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Amultidisciplinary team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology platform that could potentially change the way drug combinations are being designed, hence enabling clinicians to quickly determine the most effective drug combination for a patient.
National University... - Click to enlarge in new windowNational University of Singapore; myeloma. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the National University of Singapore developed an artificial intelligence technology platform that could enable clinicians to prescribe personalized treatments for myeloma patients.
Applying the platform towards drug-resistant multiple myeloma, the researchers were able to establish new effective drug combinations, as well as identify the patients who may be more responsive to these treatments in under a week.
Existing methods for designing drug combinations typically involve testing arbitrary combinations of commonly used drugs or incorporating new targeted therapies into established drug combinations. Bortezomib-containing drug combinations are currently used as the firstand second-line treatment for multiple myeloma. However, most patients inevitably become resistant to these drugs and new combinations need to be established. While some newer combinations have shown to be effective for some patients, rapid identification of an optimal personalized treatment for a specific patient from an infinite span of possible drug combinations remains a challenge.
An Optimal Drug Combo
The research team comprising clinicians, engineers, and molecular biologists from NUS have developed an AI technology platform, quadratic phenotypic optimization platform (QPOP), to speed up drug combination design and identify the most effective drug combinations targeted at individual patients using small experimental datasets. With just a small amount of blood or bone marrow sample from patients, the platform is able to map the drug response that a set of drug combinations will have on the specific patient's cancer cells.
From an initial pool of 114 FDA-approved drugs, QPOP was able to identify a series of effective drug combinations, including a completely novel and unexpected combination that outperformed the standard of care regimen for relapsed myeloma. The performance of the novel combination was validated against 13 patient samples. QPOP was also used to fine-tune dosage ratios of the novel combination for optimal effectiveness.
Using four other patient samples, the research team further demonstrated that QPOP was able to evaluate and rank the novel combination against the other two current clinically used drug combinations. The novel combination was found to be the most effective treatment option for two of the myeloma patient samples tested. While the novel combination was not the most effective for all four patient samples, QPOP was able to match the best drug combination to each patient, hence demonstrating proof-of-concept for personalized medicine.
The ability of QPOP to simultaneously incorporate optimization and personalization of drug combinations with unprecedented speed opens the door to improving patient accessibility to personalized medicine. New combination therapies can also significantly broaden the spectrum of effective treatments for patients.
"QPOP revolutionizes the way in which drug combinations are designed and represents a key area in health care that can be transformed with AI," noted Edward Kai-Hua Chow, PhD, Principal Investigator at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, NUS, who led the study. "The efficiency of this platform in utilizing small experimental datasets enables the identification of optimal drug combinations in a timely and cost-efficient manner, which marks a big leap forward in the field of personalized medicine."
The team is now working towards translating this work into the clinic. They will look into recruiting patients for prospective clinical trials related to QPOP and other AI platforms in 2019, as well as expand the application of the platform into other disease areas.


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No doubt you've heard the word Mindfulness being thrown around a lot recently, it's the Number One wellbeing buzzword and everyone from Ruby Wax to Goldie Hawn is singing its praises. But what is Mindfulness and why is it so beneficial? In essence, Mindfulness is purposefully paying attention and being aware in the present moment. Intentionally observing (but not clinging onto) your thoughts and feelings without judgement. This can be experienced at any moment, in any situation, but is best practised in a quiet room without distractions. Meditation is a great way to begin learning the Art of Mindfulness, just 10 minutes every day (preferably at the same time each morning) can make a big difference. What does Mindfulness actually do? Mindfulness improves focus and levels of concentration. Two incredibly important skills in this information age when we're continually bombarded with enormous amounts of information and endless digital distractions. Mindfulness provides clarity of thought. In essence, once you slow down your mind and begin to understand the landscape of your thoughts and feelings in more …
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I recently discovered a fantastic Ted Talk on Mental illness by comedy legend Ruby Wax. Notorious for her writing and comedy sketches, she recently gained a Masters from Oxford University in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and has become an avid mental health campaigner. This 8 minute talk covers Ruby's own experiences of mental health, being institutionalised, finding her tribe and discussing how ill equipped we are for life in the 21st Century. WATCH HER TED TALK HERE. Ruby is currently on a UK tour with her new show Ruby Wax: Sane New World – an extension of this TED talk. You can also catch her at the St. James Theatre in Victoria next March.


Making Brown Bags a Hoot
Making Brown Bags a Hoot
You may have noticed that owls have quickly become the "it" animal on everything from bedding to backpacks for our little ones. Catch owl fever by bringing your kids' favorite animal into their lunch routine. Here's how you do it!
 1. Gather your materials. All you need is a sheet each of brown, orange, and white construction paper; a brown paper bag; scissors (of the childproof variety if your kids are helping); tape; and a black marker.
 1. Lay your lunch bag with the fold facing up. Make sure the side of the bag with the opening is closest to you. Then, cut all the parts you will need from the construction paper.
 1. This includes two wings and a triangular face from the brown paper, an oval tummy and beak from the orange, and two eyeballs from the white. Make sure the face fits into the square fold of the lunch bag.
 1. Attach each part by folding each piece of tape from end-to-end, creating a double-sided adhesive. Once every part is securely attached, draw eyes using your marker. Feel free to add cute flourishes like eyelashes.
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Prostitution in France the exchange of sexual acts for money was legal until April, but several surrounding activities were illegal, like operating a brothel, living off the avails pimping, and paying for sex with someone under the age of 18 the age of consent for sex is In the Napoleonic era, France became the model for the regulatory approach to prostitution.
In the 20th century, however, a policy shift became apparent. Brothels became illegal in, and France signed the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others in France thus became a major supporter of the international abolitionist movement for the eradication of prostitution see Abolitionism in France.
Prostitutes were not marginalized, but integrated into society where they had a role to play. In stories which were often ribald, prostitutes would be complicit with other women in avenging men. The great Cathedral of Chartres had a window endowed by prostitutes The Prodigal Son in the same way as other windows were endowed by various other trade guilds The Trade Windows.
During the Middle Ages, the various authorities, civil or noble, oversaw prostitution as an institution. Charlemagne AD was amongst those rulers who attempted to suppress prostitution, declaring flogging lashes as a punishment in his capitularies. This was primarily aimed at the common man, since harems and concubines were common amongst the ruling classes.
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Fix a positive real number d>0. Szemeredi's theorem implies that for every integer k, there exists an integer N(k,d) such that if A is a subset of the interval [1,N] with density greater than d >0, then A contains a k-term arithmetic progression.
Let us now define a half AP of length 2N, to be a AP of 2N integers, say S, such that S intersect A is exactly either the first half or the second half of S. Note that we do not require S to be completely contained in [1,N]. That is if A=[1,10] then S=[-9,10] is a half AP of length 20.
Edit: On the other hand, however, the elements of S that do not intersect A can lie in [1,N]. For example, if A=[4/10N, 5/10N] it is valid to take S = [3/10N,5/10N] to produce a half AP of length 2/10N.
Does there exists an integer N(k,d) such that if A is a subset of [1,N] of density d>0 then we can find a half AP of length k?
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I assume we want S to be an AP in addition, here? Otherwise it's trivial... – Harrison Brown Oct 29 '09 at 20:47
Fair point. I've adjusted the question. – Mark Lewko Oct 29 '09 at 22:18
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Here is the proof for k=6 (i.e. we look for 6-half-AP with 3-elements in the set, and 3 outside). First, by Roth's theorem there is a 3-AP. Let {a,b,c} be the 3-AP with the maximum value of c. If there is more than one 3-AP with this value of c, choose one with the minimum value of a. Now consider only those elements of A that lie in the same arithmetic progression as {a,b,c}. After affine transformation we can assume that {a,b,c}={0,1,2} (I no longer assume that my set is a subset of [1,N]). Now, 3 is not in A because if it was, then {1,2,3} would be a longer 3-AP. Similarly, 4 is not in A for the fear of {0,2,4} being a 3-AP. Then 5 is in A because otherwise 0,1,..,5 is a 6-half-AP. Since 5 is not part of any 3-AP, it follows that -5,-3 and -1 are not in A. Since -3,-2,-1,0,1,2 is not 6-half-AP, we conclude that -2 is in A. However, -2,0,2 is a 3-AP in A with the same value of c, but smaller value of a, contradicting our choice of {a,b,c}.
My guess on this problem is that the answer is 'yes' in general, but I do not have great confidence. The general framework in which this problem falls is the following. Given an induced structure one wants to find, and large ambient structure in which to look, the large structure usually contains the small unless the large structure is of very special form. The induced structure here is k-half-AP, large structure here is a subset A of Z/pZ, and'special form' is that the subset should be either nearly empty or nearly equal to Z/pZ. Given the current techniques for proving Szemerédi's theorem are 'local' (they find a density increment on some local piece), it might be a tough problem. If we knew the inverse conjecture for Gowers norms, it might be more attackable, but that conjecture is still in the works. Of course, it might happen that some simple trick, like one above can be used to deduce this problem from Szemerédi's theorem.
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Boris, thanks for your comments! I like your proof of the k=6 case. It seems, however, that the k=6 argument can't (at least naively) be extended to the case of k=8. To see this, find the 4-AP with a maximal largest element and (of these) a minimal smallest element. Now pass to the sub-progression containing this 4-AP (and relabel the progression as {0,1,2,3}). The intersection of our set with this progression could look like {-3,0,1,2,3,7}, which doesn't contain a 8-half-AP. Establishing the k=8 case would be very interesting. – Mark Lewko Nov 6 '09 at 22:52
I don't think we can do this for all k and d. Look at the subset of [1,N] consisting of all points greater then (4/10)N and less then (5/10)N this will have density 1/10 and any half arithmetic progression of length 4 will have to hit the set twice so the the difference of the arithemetic progression must be 1/10 of N or less but the arithmetic progression must jump from below zero or above N and hence must have difference greater than 4/10 N which gives a contradiction.
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Crystal, thanks for your comments. My question wasn't very clear (I've attempted to update it). I intended for it to be permissible for the half of S that does not intersect A to lie in [1,N]. For example, if A=[4/10N, 5/10N] it is valid to take S = [3/10N,5/10N] to produce a half AP of length 2/10N. – Mark Lewko Oct 29 '09 at 22:28
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text: "The Pansiya Panas Jathaka Potha" is the most populer and respectable Buddhist story book in Sri Lanka which was written in the Ancient period of Kurunagala. The book was based on a Pali book named "Pali Jatha Katha" This book is well famous in both local and foreign Buddhist society. The content of this book guided people to understand the value of a proper life and directed them to a successful and a correct path. Also it explained the Co-immorals of the society with 547 meaningful stories. The was used from the common people to well educated society in the past. The chanting techniques of this book is so unique in Sri Lanka, because of lack of protected communication methods to the modern generation, we have been loosing the traditional chanting styles. Therefore through his research Ven Bibiladeniye Mahanama thero has identified the traditional chanting style of Jathaka Katha and self -inflicted contribution to conserved this with a total number of 547 stories as a digital audio format with a record keeping about 513 hours with a participation of more than 100 Buddhist monks. Finically Sponsored By Mr. Nesli Ranjith.


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The Grand Island Tornadoes
A Look Back at June 3rd, 1980
The following narrative is a summary of the Grand Island, Nebraska, tornadoes of June 3, 1980. All but two pictures included in this account were provided by Dr. Roger Wakimoto of the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Wakimoto's photos and graphics are from 1980, and were used as the basis for assessing tornado paths, intensity, and research of this unique event.
On June 3, 1980, a massive supercell thunderstorm complex developed just north of Grand Island, Nebraska, during the early evening. This complex moved slowly south-southeast through the city at around 8 mph. This outbreak provided the basis for a book and television movie, as well as tornado and engineering research. Over a period of less than 3 hours, this storm complex produced 7 tornadoes in and around Grand Island. There was one tornado of F4 intensity and 3 others that were rated F3.
Five people were killed, about 200 injured, 475 living units and 49 businesses were destroyed, with a total damage of nearly 300 million dollars. Also of note, three of the tornadoes rotated anti-cyclonically, or clockwise, a rare occasion in the northern hemisphere, where over 99 percent of tornadoes rotate cyclonically, or counter-clockwise.
Original graphic of the 7 tornadoes on June 3rd. The insert in the upper right corner depicts the 7th tornado in western Hamilton County.
Photo of the intense damage done in Grand Island.
Graphic showing the very complex path and wind patterns of tornado #1, which began northwest of town before heading into the Capital Heights area.
|Close-up graphic of a section of the path of tornado #1. Note the abrupt change in the direction of movement.||The final stages of tornado #1 (solid line). This tornado passed just west of Northwest High School.|
At approximately 8:45 p.m., the 1st of 7 deadly tornadoes set down 11 miles northwest of Grand Island, 3 miles north of Prairie Creek. The 700-yard wide F3 tornado tracked south for 7 miles, ending 4 miles northwest of downtown Grand Island. While the straight line path was 7 miles, the twisting and erratic movement covered over twice that distance, 14.5 miles, while spending 49 minutes on the ground. Along this path, a woman was killed while trying to drive to a relative's house, 25 people were injured, and farm homes were torn apart.
|Aerial photo of tornado path through a field. "Swirl" pattern of the tornado circulation is clearly visible.||Aerial photo of tornado path. Note the "swirl" pattern or scour marks.||Damage to a house strewn along the tornado path. The Prairie Creek runs along the left side of the picture.|
|Extensive damage in northwest Grand Island.||Another view of damage in northwest Grand Island.|
At 9:00 p.m., a 2nd short-lived tornado set down north of Highway 2 near the intersection of Webb and Airport Road, just east of the first tornado. This short-lived anti-cyclonic tornado, the first of three that evening, moved northeast lifting back into the clouds at around 9:12 p.m.
The 3rd tornado of the evening, the second anti-cyclonically rotating tornado, touched down at 9:05 p.m. between Webb Road and Highway 281, just north of Airport Road. This 500-yard wide F3 tornado briefly tracked north, then reversed course to the south, then southeast across northern Grand Island, leaving a 3.5 mile long path of destruction. Most of the damage done by this tornado was rated F0, with some F3 damage in the vicinity of the Veteran's home along Capitol Avenue. While there were no fatalities, 40 people were injured by this tornado before it lifted over the center of town around 9:30 p.m.
|Graphic depicting the path of tornado #3 through northeast Grand Island. At one point, this tornado was rated a F3.||Front view of broken windows of the Veteran's Home.||Overhead view of the Veteran's Home. Note the extensive damage just east of the building (top of the screen).|
|Graphic showing path of tornado #3 (dotted line) by the Veteran's Home. The wind direction is depicted by the streamlines.||Graphic depicting the core of strongest winds wrapping around the tornado, affecting the area just east of the Veteran's Home the hardest.|
The 4th tornado, the third anti-cyclonic tornado of the evening, set down at 9:46 p.m. near Highway 34 and Shady Bend Road. This tornado tracked southwest to just northeast of the intersection of Stuhr and Shimmer Roads, then turned north on the west side of Stuhr Road before lifting near Highway 34 at 9:50 p.m.
At 10:16 p.m., the 5th, and deadliest and most powerful tornado of the evening, touched down on the east side of Grand Island, in the Eagles Lake and Crystal Lake areas. This 1000-yard wide F4 tornado swept west, just north of Bismark Road, crossed Shady Bend and Stuhr Roads, before turning southwest across Bismark Road north of the Fonner Park area. The tornado continued to move southwest through residential areas until it reached the South Locust Street business district at Locust and Fonner Park Road. From this point, the tornado moved due south along South Locust until it turned southeast a few blocks north of the intersection of South Locust and Highway 34. The tornado then crossed Highway 34 and tracked another half of a mile southeast before ending at 10:28 p.m. During the few minutes the tornado tracked along Locust Street, the damage was most devastating, and homes and businesses were "obliterated". The 6-mile long tornado track took 12 minutes to cover, and resulted in 4 fatalities, one each in a trailer home, a frame home, a lounge, and under a collapsed awning near a motel. In addition, 110 others were injured along the storm's violent track.
|Hand analyzed map of the early stages of tornado #5 near the Merrick County line east of Grand Island. This tornado moved west and just north of Bismark Road.||Aerial view from the damage from tornado #5.||Damage just east of Grand Island with tornado #5. Note the huge trees which fell into the lake.|
|Aerial photo of the bowling alley (Meves Bowl) on East Bismark Road.||Graphic depicting the path of tornado #5, the "South Locust Tornado". This tornado was rated a F4.|
The 6th tornado, rated F2, spun up at 10:25 p.m. east of Shady Bend Road just north of Highway 34. This tornado moved southwest to near Stuhr Road south of Highway 34, then turned southeast, traveling south of Shimmer Road to about 1 mile southwest of the Hall and Hamilton County bridge. This 600 yard wide tornado tracked 6 miles over rural areas, injuring another 18 people before ending at 10:35 pm.
|Aerial view of scour marks from one of the tornadoes just southeast of Grand Island.||Farmstead destroyed. Note the incredible tree and structure damage.||KMart (now Skagway) on South Locust was spared major damage and served as a command post for post-storm operations.|
|Damage in rural areas southeast of town.||More scour marks from one of the tornadoes southeast of Grand Island.|
As the thunderstorm complex moved south toward Interstate 80 during the late evening, it made a left turn to the east, usually indicating the end of severe weather. Not so in this case. About the time the storm turned in direction, the 7th and last tornado touched down at 10:45 p.m., southeast of the Hall-Hamilton County bridge. This tornado swept east and northeast over open farmland for 13.4 miles, before ending at 11:30 p.m.
Meteorologists and technicians at the Grand Island National Weather Service (NWS) Office, located at the airport, monitored radar, satellite, and surface weather conditions and issued warnings throughout the event. The Tornado Warnings turned into Severe Thunderstorm and Flash Flood Warnings overnight as the huge supercell complex moved east. For their outstanding service during the storm, the entire staff of the Grand Island NWS was awarded a Department of Commerce Unit Citation. The pictures below depict some radar, satellite, and surface wind information from June 3, 1980, as seen by the staff of the NWS office at the airport.
|Picture of the wind recording printout from the NWS office in Grand Island. A peak gust of 60 mph was reported from the east.||Series of satellite images from the storm. The storm developing around 6:15 p.m. and eventually had cloud top temperatures of 60oC below zero.||Radar view of tornado #1 at 9:01 p.m. The tornado center is the large hole (dot) on the left side. The radar site is the larger dot on the right side.|
|Tornado #1 continues west (left) of the radar. Tornado #3 is just southwest of the radar (clockwise finger-like depiction). Time is 9:22 p.m.||Radar view of the formative stages of tornado #5 at 10:16 p.m.

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For Cypress EZ-USB (AN21XX) — Port 2
Simulation support for this peripheral or feature is comprised of:
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Parallel Port 2 Dialog
This dialog displays the SFR and pins of Port 2.
P2: This is the P2 SFR. The HEX value and value of each
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MCU. When used as outputs, these have the same value as the P2 SFR.
When used as inputs (P2.x is 1) you may set the level of the input
pin to high (1) or low (0).
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user or signal function) to affect the input values of the simulated
pins of Port 2.
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MCU for Port 0, Port 1, and so on. PORT0 represents Port 0, PORT1
represents Port 1, etc. You may read PORTx to determine the
state of the output pins of that port. For example, in the command
window, you may type,
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lower 4 port pins to a value of 0. You may use the bitwise operators
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PORT3 &= ~0x02; /* Clr P3.1 Pin */
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Reproductive Justice -- the right to have children, not have children, and parent our children in healthy and safe environments -- is a movement and perspective that arose in the 1990s. Articulated and led by women of color with a more encompassing social vision, reproductive justice usually incorporates both a framework of human rights and an awareness of the intersectionality of women's identities and struggles against sexism, racism, homophobia, and economic marginalization.
This exhibit provides a historical context for the emergence and antecedents of reproductive justice. Given that women's lives have never been reducible to one dimension of their reproductive health, this exhibit traces a longer history of reproductive justice, illustrating many facets of experiences, debates, and policies related to pregnancy, birth, birth control, and raising children.
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Bridge of Allan is a small town situated in the Stirling council area in Scotland. It is located in the northern part of Stirling. It lies on the banks of the Allan Water, a tributary of the River Forth. The administration formerly was under the control of the Central Regional Council.
The local people here are known as the Maeatae and the religion followed here is Christianity. Bridge of Allan is a very densely populated residential town with a population of about 4800. Hundreds of visitors often visit Bridge of Allan, to enjoy the sheltered climate. The climate here is often good with mild drizzles in afternoons and early evenings.
The town receives low to moderate rainfall in the month of September and October. The Bridge of Allan Spa received 1,000 gallons of mineral water daily in around 1820 that accommodated 30,000 visitors a year. It is thus a good place for agriculture because of the availability of water.
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Kingdom of Kano
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Sarautar Kano
Ad Daulat Al Kano
Tribal Kingdom
Busar Bagauda
Drum of Bagauda
Capital Dala
(999- ???)
Languages Hausa (official), Arabic
Religion Hausa Animism
Government Absolute Monarchy
List of Kings of Kano
 - 999 Bagauda (first)
 - 1349 Ali Yaji Dan Tsamiya (last)
Grand Vizier
 - ???–???? shamaki (first)
 - ?????? (last)
Legislature Taran Kano
 - Upper house House of Nine
 - Founded ???? 999
 - Fall of the Maghira Dynasty 800 Circa
 - Rise of the Cult of Tsumbubura 1100
 - Battle of Santolo 1349
 - Fall of the Cult of Tsumbubbura ??? 1340
Currency Dirham, Salt, Gold, Cowries
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Northern Nigeria
The Kingdom of Kano was a Hausa kingdom in the north of what is now Northern Nigeria that dates back before 1000 AD, and lasted until the proclamation of the Sultanate of Kano by King Ali Yaji Dan Tsamiya in 1349. The kingdom was then replaced by the Sultanate of Kano, under the suzerainty of a Muslim Sultan The capital is now the modern city of Kano in Kano State.[1]
Kano lies to the north of the Jos Plateau, located in the Sudanian Savanna region that stretches across the south of the Sahel. The city lies near where the Kano and Challawa rivers flowing from the southwest converge to form the Hadejia River, which eventually flows into Lake Chad to the east. The climate is hot all year round. Rainfall is variable, ranging from 350mm to 1,300mm annually with the mean around 950mm, almost all falling during June–September period. Traditionally agriculture was based on lifting water to irrigate small parcels of land along river channels in the dry season, known as the Shadouf system. At the time when the kingdom was flourishing, tree cover would have been more extensive and the soil less degraded than it is today.[2]
Early history[edit]
Our knowledge of the early history of Kano comes largely from the Kano Chronicle, a compilation of oral tradition and some older documents composed in the nineteenth century, as well as more recently conducted archaeology.
In the 7th century, Dala Hill, a hill in Kano, was the site of a community that engaged in iron-working. It is unknown whether these were Hausa people or speakers of Niger–Congo languages.[3] Some sources say they were Hausa speaking hunter/gatherers known as Abagayawa who migrated from Gaya.[1] The Arab geographer al-Yaqubi, writing in 872/873 CE (AH 259), describes a kingdom called "HBShH" with a city named "ThBYR" ruled by a king called "MRH" (none of these words are vocalized, so their actual pronunciation can vary), located between the Niger Bend and the Kingdom of Kanem.[4] If the kingdom's name is vocalized as "Habasha" it would correspond with other Arabic language texts that also appear to refer to the Hausa, and would be the earliest reference to the Hausa region.
Kano was originally known as Dala, after the hill, and was referred to as such as late as the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th by Bornoan sources.[5] The Kano Chronicle identifies Barbushe, a priest of a Dalla Hill spirit, as the city's first settler.[6] (Elizabeth Isichei notes that the description of Barbushe is similar to those of Sao people.)[7] According to the Kano Chronicle, Bagauda, a grandson of the mythical hero Bayajidda,became the first Hausa king of Kano in 999, reigning until 1063.[8][9][10][11][12] His grandson Gijimasu (1095–1134), the third king, began building city walls at the foot of Dalla Hill, and Gijimasu's son, Tsaraki (1136–1194), the fifth king, completed them during his reign.[11] The Bagauda family steadily extended the kingdom through conquest of nearby communities. They established numerous sub-rulers, with titles starting with "Dan", of which the most important was "Dan Iya".[1][13]
Ali Yaji[edit]
Ali Yaji (1349–85)presided over the introduction of the Abrahamic religions in Kano, he brought in holy men from Wangara, presumably Mali. He extended Kano's reach and launched an unsuccessful expedition into the Kwarafa region.[14] He became the Last king of Kano when in the 1350s, after conquering Rano and Santolo he made Islam the state religion and proclaimed an end to the Kingdom, Kano from then on became an Islamic sultanate and its leaders took on the Title of Sultan.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ a b c Ibrahim Ado-Kurawa. "Brief History of Kano 999 to 2003". Kano State Government. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
 2. ^ Kabiru Ahmed. "The Kano Physical Environment". Kano State Government. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
 4. ^ al-Ya'qubi, "Tarikh" in Nehemiah Levtzion and J. F. P. Hopkins, transl, Corpus of Early Arabic sources for West African History (Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 21.
 6. ^ "Kano Chronicle" ed. H. R. Palmer in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 38 (1908) p. 63
 8. ^ "Kano Chronicle" ed. H. R. Palmer,pp. 64-65.
 10. ^ "Kano". Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
 12. ^ H. R. Palmer, ed. and trans. "The Kano Chronicle" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 38 (1908), p. 65.
 13. ^ "Kano Chronicle" ed. Palmer, pp. 66, 67.
 14. ^ "Kano Chronicle," ed. Palmer, pp. 70-72.


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While researching alternatives to demolition I came across a deconstruction program that makes more sense than any other I've seen. Basically, Design for Deconstruction is legos for big people.
The ultimate goal of the Design for Deconstruction (DfD) movement is to responsibly manage end-of-life building materials to minimize consumption of raw materials. By capturing materials removed during building renovation or demolition and finding ways to reuse them in another construction project or recycle them into a new product, the overall environmental impact of end-of-life building materials can be reduced. Architects and engineers can contribute to this movement by designing buildings that facilitate adaptation and renovation. This handbook presents an overview of basic Design for Deconstruction principles, and outlines the implementation of these principles in the design of Chartwell School in Seaside, California.


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Bangor Law School's research into the work of the Administrative Court and the regional market for legal services in public law has challenged the orthodox view that public law is the preserve of London. It has; 1. Provided evidence that regional Administrative Courts are at least equal to the Royal Courts of Justice in terms of their service to users. 2. Influenced the National Assembly for Wales in assessing the case for establishing a separate legal jurisdiction. 3. Influenced solicitors' instruction patterns in the English regions and Wales, leading to the direction of more work to regional courts and more local solicitors instructing local counsel. 4. Informed national debate about the constitutional role of judicial review. 5. Influenced the Administrative Court/ Public Law Project in developing training opportunities outside London.
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|Biogas Plants in Animal Husbandry (GTZ, 1989)|
|7. Plant operation, maintenance and repair|
The operation of a simple biogas plant is relatively uncomplicated. The user must be given all the information and practical assistance he needs before and during the early phases of plant operation.
The collection of substrate is a simple matter when combined with work that has to be done anyway, e.g. cleaning the stables. It can be made even easier by arranging for the manure to flow directly into the mixing pit. Experience shows that it is not a good idea to gather dung from fields, roads, etc. or to go to the trouble of elaborately chopping up or otherwise preprocessing plant material for use as substrate. The work involved is usually underestimated, while the motivation is overestimated.
Filling the plant
Filling means: mixing the substrate with water, removing bouyant materials, allowing the fill material to warm up, flushing it into the digester, and removing sand and stones. The simple mixing pit shown in figure 5.16 can handle a daily fill quantity of up to 500 1.
The further processing of digested slurry is a critical point in that it can be quite toilsome (cf. chapter 3.4).
In designing the plant, care must be taken to ensure that the
slurry store will be large enough. Fixed-dome plants in particular should be
equipped with an overflow, so that the digested slurry does not have to be
hauled away every day.
Table 7.2: Checklist for the daily operation and regular maintenance of biogas plants (Source: OEKOTOP)
- fill the plant
- clean the mixing pit
- agitate the digester contents
- check the gas pressure
- check the gasholder contents
- check the appearance and odor of the digested slurry
- remove/use the digested slurry
- clean and inspect the gas appliances
- check the gas valves, fittings and appliances for leaks
- inspect the water trap
- inspect the digester for scum formation and remove as necessary by opening the plant
- inspect the plant for water tightness and gas tightness
- pressure-test the gas valves, fittings and pipes
- check the gasholder for rust and repaint as necessary
Monitoring the process
If the plant is properly started before being handed over to the user, it may be assumed to be in proper working order. The user will have become familiar with what optimum plant operation involves. This is very important, because from then on he himself will have to watch for any appreciable changes in how the plant functions; the main indication of a beginning malfunction is a change in the daily gas output.


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"The protistan parasite Perkinsus marinus is a severe pathogen of the oyster Crassostrea virginica along the east coast of the United States. Very few data have been collected, however, on the abundance of the parasite in environmental waters, limiting our understanding of P. marinus transmission dynamics," scientists in the United States report.
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Say Cheese: Tips for a Natural Smile in Selfies
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Have you ever wondered how good it would be to have your own professional photographer? For many of us, until that dream comes true we are left taking pictures on our own, doing the best we can. Getting really good shots can be tough, and part of making them better is knowing how to smile correctly.
The smile can make or break a picture. Read on for our must-know guide on how to get a natural smile in selfies.
1. Get Symmetrical
The brain associates symmetry with natural beauty. However, very few people have a face that is truly symmetrical. When taking a selfie, if you can get a shot that provides symmetry, or the illusion of it, you will have a much more pleasant picture.
When you smile in selfies, try to get it even on both sides. This way, the muscles in your face should contract and ease in the same way, providing symmetry to your face.
2. Maintain Dental Hygiene for a Natural Smile
While filters and photoshop can cover a lot of problems, dental hygiene is not one of them. When you smile in photos, you need to be confident that you are showing off a great set of teeth. This comes from maintained dental hygiene.
Make sure you brush and floss regularly. If you have a specific medical problem, such as gum disease, see a dentist. Even specific problems such as gingivitis with braces can be solved if you speak to an expert and keep your mouth clean.
3. Match the Smile to Your Face Shape
One easy-to-follow piece of smiling advice is to match the smile to the shape of your face. If you have a round shape, create a wide smile that mirrors the curve of the jaw and chin. If you have an oval shape, tuck up the sides of your smile to create a more aligned feature.
4. Know Your Angles
Different angles used in various shots can infer different meanings, and create very different looks. Many people opt to get a shot from slightly above, usually as it tends to hide the neck and chin area which can show weight or signs of aging.
However, shots from above infer a meaning that the person viewing is a protector of the person in the image, or that the person is vulnerable. If you take your picture from slightly below, it has the opposite impact. It gives the impression that the person in the picture is empowered.
5. Practice Relaxing and Smiling
A fake smile in photos will always be easy to spot. This is because the rest of your body language and face do not back up the action. Just moving your mouth does not constitute a smile.
Practice relaxing when you smile so it does not seem forced. Sit in places with different lighting and see which works best. Finally, make sure you have something fun to smile about!
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When getting that natural smile selfie, get some help and advice. Ask others what they think of your shots and how you can improve. They may even help take them for you.
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Luna Nova
Last week I went to an incredible concert in which a guest group, Luna Nova performed. Luna Nova is modern ensemble the was made up with a flautist, celliest, and pianist. All of the musicians in this ensemble are experienced musicians and have truly mastered their instruments. They played a wide variety of works, but the one the caught my attention was a George Crumb piece called Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale). If you don't know who George Crumb is, he is a historical famous composer, being one of the first to use recordings in live performance. Although there was no particular recording used in the performance, the cello was amplified so that the harmonics of the notes he played could be heard.
Many advanced techniques were used during this song. The song used a prepared piano, which is when the strings of a piano have been labeled and objects have been placed on them so the pianist can pluck the strings witht their hands. The flute player had to sing and play the flute at the same time, which would require months of practice to accomplish. In addition to this both flute player and the cellist had to whistle at times. My favorite part of this piece was when the cello played smooth legato notes as highest string. This effect sounded like a whale call, it was amazing.
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What do Material Management and Potholes have in common?
 First, let's think about potholes. Potholes are known for destroying our roads and most importantly, the cars we drive. Until a discovery by MacRebur, a company in Scotland, potholes were an inevitable destructive part of our life. MacRebur, theorized that roadways would have less likelihood of experiencing potholes after being filled with a new material, a mixture of asphalt and plastic material waste. This material would allow for more flexibility due to the plastic material properties in the mixture.
The impact of this new discovery on waste would be astonishing. Based on the study completed1 kilometer of road composed of this plastic waste and asphalt could be translated to 684,000 plastic bottles or 1.8 million plastic bags that would be diverted from landfills and oceans!
 So, if you are still asking yourself, what do Material Management and Potholes have in common It's product innovation. PLM enables engineers to spend their time finding endless innovations with material management(even if the problem is a pothole)
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What's vibration detector (shock sensor) how it works?
The sensor for vibration detection is a vibration detector (or shock sensor), the detector must have a mechanical displacement to generate the alarm signal; vibration detection equipment is not only best suitable for file cabinets, vaults, strongrooms, safes and Automated Teller Machines (ATM), confidential protection special objects, but also suitable for other systems in combination, to prevent intruders break in from wall. How to use the vibration detector in correct application is very important. It is often used to provide protection in a special object where protected area that with staff's activities.
There are two major detection methods for vibration detector; the one is mechanical detection, it works as a ON/OFF switch using the mechanical movement of metal contact, the other is acoustic sound detection. Compare to acoustic sound detection, adopts mechanical detection vibration detector only detect the true physic vibration with low false alarm. The vibration detector that is based on acoustic sound detection (with microphone), it may trigger false alarm by high noise from car, thunder in summer.
1. There are different types of vibration detectors according to the application or protection objects.
a. Building Vibration Intrusion Detector
The detector can detect the mechanical vibration (shock) from the wall, and send alarm signal to alarm system.
b. Geosound vibration intrusion Detector
The detector can detect the vibration caused by pedestrains or vehicles on the ground.
c. Safe Vibration Intrusion Detector
The detector detects the vibation cased by the hit or abnormal open of the safes.
2. Typically most of vibration detectors with NC (Normal Close) output for alarm connection. The connection for vibration detector to alarm system is simple, you may need to connect the EOL resistor in series between detectors and zones (alarm system).
3. Tips on installation the vibration detector
- Vibration detectors is used for detection of intrusion for vaults, strongrooms and Automated Teller Machines (ATM's).
- When install the vibration detector on the wall of room, then the installation height should be 2-2.4 meter from ground, The device need to install in dry environment.
- When place the vibration detector underground, the depth should be 10cm.
- Installation should avoid the places where there is vibration souces ( motors, transformer, fan, air-conditioner).
- Do not install the device where with RF interference.
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My role at Te Papa is to identify feathers and hair in the ethnological collections, however on occasion I come across something interesting in my research including the following mystery. While identifying the feathers in the museum's Māori textiles collection, I counted eight piupiu (skirt or waist garment) with the letter 'M' sewn into the waistband. It had already been recorded that one or two had the initial 'M' in the waistband. This was unusual but to find eight was a surprise and left me asking why they were added, and by or for who were they initialled. It is usually not museum practice to label collection items in this manner.
The letter 'M' in the waistbands of all but one of these piupiu is yellow, one is natural cream. They were fashioned from natural and dyed yellow harakeke (NZ flax: Phormium spp.) or naturally yellow pingao (golden sand sedge: Ficinia spiralis). It seems the fibres were softened (not scraped) and using a needle, threaded into the waistband to form the letter 'M' on the outer side of all eight piupiu. A knot holds it in place on the inner side of the garment.
Most of their histories were unfortunately not known or recorded upon inclusion into the museum. Just that they have been in the collection for some time, at least for 50 years. Some were also registered together so have concurrent numbers. A small group were apparently received and registered around 1962, but not much more can be found. It is estimated they were made mid 20th Century and are modern examples of piupiu waist garments.
Many large Māori events happened around the mid 1900s. One possible theory as to their origins and a reason for sewing a letter into the waistband is that the piupiu belonged to members of a kapa haka (Māori cultural performance) group. The letter 'M' could have been sewn into the waistbands so as not to be lost or confused with piupiu belonging to other groups. The letter 'M' perhaps identifies the person's initial of who made the piupiu, or it could have been the name of the kapa haka group that wore them.
The piupiu registered ME012027 has a patterning described as korirangi (shining cuckoo bird) which is similar to the fine barring across the feathers of the breast and belly of the bird. These kinds of piupiu were made initially for men. The other piupiu have different variations of the korirangi patterning which originated on the East coast but is today very common. The piupiu all have simple plaited (whiri) waistbands. Several piupiu have variations of diamond patterns which are known as 'pātiki or pātikitiki' (ME012017 & ME012023). A type of 'mumu' design has also been used in ME012016.
If these piupiu look familiar, or you remember family or friends talking about their old kapa haka group please ask them to contact me if they have any information.
Hokimate Pamela HarwoodBicultural Science Researcher, Te Papa Tongarewa
 Mead, Sydney. M. (1969).'Traditional Māori Clothing: A study of technical and functional change'. Wellington: Reed. 238pp.


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- Is Product ID same as serial number?
- What does serial number look like?
- What can someone do with a serial number?
- What is the serial number of a document?
- What does Apple serial number tell you?
- Are serial numbers unique?
- How do you write a short serial number?
- Is it OK to give out serial number?
- Is it safe to give someone your iPhone serial number?
- How do I get the serial number for my product?
- Where would the serial number?
- What happens if someone gets your iPhone serial number?
- How many digits are in a serial number?
- Does Apple Support ask for serial number?
- How do I find my stolen Apple serial number?
- Is a serial number the same as IMEI?
Is Product ID same as serial number?
It is important to look for the term "Serial Number," "Ser.
No.," or "SN" since there may be other numbers listed, such as the product ID, network ID, or UPC.
NOTE: In software, the term "serial number" may also be used synonymously with "activation key." However, this has become less common in recent years..
What does serial number look like?
A serial number is a unique identifier assigned to a device during the manufacturing process. It's not necessarily a number—serial numbers can contain letters and symbols as well as numbers. One device's serial number may look like "123456", while another device's may look like "ABC123!@#
What can someone do with a serial number?
Chances of this actually happening are very low, but in case someone gets their hand on your serial number, they can falsely push for a part request or replacement of the device. Also Read: How to Find IMEI Number of Lost or Stolen Android and iPhone.
What is the serial number of a document?
A serial number is a unique identifier assigned incrementally or sequentially to an item, to uniquely identify it. Serial numbers need not be strictly numerical. They may contain letters and other typographical symbol, or may consist entirely of a character string.
What does Apple serial number tell you?
The serial numbers of Apple products contain a codified language that can give you information about your Apple device that can't be found through any other means—everything from the location where it was manufactured, the date it was manufactured, and much more.
Are serial numbers unique?
Serial numbers are unique to each specific product and are most frequently used for electronics. … It's that number on the barcode tag on the bottom of your laptop.) Serial numbers are used to track the ownership information of an item. They can also be used to track warranty information.
How do you write a short serial number?
This page is about the various possible meanings of the acronym, abbreviation, shorthand or slang term: Serial Number. Rate it: S.R. NO.
Is it OK to give out serial number?
If an eBay buyer asks for the serial number on something other than a phone (see the section on IMEI numbers above for that), it's usually pretty safe to give out. However, the buyer could file a false police report using the serial number and try to convince the cops you have their "stolen" item.
Is it safe to give someone your iPhone serial number?
Honestly, there is not much anyone can do with an iPhone SN. The phone's IMEI number is far more important. Checking warranty staus is really about it. … I wouldn't mention the serial number in the ad, but if somebody show genuine interest in buying your phone it is safe to reveal that information.
How do I get the serial number for my product?
Complete the following steps to have the software automatically create the serial number:Open the serialized inventory item record by selecting Product Catalog from the main Inventory menu.Select the serialized item from the inventory look up list and click on the Serial Numbers tab.
Where would the serial number?
To find your device's serial number in the software, go to Settings > System. Then jump into About Phone > Status. Your device's serial number will generally be located toward the bottom of this screen.
What happens if someone gets your iPhone serial number?
Unless your device is jailbroken, or someone has access to your unlocked device, they cannot hack it, especially with just your serial number. The ID numbers will not help either. The hacker would have to have physical access to your device, it to be unlocked, and for Find My iPhone to be disabled.
How many digits are in a serial number?
The entire serial number will appear somewhere on the receiver of the gun, and other major parts will usually have the last 4 or 5 digits. If it's been used, the other parts mayor may not match the receiver serial number. Then: It wasn't until 1968 that companies started routine use of alphanumeric serial numbers.
Does Apple Support ask for serial number?
When you contact Apple for support, you can use the serial number or the IMEI/MEID number to identify your iOS device.
How do I find my stolen Apple serial number?
Enter Apple's new Activation Lock status check tool. All you have to do is visit Apple's Activation Lock status check page, enter the device's serial number or IMEI, and it will tell you if it is locked or not.
Is a serial number the same as IMEI?
The serial number is a unique number assigned by the manufacturer (like Samsung) to help identify an individual device, like a phone, tablet, TV, and so on. … On the other hand, an IMEI or MEID is only used for phones or other communication devices. Depending on the carrier, your device will have either an IMEI or MEID.


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Definition of jar :
1. A deep, broadmouthed vessel of earthenware or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes; as, a jar of honey; a rose jar.
2. A rattling, tremulous vibration or shock; a shake; a harsh sound; a discord; as, the jar of a train; the jar of harsh sounds.
3. A regular vibration, as of a pendulum.
4. A turn. [ Only in phrase.]
5. Clash of interest or opinions; collision; discord; debate; slight disagreement.
6. In deep well boring, a device resembling two long chain links, for connecting a percussion drill to the rod or rope which works it, so that the drill is driven down by impact and is jerked loose when jammed.
7. The measure of what is contained in a jar; as, a jar of oil; a jar of preserves.
8. To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.
9. To cause a short, tremulous motion of, to cause to tremble, as by a sudden shock or blow; to shake; to shock; as, to jar the earth; to jar one's faith.
10. To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears.
11. To tick; to beat; to mark or tell off.
reorganize, quart, excite, clash, swing, fluff up, electrical shock, joggle, impact, collide, flutter, plump up, vibrate, thrill, jerking, reel, jounce, saccade, conflict, bump, blow, electric shock, agree, shock absorber, pitcher, sway, ewer, wave, stupor, waver, disaccord, rock, fluctuate, cushion, vase, bump around, flap, beaker, chalice, tremble, raise up, seismic disturbance, basin, stir up, jarful, reorganise, discord, contradict, thud, oscillate, succuss, daze, vessel, totter, crock, stimulate, brandish, shake up, contents, vex, jerk, mug, commove, urn
agitate (part of speech: verb)
container (part of speech: noun)
suitcase, container, bladder, purse, locker, pocket, drum, bottle, bucket, tray, holder, shelf, crate, bowl, stomach, vault, box, trunk, wallet, repository, cup, receptacle, bin, tank, can, cabinet, chest, storage, flask, belly, jug, reservoir, sack, pouch, pot, cupboard, drawer, decanter, bag, closet, barrel, case, ladle, vat, basket, cask
displease (part of speech: verb)
bottle (part of speech: noun)
- This was what made the jar and crash. - "The Young Forester", Zane Grey.
- As soon as it is nicely picked, put it into a jar, and cover it down very close. - "A Poetical Cook-Book", Maria J. Moss.
- He peered through this at the lamp and put the jar back. - "O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921", Various.


COVID Face Shield
Introduction: COVID Face Shield
In the COVID age, you need to be able to protect yourself. I decided to make a face shield because people need to be able to protect themselves from COVID-19. In some places face masks and other face protections are required. In this Instructable, I will show you the supplies and tools needed to make your own homemade face shield, and the steps on how to build it.
 - Clear 2 Liter Bottle
 - Packaging Foam
 - Glue
 - Rubber Band
 - Box Cutter
 - Scissors
 - Hair Dryer
 - 2 Weights
Step 1: Gather the Supplies
Gather Supplies into your workspace, and keep everything spread out far enough so you have room to work.
Step 2: Prepare the Bottle
Take off the wrapper and mark lines on where to cut the bottle with the box cutter. Mark around where the neck of the bottle and the rest of the bottle flattens out, then mark at the bottom. Then one line going down the side. Next make two sets of lines on each side for a rubber band so it can go around your head. This will allow you to feed the rubber band in through one slit and back out of the second slit so you can tie the rubber band into a knot.
Step 3: Cut the Bottle
Cut the 2 liter bottle where you drew your lines. I recommend to cut at first using the box cutter until you have room to use the scissors to finish the cutting.
Step 4: Flatten the Plastic
In this step you will need to use a hair dryer to help flatten the plastic from the bottle that you cut out. You will need to have two heavy objects just to weigh down each side of the plastic so you can use the hair dryer. Then turn the hair dryer on high and put it close to the plastic so it will soften and form to the new position of being flat instead of curved.
Step 5: Headband for Shield
You will need some rubber bands for this step, you can use one big one or more than one by tying them together. When you have the desirable length of the band, then you would tie it through the holes that you cut out in the last step.
Step 6: Enjoy
You are now complete and now have a face shield to defend yourself from COVID.
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BDSONS Base de données des sons du français
The BDSONS Database is a French - speech database with two subsets: evaluation and acoustic modelling. The Corpora consist of 32 speakers: 16 male and 16 female (7 CD-ROMs of approximately 3,5 Gigabytes), Phonetic labelling (partly) available on additional floppies, of the following data:
"Evaluation" (32 speakers): adjustment: 5 sentences and 54 bi-syllabic "logatomes", numbers, digits, letters, and names (spelled in isolation and in connected speech).
"Acoustic" (12 speakers): Words: 600 CVCV including 20 consonant and semi-consonant and vowels /a/, /i/, /u/ ; 200 consonant clusters; rhyme tests for consonant and vowels (pairs and triplets), sentences: 52 phonetically balanced sentences, 44 nasal sentences, 192 sentences including real words in French with 16 consonants and 12 vowels. Phonetic labelling for a subset of the data is available on floppy disk.
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text: In this study, the performance of a biotrickling filter (BTF) treating complex mixtures of VOCs from pharmaceutical industries was evaluated. Effects of inlet loading rate (ILR) and empty bed residence time (EBRT) on elimination capacity (EC) and removal efficiency (RE) were evaluated. Methanol, ethanol, acetone and toluene were taken as model pollutants. The net inlet concentration was varied from 1 to 4g/m3 to achieve an ILR variation from 52 to 419g/m3/h, while the EBRT was varied from 25 to 69s. The BTF was able to completely degrade the VOCs up to an ILR of 240g/m3/h, while treating mixed pollutants. On the other hand, 100% RE was achieved for ILRs up to 320g/m3/h in case of single pollutants and the corresponding maximum elimination capacity (ECmax) for ethanol and acetone was 380g/m3/h. However, the ECmax was only 320g/m3/h for the BTF treating mixed pollutants. Competitive interactions between different pollutants resulted in significantly lower ECmax for individual pollutants in a mixed pollutant system than those in a single pollutant system. Toluene was the most resistant to degradation, followed by acetone, among the four pollutants studied. It was found that much of the degradation of ethanol and methanol occurred in the first 30cm of BTF. It was also observed that the ILR and nature of the pollutants significantly affected the RE achieved at different EBRTs. Results from this study help in selecting the operational parameters for optimal performance of a BTF treating complex mixtures of VOCs emitted from pharmaceutical industries. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.


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Exemptions from property income tax
The sale of homes, commonhold properties and land are tax-exempt if they constitute the primary residence of the taxpayer. The primary residence (the focal point of life) is the home or commonhold property in which the seller has lived continuously for at least two years since it was acquired and up to the time of sale. The primary residence exemption also applies if the seller has lived in this house or this apartment as the "primary resident" continuously for at least five years within the last ten years prior to the sale (the "five out of ten rule").
In contrast to the producer exemption, the primary residence exemption also covers the land, for a surface area of up to 1 000 m2. The exemption for a five-year continuous primary residence also applies if the primary residence was rented out for the remaining period of time (up to five years).
As the "five out of ten rule" does not require that the property be the primary residence immediately prior to the sale, the exemption will continue to apply even if the taxpayer already gave up his/her primary residence prior to the sale. In principle, the seller him/herself must have been the owner of the property while it was being used as the primary residence. The primary residence exemption is thus generally not inheritable, meaning that a sale from an estate is liable for tax even if the deceased would have met the primary residence requirement. However, periods during which the seller resided in the property as a dependant but was not yet the owner count towards the "five out of ten rule", provided that he/she ultimately inherits the property or receives it as a gift. Therefore, if an inherited or gifted detached house or commonhold property is sold, what is decisive is whether the seller had lived there continuously for five years as his/her primary residence (even as a mere housemate of the person who later bequeathed or gifted the house or apartment). Furthermore, the seller must relinquish or (in the case of the five-year period) must have already relinquished the primary residence.
- A person divides his/her home into two residential units, sells one and retains the other as his/her primary residence. The primary residence exemption does not apply.
- A person's home has been his/her primary residence for more than five years, he/she sells that home and remains there as the primary tenant (for more than one year). The exemption is not granted.
- A person's commonhold property has been his/her primary residence for more than five years. He/she owns a second commonhold property that he/she rents out. Once the rental arrangement has ended, he/she moves into the previously rented apartment as primary resident and sells his/her former primary residence. The exemption is granted.
- A person inherits his/her parents' commonhold property in which he/she has not lived for more than five years and sells it.The sale is not exempt.
There is a tolerance period of 1 year, both as regards the establishment of the primary residence for the purpose of the exemption under the two-year rule and for relinquishing the primary residence in both cases.
Profit from the sale of a self-constructed building is also tax-exempt. In this case, however, the associated land is liable for tax (see in this regard the example under "Old buildings"), unless the primary residence exemption is also applicable (see note below). A self-constructed building is one where the taxpayer builds the building from scratch (that is to say "house construction" and not completion or renovation, even if comprehensive) and assumes the (financial) risk associated with construction. A building is also self-constructed if it was built by an appointed contractor but the owner had to assume the risk of any cost overruns. The seller him/herself must have constructed the building; self-constructed buildings built by the legal predecessor are thus not covered by the producer exemption.
An exception to the producer exemption applies if the building has served to generate income within the last ten years: if the building has been only partially used to generate income (partial rental of the house or commonhold property), only the non-rented part may be exempt from taxation, with the rented part not being eligible for the exemption.
If the primary residence exemption and the producer exemption both apply, the primary residence exemption takes priority. This is more favourable as it is only the building that is tax-exempt under the producer exemption, whereas the associated land is also exempt under the primary residence exemption, in principle.
Sales carried out in the course of or in order to prevent official intervention (expropriations) are tax-exempt.
Exchange transactions involving agricultural and forestry plots of land as part of amalgamation and land consolidation procedures and exchange transactions involving plots of land as part of land rationalisation procedures are tax-exempt.
In these cases, the information relating to the exchanged plots of land that is relevant for tax purposes must be carried forward.
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Vocabulary: concord: my favourite fruit is/ are....
An explanation and advice on teaching subject - verb agreement.
Is there a rule to apply to the sentences I mentioned above? Could you help with my questions?
Roy, your fascinating question concerns what is called, technically, concord, or, more generally, agreement. That is, the agreement of subject and verb. So, to take your example (but avoiding fruit for the moment): My favourite animal is the elephant. Here we have concord between the (singular, countable) subject and the verb. We also have agreement between the singular subject and the complement (the elephant). We could equally well say: My favourite animals are elephants. Again concord rules.
In the occasional case where the subject is singular and the complement is plural, the verb agrees with the subject, not the complement. So: My favourite meal is baked beans. Not *My favourite meal are baked beans. (The asterisk is the device traditionally used to show a grammatically unacceptable example). This, by the way, explains My favourite food is noodles, noodles being almost always thought of in the plural.
However, there is another issue involved, and that is the way we use nouns to talk generically, that is, about classes of things. When we say My favourite animals are elephants, we are talking about elephants as a class, rather than any specific and identifiable elephants (in which case we would say My favourite animals are the elephants – e.g. the ones in the zoo). With countable nouns there are three options when talking generically:
An elephant is a mammal.The elephant is a mammal.Elephants are mammals.
With uncountable nouns, there is only one option – the "zero article":
Carbon is an element.
So far so good. But your example with fruit somewhat complicates things, since fruit has two plural forms: the more common fruit, as in The tree is pretty but its fruit are poisonous. And fruits, as in Mangoes and pineapples are tropical fruits. (The fact that fruit can also be uncountable, as in Fruit is good for you, need not concern us here, since in the context of my favourite fruit we are talking about one fruit among many, and hence making it countable).
Taking all this into account, we now need to explain why the following seem acceptable (and, indeed, are acceptable when you try them out on native speakers):
1. My favourite fruit are apples2. My favourite fruit is apples.
Less likely, but grammatical, are:
3. My favourite fruit is the apple.4. My favourite fruits are apples.
Example 1 is easily explained, since fruit here is the plural form, and hence the example follows the pattern: My favourite animals are elephants.
Example 2 I can only explain as being singular fruit (analogous to My favourite animal…) but that the plural apples is the generic form – a slightly less pompous-sounding way of saying 3. My favourite fruit is the apple. Nevertheless, when questioned about example 2, native speakers feel a bit uncomfortable, recognising it as being somehow deviant, but the best of a bad job. Example 4 might be an attempt to be hypercorrect, with regard to concord, but it is only really likely in cases like My favourite fruits are apples and pears.
If example 2 is acceptable (and I think it is), it raises the question: why can't we say My favourite animal is elephants? The reason is, I think, that it is not unusual to think of apples, generically, in quantities of more than one, but not elephants. In fact, the smaller you get, the more likely it is you would use a plural:
3) My favourite fruit is cherries.
|Compare: My favourite fruit is the cherry|
4) My favourite vegetable is peas.
|Compare: My favourite vegetable is the pea. My favourite vegetables are peas|
This also accounts for your watermelon and pineapplecases, I think. My favourite fruit is watermelons conjures up images of eating several at one sitting. The uncountable, zero article, generic watermelon gets round the concord problem, and conjures up an acceptable image of tucking into a watermelon without necessarily eating it all. But it doesn't work for apple: *My favourite fruit is apple.Uncountable apple and countable apple are very different items, in the way that uncountable watermelonand countable watermelon are not.
So, as a general rule, I'd say that, when talking generically, the smaller the item, the more likely it is we will pluralise it. (I like cherries). For bigger items, use an uncountable form, if possible. (I like watermelon). If not, let concord rule. (My favourite animals are woolly mammoths).


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Ancient Yoruba civilization believed that one's hair is tied to their spiritually. They believed it was an extension of the beings spiritually to the Orishas (African gods and goddesses). They actually created different braided hairstyles that females wore to be more spiritual.
"Dada", was the term given to people who wore loc'd hair and it was derived from a spirit child that was born with loc'd hair. The spirit child was born with full grown locs, meaning that straight out of the womb their hair would already be twisted. The tale behind the "Dada spirit child" was that the parents could not cut the child's hair, because they would feel the wrath of the spirit world. If the parents chose to cut the child's hair they could not do so without performing a ceremony. If the child chooses to keep his or her hair, Yoruba elders would acknowledge that child as going on a spiritual journey and that is why "Dada"are also said to be taking a spiritual journey as well.
Today, in Nigerian culture loc'd hair is viewed as evil and dirty, and the tradition of the Orishas and beliefs is no longer practiced. Even though when a "Dada spirit child" is born the parents still practice that ceremony before cutting the child's hair. Irony!
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Noun: ostiary 'ós-tee,e-ree [N. Amer], ós-tee-u-ree [Brit]
 1. The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
 - doorkeeper, ostiarius
 2. Someone who guards an entrance
 - doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper
Derived forms: ostiaries
Type of: clergyman, guard, Holy Order, man of the cloth, Order, reverend
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Pecos Watershed Conservation Initiative
The Pecos Watershed Conservation Initiative supports conservation projects in the Pecos River Watershed, which extends from eastern New Mexico into West Texas, and comprises a large portion of the energy-rich Permian Basin. The initiative identifies strategic conservation opportunities and works to enhance and restore the natural resources and wildlife habitat in the region.
The Pecos River winds more than 900 miles from its headwaters in the ponderosa pine forests of northern New Mexico through the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands of southeastern New Mexico and West Texas. The river supports some of the most biodiverse arid and semiarid ecosystems in the world. These ecosystems play host to a large number of fish and other aquatic species found nowhere else.
The habitats dependent on the Pecos River and its tributaries maintain a precarious existence as development, invasive species and unintended consequences of land management choices fragment the landscape, allow for encroachment by invasive species and strain scarce water resources.
Native grasslands that historically covered a vast amount of the region have dwindled to just a fraction of their former extent and productivity. This puts pressure not only on the hardy wildlife that inhabit those areas, such as pronghorn and migratory birds, but also on working ranches that need high-quality forage.
The Pecos Watershed Conservation Initiative will:
- Strengthen the health of existing habitats along the Pecos River and its tributaries in eastern New Mexico and West Texas
- Protect some of the last remaining populations of native fish and other aquatic species found only in the Chihuahuan Desert
- Improve the management and function of native grasslands
- Address water quality and scarcity concerns for wildlife and agricultural uses
- Identify opportunities to expand species to areas of their range where they have been lost, or bolster small remnant populations


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Rhythm of Execution
In Bridge and Dam, Pontoise (Le Pont et le barrage, Pontoise) (1881) Cézanne is using a very similar, almost rhythmic, underdrawing scheme similar to that used in L'Hermitage at Pontoise (1881). The path and bridge are outlined in a comparatively meticulous fashion. Masses of foliage are noted in the underdrawing with a characteristic flurry of scribbles. Upon this underdrawing Cézanne merges two modes of paint application; the varied thickness of paint we saw in the L'Hermitage and the much thinner series of washes he used in Turning Road, Auvers-sur-Oise (La Route tournante à Auvers-sur-Oise), also from 1881. The bushes in the foreground and trees on the bank of the river are initially brushed in with a very thin wash as the foreground of L'Hermitage. Atop of these passages Cézanne applies staccato marks of paint similar to those used in Turning Road.


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Quick note - I've updated this post to use the more accurate term "Document" than the less-accurate, DDD-specific term "Aggregate". In the images, it still has the older term "Aggregate", let's pretend I fixed all those images.
In the last post, I walked through the general problem of distributed transactions, and some potential ideas around coordinating activities between similar or disparate resources. In a lot of cases, I would prefer to simply wrap our actions in a transaction, but as the resources I'm trying to transact together move further apart (process-wise or network-wise), transactions between these multiple resources becomes impossible.
If I can only perform reliable transactions with a single resource at a time, whether that resource is a database or single record in Cosmos DB, I need to design my interactions so that both the business data and communications transact together. That means that my communication needs to be in the same transactional store as my business data!
In the case of Azure Cosmos DB, I need to place my communication that I both send and receive inside my document. I store incoming communication because any request to change data needs to be idempotent. I could just have some business rule "all actions must be idempotent", I can also achieve this by simply storing the incoming requests and checking to see if I've already processed this request before performing the action.
For outgoing communication, I can't interact with any other resource transactionally, so I store outgoing communication on what I can control - the document. So our final document looks like:
When I perform an operation, communication and business data either save successfully or the entire operation rolls back.
Dispatching Changes
When I find I have an operation that needs to affect more than one resource, I then use my outbox to communicate with those external resources:
I can then safely transact that single resource:
Now that I've completed the first action, I can now begin my interaction with other resources. I use a dispatcher to do so - something that's responsible for reading from a resource's outbox:
And pass them to the correct resource:
Each resource receives the incoming message, and performs 2 actions:
 - Affect the business data
 - Store the incoming message in the inbox
This entire operation is transactional:
With that resource successful, the dispatcher moves on to the next resource. However, this operation can fail:
When this happens, we move the message to an external retry queue:
At this point the dispatcher is complete - but because we still have a failed resource, we can't remove our event from the original document's outbox.
In our half-completed state, we need to re-process the outbox for our document. So our dispatcher wakes up from the Retry message and reads the messages in the original document's outbox:
The dispatcher dispatches our message again to each of the receiving resources, processing each one in turn. Our first resource has already processed this message, which it knows because it's checked its Inbox before changing the data (making it idempotent):
With that complete, the dispatcher can move on to the (previously) failing document:
And that document can now succeed. Of course, there might be a bug or something actively preventing us from succeeding - so in that case we'll need to design explicit failure strategies. For now, let's assume that our operations will eventually succeed. Once we've confirmed that we've successfully dispatched our message to all receivers, we can go back to our original document and remove the message:
This is then saved in its own individual transaction:
In each step of the way, we have to work in smaller transactional steps that can be individually retried at least once, since each operation is idempotent. By storing our communication in the same transactional boundary of our business data, we can introduce reliable resource coordination when each of our resources isn't able to participate in that transaction.
In the next post, I'll walk through some code examples of this pattern in Cosmos DB.


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Why Dogs Are Afraid Of Vacuum Cleaners
You know your dog is fearful of vacuum cleaners when they react abnormally towards the stimulus vacuum cleaner has created. A dog cannot tolerate surroundings becoming noisy. Vacuums look like peculiar, tall moving robots. Since dogs are known to be frightened of lifeless things, it's no big surprise vacuums make the rundown. Tragically for dogs, most dog proprietors regularly buy vacuum cleaners for cleaning their mats and covers. Actually, a portion of the vacuum cleaners in the market are explicitly intended to clean fallen pet hairs like those of dogs or cats from rugs and carpets. The utilization of these vacuums makes them an unquestionable requirement have in the homes of dog owners.
You may not comprehend what your dog is going through at whatever point you wheel out that odd robot from its concealing spot. It is significant you understand the responses of your dog and why it is so frightened of a harmless machine at whatever point you do a cleaning meeting. So to know that a dog feels insecure when it sees the vacuum cleaner is not enough to know, you must also understand why this is happening. So that you can comprehend its behavior for finding out the right solution to make your dog feel comfy.
Need to know why your dog is terrified of vacuums, see the reasons beneath.
1. STRANGE STRUCTURE OF THE VACUUM CLEANER :
A dog is familiar to see an animal or a human, but to see something in between makes it quite difficult for a dog to comprehend. The strange structure of a vacuum cleaner can be one of the most important factor though which your dog is getting scared. The height of a vacuum, its hose, and design are some of the features that make it still more difficult for a dog to understand the vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner suddenly appears from an inconspicuous place and disturbs the peace of the dog, making the dog feel scared of it.
After creating so much disturbance and hindrance in the life of your dog, it suddenly vanishes away, leaving the dog behind, frightened, and confused about the abnormal activity of the vacuum cleaner.
Most dogs that are not all around mingled are regularly survivors of danger as incited by the cleaning activity of vacuums. Dog proprietors that get their dog from a lawn raiser or a pet store would most like experience a vacuum cleaner scared dog. The dread might be because of the way that such dogs have not been all around presented to noisy sounds or odd items when they were at the pup stage.
Better believe it, oddly, however, this could be one reason why dogs are terrified of vacuums.
2. THE FIERCE NOISE VACUUM CLEANERS MAKE :
A fluctuating level of commotion frequently joins vacuuming. The story of fuss made is subject to the kind of vacuum cleaner utilized. On the off chance that you hear discomforting noise when you vacuum, it is easy to understand that such a threat will be upsetting and unpleasing, and may cause dread for your dog.
The explanation is that dogs are exceptional pets with a well developed touchy visual, and hear-able organ. The clamor from your abnormal-looking vacuum cleaner may appear to be an indication of a threat to your dog, which can inspire dread. The reaction a dog gives before any earthquake also shows the sensitivity of their hearing organs.
3. THE FOUL SMELL VACUUM CLEANERS MAKE :
Sometimes, it may also happen that your dog gets afraid of the foul smell produced by cleaning the ground to which the dog is most unlikely familiar. The cleaning activity of vacuums frequently excites smell in the room. The scent might be foul and aggravating to your dog. The high pull capacity of vacuums makes them sniff the earth from the floor. By so doing, an unsavory smell may summon, which may incite dread in dogs. Since dogs likewise sniff things on the floor, they may get scared of the forceful sniffing of vacuums, which is not quite the same as theirs.
4. VIBRATIONS CREATED BY VACUUM CLEANER :
The vacuum cleaners create a high suction that induces vibration, and that further makes the dog feel scared about it. The vibration created by the suction pump of the vacuum cleaner is a lot disturbing, which is highly unfamiliar for dogs. The random movement of vacuums and their operators in harmony may induce fear in dogs. Dogs may become afraid when they feel their owners are threatened or vulnerable by this act.
5. STRANGE MOTION OF THE VACUUM CLEANERS :
Vacuum cleaners make an irregular motion that creates a disturbance in the peacefulness of the dog. The movement of a vacuum cleaner doesn't follow a familiar example. A vacuum brushes the niches and corners of the space for soil until there is a perfect floor. A few vacuums need people to work them by pushing them along the bottom and under furnishings. The irregular movement of vacuum cleaners and their administrators in amicability may initiate dread in dogs. Dogs may become threatened or afraid when they start to feel that their proprietors are compromised or helpless by this demonstration.
6. INSTINCT OR GENETIC EFFECT :
Sometimes, it may also happen that your dog is getting threatened as soon as it comes across any new object which seems likely unfamiliar to him. This instinct may be inherited from at least one of his parents, and that would have created the specific type of behavior in your dog about the vacuum cleaners.
The above tips are valuable to let you know why your pet is getting threatened by the vacuum cleaner. So that you can find out the ways by which you can make your dog adapt to the utilization of your vacuum cleaner in the home. Additionally, you could look for the assistance of a veterinary specialist to tackle the issue of dread of vacuums in your dog. Clinical consideration and treatment have been demonstrated to support dreadful dogs. Understanding the reasons why dogs fear vacuums will give valuable knowledge into how to help your dogs to facilitate their feelings of dread for vacuums.


RACI Matrix
Business Analyst / Project Manager in Orange County, California
RACI matrix roles and responsibilities
The RACI matrix clarifies responsibilities and ensures that all project tasks have someone assigned to do them. It is created before commencement of any project, and updated as needed throughout a project. The matrix helps identify where a project will fall short on resources before work begins and highlights key decision points along the way.
 - Consulted: People or stakeholders who need to give input before the work can be done and signed-off on. These people are "in the loop" and are active participants throughout the project.
 - Informed: People or stakeholders who need to be kept "in the picture." They need updates on progress or decisions, but they do not need to be formally consulted, nor do they contribute directly to the task or decision.
Below is a RACI matrix I created for a fictional eCommerce website for a Pet Store.
RACI Matrix


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Learn all about the tyre Michelin CrossClimate
The tyre CrossClimate is the latest innovation from Michelin. It's the first summer tyre certified for winter use (3PMSF)
The Michelin CrossClimate tyre key figures
- 7: the number of countries where the tyre has been tested (Germany, Canada, Spain, Finland, France, Poland and Sweden).
- 63: the number of month between the design and the presentation of the tyre Michelin CrossClimate 2nd mars 2015. The development of the tyre only took 3 years while normally it takes 4 years and 8 month (1,5 times faster).
- 70: the temperature range in Celsius degrees during the tests. The outdoor temperature range: -30° to +40°C.
- 150: the number of experts and engineers who have worked on the design, the tests, the industrialisation and the manufacturing.
- + than 1000: the number of laboratory tests conducted on materials, the tread and the design.
- 5 millions: the number of kilometers carried out during the dynamic tests, wear tests and endurance tests. This distance is equivalent to traveling around the earth 125 times.
The design strategy of the tyre Michelin CrossClimate
To design this innovative tyre and optimise the development of the CrossClimate, Michelin have sought to better understand driver behavior.
Unexpected weather changes, rain, snow and temperature drops are part of everyday life for motorists. Currently available solutions and motorist behaviors are not fully resolving the issue. Studies conducted or commissioned by Michelin have shown that:
- Between 3% in Germany and 7% in France of motorists use their winter tyres throughout the year which adversely affects both dry braking, especially in hot weather, and fuel consumption.
- Changing tyres with the seasons is an inconvenience for four in ten European motorists. They avoid doing so for as long as possible (Source: Ipsos 2014/2015 survey on tire purchasing behavior).
- 65% of European motorist keep their summer tyres all year round, thereby endanger the safety in cold weather, in the event of snow-covered or icy roads. 20 % in Germany where regulations require special equipment in winter conditions, and 76 % in France, where there are no regulatory requirements (Source: GfK European consumer survey)
The innovation of this new Michelin tyre enables to link the types of use and advanced technology. €640 millions are invested in its Research and Development program. Michelin conducts 75 000 tests with consumers around the world and surveys approximately 11 000 tyre buyers.