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Question. Did you ever see inverse limits to be used (or even seriousely considered) anywhere in metric geometry (but NOT in topology)?
The definition of inverse limit for metric spaces is given below. (It is usual inverse limit in the category with class of objects formed by metric spaces and class of morphisms formed by short maps.)
Definition. Consider an inverse system of metric spaces $X_n$ and short maps $\phi_{m,n}:X_m\to X_n$ for $m\ge n$; i.e.,(1) $\phi_{m,n}\circ \phi_{k,m}=\phi_{k,n}$ for any triple $k\ge m\ge n$ and (2) for any $n$, the map $\phi_{n,n}$ is identity map of $X_n$.
A metric space $X$ is called inverse limit of the system $(\phi_{m,n}, X_n)$ if its underlying space consists of all sequences $x_n\in X_n$ such that $\phi_{m,n}(x_m)=x_n$ for all $m\ge n$ and for any two such sequences $(x_n)$ and $(y_n)$ the distance is defined by
$$ | (x_n) (y_n)| = \lim_{n\to\infty} | x_n y_n |.$$
Why: I have a theorem, with little cheating you can stated it this way: The class of metric spaces which admit path-isometries to Euclidean $d$-spaces coincides with class of inverse limits of $d$-polyhedral spaces. In the paper I write: it seems to be the first case when inverse limits help to solve a natural problem in metric geometry. But I can not be 100% sure, and if I'm wrong I still have time to change this sentence.
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Short map = nonexpansive = Lipschitz constant at most one? – Bill Johnson Feb 21 '10 at 1:40
Bill: yes. – Tom Leinster Feb 21 '10 at 1:58
Anton: as I understand it, "inverse system" means either functor from a cofiltered category, or functor from a (co)directed poset, according to taste (and then "inverse limit" means limit). Just to be clear, are you particularly interested in this special case of limits? Or are any types of limit of metric space interesting for you? – Tom Leinster Feb 21 '10 at 2:04
I think the topology induced by the metric is not the inverse limit topology. But maybe this is no problem. It just irratated me. – HenrikRüping Feb 21 '10 at 13:20
There is another irritating example: Consider the inverse system $X_n=\\{-n,\ldots,n\\}$ with distance $d(m,m')=|m-m'|$ and projections $\varphi_{n+1,n}:\\{-(n+1),\ldots,n+1\\}\rightarrow \\{-n,\ldots,n\\}$ defined by $\varphi_{n+1,n}(-n-1)=-n,\quad \varphi_{n+1,n}(n+1)=n,\quad \varphi_{n+1,n}|_{\\{-n,\ldots n\\}}=id$. Then the inverse limit is $\mathbb{Z}\cup\\{\pm \infty\\}$ and the metric is really just a quasimetric. – HenrikRüping Feb 21 '10 at 13:47
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This paper by P.-E. Caprace, uses a "refined boundary" of a CAT(0) space. This boundary is constructed in the following way : given a point $\xi$ in the boundary at infinity of your space $X$, you construct a point $X_\xi$, which is the inverse limit of the horoballs centered at $\xi$. Here the maps $\phi_{m,n}$ are the CAT(0) projections. Then the space $X_\xi$ is itself CAT(0), and you can iterate the construction. Under reasonable hypotheses, the construction stops after a finite number of steps, and the refined boundary is the union of all the spaces you get.
(In the case of symmetric spaces, this construction has been already considered by Karpelevic in 1965, but with different definitions, and I don't think he saw it as inverse limits).
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Take a look at this paper of Irwin and Solecki which, I think, is relevant to your question. They use a model theoretic language for inverse limits (projective Fraisse limits) and use this machinery to derive a proof of the surjective universality of the pseudo-arc among chainable continua.
The paper has appeared in: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), 3077-3096.
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Accidentally, that is the same paper suggested by François G. Dorais. This is topology and this is NOT metric geometry... – Anton Petrunin Feb 21 '10 at 14:47
Oh, thanks, I didn't look carefully at the comments. Do you want me to delete the answer? – Pandelis Dodos Feb 21 '10 at 14:50
_USER_. No, why should I? – Anton Petrunin Feb 21 '10 at 15:11
You are right, why should you? :-) By the way I have a similar question in Banach space theory. While inductive limits have been extensively used I am not aware whether an inverse limit costruction has been considered to build quotients of Banach spaces with special properties. – Pandelis Dodos Feb 21 '10 at 15:26
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I'd be surprised if there were any applications, for the simple reason that your definition of inverse limit for metric geometry doesn't translate well into topology. It's easy to disconnect points in the limit which aren't disconnected in the terms.
For example, fix a metric space (X, d) and define (Xn, dn) = (X, 2nd), with φm, n the identity on the underlying set X. Then the inverse limit would have underlying set X (essentially), but d(x, y) = ∞ unless x = y.
Come to think of it, this seems to provide a counterexample to your statement, since the underlying space could easily be a polyhedron (with uncountable underlying set), while any discrete set which embeds into Rd is at most countable.
(Never mind, I see in your paper that you assume the space to be embedded is compact.)
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I am not sure, if you are still looking for an example, and whether you feel that my examples are artificial.
Every locally compact, almost connected group is a projective limit of Lie groups, in particular a projective limit of metrizable groups. The limit becomes metrizable itself, if and only if the limit is countable. There is a book by Hofmann and Morris about pro-Liegroups, which studies projective limits of Lie groups.
Also the vector space $C_b^\infty(X) = \cap_k C_b^k(X)$ of smooth bounded functions is a projective limit of normed spaces.
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Golden Shield Music is an art project which uses web censorship technology to compose a generative piece of music.
Created by Italian artist Marco Donnarumma (pictured, above), the project aims to highlight the issue of internet censorship, particularly in China. The piece takes its name from the name China has given to its censorship programme, the "Golden Shield Project", more colloquially known as the "Great Firewall of China".
To create the music, Donnarumma first sifted through dozens of papers to find a list of websites blacklisted by China. He selected the IP addresses of the twelve websites that are most frequently screened out by the Chinese censor.
The IP numbers are listed in a text file which is turned into MIDI data and fed into a polyphonic synthesiser. The IP addresses are translated into notes formed by several voices, and then ordered by the amount of pages the Great Firewall obscures for each IP address -- the more pages that are censored, the closer to the start of the composition they come.
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Conditional Statements, Converses, Counterexamples, Truth Values Worksheet
This worksheet contains introductory questions on conditional statements and converses. Students are asked to name and identify the parts of a conditional statement (hypothesis & conclusion), to find the converse of a conditional, to determine the truth value of a statement, and provide counterexamples.
To idenify hypothesis and conclusions and find converses in conditional statements.
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Write the hypothesis and conclusion of each conditional.
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4) If x = -2, then x2 = 4
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The Goleta Slough is an area where fresh water and ocean water meet, but a sand berm is blocking the natural flow.
The water is flooding the area between the Santa Barbara Airport and Goleta Beach.
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Airport planners wanted to bulldoze the sand and silt that has built up since March, but that could threaten endangered steelhead trout.
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The flooding has also stalled work on a fish ladder in the San Jose Creek.


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If the Pi application verifies that you have successfully verified your account.
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Links for PMC's new and old.
With the.12 patch looming, and new players joining all the time, I thought I would create a post containing all the best and most relevant links to websites to aide new and old players alike. Below you will find a comprehensive list of the most useful pages I have found so far. Hope this is helpful, if you think it is, feel free to save the thread and share it to any new threads that pop up with titles like 'New player, how do I find this key/exit' or 'New player, what mods can I use for this gun', etc. If it gets enough upvotes and people think it is a good resource, I will keep it updated. Enjoy :D
This is a really handy resource as far as an ''outdated'' page for creating weapon builds from EFTDB. Select weapon at top, then select a mod for each slot. At the bottom of the page it will show you where you can buy the mods you selected and a rough price [actual price depends on various factors], along with the trader level required.
Note-1: If you mouse-hover the mods it will show its effect on weapon stats.
Note-2: It seems EFTDB is a bit outdated as some weapons and/or mods are missing, and trader levels may be different to current build. I still find it a really handy resource though, due to the ability to create weapon builds. Would love to see it updated.
This site has been mentioned as an alternative to EFTDB for making weapon builds, created by TarkovArmory. This one seems to be up to date, but is lacking pictures. They also seem to have a pretty good ammo chart on their website. Worth checking out.
As EFTDB is slightly out of date, you certainly can find all the up to date information on weapon attachments from the Gamepedia pages [below]. Select a weapon to see which mods will fit on it, or search the mod's name to be taken to its specific page. Or check the weapon mods page for tables of the mods and their +/- on attributes.
Below is a spreadsheet that shows the Optimum Weapon Builds for each weapon, created by Virion. So if you are a min/maxer, and don't want to go through the agony of experimenting with every mod for every weapon, this is a handy resource. The ones in BOLD are the current 'best' of their calibre/category.
Note: As mentioned on the spreadsheet itself, some of the images are outdated.
Another handy page from EFTDB is this one which shows each Tactical Rig, the rough price, if it can be traded for and from whom and what Loyalty Level required; along with the layout of the slots available in handy images.
Note: As mentioned above, EFTDB is slightly outdated, for example, there are a few rigs missing from this page. At the bottom of this article is a link to an infographic created by Veritas, which has a section showing all current rigs.
This is a good place to find all the best maps, compiled by GameMaps.co.uk but created by various people. I suggest where possible, when learning any raid, it can be helpful to have a map open on a second monitor if you have one, until you learn your way around. With enough experience you will learn the maps and points of interest better than the back of your hand, so the more you play the less you will need it. There is a selection of high quality maps for each raid, I am sure everyone will prefer one or another, I prefer the 3D maps where available. Some maps show spawns for keys and quest items/locations.
Next is the best place to find all the quests, and quest-guides. The folks who contribute to the Tarkov Gamepedia page are legit legends. Select the trader to see a table of their quests and rewards. Click on any individual quest and you will be greeted by a detailed guide of how to complete the quest, along with handy pictures and maps where necessary.
To go along with this, a handy guide to items you should be hoarding to finish quests. So you can be collecting things from your first raid you might use to complete a quest 2 weeks later. This image is updated when the quests are. There used to be a text-based list, which I found really handy, because I copy/pasted into a.txt file and updated it when I found new items from the list, this sadly I can no longer find.
If you want to know what the traders sell at loyalty level 4, but you are only LL1, these pages will give you an overview of what each trader has at each level. You can also see a table of their quests too if you expand that option, but I find the previous link provided above is handier for that purpose to be honest.
The Rapist - _URL_
Skier - _URL_
Peacekeeper - _URL_
Mechanic - _URL_
Ragman - _URL_
Note-1: Fence Trader only sells things that PMC's have traded to him, can be a handy place to find rare items sometimes [less so since the flea market was launched], but items generally are cheaper to buy directly from the traders if you have the required loyalty levels.
Note-2: The Flea Market is a player driven system where you can buy and sell items. Some items will be up for Roubles/Euros/Dollars and some will be up for trade for other items people might require.
Note-3: A few items, such as melee weapons can only be sold to Fence, or put on the Flea Market. Other items can only be sold to certain traders, for instance Therapist will not buy weapons, but is the only trader that will take meds from you [other than fence].
Note-4: Several items can be sold to several traders, but you will get a different price depending on which trader you sell it to. For instance, Therapist will give you the highest price for rare items like Roosters/Clocks/Rollers/Bitcoins/Gold Chains/Cat Figurines/Lion Statues.
Note-5: Even though certain items have a high price to trade in, it might be worth holding onto them to trade in for other items. For example, you can trade in 1 roller and 5 gold chains to Therapist for a Money Case, which you can then sell back to her for more money than if you just sold her the individual items, or can be put on the Flea Market if you prefer.
Below is a site showing a table of Barter Trades created by Sheiddy. It provides information regarding which items can be given to each trader in return for other items. It also displays where the original items can often be found, and the rough price of the items you can receive if you were to pay


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Q: Are albino or partial albino game animals protected from harvest?
A: No, in Missouri they fall under the same regulations as the normally colored animals. One reference estimated the frequency of true albino deer as about one in 30,000, though partially albino (also called piebald) deer occur somewhat more frequently. It is not unusual for albinism to be associated with poor eyesight and other disabilities that can affect the survival of those animals in the wild. To artificially protect the occasional albino individuals would allow those negative characteristics to become more frequent in the population. I do think that many Missouri deer hunters would be reluctant to shoot an albino animal. A few states prohibit the harvest of albino deer, for cultural rather than biological reasons, but most wildlife management agencies have not taken that position.
Q: If deer have a life expectancy of 5 to 6 years, why do you never find dead deer in the woods or fields that have died from natural causes?
A: Your life expectancy numbers include the probability of unnatural death. Deer are in the prime of life between 2.5 and 7.5 years of age, and some may live for 15 years in the wild. Excluding hunting and disease outbreaks, the annual mortality of deer older than 6 months of age is less than 5 percent. That's fewer than five deer out of a hundred dying natural deaths each year, and those deaths are spread out over 365 days of the year. During warmer seasons, deer carcasses will "melt" into the ground quickly and can easily go unnoticed. When deer that die from natural mortality are observed, we may assume incorrectly that the carcasses resulted from deer that were killed by hunters or vehicle collisions. This year there has been an increase in deer mortality from hemorrhagic disease.
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Encouraging Safe, Knowledgeable and Responsible Hunters
One of the most rewarding aspects of being an active outdoors enthusiast is passing on your knowledge and experience to someone else. Whether by participating in outdoor activities within your community, taking a child hunting or fishing, or inviting someone else to go hunting with you. The time you invest in such a project is well worth it. For many new hunters, this journey starts by attending a hunter education course.
This course focuses on producing knowledgeable, responsible, and involved hunters and reducing the number of hunting incidents. In Missouri, every hunter born on or after Jan. 1, 1967, must complete an approved hunter-education program in Missouri or another state to buy firearms hunting permits, with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions involves hunting with the Apprentice Hunter Authorization.
Apprentice Hunter Authorizations are designed to help introduce adults to hunting. MDC allows hunters age 16 and older who are not hunter-education certified to hunt with firearms, as long as they take all three of these steps:
 1. Purchase an Apprentice Hunter Authorization.
 2. Purchase a hunting permit for the season they want to hunt.
 3. Hunt in the immediate presence of a properly licensed adult hunter who is 18 years of age or older and has in his/ her possession a valid hunter-education certificate card, or was born before January 1, 1967.
This authorization may be purchased annually for no more than two permit years (March 1 through the last day of February).
Safety is the number one priority. Here are some tips to help you stay safe this season:
 - Always point the muzzle in a safe direction.
 - Unload your firearm before crossing obstacles, approaching populated areas such as parking lots and campsites, or climbing up or down tree stands.
 - Let someone know where you will be hunting and when you plan to return home.
 - Inspect and clean your equipment before taking it afield.
 - Always use a safety harness while in a tree stand.
 - Hoist your unloaded firearm into your tree stand after you are secured.
 - Bring binoculars or a spotting scope with you to properly identify wildlife. NEVER use your mounted sight until you KNOW what you are aiming at.
 - Make sure your target has a safe backstop. It is easy to get caught up in the excitement of the hunt. Next time you come to a fence crossing or begin to climb your tree stand, just remember to take your time and be safe.
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The Lord of the Rings TCG Wiki: Strength
Strength is one of the defining attributes of all character cards (along with vitality). It is an extremely important number to track; indeed, about one-third of all the cards in the entire game modify strength in one way or another. Strength represents a mix between a character's brute force and their combat ability, so characters with high skill (Aragorn) or characters with a large size or ferocity (uruk-hai) tend to have high strength, while those with neither (Hobbits) have low strength.
Strength is primarily modified by the use of weapon artifacts and possessions, though every card type in the game can change a character's strength via game text. If a card is attached to a character, it is placed below the character's card, slightly sticking out to the left so the strength bonus is visible. This does not always show all of the strength bonus granted, however, as is the case with Vile Blade which also have game text that modifies strength.
Strength is used when calculating both attack and defense, usually during the Skirmish phase. The attacker's strength is compared to the defender's strength, and whoever is lower receives one wound. In the event of a tie, the Shadow side always wins. Strength is therefore of utmost importance to many strategies, as winning skirmishes without good strength is very rare indeed.
In the event that one side's strength doubles the other side's, the loser is overwhelmed rather than wounded, which instantly results in death (though this can be mitigated through use of cards such as Coat of Mail). This makes super-strength minions such as The Balrog, Durin's Bane or The Witch-king, Lord of Angmar very dangerous, as companions need to meet a certain strength threshold (9 and 8, respectively) to avoid being one-shot.
Minions with high strength tend to cost more twilight than a careful Free Peoples player will want to put on the table, so simply packing your deck with high-strength minions is not a very good strategy. And a high-strength character is not in itself a sure-fire victory, either, since there are other means of killing your opponent (such as direct wounding with cards like Mordor's Strength or Eowyn, Lady of Ithilien), or even avoiding combat altogether (with Hobbit Stealth, etc).
See Also skirmish phase, killed, overwhelmed, beat-down decks, winning skirmishes
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Minions such as the Witch-king have high strength, and usually have game text making them even more dangerous when certain conditions are met.
From the Comprehensive Rules 4.0:
If the total strength of one side is more than the strength of the other side... the side with the most strength wins that skirmish.
See more information available in the Skirmish Phase entry in the Comprehensive Guide. There is no "strength" entry, so information is spread throughout the guide.
Cards That Modify Strength
Due to the sheer number of cards that modify the strength modifier, the list has been moved to List of Strength Cards.
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When reviewing the PASER Trend chart in context of WISLR's Rudimentary Needs Analysis recommending $17.2 million of capital projects and $9.1 million of maintenance projects and in context of the Village's annual Local Roadway Improvement Program budget of $1.3-1.4 million, we find that the $1.3-1.4 million annual investment basically maintains a status quo of the Village's pavement conditions. In other words, rudimentary needs have neither improved nor worsened since improved roads have been equally exchanged by deteriorating roads.
Both staff and the Committee have together innovatively created efficiencies in order to optimize the $1.3-1.4 million annual budgets. For example, using geotechnical engineers to ascertain existing pavements, base and subgrade materials in order to determine minimum-needed proposed pavement and base material thicknesses that achieve standard 20-year initial service life has enabled the Village to extend its $1.3-1.4 million annual budget to reconstruct increased road miles.


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libjio - A library for Journaled I/O
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libjio is a userspace library to do journaled, transaction-oriented I/O.
It provides a very simple API to commit and rollback transactions, and on top of that a UNIX-alike set of functions to perform most common operations (open(), read(), write(), etc.) in a non-intrusive threadsafe and atomic way, with safe and fast crash recovery.
The library guarantees file integrity even after unexpected crashes, never leaving your files in an inconsistent state.
On the disk, the file you work on is exactly like a regular one, but a special directory is created to store in-flight transactions.
It's written in C and has no dependencies on external libraries. It's based on the POSIX/Single UNIX Specification API, and it runs in all major UNIX variants. When available, Linux-specific system calls are used for improved performance.
It also comes with Python (both 2 and 3) bindings that provide a file-like object.
It's in the public domain, so you can link the library with anything you want.
The rest of the documentation, including manpages, can be found in the source.
Code samples
Using the UNIX-alike API (simplified, without error checking):
 char buf[] = "Hello world!";
 jfs_t *file;
 jtrans_t *trans;
 file = jopen("filename", O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0600, 0);
 jwrite(file, buf, strlen(buf));
Using the basic, lower-level API (simplified, without error checking):
 char buf1[] = "Hello ";
 char buf2[] = "world!";
 jfs_t *file;
 jtrans_t *trans;
 trans = jtrans_new(file, 0);
 jtrans_add_w(trans, buf1, strlen(buf1), 0);
 jtrans_add_w(trans, buf2, strlen(buf2), strlen(buf1));
Using the Python bindings:
 import libjio
 f ="filename", libjio.O_RDWR | libjio.O_CREAT)
 t = f.new_trans()
 t.add_w("Hello world!", 0)
More complete code samples are included with the source.
The current version is 1.02 (released on 2011-02-27): You can also browse all released files.
Patches are welcome. The source code is managed using git. You can browse the repository, or clone it by running:
git clone git://
If you want to be notified about new releases, you can use twitter, freshmeat, or just send me an email.
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Authors: KHALIL FAGHIHI
Abstract: Six new flame-retardant poly(ester-imide)s (9a-f) with high inherent viscosity and containing phosphine oxide moieties in the main chain were synthesized from the polycondensation reaction of N,N-(3,3-diphenylphenyl phosphine oxide) bistrimellitimide diacid chloride (7) with 6 aromatic diols (8a-f) by 2 different methods:--solution and microwave-assisted polycondensation. The results showed that compared to solution polycondensation, the microwave-assisted polycondensation reaction using a domestic microwave oven proceeded rapidly and was completed within about 9-12 min. All of the obtained polymers were fully characterized by means of elemental analysis, viscosity measurement, solubility testing, and FT-IR spectroscopy. Thermal properties and flame retardant behavior of the PEIs (9a-f) were investigated by using thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA and DTG) and the limited oxygen index (LOI). Data obtained by thermal analysis (TGA and DTG) revealed that these poly(ester-imide)s had good thermal stability. Furthermore, high char yields in TGA and good LOI values indicated that incorporating phosphine oxide moieties in the polymer backbone markedly improved their flame retardancy. These polymers can be potentially utilized in flame retardant thermoplastic materials.
Keywords: Flame-retardant polymers, hosphine oxide moieties, N-(3,3-diphenylphenyl phosphine oxide) bistrimellitimide diacid chloride, romatic diols.
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[Photo] Historic image, date unknown, of landscape of the Mukai Cold Processing Fruit Barrelling Plant
Photograph from National Register collection
The Mukai Cold Process Fruit Barrelling Plant, centrally located on Vashon Island in King County, Washington, retains historic importance as a rare, intact example of a property associated with the history of Japanese American settlement in Washington. Covering 4.8 acres with the surrounding Mukai residence, buildings, and landscape features, the Mukai Cold Processing Fruit Barrelling Plant stands as a testament to the Mukai family's dream of owning and operating a successful strawberry processing and packing business. The beginnings of the Mukai family history in the United States is in many ways representative of the Japanese experience in the Pacific Northwest. Denichiro Mukai was the first of the family to come to the United States, immigrating from a farming community near Osaka, Japan, to San Francisco at the age of 15 in the late 19th century. Americans were unable to pronounce Denichiro, which became shortened to Ben, and then further altered to the nickname B. D. By all accounts, B. D. was a talented, aggressive, and financially ambitious individual. His first position in America was that of a domestic with a wealthy sheep farmer. The family rewarded his hard work by sending him to school, where he learned English. After leaving his first employers, Mukai worked in a variety of positions in San Francisco, including acting as a police interpreter and the head of an employment agency. Sometime after turning 21, B. D. married a young Japanese woman named Sato Nakanishi. After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, B. D. and Sato settled in Seattle, Washington, and opened a restaurant on Fourth Avenue. Eventually leaving the restaurant business, B. D. went to work for Walter Bowen and Company, a Western Avenue commission house on "Wholesale Row." It was here that he was introduced to Vashon Island strawberries, which would later play a prominent part in the Mukai family business.
[photo] Historic image, date unknown, of the entire Mukai residence
Photograph from National Register collection
In 1910, B. D. and Sato moved to Vashon Island and started growing strawberries on a small parcel of land near the center of the island. Japanese immigrants were well established on Vashon Island by the time the Mukais moved there, beginning with the Sakai and Hoshi families. When B. D. Mukai began his first strawberry farming on the island, he started in the position of a tenant farmer, hiring other Japanese as laborers and pickers. Although he was not the only Japanese farmer to supervise Japanese laborers, he was in the minority. The majority of Japanese-American farmers began their careers in agriculture as laborers. The Mukais set up their first Barrelling plant in 1924, where they began the first preserving and shipping of strawberries for the wholesale market to be done on the island. The successful development of the canning industry soon allowed B. D. to quit sending strawberries to the Western Avenue market altogether, revolutionizing the industry. Soon the Mukai's strawberries were being shipped all over the world by large distribution companies such as John Sexton and Company. In 1926, B. D.'s son, Masahiro (later shortened to "Masa") was born. By 1926, when Masa was fifteen years old, the Mukai s moved their successful strawberry processing operation and purchased the 40-acre site where the Mukai Cold Process Fruit Barrelling Plant was constructed. This plant is important historically as an example of the strawberry industry in the Puget Sound Region, especially on Vashon Island, in the period from 1926 to 1942. When Masa reached high school age his father encouraged him to experiment in various farming techniques to improve the berry crop. One of his major projects was the freezing and preserving of strawberries, which would eventually provide a solution to the Mukai farm's overproduction. B. D. later sent Masa to work at a station set up by the United States Department of Agriculture at the Spokane Street Cold Storage in Seattle. It was there that Mesa experimented with slow, fast, and semi-solid freezing for the wholesale market. Masa would also receive an engineering degree from Washington State University.
The Mukais finished the construction of their new plant, home, and garden just before the onset of the Great Depression. During the Depression years, the Mukai Barrelling Plant established a financial reputation that belied economic conditions in the rest of the country. The plant provided work for 400 to 500 people seasonally, including pickers, including American Indians arriving from Vancouver Island by canoe. In the early 1930s, the company name was changed to Mukai and Son, and in 1934 B. D. left his home and business to travel, eventually settling in California. In 1968 he went back to Japan for a visit, and after several months Masa received orders to sell his father's property, close his bank accounts, and send him his proceeds. The immigrant who had so vehemently embraced America had gone back to Osaka and had purchased and restored the family's ancestral home. He died there in 1973. After B. D.'s departure from Vashon Island, Masa ran the fruit barrelling plant. He gradually gave up farming and concentrated on the canning and freezing business, depending upon local berry production. In 1937 he married Chiyeko Wakasugi, whose family farmed strawberries on Bainbridge Island. In 1938 the business office was moved from the house to the present brick building. Masa changed the name of the plant to the Vashon Island Packing Company, or VIPCO, upon the advice of his distributors.
[Photo] Mukai formal garden
Photograph from National Register collection
World War II was devastating for the Japanese-American berry farmers, both on Vashon and elsewhere. Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19, 1942, affected all Japanese-Americans living west of the Columbia River. Every Japanese family on Vashon Island was given two weeks notice that they would be interred. Most of the island families were moved to the Puyallup Fairgrounds and then dispersed to northern and central California, Wyoming, Idaho and other internment camp locations. In the days after Pearl Harbor, Masa kept in close contact with the Lieutenant Commander of the Western Defense Command, a personal acquaintance. He was notified two weeks before the evacuation order and was able to leave Vashon Island voluntarily, being the only voluntary evacuee on Vashon to do so. After leaving his business in the hands of his hauler Morris Dunsford, the Mukai family packed their belongings and moved to the Snake River Valley in Idaho to Dead Ox Flats, across the river from Weiser, where Chiyeko's brother lived. During his stay in Idaho, Masa became a respected member of the community, working in the seed industry until 1945. The Mukai family returned to their Vashon Island operation in 1946, but Masa found that his strawberry business was no longer profitable due to the rise in transportation costs. Instead, he began to design sewer systems, water distribution mains, and went into pipeline construction and home building. Slowly, Masa began selling his Vashon island properties, until finally in 1969 he sold the plant to a bean sprout manufacturing company. The properties have had several owners since then.
[photo] Mukai Fruit Plant--Packing House
Photograph from National Register collection
The Mukai Agricultural Complex is sited at the end of 107th Avenue S.W. and faces east, overlooking what were once strawberry fields. The Mukai Cold Process Fruit Barrelling Plant, designed by Masahiro Mukai and built by local contractor Deb Harrington, as well as the local small brick office building designed by B. D. Mukai, and the residence, another design of B. D. Mukai's are included in the Mukai Agricultural Complex area. The Fruit Barrelling Plant is a one-story wood frame building. The plant is an excellent vernacular example of agricultural industrial architecture, and the house is a well-preserved example of eclectic vernacular architecture with Arts and Crafts and Neoclassical elements of a type built throughout the Pacific Northwest in the late 1920s. The foundation of the two-story house is concrete, and a full basement features a two-car garage on the north. Constructed in a modified ell-plan, the Mukai residence possesses multiple gable roofs sheathed in wood shingles. The formal garden, also included in the historic area, retains interest as a vernacular expression of the adaptation and blending of traditional Japanese garden elements and plant materials with American suburban residential landscaping. It retains most of its original design and many of its original plantings. In its prime, the Mukai garden attracted visitors from on and off the island and was photographed for postcards. The garden also served for notable social functions when tea parties were held to view the cherry blossoms in the early spring.
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The tympanum represents the Wedding at Cana (or Last Supper?). The theme of the feast is easily adapted to an architectural framework; the table can be rectilinear on a lintel and circular on a capital. Here, the table is semicircular, adapting itself to the tympanum form and becoming the basic coordinating element of the whole composition. The compositional firmness of the scene somewhat restrains the fervour and restlessness that Burgundian sculpture displays in other mid-12th century sculptures, and which is here seen in the voussoirs, where the figures gesticulate freely.


text: The origin of the submarine Naturaliste Plateau off the southwestern coast of Australia is controversial; previous work supports both oceanic and continental affinities for the basement to volcanic and sedimentary sequences. We report the first evidence of reworked Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1230–1190 Ma) continental crust, based on laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry analysis of zircons from granite and orthogneiss samples dredged from the southern margin of the plateau. Thermobarometry of peak metamorphic minerals and electron microprobe chemical dating of monazite reveal that these igneous rocks were metamorphosed to ~700 °C and ~6.5 kbar during the Cambrian Pinjarra Orogeny at ca. 515 Ma. These data confirm a continental origin for a significant swathe of the southern Naturaliste Plateau, and suggest that the protoliths may have affinities to Mesoproterozoic crust within the Albany-Fraser-Wilkes Orogen (Australia-Antarctica). The present Naturaliste Plateau basement beneath its volcanic carapace probably represents a middle-to lower-crustal extensional allochthon exhumed during Cretaceous hyperextensional breakup between Australia and Antarctica.


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Definition of rebury in English:
verb (reburies, reburying, reburied)[with object]
- No one has yet requested to have relatives re-interred at Gorton, Manchester General or Phillips Park cemeteries, which means all the others will be reburied at Bury.
- Jay found the sovereigns, either in the lighthouse or in the garden, and he buried or reburied them in the garden.
- 'There is also the question of how long somebody should have been buried before we can consider removing or reburying their remains in this way,' he said.
- reburial noun
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- The group also wants the government to contribute to the costs of the exhumations, including DNA testing and dignified reburials.
- The figure was revealed today as the row over reburials took a new twist when town hall chiefs offered a compromise.
- Relatives of many of the people buried say the town hall should pay for private reburials.
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The government has said people should "stay local" and not travel unnecessarily for exercise.
New advice clarifies that people must use "open spaces" near to home, where possible.
It follows confusion over whether people could drive places to go walking, running, or cycling.
Exercise is one of the few defined reasons that people in the UK are allowed to leave their home during the coronavirus pandemic.


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Affliction – Health, Disease, Poverty - Fordham Scholarship Online
Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty
Veena Das
This book inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues. First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal. A second set of issues involves how different healers understand their own practices. The book asks: What is expert knowledge? What is it that the health practitioner knows and what does the patient know? How are... More
Keywords: poverty, health trajectories, disease trajectories, Delhi, illness, patient, surveillance, health practitioner, expert knowledge, disease prevalence
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Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780823261802
Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2015 DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823261802._PHONE_
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Veena Das, author
Johns Hopkins University


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Resources for Teachers and Students*
1. Visit the Student Resources page to find two quizzes that you can assign to your students. The quizzes are completed online and provide your students with immediate feedback.
2. Download the Marco Polo Teacher Resource. The guide provides teachers with a selection of classroom exercises related to the concert program.
This Concert Program is a creative re-imagining of the extraordinary music the 13th-century Venetian explorer might have heard on his travels.
The impetus for this new 50-minute education concert came from the
fact that students in Toronto today come from all around the world, and represent a wide range of cultures and musical backgrounds. The Consort wanted a way to connect early music with these other musical traditions. Marco Polo is a perfect vehicle, because he travelled so extensively through the middle East and southern Russia to China. This education concert follows Marco Polo's travels, with an emphasis on the instruments and the singing style of the different cultures he might have encountered on his journey.
Students hear examples of Chinese musical styles and instruments and traditional Georgian music, which features incredible vocal gymnastics, including nimble counterpoint and strident dissonant chord tunings. Around these pieces from Georgia and China, the Toronto Consort plays examples of the lively dances and haunting laude (Italian spiritual songs) which would have been known by Marco Polo and his family.
The concert is followed by a Q & A with the artists.
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I am currently developing an application that requires to display raster images over a period of time (I'm looking how Hurrican Sandy progressed). While investigating, people have suggested that I could use a WCS service and view it on a viewer. We are currently using Google Maps API.
My question is, how can I publish these rasters in a WCS service (or relevant format) that can allow a viewer to loop through all images. Is there a standard practice everyone follows to accomplish this? I have knowledge using ArcGIS 9.3 Desktop/Server, ArcGIS Flex Viewer, and QGIS.
I appreciate any information regarding this topic or tutorials (haven't found any good ones yet). The images are geotiffs.
Thanks in advance!
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I suspect that you might actually want a WMS rather than a WCS (since you say raster images rather that raster data, and are currently using Google maps).
If all you want to do is display the images over time (using a slider or some such to control the time) then Openlayers and almost any WMS (GeoServer, MapServer, ArcServer etc.) will handle this.
See these openlayers example (which could use some UI love but shows the idea).
(The first example depends on this openlayers addin: _URL_ )
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You might look at this weather widget. I know they load separate layers for each image and play through those layers to get the effect you are talking about. Flex 2.1 - 3.0 weather widget on arcgis.com.
And for flex 3.1 weather widget on arcgis.com. +1 iant for WMS. That is what is used here.
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How do I pass through where not Exists in ProductName table.
LOAD *, ResourceID as Value
DROP TABLE ProductNameTemp;
LOAD *, ResourceID_1 as Value_1
DROP TABLE UsersTemp;
Load ProductName, LastUsage, '' as Netbios_Name0, '' as User_Name0, ResourceID
where not Exists(Value, ResourceID_1);
Load ProductName, '01/01/1981' as LastUsage, Netbios_Name0, User_Name0, ResourceID_1 as ResourceID
where not Exists(Value_1, ResourceID);
I am not able to understand what you want to do. As per my understanding first you want to load ProjectName and User tables without any where clause. Then why do you again want to load productName table with where not exist clause.
As per documentation the exist clause syntex is:
exists(field [, expression ] )
Determines whether a specific field value exists in a specified field of the data loaded so far. Field is a name or a string expression evaluating to a field name. The field must exist in the data loaded so far by the script. Expr is an expression evaluating to the field value to look for in the specified field.
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When you eat a burger, do you ever wonder where all the different ingredients have come from? They might well have started off on the other side of the world, travelling thousands of kilometres by plane, train and lorry to reach your plate.
Based on the original book 'How We Make Stuff' by Christiane Dorion, Templar Publishing, 2012.
Website text by Christiane Dorion - Design by Harriet Pellereau.
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[Breaking Down Wooo UT] 19 Lamps? Surprised at Odd Number [Part 6]
Nikkei Electronics Breakdown Team started analyzing the ultrathin backlight unit. After observing the optical sheets, we looked into the light source.
The thickness of an LCD panel greatly depends on what light source and what locating method are employed. Hitachi explained it had employed an EEFL (external electrode fluorescent lamp), a kind of fluorescent tube, for the light source and used the "direct method," which locates the lamps behind the panel.
That gave us a hint. We thought we would surely find multiple lamps (EEFLs) under the optical sheets. To confirm it with our own eyes, we removed the four sheets and the diffuser panel. It certainly was the direct method. There was an array of slim lamps beneath the display.
"What? Nineteen?" cried an engineer, breaking the silence of the Breakdown Team, which was impressed that the sight was exactly as expected.
Apparently, 19 lamps were used in it. We heard most 32-inch LCD TVs use 10 to 14 lamps. Is the engineer being amazed at the larger number of lamps in there? To reduce the thickness of a backlight unit, however, it is a sure formula to increase the number of lamps.
The engineer continued, "An odd number of lamps is rare."
I see. He was surprised that the odd number of lamps was used.
The engineer began to guess why Hitachi had chosen to use the odd number of lamps.
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- [Breaking Down Wooo UT] 'It's So Simple' - Rear Chassis Removed [Part 2]
- [Breaking Down Wooo UT] Mysterious Cream-colored Sheet [Part 3]
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2. Table of Contents
- What is a Total Station?
- Capability of a Total Station
- Important Operations of Total Station
– Distance Measurement
– Angle Measurements
– Data Processing
– Electronic Book
- Uses of Total Station
- Advantages of Using Total Stations
3. What is a Total Station?
- Total station is a surveying equipment
combination of Electromagnetic Distance
Measuring Instrument and electronic
- It is also integrated with microprocessor,
electronic data collector and storage system.
- The instrument can be used to measure
horizontal and vertical angles as well as
sloping distance of object to the instrument.
6. Capability of a Total Station
Microprocessor unit in total station processes
the data collected to compute:
1. Average of multiple angles measured.
2. Average of multiple distance measured.
3. Horizontal distance.
4. Distance between any two points.
5. Elevation of objects and
6. All the three coordinates of the observed
7. • Data collected and processed in a Total Station
can be downloaded to computers for further
- Total station is a compact instrument and
weighs 50 to 55 N.
- A person can easily carry it to the field.
- Total stations with different accuracy, in angle
measurement and different range of
measurements are available in the market.
- One such instrument manufactured by
SOKKIA Co. Ltd. Tokyo, Japan.
9. Important Operations of Total
- Distance Measurement
- Angle Measurements
- Data Processing
- Electronic Book
10. Distance Measurement
- Electronic distance measuring (EDM)
instrument is a major part of total station.
- Its range varies from 2.8 km to 4.2 km.
- The accuracy of measurement varies from 5
mm to 10 mm per km measurement.
- They are used with automatic target
- The distance measured is always sloping
distance from instrument to the object.
11. Angle Measurements
- The electronic theodolite part of total station is
used for measuring vertical and horizontal
- For measurement of horizontal angles any
convenient direction may be taken as reference
- For vertical angle measurement vertical upward
(zenith) direction is taken as reference direction.
- The accuracy of angle measurement varies from
2 to 6 seconds.
13. Data Processing
- This instrument is provided with an inbuilt
microprocessor. The microprocessor averages
multiple observations. With the help of slope
distance and vertical and horizontal angles
measured, when height of axis of instrument and
targets are supplied, the microprocessor computes
the horizontal distance and X, Y, Z coordinates.
- The processor is capable of applying temperature
and pressure corrections to the measurements, if
atmospheric temperature and pressures are
- Electronic display unit is capable of displaying
various values when respective keys are
- The system is capable of displaying horizontal
distance, vertical distance, horizontal and
vertical angles, difference in elevations of two
observed points and all the three coordinates of
the observed points.
15. Electronic Book
- Each point data can be stored in an electronic
note book (like compact disc).
- The capacity of electronic note book varies
from 2000 points to 4000 points data.
- Surveyor can unload the data stored in note
book to computer and reuse the note book.
16. Uses of Total Station
- The total station instrument is mounted on a
tripod and is levelled by operating levelling
screws. Within a small range instrument is
capable of adjusting itself to the level position.
Then vertical and horizontal reference
directions are indexed using onboard keys.
17. • It is possible to set required units for distance,
temperature and pressure (FPS or SI).
Surveyor can select measurement mode like
fine, coarse, single or repeated.
18. • When target is sighted, horizontal and vertical
angles as well as sloping distances are
measured and by pressing appropriate keys
they are recorded along with point number.
Heights of instrument and targets can be keyed
in after measuring them with tapes. Then
processor computes various information about
the point and displays on screen.
19. • This information is also stored in the electronic
notebook. At the end of the day or whenever
electronic note book is full, the information
stored is downloaded to computers.
20. • The point data downloaded to the computer
can be used for further processing.
- There are software like auto civil and auto
plotter clubbed with Auto Cad which can be
used for plotting contours at any specified
interval and for plotting cross-section along
any specified line.
21. Advantages of Using Total Stations
- The following are some of the major
advantages of using total station over the
conventional surveying instruments:
- Field work is carried out very fast.
- Accuracy of measurement is high.
- Manual errors involved in reading and
recording are eliminated.
22. • Calculation of coordinates is very fast and
accurate. Even corrections for temperature and
pressure are automatically made.
- Computers can be employed for map making
and plotting contour and cross-sections.
Contour intervals and scales can be changed in
23. • However, surveyor should check the working
condition of the instruments before using. For
this standard points may be located near
survey office and before taking out instrument
for field work, its working is checked by
observing those standard points from the
specified instrument station.
- Total stations are mainly used by land
surveyors and civil engineers, either to record
features as in topographic surveying or to set
out features (such as roads, houses or
- They are also used by archaeologists to record
excavations and by police, crime scene
investigators, private accident reconstruction
and insurance companies to take
measurements of scenes.
- Total stations are the primary survey
instrument used in mining surveying.
- A total station is used to record the absolute
location of the tunnel walls, ceilings (backs),
and floors as the drifts of an underground mine
- The recorded data are then downloaded into
a CAD program, and compared to the designed
layout of the tunnel.
26. • The survey party installs control stations at
regular intervals. These are small steel plugs
installed in pairs in holes drilled into walls or
the back. For wall stations, two plugs are
installed in opposite walls, forming a line
perpendicular to the drift. For back stations,
two plugs are installed in the back, forming a
line parallel to the drift.
27. Mechanical and electrical construction
- Total stations have become the highest
standard for most forms of construction layout.
- They are most often used in the X and Y axis
to lay out the locations of penetrations out of
the underground utilities into the foundation,
between floors of a structure, as well as
28. • Because more commercial and industrial
construction jobs have become centered
around building information modeling (BIM),
the coordinates for almost every pipe, conduit,
duct and hanger support are available with
- The application of communicating a virtual
model to a tangible construction potentially
eliminates labor costs related to moving poorly
measured systems, as well as time spent laying
out these systems in the midst of a full blown
construction job in progress.
- Meteorologists also use total stations to
track weather balloons for determining upper-
- With the average ascent rate of the weather
balloon known or assumed, the change in
azimuth and elevation readings provided by
the total station as it tracks the weather balloon
over time are used to compute the wind speed
and direction at different altitudes.
30. • Additionally, the total station is used to track
ceiling balloons to determine the height of
- Such upper-level wind data is often used for
aviation weather forecasting and rocket


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Based on the book : Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
- How did Anne Moody's gender shape her experiences of racism as she grew up in Mississippi and how did gender shape her experiences as an activist?
- Did Racism and sexism intersect in her life to create a double hardship?
- Conversely, were there ever contexts in which her gender was an advantage?
Based on what you have studied in other course readings and materials, how does Moody's experience relate to the broader historical context? You can only use the book itself as a source. MLA format paper.
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
The book Coming of Age in Mississippi, written by Anne Moody, describes her life during the era of racism in the United States of America. The author, explains what had prompted her to join the civil rights movement as well as the cause of actions and sufferings she encountered in the course of that period.
Question 1. How did Anne Moody's childhood experiences and encounters with her family and community (Black and White) prepare her to become a civil right activist during her collegiate years?
Anne Moody had no particular event that influences her childhood, but she was troubled living in a low-income family. However, the racism and discrimination that she observed in her childhood nurtured her to become a civil rights activist. She lived with her mother and other siblings after the father left them for another woman, a mulatto Florence. The woman, who held herself high, looked down upon them because they were Negroes. "They were Negroes, and we were also Negroes. I just didn't see Negroes hating each other so much." Even before he left, their father had little or no time to spend with the children. Anne's cousin, George Lee who used to babysit them was abusive and at one time out of anger burnt down the family house and blame Anne for the incidence. Anne Moody was punished for a crime that she never committed. "Daddy must have beaten me a good ten minutes before Mama realized he had lost his senses and came to rescue me."
The situation got worse when her mother married Raymond, a light-skinned black man, whose mother Miss Pearl treated them coldly because they were not as light as she was. At one time Anne Moody visited Winnie, her grandmother, and her uncle Ed, where she met Sam and Walter. For a moment Anne Moody was confused on why her uncle was white. The confusion prompted her to ask her mother, who snapped, why her uncle was white yet they were blacks. It was her first time to be confronted with the color of her skin in her life. "Before the evening was over, I finally realized that the two boys were Ed's brothers. But how Ed got two white brothers worried me."
The second time Anne Moody was confronted of her skin color, was when she and a few white neighbor kids went to watch a movie. Anne Moody observed her denial to take the regular seats with the white kids but was directed to join the other black kids who watched the movie from a balcony. Another instance is when the news regarding Emmett Till's lynching came across her before Anne Moody joined high school. Emmett Till's Lynching referred to the killing of a black person due their race. It was that moment that she grew the passion for justice and freedom that changed her life to a civil rights activist. The urge to demand justice and freedom became imminent when she joined college where she experienced her first demonstration.
Question 2. Discuss how the life of Anne was not the same in Louisiana. What gender and social issues did she witness?
During the summer seasons, Anne usually visited her uncle Ed, who live in Louisiana State, New Orleans. She hoped that her visits would eventually secure a better occupation. At first, Anne Moody was not paid by Mrs. Jetson in her two weeks of hard labor. She later worked as a scab in a chicken slaughterhouse. Anne Moody also got back to school, and she felt more mature than the rest of other students. Because of the different experiences that she encountered, Anne Moody developed a better understanding of the world than when she was in Mississippi.
The following summer, in her sophomore year, Anne Moody had more experiences back in New Orleans where she worked with her grandmother Winnie in a restaurant. While working there, she was promoted from dishwasher to busgirl and later to a waitress. These jobs enabled her to learn all aspects of the restaurant from cooking to money managing. Furthermore, she could work hand in hand with white people, whom never discriminated her because of her dark skin color. They used to go clubbing in addition to movies. Anne Moody was never sectioned due to her race as it was in Mississippi. She also made friends with gays in New Orleans, a practice that was not acceptable in Mississippi. For instance, Anne Moody says that Lola teaches her to dress nicely which gives her body prominence. Lily, on the other hand, was a freaky dancer when they went to clubs.
Question 3. What was the most intense section of the book and why? Provide examples.
The most important part of the book is the section that checks on racism theme. The events that surround the racism subject are crucial for the book. For example, Anne almost turned down a scholarship to Tugaloo just because she heard that the rest of the students there are mulattos, and she is afraid that they will mistreat her because of her dark skin color. It is part of the reason Anne joined the civil right movement. Poverty is also another significant part of themes brought up in the book. Anne Moody and her family were so poor that even though she was a prom queen, she could not afford a dress to attend the dance. She spent her first paycheck on buying school uniform and other supplies for some two girls who were unable to go to school due to lack of these necessities. She refers these girls as an example of her life back in school.
Question 4. How did the Civil Rights Movement impact Anne's life, and would she be satisfied with the social, economic and political climate in 2016 America? Use examples from the book and the internet to assist with this question.
When Anne joined the movement, she was brave enough considering that they were facing death threats and some of the activists such as McKinley was murdered in front of a gathering of a nonviolent civil rights activists. Those that were not brave like she was quivered and avoided association with the people who participated in the civil rights movements. For instance, Essie Mae's family members were afraid to communicate with her when she got back home from Canton. They treated her like a stranger for the reasons that they thought of her as a selfish person for engraving their lives through joining the civil rights movement.
Her involvement with the civil right movement she got to meet some famous black empowerment leaders such as Martin Luther King and Jackie Robinson. With them, they managed to push for the 1964 Civil Rights Act and signed into law. They managed to change the country significantly as it was for the first time that discrimination was prohibited in the public employment as well as the businesses that were established based on national origin, sex, religion, color, and race. In the State of Mississippi, the achievement was much more noticeable when the voter registration of qualified black community population shot up from a percentage lower than seven to a commendable sixty-five percent in a span of two years from 1965 to 1967.
Anne before she rested in peace in 2015, she has witnessed her fruits of course of action of joining the movement back in 1968 as she has seen the first black President Barack Obama. Supreme Court decisions have started to help the minorities by making civil rights fair even sounder. Anne is contented because the disability rights, the rights of women, together with the rights of immigrants are respected across the nation. The blacks living in the south have progressed well in high schools and colleges. Their poverty rates have declined due to increased employment opportunities. Less than a decade now, there has been an increase in the number of voters from the black community attendance rate exceeded that of the white community during the 2008 and 2012 presidential race, with the number of elected officials from the black community rose too.
In conclusion, Anne Moody's childhood and schooling had so much to do with her quest to join the civil rights movement back in 1968. When she acceded to the civil right movement, it was her most elusive action she ever did in her life. Anne almost lost her family and friends, but her spirit for change got rewarded when the Civil Rights Act was passed, and she lived to witness the fruits of her labor till she rested in peace on February 5, 2015. Enormous strides were made against racism in the nation, from social to economic and political since the civil right movement.
- Berkin, Carol, Robert W Cherny, and Christopher Miller. Making America: A History of the United States : Brief. Andover: Cengage Learning, 2011.
- Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Bantam Dell, 1968.
- Richard, Wolf. "Equality Still Elusive 50 Years after Civil Rights Act." USA Today. 2014.


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The US Air Force Research Laboratory's Sensors Directorate (AFRL/RY) has developed and tested an interleaved delta sigma DAC that can synthesize frequencies from near DC (0 Hz) to near the sampling frequency (fs) by switching among low-, band-, and high-pass noise transfer functions. The technology overcomes inherent trade-offs between bandwidth and maximum output frequency without sacrificing the benefits of an all-digital architecture.
The Air Force's technology is suited for highly integrated silicon systems-on-chip and offers considerable benefits to compound semiconductor applications, including lower part counts that reduce complexity, weight, size, and power requirements, in addition to simplifying digital adjustment and calibration. AFRL/RY's delta sigma DAC enables the potential for multi-standard (e.g. communications and radar) devices through on-the-fly reconfiguration of power and transmission requirements.
- Spectrally Agile: Switching amongst low-, band-, and high-pass noise transfer functions improves bandwidth over a broader RF spectrum range
- Higher I/Q Accuracy: Wholly digital up-conversion increases in-phase/quadrature modulation precision
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- More than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon
- Greatest depth occurs at the Nevado Ampato extinct volcano
Colca Canyon is located in southern Peru. It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon but it is not as deep as its sister Cotahuasi Canyon. The canyon was created by the Colca River which starts high in the Andes mountains flowing through the canyon and changing names twice before flowing into the Pacific Ocean.
The greatest depth of the canyon occurs at Nevado Ampato, an extinct volcano, with a vertical rise of 20,630 feet (6,288 m). The Colca Canyon is home to the Andean Condor which is a frequent attraction for visitors who watch the condors soar through the air hunting for food.
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More will follow on the Colca Canyon as it is declared an official or notable wonder of South America.


text: Because switched system with nonlinear subsystems shows great difficulties in controller design by conventional methodologies, the fuzzy logic theory, which has been proven to be a practical and effective way to deal with the analysis and synthesis problems for complex nonlinear systems, is applied to design a class of hybrid fuzzy controller for switched discrete-time fuzzy system in this paper. On a basis of one step prediction of switching signal, a hybrid parallel distributed compensation (PDC) control strategy is proposed, which includes two necessary parts: the state feedback controllers for subsystems and the update feedback controllers for switching instants. In both arbitrary and dwell-time switching cases investigated, it is proved that the hybrid PDC controller contains less conservativeness than conventional switched PDC controller. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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A decision support system for procurement risk management in the presence of spot market.
Lee, C. K. M.
Date of Issue2012
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
In the presence of spot market, this paper presents a decision support system to model risks for procurement processes and to design a robust purchasing plan, including supplier selection and order allocation. Taking advantages of contract supplier and spot market, the buyer can better meet business requirements in this dynamic business environment. However, there are limitations of existing methods for modeling multiple correlated risks to support decision makers for allocating orders among multiple suppliers in the presence of spot market. Therefore, Monte Carlo simulation algorithm termed as Expected Profit–Supply at Risk (A-EPSaR) is proposed to quantify each supplier's risk so as to let decision maker realize the trade-off between profit and risk. The goal programming model helps to allocate orders among the supplier pool and the contract-spot allocation model can assign orders between the spot market and the supplier pool, respectively. The significance of this paper is to propose a novel decision support framework which helps the buyer to make optimal and robust procurement decision including supplier selection and order allocation among multiple supplier sources in the existence of correlated demand, yield and spot price uncertainties. A case study is used to illustrate the performance of the proposed framework and the proposed methods show the promising result.
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An international egg thief is on the run in South America after Brazilian authorities lost track of his whereabouts. He had been released on bail after being arrested for the theft of four exceedingly rare albino falcon eggs.
Zimbabwean Jeffrey Lendrum, 55, has gained global notoriety for his daring escapades in which he has grappled his way down cliff edges and even hung out of helicopters in order to get his hands on highly valued falcon eggs for wealthy Arab clients, according to The Times.
His most recent heist took place in Patagonia, Argentina, where he managed to scoop the aforementioned albino falcon eggs. He was caught at an airport in São Paulo heading from Chile to Dubai after an anonymous tip-off but then vanished when released on bail to appeal against his sentence.
Lendrum, a former Rhodesian SAS man, was jailed in 2010 for stealing 14 peregrine falcon eggs worth an estimated £70,000 ($86,000) from nests in south Wales, the UK and is still believed to pose a threat to falcons on the British Isles.
Andy McWilliam, investigations officer for the National Wildlife Crime Unit, said: "I think he's been coming to the UK on an annual basis and taking peregrine falcon [eggs]. There has been an increase in value in peregrine falcons and increased demand in the Middle East."
Mr McWilliam interviewed Lendrum before he was jailed in Britain and admitted he had a grudging respect for a "worthy adversary". He said: "I remember we found notebooks and diaries among his possessions. I kept them because I was so impressed.
"He was visiting Sri Lanka during the breeding season of a bird called the black shaheen, a breed of peregrine falcon. The notes had details of most sites he had visited, including military activity in the area. He goes into detail on security at the airport: how often they search people and if they have X-ray."
It is reported that peregrine falcon eggs can fetch more than £5,000 each. The peregrine is the fastest bird in the world, reaching speeds of up to 242mph. The birds are protected by British law and by the Convention on International Endangered Species.


It is known that Jupiter is mostly made of hydrogen, but that it is not massive enough to start nuclear fusion. In other words, Jupiter is not a star, but could be a star if someone added hydrogen to the planet.
How can the critical mass, where there is sufficient thermal energy at the core to start nuclear fusion, be calculated?
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 - $\begingroup$ I look forward to people's answers, but to my knowledge there isn't a good way to calculate the value from first principles. Observationally it seems to be between about $0.5-0.1 M_\odot$, with the lower end of the range (seemingly) favored more strongly as of late. $\endgroup$ – DilithiumMatrix Dec 19 '16 at 22:25
Yes, your logic is correct, if we kept adding hydrogen to jupiter, it could eventually become a star.
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So long as you understand the basic thermodynamics in there then you will be able to follow through to the end, if not, and you are not interested, then the critical mass for collapse into a star is approximately 0.08 * (Mass of Sun).
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The Unseen Leak: Faxes in the Era of Sarbanes-Oxley
Largely thought of as a thing of the past, the fax remains vitally important to nearly every type of business. Faxing is still used to transmit materials, including many organizations most private information: contracts, orders, audit statements or any other document that requires a hard copy signature in order to be valid. Yet, it is the very nature of these documents that creates the risk to a public company's SOX compliance. But there is a solution to these risk factors: Internet fax.
Download this paper to discover how Internet fax can plug an unseen leak and protect organizations from SOX violations and help organizations bring the fax portion of their operations up to the same standards they are using for other forms of communication.
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Volleyball Blocking Tips
Volleyball blocking how to, technique, and important keys to success.
How to Block in Volleyball
Techniques for blocking...
 - Stand in a semi-flexed, stationary position.
 - Hands are out in front of you with palms facing the net.
 - Do a quarter squat jump as you time the attack.
 - One of the most important aspects to blocking is hand positioning.
 - Be sure to penetrate the net.
Penetrate means to get your hands onto the other side as far as possible. Penetration narrows the angles your opponent has to hit in. Penetrating might be the most important part of blocking. If all else fails, remember to penetrate.
Volleyball Blocking
Always remember to penetrate the net and take up a lot of "crossing space"
Keys to Hand Positioning
 - Always penetrate the net. Penetration means reaching over the net. Not contacting the ball on the opponents side while blocking is the most common and critical error made by a blocker.
 - Keep hands far apart while blocking. Most blocks should occur with only one hand or arm making contact with the ball. If you make contact with the ball by both hands, your hands are likely too close together. If the ball is hit between your hands or arms, this is referred to as a "good miss" because most beginners have trouble keeping the hands apart during volleyball blocking.
 - Keep the fingers apart and strong. There should be space between your fingers while you block.
 - Position your hands and arms so the ball will rebound into the court. You want to angle your hands so the ball will be deflected back into your opponents court.
 - Most blocks should be made by the hands, not the arms. If you block the ball with your arms, you probably get tooled a lot. The best volleyball blocking skills involve the technique of penetrating the net, clamping down on the ball, and completing the block with the hands.
Key Points to Blocking
 - Use consistent footwork and learn to time the attacker. You need to get good at reading the play that's unfolding on the other side of the net. The better you are at reading the pass, reading the set, and reading the attacker, the better you'll be at getting in position to block.
 - Getting in the right blocking position is important. However, you also need to understand what good positioning is. Always penetrate the net and angle your hands into the court.
 - Commit to what you are blocking and don't reach. A common error is trying to react and reach for the ball. You don't want to be reaching. You want to focus on blocking the crossing space. Great blockers don't focus on reaching high to block. Great blockers focus on penetrating into the crossing space, extending over the net as far as possible.
 - Know what area you are suppose to block. Are you suppose to block angle while your team covers line? Know what you're suppose to block and commit to it.
Volleyball Blocking Swing Technique
Swing blocking is the technique of volleyball blocking by swinging the arms in an effort to jump higher to block.
This movement involves using the arms, hips, and shoulders to create more effort and force for jumping up to block.
A swing block is like an "approach" for blocking
The swing block is much like the approach prior to spiking. For example, the blocker will take a certain amount of steps to get in position to block. Basically, the blocker is approaching to block.
The swing block just like any other skill in volleyball should be used appropriately. A team likely shouldn't swing block in every situation.
For example, there are times when a swing block won't be effective against a first tempo attack. A team that runs a fast offense will be very difficult to swing block against. Always remember that there will be times that it's better to use conventional blocking methods.
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text: This is a study of the Protestant utopian movement that began in Germany, inspired in large measure by the writings of Johann Valentin Andreae and came to England through the efforts of the emigre Samuel Hartlib. The first chapters examine Andreae's utopian writings, including the Rosicrucian manifestos, as part of his lifelong commitment to found a Societas Christiana, a spiritual elite that would improve religious and intellectual life. His writings sparked a transnational movement in early modern Europe. The most significant of the German learned societies are discussed: The Societas Ereunetica, Unio Christiana and Antilia. The latter chapters consider Hartlib's English circles and various utopian and learned societies in the 1650s. The text seeks to contribute to the understanding of the role that "secret" societies and epistolary networks had in the republic of letters.


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Your 6-year-old now
Now We Are Six is a book of children's poetry by A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh. The title alone makes it a fun book to have on your birthday child's shelf. But this kind of book illustrates some other interesting points about 6-year-olds:
- Sixes love poems because of the word play and repetition.
- They also enjoy nonsense words and onomatopoeia (words that sound like the thing they describe, such as "hiss" or "buzz").
- Kids this age are working to understand more about what "big people" do -- discoveries that make them feel both confident and confused. The poems reflect a child's increasingly complex world.
- Sixes have vivid imaginations. The characters in such poems include knights, teddy bears, and all kinds of fanciful creatures and situations. The familiar inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood are also here. Children this age cling to the comfortingly familiar as well as looking eagerly to new things.
- Six-year-olds still love being read to, even as they begin to master books all on their own.
Your life now
Strive to find a balance between thinking of your child as a "big kid" (which he is) and a "little one" (which he also still is, in many ways). Grant him more responsibility to make choices, get himself dressed, and the like. At the same time, recognize that he's not mature enough yet to be a master at things like self-discipline and self-control. He's still learning the ropes, and he will slip up.


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The Book of Escomb
Things you find in Church
The Escombe Textile
Links for Escombe Saxon Church
How did you hear about Escombe Saxon Church
A font is a basin for the Holy water used in a baptism (christening), a ceremony of sprinkling water on a person's (baby's) forehead or of totally immersing the person in water. Baptism symbolises purification or regeneration and admission into the Christian church.
The octagonal font at Escombe is at least 800 years old but could be much older. It has been carved out of a single piece of sandstone and may have been part of a Roman fountain. In late Saxon times it was the custom for babies to be totally immersed in the Holy water in the font but earlier than this, adult baptism was the usual ceremony. This could be by total immersion in a place such as the nearby river or by standing in the font, which would have been on the floor in those days.
The water in the font, which was changed once a year, was blessed at the service on Easter Sunday to be used throughout the rest of the year.
In the 13th century, the Archbishop of York ordered that fonts should be locked. This was to prevent people stealing the baptismal water and using it for superstitious practices e.g. to counteract the effects of a neighbour's curse or a witch's spell. The problem was what to do with the unused Holy water the following Easter. It could not be thrown away as a witch hiding in the churchyard might catch it to use for spells. It had to stay in Holy ground.
The nave is the main part of the church building where people sit for services.
The chancel is the part of the church containing the altar and seats for the clergy (priests, vicars, ministers) and choir. It is separated from the nave by steps or a screen.
|The sanctuary is the most sacred part of the church and is where the altar is.
Because Escombe Saxon Church was built to a very simple plan, the sanctuary and chancel are the same place, separated from the nave by a step and the chancel arch. The arch is thought to have been re-assembled from a Roman arch, brought with the rest of the stone from Binchester. The original arch was probably much lower, having all the upright stones horizontal. This wouldn't look right in such a tall building, so the Saxons put alternate stones on end to make it higher. It is a typical Anglo-Saxon arrangement, the first of its type and has been named 'Escombe Fashion' after this arch and is still called so by architects today.
|The table in the sanctuary in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services.|
These are the consecrated elements (bread and wine) of the Eucharist. They are used in the service of Holy Communion, commemorating the Last Supper (before Jesus was arrested) in which bread and wine are consecrated (made sacred) and consumed. The bread and wine represent the body and blood of Christ.
The lectern is a reading stand with a sloping top. It is tall enough for people to stand to read lessons from the Bible or to preach a sermon (a talk given by the priest or minister during the service.)
A sign signifying the Christian religion.
The stone cross behind the altar is probably older than the church and may have formed part of a preaching cross or grave cover. It is a 'green cross' or 'living cross' with rose-like flowers growing from it.
There is a 'consecration cross' cut into the stonework behind the lectern. We must remember that the stone for Escombe Church came from a Roman fort so when the church was finished, it needed to be consecrated (made sacred as a holy building.) There were originally 5 consecration crosses, the one behind the lectern and one on each corner of the church outside. Now only one of the outside crosses can still be seen.
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DIY The Web Pendant Jewelry Making Tutorial
Here is a tutorial that for sure you'll have fun creating!
The Web Pendant will teach you how to perfect your wrapping techniques by creating a web-like weaved wires. You'll also learn how to make loops and use these techniques in creating various designs for wire jewelry.
4 x 8cm (3 inches) 0.6mm (22ga) wire
0.3mm (28 ga) wire
8pcs 0.4mm beads
4pcs 0.3mm beads
Step 1: The web frame
Cut 4 pcs of 3 inches 22ga wire.
Step 2:
Pick up 2 wires and bend each one in half like a "V" shape.
Step 3:
Take the wires and insert in between the bent area like so.
Wrap one "V" shaped wire by bending the wire in opposite directions like shown in arrow. By doing so your wire will interlock.
Step 4:
Then try to straighten the wires with your fingers.
Step 5:
Pick up one more 3-inch wire as your 3rd wire and bend in half. Insert the wire in between the first 2 wires.
Then wrap once by bending the wires in opposite directions like shown in arrow.
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Step 6:
Pick up your 4th 3-inch wire and bend in half. Insert again in between the interlock wires, perpendicular to your 3rd wire.
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Then bend the wires in opposite directions.
Step 8: Securing the wires
Bend the rest of the wires in opposite direction to ensure the wires are locked in place.
Step 9: Weaving the web
Take your 28ga wire. Working directly from the spool wrap the wire twice onto the web frame.
After wrapping twice bring the wire up and under then wrap again twice onto the next web frame.
Then bring the wire up and over then wrap again twice onto the next web frame.
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Wrap neatly, until you can trim the ends of the web frame and have about.60 inches or 1.5cm left.
Step 11:Slide in a 0.4mm bead then bend the wire like so.
With your nose pliers, grip bent wire and make a full turn until you create a loop.
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Repeat Step 11 for the rest of the web frame.
Step 13: Covering the knots.
Take 4 x 0.3mm beads and with your 28ga wire wrap and weave it onto the center of the web to cover the knotted wires.
Lastly, attach a jump ring and you're done!
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