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Double Tax Agreements
Bilateral agreements to make no-one worse off
In the income tax area, agreements between two countries are known as Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs). They are designed to prevent double taxation for cross border transactions, meaning: nobody who has income from other countries should be worse off than people who earn money and pay taxes in their country of residence. It provides taxpayers with an at least equal, sometimes even better treatment than they would get under a country's domestic law.
Andrew Smith, an international tax expert from Victoria University in Wellington, describes DTAs as a "shield, not a sword". He says: "Double Tax Agreements cannot create a tax liability when there is no underlying provision in the domestic law of one of the states."
Depending on the individual agreement, overseas income or a portion of this income might be taxed in the country where the money is paid; in this case the already taxed income can be deducted from the tax debt in the country of residence. In other cases you can obtain exemptions from paying taxes overseas and have to declare the complete overseas income in your country of residence and pay full tax there.
No Double Taxation Agreement is like the other
Another important factor is in which country you spend most time, meaning: you might have to pay taxes in New Zealand only if you reside there more than 183 days in the tax year. There are scores of variants that cannot be dealt with in detail in this article.
It is only meant to show that you have to study the Double Taxation Agreement New Zealand has with the specific country you earn money in. The rules can be complicated, so speak to Inland Revenue (IRD) and/or a tax consultant, specialising in international taxation.
Those DTAs also include regulations about the taxation of overseas pensions - and they could not be more different and more complicated.
The first problem already arises because of the nature of overseas pensions: Are these pensions universal state pensions? Are they state pensions for civil servants? Are they contributory pensions? And finally, has the respective overseas state a Social Security Agreement (SSA) with New Zealand?
International agreements override domestic law
Whereas most overseas countries have Double Taxation Agreements with New Zealand and they generally work well, only eight states have Social Security Agreements with New Zealand (and we would not count Jersey and Guernsey as independent states) as a reaction to New Zealand's treatment of overseas pensions. SSAs are dreaded because they can make a retiree worse off than if he/she was treated under domestic law.
No DTA has much resemblance to any other, so study the section about pensions carefully. It can mean a lot of money.
At the Overseas Pensions Forum in Auckland in 2010, for example, we found out by coincidence that New Zealand's IRD has been taxing German pensions for years and years, although only certain state pensions for civil servants are taxable in New Zealand. The DTA between these countries clearly states that only the state that pays the pension can tax it, in this case: Germany.
As an excuse for the IRD workers who breached this DTA we would accept that it is impossible to know each DTA by heart. But a serious question must be raised, as to why IRD's software is not designed to automatically exempt German pensions from taxation.
Read "your" DTA and apply for reassessment when laws were breached
As a reaction to this "news" - which is, of course, not a new regulation as the DTA dates back to 1980 - several pensioners with German pensions went to IRD and applied for a reassessment of their tax returns.
We have heard of several cases where applicants got overpaid taxes back. (But also of one case where the chartered accountant hired by an affected pensioner did not understand the DTA...) The relevant information can be found on page 21 of an IRD Tax Information Bulletin from September 1995.
There is no way to apply domestic law - which in New Zealand means that pensions (NZ Super) are taxed -, as international law, in this case the DTA, overrides national law.
Read the DTA New Zealand has signed with Canada, and you will find a lot more text written in far more complicated legalese. Fact is that New Zealand can tax Canadian pensions, and Canada can tax amounts higher than C$ 10,000 a year. Plus more detailed regulations...
The DTA with the USA says that the state of residence (in this case: New Zealand) has the right to tax purely employer-funded pensions. The employer/employee-funded pension (US Social Security), however, is considered a government pension which can only be taxed at source in the USA and not in New Zealand.
We surely are willing to publish the chapters about the taxation of overseas pensions New Zealand has with other countries on this page. So if you have these paragraphs available, please send them to us - including a translation into plain English, so we can have a look and double-check them.
Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs)
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With Canada:
Article 17
1. Pensions and annuities arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph 2, be taxable only in that other State.
2. Pensions and annuities arising in a Contracting State and paid to a resident of the other Contracting State may also be taxed in the State in which they arise, and according to the laws of that State in any taxation year or income year where they exceed the sum of 10,000 Canadian dollars in that year; provided that the tax so charged shall not exceed
a) In the case of pensions, the lesser of
(i) 15 percent of the gross amount of the payment, and
(ii) the rate determined by reference to the amount of tax that the recipient of the payment would otherwise be required to pay for the year on the total amount of the payment received by him in the year, if he were a resident in the Contracting State in which the payment arises.
b) In the case of annuities other than payments of any kind under an income-averaging annuity contract, 15 percent of the amount of the payment or payments that are subject to tax in that State.
3. The competent authorities of the Contracting State may, if necessary, agree to modify the sum mentioned in paragraph 2 as a result of monetary or economic developments.
4. In this Article the term "annuities" means stated sums payable periodically at stated times, during life or during a specified or ascertainable period of time, under an obligation to make the payments in return for adequate and full consideration in money or moneys worth.
Article 18 of the Double Taxation Agreement with the USA
Article 18 - Pensions
1. Paragraph 1(a) gives the State of residence exclusive right to tax pensions where they are paid in consideration of past employment. However, this Article does not cover Government pensions for services rendered which are dealt with in Article 192..
Paragraph 1(b) states that pensions and other payments made under the social security legislation are taxable only in the country paying them, ie, State of source.
A resident of New Zealand receives a pension from a previous employer who is a resident of the United States. He also receives a social security pension from the United States Government. The tax position is as follows:
 - the pension from the United States employer will be subject to tax solely in New Zealand as the country of residence and will be exempt in the United States;
 - the pension from the United States Government will be taxed at source in the United States and will be exempt from tax in New Zealand.
2. Paragraph 2 gives the State of residence exclusive right to tax annuities.
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No NZ tax on pensions from Finland, France, Germany, the Philippines and the USA
According to its guide IR257 on "Overseas pension and annuity schemes" from May 2016 the IRD states on page 27 that:
"In a very small number of cases, New Zealand has no right to tax pension income and the income shouldn't be included in your New Zealand tax return.
This applies, for example:
 - to social security pensions from Finland, France, Germany (Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund), the Philippines, and the United States of America, and/or
 - war pensions from France and Germany.
Update 17.06.2019
Hongkong added to list
Just stumbled over the DTA with Hongkong which says that only the country that pays the pension can tax it. This means: New Zealand cannot tax Hongkong pensions - only indirectly steal them...
Apply for a re-assessment of your tax returns
Request a re-assessment of your tax returns if your overseas pension comes from one of the above mentioned countries and if they were taxed in New Zealand. Only lately - winter/spring 2016 - several pensioners whose US Social Security pensions had been taxed in New Zealand - have received impressive refunds for overpaid taxes from IRD.
Quote page 27 in the above mentioned IRD guide IR257 pm "Overseas pension and annuity schemes" from May 2016 when you apply for a re-assessment, as well as the relevant article of the Double Taxation Agreement that applies to you (for Germany and the USA


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AccuWeather.com predicts storms this fall that will spawn more snow this winter.
With the new Chartiers Valley school year rapidly approaching, students are likely already wondering how lucky they'll get with snow days.
Good news for them (maybe not so much for school administrators) is that AccuWeather.com reports that those students will likely get more snow days this school year than they did during the last one.
Last winter, at least nine of the country's snowiest cities had less than 60 percent of their average snowfall (according to USA Today).
How is this intensity of this winter being measured?
"The presence of El Niño or La Niña—and their strength—is used to project how active the winter season is going to be," AccuWeather.com reports.
And AccuWeather.com long-range meteorologists are projecting a weak to moderate El Niño by late in the summer.
For kids praying to hear school's out for a snow day, the weaker the El Niño, the better. Weak El Niños have brought snow-packed winters to most major Northeast cities in the past, said AccuWeather.com expert Senior Meteorologist Jack Boston.
"Historically, both strong La Niñas and weak El Niños have produced higher-than-average snowfall in the northeastern U.S.," Boston said.
In contrast, "weak La Niñas and strong El Niños historically bring lower-than-average snowfall."
A weak El Niño in 2009 led to record December snowfall in Philadelphia, which got slammed with 23.2 inches of snow—a year's worth of snow in one day for the city that usually receives 20.5 inches in an average year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
What else is in store?
The AccuWeather.com Long-Range Forecasting Team is predicting an average season of about five hurricanes and 12 tropical storms—less active than last year's seven hurricanes and 19 tropical storms. Hurricane season peaks in September and officially runs until Nov. 30.
The Atlantic Hurricane season affects the southern coast from Texas to Florida, as well as a large portion of the eastern coast from Florida all the way up through North Carolina, and can even impact cities as far north as New York or Boston.

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Addressing inequalities in health: breast benefits project
Lockey, R. and Hart, Angie (2003) Addressing inequalities in health: breast benefits project British Journal of Midwifery, 11 (5). pp. 281-285. ISSN 0969-4900
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It is well known that people from low socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to breastfeed than others, thus potentially increasing health inequalities. Breast Benefits is a project working in secondary schools, reaching a target audience of young men and women aged 13–15 years living in areas of relative socioeconomic deprivation. This article gives a detailed description of the research process undertaken in order to develop a user-friendly education pack for use with young people aged 13–15 years. The project team included young people, educationalists, researchers, midwives and community workers. The findings from the pilot sessions show that young people were responsive to classroom sessions about breasts and breastfeeding, finding them interesting and informative. A key outcome of this work is an educational pack designed to assist teachers to stimulate cultural change by tackling the subject of both breasts and breastfeeding with young people. This research suggests that the devised teaching session will be effective in most state secondary schools, all of which will have a diverse student body.
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Finite element application for strength analysis of scarf-patch-repaired composite laminates
The composite scarf joint configuration was utilized to simulate scarf-patch-repaired composite panels. An adhesive bonded scarf (tapered) joint was selected due to less peeling and shear stress over the bondline than with a single-lap or butt joint. The rubber-toughened epoxy film adhesive used had been characterized using ASTM D5656 Standard test (single-lap) incorporated with 2-D plane strain finite element analysis to verify its elastic and plastic properties. In addition to physical test, the ultimate shear strength of the adhesive was predicted using the von Mises and Drucker-Prager plasticity models in conjunction with dynamic shear failure criterion in the commercial finite element software ABAQUS. The numerical analysis provided satisfactory results when compared with experimental data under the relative displacement versus ultimate load level. The revised 4-pinned method more accurately predicted relative displacement than did the 3-pinned method in ASTM D5656 Standard. For composite scarf joint analysis, the 3-D stress analysis with transversely isotropic material properties of composites gave better results than the 2-D plane strain analysis. Regarding the tensile strength of repaired laminates, the finite element dynamic analysis based on the adhesive failure incorporated with the 90-degree ply failure provided the best results, which matched the experimental ultimate loads and the surface strain distributions within the overlap. As expected, the edge effects and longitudinal strain variations across the width of the repaired specimens were only observed in 3-D models and were verified by experimental data. Moreover, the 3-D static and dynamic simulations revealed the relations between laminate strength and the edge effects caused by different stacking sequences. Based on the similar geometry, it was also demostrated in this study that the balanced and symmetric stacking sequence about mid-plane of the repaired composite panel exhibits higher tensile strength.
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Enel Green Power (EGP) has secured a €160mn loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to source renewable and alternative energy sources.
This is the second and final tranche of a €600mn loan package that was approved in 2010. The first tranche of €440mn was signed two years ago.
The financing will be used to implement Enel's four-year plan, which aims to increase the amount of electricity generated from renewable sources by developing a range of innovative technologies involving solar, photovoltaic, wind and geothermal energy as well as hydro power.
According to EIB, the operation is one of its priority areas as it involves financing energy projects that will help to increase the amount of power generated from renewable sources.
Diversifying the sources of production will improve the impact on the environment and increase overall efficiency, while ensuring the security and sustainability of energy supplies over time, EIB says in a statement.
The operation will also contribute towards implementing the European Union's 2020 strategy, which has the target of reducing CO2 emissions by 20% over the next few years.


Un libro in lingua di John Bowker edito da Oxford University Press, 2014
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In this concise introduction to the deity, John Bowker explores how each major religion, and countless philosophers and theologians, have answered the fundamental question: Who or what is God? He also explores why some people believe in God and others do not, and concludes by looking at how our understanding of God continues to evolve in the present day.
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A private investigator, or PI, is a person who undertakes investigations. They often work for attorneys in civil cases or on behalf of a defense attorney. Many work for insurance companies to resolve claims. Before the advent of no-fault divorce, many private investigators were hired to search out evidence of adultery or other illegal conduct within marriage to establish grounds for a divorce. Despite the lack of legal necessity for such evidence any more, according to press reports collecting evidence of adultery or other "bad behaviour" by spouses and partners is still one of the most profitable activities investigators undertake.
They have also been frequently found in fiction as a stock character; perhaps the most famous of these is the Sherlock Holmes character created by Arthur Conan Doyle, who would refer to himself in the jargon of his age as a "private inquiries agent." (See Crime fiction for details.)
Many jurisdictions require PIs to be licensed, and they may or may not carry firearms depending on local laws. Some are ex-police officers. They are expected to keep detailed notes and to be prepared to testify in court regarding any of their observations on behalf of their clients. Taking great care to remain within the law (e.g., being forbidden to trespass on private property or break into homes) is also required, on pain of losing their licences as well as facing criminal charges. Irregular hours may also be required when performing surveillance work (e.g., outside someone's house during the early hours of the morning).
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text: Annotating a data sample in a multi-label learning problem requires a human oracle to consider the presence/absence of every possible label separately, which is extremely labor intensive. Active learning algorithms automatically identify the informative samples from large amounts of unlabeled data and significantly reduce human annotation efforts in inducing a classification model. Further, deep models have gained popularity to automatically learn representative features from a given dataset and have depicted promising empirical performance in a variety of applications. In this paper, we exploit the feature learning capabilities of deep neural networks and propose a novel framework to address the problem of multi-label active learning with label correlation. We integrate an active selection criterion to the objective function and train deep networks to optimize the function. Our extensive empirical studies on five benchmark multi-label datasets show that our methods outperform the state-of-the-art algorithms, corroborating their potential for real-world image classification applications.


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The downloadable Scriptio archive unpacks into a folder with the name scriptio-#-# where the _TAG_ are replaced by the major and minor version numbers.
This folder is designed so that it can be dropped into any web-serving directory to see the working examples and presentable Scriptio documentation.top
The folder scriptio that is included in the archive contains the production files for Scriptio. These are:
- CSS styles and definitions used by Scriptio objects.
- The Java applet that plays the OGG, AU, and WAV audio files.
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- This folder contains the GIF icon images used for the audio controller bar.
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The source directory contains the source files for all Scriptio components. Although the production file scriptio.js is source code, it is the concatenation of many source files. As per open source licensing protocols, these source files are included in this release.
There is also a source subfolder scriptio-audio for the Java audio applet. It includes slightly-modified JOgg and JOrbis libraries.
The subfolder scriptio-eclipse contains extension code for color-coding of source scripts within the open source Eclipse framework. (Starting with release 0.1)
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The folder examples contains the following examples in sub-folders:
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February 25, 2020
A recent patent hints that tech giant Microsoft may be entering the smart speaker market with a product of its own. The patent describes a smart speaker with a built-in projection system that could be used as a Skype conferencing device, without requiring a PC, Mac, or mobile device.
According to Patently Apple, the projector is designed to project the image on a flat surface, but it also has a depth camera that, in theory, could be used to create 3D reconstructions of conference calls. This would be done using a Pico projector, which allows users to project content from devices such as smartphones or tablets onto a wall.
The speaker itself consists of various parts, and looks similar to an Apple HomePod or Amazon Echo. The speaker's cylindrical shape would allow the projector and the camera to move independently of each other, allowing the device to track a person as they move through a room and the user to maintain eye contact with the speaker no matter what part of the room they are in. Additionally, the patent suggests that two devices could be used simultaneously in different rooms, allowing a person to continue a conversation when they move to a second room.
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What is the meaning of group identity?
What is the meaning of group identity?
Group identity refers to a person's sense of belonging to a particular group. At its core, the concept describes social influence within a group. On the other hand, students can identify with a group created to conduct experiments in an animal learning laboratory course.
What are the four parts of a person's identity?
What gives a person their identity?
How does belonging shape our identity?
What does God say about identity?
What does God see when he looks at me?
Now when God sees you, He sees His righteousness (see Romans 3:21-22 and 2 Corinthians 5:21). Not because of our perfection; but because of His grace and willingness to call us out of sin and see us as "blameless".
How does the Lord speak to us?
What is God's greatest desire?
God's greatest desire is to know and save us.
What does the Bible say about I am that I am?
Its context is the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14): Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what God ['Elohiym] has sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you.


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Dec. 16, 2008 Scientists have discovered that plant roots can sense UV-B light and have identified a specific gene that is a vital player in UV-B signaling, the communication between cells.
A study published Dec. 8 in the Early Edition of PNAS reveals that the gene RUS1 measures UV-B light levels and passes this information on to other parts of the plant responsible for growth and development. A low dosage of UV-B light, for example the levels found in shady conditions or under fluorescent lighting, can provide important signals to the rest of the plant and is therefore beneficial to normal plant growth. It helps young plants stay on the right track of development and aids seedling morphogenesis, but too much UV-B light can be toxic.
The study found that plants with a mutated UV-B light sensor gene become hypersensitive to UV-B light and even under low intensity levels of UV-B light, their root growth is stunted and they fail to grow leaves. Therefore the RUS1 gene is responsible for ensuring that young seedlings develop normally even when their roots are exposed to UV-B light.
It's unusual that roots, normally covered in soil, should have sensors for UV-B light, but the RUS1 gene is crucial at the young seedling stage when a plant's roots are resting on the soil surface. Later in a plant's life, roots can be exposed after rainwash, geological movements or animal activity.
The discovery of RUS1 provides scientists with a platform to examine other key genes that receive UV-B light and translate light information into how the plant should develop.
The paper's corresponding author is Zheng-Hui He, professor of biology at San Francisco State University. In addition to He, co-authors include SF State researchers Hongyun Tong, Colin D. Leasure, Xuewen Hou, Gigi Yuen, and Winslow Briggs from the Carnegie Institute of Washington.
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Biological Systems Engineering (including biological engineering, environmental engineering, and machinery systems)
Biological systems engineers develop the techniques and processes to work with living systems, including microbes, plants and animals. They provide engineering input to produce and process food, fiber, energy, and pharmaceuticals. They can also emphasize in environmental protection to improve water quality, control air pollution and clean up contaminated soils.
With their creative problem solving skills, biological systems engineers apply engineering and biological principles to a diverse world of opportunities. They can design better agricultural machinery, improve the living environments of animals, and consult companies in implementing more efficient agricultural operations and processes. Biological system engineers can also impact the medical field by developing chemical products, sensors, and life-saving medical equipment. Ultimately, in this field you can enhance the sustainability and vitality of society.
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Center for the Future of the Health Professions July 2022 digestPosted: July 21, 2022
This month, The Center for the Future of the Health Professions will post another monthly op-ed column for 2022. Our columns represent strong, informed, and focused opinions on issues affecting the health professions' future. As mentioned previously, the center was developed to provide state, local, and national policymakers and health system stakeholders with accurate, reliable, and comprehensive data and research about the healthcare workforce to effectively plan for a sustainable future and make the best use of available resources.
This month features a discussion on ATSU's innovative education of physician assistants (PAs). Undoubtedly, organizing all of the aspects necessary to ensure PA students receive a quality educational experience in a new program is daunting. These tasks range from facilities creation to curriculum planning, accreditation compliance demands, and financial projects. This article describes A.T. Still University's (ATSU) work creating a new program on the central coast of California in partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
The author of this article is Ted Wendel, PhD. Dr. Wendel is the senior vice president for university planning and strategic initiatives at ATSU. His prior positions include vice president for Arizona operations and special assistant to the executive vice president for strategic initiatives, and associate provost for the Arizona campus of ATSU. He received his undergraduate degree from St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, North Carolina, in 1969. He has both a master's (1973) and doctorate (1974) in pharmacology from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he served on the medical school faculty for six years. While at Wake Forest, Dr. Wendel was one of the authors of the first published curriculum for physician assistants. In 1979, he accepted a position as an associate professor of pharmacology at ATSU's Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM). Dr. Wendel has published several papers in neuropharmacology and the neural mechanisms of hypertension. In 1986, he moved to the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona, California, where he was a professor of pharmacology. In 1990, he was appointed as the founding dean of the school of allied health and subsequently the chancellor of the Chico campus of the Western University of Health Sciences. In 1998, Dr. Wendel returned to ATSU-KCOM to serve as the associate provost of the ATSU-Mesa campus. For the past 20 years, Dr. Wendel has explored innovative approaches to educating health professionals. Among these projects was the first successful online master's degree in nursing. As an academic leader on ATSU's Mesa campus, Dr. Wendel has created an environment that facilitates the incorporation of state-of-the-art technology into the education and training of health care professionals
We hope you enjoy this article and look forward to your comments.
Randy Danielsen, PhD, PA-C Emeritus, DFAAPA
Professor & Director
The Center for the Future of the Health Professions
A.T. Still University
Innovative education of physician assistants (PAs): The past is prologue
Creating a new health professions program is challenging to say the least. Doing it in the midst of a pandemic borders on insanity.
Organizing all aspects necessary to ensure PA students receive a quality educational experience in a new program is daunting. These tasks range from facilities creation to curriculum planning, accreditation compliance demands, and financial projects, to name just a few.
Indeed, it is possible to build upon existing program templates as an organizational framework. However, simply doing things the way they have always been done seems to ignore the ever-present constant of change. Rethinking health professions education demands reconsideration of decades-old education models to prepare students as future healthcare professionals.
Early in 2018, ATSU elected to start its second PA program in central California in partnership with the NACHC. NACHC is charged with providing access to quality medical care for those who face physical and/or financial barriers. Community health centers are the most extensive health care system in the U.S. and are the primary source of health care services for 30 million people. However, for decades, community health centers have been challenged to meet their growing needs for healthcare professionals. As an integral component of its mission, ATSU is committed to addressing this shortage of healthcare providers facing community health centers.
More than 30 years ago, Steven Covey wrote the book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People1. These powerful habits provide a basic framework (and served as a prologue) for planning a new PA program. One habit became the "true north" dictating the structure and function of this new program. "Beginning with the end in mind" meant starting with a mission statement clearly articulating the desired outcome. A mission statement that reflected the workforce needs of community health centers across the nation.
At the beginning of the planning process, the faculty developed a program mission statement that built on the University's mission and provided a unique identity around which virtually all other decisions were woven. The mission statement is as follows:
"The Central Coast Physician Assistant program educates culturally-humble physician assistants to serve primary care needs of underserved communities."
This simple mission statement reflects a commitment to educate a diverse population of PAs who reflect the diverse communities they will serve. The graduates will also understand the powerful impact of cultural humility as clearly defined by the American Psychological Association as a therapeutic framework for engaging diverse clients2. The Central Coast Physician Assistant (CCPA) program's mission mirrors the mission of community health centers as the principal provider of primary care in underserved communities.
Inherent in the CCPA program's simple mission statement are significant assumptions concerning the selection of students and the approach to their education. Creating a student selection process that identifies students committed to service in underserved communities and who reflect the patient populations in these communities is the first step. Traditional student selection processes that rely heavily on a student's previous academic accomplishments represented substantial barriers that prevented the identification of well qualified candidates from being considered. Creating a process that selected a diverse class of students with the ability to succeed in a rigorous academic program became the first task in establishing CCPA.
Understanding the intricacies of the selection process and why those details directly related to the accomplishment of the mission greatly exceed the constraints of this communication. Simply, the process reflected several assumptions:
- The value system reflected in the mission statement should be applied in the selection process.
- Within certain limits, previous academic performance was a barrier to diversity and is not correlated with the accomplishment of the mission.
- Previous academic accomplishments blinded admission decisions regarding acceptance.
- An applicant's descriptions of their commitment to the mission must be validated by documentation of their actions.
The process results are evident in selecting a cohort of students who, in many respects, mirror the populations served by community health centers across the nation. A unique description of the class is shown in the following word clouds.
Establishing a curriculum for a new PA program must address the many changes occurring over the last two decades. Technology's positive impact on delivering educational material was foundational in planning the CCPA curriculum. In addition, the COVID pandemic made it evident that relying on a single physical location as the focal point was no longer possible or desirable. Fortunately, technological advances in content delivery integrated with frequent interpersonal interaction makes it possible to deliver and support students as they progress through a curriculum.
Identifying and hiring faculty who understood and embraced the role of a mentor was critical to establishing a new curriculum. The primary role of the faculty was to help students shape their learning experience and recognize and evaluate the vast amount of knowledge readily accessible using widely available inexpensive technology.
Faculty structured goals, objectives, and learning activities guiding students toward relevant medical content. The faculty were readily accessible to help students both on-site and online as they sought answers to questions. Significantly, the faculty took great care not to lecture, but to support students as they engaged in the discovery of the knowledge necessary to solve a structured set of clinical and professional problems. This approach was selected because it models the behavior of practicing healthcare professionals.
Small group learning (five students per group) was the dominant educational delivery strategy. Once again, using a past strategy initially implemented at Wake Forest University3 in the early 1970s served as the foundation for planning this new PA program. The small group approach was selected for several reasons; chief among them was the importance of serving as a professional practice model. Small groups also promote peer-to-peer learning and require instructors to engage as mentors, guiding students to content, rather than lecturers who become the primary provider of content.
The program also adopted a solid commitment to assessment of both student progress and its link to program administration. Formative assessment of student learning and progress occurs at least three times weekly. These assessments are used to evaluate individual student progress and the success of the small groups. Students quickly learned that assessments are a constructive component of the learning process both during their education and as part of their professional life.
The CCPA program also reflected its commitment to underserved communities by emphasizing community health center practice in all aspects of the curriculum, including the clinical phase of PA education. With assistance from NACHC, over 20 community health centers were identified as sites for PA student clinical education experiences. Small groups of students (approximately five) were assigned to each community health center location, where they spent 35 weeks rotating through seven required student clinical education experiences. At each site, a practicing clinician (frequently a PA) was hired as a part-time regional director of PA education, serving as an academic coordinator and mentor for students at the site.
The program is entering its second year. Much has been learned and will be learned over the next few years. The accomplishments of the past few


Photo of Lawrence Wong from Ngau Kai Yan CNA
Minister of National Development Lawrence Wong told state media reporters that Singapore has not reached it's "physical limits" when it comes to population and development:
"Singapore has yet to reach its physical limits where development is concerned. We have not reached our physical limits. There is a lot more we can do, and must do, to build our infrastructure for the future."
The statement is in-line with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's 6.9 million population target, raising population density to be worse than Macau and Hongkong.
Singapore is currently overpopulated, with infrastructural facilities breaking down on the population stress. Most evident in public transport, Singapore trains break down twice a week with the authorities giving a range of excuses from signalling problems to track fault.
There is currently also not enough preschools for young children, with school fees hitting record high due to low supply. Hospital beds were also reported to be insufficient due to the increased population and ageing demographics. There are also not enough university places for Singaporean students, even when they qualify for course they opt for.
The current population is 5.7 million, with only 3 million Singaporeans at less than 55%. The country's ageing population is worsened by the import of new citizens in their middle age, who also do not contribute to the replacement birth rate of 2.1.


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This depends very much on the type of application you run. If you've got applications which are very trigger-happy WRT syscalls you can expect to see high amounts of context switching. If most of your applications idle around and only wake up when there's stuff happening on a socket, you can expect to see low context switch rates.
System calls cause context switches by their very own nature. When a process does a system call, it basically tells the kernel to take over from it's current point in time and memory to do stuff the process isn't privileged to do, and return to the same spot when it's done.
When we look at the definition of the write(2) syscall from Linux, this becomes very clear:
write - write to a file descriptor
ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
write() writes up to count bytes from the buffer pointed buf to the file
referred to by the file descriptor fd. [..]
On success, the number of bytes written is returned (zero indicates
nothing was written). On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set
This basically tells the kernel to take over operation from the process, move up to
count bytes, starting from the memory address pointed at by
*buf to file descriptor
fd of the current process and then return back to the process and tell him how it went.
A nice example to show this is the dedicated game server for Valve Source based games, hlds. _URL_ shows one second worth of syscalls done by a single instance of a game server which had no players on it. This process takes about 3% CPU time on a Xeon X3220 (2.4Ghz), just to give you a feeling for how expensive this is.
Another source of context switching might be processes which don't do syscalls, but need to get moved off a given CPU to make room for other processes.
A nice way to visualize this is cpuburn. cpuburn doesn't do any syscalls itself, it just iterates over it's own memory, so it shouldn't cause any context switching.
Take an idle machine, start vmstat and then run a burnMMX (or any different test from the cpuburn package) for every CPU core the system has. You should have full system utilization by then but hardly any increased context switching. Then try to start a few more processes. You'll see that the context switching rate increases as the processes begin to compete over CPU cores. The amount of switching depends on the processes/core ratio and the multitasking resolution of your kernel.
linfo.org has a nice writeup on what context switches and system calls are. Wikipedia has generic information and a nice link collection on System calls.


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Hungary: Lake Balaton
Orbit 34144 (ascending) Frame 2662, October 31, 2001 9:37 GMT
Image shows Lake Balaton and its surroundings. Located in the Transdanubia region,
Western Hungary, the Balaton is the largest freshwater lake in central Europe.
It stretches along the southern foothills of the
Bakony Mountains and represents an important
recreational and fishing
resource, although it is severely polluted.
On the lake's north shore, the conservation reserve
and national park of Tihanyl-felsziget.
Fine vineyards grow all along the other parts of the
lake shore and complete the landscape of the region,
characterised by rolling hills with highly fertile soil.
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a very high resolution image, 983 x 1023 pixels, 430530 bytes, is also available.
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Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne,
observation de la terre, earth observation,
satellite remote sensing,
teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar,
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February 14, 2014 | by M. H. Tauss
It's late, and you're still awake. Allow us to help with Sleep Aid, a new series devoted to curing insomnia with the dullest, most soporific prose available in the public domain. Tonight's prescription: "How Mechanical Rubber Goods Are Made," first published in the Scientific American Supplement on February 13, 1892.
While the manufacture of rubber goods is in no sense a secret industry, the majority of buyers and users of such goods have never stepped inside of a rubber mill, and many have very crude ideas as to how the goods are made up. In ordinary garden hose, for instance, the process is as follows: The inner tubing is made of a strip of rubber fifty feet in length, which is laid on a long zinc-covered table and its edges drawn together over a hose pole. The cover, which is of what is called "friction," that is cloth with rubber forced through its meshes, comes to the hose maker in strips, cut on the bias, which are wound around the outside of the tube and adhere tightly to it. The hose pole is then put in something like a fifty foot lathe, and while the pole revolves slowly, it is tightly wrapped with strips of cloth, in order that it may not get out of shape while undergoing the process of vulcanizing. When a number of these hose poles have been covered in this way they are laid in a pan set on trucks and are then run into a long boiler, shut in, and live steam is turned on. When the goods are cured steam is blown off, the vulcanizer opened and the cloths are removed. The hose is then slipped off the pole by forcing air from a compressor between the rubber and the hose pole. This, of course, is what is known as hose that has a seam in it.
For seamless hose the tube is made in a tubing machine and slipped upon the hose pole by reversing the process that is used in removing hose by air compression. In other words, a knot is tied in one end of the fifty foot tube and the other end is placed against the hose pole and being carefully inflated with air it is slipped on without the least trouble. For various kinds of hose the processes vary, and there are machines for winding with wire and intricate processes for the heavy grades of suction hose, etc. For steam hose, brewers', and acid hose, special resisting compounds are used, that as a rule are the secrets of the various manufacturers. Cotton hose is woven through machines expressly designed for that purpose, and afterward has a half-cured rubber tube drawn through it. One end is then securely stopped up and the other end forced on a cone through which steam is introduced to the inside of the hose, forcing the rubber against the cotton cover, finishing the cure and fixing it firmly in its place. Read More »


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MPD Emergency Response Plan
In emergency situations that affect public safety, law enforcement will be among the first responding agencies. In the District of Columbia, residents, businesses and visitors depend on the MPD to ensure the protection of life and property. The MPD responds to all threats to public safety occurring within the city, while simultaneously providing basic police services in neighborhoods. It is essential that the MPD be prepared to maximize resources and capabilities, to ensure that critical tasks are undertaken efficiently and effectively when a major threat to public safety exists.
The MPD Emergency Response Plan is the standard used to set an appropriate threat Response Level. A response level is required during threat conditions, such as terrorist activity, civil disturbance, natural catastrophe, severe weather or other emergencies that affect the safety and security of the visitors to and residents of the District of Columbia.
The MPD Response Level is designed to provide for the staffing, assignment, and deployment of MPDC members while coordinating activities with DC agencies, neighboring jurisdictions and federal agencies. It is determined by the Chief of Police or his/her designee and is based on present and known threats.
There are five color-coded threat designation levels and they are defined as follows:
Response Level RED
A major threat to public safety has occurred
Response Level ORANGE
Information/Intelligence indicating that a major threat to public safety is imminent
Response Level YELLOW
A significant possibility of a major threat to public safety
Response Level BLUE
A general risk to public safety with no credible threats to specific targets
Response Level GREEN
No credible risk of a threat to public safety, routine security is implemented, normal departmental activities continue


TX Text Control for Windows Forms supports the insertion of chart controls of the type System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.Chart. This control is part of the.net framework since version 4, but can be added to prior versions. A chart can be positioned like an image or textframe, either geometrically or as a single character. Geometrically its position can either be relative to a paragraph to which it is anchored or relative to the complete document. The ChartFrame class handles the positioning of the chart in the document. A chart frame is always associated with a chart control which handles the appearance and the data of the chart. All charts in a document are contained in a ChartCollection. The collection can also be used to add charts to or to remove charts from the document. The chart collection can be obtained from a TextControl or ServerTextControl through the Charts property. The TextControl.ChartLayoutDialog method opens a dialog box which offers layout settings like positioning, size and text distances. A chart can be saved with the TX Text Control and the RTF format and is reconstructed during a loading process. With other formats the chart image is saved. If a document with charts is loaded on a system where no chart controls are installed, the chart's image is inserted.
Class Description
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartCollection An instance of the ChartCollection class contains all charts in a document represented through objects of the type DataVisualization.ChartFrame.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartEventArgs The ChartEventArgs class provides data for all events that occur with charts.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame An instance of the ChartFrame class represents a chart and its layout in a Text Control document.
Constructor Description
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame Initializes a new instance of the ChartFrame class.
Event Description
TXTextControl.ServerTextControl.ChartCreated Occurs when a new chart has been created.
TXTextControl.ServerTextControl.ChartDeleted Occurs when a chart has been deleted.
TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartClicked Occurs when a chart has been clicked on.
TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartCreated Occurs when a new chart has been created.
TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartDeleted Occurs when a chart has been deleted.
TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartDoubleClicked Occurs when a chart has been doubleclicked on.
TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartMoved Occurs when a chart has been moved.
TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartRightClicked Occurs when a chart has been clicked on with the right mouse button.
TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartSelected Occurs when a chart has been selected.
TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartDeselected Occurs when a chart has been deselected.
TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartSized Occurs when a chart has been sized.
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TXTextControl.TextControl.ChartLayoutDialog Invokes the built-in dialog box for alter the layout settings, the size and the text distances of a chart.
TXTextControl.TextControl.OnChartClicked Raises the ChartClicked event.
TXTextControl.TextControl.OnChartCreated Raises the ChartCreated event.
TXTextControl.TextControl.OnChartDeleted Raises the ChartDeleted event.
TXTextControl.TextControl.OnChartDeselected Raises the ChartDeselected event.
TXTextControl.TextControl.OnChartDoubleClicked Raises the ChartDoubleClicked event.
TXTextControl.TextControl.OnChartMoved Raises the ChartMoved event.
TXTextControl.TextControl.OnChartRightClicked Raises the ChartRightClicked event.
TXTextControl.TextControl.OnChartSelected Raises the ChartSelected event.
TXTextControl.TextControl.OnChartSized Raises the ChartSized event.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartCollection.Add Inserts a new chart in a Text Control document.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartCollection.CopyTo Copies the elements of the collection to an array, starting at a particular index.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartCollection.GetItem Gets a particular chart from the collection.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartCollection.Remove Removes a chart from a Text Control document.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame.AddUndoUnit Add the current state of the chart which is connected with this ChartFrame to the undo stack.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame.Refresh Refreshes the chart.
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TXTextControl.ServerTextControl.Charts Gets a collection of all charts in a document.
TXTextControl.TextControl.Charts Gets a collection of all charts contained in the text part with the input focus.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartEventArgs.ChartFrame Gets an object that represents the chart which causes the event.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame.Chart Gets the chart control associated with the chart frame.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame.ExportCompressionQuality Sets a value between 1 and 100, which is the quality of a lossy data compression used, if the chart's image is exported.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame.ExportFileName Gets or sets the file name, when the chart's image is exported.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame.ExportFilterIndex Gets or sets the format used, if a chart's image is exported.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame.ExportResolution Gets or sets the maximum resolution in dots per inch in which the chart's image is saved.
TXTextControl.DataVisualization.ChartFrame.SaveMode Determines whether the chart's image is stored through its binary data or through a file reference.


[UPDATE] Composition Exercise Book - The Write Book
full name / name of organization:
Russ Brickey
contact email:
NOTE: We have extended the deadline for submissions to July 1.
The Write Book
FORM: Composition exercise book (not a reader!) tentatively titled The Write Book. We are putting together a collection of exercises to be used as an aid to instructors in the high school or college composition classroom.
7. Any potential problems.
Also Looking for Assignment Sheets
We will also include a section with examples of different assignments and prompts, so feel free to send us your best assignment sheets also. In addition to assignment sheets, please include:
1. a brief write-up that explains where it comes in the semester,
2. what assignments proceed and follow,
3. what are its strengths and weaknesses,
4. why is it a useful assignment for the comp classroom, and
5. any practical tips for making the assignment work in and out of the classroom.
Send exercises, assignment sheets, and/or questions to Russ Brickey at _EMAIL_, Laura Beadling at _EMAIL_, or Kory Wein at _EMAIL_ by July 1.
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Marge on the Lam Written by Bill Canterbury Directed by Mark Kirkland =============================================================================== Production code: 1F03 Original airdate in N.A.: 5-Nov-93 Capsule revision J, 21-Jul-96 =============================================================================== > Title sequence =============================================================================== Blackboard :- None due to shortened intro. Lisa's Solo:- None due to shortened intro. Couch :- The family run towards the couch and crash through the backdrop which is painted to look like the living room. Their outlines are left in the backdrop. =============================================================================== > Did you notice... ===============================================================================... the pledges received total $0,000,023.58?... Homer sports a "No Fat Chicks" T-shirt?... Otto wears his walkman inside the dance club?... Brockman incorrectly calls the last book of the bible "Revelations" instead of "Revelation"? Tony Hill:... Homer calls Marge "Marjorie"?... there are Military Police present when Homer is getting injected? Ricardo Lafaurie:... when everyone run through the wall in the couch, everyone's hair made holes too (even Homer's)?... Homer doesn't ask Lenny or Carl for change?... Burns has a heart-shaped carpet and was playing girlie music?... the animation when Bart says "We don't need a babysitter" was obviously recycled from an earlier season?... Otto recognizes Marge right off?... Ruth keeps a _loaded_ gun on her person?... Chief Wiggum drinks gas? (Assuming that's what moonshine is.)... the freak Homer imagines has the pearls on its antennae and the hair as a beard?... the hairs on Hutz's chest?... everyone leaves Seething Sisters when the police siren was heard?... Hutz carries a knife on him?... Hutz passes himself off as a doctor? =============================================================================== > Voice credits =============================================================================== - Starring - Dan Castellaneta (Homer, Barney, Willy, Quimby) - Julie Kavner (Marge, Patty) - Nancy Cartwright (Bart, woman at truck stop, Kearney) - Yeardly Smith (Lisa) - Hank Azaria (Edward, Pope, Carl, rescue worker, redneck, Moe, man with antique cans, Wiggum, cook, truck stop owner) - Harry Shearer (story reader at telethon, army doctor, Lenny, Burns, Smithers, rescue worker, Flanders, Otto, dispatcher, Kent Brockman) - Special Guest Voice - George Fenneman (Narrator) - Phil Hartman (Troy McClure, Lionel Hutz) - Pamela Reed (Ruth, waitress at truck stop) - Also Starring - Pamela Hayden (punk woman, woman at truck stop) - Maggie Roswell (woman drinking coffee, woman getting legs shaved, woman at truck stop) - Russi Taylor (librarian, woman at truck stop) =============================================================================== > Movie (and other) references =============================================================================== + Garrison Keillor, "A Prairie Home Companion" - man reading at telethon + Edward the Confessor - "Edward the Penitent", the award-winning show + Crystal Pepsi - "Crystal Buzz Cola" "The Muppet Show" {ar} - Burns and Smithers in the opera box + "Thelma and Louise" - blue convertible - much of plot + Ted Kennedy/William Kennedy Smith - Quimby partying with his nephews + "Cheers" - Homer: " gotta go where everybody knows your name." + Hollywood - "SPRINGFIELD" letters on hill + "Dragnet" - sentences of characters read at end - music at beginning of credits - badge behind credits =============================================================================== > Previous episode references =============================================================================== - [7F06] Milhouse: "Let's get outta here!" (cf. Lenny in 1F03) {th} - [7F10] Marge's brain {rl} - [7F11], [8F16], [8F23] Unreturned Flanders stuff {rl} - [8F08], [9F19] The big "SPRINGFIELD" sign a la "HOLLYWOOD" appears {jt} - [8F11] "Stick it to the man!" {rl} - [9F04] Technical Difficulties, with same song {rl} - [9F06] Mrs. Ruth Powers is Laura's mother {rl} - [9F07] The whipping sound is made {rl} - [9F10] Homer: "Like a giant billboard that says 'No fat chicks'?" (cf. T-shirt in 1F03) {jt} - [9F20] "Bartina" (cf. "Homina" in 1F03) - [1F04] Space alien's strangled "Doh-ho-ho" sound (same as Edward the Penitent's) =============================================================================== > Freeze frame fun =============================================================================== - Sign outside gymnasium: Springfield High School Tonight: Professional Ballet Tomorrow: Closed to fix gas leak - Names of clubs, etc.: - Jittery Joe's Coffee Shop - Shot Kickers ("o" burned out) - The Hate Box - The Seething Sisters - Magazines at the Kwik-E-Mart: {rc} - "Modern Bride" - "Jet" with Bleeding Gums Murphy on the cover - Garrett Morris' birthday notice inside - Sign on highway: Entering Badlands High Speed Chases Use Diamond Lane - Lionel Hutz tossed into the fire: {ddg} - dollar bills - a pair of socks - a dress shirt - When Brockman goes off the air: {rc} - "Technical Difficulties, Please Stand By" - Brockman in straight jacket w/ cuckoo coming from forehead - Badge behind credits: {rc} - Badge number 318 - Logo is police HQ with flanking nuclear cooling towers =============================================================================== > Animation, continuity, and other goofs =============================================================================== In Homer's vision of Maggie's wedding, how did Homer manage to get the coat of his suit on if he couldn't get his arms free to stick them in the sleeves? {ddg} "Are you holding onto the can?" doesn't explain why Homer was stuck in the candy machine, as he should have been able to just pull the candy out. {ddg} After Ruth and Marge shoot the cans, there are four cans seen in front of the fence; certainly the cans would have been knocked behind the fence when shot (and where's the fifth can?). {ddg} Marge's hair is shorter than usual in the "date behind the Springfield sign" scene; in "The Way We Was", when she put her hair up for the first time, it was pretty much as tall as it is "today". Each of the three handfulls of stuff Lionel Hutz tosses into the fire contain the same things. Where did Wiggum and Homer get the eggs? When Ruth and Marge are heading for the State Line, they head back in the direction from which they just came (otherwise, how did they pass Homer and Wiggum facing the opposite direction?); also, how did all of those police cars end up between Marge and the state line two miles away? (Of course, this assumes the sign "STATE LINE 2 MILES" refers to an actual state border and not just some place called "State Line" located in the middle of the state. Besides, I was told once that if the police are in pursuit, they can legally make an arrest anywhere in the country.) {ddg} The police car doesn't start falling until it is well over the chasm and has stopped forward motion. {ddg} The front door keeps changing places: {ag} - Ruth comes over to borrow the sander, and the front door has a window in it (with 2 bars), and the hinges are on the RIGHT side. - In the next appearance of the front door, there's no window, and the hinges are on the left side. - In the next appearance, there's no window, and the hinges are on the right side again. =============================================================================== > Reviews =============================================================================== Peter Stein: All in all, this ep. was OK. Not as good as "Rosebud," but tons better than "Homer Goes To College." Highlights IMHO were the SH T KICKERS bar, the truth behind Homer's hair loss (plus giddiness and loss of equilibrium!), Chief Wiggum losing Marge and Ruth in the Badlands, and the Seething Sisters Bar. Andrew Ross: I think I see the pattern emerging for this season. They take one major cultural reference each week and try to make an episode around it. So far, we've had the Beatles, Cape Fear, 70s college party movies, Citizen Kane, and now Thelma and Louise. Not that there's necessarily anything *wrong* with this, but anyone who hasn't seen a particular movie may end up scratching his [or her - ed] head throughout the episode. This one was neither magnificent nor bad, but just generically *good*. Ron Carter: I am probably one of the few people in the world that has not seen "Thelma and Louise" and I still liked this episode. Not all that many solid ref jokes, but still funny. The Homer not letting go of the pop can was a little too predictable, but loved the running "Sunshine, Lollipops..." gag. Some continuity loss makes it a B+. Joey Berner: A strange one! I liked it, there were some good gags (but nothing that really had me rolling) The first and second acts were a lot stronger than the third. They seemed to run


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Seminar 11/8: Long-time dynamics and control of one-dimensional quantum-many-body systems
Professor Lea Santos
Abstract: One of the main applications of quantum computers will be the simulation of quantum many-body systems; but at the same time, implementations of quantum computers are themselves many-body systems. A clear understanding of the dynamics of quantum many-body systems and how to control their evolution is therefore crucial to the future development of quantum computers.
In this talk we will discuss the long-time dynamics of one-dimensional quantum many-body systems. We will first introduce the conditions under which they may thermalize. Thermalization occurs when the eigenstates of the systems become chaotic. Chaotic eigenstates may appear in the middle of the spectrum of systems with few-body interactions, but not at the edges, and they are observed even when the systems become gapped and/or different symmetry sectors are mixed. Second, we will show how dynamical decoupling methods may be used to manipulate the time evolution of such many-body systems. These methods consist of sequences of external control operations designed to induce a desired dynamics. We will show, for instance, that an appropriate control sequence may lead a chaotic chain to evolve as an integrable chain and a system in the gapless phase to behave as a system in the gapped phase.
Location: Bowen Hall Auditorium
Date/Time: 11/08/10 at 12:30 pm - 11/08/10 at 01:30 am
A light lunch will be provided in the Bowen Atrium at 12:00 noon.


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Shraddha name popularity, meaning and origin
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The name "Shraddha" is of Indian origin and is commonly given to girls. It has its roots in Hinduism and holds significant cultural and religious importance. The name is derived from the Sanskrit word "shraddha," which means faith, devotion, or trust.
Shraddha represents a deep sense of belief and reverence towards spiritual or religious practices. It embodies the idea of having unwavering faith in one's beliefs and dedicating oneself wholeheartedly to a particular deity, philosophy, or set of values. The name reflects the qualities of a person who is sincere, committed, and steadfast in their convictions.
Shraddha also carries the notion of respect and homage towards ancestors and elders. In Hindu rituals, "shraddha" refers to the ceremony performed to honor and offer prayers to departed souls. Hence, the name portrays a sense of reverence towards the lineage and heritage.
Overall, the name Shraddha symbolizes faith, devotion, and respect. It signifies a person who is deeply connected to their beliefs and traditions, and who upholds the values and practices that define their cultural identity.
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For those of you who've ever put a cut on a tree's trunk would have noticed a sticky and gooey liquid coming out of the cut. This is sap and does the same job for plants and trees as blood does for humans and animals. While humans and animals need blood to survive, we can also say that trees need sap for their survival.
Mainly there are three different types of sap available in plants – sap, xylem sap and phloem sap. While sap mostly consists of water, xylem sap is a watery solution of hormones, minerals and other nutrients. On the other hand, Phloem sap is made up of water, sugar, hormones and other minerals.
Just like blood carries essential nutrients to all parts of our body, sap carries minerals, sugar and water to all parts of a tree. Further, sap also protects the tree from freezing during extremely cold conditions and keeps them alive during the winters. Moreover, without the sap being flowing through the tree, it would be difficult for trees to disseminate the food and survive.
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Expressions used in Everyday Spoken English in Social and Professional contexts
shake on it
shake on it
1) shake hands in agreement
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 This phrase is usually one that is spoken. When you say 'let's shake on it' you are sealing a deal or shaling hands in order to formally agree on something. "Are we both happy with all of the terms here? I think we have a deal, let's shake on it." This is a friendly way of finalising an agreement or ending a negotiation.
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 2. After hours of negotiations, they shook hands on a deal worth millions of pounds. All that was left to do to make it official was to finalise the contract and have both parties sign it.
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Gymnastics is better for your bones than running, say sports scientists at the University of Oregon. Christine Snow-Harter and student Tracey Robinson of the university's Bone Research Laboratory compared women gymnasts and runners to determine what type of exercise benefits bones most.
Most of the athletes were amenorrhoeic - they did not menstruate and had extremely low oestrogen levels, similar to those in postmenopausal women. Low oestrogen may lead to the bone-wasting disease of osteoporosis, even in teenage athletes.
Among gymnasts, the wasting effects of amenorrhoea are countered by their exercise routines. The researchers found that compared to the runners, the gymnasts had 20 per cent more bone mass in the lower spine and 23 per cent more bone mass in the hips.
The reason is that gymnastic moves exert as much as twelve times the body weight on the skeleton, whereas running exerts between two and five times the...
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The graph below shows the range of monthly Garelochhead water temperature derived from many years of historical sea surface temperature data.
The warmest water temperature is in August with an average around 56.8°F / 13.8°C. The coldest month is March with an average water temperature of 45°F / 7.2°C.
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Boundary extraction is a fundamental post-clustering problem. It facilitates interpretability and usability of clustering results. Also, it provides visualization and dataset reduction. However, it has not attracted much attention compared to the clustering problem itself. In this work, we address the boundary extraction of clusters in 2- and 3-dimensional spatial datasets. We propose two algorithms based on Delaunay Triangulation (DT). Numerical experiments show that the proposed algorithms generate the cluster boundaries effectively. Also, they yield significant amounts of dataset reduction.


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Algebra 1 Advanced is an in-depth study of algebraic symbolism, systems of equations, graphing, problem-solving, and probability and statistics. The students will build upon their previous knowledge to further understand the characteristics and representations of various functions and relations, including first degree equations and inequalities, polynomials, exponential and radical expressions, quadratic equations complex numbers, and rational algebraic expressions. This course is designed for highly motivated and mathematically talented students.


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Integrated CMC Strategy for Small Molecules - Early Phase Development
Sponsored by: Syngene International Limited
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Date: 24 June
Time: 3PM London/10AM New York
Pharmaceutical Development of New Chemical Entities
The objective of early phase drug development is to ensure faster regulatory filing and start of Phase 1 First-in-Human (FIH) study. Rational pharmaceutical development is essential to accomplish this objective and seamless integration of various drug development disciplines is the logical first step. Taking into account the interdependencies and intricacies of each stage such as drug substance, toxicology, drug product, analytical and regulatory considerations is critical for faster initiation of Phase 1 clinical studies.
The CMC activities should be initiated by defining the right strategy at the beginning of development. A thorough assessment of the drug substance quantities and quality attributes and its impact on toxicology and drug product need to be done early on. Similarly, design of pre-formulation studies, analytical methods, dosage form selection and development for toxicology and FIH studies should be considered in parallel to drug substance development. Also understanding the phase appropriate quality and regulatory guidelines by all the CMC functions helps in focusing and achieving IND/IMPD filing faster.
This webinar will focus on how to develop a scientific approach for small molecule pharmaceutical development using success stories as illustrative examples to find out how integration benefits the evaluation of clinical candidate in FIH in a fast and effective manner.
Group Leader – Formulation and CMC, Syngene International Limited
Badrinath has over 16 years of experience in early phase CMC development and successfully delivered Phase 1 clinical supplies for small molecules for several clinical candidates. He has held scientific positions at various organizations including Dr. Reddy's Discovery Research, Aizant Drug Research Solutions Pvt. Ltd., and Eli Lilly's joint venture in India, prior to current assignment as Group Leader, Early Phase CMC Development, in Syngene. He has assisted several small biotech and pharma clients across the globe by providing drug development strategies and scientific solutions for successful regulatory filings and FIH studies for small molecules. Badrinath holds a master's degree in Pharmaceutics from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore.
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- Developing a rational drug development strategy for small molecules for regulatory filing
- Scientific challenges encountered during execution and ways of addressing the same
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Teaching indigenous languages with AR
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March 26, 2021
This week, you can read in Avvír about how and why Ludenso Create will be made available in 3 Sámi languages by 2022. Together with forward-thinking Sámi teachers, we hope to contribute to the preservation of the indigenous languages in Scandinavia.
The indigenous Sámi people from Scandinavia naturally feel proud of their culture. Unfortunately, lots of young students with Sámi backgrounds do not know the language of their parents and grandparents. The Scandinavian schools offer education and values which are usually far from the Sámi culture, making it difficult to access modern tools to motivate these students to learn their native language. That is why we at Ludenso are proud to share that we will make Ludenso Create available in 3 Sámi languages by next year.
Why is it important to make new technology available in indigenous languages in school?
Language is our main form of interaction with others, as our words help preserve stories, information, traditions, and identity. The indigenous languages represent the legacy of grandmothers and grandfathers. Should an indigenous language disappear, the indigenous traditional knowledge such as legends, stories, songs, and myths also disappear.
Photo: "Norwegian Sami People" by Karin Beate Nøsterud
Today, indigenous languages are threatened by the constant growth and assimilation of globalization. This is despite the UN's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which states that learning an indigenous language is a human right.
How can we contribute to the preservation of the Sámi languages?
At Ludenso, we work to enable all children to become digital creators. This means that regardless of your background, ethnicity, or language, you should be able to free your imagination with the AR technology we are developing.
In collaboration with the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, we have therefore set out to translate our AR program, Ludenso Create, as well as pedagogical content and guidelines into how to use the technology in the three Sámi languages. This includes Lule Sámi, Northern Sámi, and Southern Sámi. But pure translation is not all. We also want to help preserve the Sámi perspectives, values, history, and culture. To achieve this we will collaborate closely with Sámi teachers, who will share their pedagogical and cultural perspectives on how to phrase tasks for the students.
Photo: "Sami Man" by blueorangestudio
This year, we are creating a teacher portal, where teachers can share their pedagogical tasks through a form, and easily access and share these tasks with students and colleagues. The teachers will also be able to find the pedagogical tasks created by others. This way, the Sámi teachers can help inspire other Sámi teachers. A bonus is that this enables teachers from other countries to seek inspiration from these tasks to teach their students about the indigenous cultures we are so fortunate to have in Scandinavia.
Are you a Sámi teacher, and would like to take part in the work to enable all children to be digital creators? Please send us an email to _EMAIL_, and we would love to collaborate.
If you want to read the full article, "– Buot mánát galget sáhttit šaddat digitála ráhkadeaddjin written" by Alf Berg Grønnli, you can find it in Avvir (here)