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On 04 May 2023, Ambassador Cecilia Attard-Pirotta, accompanied by First Secretary at the Embassy Mr Charles Calleja, paid a visit to the offices of Mano Maritime in Haifa to learn more about the company's operations and its role in the maritime industry. The Ambassador was welcomed by Mr Moran Mano, Vice President of Mano Maritime, who provided her with an overview of the company's history, operations, and its contribution to the development of the maritime industry in the region.
Mano Maritime, a leading cruise and shipping company, can trace its roots in Israel from before the country's independence in 1948 and has since expanded its operations to include cruise ships, cargo vessels, and port services. The company operates in the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the Red Sea. During her visit, the Ambassador was given a tour of the company's offices and facilities, including company's flagship cruise liner the Crown Iris at the port of Haifa. The Ambassador also met with key personnel from different departments, including sales and operations.
The visit by the Maltese Ambassador to Mano Maritime underscores the importance of promoting trade and investment between Malta and Israel and highlights the potential for further collaboration between the two countries in the maritime industry. As a testimony of the growing cooperation, The Crown Iris is also expected to make several stops in Valletta during 2023.


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People with urolithiasis — especially male teens and young women — are at a higher risk for bone fractures than the general population, according to a study from nephrologists at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that was published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
"We wanted to look across the lifespan to see how stones affected bone health, and we found compelling evidence of an association with increased risk of fractures," says Michelle Denburg, MD, MSCE, lead author. For the population-based retrospective cohort study, Denburg and her colleagues used The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database and analyzed electronic health record data on 51,785 people in the United Kingdom who were diagnosed with urolithiasis and 517,267 matched individuals without urolithiasis.
According to Denburg, the THIN database has the advantage of drawing from 10 million people followed by primary care physicians in the UK National Health Service.
Having a kidney stone was significantly linked with fractures. In males, there was an overall 10 percent greater risk in those with urolithiasis, and the risk was greatest in adolescence (55 percent higher). In females, there was a 17-25 percent higher risk of fracture in women 30-79 years old, with the highest risk in those 30-39 years old. Even when adjusting for potential confounding conditions and medications, the association between urolithiasis and fracture remained significant.
Individuals with limited mobility or who only had codes for renal colic, bladder/lower urinary tract calculi (presumed infectious), infectious calculi, hypercalciuria, or nephrocalcinosis were excluded from the entire cohort.
For those with urolithiasis, the median time between the first diagnosis of stones and the first fracture was 10 years. The most common fracture site for men was the hands, and for women was the forearm/wrist. There was no difference for either men or women in the distribution of fracture sites between the groups with and without stones.
Given the well-documented growth in the incidence of urolithiasis, this study points out profound implications for patient outcomes and healthcare costs in the future. It also opens up new questions.
"Given that the median time from diagnosis of urolithiasis to fracture was a decade, we might be able to intervene during this interval to reduce the burden of future fracture," Denburg says. "The THIN database does not have full metabolic profiles of urine, but it is worth trying to ascertain if there is an underlying metabolic abnormality that we could treat to prevent negative long-term outcomes. Are fractures the result of a cumulative burden of hypercalciuria over a person's lifetime?"
Denburg and senior author Lawrence Copelovitch, MD, are currently studying whether specific treatments for urolithiasis correlate with outcomes such as hypertension and chronic kidney disease.

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Impact of initial hospital diagnosis on mortality for acute myocardial infarction: a national cohort study.
Although diagnostic errors represent an important cause of preventable patient harm as well as a common and expensive source of malpractice litigation, they have received little attention until recently. Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of common conditions, such as acute myocardial infarction (AMI), occurs frequently. In this study, researchers sought to assess whether a correct initial diagnosis had an impact on the mortality of patients with AMI. They looked at a cohort of patients over 9 years across 243 acute care hospitals in England and Wales with discharge diagnoses of ST-elevation myocardial infarction and non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction. The authors concluded that almost a third of patients were initially misdiagnosed and that this was associated with increased mortality. A PSNet Annual Perspective discussed recent advances in thinking about diagnostic error.


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Students who are in a FIG take courses together each semester that fulfill some major requirements or some general education requirements to help ensure they are building a strong educational foundation. The FIG program is a year-long initiative that creates a strong community for first year students both in the classroom and in the residence halls.
FIG students live together in a residence hall with the upperclassmen mentors who work with the students.
Each FIG is based on an interest that the students share (i.e. adventure, art, business, theatre, etc.) and is led by students who have been at ASU for at least one year and can help students with any questions or concerns that arise in the first year of college.
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I'm learning about generators and conservation laws and have derived the equation (1)
$$[Q,A]=-i\hbar f(A)$$
which is satisfied by the observable generator $Q$ for a transformation group with elements of form
The lecture notes I'm reading say that this equation (1) defines $Q$ provided we know $f(A)$ for all observables $A$. Why is this true mathematically? And what does all observables mean?
The example in the notes applies it to transformations along the $k-$axis for a system of $r$ particles, obtaining
$$[Q,\hat{x}_i^r]=-i\hbar\delta_{ik}$$ $$[Q,\hat{p}_i^r]=0$$
It then states that $Q = \hat{P}_k=\sum_r \hat{p}_k^r$. This is obviously a solution, but do I know that it's the only one?
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The statement is not correct, as $Q'=Q+g(A)$ satisfies (for an arbitrary function $g$) the same commutation relation. Thus you need to pay attention to the additional conditions posited in the context of your source.
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What might be some typical additional conditions? How does it relate to the example perhaps? Many thanks! – Edward Hughes Aug 16 '12 at 8:46
I don't know; each context is different. Maybe the source doesn't make use of the uniqueness but just needs some solution. Then sloppiness in the writeup is a sufficient explanation. – Arnold Neumaier Aug 16 '12 at 8:50
Okay thanks. So we have an infinity of possible conserved quantities then? – Edward Hughes Aug 16 '12 at 9:03
There is always an infinity of conserved quantities since if $A$ and $Q$ are conserved then any function of $A$ and $Q$ is also conserved. One is therefore interested in independent conserved quantities, or in additively conserved quantities. – Arnold Neumaier Aug 16 '12 at 9:23
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If a group has an irreducible representation on some vector space, then Schur's lemma says the only operators on that vector space which commute with every element of the group are the scalar operators. From this, If A and B have the same commutation relations with every element of the group, then $A-B$ commutes with everything, and thus must be a scalar. Therefore, the commutation relations determine everything up to the addition of a scalar (ie. up to central extension).
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Very many thanks for this. Do you know of any references where I could read up on this irreducible representation stuff, because I haven't come across it before? Obviously I could look at Wikipedia, but a particular reference with QM in mind would be better! – Edward Hughes Aug 15 '12 at 21:30
No problem. For basic representation theory I like Fulton and Harris' "First Course in Representation Theory". For physical applications, the representation theory of finite groups is a bit of a detour though. For stuff focused on Lie gadgets I like Kirillov's book, which also has the advantage of being freely available online. As for stuff with a focus on quantum, I'm not really sure. I know Peter Woit has written some things about quantum mechanics and representation theory, but I think it is more about "geometric quantization" and would probably not be useful to you. – Ryan Thorngren Aug 15 '12 at 21:37
Actually, I think the greatest reference (or reading guide, perhaps) is John Baez's This Weeks Finds. He talks about representation theory, quantum mechanics, and much much more in a very informal (but informa*tive*) style. – Ryan Thorngren Aug 15 '12 at 21:40
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With an SSL certificate issued to "_URL_",
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1. _URL_ 2. _URL_ 3. _URL_
The difficulty is really with #3.
_URL_ tends to cause browser security messages. How do the major HTTPS sites do this? Take Paypal.com, for instance.
As some more assistance for item 3, and maybe 2 as well, how about using Server Name Indication to use two certs on the same host. (ie: _URL_ and domain.com) Apache's Wiki has some info on the specifics.
- Apache rewrite rules behind a nginx proxy
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What: Buriti is a palm tree that grows throughout central Brazil and the southern Amazon basin in swamps and marshes. The buriti fruit, which grows from December to June, contains an edible nut. Traditionally, the buriti fruit has been used as a food source. Parts of the buriti tree have also been used in construction, and buriti straw is used to cover houses and make ropes, baskets, sieves, racks for cooking, skirts and jewelry, such as bracelets (Vegetarian-Restaurants.net).
Oil extracted from the buriti nut contains high concentrations of oleic acid, tocopherols and carotenoids, especially betacarotene. Recent studies have found it to filter and absorb cancer-causing UV rays from the sun (Wiki). The oil also contains soothing qualities and promotes healing.
Buriti contains a high concentration of essential fatty acids which keep the skin moisturized. EFAs also protect from free radical damage and support collagen production, providing anti-aging benefits to the skin.
Origin: Buriti oil is an orange-reddish oil extracted from the fruit of the Moriche palm (Wiki).
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European Standards for Clinical Legal Education
Since 2018, ENCLE is engaged in an open process to create a common set of Standards for Clinical Legal Education (CLE) in Europe. The main aim is to provide some guiding principles on CLE to law clinics in Europe. While this process is still very much open and under discussions, some specific outcomes have been achieved so far:
- The concrete idea to develop a common set of European CLE standards were launched after the ENCLE Conference in Turin in 2018, where a plenary sessions (see the video and the summary of the Turin plenary session) took place on CLE standards.
- After this, a first workshop was held in Valencia in January 2019 where a number of European clinicians met to discuss the development of European CLE standards (see summary of the Valencia roundtable).
- In the meantime and in the frame of the STARS project (Skill Transfers in Academia: a Renewed Strategy - an Erasmus+ project), the law clinics engaged in the STARS project developed a draft set of CLE standards/guidelines, which served as an example for the ENCLE discussions on standards.
- A second ENCLE standards workshop was then held in Bratislava in July 2019 (see the summary of the Bratislava workshop), which comprised a plenary sessions and discussions in thematic groups.
- The Standards had been further discussed at a virtual Workshop hosted by the Letterkenny Institute of Technology in October 2020. It was generally considered that the Standards produced as a consequence of the STARS project could largely be adopted by ENCLE.
ENCLE aims to finalise the discussion about a European document on CLE standards in 2021-22. Please do not hesitate to share your comments and suggestions related to the "ENCLE Project on European Standards for Clinical Legal Education" (regarding the general objectives, the process used so far and/or content) by sending an email to: _EMAIL_.
For this reason, ENCLE is organising a round table discussion on standards on Friday November 5th @ 9am GMT/10am CET. This round table discussion (duration of ca. 2h) will allow national Clinical Legal Education networks to address their opinion on the ENCLE Project on European Standards for Clinical Legal Education. Interested persons need to register by filling in the registration form.


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Date: Apr 13, 2021
Location: Minneapolis, MN, US
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Job Title: Athletic Head Coach, Spring Girls Softball - Edison (Marcy and Northeast) and Requisition ID number: 70712
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* Monitor and support the academic progress of the athletes in the program. Aid athletes in meeting the academic eligibility requirements and maximizing their academic potential.
* Be responsible for the instruction and supervision of the fundamentals and specific direction of the program so that each and every athlete has the equal opportunity to improve.
* Abide by the rules of the game in letter and spirit.
* Know, understand, support and adhere to school, district, state and national policies and philosophies.
* Keep an up-to-date list of team members by grade and ID number.
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* Constantly and consistently maintain exemplary conduct at practices and games that reflect an attitude of respect and courtesy toward teammates, opponents, officials and spectators and require team members to do the same.
* Plan, organize and supervise regular practice sessions to include an effective conditioning program and provide an opportunity for every athlete to improve.
* Understand and practice the proper care and prevention of injuries.
* Attend rules interpretation meetings yearly to stay currently informed of the rules of the sport or activity and hold preseason meetings with parents and athletes.
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Why spend time etching circuit boards and applying solder masks when all you really need is a rollerball pen and some paper? That's what University of Illinois professors [Jennifer Lewis and Jennifer Bernhard] were asking when they set off to research the possibility of putting conductive ink into a standard rollerball pen.
The product of their research is a silver nanoparticle-based ink that remains liquid while inside a pen, but dries on contact once it is applied to a porous surface such as paper. Once dry, the ink can be used to conduct electricity just like a copper trace on a circuit board, making on the fly circuit building a breeze.
Previous ink-based circuit construction was typically done using inkjet printers or airbrushing, so removing the extra hardware from the process is a huge step forward. The team even has some news for those people that think the writable ink won't hold up in the long run. The ink is surprisingly quite resilient to physical manipulation, and they found that it took folding the paper substrate several thousand times before their ink pathways started to fail.
While we know this is no substitute for a nicely etched board, it would be pretty cool to prototype a simple circuit just by drawing out the connections on a piece of paper – we can't wait to see this come to market.


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- Excellent student to golf pro ratio, 4-6 children
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- Lesson 2: Address any problems relating to the swing, grip, etc. and demonstrate proper swing drills and stretch exercises to reinforce Lesson #1.
- Lesson 3: Review full swing and demonstrate short game techniques inclusive of chipping and putting. Move to clubhouse and over a glass of wine discuss progress to date, what's next and the importance of club fitting for women.


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Purpose: We conducted a phase I study in chemotherapy-naive patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to determine the maximumtolerated dose (MTD) of paclitaxel using an extended weekly schedule. Patients and Methods: Patients with stage IIIB/IV NSCLC were treated with paclitaxel administered weekly over 3 hours for 6 weeks of an 8-week cycle. Doses were modified for granulocyte counts less than 1,800/μL or neurotoxicity greater than grade I. Groups of three patients were entered at each dose level. The dose was escalated to the next level if less than 50% of patients developed unacceptable toxicity and received more than 80% of the intended first-cycle dose. Results: Twenty-six patients were entered through six dose levels (100, 125, 135, 150, 175, and 200 mg/m2/wk). Four of six patients at the 175-mg/m2 dose level and only one of six patients at the 200-mg/m2 level received all scheduled doses of paclitaxel during cycle I. Neutropenia was dose-limiting. Four-teen patients were treated with subsequent cycles of paclitaxel. Grade II to III neuropathy developed in five of 24 patients. It occurred more commonly with greater duration of therapy, but improved following dose reduction. Nine of 26 (35% ± 10%) patients demonstrated an objective response. Conclusion: The MTD of paclitaxel using a weekly schedule is 175 mg/m2/wk for 6 of 8 weeks. Neutropenia limits dosing acutely, but neuropathy is limiting with sustained therapy. This schedule of paclitaxel results in a twofold to threefold increase in dose-intensity with less toxicity than anticipated from conventional dosing. Further evaluation of this schedule is warranted to assess efficacy and toxicity of prolonged administration.
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2. The Cutlery Trades: An Historical Essay in the Economics of Small-scale by Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd (1913)
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Sitting With It: Everyday Activities
Ashley Metz, MS, Mountain Valley Program Director shares with us how every activity in residential treatment has a therapeutic impact. All activities in a residential setting work towards the clinical health of our residents.
Many applicants will ask what you "do" all day at a residential treatment center (RTC). Most RTCs offer individual therapy a few times a week and traditional group therapy once a day, yet this is not the totality of the therapeutic work at these programs. Group Activities, Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), Independent Academics, and Personal Time are all opportunities do clinical work. And, in fact, it's often where the residents have to put into practice all of the things that learn in traditional therapy.
At Mountain Valley, where we treat anxiety and OCD, it's important to allow residents to be exposed to the activities and experiences that cause them distress. Through these exposures, they are able to collect data on how they react and function in real life activities. They can then take that information into their therapy sessions to develop new skills and strategies to overcome their stressors.


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|Character Sketch for Dickens' A Christmas Carol|
|Fred has asked every person who comes to the party to write a short
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can read over this information about his new friends after the party.
Your task is to understand the character you are portraying. Know the character well enough so that you can deliver a convincing performance to your audience.
You'll write a character sketch that Scrooge will add to his scrapbook. Since Scrooge will return to your writing later, it needs to show him who you are. Describe who you are, what you do, what you like, and so on. Everything that Scrooge needs to know to learn more about all the people he meets in his daily life.
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If you're a fan of Dungeons & Dragons, chances are you know how essential dice are in this iconic tabletop role-playing game. DND dice are curiously shaped polyhedral gems that can make or break your game. While there are different types and sets available, choosing the right dice can be daunting. But don't worry, this guide is here to help you navigate the world of DND dice. We'll explain their types, sets, and essential uses so you can focus on having fun and telling stories with your friends.
Understanding the Basics – DND Dice Types
Before we dive into dice sets and their uses, let's start with the basics: the types of dice used in Dungeons & Dragons. There are seven main types, represented by a 'd' followed by the number of sides:
- D4: A four-sided pyramid-shaped die for small damage rolls and certain character abilities.
- D6: The classic six-sided die, commonly used for everything from damage rolls to skill checks.
- D8: This eight-sided die is often utilized for weapon damage and healing spells.
- D10: There are two types of ten-sided dice in DND: the percentile die (marked from 00 to 90) and the regular d10 (marked from 1 to 10). These are used for various rolls, including damage and determining percentages.
- D12: A twelve-sided die primarily used for larger weapon damage rolls and some class features.
- D20: The iconic twenty-sided die, the most famous in DND. It's employed for attack rolls, saving throws, and determining the outcome of many actions.
- D100: A percentile die used together with the percentile d10 to determine random percentages.
Building Your Dice Set
Now that you know the dice types, let's talk about assembling your dice set. A typical DND player's set includes the following:
- 1d20: The workhorse of your set, used for many important rolls.
- 1d12 and 1d10: Useful for certain character classes and damage rolls.
- 1d8: Another significant die for damage and healing.
- 2d10: One for regular rolls and one for percentages.
- 1d6: Used for various rolls, including damage and skill checks.
- 1d4: Essential for smaller damage rolls and abilities.
Having these dice readily available ensures you're prepared for any in-game situation. Some players prefer to have multiple sets in different colors or designs for style and convenience.
Exploring Special Dice and Their Uses
Beyond the basic dice, there are special dice that come into play in specific situations:
- Fudge Dice: A set of four six-sided dice with two plus faces, two minus faces, and two blank faces. Used in the Fudge system for determining degrees of success or failure.
- DND Condition Markers: Not actual dice, but condition markers often come in dice form to track various conditions like poison or concentration.
- Legendary Dice: Unique dice sets that are sometimes released with special DND campaigns or events. These dice can have special effects or designs that make them highly collectible.
Collecting and Caring for Dice
Many Dungeon & Dragons enthusiasts see collecting dice as a hobby in itself. Dice come in various materials such as metal, acrylic, or gemstone, each offering a distinctive feel and aesthetic. Keeping your dice in a soft pouch or container is recommended to prevent wear and tear. However, if you're more of a practical player, there are many affordable options that work just as well.
Understanding the types of DND dice and knowing when and how to use them is crucial to the game. As storytellers, dice are our secret weapons, and having the right set at hand can enhance our gaming experience and bring us closer together as a community. So, whether you're a seasoned Dungeon Master or a new adventurer, use this guide to choose your perfect set of dice, and embark on epic quests that will keep you entertained and engaged for hours on end.


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Definition of Camillo golgi
1. Noun. Italian histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for his discovery of Golgi bodies (_PHONE_).
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3. Contemporary Psychology by Guido Villa (1903)
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Distribution of mass, or "Formation" is a critical property that influences strength properties, cockle and curl. Formation, using transmitted light, has been done on white paper for years but has been unavailable to paperboard and liner board due to the inability to use transmitted light. Now, a new method, pioneered by Dr. Steven Keller and Verity IA makes formation measurement to board manufacturers.
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The in-plane distribution of mass, or paper formation, of paperboard products is a critical property that influences strength properties, cockle and curl, as well as the surface uniformity and print quality. While generating the uniform distribution of fibers in the forming section is of paramount importance, imaging and subsequent analysis of the web structure has been difficult. Few formation analysis systems have sufficient beam energy to penetrate paperboards that have grammages values exceeding 120 g·m-2 with sufficient sensitivity to determine mass variation at the spatial dimensions useful for characterizing the flocked structures.
This presentation describes the acquisition method for soft X-radiography that enables the capture of images suitable for advanced statistical and spectral formation analysis. One can discern individual fibers throughout the board structure with the high sensitivity and depth of field when film and scanner are used. The use of storage phosphor systems as the image detector enables the rapid imaging at more practical resolutions of interest to board manufacture. The ash content must be considered in order to avoid over estimation of the grammage by this method. An empirical approach that corrects for the presence of inorganic matter is presented. The results suggest that X-radiography is viable for imaging paperboard formation and that it may also be used to examine the size and distribution of internally contained mineral matter.


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Designing efficient screw feeders
Screw feeders are one of the industry's most useful feeding devices: they use relatively simple components and can be designed to reliably feed many kinds of bulk solids in a variety of applications. Unfortunately, the mechanisms governing the operation of these feeders under bin outlets aren't well understood. As a result, many existing screw feeders don't operate properly. This often leads to excessive power consumption, abrasive wear, particle attrition, or worse, unreliable material flow. Such problems can be avoided. This article reviews design procedures that can help you improve screw feeder performance. It also discusses the interaction mechanisms between proper bin design and optimum screw feeder design.
Feeders are used to control the rate of material discharge from a bin, hopper, silo, or bunker outlet. They shouldn't be confused with conveyors, which simply transport material from one location to another without controlling the flow rate. Common mechanical feeding devices include screw, belt, chain, rotary vane, rotary plow, rotary table, vibrating pan, and vibrating louver feeders. These feeders are typically used in a volumetric mode, where the volume of material being discharged per unit of time is varied by changing the speed, amplitude, or frequency of the feeder. Several of these devices can be designed to operate in a gravimetric mode, where the mass flow rate of material is actually measured and controlled.


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Early in World War II, Kiska was a hotly contested battlefield that figured prominently in Japanese and U.S. news. Nearby, Adak supported a large military installation. In the new exhibition Kiska and Adak: War in the Aleutians, historic artifacts and then-and-now photographs illustrate the United States struggle to evict war-time intruders from Alaska.
Today, these islands are home to the physical remains of the World War II era. On Kiska, U.S. bomb craters dot the tundra and Japanese gun barrels point skyward, reminders of the air wars ferocity.
Digital art by Dirk H.R. Spennemann presents the Kiska battlefield filtered through an artists gaze. These photographs were taken during historic preservation fieldwork with the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Spennemann used digital darkroom techniques to create grittier images more evocative of the war.
Also on display are objects and photographs from the National Park Service and the museums World War II and Cold War collections. Objects include American and Japanese military gear and cartoons from the military newspaper The Adakian. There are also examples of trench art, which soldiers created using discarded items such as bullet casings.
The exhibition is on view at the Anchorage Museum
through December 31, 2010.


Post-it Note Goals
Making a goal a constant irritant is critical. Anyone can set a goal and then forget it. An effective tool for making goals a constant irritant is Post-it notes. Write a single achievable goal on each note, then:
 1. Post your achievable goals on the bathroom or bedroom mirror
 2. Carefully read them when you get up and when you go to bed
 3. When you accomplish a goal, paste it in a permanent record
All three steps are critical. You have to use them as an irritant and as a reminder that you can meet the goals you set. You'll find that you want to put up goals you are going to meet.
The most common pitfall is going to be glancing over the note and ignoring it. Stop and stare at it. Take 15 seconds at least. Moving the note, rewriting it, and changing the wording can all help.
Remember the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: the mere act of measuring changes the thing being measured. Putting those goals on your mirror, measuring yourself against them, then cataloging your successes can change your life.
Something To Do Today
Take a pad of Post-it notes home. Write achievable goals on 3 of them. Make at least two of them very short term. Create an archive where you can keep all the Post-it note goals you achieve
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Early Kentucky Settlers: The Records of Jefferson County, Kentucky
Early Kentucky Settlers: The Records of Jefferson County, Kentucky, from the Filson Club History Quarterly.. (1988)
In 1780 Kentucky County, Virginia, was divided into three Kentucky counties--Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson. The importance of Jefferson County to genealogists lies in the fact that, along with the other two counties, it was one of the parents of Kentucky's present 120 counties. So Jefferson County's records will be of interest to a wide audience of genealogists.
Excerpted from the important Filson Club History Quarterly, this work has transcripts of the earliest Jefferson County, Kentucky records known to exist--wills, deeds, surveys, administrations, inventories, and poll lists. These records are a unique body of information on early Jefferson County and its people--ordinary people for the most part--seen here in court records, swearing and fighting, trading with Indians, surveying land, registering the deeds to their property, or assigning property to heirs and relatives.
The records reprinted in this book are: Minute Books A and 1 (_PHONE_); Will Books 1 and 2 (_PHONE_); Bond and Power of Attorney Book 1 (_PHONE_); and Division Book 1 (_PHONE_).
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Deaf people use the region of the brain associated with hearing to sense vibrations, a new study shows. "These findings illustrate how altered experience can affect brain organization," says investigator Dean Shibata of the University of Washington. He presented his results yesterday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Shibata scanned the brains of 10 deaf students and 11 students with normal hearing while they experienced intermittent vibrations on their hands. All the subjects showed activity in the region of the brain that processes vibrations. The deaf students, however, also exhibited activity in the auditory cortex, a golf-ball-size area used in hearing. "In someone who is deaf," he explains, "the young brain takes advantage of valuable real estate in the brain by processing vibrations in the part of the brain that would otherwise be used to process sound."
Because vibrations and sound have similar features, Shibata notes, it makes sense that the brain can adapt to replace one with the other in a processing region. What's more, he suggests, it may be helpful to expose deaf children to music and vibrations converted from speech sounds early in life while their brains are still developing.


A Transatlantic Update on Trade | Tariff | Taxes
This discussion focused around the economic and political climate in Europe and the United States, and provided an update on where we stand on EU/US Trade, tax reform on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as what to expect for the Eurozone and US economies.
The panelists addressed the following topics:
 - An overview of the European economy and what is happening in the US markets
 - Ramifications of the US and EU Tax reforms for both European and American companies;
 - How reforms will affect FDI and what businesses need to know about Repatriation of overseas assets.
 - What European companies need to know about some problematic international tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and other relevant issues of the US tax reform
 - US and EU Trade Update:
 - What is the status on Steel and Aluminum Tariffs and the response by the EU, what is happening on trade agreements (NAFTA, EU-Mexico 2.0 and EU-Japan)
 - Brexit: a quick update on where we are and what issues are still open (incl. deadlines, expectations)
 - The role and importance of the EU/US partnership in the global economy
 - Damien Levie, Head of Trade & Agriculture Team, Embassy of the European Union to the United States
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How does music change shopping habits?
The constant background of pop music is something most shops and malls have in common.
But some of Britain's shopping centres may be about to become a lot quieter.
Hammerson, which runs a number of shopping malls across Britain, is thinking of phasing out music because of the effect it has on shoppers.
To find out the impact that sound might have, it has been carrying out some experiments.
The BBC's media correspondent, David Sillito, went to the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham to find out more.


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Will Vankalai Village be protected from the sea erosion in Mannar?
People express grief that Sea erosion is gobbling up land in the Village of Vankalai in the Mannar-Nanattan Pradeshiya sabai area.
Vankalai is a village with marine resources in Mannar District and engage in fishing livelihood.
Even for small high tide the sea waters invade the village, say the affected villagers.
Due to continuous sea erosion for the last 27 years, nearly 2 Kms of land had submerged, say the people. As a result of long time requests by the people 3 buffer walls were constructed some years back. Nevertheless the sea had eaten up to the buffer walls, the people say.
However, as the said buffer walls are also sinking due to sea erosion, the village people are requesting that while old buffer walls are renovated, several new walls should be constructed.
Particularly, the anti-sea erosion buffer wall in existence now is found up to only a short distance. There is a need to construct several additional buffer walls, said the affected people.
Although they had approached several factions including related officers and politicians, requesting to build the buffer wall, no constructive action had been taken by them, said the sorrowed people.
In the area where three buffer walls are built earlier considerable amount of land is safeguarded from sea erosion but in area where no wall is available the sea is advancing in claiming land areas, they say.
While saying that if the lethargy shown by the concerned officials in attending to the several years long requests by the people continued, they said that, further land will be submerged by the sea. They call for constructive action regarding the buffer walls.
Hence they request the Officials and politicians concerned to pay attention to this matter and take action with speed to protect the village from sea erosion.


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From Ohio History Central
Lydia Moulton was an early settler of Marietta, Ohio. A group of real estate speculators, the Ohio Company of Associates, founded Marietta, originally known as Adelphia, in 1788.
Moulton was born on February 11, 1757, in Newbury (sometimes reported as Newburyport), Massachusetts. Moulton's father, William Moulton, was a gold and silversmith. In 1762, he moved his family to Hempstead, New Hampshire, where he diversified his business interests, becoming an extensive landholder, as well as continuing his work with silver and gold.
In 1788, William Moulton moved to Marietta. His wife Lydia, his daughters Lydia and Anna, and his son Enoch (sometimes reported as Edmond) joined him there in 1789. Here, Moulton continued his employment as a silver and goldsmith. By this time, he also had taught his daughter Lydia the trade. At this time, it was almost unheard of for a woman to know a formal trade. Lydia, however, proved herself to be a skilled craftsperson, and this father and daughter provided residents of what is now southeastern Ohio with numerous products, primarily eating utensils. These two smiths traveled by wagon selling their wares.
At this point in time, Marietta was still part of the frontier. Residents in this portion of the United States were struggling to create homes and ordered lives in the West. Craftspeople like William and Lydia Moulton helped residents of the Northwest Territory acquire needed equipment, as well as the finer necessities of life, bringing European culture to the frontier.


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The solvgrid program creates bulk (or receptor) and explicit (or ligand) desolvation grids using the occupancy desolvation method (Luty et. al., J. Comp. Chem, 1995; Verkhiver et. al., J. Mol. Recog., 1999). The occupancy desolvation method is phenomenonlogical in nature where desolvation energy can be described pairwise additively. The desolvation energy due to interaction between a ligand atom and receptor atom can be calculated as the solvent affinity of a ligand atom weighted by the volume of the solvent displaced from the receptor atom due to binding and vice versa. Thus,
 Edsol = Si øDES,EXPL(xi) + fi øDES,BULK(xi)
Where the mobile atom i, has a solvation affinity of Si and a fragmental volume of fi. The solvent affinity of the ligand atom is calculated as:
Where qi is the charge on the ligand atom i, and alpha and beta are constants set at alpha = 0.25 kcal/mol and beta = -0.005 kcal/mol. fi is the volume of ligand atom i, calculated from the amber radius of the ligand atom. For the receptor, these can be precalculated and stored on a grid. øDES,BULK(xi) and øDES,EXPL(xi) are interpolated from grids calculated using the solvgrid program during docking. It requires the calculation of two separate grids:
where j is a rigid receptor atom, and Sj and fj are the solvent affinity and the fragmental volume of the receptor atom respectively. Bulk and explicit desolvation grids are calculated from fj and Sj at grid points p, distance rjp from the receptor atom multiplied by gaussian weighting of the distance. The solvgrid program calculates these grids from the charge and the volume of the receptor atoms.
USAGE: solvgrid
This programs require that an INRDSL file be created in the working directory, which contains the parameters to control the program. The INRDSL parameters for solvgrid are detailed below:
 receptor.pdb ; receptor pdb file
 parameters/ prot.table.ambcrg.ambH ; charge parameter file
 parameters/ vdw.parms.amb.mindock ; VDW parameter file
 box.pdb ; box pdb file
 0.33 ; grid spacing in angstroms
 1 ; es type: distance-dependent dielectric; 2: constant dielectric
 4 ; es scale for ff scoring
 2.3 2.8 ; bumping distances for polar and non-polar receptor atoms
 output_prefix ; output grid prefix name
 sol_op ; method for calculating desolvation grid
 solE_recep; solvation free energy of receptor
 * OUTRDSL _TAG_ of input parameters; messages pertaining to calculation of the grids
 * OUTPARM _TAG_ pertaining to parameterization of receptor atoms; net charge on the receptor molecule including any ions or waters in the receptor pdb file
 * PDBPARM _TAG_ which parameters have been associated with each atom in the receptor pdb file
 * output_prefix.bmp _TAG_ grid
 * output_prefix.vdw _TAG_ values for receptor
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Studies Towards the Synthesis of DKP Analogues. Investigations of Bis-lactim Ether Reactivity with Aldehydes and Ketones
AuthorKadysjev, Arslan Maratovitsj
A group of molecules with the name diketopiperazines (DKP) are called so, because of their diketopiperazine ring as the core structural unit. Mainly there are 3 types of diketopiperazies which only differ in in the position of the keto group, one type has the keto groups in 2,3- position; another in 2,5-; and the third in 2,6- position. The 2,5- isomer has attracted great interest, because of compounds that have the same core structure unit occur in nature. One good example of such compounds that have been studied lately is Barettin. Since DKPs have some similarities to peptides and are biologically active natural products, like Barettin, studies in synthesis of DKP analogues have been performed to use DKP analogues to improve the metabolic properties of peptides. In this thesis, studies towards the synthesis of DKP analogues from the 2,5- isomer are described. The preparation of 2,5-diketopiperazine itself is described by two different methods. The first one is the more general approach and the second method is microwave assisted synthesis. Exploration of the use of Schöllkopf bis-lactime ethers in the synthesis of functionalized DKPs. The Schöllkopf ether was studied in a range of transformations through aldol condensation with aldehydes and ketones with various bases followed by dehydration. Both 2,5-DKP syntheses and alkylation were found to be successful whereas the aldol condensation step turned out to be a little bit problematic. Through the course of the project a range of compounds were synthesized for analogue library.
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I am trying to create a 'confirmation code' for every user account created on my website and storing it in the db along with their personal information. As you can see in the example below, I tried to generate a random string factoring in the time variable, however, the string is unneccessarily long.
I would like the string to be shorter than the one produced by
md5 I was wondering if there is a relatively easy way to generate 10 digit (max) alphanumeric string that has an extremely low collision rate?
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1) Divorce: abandonment is grounds for divorce in most states. Grounds arise when one spouse physically leaves the other with no intent on returning. Usually, the minimum time allowed to claim abandonment is one year, but it changes from state to state. Some states also recognize constructive abandonment where one spouse refuses to financially support the other and/or engage in sexual intercourse without good reason.
Definition from Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
To intentionally and permanently give up, surrender, leave, desert, or relinquish all interest, obligations, or ownership in a house, apartment, or other property (such as a patent), a right of way, or a spouse or children. The word is often used when a tenant has left his or her rental unit and the property inside and does not intend to come back. State landlord-tenant laws typically regulate how the landlord may deal with abandoned property left behind by the tenant. To abandon a child or spouse means to have no contact and give no support for an extended period of time.
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The Situation of Punishment
Posted by The Situationist Staff on August 24, 2008
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A growing body of empirical evidence from psychology, sociology, law, and criminal justice has demonstrated that lay intuitions about punishment are strongly rooted in retributivism: i.e., the idea that punishment should be distributed in proportion to moral desert. Level of harm is often thought to be indicative of desert, but harm described by victims (or survivors) in the context of victim impact evidence is subjective and often unforeseeable insofar as it is attributable to chance factors. How do observers (such as jurors or judges) use information about consequences determined by chance factors when they judge punishment? The emotional and cognitive processes involved in jurors' use of victim impact evidence potentially reveals key insights about the psychological mechanisms underlying laypersons' punishment judgments generally. This paper explores empirical evidence for the notion that the subjective harm experienced by the victim of an offense serves as proxy for the level of defendant's effort and culpability, and by implication, the perceived seriousness of the crime.
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For a related Situationist post, see "Why We Punish."
This entry was posted on August 24, 2008 at 1:12 pm and is filed under Abstracts, Emotions, Law, Legal Theory, Social Psychology, Uncategorized. Tagged: capital punishment, Janice Nadler, Mary Rose, psychology, punishment, retribution, victim impact statements. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


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(BPT) - Have you ever considered composite decking but disregarded the idea because you felt like you didn't know enough about it? Maybe you've wondered how composite decking is made? Or what kinds of materials make up composite decking?
Although composite decking is not new, lack of familiarity with the product may lead you to be confused when making a decision about the type of product you should choose for your deck. To make this decision-making process easier, it often helps to go back to the basics.
So what is composite decking anyway? By definition, composite decking is a wood-like product that is created by the mixture of wood fibers, or sawdust, and virgin and recycled plastics. The combination of these elements along with color pigments and other protective additives, form a traditional wood-like decking profile that requires less maintenance than traditional wood decks.
Many composite decking products are manufactured through a process called extrusion. This is defined as a forming process in which melted plastic and wood materials are forced through an opening to produce a product that maintains a relatively consistent size and shape. Think of it like putty that is being pushed through a mold. The opening gives the board the shape and texture.
Another manufacturing method is compression molding. Combined molten materials for the composite wood are placed on to wood grain molds which are then compressed under tremendous heat and pressure to create a physical bond. The force applied helps to squeeze out air pockets and create a compressed board.
For outdoor living, composite decking provides many added benefits including weather resistance, complementary colors, durability and reduced maintenance.
* Weather resistance: The density of a composite decking board helps protect the board from rot and decay caused by prolonged exposure to moisture. By keeping moisture out, this helps reduce mildew, insects and bacteria.
* Complementary colors: The composite boards are also manufactured in a range of colors to perfectly complement any home. Instead of needing stain or paint, the colors are already added to the boards.
* Durability: Composite decking boards are manufactured to be stain resistant against certain common food and beverage stains, including mustard, ketchup, barbecue sauce, canola oil, fruit punch, wines and coffee. This stain resistance will preserve the life and beauty of the deck.
* Maintenance: Composite decking does not require paint, stain or a sealer reducing the overall maintenance of the deck. The best way to maintain a composite deck is to keep it swept, hose it off at least twice a year and attend to stains promptly with household cleaners or commercially available composite deck cleaners.
Overall, composite decking is a low maintenance product that has become a desirable alternative for outdoor living. Some composite deck products, like TAMKO's Envision, even add an extra layer of protection against weather, staining and scratching to preserve the natural beauty of the composite decking board.
TAMKO's Envision is uniquely designed with an added outer layer that is physically bonded to the core board under a compression process. This bonded outer layer adds durability to the core materials that provide the strength and consistency of the board. Envision also comes in four true, multi-shaded color options, designed with color highlights that emulate the textures and natural color variations of real wood to further enhance the natural beauty of the deck. To learn more about TAMKO's Envision, visit _URL_.
Knowing more about the choices available helps you make a more informed decision about the product that is best for you. Composite decking shouldn't be something you avoid because you don't know anything about it. Composite decking has come a long way since it was first introduced and can provide you with the beauty and satisfaction you look for in a deck for years to come. You don't want to miss out.


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Children are often mystified by remote control cars and how they can control them with a device while standing several feet away from them. This past week, Chris Tate was mystified by the same power—only he was controlling something 150 million miles away, on another planet. The UT physics doctoral student had the rare opportunity
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Despite having the third-fastest growing Hispanic population in the country, the size of Tennessee's Latino population is still smaller than the national average. That's according to a study recently released by UT's Center for Business and Economic Research. The report examines the impact of Hispanic population growth on the state's economy, labor force, education system,


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Learning about proof by induction, I take it that the first step is always something like "test if the proposition holds for $n = \textrm{[the minimum value]}$"
Like this:
Prove that $1+2+3+...+n = \frac{n(n + 1)}{2}$ for all $n \ge 1$.
Test it for $n = 1$:
$$n = \frac{n(n + 1)}{2} \implies 1 = \frac{2}{2}\textrm{, which holds.}$$
* The rest of the proof goes here *
So, I do it all the time (like a standard). But I never really thought about why. Why do I do such test? I can see that if the test does not hold, it cannot be proven by induction, I guess. But is there another reason we do this?
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seems like if you want to prove something from here to infinity checking "here" is a good first step... but I don't know a formal name for that. – Grady Player Dec 1 '13 at 1:12
Here - "the least element" maybe _USER_. Honestly I think that you couldn't comprehensively conclude that the expression is true for the entire set of numbers. – Zhoe Dec 1 '13 at 1:14
IH: All sets of $n \ge 4$ lines on the plane intersect at a single point. If it holds true for $n\ge 4$ points, then it holds true for $n+1$ points since the first $n\ge 3$ points intersect at a point and so too do the last $n$ lines and the two intersection points must be the same point. Therefore, all lines on the plane intersect at a single point. – Neil G Dec 1 '13 at 3:26
A row of dominos can't fall if none of them are pushed. – L. F. Dec 1 '13 at 13:17
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Imagine a pond with an infinite linear progression of lily pads. You have a frog who, if he hops on one pad, he is guaranteed to hop on the next one. If he hops on the first pad, he'll visit them all. But if he never makes the first lilypad, all bets are off.
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He's up a creek without a pad? – Brian M. Scott Dec 1 '13 at 1:27
Either that or the resident cottonmouth got a springy meal. – ncmathsadist Dec 1 '13 at 1:29
_USER_.Scott....brilliant! – Tom Dec 1 '13 at 1:31
We have to test the "base case" because otherwise we could "prove" things by induction that aren't true. For instance: let's "prove" that the sum of the first $n$ even numbers is odd. Certainly if $S = 2+4+\cdots+2n$ is odd, then $2+4+\cdots+2n+(2n+2) = S + 2n+2$ is also odd, since an even number plus an odd number is odd.
So by "induction", the sum of the first $n$ even numbers is odd.
Of course this is false, and the reason we got something false is that we didn't verify that the base case holds (it doesn't).
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Nice example! It's non-trivial but clearly shows what is wrong. – CompuChip Dec 1 '13 at 11:30
The induction proof is, in a metaphor, a game of dominos. Your goal is to make the pieces fall over, where if the $n$th domino falls, so will the $(n+1)$st. However, if you don't knock down the beginning domino, none may fall over.
An example of what goes wrong without appropriate base case...
Claim: For all $n \in \Bbb{N}=\{1, 2, 3,...\}$, $n \geq 1000$.
Proof without base case: If $n \geq 1000$ the $n+1 > n \geq 1000$.
An example of what goes totally wrong...
Claim: For all $n \in \Bbb{N}$, $n > n$.
Proof without base case: If $n > n$, then by adding $1$ to both sides we see $n+1>n+1$. Therefore, by baseless induction, we've "proved" the claim.
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Snicker.......... – ncmathsadist Dec 1 '13 at 1:25
It might help to explain why the statement isn't true if your base case is n=1000. Other than the obvious.... how can someone know their base case is appropriate. For example, $n! \ge e^n$ (for sufficiently large $n$) however $n=0$ is a horrible base case. – Squirtle Dec 1 '13 at 5:09
"Baseless induction." What a succinct description of the problem! – David K Mar 10 at 0:57
Let's take your example and modify it slightly:
Prove that $1+2+\cdots+n=\frac{n^2+n+1}{2}$ for all $n\ge 1$.
Let $P(n)$ be the statement "$1+2+\cdots+n=\frac{n^2+n+1}{2}$". Then you need to show that $P(n)$ implies $P(n+1)$. Substituting $n+1$ for $n$ we find that $$ P(n+1) =\frac{n^2+3n+3}{2} $$ Now let's establish the inductive step, that is, that we can use $P(n)$ to establish $P(n+1)$. $$ \begin{align} 1+2+\cdots+n+(n+1) &=(1+2+\cdots+n)+(n+1)\\ &= \frac{n^2+n+1}{2}+(n+1)&\text{by the inductive hypothesis}\\ &= \frac{n^2+3n+3}{2}&\text{as required} \end{align} $$ So we can conclude the highlighted statement. Sort of. Except for the fact that $P(1)$, the base case, sinply isn't true, since it asserts that $$ 1=\frac{1^2+1+1}{2} $$ As has been noted before, if you can't get the first domino to topple, none of the rest will, either.
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Let's prove that all objects in the universe are the same color. We'll prove by induction that given any set of $n$ objects, all of them are the same color.
Inductive step: Given a set $\{1,... n+1\}$ of objects, we know that $\{1,... n\}$ are all the same color $c_1$, and that $\{2,... n+1\}$ are all the same color $c_2$. But if $n\geq 2$ these two sets overlap, so $c_1$ and $c_2$ must be the same. Therefore $\{1,... n+1\}$ are all the same color.
Base case: If $n=1$, it's obvious. If $n=2$, then the two elements are the same color because... er...
Base case left as an exercice to the reader.
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To see why we need the base case, consider the following proposition:
Proposition: $\forall n \in \mathbb{N}, n = 0$
Proof: Assume this property holds for all $m \leq k$, and consider $n = k+1$.
= $k + 0$ (By inductive hypothesis noting that $1 \leq k$ is the smallest element of $\mathbb{N}$)
= $0 + 0$ (By inductive hypothesis)
= $0$
Hence the proposition holds for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$
The problem with this proof is that I haven't actually explicitly shown there exists any integer in $\mathbb{N}$ that is equal to zero; moreover, and more importantly, I can never find such an integer. As such, given that I cannot establish the base case I cannot conclude the proposition is true.
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Its common this question because the introduction to inductive proof is teached very axiomatically ("proof for n=1, then proof for n+1").
An inductive proof is where one proves that a set $A$ is inductive. A set $A$ is inductive if satisfies that
 - $1\in A$
 - $n\in A \Rightarrow n+1 \in A$
If $A$ is inductive, then $A=\mathbb N$
In your example, what it is really being proved is that $A=\{n


text: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting cattle-drivers traveling towards the Mission Santa Barbara, May 6, 1865. The mission is visible at the foot of the mountains in the distance, while several cowboys on horseback drive a herd of cattle towards it from the pueblo. Several unsaddled horses, one of which is a foal, graze by a cluster of short trees to the left. The text below the image reads: "View of the Convent Santa Barbara from the Town". Picture file card asserts: "Cattle drove (northward-bound for market) passing the Valley of Santa Barbara" and "In lower left hand Vischer, May 2, 1865.".


6.5. Encoding to MPEG format
MEncoder can create MPEG (MPEG-PS) format output files. Usually, when you are using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video, it is because you are encoding for a constrained format such as SVCD, VCD, or DVD. The specific requirements for these formats are explained in the VCD and DVD creation guide section.
 -oac copy other_options -o output.mpg
Same, but using libavformat MPEG muxer:
mencoder input.avi -o VCD.mpg -ofps 25 -vf scale=352:288,harddup -of lavf \
 -lavfopts format=mpg -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 -ovc lavc \
 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video:vrc_buf_size=327:keyint=15:vrc_maxrate=1152:vbitrate=1152:vmax_b_frames=0
If for some reason the video quality of the second pass did not satisfy you, you may re-run your video encode with a different target bitrate, provided that you saved the statistics file of the previous pass. This is possible because the statistics file's primary goal is to record the complexity of each frame, which doesn't depend heavily on bitrate. You should note, though, that you'll get the best results if all passes are run with target bitrates that do not differ very much.


Question by Scooby (12)
How do you get rid of mold in the walls of a camper?
Answer by bunkerhill (825)
If the walls or white, beige or yellow I would use bleach. If the walls are a dark color dillute the bleach with water.
Answer by kazmooth (197)
Get rid of mold by carefully spraying a mixture of water and bleach onto the walls of your camper, then scrub it off, rinse with hot water and let dry.
Answer by Christian9247 (5042)
Best way to get rid of mold is to use hot water and bleach. Scrub off the mold with the bleach and then wash the area with hot water.
Answer by McCheese (1248)
The best thing to do is fill up a spray bottle with 9 parts water and 1 part bleach. Spray the wall, let it set for 15 minutes, then wipe.
Answer by bb (674)
sometimes you can use soap and water to get the mold off. mold is an indication that there is moisture present.
Answer by diva25 (4016)
Try scrubbing the walls with a bleach and water mix. Just be careful not to get the bleach anywhere, but on the wall. If this does not work the first time you can try it as often as you like.
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. Read on to find out why this is happening and how we can solve it.
Reactive todos
As we've already seen, every time the value of a component top-level variable is modified Svelte knows how to update the UI. In our app, the todos array value is updated directly every time a todo is toggled or deleted, and so Svelte will update the DOM automatically.
The same is not true for totalTodos and completedTodos, however. In the following code they are assigned a value when the component is instantiated and the script is executed, but after that, their values are not modified:
let totalTodos = todos.length
let completedTodos = todos.filter(todo => todo.completed).length
We could recalculate them after toggling and removing todos, but there's an easier way to do it.
We can tell Svelte that we want our totalTodos and completedTodos variables to be reactive by prefixing them with $:. Svelte will generate the code to automatically update them whenever data they depend on is changed.
Note: Svelte uses the $: JavaScript label statement syntax to mark reactive statements. Just like the export keyword being used to declare props, this may look a little alien. This is another example in which Svelte takes advantage of valid JavaScript syntax and gives it a new purpose — in this case to mean "re-run this code whenever any of the referenced values change". Once you get used to it, there's no going back.
Update your totalTodos and completedTodos variable definitions inside src/components/Todos.svelte to look like so:
$: totalTodos = todos.length
$: completedTodos = todos.filter(todo => todo.completed).length
If you check your app now, you'll see that the heading's numbers are updated when todos are completed or deleted. Nice!
Behind the scenes the Svelte compiler will parse and analyze our code to make a dependency tree, then it will generate the JavaScript code to re-evaluate each reactive statement whenever one of their dependencies is updated. Reactivity in Svelte is implemented in a very lightweight and performant way, without using listeners, setters, getters, or any other complex mechanism.
Adding new todos
Now onto the next major task for this article — let's add some functionality for adding new todos.
 1. First, we'll create a variable to hold the text of the new todo. Add this declaration to the


The News Scroll 19 February 2020 Last Updated at 6:24 pm | Source: PTI
Novel microchip can operate even when battery runs out, researchers claim
Novel microchip can operate even when battery runs out, researchers claim
Los Angeles, Feb 19 (PTI) Engineers claim to have developed an innovative microchip, called BATLESS, that can continue to operate even when the battery runs out, an advance that may lead to longer lasting devices, especially those which demand extreme power efficiency.
BATLESS, as described at International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2018 Conference held in the US, is designed with a new power management technique that allows it to self-start and continue to function under dim light without any battery assistance, using a very small on-chip solar cell.
According to the researchers, including those from the National University of Singapore (NUS), the microchip may substantially reduce the size of batteries required to power sensor nodes in Internet of Things (IoT) devices which are connected with each other over the internet.
They said the new microchip could make the IoT sensor nodes 10 times smaller and cheaper to produce.
"We have demonstrated that batteries used for IoT devices can be shrunk substantially, as they do not always need to be available to maintain continuous operation," said lead scientist, Massimo Alioto from NUS.
The researchers said when the battery energy is available, the chip runs in minimum-energy mode to maximise the battery lifetime.
However, they said when the battery is exhausted, the chip switches to the minimum-power mode and operates with a tiny power consumption of about half a nanoWatt -- a billion times smaller than the power consumption of a smartphone during a phone call.
This power, the scientists noted, can be provided by a very small on-chip solar cell that is about half a square millimetre in area, or other forms of energy available from the environment, such as vibration or heat.
Despite being in minimum-power mode when battery is not available, the reduced speed of the microchip is still adequate for numerous IoT applications that need to sense parameters that vary slowly in time like temperature, humidity, light, and pressure, they added.
"BATLESS is the first example of a new class of chips that are indifferent to battery charge availability," Alioto said.
"In minimum-power mode, it uses 1,000 to 1,00,000 times less power, compared to the best existing microcontrollers designed for fixed minimum-energy operation," he added.
According to the NUS researchers, BATLESS microchip covers a very wide range of possible energy, power, and speed trade-offs, as allowed by the flexibility offered through the two different modes. PTI VIS VIS VIS
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Kitty Murphy: Society of Biblical Literature Panelist and New Book Contract
At this year's annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston in November, Prof. Kitty Murphy offered responses to two books as part of panel discussions. The first book is an upcoming Fortress Press volume by a variety of authors on Wealth and Poverty in the Biblical World. The second is a recently published Fortress Press book, this one by Roland Boer and Christina Petterson, Time of Troubles: A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity, in which the authors use a particular school of Marxist thought to explore the rise of early Christianity in an economic context of increasing slavery and land concentration. Prof. Murphy has also just received a contract with Abingdon Press to write a book on the Synoptic Gospels that introduces the political and economic world of the early Roman Empire as the context within and against which the early Christians imagine Jesus' significance and shape their lives in community. The book is part of a new series at Abingdon called Core Biblical Studies.


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In the conceptual design environment, you can label dimensions by assigning parameters to them, and then use direct manipulation to explore design variations. As a labeled dimension is manipulated, all its related geometry adjusts, and the dimension labels change to reflect their new values. The dimension labels change dynamically as they are manipulated in the drawing area.
For example, drag a labeled dimension to a new position. All the lines that are associated by formulas move with respect to their parameter settings. For example if parameter B = A/2, the value of B is always half of the value of parameter A. If the value of B changes to 8, the value of A changes to 16. You can see the parameter values change in the drawing area when you directly manipulate these lines.
The formulas assigned to a parameter display in the Label drop-down list on the Options Bar. These can be selected and applied to the labeled dimensions. When applied to a dimension, the formula displays as the new label in the drawing area.


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EGOS Call for Papers "Craft in Modern Society"
 - 1. EGOS Call for Papers "Craft in Modern Society"
 Posted 11-09-2020 10:05
 Hi there,
 We would like to draw your attention to a call for papers for our sub theme at the 2021 EGOS Conference. Please see more details below. We hope you will consider submitting your paper to our track and are happy to answer any questions you may have about the sub-theme in advance.
 Best wishes,
 Jochem Kroezen
 Innan Sasaki
 Pursey Heugens
 Sub-theme 24: Craft in Modern Society
 Jochem Kroezen
 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
 Innan Sasaki
 University of Warwick, United Kingdom
 Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens
 Erasmus University, The Netherlands
 Call for Papers
 The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary resurgence of interest in craft and craftsmanship. Once thought to be an obsolete mode of organizing and producing for modern society, now craft movements appear to be reconfiguring entire sectors, with examples ranging from beer brewing (Kroezen & Heugens, 2019), to watchmaking (Raffaelli, 2019), to barbering (Ocejo, 2017) and to maker spaces (Browder et al., 2019). In addition to the transformative powers of craft production, there is also a surprisingly broad range of instances where heritage crafts have managed to survive despite pressures of modernization and globalization, such as the case in musical instrument making (Cattani et al., 2017) or Japanese family firms (Sasaki et al., 2019). Increasingly, management and organization scholars are paying attention to these phenomena across various strands of research and are contributing to a growing understanding of (1) what defines craft as opposed to established theories of organizing and (2) how empirically craft may be valued and organized differently across time and space. This sub-theme intends to offer a setting for scholars interested in craft and craftsmanship to advance our collective understanding of the concept and related phenomena and firmly establish craft as an object of investigation and theorization in its own right.
 According to leading dictionaries, craft can be defined as "skill" or "dexterity" that is often applied in combination with "experience" and "careful attention" to the "making" or "manufacturing" of "objects" that typically requires "handwork" (Cambridge Dictionary; Dictionary.com; Merriam-Webster). However, it is also evident that craft is not just a technical term but also subject to considerable social construction as it is infused with varying idealized norms and values (cf. Bell et al., 2018; Fox-Miller, 2017). As such, the concept is often stretched well beyond the narrow dictionary definitions. Telling are examples of the recent use of the concept in social science. Sennett (2008), for instance, regards the idea of craftsmanship as a philosophical "template for living" where craft is embodied in both skill and "spirit" which manifests itself in the "desire to do a job well for its own sake". This is suggestive of a broader trend in society that is revaluing a concept that has long been associated with "low-status" manual work in comparison to "high-status" intellectual work (Snipp, 1985; Wrigley, 1982).
 The phenomenon of revival and revaluation of craft in parallel with ongoing processes of modernization raises expectations for more inclusive and diverse ways of organizing. The contemporary appeal of craft seems multifaceted. Research suggests that it may be fueled by a fear of loss of human skill due to continued automation, robotization and technization (cf. Barley, 1996; Beane, 2019), seemingly related to the Marxist concern with "deskilling" (Braverman, 1974; Form, 1987). Simultaneously, it may be driven by a perceived loss of community, authenticity and "enchantment" in production and consumption due to continued globalization and standardization (Endrissat et al., 2015; Suddaby et al., 2017; Weber et al., 2008). The appeal of craft may also lie in its perceived potential to provide a more meaningful form of work (Bell et al., 2018; Hodson, 2001; Ranganathan, 2018), and suggested contribution to socio-economic and environmental sustainability (Kuijpers et al., 2019; Thompson, 2018).
 However, craft organizing is not naturally virtuous. History shows that it may also have darker sides. For instance, traditional craft was strongly associated with a lack of innovation (Kieser, 1989), parochialism and patriarchy (e.g., Adler, 2015; Burris, 1989), and some have argued that the contemporary craft movement may have been largely captured by the elite with little benefit for the rest of society (Ocejo, 2017). There is thus a need to advance our critical understanding of processes of craft decline and revival in order to be able to assess if craft can indeed live up to all these promises.
 Beyond the role of craft organizing in addressing grand challenges in society, the day-to-day organizational challenges faced by craft firms raise interesting questions as well. Both heritage craft firms with extensive pedigree and craft revival firms appear to face unique tensions they need to solve in order to be successful. They often need to somehow balance the preservation (or pretense of) of traditional skills, techniques and materials, while at the same time innovating and adapting to evolving economic, technological and social conditions (Beverland, 2005; Sasaki et al., 2019). Similarly, they need to grapple with the fact that the contemporary appeal of craft often taps into cultural fantasies of an idealized image of making that may require a certain degree of "staging" (cf. Suddaby et al., 2017; Federici, 2019). Finally, the ultimate viability of craft organizations depends on a careful balancing of artistic and cultural expression (broadly understood) with efficiency and commercial utility (Becker, 1978; Patichol et al., 2014). Though similar tensions may be faced by any type of organization, these tensions seem to be particularly pronounced for craft organizations and appear ripe for dedicated exploration.
 In sum, we believe that organization scholars are very well positioned to contribute to a deeper understanding of craft as an alternative mode of working, producing and organizing in modern society. More precisely, we suggest that the phenomenon of craft is deserving of dedicated theory that can be contrasted with and compared to established organizational theories such as scientific management (Taylor, 2003), bureaucracy (Weber, 1978) modern professionalism (Abbott, 1988) or the network organization (Powell, 1990). As such, the goal of this sub-theme is to exchange dialogue and collectively advance research on craft from multiple theoretical dimensions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:
 - What is unique about craft work and craft forms of organizing compared to established organization and management theories?
 - Why and how do craft modes of organizing decline and why and how do they resurge?
 - Why and how do heritage crafts survive?
 - What is the relationship between craft survival and organizational forms that more readily focus on the longer term, such as family businesses?
 - How do craft firms manage fundamental tensions such as those related to tradition vs. innovation, mundane vs. imagined practices and artistic vs. commercial utility?
 - When and how do craft movements lead to desirable societal outcomes and when and how do they merely lead to decoupled "craft-washing"?
 - How is contemporary craft work different from traditional craft work?
 - (How) can craft principles be meaningfully reinserted in corporations, whether industrial manufacturers, family businesses, or professional service firms?
 - (How) do contemporary craft firms organize learning and skill development differently than other types of firms?
 - What is the role of consumers and other stakeholders in the success and failure of craft movements and craft firms?
 - How 'gendered' is craft work and craft entrepreneurship, and what are the unique challenges faced by female craft entrepreneurs?
 - When and how are craft firms perceived as legitimate or authentic and when not?
 - How can craft facilitate meaningful work? What are the dark sides of craft organizing?
 - How are craft-based occupations different from other types of occupations?
 We invite theoretical and empirical papers using qualitative or quantitative research methods that address these and related topics. We encourage submission of papers that describe craft dynamics in both typical and atypical settings.
 Jochem Kroezen
 University Lecturer in International Business
 Cambridge Judge Business School
 University of Cambridge


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CENTRO DE REFERENCIA PARA LACTOBACILOS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
Stability of freeze-dried vaginal Lactobacillus in presence of different lyoprotectores
MARIA SILVINA JUAREZ TOMAS; ELENA BRU; GLADYS MARTOS; MARIA ELENA NADER-MACIAS
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
NRC Research Press
Lugar: Otawa; Año: 2008
Lyophilized cultures of probiotic microorganisms are employed to start the biomass production at an industrial scale and to include viable functional bacterial cells in the probiotic product. In this study, the effects of different lyoprotectors on the survival behavior during the freeze-drying process and storage of six vaginal Lactobacillus strains were evaluated, and the survival parameters during storage estimated by applying a cubic polynomial model to experimental data. The vaginal lactobacilli showed variation in the extent of losses of viability after lyophilization and long term storage. The presence of 12% sucrose or 12% lactose in water or in 6% skim milk as suspension medium increased the recuperation of viable cells of lactobacilli during the freeze-drying and storage. The application of statistical model and the analysis of survival rates allowed advancing in the optimization of the preservation conditions of each particular strain, in order to reduce costs and simultaneously obtain a higher number of viable and active cells of probiotic cultures for technological applications.


Collaborate vs. Corroborate – What's the Difference?
When you work together with people toward a shared goal, are you corroborating with them, or collaborating with them?
Likewise, what are you doing when you confirm someone else's telling of events with your own account of what happened?
If you cannot decide which word refers to which scenario, you are not alone. All writers misuse words, and collaborate and corroborate are easy words to confuse. They sound very similar, and they are not commonly used verbs.
Still, they refer to different activities, and cannot be freely substituted for each other. You should be careful to use words intentionally whenever you write—and especially so when writing for professional or academic situations. These are the instances where collaborate and corroborate are more likely to be used anyway.
What is the Difference Between Collaborate and Corroborate?
In this post, I will compare collaborate vs. corroborate. I will use each word in example sentences to illustrate its proper use and context.
Plus, I will outline a mnemonic that you can use to decide whether collaborate or corroborate is the word you actually mean to use in your sentence.
When to Use Collaborate
collaborate versus corroborate What does collaborate mean? Collaborate is a verb. It means to work together on a project or activity.
For example,
 - "I would love to collaborate with my favorite author on my new novel, but my favorite author is dead," said the writer.
 - "Collaboration begets innovation!" Sue reminded her coworkers.
 - The effort to collaborate with and interact with a wider segment of Americans beyond D.C. politicians and staffers is essential, both to bring new ideas into the Beltway and to encourage private efforts in lieu of or to supplement public initiatives. –The Washington Post
When to Use Corroborate
Definition of corroborate definition and definition of collaborate definition What does corroborate mean? Corroborate is a also verb that means to confirm or verify, as if by outside, confirming evidence. Corroborate often appears in legal and scientific contexts.
For example,
 - "Security footage from the casino corroborates the suspect's story," said the investigator.
 - "Our findings are corroborated by a wide body of existing literature," said the researcher.
 - My plea of innocence was corroborated by eyewitness accounts that the robbery was actually committed by a flying robot.
 - Sergey Betov, a Belarussian doubles specialist, was first found to bear no fault or negligence in April, after the low concentration of meldonium in his sample was shown to corroborate his account of having last taken meldonium in October. –The New York Times
Trick to Remember the Difference
Define corroborate and define collaborate Here is a helpful trick to remember corroborate vs. collaborate.
Collaborate and corroborate are both verbs, but they mean different things. If you notice that the word collaborate contains the word labor, it should be easy to remember that collaborate means to work together. This way, you will always know which verb to choose.
Is it collaborate or corroborate? Many English users confuse these words because they sound so similar. However, there are no contexts in which they are interchangeable, and you must be careful to use the correct one when you write.
 - Collaborate and corroborate are both verbs.
 - To collaborate is to work together on something.
 - To corroborate is to confirm or support something with evidence.
One easy way to keep these words straight in your mind is by noticing that the word collaborate contains the word labor. Since collaborate means to work together and labor is a synonym of work, remembering when to choose collaborate is as simple as looking at its spelling.
In summary,
 - Collaborate means to work together.
 - Corroborate means to confirm with supporting evidence.


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Definition of priesting
n. - The office of a priest.
The word "priesting" uses 9 letters: E G I I N P R S T.
Direct anagrams of priesting:
Words formed by adding one letter before or after priesting (in bold), or to egiinprst in any order:
d - springtide f - fingertips presifting m - springtime o - repositing s - persisting springiest
Words within priesting
not shown as it has more than seven letters.
List all words starting with priesting, words containing priesting or words ending with priesting
All words formed from priesting by changing one letter
Other words with the same letter pairs: pr ri ie es st ti in ng
Browse words starting with priesting by next letter
Previous word in list: priesthoods
Next word in list: priestlier
Some random words: vying


A child is sliding ona sled at 1.7 {\rm m/s} to the right. You stop the sled by pushing on itfor 0.70 {\rm s} in a direction opposite to its motion. If the massof the child and sled is 32 {\rm kg}, what average force do you need to apply to stopthe sled? Use the concepts of impulse and momentum.


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DescriptionOver the last decade the analytical toolset of an ecologist studying species communities has undergone major evolution. In response to the widespread understanding that analyzing species jointly rather than one-by-one provides a more in-depth insight on the community structure, many statistical approaches for joint modelling have been published, enabling coherent and rigid testing of various ecological hypotheses. Furthermore, many of such models are accompanied with documented software implementations that greatly facilitate their reusability by other researchers.
However, alongside the increasing expressiveness and complexity of joint species models, the associated model fitting computational costs have also dramatically increased. Thus, analyzing even moderate-sized community datasets with existing packages can take days to obtain a single reliable model fit.
In this work we seek to alleviate such computational load for Bayesian inference in a flexible class of joint species distribution models (JSDM), titled Hierarchical Model of Species Communities (HMSC), which principally encapsulates several other popular JSDMs. We ground our approach in latent Gaussian representation of HMSC combined with several techniques from probabilistic machine learning domain. First, we analytically exploit the specific HMSC-imposed structure for the marginal Gaussian form and blend it together with the Expectation Propagation technique to accommodate non-Gaussian observation models. Next, we consider three strategies for learning the analytically intractable parameters: Maximum Posterior estimate, Variational Inference and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. We demonstrate our approach using simulated and real datasets and compare its performance to two JSDM R packages representing the extremes on the current model fitting techniques gradient – Hmsc and gllvm.
|Aikajakso||22 kesäkuuta 2020 → 26 kesäkuuta 2020|
|Tapahtuman otsikko||International Statistical Ecology Conference|
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