Flaws And Flaws In The United States Legal System
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Sometimes in the United States legal system there are flaws that are glossed over in favor of convenience. This system has been supported by the fact that the legal system is recognized for quantity of cases that it solves rather than the quality of the cases. The average American citizen is actually the main cause for these flaws due to their lack of understanding of the legal system as a whole. Unless a case is particularly devastating the average citizen won't even hear about it, but will instead continue to praise the legal system because they feel that is working well without any first-hand knowledge of whether this information is true or not. This practice almost encourages the United States legal system to quickly spit out cases that may not be carried out well, but encourage that sense of safety, thus creating flaws in the system. …show more content…
A famous example of a flaw in the United States legal system is the situation regarding, and surrounding Kalief Browder. He was incarcerated in 2010, for three years at Rikers Island in New York without a trial. Sadly, more often than not flaws like this are undetected, because they aren't large enough to raise any red flags in the people involved in the case or even the person creating the flaw. Another prime example of the conservation of efficiency over morality is conviction of Adnan Masud Syed for the first degree murder of Hae Min Lee. While he may not be a victim of extreme circumstances such as the tampering of evidence he is still a victim of a faulty law system. The most glaring flaw in the case against Adnan is the complete and utter lack of any factual evidence. The only actual evidence that the state can supply in the case is a couple of fingerprints in Hae's car that were a byproduct of when Adnan and Hae were dating (Episode 6). Because of this fact the state decided to use other evidence which was primarily focused around Jay Wilds and cellphone records from Adnan's phone. If these were
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Learn more physics!
I have been reading about gravitational lensing. All the models I have seen discuss light going around the outside of some gravitational source, like a black hole or something. Would it act more like a traditional lens if passing through the middle a source that was more donut shaped, instead of around a ball type shape? If so, could somethig like this be done experementally?
- Michael French
First of all gravitational lenses are not like the reading glasses you buy at WalMart. Ordinary optical lenses focus a point source into a point image. Gravitational lenses focus a point source into a circular line image. Sometimes you see only a small arc of the circle depending on the relative positions of the source and lens. As to whether or not a doughnut shaped lens would work, I haven't worked it out in detail but I suspect the answer is no. Could one perform an experiment? In principle yes, but there are not too many doughnut shaped galaxies out there.
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Push and Swap: Fast Cooperative Path-Finding with Completeness Guarantees
Ryan J. Luna, Kostas E. Bekris
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Cooperative path-finding can be abstracted as computing non-colliding paths for multiple agents between their start and goal locations on a graph. This paper proposes a fast algorithm that can provide completeness guarantees for a general class of problems without any assumptions about the graph's topology. Specifically, the approach can address any solvable instance where there are at most n-2 agents in a graph of size n. The algorithm employs two primitives: a "push" operation where agents move towards their goals up to the point that no progress can be made, and a "swap" operation that allows two agents to swap positions without altering the configuration of other agents. Simulated experiments are provided on hard instances of cooperative path-finding, including comparisons against alternative methods. The results are favorable for the proposed algorithm and show that the technique scales to problems that require high levels of coordination, involving hundreds of agents.
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Pucker Up: Writing a Kissing Scene
by Elizabeth Preston
As readers, we root for a kiss to happen between the characters who we know are just meant to be together in a novel. When it finally happens, we inwardly cheer (okay, sometimes outwardly as well) and then move on.
As writers, it seems like such a simple matter to write a scene in which two characters kiss. We show that the characters belong together, Character A looks at Character B, and then Character B swoops in for a smooch to end all smooches. Simple, right? Well, not so much. While researching for my young adult novel, I discovered that there's quite a bit more to characters kissing than I had originally thought. Here's a list of some interesting findings that apply to most genres of writing when creating a kissing scene.
1. Don't emphasize the mouth unless you want a bit of an ick factor. You would think that since you're writing a kissing scene that you would focus on the star of the show—the mouth. Apparently, that's not the case. Author Malinda Lo in "Writing About Kissing" says that describing a mouth leads to more of a vampire-esque route than to a sweet, romantic kissing scene.
2. Engage the body. The same article advises writers to explore the body, such as the arms and hands during a kissing scene.
3. Get into specifics. I've read that you want to get detailed in a kissing scene, but you need to avoid being clinical. This is where the adverbs and adjectives (ex. "gently," "softly," "quickly," "cinnamon red") come into play. Each word should add something to the picture that you are painting. Sensory details are key. Also, don't forget about the setting. However, sometimes less is more. There's a balance between specific description and letting the reader have his/her own imagination do some of the work.
4. Build up the buildup. In other words, play up the tension (particularly before the kiss) between the characters through body language and dialogue. Anticipation makes the reader excited and rooting for the kiss to happen. This tip speaks to the episode in How I Met Your Mother when Ted and Victoria continually almost kiss but don't touch lips (until the very end of the episode—sorry for the spoiler) because Victoria believes that the best part of a kiss is the part before the kiss. She's got a point, and this leads us to...
5. Pauses can be lucrative moments. Don't forget to describe all the swirling emotions that happen during that moment of tension before the kiss.
6. There should be some reason why your characters haven't kissed before. The reason/obstacle should be pushing the characters apart, which will allow you to explore their longings for one another. This also adds to the anticipation of a kiss.
7. The characters shouldn't groan. Groaning and gushy sounds make the scene feel more erotica than young adult. Good to know.
8. The characters should be putting something on the line. Leigh Bardugo, who wrote Ruin & Rising, states in "20 Authors Share Tips for Writing Love Scenes" that characters should have "high emotional stakes" and that there should always be something for the characters "to lose."
9. Show what the kiss means to the characters. I think this is where the internal dialog comes in. What are they thinking? Why is this kiss special? Or maybe why is it sub-par?
10. Don't forget about the characters' emotions. You're not smooshing two dolls' lips together. You're meshing two thinking, feeling characters. The reader wants to know what your characters are feeling inside. Are they scared, relieved, nervous, relaxed, or disappointed?
11. Watch out for the scene beginning to feel weird. A kissing scene can be awkward, but not weird. Well, unless you want it to be a bad kiss. Then, I guess it could be weird.
12. The kiss should be earned. This means that a kissing scene should be set up by... well, the rest of the book before the scene. Geez, no pressure.
Image and guest post contributed by Elizabeth Preston. She graduated with a M.A. in English writing and is currently working on a YA novel. If you'd like to check out more of her posts, visit her blog: At the Foot of the Sierras.
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Values Unite Us! - Freedom of Expression
Ambassador Justin McKenzie Smith reading an extract from the article in newspaper "Glekhi" dating back to 1906 by renowned Georgian author and public opinion former Mikheil Javakhishvili, talking about the essence and the importance of free media. Davit Kvaratskhelia, actor citing Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights.
"This means that everyone is free to express, write or publish their opinions, beliefs. To this end, everyone is free to have a printing house and to print all sorts of books, booklets, magazines or newspapers, leaflets, et cetera. And acting so does not require any government permission whatsoever. In those booklets, magazines, newspapers and leaflets, everyone is free to commend or criticize actions of the government and public officials no matter how successful these officials are. Everyone is free to distribute and sell printed booklets, magazines, newspapers and leaflets."
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Our summer program gives children a summer of creating art, acting, singing, and dancing. We teach them important literacy skills along the way, and give them the opportunity to display their skills in a culminating performance.
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Mini Planet
Fimo kids clay is soft and easy to use for younger children and a Classpack provides a selection of different colours for modelling these mini alien creatures. The lotus head provides an interesting organic shape for the planet.
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Time to Make
30 minutes for making + drying time for the glue. Allow another 30 minutes for Fimo to bake plus time for it cool down.
Adult Supervision Needed
How to Make
 1. For the planet base, cut a paper cup in half then paint it black. Leave to dry. Lightly sponge some silver paint over the top of the black. Fill the bottom of the cup with dried beans or rice to make the base heavier and more stable.
 2. Sponge silver paint over a lotus head. Leave it to dry. Brush plenty glue around the top of the cup and glue the lotus on top. Leave to dry.
 3. To make the aliens, break off some small pieces of FImo clay and roll into balls for the bodies, elongate the balls into long oval shapes, tapering at one end. Check they are the right size to fit into the holes in the lotus head. Add small rolled Fimo pieces for the arms and tentacles.
 4. Roll eyes and mouths using different Fimo colours. A cocktail stick is useful to help position small pieces on the bodies. Try using a piece of plastic straw to make a circle pattern on the bodies.
 5. Place the finished models onto a baking tray and bake in a pre-heated oven for 30 minutes at 110oC. Follow instructions on the packaging. Allow Fimo to cool before handling.
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By default, channels are visible to All Users, which means that all members can see the channel under Discover and access the content published to the channel.
When publishing content, you'll need to publish content to at least one channel. Targeted channels will display with a group icon next to the channel name.
Targeting a channel to one or more groups limits which members can see the channel under Discover and controls which users can access content in the targeted channel even if they have a direct link to the content. Targeting a channel is like setting permission for access to all content within that channel.
Examples of how to use targeted channels:
- Drive engagement by surfacing content that is most relevant to employee groups
- Ensure private information remains with required groups
- Streamline your channels & content delivery
Target a Channel
- Open the Channels page by selecting the menu in the top left of Studio and navigate to Publish > Channels.
- To create a new channel, select Create Channel in the top right.
To edit an existing channel, select the three dots to the right of the channel name and choose Edit.
- Under Target Channels to a Group(s), start typing the name of a group or snapshot and select a group from the results list. You can add more than one group.
- Select Save to apply changes.
If all targeted groups are removed, the channel will default to being available to All Registered Users.
If there are multiple targeted groups, members only need to be part of at least one group in order to see the channel and the content in the channel.
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How to Load Multiple Files in Parallel in Azure Data Factory - Part 1
By: Koen Verbeeck | Comments (7) | Related: > Azure Data Factory
At our company we're using Azure Data Factory as the orchestrator for our data pipelines in Azure. We need to load flat files from various locations into an Azure SQL Database. The schema of the flat files can change per type of file and even the delimiter changes sometimes. Manually creating a dataset and a pipeline in ADF for each file is tedious and time consuming. Is there a better way to do this?
In Azure Data Factory, a dataset describes the schema and location of a data source, which are.csv files in this example. However, a dataset doesn't need to be so precise; it doesn't need to describe every column and its data type. You can also use it as just a placeholder for the.csv file type in general. For example, if you have two.csv files, the first with the comma as delimiter and the second one with the semicolon as delimiter, you can still use the same dataset. You only need to put a parameter on the definition of the delimiter.
Furthermore, using the For Each activity we can loop over metadata and load multiple files in parallel. When you combine both features, we can create a metadata-driven pipeline where we will load multiple types of flat file dynamically. In this tip, we will lay out the architecture for such a solution.
We're going to load 3 files stored in Azure Blob Storage into an Azure SQL DB. The files contain data about the top 250 movies. The first file contains the first 100 movies, using a semicolon:
The second file contains the next 200 movies, also with a semicolon:
The third file contains the last 50 movies. However, the file was created on a different system and there the comma was used as a delimiter:
The three files are stored inside an Azure Blob Container. The first two in a virtual folder called semicolon, the last file in a virtual folder named comma.
This is our source data. To be able to drive our data factory pipeline dynamically, we need metadata. This metadata is stored in a table using the key-value pair method. This allows us to story any type of metadata in the table. The table has the following schema:
CREATE TABLE dbo.Metadata_ADF( ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, SourceType VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, ObjectName VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, ObjectValue VARCHAR(1000) NOT NULL );
To load the files, we need the following metadata:
- The location in the container, aka the virtual folder.
- The delimiter used
- The destination table name
The following SQL scripts inserts the metadata into the table:
INSERT INTO dbo.[Metadata_ADF] ( [SourceType],[ObjectName],ObjectValue ) VALUES ('BlobContainer','semicolondata','semicolon'),('BlobContainer','commadata','comma'); INSERT INTO dbo.[Metadata_ADF] ( [SourceType],[ObjectName],ObjectValue ) VALUES ('Delimiter','semicolondata',';'),('Delimiter','commadata',','); INSERT INTO dbo.[Metadata_ADF] ( [SourceType],[ObjectName],ObjectValue ) VALUES ('SQLTable','semicolondata','topmovies_semicolon'),('SQLTable','commadata','topmovies_comma');
The destination tables are created using the following DDL:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[topmovies_semicolon]( [Index] [BIGINT] NULL, [MovieTitle] varchar(500) NULL ); CREATE TABLE [dbo].[topmovies_comma]( [Index] [BIGINT] NULL, [MovieTitle] varchar(500) NULL );
The ADF Pipeline
Step 1 – The Datasets
The first step is to add datasets to ADF. Instead of creating 4 datasets: 2 for blob storage and 2 for the SQL Server tables (each time one dataset for each format), we're only going to create 2 datasets. One for blob storage and one for SQL Server. For each dataset, the relevant attributes will be updated dynamically at runtime by parameters. Let's start with the blob dataset.
In the ADF editing environment, click on the ellipsis next to the datasets header to add a new dataset:
Choose Azure Blob Storage as the data store:
In the next screen, you need to choose the format of your data, which is DelimitedText in our example.
At the time of writing, this is new functionality. In older tips, such as Connect to On-premises Data in Azure Data Factory with the Self-hosted Integration Runtime - Part 2, you can see this step is not present when a dataset on blob storage is created.
Next, we need to specify a name and if the first row contains headers.
For the Linked service, you can either choose an existing service or create a new one (an example is given in this tip). In the next screen, click on Browse to choose the container.
Using the dialog, navigate to the correct container.
Once the dataset is created, go to the Schema tab.
Here we can specify the metadata of the columns. It might be possible that ADF automatically picked up some metadata about the columns, if a file was present. Since we want a truly dynamic dataset, we're going to clear all metadata.
For this to work, the destination table needs to have the exact same columns as the source files. Next, we add some parameters to the dataset in the Parameters tab. We need a parameter for the folder and a parameter for the delimiter:
In the Connection tab, we can assign the parameters to specific fields of the configuration. When you click for example in the Directory field, a link will appear to add dynamic content.
When you click on this link, you can simply select the parameter from the list:
This will add an expression to the text box at the top:
Click Finish to go back to the connection tab. Similarly, we can add a parameter for the delimiter. But first we have to check the Edit checkbox, so the dropdown changes into a text box.
When both parameters are assigned, the connection tab should look like this (observe there's no value specified for the file name):
We also need a dataset for our sink, which is SQL Server. Add a new dataset and choose Azure SQL Database as the data store:
Specify a name for the dataset, create a linked service or choose an existing one and do not import the schema. The table name can be left empty.
For this dataset, we need to create one parameter: the table name.
In the Connection tab, choose Edit beneath the table, specify dbo as the schema and add the parameter in the second box as the table name.
This concludes the first part of the tip. We have created a key-value pair table in SQL Server holding all of the metadata. This metadata will populate the parameters of the datasets we created. Stay tuned for the second part of this tip, where we will create the metadata-driven pipeline which will copy multiple blob files to a database at once.
- To get started with Azure Data Factory, check out the following tips:
- You can find more Azure tips in this overview.
- Download the files here from this tip.
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The Tusi-couple is a mathematical device in which a small circle rotates inside a larger circle twice the diameter of the smaller circle. Rotations of the circles cause a point on the circumference of the smaller circle to oscillate back and forth in linear motion along a diameter of the larger circle.
The couple was first proposed by the 13th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in his 1247 Tahrir al-Majisti (Commentary on the Almagest) as a solution for the latitudinal motion of the inferior planets, and later used extensively as a substitute for the equant introduced over a thousand years earlier in Ptolemy's Almagest.
Original description
Some modern commentators also call the Tusi couple a "rolling device" and describe it as a small circle rolling inside a large fixed circle. However, Tusi himself described it differently:
- if two coplanar circles, the diameter of one of which is equal to half the diameter of the other, are taken to be internally tangent at a point, and if a point is taken on the smaller circle—and let it be at the point of tangency—and if the two circles move with simple motions in opposite direction in such a way that the motion of the smaller [circle] is twice that of the larger so the smaller completes two rotations for each rotation of the larger, then that point will be seen to move on the diameter of the larger circle that initially passes through the point of tangency, oscillating between the endpoints.
Other sources
The term "Tusi couple" is a modern one, coined by Edward Kennedy in 1966. It is one of several late Islamic astronomical devices bearing a striking similarity to models in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, including his Mercury model and his theory of trepidation. Historians suspect that Copernicus or another European author had access to an Arab astronomical text, but an exact chain of transmission has not yet been identified, although the 16th century scientist and traveler Guillaume Postel has been suggested.
There are other sources for this mathematical model for converting circular motions to reciprocating linear motion. It is found in Proclus's Commentary on the First Book of Euclid and the concept was known in Paris by the middle of the 14th Century. In his questiones on the Sphere (written before 1362), Nicole Oresme described how to combine circular motions to produce a reciprocating linear motion. Oresme's description is unclear and it is not certain whether this represents an independent invention or an attempt to come to grips with a poorly understood Arabic text.
Since the Tusi-couple was used by Nicolaus Copernicus in his reformulation of mathematical astronomy, there is a growing consensus that he became aware of this idea in some way. It has been suggested both by a historian of Medieval European astronomy and by a historian of Arabic astronomy that the idea of the Tusi couple may have arrived in Europe leaving few manuscript traces, since it could have occurred without the translation of any Arabic text into Latin. One possible route of transmission may have been through Byzantine science, which translated some of al-Tusi's works from Arabic into Byzantine Greek. Several Byzantine Greek manuscripts containing the Tusi-couple are still extant in Italy.
- George Saliba (1995), 'A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam', pp.152-155
- "Late Medieval Planetary Theory", E. S. Kennedy, Isis 57, #3 (Autumn 1966), 365-378, JSTOR 228366.
- Craig G. Fraser, 'The cosmos: a historical perspective', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 p.39
- Vatican Library, Vat. ar. 319 fol. 28 verso math19 NS.15, fourteenth-century copy of a manuscript from Tusi
- Translated in F. J. Ragep, Memoir on Astronomy II.11, pp. 194, 196.
- E. S. Kennedy, "Late Medieval Planetary Theory," p. 370.
- E. S. Kennedy, "Late Medieval Planetary Theory," p. 377.
- Saliba, George (1996), "Writing the History of Arabic Astronomy: Problems and Differing Perspectives", Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (4): 709–18, JSTOR 605441, pp. 716-17.
- Whose Science is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe? by George Saliba, Columbia University
- I. N. Veselovsky, "Copernicus and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 4 (1973): 128-30
- Claudia Kren, "The Rolling Device," pp. 490-2.
- Claudia Kren, "The Rolling Device," p. 497.
- George Saliba, "Whose Science is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe?"
- George Saliba (April 27, 2006). "Islamic Science and the Making of Renaissance Europe". Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- Di Bono, Mario. "Copernicus, Amico, Fracastoro and Tusi's Device: Observations on the Use and Transmission of a Model." Journal for the History of Astronomy 26 (1995):133-154.
- Kennedy, E. S. "Late Medieval Planetary Theory." Isis 57 (1966):365-378.
- Kren, Claudia. "The Rolling Device of Naṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī in the De spera of Nicole Oresme." Isis 62 (1971): 490-498.
- Ragep, F. J. "The Two Versions of the Tusi Couple," in From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, ed. David King and George Saliba, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 500. New York Academy of Sciences, 1987. ISBN 0-89766-396-9 (pbk.)
- Ragep, F. J. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's "Memoir on Astronomy," Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,12. 2 vols. Berlin/New York: Springer, 1993. ISBN 3-540-94051-0 / ISBN 0-387-94051-0.
- Dennis W. Duke, Ancient Planetary Model Animations includes two links of interest:
- George Saliba, "Whose Science is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe?" Discusses the model of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the interactions of Arabic, Greek, and Latin astronomers.


Middle School Students Are Saving Rainforests Using Old Smartphones
Hundreds of students from Los Angeles STEM programs will participate in one of the largest student-driven programs ever launched to protect the world's rainforests. Rainforest Connection's "Planet Guardians" program will guide middle schoolers in building solar-powered listening devices using old smartphones. These "Guardian" devices will be installed high in the trees of fragile rainforests to capture sounds of illegal logging and alerting forest rangers in real-time.
Rainforest Connection's Planet Guardians program involves workshops led by the organization's founder, Topher White, where students will watch a film by Google, "Beneath the Canopy," about White's work with the Tembé indigenous tribe in Brazil, warding off illegal loggers that devastate tribal lands. Following the film, students will participate in live Google Hangouts with Tembé tribal rangers, before building Guardian devices that will be sent to the Tembé to help protect their lands. The students will also learn about why rainforests are such crucial ecosystems, how the devices are powered and how the solar energy is stored, how the technology 'listens' for sounds of logging, how data from the devices is sent and received, and more.
The workshops started on the International Day of Forests (March 21). In April, the devices the students build will be installed in Peru, Brazil and Indonesia. They will begin transmitting on Earth Day 2018 (April 22). Rainforest Connection expects the devices to protect nearly 100,000 acres through the year 2020.
"Our devices are currently in some of our planet's most fragile rainforests. We believe having students involved in building 'Guardians' is an incredible STEM learning activity and nurtures an interest in protecting our environment at a very young age," White said.
Once the Guardians are activated in the field, students can monitor the device their classmates built as it transmits live from the rainforest via Rainforest Connection's free mobile application. Students can receive real-time text alerts about any illegal logging activity detected by their Guardian, as well as notifications about the sounds of rare and endangered species, and news about other school's Guardians. Students may also choose to participate in additional online learning and arts activities through the optional semester-long Planet Guardians program.
To identify the sounds of illegal logging and other sounds, Rainforest Connection uses neural network technology that collect the entire spectrum of sound that each Guardian device captures in the forest in real time. Then, through sophisticated algorithms and Google's open source machine learning framework TensorFlow, every sound is mapped to identify its origin. Since the software is also able to identify the sounds of thousands of living species from these audio streams, many of which are endangered, Rainforest Connection plans to make its audio data available to research universities around the world who study rare and endangered species in the next few years.
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The hunt is on for the Battle of Lewes
An archaeological dig is to hunt for evidence of the Battle of Lewes.
A pilot project is set to take place this month to scour land at Landport Bottom with metal detectors to search for arrows and artefacts linked to the historic 13th century battle that transformed life in Britain.
Three trenches will be dug in the site as part of the preliminary assessment that archaeologists hope will lead to further excavations in the near future.
Community project the Battle of Lewes Project, Natural England and Sussex Archaeological Society have been working together to try to find firm evidence of the 1264 conflict.
The battle broke out after King Henry III refused to honour an agreement to give power to a council of 24 barons.
The battle saw Henry defeated, made Simon de Montfort the uncrowned King of England, led to the creation of Parliament - and took place just outside Lewes Priory, where Henry was staying.
Lewes district councillors visited the site where the work is set to take place last week.
In a report to the council, the site's community ranger, Dan Ross, said: "The aim will be to establish direct evidence of the Battle of Lewes, by way of metalwork such as arrow heads or other battle trinkets.
"The project involves a small scale pilot study into the feasibility of a larger archaeological investigation into the Battle of Lewes.
"The project, funded by the Battle of Lewes Project, will take place over one day during July."
Specially trained metal detectorists will carry out a systematic assessment of metal content within the soil along three 25-metre routes across the battle site.
Mr Ross said: "Vegetation will only be disturbed in very small divots which will be carefully replaced to prevent damage to the turf."
The Battle of Lewes Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and supported by Sussex Archaeological Society, is preparing for a special celebration to mark the 750th anniversary of the battle in 2014.


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|of these articles is concerned with the direction the east. For other meanings, see the east (term clarifying).|
The east (althochdt of. ostan ) a direction is "eastern ". The term is root related to Greek eos and Latin aurora. Both means "morning redness". It is interesting that the earlyMaps does not genordet, but orients geoconstantly = (!) were (of oriens = the east).
The expression „the east "becomes since that 15. Century uses. Originally the area of the east was called morning country, the country, in which „the sun comes up ". Today these areas the Near East, the middle east are called and furthermore the east. In the Christian faith the east is the direction, outthe up-purchased and recurring Christ is expected.
It is main direction and used for navigation and to the indication of coordinates. The term „east "or „the east "(abbreviation O, English. E) designates a direction, the one bisector between north (0 degrees) and south (180 degrees) represents. The sun is at the time equinox around 6:00 clock (local time) accurately in the east. The adjective in addition is eastern.
Regarding the east wind common: „It blows an east. "
Quotation: lat. „ex oriente lux "= from the east (comes) the light
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
ADF Faces Naming Container Components
(Sorry I was not giving a complete description of the topic here. Apologize to the readers who has requested me to give a full article on this a while back).
Naming Container will not sound unfamiliar if you are developing ADF. Naming Container is a mechanism in ADF to uniquely specify an Id of a component. It's nothing but a naming space attached to its underlying children components and make them unique in the ADF Faces component hierarchy so no components have duplicate Id.
All the Naming Container Components in ADF should implement the NamingContainer Interface. Any children components under the naming container components will have to use its parent naming container id as their prefix in the fully qualified component id. If there are multiple naming container components nested, then multiple naming container prefix will be used. The prefix is separated by ":". component that is located in a naming container thus always has an id value of container id>:.
The naming container prefix is widely used in ADF whenever an Id of a component needs to be specified. For example, the following features -
 - PPR
 - Find a component from page hierarchy by Id (both in Java and JavaScript)
Partial page refresh/rendering is a great feature in ADF. Usually it requires to specify the "partialTriggers" property on the to-be-refreshed components. JDeveloper provides a declarative way to specify the component by browser the page hierarchy tree of the page you are working on, so there is no problem to enter the fully qualified id with the naming container prefix.
If there is a need you have to hardcode the Id the component and the component might be nested by multiple naming container components, you could use getClientId() method on the binding component you are interested in to print the id of the component. This way it ensures you that there is no mistake.
Here should be a complete list of ADF Faces components that implements the NamingContainer interface.
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mofette, ( French: "noxious fume") , also spelled moffettefumarole, or gaseous volcanic vent, that has a temperature well below the boiling point of water, though above the temperature of the surrounding air, and that is generally rich in carbon dioxide and perhaps methane and other hydrocarbons. When the winds are right, the issuing gases may drift and settle into nearby hollows or small valleys and cause the asphyxiation of animals and birds wandering in the areas. Such potentially deadly hollows have been noted in the Absaroka Range near Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, U.S., and at the base of Iceland's Hekla volcano.


Evaluation of friction and roughness of three different nickel-titanium wires
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Edition V19N01 | Year 2020 | Editorial Original Article | Pages 72 to 78
Marcio Rodrigues de ALMEIDA, Juliana de Brito VASCONCELOS, Joseli Santos de Almeida GIUNCO, Renato Rodrigues de ALMEIDA, Alcides GONINI JUNIOR e Murilo Baena LOPES.
Objective: To evaluate the friction force and surface roughness of three different nickel-titanium wires. Material and Methods: Three different wires of the same thickness 0.016" x 0.022" were evaluated: Flexy Blue-Ti Superelastic NiTi (Orthometric, Marília/SP, Brazil); NiTi Superelastic Black (Ortho-Organizers, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and NiTi Thermal Smart (Orthometric, Marília/SP, Brazil). For each type, 10 samples of 30mm each were tested. The wires were adapted in a self-ligating lower incisor bracket, fixed in a PVC connector with acrylic resin in two different angulations (0o and 5o) simulating different clinical situations. The friction force was evaluated in a universal test machine (EMIC) and a rugosimeter was used to evaluate surface roughness. To verify the normality of the data, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was applied, and for comparison between the groups, the ANOVA test followed by the Tukey test, adopting a level of significance of 0.05. Results: Blue-Ti wire showed lower friction (0.065 MPa), followed by NiTi Black wire (0.174 MPa) and Thermoactivated NiTi wire (0.244 MPa). When the surface roughness was evaluated, less roughness was found in NiTi Black wire (0.254 Ra), followed by Blue-Ti (0,269 Ra) and NiTi-thermo (0.358 Ra), without, however, presenting a statistically significant difference. Conclusion: The super-elastic Blue-Ti wire presented less friction at both angulations (0o and 5o). There was no difference between the different wires analyzed, regarding surface roughness.
Friction, Orthodontic wires, Mechanical phenomena,
Almeida MR, Vasconcelos JB, Giunco JSA, Almeida RR, Gonini Junior A, Lopes MB. Avaliação do atrito e da rugosidade de três diferentes arcos de níquel-titânio. Rev Clín Ortod Dental Press. 2020 Fev-Mar;19(1):72-8.
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Economic Definition of nationalization. Defined.
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Aboriginal mothers in prison in Australia: a study of social, emotional and physical wellbeing
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2019, 43 (3), pp. 241 - 247
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© 2019 The Authors Objective: To describe the social, emotional and physical wellbeing of Aboriginal mothers in prison. Methods: Cross-sectional survey, including a Short Form Health Survey (SF-12) and Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (5-item version) administered to Aboriginal women who self-identified as mothers. Results: Seventy-seven Aboriginal mothers in New South Wales (NSW) and 84 in Western Australia (WA) participated in the study. Eighty-three per cent (n=59) of mothers in NSW were in prison for drug-related offences, 64.8% (n=46) of mothers in WA were in prison for offences committed under the influence of alcohol. Sixty-eight per cent (n=52) of mothers in NSW and 35% (n=28) of mothers in WA reported mental health problems. Physical (PCS) and Mental (MCS) component scores of SF-12 varied for mothers in NSW and WA. Mothers in NSW experienced poorer health and functioning than mothers in WA (NSW: PCS 49.5, MCS 40.6; WA: PCS 54.4, MCS 48.3) and high levels of psychological distress (NSW: 13.1; WA 10.1). Conclusions: Aboriginal mothers in prison have significant health needs associated with physical and mental health, and psychological distress. Implications for public health: Adoption of social and emotional wellbeing as an explanatory framework for culturally secure healthcare in prison is essential to improving health outcomes of Aboriginal mothers in prison in Australia.
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Mason Hillel Sends Twenty Students To Israel And West Bank
Fact Finders trip lets students understand political situation
Every year Mason Hillel, a Jewish community center at Mason, funds 20 to 25 students on a "Fact Finders" trip where students discover for themselves what Israel has to offer.
The trip's purpose is to understand the geopolitical situation of Israel and the West Bank.
From June 9 to June 20, twenty students from various majors were awarded a full-stipend trip by Mason Hillel on the Fact Finders program to explore, grasp and understand Israel and the West Bank. Mason students were chosen by Mason Hillel through an interview process.
Israel is wildly considered a conflict zone that is often highly scrutinized and dissected in international media.
Mason Fact Finders gives predominately non-Jewish students the opportunity to experience firsthand a country founded 70 years ago that continues to be engulfed in land disputes to this day.
Throughout the trip, students travel around Israel, visiting famous tourist sites, seeing Tel Aviv and venturing into parts of the West Bank. Sightseeing was a small part of the trip, as the main focus was to further interpret the geopolitical situation in Israel and the West Bank.
One student in particular, Jaelynn Brown, entered the trip feeling as if she was always "a couple steps behind the news" when it came to the situation in Israel and the West Bank. Now, Jaelynn said she "can identify bias more quickly" and accurately portray what the situation is today.
Some students reported the trip as being a "deeply impactful" time as they were able to discover what visiting a highly-analyzed region entails.
Both Brown and Logan Hansen, a Mason Fact Finders student, said the issue is not "as black and white" as many news sources "claim it to be."
"I learned you don't have to pick one side, you can be both," Hansen said.
Identifying the real issues behind the conflict was the main goal of this trip as the students were able to speak to professors, politicians, military personnel, and other experts on the matter.
After leaving Israel and participating in the Fact Finders program, many students were eager to bring their newfound knowledge back to the Mason community. A handful of Fact Finders 2018 students are planning to create a student organization in the upcoming academic year that represents both sides of the issue.


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If you have always dreamed of becoming a firefighter, then you will want to do everything that you can to ensure that your dream becomes a reality. One of the ways that you can do that is by Become an EMS Firefighterenrolling in a fire science school to learn more about fire, firefighting, and investigation, even before you try to become a firefighter. Another thing that you will likely want to do is to take paramedic courses so you can become an EMS firefighter. Firefighters who have emergency medical service skills are in demand, and it can help improve your chance of finding employment. When you are considering a career as an EMS firefighter, you have to understand that it is going to take quite a bit of dedication and study to do so. Becoming a firefighter isn't easy, and it takes mental and physical prowess to do well. Make sure that you keep up a consistent training regimen before you enter the academy, and take steps to improve your education. By finishing a course in fire science and by obtaining first aid and lifesaving training as a paramedic, it will better prepare you for the reality of becoming an EMS firefighter. The more training you have the better off you are going to be.
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…firefighters who have emergency medical service skills are in demand"When arriving at the scene, you never know what you can expect. Having more training is going to ensure that you have preparation to handle just about anything the world can throw at you though. Take a step in the right direction and start looking for schooling in fire science and emergency medical training that will be able to give you more skills and more education. Train now so you can do a better job later, and so you can increase your odds of finding a job or getting a promotion. You will be glad that you have these skills under your belt.


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One of the key challenges in advanced microarchitecture is to provide high performance hardware components that work as application accelerators. In this paper, we present a Cache Coherent Architecture that optimizes
memory accesses to patterns using both a hardware component
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A large number of applications targeted at embedded systems are known to read and write data in memory following regular memory access patterns.
In our approach, memory access patterns are fed to a specific hardware accelerator that can be
used to optimize cache consistency mechanisms by prefetching data and reducing the number of transactions.
In this paper, we
propose to analyze this component and its associated protocol that
enhance a cache coherent system to perform speculative requests
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Jan. 27.2021
Are Avocados Good for Dogs?
avocado ok for dogs
Every owner of a four-legged friend wants his pet to be healthy and cheerful. Often people, trying to give their pets the most pleasure, decide to expand the diet and feed the dog "something tasty". Some fruits and vegetables can be good for a pet's body, but the owner must be firmly aware of what is allowed and what is not!
In this article, we will analyze an ingredient in one of the most popular healthy breakfast foods and guacamole and answer why can t dogs eat avocado.
Is Avocado Safe for Dogs?
can you feed dogs avocado
There is no definite answer. Avocados can be beneficial. However, there are also the dangers of eating this fruit by the dog. Experts say that avocado bad for dogs or at least useless unless it is properly prepared. But the danger of harming the body exists!
The controversy about the usefulness of the product is caused by the toxic substance "persin." It can cause allergic reactions and intestinal disorders. The main content of the toxin is found in unripe fruits, but in ripe avocados the percentage of persin is minimal. The problem is that it is rare to find a ripe fruit with minimal levels of the harmful substance on store shelves.
This toxin is most dangerous to:
 - Poultry;
 - Cattle;
 - Pets.
Dogs, like humans, are highly resistant to the trace elements contained in the fruit. And for optimum results, you must carefully prepare the avocado before eating it:
 - Feed your dog only ripe fruit;
 - Remove the skin completely;
 - Do not feed the stems or leaves;
 - Observe the proportions and dosage.
With this approach, avocados can be a healthy addition to the main diet. But, if you're not sure, limit it to the food. Quality food has all the nutrients, proteins, carbohydrates, microorganisms, etc.
Can Dog Have Avocado?
why cannot dogs eat avocado
Experts warn: feeding your dog an avocado can cause the following side effects:
 - Nasal congestion;
 - Respiratory problems;
 - Coughing;
 - Sneezing;
 - Vomiting;
 - Diarrhea;
 - Possible fluid accumulation in the heart muscle area.
If any of the above symptoms are identified, it is recommended that you see a veterinarian for consultation and, if needed, preventive treatment.
Food Categories
Even fruits and vegetables cooked properly can cause GI distress. Especially if consumed in large portions. An increased risk to the health of the dog is a high fat, protein content. Animals with a weakened immune system are at risk.
For the same reasons, it is not advisable to expand the diet of young dogs, puppies, whose age has not reached 1 year. The internal organs are still forming and this requires special attention and care on the part of the owners.
The unconfirmed fetus should not be given to a pregnant individual. The body of the female is already experiencing increased stress, pregnancy is definitely not the time for experimentation.
Older animals are at risk. The aging organism should not be burdened with heavy food with dubious usefulness. It is better to support the diet with appropriate food. Quality food carefully balances all the basic elements necessary to maintain health, the variety does not matter, the main thing is maturity.
Avocado OK for Dogs Only If
can dogs eat avocado skin
If the decision to periodically feed your dog an avocado is made, the following conditions must be met:
 1. Consult a veterinarian;
 2. Determine the dosage;
 3. Choose quality, ripe fruits.
It is important that the product does not contain any harmful substances and additives. Before taking the fruit, make sure that there are no skins, leaves, stems. The best solution is to mix the pieces with other foods your dog usually eats.
What You Can Use as a Substitute
Offer your pet an equally nutritious pumpkin or an almost completely safe zucchini. Any responsible pet owner should know that you should talk to your vet before you introduce anything new to your dog's diet. can you feed dogs avocado
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Mount Vinson lies in the southern portion of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. At nearly eighty degrees South, it is a mere eight hundred miles from the South Pole. Mount Vinson, at 16,067 feet, has the distinction of being the highest point in our planet's last great wilderness, as well as being in one of the most inaccessible ranges in the world. In fact, until recently, climbing Mount Vinson was logistically almost impossible.
It was not until 1985, when Adventure Network International started providing full logistical support for expeditions to the Antarctic interior, that Mt. Vinson was considered more accessible. Aventuras Patagonicas Expeditions to Mt. Vinson will be supported by ANI aircrafts.
We have been successfully guiding Mt Vinson since we began this program several seasons ago.
Climbing Vinson is challenging! The expedition requires a sincere commitment, considering the remoteness of the region. The climate poses a great challenge as well. Mt. Vinson is located in one of the coldest climates on earth, with temperatures ranging from -30F and even -40F below zero. Participants must have experience with winter mountaineering and be in excellent physical condition.


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Discord is the most popular forum for communicating with friends. You can communicate via text, live stream, or voice chat. You can create a server on Discord and invite friends or family to join. Servers have a given agenda, such as a server for a given game or a server to join your family in a voice channel.
When you create a server, you become the owner, giving you more privileges than other members. So, what can a Discord server owner see?
The Discord owner hosts a given server and acts as the primary administrator. The owner can see all the member and their roles. They can see public messages and logs for activities, such as deleted messages and members kicked out. Moreover, they can see the public profile details of members, such as their profile pictures. However, all your details, such as IP, private messages, server activities, profile settings, email, etc., are hidden.
This guide discusses what things a server owner can see. Moreover, we will see what the server owner can do on a given server and cover what they can't see. That way, you will understand the limited information a server owner can access and the information hidden from them.
Who Is a Server Owner, and What Can They See and Do?
Discord is open to everyone. You can access Discord and create an account using the mobile app, browser, or desktop app. Once you have your account, you can create a Discord server using the below steps.
- On your Discord, click the plus icon at the bottom left sidebar.
- Click the "Create My Own" button.
- Add the server details, such as the name.
- Add members to your server.
- Click the "Create" button to complete the process.
You are now a Discord server owner, which comes with different privileges. First, you can create a channel to connect with your friends. Still, you can add members to your server or send them an invite link to join.
Moreover, you can define the roles of a given member, including the server admin, to help you manage the server. As a server owner, you are the overall admin and can change the roles and permissions of members on the server. Still, you can kick out or ban members from the server.
The server owner can also attach links or files in the server description, delete messages, mute members, and perform other administrative tasks. Generally, the server owner controls how the server runs and can limit the members.
So, what can a Discord server owner see? Many server members are concerned about what the server owners can see as part of the privacy concerns. Here's the thing, most of the private activities of members are kept private from the server owner.
The server owner can only see the list of members and their profile details, such as profile images and server chats. Also, the server owner can see the logs for the server activities, such as banned members, deleted messages, created channels, and the roles of each member.
What Can't a Server Owner See?
Discord upholds the privacy of its users even when they join a Discord server. As such, the server owner is limited in the things they can see. Below are the crucial things hidden from a server owner.
The server admin can't see your IP address. Discord doesn't disclose your IP address to anyone, and only the Discord staff can access your Discord IP. Even when kicked out of a server, your IP address remains hidden unless someone tricks you into using IP address loggers, which unknowingly track your IP.
Your email address is confidential and remains hidden even from the server owner. However, sharing your email address with the server owner is the only way they can access it.
Your messages are private DMs that are inaccessible to the server owner. However, messages shared in the group can be seen by everyone. If you delete a message, the server owner can only see the log for the deleted message but won't see the actual deleted message.
A Member's Activities
Things a member does on the server are private. For instance, if you check the list of members or keep scrolling to see messages sent by different people, the server owner will have no idea of such activities. Also, your search activities are personal and won't be disclosed. Furthermore, even the server owner won't see your activities if you set your visibility to invisible.
The only activities a server owner can access are those in the audit logs, such as members who were kicked out or new channels that were created.
A server owner has privileges on what they can do, but what they can see is limited. They can only see public information such as the list of members, messages shared on the channel, and server logs of different activities. This guide details what the server owner can and cannot see.


,000 people every year.
But as high as these numbers sound, they aren't as high as we need them to be. Canada is facing a skills shortage. According to the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, 25,000 workers are needed immediately, and we'll need an estimated one million workers by 2020. That's from the Ontario Chamber of Commerce in September 2005.
We know that a skills-focused education pays off. Carpenters, plumbers and machinists can earn $30 an hour, plus benefits and more. Building a skilled workforce is one of the main elements of the McGuinty government's economic plan. We've committed to increasing the number of new apprenticeship registrations to 26,000 annually by 2007-08. I'm pleased to be able to report that we're firmly on our way to reaching that goal. In the 2005-06 year, 21,489, to be exact, registered in apprenticeship training, a number that exceeded the year's target. The number of new apprenticeship registrations received by the end of August 2006 puts the province on track to meet its target of 23,500 registrations in 2006-07, and to meet our annual registration goal of 26,000 in 2007-08. To continue our progress, the McGuinty government will invest more than $100 million in apprenticeship-related programming in 2006-07.
Here's a rundown on where we are with our suite of initiatives.
We've got the Ontario youth apprenticeship program, which encourages high school students to stay in school while learning a skilled trade. They can earn credits and learn the trade at the same time. In 2006-07, we are investing $8.25 million in OYAP, giving more than 20,000 students the opportunity to begin their knowledge of a trade.
The pre-apprenticeship training program provides individuals -- such as youth, aboriginal people, women and other under-represented groups -- the opportunity to upgrade trade-related skills so they can be eligible for an apprenticeship.
In July, we announced funding to support pre-apprenticeship training programs such as those through the James Bay Employment and Training Board, which prepare workers for work in the De Beers diamond mine.
There is much more. Since 2004, the government has invested $33.2 million in more than 2,500 co-op diploma apprenticeship spots, which give you not only the start of a trade but also a college diploma at the same time.
Classroom instruction is an essential part of the apprentice's training. This year, Ontario's $31-million investment will help more than 27,000 apprentices undertake the classroom portion of their training at 24 community colleges and 39 training centres.
We respect the important role that employers play in the apprenticeship system. We know that training apprentices is an investment, but we need more employers training apprentices. To encourage more, we have the apprenticeship training tax credit, a $95-million program that provides employers of apprentices with $5,000 a year -- up to $15,000 over three years -- if they hire and train an apprentice in a designated trade. It is a substantial encouragement to train. The Ministry of Finance, which administers the program, is collecting data on the number of claims made under the tax credit.
If I could just touch on a couple of other areas, we have the Job Connect program, which brings in and connects job seekers, or those who seek an improvement in employment status, with everything from counselling to academic upgrading to apprenticeship opportunities to employment opportunities. It's an essential program. We've expanded it. It serves almost 200,000 people every year, adults and young people. We've put another $10 million into it for 2006-07, which brings the total to $127 million.
As I say, these services are essential. They also connect Ontarians to other services such as bridge training programs for the internationally trained, language assessment and training, apprenticeship training, and even high school and post-secondary training programs.
Literacy has been in the news a lot lately. We are at substantial investments in literacy: $69 million for this year, including $10 million in academic upgrading, which will ensure that 4,000 students are able to improve and increase their academic standing so that they can go on to better opportunities.
In short, knowledge and skills: These are the drivers for the economy of the future. These are the drivers that will ensure that Ontarians have the broadest range of opportunities that individuals may wish for. Collectively, these are the drivers that will ensure that the province of Ontario can reach its potential.
Thank you very much.
The Chair (Mr. Tim Hudak): Minister, thank you very much for the presentation. Deputy, thank you very much for your attendance as well.
Following our rotation model, the official opposition is batting first. Mr. Wilson, you have 30 minutes.
Hon. Mr. Bentley: Before you proceed, I didn't introduce my deputy.
The Chair: Please go ahead.
Hon. Mr. Bentley: Philip Steenkamp, Deputy Minister.
The Chair: Welcome, Deputy. Any opening comments by yourself?
Mr. Philip Steenkamp: No.
The Chair: Mr. Wilson.
Mr. Jim Wilson (Simcoe-Grey): It's a dig from last year, I think.
Thank you, Minister and Deputy, for appearing today.
I'm just going to start by reading from a document. I'll read it into the record, and then you can comment on it, Minister, with respect to the $6.2-billion commitment. It's entitled "Funding Background." It will take me a few minutes to read it into the record here.
"Reaching Higher: By the Numbers"
It's by Scott Courtice of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance. He writes:
"Ontario budget day 2005 was an important occasion for post-secondary education, with the government announcing a $6.2-billion cumulative investment spread over six years, the largest multi-year commitment to post-secondary education in over 40 years. Post-secondary stakeholders -- OUSA included -- were ecstatic, and had high hopes that the long period of government disinterest and retrenchment had finally come to an end.
"The government followed the budget announcement with a media blitz to sell the benefits of their higher-education investment to a health-care-obsessed public. The communications exercise was large in scale, with over 40 announcements and counting, since the budget.
"During a seemingly endless bombardment of media releases and announcements, I began asking myself two troubling questions: In all the hype, has the government convinced the public that the crisis in higher education is over, when so much remains to be done? And, in doing so, have they inadvertently reduced public support for future investments in higher education?
"Thus, in an effort to peer behind the hype and restore clarity, I felt it was time to provide a quick by-the-numbers refresher of the details and likely impact of the government's Reaching Higher plan for higher education.
"First, a look at the commitment as explained in the government's budget papers" -- and then he provides a chart under this, which I'll provide to Hansard later, which combines 2005 and 2006, and he uses up-to-date budget figures from your own budget documents. He puts as a note to this chart -- it does accumulate to a total in three categories: student financial assistance, operating grants to colleges and universities, and training and apprenticeship. By the year 2010, which is three years after your mandate, it does add up to $6.202 billion.
Here are his notes:
"It is important to note several things:
"(a) The $6.2-billion investment is the total cumulative investment, not an absolute increase over spending in 2004-05. Thus, in 2009-10 the government will have increased total annual spending by $1.6 billion over 2004-05; many students and members of the general public I've spoken with have been left with the incorrect impression that total government spending will have increased by $6.2 billion."
So you may want to comment on that.
There's a little more here. His second note:
"(b) The final two years of the investment, 2008-09 and 2009-10, stretch beyond the current government's mandate, and these 'beyond mandate' commitments represent close to 50% of the total cumulative investment. Thus, the government is able to take credit now for spending commitments they may not get a chance to make later. To be fair, universities and students have been asking for predictable, long-term funding commitments -- but the investment is only as predictable as the outcome of the October 2007 election result.
"To get a better understanding of the impact of 'Reaching Higher,' the investment must be placed in the broader context of enrolment growth, tuition fee increases, inflation and the share of operating grants targeted to universities. The Council of Ontario Universities recently released a chart that includes these elements" -- and the chart is called "Government Investments: University Share, Enrolment Growth, Tuition, and Inflation." The notes to this chart say, "This chart demonstrates that when inflation, enrolment growth, tuition and the university sector's share of the funding are factored into the equation, funding per basic income unit will actually decrease slightly over the course of the investment."
"How can this be," he continues. "Two factors come into play:
"(a) The government has committed to increase enrolment by 14,000 students by 2009-10. While enrolment growth is laudable -- additional enrolment will allow


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Shell Water Detector
Shell Water Detector
The pastille or capsule shell water detector, indicate by the change of color of a sensitive paper, the possible presence of free water in suspension in the Jet fuel (JET-A1).
How to use:
After having prepared the bowl to control (1 L of JET A-1 in the jar of transparent glass)
In case of rain make the following operations under cover.
1) Take out the capsule of a tube, and check its date of use.
2) Check that this capsule and the chemical paper are in good condition.
3) Insert the capsule into the tip of the syringe when the piston of the syringe is in low position, (empty syringe)
4) Immerse half of the syringe and the capsule below the surface of the JET-A1
5) Suck up 5 mL with the syringe. Remove the capsule and observe the chemical paper of the pastille
Results interpretation:
- Weak variation of color from the yellow to the light green can be obtained from a water concentration of around 15 ppm, The green becoming darker with the increase of the quantity of present water in the controlled sample
- A significant change towards the green or blue color indicates a presence of free water of about 30 ppm
- Material in unique usage, for its period of validity. (~ 6 months)
- Use each pastille one time only
- Always close tubes after usage
- The sensibility of the pastille can be damaged after expiration of the date of use, written on every tube
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2 capsules by airplane filling + 1 by servicer, or bridger each day
If you have 10 trucks for 100 planes per day, you need 210 caps / day = 6510 caps/ month or 81 boxes of 80 capsules each month.


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C. The Ku Klux Klan.
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6. Lest we forget his legacy, what does Mayor Wellington E. Webb's middle initial stand for?
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6. D. Our first African-American mayor (take that, Ben Stapleton) went to the Ed of the class.
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Sportsmen and their sweaters: knitting patterns as historical sources
Polley, Martin (2009) Sportsmen and their sweaters: knitting patterns as historical sources. In, Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and Pastimes, Bolton, UK, 07 Apr 2009.
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Old knitting patterns are easy to see as ephemeral, disposable items, artefacts of everyday life that we can see in our memory on our mothers' laps, but that we don't readily picture in an archive. They are produced for a very specific purpose, and are not designed to become historians' sources. However, cultural historians and historians of everyday life can learn from them, and can use them as windows on to their time of production. Using sport-related knitting patterns from Winchester School of Art's Knitting Reference Library as a case study, this paper will look at what historians can get from this type of evidence: both empirical evidence about disposable income, materials, and technology, and household economics, and more subjective, cultural evidence about class, identity, and gender. The paper will build on the call that I made for sports historians to use wider variety of sources in Sports History: a practical guide (Palgrave, 2007).
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H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
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Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
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Advanced Modeling Programs: Perplex
What is Perplex?
Perplex is a thermodynamic calculation package suitable for rapidly creating phase diagrams of all types, creating pseudosections (phase diagrams that include only those reactions experienced by a particular bulk composition). It allows easy estimation of rock and mineral properties as a function of conditions (pressure, temperature, composition).
In order to create a phase diagram, the identity, abundance, and composition of the stable phases must be determined for each condition over a range of pressure, temperature, composition, or some combination of these. Thermodynamics requires that the stable phases be those with the minimum Gibbs energy. This low-energy set of phases can be determined in two ways: either by the solution of a set of non-linear equations, or by a "brute force" method, in which the energy of each set of possible phases is calculated, and that set with the minimum energy is selected, for each condition. The conditions are organized on a Cartesian grid, with grid refinement typically iterating to better constrain the position of reactions.
This process is complicated greatly by the fact that many minerals have solid solution, and their energy changes with changes in their compositions. The strategy Perplex uses to address this is to subdivide each mineral into a large number (~50) pseudocompounds. The energy of each pseudocompound is determined in advance (it's actually a function of pressure and temperature), and while this creates a myriad of'minerals' (the pure ones together with the pseudocompounds), it makes the calculation quite straightforward.
There are a number of optimizations that Perplex can use to speed up the calculation, especially with the advent of the 2007 version of Perplex.
Perplex relies on two primary datasets:
- thermodynamic databases that give properties of a wide range of end-members (both mineral, liquid, and melt)
- activity models that describe how the energies of the end-members contribute to the energies of intermediate compositions.
Perplex has the ability to choose among a wide range of databases and activity models at run-time, offering great flexibility.
Phase Diagram Calculations
- Projections (or 'Shreinemakers diagrams') show stable invariant points and univariant reaction lines for all of the bulk compositions in a model system (e.g. petrogenetic grids).
- Composition diagrams show the mineral assemblages and ranges of mineral solid solutions at a specified P and T, for all the bulk compositions in the model system (e.g. AFM diagrams).
- Mixed-variable diagrams show all phase relationships as a function of P or T and one compositional variable.
- Pseudosections show just those phase relationships for a specified bulk composition.
Rock Property Calculations
Once a pseudosection has been determined, the properties of the rock can be calculated, including variables such as seismic velocity.
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Univariant reactions in a petrogenetic grid are extremely useful in providing bounding constraints on the stability of mineral assemblages. However, petrogenetic grids, especially complex ones with lots of reactions, can be difficult to interpret, and most mineral assemblages in real rocks are higher variance. Moreover, for specific rock compositions, many of these reactions are not'seen' by a particular bulk composition.
Most people are interested in specific mineral assemblages in the rocks they are studying, for which they have collected and analyzed. The advantage of the pseudosection approach is that this type of diagram portrays only the reactions we are interested in by examining a compositional slice through the full multi-component chemical system.
One caveat of the pseudosection approach is the choice of bulk composition. This can be done via a whole rock geochemical (XRF) analysis if equilibrium is achieved on the 'rock' scale. However, many metamorphic rocks preserve chemical zoning of porphyroblasts and the choice of an 'effective' bulk composition is more appropriate, by combining mineral chemistry data with modal proportions (e.g. by only including garnet cores and excluding the rims).
There are other thermodynamic modeling programs available, including THERMOCALC, MELTS, and TWQ. Each has its merits, and a comparison of these may be useful. In addition, because Perplex is so similar to THERMOCALC in its goals, a direct comparison of the two may be informative.
The basic approach to creating a diagram in Perplex involves the following sequence of steps:
- Choose a model system in which to do the calculations (choose components).
- Formulate the thermodynamics (a-X relationships) of the phases in the system.
- Decide which phase diagrams are to be constructed and, for pseudosections, choose an appropriate bulk composition. Here are links to worked examples from the Perplex website. Most of these are also included in the Learning Pseudosections with Perplex teaching activity.
- P-T Projections
- Compatibility Diagrams
- Mixed-variable diagrams
- P-T Pseudosections
- P-X or T-X Pseudosections
- Connolly JAD (2005) Computation of phase equilibria by linear programming: a tool for geodynamic modeling and its application to subduction zone decarbonation. EPSL 236:524-541.
- Connolly JAD, Kerrick DM (2002) Metamorphic controls on seismic velocity of subducted oceanic crust at 100-250 km depth. EPSL 204:61-74
- Connolly JAD, Petrini K (2002) An automated strategy for calculation of phase diagram sections and retrieval of rock properties as a function of physical conditions. J Met Geol, 20:697-708.
- Connolly JAD (1995) Phase diagram methods for graphitic rocks and application to the system C-O-H-FeO-TiO2-SiO2. Contrib Mineral Petrol 119:94-116.
- Connolly JAD, Cesare B (1993) C-O-H-S fluid composition and oxygen fugacity in graphitic metapelites. J Metamorphic Geol 11:368-378.
- Abart R, Connolly JAD, Trommsdorff V (1992) Singular point analysis: construction of Schreinemakers projections for systems with a binary solution. Am J Sci 292:778-805.
- Connolly JAD, Trommsdorff V (1991) Petrogenetic grids for metacarbonate rocks: pressure-temperature phase diagrams for mixed volatile systems. Contrib Mineral Petrol 108: 93-105.
- Connolly JAD (1990) Multivariable phase diagrams: an algorithm based on generalized thermodynamics. Am J Sci 290:666-718.
- Connolly JAD, Kerrick DM (1987) An algorithm and computer program for calculating composition phase diagrams. CALPHAD 11:1-55.
- Learning Pseudosections with Perplex - Dave Hirsch, Western Washington University
- Phase Diagram Projections and Phase Diagram Sections Lab (Microsoft Word 40kB Mar29 07) - This two week exercise, provided by Dave Pattison at the University of Calgary, includes problems sets involving phase diagram sections using Gibbs (for demonstration of principles) and Perplex.


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IEC 62271-215:2021 is applicable to phase comparators designed to be plugged into the testing points of a voltage detecting and indicating system (VDIS) according to IEC 62271-213, to give an indication of the result of a phase comparison. The main usage is to provide a clear evidence of the phase relationship between two energized parts of a high-voltage network, at the same nominal voltage and frequency before coupling them. This first edition cancels and replaces the first edition of IEC 61243-5 published in 1997 and the first edition of IEC 62271-206 published in 2011. This edition constitutes a merging of the content of IEC 61243-5 and IEC 62271-206. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous editions of IEC 61243-5 and IEC 62271-206: - the document does not include the specific phase comparators (SPCs) as defined in IEC 61243-5, which was specific to manufacturers, and takes back the technical principles of the universal phase comparator (UPC) for VDIS of all manufacturers; - the phase comparator for sequential connected operation is introduced to facilitate the operation of phase comparation of large MV panels.
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I have a very stupid question: I often see that the volume entropy of a compact Riemmannian manifold with negative curvature coincide with the Hausdorff dim of the limit set or Patterson sullivan measure on the boundary.
But the volume entropy is not invariant under scaling of the measure, and I assume the dimension of limit set is. So what is the correct normalization to make the claim above true?
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"Hausdorff dim of" what "limit set"? $\:$ – Ricky Demer May 17 '13 at 21:42
In this context, limit set is the ideal boundary of the universal cover. Classically, one uses this in the case of Kleinian groups. Then the right formula is that volume entropy equals Hausdorff dimension of the conical limit set of the group (which could be less than dimension of the full limit set). See Nicholls' book "Ergodic theory of discrete groups". Normalization in variable curvature was worked out in papers by Besson, Courtois and Gallot (maybe also Hammenstadt) and you only have an inequality. Equality if I remember correctly is only in curvature -1 case. – Misha May 17 '13 at 22:33
See also and references therein. – Misha May 17 '13 at 22:33
Thanks Misha, the answer is very helpful. While I'll try to look it up in the BCG papers, do you happen to remember in which direction the inequality is, between entropy and dimension, for non-constantly curved manifolds? – Jerry May 17 '13 at 23:44
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For the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of a compact manifold with nonpositive curvature, a classical result of Manning asserts that the topological entropy of the geodesic flow equals the volume entropy of the universal cover. This is true in variable (nonpositive) curvature.
For the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of a negatively curved manifold, the topological entropy is equal to the critical exponent of the fundamental group of the manifold (result due to Otal-Peigné in full generality. You just have to assume that the curvature is bounded between two negative constants).
The critical exponent of the group is always equal to the Hausdorff dimension of the conical (also called radial) limit set of the group acting on the boundary at infinity (in variable negative curvature). I don't remember if the result in this generality is due to Sullivan (he writes in curvature -1, but the arguments are often general), or maybe to Bishop-Jones.
For general noncompact manifolds, the critical exponent(=topological entropy) is strictly smaller than the dimension of the boundary. In this situation it is not reasonable to expect an equality with the volume entropy of the universal cover, which is the common value of the topological entropies of all geodesic flows of all compact quotients.
An interesting phenomenon arises in the finite volume case. One could expect that the result of Manning could still be true. In fact, if the curvature varies too much in the cusps, the equality fails to happen. See here a work of Dalbo Peigne Picaud Sambusetti
For your question of normalization: I believe that when you scale the metric of the manifold, you scale also the natural distances on the boundary, and therefore Hausdorff dimension of limit sets.
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