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The social and behavioral characteristics of recreational facilities planning
Barasch, Stephen B
Cannady, William T.
Master of Architecture
The traditional approach to recreational planning and open space rarely, if ever, incorporates the demographic and social factors of a given geographically defined area. This thesis investigates the complex demographic, social and behavioral characteristics of leisure and recreation in the contemporary American industrial society and relates the theory to recreational planning in an applicable fashion. "The Social and Behavioral Characteristics of Recreational Facility Planning" also investigates the more or less accepted recreational planning standards as diverse scales of development and applies these standards to a contemporary case study example of a "new town" of 150,000 people in the Houston Region, presently being planned under the Title VII provision of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970, which guarantees federal assistance in planning and development. In the thesis a new conceptual approach to recreational planning of both facilities and open space areas is formulated and then applied to two hypothetical communities, both of 150,000 population in the Houston Region and to the case study example of the Tide VII "new town." The case study example is then compared to the two hypothetical communities using the formulated theoretical approach and then to the application. of the case study example using the traditional planning approach on the basis of satisfied recreational needs, land allocation, land preservation, economic investment and method validity. The most evident conclusion that has been revealed by my thesis, is that the traditional approach to recreational planning does not allow for the differentiation of recreational facilities on the basis of age, income or ethnic background, which I have found to have a great bearing on the type and number of recreational facilities allocated in a given area. Finally, the thesis concludes by summarizing my findings based on both the traditional planning approach and the formulated theoretical planning approach while making recommendations for future recreational planning and research.


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Ultra Low Energy Store-Carry and Forward Relaying Within the Cell
In this paper, the authors address the issue of Store-Carry and Forward (SCF) relaying within a cell in a mobile network. The proposed scheme can be considered as a generalization of various multi-hop wireless relaying schemes, where storing and carrying an information message by a mobile relay node is not allowed. The key motivation of utilizing SCF relaying within the cell is that energy consumption levels can be dramatically reduced by capitalizing on the inherent mobility of nodes and the elasticity of Internet applications. In that respect, they consider a novel multi-hop cellular architecture to achieve energy savings both at the network side (i.e., Base Stations) and at the user terminals.

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Resistivity Modeling as a Formation Evaluation Tool
This chapter describes a process of 1-D and 2-D resistivity modeling as a tool for formation evaluation. A modeling flow chart was developed based on applying resistivity modeling for formation evaluation in numerous wells. The chapter ends with a list of considerations when evaluating resistivity-modeling software packages.
Resistivity-tool-response modeling as a formation-evaluation tool is about inversion, and geophysical data inversion yields a non-unique formation-resistivity profile. Hence, the inverse modeling process must begin with good quality data and solid integration of geological and geophysical constraints derived from various measurements to achieve a rational result with minimum uncertainty.


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Registration for 3D model of human atlas based on vertex information
Journal: Yiyong Shengwu Lixue/Journal of Medical Biomechanics
Objective: To develop a registration method for 3D human atlas models by using geometric information of the vertices so as to lay a foundation for statistical modeling of atlas. Methods: Based on CT images of the normal human, thirty 3D models of human atlases were created and marked by the manual selected points, including 1 standard module, 20 training sets and 9 testing samples. The training sets were first registered with the standard module, including calculation on geometric information of the individual vertex and optimization process of weight coefficients in the registration models. By minimizing the energy function defined with the Euclidean distances between the automatic registered points and the manual selected points in training sets, the optimized weight coefficients could be obtained. The testing samples were then registered with the standard module to calculate the Euclidean distances between the automatic registered points and the manual selected points. The results were then compared with the training sets to evaluate the stability of the registration method. Results: The registration function and the corresponding optimized weight coefficients were obtained, and the average errors for the training sets and testing samples were 1.983 mm and 2.045 mm, respectively. Further statistical analysis showed that there were no obvious differences in the error distributions among the training sets and testing samples. Conclusions: The accuracy and stability of the proposed registration method meet the requirement in medical applications, and it can provide automatic registration of points of interest on human atlas models and be used for element classification in statistical modeling.


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The NSW government has reacted to community pressure advising anyone who has been to China not to go to school for a fortnight. JOEL CARRETT/AAP
Will my child get coronavirus at school? Here's some perspective for Aussie parents
As Australian students returned to school this week, they were met with conflicting and changing advice from federal and state governments on the coronavirus outbreak.
The outbreak, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei province, has killed more than 170 people and spread to at least 16 countries – seven people have been identified with the infection in Australia.
What's the official advice?
The Australian government's initial advice was that any child who had been in contact with an infected person be excluded from school for 14 days. But schools shouldn't exclude children who were well and who had not had any exposure to an infected person that may have come back from China.
This position was updated on Wednesday afternoon when the chief medical officer asked people who have returned from Hubei province, or have had contact with someone who has a suspected or confirmed case of the virus, to stay at home for 14 days.
This update came as four people attending a conference in Germany contracted the virus from a Chinese national who did not show any symptoms until 24-48 hours later.
Read more: How contagious is the Wuhan coronavirus and can you spread it before symptoms start?
The Victorian government also updated its advice to match the federal government's.
The NSW government, however, requested children who had visited any part of China in the last two weeks not to attend school or childcare services until 14 days have lapsed from their date of departure from China.
How contagious is the virus?
While the World Health Organisation is meeting to see whether to consider the outbreak a global emergency, it is important to note the risk of a child at school or childcare in Australia being infected remains very low.
The WHO believes for every one person infected with coronavirus, up to 2.5 others can become infected (this is how experts estimate contagion). There have only been seven confirmed cases in Australia so far and the government has put in place strict quarantine strategies to ensure they don't infect others.
A person with seasonal flu is estimated to infect around 1.28 people, but there are thousands of infections during flu season. Unless a child has been in close contact with someone who has coronavirus virus, they are far less likely to catch it from school or childcare than they are to catch the flu during an outbreak.
The novel coronavirus belongs to the same family of coronaviruses as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) but current evidence shows it is not as infectious. A person infected with SARS was reported to infect up to five others.
Read more: The Wuhan coronavirus is now in Australia – here's what you need to know
During the SARS outbreak, the WHO advised all contacts of suspected or probable cases be placed under active surveillance for ten days and directed to observe voluntary isolation for at least ten days.
School children are particularly concerning for authorities during outbreaks as they are often in close contact with each other. SEAN DAVEY/AAP
With the current coronavirus, WHO advises people to take caution and for countries to implement temperature checks of travellers coming from the affected areas. This is a lesser response than with SARS.
Who decides who goes to school?
During disease outbreaks, authorities are particularly concerned about schools and childcare centres for several reasons. Children are often in close contact with each other and are less likely to adhere to public health messages (such as washing hands and not sharing water bottles).
Children in childcare, especially those younger than two years, are particularly vulnerable because many of them still haven't finished their vaccinations.
This is why following an outbreak, authorities would make decisions to isolate children who might have come in contact with a person with a suspected transmittable disease. Authorities consider several factors when making decisions to isolate people following an outbreak. These include the risk of infection, its modes of transmission and how aggressive it is.
Each Australian state and territory has its own disease surveillance and control branch which develops public health recommendations based on the scientific evidence relating to an outbreak. But some public health messages can also be influenced by political factors.
For instance, the NSW health minister admitted the government's advice was not "medically necessary" but that the government has acted in line with community expectations to ensure the safest possible environment for students.
Read more: Coronavirus: we still haven't learned the lessons from Sars
Decision makers can use something called the "precautionary principle" when issuing advice. This states when there is a serious risk to human health, lack of scientific evidence should not be used to postpone preventive measures.
An independent review set up to investigate the handling of the SARS outbreak in Toronto found decisions were delayed because decision makers felt they didn't have enough evidence to make them. The commission stressed the "importance of the precautionary principle that reasonable efforts to reduce risk need not await scientific proof".
In Australia, there was only one case of SARS, in NSW, in a visitor who caught the infection in their home country. The state's health department advised those who suspected they had been infected not to go to school or public places and seek medical treatment.
Victoria's advice during a SARS outbreak is that
All suspected, probable and confirmed cases will be excluded from school and work until clearance is obtained from the department.
Close contacts of cases or returned travellers from regions of SARS outbreak, as defined by the department, will be allowed to attend school provided that they remain completely asymptomatic.
This advice is less urgent than the current messaging.
In Toronto, three schools were closed during the SARS outbreak but 24 people had died of it there within three months.
Health officials making the decision to close schools during an outbreak weigh the potential benefits of reducing transmission against economic and social costs, difficult ethical issues (such as potential xenophobia) and the disruption of education.
Although the risk to human health is always prioritised, these considerations make decisions difficult, especially when the number of cases is still low.
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Frey, William H. 2010. Investigating change in American society, 3rd edition. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth.
This workbook/website combination allows students to analyze and manipulate huge data sets drawn from 1950 through present day, with data from U.S. decennial censuses and the American Community Survey. Each chapter consists of exercises specifically tailored to data sets drawn from this current data. Students gain access to the software and data sets by using passcodes provided with each copy of the text. An important feature new with this edition of the book allows students to conduct their analysis directly on the Web. The Internet-based WebCHIP version of the traditional StudentCHIP software permits students to access datasets and create tables on any computer that has an Internet connection. Moreover, the textbook homepage at _URL_ lets the student access all of the data simply and directly. In addition, this site also offers a number of tutorials, references, aids, and analysis tools that will come in handy for you and your students. The new edition will take advantage of the fact that the Census Bureau is now releasing annual data that was previously only available every ten years, based on the American Community Survey (ACS). Exercises and their instructions are updated to reflect the availability of new data and data set labels.
Country of focus: United States.

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Observed relationships between maize yield and climate in Sri Lanka
Karunaratne, A.S. and Wheeler, T. (2015) Observed relationships between maize yield and climate in Sri Lanka. Agronomy Journal, 107 (1). pp. 395-405. ISSN _PHONE_
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To link to this item DOI: 10.2134/agronj14.0043
The present study evaluated the effects of climate variability on maize (Zea mays L.) yield in Sri Lanka at different spatial scales. Biophysical data from the Department of Agriculture (DOA) in Sri Lanka for six major maize-growing districts (Ampara, Anuradhapura, Badulla, Hambantota, Moneragala, and Kurunegala) from 1990 to 2010 were analyzed. Simple linear regression models were fitted to observed climate data and detrended maize yield to identify significant correlations. The correlation between first differences of maize yield and climate (r) was further investigated at 0.50° grid scale using interpolated climate data. After 2003, significantly positive (p < 0.01) yield trends varied from 154 kg ha–1 yr–1 to 360 kg ha–1 yr–1. The correlations between maize yield and climate reported that five out of six districts were significant at 10% level. Rainfall had a consistent significant (p < 0.10) positive impact on maize yield in Anuradhapura, Hambantota, and Moneragala, where seasonal total rainfall together with high temperature ("hot-dry") are the key limitations. Further, the seasonal mean temperature had a negative impact on maize yield in Moneragala ("hot-dry"), the only district that showed high temperatures. Badulla district ("cold-dry") reported a significant (r = 0.38) positive correlation with mean seasonal temperature, indicating higher potential toward increasing temperatures. Each 1°C rise in seasonal mean temperature reduced maize yield by about 5% from 1990 to 2010. Overall, there was a reasonable correlation between district maize yield and seasonal climate in most of the districts within the maize belt of Sri Lanka.
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The console package contains a set of classes required to route and dispatch incoming console requests. Moreover it contains the console front-controller file (lithium.php) as well as wrappers for both *nix and Windows environments (li3 and li3.bat respectively), allowing to easily invoke the console front-controller from the command line.
A command is to the command line what an action controller is to the HTTP request/response flow. In that commands are quite similar to controllers. Commands don't leverage the full MVC as they don't utilize views, but directly interact with the user through in() and out().
li3 itself provides amongst others commands for creating new applications or parts thereof. However commands can also be provided through other libraries or by your application. Commands running in the application context will have complete access to your application. This is especially useful to reuse existing logic in an application's model when creating a command to be run as i.e. a cron-job.
Invoking the front-controller
You invoke the console front-controller through one of the wrappers provided, as shown below. The examples shown are relative to the root directory of a standard li3 distribution. The first is for users on a *nix command line the second for users on a Windows system.
Invoking the wrapper like that (without arguments) should give you a list of available commands.
Built-in commands
Using the commands which come with lithium is easy. Invoke the wrapper without any arguments to get a list of all available commands. Get a description about each command and the options and arguments it accepts or may require by using the help command.
li3 help
li3 help create
li3 help g11n
Creating custom commands
Creating your own commands is very easy. A few fundamentals:
 - All commands inherit from lithium\console\Command.
 - Commands are normally placed in your application or library's extensions/command directory.
Here's an example command:
namespace app\extensions\command;
class HelloWorld extends \lithium\console\Command {
 public function run() {
 $this->header('Welcome to the Hello World command!');
 $this->out('Hello, World!');
If you would like to try this command, create an application or use an existing application, place the command into the application's extensions/commands directory and save it as HelloWorld.php. After doing so open a shell and change directory to your application's directory and run the following command:
li3 hello_world
Although it's probably obvious, when this command runs it will output a nice header with the text Welcome to the Hello World command! and some regular text Hello, World! after it.
The public method run() is called on your command instance every time your command has been requested to run. From this method you can add your own command logic.
Parsing options and arguments
Parsing options and arguments to commands should be simple. In fact, the parsing is already done for you.
Short and long (GNU-style) options in the form of -f, --foo, --foo-bar and --foo=bar are automatically parsed and exposed to your command instance through its properties. XF68-style long options (i.e. -foo) are not supported by default but support can be added by extending the console router.
Arguments are passed directly to the invoked method.
Let's look at an example, going back to the hello_world command from earlier:
namespace app\extensions\command;
class HelloWorld extends \lithium\console\Command {
 public $recipient;
 public function run() {
 $this->out('Hello, '. ($this->recipient?: 'World'). '!');
Notice the additional property $recipient? Great! Now when --recipient is passed to the hello_world command, the recipient property on your command instance will be set to whatever was passed into the command at runtime.
Try it out with the following command:
li3 hello_world --recipient=AwesomeGuy
You should get a special greeting from our good old hello_world command.


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A package for predicting fires given environmental variables
We used empirical data to build a virtual smoke detector or a model to predict fire alarm from environmental variables
Install the package as follows:
python3 -m pip install virtualsmoke
As a CLI
The package can be used as a commandline interface or in a script. For CLI the following options must be provided:
NAME smoke.py SYNOPSIS smoke.py T H P POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS T H P NOTES You can also use flags syntax for POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
In the script
from virtualsmoke.smoke import signal print(signal(T,H,P))
Where T is the surrounding or surface temperature in Kelvin, H is the relative humidity (%), and P is the barometric pressure in hectopascal (hPa).
The model will calculate the mean free path of air, which is the main indicator for sensing fires.
Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.
virtualsmoke-0.0.7.tar.gz (54.0 kB view hashes)
Hashes for virtualsmoke-0.0.7-py3-none-any.whl


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Venafi Trust Protection Platforms (TPP) has the ability to work as a SCEP server. This feature is referred to as Network Device Enrollment (NDE). This article describes the steps to setup and configure TPP and SSCEP a command line SCEP client to work together.
Configure NDE on TPP side in WebAdmin:
1. Create Password object to use for SCEP requests
2. Go to Platform Tree to configure NDE settings
3. Select Engine or root of Platform tree and go to "Network Device Enrollemnt" > Settings
4. Configure settings:
Enable "SCEP Reply Delay"
Default Challenge Password = Password for requests to use
Default Certificate Container = Where to create cert objects
Default Certificate Authority = What CA Template to use
RA Certificate = Certificate used for Registration Authority (cert that was issued by CA we are going to use)
5. Save settings and restart IIS
Use SSCEP to test NDE
1. Unzip SSCEP (found here: _URL_
2. Generate a certificate request providing a Common Name and the Challenge Password when prompted by openssl:
openssl.exe req -config scep.cnf -new -key priv.key -out test.csr
3. Retrieve the CA and RA certificates from your SECP/NDES:
sscep.exe getca -u _URL_ -c ca.crt
4. Enroll a new certificate and make sure to specify the correct RA (-c flag)
sscep.exe enroll -u _URL_ -k priv.key -r test.csr -l test.crt -c ca.crt-0
5. If things work, certficate is stored in test.crt
What to look at when things aren't working?
1. Check the Engine object logs in Platform tree for "Network Device Enrolment" errors
2. Check to see if the Certificate object got created
- Did creating and retrieving the cert take too long?
- Was there an issue during cert enrolment?
3. Check that the RA Cert is correct
4. Check that CA Template has root/intermediate certs configured
5. Check SCEP server url and that it is http
6. Double check that challenge password in CSR is correct:
openssl req -in test.csr -noout -text
7. Check that the vedscep URL (_URL_ works with a browser. It should return "Bad Request"
Other scep related resources:
SSCEP source code - _URL_
NDES/SCEP Windows Test Tool - _URL_


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Residual hearing, this term is not so familiar to most people, many people do not understand what residual hearing refers to, residual hearing is simply the remaining auditory function after your hearing organ is damaged, all need to wear hearing aids For deaf patients, residual hearing is simply the lifeblood of the ear.
If a deaf patient has all his residual hearing after hearing loss in his ear, then he can be regarded as a full-fledged sense. Wearing a hearing aid has no effect. Many people don't understand why. Is there any effect of wearing residual hearing aid without wearing hearing aid? Can you recover without it?
First of all, the first question is why there is no effect without wearing a hearing aid. The hearing aid receives the sound from the outside world, then the sound is amplified into the ear. The residual hearing is used to accept the sound. If there is no residual hearing, how do you hear the sound?
Then there is no residual hearing that can't be recovered. The residual hearing is actually our auditory hair cells. The hair cells have been formed long when we were born. They can only be reduced, can not be increased, and cannot be regenerated, so no It's gone, so everyone understands that protecting hearing is a very important thing.
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James Boyle is professor of law and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University and author of The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind.
In his new book The Public Domain, Professor James Boyle describes how our culture, science and economic welfare all depend on the delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain —the realm of material that everyone is free to use and share without permission or fee
Intellectual property laws have a significant impact on many important areas of human endeavour, including scientific innovation, digital creativity, cultural access and free speech. And so Boyle argues that, just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen in the information age should also have an understanding of intellectual property law.
Is the public domain as vital to knowledge, innovation and culture as the realm of material protected by intellectual property rights? James Boyle thinks so and visits the RSA to call for a new movement to preserve it. If we continue to enclose the "commons of the mind", Boyle argues, we will all be the poorer.


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text: Many studies show a relationship between milk intake and conception. A team of researchers in the United States and Finland report that in areas where milk consumption is highest, women tend to experience the sharpest age-related falloff in infertility. Milk has also been linked to menstrual cycle irregularities, early menopause, pre-menstrual syndrome, and recurrent vaginal yeast infections. Galactose, a sugar found only in milk, is harmful to ovarian function and to the developing, unfertilized egg. Some doctors also recommend avoiding all soft cheese products because the production process doesn't involve pasteurization. This results in the presence of the bacteria lysteria, which can cause miscarriage.


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Objectives: We investigated the quality of 162 variables, focusing on the contribution of genetic markers, used solely or in combination with other characteristics, when predicting mortality.
Methods: In 5974 participants from the Rotterdam Study, followed for a median of 15.1 years, 7 groups of factors including age and gender, genetics, socioeconomics, lifestyle, physiological characteristics, prevalent diseases, and indicators of general health were related to all-cause mortality. Genetic variables were identified from 8 genome-wide association scans (n = 19,033) and literature review.
Results: We observed 3174 deaths during follow-up. The fully adjusted model (C-statistic for 15-year follow-up [C15y] = 0.80; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.79, 0.81) predicted mortality well [corrected]. Most of the additional information apart from age and sex stemmed from physiological markers, prevalent diseases, and general health. Socioeconomic factors and lifestyle contributed meaningfully to mortality risk prediction with longer prediction horizon. Although specific genetic factors were independently associated with mortality, jointly they contributed little to mortality prediction (C(15y) = 0.56; 95% CI = 0.55, 0.57).
Conclusions: Mortality can be predicted reasonably well over a long period. Genetic factors independently predict mortality, but only modestly more than other risk indicators.


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What Is Gresham's Law? Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good." It is primarily used for consideration and application in currency markets. Gresham's law was originally based on the composition of minted coins and the value of the precious metals used in them.
- 1 What is an example of Gresham's law?
- 2 What are the main limitations of Gresham's law?
- 3 What is the meaning of bad money drives out good money?
- 4 On which the Gresham law is not applicable?
- 5 How does Gresham's law work?
- 6 Who made Gresham's law?
- 7 What is Monometallism?
- 8 What do you mean by gold standard?
- 9 What is fiat money?
- 10 Who told bad money drives good money?
- 11 What is seigniorage revenue?
- 12 What is meaning of hot money?
- 13 What is the Gresham effect?
- 14 Are old coins legal tender?
- 15 What seigniorage means?
What is an example of Gresham's law?
In economics, Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good ". For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in circulation, which are accepted by law as having similar face value, the more valuable commodity will gradually disappear from circulation.
What are the main limitations of Gresham's law?
Limitations of the Greshamâ€™s Law:
- If the total money in circulation, including, both good and bad money, exceeds the actual monetary demand of the public.
- If the public is prepared to accept and circulate bad money.
- If the good money is full-bodied legal tender whose face value equals its intrinsic value.
What is the meaning of bad money drives out good money?
Bad Money Drives Out Good Money Meaning If there is counterfeit or inflated currency in circulation, people will hoard their genuine currency and only use the counterfeits in order to preserve the thing of true value. This phenomenon is also known as Gresham's law.
On which the Gresham law is not applicable?
If, for example, the government of a country that is operating under a bimetallic system declares the overvalued currency as legal tender, the public will hoard, export, or melt the undervalued currency type into bullion (Rothbard 1980). Gresham's law is not only applicable to bimetallic currency systems.
How does Gresham's law work?
Gresham's law, observation in economics that "bad money drives out good." More exactly, if coins containing metal of different value have the same value as legal tender, the coins composed of the cheaper metal will be used for payment, while those made of more expensive metal will be hoarded or exported and thus tend
Who made Gresham's law?
The expression "Gresham's Law" dates back only to 1858, when British economist Henry Dunning Macleod (1858, p. 476-8) decided to name the tendency for bad money to drive good money out of circulation after Sir Thomas Gresham (_PHONE_).
What is Monometallism?
British Dictionary definitions for monometallism monometallism. / (ˌmɒnəʊˈmɛtəˌlɪzəm) / noun. the use of one metal, esp gold or silver, as the sole standard of value and currency. the economic policies supporting a monometallic standard.
What do you mean by gold standard?
The gold standard is a monetary system where a country's currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold. With the gold standard, countries agreed to convert paper money into a fixed amount of gold. In the U.S., for instance, the dollar is fiat money, and for Nigeria, it is the naira.
What is fiat money?
Fiat money is a government-issued currency that is not backed by a physical commodity, such as gold or silver, but rather by the government that issued it. 4
Who told bad money drives good money?
The principle of bad taking over good is explained by Mr. Gresham and is popularly known as Gresham's law which states "bad money drives out good money…" Let me tell you a historical story of Indian ruler Muhammad Bin Tughlaq. He ruled from 1324 to 1351.
What is seigniorage revenue?
Seigniorage Explained Seigniorage may be counted as revenue for a government when the money it creates is worth more than it costs to produce. This revenue is often used by governments to finance portions of their expenditures without having to collect taxes.
What is meaning of hot money?
"Hot money" refers to funds that are controlled by investors who actively seek short-term returns. These investors scan the market for short-term, high interest rate investment opportunities. A typical short-term investment opportunity that often attracts "hot money" is the certificate of deposit (CD).
What is the Gresham effect?
In this post I'll explore the idea that the use of credit cards in payments is driving a modern Gresham effect, the result of which is a displacement of cash and an inflationary race to the bottom of sorts. First, we need to revisit the idea of Gresham's law, or the idea that the bad money drives out the good.
Are old coins legal tender?
Top Money Stories Today Although the older notes cannot be used as legal tender, the Bank of England will accept them. A spokesperson told the BBC: "All genuine Bank of England banknotes that have been withdrawn from circulation retain their face value for all time."
What seigniorage means?
Introduction. Seigniorage refers to the profit made by a government from minting currency. Seigniorage is determined by the difference between the face value of the currency and the cost of producing it. 5


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Listen to war stories at the Fries Verzetsmuseum. Touching and confrontational stories that make you think.
War up close
Experience the impact World War II had on Friesland. In this museum, you will get to know the people that lived in Friesland in the early 1940s. Frisians and non-Frisians alike share their experiences of the war from the vantage point of the countryside of Friesland. They faced resistance and persecution but, luckily, did not have to deal with famine (Dutch famine of 1944–1945). However, Friesland saw many refugees that had traveled a long way to find milk and food.
Resisting the occupation
The museum focuses on topics such as the air war over Friesland, the resistance movement and hiding from the Germans. The history of the spectacular raid on the jail in Leeuwarden by the Frisian resistance plays a key role in the exhibition.
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A PFD – a Personal Flotation Device – is an equipment which serves to prevent an individual from drowning by keeping him or her afloat. Simply speaking, it's what is generally known as a life jacket or a life vest. PFDs are an essential item that needs to be taken at all times when engaging in water-related activities at sea, or farther out in lakes – this includes kayaking, canoeing, boating, etc.
PFD life jackets are divided on the basis of how they are inflated – as self inflating life jackets and manually inflated life jackets. As the terms suggest, the former is automatically inflated without manual intervention (by reacting to water pressure or to water itself, for example), whilst the latter requires manual operation to inflate the jacket (by pulling a cord, blowing into tubes, etc.) Besides this classification, life jackets have also been divided on the basis of the time that rescue efforts will take in case of an emergency, during which time the life jacket has to support the individual in the water and prevent him or her from drowning:
- Offshore Life Jackets/ Type I PFDs – these are built for conditions where the waters are rough or remote, thereby making rescue efforts take a considerable time. As such, they are bulky, but very buoyant – enough to keep even an unconscious person face-up in the waters. They are also built with very bright colours, so that the person may be easily located. These type of PFDs are required when boating activities take place far out in the seas, lakes, or oceans, or when waters are rough.
- Near-shore Life Jackets/ Type II PFDs – these are built for calm waters, which are not too far off from a shore and where rescue will come relatively quickly. They are less bulky than type I PFDs, but also less buoyant. Only some types will keep an individual face up regardless of his status. They are ideal for boating and other water activities which take place in relatively shallow waters.
- Flotation Aids/ Type III PFDs – these are built for shallow waters, where rescue will come very quickly. They are aids – not body suits – and do not restrict movement as much as types I and II. However, they are not very buoyant: they will keep a person above the water, but will require his efforts to remain face-up in the water.
- Throwable Devices/ Type IV PFDs – these are meant only to aid rescue efforts, that is, they are not meant to be singly used by the drowning individual. They are either rings or cushions which are thrown by the rescuers to further help the individual – as such, they require the individual's efforts to keep him afloat.
- Special Use Devices/ Type V PFDs – certain water activities such as canoeing, kayaking and the like have poor compatibility with types I and II life jackets, either because they are bulky and restrict movements, or because they are not buoyant enough. PFDs especially created for specific water activities fall within this last category – they are to be used only for the related activity though.


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Why? Most people have no sense of their energy usage until they receive their monthly utility bill. The Power Aware cord is a poetic gesture that indicates energy is flowing to an appliance through glowing pulses and intensity of light. For instance, changing the volume on stereo equipment becomes immediately visible, as does the silent drain of electricity from appliances on standby.
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Pressing the Head Against Objects in Cats
Head pressing is characterized by the compulsive act of pressing the head against a wall or other object for no apparent reason. This generally indicates damage to the nervous system, which may result from a number of varying causes, including prosencephalon disease (in which the forebrain and thalamus parts of the brain are damaged), or toxic poisoning.
There is no evidence that any certain cat breed or age-range is at greater risk for this condition.
Symptoms and Types
The act of head pressing is just one sign of prosencephalon disease, in which the forebrain and thalamus parts of the brain are affected. Other symptoms that may accompany this include compulsive pacing and circling, changes in learned (trained) behavior, seizures, damaged reflexes, and visual problems. Some of these symptoms may lead to lesions, for example, sores on the feet as a result of compulsive pacing, or injuries to the face/head as a result of pressing the head against a surface for long periods of time.
There are a number of reasons for why a cat may feel the need to press its head, depending on the primary cause that is leading to this symptom. Possible causes may be a metabolic disorder, such as hyper or hyponatremia (too much, or too little sodium in the body's blood plasma), a primary or secondary tumor (meaning a tumor located in the brain vs. a tumor located elsewhere in the body), or an infection of the nervous system, such as rabies or fungal infection. Other causes can include head trauma, such as from a car accident, or from exposure to toxins, such as lead.
One primary diagnostic procedure in cases of head pressing includes a fundic examination of the retina and other structures in the back of the eye, which may indicate infectious or inflammatory diseases, as well as reveal irregularities in the brain. Other likely tests are blood pressure measurements to test for high blood pressure, and computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain. Your veterinarian will also include a urine analysis (which may reveal a problem with the metabolic system), and tests for blood lead concentration (which can indicate toxins in the system).
You will need to give a thorough history of your cat's health, the onset of symptoms, and possible incidents that might have preceded this condition.


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Robert Shedinger
Robert Shedinger, associate professor of religion, will present a Luther College Religion Forum Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 in Room 102 of the Franklin W. Olin building on the Luther campus.
His lecture, titled "Radically Open: Transcending Religious Identity in an Age of Anxiety," is open to the public with no charge for admission.
Based on his book of the same title, Shedinger will discuss how modern American society serves to foster the anxiety epidemic and how it prohibits anxiety sufferers' access to the spiritual resources they desperately need. Shedinger's book argues that exclusive claims to religious identity help to foster the anxiety epidemic while submitting oneself to the greater wisdom of the cosmic story holds the key to resolving anxiety.
Talking from experience, he will discuss his personal journey through the darkness of anxiety with the help of the psychology of Carl Jung. Shedinger suggests that Islamic tradition may provide one of the best models for how to overcome the problem of anxiety and creating a more just and sustainable world.
Shedinger holds a master's degree from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a doctoral degree in religious studies from Temple University.
Since the publication of his book in 2009, "Was Jesus a Muslim? Questioning Categories in the Study of Religion," he has been a regular speaker in mosques and Islamic centers across the United States.


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PINETOP, Ariz. — Biologists from multiple agencies working on the Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team (IFT) have been surveying Mexican wolf end-of-year population numbers since Nov. 1, 2021. Those surveys are expected to continue through Feb. 2.
Population numbers are essential for the Mexican wolf due to the subspecies' status as an endangered species.
Ground counts of wolf packs and single wolves in Arizona and New Mexico began Nov. 1. The ground count is conducted in November and December, and that period is followed by an aerial count and capture operation conducted by the IFT using helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft. The dates for the upcoming aerial count and capture operation are Jan. 21 through Feb. 2, weather permitting. Agency personnel will be limited for this year's aerial operation, and numerous precautions will be implemented to limit the exposure to and possible spread of COVID-19.
Residents of Alpine, Ariz., and Reserve and Magdalena, N.M., and surrounding areas may notice several daily flights of a low-flying helicopter over their communities during this period, as biologists conduct their annual wolf population survey and capture. Survey flights will occur on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Apache-Sitgreaves, Cibola and Gila national forests in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico, and possibly on some areas immediately outside the forests.
The IFT is in the process of contacting private landowners for permission to land on their property to capture a wolf, if necessary, and is coordinating with land management agencies and county sheriff offices on survey operation details. Details of the 2021 wolf population census are anticipated to be available in March 2022.


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Finance in Transition: Principles for a Positive Finance Future
Finance in Transition discusses the transition from traditional finance to transition finance.The current pattern of unsustainable economic development is supported by the global financial system, whose goal function is to create ever more financial value. Traditional finance is based on the concept of shareholder value. This paper develops new principles for a sustainable financial system. These guiding principles are: 1) from shareholder to integrated value, which combines financial, social and environmental value; 2) stewardship based on a direct link between financiers and companies; and 3) capital allocation based on long-term societal value.


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Last night I helped launch of Neighbor to Neighbor Lighting, a free Green Lighting program that will help Connecticut homeowners save on their electricity bills by switching to energy efficient light bulbs. Go Green Lighting!!
Neighbor to Neighbor Lighting is part of the larger Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge. The program is a free and simple first step for homeowners who want to reduce their energy consumption. Seth Leitman, co-author of the book "Green Lighting" – who is often referred to as "the green living guy," took center stage at the program's launch event at Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) to discuss his new book and the importance of energy efficiency.
"If more people in our communities switched to compact fluorescent light bulbs, light emitting diodes, day lighting and other greener lighting options, we would be able to save more than enough energy costs to stop building coal, nuclear and natural gas power plants," Leitman said. "People are afraid of transitioning to CFLs or LEDs because they don't know enough about them. That's why we need to get the word out about green lighting."
"ECSU and Windham are working together to bring the Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge to households throughout the community," said Laurel Kohl, an Education and Training Energy Specialist at ECSU's Institute for Sustainable Energy. "I am pleased how well our community has come together with the campaign to rally our residents around these important money-saving issues."
Lighting accounts for 10 to 15 percent of electricity consumption in an average home, adding up to between $200 and $300 over the course of a year. Switching to energy efficient bulbs can save families at least $100 per year and will greatly reduce the amount of energy wasted through the use of outdated incandescent light bulbs. Neighbor to Neighbor Lighting will provide free lighting consultations and energy efficient light bulb replacements to participating households.
The program is available for a limited-time: only the first 2,000 eligible households in Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge towns will be able to participate. One of the first 250 households to sign up for Neighbor to Neighbor Lighting will be selected to receive a special prize: a personal consultation from Leitman and the Neighbor to Neighbor Clean Energy Corps.
The Neighbor to Neighbor Clean Energy Corps, a team of 10 recent college graduates working with Connecticut residents to reduce energy waste, recently received residential lighting certificates after completing a course from the Lighting Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Clean Energy Corps will visit participating households to perform energy efficient light installations and educate homeowners on efficient lighting technology.
These were the members of the Corps! Hoorah!!"We are so excited to launch Neighbor to Neighbor Lighting," said Bryan Garcia, Chief Community Officer for Earth Markets, the organization that designed the program. "This is another great way that Neighbor to Neighbor is helping residents lower their monthly bills in communities across Connecticut."
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A model for the assessment of flood damages
Flood events repeatedly cause damage amounting to millions. In order to further reduce these monetary damages and to select suitable measures, the province of Upper Austria – Department of Water Management is trying to automatically evaluate the damage potential in a new approach based on the increase of buildings in flood areas. The province of Upper Austria is acting within the framework of its legal task, the analysis of water management development.
RIOCOM, together with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), has developed a method which allows to automatically identify (on the basis of existing digital data) the damage to be expected. At the same time, an algorithm is used to evaluate measures proposed in the flood risk management plan that are suitable for preventing or reducing damages to buildings.
This method has now been automatically applied across all Upper Austrian flood risk areas of the flood risk management plan. The most important findings were presented to the communities and compiled and sent in a community-specific profile.


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Animal affinity (ware-beast) known in Eleme as Nkũ is the practice of establishing like-mindedness with a particular chosen animal through magical arts. The animals that were popularly attractive to the people for whom affinity is established include Mkpɛɛ (Leopard/Tiger), Lion (Nna'oro), Boar (Nji), Ɔjɔ (Python) rarely, etc.
The Nkũ Cult was typical of the Leopard (Ekpe) Society which originated among the Efik and spread throughout West Africa to as far as Brazil and so on. The different being that in Eleme Nkũ Cult was not limited to the Leopard as individual adopts wild and carnivorous animal of his own choice. Those who seek and enter into affinity with these wild beasts always act and behave like their ware-beasts.
Purpose of Ware-Beasts
The Nkũ cult in Eleme was used for the following purposes:
To protect oneself
To threaten an opponent to submission
To Destroy perceived or real enemies' farms
To waylay and kill victims (especially travellers) at random.
Area of Nkũ Activities and Pattern of Operations
The Nkũ Cult was active in almost all the communities of Eleme but residual at Onne its stronghold. Those who belong to the Mkpɛɛ (Leopard) group prefer to dress in leopard skins during operations to waylay travelers with shark-claw like weapons in the form of leopards' claws and teeth. Their victims flesh would be cut from their bodies and distributed to members of the society. They believed that the ritual cannibalism would strengthen members of the society.
These were the exclusive groups of people who were believed to possession by the spirits of carnivorous animals such as leopard/tiger, lion and boar, who carried out ritual killings while in a state of possession.
Unlike the Ekpe society of the Efik that was all men affairs the Mkpɛɛ society in Eleme has both male and female members. Women in Onne and across Eleme joined the ware-beasts cult to protect themselves and love ones, impact terror and fear in their enemies and destroy their crops. In other words, outside protection of oneself the Nkũ cult evolved a dangerous pattern such as targeting animals of enemies in broad daylight and their crops.
As the members of the Nkũ cult continue to abuse their powers by attacking innocent people unnecessarily, killing maiming and destroying properties and farms, the Paramount Ruler of Onne Chief Osarowate Olungwe Obibia (1873 – 1958) ordered that the practice be stopped by commissioning a very powerful deity known as Nsãe'o, whose priestess (Osilaechu Ngooma) was also a member of the Nna'oro (Lion) Society to deflate their powers. Not minding whether her priestess's interest and that of the group she belong will be affected or not the deity has the final say. Killing and destruction of properties must stop and peace and tranquility must return to Onne in particular and Eleme in general.
Role of Osilaechu Ngooma in Abolishing Nkũ Cults in Eleme
Who was Osilaechu? Osilaechu Ngooma was the priestess of Nsãe'o deity. She was born in Ogoloma Onne to Chu Ngooma, a famous medicine man from the deformed Ajoor community of Eleme. When Ajoor was sacked by Akaraolu Siaro of Alode, Chu Ngooma escaped to Ogoloma Onne where he continued practicing the mystical art for which he is well known. He specialized in the cure of diseases like leprosy, epilepsy, madness, elephantiasis and so on. During war was known to have send thousands of bees on attack and was always victorious. He is known for the use of common materials like water (mmu), leaves (Nsãe'o), alligator pepper (okikɛɛ̃), etc. to effect great cures and performance of unimaginable things.
Birth and Marriage of Osilaechu
It was during his exile in Onne that Osilaechu was born and she got married to Chu Kolor also of Ogoloma, Onne. When her father died, she inherited her father's arts and surpassed him. However, she divorced Chu Kolor and got married to Olaka Ollorma of Ejamah Ebubu as his third wives. But despite the fact that Olaka was wealthy, she brought him all the way to her father's house at Onne and there they lived together, abandoning his wives and children at Ejamah.
Osilaechu marriage with Olaka Ollorma lasted for a while and Olaka realized that he was under a great spell and returned to join his family at Ejamah after a fruitless encounter with great mystic woman. Not quite long she remarried for the third time to Richard Ollor of Ogoloma, Onne and they moved their residence to the foreshore at Elee.
Osilaechu and Nkũ Cult
Osilaechu had for her ware-beast (Nkũ) the lion and it could be seen frequently around her house. She sends this beast on errand at will and can transform into the animal within the blink of the eyes.
Osilaechu did many astonishing things and she believed that merely punishing somebody through mystical powers was not an offence. What she was opposed to was killing a human being. In 1959 she inflicted her husband with hernia for denying her conjugal rights. It took the intervention of her husband's relations and elders for her to withdraw the spell after performing the necessary sacrifice and within two days the mountain of hernia disappeared.
Osilaechu and Nsãe'o Shrin
So many people were deceived by the simplicity of her Nsãe'o shrine – a small pot that was always filled with water, one sugarcane, oyster, crab and periwinkle shells. With water from that pot she brought about instant cures, banished evil spirits, ends court cases and other disputes, won competitions in favour of persons who sought her help. With that same water she caused invisibility for as long as desirable for a particular engagement. She also provided security cover to those who sought her services. For many years she protected Chief Osarowate by ordering a lion to guard him wherever he went until his dead in 1958.
Unwholesome Practice of Nkũ Cult
During this time Onne people were maintaining several ware-beasts (Nkũ) that is, Leopards/Tigers, Lions, Boars, etc. A leopard can suddenly emerge even at daytime and carry away a goat belonging to any person they wanted to punish. This power was largely abused and many innocent people were being harassed, the peace of the communities threatened and living was becoming more violent and intolerable.
Abolition of Nkũ Cults in Eleme
This unwholesome practice forced Chief Osarowate to appeal to Osilaechu to come to the aid of Onne in particular and Eleme in general by abolishing the menace of leopard cult and other ware-beasts cults that have been terrorizing the people and scare the ware-beasts away from all the communities. The necessary materials were procured and sacrifice was made to Nsãe'o deity with an instruction that all ware-beasts be chased away from the communities. It took the Nsãe'o Deity only five local weekdays to accomplished the task.
That was the end of the Nkũ Cults in Onne and Eleme till today. Since then people can no more send wild beasts to destroy crops (or animals) in their enemies' farms, waylay, attack and terrify travellers or kill people just for the fun of it. But, the nickname Mkpɛɛ, Nnaoro' etc. are still common place.
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Monday, 30 March 2020
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quote object => object
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The quote special operator just returns object.
The consequences are undefined if literal objects (including quoted objects) are destructively modified.
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Affected By: None.
Exceptional Situations: None.
Section 3.1 (Evaluation), Section 2.4.3 (Single-Quote), Section 3.2.1 (Compiler Terminology)
The textual notation 'object is equivalent to (quote object); see Section 3.2.1 (Compiler Terminology).
Some objects, called self-evaluating objects, do not require quotation by quote. However, symbols and lists are used to represent parts of programs, and so would not be useable as constant data in a program without quote. Since quote suppresses the evaluation of these objects, they become data rather than program.


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Example of the Penalty Structure in the OVDP Process
The Criminal Investigative unit is charged with assessing the penalty structure. The structure itself is nonnegotiable and the examiner lacks discretion to make any adjustments. The following is an example prepared by the IRS:
The values of OVDP assets are aggregated for each year and the offshore penalty is calculated at the applicable rate (either 27.5 percent or 50 percent) of the highest year's aggregate value during the period covered by the voluntary disclosure.
If the taxpayer has multiple OVDP assets where the highest value of some OVDP assets is in different years, the values of OVDP assets are aggregated for each year and a single offshore penalty is calculated at the applicable rate of the highest year's aggregate value.
For example, assume the taxpayer had the following amounts in a foreign financial account over the period covered by his voluntary disclosure. It is assumed for purposes of the example that the $1,000,000 was in the account before 2005 and was not unreported income in 2005.
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(NOTE: This example does not provide for compound interest, and assumes the taxpayer is in the 35-percent tax bracket, does not have an investment in a Passive Foreign Investment Company (PFIC) and files a return but does not include the foreign financial account or the interest income on the return. This example further assumes that the taxpayer is subject to a 27.5 percent offshore penalty.)
Under the OVDP Process
If the taxpayer in the above example comes forward and his voluntary disclosure is accepted by the IRS, he faces this potential scenario:
He would pay $553,000 plus interest. This includes:
- Tax of $140,000 (8 years at $17,500) plus interest,
- An accuracy-related penalty of $28,000 (i.e., $140,000 x 20%), and
- A miscellaneous offshore penalty of $385,000 (i.e., $1,400,000 x 27.5%).
If the taxpayer didn't come forward, when the IRS discovered his tax and FBAR noncompliance, he would have to pay substantially more in penalties. The taxpayer would also be liable for interest and possibly additional penalties, and an examination could lead to criminal prosecution.
Outside the OVDP Process
The civil liabilities outside the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program potentially include:
- The tax, accuracy-related penalties, and, if applicable, the failure-to-file and failure-to-pay penalties, plus interest, as described above,
- FBAR penalties totaling up to $3,825,000 for willful failures to file complete and correct FBARs (2007 - $575,000, 2008 - $600,000, 2009 - $625,000, 2010 - $650,000, and 2011 - $675,000, and 2012 - $700,000),
- The potential of having the fraud penalty (75 percent) apply, and
- The potential of substantial additional information return penalties if the foreign financial account is held through a foreign entity such as a trust or corporation and required information returns were not filed.
Case Resolution in the OVDP Process
Assuming the taxpayers and the service can successfully negotiate all of the above twists and turns, the case will be resolved by a written agreement known as a closing agreement. The taxpayer will pay all taxes, interest, and penalties. In addition they will agree to abide by the tax laws going forward, and the matter will be resolved. As previously mentioned to date, $6.5 billion of tax revenue has been collected under the OVDP process and its predecessor programs. If an agreement cannot be reached, the taxpayer has the right to opt out of the program as discussed in the next section.
Questions about the OVDP process? Please give our office a call.


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What are the main differences between hyper-converged and converged infrastructures?
The main difference is that hyper-converged infrastructures are defined by software and completely transparent. In this type of infrastructure, components cannot be separated in the same way as in the converged ones, but they are more flexible and customizable.
The flexibility of hyper-converged infrastructures makes them more scalable and cost-effective, because you can add, for example, more storage blocks as needed. In the converged ones, this option isn't possible, since it is necessary to add whole packages, what makes them more expensive.
The initial costs of both technologies may seem high, but in the long term they are cheaper, because you only have to update them once.
Storage is another of the differences, since in the case of the convergent, it is directly connected to the physical server.
Hyper-converged infrastructures feature a storage controller that runs on all nodes of a cluster to improve the scalability and resilience. The storage logic controller is a piece of software that is attached to each virtual machine at hypervisor level, and software-defined storage leads all local storage through the cluster and configures it as a single storage pool. This allows to keep data that require fast response time locally and those used less frequently are stored on servers with more space.
If you want to learn more about this type of infrastructure, read the full article in English by SearchVirtualDesktop


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The 3D-bolt in ADINA
In the constructions of many structures, bolts are used to hold structural parts together, and there can be many bolts in a model of a structure. It is important to be able to model the bolts and their interactions with the parts of the structure effectively.
Some difficulties in modeling bolts are that each bolt has to carry a prescribed tension or shortening after its application, and the tightening of bolts is to be carried out in a given sequence in order to ensure an overall acceptable structural behavior.
Since there can be many bolts in the structure, the modeling needs to be effective.
In this News we briefly highlight the 3D-bolt option in ADINA. As shown in Figure 1, the program also offers the beam-bolt option but the accuracy of modeling a bolt is clearly higher when using the 3D-bolt feature.
The supported bolt-type loadings are:
In both of these cases, the deformations of the rest of the structure are considered — meaning that after a bolt loading has been applied, the axial force in the bolt, or the reduction in length, has the given value and acts upon the rest of the structure, causing structural deformations.
Using ADINA, of course, any number of bolts can be included in the model. The bolts can all be loaded simultaneously, or the bolts can be loaded sequentially.
To introduce a 3D-bolt in the model, a 3D element group is designated as a 3D-bolt. The direction of the bolt is defined by a cutting plane, and then the geometry of the 3D-bolt is arbitrary. The bolt can be governed by small or large displacements, small or large strains, the sides and faces of the elements representing the bolt can be straight or curved, and any material model, any number of nodes per element, and contact conditions can be used. The mixed u/p formulation and the incompatible modes formulation can be employed.
Figures 2 and 3 below are given to define a simple problem in which the 3D-bolt ADINA analysis feature is used.
The two parts of the bracket are bolted together. After the parts are bolted together, the
tension in the bolt is to be 2000 N and thereafter a pressure load is applied.
In this model, the bolt and nut combination is modeled using a 3D-bolt element group, see Figure 4. The bolt element group and bracket element groups are allowed to come into contact. Some results of the analysis are given in Figures 5 and 6.
The movie at the top shows the stress vectors in the bolt and nut.
This capability of modeling bolts is a very powerful ADINA feature for structural analysis
and is quite easy to use for the various analysis options mentioned above — including general nonlinear analyses and multiphysics simulations.


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LONDON (AP) — U.K. health officials are increasing their surveillance for any potential disease outbreaks that could disrupt the London Olympics this summer.
An estimated 3 million visitors are expected to descend on the city during July and August, bringing with them viruses and bacteria from around the world.
At a meeting Tuesday of international disease experts, some said even though an outbreak was unlikely, officials couldn't take the risk of not being prepared for the Olympics, which are taking place from July 27 to Aug. 12.
"No news will be good news," said John McConnell, editor of the Lancet Infectious Diseases, which co-sponsored the meeting on health in mass gatherings.
He said large sports events like the Olympics typically have not had major outbreaks in the past.
But to get ready, British health authorities are boosting checks for infectious diseases and increasing labs' capacity to test samples. During the games, officials will get daily health reports on potential trouble spots and first-aid clinics will operate at event sites.
Britain's Health Protection Agency said it will mostly be looking for ailments like flu, diarrhea and respiratory illnesses but its surveillance system should be able to pick up rarer infections.
Scientists from Saudi Arabia shared their experiences from monitoring the Hajj, the world's largest annual mass gathering, which draws more than 2.5 million religious pilgrims to Mecca every year. Nearly 200,000 people come from developing countries, and the event helped spread polio outbreaks several years ago from Nigeria to Indonesia.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises Americans planning to travel to Britain to ensure they're up to date on their routine vaccinations, including measles. Europe has yearly outbreaks of the highly infectious disease.
Last month, the top doctor for Britain's Olympic team advised athletes not to shake hands to avoid catching any diseases.
McConnell dismissed that advice as "utterly unrealistic," noting infections were passed on just as easily by touching contaminated surfaces.
"You are just as likely to catch something by touching a dirty handrail... so there's no reason not to shake hands," he said.


Language Centre Resources - Luganda
Ganda / Luganda
A Niger-Congo language and a member of the Bantu group of languages, spoken by c. 3.5 million people mainly in Buganda (south-east Uganda), between Lake Victoria and Lake Kyogo.
Ganda developed over centuries as a spoken language. It was not until after the second half of the 19th century that the language was first written down and appeared in print. The standard orthography of Ganda was introduced in 1947. The language is written in the Roman alphabet, consisting of 24 characters.
Tone in Ganda is of cardinal phonemic importance, which is probably a general characteristic of most present-day Bantu languages.
Sometimes the generic term Ganda is used to refer to the people, their language and customs.
CLASSIFICATION = Niger-Congo family SCRIPT = Roman
Luganda : basic course LUGAN CBEG 2
Yiga Oluganda = Learn Luganda LUGAN CBEG 1(CD-ROM)
The essentials of Luganda -- 4th ed LUGAN GRAM 1
A Luganda Grammar LUGAN GRAM 2(PACK)
Luganda-English : phrase book for tourists -- 4th ed. LUGAN VOCAB 1


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(Medical Xpress) -- When learning to master complex movements such as those required in surgery, is being physically guided by an expert more effective than learning through trial and error?
New research by Monash Universitys Departments of Psychological Studies and Physiology challenges earlier claims that externally guided (or passive) movement is a superior learning method to self-generated (or active) movement.
In the first study of its kind, researchers discovered that different brain regions become active depending on the type of movement used. Lead researcher Dr. George Van Doorn, head of Psychological Studies, said the findings did not support the view that passive movement was a more effective way to learn.
There has been much debate over the last 30 years about which form of movement is better, Dr. Van Doorn said.
We found that active movements result in greater activation in brain areas implicated in higher-order processes such as monitoring and controlling goal-directed behaviour, attention, execution of movements, and error detection.
Passive movements, in contrast, produced greater activity in areas associated with touch perception, length discrimination, tactile object recognition, and the attenuation of sensory inputs.
People were tested while making movements themselves, and while being guided.
Whilst inside a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) machine, we had people either freely move their index finger around a two-dimensional, raised-line pattern to measure self-generated touch. Or we had an experimenter guide the persons finger around the pattern, to measure externally generated touch. Using the fMRI, we found that different brain regions become active depending on the type of movement used, Dr. Van Doorn said.
Dr. Van Doorn said touch was becoming a popular area of investigation, with more scientists contributing to understanding about this important, though under-acknowledged, sensory system.
All researchers involved in this study are located at Monash Universitys Gippsland campus. The study findings were presented at EuroHaptics 2012, a major international conference and the primary European meeting for researchers in the field of human haptic sensing and touch-enabled computer applications.


Tuesday, February 14, 2012
How to get changed properties for an entity in Entity Framework
Sometimes it can be useful to find exactly which entities that have been changed before saving to the database. The most basic for check for changes it to look at the EntityState property, but this does not indicate what properties that have been changed.
To get these changes we have to use the ObjectStateManager on ObjectContext. The ObjectStateManager handles the state of all entities, and can supplied a lot of other different state information about the entities.
First we always need to get the ObjectStateEntry for the entity, this a done by calling ObjectStateManager.GetObjectStateEntry.
TestEntities entities = new TestEntities();
// Query for entity and make some changes
// To get the object state entry
var stateEntry = entities.ObjectStateManager.GetObjectStateEntry(changedEntity);
To check which properties that have changed we just do
IEnumerable modifiedProperties = stateEntry.GetModifiedProperties();
We can also get all the original and current values for the entity using
CurrentValueRecord currentValues = stateEntry.CurrentValues;
DbDataRecord originalValues = stateEntry.OriginalValues;
These two objects can are accessed by column ordinal, which you may or may not know before, but luckily there is a method to get the ordinal from a column name. To get the current and/or original value for an entity, do the following
var currentValue = currentValues.GetValue(currentValues.GetOrdinal(propertyName));
var originalValue = originalValues.GetValue(originalValues.GetOrdinal(propertyName));
Not all properties are correctly marked as changed
When using this method to generate a custom audit trail, I discovered a weird behavior in Entity Framework. Everything but the primary key, are marked as modified even though it only was "changed" to the original value. And this does not work in an audit trail.
There are two ways to solve this either manual check if a property actually has been changed, or change to generate classes for the entities. The last solution are described in my previous post, Entity Framework should only mark really updated properties as modified
The other solution is to check if the current value equals the original value using the methods described above. An example could be
var stateEntry = objectStateManager.GetObjectStateEntry(entity);
var currentValues = stateEntry.CurrentValues;
var originalValues = stateEntry.OriginalValues;
var modifiedProperties = stateEntry.GetModifiedProperties();
foreach (string modifiedProperty in modifiedProperties)
 var currentValue = currentValues.GetValue(currentValues.GetOrdinal(modifiedProperty));
 var originalValue = originalValues.GetValue(originalValues.GetOrdinal(modifiedProperty));
 if (originalValue.Equals(currentValue))
 // Value not changed
 // Value changed
1 comment:
 1. Thanks, this made it very easy to implement and prevent the annoying save when nothing changed.
 We replaced line 9 with following since some DB values are Char and we trim before saving.
 if (originalValue.Equals(currentValue) || (originalValue.GetType() == typeof(string) && ((string)originalValue).Trim().Equals(((string)currentValue).Trim())))


Chiese Food Restaurant Sign
"Chiese Food" sign on a Chinese food restaurant.
"Chiese Food" sign on a Chinese food restaurant.
When I lived in Singapore, I used to joke about the misspelled English words I saw everywhere, or the jumbles of random phrases used as shirt slogans. Having English on the shirt made it foreign and cool, I suppose. After working on learning two foreign languages (Arabic and Hebrew), I'm not nearly so critical of spelling mistakes by non-native speakers. Remembering vocabulary is a pain.
However, I can't help but find it amusing that a person would misspell their own nationality on a manufactured neon sign placed in the window of a restaurant that sells said nationality's food (or the Americanized version of it anyway).
How do you open a Chinese food restaurant and put up a sign for Chiese Food? Was it really poor business management, or a clever attempt to draw attention? Or did the guy purposefully misspell it because he knew that what he's selling isn't truly Chinese food? American Chinese food is nothing like what I ate in Singapore, which in most ways is far superior.
This particular establishment is on Amsterdam Avenue between 169th and 170th.


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20. Christian Headstone with Canopy
Yuan dynasty (1272—1368)
Quanzhou Maritime Museum
Ricci 20 KP 020 Z24
A canopy or parasol was used in ancient India to protect kings and other royals from the sun, and it subsequently became a symbol of power and prestige. It was natural to use a canopy in association with the Buddha as he had been a prince before attaining enlightenment. It can be seen in the early Buddhist art of India, and was transmitted to Central Asia and China where it appears, for example, at Dunhuang. A similar canopy to the one shown on this tombstone can be seen on a panel relief on the Eastern pagoda of the Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, completed about 1250.
The discovery of the canopy's presence on Christian tombstones of the Mongol period is quite remarkable, and yet explicable in the context of the multiculturalism of Quanzhou. The canopy has tassels or streamers dangling from it and protects the cross emerging from an open lotus flower.


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Holy Grail in America
Has the Holy Grail been in America all along? In 1898, a Minnesota farmer uprooted a large stone covered with mysterious runes that tell a story of land acquisition and murder. Initially thought to be a hoax, new evidence suggests that the find, allegedly dating to 1362, could be real–and a clue that the Knights Templar discovered America 100 years before Columbus. Follow along as experts use erosion studies on the rune stone and match symbols in Templar ruins in Europe to support this theory. 100 minutes.


Nuclear physicist who worked for the CIA, executed in Iran
Source : 112 Ukraine
On penalty reported scientist's relatives, after his body was returned to his native city
15:38, 7 August 2016
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Iranian nuclear physicist Shahram Amiri, who lived a long time in the USA was executed in Tehran. This was reported by the scientist's family, according to BBC. On penalty reported Amiri's relatives, when his body was returned to his native city. They found the traces of rope around the neck of the scientist.
Shahram Amiri in 2009 went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and then disappeared and appeared in the United States, where, as reported he was kept by force by the CIA. US denied any involvement in the abduction. In 2010, ABC News channel reported that a nuclear physicist fled to the United States and helped the CIA to gather information on Iran's nuclear program. Subsequently, the White House said that the scientist willfully fled to the United States and gave Washington the important information.
In 2010, Amiri returned to Tehran, where he was greeted as a hero. However, after this he fell under long period of imprisonment.
Related: Iran is first to ban Pokémon Go
Related: Iranian oil might be transported to Central Europe via Ukraine
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Use multiple Ledger devices
The Ledger Live application can be used with multiple Ledger devices. You can either use multiple devices yourself or share a computer with multiple people each owning a device(s).
Add accounts from multiple devices
A Ledger device gives access to the crypto asset accounts associated with the 24-word recovery phrase it was configured with.
Devices with different recovery phrases
If you have set up multiple devices with different recovery phrases, each device controls a different set of accounts. In that case, follow these tips:
 - First, add the accounts linked to the first device, and repeat for your other device(s).
 - Name the accounts such as to know which device it belongs to, assuming that you've labeled the devices.
 - Always connect the device that controls the selected account when sending or receiving
Devices with the same recovery phrase
If you've set up one device and restored the same recovery phrase on another, both devices control the same accounts. In that case, both hardware wallets can be used interchangeably with Ledger Live. You can freely add accounts, as well as verify and sign transactions with either of the two devices.
Share a computer with multiple people
To share a computer with multiple owners of a Ledger device:
 - Add a user account in your operating system for each person.
 - Log in to your personal user account to use Ledger Live with your hardware wallet(s).
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Volatility surface and term structure high-profit options trading strategies
Volatility smiles are implied volatility patterns that arise in pricing financial options. It corresponds to finding one single parameter implied volatility that is needed to be modified for the Black-Scholes formula to fit volatility surface and term structure high-profit options trading strategies prices.
In particular for a given expiration, options whose strike price differs substantially from the underlying asset's price command higher prices and thus implied volatilities than what is suggested by standard option pricing models. These options are said to be either deep in-the-money or out-of-the-money. Graphing implied volatilities against strike prices for a given expiry yields a skewed "smile" instead of the expected flat surface.
The pattern differs across various markets. Equity options traded in American markets did not show a volatility smile before the Crash of but began showing one afterwards. This anomaly implies deficiencies in the standard Black-Scholes option pricing model which assumes constant volatility and log-normal distributions of underlying asset returns. Empirical asset returns distributions, however, tend to exhibit fat-tails kurtosis and skew. Modelling the volatility smile is an active area of research in quantitative financeand better pricing models such as the stochastic volatility model partially address this issue.
A related concept is that of term structure of volatilitywhich describes how implied volatility surface and term structure high-profit options trading strategies differs for related options with different maturities. An implied volatility surface is a 3-D plot that plots volatility smile and term structure of volatility in a consolidated three-dimensional surface for all options on a given underlying asset.
In the Black—Scholes model, the theoretical value of a vanilla option is a monotonic increasing function of the volatility of the underlying asset. This means it is usually possible to compute a unique implied volatility from a given market price for an option.
This implied volatility is best regarded as a rescaling of option prices which makes comparisons between different strikes, expirations, and underlyings easier and more intuitive.
When implied volatility is plotted against strike pricethe resulting graph is typically downward sloping for equity markets, or valley-shaped for currency markets. For markets where the graph is downward sloping, such as for equity options, the term " volatility skew " volatility surface and term structure high-profit options trading strategies often used. For other markets, such as FX options or equity index options, where the typical graph turns up at either end, the more familiar term " volatility smile " is used.
For example, the implied volatility for upside i. However, the implied volatilities of options on foreign exchange contracts volatility surface and term structure high-profit options trading strategies to rise in both the downside and upside directions. In equity markets, a small tilted smile is often observed near the money as a kink in the general downward sloping implicit volatility graph. Sometimes the term "smirk" is used to describe a skewed smile.
Market practitioners use the term implied-volatility to indicate the volatility parameter for ATM at-the-money option. Adjustments to this value are undertaken by incorporating the values of Risk Reversal and Flys Skews to determine the actual volatility measure that may be used for options with a delta which is not Butterflyon the other hand, is a strategy consisting of: It is helpful to note that implied volatility is related to historical volatilitybut the two are distinct.
Implied volatility, in contrast, is determined by the market price of the derivative contract itself, and not the underlying. Therefore, different derivative contracts on the same underlying have different implied volatilities as a function of their own supply and demand dynamics. For options of different maturities, we also see characteristic differences in implied volatility. However, in this volatility surface and term structure high-profit options trading strategies, the volatility surface and term structure high-profit options trading strategies effect is related to the market's implied impact of upcoming events.
For instance, it is well-observed that realized volatility for stock prices rises significantly on the day that a company reports its earnings. Correspondingly, we see that implied volatility for options will rise during the period prior to the earnings announcement, and then fall again as soon as the stock price absorbs the new information. Options that mature earlier exhibit a larger swing in implied volatility sometimes called "vol of vol" than options with longer maturities. Other option markets show other behavior.
For instance, options on commodity futures typically show increased implied volatility just prior to the announcement of harvest forecasts. Options on US Treasury Bill futures show increased implied volatility just prior to meetings of the Federal Reserve Board when changes in short-term interest rates are announced.
The market incorporates many other types of events into the term structure of volatility. For instance, the impact of upcoming results of a drug trial can cause implied volatility swings for pharmaceutical stocks. The anticipated resolution date of patent litigation can impact technology stocks, etc. Volatility term structures list the relationship between implied volatilities and time to expiration. The term structures provide another method for traders to gauge cheap or expensive options.
It is often useful to plot implied volatility as a function of both strike price and time to maturity. This defines the absolute implied volatility surface ; changing coordinates so that the price is replaced by delta yields the relative implied volatility surface. The implied volatility surface simultaneously shows both volatility smile and term structure of volatility.
Option traders use an implied volatility plot to quickly determine the shape of the implied volatility surface, and to identify any areas where the slope of the plot and therefore relative implied volatilities seems out of line. The graph shows an implied volatility surface for all the put options on a particular underlying stock price. The Z-axis represents implied volatility in percent, and X and Y axes represent the option delta, and the days to maturity. Note that to maintain put-call paritya 20 delta put must have the same implied volatility as an 80 delta call.
For this surface, we can see that the underlying symbol has both volatility skew a tilt along the delta axisas well as a volatility term structure indicating an anticipated event in the near future. An implied volatility surface is static: How the surface changes as the spot changes is called the evolution of the implied volatility surface. Methods of modelling the volatility surface and term structure high-profit options trading strategies smile include stochastic volatility models and local volatility models.


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OpenDCL 7.0 is now officially released as a stable version after over 2 years of development and testing. The new release adds support for AutoCAD, Bricscad, and ZWCAD+ on Microsoft Windows, giving the growing number of lisp developers a user interface framework with the same cross platform support as their programming language.
Archive for the 'Studio/Editor' Category
The Localization Project for OpenDCL has begun. He's a screenshot of the first pass at translating the properties window to German.
Other languages are currently underway.
If you'd like to help out in the translation process, please follow this link and let us know.
Over the last few builds (alpha 3-5), there have been a number of new features that have been added to OpenDCL 5. Here is a quick recap if you haven't been keeping up. Remember these new functions are still an Alpha work in progress, so make a backup before converting your existing projects. (Click on the thumbnail images below to see an enlarged version of them. Some are short videos showing the new stuff in action)
- Palette forms are now available.
- Here you'll see how to insert the palette in the editor.
- Most controls have a new Drag & Drop framework that allows them to handle the Drag & Drop events without any Lisp code at all.
- Most controls now have a transparent background.
- Now you can import an image with a transparent background into a picture box. Set the background color of the image to 192,192,192, then set the picture box background to transparent.
- A new delay function has been added: (dcl_DelayedInvoke ). This function executes a command after a set period of time (specified in milliseconds). If the command name starts with "c:", it will call the lisp function with that name. It also runs in the background, so you can keep working in Acad while the timer is still running. Unlike (command ".DELAY") where it freezes Acad & waits until the timer is done. This can be used for things like splash screens or other time-controlled activities, maybe a file system watcher or a chat application.
- Check boxes now support three states, and their 'Value' property is no longer a boolean, but an integer (0 = Unchecked, 1 = Checked, 2 = Indeterminate). Therefore, if you had code that checked whether a check box was checked via (if (dcl_Control_GetValue ) …), you'll need to change this to (if (= 1 (dcl_Control_GetValue )) …)
As Owen mentioned in his last post, OpenDCL 4.1 now supports Windows Visual Styles. So what's that mean? As you've probably noticed, each major version of Windows comes with a new set of visual styles or themes (Win2000, XP,


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Given vectors V and W, we wish to write V as the sum of a) a vector parallel to W; b) a vector perpendicular to W.
Summary: Given V and W (W had better not be 0) the vector perp. = V - (VW/WW)W has the two properties (1) perp. is perpendicular to W, and (2) (perp.) + (proj. of V on W) = V.


The Italian Wolf
Italian Wolf (Canis lupus italicus)
The Italian Wolf, also known as the Apennine Wolf, was originally described in 1921 as subspecies Canis lupus italicus of the common grey wolf by Italian zoologist Joseph Altobello. However, in 1999 it was recognized as a species distinct from Canis lupus. There is presently a dispute over whether the Canis lupus italicus is a grey wolf subspecies or an actual species of its own, Canis italicus.
Italian Wolf (Canis lupus italicus) HABITAT
The Italian wolf is found mainly in the Apennine Mountains in Italy. They have been found dwelling within 25 miles of Rome. Semi-recently, they have implanted themselves in Southern France, and areas of Switzerland.
By grey wolf standards, the Italian wolf is considered a medium sized subspecies. Their body size varies from 39 to 55 inches in length and weighs 53 to 88 pounds. Females are roughly 10 percent smaller than males. Italian wolves are usually a mix of grey and brown. Though rarely seen, black wolves have been sighted in the Mugello region and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.
Italian wolves are known to hunt at night, feeding mainly on both medium and small sized animals such as wild boar, roe deer, and red deer, chamois, elk, hares, and rabbits. They will also feed on plants, berries, and herbs for fiber. When around the suburb, wolves will feed on garbage, livestock and domestic animals.
Because of the rarity of large prey, wolf packs in Italy are often smaller, comprised of just a reproducing pair and a few young.
Italian Pup in France (Canis lupus italicus) BREEDING
Young wolves usually stay with their birth family until they are old enough to start their own family. Mating season usually occurs around the middle of March. Gestation will then last for 60 days, after which the mother gives birth to anywhere from 2 to 7 pups.
By the end of the 1920's, wolves throughout the alps and Sicily were annihilated. Their number was also severely reduced in the Appennine regions, all from fierce persecutions. The wolf population in Italy continued to decrease until the early 1970's when Luigi Boitani and Eric Zimen took on a study of the wolf in the Abruzzo Mountains, east of Rome. As a result, the World Conservation Union expressed great interest in the wolf, listing it in the IUCN's Red Data Book of endangered species. The italian wolf population in the wild has since increased to between 500 and 600 and is estimated to be growing by 7 percent annually.
Their largest apparent threat at present is a large number of wolf-dog hybrids altering the genetic integrity of the Italian wolf. A captive breeding program has been started by biologists. However, further controls on the number of domestic dogs are badly needed.
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