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Maximum medical improvement (MMI) occurs when an injured employee reaches a state where his or her condition cannot be improved any further or when a treatment plateau in a person's healing process is reached. It can mean that the patient has fully recovered from the injury or that the patient's medical condition has stabilized to the point that no major medical or emotional change can be expected in the injured workers' condition. At that point, no further healing or improvement is deemed possible and this occurs despite continuing medical treatment or rehabilitative programs the injured worker partakes in. When a worker who is receiving Workers' Compensation benefits reaches maximum medical improvement, his or her condition is assessed and a degree of permanent or partial impairment is determined. This degree will impact the amount of benefits the worker is able to receive.
Maximum medical improvement means that treatment options have been exhausted. Temporary disability payments are terminated and a settlement is worked out regarding the condition of the worker at this point.
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Saving our Drylands
Forests keep drylands working
IUCN Deputy Director General Dr Poul Engberg-Pedersen talks about the importance of drylands and the challenges of drylands conservation.
Preserving life and land in Kenya
IUCN's work to restore local rights in the Garba Tula dryland district of North-East Kenya.
In the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro
In the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Pangani river is at the centre of a struggle for water. Poor rainfall in recent years has left the land, the dams, the people and animals thirsty for water.


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(Note: The period of assignment of copyright of this film is expired. It is now a public property.)
This award-winning ethnographic film (in two parts) made by Sathya Mohan deals with the nature-man interaction and the associated belief system. It examines the features of the environment and ecology in relation to the Koyas economic system - the interaction of productive forces and the natural resources. The economy, the social organization, the religion and the mythology of the Koyas are closely inter-related, inter-dependent and interacting. Each aspect of the nature-man interaction and the belief system attached to it, viewed as a whole - as a complex - gives the basic picture of the Koya culture. The basis of enormous diversity in the Indian cultural matrix lies in its varied ecological conditions. The interplay of nature and culture is implicit in the little traditions of the sub-continent. The Koya culture is unique in adapting itself to its natural setting.

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The Funeral Service Foundation has just released the results of its "Bleeding Edge" research project with world renowned Olson-Zaltman Associates simultaneously revealing both disturbing and encouraging insights.
Recognizing that the growth of cremation has more than doubled (leaping from 1% to more than 2% annually in the last several years) The Funeral Service Foundation commissioned the unconventional market research using the patented ZMET process to study:
THE MARKET WE ARE LOSING.
The ZMET process is an unconventional approach to market research focused on uncovering the unconscious metaphors consumers use to relate with and make choices about a given service or product. Olson Zaltman developed the process while its founders were still professors at Harvard and Penn State in the 1990's. It has since been embraced by a veritable "who's-who" of Global companies, universities, non-profits and governments.
The results didn't so much tell us anything new as they revealed how we are unintentionally reinforcing negative stereotypes which may be causing the market to seek out alternatives.
The Foundation will be rolling out the results of this research at the upcoming NFDA Convention TUESDAY OCTOBER 9 AT 7:30 AM. (SEE NOTE BELOW) in a program entitled:
Breaking the Consumer Code: New Insights Into Ways Consumers Really Think About Funerals
The program will cover the findings and attempt to identify the far-reaching implications for us and how the profession needs to begin the process of transformation over the next 5 or more years to remain relevant in this NEW NORMAL.
Attendees will learn:
- Why 99% of funeral home facilites reinforce consumer attitudes toward death and what you can do to transform
- Why conventional funeral home advertising not only reinforces negative stereotypes but may be driving consumers to look for alternatives
- How consumers are projecting their feelings about death onto practitioners and how we need to reposition ourselves to change that perception
- What is most important to "Baby Boomers" and how they want to be integrated into the planning process for their parents and themselves
- How our profession is experiencing its own grief cycle as it grapples with the transformation of its livelihood
- The NEXT STEPS FAMIC and The Foundation are taking to make resources available to practitioners to facilitate their adaptation

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Introduction: Patients who experience a recurrent laryngeal nerve injury (RLI) after undergoing an Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion(ACDF) procedure may eventually become asymptomatic. If these patients undergo subsequent ACDF while having an asymptomatic vocal cord abnormality they may be at risk for developing bilateral vocal cord paralysis if the follow up surgery is performed on the opposite side of their original (RLI). Because of these concerns we began a program of referring patients for preoperative laryngoscopic examinations, who were being considered for revision /redo ACDF.
Methods: IRB approval was obtained. Patients who were referred for preoperative laryngoscopic examination prior to revision ACDF were reviewed retrospectively from the period 2006 – 2010. All patients underwent examination by an ENT specialist using a nasopharyngoscope in combination with video stroboscopic examination.
Results: 23 patients were identified having undergone preoperative laryngoscopy and subsequent revision ACDF. 18 patients had undergone a previous single level ACDF and 5 patients had undergone a previous 2 level surgery. The mean time interval from the previous ACDF procedure was 40.3 months (range 13-84 months). Significant findings were found in 4 patients. 2 patients presented with asymptomatic vocal cord paralysis, 2 patients presented with chronic hoarseness after previous ACDF. One was found to have a vocal cord paralysis and the other had a vocal cord mass. In these patients the surgery was performed on the same side as the vocal cord abnormality. Patients who had a normal laryngoscopic examination underwent surgery from the side opposite to their original surgery.
Conclusions: In our series 17.3% of patients undergoing preoperative laryngoscopic examination exhibited abnormalities which affected decision making regarding side of approach for revision ACDF. Preoperative laryngoscopic examination is a simple and effective way of screening patients for abnormalities prior to revision ACDF surgery.
Patient Care: By making laryngoscopic examination a standard part of the preoperative evaluation of patients undergoing repeat anterior cervical discectomy and fusion one can prevent bilateral vocal cord paralysis, a potentially life threatening condition.
Learning Objectives: By the conclusion of this session,participants should be able 1. Describe the importance of preoperative larygoscopic examination. 2.Describe the complications of bilateral vocal cord paralysis.3.Discuss whether preoperative laryngoscopic examination should be a part of the standard evaluation of patients undergoing repeat anterior cervical discetomy and fusion.


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OSIsoft recently released a new offering called the "On Demand Library". This library is in the form of voice and video recordings that are designed to be as easy-to-use as possible. They are based on the same tasks and objectives that form the basis for our classroom training. Users can search for the instruction they need, or go through the videos as if they were in a classroom setting. The Library also contains access to our Virtual Learning Lab environment, where users can test their new skills in real-time using a PI System "sandbox." During this presentation, Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager and Pablo Benvenuto, Instructional Technologist, will discuss the subscription model, including pricing, options, access for EA customers and browser requirements. They will also cover the Virtual Labs, new trends in training and the future direction of the OSIsoft online training offering. As part of the presentation they will show how to register and launch the On Demand Library successfully. They will also demo the new features such as search, the content currently searchable and the Virtual Environment.


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Promising practices in coaching co-taught preservice clinical experiences
Secondary and Middle Grades Education
© 2020, Athens Institute for Education and Research. All rights reserved. In 2010, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) called for colleges and universities to "turn teacher education upside down" (pg. 2) and focus on clinical experiences, rather than coursework. This charge resulted in major shifts in teacher education programs in the USA as colleges and universities forged new partnerships to create yearlong clinical experiences that included co-teaching and coaching. In 2018, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Commission on Clinical Experiences recognized and described the mutual benefits of expanding these partnerships between schools and universities to include various forms of collaboration, co-teaching and coaching. While these partnerships are increasing in number, little is known about the efficacy of the specific coaching approaches and practices employed in the co-taught classroom. This self-study examined the communication and behavioral approaches of 13 co-teaching coaches who collaborated with 39 teacher candidates enrolled in yearlong, co-taught P-12 clinical experiences. The co-teaching coaches attended up to four sessions of professional learning on co-teaching and coaching. Basic statistics were used to determine the demographics, the content of the coaching conversations, and preferred coaching approaches. The main data sources were the coaches' resumes, their reflections on goal-setting sessions, observation reports, and surveys on their daily coaching activities. Results indicated that effective coaches engaged in collaborative dialogue that moved candidates to self-directed learning. Similarly, these results described the pedagogical practices of effective coaches in terms of goal-setting with the candidates, basic mentoring, and demonstration teaching.
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Strieker, Toni S.; Lim, Woong; Rosengrant, David; and Wright, Marcia, "Promising practices in coaching co-taught preservice clinical experiences" (2020). Faculty Publications. 4646.


text: Created a method to measure how much force was being applied to scoliosis brace fasteners to measure patient compliance. Created a patient portal website that allowed the data to be uploaded. Created a clinician website to allow access to the data. The initial method employed strain gages on the brace's fasteners. This approach was abandoned when GA Tech failed to file a patent application and another team successfully field an application that covered the same technique. Subsequent to this set back, GTRI investigated methods to measure the force applied to the patients body. No suitable sensor was identified.


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1 y1 = log(p)/log(10) ans = 1 y1 = sin(p)^2 ans = 2*cos(p)*sin(p) y1 = cos(3*p^2 + 2*p + 1) ans = -sin(3*p^2 + 2*p + 1)*(6*p + 2) y1 = exp(p)/sin(p) ans = exp(p)/sin(p) - (exp(p)*cos(p))/sin(p)^2
In MATLAB,'Differentiation' operations should be possibly using diff() function. Few insights drawn from the analysis of our examples is
- Naturally, the differentiation is done with respect to the variable distinguished by'symvar' (symbol variable).
- In the above instances, we also need separation with respect to our variable, so diff (B, variable) and diff (B, m) functions can be utilized to get the 'nth' subordinate of equation in MATLAB.


The best-known species (Anthochaera carunculata) has the upper parts grayish brown, with a white stripe on each feather, and the wing and tail quills dark brown or blackish, tipped with withe. Its wattles, in life, are light blood-red. Called also wattled crow, wattled bee-eater, wattled honey eater. Another species (A. Inauris) is streaked with black, gray, and white, and its long wattles are white, tipped with orange. The bush wattlebirds, belonging to the genus Anellobia, are closely related, but lack conspicuous wattles. The most common species (A. Mellivora) is dark brown, finely streaked with white. Called also goruck creeper.
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Endoscopic system for sexing day-old chicks
Sexing day-old chicks is very important for poultry production. Females are used exclusively for commercial layers, whereas males are preferable in commercial broilers due to their fast growth.
Several methods of chick sexing have been developed, the most popular method being vent sexing, which is performed just by looking for the presence or absence of a rudimentary male sex organ. Although this method is fast and accurate, it requires the observer to be well trained and to have a great deal of practice.
Another method is feather sexing, which uses sex-linked feather characteristics genes. Although this method is easy in practice, it can be applied only to a limited number of chicken breeds and cross breeds.
High accuracy with endoscope sexing
Molecular sexing techniques, which are accurate, but difficult to apply to large number of chicks, are available as well. A modified endoscope system for small animals, based on the 'Chick tester'; a monitor probe to be inserted into the intestine of a chick, used in the 1960-70s, was developed to determine the sex of day-old chicks quickly and accurately.
The probe of the endoscope was inserted from the cloaca into the intestine of a chick, and the presence of testes or ovary was observed through the wall of the intestine. Tests were performed in White leghorn and Rhode Island red chicks using this new system. The accuracy of sexing was 91.1% in White leghorn chicks and 88.3% in Rhode island red chicks, overall accuracy of sexing was 90.2% Data were confirmed by observing gonads after laparotomy or appearances at 80 d of age. Accuracy of sexing male chicks (95.0%) was higher than that of female chicks (86.0%). It is expected that the accuracy would be improved by continuous training in the handling of the endoscope.
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I've been working on Java applications that need to call OS commands
nircmd), and communicate with the Windows registry,
various shell scripts, and DLLs. I decided to implement the OS connections with Java's
class, and found some good advice and code online (see below for details). However, current
solutions didn't quite match my needs, and so I wrote SaferExec.
Create an instance of the SaferExec class, then call its exec() method with an OS command as a string argument. For example:
SaferExec se = new SaferExec(); String result = se.exec("dir /W *.java"); // get a list of java files using dir se.exec("notepad readme.txt"); // call notepad.exe with a text file // don't bother looking at the return result of notepad
Note that the above call to
dir does not need
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partly fixes one of the most common headaches with Java's Process class. However, it's
not a perfect solution since the command might still fail due to incorrect privileges, missing
environment settings, differing shell versions, and probably many other reasons :) I've
included a few tips in the next section on how to avoid such problems.
By the way, SaferExec should work across multiple OSes, but I've only tested it on Windows XP, Windows 7, and Linux.
exec() tokenizes its input argument, which helps the Java Process understand what needs to be invoked. You can bypass the tokenization step by passing tokens directly to exec() as multiple input arguments:
String result = se.exec("ping", "-n", "1000", "localhost"); // exec() accepts any number of string arguments
SaferExec assumes that time-consuming commands, like the above
have become blocked. It'll automatically interrupt them after a
5 second wait, and any data will be returned. SaferExec's
wait time can be changed in the constructor:
SaferExec se = new SaferExec(60); // 60 seconds wait String result = se.exec("ping", "-n", "1000", "localhost");
There's also an execV() method, which works just like exec(), except that it appends the Java Process' exit value to the end of the result string. If the command worked correctly, then the exit value will be 0.
SaferExec doesn't utilize a Java Process stream to send data to the OS command, since it almost never works. Instead any data must be supplied as command arguments. However, if you really do need to pass a lot of information to the command, then the most reliable way is to have the Java application write into a temporary file, and then call the command, supplying the filename as an input argument. For example:
File tempFile = File.createTempFile("info", ".txt"); tempFile.deleteOnExit(); // Write to temp file... se.exec("foo info.txt"); // call the foo command
If you need to combine a series of OS commands, do not try to do it using a clever mix of pipes and/or redirection in the command string. It might work, but probably won't. A better strategy is to combine the commands inside a shell script (e.g. inside a Windows batch file), and call that script from the Java side. One advantage is that you can test the script separately from Java. Another is that the script file acts as an interface, hiding the scripting implementation, making it easier to change in the future. A script also allows you to use variables and control flow operations (e.g. if, for) which are trickier from the command line.
There are all sorts of problems involved with creating OS processes inside Java. Prior to J2SE 1.5, a programmer had to grapple with Runtime.exec(), as described by Michael Daconta in "When Runtime.exec() won't". Since v1.5., some of the issues have been fixed with the introduction of ProcessBuilder, but plenty remain, as detailed by Kyle Cartmell in "Five Common java.lang.Process Pitfalls" and Alvin Alexander in "Java exec - execute system processes with Java ProcessBuilder and Process" (Parts 1-3).
I 'borrowed' some of their ideas, and added a few of my own to come up with the SaferExec class. SaferExec tokenizes the OS command string before trying to execute it, merges its output and error streams to simplify IO concerns, and interrupts blocked commands using two techniques. The output from the process is read byte-by-byte, again to make IO easier, and care is taken to free up resources at the end of the command's execution.
Probably the most comprehensive solution for executing external processes from Java is Jakarta Commons Exec. The website includes a tutorial, FAQ, and source and binary downloads. Commons Exec exposes a lot more of the underlying Java Process to the user, including the IO streams and a timer interface. This allows greater flexibility in how it can be used, at the expense of more complex coding.
If some kind soul makes improvements to SaferExec, please contact me. I'll make changes to this version of SaferExec, and mention your contribution on this page, and in the code.


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A historical term for a paralysis of the cubital nerve following fractures of the external condyle of the humerus in childhood.
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 Paralysis tardives du nerf cubital à la suite des fractures du condyle externe de l'humérus. Journal de chirurgie, Paris, 1914; 437-456.
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I cannot really figure out what causes one surface to overlap another. In a 3D engine I'm creating, my technique is failing in edge cases.
My method is sorting the surfaces to be painted from the furthest to the closest. To determine the closeness, I'm comparing the average z values. Sometimes, however, an overlapping surface has a higher average z value than the one it is overlapping. Thus, the surface further away is painted over the closer one - resulting in bizarre rendering like this:
Large purple square with a section of red on the side
What one is meant to see is the purple front surface of the cube only, whilst the red side surface is painted over the purple one. The average z value of the purple surface is higher, and therefore 'further away'. So I'm having some doubt as to whether this technique is correct.
What I also tried is getting the distance from the camera (i.e. origin) to the surface, but then I needed a point. I chose the middle of each surface but also this doesn't always seem to work because not all surfaces are as large as each other.
Therefore, what is a reliable way to determine the order of closeness of surfaces towards the origin?
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You seem to be trying to implement the Painters Algorithm. I'm guessing you're trying to write a rasteriser from scratch as a learning exercise, as most modern 3D hardware uses what Bart has mentioned (the Z/Depth buffer). For the painters algorithm to work in all cases, you'd need to be prepared to subdivide the surfaces as they're rendered to solve possible scenarios (such as the overlapping polygon problem shown on the Wikipedia page).
By rendering from furthest to closest you're also spending time rendering pixels which will possibly later be occluded by other polygons, which when you start putting textures and complex shaders on the polygons wastes precious cycles. This is the reason modern hardware would prefer you to render from front to back, using the depth buffer to determine if the pixel to be rendered is further away than the one on the screen (and can therefore be discarded).
Even with most modern acceleration hardware you'll still need to sort and render from back to front any semi-transparent polygons, rendering this only once all the opaque polygons have been rendered.
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You are correct in saying that I'm creating a simple renderer. The point is that I'm not using any 3D libraries. I'm doing all projection calculations myself and then draw the lines using a 2D drawing library. This is not the fastest out there and I'm not doing anything on a per-pixel basis. I just have 4 points of each surface and fill the rectangular shape with a color. Since I'm drawing a complete surface at one time, am I correct in saying that I do have to draw back to front? – pimvdb Apr 12 '11 at 11:19
Sounds like a lot of fun and a great way to learn. Back to front is your only way if you're doing this without any form of depth buffer. I think you're going to have to work out all the screen co-ordinates of your polygons and then check for any overlap. Where they overlap in depth you're potentially going to need to chop up the polygons to render, so you can actually resolve the sorting correctly. You might also want to look into Back Face Culling as a way to remove polygons that shouldn't necessarily be visible – Roger Perkins Apr 12 '11 at 11:27
Roger Perkins is right. You won't be able to achieve correct z-sorting that way (meaning you'll always have some edge-cases), unless you chop up the polygons. That can become rather slow though. – bummzack Apr 12 '11 at 12:45
I got it working! What I did was a combination of backface culling and sorting: in a solid cube, some faces are not visible whilst others are (max of 3). So I painted the non-visible parts first, and the visible parts over them. This works like a charm, if I remove one or more sides, they are overlapping but still drawn in the correct order. Thanks! – pimvdb Apr 12 '11 at 13:29
That'll only work for simple convex shapes, like cubes. I'm glad it's currently working out for you, but it's not a general solution. – Richard Fabian Apr 12 '11 at 19:51
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What you have is a visibility problem. One solution is using a z-buffer.
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Thanks, but z-buffering requires per-pixel rendering if I'm not mistaking. I'm not doing that - I'm drawing straight lines between the projected points of the cube. Is z-buffering still possible? – pimvdb Apr 12 '11 at 11:01
Even if you're drawing straight lines, at some point before the image gets to the screen (or bitmap file) it will be in pixel format. – Bart van Heukelom Apr 12 '11 at 11:40
That's correct but my drawing library is too slow to do pixel rendering with 20fps. Thanks though. – pimvdb Apr 12 '11 at 11:41
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Sorting the faces according to their average z-value doesn't work, because the average z-value provides no information on the actual z-value of the vertices or even surface pixels.
Example (warning, ASCII art ahead):
cam /
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There are two faces A and B. From the camera's perspective A is in front of B. Yet the average z-value of B is smaller. Let's look at the other z-values:
 - the minimum z-value of A is 4
 - the maximum z-value of A is 11
 - therefore the average z-value of A is 7.5
 - the minimum z-value of B is 6
 - the maximum z-value of B is 8
 - therefore the average z-value of B is 7
You could try to sort them by their minimal z-values but there cases where that won't work too. There is just no way to sort arbitrary faces correctly using just one z-value.
In Newell's algorithm _URL_ what you do is sort the min/max-ranges of the z-values. If the ranges of two faces do not overlap you can know for sure which one is in front. If they do, sometimes you absolutely have to split the faces. Sometimes it will suffice to raytrace every vertex for occlusion or some other technique.
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That diagram is an overhead view of what I was going to guess is going on in his screenshot. – jhocking Jun 8 '11 at 20:42
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It's good that you are learning about rendering by doing. Kudos. In this instance, there is no "painters algorithm" solution, instead of trying to fix it by sorting, on the PS1 we used to just try to keep polygons around the same size when they were next to each other (which you are doing as far as I can tell), and backface cull (which you're not doing)
Backface culling is checking the surface normal in screen space for it's direction (just get the sign of the depth element from the screen space transformed normal (in our case it was the z of the normal), or the cross product of two vectors of the triangle i.e. cross( v1-v0, v2-v0 ))
If you implement backface culling, you also reduce the amount of rasterising you're doing.. double win.
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Thanks for your response. I did read about backface culling but the point is that I'd like to be able to remove one side. With a solid cube this might work just great, but if I remove one side then there is occulision happening - so I still need to sort them I guess. Anyway, I came up with the idea of fireing a ray from the origin through the midpoint of a surface. If that ray crosses another surface afterwards, then the first surface is overlapping the second. Could you possibly tell me whether that idea is that correct? Thanks! – pimvdb Apr 12 '11 at 12:17
Although your idea would work for your example case, there are plenty of other cases where it's not going to work. For example, the same scene you have there, but with the camera tilted so that the centre of the incorrect rendering quad is not overlapping.I think you're going to have to tesselate your primitives into smaller pieces. – Richard Fabian Apr 12 '11 at 13:22
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What is a Highly Effective Missionary?
A highly effective missionary is one who maximizes his or her potential as an instrument in the Lord's hands. Highly effective missionaries deeply feel the importance of their purpose—to invite others to come unto Christ and receive the restored gospel. They don't settle for doing things the way they've always been done. They aren't content with mediocrity. They do all in their power to better share the gospel message to literally everyone they come in contact with.
Highly effective missionaries know how to:
- Unleash the untapped power of members in their area
- Encourage members to regularly participant in missionary lessons
- Have members invite their friends into their home to be taught by the missionaries
- Help investigators make and keep commitments
- Resolve investigator concerns when their progress has stalled
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Definition of Homeward
in the direction of home
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There are different ways to hide an HTML element from the client, just hiding not removing.
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We need to hide p.hide element, so the user can't see it.
Display css property, display is the most important and most used css property to control HTML elements layout.
display:none; can be used to hide an HTML element from the view and it will appear as if it was not there on the page, means the HTML element will be hidden without blocking any space.
Example: Text 1 | Text 2 | Text 3
If we apply display:none; on Text 2, it will be: Text 1 | | Text 3
So to hide p.hide element using display property:
Visibility property is the CSS property to manage HTML visibility, unlike display which has different values to control the element layout, visibility is used jut for show and hide elements
visibility: hidden can be used to hide an element from the client, but it will keep the element space visible like this: Text 1 | | Text 3
When to use which? based on requirements and the case you have, you just need to test it on all browsers, and there will be an unrecognizable performance differences between different ways
Opacity property is controlling the transparency of the html element, so we can use it to make the element fully transparent and this will hide the element from the client view.
Just make sure to test it on all browsers because on older IE browsers it had some special ways to implement. (hope that no one still using old IE browsers, because the wont see many things any way 🙂 )
And the same as Visibility property, it will hide the element but will keep blocking its space, so the client will see an empty space instead of the element.
Background color and color
While it is rarely used, but we can change the background-color element css property and all child elements to be the same as the background color of the page or the same as container background.
Will need to change the text color as well to make sure that text is not visible as well.
And on some elements we may need to remove borders, that's why this way is not common to use.
We can hide text elements by setting font-size property to 0
Using the position property and top left we can make the control appear outside the client view.
Last way I want to mention on this post is using clip-path css property


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The practice of eating clay for gastrointestinal ailments and applying clay topically as bandaids for skin infections is as old as mankind. Bentonites in particular have been used in traditional medicines, where their function has been established empirically. With modern techniques for nanoscale investigations, we are now exploring the interactions of clay minerals and human pathogens to learn the lessons that Mother Nature has used for healing. The vast surface area and chemical variability of hydrothermally altered bentonites may provide a natural pharmacy of antibacterial agents.
- Healing clay
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- Geochemistry and Petrology
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)


Fear of Doctors
Fear of Doctors
There are many types of fear a some people are facing every day. Most interestingly all of this
fear is different than others. Some are very realistic and some are very unrealistic. Some people have the fear for
the reason of own experience some people have the fear for the reason of hearing bad words about something. Some of
this fear is very funny and some are not. But the common thing is these entire fears make a mental and physical
problem in human mind. Unfortunately but it is true that many people have great fear about doctors.
Lets find out at first what the reasons behind this fear are. The main reason is when a person
goes to a doctor then what the doctor does most of them is so painful. Some people are not able to see or have a
great fear on blood; they are totally unable to see cutting the body. But the doctors are doing that very expertly.
That is why those people are not like to go to doctors.
Another most important reason is some people heard from others a very painful works of doctors
from others which words are attached with the mind of people. That is why people don't like to go to a
Now, lets find out why a person can remove this problem from head. First the person should need
to be enough bold, otherwise nothing can be happen for next step. Then what the people need to do that make himself
understandable that going to is good for him and if he does not go now then the pain will be more in future, and if
the person understands this they will go to doctor straight. And the at last if nothing can work then the family
and friends people will be will give presser to him to go to doctor.
Luckily, this topic can be significantly improved with hypnotherapy and clinical
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The difference is so small that people don't give too much care about which should be used. Also the use of each word is defined by been formal or informal (in some places)
- Acordar -> Agreement between two or more parts.
- Acordar -> Used instead of recordar / "no me puedo acordar donde puse
There is also a new variant to these two used in some places
- Re-acordar -> Start to remember something again.
If used on the sense of "remembering" like in ¿oye, te acuerdas de esa película?, The question implies that both persons where together watching the movie, while ¿oye, recuerdas esa película? the person could had seen the movie at a different time (not with the person that ask the question). Although This is not a rule, and may not be correct in all countries.
Without been an expert I will say that personally, I will use one instead on the other depending on the case (formal or informal).
To answer your question correctly I will say that the use depends quite a lot on the region/country and unfortunately there in no rule that can be successfully applied to all countries (since the use of the word or meaning given in some countries may differ from the sense or meaning of the word given by others in other countries).


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From Ohio History Central
It remains unclear, but some historians claim that Canton, Ohio, residents Frank and Robert Menches invented the hamburger. In 1885, these two brothers were selling pork sandwiches at the Erie Agricultural Fair in Hamburg, New York. Supposedly, the brothers ran out of pork and could not find a butcher willing to slaughter a pig. The two men proceeded to purchase five pounds of beef, ground the beef up, and then mixed several items, including coffee and brown sugar, into the meat. The Menches brothers supposedly named their sandwich after the town where they first served the product. Demand purportedly was so high that the two men continued to travel from fair to fair, selling their hamburgers.
In 1991, descendants of the Menches brothers discovered a copy of the original recipe. They began selling the original hamburgers at fairs, just like their ancestors had done. Today, they also sell the hamburgers, known as Menches Gourmet Burgers, in grocery stores. The company is located in Green, Ohio. They also have sold the hamburgers on QVC, a television shopping channel.


Hierarchical Topographic Factor Analysis
By Jeremy R. Manning (_EMAIL_) and Paxton C. Fitzpatrick (_EMAIL_)
In this demonstration, we'll be using the BrainIAK Python toolbox to apply Hierarchical Topographic Factor Analysis (HTFA) to an fMRI dataset.
The demo will comprise three main steps:
 1. Apply HTFA to the dataset to discover a basis set of network "nodes"
 2. Apply a dynamic correlation model to the HTFA fits to characterize the network dynamics
 3. Visualize the network dynamics in two ways:
Annotated bibliography
 1. Manning JR, Ranganath R, Norman KA, Blei DM (2014). Topographic Factor Analysis: a Bayesian model for inferring brain networks from neural data. PLoS One, 9(5): e94914. link Describes a single-subject model (TFA) for inferring brain network hubs and applies it to a semantic decoding dataset.
 2. Manning JR, Zhu X, Willke TL, Ranganath R, Stachenfeld K, Hasson U, Blei DM, Norman KA (2018). A probabilistic approach to discovering dynamic full-brain functional connectivity patterns. NeuroImage, 180: 243-252. link Describes a multi-subject (hierarchical) model (HTFA) for inferring shared brain network hubs and applies it to a story listening and movie viewing dataset.
 3. Owen LLW, Chang TH, Manning JR (2020). High-level cognition during story listening is reflected in high-order dynamic correlations in neural activity patterns. bioRxiv. link Describes a model for inferring network dynamics from timeseries data and applies it to HTFA fits to a story listening dataset.
Table of contents:
Getting started
The easiest way to run this notebook is to download and install Docker on your local machine, and then build the Docker image in this folder. That will install the necessary toolboxes and dependencies, and will also download the data you'll be analyzing. Follow the instructions for your platform to download and install Docker, and then start the Docker Desktop application.
After you've installed Docker, to build the docker image, just navigate to this folder and run:
docker build --rm --force-rm -t htfa.
To start the image for the first time, run:
docker run -it -p 8888:8888 --name htfa -v $PWD:/mnt htfa
and on subsequent times, run:
docker start htfa && docker attach htfa
When the docker image is started, it will automatically start a Jupyter notebook server. Copy and paste the third link into a browser to interact with this notebook.
To stop running the container, run:
docker stop htfa
Run the cells below (in sequence) to load in the example dataset, fit HTFA to the data, and visualize the resulting network dynamics.
Import libraries and helper functions and load the dataset. The dataset we'll be analyzing is a subset of the story listening dataset collected by Simony et al. (2016).


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How to configure SonicWall VPN using LDAP
You can secure access to SonicWall VPNs using LDAP. Users can sign in using either the mobile app or by receiving a voice call on their phone. If using the mobile app, the will provide their username and a blank password. When signin in, a user will need to approve the signin on their mobile phone before the signin completes. If using a voice call, users will provide their account PIN in the password box. They will receive a phone call directing them to press the number one on their phone keypad to complete the sign in process.
 1. In your console (e.g. navigate to Apps.
 2. Create a new LDAP application. Note the Server Address, Server Port, Root Binding DN.
 3. Click Activate
Configuring SonicWall
 1. From the SonicWall console, choose Users then Settings.
 2. In the User Authentication method drop-down menu, select either LDAP or LDAP + Local Users.
 3. Click Configure LDAP
 4. For Name or IP Address provide the value give in the console, something like
 5. For Port Number, choose 636.
 6. For Server Timeout choose 300 seconds.
 7. Select Give bind distinguished name
 8. For the Bind distinguished name provide the value from the console. For Login Password type anything.
 9. Check Use TLS.
 10. Check Require valid certificate from server.
 11. Do not check Force PAP to MSCHAPv2.
 12. Click Apply.
Schema Tab
 1. Click the Schema tab.
 2. LDAP Schema choose Microsoft Active Directory.
 3. In the Directory tab, note the value of Trees containing users is something like Turn this into a LDAP DN, something like cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com. Put this value into the User Suffix field in the console.
 1. Choose the Test tab.
 2. Enter a valid username or email address for User.
 3. If you have the mobile app set up, enter anything at all for the password. If you are using voice call authentication, enter your account PIN or password.
 4. Press test.
 5. You will receive a notification or voice call. When you approve, your signin will complete.
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Explain in basic terms how to execute managed code. | Eklavya Online
Explain in basic terms how to execute managed code.
Executing code is an essential function of any developer, but knowledge of executing managed code is specific to the.NET Framework. Your answer should explain how to execute code that runs inside the common language runtime environment the framework provides.
Additionally, whenever an interviewer asks you to explain something in "basic terms," it's important to pay attention to the language you use to make it as clear as possible. These types of questions are often asked when the position requires the candidate to be both very technical and also a good communicator who can explain their work to a broad audience. In some organizations, a lead developer may be responsible for reporting progress on an application to stakeholders. During these exchanges, they should be able to break down their work without using technical jargon or overly complicated language.
Example: "First, I would write the code. Then I would compile the code with a resource called a compiler. Using the compiler, I would convert the managed code into an intermediate language. The intermediate language will be targeted by the Common Language Runtime within.NET Framework and converted to native code that can then be executed inside the framework.
In my previous role as a developer, I was tasked with speeding up application delivery times. Using.NET and this process for executing managed code, I was able to reduce delivery timelines by 5% overall."


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How to know whether a micro-hospital is the right investment
September 11, 2018
 As inpatient volumes lag and profit margins shrink, hospitals have continued to look to alternative sites of care—such as the micro-hospital—to capture growth.
 Health systems have turned to micro-hospitals as a way to expand their geographic footprint, tap into outpatient demand, and generate downstream revenue while avoiding the overhead associated with full-scale facilities. But how can you judge if the site is right for you? Here are 3 questions to ask yourself before adding a micro-hospital to your system portfolio:
 1. What are your goals?
 2. If you're looking to expand your geographic footprint, fill care gaps, or fend off competition, the micro-hospital could be an effective strategy.
 For example, Dignity Health partnered with Emerus to build four "neighborhood" micro-hospitals in Las Vegas. Their North Las Vegas facility filled gaps in primary and specialty care, and offered flexibility in responding to market demand. Their South Las Vegas micro-hospital helped defend against competition with consumer-oriented care. Dignity also saw success downsizing some of their full-scale hospitals to micro-models.
 If your primary goal is to control the cost of care, generate downstream admission revenue, or guard against regulation uncertainty, alternative ambulatory sites may be a better fit.
 3. Are there better alternatives?
 4. Now that you know your goals, consider if a different site is a better alternative.
 Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), freestanding EDs, urgent care centers, and medical offices are models to consider when scoping a micro-hospital investment. These facilities vary in their potential to generate revenue, control costs, influence quality, avoid regulations and undercut future risks:
 5. Can your market support the investment?
 6. If you're still thinking "micro," size the opportunity by estimating latent demand and considering what business you're able to divert from competitors.
 Then, account for the dynamics of your population and region. Micro-hospitals have seen success in urban, suburban, and rural markets as long as they are tailored to specific inpatient needs. Your ability to derive an ROI will largely depend on your population's demographics. Areas with higher incomes and high projected population growth relative to nearby markets offer a more favorable and immediate return on investment.


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I know that Sas starts with the observation at the top of a dataset when processing and proceeds to the next until it reaches the bottom observation, but is there an easy way to make sas process the bottom observation first and then work its way to the top?
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You certainly can change your data to be in reverse order, then process top down. Add a variable to the data set which acts as an index..then sort the data set descending by that variable.
data work.myData ;
 set work.myData ;
 indx = _n_ ;
run ;
proc sort data=work.myData ;
 by descending indx ;
run ;
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+1 for a version which works with views as well as data sets – Simon Nickerson May 28 '09 at 15:00
You can use nobs and point to process it backwards without having to do any intermediate steps. Here's an example:
data backwards;
 do k= nobs to 1 by -1;
 set sashelp.class nobs = nobs point=k;
proc print data=sashelp.class;run;
proc print data=backwards;run;
See page 2 of this pdf for all the juicy details.
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Nice tip and link – CarolinaJay65 May 28 '09 at 19:04
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FDA simulates the spread of AIDs with paper cups and acidic fluid
Wednesday, February 25, the East's Future Doctors of America Club (FDA) gathered in F084 for one of their last meetings of the 2008-09 school year.
Liz Kim ('09), current President of FDA, opened the meeting with a short discussion about the upcoming elections for next year's officer positions, which will be held on April 22.
The topic of today's meeting was the spreading epidemic, AIDS. The club planned an experiment called "A Ten Minute Epidemic," to further the members' understanding of the rapidly spreading epidemic. After signing in, the 27 club attendees listened to a brief history of AIDS. Then, each student received a paper cup with a number on the bottom filled with an acidic fluid. The students were to travel around the room and exchange fluids with five other students, each time recording the number of the cup fluid they obtained. After about fifteen minutes of simulated AIDS infecting, Kim walked around with an indicator base fluid, putting a drop into all of the students' cups. The fluids that turned pink were "infected" and the fluids remaining clear were clean. The club members were able to identify the cup origin of the virus just by recording who shared acid fluid with whom.
Kim said she tries to make the club fun, rather than just having members sit through lectures on medicine. Last November, FDA went to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia and learned about anatomy and human medical anomalies. The club also recently played medical Jeopardy to test the students' knowledge on different diseases and medical fields.
"We tried to change it up a little and it worked," said Kim.
The club offers both a social and an educational aspect.
"Each time we learn something new. [The club] introduces you to different medical fields," said Catherine Yu ('11).
Through countless bake sales, FDA has over $400 and plans to purchase t-shirts, which will be distributed to dedicated members who have attended over half of the meetings.
FDA's next meeting will be March 18, with a plastic surgeon guest speaker, a speaker Kim considers different from speakers FDA has featured in the past.


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It is a non-visible component: that is, if the icon is selected from the Standard tab of the Component Palette and placed on the form, it will not appear at run-time. Instead, a menu bar with a structure defined by the menu editor will appear.
To see the Menu Editor, right-click on the Main Menu icon on your Form.
Creating a PopupMenu
In the next passage, I will show you, how to assign a popup menu to a component an your Form:
- Create a new GUI application and insert a TImage to the form. To do this, choose the TImage from component palette Additional and click on your form. It will put a TImage on your form, with the name Image1.
- Go to the Object Inspector (which must be on Image1) and under the tab properties, select the Align property. Adjust the alClient align in the adjacent combobox (the Image1 is adjusted in the size of the form).
- Now you put a TPopupMenu (component tab standard) on your form (if possible on the "Image1", so you know that this is one of the image). The component PopupMenu1is displayed on the form (a square with a representation of a drop down menus and the name of the component).
- Right click now on "PopupMenu1", a pop-up menu appears. Click the first entry Menu Editor.
- The Menu Editor window will open with a menu item already created with a caption of New Item1. Probably you want to change it, so click on it and go to the Object Inspector.
- In Object Inspector, change the Name property from MenuItem1 to something more appropriate. Let's say this is the Load menu, so let's change Name by typing in popLoad and press enter.
- We want a better caption than New Item1, so go to the Caption property and type in Load and press enter.
- Now we want to create yet another menu entry. Go back to the Menu Editor window. Rightclick on Load. A pop-up menu will appear. Click on Insert New Item After, and a new menu, called New Item2 will appear. As explained in the last two items, let's change its name to popStretch and the caption to Stretched in the Object Inspector.
- We noticed that we forgot a menu entry. That's not bad, you go back in the menu editor. You can either right-click on Load and click on Insert New Item (after) or right-click on Stretched and click on Insert New Item (before).
- Change caption to Centered and name to popCenter.
- Procedure the menu editor so each menu item which you need and close at the end.
- When you have added all the menus, you must still set what component it should be associated with. In our case, this should be the TImage Image1, what we have placed at the beginning at the form.
- Select on the form Image1 and go in the object Inspector on the property PopupMenu. There, select PopupMenu1 in the adjacent combobox.
- In run-time, the popup menu will always appear if you right click the image.
Now, all this will get you is a menu that displays at run time and will allow the user to click on the menus. It won't actually do anything. To have the menu items do something, you have to add events for each menu that is to react to being clicked upon.
The following explains how to edit the events of menu clicks using the Object Inspector.
- Go back to the menu editor and select the Load menu item with a click. Now go to the Object Inspector window, and select the tab events. The only event that you really want to change, is OnClick, which is currently empty. If you already have an existing EventHandler to use, can use these and choose accordingly, otherwise you can create one by Lazarus. There is a button with 3 dots on the right side. Click on it, and a new procedure (your newly created eventhandler) is created in the code and the view changes to the source text editor. Your Procdure will look something like this:
procedure TForm1.popLoadClick(Sender: TObject); begin end;
- Between the statements begin and end you can now insert the code for the menu entry click Load.
In our case we could insert a TOpenDialog control on the form and use the standard dialog for our purposes:
- For that, put a TOpenDialog control (component palette dialog) on your form, with the name OpenDialog1. Now change your procedure to:
procedure TForm1.popLoadClick(Sender: TObject); begin if OpenDialog1.Execute then //only if a file is selected try //try Image1.Picture.LoadFromFile(OpenDialog1.Filename); //to load that file except end; end;
- Analogous procedures with other menu items and create their event handlers and insert following code:
procedure TForm1.popStretchClick(Sender: TObject); begin popStretch.Checked := not popStretch.Checked; //mark/checked on/off Image1.Stretch := popStretch.Checked; //Image1 streched yes/no end; procedure TForm1.popCenterClick(Sender: TObject); begin popCenter.Checked := not popCenter.Checked; //mark/checked on/off Image1.Center := popCenter.Checked; //Image1 center yes/no end;
- Now you can start the sample with [F9], open the popup menu with a right click and click on Load. Now, load a picture of your choice. If you have loaded an image, try the other menu entries.
May be you dont want to have displayed a popup menu with a right click on a specific component, but at a different event. That you can realize with
A simple example:
- Create a new GUI application and add a TPopupMenu PopupMenu1 and a TButton Button1 to your form.
- Insert a few menu entries in PopupMenu1 (see Creating a PopupMenu).
- Generate the event handler for the OnClick event of Button1 and write the following code:
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin PopupMenu1.PopUp; //shop PopupMenu end;
- Start your program, the popup menu is called by clicking the button.


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Stowe Elementary School in Duluth, MN, has approximately 375 students in preschool through the fifth grade. The school is two blocks from a highway, which creates a barrier for children who want to bicycle or walk to school but must cross the highway. Additionally, many of the neighborhoods surrounding the school lack sidewalks, so some children who walk to school must walk on dirt paths that run next to the streets.
In 2008, Stowe Elementary received $171,360 in Safe Routes to School funding from the Minnesota Department of Transportation to make infrastructure improvements around the school and to encourage pedestrian safety among the students.
Most of the funding will be used to implement the infrastructure projects. The first project will narrow the two outside lanes of the highway for two blocks in an effort to slow the traffic along the road. The funds also will be used to construct sidewalks and concrete curb extensions and to purchase LED streetlights, school crossing signs and flashers. Using grant funds, the school also will implement an age-appropriate safety education curriculum and begin Walking School Bus activities. In March 2008, the school organized a Walking School Bus program for one week, in which parents led four walking school buses. About 40 students participated in the Walking School Bus, and the school saw an increase in the number of children who walked and bicycled to school.
Stowe Elementary plans to start the infrastructure projects in summer 2008 and for the projects to be completed within two years.


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Narrative in English Conversation : A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling
Üye Girişi yapın, temin süresi ve fiyatını size bildirelim.
Üye Girişi yapın, sizi bu ürün stoklarımıza girdiğinde bilgilendirelim.
Temin süremiz 28 - 42 iş günü
Yayıncı Cambridge University Press ( 12 / 2015 ) ISBN 9781107595750 | 22,9 x 15,2 cm | İngilizce | Türler Dil / Dilbilim
Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients collaborate in storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using R, a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Using this unique data and methodological base, Rühlemann reveals new insights, including the discovery of turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first investigation of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how speech reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance level, and the identification of the story climax as the sequential context in which recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned.
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Alayna Coverly is an Ann Arbor based artist working figuratively with oil paint. She has her BFA in Painting and Drawing, along with a Museum Studies certificate and a minor in Art History. She is currently producing work in her studio that focuses on the intimate bonds we have with others.
My work explores the absence and presence of the emotional bonds we share with others. I use fabric to represent these intimate attachments because they display a connection and disconnection,or a push and pull. I often use fabric to create a layer of comfort and protection while relating to the home. This domesticity is displayed through the patterns used to engulf the figure. The consumption of the figure by the fabric relates back to the figure being hidden, while simultaneously holding a presence. Through my work I show the complexity of intimate attachments, the give and take needed to cultivate relationships.


Honda-e parked next to a building
Honda-e parked next to a building
To some drivers, the latest electric cars may seem like a mobile laboratory, crammed with technology and offering a dazzling glimpse of motoring's bright future. Yet in some ways, electric cars are remarkably straightforward, featuring battery technology which is simpler than cars with petrol or diesel engines.
How big is an electric car's battery?
Like the variety of cars they power, the batteries in electric vehicles vary in size. They're often packed away under the floor, taking up all the area beneath where everyone sits. Some will be rectangular shaped, others may resemble a 'T' section when viewed from overhead. And the larger they are, the heavier they will be.
In the new Honda e, the battery is beneath the middle of the car's floor and it powers an electric motor that is located under the boot floor.
Front three-quarter view showing electric car battery size
How does an electric car's battery work?
The modern battery in an electric car is lithium-ion. Inside the cell, positively charged lithium ions are carried by a liquid electrolyte from the anode to the cathode through a separator. This movement results in the discharge of an electrical current. And that electricity is used to power the motor or motors that drive either two or all four wheels.
Top front three-quarter view electric car battery size
Maintaining the battery
The greatest potential convenience about an electric car is that it can be charged whenever and wherever it is parked. This saves drivers from going out of their way to find a charging station. The power will be drawn from the grid. That means the sustainability will vary according to the energy provider. At home, the battery is best charged using a dedicated 'wallbox'. The wallbox typically delivers a charging rate of 6.6kW, which means a car like the Honda e, which has a 35.5kWh battery, would be charged from low warning to 100 per cent in around 4.1 hours. Using a more powerful 50kW rapid charger at a public location, the Honda e's battery would go to 80 per cent charge in just 31 minutes.*
*Charge times are measured from the low battery warning indicator.
Front three-quarter view hond e charging in garage
The Honda e's battery
Designed from the ground up, the Honda e is the first Honda to be built on a purpose-designed platform for electric vehicles. The stylish electric car features a water-cooled 35.5kWh lithium-ion battery that can be charged using either Type 2 AC connection or a CCS2 DC rapid charge.
The Honda e will be capable of travelling up to 137 miles before drivers will need to recharge the battery. To ensure the Honda e has a responsive feel on the road, engineers have centred the battery low in the platform, giving the compact car perfect 50:50 weight distribution and an excellent centre of gravity.
Rear top three-quarter view honda-e in studio


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A lightweight writing lab quiz engine for node.js
Quizzer is an online support tool for academic writing instruction. It can be installed with a single command, requires no student IDs or passwords, and works well with classes made up of students at varying stages of language acquisition, and from diverse language backgrounds.
The basic concept is to use student writing as the basis for a flood of pattern-recognition exercises, cast as online quizzes delivered by email. By raising the pace of iteration, the aim is to help students internalize a sense of grammatical anomalies and stylistic infelicities.
While Quizzer can be used to generate multiple-choice quizzes for a variety of purposes, the workflow it was built for runs like this:
 1. Students submit a 400-word essay once each week on an arbitrary topic.
 2. The instructor selects representative errors of style and grammar from the submissions, and composes a multiple-choice question consisting of the student's own sentence, two alternatives that also contain errors, and a corrected version.
 3. After constructing one question from each submitted essay, students are sent personalized links to the resulting quiz.
 4. Students submit their responses, which are recorded on the Quizzer server. Students receive feedback immediately feedback on their incorrect responses. Neither the essays nor the quiz results are assessed.
 5. Class commenters (TAs, instructors, and other experienced writers) post short explanations of why the wrong answers were wrong. Where appropriate, commenters from the students' own language domain can be brought in to provide supplementary native-language guidance.
 6. Class commenters of the target language domain can set persistent "rules" on-the-fly to cover issues that arise frequently. These rules can then to set as comments on specific wrong answers, and they can be translated by native-language commenters, for reference by students of the same language domain.
 7. When students revisit their quiz links, they will find their errors attached with explanatory rule, comments, and a list of classmates who answered the question correctly.
 8. Students are given an assessed, paper-based, multiple-choice supplementary mid-term and final exam, consisting entirely of questions from the quizzes.
Quiz distribution, commenting, exam composition, and marking are all managed by Quizzer. Paper tests are randomized as a hedge against cheating, and marked with a barcode reader for quick assessment.
The initial inspiration for Quizzer was a small code sample posted by Chetan Jain. The code has been refactored and extended considerably for this project, but I gratefully acknowledge the starting point for this frolic. Hats off also to the developers of node.js, and LaTeX and, well, everything else. Quizzer was built on short notice to fill a critical need, and it has been a real pleasure to see how quickly it could be brought together, and how smoothly it could be extended.
Quizzer is a node.js module. To get the website running, the minimum requirements are:
 - npm >=1.3.x
 - node >=0.10.x
In addition, the following external utilities are required for the typesetting of exams:
 - pandoc >=1.11.x (preferably compiled with texmath support)
 - either pdflatex, or platex and dvipdfmx (the latter pair is needed only if Japanese text must be handled)
LaTex (pLaTeX) documents created by Quizzer use the following packages:
 - makebarcode
 - marginnote
 - graphicx
 - tikz
 - ctable
 - float
 - hyphenat
 - amsmath
Quizzer must have access to a mail transfer agent (MTA). This can either be a sendmail instance running on the same server, or a mail API to a service such as GMail.
With the above requirements in place, Quizzer can be run on a workstation for initial trials, accessed via a port on localhost (aka For production use, Quizzer should be placed behind a webserver, such as lighttpd or apache. Instructions for setting up the former are given below.
Basic Installation
Install quizzer from the npm repository:
npm install quizzer
Run the server by saving the following code to a file (say, quizServer.js):
var qz = require('quizzer');;
Run the script from command line like this:
node./quizServer.js
The script will whinge on first run, asking for some essential details:
usage: quizServer.js [-h] [-v] [-H PROXY_HOSTNAME] [-Q QUIZZER_PATH]
 [-p REAL_PORT] [-e EMAIL_ACCOUNT] [-s SMTP_HOST]
 [-l LOCALE] [-P] [-E]
Quizzer, a quiz server
Optional arguments:
 Host name for external access
 -Q QUIZZER_PATH, --quizzer-path QUIZZER_PATH
 Server path to quizzer (default: "/quizzer/")
 -p REAL_PORT, --real-port REAL_PORT
 Port on which to listen for local connections
 (defaults to 3498)
 -e EMAIL_ACCOUNT, --email-account EMAIL_ACCOUNT
 Full username of email account (e.g.
 -s SMTP_HOST, --smtp-host SMTP_HOST
 SMTP host name (e.g.
 -l LOCALE, --locale LOCALE
 Language locale for admin interface ("en" or "ja")
 -P, --use-platex Use platex engine + dvipdfmx for PDF generation
 -E, --use-euc-jp Convert input text from UTF8 to legacy EUC-JP
 encoding before LaTeX processing
 ERROR: must set option proxy_hostname
 ERROR: must set option email_account
To get Quizzer running, set proxy_hostname to localhost (or, and set email_account to your mail address ( in the example below):
node./quizServer -H localhost -e
Quizzer will come up with a message like the following:
Wrote config parameters to quizzer-3498.cfg
Quizzer can now be run with the single option: -p 3498
Message: no mypwd.txt file found, will use local Sendmail transport
Using local Sendmail transport
Admin URL: http://localhost:3498/?admin=179359xq
Adding admin role
Loaded class membership keys
Woke up the mail schedulers
Done. Ready to shake, rattle and roll!
The website can now be accessed at the URL reported in the fifth line. (Note that the admin key is automatically generated, and will differ from that shown in the example above.)
The database and configuration files are created in the directory from which the script is run, named after the port number. The server can be shut down with CTRL-c (SIGINT), and as the startup message says, it can be restarted with the single option -p
A full explanation of the remaining options will be added to this README as time permits.
Running Quizzer behind a Proxy
When PROXY_HOSTNAME is set to a fully qualified domain name (e.g., it will assume that it is being run behind a reverse proxy, and adjust URLs accordingly. Quizzer itself has only the thinnest concept of security, and should be run behind a proxy in production (and preferably over SSL). Access to the administrator display depends on a key set in the URL of a GET request. Rewrite rules on the front-end web server should be used to assure that attempts to set the key directly are rerouted through a password-protected URL.
If lighttpd is used as the front-end server, and Quizzer is run from a directory quizzer to which the server has access, configuration settings like the following should do the trick:
url.rewrite = (
 "^(?!/quizzer)(.*)\?admin=[^&]+(?:&(.*))*" => "/quizzer/admin.html$1?$2",
 "^(?!/quizzer)(.*)&admin=[^&]+(?:&(.*))*" => "/quizzer/admin.html$1&$2",
 "^/quizzer/admin.html$" => "/quizzer/admin.html?admin=fyvg19vx",
 "^/quizzer/admin.html\?(.*)$" => "/quizzer/admin.html?admin=fyvg19vx&$1"
$HTTP["host"] == "" {
 proxy.server = ( "/quizzer" => ( ( "host" => "", "port" => 3498 ) ) )
auth.backend = "htdigest"
auth.backend.htdigest.userfile = "/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.user"
auth.require = ( "/quizzer/admin.html" =>
 "method" => "basic",
 "realm" => "Quiz Admin",
 "require" => "user=quizmaster"


History of Newton
ornate letter in 975, Edric, a thegn of Essex, left land at Newton and Hauxton to his lord, King Edgar. The King promised these lands to Bishop Aethelwold for the newly founded Ely Abbey, but died before the completion of the transaction. Edric's brother Alwold, having the deeds in his possession, seized the Newton land, saying that it was distinct and separate from Hauxton. The monks maintained that the Newton and Hauxton lands were inseparable and there were prolonged disputes. Eventually, Ealdorman Beorhtnoth, who felt he owed a debt to the monks, purchased the land for them. In the reign of King Cnut (_PHONE_), Newton was obliged to supply enough food to support the Abbey for two whole weeks each year - a kind of rent for the land.
In 1086, the manor was called Hauxton; Newton was not separately named in the Domesday Book. The land remained with Ely Abbey throughout the Conquest. When the See of Ely was founded in 1109, the former Abbey estates were divided between the Bishop and the Prior and monks. Hauxton-Newton was given to the Prior and monks. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, the Dean and Chapter of Ely Cathedral were allowed to have the manor and the lordship was vested in them and nowadays rests with the Church Commissioners. Because the manor farm was in Newton, the name of the manor became Newton-Hauxton. But the earlier church was that of Hauxton, so the joint parish name put Hauxton first. Hauxton must have been the earlier settlement.
stained glass image of a king
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Villanella, work in progress, 35mm slides, colour.
In music, a Villanella (Italian pronunciation: [villaˈnɛlla]; is a form of light Italian secular vocal music which originated in Italy just before the middle of the 16th century. It first appeared in Naples, and influenced the later canzonetta, and from there also influenced the madrigal.
The subject matter is generally rustic, comic, and often satirical; frequently the mannerisms of art music, such as the madrigal, are a subject of parody. The rhyme scheme of the verse in the earlier Neapolitan forms of the villanelle is usually abR abR abR ccR. The villanelle became one of the most popular forms of song in Italy around mid-century.
The music of the early Villanella (known as the canzone villanesca) is invariably for three unaccompanied voices.
I collected a series of found 35mm film slides from disparate repositories and private collections, to further process them with Hydrogen Peroxide (Mordançage).
The collection initially included 20 slides, and has now grown to circa 100 slides, projected on a loop via an old slide projector.


means that little code is required to use them, although this comes at the expense of flexibility.
 Typically, these objects are used for simple tasks such as dragging a rectangle or creating a new line. Operations that involve moving the vertices of existing geometries require the feedback objects to be used instead. The TrackNew method takes two parameters: an IScreenDisplay object representing the ScreenDisplay to draw the rubber band and an ISymbol object for drawing the rubber band. If no symbol is given, the default symbol is used. The method returns a new geometry object - the type of geometry returned depends on the class that was used. RubberPolygon returns a polygon object. If the method fails to complete, that is, if you press the Esc key, then nothing is returned. The types of geometry that are returned for TrackNew by each rubber band object are as follows:
 The TrackExisting method also takes ScreenDisplay and Symbol parameters as well as IGeometry representing the input geometry. This last parameter represents the geometry to move on the screen and is passed by reference so that it can be altered by the rubberband operation. The method returns a Boolean, which will be true unless the operation was interrupted by the Esc key being pressed. The method will do nothing if the geometry that is passed in does not intersect the current mouse location. The types of geometry that are expected by TrackExisting for each rubber band object are as follows:
 - RubberCircle - Not implemented
 - RubberEnvelope - IEnvelope
 - RubberLine - IPolyline
 - RubberPoint - IPoint
 - RubberPolygon - IPolygon
 - RubberRectangularPolygon - IPolygon
 For additional information, see Sample: RubberBand zoom.
 The selection tracker objects are shown in the following diagram:
 The three types of selection tracker objects are as follows:
 - An envelope tracker allows you to move and resize the element. This functionality is implemented by the EnvelopeTracker object for all element types, including point, line, polygon, and group elements.
 - A vertex edit tracker allows you to move vertices of lines, polygons, curves, and curved text. This functionality is implemented by the LineTracker and PolygonTracker objects.
 - A callout tracker allows you to move a text callout. This functionality is implemented by the CalloutTracker object.
 The CancelTracker object is used by ArcObjects to monitor the Esc key (optionally, the space bar and mouse clicks as well) and terminate processes at your request.
 For additional information, see Selection trackers.
 A representation class is also called a feature class representation. It is associated with a collection of representation rules to symbolize features and store that information in the geodatabase. It allows the geometry and properties of features to be altered from the rule without disrupting the associated spatial data. Representations are representations of individual features participating in a representation class. RepresentationClass, RepresentationRules, and Representation are objects in the Geodatabase library.
 RepresentationRules is a collection of one or more individual RepresentationRule objects that are used to categorize features in a geodatabase into groups. A regular representation rule consists of multiple layers of basic symbols such as BasicMarkerSymbol, BasicLineSymbol, or BasicFillSymbol for drawing markers, line strokes, and fill patterns, respectively. All basic symbol classes implement the IBasicSymbol interface.
 More complex symbology can be achieved by including one or more geometric effects in a representation rule. A geometric effect is a dynamic process that alters geometry at draw time. It can even change geometry type. For example, point, line, or polygon geometries can be processed through GeometricEffectBuffer to produce buffer polygons around them.
 All representation rule objects support the IRepresentationRule interface. Use the LayerCount and Layer properties to get the total number of symbol layers and to retrieve individual symbol layers at a given index. The InsertLayer method can be used to insert a symbol layer into a representation rule. You can specify the index and basic symbol as input values. Use the RemoveLayer method to remove a specific symbol layer present in the representation rule given its index.
 RepresentationRule also implements IRepresentationRuleInit, which is useful for transforming a regular ArcGIS symbol to a basic symbol. Since only basic symbols are used to construct a representation rule, it is important to transform a regular symbol to a basic symbol to use it with representations.
 For additional information, see Cartographic representations.
 A basic marker symbol is used to draw marker symbols and has marker, size, and angle as its graphic attributes. These attributes can be managed using the IGraphicAttributes interface. The attributes are listed in the esriGraphicAttribute enumeration and are prefixed with esriGAMarker - for example, esriGAMarkerSize. All basic marker symbol classes implement IBasicMarkerSymbol, which has a single MarkerPlacement property.
 Marker placement objects are marker placement styles for placing markers. You can place single or multiple markers depending on the marker placement you choose. For example, MarkerPlacementOnPoint places a single marker over a point, while MarkerPlacementAlongLine places multiple markers along a line. The default marker placement for any basic marker symbol is MarkerPlacementOnPoint. Use IMarkerPlacement to create and manipulate the properties of placement styles.
 The esriMarkerPlacementAttributes enumeration lists graphic attributes for all marker placements where each attribute is prefixed with esriGA(name)(attribute), such as esriGAInsidePolygonGridAngle, where MarkerPlacementInsidePolygon is the marker placement style and GridAngle is its graphic attribute.
 Examples of basic marker symbols are shown in the following graphic:
 The following table lists the available marker placement styles along with their valid input geometry types and graphic attributes:
 Marker placement
 Valid input geometry
 Graphic attributes
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Step
 - Endings
 - Control points
 - Angle to line
 - Line
 - Type
 - Offset
 - Angle to line
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Number of positions
 - Begin gap
 - End gap
 - Flip all
 - Flip first
 - Angle to line
 - Polygon
 - X step
 - Y step
 - Grid angle
 - Shift odd rows
 - X offset
 - Y offset
 - Clipping
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Position
 - Relative to
 - Angle to line
 - Point
 - X offset
 - Y offset
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - On end points
 - On control points
 - On regular vertices
 - Angle to line
 - Polygon
 - X offset
 - Y offset
 - Center method
 - Center clipping
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Step
 - Endings
 - Control points
 - Random
 - Skew effect
 - Polygon
 - X offset
 - Y offset
 - Clipping
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Step
 - Endings
 - Control points
 - Min zoom
 - Max zoom
 - Zoom number
 - Method
 - Offset
 A basic line symbol is used to draw stroke symbols. All basic line symbol classes implement IBasicLineSymbol, which has a single Stroke property. LineStroke has width, caps, joins, and color as its graphic attributes. These attributes can be manipulated using the IGraphicAttributes interface. The attributes are listed in the esriGraphicAttribute enumeration and are prefixed with esriGAStroke, such as esriGAStrokeWidth. Use ILineStroke to create and manipulate the properties of a new stroke symbol.
 A basic fill symbol is used to draw fill symbols. All basic fill symbol classes implement IBasicFillSymbol, which has a single FillPattern property. The three fill patterns and their graphic attributes are shown in the following table:
 Fill pattern
 Graphic attributes
 - Color
 - Color1
 - Color2
 - Pattern style
 - Interval
 - Percent
 - Algorithm
 - Angle
 - Color
 - Width
 - Angle
 - Step
 - Offset
 These attributes can be manipulated using the IGraphicAttributes interface. The attributes are listed in the esriGraphicAttribute enumeration and are prefixed with esriGA(fill pattern type), such as esriGASolidColorPatternColor. Use IFillPattern to create and manipulate the properties of a new Fill Pattern symbol.
 Fill patterns of BasicFillSymbol are shown in the following graphic from left to right: solid, hatch, and gradient:
 GeometricEffect and GeometricEffects
 Geometric effects are dynamic processes that alter the geometry of features. A single representation rule can contain multiple geometric effects, functioning in sequence to create complex symbols. When a single RepresentationRule object is applied with a chain of geometric effects, the end result of applying the chain of effects can be considered and managed as a single geometric effect. For this reason, the RepresentationRule class inherits both the IGeometricEffect and IGeometricEffects interfaces. The result of geometric effects applied on a rule are directly passed to all basic symbol layers present in the rule for drawing features. While IGeometricEffects is useful to browse through individual geometric effects participating in the rule, IGeometricEffect is useful to manage the chain of multiple geometric effects as a single geometric effect.
 For example, as shown in the following illustration, if there are two geometric effects - GeometricEffectDash and GeometricEffectOffset - applied on line strokes in sequential order, you can


Does soaking vegetable in saltwater kill bacteria?
We cannot stand a chance with even a trace of pollutants or toxins left on the consumable vegetables. With growing health risks, vegetables require your added caution.
As we already know how the salt solution helps in clearing the pesticides off the vegetables, the same salt solution does a fantastic job of plucking the hidden bugs and insects from your leafy vegetables as well. However, the salt solution has a much noticeable strength when it comes to vegetables. The vegetables soaked in saltwater can be set free from bacteria altogether. To understand how this is possible, let's dive into the little basics of Science.
The science behind the massacre of Bacteria accounts to the semi-permeable membrane that covers their cells
Generally, every microorganism, including bacteria, has its cells made up of a semi-permeable membrane. These semi-permeable membranes allow the transfusion of osmotic pressure, i.e., based on the salt concentration levels, the water moves in and out of the membrane. The water usually moves towards the higher salt concentrations from lower concentrations to normalize the pressure building.
Now, when the vegetables are soaked in salt water, the bacteria attached are surrounded by higher concentrations of salt. This salt-filled solution builds up the pressure inside the membranes of bacteria. Eventually, the water inside the membranes is moved out into the salt solution. The oozing out water shrinks and kills the bacterial cells and destroys their presence on the vegetables.
Hence, soaking the vegetables in salt water not only removes the pesticides and insecticides, but it also kills the bacteria and bugs present on them.
Preparation of effective salt solution soak for vegetables requires salt and warm water
Add 2-3 tablespoons of salt to 3 or 4 cups of warm water. Stir the water continuously till the complete salt is dissolved. Now, let the consumable vegetables sit in the solution for about 25-30 minutes for the effective results.
Soon after the soak, wash the vegetables with fresh cold water to remove the final contaminants off them. Check out the other effective ways to clean the vegetables and fruits at your home with no chemicals involved.
Usage tips: Moisture always encourages the growth of bacteria and other microorganisms. Thus, it is always recommended to wash the vegetables only before consumption. Well, ahead clearance might favor bacterial growth instead of clearing them off.
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20 Astonishing Vajrasana Benefits And Instruction To Do It
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Vajrasana composed of two words of Sanskrit "Vajra" and "Asana". "Vajra" means thundering in the sky. Here the thunderbolt means the dominant or thunderbolt, whereas "Asana" means the pose. Therefore, Vajrasana means the yogic posture that makes the body stronger as diamond. Vajrasana is also called Diamond Pose or Thunderbolt pose. Vajrasana benefits are countless as it makes the body healthy and strong, helps in improving digestion and strengthens legs too.
This seat is very beneficial for your digestive system. This is probably the only posture that can be done after eating food and by which your digestion improves. This article describes the ways and means of doing Vajrasana posture. Due to this asana, the problems of the digestion are removed from the root. In this article, we will tell you about the way to practice it and the vajrasana benefits.
Step By Step instruction to do Vajrasana
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Step By Step instruction to do Vajrasana
The way to practice the vajrasana is as follows:
 - Sit on the knees bent on the ground
 - Combine your big toe fingers and keep ankles apart
 - Sit on the soles of the feet such as the buttocks and the sole of the feet are touching the outer part of the buttocks.
 - Place your hands on the knees. Keep palms downwards.
 - The back and head should be straight, but they should not be tense.
 - Do not turn the spinal cord backward too much.
 - Close your eyes let the hands and the whole body feel comfortable.
 - Breathe normally and focus on breathing.
 - Take Vajrasana for as long as possible – Make this easy for at least 5 minutes to increase the digestion process, especially after the meal immediately.
In cases of acute digestive disorder, do vegans for 100 breaths before and after meals
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Vajrasana benefits:
The vajrasana benefits are as follows:
 1. Vajrasana strengthens pelvic muscles by changing the flow of blood and nerve impulses in the pelvic region.
 2. It prevents a hernia and also helps in relieving hemorrhoids.
 3. It improves the whole digestive tract, relieves stomach disorders such as acidity and peptic ulcer.
 4. Vajrasana benefits reduce blood flow in the genitals and massage the nerve fibers which make them active, which is useful in the treatment of testicles of men.
 5. It helps in the delivery of the child.
 6. Vajrasana is a very important posture for meditation because the body becomes absolutely straightforward without effort.
 7. This is the best meditation posture for those suffering from sciatica (cystic).
 8. Vajrasana is beneficial for the body's strength and peace of mind
 9. Vajrasana ends all diseases of the stomach
 10. It is also beneficial in the problem of gas
 11. Vajrasana also improves the problems associated with women such as menstrual problems.
 12. Vajrasana not only enhances digestion, but it relaxes in the lower back pain.
 13. In Vajrasana, the body passes through such condition which causes pressure on the central part of the body, which increases the digestion power and eliminates the contraption
 14. Vajrasana is very beneficial for those people who work by standing throughout the day, after a time, people begin to complain of back pain, such people should be energetic. It combines and reduces the pressure of the muscles.
 15. Deep breathing and long breathing are advised during Vajrasana, which ends with respiratory problems
 16. Vajrasana activates the muscles, pulls them into pulling and also improves metabolism, which helps in weight reduction.
 17. Vajrasana also removes the problem of blood pressure by correcting blood circulation.
 18. Due to the digestion of the body, the person gets rid of skin related diseases. This posture makes the toxins out of the body and skin so that the skin becomes soft, smooth and the face glows.
 19. It helps stretch the ankle, buttocks, and knees. Because of this, the whole body is toned and the health is good. Apart from this, the Vajrasana gives the benefit of both exercise and meditation together.
 20. There are many reasons behind the mood swing of a person. The gastrointestinal tract is healthy due to Vajrasana, which produces good hormones in the body and helps in maintaining a good mood.
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EE for supervisors
One of the core requirements for the IB Diploma Programme is the Extended Essay. Students complete a 4,000-word essay, exploring a research question and topic of choice, developing inquiry, writing and critical thinking skills. Our in-school workshops on the EE help teachers become confident supervisors, so that they can support their students effectively. We have also done half-day worksops for staff, followed by half-day workshops for students. Check out sample workshop materials on the EE Support Site
Sample agenda
1: Skills and assessment (45-90 minutes): What do we already know about the EE? What skills are assessed and how can they be developed? What does a good script look like? What does the journey to this final product look like? How do we develop critical thinking skills?
2: Supervision and reflection (45-90 minutes): What are the roles and responsibilities of supervisors, coordinators and candidates? How can reflection skills be developed? What does a good RPPF look like?
3: Inquiry and research (45-90 minutes): What do good research questions look like? How can students evaluate sources effectively? How can supervisors help students develop research habits?
4: Writing (45-90 minutes): What does good writing look like? How can supervisors help students write critically and think critically? How should an EE be structured?
Workshop leader
Brad Philpot has a passion for language, literature and learning. He is an experienced examiner, workshop leader, speaker, teacher and textbook author. He has authored two editions of English A: Language and Literature and English B for the IB Diploma Programme with Cambridge University Press. He is the original author of the ThinkIB Subject Site for English A: Language and Literature. Since 2008, he has shared his passion, experiences and expertise with over 3,000 teachers all around the world through Philpot Education, a provider of educational resources and workshops. Since 2020, he has taught English at Frankfurt International School.
"The personal touch Brad Philpot offered made the difference. A very holistic approach for a workshop provider." - Kathleen Battah, Wellspring Learning Community, Beirut, Lebanon
"This workshop was ideal for getting all our supervisors on the same page. Brad's resources were great. I'm sure they'll inform our EE processes for years to come." - Timothy Patton, Head of IB Core, American International in Egypt
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Sir Henry Otulle Eke, a United States of America based criminologist, have brushed aside the seemingly derogatory comments of President Muhammadu Buhari, against the Igbos, when he referred to the Igbos as a dot in a circle.
Sir Henry Eke expressed honour to be seen as a dot in a circle, and further explains how significant that dot referred to by Buhari has been in Nigeria. His article published on his Facebook handle, reads as follows:
Sir Henry Eke
I cannot understand why a dot in a circle is becoming a subject of another genocide. Obviously, the presidency underestimated the significance of a dot in a circle.
Think about this, to be at the center of the Universe is not a derogatory remark. When there is an earthquake, the Seismologists determine the epicenter of the action on a Reicter Scale. The Epicenter signifies the Center of the action.
The Equator is the center of the Universe and from the dot on the Equator the Center of the world is determined.
Many people are not happy that lgbo Nation was described as a dot in a Circle by the Presidency, but l am not.
As a matter of fact, l am honored as an lgboman to be described as a dot in a Circle.
The intention of the presidency was to denigrate lgbo people, but in the process, he unintentionally elevated lgbo Nation as the hub of Nigerian economy.
It is because of the recognition of Igbo Nation as a dot in a Circle that instigated Nigeria to wage war of genocide between 1966 and 1970 and still fighting Biafra' s restoration and Sovereignty till today.
A country cannot go to war for infinitesimal. lf Igbo Nation is inconsequential for Nigeria, why afraid of referendum? Why attacking Biafra with every Military might in the country to keep her in Nigeria?
Being described as a dot in a Circle was a tremendous honor. The presidency and the Cabals misfired and had regretted for describing lgbo Nation as a dot in a Circle.
This is an indirect elevation of lgbo ingenuity and sophistication in every technological advancements throughout the world.
So stop attributing a dot in a Circle as being derogatory, because it is not. It is a badge of honor. Please study a dot in a Circle to find its significance in a Circle.
Honestly speaking, the phraseology of a dot in a Circle was ignorantly and unintelligently used to expose the academic bankruptcy of Aso Rock Cabals.
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Charleroi was built in 1666 by the Spaniards and named after Charles II, king of Spain, only a 4-year-old child when he was placed on the Spanish throne after the death of his father Philip IV.
The following year, the fortress was taken by French armies and it was under French occupation. Fortifications were completed and extended by Vauban.
Louis XIV, who wanted to promote the development of the new town, granted its inhabitants privileges.
In 1678, under the treaty of Nijmegen, Charleroi was given back to Spain.
A first industrial change based on coal, iron, and glass industries brought about a rise in Charleroi's population.