Getting Pumped Makes You Feel Good Part 2In part one of this series, I briefly explained your body's need for pumping throughout the evolution of human history and introduced the four key bio-pumps (life pumps), muscles that function to cause pressure changes within body cavities.
In part 2, you'll learn how your body's pumps work in very synergistic ways and how you can avoid constipation with natural pumping movements.
How your pumps work
All of the major pumps, apart from the heart, are intimately related to stabilizing the body, thus they serve a dual function.
In fact, most muscles in the body — including the outer two layers of abdominal musculature — serve a triune function, largely because they are pumps that provide some form of stability and act by moving the body.
To better show you how the stabilizer/pump systems work, let's use walking as an example. When you walk, there is a series of muscle actions involved in both stabilizing and moving the body, which includes many large muscles in the trunk and extremities, as well as in the inner unit muscles.
Getting Pumped Makes You Feel Good Part 2If you view the electromyographic (EMG) recordings of several muscles taken from a subject while walking, you can see the wave-like activity of muscle action followed by brief periods of rest.
Note that some muscles become active as stabilizers just prior to a heel strike, while others are more active in moving the body. For example, if you look at the EMG tracings for the rectus abdominis, you can see a definite sinusoidal contraction, which produces alternating phases of contraction and relaxation, generating the pump effect.
When the inner unit muscles contract, pressure increases in the abdominal cavity, moving fluids in the direction of least resistance, which causes flow, much like an old-style water pump. Under the influence of such pumping pressures, blood always flows toward the heart in the venous system, aiding circulation.
Not only do you experience pumping effects from walking, you get them from most any functional movement, albeit unsupported while balancing your own body against gravity. For example, your pumps work when you do simple activities like bending over to pick up an object.
When you are in the gym exercising, be it in an aerobics class, rowing on a rowing machine or performing a squat, you are supporting your physiology.
The king or queen of bio-pumps
Arguably, the king or queen of bio-pumps in your body is the diaphragm. When you are breathing naturally and using your diaphragm correctly, the rib cage expands in three dimensions: Vertically, laterally and anterior/posterior.
As the diaphragm contracts, affording inhalation, a negative pressure is created in the thorax (above the diaphragm) and a positive pressure is created in the abdominal cavity (below the diaphragm). With exhalation, there is a relative reversal of this process.
The pressure changes produced by proper diaphragmatic breathing occur somewhere between 20,000-26,000 times a day, depending on your resting respiratory rate. Those with optimal breathing habits will be on the lower side.
To really appreciate the importance of breathing and your diaphragm as a key bio-pump, imagine how nice it would be if a skilled massage therapist could manually pump muscles and knead the waste fluids out of organs with more 20,000 strokes a day.
Fact is, your body already has a built-in massage therapist if you just breathe naturally (through your nose with your tongue in its natural rest position) allowing your diaphragm full excursion.
The abdominal wall and diaphragm have a very intimate working relationship. The diaphragm is a breathing muscle that assists in stabilization, while the abdominal muscles are stabilizers that assist in respiration.
When you allow your abdominal wall to become weak, uncoordinated and/or distended due to poor dietary, lifestyle and exercise habits, you can compromise the entire bio-pump system!
When the abdominal wall works correctly (Figure A), the internal organs are properly supported and rest in the correct position to maximally benefit from the massage given by diaphragmatic movement.
Getting Pumped Makes You Feel Good Part 2
However, if the abdominal wall becomes dysfunctional (Figure B), the viscera (organs) lose their support and hang from the visceral ligaments, disrupting diaphragmatic excursion, pumping, oxygen transfer and the circulation of most major fluids in the body. That's not good!
Here's a very simple and effective way to determine if the functioning of your abdominal wall is compromised. First, stand up and take five or six natural breaths, then judge how much effort it takes to breathe. Then, lie down on the floor (face up) and take another five or six natural breaths, while comparing how much effort it takes for you to breathe in both positions.
If it's easier for you to breathe while lying on your back than when standing, chances are very good your abdominal wall needs specific testing and conditioning to improve your natural pump actions.
Learn more about testing and exercising the abdominal wall in my Scientific Core Conditioning and Equal But Not The Same correspondence courses. There are many good books on breathing available too, including one of my favorites, Breathe To Succeed In All Aspects Of Your Life by Tania Clifton-Smith.
Fight constipation with natural pumping
Very few people (even those in the healthcare professions) realize that the human being is the only mammal who has to push feces up hill. Once the undigested residues leave the ilium and enter the cecum (the lower right abdominal region where your appendix is located), the fecal remains must be pumped up hill en route to the transverse colon.
Another of the most primal of all human movements, the squat, provides substantial assistance to the colon in this regard.
As you squat into the natural position for defecation in the wild, the right thigh compresses the cecum, assisting fecal material up to the transverse colon, while the left thigh pressurizes the lower descending and sigmoid region, aiding in evacuation.
Next time you are constipated, try doing 15-20 slow, deep squats at breathing pace, breathing out as you lower and in as you raise, always staying as relaxed as possible. You may well find that you can now move your bowel!
Now that you have a basic understanding of how the pump systems work, we'll look at how the pumps protect your health and well-being by supporting the movement of key bodily fluids in the final part of this series.
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What is Fiduciary Duty? - Napkin Finance
Fiduciary Duty
Your Best Interest
Fiduciary Duty
What is Fiduciary Duty?
Who's involved
A fiduciary relationship involves:
 - A fiduciary—i.e., the person who owes the duty
 - A principal—i.e., the person whose best interest the fiduciary is supposed to protect
In this type of relationship, a principal entrusts a fiduciary with taking care of their money, property, or other assets.
Trust is the key element of a fiduciary relationship. To maintain this trust, a fiduciary is expected to fulfill three specific obligations:
 - Duty of loyalty: A fiduciary has to make decisions that are in the principal's best interests (even if those decisions go against the fiduciary's financial interests).
 - Duty of care: A fiduciary should thoroughly research and evaluate all options and scenarios before making a decision or recommendation to the principal.
 - Duty of good faith: A fiduciary must use good judgment and act carefully.
When does the duty apply?
Most fiduciary relationships involve financial matters, but others focus on providing advice or general caretaking. Here are some examples:
Who's involved Fiduciary What they have to do
Lawyer and client Lawyer Provide the client with enough information to make legal decisions and protect the client's privacy
Guardian and ward Guardian Ensure the ward has a place to live, receives the healthcare and education they need, and keeps their finances in order
Board directors and shareholders Board directors Use company assets in ways that maximize benefits for shareholders
Trustee and beneficiary Trustee Manage assets in the trust and distribute them to the beneficiary
What if breached?
Sometimes, a fiduciary does not meet their legal obligations. This is considered a breach of fiduciary duty. This might occur when a fiduciary:
 - Doesn't disclose conflicts of interest
 - Acts carelessly
 - Does something that gives them a financial gain at the expense of the principal's interests
 - Neglects certain responsibilities
Although a fiduciary duty is a legal responsibility, simply breaching it doesn't mean the fiduciary goes to prison (though they could if they did something criminal). However, the principal could sue for damages, or the fiduciary could lose their professional credentials (like if a lawyer gets disbarred).
Financial advisors
Fiduciary duty is a hot topic (and source of confusion) when it comes to financial advisors because they aren't all fiduciaries despite what many people think.
Examples Requirements
Fiduciaries Registered investment advisors Must follow the (more strict) fiduciary duty
Not fiduciaries Broker-dealers and insurance agents Must follow the (less strict) suitability standard, which requires making recommendations suitable to a client's personal situation (but not necessarily in their best interest)
In practice, this can mean that non-fiduciary advisors may be more likely to recommend investment options that pay them commissions and could face less strict requirements when it comes to disclosing certain conflicts of interest.
The fiduciary duty is a legal relationship in which one party is required to act in another's best interest. The duty can arise in lawyer-client, director-shareholder, trustee-beneficiary relationships, and more.
Fun facts
 - The word "fiduciary" comes from the Latin term fidere, which means "to trust."
 - The concept of a fiduciary was first defined in Roman law, but some historians trace the origins of fiduciary duties back to Hammurabi's Code.
 - A fiduciary relationship may be spelled out in a contract or other legal document, but it can also be implied and occur informally through one party's dealings with another.
Key takeaways
 - A fiduciary duty requires one party to act in the best interest of another party.
 - Fiduciary relationships often involve the handling of one party's money or property.
 - A breach of fiduciary duty occurs when a fiduciary fails to fulfill their obligations, such as by putting their own interests ahead of the principal's.
 - Some financial advisors, like registered investment advisors, are fiduciaries, but others, like broker-dealers, may not be.
The hardest part of suing your lawyer for breaching their fiduciary duties is trusting your new lawyer. — Napkin Finance
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Monthly weather based schedules.
The weather changes each month and so does the amount of water your plants need. Gnome saves water by creating schedules specific to the monthly weather patterns.
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Human-in-the-loop control systems
Statistical learning
Vehicle dynamics and control
Engineering design
Research summary:
Models of human search behavior
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Search is the process of making rational decisions under uncertainty. In [?] we developed a model of human behavior in a spatial search task. Notably, we found that some people achieved very high performance on such tasks, including significant numbers of people who achieved performance better than an otherwise "optimal" algorithm. Our model allowed us to show that this high performance is consistent with the humans having good priors, i.e., the high-performing people have good intuitions about the task. In [?], we considered the problem of learning these intuitions from data and showed that this could be achieved using our model. In [?], we have considered other, more sophisticated models of human choice behavior based on the concept of satisficing, where the decision maker cares only about achieving performance above a given threshold, rather than achieving maximum possible performance.
Reactive decision making
Engineering design


Kids-at-Play Designs
Craft fun-loving layouts around your child's favorite toys, activities, and hobbies.
Lego Layout
Design by Laina Lamb
Use basic shapes as building blocks for a pieced accent. Laina attached small punched circles to larger squares of the same color to create the look of Lego toys. Foam adhesive gives the building blocks a dimensional look.
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September 1, 2012
Electricity Cost of Using a Kindle
I while ago someone on The Simple Dollar made a comment questioning the electricity usage of a Kindle. At the time I thought to myself that a Kindle couldn't possibly use much electricity. Small electronics like cell phones and tables and the like really don't use much power and their small batteries require little electricity to charge them. But I like to have actual facts rather than just simple assumptions. Therefore I set off to find out how much electricity a Kindle actually uses and how much the electricity it would cost to operate one.
Amazon's Kindle Fire is probably the worst case as far as Kindle models go. It has color screen and a more powerful processor so it will use more electricity than the other models. I'm going to just look at the Fire since its the worst case, the other simpler black and white models will be cheaper to operate.
The Kindle Fire has a battery with 16.28 Wh capacity. Thats 0.1628 kWh. The average cost of a single kWh is about 11¢/. Based on these numbers it would cost 0.17908¢ to charge the battery of a Kindle Fire.
You can charge the battery in a Kindle Fire 5.58 times for a single penny worth of electricity.
Amazon says that the Kindle Fire will last 8 hours of reading on a single charge. One penny worth of electricity will get you 44.64 hours worth of reading on a Fire.
 An average book is approximately 70,000 words. An average adult reads about 250 words a minute.
1 penny = 44.64 hours reading = 2678.4 minutes reading = 669,600 words = 9.565 books.
For the cost of 1 penny worth of electricity an average speed reader can read approximately 9 1/2 average size books on a Fire.
The Kindle Fire will also play movies and videos. The Amazon specs say that the Fire will play 7.5 hours of video on a battery charge. Nearly as much as the reading time on a single battery charge.
Since a penny of electricity will charge a Fire 5.58 times and a single charge will give you 7.5 hours of video you can get 41.85 hours of video playback on a Fire for 1 penny worth of electricity.
Of course all of these numbers are just averages and your mileage will vary.
Bottom Line : A Kindle is very cheap to operate and the electricity bill should be almost negligible.
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Bulgaria Population 2015
Bulgaria is located in Southeastern Europe and is the 14th largest country in Europe, although it is fairly sparsely populated with just 66 people per square kilometer (171/sq mi), ranking 101st in the world. It's estimated that Bulgaria has a population of 7.11 million in 2015, down from 7.16 million last year.
Bulgaria has an estimated 2015 population of 7.11 million, down from the official population of 7.36 million at the 2011 census. The country has a population density of just 66 people per square kilometer (171/square mile). The capital and largest city is Sofia. This ancient city has a history going back 2,500 years. It's the 14th largest city in the European Union and has an estimated population of 1.3 million people. 73% of Bulgaria's population lives in urban regions, with 1/6 of the population in the Sofia area.
Bulgaria Demographics
85% of the population is Bulgarian, with other major ethnic groups being Turkish (8.8%), Roma (4.9%) and about 40 small minority groups totaling 0.7%. All ethnic groups in Bulgaria speak Bulgarian, which is the only official language and native for most of the population.
Bulgaria Population Clock
What is the population of Bulgaria (as of [[date]])? [[getCurrentPopulation()]]
Births Per Day 892
Deaths Per Day 1,537
Net Migrations Per Day -137
Net Change Per Day -782
Population Change Since January 1st [[getPopChangeThisYear()]]
 - Population estimated based on interpolation of World Population Prospects data.
Bulgaria Population Indicators
Indicator Value World Ranking
Median (Average) Age 43.43 years 5th
Crude Birth Rate 9.342 births/thousand 182nd
Crude Death Rate 16.099 deaths/thousand 3rd
Crude Net Migration Rate -1.435 people/thousand 145th
Life Expectancy (Both Sexes) 74.04 years 96th
Life Expectancy (Male) 70.51 years 101st
Life Expectancy (Female) 77.73 years 90th
Total Fertility Rate 1.611 children/woman 159th
Net Reproduction Rate 0.769 surviving daughters/woman 159th
Sex Ratio At Birth 1.061 males per female 27th
Infant Mortality Rate 8.14 deaths/1,000 live births 130th
Under Five Mortality 9.74 deaths/thousand 131st
Mean Age at Childbearing 27.69 years 152nd
Population Data via United Nations WPP
Bulgaria Population Growth
Bulgaria's population continues to decline since its peak of 9 million in 1986. With a high death rate, low birth rate, and negative net migration, the decline is expected to continue throughout the 21st century. Interestingly, Bulgaria (along with Latvia) is one of only two countries with a lower population today than in 1950.
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Gripping Techniques for Holding a Badminton Racket
Gripping Techniques for Holding a Badminton Racket
If you are new to the game of badminton and want to play like professionals or looking forward to improving your skill of playing badminton, the first thing for you to learn would be holding the racket properly to get the best use of it. Basics of Gripping a Racket. Not only for playing like professionals, if you know the techniques you will learn the skills to avoid injuries. And your performance will get better after following the techniques.
Hold your racket like you are approaching a hand-shake. If you have a racket in your hand right now you will see that the racket handle is octagonal in shape, and it's the same for every racket. These 8 sides of the handle are known as bevels and they allow you to grip the racket properly. In this article, we have covered one of the badminton rules, the techniques of gripping a badminton racket.
Different Gripping Techniques
There are two types of gripping techniques that are mostly used by professionals. Forehand Grip and Backhand Grip. Both of them are useful. Better if you learn and adapt to both the techniques. And you can be a master of the game if you can switch between the techniques based on the shot requirement. When you can do both the techniques you will be able to play more shot variations.
Forehand Grip
Forehand Grip
From the 8 sides of the badminton handle, you will find 2 sides slightly wider in line with the face of the racket. You need to put your thumb to that wider side and create a V-shape angle between thumb and index finger and then you can adjust your hand position of the grip.
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The following video will be more helpful to understand. Note that you can adjust your fingers according to your comfort but the index finger will be the controlling position to push the racket.
Backhand Grip
Backhand Grip
The Thumb is the most crucial part in a backhand grip. There will be a gap between the palm and the handle and the index finger will be much closer than a forehand grip. The following self-explanatory video is easier to understand.
Switching between Forehand grip and Backhand grip
Once you know and are able to implement both techniques, you can try to adapt to switch between the grips according to your comfort to relax your wrist and fingers. You must avoid gripping the racket too tightly because it causes wrist pain and makes it difficult to switch.
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It's better you can adapt to both techniques and switch between both. It's not a difficult task, practice will make it easier and better. At the early stage you may get confused, but practicing it, again and again, will definitely be worthy of it. Other than these two you may try a few other techniques as well.
Do's and Don'ts in Gripping Badminton Racket
Before moving forward we would like to inform you a few very basic Dos and Don'ts about holding a racket in your hand.
 1. Hold the racket with fingers
 2. Keep your hands; especially wrists flexible
 3. Put your comfort in holding the racket on first priority.
 4. Hold the racket putting your palm at the base of the handle. It will allow you to play your shots with more power.
 1. Never hold the racket too tightly or too lightly.
 2. Do not grip the racket with palm
Importance of Gripping Correctly
In simple words, if you don't grip correctly your certain movements will be restricted due to improper wrist flexibility and result in injuries. And your performance will not meet your expectations. Watch the following video to understand it better how to correct gripping helps improve your performance:
You shall hold your racket like you are approaching a hand-shake. Learn both techniques and use it properly to the requirement of the shot. You must avoid gripping the racket too tightly because it may cause wrist pain and make it difficult to switch. Flexible gripping is the key to master these techniques.
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MVV Environment – SVB Range
Generating usable power from a renewable source is an integral part of a new and sustainable energy supply. One way to produce environmentally friendly energy is using old and waste wood as fuel to generate electricity and usable heat
At Ridham Dock, MVV commissioned a highly modern and very efficient, combined heat and power (CHP) biomass power plant. CHP means the simultaneous production of electrical energy and usable heat. The heat energy from the CHP process is typically used in district heating systems and/or as process steam for industrial purposes. CHP uses a very high degree of the energy content of the fuel. The Ridham Dock plant, MVV will use about 172,000 tonnes of waste wood per year to generate almost 188 million kilowatt-hours of electrical energy. The plant has a net electrical capacity of 23 megawatts.
Crest Pumps provided its SVB pumps made from stainless steel construction – ensuring maximum corrosion resistance and capable of processing high temperature liquids at 85% efficiency. The pumps provided to MVV are manufactured with a vortex impeller, allowing for a high concentration of solid transfer.
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Eclipse and Maven Integration (without m2e)
This page describes how to integrate an EAR project in Eclipse or Eclipse-based IDE without m2e support. Normally however, using m2e (and m2e-wtp) should be the preferred way to integrate Maven and Eclipse. But in some rare cases that might not be possible.
If you have used mvn eclipse:eclipse to generate the metadata for an EAR project, it will want the application.xml file in the src/main/application/META-INF directory.
If you edit application.xml using the WTP based Application Deployment Descriptor editor, it will use the name of the projects (Web, EJB etc) as the name of the modules. Here is an example:
Obviously this does not have the typical Maven based version naming convention applied to it. This allows us to run the application internally within Eclipse using the test environments. When Maven is used to create the ear using mvn package, it will create the versionized application.xml file, if told to. However, by default it will not pick up the generated (versionized) one, it will use the existing one in the src/main/application/META-INF directory.
The solution to resolve this conflict is to have Maven generate the application.xml and use the generated one as opposed to the existing one.
This can be achieved via these two directives:
The first line tells Maven to generate a new application.xml file, by default in the target directory. The second line tells Maven to use it.


Remember, Tuesday April 15th is TAX day.
Tax return
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1788. Awaiting death as he wrote those words, Franklin was later credited with the bright idea that both the grave and the income-tax form awaited us all. The sentiment, though, was very old even in Franklin's time, and the well-read founding father would surely have protested, were he able, that he was merely passing it along.
Tuesday is also a full moon. Not only a full moon but a total eclipse called a blood moon. There will be four total lunar eclipses in a row. The first Blood Moon eclipse of four is coming up on the night of April 14-15, 2014. This total eclipse of the moon will be visible from the Americas.
100 years ago on April 15, 1914 the U.S. Senate voted on the "Susan B. Anthony" amendment, a revision to the previously proposed amendment that would allow women the right to vote. It did not pass.


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would be better for the future--we hope that Moses will be able to experiment with navigation algorithms in the future.
This method returns a ray (not normalized) pointing from the given point to the nearest object. If there are no objects in the map, I'm not quite sure what this should do. Note that the ray that is returned does not point to the center of the closest object. It points to the closest occupied cell at the maximum tree-depth (maximum resolution).
Requirements for Predicate Mining
The main things we need here are:
 - an index listing all the cells containing EntityID E in their EntityStructure
 - an efficient method to find all entities that are within radius r of a certain point
Note that it's not important to exactly find all entities in the circle of radius r. Approximating the circle with squares fairly crudely is just fine.
Notes on opencog\spatial\
Class Entity holds a position and bounding box of an object in a virtual world.
Class SuperEntity holds a list of overlapping Entity 's. The edges of the resulting SuperEntity object consist only of the outside perimeter of the overlapped Entity 's. Methods rebuild() and splitEdges() are used to re-compute the outside edges of the combined Entity's outside edges. An exception will be thrown if attempting to create a SuperEntity with Entity's that don't overlap.
The outside perimeter of combined objects may be used for 2D navigation in a virtual world. See image of overlapping Entity's forming the SuperEntity (SuperEntity.png).
API for 3D Maps
Requirements for TangentBug
Dan will fill this in... later...
Requirements for Predicate Mining
As for 2D, the main things we need here are:
 - an index listing all the cells containing EntityID E in their EntityStructure (this should be organized by node depth, so that queries can be constrained to a given "resolution"/granularity).


Definitions of state:
 - noun: the way something is with respect to its main attributes
 Example: "The current state of knowledge"
 - noun: a politically organized body of people under a single government
 Example: "The state has elected a new president"
 - noun: the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
 Example: "The state has lowered its income tax"
 - noun: the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
 Example: "His state is in the deep south"
 - noun: a state of depression or agitation
 Example: "He was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
 - noun: the territory occupied by a nation
 Example: "The solid state of water is called ice"
 - noun: the federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies
 Example: "The Department of State was created in 1789"
 - verb: express in words
 Example: "State your opinion"
 - verb: put before
 - verb: indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
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Your Gregory pack is designed to provide you with many years of enjoyable use. It is important that you take the following steps:
- Using a mild soap (never use detergents or solvents) and a damp sponge, wipe out the inside and outside of the pack bag. Be sure to completely air dry the pack with all zippers open prior to storing.
- Stubborn stains may require scrubbing with a soft bristle nylon brush. However, please note that excessive cleaning may damage the protective coatings provided by the manufacturer and is NOT recommended.
- Never put your pack in the dryer as the heat may damage the manufacturers protective coatings. You should also keep it out of direct sunlight and away from direct heat sources (the oven, a radiator, etc) when storing your pack.
- The use of solvents and dryers may damage your pack.
- Always store your pack in a cool, dry place.

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Follo, Norway
Apollo is our proposal for the new Museum Workshop. The building follows the natural elevations and creates a threefold division of roof and space. We wanted to create a new destination, where visitors move along a path through the historic buildings on the site before reaching the new workshop museum. The shape of the building forms two sides, one with a view overlooking the forest and water, and one that surrounds a courtyard filled with functions that are connected to the workshops. The building varies in itss height and act as a filter between inside and outside. They slided walls help to define, among other things, the entrance area and the given program. The road leads to a foyer, together with a integrated café and exhibition room that is centrally located in the building, from this part moves administratively in one direction and the workshop building in the other. The building will be an extension of the path and at the same time as it is a closed workshop, it always allows visitors to walk through the building. In collaboration with Philip Box.


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In general, mine faces are separated from the mine ventilation network. In mine face workers are exposed to contaminants such as dust and gas. Mine faces are ventilated by auxiliary ventilation optimal design of this system is very complicated. Accumulation of methane gas in mine faces have high potential of disaster. In order to solve this problem, we must have Comprehensive view of methane behavior and distribution in mine faces.In this paper, in order to reach this goal,three-dimensional model of auxiliary ventilation system of Mike mine was constructed by CFD code fluent.model geometry was meshed by hybrid cell : Quadrilateral cell with 5 cm in model face, fan and out let and Hexagonal cell with 20 cm in model ceiling, floor. Fluid turbulence flow and methane concentration are modeled with and methane air mixture. According to simulation result there is direct relation between high concentration of methane and return flow so high concentration of gases occurs under ventilation ducts and face corners. Finally,there is a good agreement between numerical result and mike mine Measurements.


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The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship focuses specifically on individuals with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math—the STEM disciplines—because these are the individuals who can have the greatest impact in supporting of high-need urban and rural public high school students develop 21st century skills.
By 2013, the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship will prepare over 700 highly skilled math, science, and technology teachers for high-need public schools in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. These Fellows will make a significant impact on the futures of the tens of thousands students they will teach.
Passionate, Knowledgeable Science & Math Teachers Are Critical to the Nation's Future
At a time when the global economy requires more students to attain math, science and technology literacy to compete in the workplace, increasing both the quantity and quality of STEM teachers ensures that all students have the access to what they need – and deserve. Fellows also bring their passion for math, science and technology to the classroom to secondary-level STEM instruction helps to boost inspire the next generation to be scientists, mathematicians, engineers and technology experts.
A Series of Best Practices for Teacher Training
The WW Teaching Fellowship program provides participating universities with the resources to develop model math and science teacher preparation programs. Working closely with the Foundation, each partner campus redesigns their STEM teacher education curriculum to ensure it is more clinically-based, focuses on the needs of at-risk students, and supports teachers throughout their first years in the classroom.
Supporting Math and Science Teachers in the Field
Nationally, about half of all new teachers leave within their first five years. The Fellowship supports Fellows who enter the classroom by ensuring that their preparation is aligned with the skills teachers need to succeed in high-need schools, including significant teaching experience prior to becoming the full-time teacher-of-record. Fellows are prepared to hit the ground running. Upon receiving their teacher certification, Fellows are assisted in securing teaching placements within high-need schools And every Fellow receives ongoing, intensive mentoring and assessment during their first three years of teaching. Fellows also have opportunities for extended professional development both through their university and the Foundation.

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Six-year MBBS program Education, Hubei University of Medicine(HUM)
Hubei University of Medicine (HUM) is located in the center of Shiyan, the Motor City, in Hubei Province, People's Republic of China. The city boasts several tourist attractions, such as Wudang Mountain, a sacred place of Taoism; Danjiangkou Reservoir, the largest artificial freshwater lake in Asia; and Shengnongjia Forest.HUM has over 15,000 full-time students and over 1,000 faculty and staff. It offers 12 undergraduate programs, covering medicine, science, management and engineering. The university hosts two nationally recognized majors, five provincially recognized majors, seven provincially recognized courses, three provincial teaching model centers, and five first rate level three hospitals. Along with emphasis on undergraduate education, HUM is developing graduate, overseas students, and continuing education.HUM has cultivated international relationships by exchange and collaboration with universities in America, England, Australia, Japan, Korea and other nations, promoting the development of disciplines and internationalization.
The MBBS program at HUM is a six-year program. There is an early introduction of preclinical topics, which provides the basics for medical studies in the subsequent years. There will be both theory and practical classes. Students are expected to grasp the necessary knowledge that is applied during clinical training.
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May 16, 2020
Global consumers willing to pay more for British manufactured products
Sophie Chapman
2 min
Supply chain inefficiencies and miscommunication through "Chinese Whispers" are costing UK businesses over £1.5bn in lost productivity
A report released by Barclays Corporate Banking indicates that 39% of global consumers would be more likely to purchase products produced in the UK.
The report, dubbed Brand Britain: Export Opportunities for UK Businesses, notes that Asia and the Middle East are the most likely, conveying more interest in Brand Britain, and the association with quality.
Out of the 8,060 people surveyed, 67% Indian people, 62% people from the UAE, and 61% of Chinese people were more inclined.
The Barclays research also suggested that the dedication to British manufactured products was strongest with young people, with almost half (48%) said they would be more likely to purchase.
The majority of young people in China, between the ages of 25-34, were more interested in British made commodities, at 73%.
People with the over 55 age group, however, were less likely to be encouraged by British production, at only 24%.
The survey, which questioned people from eight markets – France, Germany, Republic of Ireland, India, China, UAE, the US, and South Africa – noted that food, fashion, and cars were the most popular products from the UK.
22% of consumers would be more willing to purchase food knowing it was from Britain.
Cars received 10% interest, with 9% of the group encouraged by British exported clothing, matching with 9% of people more likely to purchase British alcohol.
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tree-equal tree-1 tree-2 &key test test-not => generalized-boolean
Arguments and Values:
test---a designator for a function of two arguments that returns a generalized boolean.
test-not---a designator for a function of two arguments that returns a generalized boolean.
generalized-boolean---a generalized boolean.
tree-equal tests whether two trees are of the same shape and have the same leaves. tree-equal returns true if tree-1 and tree-2 are both atoms and satisfy the test, or if they are both conses and the car of tree-1 is tree-equal to the car of tree-2 and the cdr of tree-1 is tree-equal to the cdr of tree-2. Otherwise, tree-equal returns false.
tree-equal recursively compares conses but not any other objects that have components.
The first argument to the :test or :test-not function is tree-1 or a car or cdr of tree-1; the second argument is tree-2 or a car or cdr of tree-2.
(setq tree1 '(1 (1 2)) tree2 '(1 (1 2))) => (1 (1 2)) (tree-equal tree1 tree2) => true (eql tree1 tree2) => false (setq tree1 '('a ('b 'c)) tree2 '('a ('b 'c))) => ('a ('b 'c)) => ((QUOTE A) ((QUOTE B) (QUOTE C))) (tree-equal tree1 tree2 :test 'eq) => true
Side Effects: None.
Affected By: None.
The consequences are undefined if both tree-1 and tree-2 are circular.
equal, Section 3.6 (Traversal Rules and Side Effects)
The :test-not parameter is deprecated.


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How do i know if my gmail is being hacked?
How do I know is my Gmail being hacked?
I just received spam message from my friend, the spam would look like the image below.
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Normally sending this kind of message, the email account should be hacked. Please contact your friend that his/her account has been hacked and please change the password as soon as possible.
Normally hacker won't change the password, because they are trying to not let you know your account is being hacked, and try to retreive all the important informations of yours before you terminate all the things, like bank account, credit card information, paypal, or all other important informations.
So, where to check that and how to know that your Gmail is being hacked.
1. Login to your Gmail account.
2. Drag to the bottom of the page.
3. You will see like the image below.
Gmail Details
4. Click the 'detail'.
5. It will pop up the browser and the image like below.
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6. Check whether the IP was login from other contries or different of your ISP.
7. If you found unexpected IP address that has been login into your account, I'm sure your account has been hacked and has been accessed by hacker.
To solve this, please change your password immediately, and please do not forget to change all the other password.
Why? Because those hacker has retreive most of your information data, maybe accessed to your other account, email, MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, or Game ID, bank account.
Change to secure password that have alpha-digit combination password with at least 8 characters long.
Install newest Antivirus software and do scan your whole PC, I install AVIRA, make sure the virus defination database is up-to-date.
Please share to your friends, and inform them check often the security and wish you change the password before the hacker change your password.
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h3. Preface
Currently, Membase uses load testing tools such as [memcachetest|], brutis, memslap in order to both test Membase's functionality and to simulate customer data patterns. The problem with these tools is that they are useful only in particular load testing scenarios making their uses for testing a variety of customer scenarios difficult. Memcachedtest and memslap for example are more useful as testing tools to diagnose fundamental problems with either Membase or Memcached. These two tools only test gets and sets and they cannot be configured to work on subsets of a the key space in Memcached or Membase. For example, we cannot tell these two testing tools tools to do operations on 10% of the key space 99% of the time. The load testing tool brutis can solve problems that memcachedtest and memslap cannot, but becomes a problem due to its use of php which provides significant overhead on the client side and therefore doesn't provide accurate results. Also, bruits can solve customer data patterns that memcachedtest and memslap cannot it is still not a totally general tool and cannot simulate all customer data patterns.
As a result of the shortcomings of some of these tools we found it necessary to design a new load testing framework that would be able to simulate any customer data scenario that we have now or will have in the future. Our framework will be built on top of the YCSB (Yahoo Cloud Services Benchmark) Framework and be able to test any customer data scenario against Membase and provide a variety of metrics that describe how well Membase performed against its data load.
h3. Use case this tool should support
Load test with different variations including:
# Increased item count over time, for example, every 1 hour add 10K new items
# Define working set size, for example, working set for load test is 50K items out of the total item count
# Define what percentage of the working set churns (i.e replaced with non working set items) at what time interal, for example working set is 10K items with 1% churn every 6 hours
# Increased working set over time, for example working set should start with 10K, end with 50K, increased by 1K every 1 hour
# Controlled throughput, for example, throughput would be 10K as long as the server can hold it
# Increased throughput, for example, increase throughput from 1K to 30K by 1K ops/sec every 1 hour
# Fully memcapable, vBucket aware
# Define key prefix
# Define mix of verbs for the test
h3. Stats
The tool should provide meaningful stats in two forms
# Summary stats on the stdout (total ops/sec, 95, 99 latency percentile)
# Detailed stats on a file including:
#* The total and per verb ops/sec
#* Histogram of latency for the total and per verb operations (histogram count should be 10%, 50%, 90%, 95%, 99%, 99.9%)
#* the file should be grepable so it will be easy to aggregate the results and put it into excel for better analysis
h3. *Random Function Generators:*
* _Uniform:_ Choose an item at random. For example, when choosing a record, all records in the database are equally likely.
* _Zipfian:_ Choose an item according to the Zipfian distribution. For example, when choosing a record, some records will be extremely popular (the head of the distribution) while most of the records will be unpopular (the tail of the distribution).
* _Latest:_ Like the Zipfian distribution, except the most recently inserted records are at the head of the distribution.
* _Multinomial:_ Probabilities for each item can be specified. For example we might assign a probability of.95 to the Read operation and a probability of.05 to the Update operation, and a probability of 0 to Scan and Insert. The result would be a read heavy workload.
h3. *Source code*


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Have you ever had a disagreement with someone about a difference of opinion? Sarah Vowell, in her book Shooting Dad, talks about how she has a very different viewpoint on guns. From a young age, she said that she does not like guns, while on the other hand, her father loves them. Vowell encounters obstacles with her father because of their differences but still learns to accept his passions, which proves how differences can be overcome.
Vowell and her father express their own opinions very vividly to each other, which sometimes causes problems. Though Vowell respected her father, she could not understand why the most important things to him were guns. She even mentions "All he ever cared about were guns. All I ever cared about was art"
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Earth from Space: The Tibesti Mountains
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The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya, are captured in this image, acquired on March 4, 2012 by Envisat's MERIS instrument. The mountains' highest peak is Emi Koussi – pictured here as a circular structure in the lower-right portion of the dark area. The westernmost volcano is Toussidé. Our satellite view shows the dark peak with lava flows extending to the left. The white depression to the southeast gets its colour from the accumulation of carbonate salts, creating a soda lake. Surrounding the Tibesti Mountains, the sands of the Sahara appear like orange, yellow and white brushstrokes.


Jólan van der Wiel's Gravity Stool defies the forces of nature as it is pulled by a
Jólan van der Wiel's Gravity Stool defies the forces of nature as it is pulled by a "magnet machine"
Jólan van der Wiel defies gravity
Gerrit Rietveld Academie graduate uses super strength magnet to make uniquely shaped furniture
Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel has been developing furniture made using a unique combination of magnetic plastic and gravity to create objects that are as strange as they are beautiful. Van der Wiel studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, an institution renowned for its highly conceptual and experimental approach to teaching and which routinely encourages its students to push the boundaries of design. It was during his time here that he created the process by which his amazing magnetic creations are born. He placed iron shavings and liquid plastic in a bowl below a magnetic block attached to a pulley and lowered it slowly until the magnetic force prompted the mixture below to rise upwards in jagged stalagmite-like formations towards the magnet. These crystalline constructions would then become the legs of his Gravity Stools. The video below, shot by Miranda Stet, poetically demonstrates the process taking place.
"Departing from the idea that everything is influenced by gravitation, a force that has a strongly shaping effect, I intended to manipulate this natural phenomenon by exploiting its own power: magnetism," the designer explains. "The positioning of the magnetic fields in the machine, opposing each other, largely determines the final shape of the Gravity Stool."
Jólan van der Wiel, Gravity Stool (Purple)Jólan van der Wiel, Gravity Stool (Purple)
The organic appearance and unique formation of each stool is connected to the growth of natural organisms. "The forms and products are characterised by the freakish and organic shapes so typical of nature itself." His innovative approach to design has just won him the prestigious [D3] Contest for young designers at the imm Cologne Fair. Van der Wiel's product was chosen from 689 entries from 44 different countries.
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class on $S \times S^{[n]}$ and use results of Ellingsrud-Goettsche-Lehn (building on work of Nakajima) which describe the intersection theory on $S^{[n]}$.
REMARK: I just got aware of the fact, that V. Schende who coauthored the above paper is actually asking the question. So he probably knows about this application.
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+1 for the remark :-) – Kevin H. Lin Oct 19 '10 at 6:47
If I understand things right, the Hilbert scheme of points in $\mathbb{A}^2$ is hyperkahler manifold and the $n^\textrm{th}$ Calogero-Moser $CM_n$ space can be obtained by deforming the complex structure. The disjoint union of the $CM_n$ parametrizes isomorphism classes of (right) ideals in the first Weyl algebra (polynomial differential operators in 1 variable). This classification is related to Hyugen's principle in differential equations.
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One context in which Hilbert schemes provide a useful conceptual picture is in the Fourier expansion of partition functions that are associated to certain Siegel modular forms of genus 2.
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We are having a problem with inconsistent wound measurements that involve undermining. Can you offer any tips?
Undermining is tissue breakdown that extends underneath intact skin along wound edges (margins). It is caused by shearing forces and can result in skin breakdown around the entire wound perimeter or at various locations around the wound perimeter. Due to the variable locations where undermining can occur, clinicians should always document and measure the depth and direction of the undermining.
1. Assess for undermining.
- Start at top of wound (12:00). (Consider a wound as the face of a clock, where "12:00" points to patient's head and "6:00" points to the patient's feet.)
- Use a cotton tip applicator and gently probe around wound edges in a clockwise direction. 2. Once undermining has been identified, insert applicator into the area.
3. Grasp applicator where it meets the wound edge using thumb and forefinger.
4. Withdraw applicator while maintaining thumb and forefinger in position.
5. Measure from the tip of applicator to wound position using a centimeter ruler.
6. Measure and document the deepest area(s). (Note there should be a beginning point and ending point.)
7. Document findings by referencing the "Clock System." Examples of documentation:
- Generalized documentation – 4 centimeters (cm) undermining noted from 6:00 – 10:00
- Specific – Undermining noted from 6-10:00, ranging from 2–4 cm, deepest area is 4 cm at 10:00
- More specific – Undermining noted along wound perimeter from 6–10:00; 6:00–2.8 cm; 7:00–2 cm; 8:00–3.6 cm; 9:00–2.5 cm; 10:00–4 cm


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The Windows.Forms Map control is a powerful data visualization component that displays statistical information for a geographical area. It has highly interactive and customizable features such as zooming, panning, selecting, markers, bubbles, and color mapping. Using the Map control, you can render various maps, such as sales, political-boundary, weather, electoral, and route maps.
Render geographical shapes or custom shapes in Windows.Forms Map.
Bind shapefiles (.shp) and GeoJSON (.json) data to maps to render any geometric shape.
Customize the default style of a shape using the color, stroke, and thickness properties.
Render any custom shape to represent building infrastructure, a sports stadium, plane or bus seat arrangements, and more.
Load multiple shape files in a single map view. For example, add a sublayer over a main shape layer to view geographic features such as rivers, valleys, and cities in a map of a country.
Easily annotate WPF Map shapes with labels to improve the readability of a particular shape's name. Customize the look and feel of default labels using font style, size, and color properties.
Produce a heat map by customizing shape colors based on the underlying shape value.
Equal color mapping differentiates a shape's fill color based on its underlying value and color. For example, apply colors to states based on their winning political candidates.
Apply colors to shapes by comparing their values with desired numeric ranges. For example, apply colors to states based on their population density.
Map Annotation allow you to denote a place with symbols, like pins, or display a message at specific coordinates on a map.
You can draw the shapes like circles, diamonds, rectangles, or squares—to highlight a place.
Customize map annotation by adding images or any custom shape to highlight a location.
Bubbles are used to add information to shapes, such as population density, land area, and more. They are rendered with various magnitudes and colors based on the underlying data values of the shapes.
Customize the default color of a bubble and its transparency using the fill and opacity properties.
Customize the minimum and maximum size of a bubble to enhance its readability.
Interactive features—such as selecting, zooming, and panning—greatly enhance user experience.
Select or highlight an area or shape in order to center the view over that area on a map.
Zooming allows users to get a closer look at a particular area, and panning allows users to move a map around to focus on a specific area.
The tooltip control displays a pop-up with additional information about the shapes, markers, and bubbles when the end user taps the map elements.
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Jews, Latinos Uncovering Their Heritage, Dr. Steven Windmueller in the LA Times on Jewish-Latino Relations
Jews, Latinos Uncovering Their Heritage
A conference focuses on immigrants who hid their religion after fleeing to Mexico's frontiers to escape the Inquisition in the 1500s.
By Daniel Hernandez
Times Staff Writer
January 27, 2006
Five hundred years ago, when it was still illegal for them to sail to the New World, hundreds, maybe thousands, of Sephardic Jews from Spain secretly found ways across the Atlantic.
Many were escaping the Inquisition, which eventually spread to the colony's capital, Mexico City.
In the late 1500s, facing the threat of arrest and death, some Jews in Mexico journeyed to the colony's northern frontier, eventually settling in what is now New Mexico. They were Jews in secret, or crypto-Jews. For generations, their Mexican American descendants have practiced Catholicism but retained customs suggestive of a Jewish past, such as observing the Sabbath.
This was the historical foundation established at the start of a conference this week that explored past, present and possible future connections between Jews and Latinos.
The conference, called "Latinos and Jews: A Conference on Historical and Contemporary Connections," brought together scholars, activists and people curious about their heritage.
The gathering, in a packed classroom at UC Irvine, focused on two major points of intersection for Jews and Latinos: the history of crypto-Jews and Jews in colonial Mexico, and the intermixing of Jews, Latinos and others in Boyle Heights, which scholars called Los Angeles' first multiethnic working-class neighborhood.
The example of New Mexico came up repeatedly - the two communities are linked, even if those links aren't always apparent.
"The fabric of Jewish history and heritage is so much richer than we thought," said Stanley M. Hordes, adjunct research professor at the University of New Mexico and author of "To the End of the Earth: The History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico." "There is not a mutual exclusivity between being Spanish and Jewish," he said.
The all-day discussion Monday was at turns spirited, humorous and contentious. At one point, a few participants had a brief but pointed exchange on the prevalence of anti-Semitism among Latinos and Catholics.
George Sanchez, a history professor at USC, has spent years interviewing former residents of Boyle Heights. His presentation centered on a period when the neighborhood's vibrant multicultural patchwork was evident in the makeup of Roosevelt High School, which was founded in 1923.
There was a point in the school's history, Sanchez said, quoting one of his many interviews, where "you could divide the sports activities by race, with varsity football dominated by huge Russians - and some Jews - Mexicans and blacks in varsity track and tall Slavics in basketball."
Many audience chortled to themselves, but everyone laughed when Sanchez finished: "Debating was mostly the Jewish students."
Young people back then, Sanchez said, saw beyond their ethnic differences to create a common culture. "In Boyle Heights, as elsewhere, youth often played a critical role in initiating inter-ethnic relations, be it in interracial marriage, political coalition-building, or multiracial dance venues," Sanchez said.
The conference, co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the UC Irvine Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society, comes at a critical point in the history of Jewish-Latino relations.
Only in recent years has interest rapidly grown in the possibility that innumerable Mexicans and Mexican Americans could add a bit of Jewishness to their often mishmash background of European, Indian and sometimes African, Arab and Asian heritage. In New Mexico, some Latinos are using DNA studies to determine whether they have Jewish roots.
Jewish and Latino advocacy organizations have begun round-table discussions about potential political and cultural alliances, with many noting the 2005 election of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as an example of such coalition-building. Polls showed that Villaraigosa captured 84% of the city's Latino vote and 55% of the Jewish vote.
Villaraigosa's election led some participants at the conference to recall the election in 1949 of Edward R. Roybal to the Los Angeles City Council. The first Mexican American elected to the council since 1881, Roybal represented a heavily Jewish electorate in his Eastside district.
As a few conference panelists and participants noted, Jewish activists have been far more proactive in reaching out to Latinos than the other way around. The backgrounds of those attending the conference proved the point.
When Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Assn. of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, asked those in the audience to raise their hands if they identified as Jewish, most of the room responded. When he asked for the Latinos to raise their hands, only a few did.
Still, participants and speakers said they were encouraged by the dialogue.
"[Latinos are] the emerging community in L.A. and the Jewish community has been slow to become aware of the richness of the Latino community, and the potential for conflict as well," said Steven Windmueller, director of the School of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.
Boyle Heights was once home to the largest Jewish community west of Chicago. Most in the community were Ashkenazi Jews. The neighborhood is overwhelmingly Latino today and just south of Cesar Chavez Avenue - which used to be Brooklyn Avenue - the Breed Street Shul is waiting to be reopened.
Built in 1923, the home of Congregation Talmud Torah fell into disrepair as Jews moved to the Westside. The Jewish Historical Society of Southern California stepped in to prevent the demolition of the shul in the 1990s. Now a renovation effort is underway to make the building a neighborhood cultural center.
The shul is an artifact of a rich cultural history that includes Jews, Latinos and many others, said Steve Sass, president of the historical society and director of the Breed Street Shul Project.
"What I understand is that people were used to living side by side, they were all immigrants, English was not their first language, there was a Depression," Sass said. "This was the other Los Angeles... We need to learn from that, learn from before, when people lived in proximity and were learning about each other's culture."
Sass was joined at the shul Wednesday by Juaquin Castellanos, a longtime Boyle Heights activist and Mexican immigrant. Castellanos is a recent addition to the Breed Street Shul Project's board of directors. "And I'm learning a lot - holidays, things like that," he said.
He gestured toward busy Cesar Chavez Avenue, adding that, even among Latinos, "We still call it Brooklyn."
Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and nonprofit management professionals, and offers graduate programs to scholars and clergy of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise the renowned Klau Library, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. In partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, HUC-JIR sustains the Reform Movement's congregations and professional and lay leaders. HUC-JIR's campuses invite the community to cultural and educational programs illuminating Jewish history, identity, art, and archaeology, and fostering interfaith and multiethnic understanding.


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The students with their invention
A group of seniors from the Department of Electronic Engineering at The American University in Cairo (AUC) recently unveiled their newest invention, a conceptual prototype of an automatic meter reading (AMR), a system which reads household power consumption and relays the information gathered to personal electronic devices. Under the supervision of Ayman Hassan, an adjunct in the department, the group collaborated to create the device that automatically sends accurate readings to personal electronics, including a PC or cell phone. The inventors say that this device can also be used to send the information to the Ministry of Electricity and Energy to keep track of the readings.
The members of the six-man team are enthusiastic about the potential benefits of their invention. Amr Henna believes innovations such as this one are overdue and could benefit the Egyptian economy. "After the January 25th revolution we need to catch up with the latest international electronic trends that use automated systems and have them produced in Egypt. This will reduce the market price tremendously," he says. Ahmed Megawer, another team-member, agrees that "it is high time that we pick up with the smart systems invented worldwide. Power failures like the ones we experienced last summer could have been avoided if consumption had been monitored." Sherif Mourad considers the potential benefit of accurate readings for cash-strapped families. "Consumers should stop guessing the numbers of their power consumption and they should be positive that they are paying money only for the consumed amounts as determined by accurate readings."
According to Ahmed Abou-Auf, chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, the system has further applications in that it can record power consumption in remote areas and large towers that are difficult to reach. In addition, it allows for households to monitor their energy usage independently, giving them knowledge, that, he says, can empower the families to change their consumption behavior. Abou-Auf says the students will continue to produce production prototypes, conduct additional market research, and develop a business plan. The university will provide all the labs and research material needed and facilitate funding from investors.


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Results-Based Technical Assistance
CSSP believes technical assistance should be directly linked to the overall goals of a recipient community, organization, group or entity. Interventions should combine the right amount of skill/knowledge development and relationship building to enable recipients to take action on their stated goals. Our approach is guided by the belief that effective technical assistance views constituents – residents, families, community leaders, parents and youth – as expert advisors of the changes needed in their communities.
CSSP helps communities map out the "who, what and how" of their community change efforts by identifying:
- Results, or conditions of child and family well-being they want to attain.
- Resources they needed in order to build the local capacity necessary to achieve sustainable change.
- Relationships with key stakeholders that needed to be built and strengthened to create ongoing focus on improving results.
Our results-based approach is founded on a set of principles for engaging with communities to provide assistance:
- Demand driven and co-designed: CSSP believes effective technical assistance is a partnership with the community. Together, participants identify objectives and priorities, learn about local opportunities and develop strategies that produce the best outcomes.
- Informed by the best available data: Relevant data about child, family and community conditions and trends is always used to help partners make good decisions about their goals, strategies and use of technical assistance. We combine the best available data with common sense and on-the-ground learning.
- Respects the expertise of people involved in and affected by the process. CSSP seeks to authentically engage community residents, families and others in the technical assistance process so the outcomes reflect their priorities, viewpoints and insights.
- Tailored to individual needs and environments. CSSP works to assure technical assistance builds on partners' strengths, assets and capacities, enables people to act effectively on what they learn and builds new knowledge and capabilities in a community or organization.
- Promotes equity and social justice. CSSP helps all partners constructively address issues of inequity due to race, class, culture, language, age, sexual orientation and power. Results-driven technical assistance helps advance community change by tackling underlying causes of social and systemic inequality.
- Emphasizes scale and sustainability. Effective technical assistance should help achieve and sustain improvements that have the greatest potential for changing the way communities operate over the long-term.
Peer-to-Peer Technical Assistance
CSSP's results-based approach to technical assistance emerged in part from a decade of work to engage people from different states and communities in peer learning exchanges. These "peer matches" brought together colleagues interested in learning from each other about how to transform neighborhoods, change systems and improve service delivery for low-income families. Over time, peer matches became standard practice for dozens of communities working on strategies to help families work, earn and save their way out of poverty, improve school readiness and promote resident leadership. Peer matches are time and resource intensive, but have proven effective at generating new solutions to long-standing problems.


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This genus contains only a single species. A. minshullae was described in 1994, from Zimbabwe.
It seeks shelter on the southern side of boulders on granite outcrops, it may also be found under rocks and logs in such areas. Reaches a total length of 30mm. This scorpion has two large lateral eyes on each side of the carapace and two medial eyes giving a total of 6 eyes. A. minshullae is yellowish in colouration and does not have a subaculear tubercle. As with many other scorpion genera A. minshullae males are smaller than females. Because of their small size and colouration, UV light detection is the best technique used for locating members of this genus. This scorpion was named in honour of the late Jacqueline Minshull who founded the department of arachnology at the Bulawayo museum in Zimbabwe. It's venom is likely to be potent but not life threatening under normal circumstances. Few collection records for this species indicate that it is a rare scorpion. A. minshullae was previously placed in the genus Lychas.
Because of its small size and distribution, this species is unlikely to be encounted.


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December 17, 2012 | City College
Images of colonial-era Dominican historic sites and monuments comprise collection
The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York (CUNY DSI) announced today that it has made accessible on the Internet an extensive collection of photographs of places and monuments from early colonial times of the Dominican Republic.
The searchable collection, titled "First Blacks in the Americas," contains more than 2,900 photographs, organized in 57 sets, of historic monuments built during the Dominican Republic's colonial period. These buildings, churches, houses and sites of industrial and artisan production date to when what is today the Dominican nation began to develop as the first colony of the Spanish empire in the Americas.
"These photographs constitute a valuable visual tool to understand what life was like for the forebears of today's Dominicans during their first three centuries of history," said Dr. Ramona Hernández, director of CUNY DSI. "At the time, these places constituted the diverse scenarios where generation after generation of inhabitants of La Española lived, worked and worshiped as they constructed, first, a colonial society and, then, an independent nation under the name of Dominican Republic."
CUNY DSI Assistant Director Anthony Stevens-Acevedo led the effort to shoot, compile and upload the photographic collection to Flickr.com, an online photo-sharing system.
Two CUNY students, Xiomara Sandoval, a student in the M.A. program in education at CCNY, and Yuberkys Pietrera Nova, an undergraduate in the B.A. program in education at Lehman College, assisted him.
Students, teachers, professors, researchers and other persons interested in studying Dominican history can use the images freely for research and educational purposes. The CUNY DSI Library will work with teachers from Upper Manhattan schools to create lesson plans that use the photos and conduct on-campus workshops for students. Commercial use of the photos requires formal permission from CUNY DSI under the Creative Commons license under which the images were published.
The images can be applied to teaching an array of themes about the Dominican culture's past. Examples include: ancient building systems, working conditions and types of work associated with construction and architectural styles and life conditions and life styles associated with each type of building.
"We think this is the first collection online with this number of photos of Dominican historical sites that has been uploaded for public use so far," said Dr. Hernández. "We have noticed the scarcity of images of this kind that exists online, and, in the face of this, we have decided to make ours available to the public interested in Dominican issues."
The photographs in this collection are part of current projects undertaken by CUNY DSI that focus on early Dominican people, including:
- "First Blacks of the Americas," a micro-website devoted to disseminating the stories of the African population that arrived in La Española during the 16th century and their descendants;
- "Juan Rodríguez and the Beginnings of New York City," about the inhabitant of La Española who arrived in what is today New York in 1613 onboard a Dutch vessel, and
- "The Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool," which will help the public learn how to read the handwriting styles used in Spanish manuscripts of the 16th and 17th centuries.
This collection of images contributes to an increased public awareness about the rich monumental and material heritage Dominicans have, Dr. Hernández added. She noted that the Dominican heritage speaks of a historical and cultural continuity that runs from the time the first Europeans arrived in 1492 and began to interact with local aboriginals and Africans until the present day.
"These buildings and monuments have an important history to tell; a history of which the Dominican people in the United States is the most recent chapter," Dr. Hernández stated. "This is a history that must not be forgotten because, to a large degree, it explains who Dominicans are and their way of being as a people."
Accessing the collection
There are two ways to view the collection of photographs in the CUNY DSI online account on Flickr.com.
To view the images by thematic set, go to: _URL_ which leads the visitor directly to the CUNY DSI "photostream" page in Flickr. Click on the link to the "First Blacks in the Americas" collection. When the page for that collection opens as a mosaic photos, click on any of the thumbnail image buttons to open the respective set of photographs.
To view images by thematic or subject categories across the entire collection, go to _URL_. Type the tag-words "CUNY DSI" and "Dominican Republic" or "Hispaniola" in the "search" box, followed by any of the other thematic tag-words that have been assigned to the photographs, like "colonial period," "colonial churches," "colonial houses," "colonial mills," "colonial walls," etc.
On the Internet
Photos: Three of the more than 2,900 images of colonial-era buildings and monuments made accessible via FlickR by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.
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Controlling Hiv/Aids - a Judicial Measure, Recommendations by Supreme Court of India
Vrajlal K. Sapovadia
HIV/AIDS e-Conference, 2003
The HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest killers of human beings on earth. There is no absolute reliable drug so far available that can cure the diseases. Controlling HIV/AID is an alternate best solution. In control measures, large number of stakeholders can play important role. The following paragraphs are excerpts on how Supreme Court of India gave exhaustive recommendations to such stakeholders. The discussion is part of World Bank Institute's e-conference held in year 2003.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 3
Keywords: HIV, AIDS
JEL Classification: H5working papers series
Date posted: January 9, 2007
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Danping Cao, China University of Petroleum, Huadong
Wenyuan Liao, University of Calgary
Waveform tomography, or full waveform inversion (FWI), is in general better than ray tomography; however, a reliable initial model is usually required to ensure success. Here, the authors designed a cascade-like hybrid tomography technology to solve the crosswell seismic inversion problem. The new method is a combination of several widely used tomography technologies, implemented in a sequence, where the cheaper method is used as the initial model feeder for the more expensive method. They start with the Radon-transform-based back-projection method; then the Linear Iterative Reconstruction method, such as selective internal radiation therapy, is adopted to update this initial model; which is further improved by the nonlinear, Gradient-based Eikonal Equation Tomography method. Finally, the velocity model reconstructed from the previous multiple ray tomography methods is used as the initial model for the FWI.
Tomography, Mathematical model, Computational modeling, Numerical models, Seismic measurements, Iterative methods, Subspace constraints,scientific computing, numerical algorithm, inverse problem, back projection, LIR, GEET, FWI, ray tomography, waveform tomography, algorithm design
Danping Cao, Wenyuan Liao, "An Adjoint-Based Hybrid Computational Method for Crosswell Seismic Inversion", Computing in Science & Engineering, vol.16, no. 6, pp. 60-67, Nov.-Dec. 2014, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2014.1
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IChemE at 100: celebrating a century of achievements, a future of success
4th January 2022
2022 marks the centenary of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) with this monumental milestone providing a timely opportunity to celebrate the profession, the achievements of chemical engineers over the last 100 years, and a future of success.
From the Institution's inaugural meeting held at the Hotel Cecil in London on 2 May 1922 to the vibrant membership body of over 30,000 members across the globe today, IChemE has been advancing chemical engineering's contribution for 100 years.
A programme of activities throughout the year will honour the work of chemical engineers, past and present, and will present the innovations being developed to meet the many challenges of the future. This evolution of the chemical engineering profession is why the commemorations have been titled 'ChemEng Evolution'.
To explore the impact that chemical engineering has on modern lives, each month a different theme will be examined. The themes have been selected to highlight and celebrate the enormous contribution that chemical engineering has made to society over the last century.
The programme of activities will include; monthly themed webinar panel discussions with industry and research leaders guiding discussions on the future of the profession and its role in society; a blog series with members discovering areas to celebrate, communicate and inspire from each theme; as well as a series of feature articles in The Chemical Engineer magazine.
A dedicated centenary website hosts a vast collection of articles written by members on topics that range from "COVID-19, an impact on the whole world" to "Message in a plastic bottle – the search for sustainability". Also included on the website are details of the chemical engineers who inspired IChemE's Past Presidents. These range from Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau as nominated by Past President Julia Higgins to Trevor Keltz as nominated by Past President Ken Rivers.
IChemE President, Jane Cutler, said:
"As the 80th President of IChemE, I am delighted to be leading our historic Institution at this important landmark. The world we live in may have changed significantly since the inaugural meeting in 1922, but one thing has remained constant and that is the commitment of chemical engineers to serve our society.
"I encourage you all to participate in the programme of activities to celebrate our profession. The webinar panel discussions will provide a wonderful forum for debate and conversation, and everyone is invited to participate.
"The centenary is the perfect time to acknowledge the contributions of the many people who have been part of IChemE's 100-year history and who paved the way to make our institution what it is today. I would like to thank our incredible members, volunteers and staff who work together to achieve our aims."
To find out more about IChemE's centenary and the activities planned throughout the year, visit the centenary website: _URL_.
Video: IChemE President Jane Cutler introduces 'ChemEng Evolution: a century of achievements, a future of success'
For more information please contact:
Lucy Cook, Communications Manager, IChemE
t: +44 (0) 1788 534454
Rachael Fraser, Communications Executive, IChemE
t: +44 (0) 1788 534435
What is chemical engineering?
Chemical, biochemical and process engineering is the application of science, maths and economics in the process of turning raw materials into everyday, and more specialist, products. Professional chemical engineers design, construct and manage process operations all over the world. Oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, food and drink, synthetic fibres and clean drinking water are just some of the products where chemical engineering plays a central role.
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) advances chemical engineering's contribution worldwide for the benefit of society. We support the development of chemical engineering professionals and provide connections to a powerful network of over 30,000 members in more than 100 countries.
We support our members in applying their expertise and experience to make an influential contribution to solving major global challenges, and are the only organisation permitted to award Chartered Chemical Engineer status and Professional Process Safety Engineer registration.


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Promoting the participation of young people in political life is becoming a higher priority worldwide. Over one third of the 169 targets established as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relate to young people and the importance of their empowerment, participation and well-being. Twenty targets across six SDGs – relating to hunger, education, gender equality, decent work, inequality and climate change – specifically focus on youth.
In 2014, recognizing the absence of systematic data and information on youth representation in parliaments, the IPU designed a first-of-its-kind database on the subject, to collect the relevant data through parliaments. The result was the first report on youth participation in national parliaments, which was published in October 2014 and updated in 2016. This 2018 report provides updated information on the percentages and genders of parliamentarians under the ages of 30, 40 and 45, as well as the latest information on special mechanisms designed to encourage or enhance the participation of young people in national parliaments.
Some key findings:
- Young people under age 30 constitute just over 2 per cent of the world's parliamentarians.
- 15.5 per cent of the world's MPs are under age 40 – up from 14.2 per cent in 2016, an increase of 1.3 percentage points.
- 28.1 per cent of the world's MPs are under age 45 – up from 26 per cent in 2016, a 2.1 percentage point increase.
- The global proportion of MPs under age 30 has increased by only 0.3 percentage points since 2016 (from 1.9% to 2.2%).
- 2.2 per cent of the world's MPs are under age 30 – up from 1.9 per cent in 2016, a slight increase of 0.3 percentage points.
- Male MPs continue to outnumber their female counterparts in every age group.
- The gender imbalance is less pronounced among the youngest MPs in each parliament, for whom the male/female ratio is approximately 60:40. Encouraging signs
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Experimental Studies of Turbulent Intensity around a Tidal Turbine Support Structure
AbstractTidal stream energy is a low-carbon energy source. Tidal stream turbines operate in a turbulent environment, and the effect of the structure between the turbine and seabed on this environment is not fully understood. An experimental study using 1:72 scale models based on a commercial turbine design was carried out to study the support structure influence on turbulent intensity around the turbine blades. The study was conducted using the wave-current tank at the Laboratory of Maritime Engineering (LABIMA), University of Florence. A realistic flow environment (ambient turbulent intensity = 11%) was established. Turbulent intensity was measured upstream and downstream of a turbine mounted on two different support structures (one resembling a commercial design, the other the same with an additional vertical element), in order to quantify any variation in turbulence and performance between the support structures. Turbine drive power was used to calculate power generation. Acoustic Doppler velocimetry (ADV) was used to record and calculate upstream and downstream turbulent intensity. In otherwise identical conditions, performance variation of only 4% was observed between two support structures. Turbulent intensity at 1, 3 and 5 blade diameters, both upstream and downstream, showed variation up to 21% between the two cases. The additional turbulent structures generated by the additional element of the second support structure appears to cause this effect, and the upstream propagation of turbulent intensity is believed to be permitted by surface waves. This result is significant for the prediction of turbine array performance. View Full-Text
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