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Preschool visitors between the ages of 4 and 6 to the Children's Museum of Cleveland (CMC) will be invited to participate in a new study from the department of psychology at Case Western Reserve University to boost creativity and imagination in free play.
Nearby moms and caretakers will also engage in the study by watching how the children play and learn how to develop those play skills at home during several planned play sessions a week with mom, dad or the caretaker, according to Sandra Russ, professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University and the study's principal investigator.
The researchers have partnered with their campus neighbor at the museum for the study "Effects of Play Intervention on Play Skills in Preschool Children."
Russ, along with graduate students Kelly Christian and Karla Fehr and undergraduate Kathryn Clusman, will study approximately 40 children to see if a play intervention, first piloted at the CMC last year, continues to support the hypothesis that play interventions helps children learn how to be better players and use more creativity and imagination in their daily lives.
CMC will help recruit children and parents for the study.
Children will be given verbal and creative assessment tests before and after three interventions or plays sessions.
Russ and her team will meet individually with the children during the interventions at the museum and let children take the lead on playing and telling stories for approximately 20 minutes. Children will play with some basic toys, like blocks and toy cars. They will use the toys as props for the stories they imagine to turn a block into anything from a house, food or whatever goes along with the story line.
This imaginative free play will continue at home as parents or caregivers have two homework assignments to play with the children for two 10-minute sessions during the week.
A control group of children will color picture sheets or put together puzzles or a pre-formed object such as a dinosaur during their play sessions with a facilitator and follow up with similar playtimes with their parents at home. Each group will be evaluated for their imagination and creativity in blind testing before and after the interventions or play sessions.
This study adapts an intervention which was tested on elementary school children in a large inner city school district and found that children did learn how to play better and include more creativity and imagination when given the opportunity and some directions on how to do it.
In previous studies, Russ found these play skills have been shown to relate to how children cope with stressful situations and problem solving. Imagination and emotional expression in play also is linked to creativity, which is independent of intelligence.
"Sometimes all children need is permission to be creative," said Christian, who was involved in the pilot study.
According to Fehr, children use play as an opportunity to explore new ideas, practice expressing how they feel, and what they think about their day to day interactions with people in a safe environment.
"Play is central to a child's development," added Fehr.
Russ said the study also helps parents to be better players with their children. It also helps parents learn to step back and follow the lead of where the child is going.
"Parents may not realize they are dominating the play instead of letting their children play," she said.
Christian finds this young age group a delight to work with, because the story may start out as a trip to the zoo but suddenly those blocks and cars can turn into a birthday party or something else.
That's okay, according to Christian, because the children are using their imaginations.
This study and the pilot study have had some benefits for the children's museum.
"One of the key strategic themes for the Children's Museum of Cleveland, tied to museum mission and vision, is the fostering of creativity, which relates directly to the research project's intended outcomes," said Colleen Cross, CMC's education director.
CMC has created an environment to promote innovative and impactful educational experiences for families with children ages birth through 8 years old. "This research project will hopefully provide the museum with groundbreaking research that will help us create extraordinary exhibits and programming, especially in the area of creativity," Cross said. "The project will gather very unique data that we will help put CMC's programming and exhibits at the top of the children's museum field."
Since Russ and her team performed a pilot study for preschool interventions in play, Cross said the museum has been more thoughtful of the types of objects in exhibits and encourages more parents to follow the lead of their children in exploring the museum's offerings.
"No matter what language one speaks or religion one practices, or salary one earns, it is universally accepted that children learn best through hands-on play and that parents want the best learning opportunity for their children," said Cross.
This study is one of the unique partnerships that Case Western Reserve has with its community neighbors.
Cross said, "As long as an organizations is working to improve early childhood experiences for children, families and teachers, CMC is open to working with them to obtain their goals."
If interested in participating in the study, visit the museum for registration forms.
Posted by: Kimyette Finley, December 3, 2008 12:29 PM | News Topics: Collaborations/Partnerships, College of Arts and Sciences, Community Outreach, Faculty, HeadlinesMain, Provost Initiatives, Research, Students, news
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Firefighter clothing is known to restrict movement and increase the risk of musculoskeletal injury. The aim of this study was to investigate dierences between clothing variations and firefighter mobility. Data were collected from eight firefighters using a randomized counterbalanced, repeated measures, design. Three dierent clothing variants (V1–V3) in addition to current station wear (S) were trialed. Combinations of S and V1 (SV1) and V2 (SV2) were also trialed. Outcome measures included: standing reach height; the Functional Movement Screen [FMS]; vertical jump; a visual analogue scale [VAS] for the FMS, vertical jump, step ups and crawl; and a mannequin sketch to mark
areas of discomfort. V3 was preferred over S in all tasks and performed better both objectively (FMS and vertical jump) and subjectively (VAS scores). While V1 was typically associated with poorer performance, the impacts of V1 and V2 when compared to each other and S varied depending on the tasks performed. This variation was greater when V1 or V2 were worn with S (SV1 and SV2). Areas of discomfort across all variations was the knees, followed by the thighs. Clothing that has the least impact on, or improves, mobility (especially around the lower limbs) may help reduce firefighter injury and limit subjective discomfort.

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Language: Old French
Origin: acces 'arrival', from Latin accessus 'approach', from accedere; ACCEDE
1 noun
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ac‧cess1 S3 W1 [uncountable]
1 the right to enter a place, use something, see someone etc
access to
Access to the papers is restricted to senior management.
Cats should always have access to fresh, clean water.
2 how easy or difficult it is for people to enter a public building, to reach a place, or talk to someone
access for
We're trying to improve access for disabled visitors.
access to
a villa with easy access to the sea
3 the way you use to enter a building or reach a place:
Access is by means of a small door on the right.
access to
Access to the restrooms is through the foyer.
have access to a car/a computer etc
to have a car, computer etc that you can use
5SCL British English the legal right to see and spend time with your children, a prisoner, an official etc:
My ex-husband has access to the children once a week.
gain/get access (to something)
to succeed in entering a place or in seeing someone or something:
The police managed to gain access through an upstairs window.
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Here are the steps for Canada Start-Up Business Class – Admissibility and the Final Decision:
- Process for Determining Admissibility
- Process for Approving Canada Start-Up Business' Application
- Process for Refusing Canada Start-Up Business Application
The officers would need to determine whether an applicant is a member of the Start-Up Business Class or not. Once the officers have confirmed this, the principal applicant and the applicant's family members would need to clear their:
- Medical examinations
- Criminal checks and,
- Security checks
Officers might require additional information pertaining to the ways by which they could determine the admissibility of the applicants. For this, they would need to refer to ENF 2 / OP 18 – Evaluating Inadmissibility.
The Immigration Medical Examination (IME)
According to the provisions specified in paragraph A16 (2) (b) of R29, a medical examination could typically include any or all of the following:
- A physical examination
- A mental examination
- A review of past medical history
- Laboratory tests
- Diagnostic tests and,
- A medical assessment of records concerning the applicant
Which Individuals Need to Submit to an Immigration Medical Examination (IME)?
The authorities require the following individuals to submit to an Immigration Medical Examination (IME):
- Permanent resident applicants
- Temporary residents and,
Do the Authorities Provide Any Medical Exemptions? What are the Various Medical Exemptions Provided?
The authorities typically provide the following exemptions:
- Exemptions from undergoing an Immigration Medical Examination (IME) and,
- Exemption from inadmissibility on the grounds of excessive demand
What is the Process for Issuing Medical Instructions?
The authorities have put in place various procedures for issuing medical instructions and upfront medical exams.
Who Has the Authority for Performing an Immigration Medical Examination (IME)?
In many cases, the authorities permit panel physicians to perform an Immigration Medical Examination (IME). In some circumstances, non-panel physicians also have the authority to perform an Immigration Medical Examination (IME) [dispensation].
What is the Process One Needs to Follow for Submitting Medical Information?
People have the ability to submit medical information via the following formats:
- Electronically i.e. eMedical and,
- Paper submissions


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December 21, 2009
What might our landscape look like in the near future? More specifically, where has urban growth occurred in the last thirty years, and where is it likely to occur over the next twenty years? Researchers at UNC Asheville and UNC Charlotte, as part of an ongoing Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) project, are conducting analyses that answer these types of questions, and also developing tools to help policy makers and planners understand and manage rapid urban growth.. Using historical satellite imagery, development trends, population data and population projections, they've been able to design an Urban Growth Model that can generate visual representations of what our landscape may look like in the future.
Building upon a similar study of the Greater Charlotte region, released in 2007, researchers are in the process of analyzing land conversion patterns for all of western North Carolina. The initial results of their collaborative research highlight the effect of development on four western North Carolina counties: Madison, Buncombe, Henderson and Transylvania. Those results indicate that between 1976 and 2006, development in the four-county region increased nearly 500 percent, or at an average rate of six acres of green space per day – outpacing population growth by nearly 10-to-one.
Researchers have identified several important predictors of development patterns, including an area's proximity to nearest road or interstate interchange and proximity to nearest urban center, or major employment center. Topographical slope and "development pressure," or proximity to previously developed areas, are also key indicators of where urbanization and future development are likely to occur. Development forecasts extend to 2030, utilizing all available county-level population projections for the region.
The Urban Growth Model indicates an additional 47,489 acres of forests and farm lands will be developed in the four-county region by 2030, which is the equivalent of losing almost 75 square miles – or more than six properties the size of the Biltmore Estate – worth of green space. That's significant for an area that draws visitors from around the globe for its natural and scenic attractions.
The Urban Growth Model results include statistics on the amount and rate of development as well as maps of future development patterns. These are important tools for policy makers, planners and conservationist as they provide valuable information on not only when and how much development is expected, but also where it is likely to occur.
James Fox, the director of RENCI at UNC Asheville and the school's National Environment Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC), has already witnessed local lawmakers' interest in the growth model results. "It's going to be used by several different groups of decision makers," he said, adding the study is an important tool that will make it easier for local governments to collaborate with each other when making policy and planning decisions.
"This is another important tool we can incorporate into our work," said Richard Broadwell, a Land Protection Specialist for the Conservation Trust of North Carolina, which is working to preserve the scenic viewsheds along the Blue Ridge Parkway. His organization plans to use the data to help them determine which lands to protect and "how to spend our limited funds."
Most of the anticipated growth is expected to occur in Buncombe and Henderson Counties. These two counties are forecast to contribute 22,101 and 18,381 acres of developed land, respectively, between 2010 and 2030. Henderson County is predicted to experience the greatest change in total developed land relative to county area, with total number of developed acres comprising 13.5% of county area in 2010 and 21.3% of county area by 2030.
"For every acre of land that is converted from a natural state through development, there is a really big impact on the mountains' plants and animals," said Carl Silverstein, Executive Director for the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy.
Silverstein is also concerned about development pressure on local farmers, decreased interest from tourists, and the impact urban sprawl could have on the headwaters of rivers, which provide drinking water for millions of North Carolina citizens.
Further, the findings demonstrate that humans require more land per person than they once did. In 1976, developed land equated to 0.06 acres per person in the four-county area. By 2030, researchers forecast per-capita land requirements will increase to over a quarter-acre in the region.
Madison County's "human footprint" is projected to increase more than the other three counties, by 0.18 acres per person (a 67 percent increase) between 2006 and 2030. In comparison, per-capita land consumption in Buncombe, Henderson and Transylvania Counties is forecast to increase by 28 percent, 13 percent and 18 percent, respectively, in the same period.
Created in 2004, RENCI includes a statewide network of academic institutions working to solve complex problems affecting quality of life and economic competitiveness in North Carolina by tapping into university expertise and through the use of advanced technologies.
The study on the four-county expansion of the Urban Growth Model was conducted by researchers at UNC Charlotte's Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (CAGIS), which is one of the partners in the RENCI at UNC Charlotte team. RENCI's UNC Asheville Engagement Center is the lead regional partner for the western North Carolina expansion, with funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the City of Asheville, the U.S. Forest Service and RENCI's home office in Chapel Hill. The study's findings for the remaining western North Carolina counties are expected to be released in the spring of 2010.
Additional research findings, including animated maps of land conversion rates for the four-county region, are available at (_URL_
RENCI operates facilities at UNC Asheville, UNC Charlotte, East Carolina University, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University and NC State University as well as its flagship site off campus in Chapel Hill. _URL_
RENCI at UNC Charlotte involves faculty and staff from three UNC Charlotte research centers: the Urban Institute, the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science and the Charlotte Visualization Center. _URL_; _URL_; _URL_; _URL_
About UNC Asheville
As the only designated liberal arts institution in the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, UNC Asheville serves students who are prepared for academic challenges by offering an intellectually rigorous education that builds critical thinking and workforce skills. UNC Asheville's 3,400 undergraduate students select from 30 majors. The University gets high marks for educational innovation from U.S. News & World Report and is ranked among the best liberal arts colleges nationally. _URL_
About UNC Charlotte
A public research university, UNC Charlotte is the fourth largest campus among the 17 institutions of The University of North Carolina system. It is the largest institution of higher education in the Charlotte region. The University offers 18 doctoral programs, 62 master's degree programs and 90 programs leading to bachelor's degrees. Fall 2009 enrollment surpassed 24,000 students, including 5,000 graduate students. _URL_
For more information or to schedule an interview, contact John Chesser at 704/_PHONE_ or _EMAIL_.

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Pour Cost: What It Means and Why It's So Important to Bar Profits
What does the term pour cost mean? In this article we'll define the meaning of pour cost and discuss why it's one of the keys to profitability for every bar.
One of the most shocking conversations I have with bar managers is their lack of understanding the meaning of the term pour cost. Worse yet, they've been selected to manage someone else's hard-earned money. This edition of the Design Buzz defines pour cost, how it's calculated, and why this and accurate inventory methods are the keys to bar profitability
Pour cost is a term developed by the hospitality industry and is defined as the amount of alcohol to make a drink to its selling price, and is expressed as a percentage. In reality, this is what's known as ideal pour cost percentage. Many bar owners and managers who are cognizant of the term pour cost, but don't understand its true meaning, often fall into the trap of using percentages they've heard or read. It's not uncommon to hear people say that their pour cost is 30%, without having a clue how it's really calculated. Often times, people simply think that that is the industry standard and they want to be like everyone else! The reality is there is another term that is even more important – actual pour cost, which I'll discuss below. The reason all of this is so important is because it enables you to monitor your true profitability. For now, first things first: let's understand the basics of pour cost.
How to Use Pour Cost to Calculate the Selling Price of Drinks
The way to calculate your ideal pour cost percentage for pricing drinks is a two-step process:
1. Take the number of shots you get out of a bottle and divide that quantity into the cost of the bottle to develop your unit cost.
2. Divide the unit cost by your desired selling price; this is your ideal pour cost.
3. Next you need to decide if you are tracking your ideal pour cost with or without sales tax. You should calculate it without sales tax as you can't keep that money.
A more direct and useful method is to divide the unit cost by the desired percentage; this will tell you your selling price for any given drink. Here's a useful example:
If you get 27 shots out of a bottle (a pour size of 1.25 oz) and the bottle cost is $7.50, then your unit cost per shot is 27.7 cents. If you want a "well" pour cost of 8%, then divide 27.7 by 8%, the desired drink price is $3.46. To develop the actual selling price (with sales tax), simply multiply this result by your state's sales tax. If your state sales tax is 10%, then multiply your desired drink price ($3.46) by 1.10, you arrive at a selling price to the customer of $3.81, which you may wish to round up to $4.00.
As you know, in the bar business we have different value groups and different pricing for each, so it's impossible to make consistent profit margins across the board. Simply stated, the art of upselling is where the greatest profit margins lie in the bar business; I discuss this is greater detail in a previous post in Design Buzz, which you can reference below. According to my good friend and industry expert, Chuck Deibel, among his hundreds of bar clients the ideal pour cost percentages for the various alcohol groups are as follows:
· Well liquor is around 10% or less.
· Call liquor will fetch in the 12% to 18% range.
· Top shelf will be in the high teens to mid 20's and Premium will be in the low-to-high 30's.
Chuck further states, "Depending on product mix and pricing, I see bottle beer anywhere from the mid 20's to mid 30's. Draft beer ranges from the high teens to the high 20's."
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What Bar Owners Need to Know About Liquor Inventory Control
So far we've discussed the concept of ideal pour cost, and I also alluded to the term known as actual pour cost. Are you aware that over 85% of bar owners are losing 20% of their profits? Folks, this is NOT an infomercial! I know this sounds crazy, but this is a very well documented fact. Chuck Deibel, a CPA having performed thousands of inventory audits over 20 years, stated this in a 2014 State of Ohio Sales Tax Audit, which you can download below. The reason inventory loss runs rampant and undetected is due primarily to two factors:
· Extreme high profit margins cloud the owner's perception.
· The complexity of product mix and product pricing.
To illustrate the latter point, just think about the following:
· The various levels of pricing (well, call, top-shelf, premium, etc.).
· Also consider that you might be selling the same drink at different prices, such as Happy Hour and Daily Specials.
· You serve batch drinks in the form of margaritas, long island ice tea, etc.
Given all of the above, now consider attempting to calculate how much money you should make at the end of one shift. Oh, and by the way, how about those free drinks your bartenders are giving away (to increase their tips) and the over-pouring and other wasteful habits! Can you now tell me how much you should have made last night alone? You see, as a bar owner you are living in a parallel universe:
Not only are many bar professionals unaware of their ideal pour cost, most don't know their actual pour cost – the one that takes all of the above factors into account. There is a difference between ideal pour cost and actual pour cost, and the difference between the two results in the amount of your lost sales and inventory.
According to Deibel, "Many bar operators don't calculate their ideal cost for pricing and most, if not all, don't recalculate it on an ongoing basis. Not doing so can cost you thousands of dollars."
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Why BevInco Inventory Control Can Help Bar Owners Improve Profitability
So just why is knowing your actual pour cost so important? For one, the odds are that you're amongPhoto of Typical BevInco Audit Report the more than 85% of all bar owners who is losing 20% of their inventory. Worse yet, the stability of your business could become impaled if you are ever audited by your state liquor authority. Although the state allows for shrinkage (according to the above-mentioned state tax audit), it's far less than the amount you are probably losing. The state expect its tax based on the amount of shrinkage they allow, and unless you're up-to-date of your actual pour cost (and tightening your inventory controls), an audit fine of $98,000 is not uncommon, as stated in a previous blog post, referenced below.
There is a routine method of calculating your actual pour cost, and that is a unique service offered by noted industry expert BevInco. BevInco, which operates an international network of factory-trained local dealers, innovated a systematic methodology of helping bar owners calculate their actual pour cost and shrinkage. The mystery of knowing everything about your inventory, shrinkage – and ultimately your actual pour cost – can, in fact, be unraveled. Your local BevInco dealer performs an on-premise inventory service by systematically entering all of your drink and batch recipes into their proprietary software and also weighing all open bottles, batches and kegs. The result computed by the software is the actual pour cost. There is no other way to compute actual pour cost. With BevInco, you get meaningful pour cost information; a sample report (shown above) can be downloaded below. BevInco clients frequently reduce their shrinkage from 20% to 2-3% within the first four months!
As you can see, unless you know exactly what you've sold there is no way of knowing your actual pour cost, and certainly no way of knowing the habits of your bar staff. It's critical to the success of your bar to get in control of your pour cost and inventory.
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Anyone can tell me why the imwrite make the image background become black, i inserted an image of something with background of white but after using code below i got perfect image but the background become black :
rgbImage = imread('wtmk.png'); redChannel = rgbImage(:, :, 1); greenChannel = rgbImage(:, :, 2); blueChannel = rgbImage(:, :, 3); reconImage=cat(3,redChannel,greenChannel,blueChannel); imwrite(reconImage,'watermark.png','png');
Anything wrong with my code?
Please check whether size(rgbImage) is exactly the same as size(reconImage), and whether
all(rgbImage(:) == reconImage(:))
Your png file might be returning an alpha layer that you are not writing out to the new file.
What is the class of reconImage just before you call imwrite? You didn't somehow convert it (with code not shown) into double did you? Is it still uint8? Can you show the code where you "inserted an image of something with background of white" into your original rgbImage?
By the way, you don't need the third imwrite() argument of 'png' - it figures that out from the filename.


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|Licence||Full version (39.95 US$)|
This article describe the version 2.0 of doodle.
Among the features:
- Draw circles, lines, boxes, and the full Commodore character set.
- Print on Commodore 1525, C. Itoh 8510, NEC 8023, Epson, Okidata and other popular printers.
- Clear the screen (if you want to start all over again)
- Change colors of both the graphic as well as the background
 Load & Run
Doodle is loading and starting with
LOAD "DOODLE",8 RUN
The BASIC start line is:
The pictures shows the main menu with 10 submenus and other subscreens:
 Graphic format
The file type is dd, which isn't showing by loading and saving doodle files.
Doodle saved uncompressed color hires images, which in RAM handled at $5C00:
$5C00 - $5FE7: Screen-RAM $6000 - $7F3F: Bitmap
An image as disk file has 9216 bytes (37 blocks).
Compressed images has the file type jj, which aren't loaded or saved by the C64 version of doodle.
PC file types of doodle imageer are:
.dd.ddl.jj (compressed)


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5 Foolproof Invisible Ink Recipes
Who doesn't like to send secret messages?
People have been doing it for ages. In fact Giovanni Battista Della Porta, an Italian guy who lived about 500 years ago invented what I believe is the most creative way to send a secret message.
Giovanni wrote messages on the shell of a boiled egg using a mixture of alum and plant pigments. The message seeps through the shell and can only be read by peeling the egg. How crazy is that? Imagine peeling your egg for breakfast and finding a secret message!
While I can't tell you how to send a message via hard-boiled egg, I do have several simple, foolproof recipes for invisible ink. All of these can be written on ordinary white paper.
Milk and Pencils
Write it: Use a cotton swab or toothpick to write your message with whole (must be whole or at least 2% – won't work with skim) milk. Let the paper dry completely.
Read it: Rub the graphite (black part) of a sharpened pencil on some sand paper over the message so that a graphite powder falls onto the paper. Gently rub the graphite over the paper until your message appears.
How it works: When your message dries on the paper, most of the milk evaporates but the fat stays on the paper. Graphite sticks to the fat more than the paper to reveal the message.
Heat Activated
Write it: Use a cotton swab or toothpick to write your message with vinegar, milk, lemon juice – or really any fruit juice will work. Let the paper dry completely.
Read it: Heat the paper using a hair dryer, hot iron, holding it near a light bulb or warming it in the oven at 300oF for 10 minutes.
How it works: All of the liquids are mild acids that weaken the paper wherever you write your message. The acid also stays on the paper after the invisible ink has dried. When you heat the paper, the acidic message burns or turns brown before the rest of the paper.
Wax Resist
Write it: Write your message with a white crayon.
Read it: Paint over the message with watercolors – darker colors like red, green or blue work best.
How it works: Wax repels water. This is why wax paper is so useful – it can't get wet. Here the watercolor paints will not stick to the white crayon drawing and your message is easily visible.
Acids & Bases
Write it: Mix 2 tablespoons of baking soda with 2 tablespoons of water. Use a cotton swab or toothpick dipped in the mixture to write your message. Let the paper dry completely.
Read it: Use a cotton swab, sponge or paint brush dipped in grape juice to paint over the message.
How it works: The baking soda, a base, reacts with the grape juice, an acid, to produce a different color on the paper.
Black Light
Write it: Use a cotton swab or toothpick to write your message with clear or white liquid laundry detergent. Let the paper dry completely.
Read it: Hold the paper under a black light to see the message.
How it works: Laundry detergent contains phosphors which fluoresce or glow in the ultraviolet light given off by the sun (and black lights) and make your clothes (and secret message) look bright.


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- Shifts the bits of a number to the right.
- The number.
- The number of bits to shift.
shr() function takes a number and a bit count, and returns the result of shifting the bits of the number to the right by that count.
Numbers in PICO-8 are stored using a 32-bit fixed point format, with 16 bits for the integer portion, 16 bits for the fractional portion, and a Two's Complement representation for negative and positive values. Bit shifting uses the entire number representation. (See examples below.)
shr() performs an "arithmetic shift," which means that the sign of the number is preserved. Arithmetic right shift preserves the highest bit while also shifting a copy of it to the right, which effectively preserves the sign in Two's Complement representation.
The alternative to arithmetic shift is "logical shift." See lshr().
Superseded by >> operator Edit
>> operator added in 0.2.0 performs the same function as
shr() and is now the recommended way to shift bits right, as it uses fewer tokens, costs fewer cycles at runtime, and runs on the real host CPU much more efficiently. Simply replace
-- 8 = 0b00001000 binary -- 1 = 0b00000001 binary print(shr(8, 3)) -- 1 -- 1.000 = 0b0001.0000 binary -- 0.125 = 0b0000.0010 binary print(shr(1, 3)) -- 0.125 -- -1.000 = 0b1111111111111111.0 binary (two's complement) -- -0.125 = 0b1111111111111111.111 binary print(shr(-1,3)) -- -0.125 print(8 >> 3) -- 1, preferred method


System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration
ProcedureHow to Check Quota Consistency
The quotacheck command is run automatically when a system is rebooted. You generally do not have to run the quotacheck command on an empty file system with quotas. However, if you are setting up quotas on a file system with existing files, you need to run the quotacheck command to synchronize the quota database with the files or inodes that already exist in the file system.
Also keep in mind that running the quotacheck command on large file systems can be time-consuming.
Note –
To ensure accurate disk data, the file systems being checked should be quiescent when you run the quotacheck command manually.
 1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
 2. Run a consistency check on UFS file systems.
 # quotacheck [-va] filesystem
 (Optional) Identifies the disk quotas for each user on a particular file system.
 Checks all file systems with an rq entry in the /etc/vfstab file.
 Specifies the file system to check.
 See the quotacheck(1M) man page for more information.
Example 7–4 Checking Quota Consistency
The following example shows how to check quotas for the /export/home file system on the /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 slice. The /export/home file system is the only file system with an rq entry in the /etc/vfstab file.
# quotacheck -va
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A Review of Dissimilar Welding Techniques for Magnesium Alloys to Aluminum Alloys
AbstractWelding of dissimilar magnesium alloys and aluminum alloys is an important issue because of their increasing applications in industries. In this document, the research and progress of a variety of welding techniques for joining dissimilar Mg alloys and Al alloys are reviewed from different perspectives. Welding of dissimilar Mg and Al is challenging due to the formation of brittle intermetallic compound (IMC) such as Mg17Al12 and Mg2Al3. In order to increase the joint strength, three main research approaches were used to eliminate or reduce the Mg-Al intermetallic reaction layer. First, solid state welding techniques which have a low welding temperature were used to reduce the IMCs. Second, IMC variety and distribution were controlled to avoid the degradation of the joining strength in fusion welding. Third, techniques which have relatively controllable reaction time and energy were used to eliminate the IMCs. Some important processing parameters and their effects on weld quality are discussed, and the microstructure and metallurgical reaction are described. Mechanical properties of welds such as hardness, tensile, shear and fatigue strength are discussed. The aim of the report is to review the recent progress in the welding of dissimilar Mg and Al to provide a basis for follow-up research. View Full-Text
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The European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) is an international association dedicated to scientific purposes.
EFTA was established in 1990 and has members from 29 European nations. It is a strictly non-profit making association.
EFTA's members comprise currently of 29 national organizations (EFTA-NFTO), 108 training institutes (EFTA-TIC) and about 1100 individual members (EFTA-CIM).
The main goals leading us are:
- Linking and coordinating European national organizations, institutes and individuals in the field of family therapy and systemic practice.
- Promoting the highest level of competence and quality in practice, research, supervision and teaching in family therapy and allied fields.
- Enhancing the training of systemic professionals and family therapists at regional, national and European levels by organizing and facilitating exchanges between individuals as well as professional centres.
- Facilitating European co-operation and exchange of ideas and experience among associations, institutions and individuals concerning medical, legal, social, psychological, gender, cultural, economic, spiritual and other aspects of human experiences in relation to systemic thinking and practice.
- Spreading information about family therapy and the systemic approaches throughout Europe to individuals, institutions and organizations concerned with the health and development of families and human systems.
- Promoting research, conferences, publications, audio-visual tools and other scientific material in this field through meetings and all other appropriate communicational methods.
- Creating links with other organizations having common or compatible aims in and outside of Europe.
The activities for achieving the aims of the association are:
- Regular international meetings, conferences and seminars
- International congresses
- Publication of a book series
- Professional exchanges between family therapy centers, therapists in training and trainers from different European countries
- Establishment of committees related to the aims of EFTA
- Other activities as to advance the aims of the association


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Photons lost in a maze
Enhancing the interaction between light and matter is the essence of many research disciplines, including quantum information science, energy harvesting and optical biosensing. The traditional method has been to strongly confine light in, for example, a highly ordered nanocavity. Surprisingly, an alternative approach to confinement of waves exists, originally proposed by Philip Anderson, and for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. Using this approach, disordered materials are employed, giving rise to random and multiple scattering of the propagating light waves. For a certain amount of randomness of the structures, so-called Anderson localized modes form spontaneously: light is trapped in a maze. A challenge in this research field has been to determine how well light can be confined based on random disorder. In a recent paper in New Journal of Physics researchers from The Quantum Photonics Group at DTU Fotonik have developed an efficient method for exciting Anderson-localized modes by embedding nanoscopic light sources (so-called quantum dots) inside the disordered material. By analyzing the statistics of the emitted light, the quality and extent of light confinement can be extracted. Surprisingly, the subtle interplay between the amount of disorder and the underlying periodic structure of the system studied can be exploited to confine light very efficiently, proving the potential of employing disorder for enchancement of light–matter interaction.


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We would like you to take a reading of your school's electricity meter at the start and end of the week prior to launching your Carbon Footprint Awareness Week. This will give you an idea of the number of units of electricity your school uses in a typical week.
During this week you will need to walk round your school between 10.00a.m to 11.00a.m and carry out the survey. It is important that all the schools doing this survey carry it between these times to give a fair comparison.
You will then need to launch your Carbon Footprint Awareness Week promoting as many energy saving ideas as you can (based on some of your findings in your energy survey). Take the electricity meter reading at the beginning of this week and at the end of the week, once again between 10.00a.m and 11.00a.m.
Compare the two readings, work out how many units of electricity you have managed to save, and if you can work out the cost of these units and there contribution to your school's carbon footprint(I will try and find a formula to help you do this)
Once you have carried out your surveys and Awareness Week you will need to publish your results on your school website and email each of the participating schools with your results so that comparisons can be made. It would also be great if we could email each other with any great ideas each school has to reduce their electricity usage. Discuss this project and share your ideas here
Get pupils' classes in school to work out their carbon footprint using the carbon footprint link:
This project leads towards: Earth Day on 27th March Schools Low Carbon Day on 24th June
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remove_copy_if(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend(), back_inserter(IntVector),
 wcout << "Size: " << IntVector.size(); // 6
 Now, if we need to copy only even numbers, we just need to change the expression in lambda as:
 return nValue % 2!= 0;
 You see, to put something you need, you need to express in "don't need" form. If the condition involves multiple conditions (AND, ORs), it becomes more complex to write and understand. Yes, the solution is to negate (!) the whole condition. But that approach again requires you to write in "don't need" form, and is elusive to understand.
 The copy_if function provides a clean and direct approach. You can say it is a copy function with a condition test. The following is code for the "I need events only" requirement:
 copy_if(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend(), back_inserter(IntVector),
 [](int nValue) { return nValue % 2 == 0;} ); // Positive condition
 Let's have another example, involving the Person tuple. In a vector of Persons, we need to copy only married males. We can write:
 vector OriginalPeople, RequiredPeople;
 OriginalPeople.push_back(make_tuple("Enrique", 32, 'M', 'M')); // Now married!
 OriginalPeople.push_back(make_tuple("James", 38, 'M', 'C'));
 copy_if(OriginalPeople.cbegin(), OriginalPeople.cend(),
 back_inserter(RequiredPeople), // Copy here
 [](const Person& person_obj) -> bool // No simple return, -> required!
 if ( std::get<2>(person_obj) == 'M' &&
 std::get<3>(person_obj) == 'M' )
 return true;
 return false;
 } // Lambda end
 // RequiredPeople would have 2 elements
 Note: As of this writing, the MSDN documentation of copy_if stands incorrect. It says it needs three arguments, but actually it takes four arguments.
 - partition_copy function
 - The partition_copy function partitions the input range into two different output ranges, depending on the condition. If condition is true, it copies into the first output range. If condition is false, it copies into the second output range. Here is an example which generates a few random numbers, and then copies even-numbers and odd-numbers in different vectors:
 vector IntVectorEven, IntVectorOdd;
 array IntArray;
 // Generate random numbers
 generate(IntArray.begin(), IntArray.end(), rand);
 partition_copy(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend(),
 back_inserter(IntVectorEven), back_inserter(IntVectorOdd),
 // IntVectorEven.size() + IntVectorSize would be: IntArray.size()!
 In the Person vector, let's divide people based on gender:
 vector OriginalPeople, RequiredPeople;
 list Males, Females;
 /** All 5 people inserted same as above **/
 partition_copy(OriginalPeople.cbegin(), OriginalPeople.cend(),
 back_inserter(Males), back_inserter(Females),
 [](const Person& objPerson)
 return std::get<2>(objPerson) == 'M';
 // Males.size = 3, Females.size = 2
 - is_partitioned function
 - This function tests if the given range is partitioned based on the condition given. For example, an array of 10 elements may have a set of negative and zero/positive numbers. Further, assume all negatives are placed before positives, and all positives follow negatives. In that case, it is said to be partitioned. The function is_partitioned would return true if the range is properly partitioned; otherwise; it returns false.
 First, the call to is_partitioned:
 bool bPartitioned = is_partitioned(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend(),
 [](int nValue){return nValue < 0;} );
 And here, a set of different values is placed into IntArray, and its outcome is partitioned:
 array IntArray =
 {-1, -3, -4, -5, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; // TRUE
 {-1, 1, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; // TRUE
 {1, 3, 4, 0, -12, -2,-5, 3, 4, 5}; // FALSE
 {0, 1, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; // TRUE - Only one partition exists
 {-1, -3, -4, -5, -1, -21, -22, -3,-4, -5}; // TRUE
 {5, 4, 3, 1, 0, -1, -2, -4, -192, -129}; // FALSE, Partitioned, but not as expected
 No. Partitioned range doesn't mean a sorted range. With the following call, we can test if IntArray is partitioned based on the even/odd discipline:
 array IntArray = {2, 4, 8, 64, 256, 1024, 9, 17, 29, 47};
 // Returns true, since it is logically partitioned!
 - partition_point function
 - Documentation says it differently, but by working and looking at the source code, I found out this is the same as calling find_if_not. Thus, I would not write about it until I get the correct information about this function.
 - minmax_element function
 - The minmax_element combines the work performed by the min_element and max_element functions. A recap for you: min_element finds the smallest element in a given range, and max_element finds the largest value in a given range. Since they return an iterator, and not a value, the first found iterator of relevant occurrence would be returned.
 The minmax_element returns a pair of type pair, the first iterator being a reference to the minimum element and the second being a reference to the largest element. Other than just avoiding two function calls, it also performs better than two combined. It performs faster: it finds both values in N * 1.5 attempts, as opposed to N * 2 attempts the two function calls would take (N is the number of elements in a given range).
 For example:
 // It returns pair
 auto minmax_pair = minmax_element(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend() );
 // Since the pair holds iterators, they must be indirected to get value
 wcout << "\nSmallest:" << (*minmax_pair.first) <<
 "\tLargest: "<< (*minmax_pair.second);
 All three functions are overloaded to take 2 or 3 arguments. The 3-argument function takes a predicate to test for. The predicates should logically implement less-than comparison.
 - is_sorted function
 - As the name suggests, the function is_sorted determines if the given range is sorted ascending (tested via less than operator), or as specified by the predicate function. If the range is sorted, it returns true, otherwise it returns false. The following example is clear-cut, and needs no further explanation.
 bool bIsSorted = is_sorted(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend());
 // Would be false
 sort(IntArray.begin(), IntArray.end());
 // Now, it would return true
 If we need to test if a vector of Person tuple is sorted or not, we must pass the binary predicate as the comparer, since tuple doesn't define operator < to assist it. In the following example, our "is vector sorted" is based on the person's age.
 vector People;
 bIsSorted = is_sorted(OriginalPeople.cbegin(), OriginalPeople.cend(),
 [](const Person& left_person, const Person& right_person)
 // The second element is age
 return std::get<1>(left_person) < std::get<1>(right_person);
 } );
 // The return value would be true, since elements are inserted in age ascending order
 In case you have some other type of object (like struct, class, pointers), you must provide the appropriate comparer as predicate. Since this article is about new concepts in STL, I am not attempting to give standard examples.
 - is_sorted_until function
 - The big brother of the is_sorted function. The is_sorted_until function is called by is_sorted. The actual task is performed by is_sorted_until.
 What's the difference, you might ask! Well, only that, is_sorted returns bool, whereas is_sorted_until returns the iterator, after which the sorting test fails. For a range [First, Last], if the sorting test succeeds, it returns Last (i.e., the end of the given range); otherwise, it returns one of the iterators where the sorting-test failed. For example:
 array::const_iterator iter; // You see how convenient 'auto' is!
 iter = is_sorted_until(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.c


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Drinking, Family Relations and Authority in Early Modern Germany
The ideal of orderly family life in early modern Germany did not exclude drinking. In fact, drinks shared at the family table were closely tied to early modern notions of the marital bond and were also a necessary component of normal work relations. Drinking became a problem only when it threatened the stability of the household. The amount of alcohol involved in such cases might be as little as one drink if the circumstances were unsuitable. On the other hand, drinking that would by our standards be viewed as excessive or chronic could be considered acceptable. Even during and immediately after the period of Reformation, when polemical and prescriptive literature addressing the household was dominated by the problem of sin, drunkenness was rarely treated as a spiritual issues. The primary concern of both authorities and populace was not to protect the health or the rights of individuals but to protect the sanctity of the household and the stability of the community.
The Journal of Family History
Tlusty, B. Ann. "Drinking, Family Relations and Authority in Early Modern Germany." The Journal of Family History (2004) : 253-273.


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2. Eyes and Fenders
Use oddly curved V-shapes to form fenders for each outer wheel. For the other fender, start with a V-shape. To its ends add lines that curve up, to your left, and then down.
Add ovals for the eyes. Draw a curved line for the smile. Place a tube with rounded ends on top of a tube with pointed odd-shaped ends.
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Viper uses G-Force.
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Viper charges at the target and slices them with his weapon. He then hops into the air, swings his sword, and crashes down on the target's head. The resulting blow cascades in a fountain of yellow and white sparks.
G Force is a scientific term used to describe the rate at which an object accelerates as it falls. In this tech, Viper exploits this gravitational momentum to unleash more powerful blows.


The novel coronavirus and accompanying economic downturn have taken a significant toll on households, businesses, and institutions of higher education nationwide. In response to the pandemic, payments, interest charges, and collection efforts for most federal student loan borrowers were paused at least through Sept. 30. But once this pause expires, many borrowers will have to navigate personal financial challenges and a confusing federal student loan repayment system.
A look at how student loan borrowers fared during the Great Recession—which officially ran from December 2007 through June 2009—can help policymakers understand the novel coronavirus's potential impact on repayment outcomes. With that downturn, much of the increase in student loan delinquency occurred after its technical end and as the economy was recovering. For example, the share
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The National Shattering Silence Coalition calls on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to endorse a medical model based on science with an emphasis on addressing the needs of the most severely ill.
SHAPLEIGH, Maine - EntSun -- The National Shattering Silence Coalition (NSSC)—a grassroots, nonpartisan group that advocates for the needs of people with serious brain disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder—urges the Biden Administration to appoint a person with a doctoral degree in medicine, osteopathic medicine, or psychology as the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use. This person must have clinical and research experience regarding mental health and substance use disorders and an understanding of biological, psychosocial, and pharmaceutical treatments of mental illness and substance use disorders.
We also urge them to prioritize care for the most severely mentally ill. As head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), this political appointee must be supportive of the scientific evidence that serious brain illnesses such as schizophrenia are disorders of the brain that require sophisticated treatment from well-trained medical professionals.
We strongly oppose appointing a person based on their "lived experience." Having a mental illness does not qualify one for a leadership position any more than having COVID-19 would qualify one to lead a White House COVID-19 Task Force. When someone is in congestive heart failure we send them to a cardiologist, not a person who has survived a heart attack. The brain is an organ of the body that can malfunction, and this malfunctioning organ needs to be examined in its complexity by well-trained medical professionals. The head of SAMHSA needs to understand this to ensure coveted federal funds are directed toward the most evidence-based practices that benefit individuals whose lives are at risk.
Homelessness and incarceration of individuals with mental illness is the humanitarian crisis of our times. SAMHSA is uniquely poised to correct errors that have led to a system that discards people in their darkest hours of need--often in the name of "civil rights"--because leaders in the past have dangerously misunderstood the nature of mental illness and how it impacts a person's ability to self-manage.
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We advocate for policies that align with the medical model of care, based on science. The alternative "recovery model" emphasizes a person-directed approach without acknowledging that individuals with the most severe brain illnesses often are so impaired that they are incapable of coordinating their own care. Many family caregivers at NSSC have watched loved ones "die with their rights on" because of this dangerous misunderstanding.
People with brain disorders have a right to medical treatment, especially when they are too ill to recognize they need medical care. When we ignore their right to treatment in the name of civil rights, too many of our most vulnerable citizens suffer needlessly and end up homeless, incarcerated, or dead. As family members, professionals in the trenches, and individuals who suffer from these brain diseases, we have experienced firsthand the tragedy of untreated serious mental illness.
"Our loved ones have been denied needed medical care, cycled through the revolving doors of hospitals without adequate treatment, been discriminated against, mistreated, criminalized, and left to die in our streets," said Jeanne Gore, Coordinator of NSSC. "All the while, we have been shut out of communications with health care providers in the name of patient privacy. Our goal is to make sure people with brain disorders receive the compassionate care and treatment they have been denied for far too long."
NSSC supports a medical-based system of a non-discriminatory, high-quality, comprehensive, coordinated continuum of care. NSSC supports the following priorities:
End the IMD Exclusion
We must eliminate the IMD Exclusion, a discriminatory law that prevents Medicaid payments for care provided in "institutions for mental disease" (IMDs), which are psychiatric hospitals or other residential treatment facilities with more than sixteen beds that mainly provide services to people with mental illnesses. This law is why we have psychiatric bed shortages, resulting in a lack of access to care for people with serious brain disorders. Many leading advocacy groups, including NAMI and the Treatment Advocacy Center, agree that the IMD Exclusion should be eliminated.
People with serious mental illness need access to a full continuum of treatment, including inpatient hospitalization. We offer this care continuum for all other illnesses, so it is discriminatory to exclude people who need psychiatric treatment.
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Create and implement a Federally Mandated Model of Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)
Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) is an evidence-based practice that has been shown to reduce hospitalization, criminal justice system involvement, homelessness, victimization, and violent acts associated with mental illness, including suicide and violence against others.
AOT is both compassionate and effective. It provides community-based mental health treatment under civil court commitment as a means of:
 - motivating an adult with mental illness who struggles with voluntary treatment adherence to engage fully with their treatment plan,
 - focusing the attention of treatment providers on the need to work diligently to keep the person engaged in effective treatment.
Reform HIPAA
We must reform the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to encourage greater involvement of family members and natural supports in the care of individuals with serious brain illnesses. Currently, many health care providers are unwilling to discuss treatment with family members due to concerns about violating HIPAA privacy laws, despite solid evidence that the involvement of long-term supporters in care planning dramatically improves outcomes. One of the roles SAMHSA must fulfill is to provide clarity about HIPAA requirements and proper training so that providers do not misuse HIPAA to avoid the critical work of family engagement.
Individuals with brain disorders who lack insight into their illness are unable to make medical decisions in their best interest. Without HIPAA reform, family members will remain excluded from participating in the care of a person with serious mental illness. In the U.S., we allow family members of people with all other brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's, to participate in care decisions. To treat people with mental illness differently is discriminatory.
Reform PAIMI
We must reform the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) program to return to its original mission, focused on abuse and neglect, instead of lobbying to prevent medically needed inpatient and outpatient treatment. SAMHSA must not allow Protection and Advocacy organizations to continue using critical federal resources to impede access to medically necessary treatment in the name of civil rights.
NSSC is a nonpartisan alliance of family members, individuals suffering from serious brain disorders (SBD), professionals in the trenches, and people who care. We have united to ensure that brain illness and criminal justice systems count those with SBD, and their families, in all federal, state, and local policy reforms. We are voices for the 11.2 million adults and 7 million children living with and dying too young from serious brain illness. Learn more at _URL_.
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Abstract: TANA Agriculture forum has identified the following short and long term projects to support Andhra Pradesh and Telangana farmers. Agriculture forum is planning to execute these projects in two different phases with the support of TANA executive committee and sponsors. More details on the significance of each project, cost estimates, and sponsorship forms are included below.
Phase I: Time line: December 2016, during TANA tour to INDIA
 1. TANA-PPE: Distribute Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits to reduce the exposure of farmers/farm workers to toxic pesticides.
 Cost/kit: $12
 3. TANA-Crop Health Camps: Distribute GreenSeeker, a hand held crop nitrogen sensor that assesses crop health and make decisions regarding the amount of nitrogen fertilizer (e.g. urea) to be applied to the crop. This is a quick way of knowing the soil nitrogen status and nitrogen is a critical factor that effects crop yield and water quality
 Cost/unit: $500
 Phase II: Time line: TANA 2017 conference
 5. TANA-Soil Health Camps: Perform soil testing to reduce indiscriminate application of synthetic fertilizers and input costs to the farmer and leave lesser foot print on the environment. The cost estimates will be posted as committee makes progress on technical and feasibility details.
Phase I
Project 1: TANA-PPE
(Distribute Personal Protective Equipment kits to farmers/farm workers)
Importance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)farmer-pesticideIn agriculture, a wide variety of pesticides are routinely used for controlling crop pests.
Major goalsAlthough these chemicals have been helpful in improving crop yields, they are toxic to humans if they are exposed to them. In villages, our farmers/farm workers apply chemicals using manual pesticide applicators without wearing appropriate PPE, thus exposing themselves to hazardous chemicals like organophosphates. A slow and repeated exposure to these chemicals causes "Chronic Toxicity". In short term such toxic effects may not be realized but long-term exposure to toxic chemicals will have huge implications on human health and leads to death. It's like death in slow motion
While we cannot help eliminate all exposure, we can reduce some of the exposure by providing simple protective equipment like gloves and goggles. TANA would like to distribute PPE Kits (Figure 2) to the pesticide handlers and farm workers in villages of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
rythukosam-poster-3Project 2: TANA-Crop Health Camps
(Distribute GreenSeeker/Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Estimator)
Importance: In India, traditionally farmers apply nitrogen fertilizerhandheld-green-seeker-farmer (urea) uniformly as a blanket recommendation without considering crop type and/or soil nitrogen status to obtain higher crop yields. It has been proven that each crop has specific requirements for nitrogen fertilizer. Low nitrogen application will lead to poor yields. Whereas excessive nitrogen application does not benefit the crop, but increases input costs to the farmer/government and environment pollution. Water soluble nitrate is major component of urea drained into water bodies which is harmful to human and animal health. Furthermore, several factors, including soil type, farm practices, and crop rotations effect the availability of soil nitrogen for crop growth. For example, pulses add more nitrogen to the soil due to their nitrogen fixing ability and corn/rice uptake more nitrogen from the soil. Therefore, identification of optimal nitrogen requirement for each crop is critical to maximize crop yields, reduce input costs and environmental pollution.
In the United States, farmers use various technologies to determine nitrogen fertilizer requirements for optimal crop growth e.g, "GreenSeeker" (Developed by Trimble). GreenSeeker is hand held, user friendly, and cost effective crop sensor device (Figure. 3) that instantly measures crop health and provides a reading (e.g., 0.61), similar to measuring body temperature or blood pressure. The reading will be used to determine the amount of nitrogen fertilizer (urea) required from a reference chart specific for each crop.
Reduces input cost to farmers and subsidy cost to the Government
 - Reduces environmental pollution and protect human and animal health
 - Precision agriculture. As shown in Figure 4, this device can be used to develop a crop health map for the entire field using "Farm Scout App" (free) downloaded on a smart phone/iPad. Based on the field map, different rates of urea could be applied within a field rather than uniform/blanket application to the entire field.
Major goals: As a pilot project
 - 10 units will be distributed to reach stations to optimize conditions and test the applicability of
 Green Seeker on our crop varieties.
 TANA Agriculture forum will develop a Telugu version of easy to use manual for GreenSeeker.
Cost/Unit: $500 (GreenSeeker: $500)
Phase II
Soil Health Camps
(Soil Testing and Create awareness on importance of soil health)
Importance of Soil Testing
Soil is an important natural resource that provides essential nutrients required for crop growth. Humans without sound health cannot perform normal functions. Likewise, without having sound health, soil cannot provide favorable environment for optimal crop growth and leads to reduced crop yields. Like we perform routine health checkups to know the health status of our body, soil health needs to be tested periodically. In the past, unknowingly, farmers have taken care of soil health by following good cultural practices, such as applying manures and growing nitrogen fixing crops etc. As the technology has advanced, farmers are depending more on synthetic fertilizers and using them indiscriminately, without knowing what is deficient in the soil. The indiscriminate use of fertilizers not only wastes money but also contributes to environmental pollution. For example, if Phosphorus is low and Potash is high in the soil, one can take the money from Potash and put into Phosphorus. If both are high, fertilizer application can be minimized, which saves money and helps the environment. If both are low, both should be applied to bring their levels up to the levels required for optimal crop growth. Therefore, it is necessary to determine soil health periodically and the only way it can be done is by testing soils.
Benefits of Soil testing
 - Diagnoses whether there is too little or too much of a given nutrient in the soil.
 - Encourages optimal plant growth and increase crop yields by providing the best fertilizer (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potash) recommendations.
 - Saves money that might otherwise be spent on unneeded fertilizer.
 - Reduces environmental pollution by reducing indiscriminate fertilizer application.
Major Gaps in the Current Soil Testing System
 1. Lack of awareness on the importance of soil testing
 3. We have well established soil testing laboratories. However, the biggest issue with soil testing in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana areas has been the turnaround time. Often times it takes several months before the soil test results are communicated to farmers. Hence, a farmer cannot take appropriate measures to correct defects in soils on time.
 5. Less efficient manual soil sample collection processes.
Major goals
TANA Agriculture committee is looking at various options to improve the efficiency of soil testing processes. Committee is hoping to identify a feasible technology to fill gaps in existing soil testing processes and create awareness on the importance of soil testing among farmers.
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Father David Beauregard has more evidence in his new book than you could shake a speare at.
Father Beauregard claims that the theological content of the bard's plays is overwhelmingly Catholic. Take the following examples from Father Beauregard's Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays (University of Delaware Press):
- Anglican clergyman, the 17th-century cleric Richard Davies, wrote that the great playwright "died a Papist."
- "Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays" (University of Delaware Press), that Shakespeare was Catholic.
- The ghost of Hamlet's murdered father tells his son that he is in purgatory, a Catholic concept.
- Isabella, a novice nun in "Measure for Measure," is a model of virtue, a break with Protestant dramatists who depicted Catholic religious as sinners, said Beauregard. (It's telling, he adds, that Shakespeare made Isabella a novice; an earlier play on which "Measure for Measure" was partly based portrayed Isabella as a secular woman.)
- In "All's Well That Ends Well," Helena cures the sick king, attributing her success to "inspired merit" - not something a Protestant would say.
- Prospero commends prayer for the dead when he bids the audience farewell in the epilogue of "The Tempest," - "And my ending is despair/Unless I be reliev'd by prayer."
Read more in "Scholar sees a Catholic in the Bard" by Rich Barrow at the Boston Globe.
Hat tip to my colleague Klemens Raab.


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The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman: Making it Modern
The Nadelmans' acquisitions spanned a wide geographic range and a great variety of media—furniture, sculpture, paintings, ceramics, glass, iron, pewter, drawings, watercolors and household tools. Beginning in 1926, they displayed the collection in their Museum of Folk and Peasant Arts, built on their estate in Riverdale, New York. The first museum in the United States devoted exclusively to folk art, it was also the first in the world to focus on the European origins of American folk art. In 1937, the New-York Historical Society purchased most of the collection, which the couple were forced to sell due to financial reversals suffered during the Depression.
Making it Modern will showcase approximately 100 objects displayed in groupings akin to those devised by the Nadelmans in their museum. The majority will be drawn from New-York Historical's holdings, supplemented by a few key loans. Several examples of Nadelman's "modern" sculpture will help to explore the influence of folk art on the artist's own oeuvre.
Available beginning fall 2015
A fully illustrated catalogue with provocative essays and entries will accompany the exhibition.
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I. HISTORY OF THE STAFFORD CABIN
The Stafford Cabin is a log and frame building located in Bonita Canyon, a small drainage from the west side of the Chiricahua Mountains into the dry but productive Sulphur Spring Valley in Cochise County, Arizona. The cabin is individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places (March 31, 1975) and is also contained in the Faraway Ranch Historic District (August 27, 1980), part of Chiricahua National Monument. It is managed by the Superintendent of the Monument.
Chiricahua National Monument, established in 1924 to protect the unique rock formations popularly known as the "Wonderland of Rocks" which adorn the upper reaches of this section of the mountains, is surrounded on three sides by the Coronado National Forest, and on the fourth, or west side, by Sulphur Spring Valley, most of which is privately owned.1
The 110-year-old homestead cabin and surrounding land became part of Chiricahua National Monument in December, 1968. The structure is a two-room log cabin with a stone fireplace and chimney, a shed-roofed "kitchenette" and bathroom addition, an open porch, and an attached garage. The cabin sits on a flat expanse of the canyon once occupied by an orchard, from which a few trees remain. Bonita Creek is located a short distance north of the cabin.
The history of the Stafford Cabin involves a number of facets, from a homestead claim during the Apache resistance to family life in a pioneer environment to its last decades as a guest cottage at a modestly popular dude ranch. Perhaps of foremost significance is the pioneer era, or the Stafford years, _PHONE_, a time when the earliest settlers appeared in the area and developed a ranching and agricultural legacy in the Sulphur Spring Valley. This document will hopefully shed new light on the significance of the Stafford Cabin in the history of the Southwest.
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Rig it Right! breaks down rigging so that you can achieve a fundamental understanding of the concept. The author will get you up and rigging with step-by-step tutorials covering multiple animation control types, connection methods, interactive skinning, BlendShapes, edgeloops, and joint placement, to name a few. The concept of a bi-ped is explored as a human compared to a bird character allowing you to see that a bi-ped is a bi-ped and how to problem solve for the limbs at hand. Rig it Right! will take you to a more advanced level where you will learn how to create stretchy rigs with invisible control systems and use that to create your own types of rigs.
Key Features Hone your skills every step of the way with short tutorials and editable rigs that accompany each chapter. (17+ rigs!!). Read "Tina's 10 Rules of Rigging" and build the foundational knowledge needed to successfully rig your characters. Visit the companion website and expand your newfound knowledge with editable rigs, exercises, and videos that elaborate on techniques covered in the book. Companion data filled with example files at AR(Augmented Reality) enabled images throughout the book! Coffee is not required – but encouraged.
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How Does a Dry-Aging Cabinet Work?
The most important thing about meat-aging is creating the perfect climate for the steak to age properly. In the wrong environment with fluctuating temperatures or humidity levels, any meat can go bad. When the steak is in a controlled environment for the right period of time, it creates a rich, flavorful piece of meat that your customers will enjoy. A dry-aging cabinet allows you to do just that, controlling both temperature, humidity, and ventilation levels in order to properly manage the beef.
What Makes a Good Dry-Aging Cabinet?
A good dry-aging cabinet will have a great ventilation system with advanced temperature control that keeps the meat from spoiling, aging it to perfection. When looking for a dry-aging cabinet, those systems should create a cold and humid climate to ensure optimal drying and ripening process.
As one of the most temperature-sensitive foods, it's important to have your steak properly stored and controlled from the moment you receive it. In order for the steak to dry-age correctly to achieve flavorful profiles, it needs to live in a climate between 34.7 degrees to 35.6 degrees Fahrenheit. With such a tight temperature window, a dry-aging cabinet will need all the right technology to maintain these levels.
Oxygen is also important to the dry-aging process. The oxygen ventilation allows the signature dry-age crusting to form. Bad germs can form in "standing" air, so having good ventilation is crucial to keeping a constant flow of fresh and clean.
How to Find a Premium Dry-Aging Cabinet
Having a great dry-aging cabinet is important to properly aging your steak so you can offer your customers premium, dry-aged beef. At The Aging Room, our dry-aging chamber combines traditional aging processes with modern technologies. Precise climate control equipment combined with a Himalayan salt wall creates an aging-friendly, natural microclimate to dry-age steaks.
With a premium dry ager like The Aging Room Chamber, you get more benefits on top of the perfect system to manage temperature and climate:
 1. The volume of the interior of the chamber is designed to maximize the effectiveness of the aging process.
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 3. The lighting in the chamber, including the lighting behind the salt, is calibrated to create an enticing visual experience for the customer.
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Using detailed computer simulations, Oxford University research has revealed why falcons dive at their prey using the same steering laws as man-made missiles.
Published today in PLOS Computational Biology, researchers from Oxford's Department of Zoology use computer simulations of peregrine falcon attacks to show that the extreme speeds reached during dives from high altitudes enhance the raptors' ability to execute manoeuvres needed to successfully attack agile prey that would otherwise escape.
Professor Graham Taylor and PhD student Robin Mills, alongside colleagues from the University of Groningen, built a physics-based computer simulation of bird flight that pits falcons against prey. The team had previously shown that falcons attack their prey using the same steering rules as man-made missiles.
The simulation incorporated the aerodynamics of bird flight, how birds flap and tuck their wings, how falcons perceive their prey and react to it with delay and how falcons target their prey like a missile. It showed that high-speed dives enable peregrines to manoeuvre faster, producing much higher aerodynamic forces, thereby maximising their chance of seizing agile prey.
In addition the simulation showed that high-speed dives require very precisely tuned steering for a falcon to attack successfully, revealing that the stoop is a highly specialist hunting technique. The research team found that optimal tuning of the mathematical laws that control steering in the simulation corresponded closely to measurements of steering for real falcons.
The team is now extending its simulation to explore other unique and specialised attack strategies as well as escape tactics employed by different raptor species.
'Ultimately,' says Mills, 'we aim to understand the arms race between aerial predators and their prey that has led raptors to become some of the fastest and most agile animals on Earth.'


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- Athletic department could utilize this adaptive equipment to help injured athletes rehab injuries at home or at facility faster.
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Annual freshwater withdrawals, total (billion cubic meters)
Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins. Withdrawals also include water from desalination plants in countries where they are a significant source. Withdrawals can exceed 100 percent of total renewable resources where extraction from nonrenewable aquifers or desalination plants is considerable or where there is significant water reuse. Withdrawals for agriculture and industry are total withdrawals for irrigation and livestock production and for direct industrial use (including withdrawals for cooling thermoelectric plants). Withdrawals for domestic uses include drinking water, municipal use or supply, and use for public services, commercial establishments, and homes. Data are for the most recent year available for _PHONE_.


For many people, Minecraft is a game. Indeed, the second most popular videogame of all time is first and foremost an entertainment tool. However, I have often written that Microsoft sees Minecraft as more than a game. A gold mine for one, but also a platform that can be used for learning and accessibility.
A UK-based charity is highlighting again how Minecraft can be used outside the realm of pure gaming. SpecialEffect has created a technology that aids the physically impaired and lets them play Minecraft.
Called EyeMine, the eye-tracking software works with Windows desktops and laptops to let disabled users play the game. SpecialEffect is a company specializing in customizing games so they can be used by those with physical disabilities.
The EyeMine technology uses eye tracking software and hardware to control a mouse. The free software allows those with physical impairments to use their eyes to perform tasks. For example, placing blocks when building or selecting items in the inventory.
Additionally, the tracking software is accurate enough to move the Minecraft character around the map. This includes, attacking, flying, digging, and more. SpecialEffect explains how the new technology works on its official launch page:
"Eye-trackers have inbuilt infrared cameras which track where your eyes are looking, letting you move the mouse pointer around on the screen. You can 'click' by dwelling (staring at a screen button for a certain length of time) or by using a switch that's plugged in to the computer. You can see dwelling in action in the lower screenshot – it's the red circular timer."
The team behind the solution worked directly with physically impaired people to ensure accuracy. EyeMine has already been made to craft stunning creations, including a replica of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland.
Interestingly, the requirements for using EyeMine are relatively lights. For example, you will need at least a Windows 7 PC, a Minecraft account, and an eye-tracking device. While the latter many seem more problematic, SpecialEffect has listed which eye-trackers are compatible with its technology.


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Hypergraph list coloring and Euclidean Ramsey Theory Alexandr Kostochka
Summary: Hypergraph list coloring and Euclidean Ramsey Theory
Noga Alon
Alexandr Kostochka
April 28, 2010
A hypergraph is simple if it has no two edges sharing more than a single vertex. It is s-list
colorable (or s-choosable) if for any assignment of a list of s colors to each of its vertices, there is
a vertex coloring assigning to each vertex a color from its list, so that no edge is monochromatic.
We prove that for every positive integer r, there is a function dr(s) such that no r-uniform simple
hypergraph with average degree at least dr(s) is s-list-colorable. This extends a similar result
for graphs, due to the first author, but does not give as good estimates of dr(s) as are known for
d2(s), since our proof only shows that for each fixed r 2, dr(s) 2crsr-1
. We use the result to
prove that for any finite set of points X in the plane, and for any finite integer s, one can assign
a list of s distinct colors to each point of the plane, so that any coloring of the plane that colors
each point by a color from its list contains a monochromatic isometric copy of X.
AMS Subject Classification: 05C15, 05C35, 05C65.
Keywords: Hypergraphs, list coloring, average degree, Euclidean Ramsey Theory.
1 Introduction
1.1 Background
Collections: Mathematics


GNU R loop speed comparison
March 16, 2013
Recently I had several discussions about using for loops in GNU R and how they compare to *apply family in terms of speed. I have not seen a direct benchmark comparing them so I decided to execute one (warning: some of the code presented today takes long time to execute).
First I have started by comparing the speed of assignment operator for lists vs. numeric vectors in standard for loops. Here is the code:
speed.test <- function(n) {
x1 <- numeric(n)
x2 <- vector(n, mode = "list")
c(system.time(for (i in 1:n) { x1[i] <- i })[3],
system.time(for (i in 1:n) { x2[[i]] <- i })[3])
n <- seq(10 ^ 4, 10 ^ 6, len = 5)
result <- t(sapply(n, speed.test))
par(mar=c(4.5, 4.5, 1, 1))
matplot(n / 1000, result, type = "l", col = 1:2, lty = 1,
xlab = "n ('000)", ylab = "time")
legend("topleft", legend = c("numeric", "list"),
col = 1:2, lty = 1)
The picture showing the result of the comparison is the following:
As we can see - operation numeric vectors are significantly faster than list, especially for large vector sizes.
But how does this relate to *apply family of functions? The issue is that the workhorse function there is lapply and it works on lists. Other functions from this family call lapply internally.
So I have run the second test comparing: (a) lapply, (b) for loop working on lists and (c) for loop working on numeric vectors. Here is the code:
aworker <- function(n) {
r <- lapply(1:n, identity)
lworker <- function(n) {
r <- vector(n, mode = "list")
for (i in 1:n) {
r[[i]] <- identity(i)
nworker <- function(n) {
r <- numeric(n)
for (i in 1:n) {
r[i] <- identity(i)
run <- function(n, worker) {
compare <- function(n) {
c(lapply = run(n, aworker),
list = run(n, lworker),
numeric = run(n, nworker))
n <- rep(c(10 ^ 6, 10 ^ 7), 10)
result <- t(sapply(n, compare))
par(mfrow = c(1,2), mar = c(3,3,3,1))
for (i in n[1:2]) {
boxplot(result[n == i,],
main = format(i, scientific = F, big.mark = ","))
On the picture below we can see the result. For 1,000,000 elements in a vector lapply is the fastest. The reason it that it executes looping in compiled C code. However for 10,000,000 elements for loop using numeric vector is faster as it avoids conversion to list.
Of course probably on other machines than my notebook the difference in speed would manifest itself for other number of elements in a vector.
However one can draw a general conclusion: if you have large AND numeric vectors and need to do a lot of number crunching for loop will be faster than lapply.
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Making a Stereoscopic 3D Movie In After Effects
Creating Stereoscopic 3D effects using After Effects is actually very simple. This makes it possible to create a video that people can watch in three dimensions by wearing special glasses. It's possible to convert any video into a 3D video with very little work. When you create these videos, it's possible to watch them on your computer or burn them onto DVD to watch them on a TV.
Converting the Scene to 3D
After Effects makes it very simple to convert the scene to stereo 3D. To do this, select the scene and then click on "Generate Right Comp" at the right side of the screen. This will create a new composition which looks very similar to the first view. However, there is a new object called stereo controls.
Camera Separation
Open the Stereo controls option, and you will see a slider for camera separation. This is the separation between the left and right cameras. Adjust the slider to something that you are happy with. Set this to 30 to start off with. Now regenerate the right composition by clicking the button at the right hand side of the screen. This will create two slightly different image.
Select both the left and the right views and click on the "Stereo Viewer." Now, click on "Generate Stereo Comps". This will generate a new folder containing the files for the stereoscopic image. In the main image, both the images will be combined using the normal red and green.
Removing Borders
To remove some borders, you can adjust the scale of the scene. This will remove unnecessary elements from the video.
It's possible to make changes to your composition, and then the left results will be updated automatically. You will need to manually click on Generate Right Comp to update the right view.


Working with named calculations
SQL Server named calculations allow you to mine derived information in your data without having to change your source data. Get an overview of named calculations.
Named calculations are additional virtual columns on the tables in your DSV. This allows you to mine derived information in your data without having to change your source data. Anamed calculation consists of name, a SQL expression containing the calculation, and an optional description. The calculation can be any valid SQL expression. If you are not a SQL expert, here are some types of expressions that are useful in many data mining projects.
Figure 3.5 Completed MovieClick data source view
Arithmetic Operations
Standard SQL supports +, -, *, /, and % (modulo). For example you could create a Profit named calculation with the following formula:
[Sales Price] – [Item Cost]
Mathematical Functions
Mathematical functions are useful, especially when data in a column does not follow a uniform distribution. The SQL functions ABS, LOG, SIGN, and SQRT are particularly useful. Here are two examples:
 - To flatten out an exponentially increasing variable:
 LOG([Sales Quantity])
 - To create a flag for over/under budget quarters:
 SIGN([Actual Expenses] – [Budgeted Expenses])
 Compositing Expressions
 Often, the hypothesis you want to test depends on a variable that is a combination of two of the variables you already have. For example, it may not be interesting that a person is married or has children, but the combination of the two may provide valuable information. A composite expression for this situation could look like this:
 [Marital Status] +'' + [Has Children]
 CASE Expressions
 CASE expressions are an extremely flexible way to create meaningful variables for data mining. The CASE expression allows you to assign results based on the evaluation of one or more conditions. Useful applications of CASE are to change value labels, manually discretize columns, reduce the number of valid states, and convert an attribute from a nested table to the case level.
 - To change value labels:
 - CASE [Category]
 WHEN 1 THEN 'Food'
 WHEN 2 THEN 'Beverage'
 WHEN 3 THEN 'Goods'
 END CASE
 - Manually discretize a column:
 - CASE
 WHEN [Age] < 20 THEN 'Under 20'
 WHEN [Age] <= 30 THEN 'Between 20 and 30'
 WHEN [Age] <= 40 THEN 'Between 30 and 40'
 ELSE 'Over 40'
 - To reduce the number of valid states:
 CASE [Marital Status]
 WHEN 'Married' THEN [Marital Status]
 WHEN 'Never Married' THEN [Marital Status]
 ELSE 'Other'
 - To convert an attribute from a nested table to a case table:
 - CASE
 WHEN EXISTS
 (SELECT [Movie] FROM [Movies]
 WHERE [Movie]='Star Wars' AND
 THEN 'True'
 ELSE 'False'
 This would be done, for instance, when you wanted to convert a nested attribute to a case-level attribute. Note that if you still want to use the nested table in the model, you will have to use a named query to filter the attribute from the nested table, as described in the next section.
 Creating a Named Calculation on the Customers Table
 To create a named calculation to discretize and reduce the number of states in the Num Bedrooms column:
 1. Right-click the Customers table and select Create a named calculation.
 2. Enter the calculation name Bedrooms and optionally enter a description.
 3. Enter the following expression:
 WHEN [Num Bedrooms] = 1 THEN 'One'
 WHEN [Num Bedrooms] <= 3 THEN 'Two or Three'
 WHEN [Num Bedrooms] >= 4 THEN 'Four or more'
 ELSE 'None'
 Upon closing the dialog box, the DSV Designer will validate your expression and return any applicable errors. Once you have successfully created your calculation you can see the results by right-clicking the table and selecting Explore Data.
This was first published in July 2006
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Kingdom of Earth is the 'sovereign world state'declared over the planet earth ("the World")
The origin of Kingdom Of Earth
Kingdom of Earth is the 'sovereign world state'declared over the planet earth ("the World"). The Kingdom was declared in London on 2nd November 2009 by Prince Ali Afolabi of Olubonku Royal House of Iree, a community within Nigeria. Prince Afolabi (now King Afolabi) was divinely ordained the "King of Earth" and commanded to proclaim the Kingdom of Earth in 1994.
However, he hesitated in doing so for 15 years for fear that the world may not be ready for a world state with an absolute Monarch when the citizens of the nation states around the world are clamouring for democracy. Prior to his divine commission, King Afolabi was a successful businessman but his initial refusal to obey the divine call costs him his business and family. His refusal also brings him so many unexplainable troubles.
In the midst of one of his troubles in 2009, he was divinely visited once more and commanded to assume his position as King of Earth and proclaim the Kingdom of Earth or he will die. With no other option he reluctantly assumed his position as the King of Earth and proclaimed the Kingdom of Earth. He informed the world leaders about his divine mission and unsurprisingly, most of the people around him and the world leaders believe that he was suffering from mental illness as they cannot comprehend such a divine mission. The mission of the King of Earth is to serve people in the world wherever they live, to promote world peace, global economic prosperity, religious tolerance and freedom of movement.