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In my old house there are two old tube lights. Some times they don't start properly, (specially at evening time, may be it is because of low voltage), they starts flickering i.e. on and off continuously. And when my elder brother touches them, mostly at center they just goes on. Even i have tried many times, the touching works, and even after removing the hand, once it is on(working properly), doesn't stop them, and they remains on. So why and how touching them works. Sorry for my bad English. Thanks in advance.
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I've found this to be the case, too. Generally, my shop lights will flicker when turning on, especially when it is colder outside.
There are two basic phases to this kind of light bulb: a start-up phase, and an operating phase. The start-up requires more voltage, because you are initiating the plasma stream between the terminals of the bulb.
So, these bulbs are filled with gas, generally mercury vapor. When you turn it on, you're really creating an electrical arc at the end of the bulb. This arc ionizes the gas, and that is the flickering you see. Eventually, the entire length of the bulb can arc, and a plasma stream is created (plasma is just a gas of free-moving ions and electrons).
When it is cold, or if the starter arcs are wearing out (and can't produce sufficient voltage), then the flickering lasts longer. By touching the bulb, you actually provide a shorter path for the plasma stream! In effect, you get two short plasma streams, each terminating at your touch point. Then, once the plasma streams interact, and since the voltage required to maintain the stream is less than the voltage needed to establish it, the streams merge into one and the lamp will light.
This is similar to some "glowing orbs" you see in gift shops or museums... a glowing plasma (looks like lightning inside a clear spherical shell) will arc and bend toward your touch, since you are providing your own set of electric and magnetic fields.
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Sorry _USER_ I did not want to downvote, my finger hit the wrong arrow :(. I will try to make a small edit and then I think I can change to what I wanted to vote. – anna v Oct 23 '12 at 16:22
_USER_, no worries! :) – OrangeWombat Oct 23 '12 at 16:49
thanks for your answer. But i'm thinking, isn't it then dangerous to touch the tube lights, what amount of voltage and current the plasma has, and why can't we feel the current flowing in our body, because even we can the feel current while touching cable or telephone wires. Please can you explain these things – android developer Oct 26 '12 at 6:31
It is not dangerous to touch the light, because you're not actually acting as a ground. I'm sorry my explanation was a bit vague on this point. Your touch generates a capacitance field, and the change in capacitance is what affects the plasma. This is the same effect that is used in "touch switches" on metallic fixtures, like some lamps. See this Wikipedia article for more detailed information about capacitave switches. – OrangeWombat Oct 29 '12 at 0:00
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When working with multiple related projects, it is often necessary to co-ordinate between them and take some action that depends on their combined status. For example, ensure a related project is deployed first or send an email when all projects are deployed. This section discusses some approaches to this problem and provides some examples showing how to query and control projects programatically.
For in depth code samples covering many of the processes discussed in this section, see the Project Coordination Code Samples page
Responding to events across multiple projects
There are various ways to respond to events within Octopus, which is useful for:
 - Sending an email after a set of projects is deployed.
 - Generating a report of the day's deployments.
 - Promoting all projects from one environment to another at a certain time.
 - Triggering another process, for example, another deployment.
 - Verifying that some conditions have been met.
The simplest trigger is a periodic timer setup through a Windows schedules task, Azure Function, or as a windows service. Alternatively, it can also be a project within Octopus as a project that re-queues itself when run (see the samples).
Subscriptions can call a web service or send an email when Octopus events occur.
The event can also be a script step in a project. If the script is defined as a step template it can be shared among the related projects. However, it is difficult to ensure that two copies of the script do not run at the same time.
Orchestrating the deployment of multiple projects
Below are two different approaches to orchestrating multiple projects. Depending on the projects and requirements, one or a combination of these two approaches may be used. This orchestration is useful for when:
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This is a two-player race game. Each player gets 6 coins of same colour and keeps it in his home outside the game board as shown in Fig 3. This is the initial position of the coins and every time they are cut, they return to their respective homes.
Goal: To bear off all six coins, first.
Throw of six cowrie shells:
- One mouth up (Fig.2)- introduce one coin on starting square or move one square & play again
- Two mouths upmove two squares
- Three mouths upmove three squares
- Four mouths upmove four squares
- Five mouths upintroduce one coin on starting square or move five squares & play again
- Six mouths upmove six squares & play again
- No mouths up - move twelve squares & play again
How to play:
- The board is always kept in the centre during the game.
- Each player keeps his coins in his home as shown in Fig.1. The first square on the tail end near his home is his starting square ('a' is the starting square of player-1 and 'b' is that of player-2).
- Players alternately throw all six cowrie shells on the floor and move a coin as indicated by the throw of shells.
- The movement of the coins is different (shown by different arrows) for both players and is given as follows.
- Player 1: a-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-k-l-n-q-r and off. (Blue arrow in Fig.4)
- Player 2: b-c-d-k-j-i-h-g-f-e-m-n-o-p and off. (Red arrow in Fig.5)
- If a player's coin lands on a square occupied by opponent's coin, then the opponent's coin is cut and the player gets an extra turn to play.
- The cut coin returns to its home and has to be reintroduced on the starting square and go round all over again.
- The darker squares (rest squares) though, are safe places and no coins present here can be cut.
- Player-1 bears off his coin from 'r' while Player-2 bears off his coins from 'p.'
- The first player to bear off all his coins wins the game.
- Whenever a 'one,' a 'five,' a 'six' or a 'twelve' is got during a throw of cowrie shells, the player gets to play another turn.
- When a player cuts opponent's coin, he gets an extra turn to play.
- During an extra turn, either the same coin or some other coin can be played.
Points to remember:
- Both players' coins move in the same direction at two places - from 'c' to 'd' and then from above 'd' to 'n'.
- A player should cut his opponent in order to move his coins into the inner stem of squares (i.e.,'m' or 'l' to 'n'). Otherwise he has to move another coin or forfeit his turn until he cuts atleast one of the opponent coin.
- If a player has cut once, all the coins can move into the inner stem, not necessary for every coin to cut opponent.
- No limit for a player to cut opponents' coins.
- Each coin has to be first introduced (or reintroduced if it has been cut) on its starting square (on the throw of either a 'one' or a 'five') before it starts moving.
Some play this game using two stick dice instead of cowrie shells. Four sides of each stick dice contains 1, 2, 3 and 'null' dots. Both dice are rolled together on the gound and coins are moved according to the number of dots present on the top face of the dice when they come to rest.

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A spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon.
Believed to be a new species in the genus Cyclosa, the arachnid crafts the larger spider from leaves, debris and dead insects. Though Cyclosa includes other sculpting arachnids, this is the first one observed to build a replica with multiple, spidery legs.
Scientists suspect the fake spiders serve as decoys, part of a defense mechanism meant to confuse or distract predators. "It seems like a really well evolved and very specialized behavior," said Phil Torres, who described the find in a blog entry written for Rainforest Expeditions. Torres, a biologist and science educator, divides his time between Southern California and Peru, where he's involved in research and education projects.
"Considering that spiders can already make really impressive geometric designs with their webs, it's no surprise that they can take that leap to make an impressive design with debris and other things," he said.
In September, Torres was leading visitors into a floodplain surrounding Peru's Tambopata Research Center, located near the western edge of the Amazon. From a distance, they saw what resembled a smallish, dead spider in a web. It looked kind of flaky, like the fungus-covered corpse of an arthropod.
But then the flaky spider started moving.
A closer looked revealed the illusion. Above the 1-inch-long decoy sat a much smaller spider. Striped, and less than a quarter-inch long, the spider was shaking the web. It was unlike anything Torres had ever seen. "It blew my mind," he said.
So Torres got in touch with arachnologist Linda Rayor of Cornell University who confirmed the find was unusual. "The odds are that this [species] is unidentified," she said, "and even if it has been named, that this behavior hasn't previously been reported." Rayor notes that while more observations are necessary to confirm a new species, decoys with legs — and the web-shaking behavior — aren't common in known Cyclosa. "That's really kind of cool," she said.
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For many people who are considering filing for bankruptcy or have already started the process, the prospect of the 341 meeting is the most daunting part of going through a bankruptcy. It can conjure up images of sitting in a dark room with a single light bulb above your head as you're interrogated in front of a bunch of strangers about the intimate details of your finances.
We promise it's nothing that dramatic! The unknown is often frightening so let's take a look at exactly what happens at a 341 meeting. When you know what to expect, the whole process will be a lot less scary.
What is a 341 Meeting?
A 341 meeting is sometimes called the meeting of creditors. The name comes from section 341 of the bankruptcy code.
A 341 meeting is held so the trustee (court-appointed over-seer of your bankruptcy) and creditors can ask you questions under oath about your assets, liabilities, and other financial matters related to your Chapter 7 bankruptcy case.
Basically, the meeting is held to verify your identity (you're required to bring two forms of official identification to help prevent fraudulent filings) and to verify that the information in your bankruptcy documents is complete and accurate.
The meeting will take place about a month after you file for bankruptcy. The court will send you a notice letting you know the date, time and place of the meeting and provide the name and contact information of the trustee.
The notice will also include relevant information including the filing date and case number of your bankruptcy (something you'll need in order to complete your debtor education course).
What to Bring to a 341 Meeting
Bring valid photo identification and your Social Security card. You'll also need a copy of your bankruptcy forms and your paystubs from the previous 12 months. The trustee may also request that you bring additional documents.
Who is at a 341 Meeting?
There is no judge at the meeting. Rather the meeting is presided over by the trustee. All of your creditors are invited to the meeting but very rarely attend. Occasionally an angry ex-business partner or spouse will attend but it's very unlikely that your credit card or mortgage companies are going to be there. Other filers will be having their meetings just before or after yours so there will be strangers unrelated to your case observing the proceedings.
What Happens at a 341 Meeting?
When your case number is called, you'll be called to the trustee's desk where he or she will ask you questions under oath after you provide proof of identification. The role of the trustee at this meeting is to confirm that the information you provided in your bankruptcy documents is accurate.
Because under Chapter 7 the trustee can sell your nonexempt assets and use the funds to pay your creditors, most of the questions will be about your assets. If you have a bankruptcy lawyer, he or she will contact the trustee and work out any issues before the meeting occurs.
If there are any of your creditors at the meeting, they are allowed to question you as well. The questioning cannot go on at length due to time constraints so if a creditor questions you, it will usually be in regard to the kind of assets you have and their location. They may also ask more general questions about your finances.
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The End of the 341 Meeting
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The main objectives of the GAA's Games Grassroots to National Programme (GNP) are to maximise participation and optimise playing standards. The big challenge for those in charge of teams is to ensure that games are structured to cater for the needs and abilities of those who participate.The GAA Coaching and Games Development Committee has developed 3 GO Games in Hurling and 3 in Gaelic Football known as —
What are the Key Objectives of the Go Games?
The key objectives of the Go Games can be summarised as follows:
 1. Promote Full Participation: Provide playing opportunities for all children at their respective levels of participation by ensuring everyone gets to play in the game and that nobody remains a substitute. "Playing, not winning, is the name of the game."
 2. Propagate the Principles of Fair Play: Promote sportsmanship by ensuring that all participants endeavour to play by the rules and give due respect to the opposition, the match officials and the game.
 3. Cater for the varying developmental needs of young players: Use modified playing rules and equipment that are appropriate to the age group and ability level of those participating
 4. Implement the GAA's Code of Best Practice for Youth Sport: Give practical expression to the GAA's Code of Best Practice for Youth Sport by invoking the principles of the Code at the fundamental levels of participation. N.B. While the playing rules for First, Quick and Smart Touch are not necessarily set in stone - the principle of ensuring that all participants get to play the full game is, as is the principle of not awarding medals or trophies arising from success in the Go Games.
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a The start value.
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Linearly interpolates between a and b by t.
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When t = 1 return b.
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public class Example : MonoBehaviour { // animate the game object from -1 to +1 and back public float minimum = -1.0F; public float maximum = 1.0F;
// starting value for the Lerp static float t = 0.0f;
void Update() { // animate the position of the game object... transform.position = new Vector3(Mathf.Lerp(minimum, maximum, t), 0, 0);
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Discovering an entirely new animal species has to be rather exciting for scientists. Not only will you go down in history as the person (or persons) that found a creature nobody even knew about, you also — in most cases — get to pick its new name.
Some scientists choose names for species based on where they were discovered or even add their own names into the mix. For the research duo of Luiz Rocha and Yi-Kai Tea, the name of a new fish species of bright purple fish they discovered off the east coast of Africa near Zanzibar was inspired by something close to their hearts: the Marvel cinematic universe.
The fish is a previously unknown species of fairy wrasse. Its bright purple appearance and its African home conjured images of the fictional material Vibranium, leading the scientists to call the new fish the Vibranium fairy wrasse. In Marvel fiction, Vibranium is found in Wakanda, and Black Panther's suit is crafted from the material. Its scientific name is equally nerdy (in a good way): Cirrhilabrus wakanda.
As Earther explains, the fish is a lot like other fairy wrasses in that it's tiny, feasts on floating bits of plankton, and seeks refuge coral reefs. It resides at depths of roughly between 160 and 260 feet, making it a challenge to observe for casual divers. The two researchers now credited with its discovery donned SCUBA suits and trained specifically for the chance to observe the fish in its natural habitat.
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Races can be won and lost at the starting line, so making a fast start is crucial. Athletes need pace, power and skill to get the sled moving as quickly as possible before they leap on.
The start is the most crucial part of the race: competition is usually so strong that without a good start (usually within a tenth of a second of the fastest time) finishing first becomes almost impossible. The aim for the athlete is to push their sled as fast as they can over 20-30 metres before leaping on board.
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- The clock doesn't start until the crew hit the 15m mark
- A spilt time is given for 50m (65m from the standing start and 50m from when the clock starts)
The key here is explosive strength and power. The spikes on the bottom of the athlete's shoes are really important because they give the athlete grip on the ice so that they can push with maximum power in every stride.
Once the athlete is given the green light to go, they must position their sled into one of two grooves on the track, called'spurs'. These spurs guide the sled into a straight line and stop them from sliding across the track or slowing down.
The athlete pushes off with one hand on the sled (which hand they choose is up to them). They must reach the first timing marker, at 50m, within 30 seconds or they'll be disqualified. This is rarely a problem for the top athletes, who usually cover the first 50m in just five seconds or less while racing to speeds of more than 40km/h.
The athletes will have their own techniques and routines, such as the way they choose to stand, when they take off their warm clothes and when they put on their helmet.
Once the athlete is on the sled, they'll need complete focus and fast reflexes to negotiate each twist and turn at maximum speed.
If the athlete has made a good start over the first 50m, he or she should now have found the most aerodynamic position on the sled and be ready to negotiate the first turn.
It won't take long for them to hit top speed, which can be up to 140km/h, and experience the force of 5Gs (or five times the force of gravity).
Their feet and head hang over the sled, and their chin is just centimetres from the ice. On particularly high-speed corners, the athlete's chin will actually touch and scrape the ice. This can be tricky for the athlete because it obscures their vision. As a result, they'll have to 'feel their way' around the corner until the g-pressure is reduced and they can lift their chin.
To steer the sled, athletes can either…
- shift their bodyweight in the direction they want to turn
- use their knees or shoulders to put downward pressure on one of the corners of the sled
- reach out and tap a toe on the ice in the direction they want to turn
When they're travelling at such high speeds, even moving their head will change the direction of the air flowing past them and force the sled to move.
Although the athlete will do their best to learn every corner of the track before they race, lightning-fast reflexes are needed to get the sled into the best position to enter and exit a corner at speed. Failing to find the perfect line will slow them down and just the slightest error could cost them a place on the podium.


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Primary English Resources - Media Literacy
Film writers and directors show and talk about their work in these videos for KS2 English classes.
- An opportunity to view the short, enigmatic animation film, 'The Monk and the Fish' by Michael Dudok de Wit and to hear from him how the story and the animation evolved.
- A video for use in the classroom providing the full-length version of short film, Dangle, and a lively and illuminating interview with writer/director, Phil Traill.
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Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize historical realities. While autographics, particularly those that place the memoirist in the context of larger cultural conversations, have been the objects of sustained study, fictional graphic narratives that—as Linda Hutcheon has put it—both "enshrine and question" history are also an important area of study. By bringing narratology and psychological theory to bear on a range of graphic narratives, Kate Polak seeks to question how the form utilizes point of view and the gutter as ethical tools that shape the reader's empathetic reactions to the content.
This book's most important questions surround how we receive and interpret representations of history, considering the ways in which what we think we know about historical atrocities can be at odds with the convoluted circumstances surrounding violence. Beginning with a new look at Watchmen, and including examinations of such popular series as Scalped and Hellblazer as well as Bayou and Deogratias, the book questions how graphic narratives create an alternative route by which to understand large-scale violence. Ethics in the Gutter explores how graphic narrative representations of violence can teach readers about the possibilities and limitations of empathy and ethics.


A Homeowner's Guide to Proof of Loss Statements
When storm damage occurs, the loss may not only be the damages to the building. Hurricanes, tornadoes, windstorms, and floods can also affect your personal property. When this happens, the burden of the proof of loss lies with you, the policyholder. The following can help you understand the legal ramifications of this proof.
What Is Proof of Loss?
The proof of loss details what damages, including property loss and building damage, were sustained as a result of the storm. This is a sworn document so it is considered a formal notification of the loss. Some insurance companies provide a proof of loss form that you simply fill out and sign, while others do not provide a form so you must write out the document yourself. It is usually a one-page document, although extensive losses may require additional pages.
What Are the Filing Requirements?
There will be deadlines and other filing requirements, depending on your state regulations and insurance company policy. Generally, you are given at least 60 days to file the document, although extensions may be granted if there are extenuating circumstances such as a delay in access to your property due to safety concerns. The document may need to be notarized, as well. Contact your insurance company for the deadline, and make sure it is also provided to you in writing so you have proof of said deadline in the event the company tries to deny your claim due to date issues.
Does It Need to Be Detailed?
The proof of loss should be an itemized list of every item lost and each damage suffered as a result of the storm. This includes personal property, building damages, and damages to systems such as septic or well water installations. You may also need to list the value of items, particularly personal property losses, where applicable. Other losses that may also be covered, such as emergency hotel stays, may also need to be listed on the statement. Your insurance claims lawyer can help you determine what details to include.
Proof of loss statements don't just inform your insurance company of what items they need to cover, they also protect you in the event the insurance company attempts to deny or reduce your claim. Since the statement is considered a legal document, your insurance lawyer can use it to help build your case in the event you must sue your insurance company. Contact an insurance claim law office, such as the Law Offices of William Fenton Sink, if you need more assistance proving your loss.


Sisters improve chances of reproduction in Asian elephants
July 24, 2019
Researchers at the University of Turku found that the presence of a maternal sister was positively and significantly associated with annual female reproduction in a population of working elephants in Myanmar. In addition, an age-specific effect was found: young females were more sensitive to the presence of sisters and even more likely to reproduce when living near a sister.
- We studied Asian elephants working in the teak industry in Myanmar. The elephants are released to the forest for the evenings and nights and other holiday periods, when they can move around freely, eat and meet other elephants. Our study compared the annual reproductive rate of females living with and without maternal sisters. We found that young females, in particular, are more likely to reproduce in a given year when living near a maternal sister, and this effect was strongest when the sister was 0-5 years younger, says Emily Lynch, lead author of the study.
The authors claim that while the proximate mechanism driving enhanced reproduction may be related to improved health generated by sociality, such age-related benefits suggest other factors may be at play.
- Especially because the parenting experience may be crucial for successfully rearing offspring, young, inexperienced females are at a disadvantage and assistance from relatives may therefore be particularly valuable to young females.
Relationships among females have an important evolutionary basis
- Although there is widespread evidence that individuals prefer relatives over non-relatives as social partners, little is known about the potential benefits associated with living with kin in long-lived, social mammals, Lynch says.
Because elephants are highly social and matrilocal animals, meaning that females remain in their natal group with female relatives throughout their lifetime, it is likely that social relationships provide varying benefits across a female's lifetime.
- Sociality is known to improve both physical and mental health in humans, for example. This study shows that in elephants socialising with female relatives improves the changes of female reproduction. However, the motivation to nurture relationships with female relatives is age-dependent, which, in turn, results in a variety of fitness benefits. Overall, the study suggests that relationships among female kin are of evolutionary importance in long-lived social mammals, Lynch says.
These results build on previous work on this population, in which it was discovered that the presence of a maternal grandmother is associated with improved grand calf survival and increased reproductive output of the daughter, and this effect was particularly strong among young daughters.
- This study is particularly exciting because we were able to access information on elephant reproduction across several generations to effectively examine the evolutionary consequences of female social relationships with kin. Access to such longitudinal data on a long-lived, social mammal is rare and we are now able to have a better grasp of the importance of living with relatives in elephants, Lynch says.
Emily C. Lynch, Virpi Lummaa, Win Htut and Mirkka Lahdenperä: Evolutionary significance of maternal kinship in a long-lived mammal on the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals.
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Nonrewriteable tape?
Title text: Nonrewriteable tape?
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This comic refers to Candy Buttons, a type of candy sold by Necco in the U.S. since 1980. Because of the resemblance of the strips of paper to the tape of a Turing Machine, a small minority of children pretended to be a Turing Machine by creating rules and executing them upon the tape of candy exactly like a real Turing Machine would do.
The title text refers to the fact that, although it would be hypothetically possible to create a Turing Machine that can only delete symbols, the information density of the tape would be greatly reduced, and the original Turing Machine could read and write from the tape it operated on.
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When it came to eating strips of candy buttons, there were two main strategies. Some kids carefully removed each bead, checking closely for paper residue before eating.
Others tore the candy off haphazardly, swallowing large scraps of paper as they ate.
Then there were the lonely few of us who moved back and forth on the strip, eating rows of beads here and there, pretending we were Turing machines.
It is possible to run a Turing machine on a candy belt:
Marvin Minsky (1967), Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. In particular see p. 262ff (italics in original): "We can now demonstrate the remarkable fact, first shown by Wang [1957], that for any Turing machine T there is an equivalent Turing machine TN that never changes a once-written symbol! In fact, we will construct a two-symbol machine TN that can only change blank squares on its tape to 1's but can not change a 1 back to a blank." Minsky then offers a proof of this. -- Kopa Leo 16:01, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
In my opinion, intuitively, when writing is demanded, a turing machine just have to copy those symbols to a new location, minding the symbol that needs to be written. It can have a start-of-data mark so this would be transparent to other operations 05:45, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
so I'm the only one that put them in a loop, then moved it one button down on one side? (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Candy button paper was around long before 1980. I remember it from the 1950s. 17:59, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
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The Origins of Log5October 3, 2010
Posted by Sobchak in Log5
Of all Bill James' sabermetric innovations, my favorite has always been the log5 formula for determining matchup probabilities. It provides a method for taking the strengths of two teams and estimating the probability of one team beating the other. It can also be applied to individual player matchups, such as a batter facing a pitcher.
Here is a common way to express the formula for the context of team matchups:
Unfortunately this formulation doesn't shed much light on why James called this log5, or where the formula came from in the first place.
James' Original Formulation
James introduced the formula in the 1981 Baseball Abstract, which is excerpted here. In his initial presentation, James first converted each team's winning percentage (or, their probability of success) into what he called their.
Solving for :
After this conversion, the formula is simple:
Logarithms, Odds, and Odds Ratios
So where does the "log" in log5 come from? I'm not sure exactly where James got it, but there is a connection to the logit function:
That term was present in James' formulation. It is what is known as the odds. It's common term in gambling — if some event has a.75 probability, the odds are, typically expressed as 3:1 or 3 to 1.
Framing things in terms of odds rather than probabilities can be helpful.
We can replicate the log5 formula by simply taking the odds ratio, which is just the odds for team A divided by the odds for team B.
To convert this back to a probability we need one final step:
Combining these steps, we have a simple formulation of log5:
This matches James' original formulation, but here we see that one can use simple odds rather than James' log5 term (which contains an unnecessary.500 multiplier).
Tying this back into the logit function, we can reformulate log5 to say that the matchup probability is equal to the inverse-logit of the log of the odds ratio (of course, it'd be simpler to just say that the matchup odds are equal to the odds ratio, but then we'd be leaving the "log" out of "log5″).
The "5″ in "log5″ and a More General Formulation
The "5″ part of "log5″ was in reference to the fact that teams were being compared to.500, the average winning percentage. But when we're dealing with individual matchups, the league average isn't always.500 (for a batter/pitcher matchup to estimate the probability of a hit, we would need to use the league-wide batting average). To deal with this we need to add another term to the formula representing the league average probability (or odds).
In the odds ratio formulation, this is easy. We just divide by the league average odds (). When the league average probability is.500, the odds are, so the term can be omitted without consequence.
Converting this to a probability, we have what I find to be the clearest formulation of the generalized log5 formula:
So was Bill James the first to discover the log5 formula? Not exactly. It turns out that log5 is a variation of the Bradley-Terry model for pairwise comparison, which was first published in 1952 (and which itself was a variation on a 1929 work of German mathematician Ernst Zermelo). The formula given on the Wikipedia page is equivalent to the inverse-logit formulation I discussed above, if the logs of each team's odds are used for the scale locations (their formula uses the difference of the logs of the odds, which is equal to the log of the ratio of the odds that I used). Jim Albert and Jay Bennett discussed the Bradley-Terry model in Chapter 12 of their excellent book, "Curve Ball." The Bradley-Terry model has been used for rating systems in many sports, including hockey and chess (I highly recommend Mark Glickman's article "A Comprehensive Guide to Chess Ratings" for more background on paired comparisons and the connection between log5/Bradley-Terry and the logistic distribution).
For more on log5, here's a good early piece by Dean Oliver, which includes a shortcut formula that mirrors one discussed by Joe Arthur in a great thread from Tango's blog. Mike Tamada has also written some lucid intros to log5 here and here. Hal Stern's work on paired comparisons is worth hunting down – he explicitly makes the link between the logit function and log5 in Chapter 9 of "Statistical Thinking in Sports" (for more references to his work see this comprehensive bibliography on sports ranking systems, which points to a lot of other relevant articles). Padres analyst Chris Long also made the connection between log5 and Bradley-Terry in a presentation he gave last year. And finally, Steven Miller has written a nice short paper that provides a justification of log5 using the geometric series formula.


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WHAT IS NUNU?
Nunu is an indigenous sacred medicine made from medicinal trees, barks, and leaves from the Amazon Forest. Nunu is also referred to as rape, which is pronounced, "ha-peh" in English. Nunu is primarily made from tobacco but also includes cacao and macambo nut, all of which are ground down into a fine powder. Rape is consumed through bamboo or bone pipes, either from a shaman, or self-administered. The powder is blown into each nostril in a quick motion. This initial intake of the medicine creates a break in thoughts, and feels quite intense, and not very pleasant. After the medicine has been shot into the nostrils it will clear the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual bodies. The powder will move through the body by expelling mucus back out through the nose, or down the back of the throat.
Some people experience nausea or purging with nunu, but this is not always the case. The medicine releases acetylcholine, dopamine, and epinephrine in the brain. It clears bacteria, viruses, and illnesses from the body. It is also said to heal the pituitary gland, and decalcify the pineal gland (although there is no scientific backing for this yet). The pineal gland is responsible for regulating circadian rhythms, the immune system, and melatonin, and is also responsible for neurodegenerative diseases, if it is not cleared of fluoride or toxic buildup.


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Hydro Energy Røldal-Suldal
Hydro's part-owned power system in Røldal-Suldal consists of reservoirs and seven hydroelectric power stations along the Røldal and Suldal watershed and terminating at Suldal Lake. These are; Vasstøl, Suldal I, Suldal II, Svandalsflona, Røldal, Novle, Middyr and Kvanndal
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These nine power stations are; Suldal I, Suldal II, Røldal, Novle, Kvanndal, Svandalsflona, Middyr, Vasstøl and Midtlæger.
At the bottom of the page you see pictures of the power stations.
The fall rights in Røldal and Suldalsdraget were bought by Hydro already in the 1950s, with the aim to acquire power for a new aluminum plant at Karmøy. The hydropower plants Suldal I, Røldal, Suldal II, Kvanndal and Novle were expanded one by one and completed in 1968. Later, the power stations Svandalsflona, Middyr, Vasstøl and Midtlæger were added. At the same time as the main development of the power plants took place, Hydro's aluminum plant on Karmøy was built. Thanks to new technology, it was now possible to transport the power on its own lines, and thus the hydropower plants in Røldal and Suldal could become the main suppliers of power to the aluminum production on Karmøy.
The power plants in the "Western watercourse" utilize a fall from the highest reservoir Nupstjørn 1302 meters above sea level (masl) down to Suldalsvatn 68 masl. The power stations are located one after the other in the watercourse, so energy can be used several times. The water from Nupstjørn, for example, flows through five power stations before reaching Suldalsvatnet. In the "Eastern watercourse" one utilizes the fall from Holmevatn 1058 masl and down to Suldalsvatn 68 masl.
Here, the water passes through two power stations, where the highest utilized single case is about 560. The plant consists of 17 regulation reservoirs and 21 stream intakes. The main reservoirs are Votna, Valldalen, Røldalsvatn, Sandvatn and Holmevatn.
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UPPER DUBLIN — Students at Jarrettown Elementary School got to see art come to life as they journeyed back in time to the late 19th century during their art classes earlier this month.
The weeklong traveling art exhibit focused on the works of Mary Stevenson Cassatt and the impressionist period of art in France.
The art room at Jarrettown was transformed to fit the time period as large banners of Cassatt's works along with those of other well-known impressionist painters were displayed. Flowers, fine china and even period costumes on loan from the Michener Museum in Doylestown were also on display to help re-create the time period.
Jarrettown art teacher Sara Farrell herself got in on the act, as she dressed from head to toe in period costume and welcomed students, in French, into her classroom.
Farrell explained the time period, Cassatt and the impressionist style of art to students; had them try on some costumes to make them feel like real painters of the time; and showed them various samples of different impressionist paintings. Students seemed to enjoy watching their classmates try on the period clothing and had lively discussions of what they thought was happening in each painted scene they were shown.
This year marks the fifth year the art program at Jarrettown has held such an exhibit, beginning with the works of Vincent Van Gogh and last year focusing on Asian painter Katsushika Hokusai. Farrell said this year she wanted students to learn about an important female artist and chose Cassatt because of her ties to Philadelphia.
According to Farrell, the exhibit is funded through a grant by the Upper Dublin Education Foundation and through the proceeds from the online student art gallery Artsonia.com. Farrell said Artsonia allows parents to purchase their student's work and 20 percent of proceeds benefit the student's school. The funds from Artsonia were used to contact the Michener for the costumes and other materials, while Jarrettown teachers offered plants, hats and other materials to help sell the exhibit to students, she said.
Farrell told students the impressionist style was very different from what people were used to seeing at the time but soon became very popular.
She said she chose the impressionist movement to help students understand the value in looking for multiple solutions to any problem in life.
"In every other class, this is the answer," she said. "I want them to see there are 100 different ways to do something. Why do I have to do it that way?"
"Sara does such an incredible job," said Margaret Place, Jarrettown principal, adding lessons were tailored to meet the grade and skill level of the students. She said Farrell "wanted to bring art to life for students."
Farrell said the exhibit ties in nicely, because the fifth-grade class began studying the impressionist period the following week.


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One of Toronto's little historical secrets is the mystery of why Bay St does such a large jog at Queen St. History buffs may know the answer, but I only recently came upon it myself, and it answered many questions I'd long had about the strange disconnect in (of all places) Yorkville between Yonge St and the centre of what we now think of as Yorkville, the area west of Bay St.
The jog on Bay St creates one of Toronto's most spectacular urban design moments, but it was far from deliberately planned that way – the placement of the tower of Old City Hall simply took advantage of a precondition in which Bay St ended at Queen St. What is today Bay St north of Queen St was originally a separate street running between Queen St and College St called Terauley St. Terauley St and the grid north of Queen St were originally laid out as part of a separate estate that did not line up with the grid south of Queen (even University Ave did not originally extend south of Queen St, whereas Yonge St was the exception as it was the original concession road).
North of College St there was a one block break, and then a series of streets with slightly different alignments (called St Vincent St, Chapel St and North St) continued the rough line of Terauley St north to Bloor St. North of Bloor St, no streets crossed through Yorkville along the Terauley St alignment. In the early 1920′s, the City decided to cut the Terauley alignment all the way through from Queen St to Davenport Rd and rename it as an extension of Bay St. The late date of Bay St's creation north of Queen partly explains the lack of significant historical buildings along the street.
The effect in Yorkville has been more profound, as Bay St essentially split the old village in two. Originally, the centre of Yorkville was clearly along Yonge St (very few commercial buildings even existed at the time along Bloor St). Both the library and the fire hall were located close to Yonge St on Yorkville Ave. Since the 1920′s and the cutting through of Bay St, the fortunes of Yorkville west and east of Bay seem to have gone in different directions. While Yonge St has lost most of its connection to Yorkville and sense of it's former individuality, Yorkville west of Bay was destined to become a centre for artists and alternative culture and finally a very unique boutique shopping district, maintaining a significant amount of its character and village feeling.


Call Tracking
What Is Porting And How Does It Work?
by Trisha Hand
What is porting?
If you already own a number that you would like to use as a tracking number in CallTrackingMetrics, but it is currently not in our system, you can port the number in making it usable for your tracking purposes.
How do you port a number?
Porting a number into CallTrackingMetrics is simple, log into your account and go to Numbers>Port Numbers. On this page you fill out a form with the number you are porting, the receiving number, the tracking source, and the name of your account. Once you have submitted this port form you will receive an email asking you to fill out and return an LOA (Letter Of Authorization), and a copy of the bill for this number.
Why do we ask for an LOA and Bill?
This paperwork is needed to prove to your current carrier that you are the owner of the number being ported and you are giving them permission to move the number over to CallTrackingMetrics.
How long does the process take?
The porting process can take 2-4 weeks to complete from the time our porting department receives the LOA and bill. Our porting department will be in correspondence with you throughout the process, letting you know if there is any further information required and giving you the scheduled port date once the date has being set for the number.
Porting numbers out of CallTrackingMetrics.
If you like your tracking number but no longer want to use it in CallTrackingMetrics and you have been actively using CallTrackingMetrics for 60 days, you can port the number to another carrier. To do this you would contact the desired carrier and fill out their LOA and use a screenshot of the tracking numbers page in lieu of a bill. That carrier will contact us with a port away request, we will email the admin of the account asking if the port away is legitimate and either approve or deny the request.


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What is muram?
Disintegrated rocks are termed as muram.
Muram flooring are constructed mostly in villages and have the same merits as that of mud flooring. First of all, the subgrade is prepared up to 6″ thick and then a thick layer of muram is laid above the subgrade. Then 1″ thick layer of powder muram is spreaded over the previously laid muram layer and water is sprinkled thoroughly over the surface. The surface is rammed and then saturated with water so that a thin layer is formed on the top of the rammed surface. Then the surface is trampled well till the cream of muram rises to the top. The surface is allowed in this state for about 20-24 hrs and then it is rammed again with wooden rammers called thapies for about two to three days. The dry hard surface thus formed is then smeared with a thick coat of cow dung and rammed once again for two days in the morning. Finally the surface is finished with a cement cow-dung plaster 1:4 (1 cement : 4 cow dung). To maintain muram flooring in good condition, it is given a wash of cement cow-dung plaster once a week and the surface is wiped clean immediately.
Advantages of Muram Flooring:
- Muram flooring are cheap and the method of construction is easy.
- It is suitable for all climatic conditions
- It has long life when it is properly maintained
- It provides smooth, hard and less permeable surafce.
- The maintenance of this flooring is quite difficult. Because, the surface it has to be given cement cow-dung wash once or twice a week.


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for conflating (merging) of data
This is a plugin for conflating (merging) objects in JOSM. For now it focuses on one-to-one matches between POIs, such as addresses and buildings, parks, schools, bus stops, etc. It leverages the Replace Geometry command from utilsplugin2 to replace or upgrade one OSM object to another.
- 1 Motivating use cases
- 2 Installation
- 3 Definitions
- 4 Usage
- 5 Implementation
- 6 Future work
- 7 Development
- 8 See also
- 9 External links
Motivating use cases
In 2009 feature data from GNIS was imported into OSM as nodes. Since that time some have been converted to areas, been moved, or even replaced. In this process the gnis:feature_id has sometimes been lost, and the conflation process could add back the correct ID. Also, GNIS has provided updates since 2009, which could be added to OSM with this tool. The conflation plugin could merge this data, with a strong weighting towards matching gnis_feature_id=* and name=*.
Replacing address nodes with building polygons
Consider replacing address nodes in OSM with high quality building data from a local authority. If the buildings have addresses associated with them, then matches would be heavily weighted towards matching addr:housenumber=* and addr:street=*. If there is no such addressing information, the data could still be conflated by setting a threshhold on the distance of perhaps 20 meters.
Updating Building Footprints
Buildings have been imported or traced by hand. An external data source has been released, and you would like to update the building in OSM to use the best building footprint from either source.
Optimal parking space assignment
This is for fun rather than for conflating data with OSM. Imagine you have a neighborhood where you've mapped all the parking spaces and the houses. You can "conflate" the two only using distance in the cost calculation to determine the optimal assignment of houses to parking spaces. If each house gets two parking spaces, you could duplicate (copy and paste) the house nodes/polygons, and you'd get two spaces matched to each house.
Follow these instructions to install the conflation plugin automatically. If you plan on doing matches over 500 objects, you should use the 64 bit java VM, so you don't run out of memory.
- Reference: the dataset which is presumed to have the best spatial accuracy and attribute (tag) comprehensiveness, typically a third-party dataset such as from a government entity
- Subject: the dataset which will have the geometry and/or attributes of the reference dataset merged into it, typically an up-to-date dataset downloaded from the OSM servers
The plugin requires that the Reference dataset be in a format that can be loaded by JOSM (an OSM file). Download the area that you would like edit first, then use the File | Open command to load in the external OSM file as a new layer. If you open the file external first, then download JOSM will download the data into the existing layer, which will make selections very difficult.
- If not already shown, enable the conflation dialog from the left panel.
- Click Configure, select some objects with better geometry and/or tags and click Freeze' in the Reference panel.
- Do the same for some other objects in the Subject panel.
- Click OK.
Doing the selection will require using the Edit | Search window. If you are conflating ways, you need to only select ways and not points. Conversely, if you are conflating points, you don't want to have any ways selected. Currently the plugin does not support relations, so they should never be selected. For example, "building=* type:way", will correctly select buildings. The type:way is needed to insure that no relations or points are selected. It is not possible to just select an area with the mouse.
In the conflation dialog, there are three tabs, Matches which lists matches found between the reference and subject layer, and Reference only and Subject only which lists unmatched objects from each dataset.
- Double-click on a match or unmatched object to zoom and center on and to select the object(s).
- Select one or more match and click Conflate to execute Replace Geometry. Select one or more objects from the Reference only list to copy them to the subject layer.
Note that you can also use the same selection for both target and source; the algorithm assigns a very high cost if both objects are the same, so a match should never occur with the same object as both target and source.
- Reuses existing search and selection functionality for creating reference and subject selections
- Uses Java Conflation Suite (JCS) and Java Topology Suite (JTS) for calculating scores between reference and subject objects, and generating the matches
- Use Replace Geometry from utilsplugin2 to conflate the objects
This is an incomplete and unordered list of tasks that I've thought of. If these or any others would be useful to you, please create a ticket for them.
- Allow for merging of just tags, and not geometry
- Add costs for "distance" between tags, e.g. by using Levenshtein distance (already implemented in JOSM core)
- Add thresholds and weights to individual costs (e.g. don't allow match if distance is greater than 100m)
- Allow clicking on arrow in conflation layer to select candidate match
- Allow declaring an invalid match, and using that information to regenerate the matches
- Add keyboard shortcuts to quickly go through matches, with keys for next, previous, merge, "mismatch", etc.
- Use color coding in arrows and table to indicate confidence of match
- Allow for custom cost and assignment methods
- Conflation/Nodes - initial design sketch


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High Emotional Intelligence linked with more delinquency among young women (but not men)
Rich Hua stashed this in Emotional Intelligence
Why should this be? The researchers are left speculating.
They think high EI might fuel acts of indirect aggression like "psychological bullying, deliberate social exclusion or malicious gossip" that tend to be performed more by young females than males. Unfortunately the researchers' measure of delinquent behaviour didn't include these kinds of behaviours, but they reasoned perhaps the same young women who perform these less visible acts were also more likely to commit the forms of delinquency that were on the scale, such as rowdy behaviour and smoking cannabis. If so, this would help explain the high EI / delinquency link in women.
"A high level of trait EI may facilitate an enhanced ability to present Machiavellian behaviour in a positive light, understand victims' emotions and predict likely responses in order that social manipulations are successful," Bacon and her team said.


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Inkscape and the SVG Working Group
Inkscape can influence the future of the SVG standard. This page serves as a gathering point for ideas on how the standard can be improved to the benefit of Inkscape.
Tavmjong Bah has joined the SVG Working group as an "Invited Expert" to represent the interests of Inkscape. You can contact him through the developer's mailing list or at tavmjong at free.fr. You can also join the meetings yourself (as several Inkscapers did after LGM2010). See the links below.
Please add to this page any problems you have found with the existing standard or what you would like to see in a future standard.
SVG Working Group Links
- Working Group Main Page
- Public-SVG-WG Mail Archives
- WWW-SVG Mail Archives (The true public mailing list).
- Roadmap (out of date, will be updated soon).
Areas of Inkscape Interest
Here are some areas to consider:
Multipage document support
Proposed for SVG 1.2 but dropped.
Creating a standard way to indicate layers. Inkscape uses private attributes.
Currently there is the use element, but there are also elements (gradients and filters) that have their own "cloning" technique, it could be nice to unify these approaches? In particular, either might benefit from some kind of support for "parameters" (being either numerical/textual values or drawable elements).
- A different notion of "closing" a path is needed, as the current one only operates well in the context of straight lines. For example, instead of having z be a command that draws a straight line to the first vertex in the subpath and closes the path, it could be used in place of the last pair of coordinates in a closed subpath. This would only very slightly complicate parsing while allowing for a much more natural operation in the context of curves. Currently a closed path consisting (conceptually) only of cubic beziers HAS to have at least one "closing" segment, this introduces "double" nodes, is more verbose and makes it impossible to have the exact same marker behaviour in paths consisting of straight lines and paths consisting of curves. (Also see this discussion: _URL_
- Diffusion curves.
- Mesh gradients.
Firefox and IE are not working to add support for SVG fonts.
See Firefox discussion at bug 119490.
SVG2.0 may replace SVG fonts by WOFF.
Advantages of WOFF:
- Good for large amounts of text.
- Support for complex scripts (Arabic, Hindi, etc.).
- Lots of available fonts.
Advantages of SVG fonts:
- Good for small amounts of text.
- Easy to create new designs.
- Can animate.
- Use to clip things like video.
See: SVG 1.2 filter module.
- Color space
- The same color space (by default) as the rest of SVG (and only ONE property please). Note that it would make sense to make linearRGB the default everywhere (instead of making filters use sRGB by default as well).
- --Jaspervdg 13:49, 15 June 2010 (UTC) I would prefer them not to have any attributes for margins. Specifically I think the only property of the filter element that should stay is primitiveUnits.
- Primitive subregions
- Are (as far as I, Jasper, know) unused and frankly not that useful. As far as I can tell they're mostly meant as an optimization, but a renderer can do that quite easily (and frankly often still has to). If you want a clipping rectangle or something, then just draw a rectangle and use it to clip a result, if you have a smart renderer it will even automagically behave reasonably efficient in such a case.
- Non-pixel-based convolution.
- (based on a Laplace transform instead of the Z-transform basically). E.g. it would be more logical (at least in some cases) to specify that you want the derivative of an image rather than applying the kernel "1 -1"... (Which has to be given a certain resolution to be meaningful, meaning that you currently can't express resolution-independent convolutions.) In fact, it could make sense to simply remove the current feConvolveMatrix, and/or enable it to function in a resolution independent manner.
- Unification of normal compositing, feBlend, feComposite and feMerge
- (Like in SVG Compositing? And then exposing that in filters in some way?)
- Is enable-background REALLY necessary? There are other ways to solve the same problem, like referencing an element explicitly or allowing filters (and possibly also use elements) with "parameters". There are certain very cool things you can do with enable-background, but it's quite hard to implement correctly because you need to keep track of where the background is used in order to know which part of an object is actually needed. Other options might be less general w.r.t. accessing the "background", but they might be easier to support and allow for much more interesting effects.
- Reusing filters as primitives. (Essentially allowing macro's.)
- A lot of filters could be "optimized" by a renderer. This would be especially helpful for editors and animation-enabled renderers. It might be good to see if some things could be built in to make this easier. I would avoid explicit flags as much as possible (users either won't use them when they could, or use them all the time, negating their usefulness), but the specification might specify some operations that are explicitly permitted for example (like collapsing two feColorMatrix operations).
- Increasing bit depth to reduce artifacts.
--Jaspervdg 16:12, 15 June 2010 (UTC) In general I'd like to stress that SVG filters should (IMO) focus less on a specific implementation and more on the desired effect (and if possible in a "vector-like" way). This makes it less complex to support filters and gives more freedom to an implementation to "do the right thing" in its own way. It's also more friendly towards the user of SVG, as more of the implementation details are hidden. (Obviously it should be possible to implement a filter, but the specification shouldn't prescribe a certain implementation.)
- --Tav: There is a proposal to include a special 'feDropShadow' filter.
- Investigate partial.s cache-ablity


text: This activity allows students to label the parts of a bee, or any insect, in a fun way. Have students color and cut out the bee. Then have them cut out the labels and the tabs. Forld the tabs and glue them to the back of the labels. Then glue the labels to the bee. They will bounce toward you making it a 3-D (sort of) model!


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The Bridge Street History Center Vision Statement:
The Bridge Street History Center seeks and will consider additions to the permanent collection that further the Bridge Street History Center's mission and promote a greater understanding and appreciation of Granbury and Hood County history.
The BSHC is currently accepting artifacts to be donated and will collect artifacts from the 1840's through 1985. Artifacts accepted will be considered a permanent addition to the collection to be maintained in perpetuity as long as they retain their physical integrity, identity, and authenticity, and remain consistent with the BSHC's stated mission.
Below are some of the categories of collections that would be considered by the BSHC:


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REI Colloquium – Mercer Gary
"Genetic Interdependence: Revising Relational Autonomy in Light of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing"
Abstract: The emergence of feminist relational theory in the 1990s coincided with a sharp increase in genetic testing in the United States. The circle of related others necessarily implicated by any individual genetic test raised questions within bioethics about the possibility of individual patients to make self-determined decisions in a context shot through with social and interpersonal influence and dependence. This talk takes up the resulting concept of relational autonomy, or socially constituted agency, in the contemporary setting of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing. I argue that the commercialization of genetics through the DTC model and the challenges it poses to genetic data security highlight the need for further clarification of the kinds of relationships relevant to the concept of relational autonomy and the normative impact of those relations on individual decision-making. By considering a case study proposed by early feminist bioethicist Anne Donchin and modifying it to fit the DTC landscape, I show that anonymous relationships, as well as concrete interpersonal ones, bear relevantly on feminist understandings of agency and responsibility.
Mercer Gary, Forrest S. Crawford Fellow in the Rock Ethics Institute and PhD Candidate in Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
This event is open to the public. To attend, please send a request for the Zoom link to _EMAIL_ by noon on the day of the event.


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SSK's Core Principles
In its efforts to provide systematic program management support to Organisation working at the grass roots, it has established a commitment to strengthen the institutions of local self-governance through capacity building support to various actors of Civil Society organisations.
SSK has ten thematic areas:
- Civil Society Building
- Trainings and Workshops
- Governance Resource Center which comprises of GRC -Rural and GRC –Urban
- Gender Mainstreaming in organization and women Empowerment program
- Strengthening Citizen Collectives
- Disaster Management
- Education for Dalit, SC and Muslim Girls
- Migration Issues
- Health and Nutrition Issues
- LivelihoodSkill Building Programs
SSK's Core Values
Partnership and mutual sharing of ideas and information with the target groups are its core values.


SJPH_General_CoverAims. Labour force activity and marriage share some pathways through which they potentially influence health. In this paper, we examine whether marriage and labour force participation interact in the way they influence mortality in the USA and six European countries.
Methods. We used data from the US National Health Interview Survey linked to the National Death Index, and national mortality registry data for Austria, England/Wales, Finland, Hungary, Norway and Spain (specifically, the Basque country) during 1999–2007, for men and women aged 30–59 years at baseline. We used Poisson regression to estimate both the additive (relative excess risk due to interaction) and multiplicative interactions between marriage and labour force activity on mortality.
Results. Labour force inactivity was associated with higher mortality, but this association was stronger for unmarried, rather than married, individuals. Likewise, being unmarried was associated with higher mortality, but this association was stronger for inactive than for active individuals. To illustrate, among US women out of the labour force, being unmarried was associated with a 3.98 times (95%CI 3.28–4.82) higher risk of dying than being married; whereas the relative risk (RR) was 2.49 (95%CI 2.10–2.94), for women who were active in the labour market. Although this interaction between marriage and labour force activity was only significant for women on a multiplicative scale, there was a significant additive interaction for both men and women. The pattern was similar across all countries.
Conclusions. Marriage attenuated the increased mortality risk associated with labour force inactivity; while labour force activity attenuated the mortality risk associated with being unmarried. Our study emphasizes the importance of public health and social policies that improve the health and well-being of unmarried and inactive men and women.
K. van Hedel, F.J. van Lenthe, M. Avendano, M. Bopp, S. Esnaola, K. Kovács, P. Martikainen, E. Regidor and J.P. Mackenbach. "Marital status, labour force activity and mortality: A study of the United States and 6 European countries." (2015). Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 43(5):469-80. doi: 10.1177/1403494815578947.
Also freely available through Pubmed Central.
Van Hedel et al., 2015, SJPH


Availability Float
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The time period between when a deposit is made and when the funds become available in an account, specifically relating to check deposits. The availability float exists because banks have to process physical checks before releasing funds, meaning that the depositor has to wait before funds appears in a bank account. Companies can reduce an availability float by moving to an electronic payment system, as this reduces the reliance on a bank's processing speed on physical checks.
The difference between the availability float and a payment float is referred to as the net float.
For example, a printing company has $50,000 deposited in a bank and is owed $10,000 by one of its clients. The printing company cashes the $10,000 check and adjusts its ledgers to indicate that it has $60,000. Until the deposit is complete, the printing company's bank account will still show it has $50,000 available. The $10,000 is the availability float.
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