plugin.xml file, and a descriptor file is created to describe new projects.
Step 2: Creating a new CProject
The CDT provides a full extensible wizard structure for creating CDT resources. The New Project Wizard is particularly powerful, allowing you to configure every aspect of the project's build process, from the environmental variables to source indexing. When you complete the wizard, it and the Core plug-in perform four main tasks:
 1. Create and open an IProject at the given path
 2. Build an IProjectDescription to hold the IProject's general information
 3. Construct a CDescriptor to hold the CDT-specific information
 4. Give the IProject a CNature or CCNature, depending on the content type
The first and second steps are common for the creation of any IProject. In the second task, the IProjectDescription stores information that the workbench uses to define the project. This data is persisted in XML format within the.project file in the project's top-level directory. Two important elements are , which lists the build commands for the project, and , which marks the project as having characteristics beyond those of a regular IProject.
The CDescriptor in the third step is similar to the IProjectDescription. The main difference is that it contains data specific to the CDT and inserts this information within a separate.cdtproject file, which contains profiles for different tools used in the build process and specifies configuration parameters for each. This file uses an XML format similar to the IProjectDescription. Listing 1 shows an example of a.cdtproject profile declaration.
Listing 1. Profile information in the.cdtproject file

The last step involves tagging the project as a C or C++ project. The Core plug-in does this by adding either the CNature or CCNature to the IProjectDescription. These classes do nothing interesting by themselves, but when the DeltaProcessor recognizes the nature of a new project, it tells the CModelManager to create a CProject corresponding to the project resource and adds it to the CDT model hierarchy.
Step 3: Creating a new TranslationUnit and WorkingCopy
Unlike the CProject, the TranslationUnit isn't immediately constructed when its underlying IFile appears. Instead, it's created after the file is activated and the editor opens. To explain how this works, I'll start with the central class of the CDT editing process: the CEditor.
Essentially, the CEditor is a StyledText widget that fits into the workbench and gets content from an IEditorInput instance. In keeping with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, the Eclipse Text Editor API only uses this widget to provide the View aspect. The editor's information is encapsulated within an instance of IDocument. A SourceViewer acts as the controller, and the CSourceViewer manages access to the CDT document.
In the Core plug-in, plugin.xml holds contentType extensions for the different types of C/C++ files and associates each contentType with a file suffix. In the UI plug-in, plugin.xml associates the CEditor with these contentTypes. The BBCDT recognizes files with.bbc,.bbcpp,.bbh, and.bbhpp suffixes. When you create or double-click one of these files, the workbench converts the IFile to IEditorInput and uses it to initialize the CEditor.
As the editor is initialized, the CDocumentProvider performs three important tasks:
 1. It uses the input's IFile to create TranslationUnit and TranslationUnitInfo objects.
 2. It creates an IDocument for the editor with the information in the IEditorInput.
 3. It constructs the WorkingCopy for the TranslationUnit and its buffer.
To create the new CDT elements, the provider calls the CoreModel, which calls the CModelManager. These workspace operations, such as the CreateWorkingCopyOperation and DestroyWorkingCopyOperation, all implement the IWorkspaceRunnable interface. They run asynchronously and tell the workspace to prevent other operations from interfering with the resource modification.
Like a CProject, each TranslationUnit has its own configuration information, such as its annotations. However, the provider doesn't create a separate CDescriptor. Instead, it persists the data inside the IEditorInput's FileInfo object. This way, the next time the input is activated, the provider can access the unit's information without starting from scratch.
Running the BBCDT
I've provided the BBCDT as a plug-in and a plug-in project. Because the tool's main purpose is to provide a basis for further work, I recommend importing the project, instead of adding its capability to your Eclipse installation.
To keep the BBCDT as simple as possible, I left out the PathEntryManager, which means that the tool doesn't use SourceEntry objects or even SourceRoots. Therefore, you must add source files (.bbc,.bbh,.bbcc, and.bbhh files) directly to the project. To create BBCDT resources, I've created a new set of wizard/page classes in the org.dworks.bbcdt.ui.wizards package. To create a project, click File > New > Project and choose either the C or C++ option. To create a file, click New > Other and choose either the C or C++ option. Figure 3 shows what the BBCDT project and editor look like.
Figure 3. The BBCDT
If you've accessed IFiles and IProjects in your Java code, the elements of the CDT model shouldn't present a problem. The CModel contains CProjects, which contain CSourceRoots. Each TranslationUnit corresponds to a single C/C++ source file, so the editor interacts with the CDT model by accessing and altering these elements.
With great power comes great complexity. This treatment may seem overly detailed, but you'll find it helpful if you start building your own C/C++ editor. You can get a much better idea of the CDT's mechanics by looking through the BBCDT source code. I recommend that you add, remove, and modify code to experiment with its operation.
The CDT model should also become clearer in subsequent articles, as I discuss the many ways the TranslationUnit and WorkingCopy interact with the CEditor and its UI classes. Part 2 goes further into how Documents manage events, how partitioning takes place, and how this partitioning provides for syntax coloring.
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Graceful Tree Conjecture is one of my favorite open problems (See this earlier post). Trees with diameter 4 and 5 are known to be graceful a decade ago.
One of my advisees, Matt Superdock, made progress towards proving that all diameter 6 trees are graceful. Matt is an undergraduate senior in our Mathematics Department. He proved that an interesting class of diameter 6 trees are graceful. His thesis is available here.
I hope his work motivates more researchers to make progress towards resolving Graceful Tree Conjecture, particularly for diameter 6 trees. Matt's work really tests the limit of current techniques. Perhaps we need new techniques/insights to prove that all diameter 6 trees are graceful.
Graceful Tree Conjecture (GTC) is one of my favorite open problems. I posted it on Open Problem Garden couple of years back. I enjoy reading papers related to graceful labeling and try to keep as up-to-date as possible with the progress towards GTC. Here is a brief introduction to GTC.
Graceful Labeling : Label the vertices of a simple undirected graph (where and ) with integers from to. Now label each edge with absolute difference of the labels of its incident vertices. The labeling is said to be graceful if the edges are labeled through inclusive (with no number repeated).
A graph is called graceful if it has at least one such labeling. This labeling was originally introduced in 1967 by Rosa [Rosa'67]. The name graceful labeling was coined later by Golomb. It is easy to see that stars and paths are graceful. Some known graceful graphs are paths, stars, complete bipartite graphs, prism graphs, wheel graphs, caterpillar graphs, olive trees, and symmetrical trees, gear graphs, rectangular grids.
Gracefully labeled graphs have applications in coding theory and communication network addressing. Look at this paper [Basak'04] for an application in MPLS Multicasting. The following conjecture is due to Kotzig, Ringel and Rosa.
Graceful Tree Conjecture (GTC) : All trees are graceful.
Ringel's Conjecture : If is a fixed tree with edges, then complete graph on vertices decomposes into copies of.
Exercise : The existence of a graceful labeling of a given graph G with n edges is a sufficient condition for the existence of a cyclic decomposition of a complete graph of order 2n+1 into subgraphs isomorphic to G. In particular, GTC implies Ringel's conjecture.
A caterpillar graph is a tree such that if all leaves and their incident edges are removed, the remainder of the graph forms a path. Here's a cute exercise. There is an elegant inductive proof.
Exercise : Prove that all caterpillar graphs are graceful.
Open Problems :
- Graceful Tree Conjecture (GTC) is still open. There are couple of papers on arxiv claiming to have settled GTC. I went through the proofs and found some mistakes.
- As an intermediate problem, prove that all lobster graphs are graceful. This is also an open problem. Some special cases of lobsters (eg : lobsters with perfect matching) are proved graceful [Morgan'02].
- Complexity of graceful labeling is open. A related problem called harmonious labeling was shown to be NP-complete.
- Improve approximate factors of relaxed graceful labeling [Bussel'02].
- [Rosa'67] Alex Rosa, On certain valuations of the vertices of a graph. Theory of Graphs, (1967) 349–355
- [Bussel'02] Frank Van Bussel: Relaxed Graceful Labellings of Trees. Electr. J. Comb. 9(1): (2002)
- [Morgan'02] David Morgan: All Lobsters with Perfect Matchings are Graceful. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 11: 503-508 (2002)
- [Basak'04] Ayhan Basak, MPLS Multicasting Using Caterpillars and a Graceful Labelling Scheme, Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'04), pp.382-387, 2004

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Vegetable sponges: how to grow them to say goodbye to plastic
Vegetable sponges: how to grow them to say goodbye to plastic
Vegetable sponges are also known as Luffas, they are the fruits of a plant of the cucurbitaceae family, related to pumpkin and cucumber and it is very easy to grow at home.
Luffa is a fruit that has many fibers inside and can perfectly replace the use of traditional sponges that are made of plastic. Vegetable sponges are natural and 100% biodegradable, unlike commonly used sponges, which makes them less polluting.
How is it grown?
This plant has more male than female flowers, so it is advisable to place more than 5-6 plants to have a reasonable production. Pollination is essentially carried out by bees and it is convenient to install 1 to 2 hives per hectare.
It can grow as a vine, climbing a wall or forming a pergola, incidentally, it will project a good shade.
Luffa adapts to many types of soil, but it thrives best in soils with a loamy or sandy texture, deep or well drained with organic matter, in addition to maintaining a pH of 5.5 to 7.5 preferably.
The plant grows best in areas with tropical and subtropical climates. They regularly flower on short days, but there are also long-day cultivars.
How is it used?
The main use of this vegetable is the production of natural sponges, but if it is harvested early, it can be eaten like zuchinis. The sponge is also used to make bath, beach and cleaning products, such as massage gloves, mops, hats and shoes. In addition, its flowers are delicious in salads or fried as well as pumpkin.
You can use it for the shower (it is a very good exfoliator), to wash dishes, wash the bathroom, etc.
Luffa also has medicinal properties as a laxative, topical, and diuretic.
Video: I Grow My Own Towels u0026 Sponges in My Garden - LUFFA (May 2021).


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Australia's record floods have spread to one of the nation's leading wine regions. Authorities have told 9,000 residents of the state of Victoria to evacuate dozens of towns as floods threaten one quarter of the state. Growers estimate that about 20 percent of the area's wine grape crop has been destroyed by heavy rain and flooding. With harvest just weeks away, winemakers across southeastern Australia are expressing widespread concern over possible fungal diseases triggered by the extreme summer rainfall.
Less than one week after La Niña-triggered floods swept through Queensland, inundating 17,000 homes, record rainfall in Victoria spawned its own floodwaters. The winegrowing regions of Grampians, Great Western and Pyrenees in the western part of the state were hardest hit.
Workers had put up sand bags at Mount Avoca winery in the Pyrenees when the water broke the banks of a dam. "We have lost all of our Cabernet and about half of the rest of the vineyard," said director Matthew Barry. He feared that disease in the sodden vineyard would wipe out most of what the flood left behind. Barry didn't let the rising waters dampen his sense of humor. "We found an unlucky 9-pound yellow belly [fish] lost in one of our flooded paddocks. Lunch was caught and the barbecue was fired up!"
In Great Western, not considered to be a flood-prone region, Best's Wines' Concongella Vineyard had 8 inches of rainfall in 48 hours and one meter of floodwater around its vines. The historic Seppelts Winery became the evacuation point for local residents as floodwaters lapped the lower reaches of its St. Peter's vineyard.
Throughout southeastern Australia, downy and powdery mildew are already threatening to become the primary concerns this vintage. In the Clare Valley in South Australia, locals estimate that more than 10 percent of the region's crop has already been affected by these fungal diseases. As floodwaters from both the Victorian and Queensland floods make their way toward the river systems of the Riverina and Riverland, Australia's largest wine regions, there are widespread fears of outbreaks of botrytis.
Floodwaters are getting higher in Seppelts Winery's St. Peter's Vineyard.
"Australia's grapegrowers are being challenged big time at the moment due to the wet and humid conditions, and it will take a considerable effort to ensure that grapes are delivered ripe and disease-free to wineries," said Alister Purbrick, CEO and head winemaker at Tahbilk in the central Victorian region of Nagambie. "I suspect that disease will cut the vintage intake by a fairly large number." Precisely how much is very much in the hands of the weather over the coming months, but some estimate a national crop of less than 1.4 million metric tons (about 1.54 million U.S. tons), suggesting a reversal of Australia's wine glut this vintage.
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 2. The abstention policy of 1867- 68 resulted in an almost complete withdrawal of the influence of the conservatives for the two years, 1868- 70. As a class they were regarded by the dominant party in state and nation as dangerous and untrustworthy and were persecuted in such irritating ways that many became indifferent to the appeals of civil duty. "The Sequel of Appomattox A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States, Volume 32 In The Chronicles Of America Series" by Walter Lynwood Fleming
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Allen, Q. (2013). "They think minority means lesser than": Black middle-class sons and fathers resisting microaggressions in the school. Urban Education, 48(2), 171-197.
The current literature on Black middle-class men is sparse, leaving little to be known about the raced, classed, and gendered experiences for many Black middle-class male students and their families. Employing qualitative methodology, this study uses critical race theory (CRT) to examine the educational experiences of Black middle-class high school male students through the counterstories of Black students and their fathers. This study highlights various microaggression events experienced by the male students as well as the forms of cultural wealth drawn upon by the fathers to divert the potential negative outcomes of school racism.
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Jim Joseph Foundation: Leadership Development for Current and Future Leaders in Jewish EducationDeadline: May 10, 2017
The Jim Joseph Foundation has begun to structure a framework for funding a new set of investments in current and future leaders in Jewish education organizations, with the initial over-arching goal for the Foundation to learn more about the field of Jewish leadership and have greater clarity around the most effective ways to invest. The Foundation is seeking to deepen its investment in leaders through supporting leadership development, management skills and technical knowledge. The initiative will include:
- Support of training of current or future leaders of Jewish education organizations serving one more of the Foundation's target audiences of teens, college students, young adults, and families with young children (ages 0 to 5) OR programs training current or future leaders who are themselves members of one or more of these target audiences.
- Support of programs that offer training in the following areas: general leadership development (e.g., developing personal and professional purpose, vision, self-awareness, ability to motivate others, ability to communicate and collaborate), management skills (e.g., board and staff development, project management, strategy and transition planning), and/or technical knowledge (e.g., finance and fundraising, evaluation and research, HR and culture, etc.).
- An external evaluation of the funded initiative.
The Foundation welcomes proposals for programs that:
- Have evidence of strong professional and lay leadership
- Expand the pipeline of excellent talent to fill leadership positions within the field of Jewish education
- Increase retention and advancement of Jewish education leaders
- Reach professional and/or volunteer leaders at various stages of their careers (early-career, mid-career, and veteran leaders)
- Are not currently receiving support from the Foundation for leadership programming or for general operating support
Amount: Up to six three-year grants will be awarded in early fall 2017 ranging between $100,000-$300,000 per year.
Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status. Organizations must have operating budgets of at least $500,000.


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I tell you it's tasty soup (Cabbage and Barley Soup from More with Less), but I made the mistake of using purple cabbage. At first the soup was a light lavender, but then it turned an odd shade of grey.
The former cabbage, barley, and carrots became unidentifiable things floating in sludge. Isn't that what storybook orphans were fed?
Lesson learned: we eat with our eyes.
Second lesson learned: use purple cabbage in raw preparations only.


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§ Lord Braine of Wheatley
asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many abortions have been performed within the North Thames Region, under the provisions of the Abortion Act 1967 (as amended); and how many and what percentage of such abortions were performed in an emergency to save the life of the mother.
§ Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish
The total number of abortions carried out under the Abortion Act, to women usually resident in the North Thames health Region1, from 1970 to 19942 was 752,736. During this period, 19 abortions, 0.003 per cent. of the total number of 196WA abortions performed, were carried out in an emergency, certified by the operating practitioner as immediately necessary, to save the life of the woman3.
1Figures are based, where possible, on 1994 health authority boundaries. Other boundary changes have not been reflected in the figures.
2 Figures for 1968–69 are not held on a comparable basis.
3Abortions performed under statutory grounds 5 (1970–31st March 1991) and F (1st April 1991–present)—i.e., where in the case of emergency it was necessary to save the life of the woman.


Are Disentangled Representations Helpful for Abstract Visual Reasoning?
Sjoerd van Steenkiste, Francesco Locatello, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Olivier Bachem
A disentangled representation encodes information about the salient factors of variation in the data independently. Although it is often argued that this representational format is useful in learning to solve many real-world down-stream tasks, there is little empirical evidence that supports this claim. In this paper, we conduct a large-scale study that investigates whether disentangled representations are more suitable for abstract reasoning tasks. Using two new tasks similar to Raven's Progressive Matrices, we evaluate the usefulness of the representations learned by 360 state-of-the-art unsupervised disentanglement models. Based on these representations, we train 3600 abstract reasoning models and observe that disentangled representations do in fact lead to better down-stream performance. In particular, they enable quicker learning using fewer samples.


Text 911 on iPhone or Apple Watch
You can quickly text 911 in the United States using your iPhone or Apple Watch.
Before you begin
Texting 911 requires an iPhone running iOS 13 or later, or an Apple Watch with watchOS 6 or later. Your iPhone must have a cellular connection; your watch needs either a cellular connection or to be near the iPhone that it's paired with. To text 911 using Siri, make sure that Siri is turned on.
You can text emergency services only in locations where it's supported. In places that don't support texting emergency services, you might receive a "bounce-back" message indicating that the text didn't go through.
How to text 911 on your iPhone or Apple Watch
Text 911 using Siri or by typing your message.
Use Siri
 - On your iPhone, say "Hey Siri, text 911." Or press the side button for a few moments, then immediately make your request.
 - On your Apple Watch, say "Hey Siri, text 911." Or, if you have Raise to Speak turned on, just raise your wrist and say "text 911." You can also press and hold the Digital Crown and make your request.
If asking Siri to text 911 doesn't work, make sure that you have Siri turned on.
Type your text message
If you're in a situation where it's safer or more convenient, or if Siri is turned off, you can type your emergency text.
On iPhone:
 1. Open the Messages app.
 2. In the To field, type 911.
 3. In the Text Message field, type your emergency.
 4. Tap the send button.
On Apple Watch:
 1. Open the Messages app.
 2. Press the Messages screen firmly.
 3. Tap New Message.
 4. Tap Add Contact.
 5. Tap the number pad button, then type 911.
 6. Tap Create Message.
 7. Tap the Scribble button to write a message with your finger.
 8. Tap Send.
After you text 911, your device enters emergency mode for 30 minutes. To get out of emergency mode, restart your iPhone or Apple Watch.
Learn more
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[ 3 syll. ec-(s)ta-sy, ecs-t-asy ] The baby girl name Ecstasy is pronounced EHKSTAHSiy †. Ecstasy has its origins in the English-American language. The meaning of Ecstasy is 'filled with extreme happiness'.
Ecstasy has 11 variant forms. Variant forms of the name include Ecstacea, Ecstacee, Ecstacey, Ecstaci, Ecstacie, Ekstacea, Ekstacee, Ekstacey, Ekstaci, Ekstacie, and Ekstasy.
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How do I set up and use a TTY/TDD device with my Nokia phone?
In addition to your phone, you will need the following for TTY/TDD communication:
 - A TTY/TDD device that is cellular ready or cellular compatible.
 - A cable for connecting the TTY/TDD to your phone, usually supplied by the manufacturer of the TTY/TDD device.
Set up the TTY/TDD profile
You can connect your phone directly to the TTY/TDD device. In order for your phone to recognize the TTY/TDD, you will need to set up the TTY/TDD profile.
Important: Some manufacturers of TTY/TDD devices suggest that the phone be least 18 inches from the TTY/TDD device. When connecting to any other device, read its user guide or contact its manufacturer for detailed instructions and safety information.
 1. Connect one end of the cable to the TTY/TDD device.
 2. Insert the other end of the cable into the headset jack on the bottom of the phone.
 3. At the Start screen, select Menu > Settings > Enhancement settings > TTY/TDD > Use TTY > Yes and press Select.
 1. At the Start screen, enter the number and press the Send key.
 2. When the receiving party answers, begin typing your conversation on the TTY/TDD.
 3. Press the End key to end the call.
Receive a call
 1. Make sure the TTY/TDD device is connected to your phone.
 2. Press the Send key to answer the call, and type your responses on the TTY/TDD.
 3. Press the End key to end the call.
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Pulling back the curtain on the PBS
All Australians will rely on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, or PBS, at some point in their lives. But how much do Australians understand about the system the Federal Government uses to provide access to medicines and vaccines?
GSK and ViiV Healthcare have collaborated to 'pull back the curtain' on the PBS with a video and report that explain how the Government assesses new medicines and vaccines to make sure they are cost-effective before they are paid for in Australia.
As the Australian population continues to grow and age, and there are more advances in science, there will be an increased demand on our healthcare system to continue to fund the medicines and vaccines we need to keep us healthy. If we all have a better understanding of that system, we'll be in a better position to help shape it in the future.
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President John Sbrega's Goals & Objectives for Fiscal Year 2015
Strategic Goal A: Successful Students
 1. Vision Project: College Participation/College Completion
 1. Increase overall enrollment (credit and noncredit) by three percent.
 2. Increase the number of 2015 graduates by more than one percent to strengthen the Six-Year "Achieving the Dream" Success Rate.
 3. Establish a new center in downtown Taunton which incorporates all credit and noncredit services and consolidates all operations in one place.
 4. Reduce student time in developmental courses.
 1. Strengthen completion rate for developmental English by two percent by incorporating lessons learned through developmental math re-engineering.
 2. Implement pilot for GPA-based mathematics placement testing.
 5. Establish or expand bridge programs between noncredit training and degree credit.
 2. Vision Project: Closing Achievement Gaps
 1. Assess persistence rates by demographics to explore solutions to increase completion.
 2. Implement an engagement/retention program coupled with mentoring of African American male students to raise the persistence rate by two percent per year in the next two years (by 2016).
 3. Increase the number of minority students in STEM and Healthcare programs by three percent.
 3. Vision Project: Workforce Alignment
 1. Create career pathways to encourage students to enter STEM fields.
 4. Vision Project: Student Learning
 1. Strengthen system for granting credit for Prior Learning.
 2. Pilot Prior Learning Assessment Tool for all students in CATCH Institute.
 3. Implement three academic and career pathways.
 4. Create two new academic programs of study.
Strategic Goal B: Sustainable Growth and Change
 1. Increase by 35 percent the College's energy consumption from renewable resources.
 2. Institutionalize and continue assessment of College Preparedness System and Federal and State compliance reporting and programming.
 3. Increase private funds raised by five percent.
 1. Expand and strengthen the Foundation's relationships with alumni and with employees.
 4. Launch "Transforming Bristol Community College" fundraising campaign to equip new Health and Science building.
 5. Explore and adopt ways for users to better access data needed for decision-making.
 6. Audit and set priorities for space and staffing needs.
 1. Complete strategic space use plan for Workforce Education Institute on Davol Street.
 7. Implement a robust information security program and build awareness and compliance with users.
Strategic Goal C: Engaged Campuses
 1. Vision Project: Preparing Citizens
 1. Expand Service-Learning (academic-related community work) into more experiences to increase Service-Learning by 20 percent.
 2. Expand international education opportunities for students, faculty, and staff.
 2. Vision Project: Support Vision Project and College priorities in College messaging
 1. Strengthen BRCC identifying messages that reflect the College mission at all sites.
 3. Establish college-wide effort to focus on retention and recruitment.
 1. Launch and implement a substantive online presence that strengthens and supports enrollment and retention and engages College community in content development.
 4. Establish Multicultural Student Center services and programming, and link them with retention and recruitment.
 5. Create college-wide diversity initiative aimed at engaging faculty, staff, and students in changing College culture.
 6. Build and implement a broad-based, robust planning effort to prepare for the College's 50th anniversary.
Strategic Goal D: Strong Partnerships
 1. Position the Workforce Education Institute as the one-stop access point for all College services.
 2. Expand Corporate Education and Training revenues by 10 percent.
 3. Continue implementation of statewidecost-savings identified in Partnership for Advancing Cost Efficiencies (PACE).
 1. Take lead on collaborative statewide effort to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint.
 2. Implement collective purchasing contracts and information security systems negotiated through PACE.
 3. Explore unified student information system implementation.
 4. Expand career pathways between noncredit and credit areas.
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General Survivorship January 5, 2017
Whether you're a sister survivor, a caregiver, the loved one of a survivor, an advocate, or just in search of some truly inspirational reading, welcome!
As with everything else A2ndAct.org does, our blog's purpose is to support and celebrate women survivors as they give back to the greater good in their 2nd Acts. The voices here come from all over the world. Their stories will amaze you, and, we hope, inspire you to begin your own 2nd Act.
We've asked each writer the same six questions (listed below) and given them the option of sending it back as the spirit moves them: Q and A style, or narrative format.
1. What was the darkest moment in your cancer journey?
2. If you could go back and talk to your pre-cancer self, what would you say?
3. How has cancer changed you?
4. What motivated you to pursue your 2nd Act; how did you find the inspiration to do your 2nd Act?
5. What has been your brightest moment in your 2nd Act?
6. Where do you see yourself going from here?
7.What's your favorite quote and how does it fit into your 2nd Act?
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Children disappointed as teacher pulls down blinds to stop them being distracted by snow during lesson at Stalham Academy near Great Yarmouth
Children at Stalham Academy, near Great Yarmouth, were banned from looking at snow Photo: Andrew Crowley
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A primary school has been criticised by parents after pupils aged eight and nine were banned from watching snow outside their classroom window.
Children were left disappointed after their teacher pulled down blinds to stop them being distracted by snow during a lesson.
Parents also claimed that pupils were stopped from touching the snow when they arrived at Stalham Academy near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Charlotte Marsters, 39, said her nine-year-old daughter had been excited by last Monday's snowfall and was very disappointed when the blinds were closed.
She said: "It was so dark they had to put the lights on. They were stuck in all day as they weren't allowed to play in the snow - and there was only about 1cm."
Ms Masters said children had been "marshalled" into classrooms as snow fell and were stopped from even bending to touch it.
She claimed one boy was told off after he took a small amount of snow from a wall with a gloved hand.
Mother-of-six Shelly Betts, whose eight-year-old daughter Bethany is a pupil, said: "When she told me they'd shut the blinds I couldn't believe it - I was very upset.
"They're only little, and they only stay children for a short time. They could have turned the snow it into a science lesson instead of banning them from seeing it. By the time they came out of school it was all gone.
"I don't want it to end up with my children only knowing about snow from Christmas cards."
Julie Hollins, 30, who has an eight-year-old son at the school, said: "Stopping them from even seeing it fall is like a slap in the face for little children."
Valerie Moore, chief executive of the Rightforsuccess Academy Trust which runs the school, did not respond to a request for comment.
However, a message posted on the Facebook page said: "We acknowledge that snow is an unusual and exciting occurrence for everyone, especially children.
"The academy's playgrounds were extremely icy so it was felt that in the interest of safety and in line with our risk assessment under health and safety, that children were brought inside at the start of the day.
"The phrase'marshalling' is not accurate to describe a notice board asking children to go inside, nor is it accurate in regards to the manner that children are brought into the Academy.
"Over the course of the day the ice had not cleared by break time on the Monday and sleet and snow showers prevented outdoor play at lunchtime.
"Having discussed the matter with the class teacher in question, she noted that the heavy snow fall was having an impact upon the learning of the children during one of her lessons so the blinds were closed to ensure that children focussed on their tasks in hand."
The school made headlines before Christmas when Stalham curate, the Rev Margaret McPhee, announced that father Christmas was not real during a school carol service, leaving some pupils upset. She later apologised.


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(n.) A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed and according to which they are compared and judged.
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Would someone please clarify for me the difference between direct and random access?
Specifically, why does this Wikipedia article on Direct Access Storage Devices distinguish between the two:
The direct access capability, occasionally and incorrectly called random access (although that term survives when referring to memory or RAM),
whereas this article on random access doesn't:
In computer science, random access (sometimes called direct access) is the ability to access an element at an arbitrary position in a sequence in equal time, independent of sequence size.


text: Video projectors are useful for at least two things; enlarging the display of a computer and playing back video (like televisions-having nothing to do with computers). Video projectors in rural locations can be a window to the rest of the world. One of the original definitions a of tele-vision is LONG DISTANCE SIGHT. The ratio of financial cost compared to the number of learner hours is vastly superior to any other solution. Video stored on flash media requires 1 gigabyte for 10 hours. In mid 2010, an 8 GB SD card costs $16 and holds 80 hours of video. In the coming years, an SD card will hold 2 terabytes holding 20,000 hours of video. In the long run Haitz's Law will impact video projectors in two ways.


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- 1 How do I get my Epson printer to Print in order?
- 2 How do I stop printing in reverse order?
- 3 How do I fix my printer from printing backwards?
- 4 How do I change the order of printing?
- 5 How do I change the printer on my Epson printer?
- 6 How do I reverse print?
- 7 What is reverse printing?
- 8 How do I print an array in reverse order?
- 9 Why is my printer printing the first page first?
- 10 Why is my printer printing upside down?
- 11 Why is my printer printing mirrored?
- 12 How do I print a booklet in pages in order?
- 13 How do I change the order of my printers in Windows 10?
- 14 How do I print a document in order?
How do I get my Epson printer to Print in order?
- Select the print command in your application.
- Make sure your product is selected.
- Click Properties or Preferences. Note: If you don't see these buttons, click Setup, Printer, or Options, then click Properties or Preferences on the next screen.
- Click the Main tab.
- Select Reverse Order.
- Click OK.
How do I stop printing in reverse order?
If it is the pages in the reverse order, click on the Office button and then on Word Options and then on Advanced and scroll down to the Print section of the dialog and uncheck the box for "Print pages in reverse order".
How do I fix my printer from printing backwards?
Open the Printer Control Panel and find your printer. Right-click it and select Properties. Go to the General tab and then click Printing Preferences and then go to the Advanced tab. Look under Printer Features and select Mirror Image and then click the down arrow to the right of that field and click Off.
How do I change the order of printing?
Printers usually print the first page first, and the last page last, so the pages end up in reverse order when you pick them up. To reverse the order: Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and press the Print button. In the General tab of the Print window under Copies, check Reverse.
How do I change the printer on my Epson printer?
Select Printer Settings from the drop-down list, and select the Basic settings tab. Select Advanced. You will find the predefined settings in the list on the right of Automatic. Select the most appropriate setting from the list according to the type of document or image you want to print.
How do I reverse print?
Microsoft Word has a single command that forces the printer to reverse print every print job:
- Open Word, then click Options > Advanced.
- Scroll through and come to the Print section on the right.
- When you want to reverse print a page, select the Print Pages in Reverse Order check box.
What is reverse printing?
To print or display the opposite background and foreground colors. For example, a typical white page with black text would be reverse printed as white characters on a black background.
How do I print an array in reverse order?
Q. Program to print the elements of an array in reverse order.
- Declare and initialize an array.
- Loop through the array in reverse order that is, the loop will start from (length of the array – 1) and end at 0 by decreasing the value of i by 1.
- Print the element arr[i] in each iteration.
Why is my printer printing the first page first?
If your printer prints with the printed side down (face down printing), it will print the first page of the job first, but if you have a printer that prints with face up, it must print the job in reverse or you will have to manually reverse the order of the pages after you print a job.
Why is my printer printing upside down?
Checking the physical printer settings When trying to print from ProFile the selection in print setup may be conflicting with the printer settings, causing some of the pages to print upside down. The default printer's properties should be set to duplex printing/double sided printing.
Why is my printer printing mirrored?
Mirrored Printing If your printed pages emerge looking like the mirror image of your original document, you've activated – accidentally or otherwise – the ability to invert page direction without changing the colors or sizes of the items on the page.
How do I print a booklet in pages in order?
Print a booklet on a double-sided printer
- Open the print dialog.
- Click the Properties…
- Under Range and Copies, choose Pages.
- Type the numbers of the pages in this order (n is the total number of pages, and a multiple of 4):
- Choose the Page Layout tab.
- Click Print.
How do I change the order of my printers in Windows 10?
However if you wish to change the first one, you can go into CONTROL PANEL > DEVICES AND PRINTERS and then right click on the printer you use most and select SET AS DEFAULT PRINTER. This will change your default printer, or the one on top.
How do I print a document in order?
Press [Ctrl], and select the files you want to print. (If the files are adjacent, select the first file in the list, press [Shift], and select the last file in the list.) Right-click the selection, and select Print from the shortcut menu. Select the desired print options, and click OK.


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Access to Environmental Information: How can better practice be achieved in the Latin American Context?
Opinion paper, 2 pages
Traditionally, in Latin American countries, environmental management policy has been drawn up and implemented in a highly centralised manner, without the involvement of civil society. However, over the last decade, awareness of the importance of including the general public in environmental management has increased. This has generated significant reforms fostering a different relationship between civil society and State bodies. In spite of this, several obstacles continue to conspire against citizen participation in environmental management.


Squish Box: Discovery at Home Toddler Time
What you need:
 - A large box
 - Pillows
 - A heavy blanket or comforter
 - A calm corner or quiet place to put the box
 - Optional: materials for decoration
 1. Find a box large enough for your toddler to fit comfortably inside with blankets and pillows.
 2. Turn the box upside down and cut a cubby hole to go in or out, or leave the box rightside up, with an open top.
 3. Let your toddler choose and arrange the necessary treasures that will "live" inside the squish box.
 4. Write the name of your toddler on the outside of the squishbox where it is large and visible.
 5. Let your toddler hang out in the box!
Ways to expand the activity:
 - The box can stay open at the top or it can be enlarged and covered to become a castle, fort, space rocket or a ship. The project can become a family affair as everyone teams up to help plan, create, build, and test the space.
 - Name your peace palace or hangout space. Everyone will want to visit!
 - Decorate the outside (or the inside!) of the squish box with Rip and Tear Toddler Art or markers
What do they learn?
 - Self regulation. This quiet space was personally designed and outfitted by and for your toddler. Let it become their go-to place for calming or quiet.
 - A squish box is a mini sensory room that can calm or stimulate depending on the need and body position.
Proprioceptive input or sensory processing. This is our body's ability to sense where we are in space. Our muscles and joints do the work and connect that awareness to our brain. This affects our self awareness, emotional safety and security.


Blue Mountain Vineyards, Okanagan Falls
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Culture & History
Merritt has a rich and varied culture and history built upon First Nations heritage, fur trading, ranching, and mining.
Today, visitors can explore this past at the Nicola Valley Museum or on a walking tour of the town heritage buildings.
First Nations
Merritt's history dates back thousands of years to First Nations inhabitance. The original settlers, the Nlaka'pamux Nation of the Interior Salish, have farmed, hunted, and fished the rivers and lakes in the area for more than 5000 years. The fascinating story of the Salish peoples' contribution to Merritt's past and present is chronicled at the Nicola Valley Museum. The museum features extensive exhibits of First Nations artifacts and intricate artwork.
European pioneers settled Merritt in the 1850s, while looking for a route between British Columbia's coast and the interior. Merritt comprised a vast expanse of grasslands in the Nicola Valley where livestock could roam, so ranching soon took root and large tracts of the valley were used for raising cattle.
North of Merritt, along Highway 5A, Nicola, Douglas Lake, and Quilchena ranches connect the area's past and present. Nicola Ranch features renovated heritage buildings that were once part of the Town of Nicola, including Murray Church (1876), arguably one of the most photographed of BC's historic churches.
The Quilchena Ranch dates from the mid-1880s. Originally built as a roadhouse to serve stagecoaches traveling between Kamloops and Merritt, the original roadhouse (now a store) still stands by the road to serve travelers. Douglas Lake Ranch is one of Canada's oldest ranches. Drive onto the ranch and visit the General Store, housed in one of its original buildings.
Coal Mining
Modern Merritt originated in the 1880s, when three large ranches were joined to form a community known as Forksdale, at the junction of the Nicola and Coldwater rivers. In 1885, coal was discovered nearby and became another industry for the town. Its discovery compelled the Canadian Pacific Railway to extend its line into the region, which led to a community that expanded around the railhead. The name was changed to Merritt in 1906 in recognition of William Hamilton Merritt, a mining engineer and railway promoter.
Walking Tours
Tours of Merritt's downtown begin at Bailey House, where the Visitor Centre is located. Pick up a walking tour map here. Overseen by the Nicola Valley Heritage Society, Baillie House is the oldest building in town and consists of a house, barn, store, storage garage, and garden. Businessman Cosam Bigney built it in 1809 for his English finance.
Merritt's most visible historic building is the Coldwater Hotel. Completed in 1910, the copper domed building was originally constructed to house business people attracted to area's booming ranching and coal industries. Today the hotel's restaurant and pub are a local gathering place.


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Full-waveform inversion (FWI) enables us to obtain highresolution subsurface images; however, estimating model uncertainties associated with this technique is still a challenging problem. We have used a Bayesian inference framework to estimate model uncertainties associated with FWI. The uncertainties were assessed based on an a posteriori covariance operator, evaluated at the maximum a posteriori model. For the prior distribution, we have used a spatially nonstationary covariance operator based on a plane-wave construction with local dips measured from migrated images. Preconditioned frequencydomain FWI was used to estimate the maximum a posteriori model. Efficient manipulation of the posterior covariance was based on a low-rank approximation of the data misfit Hessian preconditioned by the prior covariance operator. The strong decay of the singular values indicated that data were mostly informative about a low-dimensional subspace of model parameters. To reduce computational cost of the randomized singular value decomposition, we have used a Hessian approximation based on point-spread functions. The 2D numerical examples with synthetic data confirmed that the method can effectively estimate uncertainties for FWI. Visual comparisons of random samples drawn from the prior and posterior distributions have allowed us to evaluate model uncertainties. Furthermore, we found out how statistical quantities, such as means and pointwise standard deviation fields, can be efficiently extracted from the prior and posterior distributions. These fields helped us to objectively assess subsurface images provided by FWI.
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Why Soapstone Griddles Are So Effective
soapstone griddlesSparq's founders LOVE to grill, and you can imagine our dismay when discovered that grilling over an open flame carries HUGE risks of cancer. There is staggering research that finds; Grilling meat directly over an open flame can increase your risk of CANCER by 50% – 70%. We love grilling too much AND our health too much to accept this type of risk. Enter Soapstone Griddle, over the last 3 years we did our homework and came up with a product that would afford us the best of both worlds, our health, and our grill.
Did you know the lifestyle factors of diet and tobacco-use together account for approximately 70% of all human cancer, with diet by itself accounting for 35%-45% of human cancer (Goodherham et al., 1996)? In other words, approximately 80,000 per one million people are estimated to get cancer from diet-related causes.
Points we found in our research to reduce the risk of cancer from grilled foods;
 1. The American Cancer Society recommends avoiding fat dripping onto the hot coals or open flame which causes smoke and flare-ups that can contain carcinogens.
 2. The National Cancer Institute recommends avoiding direct exposure of meat to an open flame or a hot metal surface which causes charring and carcinogen mutation.
 3. The NCI also recommends avoiding prolonged cooking of meat at high temperatures (over 300ºF).
 4. Research published by MSNBC and other science journals recommend using a homemade marinade (avoid thick commercially available marinades).
Features we built into our Soapstone Griddle;
 1. Using the best griddle will remove your meat from an open flame or a hot metal surface (As recommended by the National Cancer Institute).
 2. Using our Soapstone Griddle will prevent flare-ups from dripping fat (As recommended by the American Cancer Society).
 3. Soapstone's temperature qualities allow you to cook at lower temperatures and achieve the same results in the same amount of time (As recommended by the National Cancer Institute).
 4. Our Soapstone Griddle's groove design will naturally self-baste creating a moist, organic marinade while melting away unwanted fat (As recommended by science journals and reported by major news outlets).
Best Soapstone Griddles, Cookware, Pots & Stone Cookers
01. Brazilian Soapstone Griddle or Pizza Pan with Copper Handles
02. Soapstone Griddle and Pizza Tray with Handles
03. Soapstone Cooking and Baking Surface
04. Soapstone Safety Saute Cooker
05. Soapstone Non-toxic Stew Cooker with Flexible Copper Handle
06. Brazilian Eco-friendly Soapstone Stew Pot
07. Brazilian Soapstone Cooking Pot
08. Naturestone Soapstone Pot with Lid
Why Soapstone Griddle?
Soapstone Griddles are carved out of the finest soapstone that the earth has to offer. For centuries soapstone has been used for its ability to retain and radiate heat for long periods of time. Native Americans used it for cooking slabs, pipes, and bowls.
To this day it is the material of choice for wood burning stoves and masonry heaters. Brazilians use soapstone cookware for all their culinary needs. In the United States, it is mostly used for countertops in high-end homes, as well as in laboratories. Soapstone is nonporous and is ideal for use around food because it will not harbor bacteria, stain and it will not rust.
We Need To Avoid Dangerous Cookware, See What Say The Experts!
Give Your Grill an Upgrade
Whatever grill you might have, a Soapstone Griddle will make it better, period. Find out what many cultures have known for centuries, that soapstone is one of Mother Nature's greatest cooking tools. It will change the way you grill.
By using soapstone's ability to heat evenly and consistently, you can turn any ordinary grilling experience into a phenomenal one. Our Soapstone Griddles are specially designed to harness soapstone's unique cooking capabilities. Soapstone does not have any sort of taste and will, therefore, not add any unwanted flavors to meats or vegetables. It is also non-porous, which makes it ideal for use around food, as it is resistant to harboring bacteria.
*** The stone protects your food against hot spots and flare-ups, while still allowing that smoky BBQ flavor to access your food. It also reduces cancer-causing carcinogens produced in a normal grilling environment.
Special and Effective Soapstone Design
The ridges on the stone raise the meat slightly above the cooking surface and allow it to brown by preventing escaping juices from contacting the meat. They also leave grill marks, which is the signature of any well-cooked steak.
The troughs are designed to collect the juicy drippings so that they may be recycled into a moist and flavorful environment that will continually baste your meat in its own juices while melting away any unwanted fats. Our slabs have been fire tested to 1200°F so you can sear a steak at exceptional temperatures, or cook ribs low and slow until the meat falls off the bone. We have no doubt that you will soon feel like we do and even a good steak house will lose its appeal.
Your Soapstone Griddle was also designed for use in direct conjunction with pellet grills. The ability of the soapstone to store and radiate heat will enable the pellet cooker to maintain a constant temperature in varying conditions, thus reducing the number of pellets that need to be burned to maintain the desired temperature.
Better yet, it keeps the heat right next to the food, which is where it is needed. The soapstone will enable the grill to return to the desired temperature much quicker if the lid has to be opened and will cut down on heat loss. This is not only a savings of our natural resources and environment, but it is also a considerable saving passed on to you, the consumer.
It also serves as a heat deflector in pellet grills, charcoal grills, and gas grills. By placing the Grill Slab directly over the flame it will absorb the heat and radiate it evenly throughout the grill thus eliminating hot and cold spots. It will also keep the direct flame from drying out the meat. The end result is juicier, tender meat that is evenly cooked.
You can also turn it over and use the flat surface to cook fish or vegetables. By placing it upside down over a range stove you can use it as a griddle. The possibilities become endless when you start thinking about it. So give your imagination the Sparq that it needs. Your taste buds will thank you.
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Date 2013/2/7 18:04:40 | Topic: Hindu Press International
ALLAHABAD, INDIA, February 2, 2013 (India Real Time): The Kumbh Mela is frequently billed as the world's largest religious gathering. It is almost certainly true. But how can we know for sure? The two men with the challenge of counting up to an estimated 80 million people are divided on how to do it. They also come up with different numbers. They are Devesh Chaturvedi, the commissioner of Allahabad, and Alok Sharma, the inspector general of police in the city, which is hosting the Hindu festival.
The Commissioner reckons the number of pilgrims passing through the Kumbh Mela site on the banks of the Ganga between Jan. 14 and March 10 will end up somewhere between 60 to 80 million. Both men use different techniques for counting but agree neither method is scientific or water tight. Mr. Sharma is more conservative and estimates the final total will be around 40 to 60 million.
"We use thumb rules," says Mr. Sharma. His team positions counters at the entry points to the Mela area, which leads to the bathing ghats (banks). They calculate the maximum crowd capacity of 100 meters of road based on the assumption that each pilgrim will take up 1.5 square feet of ground. Then they measure the speed of the crowd by timing how long it takes a police officer to move 600 meters with the throng. "The pace of crowd keeps changing depending on the density," the Inspector General adds. Once they know how long it has taken the policeman to walk 600 meters they can work out how big a crowd has covered the same distance and how many people have passed. Vehicles arriving along the entry roads around Allahabad are counted manually and trains with up to 8,000 passengers each are also added to the total.
Mr. Chaturvedi has a different approach to the enormous population count. From a series of watch towers across the 14 sectors of the Mela site head-counters try to keep a tab on the number of pilgrims below. "It's not the most scientific way of doing it," Mr Chaturvedi says. "But that is the only estimate available to us." This year for the first time the Mela is also being tracked using satellite imagery. "Based on the color of the images they are going to tell what is the density of human beings," Mr. Chaturvedi says. Using calculations based on the average stay of pilgrims and photographs taken at different times of day, the Commissioner hopes it will provide a more accurate count.
Mr. Chaturvedi says that the biggest crowd so far, on the first day of the festival, was 8 million while Mr. Sharma puts it at between 1.5 million and 1.8 million.


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The question comes from considerations in algebra but it's probably more related to combinatorics.
Suppose I have a set of $n$ elements $(a, b, c,...)$ and a possibly non-associative operation $*$ between these elements.
What I want to do is to count the number of elements I could obtain with this operation without interchanging the order of the elements.
Let me illustrate this. Here below the parentheses mean that the operation has higher priority (usual notation).
 - For $a$ and $b$, there is only 1 way to multiply them: $a * b$.
 - For $a$, $b$ and $c$, we can have 2: $a*(b*c)$ or $(a*b)*c$.
 - For $a$, $b$, $c$ and $d$, there are 5: $(a*b)*(c*d)$, $((a*b)*c)*d$, $(a*(b*c))*d$, $a*((b*c)*d)$ or $a*(b*(c*d))$.
It seems that for $5$ elements we have $14$ possibilities unless I've made a mistake by enumerating them all by hand.
Would anyone have an idea on how many could we obtain for $n$ elements? I fail to detect a pattern here.
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The number of ways of inserting parentheses into $n$ objects is given by the $n-1$'th Catalan number (the relationship is mentioned here): $$C_{n-1}=\frac{1}{n}\binom{2n-2}{n-1}.$$ For example, $C_4=\frac{1}{5}\binom{8}{4}=14$.
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It's the $n-1$th Catalan number. $C_4=14$, $C_5=\frac{1}{6}\binom{10}{5}=42$. – Chris Eagle Jul 21 '11 at 11:04
_USER_: Thanks for the correction, I answered too hastily :) – Zev Chonoles Jul 21 '11 at 11:05
Thank you very much! I surely haven't heard of these before. – johnny Jul 21 '11 at 11:13
_USER_: Neil Sloane's legendary on-line encyclopedia of integer sequences gives you more information than you probably care to know:-) This property is second on the list. – Jyrki Lahtonen Jul 21 '11 at 14:14
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On June 30, 1904, Col. William F. and Anna M. Vilas gave a large tract of land to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association "for the uses and purposes of a public park and pleasure ground." From 1905 through 1910, the Vilas family donated an additional $42,000 for improvements, and public donations of $10,000 were raised for the enlargement and improvement of the park. The park was named in memory of the Vilas' son, Henry, who died at a young age due to complications from diabetes. In 1911, the first animal exhibits were created, representing the start of the Henry Vilas Zoo.
In 1995, state-of-the-art habitats are built for Great Apes and Primates - chimpanzee, orangautan, and red-tailed lemur.
In what has proved to be a defining and truly visionary move, the Vilas Family stipulated that the park always be admission free. As the zoo developed within the park, it too remained free. Today it's an extraordinary asset that few communities our size can claim. Indeed, our Zoo is one of only a few, no-admission, free parking AZA accredited zoos nationwide.
In 1983, the Zoo was identified as a regional community that could be better served by county operations. The Zoo (approximately 28 acres) was "separated" from the city-owned park (about 50 acres), and a County Zoo Commission was formed. Dane County now operates the zoo, contributing 80 percent of the operating funds while the City of Madison contributes 20 percent.


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Of the people in the link, only person #7 is frictionally unemployed. Person #5 would be if they were not working part-time. Person #2 could be, depending on their reason for leaving the cod fishing industry.
Frictional unemployment occurs in three main ways:
- When a person is just entering the labor force and is looking for their first job.
- When a person quits a job to look for one they like better.
- When a person is fired for not doing the job well (as opposed to being laid off for economic reasons).
Person #7 is just entering the labor force and is therefore structurally unemployed. Person #5 is looking for a job they like better, but is still working part-time. Therefore, that person does not count as unemployed; they are underemployed. Person #2 could be frictionally unemployed if they left cod fishing to find a job they liked better. However, they will not count anyway because they have stopped looking for work and are therefore not in the labor force.
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The Pleasure of Friction
Miriam Rasch (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talkIn the webinar 'The Pleasure of Friction' Miriam Rasch poses the question how we can resist an increasingly 'frictionless' society, filled with smart devices, communicative automation, and ubiquitous surveillance. Moreover, is it possible to do so in a joyful way? If we want to change something in our dealings with technology, it will help if the alternatives have something pleasurable to offer. What can we learn from writers and philosophers from the past and present about maintaining a positive outlook on friction?
Period24 Sep 2020
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If you've had outstanding debts, overdrafts or other banking problems in the past that lead to you losing your checking account, it may be difficult to open a new one. However, gaining an understanding of your situation and realizing that there are checking accounts designed for people in your situation can help put you back in control. If you find yourself in this position, you may want to see whether you can get a second chance checking account.
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CORVALLIS - Do the flowers of your green beans, cucumbers, melons, squash, tomatoes, eggplant or peppers bloom, and then drop off without setting fruit? Or do they not set bloom at all? Some of the reasons behind blossom drop or too few blossoms on your vegetable plants may include too much heat, lack of pollination, too cold and water stress.
Deborah Kean, researcher at Oregon State University's Vegetable Research Farm in Corvallis, gives home gardeners some background on blossom drop in major groups of vegetables.
SQUASH – Gardeners tend to notice blossom drop in squash because squash flowers are so huge and noticeable. Squash have separate male and female flowers. The males always drop off after they shed their pollen. Female flowers may fall off due to lack of pollination. Blossom drop is often associated with cool temperatures, as bees and other pollinators aren't out collecting and transferring pollen as much when temperatures are down.
Sometimes female flowers will bloom before there are any male flowers out.
"Typically, a few female flowers will bloom before there are any male flowers, so, of course, they don't get pollinated," explained Kean. "Because female flowers already have what looks like a baby fruit on the end (inferior ovary, as botanists call it), people think the fruit is aborting when, in fact, it is just unpollinated flowers drying up and falling off."
If you want to help Mother Nature along, you can hand pollinate squash by removing a male flower, then rub the pollen producing anthers (top of the stamen) onto the stigma of the female flower.
TOMATOES AND PEPPERS, EGGPLANTS – In areas of Oregon where late spring and summer nights are cooler, blossom drop in tomatoes and peppers can occur. Too much nitrogen and water can stimulate a lot of leafy growth, but few blossoms. Heat can cause blossom drop as well. Tomato blossoms drop off without setting fruit when night temperatures fall below 55 degrees or day temperatures exceed 90 degrees for extended periods.
Cherry tomatoes and the OSU-bred parthenocarpic tomatoes, including Gold Nugget, Oregon Spring, Oregon Star, Siletz and Legend, are the exception, as they will set fruit over a wider temperature range than most large-fruited types. Parthenocarpic and cherry tomatoes will fruit throughout the heat of summer, even in Tucson, according to information from the University of Arizona.
Blossoms drop off if your tomato, pepper or eggplant plants are water stressed. Deep and infrequent watering is best. Also, make sure your plants are getting enough sun. If they receive less than 6 hours of sunlight a day, they may not bloom. Also, windy conditions can interfere with fruit set, so if you can create windbreaks in the garden, do so.
Pepper blossoms are even more sensitive to temperature fluctuations during pollination. Normal pollination and fruit set and don't occur when night temperatures fall below 58 degrees and daytime temperatures rise above 85 degrees. Under these temperature conditions, the blossoms fall off, often before pollination.
BEANS AND PEAS – Intense heat (generally higher than 95 degrees) or water stress (e.g. under watering) can cause beans and peas to drop their flowers. Snap beans produce way more blossoms than they can set pods, because bean breeders have selected for concentrated pod set.
Sometimes, during a heat wave, beans will drop blossoms, sometimes resulting in what growers call a "split set," or two distinct crops of beans in one set, explained Kean.
"This drives vegetable processors crazy, as they do a one time harvest," she said. "But this may not bother home gardeners."
CUCUMBERS, MELONS – Cooler weather keeps pollinators from flying. If female flowers are not pollinated, they will abort. Male flowers always drop, as they don't form the fruit; they provide the pollen.
CORN - Corn is another vegetable adversely affected by high temperatures. The corn tassel (pollen producing part of the corn flower) is often killed when temperatures are above 100 degrees. Injury to the tassel will prevent development of kernels in the ear. Fortunately for most parts of the state, summer temperatures don't stay above 100 degrees for long.
Vegetable varieties vary in their sensitivity to blossom drop. If you have trouble with one variety, try a different one next year. By planting varieties adapted to the growing conditions in your region, you can avoid many of the blossom drop and non-pollination problems. And remember, some flower drop on these garden plants is normal. Plants generally produce way more flowers than the number of fruits than they can support.
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Though it remained for almost 100 years a major Irish pilgrimage site, Knock established itself as a world religious site in large measure during the last quarter of the twentieth century, largely due to the work of its longtime parish priest Monsignor James Horan. Horan presided over a major rebuilding of the site, with the provision of a new large Knock Basilica (the first in Ireland) alongside the old church. Horan secured from Irish Taoiseach Charles Haughey millions of pounds of state aid to build a major airport near Knock. The project was condemned by critics in the media. At the time the Irish economy was in depression with massive emigration. Contrary to the critics' expectation however - and with the advent of low-fare and discount airlines - Horan International Airport (now known as Ireland West Airport Knock) became a commercial success, drawing not just pilgrims as well as passengers, but also becoming the air-gateway for the whole of Connacht.
Purported solar phenomena
In October 2009, Knock received national attention when many people reported observing "miraculous" solar phenomena similar to the Miracle of the Sun widely believed to have occurred at the time of the Fatima apparitions. The phenomena had been "prophesied" by self-proclaimed Dublin-based mystic Joe Coleman a few weeks earlier; however the reports were met with scepticism and the local Archbishop warned Catholic congregations against putting any faith in these phenomena. Archbishop Dr Neary said such events were "to be regretted rather than encouraged".
When the pilgrims had left the shrine after this event, the manager had to call in industrial cleaners to remove the rubbish left, including spilt food and drink.He also said that he would review whether gatherings would be allowed, citing health and safety issues as one problem.
In December 2009, an ophthalmologist from University Hospital Galway issued a warning that there had been a significant spike in the number of cases of solar retinopathy "all of them linked to events at Knock", with the observed patients having had "a significant reduction in their vision". The reports of people having observed the sun "dancing in the sky" were characterised as merely "sort of a cheap trick" caused by the extremely bright sunlight: "If you stare at the sun for long enough you're going to get some visual disturbances." The warning about the dangers of staring directly at the sun continued: "Not only will you get reduced vision but also a condition called metamorphopsia".
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The parish priest at the time of the apparition was The Very Reverend Doctor Bartholomew A. Kavanagh, who was also Archdeacon of the diocese. Widely considered a very holy priest in spite of his siding with landlords against the growing Land League movement, he was appointed parish priest of Knock-Aghamore in 1867, and was about 58 at the time of the apparition. He died in 1897 and is buried in the Old Church.
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An Irish anthropologist, Dr Peter Mulholland, took Mr Coleman's 'visions' and prophesies as a case study and 'Exploring a range of explanatory theories, he highlights the interaction of social context, family structure and the Catholic tradition in generating the kind of quotidian life experiences that have sustained "magical devotionalism" and facilitated the spread of New Age healing beliefs and practices' in modern Ireland.
See also
- Marian apparitions
- Knock, County Mayo
- Moving statues
- Shrines to the Virgin Mary
- Our Lady of Fátima
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- "The Apparition at Knock", Knock Shrine Association of America
- "The Story of Knock", Knock Shrine
- The Story of Knock
- Carey, F. P. "Knock and its Shrine". catholicpamphlets.net, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- Geraghty, Joan. "Knock Shrine, the holy site", Mayo News, 18 July 2012
- "Ireland: new Parish Priest for National Shrine at Knock", Independent Catholic News, 3 February 2012
- "Knock Shrine", Tourism Ireland
- "Knock, Ireland's National Marian Shrine", Mayo, Ireland
- "Archbishop enters row over Knock'sun miracle'". Irish Independent. 27 October 2009.
- Shrine staff forced to clean up mess left by Knock pilgrims, John Cooney, Irish Independent, 3 November 2009
- Eye fears over holy shrine 'visions', BBC News, 2 December 2009.
- 'Marian Apparitions, the New Age and the FÁS Prophet' by Peter Mulholland. In Ireland's New Religious Movements, Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter Mulholland (eds) 2011
Further reading
- John MacPhilpin. The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock. PJ Kennedy. 1904
- Sister Mary Francis Clark. Three Visits to Knock. PJ Kennedy. 1904
- Neary, Tom, I Saw Our Lady.


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The concept of imaging politics and professional culture are two approaches that influence and control each other in managing library performance. This research is conducted by initially looking at imaging politics that operates on aspects of academic qualifications, library accessibility, and institutional governance among three libraries. These institutional images are analyzed through three patterns of imaging politics, i.e. mirror of reality, map of reality, and simulacrum of reality, albeit this last pattern is not found. The second analysis is based on professional culture that functions as a ballacing system. Professional culture in library management shows itself as a referential standard for the performance and practices at the libraries. Both analyses are based on information sources in the form of interviews of informants, which are supported by library documents in digital formats and direct observation during interviews and a number of other visits at the study sites. Then, the third analysis focuses on relations between imaging politics and professional culture at the libraries through theoretical frameworks and other related concepts. In the process of analysis there is implicitly found different ideological orientations at the three libraries. Unfortunately, this research is not designed for this purpose, so it is interesting if there is another further research that works for the phenomena within the framework of imaging politics and professional culture at libraries.


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Suppose now that the objects in question are abelian topological groups $G$ so that morphisms are continuous group homomorphisms. Given an exact sequence of abelian topological groups $0 \to G''\to G \to G''$ is the functor $\textrm{Hom}(H,-)$ a left-exact functor? $H$ is an abelian topological group.
We know that if we only care about group homomorphisms then $\textrm{Hom}(H,-)$ is left-exact, but will the condition of continuity now change anything? It seems there is a problem because to prove exactness at $\textrm{Hom}(H,G)$ requires defining a map from $H \to G''$ which may not be continuous.
Edit: PinkElephants has shown us that this functor may fail to be exact. However if we consider a specific case which is the exact sequence
$$0 \to \Bbb{Z} \to \Bbb{R} \stackrel{e^{2\pi i x}}{\longrightarrow } S^1 \to 0$$
then is the functor $\textrm{Hom}(S^1, -)$ left-exact? What about the contravariant functor $\textrm{Hom}(-,S^1)$, is it still right-exact?
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If $\textrm{Hom}(G, -)$ fails to be left exact then you have defined exact sequence incorrectly. – Zhen Lin Dec 10 '12 at 23:35
Continuity, in any case, cannot solve anything, for you always put the discrete topology on groups! – Mariano Suárez-Alvarez Dec 10 '12 at 23:36
_USER_-Alvarez What if I consider $S^1$ as a topological group the topology on here is the Euclidean topology? – user38268 Dec 10 '12 at 23:38
_USER_ I made an edit above. – user38268 Dec 10 '12 at 23:43
Let me just mention the amazing fact that if you consider only compact abelian groups, then this category actually turns out to be abelian. In particular, Hom(S^1, -) is left-exact as long as you restrict to compact groups. – Piotr Pstrągowski Dec 11 '12 at 2:23
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$\DeclareMathOperator{Hom}{Hom}$Given a short sequence $$0 \to A \xrightarrow{f} B \xrightarrow{g} C \to 0,\tag{$\ast$}$$ in an additive category, the sequence of abelian groups $$ 0 \to \Hom(G,A) \xrightarrow{f_\ast} \Hom(G,B) \xrightarrow{g_\ast} \Hom(G,C) $$ is exact for all $G$ if and only if $f$ is a kernel of $g$ and, dually, $$ 0 \to \Hom(C,G) \xrightarrow{g^\ast} \Hom(B,G) \xrightarrow{f^\ast} \Hom(A,G) $$ is exact for all $G$ if and only if $g$ is a cokernel of $f$.
This can be interpreted as follows: Since we want $\Hom$ to be left exact, the minimal requirement that a short sequence $(\ast)$ in an additive category should satisfy in order to deserve to be called exact is that $f$ be a kernel of $g$ and that $g$ be a cokernel of $f$.
From this point of view, the example in Pink Elephant's answer is not a good one: the identity $G \to H$ is a monomorphism and an epimorphism, but it is not an isomorphism and a fortiori neither a kernel nor a cokernel.
The trouble of calling all kernel-cokernel sequences $(\ast)$ exact is that they lack the closure conditions you need in order to prove the diagram lemmas necessary for homological algebra. A particularly convenient (hence convincing) approach to exact sequences (albeit not intrinsic as in abelian categories) is usually attributed to Quillen, see exact categories. In a nutshell what this means is that you have to think about what sequences you want to call exact.
Outside of the additive setting exactness can be dealt with in various ways but it gets even more complicated. See e.g. Borceux-Bourn's book.
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Let $H$ be an abelian topological group whose topology is not discrete, and let $G$ have the same underlying group as $H$ but with the discrete topology. Consider the short exact sequence $0\to G\to H\to 0\to 0$ where $G\to G$ is the identity on sets.
Now the sequence $0\to \mathrm{Hom}(H,G)\to \mathrm{Hom}(H,H)\to \mathrm{Hom}(H,0)$ is not exact at $\mathrm{Hom}(H,H)$, as $\mathrm{Id}_H$ is in the kernel but not the image.
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Thanks for your answer. However if the topologies are all inhereted from the euclidean topology (e.g. $G''= \Bbb{Z}$, $G = \Bbb{R}$ and $G'= S^1$) then will the functor be left-exact? – user38268 Dec 11 '12 at 0:31
You may see my edit in the question above for further queries. – user38268 Dec 11 '12 at 0:34
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If the model number is correct, or even close to it, this may be useful for you:
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From that link, I found this set of images that are sure to be useful:
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Step 3 confirms reverse thread on the bolt holding the blade, turn clockwise (analog, not digital) to loosen.
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Easy to remember I think, you loosen the screw turning in the blade's cutting direction. Typically clockwise for miter saws and counter clockwise for hand held circular saws. They need to be that way so the motor doesn't tend to loosen the screw while cutting.
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 - Have you seen a shag (cormorant) before? You might have seen one dive below the water then pop up again suddenly, perhaps you've seen one holding its wings out wide to dry. Did you know that there are several types of shag in New Zealand, in addition to the most commonly known pied shag?
 - What do you find noticeable or surprising about the pārekareka or spotted shag in the photos? Can you see any similarities between the shag's plumage and the guano-covered rocks?
 - Writing in her diary from her Noises Island bach, Marlene Neureuter described spotted shags as being "so elegant—like city gentlemen in their grey suits." Would you describe these birds as elegant? What other describing words or comparisons could fit them? What kind of personality do they look like they would have?
 - The article quotes from a book in which the author describes seeing fishermen sit and shoot at shags until hundreds lay dead in the water. He thinks the fishermen were just amusing themselves, or saw the shags as competition for fish. How does that story make you feel? Why do you think it was allowed to happen? What might have led the fisherman to be so casual about the shags?
 - Anchovies in the Hauraki Gulf are estimated by one fisherman to be down to 2 or 3% of their previous levels. Shags rely on fish like pilchards and anchovies so many shags are literally starving. Do you have any ideas about how we could boost pilchard and anchovy populations?
 - Another major challenge to the shag's food supply is sedimentation clouding up the water after it rains, making it harder for seabirds to catch fish. What are the causes of sedimentation in Auckland's marine environment?
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 3. Fill in the outline of the shag with a variety of coloured dots. You can make these even or more random, closely spaced or more spread out.
 4. If you want to, add in details such as the shag's green eye-patch and the splash of white on the back of the head.
 5. To create the look of guano in the background, paint a background of brown rock, then squirt white paint from the tube onto the brown rock. Drag it around with the prongs of a fork.
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