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Elon Musk's writing about a Tesla battery fire reminded me of some of the math related to trying to estimate the rate of a rare event from a single occurrence of the event (plus many non-event occurrences). In this article we work through some of the ideas.
Elon Musk wrote that the issues of the recent battery fire were: a significant impact from a large piece of debris (which would clearly have also been dangerous to a gasoline based vehicle) and a "1 fire in over 100 million miles for Tesla" operating record. There are tons of important questions as to what is a proper Apples to Apples comparison of vehicle safety, but what interested me is the minor issue: how biased is evaluating Tesla right after the first occurrence of a rare bad event?
Roughly: evaluating Tesla right after the first report of a rare bad event (called a "failure") is biased against Tesla. It roughly doubles the perceived rate the event occurs at. The math (based on the Markov property) is quick. If the bad event has probability p (p small) then the expected number of such events in n-trials is n*p. However, the expected number of events in n-trials where we picked n such that the n-th trials has the event (n picked after the events happen) is (n-1)*p + 1 (the normal expectation for the first n-1 events and then the forced 1 for the last event). If n is such that n*p is near 1 (which is plausible for an observation near the first occurrence) then we see the scoring right after the first failure roughly double the perceived failure rate.
Now the correct way to work with duration in this sort of problem is using survival analysis which treats duration as a continuous variable and doesn't treat "100 million miles" as 100 million discrete events (the discrete treatment introduces small unnecessary problems in changing scale to "200 million half-miles" and so on). But, let's stay with discrete events for fun. An important issue is: certain relations that are known for true values are only approximations for estimatesso it really matters what you estimate directly and what you infer indirectly.
For example: suppose we try to estimate directly expected duration to first event instead of event rate? Obviously if you know one of these you know the other. But the relationship between estimates of one to estimates of the other is a bit looser. So you really want to set up your experiments to directly estimate the one you care about.
Duration to first failure estimated by watching for the first failure can be estimated as follows. The probability of seeing the first failure on the k-th observation is exactly (1-p)^(k-1) * p ( you see k-1 successes followed by one failure). And if we see the first failure at the k-th step our natural estimate of the duration to first failure is k. The expected value of this sort of estimator summed over all possibilities is:
The 1/p expected value of the estimate is exactly what you would hope for.
However instead suppose we use a similar "reasonable sounding" procedure to try and estimate the rate p instead of the duration to failure. We say that if the first failure is seen at the k-th step then the reasonable estimate for p is 1/k. This estimate ends up being:
That is: our estimation procedure's expected value of estimate is -p*ln(p)/(1-p) instead of the correct (or unbiased) value of p. This is again an over-estimate, using the observed rate as the estimator is net-upward biased (as also shown in the expected number of failures argument).
Also notice that the multiplicative bias term -ln(p)/(1-p) changes as we change scale of p. If instead of measuring 100 million 1-mile events we measured 200 million half-mile events our number of events bias would go up, but slowly enough that our total miles bias would go down. This is why in survival analysis durations are treated as continuous quantities, so changes in scale don't change estimates. The simplest survival analysis would assume road-debris is constant hazard (doesn't systematically go up or down in the age of the car) and therefore the survival function of the car would be the exponential distribution (not "survival" means avoiding the failure event which stops the observations, not living or dying).
The lesson is: you introduce biases by deciding when you calculate (right after a failure) and choosing what to estimate. But with some care you can get all of this right.


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Question: What is the difference between silicone compression molding and silicone injection molding?
Answer: In the compression molding process, the mixed silicone is filled into an open mold. For a core and cavity mold, the cavity side is usually filled with excess material. Once filled, the two halves are then uniformly compressed under hot platens. After a certain amount of curing time, the two halves are either manually or mechanically opened. The final part is removed after excess material is detached.
In the injection molding process, the A and B component materials are mixed from the mixing unit, and immediately travel through the cool barrel. The mixed material is then injected in a hot closed mold. After the curing and mold-open phase, the final part is removed from the mold.

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The Whispers of Nemesis – The Fifth Greek Detective Mystery
The Whispers of Nemesis takes enigmatic investigator Hermes Diaktoros to the wintry mountains of northern Greece.
As snow falls in the tiny village of Vrisi a coffin is unearthed and broken open. But to the astonishment of the mourners at the graveside, the remains inside the coffin have been transformed, and as news of the bizarre discovery spreads through the village like forest fire it sets tongues wagging and heads shaking.
Then, in the shadow of the shrine of St Fanourios (patron saint of lost things), a body is found, buried under the fallen snow – a body whose identity only deepens the mystery around the exhumed remains. There's talk of witchcraft, and the devil's work – but it seems the truth, behind both the body and the coffin, may be far stranger than the villagers' wildest imaginings.
Drawn to the mountains by a wish to see an old and dear friend, Hermes finds himself embroiled in the mysteries of Vrisi, as well as the enigmatic last will and testament of Greece's most admired modern poet. The Whispers of Nemesis is a story of desperate measures and long-kept secrets, of murder and immortality and of pride coming before the steepest of falls.

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How do you sign your name without a pen? Try a needle and thread! The Roger Mansell collection contains material on prisoners of war (POWs) in the Pacific theater of World War II, including unpublished memoirs by ex-POWs, rosters, copies of government documents, photographs, and the hand-embroidered apron seen here. The apron is dated January 19, 1942, seventeen days after the Japanese forces occupied Manila and took over the University of Santo Tomás, transforming it into a civilian internment camp. The signatures likely belong to internees who worked in the kitchens of the Santo Tomás Internment Camp. By the time the camp was liberated in February 1945, its population had grown to nearly four thousand.
In addition to this embroidered piece, internees produced newsletters, wood carvings, poems, and diaries documenting their time at Santa Tomás, Los Baños, and other internment camps in the Philippines. Click here to see a list of collections at the Hoover Institution Archives relating to the Philippines in World War II.
Roger Mansell's book Captured: The Forgotten Men of Guam was edited by historian Linda Goetz Holmes and published in November 2012 by Naval Institute Press.


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The Elizabeth Plankinton mansion was built in 1886 by John Plankinton in anticipation of of his daughter, Elizabeth's, marriage to British sculptor, Richard Hamilton Park. Unfortunately before the couple were married and could move into the new home, Park changed his mind and ran off with a dancer from Minneapolis. After that event Elizabeth chose not to live in the palatial structure and spent much of her time abroad. The mansion was empty until 1896 when it was purchased by the widowed Mrs. Hugh L. Johnston. The Knights of Columbus began using the structure in 1910 and would occupy it until it was destroyed in 1980. Marquette University purchased the land around the mansion in 1975. The Elizabeth Plankinton mansion was on the list of the National Register of Historic Places and many students, polticians and citizens protested when they learned of plans to tear it down. However, their efforts were to no avail, as bulldozers began demolishing the building on October 11, 1980, before the permits were issued for such activities.
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History of mediation
Many believe that mediation has come from the United States, and exemplary prove that this term is mentioned e.g. in 1947 in the context of the regulation of conflicts of the labor union. However, a more detailed examination shows that the term of mediation has been used much earlier in Europe, so at the most, it could have been re-imported recently.
In the final document for the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, it has been written, that the diplomat Fabio Chigi, sent by Pope Urban VIII, has worked successfully for five years as a "peace broker" ("mediator pacis") for five years "... without partiality, hard and sedulously...". Already 30 years ago, in the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation", the Elector of Saxony, tried to act, with three co-mediators on his side, as a "mediator" between the Bohemian Estates and Habsburg. In the "Danske Lov", a Danish codification of law from the year 1683, you can find the original term as well. In this law, the freedom of the parties for a peaceful conflict solution by "mediation" is mentioned. An additional decree from 1795 contains directives and detailed reasons to carry out mediations instead of court proceedings.
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Scala Map class examples (adding, removing, updating, iterating)
Here's a quick look at how to use the Scala Map class, with a collection of Map class examples.
The immutable Map class is in scope by default, so you can create an immutable map without an import, like this:
val states = Map("AL" -> "Alabama", "AK" -> "Alaska")
To create a mutable Map, import it first:
var states = scala.collection.mutable.Map("AL" -> "Alabama")
Adding, removing, and updating mutable Map elements
The following examples show how to add, remove, and update elements in a mutable Scala Map:
// create an empty map
var states = scala.collection.mutable.Map[String, String]()
// create a map with initial elements
var states = scala.collection.mutable.Map("AL" -> "Alabama", "AK" -> "Alaska")
// add elements with +=
states += ("AZ" -> "Arizona")
states += ("CO" -> "Colorado", "KY" -> "Kentucky")
// remove elements with -=
states -= "KY"
states -= ("AZ", "CO")
// update elements by reassigning them
states("AK") = "Alaska, The Big State"
Iterating over Scala maps
Once you have a Map, you can iterate over it using several different techniques. I prefer using the for loop (or for-comprehension):
scala> val m1 = Map("fname" -> "Al", "lname" -> "Alexander")
scala> for ((k,v) <- m1) printf("key: %s, value: %s\n", k, v)
key: fname, value: Al
key: lname, value: Alexander
This page has some other Map and for-loop examples, which I've reproduced here:
// version 1 (tuples)
m1 foreach (x => println (x._1 + "-->" + x._2))
// version 2 (foreach and case)
m1 foreach {case (key, value) => println (key + "-->" + value)}
You can choose whatever format you prefer.
A few more ways to iterate over a Scala Map
To demonstrate a more "real world" example of looping over a Scala Map, while I was working through some programming examples in the book, Programming Collective Intelligence, I decided to code them up in Scala.
To begin with, I defined my Scala Map like this:
val p1Ratings = Map(
 "Lady in the Water"-> 3.0,
 "Snakes on a Plane"-> 4.0,
 "You, Me and Dupree"-> 3.5
In my case, when I'm iterating over the Map I'm really just interested in the Map keys, so the cleanest way to loop over every Map element is like this:
p1Ratings.keys.foreach( (movie) =>
 if (p2Ratings.contains(movie)) similarItems += (movie -> true)
While I chose that looping method in my code, I could also use the "tuples" approach, where movie is a Tuple, and I only use the first element of the Tuple, which happens to be my keys:
p1Ratings foreach ( (movie) =>
 if (p2Ratings.contains(movie._1)) similarItems += (movie._1 -> true)
In that approach, I ignore the second element of each Tuple, because I don't need it. (Which is why I don't like this approach for this instance.)
In a similar approach, I loop over the Map as shown next, creating a field named rating1 which I again don't use because I don't need it:
for ((movie1, rating1) <- p1Ratings) {
 if (p2Ratings.contains(movie1)) similarItems += (movie1 -> true)
These last two approaches will work better, and look a little more logical, if you need to access the key and value for each map element, but in my case, since I don't need to values, I'm using the first approach shown above.
Summary: Scala Map classes
In summary, I hope these Scala Map class examples have been helpful. As you can see, it's easy to create and use a Scala Map.


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Towards a Work-Related Turnover Risk Management in Manufacturing SMEs
Authors: Svenja Korder, Dominik Breuherr, Gunther Reinhart
Abstract: The shortage of skilled workers in Germany caused by demographic change steadily increases. In the manufacturing sector, this situation leads to difficulties filling vacant positions and thus to extended vacancy periods of jobs in companies. Therefore, the turnover of skilled workers becomes a problem, especially in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, as individual positions are not filled redundantly. High costs due to temporary workers or the rejection of orders can be the consequences. Turnover research has been conducted for a long time, but there is a lack of a standardized method to capture the turnover risk of skilled workers. This paper presents an approach for the systematic assessment of turnover risk in manufacturing work. The method is based on an employee survey. The results are transferred into a risk matrix in order to derive the level of risk for work-related turnover of individual employees. To ensure a cost-, personneland time-efficient implementation in the operations of SMEs, the method will be transferred into a software application. In this way, the turnover risk can be made transparent. The user can select specific measures evaluated according to manufacturing-specific performance indicators. These measures should help SMEs prevent the turnover of critical specialists and avoid high costs caused by long vacancy periods of jobs.
Keywords: Risk assessment, Employee Turnover, Human-centric Manufacturing, Work system
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In baseball, a pitchout is a ball that is intentionally thrown high and outside of the strike zone with the purpose of preventing a stolen base or thwarting a hit and run. The pitcher delivers the ball in such a manner for it to be unhittable and in a position where the catcher can quickly leap to his feet to catch it. A well-thrown pitchout will allow the catcher to receive the ball standing up as opposed to his usual squat, giving him a better line to throw to a base without the pitcher or the batter obstructing his vision or aim. Moreover, it is easier to throw a ball with more force from a standing position than it is from a squat, which is why most catchers leap to their feet when attempting to throw out a base stealer.
The pitchout is often called for when the battery believes that an existing baserunner is likely to attempt a steal, and forms one of the two (with the pickoff) main countermeasures a pitcher can take against a potential stealer. A runner attempting to steal on a pitchout will have an extremely difficult time beating the throw to second base and almost no chance of stealing third barring a mistake by the catcher or the third baseman.
The pitchout is also used against the hit and run. As the pitch is unhittable, the runner will have to attempt a straight steal, and for the reasons described above will usually fail.
A pitchout is thrown in around the same location as an intentional ball, but differs in that a pitchout is thrown harder to give the catcher the most time to throw out the baserunner. Of course, a pitchout is technically an intentional ball, but the term is not used to describe the pitchout in conversation.
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Trellises are essential for growing climbing plants, such as clematis vines (Clematis spp.) and cucumbers (Cucumis sativus). They provide a structure onto which plants can climb and keep crops off the ground, making them less susceptible to rot and infestation. As plants grow, however, the weight can sometimes pull on the trellis and cause it to lean, especially with heavy vine crops such as cucumbers and tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum). The plants can eventually pull the trellis to the ground without intervention in the form of braces.
Inspect the trellis to determine in which direction it leans so you can install braces on the correct side. If the trellis leans forward, install braces to the front of the trellis; if it leans to the left, install braces on the left side of the trellis.
Measure from the center of the trellis down to the ground at a 45-degree angle to determine the length needed for the braces.
Cut one 2-by-4-inch board for each end of the trellis, using the 45-degree angle measurement from the center of the trellis to the ground. This requires two boards to brace the front or back of the trellis or one board to brace the side of the trellis. The brace boards will be about 1.4 times the length of the 45-degree angle measurement from the ground to the trellis because the miter cuts take away from the overall length of the boards.
Cut a 45-degree angle miter cut on each end of a 2-by-4-inch board. Cut one end so the board lines up evenly with the trellis and the other end with a point to easily dig into the ground.
Push one end of the angle-cut 2-by-4 into the ground, then prop the trellis up with the other end of the board. Place the board on the center of a frame board on the edge of the trellis and not against the weaker lattice material.
Nail or screw the board to the trellis with 3-inch nails or screws. Repeat this process, installing an angle-cut 2-by-4 to each frame board on the side of the trellis you wish to support.
Things You Will Need
- Measuring tape
- 2-by-4-inch lumber
- Circular saw
- Miter saw
- Nails or screws
- Hammer or screwdriver
- Gravel, optional
- Bypass pruners, optional
- If the soil has poor drainage, you can put gravel under the end of the brace board to improve drainage and prevent the board from rotting in the ground.
- You may need to clip away foliage to gain access to the trellis if the climbing plant is overgrown.
- You can substitute other materials, such as metal pipe or sturdy branches, for the 2-by-4-inch board braces, depending on the trellis material.
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The Dark UI Side: Why People Love Dark Themes
The Dark UI Side: Why People Love Dark Themes
Designing for the user is a practice widely accepted and followed in the design community, and while it seems to be a fairly straightforward declaration, diving into it proves that that task is substantially more daunting than it seems.
Users everywhere have different tastes, different expectations, different reactions to certain stimuli, different environments et al, and when these factors come into play, the playing field gets more complex.
However, first impressions are lasting ones, and one of the first observations that the user makes, immediately after clicking the icon, is the theme of the app, i.e., whether it follows Light UI principles or Dark UI ones. Depending on a number of factors, the app's theme may appeal to the users or furrow their brows, and in the case of power users, it's more often the former than the latter. Why, you ask? Well, here are the major factors,
Dark interfaces, for the most part, sport white text and icons on dark gray or black surfaces, and the subsequent contrast ratio proves to be easy on the eyes, especially on AMOLED displays with black pixels being turned off, allowing for "infinite contrast". As a result, the readability of interfaces becomes vastly easier, reducing the amount of strain that the retinas are subjected to, proving especially beneficial in dark environments and at night, since unnecessary dilation of the pupils can prove strenuous over longer periods of time when constantly switching between a dark room and the bright screen, and is also one of the factors behind the belief that using screens just before heading to bed may interfere with your sleep cycles.
When questioned regarding their staunch support of all things Dark UI, numerous users also cited aesthetics as one of the deciding factors behind their preference. From adjectives like "sleek" and "cool" to "serious" and "pleasing", the general consensus was that dark interfaces are miles ahead in the aesthetics department, at least among power users. When pressed for more details pertaining to what held the aesthetic appeal, a few users also went on to associate it with fictional digital and sci-fi interfaces, pointing out the scores of homescreen themes that derived inspiration from them.
Coming as no surprise in the age of battery saving, from users with devices sporting AMOLED displays, one of the major reasons why power users lean towards Dark interfaces, especially completely black ones like TRDS, is the advantages they hold in terms of battery consumption. These displays can turn off individual pixels, as opposed to whole backlight powering the pixel matrix in LCD displays, thereby significantly reducing power consumption with most of the screen being off, a technique infamously used by Active Display.
The other side of the fence
While Dark UI has its own set of doggedly loyal supporters, especially among power users, the droves on the other side are increasing day by day, their numbers seeing a sharp upturn since the launch of Material Design, and not without reason. Supporters of light interfaces opine that light text on dark backgrounds often causes afterimages and banding (and the infamous "purple ghosting" of AMOLED screens), often hampering readability and interfering with the user's sight, and a good number even state that light interfaces seem more natural and in sync with the paper paradigm.
Do you agree with the above arguments? Or are you a firm believer in the Dark Side? Sound off in the comments section below!
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From Selflessness to Selfishness: Go, Xena, Go!
This post is the second in the series 7 Reasons Women Stay in Bad Relationships. It's part two of yesterday's post, From Selfless to Selfish: 1 Reason Women Remain in Bad Relationships.
If you saw yourself in yesterday's description of a woman who stays in a bad relationship because she's resistant to changing her self-image from Healing Nurturer to Selfless Terminator, then it is absolutely vital for you to understand that the least healing and nurturing thing you can do for yourself and the people you love is to remain in a bad relationship. There's virtually nothing you can do that's more healing to yourself and those around you than to once and for all kick a bad man out of your life. Here are some reasons that's true:
1. It's extremely encouraging to others. The people who care about you want both you and them to be okay. You having the inner strength and wisdom to rid yourself of a bad man not only shows them that you're okay, it also models for them how they can be okay, too. Seeing others take definitive steps toward healing themselves greatly encourages others to do the same thing in their own lives. Healing begets healing.
2. It refutes the Women as Victims model. Children grow up to build relationships just like the ones their parents had. Mothers who remains in bad relationships every single day teach their children that the natural role of women is to be hurt and demeaned by men, and that the natural role of men is to treat women like garbage.
3. Enabling a person to act poorly only hurts them. You do a man no favors by allowing him to continue to treat you shabbily. You don't train a dog to stop biting by letting it chew on your leg. Enabling dysfunctional behavior can't help but make it worse.
4. No one changes anyone. You can think, imagine, and dream that somehow, some day, you will change him. But he will only change when, how, where, and if he wants to. Period, end of story, close that lame, ancient fairy tale.
5. You are in a life and death situation. Just because it's happening slowly, bit by bit every day, doesn't mean that remaining with a bad man isn't destroying your life. Drowning an inch at a time is still drowning. You don't get another life. This is your life. Get desperate about improving it.
6.You are alone. You have exactly two choices: Take the steps necessary to save yourself, or suffer till you die. No one is going to come riding in on a white horse and make your life all better for you. Either do it yourself, or you wait till you die for someone else to. (Even when it comes to turning to God for peace and understanding: that's something you have to do. God doesn't make a habit of entering rooms into which he hasn't been invited.)
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Horses in 1830s New England Towns
By Tom Kelleher, Dec. 1999
Horses in the 19th century were primarily used for the transportation of people and goods.
Farmers moved their products and purchases (and when need be, families) with horse-drawn wagons. Doctors, ministers, and businessmen traveled daily by light, horse-drawn chaises, while merchants and factory agents shipped goods to and from their establishments in heavy freight wagons drawn by teams of horses.* Stage coaches and peddlers' wagons were common sights on the roads. Horses were widely used off the road as well. While New England farmers did indeed rely upon oxen for most draft work, horses were often also used on farms. Horses were ideal for lighter jobs such as plowing for planting and cultivating corn because they were smaller and faster than oxen. Horses were used to power cider, tan-bark, and some other types of mills.
Horses had other impacts throughout everyday 1830s society. Oats and hay for horses were major crops on 1830s New England farms. By 1837 Sturbridge had two men employed making harness, while four men (including shop owner Henry Hanes) made wagons and two made sleighs. Shoeing was often a major part of many blacksmiths' businesses.
There were 194 horses in Sturbridge in 1840. What does this statistic mean? For one thing, horses were nowhere near as common then as automobiles are now. With 1,886 people living in Sturbridge in 1840, there was a little more than one horse for every ten people. In America today there is almost a petroleum-powered vehicle for every man, woman, and child! (The different uses horses were put to and the need to use teams for heavy hauling make exact comparisons between 19th century horses and late 20th century cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicles impossible, but it is a place to start.) America was a poorer country in 1840 than it is now, and the average person just plain did not own as much "stuff" as his modern counterpart. The United States in the Village period may be thought of as a "developing (formerly 'third world') nation". Most people lived on the land, while revolutions in industrialization and transportation were transforming people's lives and raising their standards of living.
Ownership of horses was not evenly distributed among the population, however. Most farmers in Worcester county who held over 50 acres (including Pliny Freeman) had one horse. A very few had two or even three (as did David Wight). Most merchants and professional men owned a horse and vehicle. Teamsters and stage coach agents sometimes owned as many as a dozen or more horses, (as did canal boat companies along the Blackstone and other canals). Approximately half of all families did not own any horses, however. Most laborers, artisans, factory workers, and other non-farmers, and those who farmed small plots, usually could not afford a horse, or at least did not feel the need for one. (Sturbridge horses in 1840 were valued at between $20 and $100 apiece, with most in the $40 to $60 range. Pasturage, hay, oats, harness, tack, a vehicle, and the need for shoeing every other month made keeping a horse a somewhat expensive proposition.) Nevertheless, when one needed to make a trip, it was commonplace to rent a horse and wagon from a neighbor.
Most of these 1830s horses were small by modern standards, not the large draft horses that pull the Village Carry-All today. Some have estimated early new England's "horse of all work" averaged 14 hands in height and weighed about 1,000 pounds. For more information, see Andy Baker's excellent essay on Horses in the Livestock section of the Agriculture Training Notebooks, and "The Whole Population Is in Motion" in Jack Larkin's The Reshaping of Everyday Life.
In sum, horses were common sights on the roads of 1830s New England, but not as universally owned as automobiles are today. Hope this helps!!


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Shigetaka Imabayashi 1 and Manabu Ishimaru 1
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Structural relaxation of amorphous germanium has been examined by molecular dynamics simulations based on the empirical Tersoff interatomic potential. Although the Tersoff potential overestimated both the melting and glass transition temperatures, it was found that this potential can reproduce the behavior of structural relaxation. The potential energy decreased with thermal annealing below the glass transition temperature, but it sometimes increased during structural relaxation. The mean square displacement of atoms also increased at the corresponding period. These changes were attributed to the cooperative atomic motion during structure relaxation. Atomic trajectories revealed that structural changes are induced by spatiallyand temporally-inhomogeneous atomic motions: atomic mobile and immobile regions coexisted during structural relaxation.
amorphous, germanium structural relaxation, molecular dynamics simulation, empirical interatomic potential
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EFFECT OF DIFFERENT CARBON SOURCES ON THE GROWTH OF ANTIMICROBIAL PRODUCING Bacillus Species IN Citrillus vugaris.
Effect of different carbon sources on the growth of antimicrobial producing Bacillus species in ogiri-egusi sold in Ogbeta, Orie, Artisian, Kenyatta, Enugu State were evaluated using standard microbiological and analytical methods. 12 bacteria were isolated and identified such as Bacillus subtilis,(33.33), Bacillus pumulis (41.66), Bacillus licheniformis (25) were identified based on their colony biochemical characteristics.The isolates of the highest occurrences is bacillus pumilus. Agar well diffusion method was used to determine the antimicrobial activity against two pathogenic organisms, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus. Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus pumulis, gave a zone of inhibition Escherichia coli 0.6mm and 0.8mm after 24 hours of incubation also carbon sources of 5% and 10% sucrose, Glucose and soluble starch were used to check their different carbon sources on the isolates using the spectrophotometer.5% had the highest optimum growth of 1.400 for glucose 1.545 for sucrose,2.376 for soluble starch which can be added in maximum quantity to a medium to produce antibiotics.


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Tue September 25, 2012
Korean Eunuchs Lived Long And Prospered
Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 1:22 pm
Tell people you're doing a story about the life spans of Korean eunuchs, the typical reaction is a giggle or a cringe.
But if you can overcome your visceral response to the topic, a study scientists in Korea did is quite interesting, both for what they found, and the way they found it.
Several scientists have shown that there is a link between longevity and reproduction: the greater the fertility, the shorter the life span. This has been fairly well established in nonhuman animal species, but proving it's the case for humans has been tricky.
Kyung-jin Min of Inha University in Inchon, Korea, took a unique approach to the problem. He and his colleagues plowed through historical records from the Korean court dating back to 1392. Eunuchs did a variety of jobs for the king, and they were rewarded well for the work. Among the perks: They were the only males outside the royal family who were allowed to stay in the palace overnight.
"Maintaining genealogy records was important because these records provided proof of belonging to the Yang-Ban (Noble) class," Min writes in the online supplemental material accompanying an article describing the researc in the journal, Current Biology.
But determining an individual's age at death was complicated. Dates were kept using the sexagenary cycle, meaning they reset every 60 years. "The lifespan of the eunuchs could be deduced only when the record contained the King's name and the ruling year," Min writes. "For example, Yoon-Muk Lee was born in the seventeenth year of King Young-Jo's reign (AD 1741) and died in the sixteenth year of King Soon-Jo's reign (AD 1816)."
Their painstaking research yielded 81 eunuchs whose age could be reliably determined. For comparison, Min and his colleagues also looked the life spans of male members of royal families who were capable of having children.
"The average lifespan of eunuchs was 70.0 ± 1.76 years, which was 14.4–19.1 years longer than the lifespan of non-castrated men of similar socio-economic status," Min writes. What's more, 3 of the 81 lived to be 100 or older. "The current incidence of centenarians is one per 3,500 in Japan and per 4,400 in the United States," Min writes.
Jill Crandall, a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, studies hormone changes with aging. She says the Korean results are consistent with a paper she published last year showing that male and female centenarians had fewer children than people who died younger.
But she and her colleague Nil Barzilai point out that it would probably be a mistake to assume that decreasing male sex hormones would automatically lead to a longer life. "The eunuchs were castrated at early age," they pointed out in an email to Shots. "It may have influenced puberty, maturity, and a variety of other hormones. Thus, this study does not mean that if you take an elderly person and decrease their sex hormone they may live longer."
In any event, it's not clear how many men would choose such an extreme strategy to squeeze out a few more years of existence, even if it was proved to work.


Society for Science and the Public - Alumni Brunch and Public Day during Broadcom MASTERS 2019
Broadcom MASTERS = Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars. The program is sponsored by Society for Science and the Public and it aims to encourage middle school students to pursue their passions within these fields. In the long run, a lot of these students end up in very successful careers in STEM. All and all, the students took home more than 100k in award prize money!
So what does a photographer look for when photographing such a special networking brunch and public day?
1. Telling the story from beginning to end, from an attendees perspective: what do I see when I walk in? Signage, the check-in desk, lanyards and schwag. I see old friends and quickly meet new ones. An airy space with beautiful decor topped with an artistic display of food.
2. Key timely moments: is anyone speaking at the event? Is there any group photos that need to happen at a certain time? Are their VIPs that will only be there for a short window?
3. Interactions and candid moments: know if your client prefers candid or posed, and then place emphasis on either. This takes patience. Don't be afraid to linger without being intrusive until your subject(s) offer up some emotion for the camera. Not everyone is going to be smiling or laughing as soon as you get to them with your camera. You want to frame very carefully and be sure that especially the subject of your photo is well lit and the photo is taken from a flattering angle.
4. Remember the purpose of the photographs: where will the final product be used? Do you need to leave room for cropping? Do you need to leave any room for text to be overplayed on the photo? * Details, details, details: taking photos of that year's brochure and schwag can really help date the event and give details about how this year was different from last. It also adds some graphic variety to the mix of faces.
5. Overall ambiance: How did it feel when you first walked in? How can you convey the emotion of the room in just a few images? Do you need to grab a ladder and get higher or look for a set of stairs to get a better overall photo? Do you possibly need a photo of the outside of the vicinity?
* Follow up: About ten minutes before I am off the clock I like to be specific with my client about what I captured and ask if there's anything else they need. Leave the event knowing you got everything you need to save yourself a headache!
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Presentation on theme: "Development of a Chromaticity measurement application using Head-Tail phase shift technique."— Presentation transcript:
Development of a Chromaticity measurement application using Head-Tail phase shift technique.
Overview Discussion of measurement needs in the Tevatron Introduction to Theory of Head-Tail Phase Shift Results from initial tests in the Tevatron Coupling and Bunch Amplitude profiles Limitations of current set-up Conclusion
Measurement needs in the Tevatron Moving from uncoalesced to coalesced protons during machine tune-up Measurement during Acceleration ramp. - Chromaticity, Tune, and Coupling. Current RF chromaticity system draw-backs - Requires uncoalesced protons - Requires three acceleration ramps.
Chromaticity Measurement Using Head-Tail Phase Shift In the presence of non-zero chromaticity the betatron equation of motion becomes: Thus from phase difference between two locations in a bunch the chromaticity can be calculated:
Using the vertical and horizontal strip-line detectors installed in the Tevatron at the F0 location we extract a profile of the transverse behavior of the beam over a single longitudinal bunch. Extracting Transverse position
Difference Signal (A-plate – B-plate) Reflected Signal Reconstructed Signal Sum Signal (A-plate + B-plate) The Raw Signal is Processed to remove the Reflected Signal
From the Sum and Difference (A-plate B-plate) Signals the Transverse position can be calculated using: Here G is the ratio of the A-B gain over the A+B gain.Once the Transverse Position as a function of longitudinal bunch position is known ( ) we can use this to analyze the phase shift between the Head and the Tail to Calculate Chromaticity.
Vertical and Horizontal turn by turn position after horizontal 1.6 mm kick
Vertical and Horizontal turn by turn position after vertical 1.75 mm kick
Limitations of current set-up The major drawback of this system of measurement is its destructiveness. For measurement during tune up current system is ok. For a store we need more work. In addition both the kickers and scope have limitations which restrict operations.
F17 and E17 kickers The Horizontal kicker requires a ramp up time of 2.5 secs. (~30 possible horiz. Meas.) The E17 kicker produces a half sinusoid current pulse with a base width of 10 micro secs. The F17 kicker produces a square current pulse with a width of 1.8 micro secs. Thus the E17 kicker is too slow hit only one bunch during 36x36 store. But the F17 kicker could accomplish this if fired at the right time in the abort gap.
Scope With all four channels Scope can store only 12048 turns which means the max number of measurements possible is 23 (everyother-turn). The scope resolution is limited by the bit size and closed-orbit offset which set our minimum resolution to.1 mm.
Moving towards less destructive measurements By removing the closed-orbit current offset we should be able to reduce this resolution down to the signal noise floor from the beam and cables. Thus we could increase effective scope resolution and possibly reduce the required kick amplitude. Excite beam adiabatically (ac dipole technique) Run the damper kickers resonantly. This method of chirp excitation has been tested successfully at HERA. Can be gated to hit only one bunch.
Conclusion This system is nearing completion –Last major issue: E17 kicker timing –Rigrous comparison with RF technique on ramp. Now time for beam physics studies: –Study chromaticity and coupling changes during ramp. –Study of Bunch amplitude using color contour plots Possible future improvements –Minimally destructive measurements –Measure beam-beam effects on chromaticity and coupling. –Measure Pbars?


What is a price floor? Examples of binding and non-binding price floors.
Price floors are common government tools used in regulating. A price floor means that the price of a good or service cannot go lower than the regulated floor. A minimum wage law is the most common and easily recognizable example of a price floor.
To intuitively understand a price floor, imagine dropping a rock in your house. The rock cannot go lower than the floor because it will hit it and stop. The same concept holds with prices and a price floor. The price cannot go lower than the price floor. Where this gets tricky is that a BINDING price floor occurs ABOVE the equilibrium price. It may be confusing to have a floor above something, but if you think it through it makes sense. If a rock wants to fall from an altitude of 50 meters to an altitude of 20 meters, than the floor must be above 20 meters in order to be effective. If the floor is at 10 meters, the rock (price) can fall to 20 meters with no problem.
Economics classes want students to be able to recognize the difference between binding and non binding price floors. Consider the example of a minimum wage law in California. Imagine the minimum wage is $8.00 per hour. If a company wants to pay someone $10.00 per hour, than there is no problem because this price is above the floor. However, if a company wants to pay an employee $6.00 per hour, than the there is a problem because this amount is below the price floor. The latter example would be a binding price floor, while the former would not be binding.
Note that the price floor is below the equilibrium price so that anything price ABOVE the floor is feasible. Another way to think about this is to start at a price of 100, and go down until you the price floor price or the equilibrium price. If you hit the price floor first, it is binding. However, if you hit the equilibrium price first, the price floor is not binding is not.
Since our original price floor of $4.00 was ineffective, what happens if we increase the price floor to $10.00? This will raise the price floor line on the graph above the equilibrium price level. You can now see that the equilibrium price is BELOW the price floor, so it is not possible for the equilibrium price to be attained. This means that suppliers (labor) are willing to supply a higher quantity than originally supplied (because of the higher price) and consumers (firms) are going to demand a lower quantity than originally demanded. This results in a surplus (unemployment) because quantity supplied is higher than quantity demanded. As long as the price floor is present, there will be a surplus in the market, and some of the suppliers that are willing and supply their labor will not be able to find a job (a firm willing and able to hire them at the price floor price).
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This model demonstrates the use of GoldSim's optimization feature to calibrate a snowmelt model by automatically adjusting parameters to achieve correlation between historic streamflow record and streamflow calculated in the model. The historic record used to drive the snowmelt model includes temperature and precipitation. Calibration accuracy is measured using an R2 factor. Five model parameters are used as optimization variables and the objective function is to maximize the R^2 factor, which is documented in the model. An R^2 value of 1.0 indicates perfect calibration.
The optimization parameters include recession constants (x, y), and the degree-day factor (a).
The snowmelt-runoff model (SRM) is known to provide support for reservoir operators and water supply managers in anticipating and acting on changes in snowmelt runoff. WinSRM can be used for predicting snowmelt runoff which can then be incorporated into a reservoir model to estimate fill targets for the early summer months and often provides decision makers with increased knowledge for their annual strategic planning. To further understand their risks, modelers can use model results from SRM and statistically analyze them to quantify risks probabilistically. Refer to the Snowmelt-Runoff Model User's Manual for more information about the SRM model.
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During the last year, representatives of the American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA), and the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) worked together to create a Portability Task Force with one goal: a safe, clear, reasonable portability process for all current and future counselors. The task force agreed upon five (5) key tenets which informed each decision by the taskforce.
Specifically, a uniform licensure endorsement process must:
I. Significantly increase public access to qualified care;
II. Establish minimum standards for safe practice;
III. Reduce administrative burdens for both state regulatory boards and licensees;
IV. Create consistency in licensure standards across state lines; and
V. Ensure protection of the public and the continued development of the profession.
The Portability Task Force agreed on the importance of honoring the work and practices already adopted by state regulatory boards while developing a portability process. Consequently, the task force conducted a thorough analysis of all state regulatory practices related to reciprocity, portability, and licensure endorsement.
This state-by-state analysis revealed the need for a more refined goal for portability – that of achieving a balance between establishing minimum licensure endorsement standards for public protection and moving the profession toward the future goal of unified education standards, examination requirements, and years of post-graduate experience.
Throughout our research, analysis, and collaborative efforts, the Portability Task Force prioritized public protection and the future of the counseling profession over any one organization's previously established portability policy or organizational agenda. This deep commitment to unity is reflected in a portability process that represents meaningful compromises by AASCB, ACES, AMHCA, and NBCC.
By capitalizing on the historical knowledge of all organizations involved in the Portability Task Force and the history of state regulatory standards, AASCB, ACES, AMHCA, and NBCC agreed upon a unified portability process that is as much a recognition of our shared past as it is a step forward into our shared future.
In an era of a mobile workforce, which is increasingly receptive to innovative service delivery such as tele-mental health services and military-friendly licensure processes, a national portability process is more vital than ever. To be a counselor must hold the same meaning to a citizen as it does to a policy maker from state to state. After 30+ years of wrangling with the issue of portability, the time has come to pave a path forward for highly qualified current and future counselors to improve client access to services.
We recognize that no portability process is a "silver bullet" that resolves all concerns related to portability. However, we strongly believe that our portability process will significantly benefit mental health consumers by increasing access to needed care and services and helping create a vibrant workforce of licensed counselors both in terms of changing regulatory standards and the increasing need for united advocacy efforts.
In addition, for a secure counselor portability licensure process with ensured consumer protections to be in place, a careful vetting of counselors seeking portability should include background checks to strengthen public protection. Enhancing the ability of states to share investigative and disciplinary information will help assure the public that key protections are in place.
AASCB, ACES, AMHCA, and NBCC present the counseling profession's historic united, collaborative portability process for all counselors licensed at the highest level of licensure for independent practice. The Portability Task Force asks each state regulatory board to consider adopting the National Counselor Licensure Endorsement Process.
We understand and appreciate that such a change will require rule –and possibly even – statutory changes for many state regulatory boards.
We are asking each state regulatory board to embrace this opportunity to facilitate increased access to care by mobilizing a more nimble workforce of counselors in order to be part of a shared future in which true licensure portability is a reality.
National Counselor Licensure Endorsement Process
Any counselor licensed at the highest level of licensure for independent practice available in his or her state may obtain licensure in any other state or territory of the United States if all of the following criteria are met:
- The licensee has engaged in ethical practice, with no disciplinary sanctions, for at least 5 years from the date of application for licensure endorsement.
- The licensee has possessed the highest level of counselor licensure for independent practice for at least 3 years from the date of application for licensure endorsement.
- The licensee has completed a jurisprudence or equivalent exam if required by the state regulatory body.
- The licensee complies with ONE of the following:
a. Meets all academic, exam, and post-graduate supervised experience standards as adopted by the state counseling licensure board.
b. Holds the National Certified Counselor (NCC) credential, in good standing, as issued by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC).
c. Holds a graduate-level degree from a program accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (CACREP).


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Experimental workflow for the creation of a non-conventional open source HBIM platform integrating metric data and stratigraphic analysis: the case study of the refectory of Santa Maria di Staffarda Abbey
The decision to carry out this research was moved from particular needs and questions affecting the actual architectural heritage and building archaeology panorama, especially as far as the documentation and preservation of Cultural Heritage assets are concerned. In this regard, a particular methodology called Building Information Modelling (BIM) is changing and revolutionising the way to produce and preserve documentation and in general information. BIM methodology has been developed especially for AEC industry (Architecture Engineering Construction), then for architectural design and technical installations and it allows to collect and include information inside 3D models also establishing relations (such as geometric and semantic) and between objects and related information. Despite BIM advantages, this methodology is not widely used for Cultural Heritage assets and it could be considered still an ongoing research field, also due to the limitations resulting of commercial BIM solutions, developed and designed to support AEC industry management and for this reason they could rarely adapt their workflows (from modelling tools to semantic dimension) and methods to Heritage assets.
Analysing its peculiarities, BIM, and in particular HBIM (Historic Building Information Modelling) could become the proper methodology as far as the Cultural Heritage assets documentation and preservation, providing the integration of different kind of information through semantic relations. Indeed, the inclusion of historical information on HBIM platform produces and involves advantages for managing, monitoring and valorisation processes, as well as benefits for the purpose of investigating historical evolution of historic architecture. Through the BIM methodology becomes possible to increase the documentation phase and to comprehend information stored inside the model in order to have a complete panorama of the analysed context by establishing and managing custom datasheet, database and ad-hoc queries, ensuring in this way the quality and preservation of data.
In this regard, stratigraphic information are particular features to be included inside an HBIM platform especially since stratigraphy is a unique historical information that rarely can be found on archives or other resources. In this sense, stratigraphy and its analysis, widely used and implemented in archaeological excavations has become a fundamental tool also for historical buildings and then for building archaeology purposes. By using this analysis on the stratification, a complete identification map of layers or units can be extract for the purpose of understanding the transformation and evolution of the stratification. As far as building archaeology is concerned, this analysis is a fundamental not only for comprehending the historical evolution of the construction site (analysing constructive and destructive actions on wall surfaces) as well as for the comparison operations between the structure of an historical building with its mechanical behaviours taking into account the specific events that have changed the building static asset.
For these reasons, stratigraphy is a type of information to be preserved and documented in the best way possible and BIM methodology could be the right solution, because stratigraphic units, as well as pathologies and surface features can be modelled as wall components and connected to the parametric model of the surveyed building. Acting in this way it is also possible to obtain a complete framework as far as the historical evolution of the analysed historic architecture through stratigraphic analysis (if visible) is concerned, collecting and increasing the amount of knowledge concerning the evolution of the building inside the HBIM platform. Moreover, the inclusion of stratigraphy involves benefits for risk and vulnerability comprehension, attaching to the parametric model constructive and destructive actions concerning historical buildings.
Performing this kind of integration, the resulted limitations of traditional stratigraphic studies (in general paper-based analysis often disconnected from the architectural context and from other resources) can be avoided, ensuring a good data collection and protection. For this reason, BIM methodology could be the right solution for building archaeology and architecture history studies.
Despite these advantages, this type of historic implementation could be considered an ongoing research field, especially since the HBIM operative steps differs from a BIM workflow and the integration of not common information depends also on testing experimental and not conventional workflows as well as not common software: in fact, inside this project, the decision to carry out an HBIM platform by using a particular scan-to-BIM process via NURBS modelling by also using an open source BIM solution (and this workflow could be named scan-to-openBIM via NURBS) has followed exactly this thought. The decision of NURBS modelling – by using Rhinoceros software – has been adopted in order to reach a high LOD (level of detail) as well as high GOG (Grade Of Generation) as far as the 3D model is concerned, avoiding the objective modelling limitations of BIM software. In this regard, actual BIM solutions offer modelling tools based on predefined and limited architectural libraries editable parametrically, but in this sense, Cultural Heritage assets requires to be comprehended, simplified and modelled manually depending on specific needs as well as their features and peculiarities are concerned.
Moreover, the decision to develop a custom HBIM platform by using open source solutions – by compiling and customizing FreeCAD software – it has been taken for the purpose of having the complete access and control to the source code, libraries, tools and then to the entire software, adapting and modifying the software workflow and in general the instrument analysis to specific Cultural Heritage assets and research needs. Then, this work is essentially based on analysis and experimentations of not common commercial (Rhinoceros) and open source (FreeCAD) software applied to a custom HBIM workflow for the purpose of verifying their flexibility, stability and reliability, creating a dynamic open source HBIM platform focusing on the integration of stratigraphic analysis as historical information, and for this reason the refectory of Staffarda Abbey has been investigated as case study.


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Image Processing with Pulse Coupled Neural Networks
M. P. Schamschula, R. Inguva, and J. L. Johnson
The Second International Forum on Multimedia and Image Processing,
World Automation Congress 2000, Wailea, Maui, HI (2000)
The Pulse Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) differs from conventional Artificial Neural Networks by having time dependent output and not requiring training (supervised or unsupervised). The basic PCNN algorithm consists of five coupled equations, one of which is non-linear. In an image processing application, the PCNN output takes the form of a series of pulses that are a function of the input intensity. The brighter the pixel, the more frequently it pulses. Two of the PCNN functions interconnect with neighboring cells, in one case with a constant weight in the other with various convolution kernels. By adjusting these interconnection weights (choosing an appropriate kernel), PCNNs can be used for a number of image processing functions. For example we may use the PCNN to resample an image into a smaller intensity lookup table (intensity compression) or use it to filter out intensity dependent high spatial frequency noise. The pulse train for a given image repeats over time, however, the time a pulse is triggered at each pixel changes. We can perform statistical analysis on a series of pulse trains. A statistical average of these pulse trains can be used to reconstruct a cleaned up image. This average image also represents a 3D icon of the image. Other examples from current research will be given.


One of the behavioral Visual Acuity analysis testperformed are the optokinetic response (OKR) test and OMR. From the analysis of this test, visual acuity and contrast sensitivity could be deduced. For the test, zebrafish larvae are immobilized in petri dishes above an infrared light. The light emitted rotating grating patterns around the larvae, and the patterns elicited eye movement, which was recorded in real time by an infrared-sensitive Camera.


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Updated Trends: A recent report from the UK stated that lung cancer sufferers in the most deprived areas were more likely to die of the disease compared to those who live in other parts like Scotland. According to a report by the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, the people from deprived areas were almost twice likely to have lung cancer than someone living in the urban areas.
The study also showed that once people living in the deprived areas got the disease, they are more likely to die of the disease than those living in the better areas of the United Kingdom. In Scotland, lung cancer is considered as the major cancer killer. On an average, 11 people die of the disease every day and in total more than 4,000 die in a year.
On the other hand, reports have also shown the importance of the geographical significance estimated in a year's survival. It was found in Fife that one in four lung cancer patients are alive for a year after being diagnosed with the disease.
In Borders and Lothian, one in three people survive for at least a year after they are diagnosed. The NHS Border has the highest survival rate estimated in a year at 35.6%.


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Champion of black rights and the Harlem Renaissance
Louise Thompson Patterson, the political activist who bridged the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s and the black arts movement of the 1960s, and to whom Langston Hughes dedicated his 1941 collection of poems, Shakespeare In Harlem, has died at the age of 97.
Born Louise Thompson in Chicago, she graduated in economics at the University of California, and, in 1923, taught at Hampton Institute, Virginia, before continuing her education at the New School for Social Research, New York.
She became an ardent participant in the Harlem Renaissance through her friendship with the painter Aaron White and his wife, and after a brief marriage to the novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic Wallace Thurman, which ended in the late 1920s, she became secretary to two prominent renaissance figures: Langston Hughes and the writer, Zora Neale Hurston.
Harlem was in its heyday of political and creative activity when Louise, who had experienced and fought against racism since early adolescence, began to radicalise her ideological and cultural views. She was involved in a ferocious campaign to free nine black Scotsboro men falsely accused of raping two white women.
During the same period she was one of the principal organisers of a trip to the Soviet Union by 22 black scholars, artists and activists, who were to make a Soviet-sponsored movie about white supremacy in America. The group arrived in the USSR only to discover that the film project had been cancelled.
Back in the US, Louise joined the International Workers Order (IWO). She was jailed in Alabama while organising a campaign for Angelo Herndon, a black youth falsely accused of inciting insurrection. Later, she travelled to Spain and Paris in support of the fight against fascism.
Louise founded Vanguard, a leftwing salon, at her apartment in New York, and, when Langston Hughes proposed the establishment of a people's theatre, she immediately suggested a space the IWO had above Frank's Restaurant on 125th Street in Harlem. It became the first home of the Harlem Suitcase Theatre. Although it did not survive, the idea of a "negro people's theatre" spread to other US cities.
In 1942 Louise married William Patterson, a lawyer and major figure in the US Communist party, and the two became formidable political allies. In the 1950s, they were called to testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Louise was responsible for organising tours for the singer Paul Robeson when he was banned from leaving the US, and the Pattersons were active in supporting civil liberties cases, including those of Willie McGee, the Trenton Six, and the Martinsville Seven. During the 1960s, Louise headed the Free Angela Davis Committee in New York.
After William Patterson died in 1980 she continued to live in New York, providing valuable information for scholars writing on the Harlem Renaissance. She is survived by her daughter, Mary Louise Patterson.
 Louise Thompson Patterson, activist, born September 9, 1901; died August 27, 1999.


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Botanical name: Alstonia scholaris Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Echites scholaris
Scholar Tree is an elegant evergreen tree, found in most parts of India. The generic name commemorates the distinguished botanist, Prof. C. Alston of Edinburgh, _PHONE_. The species name scholaris refers to the fact that the timber of this tree has traditionally been used to make wooden slates for school children. In October small, green yet fragrant flowers appear. All parts of the tree can be considered poisonous. It is a tall elegant tree with greyish rough bark. Branches are whorled, and so are the leaves, that is, several of them coming out of the same point. The tree is really elegant whether it is flowering or not. The slightly rounded, leathery, dark green leaves form whorls of 4-7. And a very regular branching gives the tree a beautiful shape. The wood is too soft for making anything - so it is usually used in making packing boxes, blackboards etc. On the Western Ghats, tribal people are reluctant to sit or pass under this tree, for the fear of the devil. Local superstition about its devilish character mainly stems from the fact that its milky sap is rich in poisonous alkaloid, and thus the tree is shunned by cattle.
Medicinal uses: Its bark, known as Dita Bark, is used in traditional medicine to treat dysentery and fever. In Ayurveda it is used as a bitter and as an astringent herb for treating skin disorders, malarial fever, urticaria, chronic dysentery, diarrhea, in snake bite and for upper purification process of Panchakarma. The Milky juice of the tree is applied to ulcers.
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The popular phone, Blackberry is commonly given to people working for a company, since it's easy to use for reading company emails. The term "Crackberry" originated because people quickly became addicted to their Blackberrys just like they could become addicted to Crack cocaine – a real drug. Because many people are addicted to reading emails, the term Crackberry became quite popular as a fond nickname for Blackberry.
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I am making a python code for Arcgis9.3. In this code I have an input feature and I create a Output feature. I want that the output feature is the same geometry type as the input feature. At the moment my code to create the output feature is :
gp.CreateFeatureclass("C:/Users/Desktop/Test/", NameOutFC, "POLYLINE")
But I would like to get the input feature geometry type and use it to create my output feature :
gp.CreateFeatureclass("C:/Users/Desktop/Test/", NameOutFC, GeometryLikeInput)
I found the code with ArcPy :
desc = arcpy.Describe('C:/shapefile.shp')
geometryType = desc.shapeType
if geometryType == 'polygon':
print 'Polygon'
elif geometryType == 'point'
But I can't use it with arcgis9.3.
Thanks for your help
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You can use the Geometry object which is available even in 9.3.
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The.pdf file for Geoprocessor model in 9.3
The code sample:
rows = gp.SearchCursor("D:/St_Johns/data.gdb/roads")
row = rows.Next()
while row:
 print row.Type
Alternative way is to use Describe method where you could use ShapeType:
import arcgisscripting
gp = arcgisscripting.create(9.3)
gp.workspace = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Reference Systems"
fc = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Reference Systems\utm.shp"
dsc = gp.describe(fc)
print "ShapeType: \n" + str(dsc.ShapeType)
Which gives you Polygon
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Yes but in this case i have to chexk all the feature in my shapefile and the return geometry type is the geometry type of each feature. So i am looking for a code which return the geometry of the shapefile directly without reading each row and retrun each feature geometry. – Panvjim0 Apr 30 at 9:32
Then just add a counter in the code and use the while counter < 2 in the code. Shapefile can store only one type of geometry, so you are done when you figure out the geometry type of the first feature. – Alex Tereshenkov Apr 30 at 9:39
_USER_, I've updated my answer to include a cleaner way to access the shape type of a feature class. – Alex Tereshenkov Apr 30 at 11:58
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refer to (1)
Meaning: to look at something like a book, a map, or a website, in order to get information about something
- refer to sb/sth She had to refer to her notes quite often because she hadn't memorized the speech.
- refer to sb/sth You can refer to books or other information sources in your essay, but you must cite each reference you have used.
refer to (1): notes, book, journal, article, source, map, website, dictionary
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The Six Value Medals - Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono believes we can greatly improve our traditional thinking habits. In The Six Values Medals different types of values are given broad names such as gold, silver, steel, glass, wood and brass, and are used to organise thinking. Questions such as: How large are the values?, How significant are the values? and What is a strong value? are presented for consideration and reflection.
Like de Bono's Six Thinking Hats this is an easy to read book with many powerful applications in the values education classroom or staffroom.
The Six Value Medals
by Edward de Bono
Vermillion Publishing, Random House UK Ltd


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The CEO and CTO of LIV, Dr. Doom and Ruu join us to talk about the past, present, and future of green screen Mixed Reality and livestreaming VR games.
Topics discussed:
- Origins of green screen Mixed Reality - how did it start?
- How is Mixed Reality being today and by whom?
- Discord and the importance of building a community for a product
- GameChanger API : Adding audience interactivity into a streamer's game
- Vtubers and avatar copyright laws
- The state of VR streaming on Twitch


The Deathly Dangers of Blind Cords
They are in all of our homes. They are something we see every single day and something we may even use every day. They are things we never consider to be dangerous and yet they have killed over 800 children! So, what are these dangers? This danger in our home is blind cords?
How are blind cords so dangerous?
The typical victim of blind cords are toddlers around 3 years and younger. These toddlers get too close to the blind cords and somehow they get tangled up in the cords and they end up having the cords wrapped around their neck. At this point the toddlers are not strong enough to get themselves off of the blind cords and sometimes they are too short to be able to avoid being strangled. Parents usually find their children hanging from their necks on the blinds, which would be the most horrific sight a parent could ever see!
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The Waveform Viewer offers a unique insight into your system. By displaying data in the form of digital waveforms, it represents a live and correlated view of JTAG chain data.
While Boundary Scan can't claim to capture the point at which signals transition in real-time, Waveform Viewer provides a logic analyser-type view of your system's digital activity, as it is captured by the Scan Chain. This brings several new and valuable capabilities to the debug and fault diagnostic process.
- Visualise digital data graphically
- Capture transient faults
- View groups of signals as values
- Start tracking data under definable trigger conditions
- Monitor live and correlated waveforms of individual signals, even from different devices
- Group signals arbitrarily to form busses
- Create simple or complex trigger conditions based on combined logic levels or rising/falling signal edges
- Automatically decode address and data busses to show their values as binary, decimal or hex values
- Scan through logic levels from an arbitrary number of signals captured in the same time period, to help locate transient faults
- Save data to file for subsequent analysis or comparison
Waveform Viewer brings many of the capabilities found in traditional logic analysers to the Boundary Scan domain.
Used in conjunction with XJAnalyser, Waveform Viewer gives much greater insight into circuit behaviour, effectively closing the loop between graphically stimulating and monitoring digital signals over JTAG.


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1. Intracutaneous injection of guinea pigs with an alkaline extract of pneumococcus produces in about two-thirds of the animals an allergy with a skin reaction similar to the allergic skin response of tuberculosis.
2. Continuance of the intracutaneous injections after the appearance of allergy results in its disappearance. The skin ceases to react.
3. Neither the animals manifesting skin allergy nor those which fail to develop it show any significant alteration in susceptibility to pneumococcus infection by intraperitoneal inoculation. Similarly, animals desensitized by continuing the intracutaneous injections after the appearance of allergy show an unaltered susceptibility.


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Composes the transforms tensors.
*transforms List of image projective transforms to be composed. Each transform is length 8 (single transform) or shape (N, 8) (batched transforms). The shapes of all inputs must be equal, and at least one input must be given.
A composed transform tensor. When passed to tf.contrib.image.transform, equivalent to applying each of the given transforms to the image in order.


TORONTO -- With warm weather approaching and the promise of a "one-dose summer" on the horizon, many Canadians are making plans for the summer and fall, eager for life to get back to pre-pandemic "normal." But not all Canadians are happy to see the end of lockdown life brought about by COVID-19 restrictions.
The term 'cave syndrome' has been bandied about in news headlines and on social media, a term being used to describe people who may not be so willing to resume normal life when the COVID-19 pandemic sees its end. But while it may accurately describe people's genuine struggle to return to normal lives as restrictions ease, psychologists say it's a term that oversimplifies and pathologizes things.
"It's not a syndrome because there could be any number of reasons why people are choosing to stay at home," Steven Taylor, clinical psychologist at the University of British Columbia, told in a phone interview.
This term is gaining popularity before the pandemic has even ended, and it's still too soon to tell how much we'll continue to be affected once the crisis is over.
"At this point it is really hard to assess or understand how severe these issues are because the whole thing is still ongoing," he said. "So someone could be fairly anxious right now about leaving the home, but once the pandemic is over, that person might be fine."
And at this stage in the pandemic, there is no clear ending. What might be the end for one person, won't be the end for another.
"The end of the pandemic is going to be different for everybody. In all likelihood the pandemic is going to evolve into an endemic," Gordon Asmundson, clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Regina, told in a phone interview.
He said that the term 'cave syndrome' is too broad and encompasses any reason someone might have for not leaving their home, including finding it more convenient to work from home, or cheaper to do online post-secondary schooling.
"Some of those reasons may be adaptive reasons, so they're not really symptomatic of anything," he added.
With a term that includes so many reasons for not wanting to leave the house, or ease COVID-19 restrictions, it could overlook more serious diagnoses at play.
"A key consideration is whether leaving the cave is an inconvenience or an emotional burden, and almost insurmountable challenge, and in the latter case, there might be other diagnoses that are more specific and helpful," said Asmundson.
It could prevent people from realizing their issues with leaving the house are more severe than general convenience and enjoying alone time. It could mean missing that someone is staying home because of depression or a panic disorder.
"If you call this a syndrome, then the problem is that you might have missed some of the other disorders," said Taylor.
And there's no need to give a diagnosis to something that creates a feeling of inconvenience more than anything else.
"If it's an inconvenience, but doesn't really affect your functional ability, then those things shouldn't be pathologized," said Asmundson.
It also over emphasizes the mental health issues that psychologists expect to see after the pandemic comes to an end. Early on in the pandemic, Taylor and Asmundson worked together on the impacts of what they call COVID Stress Syndrome, a term used to describe the overwhelming and life-disrupting fear of infection and the consequences of a COVID-19 infection.
"It can over pathologize ordinary anxiety and it's ordinary and normal and expected to be anxious during COVID-19," said Taylor.
He doesn't believe the general stress of the pandemic will have staying power for most people.
"Most people will pick up where they left off and bounce back, but not everyone," said Taylor. "This is a big issue at the moment, trying to estimate the proportion of people who will come through this stressful event and will need psychological help and it's really hard to predict."
This isn't to say that the pandemic hasn't had negative effects on mental health for Canadians.
"The pandemic is having a greater impact on people who have these pre-existing conditions. And then in some people it's creating new conditions, like post traumatic stress disorder, particularly in frontline workers," said Asmundson.
And part of the challenge now is that for most of the pandemic, people with anxiety and panic disorders have been able to stay home and avoid the things that might cause them anxiety, which could actually worsen things.
"Avoidance is one of the key fuels to the fire of anxiety and stress," he said. "It's a really effective coping strategy in the short term, you avoid what stresses you out, you feel better, but in the long term the avoidance comes at a cost and you start missing out on opportunities to learn that you often overestimate the amount of threat that's out there."
Paying attention to how you feel after restrictions have lifted will be very important for those who might be feeling more anxious than usual. If restrictions have lifted but you still fear a trip to the grocery store, it may be something more serious.
"Once the restrictions have lifted and it's gone weeks or months and you're still inside and you're still very frightened, that might be an indication that you might need some help, particularly if the anxiety is interfering with your life," said Taylor.
If you find yourself overwhelmed in the weeks and months after the COVID-19 pandemic comes to an end, or at least when restrictions are lifted, there are free resources available online that Asmundson says are just as good as in-person therapy.
"One of them is called Mind Shift through Anxiety Canada, is freely available and it's an evidence-based online app that people can actually log into and it's like your own personal therapist on the phone, except it's not a person, it's a program," he said.
While 'cave syndrome; might be a catchy name, it doesn't do justice to the reasons people may not want to leave the house, and tries to diagnose people who don't want to return to a pre-pandemic "normal."
"It really overlooks the diversity and reasons why people don't want to go out. It seems to psycho-pathologize all of us who don't want to return to exactly the way things were before."


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Rake, a popular Ruby DSL
Rake, like make or ant, is a DSL for defining tasks.
Tasks definitions above are written using Rake DSL. In particular, they define two dependent tasks. They state that the :world task is dependent from the :hello task. In other words, when the :world task is executed, the :hello task will be executed first. This will result in the string "Hello World!" printed on the console. The neat fact about the code above is that it is perfectly legal ruby code. In particular,
- task is a ruby method that accepts an hash argument
- :hello and :world are ruby symbols
- :hello => :world is a ruby hash
- the do... end part is a ruby block
Makengo: an internal DSL in Go
When I approached to Go the first time I was intrigued by what is stated in its homepage:
"It feels like a dynamic language but has the speed and safety of a static language. It's a joy to use."
Belonging from years of experience with dynamic languages such as ruby and enjoying its capability to build DSL, I was curious to see how much the compiled and strongly typed nature of Go can be bended in this sense. So, I started writing a small experimental project named makengo.
Using makengo DSL, the previous tasks definitions become:
How does it look compared to the ruby version? First of all, the Go version takes 117 chars against the 75 chars of the Ruby version. So, it's ~56% more verbose. In particular
- There are too many parentheses
- String names are longer than symbol names (:hello vs "hello", :world vs "world")
- The block syntax is burdened by the func keyword
- In order to express the dependency we need the long named DependsOn function rather than the concise key => value hash syntax
Go DSL capabilities
The retrospection on Makengo raises the main question of this post: is Go suitable for building internal DSLs? Let's try answering, exploring Go's DSL capability in more detail.
Go has many features that help building DSL. The first thing that comes to mind are anonymous functions that act as closures. In makengo, I use anonymous an function to define what a task does.
Also, anonymous functions can take arguments in order to push values in the block. For example:
Compared with C, this a great step towards expressivity. However, compared with Ruby, Go's anonymous functions syntax appears to be a lot more verbose. This is due to the necessity of a func keyword and to the use of many parentheses. Also, considering that since Go is a strongly typed language, anonymous function arguments need their own type declaration.
In Go, types can receive methods. In Makengo, this fact is exploited to express dependencies among tasks. Actually, the Task function returns a task object and task object can receive the DependsOn method allowing for method chaining:
Dynamic reception and metaprogramming
Go lacks of a ruby-like method_missing method. In ruby, when an unknown method is sent to an object the object responds executing method_missing. This language feature is known as Dynamic Reception. Dynamic Reception, combined with the metaprogramming magic of ruby, allows for very readable DSL (taken from Machinist):
Regarding metaprogramming, Go has an interesting reflect package that allows the manipulation of objects with arbitrary types. This comes in handy, for example, in variadic functions (see below).
In Ruby, a literal map could be passed as argument to a function allowing for more expressive function calls inside the DSL:
Moreover, Ruby allows you omit the delimiters for a literal map. So you can shorten it to:
In Go, a literal map looks like this:
but there is no way to shorten it.
Literal lists and varargs
Like maps, literal lists in Go have not optional delimiters so it's not convenient to use them as function arguments inside DSL. BTW, Go has good support for varargs that combined with types reflection, types assertion and interfaces, are good substitutes for literal lists. For example, in Makengo I can define tasks that depend on more than a single task passing multiple arguments to DependsOn:
A comparison table
Let's try summarize in a table what we discussed until this point.
|Optional delimiters in maps||No||Yes|
|Optional delimiters in lists||No but you can use varargs||Yes|
|Short signature for blocks||No||Yes|
So what about the answer to the original question? Is Go suitable for building internal DSL? The answer of course is... it depends!
As a compiled language, Go can't compete with dynamic languages in building complex and general purpose DSL. However, it's enough flexible to build simple DSL. Moreover, as said at the beginning of this post, the mean of expressivity is relative to the problem domain. Go can be very expressive when dealing with problems that involve network and concurrency issues.
Another road to explore is the implementation of a light VM in Go exploiting some of its advantages against C: built-in concurrency and GC. On top of this VM could live a set of dynamic languages more suited to implement external DSLs. It seems that Eleanor McHugh is on the right track with her GoLightly VM.
Go DSL capability need more investigation, of course. But a fact is clear to me: I should not think at Go as a Panacea trying to force its nature: Go it's not a scripting language. I should rather taking advantage of its peculiarities in order to fully exploit all of its expressivity.


Preparing to hot-add SAS disk shelves
Preparing to hot-add a SAS disk shelf involves downloading documents as well as the disk drive and disk shelf firmware.
Before you begin
Note: A mix of IOM12 modules and IOM6 modules is supported within the same stack if your system is running a supported version of ONTAP. To establish whether your version of ONTAP supports shelf mixing, refer to the Interoperability Matrix Tool (IMT).NetApp Interoperability If your version of ONTAP is not supported and you cannot upgrade or downgrade the IOM modules on the existing stack or the new shelf that is to be added to a supported combination of IOM modules, you need to do one of the following:
 - Start a new stack on a new SAS port (if supported by the bridge-pair).
 - Start a new stack on an additional bridge-pair.
 1. Download or view the following documents from the NetApp Support Site:
 2. Verify that the disk shelf you are hot-adding is supported.
 3. Download the latest disk and disk shelf firmware:
 Note: In this step, you are only completing the download portion of the instructions provided in the links. You need to follow the steps found in the Hot-adding a disk shelf section for installing the disk shelf.
 1. Download the disk firmware and make a copy of the disk firmware instructions for reference later.
 2. Download the disk shelf firmware and make a copy of the disk shelf firmware instructions for reference later.


Chrysler 2010 Automobile User Manual
Service Description:
95 = Load Index
A numerical code associated with the maximum load a tire can carry
H = Speed Symbol
A symbol indicating the range of speeds at which a tire can carry a load corresponding
to its load index under certain operating conditions
The maximum speed corresponding to the speed symbol should only be achieved under
specified operating conditions (i.e., tire pressure, vehicle loading, road conditions, and
posted speed limits)
Load Identification:
؆....blank....؆ = Absence of any text on the sidewall of the tire indicates a Standard Load (SL) Tire
Extra Load (XL) = Extra load (or reinforced) tire
Light Load = Light load tire
C, D, E = Load range associated with the maximum load a tire can carry at a specified pressure
Maximum Load Maximum load indicates the maximum load this tire is designed to carry
Maximum Pressure Maximum pressure indicates the maximum permissible cold tire inflation pressure for
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This course is a four-day immersion into a SAS Viya 3.5 environment. This course provides essential topics for SAS Viya 3.5 administration and demonstrates how to perform administration tasks using SAS Environment Manager, the command-line interface, and REST APIs.
The self-study e-learning includes:
Learn how to
- Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
- Virtual lab time to practice.
- Integrate SAS Viya with SAS 9.4.
- Start and stop SAS Viya servers and services.
- Manage users and groups in the SAS Viya environment.
- Integrate with an identity management server such as LDAP or Active Directory.
- Manage credential domains in SAS Viya.
- Manage data and content that are used in the SAS Viya environment.
- Maintain security on SAS Viya content and functionality.
- Back up your SAS Viya environment.
- Promote content from both SAS 9.4 and prior releases of SAS Viya to SAS Viya 3.5.
- Update a SAS Viya deployment.
- Set up and use APIs to interface with the SAS Viya environment.
- Administer programming run-time servers.
- Administer the CAS server.
- Create and manage caslibs.
- Access data in external databases.
- Automate the refresh of data from a caslib.
- Make user-defined formats available to the CAS server.
- Promote content from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya 3.5.
- Manage SAS Viya content.
- Troubleshoot general authorization issues.
- Monitor the SAS Viya environment in SAS Environment Manager.
- Monitor a SAS Viya deployment using command-line interfaces such as the sas-ops command.
- Manage the operations infrastructure data mart.
- Create custom reports from the operations infrastructure data.
- Modify logging levels in SAS Environment Manager.
- Diagnose server and service problems using logs.
Who should attend
Administrators who support a SAS Viya 3.5 environment
Before taking this course, you should have completed the SAS9 Administration: Getting Started course or have a working knowledge of Linux operating system commands (or both). A working knowledge of LDAP or Active Directory is helpful but not required.
This course addresses SAS Viya software.


What is Decertification in HRM? PDF Book
Learn Decertification definition in hrm with explanation to study "What is Decertification". Study decertification explanation with HRM terms to review HRM course for online MBA programs.
Decertification Definition
 - Process whereby a union is removed as the representative of a group of employees.
Decertification Explanation
Decertification alludes to the procedure where the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) enables workers to require a unique decision to dispose of the association as their "selective agent." It is essential to recall that your organization can't help or help you with decertifying an association. You can connect with different associations to help. The goal of a decertification race is to fire the association's entitlement to speak to you and your kindred representatives. This system furnishes you with full help by removing the association's power to go about as your dealing delegate. On the off chance that you are a piece of the representative association that is secured under an aggregate dealing understanding (regardless of whether you are an endorser or not) you can at present sign an appeal and take part in the decision in favor of decertification. When the association is evacuated as your legitimate haggling agent you never again need to join the association or pay duty or charges to it.
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Literally "song" in Italian, the canzone is a lyric poem originating in medieval Italy and France and usually consisting of hendecasyllabic lines with end-rhyme. The canzone influenced the development of the sonnet.
Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.
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Comparative Cognition
In 1871 Darwin famously wrote that, in his opinion, there was no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties. In the past decades this claim has driven much empirical investigation and, by and large, the evidence supports Darwin's hypothesis. One mental faculty, however, has been particularly difficult to study empirically with little progress being made until recently: the faculty of language. A primary focus of our research efforts is to explore and understand the biological origins of the different mechanisms required for language and culture. To this end, we mainly study non-human primates in their natural habitats.
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What is a Mother Box? Glad you asked. Read what wikipedia has to say in full, but here's a snippet:
"Created by Apokoliptian scientist Himon using the mysterious Element X, they are generally thought to be sentient, miniaturized, portable supercomputers, although their true nature and origins are unknown. They possess wondrous powers and abilities not understood even by their users, the gods of New Genesis. These range from teleportation (they can summon Boom Tubes) to energy manipulation. Mother Boxes have been seen healing the injured, including Darkseid himself, after he was beaten by Doomsday. Metron stated that each Mother Box shares "a mystical rapport with nature". They provide their owner with unconditional love and self-destruct when their owner dies.
Mother Boxes have sacrificed themselves for causes they have believed in and are greatly respected by the people of New Genesis. In physical appearance they are most often in the shape of a small box, but they can also be much larger (as is the one carried by the Forever People), and do not always need to be in the shape of a box at all (Mr. Miracle had Mother Box circuitry woven into the hood of his costume). They usually communicate with a repetitive "ping!" which can be understood by their users."
Does this not sound like the 4s iPhone?
The concept of the Mother Box is Jack Kirby's. What a fantastic imagination he had.