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The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy
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CitationDerdenger, Timothy, and Vineet Kumar. "The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy." Marketing Science (forthcoming).
AbstractSeveral key questions in bundling have not been empirically examined: Is mixed bundling more effective than pure bundling or pure components? Does correlation in consumer valuations make bundling more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these questions, we develop a consumer-choice model from micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our setting, the handheld video game market. We provide a framework to understand the dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. The primary explanation for the profitability of bundling relies on homogenization of consumer valuations for the bundle, allowing the firm to extract more surplus. We find bundling can be effective through a novel and previously unexamined mechanism of dynamic consumer segmentation, which operates independent of the homogenization effect, and can in fact be stronger when the homogenization effect is weaker. We also find that bundles are treated as separate products (distinct from component products) by consumers. Sales of both hardware and software components decrease in the absence of bundling, and consumers who had previously purchased bundles might delay purchases, resulting in lower revenues. We also find that mixed bundling dominates pure bundling and pure components in terms of both hardware and software revenues. Investigating the link between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger.
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Launched in 2020, Techquity is a new collective impact initiative to bridge the digital divide throughout our community. Supported by United Way's Technology United network, Techquity connects stakeholders from our business, education, and social sector to promote digital equity and inclusion via three strategies:
- Access: Ensuring all families have digital devices and the internet in their homes.
- Education: Fostering digital literacy and career pathways in technology.
- Innovation: Leveraging technology to accelerate innovation in the social sector.
Techquity's priority populations include:
- Households with school-aged children
- Persons seeking employment
- Vulnerable populations, such as those experiencing domestic violence or homelessness
To date, Techquity has provided:
- Laptops for nonprofit agency partners
- Laptops for students at 12 Milwaukee Community Schools
- 180 hot spots for members of the community to access the internet to continue education and/or to work from home
If your organization has outdated computers or other technology, consider giving them a second life! Technology donations can easily be recycled and put to good use in our community. All kinds of technology donations are accepted and most items will be refurbished for reuse. If donations can't be refurbished, they will be recycled properly at no cost to the donor.
If you do not currently have a dedicated recycler for your technology equipment, United Way can help you through one of our partners Digital Bridge of Milwaukee. Digital Bridge is NAID AAA certified in our area to wipe and reuse drives. After wiping the hardware, they load Windows 10 operating system and Microsoft products on each computer and help United Way distribute them to community members that need a computer.
To learn more about donating technology, contact Nicole Angresano at _PHONE_ or fill out the form below.


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Change a path's starting point
While open paths have obvious starting and ending points, closed paths also have a starting point (which is the same as its ending point). Microsoft Expression Design uses the starting point of a closed path to determine how a brush stroke fits on a path, for example.
To change the starting point on an existing path
In the Toolbox, select the Start Point tool.
Click the anchor point you want to be the new starting point.
You can also use the Start Point tool on an open path. If you click the starting point or ending point of an open path, Expression Design just reverses the direction of the path. If you click any anchor point other than an ending or starting point, the path converts to a closed path, and that anchor point becomes the path's starting point.


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NXG Labs Cricket Tracking Internship AI Challenge
The aim of this challenge is to track the cricket ball in the given cricket videos.
Data Science
₹10,000.00 - ₹12,000.00 per Month
151 of 150 Participants
Organized By NXG Labs
Welcome to NXG Labs Cricket Tracking Internship AI Challenge!
The advent of technology has revolutionized the sports industry. "Hawk Eye", "Ball Tracking" and "Video Analytics" are household names of cricket. Video assessment of cricketers give insights about strong and weak areas. The use cases are immense.
The aim of this challenge is to provide an AI model or algorithm for ball tracking in cricket videos. The participants will have to provide processed videos with bounding boxes for ball tracking. Optional bat tracking is a plus along with the ball.
We have provided videos for prediction and image directories for the identification of balls and other miscellaneous objects.
For the final submission format, please refer to "Submission Guidelines" otherwise your solution may be deemed invalid.
Submission Evaluation: Manual
Submission Grade Time: 24 Hrs - 36 Hrs.
The results will be declared when ALL the submissions have been graded.
NOTE: Please read the guidelines very carefully to understand the final structure of your submission file (.zip). Also, if you are using a Windows system, do not use WINRAR to zip the files, WinZip or UNIX based zip creators would be required.
The dataset is of the following structure:
 1. videos - containing videos for prediction
 2. images directory with "ball" and "miscellaneous" sub-directories for training images to help understand patterns of required objects. Additional external images may also be used for additional training.
The final submission zip must include:
 - Post-processed videos with ball tracking and optional bat tracking
 - Text file(s) containing the coordinates of the ball (and optional bat tracking) in each frame and total frame size (more details about this are provided below)
 - Training Code Directory
 - Trained Model/Algorithm
 - A Detailed report explaining your approach including the methods that didn't produce effective results (.pdf)
If you are performing only ball tracking please enclose "ball_video1.txt" for co-ordinates. For additional bat tracking provide a separate file "bat_video1.txt". The format of the files can be as follows:
Example of "ball_video1.txt"
How to make a submission?
 1. Click on "My Submission"
 3. Upload your ZIP in the next page and click on "Submit for Review"
Please note:
 1. You must submit your ZIP file by uploading the ZIP in the "My Submissions" section of this challenge.
 2. Your submission will NOT be auto graded. You will be able to see your results after 24 - 48 hrs.
 1. Evaluation based on Video Results, Code Execution, Methodology given in the detailed report.
 2. The solution will be graded out of 100.
 3. Late submission will not be accepted beyond provided deadline (Indian Standard Time).
 4. Confidentiality should be strictly maintained.
 1. Participants will be invited for an interview based on score.
 2. The participants with a successful submission will get a certificate of participation.
 3. Top 3 participants will receive a permanent place in Dockship's "Hall of Fame".
How do I apply for this Challenge?
How do I download the dataset?
Can I make multiple submissions?
Where will the results be declared?
Can we apply as a team?
I've other queries, where can I get support?
Challenge Announced
07-Jan-2021, 9:34 pm IST
10-Jan-2021, 6:00 pm IST
Challenge Started
Application Deadline
23-Jan-2021, 6:00 pm IST
25-Jan-2021, 6:00 pm IST
Challenge Ended


Dreamcatcher is our mentorship program to help a child's career or educational dream come true. Whether it is a child's dream to become a scientist, an artist, or a law enforcement agent, we encourage all children to pursue their dreams by pairing them with a mentor that's an expert in their field with a shared passion or interest. Through this one-on-one mentorship program, we aim to provide positive and enriching experiences that they can carry with them through the rest of their lives to help increase their sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and confidence.
Who are our mentees?
Capture the Dream, Inc. serves children in elementary school to high school age who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, mainly in Oakland and San Francisco. Most of the population we serve comes from low-income families, single-parent households, or immigrant families. They show an aspiration to challenge the many hardships they face but need a special mentor they can trust and depend on to achieve their dreams.
Sponsor A Dream
Who are our mentors?
Capture the Dream, Inc. requires our mentors to go through an extensive background check and a rigorous interviewing process. Each child/mentor pair is supervised and supported by a Capture the Dream, Inc. staff member.
The screening and monitoring process for mentors includes:
What does the Dreamcatcher do?
The heart of the program is building a relationship between the student (mentee) and a carefully matched mentor. Together they set short-term and yearly goals that become milestones on their journey to achieve the mentee's dreams. We sponsor relevant rewards related to their dream such as academic supplies, sports equipment, and access to activities and resources that are often too expensive for their families to procure on their own.
Each Dreamcatcher match is a unique relationship. The mentor and mentee meet at least four hours every month to do things the student enjoys such as:
Mentorship Stories
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Below shows a complex example making use of value getters (using expressions) and class rules (again using expressions). The grid shows 'actual vs budget data and yearly total' for widget sales split by city and country.
- The Location column is showing the aggregation groups, grouping by city and country.
- The Monthly Data columns are affected by the context. Depending on the selected period, the data displayed is either actual (
x_act) or budgeted (
x_bud) data for the month (eg.
jan_actwhen Jan is green, or
jan_budwhen Jan is red). Similarly, the background color is also changed using class rules dependent on the selected period.
- sum(YTD) is the total of the 'actual' figures, i.e. adding up all the green. This also changes as the period is changed.
Notice that the example (including calculating the expression on the fly, the grid only calculates what's needed to be displayed) runs very fast (once the data is loaded) despite having over 6,000 rows.
This example is best viewed by opening it in a new tab.


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From SNIC Documentation
|Description||A knowledgebase of user oriented information in Swedish academic high performance computing.|
Snicdocs is the working name for the wiki you are now reading. Its purpose is to become the place for user oriented information in Swedish academic high performance computing. Some examples include:
- What computing resources are available.
- What storage solutions are available?
- What software is available where, and under what conditions?
- How can I use them?
- Who are the people I can get help from?
Snicdocs will also be used to advertise projects, services and activities within Swedish academic HPC.
The idea is that Snicdocs should contain information applicable across all centers in Sweden, and link to original source for documentation that is valid worldwide. And conversely, link to local pages at specific centres for information on local implementations that are is different enough to warrant special description. Consequentially, it is a goal to keep Snicdocs and local pages as empty as possible, and instead strive to remove special cases, harmonize solutions, and to work to improve upstream documentation so that everything works as expected worldwide. An added benefit is that a wiki with less words and special cases is both easier to read and to keep up to date.
The contents of this wiki is kept current by application and systems experts in the Swedish research and HPC communities, and members of the general public can contribute by asking questions and posting comments on the "Discussion" pages, which accompany every normal wiki page (see tab on top of page). Snicdocs uses browser client certificates for authorization of editors.
Snicdocs has cross-indexed and searchable information on a variety of topics, and presents it both in natural language and in dynamically generated, sortable views. Some features include:
- Certificate based authentication and authorization.
- Only staff can edit wiki pages, and only over https.
- The general public can post comments and questions to talk pages.
- Resource information
- Location and capabilities of academic resources for computation in Sweden.
- Information on storage solutions.
- Software information
- What software is available at which resource, and under what licensing conditions.
- How to get maximum performance out of this software in my HPC jobs.
- Where can I find more information on this software?
- Project information
- Lists of current projects within Swedish HPC.
- Purpose, description and progress within projects.
- Involved personnel.
- When will they be finished?
- Staff information
- Manuals and guides for using SweGrid.
- Managerial views for SNIC
- Who's salary is financed by SNIC?
- What SNIC projects are
Since the Snicdocs content contributors are distributed throughout Sweden, and opportunities for face-to-face meetings are infrequent, it is necessary for this system to be straightforward to keep current and consistent. Therefore, Snicdocs uses the widely known mediawiki software (used also by for example Wikipedia) with semantic mediawiki added for dynamic generation of content and for minimizing duplication of data. On top of this it requires well-defined scope and structure to ensure searchability and readability.
Most of the development of Snicdocs has gone into ensuring that best way to enter information into the wiki also is the easiest way, so that new data will be added in a readable, consistent, homogeneous and searchable manner. In practical terms this means determining useful category hierarchies for relevant topics, so that relevant pages can be found easily, and determining minimal useful sets of required information on pages within these topics, so that contributors can spend their time adding content rather than fulfilling arbitrary and sometimes inapplicable restrictions. Another major part has been writing reusable page templates and example pages for these topics, and to present sufficiently clear and concise editing guidelines so that our disparate and distributed editor community can still provide a homogeneous browsing experience for the users.
- Create a query listing all registered expertise
- Look into using the Arrays extension or the Semantic Bundle of extensions for this purpose
|Torben Rasmussen (NSC)||NSC||Application expert||Computational chemistry|
User:Joel Hedlund (NSC) is the lead developer of Snicdocs.
- Add support for denoting whether a person is to be considered on active duty. People not on active duty should not appear in dynamically generated lists, e.g. for expertise or staff.


Brazil scientists find signs of underground river
SAO PAULO (AP)? Brazilian scientists say they have found signs of a huge underground river flowing far beneath the Amazon River.
Valiya Hamza of Brazil's National Observatory says there are indications of a 3,700-mile (6,000-kilometer) long subterranean river located several thousand feet below the surface.
Hamza says the finding came from studying temperature variations at 241 inactive oil wells drilled in the 1970s and 1980s by Brazil's state-run oil company.
Hamza says the thermal information allowed his team of researchers to identify the movement of water 13,100 feet (4,000 meters) under the Amazon River.


Hydrogen fuel cells to power homes in the UK through pilot project
July 17, 2014 0 By Stephen Vagus
Hydrogen fuel powered homes
Pilot project aims to examine the viability of fuel cells
A new pilot project is being launched by property managers in the United Kingdom. Your Housing, Rykneld Homes, Housing 21, and South Essex Homes have come together to put hydrogen fuel cells to use in the residential sector. These energy systems have seen a small amount of use as residential energy systems outside of Japan. The pilot project aims to examine the viability of these energy systems and how they could be used to reduce energy consumption.
Interest in fuel cells is beginning to grow
The last time a fuel cell was used in a residential energy project was six years ago, when Black Country Housing made use of a fuel cell system to power property. While this particular initiative had generated some questions as to whether or not fuel cells could be effective residential energy systems, interest in these energy systems died out relatively quickly. With hydrogen fuel cells becoming very popular in the transportation sector, questions regarding their use in other sectors are beginning to circulate once again.
A single fuel cell system may be able to generate enough power for four homes
The pilot project will be managed by Spark, an energy company operating in the United Kingdom. Bluegen will provide the fuel cells needed for the pilot project. According to Spark, installing a fuel cell system in a single home costs approximately $40,000, but the energy system is capable enough to provide electrical power to four other homes. These energy systems also produce significant amounts of heat while generating electricity. This heat can be used for various purposed, such as heating water or simply providing heat for a home.
Japan sets an example in residential fuel cell use
In Japan, hydrogen fuel cells are becoming quite common in the residential space. These energy systems saw a great deal of use in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in 2010, when much of Japan's nuclear energy was shut off due to a major natural disaster. Japan may serve as an example as to how fuel cells can be used to power the residential sector in a more environmentally friendly way.


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Satellite Image of Lake Carnegie in Australia
Lansat 7 (15m) Satellite Image of Lake Carnegie in Australia
Click on image to view in high resolution.
Lake Carnegie is an ephemeral lake in Western Australia. It fills with water only during very rare periods of significant rainfall, such as during the huge 1900 floods and in numerous recent tropical wet seasons when the monsoon and tropical cyclones have been moved south by recent climate change. In dry years, it is reduced to a muddy marsh.
Water entering the lake, unlike in more easterly playas of the Australian arid zone, does not come from well-defined river channels since the soils of the region are so weathered – lacking tectonic or glacial activity since the Carboniferous ice ages – that sediment is completely absent and the terrain so flat that only the most unweatherable rocks remain on the surface and well-defined river channels cannot form especially since the extreme age of the soils and consequent high rooting density of native flora limits runoff to an extreme extent. Image credit: NASA/USGS

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How a sultan in the Ottoman Empire dined || Ottoman Empire Food
Famous Foods of Ottoman Empire's Era. All history about foods and dishes which are dined by Sultans Of Ottoman Empire.
Hi Guys In This Article I Well Show With " You History Of Ottoman Empirse Foods "
Between the 14th and 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire ruled vast swathes of Western Asia, Southeast Europe, and North Africa. Ottoman sultans lived lives of luxury and extravagance, and they loved to eat. Food was a big deal to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. Sultans stocked their kitchens with exotic spices and ingredients imported from all across their massive empire, as well as from trading partners like China and Persia. Today, we're going to take a look at how a sultan in the Ottoman Empire dined.
So let's talk turkey. Before we get to the specifics, you should know that the Ottoman sultans weren't big on sharing their culinary secrets with the rest of the world. For this reason,imperial cooks were forbidden from writing down their recipes. Some of these dishes, like baklava and Turkish coffee, are still popular mainstays of Turkish cuisine. But some were lost,and others have been difficult to reconstruct. Despite the sultan's best efforts at secrecy, some of their favorite foods and beverages are now commonly known. Many could even still be found on the streets of Istanbul today, over a century after the fall of the empire. Imagine being rich enough to have your own confectionery kitchen that would make treats for you on command. The Ottoman sultans had such Kitchens, and they specialized in making jams, juices, syrups, and sweets. The most famous and luxurious of which was baklava. Baklava dates back thousands of years, all the way to ancient Assyria, but it was the 15th century Ottomans who perfected the recipe. The oldest known references to the dessert came from notebooks written in the kitchen of Topkapi Palace in 1473.


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Greater sensitivity = longer range
Range is an important requirement for most any RF application. Long range achieved through greater receiver sensitivity is an envied position among RF product manufacturers. Extended range achieved in this fashion provides an excellent cost benefit to the customer. Digi achieves its long range with proprietary modulation and demodulation techniques coupled with one with of the best receiver sensitivity specifications in the market.
Receiver sensitivity is the lowest power level at which the receiver can detect an RF signal and demodulate data. Sensitivity is purely a receiver specification and is independent of the transmitter. As the signal propagates away from the transmitter, the power density of the signal decreases, making it more difficult for a receiver to detect the signal as the distance increases. Improving the sensitivity on the receiver (making it more negative) will allow the radio to detect weaker signals, and can dramatically increase the transmission range. Sensitivity is vitally important in the decision making process since even slight differences in sensitivity can account for large variations in the range. To better understand this relationship, the following example is provided.
Compare the Digi 9XStream radio (with -110 dBm sensitivity) to a commercial radio receiver with a sensitivity of -90 dBm. The Friis transmission formula can be used to calculate received power (or signal strength) at any receiver location under line-of-sight conditions. This formula is given by:
P R = [P T G T G R? 2 ] / [F S (4pr) 2 ]
P R = received power
P T = transmitted power
G T = gain of transmit antenna
G R = gain of receive antenna
F S = losses due to multipath, obstacles, etc.
? = wavelength
p = pi
r = distance between transmitter and receiver
The following values were used to compare the range limitations of these radios:
P T =100 mW
G T and G R =2 dB, or 1.585
F S = 21 dB, or 125.89 (experimentally determined)
? = 0.333 meters
The table below demonstrates the power received at the receiver over the specified range between the TX and RX antennas, assuming line-of-sight conditions.
Since the range doubles every -6 dB in line-of-sight conditions (-12 dB in urban environments), the 18 dB sensitivity difference in modules corresponds to 23= 8 times the range using the Digi wireless module!
In similar fashion, Digi wireless modules offer 32 times the range of -80 dBm modules and over 100 times the range of -70 dBm modules!


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During slow periods, you may only need to make one coffee at a time. But during peak time, you could be making numerous coffees every minute. Instead of using a separate jug for each coffee, the easiest and quickest solution is using one jug for numerous coffees.
When you prepare coffee using the one jug you don't want one coffee cup full and the next half empty. So how do you ensure you split the milk properly? It's all about managing your milk thickness or proportion of foam.
In this lesson, learn what 'splitting' milk means and how to split a jug of milk to make multiple coffee drinks.
This course is perfect for budding baristas or someone wanting to improve their skills and knowledge behind an espresso machine.
Hugh Kelly runs the research and development side of ONA Coffee, Canberra's largest specialty roaster, and supplier.


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When writing a PowerShell script, you are typically doing "something" with "something" and getting a result based on this "doing".
This is all well and good, but after you have gotten your result what do you do with the data? Two common scenarios are writing the result either to the screen or to a file. If the script is doing a lot of calculations, it's quite common to also give the user some kind of feedback while it's working, to indicate that it's actually doing what it's suppose to do and that it haven't stalled.
I have written a few blog post before about using a progress bar to give users visual feedback during long-running scripts. But after one of these posts, Brenton Blawat made me aware that using Write-Progress has it's price on overall script execution time. I was aware that writing anything to the screen is associated with some kind of overhead, but I decided to do some tests to see exactly how much overhead are generated doing different kinds of interaction to either the screen or when writing results to a file.
I wrote a script performing the following tests:
- Test 1 (m1) – The baseline. This test is just performing an easy calculation, but is otherwise not doing anything with the results.
- Test 2 (m2) – This test is using Write-Host to write the result of the calculations to the screen.
- Test 3 (m3) – This test is using Write-Output to write the output of the calculations.
- Test 4 (m4) – This test is saving the results of the calculations to an Array.
- Test 5 (m5) – This test is saving the results of the calculations to an ArrayList.
- Test 6 (m6) – This test is using Write-Progress to create a progress bar while doing the calculations.
- Test 7 (m7) – This test is writing the result of the calculations to a file, doing file writes after each calculation.
- Test 8 (m8) – This test is writing the results of the calculations to a file, but only writing the file after all the calculations are done. In the meantime the results are saved in an ArrayList.
I ran the script, using Measure-Command to take the measurement data, a total of 10 times; 5 times in PowerShell ISE and 5 times from the PowerShell console.
I then calculated the average value of each of the 5 runs per test, so that I could see if it made any difference whether the script was run in ISE or the console.
This is a chart of the result of my testing:
And here a a table of the average data that I collected. All values are in milliseconds.
What surprised me the most was that, although running the script in the console was marginally faster in almost all cases, the Write-Progress cmdlet was significantly slower in the console compared to running it in the ISE.
Other than that I think most of the results were as expected.
I think the lessons learned can be summed up thus:
- Use Write-Output instead of Write-Host
- Use ArrayList instead of Array
- Use as few disk writes as possible
- Only use Write-Progress if you absolutely must
This is the test script I used in case you want to test for yourself:


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NGO's Efficiency and Transparency Policy: The Colombian Case
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In recent years the influence of Colombian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in diverse social sectors of the country has increased. However, the legitimacy of this sector has been undermined by corruption. This distrust has questioned the efficiency of NGOs as social tools. Transparency as a mechanism against corruption and one of the tools that improves the functioning of an organization is considered. There is no doubt that Internet is an essential element in disseminating information to the different stakeholders of the organization.This paper sets out three main objectives: i) the analysis of information disclosure through the Internet of Colombian NGOs, ii) the analysis of the efficiency of these entities in reaching their social goals and, iii) the analysis of the online transparency effect in a greater efficiency of the Colombian NGOs.


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Overview - SURVIVAL SIGNS INDOOR & OUTDOOR SYMBOLS GAMES SET
The Indoor and Outdoor Survival Signs Symbols Games, developed by PCI's Janie Haugen-McLane, each teach 40 international symbols using an easy-to-play game format. Fun games allow students with limited reading skills to experience success as they build a functional understanding of survival signs. This understanding helps students travel safely and make informed decisions in their communities.
Students with limited or no reading skills may have a difficult time understanding the meaning of many community signs. By using only international symbols to teach common survival signs, these games allow students to explain the meanings of the symbols in their own words. For example, students may not be able to read "Beware of Dog," but they can state that the snarling dog pictured on the sign may be dangerous so they should stay away from that dog.
Before playing, students receive a two-page study guide with pictures of the 40 survival signs to review both in class and at home. The study guide has the international symbols and the words that are usually printed on each sign.
How the Games Work
Students place their playing pieces on the "Go" square of the game board. The first player rolls the 1-2-3 die and can move his or her playing piece in any direction. The player then looks at the number on the die again and refers to the question stand to see which question to answer. For example, a student who rolls a 2 must answer the number 2 question.
- What do you see on this sign?
- What does this sign mean?
- Where might you see this sign?
Roll Again Squares
When a player lands on a corner square on the game board where a die is pictured, he or she gets to roll the die again.
Each Game includes:
- Game Board (with 40 full-color international survival signs symbols)
- 1-2-3 game die
- Question Stand
- 6 Playing Pieces
- Teacher's Guide
- Reproducible Study Guide


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ABSTRACT: To investigate the change and effect of SSeCKS (src suppressed c kinase substrates) in the activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs). HSCs were isolated from normal rats, the change of SSeCKS mRNA expression on HSCs culture in vitro was determined using real-time PCR, protein level was determined by Western blot and immunofluorescence methods. A rat model of liver fibrosis was established. The expression and location of SSeCKS and alpha-SMA (alpha-smooth muscle actin) in liver tissues were detected by immunofluorescence methods. SSeCKS mRNA expression was low in freshly isolated HSCs cell and the expression increased in activated HSCs in vitro. In liver fibrosis tissue, the number of SSeCKS-positive cells was increased and these cells were distributed along the sinusoids which also contained alpha-SMA positive cells. The expression of SSeCKS was increased in activated HSCs in vitro. Therefore, SSeCKS may be involved in the liver inflammation and fibrosis.Zhonghua nei ke za zhi [Chinese journal of internal medicine] 08/2008; 47(7):570-3.
- Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology 02/2008; 16(1):57-8.


Heinrich, Hoeven Introduce National Bison Legacy Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. and John Hoeven, R-N.D. have announced that they are introducing bipartisan legislation, the National Bison Legacy Act, to make the American bison the national mammal of the United States.
The bill also recognizes the historical, cultural, and economic significance of the bison, the largest land mammal in America.
"The bison has been an important part of our culture for many generations, especially in New Mexico, across the West, and in Indian Country," said Sen. Heinrich. "Bison represent resiliency and are an enduring symbol of American strength and history. Recognizing the bison as our national mammal will properly celebrate how this iconic species has shaped our country's natural heritage."
"The bison is one of the most powerful and inspiring symbols of America and it is only fitting that it serve as our national mammal," Sen. Hoeven said. "The National Bison Legacy Act recognizes the cultural and economic importance of the bison in North Dakota and across our nation. The noble creatures truly reflect the frontier spirit and rugged strength of our nation."
More than 40 million bison once roamed across most of North America. However, by the late 1800s, fewer than one thousand bison remained.
In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt and the American Bison Society led an effort to save bison from extinction by establishing a captive breeding program at the Bronx Zoo. Within a few years, the program, and others like it, were already successfully establishing bison back into its native habitat.


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This bitmap format is used in the Kodak DC series family of cameras. It is also known under the name Kodak Photogen. KDC is a RAW photo format for the post-processing of photos that has the ability to change key image parameters while maintaining the original level of detail.
This format is used to store background images in uncompressed form in the X Windows System user interface for remote server maintenance. It stores a 'dump' or screenshot of the window or background of the client program. It may include different colors depending on the capabilities of the graphics card that is used to create the XWD file.


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Definition of short order in English:
An order or dish of food which can be quickly prepared and served: a short order of souvlaki [as modifier]: I'm a short-order cook
More example sentences
- I grabbed my fiberglass tray, slid it on down to the short-order cook and placed my order.
- He then became a short-order cook, often working one or two other jobs.
- A short-order cafeteria at the base serves burgers, brats, and fries; on weekends look for the open-air barbecue at the base of Marge's Triple.
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text: Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric analytical methodology widely used in efficiency measurement of decision making units (DMUs). Conventionally, after identifying the efficient frontier, each DMU is compared to this frontier and classified as efficient or inefficient. This thesis introduces the most productive scale size (MPSS), and antimost productive scale size (AMPSS), and proposes several models to calculate various distances between DMUs and both frontiers. Specifically, the distances considered in this paper include: (1) both the distance to MPSS and the distance to AMPSS, where the former reveals a unit's potential opportunity to become a best performer while the latter reveals its potential risk to become a worst performer, and (2) both the closest distance and the farthest distance to frontiers, which may proved different valuable benchmarking information for units. Subsequently, based on these distances, eight efficiency indices are introduced to rank DMUs. Due to different distances adopted in these indices, the efficiency of units can be evaluated from diverse perspectives with different indices employed. In addition, all units can be fully ranked by these indices.


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Mom's Viral Photo Shows That Breast Milk Comes In Many Colors
While the milk that you pour over your cereal may always be bright white, breastmilk isn't quite so monochromatic. Depending on when it comes out, it can come in a variety of colors — not all of them are variations of white. This mom's full spectrum photo shows the many shades of breast milk because your "liquid gold" doesn't always look the same — and that's okay!
Nursing moms may not see enough of their milk to know what color it is, aside from that lovely bit that leaks out of the opposite side or comes out as spit-up post-feeding. But if you were to pump instead of just breastfeeding, you would see that milk from various stages of pumping, as well as times of day, affect the color of your milk. Diet, medication, and a number of other factors can influence the color of breast milk, according to Very Well Family, and there are a lot of different shades of "normal."
In order to raise awareness of what these colors can look like, a breastfeeding mom and the voice behind the popular Facebook and Instagram page, One Ounce at a Time, Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra, appropriately posted a photo of three bottles of her milk on July 4. These bottles all came from one pumping session, she told Cafe Mom, and were red, white, and blue respectively.
The red milk is often referred to as "strawberry milk," and as Anderson-Sierra explained it is tinted red by blood in the milk. As reported, the red tinge can come from a clog being dislodged and rupturing a blood vessel — as it was in Anderson-Sierra's case — a cracked nipple, or "rusty pipe syndrome," which is when ducts and milk supply cells grow and stretch after your baby is born. Anderson-Sierra told Romper that she "wanted to share that most likely, any color variation experienced is normal, though having blood in your milk (strawberry milk) is alarming, it is still safe to feed to your baby." However, moms may want to seek medical care to find out the source of the blood if they are concerned. She wrote:
If it is nipple damage, seek treatment options. If it's within the breast tissue, use gentle massage and a cold or warm compress depending on if you need to reduce swelling or get milk to release from ducts. Keep your milk ducts clear and empty! Blood can coagulate and cause additional clogs, leading to more serious problems.
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Amy Barron Smolinski, MA, ALC, CLC Executive Director, Mom2Mom Global — a national nonprofit organization dedicated to support, education, and advocacy for breastfeeding military families — told Romper that pinkish or brownish tinged milk is not generally a concern, as long as it comes out of the breast that color:
The only time pink milk is a medical concern is if it comes out of the breast looking like "normal" — white, yellow, creamy, or thin bluish — and changes to a bright pink or magenta color over time after being expressed. Sometimes this is seen in bottles of expressed milk, sometimes the parents will notice the burp rags are stained with pink after baby has spit up on them. This can indicate the presence of Serratia marascens, an infectious bacteria that requires antibiotics.
The white milk shown in the photo is less surprising, and a bit of blood seems plausible for red milk, but where in the world does blue breast milk come from? Well, Anderson-Sierra has an answer for that too. She explained in her post that this blue milk is "foremilk" or the first milk to come out during a feeding session. It "can have a blue tint to it as it is lacking in the heavier fat content of hindmilk," which is the milk that comes at the end, according to her post. Additionally, she wrote that if you consume "...foods with dyes like Gatorade or colored frosting you may see the dyes affecting the color of your milk."
Smolinski told Romper that there is another possible explanation for "bluish" milk: higher water content. "[This] is common when the baby needs more hydration, such as hot weather, or desert conditions," she says. "It's usually thinner and watery." Smolinski added that "it's important for parents to realize that even though this milk has lower fat content than more yellowish or creamy milk, it is still very beneficial for the baby." Like Anderson-Sierra, Smolinski assured Romper that slightly colored milk is usually "completely within the spectrum of normal." But, if a parent has any concerns, she urges them to contact a trained lactation professional.
Along with the colors that Anderson-Sierra included in her post, Very Well Family reported that breast milk can be tinted white, yellow, clear, blue, green, pink, orange, brown, and black — wow, talk about variety. Not all of the colors of breastmilk are completely normal, though. For example, black breastmilk is the result of a particular antibiotic that should not be taken while breastfeeding, according to Very Well Family. But Anderson-Sierra is urging moms not to panic over milk that looks a little out of the ordinary. Don't throw it out just because of a little bit of red color. After all, "Breast milk is truly liquid gold and we work hard for it. A labor of love, blood, sweat, and tears."


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Medicaid is the largest payer for maternity care in the United States. The program has an important role to play in improving maternal and perinatal health outcomes. Timely postpartum visits provide an opportunity to assess a woman's physical recovery from pregnancy and childbirth.
Postpartum visits provide an opportunity to address:
- Chronic health conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension
- Mental health status, including postpartum depression
- Family planning, including contraception and inter-conception counseling
Explore the percentage of women delivering a live birth who had a timely postpartum care visit in each state. Higher rates are better on this measure.
The purple dashed line represents the median, or middle, of all values reported.
This measure reports state performance on the percentage of deliveries of live births during the measurement year with a postpartum care visit on or between 21 and 56 days after delivery.
States voluntarily report on Prenatal & Postpartum Care: Postpartum Care (PPC-AD) as part of the Core Set of Adult Health Care Quality Measures. These data show performance rates for states that voluntarily reported the measure using Adult Core Set measure specifications.
The included populations and calculation methods for Adult Core Set measures can vary by state. For example, some states include populations in certain programs, such as beneficiaries covered by Medicaid, but exclude beneficiaries in other programs, such as those dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. In addition, states may include beneficiaries in some delivery systems, but exclude other delivery systems. For example, a state may include beneficiaries who are enrolled in managed care, but exclude beneficiaries who are covered on a fee-for-service (FFS) basis. States can also choose to calculate this measure using the administrative or hybrid method. This variation in populations and calculation methods can affect measure performance and comparisons between states.
Source: Mathematica analysis of Medicaid and CHIP Program System (MACPro) reports for the Adult Core Set Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2019 reporting cycle as of May 31, 2020; see 2019 Child and Adult Health Care Quality Measures. For more information on the Postpartum Care (PPC-AD) measure, visit Adult Health Care Quality Measures.
The following states did not report data to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for this measure: AK, AR, AZ, GA, IA, ID, ME, MT, ND, NE, SD, and VT.
The Adult Core Set specifications include guidance for calculating this measure using the administrative method or the hybrid method. The hybrid method uses a combination of administrative and medical records data to identify services included in the numerator or to determine exclusions from the denominator based on diagnoses or other criteria. Unless otherwise specified, administrative data sources are the state's Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) and/or data submitted by managed care plans; medical record data sources are paper and/or electronic health records.
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- States used Adult Core Set specifications, based on National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) 2019 specifications. The following state used NCQA 2018 specifications: OR.
- Denominators are assumed to be the measure-eligible population for states using the administrative method; states using the hybrid method often reported the sample size for the medical chart review rather than the measure-eligible population. Some states reported exclusions from the denominator, as noted in the state-specific comments.
- The measurement period for this measure was November 1, 2017 to November 30, 2018. IN reported data for CY 2018.
ACO = Accountable Care Organization; AHRQ = Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; CCO = Coordinated Care Organization; CHIP = Children's Health Insurance Program; CMS = Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; CMO = Care Management Organization; CY = Calendar Year; ED = Emergency Department; EHR = Electronic Health Record; EQRO = External Quality Review Organization; FFS = Fee for Service; FFY = Federal Fiscal Year; HEDIS = Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set; HMO = Health Maintenance Organization; ICD = International Classification of Diseases; LOINC = Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes; MACPro = Medicaid and CHIP Program System; MCO = Managed Care Organization; MMIS = Medicaid Management Information System; NCQA = National Committee for Quality Assurance; NR = Not Reported; PCCM = Primary Care Case Management; PCP = Primary Care Practitioner.


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The physical geography of an area has an enormous impact on the life of the people in that place. One of the most basic effects is what grows there. The available vegetation affects the lifestyle of the people in two important ways. First, it guides how they meet their basic needs. It also influences connections with other groups as contact for trade expands their activities.


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Web-based communities have become a place for millions to seek and share expertise. This talk will present findings drawn from several online question-answer (QA) forums. We find that QA forums are frequently used to seek out support and conversation, in addition to factual expertise. Where the type of expertise exchanged is primarily factual, one can identify experts both through network-based ranking algorithms and user supplied ratings. The users themselves respond to point and monetary incentives in addition to the altruistic motives of helping and correcting others. Finally, we find that on the individual level, participation can be highly intermittent, but that the users who stay active tend to specialize and adopt strategies for gathering points. These and other insights have significant implications for future knowledge generating online communities.
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I have a trivial question, but I hope that you don't mind helping. I often get confused with basic definitions.
Let F be a p-adic field. Then (from what I understand) $C_c^{\infty}(F)$ is the set of functions $f: F \to \mathbb{C}$ such that $f$ is locally constant and $f$ has compact support. Is the locally constant part the same as smooth or continuous (the $\infty$)? What exactly does smooth mean in this case?
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In the $p$-adic setting, smooth = locally constant. This is not the same as continuous. – Kevin Ventullo May 7 '11 at 23:27
If $F$ is a local field, then there is a continuous surjective map from $F$ to the Cantor set, but such a map can't be smooth. – S. Carnahan May 8 '11 at 1:51
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A function $f : F \to \mathbb{C}$ is said to be smooth provided that $f$ is invariant under translation by some open subgroup of $F$ (hence by some compact open subgroup). Notice that when $f$ has compact support, this is equivalent to requiring that $f$ be locally constant. I don't have time to cook up a counterexample at the moment (nor do I have one readily available, which I suppose is a problem), but without the compact support assumption this is definitely a stronger condition than locally constant.
More generally, if $\pi : F \to GL(V)$ is a complex representation of the additive (topological) group of $F$, a vector $v \in V$ is called smooth provided that there exists an open subgroup of $F$ which fixes $v$. Taking $V$ to be the space of all functions $f : F \to \mathbb{C}$ with the action of $F$ given by translations, one arrives at the definition above.
This is relevant when, for example, one studies induced representations of $p$-adic groups.
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Yes, you're right about the distinction between invariant by an open subset and locally constant. Sorry for my mistake. – Joël Cohen May 8 '11 at 4:23
Justin, for a locally constant but not uniformly locally constant function, just consider a sum of characteristic functions of balls with radii tending to 0, and centres wandering around (i.e., no cluster points). – L Spice May 8 '11 at 18:06
_USER_ Spice: Yes, I was picturing something like this but didn't want to trust my intuition in this non-Archimedean setting... – Justin Campbell May 8 '11 at 21:22
Actually I was rather sloppy: "wandering around" doesn't suggest the need to go very far, but the local compactness of $\mathbb Q_p$ means that I should have said that we were considering balls with centres tending to $\infty$. (I have at least avoided referring to the centre of a ball, that being an eminently Archimedean concept.) – L Spice May 9 '11 at 2:21
Smooth in this setting by definition means locally constant.
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So if differentiable means that $f'(x)$ exists, does it imply that infinitely differentiable = locally constant? – Ho Chung Siu May 8 '11 at 3:26
Actually, f′(x) does not make much sense since $f(x) \in \mathbb{C}$ and $x \in \mathbb{Q}_p$. – Joël Cohen May 8 '11 at 4:14
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smooth + compactly supported = locally constant + compactly supported
In this context, smooth means continuous with regards to the discrete topology on $\mathbb{C}$, meaning we just look at the algebraic structure of $\mathbb{C}$ (and we could just as well use $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ instead). This is why smooth representations are sometimes also called algebraic in old litterature.
And as to why this is denoted $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$, the only plausible explanation I could think of is an analogy with the case of real groups. I'd be glad if someone could provide an explanation.
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To acquire some sense of differential calculus over fields other than the standard real or complex (topological) fields, one might start by getting acquainted with this paper or other similar contributions of the same authors. Every topological field can be considered as a "topologized" module over the discrete topological ring $\mathbb Z$. So it is meaningfull to speak of differentiability and smoothness of maps between any topological fields in the BGN−sense. However, then the important determination axiom (see iii, p. 8 in the referred paper) is not satisfied, and so there need not be any uniquely determined derivatives.
The basic definition goes as follows. Consider a map $f:E\supseteq U\to F$ where $E,F$ are topologized modules over the topological ring $\boldsymbol R$ and $U$ is open in $E$. Writing $g^{[0]}=f$ and $U^{[0]}=U$ and $E^{[0]}=E$, recursively define $U^{[i+1]}=(U^{[i]})^{[1]}$ where $V^{[1]}=\{(w,z,t):w,w+tz\in V\}$, and $E^{[i+1]}=(E^{[i]})^{[1]}$ where $G^{[1]}=G\times G\times\boldsymbol R$ and the operation "$\times$" refers to the particular topologized module product inherent in the BGN−axioms. Then $f$ is smooth if there exists a sequence $g^{[i]}:E^{[i]}\supseteq U^{[i]}\to F$ of maps satisfying the property that $g^{[i]}(w+tz)=g^{[i]}(w)+tg^{[i+1]}(w,z,t)$ holds for $(w,z,t)\in U^{[i+1]}$. The maps $g^{[i]}$ need not be unique when the determination axiom is not satisfied.
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But the point here is that $\mathbb{C}$ is not an $F$-algebra. So there's no calculus involved when studying smooth complex (or $l$-adic) representations of a $p$-adic group. Now when you're interested in $p$-adic representations of $p$-adic groups, that a whole different story (and your paper is indeed useful for that case). – Joël Cohen May 8 '11 at 12:46
"So there's no calculus involved when studying smooth complex (or $l$-adic) representations of a $p$-adic group." Why then use such misleading phrases as $C^\infty$, "smooth"? You already referred to this in you answer. $C^\infty$ and "smooth" in the sense of some kind of differentiability are meaningfull only when basically speaking of a map $f:X\supseteq U\to Y$ where $X,Y$ are (topological or otherwise suitably structured) modules over the same (structured) ring, or more specifically, a field. – TaQ May 8 '11 at 17:56
TaQ: The word "smooth" does not mean anything about differentiability in the context of functions from p-adic fields to the complex numbers. Why use such a misleading term? The functions one cares about in the classical setting (complex domain, complex codomain) are genuinely smooth, so we simply adopt the word smooth to refer to the relevant class of functions in the new setting (p-adic domain, complex codomain) even though it really is not as calculus-like as you might wish. As von Neumann would say, you just get used to it. – KConrad May 8 '11 at 23:31
I edited my answer to explain that it is meaningfull to speak of differentiability of maps between $p$-adic and the complex field. (Unfortunately, the latex server did not manage to do its job properly although I checked that the code is correct!) So the language "one is used to" really is confusing. – TaQ May 9 '11 at 7:55
TaQ: where has the notion of differentiability of maps from Q_p to C which you are advertising been used in applications (i.e., not in papers just about definitions)? Continuous homomorphisms from the additive group Q_p to C* are locally constant, and this illustrates why continuous locally constant functions are the basic functions of interest from p-adic domains to archimedean domains. Look at Tate's thesis for a nontrivial application of these concepts. You're not going to get people to change terminology at this point. – KConrad May 9 '11 at 12:47
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However, in cases where the premises were not lawfully sublet a subtenant could not avail himself of this protection. In Dhalomal v. Pupulampu for instance, the court stated that if you want to take advantage of this protection then you must prove that the premises were lawfully let to you.
For instance, where there is a rule against subletting without the consent of the landlord and the tenant breaches this rule by subletting without the landlord's consent, then the subletting is not lawful and the tenant cannot take advantage of the protection afforded subtenant's under this rule.
h) Ghana Rent Laws (Rent Control Act and the Rent Act)
The eighth rule is that you have to elect whether you want to pursue your case under the Rent Act or the Rent Control Act. Cases like Koranteng and ors v. Agyemang [1989-90] 1 GLR 130-133 have suggested that a landlord or tenant has the option of commencing his action in the rent office or the rent or housing committee.
If the action is commenced at the rent office, then it is a matter commenced under the Rent Act and it will naturally progress to the courts but if it is commenced at the rent or housing committee, then it is a matter commenced under the Rent Control Act and it will progress to the tribunals. Prior to the enactment of the Rent Control Act, the Rent Act, and the Court Act regulated all landlord and tenant cases.
However, with the advent of the Rent Control Act, the Regional Tribunals were also given the power to try cases of landlord and tenant.
The Practice
In practice, however, the landlord or tenant can only commence an action under the Rent Act as the institutions set up to deal with landlord-tenant issues under the Rent Control Act namely the rent or housing committee and the tribunals are obsolete thereby rendering the Rent Control Act otiose or ineffective.
i) Limitation on the recovery of rent arrears
The ninth rule is that a landlord or tenant is prohibited from bringing an action under the Rent Act to recover arrears of rent or damages arising from the arrears after the expiration of six(6) years from the date on which the arrears became due.
j) Procedure for making complaints
The tenth rule is that the Rent Act sets out a procedure for making complaints. A landlord, tenant or any person interested in premises can make a complaint to a rent officer who is required to investigate the complaints and determine the same.
A determination by a rent officer is enforceable if the Rent Magistrate is satisfied with the findings and conclusions of the rent officer. That notwithstanding, the Rent Act and its Regulations do not give the rent officer the power to decide any matter, that power rests solely with the Rent Magistrate.
The Regulations require that the enforcement be made by a Rent Magistrate upon a referral from a rent officer. Therefore the rent officer's determination is subject to the Rent Magistrate's assent.
In Woode v. Dadson [1976] 2 GLR 185-189 an issue arose as to whether the jurisdiction of the Rent Magistrate who has the same powers as a District Magistrate was limited to claims not exceeding 2000 cedis.
The court held that it had jurisdiction in all civil matters involving landlord and tenant. Therefore the jurisdiction of the Rent Magistrate in landlord and tenant cases is limitless regardless of the amount involved.
The key takeaways from this article (on Ghana rent laws) are that there are statutory and common law rules which govern every lease or tenancy agreement whether oral or in writing.
Thus, it is imperative that you acquaint yourself with these Ghana rent laws so that at the appropriate time, you can avail yourself of some of its protections or use them as a sword to seek redress.
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Fire, water, air and earth are at the heart of Crazy Machines Elements. Not only are these element experiments appearing in this amateur inventor game for the first time, but this title is also making its debut on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
Players can also use lots of new parts besides the elements, including cloud machines, pinwheels and flamethrowers.
Crazy Machines Elements has three game modes. In Puzzle mode, players must finish 100 partially-built chain reaction machines using the parts specified to accomplish the various tasks. Inventors can create true chain reaction marvels that obey the laws of physics and not only satisfy the requirements of the task, but also demand some serious brain power, inventiveness and physical out-of-the-box thinking.
An example of the fun: A ball knocks a candle over which then heats the water in a steam boiler, which in turn slowly starts moving a rope attached to it. The action of the rope rotates a grindstone tied to the other end, which rubs against another stone to generate a spark which lights the fireworks. Players can tinker with a variety of other crazy machines awaiting them in each chapter.
Budding inventors can unlock numerous challenges by solving puzzles where they complete tasks using the fewest number of parts in the shortest time; there are as many ways to achieve a particular task as there are parts available. Crazy Machines also has an editor in which players can build and try out their own crazy machines!
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How to insert squared or any other specific symbol on Mac computer?
Even simple operations on a computer can sometimes be frustrating. For example: you may be typing an email and wish to use the squared symbol that you cannot find on the keyboard or within the editor. This particular example is a frequent problem that many people encounter. As it is not a significant issue, there is actually little information on how to find this elusive symbol.
Rather than having to browse through various forums and websites, we describe in this simple guide how to use the keyboard to type special characters.
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How to insert various symbols
To begin, we will learn how to insert miscellaneous symbols on a Mac computer through most applications. Some apps include their own editors with an insert symbol function, however, these might not have the symbol you are seeking. As a solution, you can access the Mac OS default symbol list by simply clicking the Control, Command, and Spacebar combination. This shortcut will launch a Character viewer, which includes many different symbols (including the squared symbol). The squared symbol is under the 'Digits - All' section. If you cannot find this category in left sidebar, click the Gear icon to enable it.
How to insert squared symbol in Pages app
In the Pages app, it is easy to access the squared symbol. Enter the number and followed by the '2' digit. For example, 452. Then highlight the '2' by dragging over it, or holding down shift and pressing the arrow left. Click Format in the menu at top of the screen, select Font, and then choose Baseline. Locate Superscript, which changes the '2' into a squared symbol. Beneath Superscript, the Subscript option allows you to enter logarithms.
How to insert squared symbol in Mail app
To enter specific symbols in Messages or Mail applications, the method is similar to that used for the Pages app. Type the text or number, and then add an additional digit '2'. Highlight the '2', click Edit in the menu at the top of the screen and look for Emojis & Symbols (or Special Characters for earlier Mac OS versions). This will open the same Character Viewer window as in the shortcut described above (the shortcut also works here).
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Orange flavoured biscuits topped with bright orange icing and a simple chocolate icing. These easy biscuits will make you smile.
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 3. Add the egg to the mixture and beat together. Add the flour to bring together as a dough.
 4. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate it for at least 15 minutes.
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 6. Flour the work surface and then roll the dough gently, using a floured rolling pin, until about 0.5cm/¼in thick.
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A descendant of the Native Hawaiians, Akaka is currently the only member of the Senate with Chinese ancestry. He is famous for his dedication and role in human rights affairs.
Born in 1924 in Hawaii to parents of Native Hawaiian descent, Senator Daniel Akaka currently serves as the only member of the Senate who also has a Chinese lineage. He was a civilian worker before becoming an active member of the U.S. Army and later served with the Army's Corps of Engineers during World War II. As Chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, he oversaw issues that dealt with the American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native populations. People credit his success to his contributions and continued involvement with the Japanese American community.


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Don Brown, Author, Don Brown, Illustrator Roaring Brook Press $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-041-9
In this rather disappointing picture book biography, Brown (Mack Made Movies) spotlights the early years of Native American Olympian athlete Jim Thorpe through to his participation in the 1912 Olympics. He was born on land belonging to the Sac and Fox Indians in 1888, and called Wa-tho-huck, meaning Bright Path. The author covers a lot of ground here, and though readers learn a lot about Jim's life, they don't get much of a sense of his character. The first few spreads establish the boy's love of the outdoors, growing up on his family's Oklahoma farm. At six, he was sent to a boarding school for Indian children where he was ""taught to act and dress like white people."" Before the age of 13, his mother died, and eventually Jim's father sent him to a ""military strict"" Indian school in Pennsylvania, where he felt ""like a quail in a cornstalk snare."" But it was there that, on a lark, Jim tried to clear the high-jump bar and wound up breaking the school record, turning him onto track and football. At the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, he won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon. (A concluding note fills in details of Thorpe's later years and being stripped of his medals, a decision that was reversed in 1973.) In trying to cover such an expanse of events, the narrative sacrifices depth, and the artwork seems less crafted here than in Brown's other works. Ages 5-9.
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By John Bent Jr. (MSW)
Advanced Sound Walking
It is a well documented fact, that almost all the sound effects used in theatre in the 1950s were chickens. Chickens clucking, chickens pecking, chickens flying (science would later discover that chickens can not in fact fly), and chickens cooking. In fact Sound Walking wasn't even called Sound Walking in the 1950's. It was known as "Dodging the Chicken".
Jack Apogee would have only have dealt with chicken sounds, and as a result, his repertoire of walking techniques was small. But today there are many sound effects, like thunder, automobiles, and flatulence.
This chapter shall deal with the advances in walking sound, and the many strides modern sound walking has taken.
Jack Apogee dodging the chickens
Designer – Walker Communication
Many aspects of technical theatre were borrowed from other sources, and one of these sources is the navy. Knot tying, rigging, wigs, and the underwear parade, are deep, rich naval traditions.
So when Sound Walkers found it difficult to take instructions from their designers, it was a naval technique that saved the day. Semaphore.
A Sound Designer on leave from HMS Sussex
Although the semaphore used in modern sound walking has it's roots in the navy, it was updated to suit the sound designer and sound walker's needs. Naval Semaphore is nothing but an alphabet, but because most Sound Walkers can't read, let alone spell, the Navy's semaphore just wouldn't do. Here are some examples of Semaphore for Sound Levels or "Flagging the Walker".
A Sound Walker Pretending to know how to read.
Examples of Flagging the Walker
Due to the rising cost of gaff tape, modern day theatres are reducing the set up time for shows. Where crews used to have weeks to set up a show, now they only have days. In the future, sound levels will be set during the closing performance of the previous show.
Crews have had to learn to multitask in order to utilise the time given. It's not enough to just be a sound walker any more. While walking sound, you may be asked to sew buttons on a costume, paint a piece of scenery, or choreograph the 2nd act. You must evolve to keep up with the times.
The Multitasking Sound Booth
Many new products on the market will help with this new "Time Crunch" that is infecting modern theatre. Here are some examples…
Why set levels on only 1 cue at a time when you can do 2?
This machine produces ideas on how to save overtime.
It costs 19 million dollars.
Sound Walking And Choreography
Try and ignore the distractions
Sound Walkers Diet
A lot of pressure has been put on sound walkers in recent years to slim down. High frequency sound waves are better represented on stage through thinner sound walkers.
Many of the sound walkers of the past were very large people who would trade their shiny beads in for greasy breakfasts in the theatre's cafeteria.
The 1956 "Sound walker Special" at the Lincoln Center
This new "Thinner Sound walker" movement has created a lot of controversy. "How thin is too thin" and "Respect the large walker" and "Give me back my fucking bacon" have been the cries heard from the N.A.S.W.A. in recent years.
Not only has the health of the sound walker come into question, but this new "Walk the thin line" call from producers has cost many sound walkers their sponsorships. "No more beads for you thin bastards" is the reply from long time sponsors McDonalds, Burger King, and Uncle Deans Deep Fried Pork Skins.
Eating to be thin has cost many a sound walker their sponsorships.
The next chapter will deal with instructions for certification through a correspondence course, including all forms necessary to complete your sound walker accreditation.
For more information on Sound Walking visit your local library or call the Apogee Sound Walking Institute at 1-800-Loudwalk.
Sound Walker Student During Examination at the
Apogee Sound Walking Institute in south-western Greenland
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A 1957 Dutch auction in Germany to sell fruits
A Dutch auction is a type of auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price, or a predetermined reserve price (the seller's minimum acceptable price) is reached. The winning participant pays the last announced price. This is also known as a clock auction or an open-outcry descending-price auction.
This type of auction is convenient when it is important to auction goods quickly, since a sale never requires more than one bid. Theoretically, the bidding strategy and results of this auction are equivalent to those in a sealed first-price auction.
Auction process[edit]
In a Dutch auction, the item being sold is initially offered at a very high price, well in excess of the amount the seller expects to receive. Bids are not sealed, as they are in some types of auctions. The price is lowered in decrements until a bidder accepts the current price. That bidder wins the auction and pays that price for the item. For example, suppose a business is auctioning off a used company car. The bidding may start at $15,000. The bidders will wait as the price is successively reduced to $14,000, $13,000, $12,000, $11,000 and $10,000. When the price reaches $10,000, Bidder A decides to accept that price and, because he is the first bidder to do so, wins the auction and has to pay $10,000 for the car.
Dutch auctions are a competitive alternative to a traditional auction, in which bids of increasing value are made until a final selling price is reached, because due to ever-decreasing bids buyers must act decisively to name their price or risk losing to a lower offer. [1]
A second price auction[edit]
There is some confusion over terminology. Some financial commentators and some third-party auction sites use the term Dutch auction to refer to second-price auctions, which are different from Dutch auctions.
In a second price auction, the seller offers more than one identical item for sale, so that there may be more than one winning bidder. Each bidder can bid for all the items or only some of them, and publicly indicates the price that he/she is willing to pay for each item. However, all winning bidders need to pay only the lowest qualifying (successful) bid. If there are more successful bids than items available, priority goes to the bidders who submitted their bids first.
In order to beat a competing bidder, one must bid a higher price per item than that competitor, regardless of the number of items that are being bid for. Here is an example of how this might work:
The seller auctions 5 identical items.
 1. Bidder "High" bids for 4 items at $21 each.
 2. Bidder "Mid" bids for 2 items at $20 each.
 3. Bidder "Low" bids for 3 items at $18 each.
The outcome of this auction would be:
 1. Bidder "High" wins all the items they sought (qty 4), at $20 each.
 2. Bidder "Mid" wins 1 of the 2 items they sought (because no more remain), also at $20 each.
The price is $20 because that was the lowest successful bid (hence the second price). Since Bidder "Mid" was only awarded 1 item, and his original bid was for 2 items, he has the right to refuse the purchase of that partial amount. As a winning bidder, you have the right to refuse paying only if you are awarded less than the number of the items you were bidding on. If this were a Dutch Auction, the first bid made wins the item, regardless of value.
Public offerings[edit]
The United States Department of the Treasury, through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), raises funds for the U.S. Government using a Dutch auction.[citation needed] The FRBNY interacts with primary dealers, including large banks and broker-dealers who submit bids on behalf of themselves and their clients using the Trading Room Automated Processing System (TRAPS), and are generally told of winning bids within fifteen minutes.
For example, suppose the sponsor of the issuance is seeking to raise $10 billion in ten-year notes with a 5.125% coupon and in aggregate the bids are as follows:
 - $1.00 billion at 5.115% (highest bid)
 - $2.50 billion at 5.120%
 - $3.50 billion at 5.125%
 - $4.50 billion at 5.130%
 - $3.75 billion at 5.135%
 - $2.75 billion at 5.140%
 - $1.50 billion at 5.145% (lowest bid)
In this example the % at high is 66.66%, meaning only $3 billion of the $4.5 billion at 5.130% will get bonds. Bids will be filled from the lowest yield (highest price) until the entire $10 billion has been raised. This auction will clear at a yield of 5.130%, and all bidders will pay the same amount. In theory, this feature of the Dutch auction format leads to more aggressive bidding as those who in this case bid 5.115% will receive the bonds at the higher yield (lower price) of 5.130%.
A variation on the Dutch auction, OpenIPO, was developed by WR Hambrecht and has been used for 19 IPOs in the US. Auctions have been used for hundreds of IPOs in more than two dozen countries, but have not been popular with issuers and thus were replaced by other methods. One of the largest uniform price or "Dutch" auction IPOs was for Singapore Telecom in 1994. The 1994 auction IPO of Japan Tobacco was substantially larger (with proceeds more than double those of Singapore Telecom and triple those of Google), but this auction was discriminatory or pay-what-you-bid, not uniform price or "Dutch". SRECTrade.com uses a two-sided Dutch auction to trade Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs).
Dutch auction share repurchases[edit]
The introduction of the Dutch auction share repurchase in 1981 allows firms an alternative to the fixed price tender offer when executing a tender offer share repurchase. The first firm to utilize the Dutch auction was Todd Shipyards. A Dutch auction offer specifies a price range within which the shares will ultimately be purchased. Shareholders are invited to tender their stock, if they desire, at any price within the stated range. The firm then compiles these responses, creating a supply curve for the stock.[2] The purchase price is the lowest price that allows the firm to buy the number of shares sought in the offer, and the firm pays that price to all investors who tendered at or below that price. If the number of shares tendered exceeds the number sought, then the company purchases less than all shares tendered at or below the purchase price on a pro rata basis to all who tendered at or below the purchase price. If too few shares are tendered, then the firm either cancels the offer (provided it had been made conditional on a minimum acceptance), or it buys back all tendered shares at the maximum price.
See also[edit]
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 2. ^ To understand the Dutch auction bidding and outcome from actual shareholder tendering responses, see Bagwell, Laurie Simon, "Dutch Auction Repurchases: An Analysis of Shareholder Heterogeneity,". 1992. Journal of Finance, Vol. 47, No. 1, 71–105.


Definition of Efficacy:
 1. Performance. Before embarking on these changes, we need to evaluate their effectiveness in achieving the desired results. If we do not believe that change will help, we will have to reconsider our plans.
 2. Ability to achieve the desired or desired result.
 3. Medicine: The ability of medicines or vaccines to support, treat or prevent an illness or disease.
Synonyms of Efficacy
Potency, Successfulness, Success, Productiveness, Fruitfulness, Efficacy, Power
How to use Efficacy in a sentence?
 1. To test the effectiveness of a new drug, it is usually given to the control group and another group of people through a placebo.
 2. The processor server is angry with its supervisors: the seemingly unnecessary restrictions on the way of driving and its operation mean that its capacity is far below its capabilities.
 3. Very little is known about the effectiveness of this treatment.
 4. Managers consider safety and performance when meeting and exceeding monthly quotas. Capacity is not just about getting things done quickly, but also about getting things done effectively.
Meaning of Efficacy & Efficacy Definition


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heavily percussive style of blues piano in which the right hand plays riffs (syncopated, repeating phrases) against a driving pattern of repeating eighth notes (ostinato bass). It began to appear at the beginning of the 20th century and was associated with the southwestern stateshence its early names, fast Western style and Western rolling blues. Its bass figures are believed to derive from the running sequence of guitar accompaniment.
Boogie-woogie was played in honky-tonks and rent parties on the South Side of Chicago in the 1920s but gained national attention only in the late 1930s. The height of its popularity was marked by a 1938 concert in Carnegie Hall, New York City, featuring its most prominent interpreters. It declined rapidly after World War II.


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FWC: Florida family finds rare, two-headed snake at their residence
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Florida — As if 2020 couldn't get any weirder.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says they are now caring for a two-headed snake found in Palm Bay, Florida.
The Kay Rodgers family said they found the snake at their residence and notified FWC.
The snake has been identified as a rare two-headed juvenile black racer.
FWC said the birth defect is known as bicephaly. It is uncommon but happens during embryo development when two monozygotic twins failed to separate. When that happens, the two heads remain conjoined on a single body.
According to FWC, the snake head's tongue flick and the heads react movement. However, sometimes the heads react differently.
FWC said they took the snake in because two-headed snakes rarely survive in the wild is due to the fact that the two brains make opposite decisions that inhibit the ability to feed or escape from its predators. Additionally, the snake could be killed by humans who are uneducated about the snake species.
Some believe that two-headed snakes represent evil.
Black racers are completely harmless and beneficial to the environment, especially around the home.


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Morphological study of the Lingual papillae of Jentink's flying squirrel (Hylopetes platyurus)
Keywords:Hylopetes platyurus, lingual papillae, light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy
This study describes the anatomy and histology of the tongue in the Jentink's flying squirrel (Hylopetes platyurus), a
rodent native to Indonesia (Borneo and Sumatra). We examined the characteristics of the tongue using scanning
electron microscopy (SEM) and light microscopy (LM). Macroscopic observations revealed three distinct regions: the
apex, corpus (body) and radix (root). The dorsal surface of the apex was characterized by a median groove and lacked
the lingual prominence that is common in many rodents. SEM and LM revealed the distribution of papillae over the
dorsal surface of the tongue. The papillae could be categorized as mechanical papillae (filiform, conical, large conical)
and gustatory papillae (fungiform, foliate, and vallate). Filiform papillae covered the apex and the anterior two-thirds
of the corpus. Fungiform papillae were distributed among the filiform papillae from the apex to the corpus, whereas
the foliate papillae were present only on the apex. Conical papillae were located on the posterior of the corpus, and the
large conical papillae were on the lateral surface of the lingual radix. Three vallate papillae were arranged in a "V"
pointing toward the larynx on the posterior part of the radix. This research provides the first detailed observations of
the lingual papillae in Hylopetes platyurus. The shape, structure and distribution of papillae are described and compared
with those in other rodent species.


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A building refers to a structure that supports the basic needs of a civilization. They can only be built by villagers or settlers, and form the backbone of a civilization. Buildings are crucial in establishing a civilization and can be separated into three different categories in the Age of Empires series according to its function.
Types of BuildingsEdit
In the Age of Empires series, buildings are separated into 3 distinct categories with each having its own distinct function. The main types of structures found in the game include:
- Economic buildings
- Military buildings
Economic buildings are crucial when it comes to building a civilization. They are the most important structures in the game as building them is the only way to research technologies that is needed to advance a civilization. These structures provide economic benefits for an entire civilization and usually train economical units such as villagers, fishing boats or trading vessels. Some of these structures serve as a drop off point when a unit collects a particular resource while other economic buildings provide unlimited resources, such as a mill, bank or a factory.
Unlike other buildings which trains units and researches technologies, these structures simply are designed for combat. Fortified structures often have a large amount of hit points, range and decent attack. Unlike other buildings which can only be made of wood, these structures rely on stone, which is considered a rare resource.
Military buildings train units only suited for combat and researches technologies that are required to upgrade these units. Military structures can be separated into categories based on what kind of units they train. These structures are vital for a strong civilization since building them are the only way to achieve a military conquest or victory.
- Main article: Buildings (Age of Empires)
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- Main article: Buildings (Age of Empires III)
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Shoot Short Distance rounds and try to match or exceed your previous archer skill level. Your archer skill level can be found on the ArcherySuccess app scorecards, as well as on the score and plot pages.
1. Determine the skill level you have been aiming to achieve/maintain for your preferred indoor/outdoor round
2. Measure the distance from your 'shooting line' to your target and round the distance to the nearest metre.
3. On the ArcherySuccess rounds page, search for the phrase Short Distance and choose a short distance round that is close to your measured distance,
4. Print off the target face and pin it to your target
5. Shoot and score/plot the round in ArcherySuccess.
Using this method, you can compare the skill level shot with that you are trying to achieve/maintain.


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Alternative power sources are able to do more than just save the planet. Now, they can help save people, too.
Spectra Watermakers, Inc. of San Rafael, Calif. has introduced the new Solar Cube, a portable water treatment machine powered by solar and wind that can provide clean drinking water in disaster situations.
Powered by 24-volt batteries, which are charged by integrated photovoltaic panels and a wind-powered generator on the machine, the Solar Cube is portable and easily assembled on-site in less than an hour. By placing a pump, which is also attached to the machine, into a polluted or saltwater source, the Solar Cube captures the water and pumps it through a series of filters, including a reverse osmosis membrane in the final stage, which eliminates microscopic bacteria, viruses, salts and dangerous chemicals.
The Solar Cube can provide up to 3,500 gallons of clean drinking water a day, enough to sustain hundreds of families during a disaster. It can provide enough energy to power other vital emergency functions, such as refrigeration equipment, laptops and communications equipment. It can be used also to provide water and electricity to remote locations or for developers working in rural areas.
Spectra Watermakers manufactured the Solar Cube in cooperation with Trunz Metallchnik AG of Switzerland. EC