one letter of the English alphabet. For instance, "Alpha" means "A," "Bravo" means B, and so on. Multiple code words often are combined to form words or expressions.
What is Oscar Tango Mike?
What is Alpha Beta Charlie?
The Nato Phonetic Alphabet, also sometimes referred to as Alpha Bravo Charlie is actually officially called the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) created code words that it connected to the letters of the English alphabet.
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What does Bravo Zulu mean?
well done
What is Y in military?
Why is Bravo Zulu well done?
Bravo Zulu is a naval signal originally sent by semaphore flags, and, in English, simply means " Well done." Now, why Bravo Zulu? Its origins are in the Allied Naval Signal Book, which for decades has been used by members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was created in 1949.