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[Note: The dissector may wish to mark the site of the proposed osteotomy on the skin be – fore proceeding. Perform the lateral osteotomy on one side, and then reflect the skin/soft-tissue envelope laterally to examine it. Is it in proper position'? Is the periosteum intact, or has it been violated'? Is the mucoperiosteum intact?
After assessing the first lateral osteotomy, the skin of the opposite side may be reflected before the osteotomy. This will allow observation of the osteotomy under direct vision.]
The lateral osteotomies run from the most lateral point of the pyriform aperture to a point medial to the inner canthus of the eye, taking a high to low to high path. In practice, this means a starting point 3 mm to 4 mm above the base of the pyriform aperture and adjacent to the head of the inferiorturbinate. The high-to-low lateral osteotomy preserves a small triangle of bone at the base of the pyriform aperture (Fig. 2). Use a 2-mm (unguarded) or 3-mm (guarded or unguarded) curved or flat osteotome. Use a guarded or unguarded osteotome based on preference.
Make a small incision near the base of the pyriform aperture. Although it is not essential, many surgeons create a short subperiosteal tunnel along the path of the proposed lateral osteotomy. Seat the osteotome on the bone 3 nun to 4 mm above the base of the pyriform aperture, and use a gentle two-tap technique to advance the osteotome gradually. Angle the osteotome in a posterior and cephalic direction initially, and then adjust the os teotome so that the cutting edge travels toward a point medial to the inner canthus of the eye. This creates the typical high-to-low-to-high lateral osteotomy. Control the cutting edge by palpation with the thumb or fingers of the nondominant hand as the osteotome travels toward the inner canthus. When the osteotome approaches the level of the inner canthus, rotate the osteotome clockwise on the patient's right side and counterclockwise on the left side. This will normally fracture the nasal bone inward creating a controlled backfracture. It may be necessary to complete the fracture with thumb pressure.
Figure 1. Fading medial osteotomies. Place an osteotome flat against the septum with the edge facing laterally. Control the sharp leading edge of the chisel, as it moves under the skin, with the forefinger of the nondominant hand. Avoid the thick frontal bone.
Figure 2. Lateral osteotomies should be started from a point 3 mm to 4 mm above the base of the pyriform aperture to a point adjacent to the inner canthus of the eye. Some rhino plasty surgeons find it helpful to mark the proposed line of the osteotomy on the skin before executing this maneuver.


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Babies - 'Prayer before birth' by Louis MacNeice and 'The Tay Moses' by Kathleen JamieJohn O'Donoghue
A lesson focusing on two poems that explore the theme of infancy from differing perspectives.
To explore the ways poets write about infants To encourage students to write their own poems on the theme of infancy
Poetry Archive recordings of Kathleen Jamie reading 'The Tay Moses and Louis MacNeice reading 'Prayer Before Birth' Whiteboard linked to the Poetry Archive website for viewing the texts of the poems
Teaching sequence of activities
Both of these poems explore the experience of birth: 'The Tay Moses' from a mother's point of view; 'Prayer Before Birth' from the point of view of a baby about be born. Both invoke religious texts - the story of Moses; prayer - to create poetry. The teacher asks students to talk in pairs and suggest reasons for why the theme of birth should inspire religious approaches to writing poems, eg birth as a'mystery' religious ritual used as rite of passage for new-born babies, eg circumcision, baptism the innocence of babies as a symbol of goodness babies as new beginnings, as an opportunity to renew humanity
The teacher plays the recording of Kathleen Jamie reading 'The Tay Moses' to the class, and displays the text on the whiteboard. Students are asked to make a note of any odd words, and/or any words they may not have come across before, such as creel, river-rashes, oriole, uplands, eddies, spawn, birl, river-pilot and grieve. Students feed back some of these words to the class. Students are then asked to predict what part of speech some of these words may be through Q & A, e.g. birl is a verb, grieve a noun. How can students tell what parts of speech the words are? Word order, or syntax, is what gives them a clue. Once they have worked out all the meanings of the odd words, the poem is played again. What differences do they note now? Do they have a fuller understanding of the poem? Why did Kathleen Jamie use these kinds of words? (Some are dialect; some come from geography or biology; some have artistic or poetic associations, eg oriole). The teacher now asks further questions about the syntactical structure of the poem: How is punctuation used to link various parts of the poem? (Dashes.) How does this use of punctuation determine the pace of the poem? (Speeds up as it goes along, or'snowballs') What do the students notice about the overall structure of the poem? (It's one long sentence) At what point does the poet switch pronouns? (Begins poem addressing 'you' - the new-born baby; ends in italics talking about 'him'). What's the effect of this? Next, the class listens to the recording of Louis MacNiece reading 'Prayer Before Birth'. The teacher suggests that this is another'snowball' poem. It accumulates lines as it goes. But this is not done in an arbitrary fashion: there is a pattern to this poem. Can students in pairs discern what the pattern is? (the first line and the last line rhymes, but when the middle line(s) come they have a Biblical structure, rather like'verses' in the Bible). This 'prayer' is a litany - that is, a prayer that uses repetition to create a sense of focus, invocation and wonder. Yet the tone of the poem is perhaps more secular than religious. The teacher explains that this poem was written at the height of WW2. Students in pairs are asked to find evidence of this context in the poem, eg the specific threats to the child which foreground the times MacNeice was living through when he wrote this poem. Then the teacher takes feedback, and reminds students that this is a poem, not a newspaper report, and that takes the form of a litany, or prayer. MacNeice, the son of a Church of Ireland minister, has made his language deliberately timeless in some parts of the poem and quite contemporary in others. Why does MacNeice use language in this way? The teacher now asks students to write either: A poem from the point of view of the 'farm-wife' who ends up with the baby in her arms. What kind of language would a 'farm-wife' use? What kind of person would she be? Do they imagine her as younger or older than the mother in the poem? What would her reaction be to the events described in the poem? Does she perhaps have a story - about babies, about motherhood, about her farm, or her husband -which we have not been told? What would that story be, and how would she tell it in a poem? Or: What modern joys, what modern woes, would a baby about to be born have to look forward to or fear today? Make a list of modern joys and woes, and using Louis MacNeice's litany form, update 'Prayer Before Birth' for contemporary readers
Sharing of poems in class.
An evaluative essay reflecting on the process of creating the new poem: how students went about it, how they used the poems studied in class, what they liked about the poems studied in class, what they didn't like, what they like about their own poems, what they think of writing poetry.

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Cryptic clue: Horse-drawn vehicle industry
Answer: Diligence
How do we figure this one out?
Wiktionary says:
diligence (plural diligences)
 1. conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something
 2. (religion) One of the seven contrary virtues, opposite the vice of sloth.
 3. A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)
industry (in the sense of "busily working") would match definition 1, and definition 3 is a horse-drawn vehicle, if an obscure one. I had no idea!
 - wow. i didnt find this where i usually look. _URL_. Good one. I expected it to be something on "vehicle industry", and not "h-d vehicle; industry" as two clues. – JoseK Dec 24 '10 at 14:11
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 _USER_: you'd find it if you searched for "diligence"! – Jimi Oke Dec 24 '10 at 16:26
 - _USER_: but i did that too. _URL_ – JoseK Dec 25 '10 at 5:39
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 _USER_: if you look at definition #2, it says "a large stage-coach", which is basically a horse-drawn carriage. – Jimi Oke Dec 25 '10 at 9:41
Here's the etymology of the third meaning given at the Wiktionary.
From the secondary French sense comes the old usage of diligence for "public stage coach" (1742; dilly for short), from a French shortening of carrosse de diligence.
O.Fr. diligence means "attention, care; haste, speed," so carrosse de diligence means "speedy coach."
The Encylopaedia Britannica expands on how the diligence differs from the american stagecoach.
 - It amuses me that in 100 years we'll be similarly mystified by such words as cassette (what does that have to do with music?) and perchance newspaper (news was printed on paper??) – ghoppe Nov 4 '11 at 18:24


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Researchers at the Monash University, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSRIO) in Australia have discovered a brand new material that can be used to efficiently capture, store, and release carbon dioxide emissions using sunlight.
The discovered material is a photosensitive metal organic framework (MOF) which can absorb large amounts of carbon, as much as one litre of gas in just one gram of the material, and then release it instantly when it is exposed to sunlight in technique known as dynamic photo-switching.
Related article: China's Smog Becoming an International Issue
The head of the research team at CSIRO, Dr Matthew Hill, describes the dynamic photo-switching technique rather like a sponge, in the way that a sponge can soak up lots of water, and then easily release it as it is squeezed out.
Existing methods for carbon capture use liquid absorbers to capture the gas. These are then heated up in order to release the captured gas where upon it is sent into storage. The whole process can use as much as 30% of the power plants production capacity.
Dr Hill describes the new technology as "an exciting development for carbon capture because concentrated solar energy can be used instead of further coal-based energy to drive the process."
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JavaScript Interaction between Iframe and Parent
On this page, a document in an iframe uses JavaScript to interact with its parent document. First we show how the document in the iframe can get references to the iframe element containing it and to the containing document and its properties and objects. Then we provide an example below which demonstrates how to access variables and invoke functions in the parent document, and reference and modify its elements.
A document in an iframe can obtain a reference to the iframe element containing it through the frameElement property of the window object. The frameElement property provides access to a variety of other properties, including offsetHeight, parentNode, ownerDocument, and much more. You could use it to access any object or property in the containing document. Here are a few examples:
var ifrm = window.frameElement; // reference to iframe element container
var doc = ifrm.ownerDocument; // reference to container's document
var form = doc.forms[0]; // reference to first form in container document
However, unless you are trying to access specific properties of the iframe element itself, it is simpler to use the parent property to access the containing document. For example, you can reference a form in the containing document as follows:
// reference to first form in parent document
var form = parent.document.forms[0];
// or, using form id instead
var form = parent.document.getElementById('myForm');
The parent keyword can also be used to access global variables or invoke functions in the main document from the document inside the iframe, as the example below demonstrates.
Note: These cross-document interactions are only possible if the documents have the same origin. The postMessage method provides the means of interacting cross-domain.
Demonstrating Access to Parent from Iframe
Click the buttons in the iframe below to interact with the containing document as described. The JavaScript for the example is displayed below the iframe. You can right-click on the iframe to view its document's source code.
JavaScript for the Example
The JavaScript displayed here is included in the iframed document above to perform the tasks demonstrated. Code comments provide some explanation.
// get reference to form to attach button onclick handlers
var form = document.getElementById('iframeDemoForm');
// display offsetHeight of frameElement containing iframed document
form.elements.button1.onclick = function() {
 this.form.elements.display.value = window.frameElement.offsetHeight;
// increment and display counter variable contained in parent document
form.elements['button2'].onclick = function() {
 this.form.elements['display'].value =
 'counter in parent document is:'+ parent.counter;
form.elements.button3.onclick = function() {
 var re = /[^-a-zA-Z!,'?\s]/g; // to filter out unwanted characters
 // get reference to greeting text box in containing document
 var fld = parent.document.forms['demoForm'].elements['greeting'];
 var val = fld.value.replace(re, '');
 // display value in iframed document's text box
 this.form.elements.display.value = 'The greeting is:'+ val;
form.elements.button4.onclick = function() {
 parent.clearGreeting(); // call function in parent document
More examples of cross-document referencing are listed in the upper right.


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I've in my logback.xml configuration file this appender:
 %d{dd MMM yyyy;HH:mm:ss} %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n

so that I specify path to file in which to print logs in a relative way through classpath, but it doesn't work, no file addressbookLog.log is created and written. It only works with absolute paths like /home/andrea/.../resources/addressbookLog.log Have you any ideas on how to make it work with classpath?
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The Chapter 3: Logback configuration: Variable substitution told us the various ways to refer to the variable defined outside, e.g. system properties and classpath.
The significant configuration is creating a separate file that will contain all the variables. We can make a reference to a resource on the class path instead of a file as well. e.g.
The logback.xml

The external properties file (resource1.properties)
Please note that the resource1.properties is a resource which available at the classpath.
You may refer to the full version at Chapter 3: Logback configuration: Variable substitution. I hope this may help.
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That's not really what he is asking. He wants to know how to use the classpath to specify where the destination log file is. For example, the log file in his example would be "WEB-INF/classes/addressbookLog.log" under Tomcat. But it could be in a different location in a different environment. I'm looking for the answer to the same question... – jsumners Jul 3 '13 at 17:45
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You defined the resource1.properties is absolute path.
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July 19, 2018
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The Man Who Crossed the Border to Save His Son's Life
What happens when we meet strangers face-to-face? Blanca, a Phoenix-based child therapist and a mother of three children, meets a man and his 13-year-old son from Guatemala who just escaped violence by crossing the border near Yuma, Arizona. He is seeking asylum. The human connection is so powerful if we choose not to look away.Sign up for our email list at facinghumanity.org for updates on our RV trip across America bringing the stories of the migrants to the voters.
Posted by Facing Humanity on Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Our mission is to use video-calling technology to bring refugees, migrants, and other marginalized people from around the world into face-to-face conversation with U.S. voters.
We believe that many of our most difficult policy and cultural challenges such as immigration reform or refugee policies cannot be resolved humanely if the most affected and vulnerable people are seen as the "other" or referred to in demeaning terms. In short, dehumanization is a core problem.
The video calls would be preceded by a short informational video that introduces the context for the conversation, e.g. families separated at the borders. The calls would be followed by resources for taking action towards creating humane policies and an invitation to participate in future actions.
Five Components
 1. Document the facts of a political situation that is often riddled with myth and misinformation.
 2. Use video conferencing to engage the public, media, and lawmakers with face-to-face conversations with the people most impacted and often faceless and voiceless.
 3. Create portals — digital (an app and website) and analog (popups using a camper) — that would invite people to intimate, humanizing, and informative conversations.
 4. Film our initial fact-finding and the face-to-face conversations to create branded media content edited for social media distribution.
 5. Offer an educational resource that would aid reporters, educators, lawmakers, and the general public.
We believe that if we are successful in connecting voters with migrants and refugees at a new level of humanity, the impact would be quite profound for the future. These are our current goals:
 1. Humanize the people regarded as strangers, foreigners, and "aliens."
 2. Educate the public about how and why people become refugees and migrants.
 3. Appeal to voters to contact elected representatives to advance humane policies.
 4. Record the conversations and create media content to be distributed through social media platforms.
 5. Engage the participants and invite them to become advocates for refugees and migrants.
 6. Present experiences that increase empathy and understanding.
We are working with the Social Good Fund as our fiscal sponsor for 501 (c)(3) grants and tax-deductible donations to support Facing Humanity.
Our goal is to raise $250,000 for the project focused on the immigration crisis.
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Image dimensions are incorrectly floored instead of rounded to a proper number. Some attempt at "fixup" is done later in some processes to move them by a pixel, but still the way it's initially calculated is wrong.
A typical photo has a 3:2 (3/2 = 1.5) ratio.
If it's resized to 600px width, WP will make the height 399px - this is wrong.
It happens because of function wp_constrain_dimensions in media.php (~line 304) which floors the float using intval, which is wrong.
$w = intval( $current_width * $ratio ); $h = intval( $current_height * $ratio );
$w = round( $current_width * $ratio ); $h = round( $current_height * $ratio );
Earlier in the function, both $ratio and $current_width are already handled as numbers, so they have to be valid numbers, no need to use intval for that reason, it's just being used to floor, which is bad in this case.
Using round is not a performance issue because this function is not used in realtime output for templates but typically in admin area.
Optionally while you are at it, put a filter on wp_constrain_dimensions and pass the filter all the values passed to the function before the array is returned at the end.


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📖HomeBack In ClearSCADA, alarm limits are inclusive in the processing. This means that the High High, High, Low and Low Low alarms will be raised when the process values reaches or passes the limit. For example, if the High limit is 80, the alarm will be raised as soon as the point value hits 80.
The Full Scale and Zero Scale limits are used for out of range processing. The alarms based on these limits (Engineering Units Exceeded) are raised when the limit is transgressed. For example, for a point where the range is 0-100, the value 100 is valid and so will not be flagged as overrange. When the value hits 100.01, the overrange alarm is raised.


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Triggerfish, Grey and Queen
Grey and Queen Triggerfish are found on rocky and coral reefs throughout much of the Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. They grow at moderate to fast rates, reach sexual maturity at an early age, and can release millions of eggs.
Grey Triggerfish is commercially caught in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic, while Queen Triggerfish is mostly caught in the Caribbean Sea. There is little information about the abundance of either species, but one report found that Grey Triggerfish in the Gulf of Mexico is overfished. Management regulations for these species include gear and area restrictions, and annual catch limits have recently been established in all regions.
Most Grey Triggerfish and some Queen Triggerfish are caught with hook and line gear, which causes minimal habitat damage and moderate levels of bycatch.


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PerfWorks has now been replaced with an updated C++ API and a new name - NVIDIA® Nsight™ Perf SDK. You can find more information about it and download from here. The new NSight Perf SDK supports NVIDIA GPU Architectures from Volta through the latest Ampere chips. The API is easy to use and integrate into your application.
PerfWorks is a C++ API used for GPU performance analysis on NVIDIA GPUs. PerfWorks allows developers the ability to instrument an application and to access low-level performance metrics on NVIDIA GPUs. PerfWorks delivers these metrics in order to give developers the ability to recognize top performance limiters quickly and make appropriate application changes to remove the associated bottlenecks. These metrics can be collected over user ranges, draw calls or dispatches. There are four metric categories including: cumulative work, timing, activity and throughput.
- Cumulative work includes work achieved over time such as number of shaded pixels
- Timing refers to time duration or average clock rate calculations that make it easier to understand a scenario.
- Activity tells you where the GPU is stalled and where the GPU is active.
- Throughput refers to the rate of operations e.g. the number of instructions executed.
PerfWorks is the successor to NVIDIA's Perfkit. PerfWorks adds range based profiling and it supports next generation APIs featuring multi-threaded GPU work submission. GPU generations supported by PerfWorks includes Maxwell, Pascal and future generations when available. PerfWorks is used by NVIDIA internal tools including: Tegra Graphics Debugger, Nsight Visual Studio Edition and other future products.
- Support for collecting Graphics Metrics. See Figure 1 below.
- Support for collecting Compute Metrics. See Figure 2 below.
- These Compute Metrics can be Compute-Bound, Memory Bound or Latency-Bound.
- Range Based Profiling
- Other tools profile one kernel or draw-call at a time. However, with PerfWorks a developer can profile them as a range therefore allowing for inherent parallelism of execution.
- Multi-Pass Profiling
- The hardware has a limited number of physical counters. To collect more than the physical limit, PerfWorks requires the application to deterministically replay the GPU work multiple times. During each replay the application must make the same GPU calls with the same range delimiters and a different set of counters is collected.
- D3D12 Support
- Supports multithreaded GPU work submission. D3D12 is a different way of coding than CUDA or OpenGL.
- Support for nvperf
- nvperf is a command line tool for offline querying of PerfWorks metrics


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OrchestraThere were 6 orchestras at Auschwitz including a women's orchestra at Birkenau and a male orchestra at Auschwitz I which consisted of 100 musicians.
Their activities included playing music for the prisoners who were marching to work and for the arrival of important guests at the camp. In addition, they played at parties for the SS and gave formal concerts for the camp staff.
Various survivor memoirs mention the orchestra's playing for the arrival of deportees to give them a false sense of comfort. There were orchestras at most of the major concentration and extermination camps.
Sources: informal conversation with Bret Werb, Music Archivist at the USHMM; Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.


The Direct and Ecological Costs of an Ant-Plant Symbiosis
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Title: The Direct and Ecological Costs of an Ant-Plant Symbiosis
Author: Frederickson, Megan E.; Ravenscraft, Alison; Miller, Gabriel; Hernández, Lina M. Arcila; Booth, Gregory; Pierce, Naomi Ellen
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Citation: Frederickson, Megan E., Alison Ravenscraft, Gabirel A. Miller, Lina M. Arcila Hernández, Gregory Booth, and Naomi E. Pierce. 2012. The direct and ecological costs of an ant-plant symbiosis. The American Naturalist 179(6): 768-778.
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Abstract: How strong is selection for cheating in mutualisms? The answer depends on the type and magnitude of the costs of the mutualism. Here we investigated the direct and ecological costs of plant defense by ants in the association between Cordia nodosa, a myrmecophytic plant, and Allomerus octoarticulatus, a phytoecious ant. Cordia nodosa trees produce food and housing to reward ants that protect them against herbivores. For nearly 1 year, we manipulated the presence of A. octoarticulatus ants and most insect herbivores on C. nodosa in a full-factorial experiment. Ants increased plant growth when herbivores were present but decreased plant growth when herbivores were absent, indicating that hosting ants can be costly to plants. However, we did not detect a cost to ant colonies of defending host plants against herbivores. Although this asymmetry in costs suggests that the plants may be under stronger selection than the ants to cheat by withholding investment in their partner, the costs to C. nodosa are probably at least partly ecological, arising because ants tend scale insects on their host plants. We argue that ecological costs should favor resistance or traits other than cheating and thus that neither partner may face much temptation to cheat.
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or equivalently of the form
with energy function
where V is the potential energy of the system. The method is known by different names in different disciplines. In particular, it is similar to the Velocity Verlet method, which is a variant of Verlet integration. Leapfrog integration is equivalent to updating positions and velocities at interleaved time points, staggered in such a way that they 'leapfrog' over each other. For example, the position is updated at integer time steps and the velocity is updated at integer-plus-a-half time steps.
Leapfrog integration is a second order method, in contrast to Euler integration, which is only first order, yet requires the same number of function evaluations per step. Unlike Euler integration, it is stable for oscillatory motion, as long as the time-step is constant, and.
In leapfrog integration, the equations for updating position and velocity are
where is position at step, is the velocity, or first derivative of, at step, is the acceleration, or second derivative of, at step and is the size of each time step. These equations can be expressed in a form which gives velocity at integer steps as well. However, even in this synchronized form, the time-step must be constant to maintain stability.
One use of this equation is in gravity simulations, since in that case the acceleration depends only on the positions of the gravitating masses, although higher order integrators (such as Runge–Kutta methods) are more frequently used.
There are two primary strengths to Leapfrog integration when applied to mechanics problems. The first is the time-reversibility of the Leapfrog method. One can integrate forward n steps, and then reverse the direction of integration and integrate backwards n steps to arrive at the same starting position. The second strength of Leapfrog integration is its symplectic nature, which implies that it conserves the (slightly modified) energy of dynamical systems. This is especially useful when computing orbital dynamics, as many other integration schemes, such as the (order 4) Runge-Kutta method, do not conserve energy and allow the system to drift substantially over time.
Because of its time-reversibility, and because it is a symplectic integrator, leapfrog integration is also used in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, a method for drawing random samples from a probability distribution whose overall normalization is unknown.
- Numerical ordinary differential equations
- Symplectic integration
- Euler integration
- Verlet integration
- Runge–Kutta integration
- C. K. Birdsall and A. B. Langdon, Plasma Physics via Computer Simulations, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1985, p. 56
- 4.1 Two Ways to Write the Leapfrog
- [Skeel, R. D., "Variable Step Size Destabilizes the Stömer/Leapfrog/Verlet Method," BIT Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 33, 1993, pp. 172-175.]
- Bishop, Christopher (2006). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. 548–554. ISBN 978-0-387-31073-2.
- The Leapfrog Integrator, Drexel University Physics


A Christmas Carol
What does miserly mean? Give three examples of how Scrooge is miserly.
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A miser would be someone who hoards their money and refuses to spend it even on necessities. The word applies to Scrooge, in that he hoards the coal in the office needed to work because he doesn't want to spend more, refuses charity for the poor and destitute, and begrudges Cratchit wages for the holiday. Scrooge even conserved the wood he needed to keep a fire going in his own home. He had to sit very close to it, in order to receive any warmth.
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How do you properly encode a path that includes a hash (#) in it? Note the hash is not the fragment (bookmark?) indicator but part of the path name.
For example, if there is a path like this:
It causes problems when you for example try do this:
Uri myUri = new Uri("_URL_
It would seem that it interprets the hash as the fragment indicator.
It feels wrong to manually replace # with %23. Are there other characters that should be replaced? There are some escaping methods in Uri and HttpUtility but none seem to do the trick.


A good summary of the Zerg race is given on wikipedia as follows:
In other words, if the zerg see some biological feature they like, they assimilate the creatures that possess that feature to evolve into more adaptable creatures.
Furthermore, the starcraft wiki goes into some details about the Zerg's genetic structure:
zerg genetic material consists of DNA, seemingly in the shape of a double helix. However, when a zerg strain's DNA evolves, it becomes less flexible. -_URL_
The question is, given what we know about biology and evolution thus far, would it be possible for such a race of aliens to exist in the real universe?
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 $\begingroup$ To clarify for those not familiar with the game; The "details" about the Zerg's genetic structure exist mainly to hand-wave the fact that you can only shapeshift your units INTO more specialized units, and you can't un-shapeshift your units back to the stem-unit. (ie: A Zerg Drone may 'evolve' into one of eleven different bio-structures, but none of them can morph back into a drone). $\endgroup$ – Ayelis Jun 12 '15 at 0:13
 - $\begingroup$ The Zerg units "evolving" into different units in the game is also a non-science-ism. Evolution requires many generations, with only some individuals surviving to produce the next generation. From a science point of view, units morphing into different units is like caterpillars becoming butterflies: the transform is 'programmed' into the DNA, but the DNA itself doesn't change. $\endgroup$ – JanKanis May 7 '20 at 14:09
The first part is definitely possiblehumans can already artificially modify the genomes of living organisms to do pretty much whatever we want. One of the means we use to do this, in fact, is retroviruses, which I suppose technically are the zerg if you wanted to loosen the definition a bit; they inject their DNA into living organisms' genomes, and those organisms produce copies of the virus.
Then there's bacterial conjugation; bacteria directly swapping sections of genome. It's one of the ways genetic traits manage to proliferate between bacteria.
Now, whether the "hivemind" thing would work depends on the precise mechanism of hivemind communication. Faster-than-light? Very unlikely. Not actually theoretically impossible (just locally impossible), because wormholes and black holes, but (as far as we know at the moment) the living organisms would need to be slingshotting their radio signals around orbiting black holes with relatively precise trajectories, or they'd need to be somehow producing enormous amounts of exotic matter / negative energy. Staggering quantities. Suns' worth.
However, if they just coordinated thoughts with massless particle transmitters-receivers (like your TV remote) while still maintaining separate brains and coordinating multiple thought processes (like a distributed operating system), that'd work just fine. In a very real sense, your brain is itself a hivemind, because all of the cells which comprise it could survive separately from each other in the right medium. Even the organelles within those cells (cf. mitochondria) can maintain a degree of autonomy under the right conditions.
I have no idea what they mean by the DNA becoming "less flexible", so I can't really comment on that.
Also, full disclosure, I'm not a geneticist or physicist. So, if any of you are, and feel I've misrepresented something, feel free to call me out on that / edit and correct.
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 $\begingroup$ This is what your "hive-mind" section reminded me of. $\endgroup$ – Tom Anderson Jun 12 '15 at 11:37
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ Haven't run across that webcomic, before. Thanks, man. :) (Also, rereading what I wrote, I've decided to use the phrase "massless particle receiver-transmitter" way more often in everyday life. As in "pass me that massless particle receiver-transmitter", "...You mean the wireless router?", "Yeah. That's what I said.") $\endgroup$ – Parthian Shot Jul 15 '15 at 1:38
 - $\begingroup$ The Zerg themselves are indeed more of a dissociated/distributed hivemind (there are even politics between "nodes", iirc); in the first game, at least, when doing the Zerg campaign you play as one such node rather than as the Overmind itself. $\endgroup$ – JAB Sep 14 '16 at 16:41
I think there is an animal that is kinda similar to that. The ants, Zerg tend to be like a colony and the queen (which can be the overmind) can tell them what to do. Also, specific ants do specifics things. For example: Honey Pot Ants recolect food and then provided to other ants; Worker make the colony bigger; Warrior Ants fight to protect the colony, etc... Which is how Zergs work (I play SC2).
However, the only way to assimilate another living attribute doesn't really exist. I mean, there may be some viruses or bacteria that can do that or something similar, but not an animal or plant. The only way to change the genetic of a living thing is manually, and by that I mean artificially modify their genes.
EDIT: I just found this website where it shows how Ant and Zergs are similar _URL_
 - $\begingroup$ Do you have any evidence that queen ants tell the rest of the colony what to do? $\endgroup$ – kingledion Dec 4 '16 at 5:12
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Context: Victoria is growing and becoming more diverse. Jobseekers from a range of backgrounds face barriers in finding work. Global research tells us that diversity is good for the workforce, the economy, and the community. Culturally diverse teams are more creative and solve complex tasks more efficiently than culturally homogenous teams. So why is there still resistance?
Recruit Smarter was created to address this issue. It is a multi-sector strategic initiative of the Victorian Government in conjunction with Universtiy of Melbourne, the Centre for Ethical Leadership and VicHealth. Its aim was to develop inclusive recruitment practices and address unconscious bias in recruitment.
It was run over two years around three priorities: trialling new approaches, designing best practice and sharing knowledge.
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Earned Autonomy In Practice
Part of an ongoing dialogue with Steve Peha—see my original post, Steve's initial response, my first reply, and Steve's latest follow-up.
Dear Steve,
I think you're right to point to competence as a key issue in motivation, as Dan Pink explains in Drive. Certainly, increased competence should result in increased autonomy, in education as in any other profession. (I would add that feeling competent isn't enough, so I'll assume in this post that we're talking about actual—not just perceived—competence.)
From a management perspective, failing to provide increased autonomy to your most competent people is foolish on several fronts. It's a waste of energy that could be better spent on people who need more guidance; it's demotivating and irritating; and it risks substituting standardized practices for superior teacher-specific practices. There is great genius and wisdom in our nation's classrooms, and any principal who thinks he or she knows more about good teaching than every last teacher is delusional.
However, I don't think this is an argument for total autonomy, or the idea that everyone should do whatever they want in terms of curriculum or instructional techniques. As I will argue in more depth in a subsequent post, the opportunity to get better at what you're doing is far greater when you can collaborate with other professionals who are working to improve the same things. Moreover, teachers do not work in isolation; they together create an educational system that is responsible for students' learning over a period of years. Autonomy over certain types of decisions is important, but even top-notch people working without coordination will produce inferior results compared to a group of average people working as a team.
On your larger point, though, I agree—and I would argue that this is what happens in practice. Principals know which teachers are following the pacing guide meticulously, and which teachers aren't, and have differing opinions about these deviations based on their perceptions of the teacher's competence. In most places, proven competence buys you a good deal of freedom to rely on your own judgment when it conflicts with external mandates.
When principals insist on total compliance with the current fad, they're often doing so because they're under enormous pressure from above, and because detecting compliance is easier than determining when someone is doing a superior job despite their non-compliance. In cases where feckless reforms are forced on people who know better, non-compliance (or feigned compliance) is a rational and morally preferable response.
Some reforms are bad ideas and should be resisted, and others are good ideas and should be adopted with greater uniformity. How can you tell the difference? Listen to your best teachers, the ones who are willing to give the reform a good go, but aren't afraid to tell you when it turns out to be bogus.
Fundamentally, autonomy and common practices aren't mutually exclusive. Japan (to my knowledge) has a common national curriculum with pacing guides and very specific lessons, yet teachers are given extensive planning time to collaborate and work on their plans; if they come up with a better lesson, it can be submitted for acceptance into the national curriculum.
But why is there a national curriculum in many of the nations that are besting us in international comparisons? I'll take up this issue in my next post.
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OpenCV SURF implementation returns a sequence of 64/128 32 bit float values (descriptor) for each feature point found in the image. Is there a way to normalize this float values and take them to an integer scale (for example, [0, 255])?. That would save important space (1 or 2 bytes per value, instead of 4). Besides, the conversion should ensure that the descriptors remain meaningful for other uses, such as clustering.
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There are other feature extractors than SURF. The BRIEF extractor uses only 32 bytes per descriptor. It uses 32 unsigned bytes [0-255] as its elements. You can create one like this:
Ptr ptrExtractor = DescriptorExtractor::create("BRIEF");
Be aware that a lot of image processing routines in OpenCV need or assume that the data is stored as floating-point numbers.
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You can treat the float features as an ordinary image (Mat or cvmat) and then use cv::normalize(). Another option is using cv::norm() to find the range of descriptor values and then cv::convertTo() to convert to CV_8U. Look up the OpenCV documentation for these functions.
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Update : Should have left the Arithmetic out of this question, the new modified question is posted here : $\wedge,\cap$ and $\vee,\cup$ between Logic and Set Theory always interchangeable?
Although have not seen this anywhere stated, but so often mentally swapping the frameworks of Logic, Set Theory and Arithmetic following operation $\wedge,\cap,\times$ and $\vee,\cup,+$ are seem to be always interchangeable (Isomorphic?).
My question is are $\wedge,\cap,\times$ the same thing and just different symbols are being used depending on the framework? same question regarding $\vee,\cup,+$
PS: In arithmetic setting we get the case of $[0, \text{any number other than 0}] \equiv [false, true] $
For example De Morgan's laws for Sets and Logic just becomes the distributive and associate laws.
What about infinite cases? does this type of intuition break down between Arithmetic, Logic and Set theory?
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In Set Theory, $\cap$ and $\cup$ distribute over each other: $a\cap(b\cup c) = (a\cap b)\cup (a\cap c)$ and $a\cup(b\cap c) = (a\cup b)\cap (a\cup c)$. In arithmetic, $\times$ distributes over $+$, but $+$ does not distribute over $\times$; that is, $a\times(b+c) = (a\times b)+(a\times c)$, but in general, we do not have $a+(b\times c) = (a+ b)\times (a+ c)$. So even in this very basic setting, you have that $\cap$ and $\times$ have different properties relative to $\cup$ and $+$, respectively. – Arturo Magidin Feb 18 '12 at 23:11
_USER_ : That is the counter example I needed, can you please post it as an answer so I can accept it? Thank you – Arjang Feb 18 '12 at 23:23
But still $x \in A \cap B$ is the same as $(x\in A) \wedge (x \in B)$ and the same for infinite cases (but I have never seen an infinite conjunction contrary to infinite intersection). Similarly for $\cup, \vee$: $x \in \{y: \phi(y)\} \cup \{y: \psi(y)\}$ is the same as $\phi(x) \vee \psi(x)$. – savick01 Feb 18 '12 at 23:39
_USER_: Infinite conjunctions and disjunctions are sometimes seen, e.g., $\bigwedge\limits_{n\in\omega}(x\ne c_n)$. – Brian M. Scott Feb 18 '12 at 23:51
I've seen "$+$" used to denote the symmetric difference between sets, since that corresponds to mod-2 addition of indicator functions. So that's certainly not the same as "$\cup$". – Michael Hardy Feb 19 '12 at 0:05
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As requested; (I think the question is a bit confused and fuzzy as it stands, but...)
In set theory, $\cap$ and $\cup$ distribute over each other: $$a\cap(b\cup c) = (a\cap b)\cup (a\cap c)\qquad\text{and}\qquad a\cup(b\cap c) = (a\cup b)\cap (a\cup c).$$
However, in arithmetic (by which I understand the Peano arithmetic or its extensions to $\mathbb{Z}$, $\mathbb{Q}$, etc), while $\times$ distributes over $+$, $+$ does not distribute over $\times$. We always have $a\times(b+c) = (a\times b)+(a\times c)$, but almost never have $a+(b\times c) = (a+b)\times(a+c)$.
So $\cap$ and $\cup$ in set theory have properties, relative to one another, that are different from the properties of $\times$ and $+$ in arithmetic.
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Thank you Arturo, including arithmatic in this question was wrong, the similarity is extreeme in Logic and Set Theory – Arjang Feb 19 '12 at 0:29
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"+" isn't like "$\lor$". (x+x)=(2*x). On the other hand, in classical logic, (x $\lor$ x)=x. Specifically, (1+1)=2, while (1 $\lor$ 1)=1.
It comes as more useful to compare "∧,∩, min" and "∨,∪, max". Logical and set-theoretic operations behave more like the minimum of two numbers, and the maximum of two numbers than anything else (and max and min are dual operations if we have (1-x) as the complement of x).
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agreed, it was a mistake to include arithmatic the new question is posted here : math.stackexchange.com/questions/110760/… – Arjang Feb 19 '12 at 0:27
Not "more than anything else". They're just all lattice operations, and there are plenty of other examples. Also, $+$ is a bit like $\vee.$ There are differences, but there are similarities too. – user23211 Apr 3 '12 at 23:59
_USER_ A lattice L can get defined as a partially ordered set where for all x, for all y in L, sup{x, y} exists and inf{x, y} exists. Do you deny that max is closer to sup than anything else, and that min is closer to inf than anything else? – Doug Spoonwood May 23 '13 at 20:36
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If Nothing Changes in Your Novel, You Have No Story
By Janice Hardy, _USER_
No matter how exciting a scene might be, if it doesn't change anything in the story, it's not doing your novel any good.
What if things don't change?
Then all you're really doing is describing a situation. "Here's a story about these people living their lives and doing what they do."
And this is why an exciting idea can fall flat when it's written.
Change is what turns a situation into a story worthy of a novel.
Would you rather read a story about a guy who shows up at a party and goes home later, or a story about a guy who shows up at a party and gets arrested? The second story sounds far more interesting, because something has changed.
It doesn't even have to be this dramatic to show change. Example two could be, "Or a story about a guy who shows up at a party and meets the love of his life." Or a long-lost brother. Or a guy who looks exactly like him. Anything works, as long as something changes in the guy's life when he goes to that party.
A lot of struggling novels only have the guy going to the party. Things happen around him, but his life doesn't change. He isn't offered any opportunity to be better, or learn, or solve a problem he's having. He doesn't have any deep, profound revelations about his life or his world.
He just goes to the party.
If you've ever gotten feedback from your beta readers or critique partners that said, "It doesn't feel like anything is happening," or "this section felt slow," or something similar, there's a decent chance it's because nothing has changed. Figure out what changed and how that affects the story moving forward, and you'll probably fix your problem.
(Here's more on A Common Reason Novels Fail)
Change exists in every aspect of a strong novel.
A scene is nothing more than a small example of change happening. A character starts with a goal, has to do or experience something related to that goal, and then things change. It could be a small change or a momentous discovery that alters everything the character ever knew about themselves and the world.
 - Lonely people find love
 - An unfulfilled life finds purpose
 - The downtrodden stand up
 - The bomb is disarmed and the city is safe
 - The evil overlord is thwarted and the land is free
 - The killer is caught and the victim is found
This is why change works in all genres and story types. It's universal, because stories are about change at the core.
(Here's more on Is Your Novel Exploring an Idea or Solving a Problem?)
Change is more than things that happened.
If all we do is talk about things that happened to a character, that's gossip, not a story. And depending on what's happening, it might not even be good gossip.
If a guy leaves his house and has five consecutive car chases, and ends up back at home by the end of it with nothing but an empty gas tank, then nothing has happened, even if those were five of the most exciting individual car chases ever written. Odds are by the third one, readers were skimming, because the chases didn't matter. They didn't change anything, they simply happened.
Which is super frustrating, because a common piece of writing advice is "make things happen to your characters." It's one of those annoying writing contradictions, because it doesn't give you all you need to know. "Have things happen that change the situation and/or character and move the plot and/or story" is more accurate.
(Here's more on The Best Advice on Plotting I've Ever Heard: Two Tips That Make Plotting Your Novel Way Easier)
Change is the point of the novel.
It might be external, such as saving the world, or internal, such as finding yourself, but the protagonist and/or the world they live in is different by the end of the novel than it was at the beginning.
Let's say we're writing about firemen (an exciting group of people). The entire book revolves around a crew sitting in the fire station waiting for the alarm to go off so they can go put out a fire or save people who need saving.
But the bell never rings.
Reader's Friend: "What happens in the novel?"
Reader's Friend: "Why?"
Reader: "No reason."
Reader's Friend: "Was there a point to it?"
Reader: "Nope."
Change makes things interesting. Change provides the conflict to drive the story. If the characters or the situation is exactly the same at the end as the beginning (be it a scene or a series), that's a big red flag there's a problem and the story isn't being served.
(Here's more on 3 Reasons That "Perfectly Good Scene" Is Boring Your Readers)
Pro-Tip: If you took out the scene, how would it affect the novel?
This is a handy way to test the changes in a scene. If something changed, and the events in the scene made a difference on the story, cutting it would change that story. If nothing is affected, odds are nothing changed.
Also remember, not every novel needs a full-on soul-searching character arc filled with angsty growth, or an adrenaline-pumping, action-packed subplot to make it work. Quieter changes can be just as effective, be they an emotional change or a physical one. Mix it up. Some changes might be small, while others will have huge impact.
Just think about the changes in your novel and what they mean to the story.
EXERCISE FOR YOU: Take five minutes and examine what changes in the first chapter of your novel. What's different at the end versus the beginning? Do this exercise for each chapter as well.
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Many dog owners will be familiar with the awkward scenario of their dog unexpectedly humping another dog, an inanimate object, or even a human leg. So why do dogs hump and should we do anything about it? Ross McCarthy, canine behaviourist of the London Dog Behaviour Company, answers some common questions on the subject
Is it sexually motivated?
Sometimes, but, depending on the age and gender of your dog, humping, as we call it, is most commonly an exploratory behaviour. It's governed primarily by initial excitement and touch in certain places that create arousal.
Essentially, it's a pleasurable activity for an excited dog, and it can become an embedded response in certain situations: while some dogs may run and grab a toy or slipper when you come home, others might go and mount their bed.
Why do my dogs tend to hump more when visitors come round?
It's not sexual – dogs just get excited at the change in the norm. So when visitors come, life is fun and exciting and they hump as a type of displacement behaviour, transferring their feelings about the event to something else.
It may also have something to do with your responses and those of the visitors: if a dog's excitement is stoked by all the attention and fuss that could be a reason to continue with the behaviour that incited the reaction.
My dog is neutered. Why does he still hump?
In purely biological terms, unneutered male dogs want to mate bitches in season – that's it. There are, of course, exceptions, such as when they get a scent that they like on someone or something. But the impulse is largely reserved for when they get that unmistakeable, innate mating message via scent.
Neutering helps to decrease the amount of testosterone (a sex hormone) in a dog's body, lessening the urge to mate, and therefore to hump. However, a certain amount of the hormone remains in the dog's bloodstream, meaning they'll continue to want to mate and, by extension, will continue to exhibit mounting behaviour.
Bear in mind, too, that humping is learned and practised from puppyhood (well before sexual maturity). It's a way for dogs to test out their physical abilities and social potential – more dominant members of the litter will assert themselves by mounting their siblings, thereby displaying leadership or dominance.
Why do female dogs hump?
It's common for female dogs to hump too, particularly in puppyhood (although not usually as much as males do). The reason is simple: it feels pleasurable to them and is simply an intrinsic behaviour, motivated by play and social interaction in the same way as it is for male dogs. Some dogs (of either gender) might hump in response to stress as well as excitement, so it's useful to watch your dog's humping habits to see if something in particular is agitating him or her.
What should I do about the humping?
Probably nothing. My 16-year-old neutered German Shepherd, Vhko, likes to try to mount my youngest Rottweiler, Rohkh, for a short while after their evening meal. Both dogs seem to enjoy the interaction, so I allow it to continue. I think if the routine included humans, I might put a stop to it, but if you have a puppy who's humping his bed or a toy, you should probably just leave him alone to get on with what is fundamentally a natural, normal canine behaviour.
However, humping can sometimes have an underlying medical cause, such as a urinary tract infection or skin allergy, so if the behaviour has come on suddenly or seems excessive, it's worth asking your vet about it – particularly if your dog is also spending a lot of time licking his or her genital area.
If you've ruled out a medical reason and are still concerned that the humping is getting out of hand or happens too frequently, you should use positive reinforcement training to stop the habit and teach an alternative response. A qualified behaviourist can help you to assess the situation and take the best course of action.
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Excel formula: Position of max value in list
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To get the position of the maximum value in a range (i.e. a list, table, or row), you can use the MAX function together with the MATCH function.
In the example shown, the formula in I5 is:
Which returns the number 4, representing the position in this list of the the most expensive property.
In this case, that value is 849900.
With those arguments, MATCH locates finds the maximum value inside the range and returns the relative position of the value in that range.
In this case, the position corresponds to a relative row number, but in a horizontal range, the position would correspond to a relative column number.
Note: in case of duplicates (i.e. two or more max values that are the same) this formula will return the position of the first match, the default behavior of the MATCH function.
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In Australian terrace houses, it is often done using the same process with stucco render. Vermiculation is typically found on projecting sections of party walls, where the roof and floors meet with the party walls. It is sometimes also found as a frieze below the cornice or above it on the parapet. Rarely it is found on the facade itself or other stuccoed architectural elements made to resemble stone such as gates.


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Roman Children's Sarcophagi
Why I Taught the Sources
I use images of two Roman marble sarcophagi for topics on children and childhood in undergraduate courses on ancient society, family, gender, representations, and historiography. The sarcophagi can be used to study one period of antiquity or to examine changing notions of childhood over time.
My aim in using the sarcophagi is to increase students' awareness of the rich variety of accessible material sources about Roman society—especially archaeological resources such as art, architecture, inscriptions, and topography—that can supplement traditional literary sources. A careful analysis of images from an unfamiliar society can help students already exposed to visual material in their daily lives become more discriminating in their interpretations.
Students' present-day interest in children and childhood—in daily life and in academic studies—is a good basis on which to build. But there is a danger of applying our own modern, Western attitudes and values to other societies. Studying artifacts and texts from a different society raises questions of cultural differences. One basic question is whether childhood in pre-modern societies was recognized as a separate stage of life and children were valued; this has been debated since Ariès' book of 1962. 1 Roman society of the first two or three centuries (CE) provides material to help students to enter this debate and make their own assessments.
How I Introduce the Sources
After providing a chronological background and introducing issues such as class and status, gender, urban context, and political structure earlier in the semester, I assign: Ariès, Centuries of Childhood, at least the Introduction; and Letter 4.2 of The Letters of Pliny the Younger. My aim is provide students with the evidence to challenge Ariès' claim about the "ignorance of childhood" in pre-modern ages that relied on a small range of literary sources.
In order to do so, I provide an introductory lecture on the history of childhood studies and on available sources (including the nature of the material as well as the hazards of surviving literary, legal, archaeological sources). 2 I also provide images of materials such as epitaphs, sculptures, and wall paintings related to children and Rome to stimulate thinking about the range of representations available. Students then divide into smaller groups of 10 to 15 to examine primary sources.
Reading the Sources
In these smaller groups, we analyze Pliny's apparently unsympathetic comments on the death of Regulus' son in the context of upper-class Roman male expectations of fatherhood, emotions, and Pliny's deep hostility to Regulus. Pliny's letter also shows the independent wealth of a mother and the possibility of a young male coming into independent wealth, either by the death of his father or by the legal technicality of being freed ("sold") from the power (patria potestas) of his father. 3
The comparatively large quantity of funerary commemoration of prematurely-dead children helps put Regulus' grief into perspective. Regulus' son had survived early childhood, so his death, in his early teens, was the more tragic.
I also project images of various funerary items, including the two sarcophagi, on a screen. These raise the question of parental grief and grieving in a society of high mortality, challenging the claim sometimes made of indifference to children's deaths in societies with high rates of infant mortality. Each of the sarcophagi depicts a sequence of life-stages, and each can be dated to the first half of the 2nd century CE. 4
By contrast with simple epitaphs, these are quite expensive artifacts. On the first sarcophagus, the boy's name, M. Cornelius Statius (in the dedicatory form 'M. CORNELIO M. F. PAL. STATIO'), indicates that he is a freeborn Roman citizen.
The epitaph has been dedicated by the boy's parents ('PARENTES'). The family's dress and attributes, and the quality of the artifact, suggest a well-to-do family. The scenes depict the newborn infant, the child at play, and the child with teacher. The mother appears to be breast-feeding which raises the question about whether this was normal (in a society of wet-nurses) or whether the scene was idealized.
The father's role in the nursing scene and in holding the infant often surprises the students. In well-to-do citizen families, with a household of slave retainers, the stereotype is of more distant relationships and limited contact between parents and children in the early rearing years. (Compare, for example, stereotypes of 19th century upper-class English families.)
The scroll in the boy's hand as he recites his lesson to a teacher raises questions about many aspects of education, such as the availability of "books," importance of oral performance and memory, and existence of schools and private tutors. It also sparks discussion of children's modes of play, their engagement with animals (helping put young Regulus' pets in context), and children's place in the family.
The second sarcophagus also depicts an infant (in the arms of one of the parents in the carriage ride on the right-hand side of the stone) and play (as a toddler with a wheeled pusher or scooter, and a little older with a pet goose).
But the last scene is of death, foreshadowed by the torches, often symbols of funerals, at each end of the sarcophagus. The parents again ride in a carriage, with the slightly older child between them, and they are led by a winged Cupid foreshadowing the child's soul ascending to heaven.
At some stage in the discussion, students often raise the issue of the nature of the sarcophagus as an artifact. This leads to some questions about the disposal of the dead and how frequently sarcophagi were used. Epitaphs for children lead to issues of demography. Cremation remained dominant for many centuries, so why the growing popularity of sarcophagi in the 2nd century, well before any real impact of Christianity? Students also discuss the role of fashion and the greater scope of sarcophagi for sculptural decoration.
Close examination of the sarcophagi usually increases students' ability to read art and artifacts, and thus their pleasure in viewing such material. This is partly an aesthetic experience, but also a methodological lesson. Students learn that documents can include all kinds of evidence of the past and realize that there can be more than one reading of a document. They realize the importance of assessing the author, his/her authorial intention, the intended reader or viewer, and the societal context. The importance of contextualization also emerges as students realize that a quick, impressionistic reading of any of these documents in isolation yields less understanding than a comparison and some attention to background.
Moreover, the importance of dating the documents shows the increasing interest in representations of children, women, families, and slaves, whereas most of the sources for Rome before the 2nd century CE revealed a male, upper-class, political and military focus. That realization leads students to wonder about the differences in representations and to speculate about the role of a new political regime: its emphasis on peace and stability; growing affluence and leisure (for many, but not all); and the need of ex-slaves to record their upward mobility in the record of their children.
1 Ariès, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood. New York: Vintage Books, 1962.
2 Bradley, K. Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991; Dixon, Suzanne. The Roman Family. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1992; and Rawson, Beryl. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
3 Sherwin-White, A. The Letters of Pliny. A Historical and Social Commentary. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©1966.
4 Huskinson, Janet. Roman Children's Sarcophagi: Their Decoration and Its Social Significance. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996, illustrations 1.23 and 1.29.
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Beryl Rawson, "Roman Children's Sarcophagi," in Children and Youth in History, Item #52, _URL_ (accessed May 24, 2013).


How to Generate MD5 hash in Java - example
How to create MD5 hash digest from String and byte array in JavaIn this part, we will see some example to generate the MD5 hash in Java. Following Java program generates MD5 hash or digest of a String, by converting into a byte array. Java Security package provides MessageDigest, which can generate the MD5 hash.
MessageDigest's digest() method accept a byte array and return a byte array of hash value. Since many times we need MD5 hash as Hex String, I have converted that byte array into Hex String. Apart from core Java example, which doesn't use any dependency, there are a couple of more open source solution of generating the MD5 digest.
Two of the most popular open source library, Apache Commons Codec and Spring Framework provides utility method to create MD5 Hash in both byte array and Hex String format. Both Apache commons code and Spring provides, DigestUtils class with overloaded method md5() and md5Hex(), which can accept either String or byte array and can return either 16 element byte array or 32 characters Hex String.
If you are already using either Spring or Apache Commons Codec, then its best to use DigestUtil, as it only needs a line of code to generate the MD5 hash in Java. here is complete code example of generating MD5 digest in Java.
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils;
 * Java program to generate MD5 hash or digest for String. In this example
 * we will see 3 ways to create MD5 hash or digest using standard Java API,
 * Spring framework and open source library, Apache commons codec utilities.
 * Generally MD5 has are represented as Hex String so each of this function
 * will return MD5 hash in hex format.
 * _USER_ Javin Paul
public class MD5Hash {
 public static void main(String args[]) {
 String password = "password";
 System.out.println("MD5 hash generated using Java : " + md5Java(password));
 System.out.println("MD5 digest generated using : " + md5Spring(password));
 System.out.println("MD5 message created by Apache commons codec : " + md5ApacheCommonsCodec(password));
 public static String md5Java(String message){
 String digest = null;
 try {
 MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
 byte[] hash = md.digest(message.getBytes("UTF-8"));
 //converting byte array to Hexadecimal String
 StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(2*hash.length);
 for(byte b : hash){
 sb.append(String.format("%02x", b&0xff));
 digest = sb.toString();
 } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
 Logger.getLogger(StringReplace.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
 } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException ex) {
 return digest;
 * Spring framework also provides overloaded md5 methods. You can pass input
 * as String or byte array and Spring can return hash or digest either as byte
 * array or Hex String. Here we are passing String as input and getting
 * MD5 hash as hex String.
 public static String md5Spring(String text){
 return DigestUtils.md5Hex(text);
 * Apache commons code provides many overloaded methods to generate md5 hash. It contains
 * md5 method which can accept String, byte[] or InputStream and can return hash as 16 element byte
 * array or 32 character hex String.
 public static String md5ApacheCommonsCodec(String content){
 return DigestUtils.md5Hex(content);
MD5 hash generated using Java : 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
MD5 digest generated using : 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
MD5 message created by Apache commons code : 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
That's all on How to generate an MD5 hash or digest in Java. As you have seen, there is more than one way to generate a MD5 digest, both in a byte array as well as Hex String format. Just remember to specify file encoding to String.getBytes() method, until you have not used any application wide character encoding. Since String.getBytes() uses the platform specific encoding which could be different in your windows development machine and production Linux Server. Also, consider using Spring or Apache Commons Code to generate MD5 Hash value, if you are already using these libraries. It's always best to reuse library code than writing your own MD5 hash function, to avoid testing overhead.
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Hi Javin gr8 article fe things I want to add in this..
The MessageDigest class can provide you with an instance of the MD5 digest.
Always when working with strings and the crypto classes be sure to always specify the encoding you want the byte representation in. If you just use string.getBytes() it will use the platform default. (Not all platforms use the same defaults)
byte[] bytesOfMessage = yourString.getBytes("UTF-8");
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
byte[] thedigest = md.digest(bytesOfMessage);
If you have a lot of data take a look at the.update(byte[]) method which can be called repeatedly. Then call.digest() to obtain the resulting hash.
Javin @ What is ClassLoader in Java said...
_USER_, Indeed, specifying character encoding is very important, but, instead of hard coding them at code e.g. getBytes("UTF-8"), which works well on test programs, is not very convenient on real project. Consider using an application wide character encoding, which you can provide by using System property -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8". This allows you to change and manage character encoding easily. Regarding update(), yes that's preferred way if input is large.
Anonymous said...
Great friend, i didn't even know that Spring had that method/classes
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An exception handler may be declared to respond to a specific exception condition or one or more of the exception class groups SQLEXCEPTION, SQLWARNING or NOT FOUND. An exception handler that responds to one or more exception class groups is called a general exception handler.
A specific exception condition may be specified by using an SQLSTATE value or a condition name, see DECLARE CONDITION. An exception handler that responds to one or more specific exception conditions is called a specific exception handler.
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The construction sector in the United States is expected to grow by 8.8 % this year, and by 2026, the country's construction production is predicted to exceed $1.65 Trillion. Construction firms should be ready to tackle the challenges and changes to take advantage of the opportunities in this sector.
The industry has experienced a decline in recent years despite being a key sector for economic growth in the United States. This sector is expected to re-emerge and grow in 2022 after a challenging period of modifying estimates and changing expectations. The residential construction sector will continue to grow in the coming quarters, followed by non-building construction and commercial construction. Despite the inevitable challenges that the construction industry faces, this sector will experience changes that will aid in the mitigation of some of the issues. This blog explains the recent trends in the construction industry and how these trends will shape the future of the construction industry.
Construction Industry Forecast
In 2022, the construction sector in the United States is expected to grow by 8.8 %, reaching $1.35 Trillion. The growth trend is likely to continue with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 5% between 2022 and 2026. By 2026, the country's construction production is predicted to exceed $1.65 Trillion.
Infrastructure expectations have increased with the passage of the Bipartisan Law, which includes long-term expenditures to rebuild roads, bridges, and highways, modernize transportation, and expand energy output. The non-residential building and non-residential construction are predicted to lead the development, followed by transportation and public safety.
Analyzing the Construction Industry from a Sectoral Perspective
- Residential Construction: A key contributor to the economic recovery in the US following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has been the housing sector, with double-digit growth rates since the third quarter of 2020. Due to low mortgage rates, strong demand for bigger living spaces, and a shallow housing inventory, this sector has experienced rapid growth. With Fed's recent signals about continued interest rate increases to tame inflation, this sector may slow down in the near term.
- Commercial Construction: Retail stores, warehouses, offices, and hotels are some examples of commercial buildings. In 2022, commercial construction is predicted to increase by 12%, with warehouse construction accounting for most of the increase. The need for warehouse construction expanded as the reliance on e-commerce grew during the pandemic.
- Institutional Building: If the COVID-19 vaccination rate continues to rise and the variants do not lead to widespread closures, institutional building starts will slowly increase in 2022. Starts will gain 6% as dollar value increases to $145B. It includes construction activity in Education, Transportation, Recreation, Healthcare, and Public buildings.
- Manufacturing Construction: Due to the significant limits and delays induced by the pandemic in manufacturing and distribution networks in 2020, the construction sector in the United States is likely to suffer a short setback in 2022. As a result, manufacturing construction starts are predicted to remain constant in dollar value in 2022, at $22.6B.
- Non-Building Construction: This sector will have great potential due to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). However, as the bill was passed in 2021, minor effects are projected in 2022. Street and Bridge Construction, Water and Environmental Engineering, Electric Power and Utilities, and other Non-Building structures are all included in this category. By 2022, Power/Utility construction will increase by 10% to $38.5B, while public works construction will increase by 5% to $167B.
Challenges in the Construction Industry
- Construction is slow to adopt new advancements and technologies, such as project management software, drones, and building information modeling.
- A shortage of skilled labor has slowed the pace of onsite projects and makes it more difficult to encourage new talent to become involved. Over the next two years, one million new construction workers will be needed in the United States.
- In the construction industry, supply chain disruptions often lead to a shortage of building materials and increased prices. According to a National Association of Home Builders survey, more than 90% of builders reported shortages of appliances, framing lumber, and oriented strand boards. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that construction material prices were up by almost 25% in 2021.
The Construction Sector is Expected to Change in 2022
The construction industry is changing norms regarding protective gear. Innovations with wearable technology are making their ways to the market, such as boots with Wi-Fi connections that can detect a person's fall and headsets that reduce noise while keeping workers focused.
- As the construction industry grows, green construction is making its mark. It includes technology that can lower a building's carbon footprint and construction models that help in reducing the usage of resources. Green Scaping has become common in urban centers where rooftops are covered with plants and small parks.
- Construction firms are increasingly turning to modular and offsite construction to overcome time and onsite constraints. By 2025, the modular construction industry will reach almost $110B in value, dominated by the residential sector.
- Construction technology innovations boosting efficiency will likely stand out as the biggest differentiator for builders and developers this year. Innovations that enable this sector include Construction Drones, Augmented Reality (AR), and Building Information Modeling (BIM) to facilitate computer renderings of buildings and utilities. Employing mobile applications for real-time inspections will make the construction process more efficient.
- A change in attitude toward trade schools allows fresh talent to be employed and attracts Generation-Z to the construction business. Women are also stepping up to fill roles in the construction business; according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women already hold 10.9% of construction industry employment, a number predicted to climb.
Despite certain obstacles, the construction industry is the largest contributor to the US economy. Construction firms should take necessary steps to address the challenges like labor shortages, technology adoption, and productivity issues to avoid escalation of costs, diminishing productivity, and project delays. Companies require professionals equipped with the latest skills to operate in the construction domain. iQuasar, with over 15+ years of experience, has a vast pool of qualified candidates and strong industry connections that can help businesses in the construction industry with skilled professionals in quick turn-around time.


regions-0.5: Provides the region monad for safely opening and working with scarce resources.
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Unsafely opening and closing of scarce resources.
class Resource resource whereSource
Class of scarce resources. A scarce resource is a resource that only one user can use at a time. (like a file, memory pointer or USB device for example).
Because of the scarcity, these resources need to be opened to grant temporary sole access to the resource. When the resource is no longer needed it should be closed a.s.a.p to grant others access to the resource.
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Yield an IO computation that opens the given resource and returns a Handle on it.
Think of a handle as your private session with the resource. As long as you have it, other users can't use the resource. So don't forget to close this session with the resource as soon as you're done with it.
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Yield an IO computation that closes the resource identified by the given Handle.
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Though these books, illustrated with cartoon art, may not teach the uninitiated as well as they claim in their introductions, they clearly reinforce the basic principles of mathematics. Each book (except Word) lists key terms (e.g., factor, dividend). Reading list, websites. Ind. [Review covers these Making Math Easy titles: Addition Made Easy, Division Made Easy, Fractions and Decimals Made Easy, Multiplication Made Easy, Subtraction Made Easy, and Word Problems Made Easy.] Copyright 2006 Horn Book Guide Reviews.
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Gr 1-4 -Each title includes plentiful color illustrations, sample problems that are highlighted by color print, and boxes with hints and suggestions to make problem-solving easier. The two-page chapters include clear explanations and easy-to-follow examples. The Internet sites are active and may be of further help to struggling math students. While children may not pick up these books on their own, they may be of benefit to homeschoolers or youngsters who need a little extra help.-Deanna Romriell, Salt Lake City Library, UT [Page 124]. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.


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Calculation of the Average Ground-Stress Components from Measurements of the Diametral Deformation of a Drill Hole / L. A. Panek
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Oregon public lands fire rules taking effect; know what applies to you
TR.09BigSheepFire2.JPGView full sizeThe 2009 Big Sheep fire in northeast Oregon.
Fire season is upon us and land managing agencies will be issuing rules and restrictions for preventing man caused fires.
The restrictions usually begin in lands on the east side of Oregon and Washington, then work their way west as forests and grasslands dry out.
Be sure to check locally what restrictions are in place when you head to public lands for recreation until the heavy rains return in October and November.
As an example, here ore the fire rules in effect on the Bureau of Land Management, Vale District, as of July 24.
1. You must not build, maintain or attend a campfire, or stove fire, including charcoal briquette fire, except within the existing metal fire rings located at designated developed recreation sites. Liquefied and bottled gas stoves and heaters are permitted. When used outside of developed recreation sites, they must be used within an area at least 10 feet in diameter that is barren or clear of all flammable materials.
2. You must not smoke outside of a vehicle, trailer, or building, except within areas barren of all flammable materials for at least a three-foot diameter, or aboard boats on rivers and lakes.
3. You must not possess, discharge, or use any type of fireworks or other pyrotechnic
device, to include sparklers, on public lands at any time. If you are caught, you will
be cited and/or held responsible for the suppression costs should a fire result.
4. You must not operate a chainsaw (this restriction varies in western Oregon forests; check locally).
5. You must not park your vehicle or operate any type of internal combustion engine, generators, weed eaters, etc.) in an area that is not clear of all flammable material.
6. You must not operate a motorized vehicle outside of existing roads and ways. This prohibits cross country travel until this order is rescinded.
 7. You must not operate an automobile, pickup, truck, or any other motorized equipment that is wider than 50 inches or has a dry weight of 800 pounds or more, n public lands without a shovel not less than 26 inches in overall length, with a blade mot less than 8 inches wide, and a container with at least one gallon of water, or fully charged 2.5-pound fire extinguisher.
Additional information about the Vale District can be found by visiting the district website at
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