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The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance regularly delivers workshops to our community and labour allies. Below are sample workshops that may interest your organization. Please contact us if you're interested in one of these workshops or if you would like a workshop designed specifically for your group or event!
Building Allyship among Racialized and Indigenous Workers, An Intersectional Consideration
Strengthen the capacity of Racialized and Indigenous workers to build relationships between and among each other based in an intersectional approach rooted in Racialized and Indigenous experiences (not white-centred).
- Consider privilege in the context of intersections of their own identities
- Develop a working understanding of allyship for Racialized and Indigenous identities
- Assess which Racialized or Indigenous voices are missing from your Union, Community, or Workplace
- Outline and assess barriers to an intersectional approach to allyship in their workplace, union, and community
- Explore ways to overcome barriers and ensure your workplace, union, and community are more inclusive of a broad spectrum of intersecting Racialized and Indigenous identities.
Environmental Racism and Work in a Warming World
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to do the following:
- Explain what environmental racism is and how it impacts Racialized and Indigenous communities in Canada;
- Describe the connection between environmental racism and the workplace;
- Explain how Racialized and Indigenous workers have been marginalized by the Green Jobs Revolution;
- Identify ways for Racialized and Indigenous trade unionists and community activists to take leadership roles in fighting climate change and environmental racism in our communities, workplaces, and unions;
- Identify tools, resources, and actions to challenge the social-economic inequities that Racialized and Indigenous communities face in accessing good green jobs.


Don't get left with a mess on your land! For California landlords leasing to cannabis businesses, we've previously discussed how compliance with state and... California Cannabis Leases: Remediation Indemnification is Key
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Don't get left with a mess on your land!
For California landlords leasing to cannabis businesses, we've previously discussed how compliance with state and local law, perhaps even more so than the specter of federal enforcement, should be a top concern when structuring the tenancy and drafting the lease. As the state ramps up its efforts to transition the industry to a robust regulatory regime, one result of those efforts that is playing out across the state is that cultivator tenants, particularly outdoor grows, are abandoning their cultivation operations rather than paying for cleanup or dealing with state or local enforcement actions.
Sometimes this is due to a lack of wherewithal to become a licensed operation and pay the costs of compliance. Other times it's due to a change in local law that renders the operation a nonconforming use. And still other times it's the result of a private or government-initiated nuisance action (although these actions can sometimes create other problems). But the result is often the same: The property is left abandoned and trashed, cannabis growing material such as dangerous fertilizers are left spread across the site, and, often, illegal stream diversions or alterations have been illegally constructed, posing a threat to wildlife, water quality, and natural water drainage systems. The result is an environmental disaster and a landlord left holding the bag, often with a hefty administrative fine or nuisance abatement assessment to boot. Below are some of the many considerations that should go into structuring a cannabis lease when it comes to preventing these types of situations from happening in the first place.
 1. Reviewing tenant SOPs as part of the vetting process. Before even putting pen to paper on a lease, landlords should consider requiring potential tenants to produce their standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other relevant cultivation planning documents to demonstrate what materials they will be using to cultivate, where they will be obtaining their water, how they will be disposing of waste, and how the site layout will be organized. Much of this information will have to be provided to local and state agencies anyways in order for the tenant to obtain its cultivation licenses and permits. The lease can also include tenant obligations to list all hazardous materials it intends to use at the site and to provide material safety data sheets (MSDS) for each. If the tenant doesn't have a proper site use plan in place before they sign a lease, then chances are things will not end well for the landlord.
 2. Maintaining strict control over tenant improvements in the lease and allowing for discretionary inspection. Commercial cannabis is a strictly regulated industry (for good reason), and the lease should afford similar control for the landlord over how a tenant uses the leased premises. Indoor cultivation leases may require discretionary landlord approval at multiple stages for any alterations to the building, and outdoor cultivation leases may also require the same level of approval for changes to the land, however insignificant. The lease can give teeth to these restrictions by allowing for landlord and government inspections, and affording the landlord early termination options for a tenant's failure to comply.
 3. Including strong tenant indemnifications for remediation. Indemnity clauses provide a guaranty that a tenant will hold the landlord harmless and defend it against certain types of claims. A common such clause pertains to remediation of hazardous substances on site, where the tenant promises to pay for any costs associated with spills or contamination. Cannabis cultivation leases can add to that by including cleanup costs for any damages caused or messes left behind by cultivation operations, and defense costs for any governmental remediation actions or private nuisance actions requiring abatement.
 4. Including early termination options for government enforcement actions and third-party lawsuits. If the government or a private actor sues the landlord or the tenant because the tenant is causing a nuisance by creating a mess (and not just by conducting the permitted use—another example of a carve-out that tenants will want to include), the landlord will want to be able to abate the problem quickly by terminating the tenancy and enforcing the tenant's indemnity obligations. To that end, the lease can include a landlord early termination option to end the tenancy and evict the tenant on short notice, should the landlord opt not to deal with convincing the tenant to comply.
 5. Adjusting the security deposit to the size of the cultivation operation. While commercial security deposits are normally one or two months' rent, there's nothing requiring them to be. Because the stakes for noncompliance are so high in this industry, landlords may consider upping the deposit to an amount sufficient to properly deal with a cleanup of the tenant's operation, should tenant fail to comply and abandon the premises. The lease can also be written so that the security deposit essentially acts as a bond for performance of the indemnification obligations, though in California there are necessary statutory waivers to be included in the lease.
California is serious about dragging its cannabis industry into regulatory compliance, and that includes a lot of cultivation site cleanup and forward-looking maintenance. California is also extremely serious about compliance with its environmental laws, as the world already knows, and we are fortunate for that. Landlords should be aware of the consequences of the leased premises turning into a nuisance or environmental violation, and consider how to build the tenancy to protect against such problems from the get-go by drafting a proper lease agreement. When everyone's on the same page about strict compliance and good environmental stewardship, everybody wins.
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An increasing series of new studies show that moderate amounts of alcohol, such as beer and wine, may actually prove beneficial to your health. This has caused many people to wonder why getting drunk is so bad and why restaurants are forced to cut people off from drinking any more in their establishment.
For those who have been injured by a drunken person in Texoma, the answer is clear. However, some people still question the dram shop law that requires bartenders to stop serving when a person appears or acts intoxicated.
The Dangers of Intoxicated People and How They Hurt Others
When used in excess, alcohol can have a serious impact on the person drinking and on those around him. Here are two of the most common ways people are hurt by drunks in Texoma.
- Car Accidents. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a person is killed in an alcohol-related crash every 45 minutes in the United States. Many of these people drive from a restaurant where they were served alcohol in excess, putting themselves and others on the road around them in jeopardy.
- Bar Fights. When a person drinks too much, he often takes on a different personality. This can cause him to have a looser tongue or lose his sense of reasonable judgment. When this happens, a bar fight can break out, causing you or someone around you to be seriously hurt.
When someone overindulges in alcohol, the effects are not always limited to his body alone. All too often, those around them pay the toll. For this reason, bartenders and servers are required to stop people from drinking excessively and becoming intoxicated in public.
You Have Options If a Texoma Drunk Person Hurts You
If you were seriously hurt in a car accident or bar fight by someone who was served too much alcohol, you have rights! Find out where the person drank, and then contact a Texoma dram shop attorney to start your case against the bartender who over-served him alcohol. These cases are complex and require a great deal of research, but they can be proven and won, so you are not left to pay the price for the mistakes someone made while drunk.


text: This documentary explores the 7/7 cold case via new evidence from the recent inquests and discusses the war on terror in the context of numerous miscarriages of justice and acts of violence committed by the state. The first section of the film examines the history of the British state's use of double agents, from the Victorian Anarchists through WW2 to the war in Northern Ireland. It concludes by examining contemporary cases of injustice and violence carried out as part of the war of terror against Muslims. The second section of the film is a multi-dimensional study of the new evidence made available at the recent inquests. It looks at the evidence of a wider conspiracy and the fundamental flaws in the official narrative and the police investigation. It also discusses why the dialogue about 'intelligence failures' itself fails to address the very real possibility of state involvement in the attacks. The final section of the film returns to the Anarchists and the case of Martial Bourdin, Britain's first suicide bomber, in 1894. The mythology surrounding Bourdin is used as a foundation for examining the numerous films, tv shows training exercises and real life events that either predicted 7/7 or were influenced by the attacks. The question of conspiracy theories is addressed through an original analysis unique to this film. 7/7 Crime and Prejudice combines a presentation of the cutting edge of July 7th research with a deeply contextual analysis that casts light on largely unexamined aspects of the war on terror.

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text: The article explores repetition as a meaningful component of artistic structure. The author discusses problematic aspects of interpretation of a certain principle in musicology, pointing to the contradiction between information properties of repetition, and dynamics of artistic structure deployment in real time. In connection to this article, a special attention is paid to the psychological component of music perception using exact repetition. Cognitive psychological processes are considered, also their functional organization of repetition. As a practical perspective to the study of the subject, results of the author's experiment "Music forecasting" are brought along, aimed at displaying listeners' expectations' dynamics in music perception, related to several exact repetition in the music content.


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The ruins of a Buddhist temple dating back 1,500 years ago have been discovered in China's largest desert, offering valuable research material for historians studying Buddhism's spread from India to China.
As one of the largest sand deserts in the world, the Taklimakan Desert covers an area of 330,000 square kilometers and houses numerous ancient ruins. [File photo]
The temple's main hall, with a rare structure based around three square-shaped corridors and a huge Buddha statue - now missing - has been uncovered after two months of hard work in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dr Wu Xinhua, the leading archaeologist of the excavation project, said yesterday.
"The hall is the largest of its kind found in the Taklimakan Desert since the first archaeologist came to the area in the 20th century," said Wu, also head of the Xinjiang archeological team of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The ruins are in the south of the Taklimakan Desert, in the Tarim Basin, known as the Damago Oasis in the ancient kingdom of Khotan, a Buddhist civilization thought to date to the 3rd century BC.
Temple halls with square-shaped corridors stemmed from early Buddhist architecture in India, and gradually disappeared after the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420AD-589AD), when Buddhist architecture in China began to pick up its own characteristics, according to Xiao Huaiyan, a member of the excavation team and a former researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
It is so far the best Buddhist site for scholars to study how the religion arrived in China, and its early development in the country, said Wu.


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rOpenSci | How much work is onboarding?
How much work is onboarding?
Our onboarding process, that ensures that packages contributed by the community undergo a transparent, constructive, non adversarial and open review process, involves a lot of work from many actors: authors, reviewers and editors; but how much work? Managing the effort involved in the peer-review process is a major part of ensuring its sustainability and quality. In this post, we'll take a look at the effort put in by participants in the review process, and also learn something about exploring GitHub data along the way.
🔗 Work done by authors
We can try to quantify the development work of authors by looking at the number of lines deleted and added in the git repo of the package before, during, and after review. By number of lines we mean number of lines in any file in the repo so it can be lines of actual code and lines of docs (in the README for instance). To do so, we link information from the package git repos (information about sizes and dates of commits) and information from the onboarding issue threads (start and end dates of the review process, as measured by open/close dates).
commits <- readr::read_csv("output/gitsum_reports.csv")
issues <- readr::read_csv("data/clean_data.csv")
issues <- dplyr::group_by(issues, package) %>%
 dplyr::summarise(opened = min(created_at),
 closed = max(closed_at))
commits <- dplyr::left_join(commits, issues, by = "package")
custom_transf <- function(x){
 pof <- log(x)
 pof[x == 0] <- 0
custom_exp <- function(x){
 pof <- exp(x)
 pof[x < 0] <- - exp(-x)
plot_commits <- function(package_name, commits){
 example <- dplyr::filter(commits, package == package_name,!is_merge)
 p <- ggplot(example) +
 geom_segment(aes(x = datetime, xend = datetime,
 y = 0, yend = custom_transf(total_insertions)),
 col = "salmon", size = 1) +
 geom_segment(aes(x = datetime, xend = datetime,
 y = 0, yend = - custom_transf(total_deletions)),
 col = "blue", size = 1) +
 ylab("lines") +
 x = min(example$datetime),
 xend = max(example$datetime),
 y = 0, yend = 0,
 col = "grey50",
 size = 0.2) +
 scale_y_continuous(breaks= seq(min(-custom_transf(example$total_deletions)),
 to = max(custom_transf(example$total_insertions)),
 by = 5),
 labels= round(custom_exp(seq(min(-custom_transf(example$total_deletions)),
 to = max(custom_transf(example$total_insertions)),
 by = 5))))+
 xmin = example$opened[1], xmax = example$closed[1],
 ymin = - custom_transf(max(example$total_deletions)),
 ymax = custom_transf(max(example$total_insertions)),
 fill = "grey80", alpha = 0.6,
 col = "grey10",
 size = 0.2) +
 ggtitle(package_name) +
Let's have a look at a few packages. The x-axis represents time, and the grey box the onboarding period (from issue opening i.e. submission to issue closing i.e. approval). The salmon lines above the y-axis are the number of lines added in one commit while the blue lines below the y-axis are the number of lines deleted in one commit.
plot_commits("opencage", commits = commits)
commits plot of the opencagepackage
plot_commits("charlatan", commits = commits)
commits plot of the charlatanpackage
When looking at all onboarded repos, we don't see a general pattern to commit histories. Commits have diffent sizes, and the activity frequency is highly variable. While we see the updates to packages that occur during review, there is just as often change again after onboarding, as packages continue to improve and be maintained. This highlights an important aspect of our peer review, which is that acceptance is not the end of the process. While we aim for the process to ensure high quality at acceptance, packages are not static moving forward. Not all deficiencies are detected by peer reviewers, and further improvements and maintenance will continue. This is why many of our standards are about maintainability, and our process is in part an approach to onboard authors into a community of dedicated and supportive package maintainers.
We do try to onboard mature packages, i.e. that are not drafts. Furthermore, the absence of general patterns in the previous figures could be due to different age at submission. How old are packages at submission?
age <- commits %>%
 dplyr::group_by(package) %>%
 dplyr::summarise(age = difftime(min(opened), min(datetime), units = "weeks")) %>%
 dplyr::filter(age > 0)
ggplot(age) +
 geom_dotplot(aes(age), binwidth = 5) +
 xlab("Age (weeks)") +
 scale_y_continuous(NULL, breaks = NULL) +
 hrbrthemes::theme_ipsum(base_size = 16,
 axis_title_size = 16)
age of packages atsubmission
On this dotplot, the x-axis represents age at submission and each dot is a package falling in that age bin. We say apparent age because the first commit might happen a long time after the package was created, although often one makes an initial commit not long after having started to work. We needed to filter positive age because in one case the GitHub repo of the onboarded package was apparently deleted and re-created without history after approval. Such things happen, thankfully the package wasn't lost, just its history!
Many packages are submitted while still very young which might indicate rapid development. It might also mean some authors viewed onboarding as a part of development, i.e. authors knew they intended to submit quite rapidly. For instance, Maëlle developed opencage in just a few days, then submitted it to get it ready for wider use by the community.
🔗 Work done by reviewers
How much effort is put in by reviewers in this process? Reviewer time and effort is one of our most precious resources (you can read more about reviewer motivations and perspectives in other blog posts by Mara Averick, Verena Haunschmid, Charles T. Gray and Miles McBain). We measure this effort by asking reviewers to self-report the hours spent reviewing. We do so to understand the amount of effort we are asking reviewers for, so we can let new reviewers know what to expect, and so hopefully in the future we can measure the success of efforts to automate some reviewer tasks.
# airtable data
# this is our private database of who's reviewed what
# and of reviewers' areas of expertise
airtable <- airtabler::airtable("appZIB8hgtvjoV99D", "Reviews")
airtable <- airtable$Reviews$select_all()
We have self-reported reviewing times for 136 of 184 reviews.
ggplot(airtable) +
 geom_boxplot(aes(y = review_hours, x = "")) +
 hrbrthemes::theme_ipsum(base_size = 16,
 axis_title_size = 16) +
 theme(axis.title.x=element_blank()) +
 ylab("Reviewing time (hours)")
hours spentreviewing
It appears to take our reviewers a similar amount of time to review R packages as scientists take to review a manuscript (5 hour median and 9 hour mean).
One potential question is whether reviewer time is affected by the size of the package reviewed as measured by for instance number of exports (classes and functions).
get_namespace <- function(package_name){
 local_path_archive <- paste0(getwd(), "/repos_at_submission/", package_name)
 if(length(fs::dir_ls(local_path_archive))!= 0){
 ns <- devtools::parse_ns_file(local_path_archive)
 tibble::tibble(package = package_name,
 exports = length(ns$exports) +
packages <- fs::dir_ls("repos_at_submission")
packages <- stringr::str_replace_all(packages, "repos_at_submission\\/", "")
purrr::map_df(packages, get_namespace) %>%
Interestingly, we find no relationship between the reviewing time and number of exports:
namespace_ro <- readr::read_csv("output/namespace.csv")
namespace_ro <- dplyr::left_join(namespace_ro, airtable, by = "package")
ggplot(namespace_ro) +
 geom_point(aes(exports, review_hours)) +
 hrbrthemes::theme_ipsum(base_size = 16,
 axis_title_size = 16) +
 ylab("Reviewing time (hours)") +
 xlab("No. of exports")
There are a few potential explanations to this that might be fruitful to explore. For instance, does this mean that there's only so much time, and so larger packages get less scrutiny per line of code or per export? Or does review time just depend more on the reviewer than the package?
🔗 Work done by editors
Editors manage the review process, performing initial package checks, identifying and contacting reviewers, and then moderating and cajoling the process forward. Our best measure for editor effort is the number of packages


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Boston is home of first Temperance Society
The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was formed in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 13, 1826. The organization, later known as The American Temperance Society (ATS), was co-founded by Dr. Justin Edwards and Lyman Beecher. Within ten years there were more than 1.5 million members.


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The Senior Kindergarten students have carefully counted by 1s, 5s, and 10s to get to the 100th day of school! They celebrated with activities such as making a Fruit Loop necklace that had – you guessed it – 100 Fruit Loops.
They also made a gum ball machine using 100 BINGO dabbers and Miss Gangji had them do 10 of each exercise until they reached 100! The students also wrote about what they thought they would be like when they turned 100 years old.
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The confusing name "Chontal"
Oaxaca Chontal and Tabasco Chontal
Two languages are called Chontal. The Chontal spoken in the state of Oaxaca is thought to be part of the Hokan stock, whereas the Chontal spoken in the state of Tabasco is Mayan. The traditional homelands of these languages are indicated on the following map.
Map for languages called Chontal
Oaxaca Chontal, in its highland and lowland varieties (ISO codes clo and chd, respectively), is the last surviving representative of the Tequistlatecan family. Although this family is considered part of the Hokan stock, its relationship to the other Hokan languages (the Yuman languages, perhaps Seri) is so distant that some even doubt whether it should be included in that stock, or should be considered a linguistic isolate.
Tabasco Chontal (ISO code chf) is a language of the Mayan family, spoken in the state of Tabasco by about 45,000 people. It forms a sub-family together with Ch'ol, Tzeltal and Tzotzil (spoken in Chiapas) and Chortí, which is spoken in Guatemala.
The etymology of "Chontal"
The Nahuatl word chontalli (whose root is chontal) means 'foreigner'. The fact that both the Chontales of Oaxaca and those of Tabasco were foreigners to the Nahuatl-speakers explains both why these two languages could be called by the same name, and why the enormous linguistic differences between them could be ignored in so doing. The wonder is that there are not more languages called Chontal today, since all the non-Nahuatl languages would have been as good candidates as these two.


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Erin Goeres explores the entwined histories of England, Normandy and Scandinavia
Battle scene from the Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók.
Battle scene from the fourteenth century Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók (GKS 1005 fol. 145r). Reproduced by kind permission of The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík, Iceland.
We all know what happened in 1066 – or do we? Only three weeks before Harold Godwinson fell at the Battle of Hastings, another king had fought and died for the throne of England. Haraldr Sigurðarson, King of Norway, claimed the English crown through an agreement with the descendants of Cnut the Great, formerly King of England and Denmark. From a modern perspective, it is perhaps surprising to learn that England was considered by many of its medieval inhabitants to be part of the Scandinavian world. Trade, migration and intermarriage had bound the two regions closely together during the pre-Conquest period. With the defeat of Haraldr and the victory of the Normans, themselves of Scandinavian origin, 1066 became a pivotal moment of intracultural confrontation that would reverberate far beyond the borders of England itself.
Bringing together literature from medieval England, Normandy and Scandinavia, I will examine the cultural repercussions of 1066 across the medieval north. I am interested in how writers in all three regions celebrated their common heritage and mourned the wars that brought their people into conflict. The relationship between early English and Scandinavian literature has received much attention in recent years, while the multilingual nature of the Anglo-Norman sphere is fast becoming an area of great scholarly interest. However, the relationship between the histories and literatures of the Anglo-Norman and Scandinavian worlds remains in need of further examination. I aim to address this gap in our knowledge while deepening our understanding of the cultural ramifications of the Conquest, not only in England but across the northern world.
Why does an event that happened nearly a millennium ago still matter? In the debate surrounding Britain's decision to leave the European Union, some have used the memory of the Conquest to promote a monocultural view of the past predicated on isolationism and xenophobia. As Britain now seeks to re-establish itself outside the EU, I wish to show that our history is both more complicated and more hopeful. My work will demonstrate that England was a place of great ethnic and linguistic diversity long before the Conquest, and that the events of 1066 threw that diversity into sharp relief, even as new languages and cultures were introduced. Rejecting a monocultural view of the past, I hope to reveal instead the plurality of voices that have enriched the cultural heritage of both Britain and Europe for over a millennium.
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I am curious as to what describes the following distribution. If we were to record some data which are all from a normal distribution, but the standard-deviation changes for blocks of points recorded. For example, in the following plots we can see normally distributed data where each colour represents a different values of $\sigma$.
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In the histogram all of the data have been plotted, which forms something that vaguely resembles a Student-T distribution -- although I don't think this is representative. I have also plotted the PDF's of each parent distribution on top of the histogram.
It clearly isn't a convolution of Normal distributions as the convolution of normal distributions, should itself be a normal distribution.
If I however sum the four normal distributions, the result perfectly envelopes the entire histogram:
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That is to say $$\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i = 1}^{N}G(\mu, \sigma_{i})$$ where each $\sigma_{i}$ represents different standard deviation. In the example I have shown here $\mu = 0$ for all cases.
Is there a name for this distribution?
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 $\begingroup$ There is a reason such mixtures of Normal distribution may resemble $t$ distributions: see stats.stackexchange.com/questions/52906. $\endgroup$ – whuber Oct 11 '20 at 15:52
 - $\begingroup$ Thanks whuber, that's quite useful. Is there such a distribution as I wrote with my expression? $\endgroup$ – Q.P. Oct 11 '20 at 15:57
 - $\begingroup$ Yes, as I wrote earlier: It's called a "Gaussian mixture" or "Normal mixture" distribution. At stats.stackexchange.com/a/451862/919 and stats.stackexchange.com/a/429877/919 I posted proofs that such mixtures are never Normal unless they have just one component. It's even easier to show that any finite mixture of Normals can never be exactly a $t$ distribution (because the mixture has finite moments of all orders but no $t$ distribution has all finite moments). $\endgroup$ – whuber Oct 11 '20 at 16:09
 - $\begingroup$ This is extremely useful. Thanks. Do you know of any approximations that can describe a Gaussian mixture, if one is not sure of how many Gaussian are mixed. I essentially would like to demonstrate that my data is Gaussian mixed. $\endgroup$ – Q.P. Oct 11 '20 at 17:34
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 $\begingroup$ That is going to be very difficult because the uncertainties are huge. I don't see how anyone could make such a demonstration: the best you can hope for is to estimate the components and show that the mixture is a usefully accurate approximation. $\endgroup$ – whuber Oct 11 '20 at 18:51
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Mediterranean snacks set. Olives, oil, herbs and sliced ciabatta bread on black slate stone board over painted dark blue background, top view.When we eat Greek bread here in the United States, most of us only think of a few types. There's the white bread with the hard crust that we eat with our meals and maybe also a whole grain version for those who are more health conscious. There's also the special occasion breads, such as those that are eaten on Easter, and also the flatbread that is used in gyros.
However,Greek cuisine is made up of a multitude of different types of breads! Here is an overview of the different types of Greek breads there are:
"City" Bread
The white Greek bread that we know especially well outside of Greece is actually thought of as "city bread" in Greece. This bread is usually made from refined wheat flour or semolina (or a combination of the two). It's called city bread because these refined flours are more readily available in parts of the country that aren't isolated, such as the larger cities.
"Country" Bread
In many parts of Greece, there are only certain types of flour that are readily available. In some of the villages, the people grind their own flour from grains such as wheat and barley. As a result, "country breads" that use these rustic flours are more common in the small villages and remote areas of Greece. They are usually made with yeast or sourdough starter and baked in large, domed ovens that are located outside.
There are two basic understandings of what "paximadia" is in Greek cuisine. Many of us know it as a type of dessert cookie that is similar to the Italian biscotti. However, it also has another meaning. Some refer to it as the twice-baked toasts that allow the bread to keep far longer than if it were stored in its soft state after it was initially baked. The truth is, paximadia originated in the fifth century B.C.E and was a regular staple food since it took a long time for it to go bad. Today, they are made by slicing regular bread and baking it for 20 minutes in an oven that is set at 400 Degrees Fahrenheit. They are also referred to as "rusks".
Bread Rings
Bread rings, or koulouria, are another popular food in Greek cuisine. The nature of these breads changes depending on the time of year or the area of Greece that they were baked. Technically speaking, you can use any type of bread dough that you want to make. Instead of forming the dough in loaves, you just form it into small rings. Mavrokoulouria are made from black barley, and other types of koulouria are coated with egg wash and sesame seeds.
Pita Bread
Pita bread is also another type of bread that is common in Greek cuisine. Some form of this bread is popular in several cuisines throughout the world. In Greece, they are most often used to dip into spreads such as tzatziki and they are also used for gyros and souvlaki sandwiches. Greek pita bread is different than other types of pita bread because the Greek version tends to be much softer.
Special Occasion Breads
This is another important type of bread in Greek cuisine. Special occasion breads that we eat during holidays such as Christmas (Christopsoumo), Easter (Tsoureki), and New Year's (Vasilopita) are made only once a year. The one thing all of these breads has in common is that they are on the sweet side. Because they are only made once a year, they're a highly anticipated part of the celebrations.
As you can see, there is a high variety of bread in Greek cuisine!
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Pathé or Pathé Frères (French pronunciation: [pate fʁɛʁ], styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France from 1896. In the early 1900s, Pathé became the world's largest film equipment and production company, as well as a major producer of phonograph records. In 1908, Pathé had invented the newsreel that was shown in theaters prior to a feature film.
The company was founded as Société Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers Company) in Paris, France on 28 September 1896, by the four brothers Charles, Émile, Théophile and Jacques Pathé. During the first part of the 20th century, Pathé became the largest film equipment and production company in the world, as well as a major producer of phonograph records.
The driving force behind the film operation was Charles Pathé, who had helped open a gramophone shop in 1894 and then established a phonograph factory at Chatou on the western outskirts of Paris. As these became successful, he saw the opportunities offered by new means of entertainment and in particular by the fledgling motion picture industry. Having decided to expand the record business to include film equipment, Charles Pathé oversaw a rapid expansion of the company. To finance its growth, he took the company public under the name Compagnie Générale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes (sometimes abbreviated as "C.G.P.C.") in 1897, and its shares were listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
In 1902, Pathé acquired the Lumière brothers' patents and then set about to design an improved studio camera and to make their own film stock. Their technologically advanced equipment, new processing facilities built at Vincennes, and aggressive merchandising combined with efficient distribution systems allowed them to capture a huge share of the international market. They first expanded to London in 1902 where they set up production facilities and a chain of movie theaters. By 1909, Pathé had built more than 200 movie theaters in France and Belgium and by the following year they had facilities in Madrid, Moscow, Rome and New York City plus Australia and Japan. Slightly later, they opened a film exchange in Buffalo, New York. Prior to the outbreak of World War I, Pathé dominated Europe's market in motion picture cameras and projectors. It has been estimated that at one time, 60 percent of all films were shot with Pathé equipment. In 1908, Pathé distributed Excursion to the Moon by Segundo de Chomón an imitation of Georges Melies a Le Voyage Dans La Lune ("A Trip to the Moon"). Pathé and Melies worked together in 1911. Georges Melies made a film Baron Mucherons Dream, his first film to be distributed by Pathé. Pathé's relationship with Melies soured, and in 1913 Melies went bankrupt, and his last film was never released by Pathé.
Worldwide, the company emphasized research, investing in such experiments as hand-coloured film and the synchronisation of film and gramophone recordings. In 1908, Pathé invented the newsreel that was shown in theaters prior to the feature film. The news clips featured the Pathé logo of a crowing rooster at the beginning of each reel. In 1912, it introduced 28 mm non-flammable film and equipment under the brand name Pathescope. Pathé News produced cinema newsreels from 1910, up until the 1970s when production ceased as a result of mass television ownership. In the United States, beginning in 1914, the company's film production studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey produced the extremely successful serialized episodes called The Perils of Pauline. By 1918 Pathé had grown to the point where it was necessary to separate operations into two distinct divisions. With Emile Pathé as chief executive, Pathé Records dealt exclusively with phonographs and recordings while brother Charles managed Pathé-Cinéma which was responsible for film production, distribution, and exhibition. 1922 saw the introduction of the Pathé Baby home film system using a new 9.5 mm film stock which became popular over the next few decades. In 1921, Pathé sold off its United States motion picture production arm, which was renamed "Pathé Exchange" and later merged into RKO Pictures, disappearing as an independent brand in 1931. Pathé sold its British film studios to Eastman Kodak in 1927 while maintaining the theater and distribution arm.,
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Pathé was already in substantial financial trouble when Bernard Natan took control of the company in 1929. Studio founder Charles Pathé had been selling assets for several years to boost investor value and keep the studio's cash flow healthy. The company's founder had even sold Pathé's name and "rooster" trademark to other companies in return for a mere 2 percent of revenues. Natan had the bad luck to take charge of the studio just as the Great Depression convulsed the French economy.
Natan attempted to steady Pathé's finances and implement modern film industry practices at the studio. Natan acquired another film studio, Sociètè des Cinéromans, from Arthur Bernède and Gaston Leroux, which enabled Pathé to expand into projector and electronics manufacturing. He also bought the Fornier chain of motion picture theaters and rapidly expanded the chain's nationwide presence. The French press, however, attacked Natan mercilessly for his stewardship of Pathé. Many of these attacks were antisemitic.
Pathé-Natan did well under Natan's guidance. Between 1930 and 1935, despite the world economic crisis, the company made 100 million francs in profits, and produced and released more than 60 feature films (just as many films as major American studios produced at the time). He resumed production of the newsreel Pathé News, which had not been produced since 1927.
Natan also invested heavily into research and development to expand Pathe's film business. In 1929, he pushed Pathé into sound film. In September, the studio produced its first sound feature film, and its first sound newsreel a month later. Natan also launched two new cinema-related magazines, Pathé-Revue and Actualités Féminines, to help market Pathé's films and build consumer demand for cinema. Under Natan, Pathé also funded the research of Henri Chrétien, who developed the anamorphic lens (leading to the creation of CinemaScope and other widescreen film formats common today).
Natan expanded Pathé's business interests into communications industries other than film. In November 1929, Natan established France's first television company, Télévision-Baird-Natan. A year later, he purchased a radio station in Paris and formed a holding company (Radio-Natan-Vitus) to run what would become a burgeoning radio empire.
But in 1935, Pathé went bankrupt. In order to finance the company's continued expansion, Pathé's board of directors (which still included Charles Pathé) voted in 1930 to issue shares worth 105 million francs. But with the depression deepening, only 50 percent of the shares were purchased. One of the investor banks collapsed due to financial difficulties unrelated to Pathé's problems, and Pathé was forced to follow through with the purchase of several movie theater chains it no longer could afford to buy. Although the company continued to make a profit (as noted above), it lost more money than it could bring in.
The collapse of Pathé led French authorities to indict Bernard Natan on charges of fraud. Natan was accused of financing the purchase of the company without any collateral, of bilking investors by establishing fictitious shell corporations, and negligent financial mismanagement. Natan was even accused of hiding his Romanian and Jewish heritage by changing his name. Natan was indicted and imprisoned in 1939. A second indictment was brought in 1941, and he was convicted shortly thereafter. He was freed in September 1942.
The company was forced to undergo a restructuring in 1943 and was acquired by Adrien Ramauge. Over the years, the business underwent a number of changes including diversification into producing programs for the burgeoning television industry. During the 1970s, operating theaters overtook film production as Pathé's primary source of revenue. In the late 1980s, Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti tried to make a bid for Pathé, even taking over a smaller distributor and renaming it Pathé Communications in anticipation of owning the storied studio. Parretti's shady past, however, raised enough eyebrows in the French government that the deal fell through. It turned out to be a fortunate decision, as Parretti later took over Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, only to lose it in a bankruptcy.
Jérôme Seydoux
In 1990 Chargeurs, a French conglomerate led by Jérôme Seydoux, took control of the company. As a result of the deregulation of the French telecommunications market, in June 1999 Pathé merged with Vivendi, the exchange ratio for the merger fixed at three Vivendi shares for every two Pathé shares. The Wall Street Journal estimated the value of the deal at US$2.59 billion. Following the completion of the merger, Vivendi retained Pathé's interests in British Sky Broadcasting and CanalSatellite, a French broadcasting corporation, but then sold all remaining assets to J


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A co-tenancy clause refers to a provision in a retail lease contract that permits tenants to reduce their amount of rent if a number of tenants leave the rental space. Some tenants are known to attract more traffic, especially in malls. It is the reason why some tenants may decide to have their businesses in this location. So, if this key tenant happens to vacate the mall, there will be no traffic anymore.
What does this mean? It means that other tenants will not get the number of customers as they used to while this key tenant was around. A co-tenancy clause, therefore, comes in to protect tenants from such a scenario It does this by cutting down the amount of rent the tenants should pay as a move to compensate them for the loss of traffic.
A Little More on What is a Co-Tenancy Clause
In any mall, co-tenants are usually the anchor tenants. They are the biggest, and they own popular stores that tend to draw traffic that trickles over to other stores in a similar location. However, during economic stress, retailers are usually forced to close some of their outlet stores. They do this so that they can reduce costs, and as a result, landlords lose a lot of revenue.
So, when the remaining tenants demand a reduction in rent as per the co-tenancy clause, it leads to further loss of revenue by the landlords. It may even eventually lead to bankruptcy.
However, the co-tenancy clause is beneficial to the tenants as it provides protection. It ensures that the shopping malls continue to be operational and able to draw customer traffic so that the tenants benefit from the sales.
Why Landlords Avoid Co-Tenancy Clause
There is fiercely negotiation when it comes to the co-tenancy clause. Most landlords do not like the provisions in this clause because it is difficult for them to control other tenants' or occupants' decision to move out of the shopping mall. The landlords see this clause as something that can severely affect their revenue.
For tenants to obtain a co-tenancy clause, it will depend largely on their power to negotiate. For instance, landlords will always be on the lookout for tenants with big names. They also look for tenants who are capable of paying a high amount of rent, and their power to stay for long. Such tenants are likable because they have the capacity to draw a massive population in a business location. Such tenants can easily negotiate for co-tenancy protection as they are in a better position to engage a landlord in the negotiations.
Landlords who consider using a co-tenancy clause risks losing significant revenue in the process. It is important, therefore, for the tenant to ensure that the drafting of the co-tenancy is properly done to help minimize the risks. Involving an attorney with experience in finance law and commercial real estate can be a good move in achieving this.
The Landlord's Conditions for Co-Tenancy Clauses
To be able to obtain a co-tenancy clause, a landlord will demand that the tenant meets certain conditions. The most crucial condition in this clause is that the tenant cannot default on the lease. Note that breaching the co-tenancy clause may lead to lease termination.
The Basics of Co-Tenancy Clause
The co-tenancy clause is most popular among the shopping center tenants as well as mall leases. It has the ability to reduce rent or terminate the lease, when other tenants stop their operation in the facility, leaving large space unoccupied. The co-tenancy clause is commonly used by large store owners, which they use to negotiate and ensure that there is enough protection.
Types of Co-Tenancy Clause
The co-tenancy clause exists in two types. They as follows:
- Opening Co-Tenancy Agreements: This one is most common where new malls or shopping center developments are involved. It also happens in a state where tenants don't open and pay rent in full, not until other stores are open and a certain percentage of the space in the mall is occupied.
- Operating co-tenancy agreements: This one applies to those malls and shopping centers that are already in operation. It allows tenants to pay rent at a reduced rate or stop their operations completely if the specified tenants vacate, and there are no suitable tenants to replace.
Generally, stores in an environment where there is sharing, rely on each other to draw traffic. They are also expected to uphold specific standards as well as maintaining patron's good experience. For instance, the clause may specify the prohibition of certain uses such as:
- Marijuana dispensaries
- Massage parlors
- Nightclubs and strip clubs
Also, there is prohibiting or limiting the percentage of other non-retail uses such as fitness centers and grocery stores. A good example is the limiting or prohibiting of heavy parking. Note that all these can be possible through a co-tenancy clause, including other related lease clauses created for this purpose.


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In a conversation with radio host Frank Stasio, Michael Lansing, history professor and chair of the history department at Augsburg University, explores the beginnings of processed food in America. Lansing takes a step back to the 1870's, the root of the industrial food take off in the diet of Americans.
He identified processed meat, canned food, and carbohydrates as the three primary sectors in this new diet. Lansing touched on some factors that affected the change of diets, declaring that intensive marketing campaigns convinced consumers to believe industrial food was better for their lifestyle. Cheap railroad transportation and the negotiations made by mass producers allowed them to sell at a cheaper price than local makers. In the early 20th century, more people began to move from rural to urban areas, which reduced the opportunity to farm their own food, making industrial food more reliable, explains Lansing.


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Given N matrices A1, A2,...,AN of size NtimesN, the matrix chain product problem is to compute A1timesA2times...timesAN. Given an NtimesN matrix A, the matrix powers problem is to calculate the first N powers of A, that is, A, A2, A3,..., AN. We solve the two problems on distributed memory systems (DMSs) with p processors that can support one-to-one communications in T(p) time. Assume that the fastest sequential matrix multiplication algorithm has time complexity O(Nalpha), where the currently best value of a is less than 2.3755. Let p be arbitrarily chosen in the range 1lesplesNalpha+1/(log N)2. We show that the two problems can be solved by a DMS with p processors in Tchain(N,p)=O((Nalpha+1/p)+T(p))((N2(2+1/alpha/p2/alpha)(log+p/N)1-2/alpha+log+((p log N)/Nalpha)) and Tpower (N,p)=O(Nalpha+1/p+T(p)((N2(1+1/alpha)/p2/alpha)(log+p/2 log N)1-2/alpha+(log N)2))) times, respectively, where the function log+ is defined as follows: log+ x=log x if xges1 and log+ x=1 if 0


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I'm working on a Hangman game in Python and I need user validation for the input, which I have made an attempt at, but I don't know why its not working.
My task was to have "error" messages for 1. empty input, 2. non-integer, non-empty input, 3. index out of range input. By index out of range, I mean that I am asking the user for an integer from 0-9 to select a word from the list already in the program.
def getLetterFromUser(totalGuesses):
 while True:
 userInput = input("\nPlease enter the letter you guess:")
 if userInput == '' or userInput =='':
 print("Empty input.")
 elif userInput in totalGuesses:
 print("You have already guessed that letter. Try again.")
 elif userInput not in 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz':
 print("You must enter an alphabetic character.")
 return userInput
For clarity's sake, the subsequent call to getLetterFromUser is in a while loop so that it repeatedly checks these conditions.
EDIT: I took out what didn't belong. Thank you. My problem, however, is that it still tells me the input isn't in alphabet, when it is. And the length of the input(a single char) is 2, which doesn't make sense unless it counts the null character.
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What problem or error are you experiencing? – Mr E Feb 15 '12 at 0:44
Why are you having the user select the word, and why is that option in the "Guess a letter" prompt loop? – Edwin Feb 15 '12 at 0:46
_USER_ My apologies, that if got pasted in there unknowingly. Disregard it, as it goes elsewhere. To others: the error I'm receiving is that no matter what I input, its never right. It usually says "You must enter an alphabetic character", to which I do. Also, I was curious so I checked the length of the input(a single character) and its ALWAYS 2. I don't know why. – trainreq Feb 15 '12 at 0:48
Your question seems related to How to handle both integer and string from raw_input? take look at it :) (obviously what was raw_input in python-2.x is now input in python-3.x) – Rik Poggi Feb 15 '12 at 0:55
In response to your edit, try print(repr(userInput)) to see what's really in there (it won't be a NUL character, those don't work the same way in Python as they do in C - in Python NUL is just another perfectly valid character). – Greg Hewgill Feb 15 '12 at 3:18
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your problem is that some validation rules should take precedence over others. for example, if userInput is an empty string, what do you expect userInput < 0 to return? what if it's not empty but also not a number?
think about which conditions should be checked first. some functions you might want to read about and use:
"123".isdigit() # checks if a string represents an integer number
" 123 ".strip() # removes whitespaces at the beginning and end.
len("") # returns the length of a string
int("123") # converts a string to an int
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Here are two things to start with:
what is the purpose of the line
userInput = userInput.lower()
If you are assuming the userInput is an integer.. You should try userInput=int(userInput). Integers have no.lower() method.
the next line
if 0 > userInput or userInput > 9
this assumes userInput is an integer (you are comparing to 0 and 9, not "0" and "9")
the following looks nicer:
if not 0<=userInput<=9
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You say you want integer answers, but you are not casting the input to an int, but then you say that if the input is not in the alphabet, it should return an error message. You're asking for two different things.
Do you want the user to enter an integer or a character?
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This may help you:
>>> int(" 33 \n")
>>> int(" 33a asfd")
Traceback (most recent call last):
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '33a asfd'
>>> try:
... int("adsf")
... except ValueError:
... print "invalid input is not a number"
invalid input is not a number
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I must ask, how do you enter multiline commands in the CLI? – trainreq Feb 15 '12 at 1:00
I was in pyscripter which is an IDE for python. You just press enter to go to the next line. stackoverflow.com/questions/81584/what-ide-to-use-for-python – robert king Feb 15 '12 at 1:17
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Highlighting the history of French radio astronomy. 3: the Wurzburg antennas at Marcoussis, Meudon and Nancay
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During the 1940s and 1950s ex-World War II 7.5m WOrzburg radar antennas played a crucial role in the early development of radio astronomy in a number of European nations. One of these was France, where three different antennas began to be used during the late 1940s. Two of these were associated with the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and were in itially sited at Marcoussis, near Paris, before being transferred to the Nan9ay field station in 1957. The third WOrzburg antenna was used by staff from the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, and was installed at Meudon Observatory on the outskirts of Paris. This paper describes the three antennas, lists the personnel involved. discusses the observations made, evaluates the significance of this research in a national and international context, and comments on their current whereabouts.
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Joints in steel construction. Simple connections - (In accordance with BS5950-1:2000) Reprinted edition (P212)
This publication provides design guidance for structural steelwork connections for use in buildings designed by the "Simple Method". This publication is another in the series of "Green Books" that cover a range of steelwork connections. (Published 2002)
This publication provides design guidance for structural steelwork connections for use in buildings designed by the "Simple Method" i.e. braced frames where connections carry mainly shear and axial loads only. It is in accordance with BS 5950-1:2000. Design guidance for a range of simple connections was originally published in two separate volumes entitled:
Joints in simple construction: Volume 1: Design Methods (P205) and Volume 2: Practical Applications (P206/92).
Availability of further research has enabled this publication to include design guidance for a wider range of simple joints and, at the same time, the opportunity has been taken to combine the two volumes. The major additions to the previous publications (Volumes 1 and 2) are:
- inclusion of design guidance for bolted connections to hot finished structural hollow sections using Flowdrill or Hollo-Bolts;
- use of fin plates for deep beams;
- inclusion of design procedures for double lines of bolts in double angle web cleats and fin plates;
- improved structural integrity guidance;
- use of fully threaded bolts;
- inclusion of bracing connections;
- inclusion of slotted and kidney shaped holes.
Comprehensive step-by-step design procedures, worked examples and capacity tables are included for double angle cleats, flexible end plates, fin plates, splices, and column base plate connections. Capacity tables have an extensive range of standard connections with shear and tying capacities tabulated in user-friendly format.
REPRINTED EDITION: The capacity tables for fin plates (H27 to H30) have been amended and included in this edition.


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- Deliver accurate demonstration and proof of concepts
- SIMULIA technical resource (presales) in North America focused on multiple industries including Aerospace and Defense, High Tech, T&M and Life Sciences.
- Work with Client Executives and SIMULIA sales representatives on account strategic growth initiatives including:
- Technical project planning.
- Qualification of growth opportunities.
- Diagnose customer requirements.
- Assessment of the "as-is" customer environment.
- Design and architect solutions.
- Implement technical proofs.
- Propose an aligned "to-be" solution.
- Prove solution value to help sales close business opportunities.
- Enable Value Engagement solution selling with the Dassault Systèmes sales ecosystem.
- Perform prospect needs assessments, architect solutions and generate high-value solution proposals.
- Effectively communicate the SIMULIA solution value and technology; via presentation, demonstrations and technical proof of concepts.
- Deliver technical proof of concept and training to demonstrate the solution.
Key Success Factors
- Master's Degree with 10+ of experience.
- Deep understanding of 3D electromagnetic field simulation for a wide range of applications including RF/Microwave design, optics and photonics, antenna design and installed performance, specific absorption rate (SAR), bio-electromagnetics, co-existence, de-sense and interference, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and environmental effects (E3), Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI).
- Experience in Numerical and simulation techniques for electromagnetic and multi-physics analysis.
- Analyzing and interpreting results of electromagnetic simulation to meet end-user requirement.
- Experience working in High-tech, Aerospace and Defense, and/or Life Sciences industries or supporting customers in relevant engineering related applications.
- Minimum 10 years proven experience managing the implementation of electromagnetic simulations and related microwave/RF/antenna, EMC/EMI and thermal/electromechanical problems including Time domain and Frequency domain methods.
- Extensive knowledge on computational Electromagnetics software tools, such as SIMULIA CST Studio Suite and Antenna Magus.
- Candidate must be able to effectively develop and deliver complex solution and demonstrations to existing and potential customers.
- Excellent presentation skills; comfort discussing aligning complex engineering solutions with organizational needs and technical requirements with both engineering and IT directors, managers, lead engineers and analysts.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills illustrating the ability to create engineering solutions to engineering challenges.
- Self-motivated, team oriented, proactive problem solving, objective driven.
- Must be able to work in both individual and team situations.
- Must be comfortable learning emerging technologies and be a self-starter.
- Experience working within a software sales environment is preferable.
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03 May 2017
House Depreciation vs. Unit Depreciation
Depreciation House or Unit
Houses or units; what does it mean for depreciation deductions?
When property investors are selecting an investment property, they are often faced with one crucial decision; whether to invest in a house or a unit. While considering their options, investors may also consider how the depreciation deductions differ between each of these different types of property investments.
The answer depends on a variety of factors. The purchase price, construction commencement date, settlement date, land value (where relevant) and the value of all fixtures and fittings within the property are all important determinants of the final depreciation claim. However, generally a depreciation claim for a unit will contain greater deductions than a claim for a house.
Units often contain more fixtures and fittings than a house. This allows the owner to claim against a greater number of depreciable items in the unit (e.g. carpets, light fittings and dishwashers). Additionally, owners of units may be able to claim depreciation deductions for common property; that is, assets shared by all property owners in the development. Examples of common property assets include pools, driveways, stairways and elevators. The deductions claimable for such assets are determined by the owner's ownership share, which is allocated by an Accountant. As common property cannot be claimed for in all states, property investors should also confirm with their Accountant whether common property deductions are available.
The example below demonstrates the difference in depreciation claimable between a house and a unit. After five years of ownership, depreciation deductions for the unit totalled $17,500 more than was claimable for the house. Both properties have the same purchase price, construction date and settlement date.
Note: When purchasing a strata unit there are other costs, such as strata fees, to consider as an ongoing cost of ownership.
Claimable Depreciation
How should this affect your purchasing decisions?
Depreciation deductions can have a significant effect on a property investor's cash flow. The $17,500 in additional deductions available to a property investor who chose to purchase the unit in the example scenario would receive an additional $25 per week in additional cash flow (assuming a 37 per cent marginal tax rate).
While the additional cash flow offered by depreciation should always be a significant factor affecting a purchase, multiple factors should be considered when making an investment decision. A property investor's personal circumstances and investment strategy should always be taken into account.
Regardless of the property type, property investors should always contact a qualified Quantity Surveyor specialising in tax depreciation, such as BMT Tax Depreciation, to assess the depreciation deductions available for an investment property. A BMT Tax Depreciation Schedule maximises the deductions that can be claimed for depreciation over the life of a property. By claiming their full depreciation deductions, property investors can greatly improve the cash flow of any investment property, regardless of whether it is a house or unit.
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Demographic information on Fire inspectors in the US. The average age of male Fire inspectors in the workforce is 47.3 and of female Fire inspectors is 42.2, and the most common race/ethnicity for Fire inspectors is White.
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for Fire inspectors from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fire inspectors need many skills, but most especially Critical Thinking, Active Listening, and Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Fire inspectors need more than the average amount of Operation and Control, Science, and Persuasion.
Projections on wages and job growth for Fire inspectors from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The ten-year national workforce is projected to grow 7.4%, but Fire inspectors are expected to see a growth of 9.7% over the same period. This occupation is expected to grow faster than the national average.


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National Geographic Green Guide to Smart Cities : Arlington Heights
What have been the Village's biggest environmental challenges? Please tell us things that are unique to Arlington Heights, environmentally, socially, geographically, historically.
Geographically Arlington Heights is the largest suburb of Chicago in Cook County with a population of nearly 77,000 contained in a 16.40 square mile area. With Cook County being the second most populous in the nation, the Village's major environmental challenge is traffic congestion and providing innovative environmental programs that influence our community's impact on the area's environmental health. It is the home to the Arlington Park Racecourse which is a unique feature of the community and has been in existence since 1927. The Racecourse, owned and operated by Churchill Downs, holds the Arlington Million and also was a host of the famous Breeder's Cup. Unique geographic characteristics of Arlington Heights include its proximity to Illinois Tollway, I-90, arterial thoroughfares that link many northwest suburbs, O'Hare International Airport, which accommodates over 2,500 flights a day, and the Union Pacific Railway Northwest Line of Metra, a major commuter railway. Arlington Heights is a very linier community. Due to its great location and proximity to Chicago plus its significant span of growth in the 1960s, Arlington Heights is a landlocked community with minimal buildable space which presents challenges -- turned into "green" opportunities -- for building new park space, new buildings, etc.
Socially, the Village has very active participation in its community events, Senior Center, Teen Center, and Park District programs. Our community has an aging populace but many new, young families are moving into the area. One thing that has always been said about Arlington Heights is that children raised here often plan to return here, which gives the community its small-town ambience. Also, having long-time residents devoted to the community is a significant value to the vibrancy of our Village.
Historically Arlington Heights was incorporated in 1887 and is one of the oldest suburbs northwest of Chicago. It "grew up" as a railroad town, where the hub of Village activity was in the center of town near the train stop for the Union Pacific Railroad. Today, Arlington Heights is the largest ridership stop for the Metra railway train system, which transports commuters along the northwest corridor to and from Chicago. The Village's most significant residential growth occurred in the late 1950s to early 1960s, which today results in challenges with an aged infrastructure.
The Village's biggest and most interesting environmental accomplishments?
Reviewing the list above, some of the Village's great success was addressing some of the challenges of area flooding by working cooperatively with other agencies and helping fund major flood control projects that resulted in Arlington Lakes Golf Course, the Deep Tunnel and Lake Arlington. Both of these projects called for leadership that was innovative, willing to negotiate, and patient. Each project took over 10 years to plan. Another success is the redevelopment of Downtown, which brought in a residential component to the heart of the Village. These residents can use the train, shop for groceries, pick up their dry cleaning and enjoy a movie without ever having to use their car for transportation. The new train station, which was a part of the redevelopment, includes a large bike shelter to promote commuters to ride their bike to the Arlington Heights train stop instead of traveling by car.
How do you consider Arlington Heights a "smart" Village?
A smart community is defined as a community that continually looks to solve the challenges it faces and does not give up until the best solution is found. It works cooperatively with other governmental agencies and looks for funding support where possible. There are projects that may take over a decade to plan, but that careful planning process is what leads to great implementation. Arlington Heights has faced many challenges due to its location and age. Through the leadership's commitment to offer quality services in Arlington Heights, the Village is always searching for ways to address current challenges. Through collaborative efforts, negotiations and careful planning, most challenges can be successfully addressed.
How do we overcome the Village's biggest environmental, social and geographic challenges?
The Village of Arlington Heights has always been lead by an innovative Board that always planned for tomorrow. Because of this, challenges have been anticipated and careful planning was done throughout the years to address some of the environmental and geographic challenges facing the Village. Environmental challenges are always monitored through the Environmental Control Commission established by the Village in 1971. The Commission is an advisory group to the Village Board and works in conjunction with the Health Department towards implementing various programs such as our recycling program. Arlington Heights is one of the first communities to begin a residential recycling program and later start a business recycling program. The Village is now one of the leading communities in terms of the amount of recyclables collected. The Village's environmental efforts encompass a broad spectrum of activities with the goal of improving environmental health and encouraging environmental awareness among our residents.
Arlington Heights was one of the first suburbs in Chicagoland to pass a Clean Indoor Air Ordinance which banned smoking from inside of restaurants, all businesses and other places open to the public. It also instituted a requirement that smoking had to take place at least 15 feet away from an entrance to a building. The Village's ordinance was in effect one year before the state enacted its Smoke Free Illinois Act.
For 10 years the Village has run a successful Farmers' Market which encourages people to buy from farmstands instead of chain grocery stores, which positively affects the environment and supports local growers who do not need to transport their produce and goods to larger stores.
In 1999 and 2000 Arlington Heights was recognized with major awards for its redevelopment of its Downtown. The transit-oriented, pedestrian friendly planning and working with developers to create high-rises that fit within the character of the Village were major reasons why Arlington Heights was selected for these awards. The awards include the National League of Cities' Howland Award for Urban Enrichment in 2000; the Metropolitan Planning Council's Burnham Award for Excellence in Planning and Implementation for Arlington Heights Downtown Re-development in 1999 and the American Planning Association's 2001 Outstanding Planning Award for Implementation of Downtown Redevelopment.
As part of our pedestrian-friendly Downtown, the Village ensured easy access to the newly developed train station, improved the sidewalks and crosswalk areas, placed a large bike shelter near the commuter train depot, and later added onto a Downtown parking garage and re-faced it so it would fit in with the new development and tie-in with the new look of the train station. Part of the redevelopment of the Downtown included multi-use high rises that allowed for first floor business space and residential above. That was an entirely new look for a Downtown that had become over the decades a place of empty storefronts, tired-looking buildings and little life and activity. After redevelopment, our Downtown residential condos filled with empty nesters who wanted to stay in the community but not own a home, and with commuters who took the train every day to work. Living nearby the train station became a great draw for young professionals who could simply walk to the train instead of drive and park their vehicle in a garage.
The Village has agreed to purchase four hybrid vehicles which will be placed into the rotation of non-emergency fleet vehicles once the Village is ready to replace an existing car.
The Village participated in the Weller Creek Flood Control project which tied into the Chicago Tunnel and Reservoir Plan. This project, known as the "Deep Tunnel," includes 109 miles of huge underground tunnels that intercept combined sewer overflow from communities and conveys it to large storage reservoirs. After a storm subsides, the overflow is conveyed to treatment plants for cleaning before going to a waterway. The Deep Tunnel, combined with flood control upgrades done by participating municipalities, stopped untreated sewage, diluted with storm runoff, from polluting area lakes, rivers, and streams, and also causing street and basement flooding.
In conjunction with the Deep Tunnel project, the Village also partnered with the Arlington Heights Park District to build water retention basins in areas that could double as a passive recreation area when it was not storming. This positively impacted basement flooding and allowed storm water runoff to be "held back" until the combined sewer system could handle a heavier intake. The largest water retention area in Arlington Heights, which was created in 1990, is "Lake Arlington." This 93-acre site was built as water retention area as part of the Village's Macdonald Creek Flood Control Project. The area stays as a "lake" and also works as a water retention site that handles stormwater run-off. This helps basement flooding in the area and adds a passive recreational component that enhances the lives of Arlington Heights residents. Lake Arlington features a two-mile bike and walking path, includes playground and picnic area, allows fishing and offers sailboat and paddleboat activities.
Another cooperative project between the Park District and Village was the creation of Nickol Knoll Golf Course, which was the site of a former Village landfill. Once the landfill was finished being used, it was later developed into attractive green space as a 9-hole, par-three golf course. Before it was developed into a golf course, "the hill" was a place where Walter Payton, famous running back for the Chicago Bears, regularly exercised by running up and down the hill with weights.
In the early 1970s the Village worked in cooperation with the Park District and the U.S. Army base once located here to obtain 110 acres of donated army base land that turned into another flood control project for the south end of the Village. In 1979, this donated property was engineered into an 18-hole golf course with several retention basins that positively affected the basement and street flooding problems in the area.


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As a species we have always been interested in the flora around us; from the tulip craze in Holland in the 17th Century to botanical gardens of modernity. We use flowers now more than ever within social convention to celebrate, mourn, apologise or say what we can't. But due to the changes in their habitats and various other conditions some of the most beautiful flowers are so rare they are on the verge of extinction. Here are some of the rarest blooms found in the world today.
Jade Vine – Strongylodon Macrobotrys
As you may have guessed from its name, this breath taking flower stuns all that come across it with its signature aqua marine colour. It's indigenous to the tropical Filipino rain forests and is confusingly part of the pea and bean family and is closer related to a kidney bean than any bloom. The string of flowers can grow up to three meters in length.
Yellow and Purple Lady Slippers – Cypripedium Calceolus
Owning Lady Slipper blooms can make you the envy of flower enthusiast the world over. The only specimen still growing wild in Britain has been under constant police guard since 1917. It's part of the orchid family and has a very strange symbiotic relationship with a certain type of fungus which helps it grow. This precise process is what hinders the plant form flourishing and keeps it on the verge of extinction.
Ghost Orchid – Epipogium Aphyllum
Like the Lady Slippers, the Ghost Orchid also needs a certain fungus to live, making it just as rare. The Ghost Orchid was in fact thought extinct for twenty years until it was rediscovered recently. This may be due to the fact that this flower can live underground for years and only blooms at the optimum moment, hence its name.
Parrot's Beak – Lotus Berthelotii
This amazing flower has been classed as extremely rare since 1884 and is still going! It is extinct in the wild but is still being cultivated in botanist's labs in an attempt to keep the species alive. The reason for their rarity in their indigenous land, The Canary Islands, is due to the extinction of their pollinators, the sun birds. But as flower traders are still cultivating the bright orange bloom, they are available. Search online stores such as Interflora.co.uk for the rarer species as appose to your local garden centre.
Chocolate Cosmos – Cosmos Atrosanguineus
Like the Lady Slippers, the Ghost Orchid also needs a certain fungus to live, making it just as rare. The Ghost Orchid was in
This crimson crusader has been extinct in the wild for over 100 years. Before its extinction it grew only in Mexico but the reaming plants are nothing but infertile clones of the originals. Their vanilla scent make them perfect house plants but getting your hands on one may be somewhat of a task, its generally only botanists and flower enthusiast who are still in possession of these rare beauties.
The Top 5 Rare Flowers list was compiled by UK flower guru's Interflora


What does trigger mean?
Definitions for trigger
ˈtrɪg ərtrig·ger
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Princeton's WordNet
 1. gun trigger, triggernoun
 lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
 2. triggernoun
 a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen
 3. trigger, induction, initiationverb
 an act that sets in motion some course of events
 4. trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch offverb
 put in motion or move to act
 "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
 5. triggerverb
 release or pull the trigger on
 "Trigger a gun"
 1. triggernoun
 A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
 Just pull the trigger.
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
 2. triggernoun
 A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
 3. triggernoun
 An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
 4. triggernoun
 An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or action in a person.
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
 5. triggernoun
 A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
 6. triggernoun
 An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
 7. triggernoun
 A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
 8. triggernoun
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
 9. triggerverb
 to fire a weapon
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
 10. triggerverb
 to initiate something
 Etymology: Originally tricker, from trekker, from trekken.
Webster Dictionary
 1. Triggernoun
 a catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity
 2. Triggernoun
 a piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece
 1. Trigger
 Trigger was a 15.3 hands palomino horse, made famous in American Western films with his owner/rider, cowboy star Roy Rogers.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
 1. Trigger
 trig′ėr, n. a catch which when pulled looses the hammer of a gun in firing: a catch to hold a wheel when driving on steep ground. [Dut. trekkertrekken, to pull.]
 1. Trigger
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
 1. trigger
 In ship-building, is the letting fall the paul of the cradle by which the dog-shore falls flush, and offers no further obstruction to the ship gliding down the ways into her absurdly termed "native element." Also, a small catch under the lock of fire-arms, by drawing which back, when the piece is cocked, it is discharged.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
 1. trigger
 A steel catch, which being pulled disengages the cock of a gunlock, and causes the hammer to strike the nipple in percussion-muskets, and the firing-pin in breech-loaders. The difference between a hair and common trigger is this: the hair-trigger, when set, lets off the cock at the slightest touch, whereas the common trigger requires a greater degree of force, and consequently its operation is retarded.
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 The numerical value of trigger in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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 I don't see her, ever, i don't invite that trigger into my life … She's not my future — she's my past.
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 3. Dianne Augelli:
 When you're pregnant, your blood volume expands so you have anemia to some degree, one of the theories is that there's not enough iron in a specific part of the brain that produces dopamine and that can trigger restless legs.
 4. Kelly Dorsey:
 To leave your friend on the ground, knowing that he's not there anymore -- he's either dead or he's going to die -- that's indifference, he didn't need to pull the trigger.
 5. Jessica Mann:
 If he heard the word 'no,' it was like a trigger for him.
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