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Description: Posttraumatic growth, defined as positive psychological changes in the aftermath of adversity and suffering, is a relatively recent focus in psychological research. The addition of this concept to the literature has provided a new, more resiliency-based framework through which to view survivors of various forms of trauma. Despite estimates that over half of all sexual assaults are not reported to the authorities, current crime statistics indicate that 1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted in their lifetime (Campbell & Wasco, 2005). Given the large percentage of the population that is impacted by sexual assault, it is essential that professionals better understand the factors that influence the successful healing and growth that can occur post-trauma. The purpose of this study was to further expand the literature on posttraumatic growth in sexual assault survivors by considering this phenomenon through the lens of attachment theory. Specifically, this study tested a proposed model of the inter-relationships among subjective and objective perceptions of threat during the sexual assault, adult romantic attachment, and posttraumatic growth. It was hypothesized that adult romantic attachment and parent-child attachment would mediate the relationship between subjective, or perceived threat, defined as the victim's perception of life threat, and objective threat, defined...
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Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail are a navigation technique used in user interfaces. Nautilus is the official File manager for the GNOME desktop The name is a play on words evoking the shell of a Nautilus to represent an The user interface (or Human Computer Interface) is the aggregate of means by which people&mdash the users '&mdash interact with the System Its purpose is to give users a way to keep track of their location within programs or documents. The term is taken from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairytale. Breadcrumbs or bread crumbs (regional variants breading crispies are small particles of dry Bread, which are used for Breading or crumbing foods topping Hansel and Gretel ( Hänsel und Gretel) is a Fairy tale of Germanic origin adapted by the Brothers Grimm and earlier by Giambattista
Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of a webpage, usually below any title bars or headers. They provide links back to each previous page that the user navigated through in order to get to the current page, for hierarchical structures usually the parent pages of the current one. Breadcrumbs provide a trail for the user to follow back to the starting/entry point of a website. They may look something like this:
Home page → Section page → Subsection page
There are three types of web breadcrumbs:
Path breadcrumbs are dynamic and show the path that the user has taken to arrive at a page.
Location breadcrumbs are static and show where the page is located in the website hierarchy.
Attribute breadcrumbs give information that categorizes the current page.
Some commentators criticize Path-style breadcrumbs because they duplicate functionality that properly subsists in the browser; namely, the 'Back' button and browsing history.
Location breadcrumbs are not necessarily appropriate for sites whose content is so rich that single categories do not fully describe a particular piece of content. This is a common situation in sites employing a search-base navigation paradigm (for example, Amazon). In general, wherever a strict hierarchy is not applicable, Location breadcrumbs are inappropriate.
Some commentators and programmers alternatively use the term "cookie crumb" (or some variant) as a synonym to describe the previously mentioned navigation technique, but this usage is considered incorrect and most likely represents a linguistic corruption of the original "breadcrumb" metaphor. Corruption or bastardisation is a way of referring to certain changes in a Language. This misuse is further problematic because "cookie crumb" is often used to describe a datum or parameter inside an HTTP cookie file; another technology used on the web that is nonetheless distinct from the navigational method. HTTP cookies, or more commonly referred to as Web cookies tracking cookies or just cookies are parcels of text sent by a server to a Web client (usually
Advanced GPS tools may keep track of the motion of a GPS device bearer by recording the positions of the traveller at specified time moments and presenting them at a GPS display as a "breadcrumb trail" of position markers. Basic concept of GPS operation A GPS receiver calculates its position by carefully timing the signals sent by the constellation of GPS Satellites high above the Earth

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Kids should think twice before picking on early maturing girls or late maturing boys in their class. A new study links violent conduct in schools to some students' timing in puberty.
According to University of Florida researchers, children who go through puberty at different times then most of their peers, can react more violently to stressful events. Previous studies have already shown that those early or late maturing kids often have more emotional issues than their peers, but they can also react more aggressively to peer pressure and stress in general.
Julia Graber/UF Psychology Researcher: "The early maturing girls who also had high rates of peer stress were the ones who were more aggressive; both in terms of indirect methods like spreading rumors about other children, or things like that, and also threats and physical aggression, as well as late maturing boys. So those off-time boys who were sort of slow to get started on puberty when they experience peer stress they really, really didn't deal with it well."
Experts say parents with kids who get picked on, should help their sons and daughters learn better ways of dealing with these experiences, rather then getting worked up or aggressive and acting out just like their own kids.
Julia Graber/UF Psychology Researcher: "Simple emotion kind of regulation activities, learning how to take a deep breath and calm down and think about the situation a little bit more clearly are often really helpful. If there seems to be a persistent problem certainly working with local schools is very important to find out what teachers and principals are doing within your school to deal with problems where kids may be harassed."
UF psychologists say often time kids are not having more stress, it's the way they respond that is more aggressive. Early maturing girls often have poor coping skills, while late maturing boys build extra defense mechanisms.


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Authors: Judi A. Turner, M.D., Ph.D. et al
Anesthesiology published on 4 2016.
Background: This multicenter, retrospective study was conducted to determine how resident performance deficiencies affect graduation and board certification.
Methods: Primary documents pertaining to resident performance were examined over a 10-yr period at four academic anesthesiology residencies. Residents entering training between 2000 and 2009 were included, with follow-up through February 2016. Residents receiving actions by the programs' Clinical Competency Committee were categorized by the area of deficiency and compared to peers without deficiencies.
Results: A total of 865 residents were studied (range: 127 to 275 per program). Of these, 215 residents received a total of 405 actions from their respective Clinical Competency Committee. Among those who received an action compared to those who did not, the proportion graduating differed (93 vs. 99%, respectively, P < 0.001), as did the proportion achieving board certification (89 vs. 99%, respectively, P < 0.001). When a single deficiency in an Essential Attribute (e.g., ethical, honest, respectful behavior; absence of impairment) was identified, the proportion graduating dropped to 55%. When more than three Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Core Competencies were deficient, the proportion graduating also dropped significantly.
Conclusions: Overall graduation and board certification rates were consistently high in residents with no, or isolated, deficiencies. Residents deficient in an Essential Attribute, or multiple competencies, are at high risk of not graduating or achieving board certification. More research is needed on the effectiveness and selective deployment of remediation efforts, particularly for high-risk groups.

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- 1 What is the purpose of daggering?
- 2 Who started twerking?
- 3 What is the Jamaican dance?
- 4 What Twerking means?
- 5 Why are there so many Jamaicans in London?
- 6 What does it mean to twerk on a guy?
- 7 What language do Jamaicans speak?
- 8 What type of music do Jamaicans listen to?
- 9 What is the most popular dance in Jamaica?
- 10 What does God say about twerking?
- 11 Why is it called twerking?
- 12 Is twerking a slang word?
What is the purpose of daggering?
The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation defines daggering as "a colloquial term or phrase used in dancehall culture as a reference to hardcore sex or what is popularly referred to as 'dry' sex, or the activities of persons engaged in the public simulation of various sexual acts and positions." Therefore, "There shall not
Who started twerking?
The term twerking was actually coined in the city of New Orleans during the early '90's bounce scene. According to journalist Nik Cohn, "it started in the late 1980s, a wild mix of rap and Mardi Gras Indian chants and second-line brass-band bass patterns and polyrhythmic drumming and gospel call-and-response".
What is the Jamaican dance?
Bruckins, burru, dinki-minni, ettu, gerreh, gumbay, jonkunnu, kumina, maypole, myal, quadrille, tambu and zella. Dance is such a wonderful artistic expression, influenced by history and culture. Jamaica has a rich heritage of traditional dances, but today many of them are hardly known.
What Twerking means?
The dictionary describes twerking as dancing "in a sexually provocative manner, using thrusting movements of the bottom and hips while in a low, squatting stance". It says the word in its current form has its roots in the early 1990s New Orleans "bounce" music scene, but the exact origin of twerk is uncertain.
Why are there so many Jamaicans in London?
Jamaicans have been present in the UK since the start of the twentieth century; however, by far the largest wave of migration occurred after the Second World War. The British government looked to its overseas colonies for help and encouraged migration in an effort to fill the many job vacancies.
What does it mean to twerk on a guy?
1. To move the body in a sexually suggestive twisting or gyrating fashion. verb.
What language do Jamaicans speak?
The official language is English, which is "used in all domains of public life", including the government, the legal system, the media, and education. However, the primary spoken language is an English-based creole called Jamaican Patois (or Patwa).
What type of music do Jamaicans listen to?
The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Reggae is especially popular through the international fame of Bob Marley.
What is the most popular dance in Jamaica?
Jamaica's Heritage in Dance
- Bruckins. Bruckins, as a member of the creolised group of traditional dances, reveals a unique mixture of African and European influences.
- Burru. This particular form of dance is a fertility masquerade found in Lionel Town and Hayes (Clarendon).
What does God say about twerking?
The Bible says to flee sexual impurity and immorality. Twerking is a dance form designed to stimulate sexual thoughts and feelings. The Bible may not specifically use the word "twerking" but it addresses the attitudes behind it.
Why is it called twerking?
The term twerking comes from the New Orleans' early 90s bounce scene. Modern day twerking is very similar to the Mapouka dance, and has existed for centuries. Twerking is also prevalent throughout the reggae and dancehall culture.
Is twerking a slang word?
A slang term for a booty-focused dance style that involves shaking and gyrating the rear end.


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What is Learning Style?
Learning style refers to the process of efficient acquiring, storing and managing information through learning and teaching based on the individual's style of preference.
Learning style definition
Learning style refers to a process of efficient acquiring, storing and managing information through learning and teaching based on an individual's style of preference.
Learning styles emerged from four different actions: having an experience, reviewing the experience, drawing conclusions from the experience and planning the next steps based on the experience.
Learning style models
1. Converger: for individuals who are prone to abstract concepts, experimentation, practical application of ideas and deductive reasoning.
2. Diverger: includes reflective observation and concrete evidence or experience for individuals who are good at seeing things from a different angle and creative endeavors.
3. Assimilator: for individuals who are good with abstract concepts and reflective observation, inductive reasoning and the use of theoretical models.
4. Accommodator: for individuals who prefer concrete experience and experimentation through engaging with the world to learn rather than study theory.


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The Anthony Forge Collection of Balinese Paintings (early 19th century – 1970s)
Top marks for the incidental collection
The Australian Museum holds one of the world's most significant collections of Balinese paintings. This is one of the few anthropology collections that allow the Museum to claim high international status. This collection of 160 paintings is arguably the best documented, mainly because Professor Anthony Forge, who assembled the collection, comprehensively studied the painting tradition in Bali in the 1970s. Collecting paintings was not intended, but it grew organically during his fieldwork as a useful means of engaging with the artists-informants and as a vivid illustration of this evolving tradition. So the collection was simply a minor part of an extensive anthropological study, documenting and attempting to understand the tradition of Balinese 'visual narratives'. As his intention was to document stylistic and iconographic change over time, Forge purchased a considerable variety of paintings. Some of the early 19th century paintings were obtained from community temples, while the newest, produced in the 1970s, were purchased or commissioned directly from artists.
Balinese paintings reflect a unique practice of story-telling in a codified context of the Balinese brand of Hindu mythology. This permeates every aspect of life, spiritual, ideological, social and political, defining distinctive Balinese culture. Curiously, this codified system allows ample room for recombining narratives and symbols to comment on current social and political issues and even to challenge established norms. In this way Balinese culture is evolving and adapting to new situations, without relinquishing its distinct identity.
Paintings are the visual reflection of these complex narratives and the meaning is derived from stories and the contexts in which they are told. Paintings don't conform neatly to the western concept of art. They are primarily functional, to be used in private and public shrines, as well as more secular contexts. Moreover, in his seminal research, Anthony Forge shifted attention from upper casts to the commoners (Sudra). This radically expanded our understanding of paintings and Balinese culture.
Dr Stan Florek, Database Manager


Unionist fury as Housing Executive spends £5,000 on Easter Rising mural
The mural on the Lower Ormeau Road in south Belfast. Picture Mal McCann
Brendan Hughes
UNIONISTS have accused the Housing Executive of wasting public funds for spending almost £5,000 on an Easter Rising mural.
The mural is being painted on a blank gable wall of terraced houses along the Lower Ormeau Road in south Belfast.
It was commissioned as part of a community project during the centenary commemorations focusing on a local family's involvement in both the 1916 rebellion and the Battle of the Somme.
Featuring Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, the mural is being created at a cost of £4,900 to the Housing Executive.
The housing body said the mural helps to "create a focus on heritage rather than a potentially insular and divisive time in Belfast".
But unionists have branded the mural, which has not replaced any previous contentious display, as a waste of taxpayers' cash.
Former city lord mayor Jim Rodgers called for an fresh examination of how Housing Executive funds are being spent.
"The vast majority of people in our city will be horrified that money has been wasted in this way," the Ulster Unionist councillor said.
"I am aware that the Housing Executive has paid for certain things including memorials in unionist areas which I totally oppose, and it's the same with murals.
"I don't think it's in-keeping with a city I want to see that we can all live peacefully in and respect each other."
He added: "As far as I'm concerned it is a waste of public money."
The mural is part of a wider project on the history of the Corr family, who had two sisters join the Rising and a brother killed in the same year at the Somme.
It includes references to the family's involvement in the First World War in France during 1916 as part of both the Australian and Canadian armies.
Of 11 children in the Corr family, five played key roles in different battles during the turbulent period in Irish history.
Henry Corr joined the Irish Volunteers and was involved in the Rising, while his sisters Elizabeth and Nell Corr also took part within Cumann na mBan.
But while they rebelled against British rule, two brothers were fighting in France.
George Corr was killed fighting for the Australian Army during the Battle of the Somme, while another brother Charles, fought for the Canadian armed forces.
He survived the war and returned to Canada, having been gassed several times on the Western Front.
Overall the Housing Executive gave £12,500 for the mural and 22 banners displayed lampposts during the Rising centenary to remember the Corr family.
The wider project was supported by Lower Ormeau Residents Action Group and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
A Housing Executive spokeswoman said: "The Housing Executive funded a mural, at a cost of £4,900, as well as 22 banners, which complemented a wider project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, aiming to create a focus on heritage rather than a potentially insular and divisive time in Belfast.
"The project has created an opportunity to explore a shared heritage and give people a fascinating insight into events in Belfast, Ireland and the world during 1916.
"The wider project includes an exhibition, The Corr Family Witnessing History, hosted at the Ulster Museum and the Linen Hall Library."
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Publishing assets: Sequential vs Parallel
A few days ago, we quietly deployed a change that nearly doubled publishing speed for the vast majority of Unbounce pages.
Our publishing process involves two main steps:
 1. Render the page, and publish it to S3
 2. Find all the assets referenced by the page, and publish them to S3 (where they are served by Cloudfront)
The second step can only be done after the first step is done, because it needs the rendered page to find all the assets. The first step is quite complex, with little room for optimization. However, we recently discovered that there was some low-hanging fruit for optimization in the second step.
We realized that time spent publishing pages is split pretty evenly between those two steps. It takes about as long to deal with all the assets as it does to render the page for publishing. This meant there was an improvement we could make: publishing the assets in parallel.
Sequential vs Parallel
If you were to write out some pseudo-code of what step 2 looks like, it might look something like this:
for each asset in the rendered page, do the following, one at a time:
 download the asset from wherever it's stored
 upload the asset to S3/Cloudfront
A really simple diagram of the flow of this code looks like:
Sequential diagram
This probably seems pretty straightforward, and it is. It's how we've been doing publishing for years. The problem (or potential for improvement) is that it downloads the first asset, and uploads it completely, before it does anything with the second asset. And it does the same with the second asset, before looking at the third one, and so on.
There's a nifty little thing called Amdahl's Law that applies here. It's a bunch of math that, when applied to the situation here, effectively says that if half the publishing time is spent in something we can parallelize, then we can nearly half how long publishing takes. Uploading the assets is a perfect candidate to parallelize.
Here's some pseudocode for the newly parallelized asset publishing:
for each asset in the rendered page, do the following, all at the same time:
 download the asset from wherever it's stored
 upload the asset to S3/Cloudfront
It looks easy when it's pseudocode, but trust me when I say it's not nearly as easy in real code. A really simple diagram of this parallel code looks like:
Parallel diagram
Instead of uploading the assets one at a time, we do them all at the same time. If there were 50 assets, uploading the assets should take about 1/50th the time. That seems like a huge speedup, but when it's applied to the whole publishing time, there's still that pesky rendering to do first.
Also, sadly, running 50 of these at the same time doesn't always mean a 50 time speed up. 50 at the same time means 50 downloads (or uploads) at the same time. If the network connection can't handle that much traffiic, maybe you'll only see a 40 or 30 times speed up. Additionally, if 1 of those 50 is a big file, it probably accounts for more than 1/50th of the time overall, so we still have to wait for it.
So what does all this mean in the end, for our customers? What I've seen from our measurements so far is that for 90% of pages, publishing takes only 58% as long as did before.
This graph shows the median (50 percentile), 90, 95, and 99 percentile numbers for each 3 hour window, over the last 7 days. As you can see, they all drop significantly on the afternoon of the 21st, when we deployed this change.
A page that previously may have taken 13 seconds to publish, now takes less than 8 seconds, and a page that took 7 seconds to publish now takes only 4. This depends on the page, however. Pages that use very few assets, but still take a long time to render won't show as much benefit from this improvement.
I'm really happy with these changes, and I hope you will be too.
Derek Lewis
Senior Software Developer


Dragon Age Wiki
Dragon Age Wiki
The Band of Three was a group of scholars vowed to researching the history of Kirkwall during and prior to the Tevinter occupation.
The Seekers of Truth in Kirkwall secretly created the Band of Three to investigate why there are so many blood mages in the city, the nature of the Veil there and whether the Forgotten Ones in elven lore are connected to the Forbidden Ones in other works. The team, comprised of Dalish apostate Vahnel, Brother Kerowen, and Felestia, was bound with holy vows to uncover what lore they could and return it to the Seekers.[1]
Hawke can find notes detailing their discoveries. Hawke can discover more passages as time passes in Kirkwall. The notes explain how the Band of Three conducted their research and include some comments on their theories.
The Band of Three disagreed with the then-accepted theory that the Tevinter Imperium came to Emerius (future Kirkwall), for its natural harbor and mineral wealth. They also note the Imperium dispatched three legions to Emerius which never arrived and seemingly vanished. Suspecting a greater reason, they continued their research, delving into continually more dangerous situations.
Upon acquiring some rare texts from Kirkwall's black market, the Band realized the city had hidden undercity passages which had housed Tevinter researchers. As they explored the passages, they wondered why Kirkwall's magical research was hidden, when so many other cities in the Imperium studied it publicly. Eventually, a stonemason showed the Band a map of Kirkwall, and the writer saw that the city had been built according to magical symbols; this, apparently, is why Kirkwall is very easy to get lost in.
During the Tevinter Imperium in Kirkwall, a large number of slaves would disappear every year. Though Kirkwall was a slave-trading hub and required large numbers of slaves in order to work the mines, the Band notes that roughly one of every ten slaves went missing, a disproportionately high number.
One of the notes mentions that the Band was eventually attacked by maleficarum, resulting in Vahnel being severely injured and perhaps his or her death. Interestingly, they note that Kirkwall's Circle of Magi has consistently had problems with blood mages and Harrowing deaths ("almost double that of Starkhaven or Ostwick"), something consistent with Hawke's experiences in Kirkwall.
During their research, the Band found some disturbing records about Kirkwall's architecture. The city's sewers have grooves that lead downward, apparently for blood sacrifice. They note that blood magic from a simple cut is already very powerful, and could not understand why the Imperium needed blood magic on the scale of thousands of slaves a year.
Eventually, the Band's research culminates in the discovery that the Imperium had been deliberately weakening Kirkwall's already thin Veil, though they do not know for what purpose. It can be inferred from the notes that Kirkwall's design was intended to be used as part of a blood ritual to do this, perhaps in order to summon demons like the Forbidden Ones.
The final note left by the Band suggests that they may have attempted to recreate the magister's lore they gathered. [2] Whatever they did killed Felestia and left the writer severely injured. The last member of the Band, Kerowen, returned to seal whatever they released, saying the knowledge they had gathered must be destroyed.
Known members[]
 - Seeker Cahail – formed and sponsored the Band of Three
 - Felestia
 - Brother Kerowen
 - Vahnel – a Dalish apostate
Codex entries[]
Codex entry: The Enigma of Kirkwall Codex entry: The Enigma of Kirkwall
See also[]


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October 10, 2001 - Detecting An Event within A Page
October 10, 2001|
Detecting An Event within A Page
Tips: October 2001
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
attachEvent()syntax is as follows:
If there is an additional event handler defined for the object the event fired on, it will be run before the function
eventHandler()is called. If you attach several event handlers to the same page, they will be called in a random order, immediately after the object's event handler is run, if at all defined.
Let's take an example. In the page's
init() function you can ask that the function
mouseDownHandler() be called when the
onmousedown event fires:
And you can determine the object it fired on by going:
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What is the difference between commands
sudo -i and
sudo su -?
Are they the same?
They may provide functionally close to the same thing, but it seems'sudo -i' is lighter weight and keeps some handy back references in your environment.
You can see the extra processes by looking at 'ps auxf' (f gives you a forest view)
sudo -i yields this process tree
sudo su - yields this process tree
Note that they are starting from the same bash process pid, 4482, but that su - seems to spawn another step.)
Your first'sudo' is already elevating your access level to root. Running su without specifying a username inside sudo changes the current user to root twice.
Another way to investigate this is by running both commands with strace -f.
If you diff those two straces, you'll see more exeve's being run for sudo su -.
One more thing.
sudo -i maintains the extra environment variables set by SUDO.
sudo su - clobbers those variables.
Shot answer: No, they are not the same.
Long answer: sudo and su - are different programs that accomplish the same task, that is elevating you to root privileges.
su used to be the de facto way of becoming root on Linux systems. However there was always the need to separate privileges and leave some auditing info behind. Also when you do su - everything you do is done as root and is dangerous to have that much power. Here is where sudo came to the rescue.
sudo has some characteristics that su does not. The key element in sudo is it's ability to to run "one" command as root and then drop privileges to normal user. Example: Remove a file owned by root.
This command will erase the file because sudo will elevate you to root every time you use the sudo command before another command. The next command you ran will be run like a normal user (unless you append the sudo command in the beginning). This allows you to accomplish administrative task and then drop privileges immediately helping you avoid dangerous conditions.
sudo also provides other benefits likes restricting the set of program a user can run, logs commands run under sudo and other things. For more info sudo in a nutshell
When you do su - or sudo -i you do the same thing. That is becoming root but keep in mind that su and sudo are completely different and provide you with different tools as a system admin. Personally I NEVER run su - and my pam policy prohibits it, allowing no one to run it. In my systems you always have to use sudo cause of the added benefits.
More info: Using and enabling sudo


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A SPECIES of African monkey has added charcoal to its diet, apparently to help it overcome the chemical defences of the plants it eats. The monkeys can now tolerate a wider range of plants and, as a result, their population has soared.
Scientists working on the east African island of Zanzibar observed that in one part of the island, red colobus monkeys (
Struhsaker says that the monkeys get the charcoal from burned tree and palm stumps in fields, out of abandoned kilns, and even steal it from villagers' hearths. His observations, published in the current issue of the
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Islands of Expertise: How to encourage children's interests
Kids know the darndest things! At least, they do when their parents foster their interests. This post will describe "Islands of Expertise," explain why you probably want your children to have them, and tell you how you can help.
This week she's all about dinosaurs, last week it was dolphins, and before that it was archery. Should I, as a parent, engage these interests? Or should I ignore them as fleeting fancies? Should I wait until she's older, when she's able to understand more?
The short answer is: Foster her interests now! Yes, interests do come and go, and some aspects are above her (and your!) level. But while present, the interest offers an opportunity for a child to build rich knowledge about a subject—to build an "Island of Expertise." And that has many benefits.
Islands of Expertise are the surprisingly sophisticated networks of knowledge young children can have around their interests. In contrast to the expertise seen in adults, which take ~10 years to develop, Islands of Expertise are simpler and can be developed with just two ingredients: a child with an interest, and an adult who attends to the interest often.
A hypothetical example: Preschooler Layla watches the movie Finding Nemo and develops a persistent interest in sea turtles. Her parents buy her a book about sea turtles, which she asks to read every night, and they take her to see sea turtles at the aquarium, where they also learn about why some sea animals are endangered. Since Layla is a sponge for information like most preschoolers, she quickly memorizes facts about sea turtles and starts to talk about them with her relatives and friends. Her parents, in the meantime, deepen her understanding by discussing sea turtles' habitats, how sea turtles differ from tortoises, etc. They also broaden Layla's knowledge by talking about sea migration and navigation, the seasons, and the history of animal conservation. Through all of these activities, Layla builds a rich network of knowledge centered around her interest, an Island of Expertise.
Building a network of knowledge around a subject is awesome for several reasons. First, it is simply impressive for a preschooler to have comprehensive knowledge about a topic. Second, because people talk more deeply about subjects when they have common knowledge, preschoolers with Islands of Expertise can have sophisticated discussions that would be unlikely otherwise. Whereas Layla and her parents can have a full discussion about sea turtles' diets and breathing capacities, their conversation about a passing car may simply note the car's color or how loud it is. Finally, Islands of Expertise lay groundwork for topics that children might learn later. For example, even when Layla's interest in sea turtles fades, a background for learning about biology, history, and ecology will have been established and will remain ready to be built upon in the future. Layla may never again need to name the seven species of sea turtles, but she may benefit from her familiarity with the sea turtle family when learning in biology class about animal taxonomies and evolution.
Not only is Interest Fostering valuable and actionable for parents, but it also relates to Leo's Pad. The storyline of each Leo's Pad appisode is built around a general learning theme we believe is important for preschoolers to internalize, and Interest Fostering is the theme for Leo's Pad Appisode 1: Gally's Birthday. Leo convinces Gally, "If you can dream it, you can do it!" and Leo and the learner give Gally a telescope to facilitate his stargazing, promising to help Gally reach for the stars.
A note about boys versus girls: Research has shown that at science museums (a prime location for interest cultivation), parents are more likely explain an exhibit's causal connections to young boys than to young girls. In the study that reported this, the disparity was despite the fact that boys and girls were equally interested in the exhibits, asked the same number of questions, and that parents gave both genders equal help in figuring out how to use the exhibits. Of course, the research does not imply that parents intended to explain more to their sons than daughters; they likely had no idea, and they almost certainly do not openly believe science is better suited for boys than girls. But it is still something to ponder.
Thanks for reading. And please enjoy these tips on how to build Islands of Expertise around children's interests.
HOW TO BUILD ISLANDS OF EXPERTISE
Start with a strong knowledge base
- Expose your child to a variety of activities related to her interest: museums, movies, books, etc. In all likelihood, she'll start memorizing information at an astounding rate.
- Connect current experiences to prior experiences with the topic. For example, if your child's interest is horses and you see a horse in a movie together, point out how it's similar to or different from the kind you rode at the ranch last week.
Broaden the network of knowledge
- Expose your child to neighboring topics. Talk about a bit of the history related to the topic, or how different cultures think about the topic, or the science behind it (e.g., the physics behind a flying football).
- Point out connections between the interest area and unrelated ideas. For example, if you see an armadillo on TV and your child's current obsession is knights, you can point out how the armadillo has armor just like a knight does.
- Note: Rather than just explaining these "broadening" topics, also ask questions to guide your child to think on his own. By doing so you can "scaffold" your child to draw connections between ideas.
Strengthen the network of knowledge
- Revisit often. By continuing to make connections over time between prior knowledge and new ideas, you help your child build a network that gets wider and deeper.
- It's OK if you are not an expert in the interest area! You don't need to provide full explanations for everything. "Expanatoids"—incomplete or fragmented explanations—are just fine when given at an authentic learning moment, like when you're looking at something together with your child. Since building an Island of Expertise is an ongoing endeavor, over time you and your child can connect the explanatoids into a full picture together.
- Engage your child in a satisfying conversation about the topic. You can even try to learn something about it yourself! And finally, enjoy knowing that even when the interest fades, the roots of the knowledge network will remain, supporting your child's learning efforts in the future.
(1) Crowley, K., & Jacobs, M. (2002). Building islands of expertise in everyday family activity. Learning Conversations in Museums, 333-356.
(2) Simon, H. A., & Chase, W G. (1973). Skill in chess. American Scientist, 61, 394-403.
(3) Ericsson, K. A., Krampe, R. T., & Tesch-Römer, C. (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychological Review, 100(3), 363.
(4) Crowley, K., Callanan, M. A., Tenenbaum, H. R., & Allen, E. (2001). Parents explain more often to boys than to girls during shared scientific thinking. Psychological Science, 12(3), 258-261.


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Best Practices for Creating and Using Terrain Datasets
- For lidar data, use LAS rather than ASCII formatted data.
- Because personal geodatabases have a 2 GB limit, use a file or enterprise geodatabase.
- Terrain datasets must be stored in a feature dataset.
- Use projected coordinates; geographic coordinates, such as decimal degrees, are not supported.
- Z-values should be in the same units of measure as the x,y values.
- Do not build or perform schema editing on a terrain in an edit session.
- The data in the terrain dataset should be contiguous.
- Use terrain dataset groups to boost performance at smaller scales.
- Don't use large single-point feature classes. Instead, use a multipoint feature class for large point collections (i.e., any collection of more than 500,000 points).
- Ensure feature classes that contribute to the terrain dataset have correct extents.
- Avoid adding polygon features using polygon-based SFTypes where possible; they are more expensive to enforce than breaklines.
- Use as few feature classes as possible. For example, instead of using a feature class with 50 features, use one with multipoint features instead.


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Explorers have long used horses to discover unfamiliar landscapes and many of our adventures provide an opportunity to experience this traditional form of exploration. Rides are generally short, under two hours, with the primary focus to experience the surroundings from horseback. Guides are experienced cowboys or caballeros and the animals are well taken care of. In many rural destinations horses continue to be a major source of transportation and culture. Exploring a forest or countryside by horseback is a fun and exciting way to interact with the local nature and culture.
A horseback ride is often combined with another activity or experience to make a full day. Ride in the morning or afternoon depending on the trip. On a typical ride you would not be in the saddle longer than two hours before taking a break to stretch. Longer rides may include a picnic lunch along the way. Many of our itineraries offer horseback riding as an optional activity to enjoy during your free time. If you are especially interested in exploring by horseback please let our staff know.
No experience is necessary ride horses, simply a sense of adventure and a sturdy back end. While physical requirements are modest you will enjoy your ride more if you are in decent physical condition. Horseback riding can be difficult for people with back conditions.


Turners Falls, Massachusetts
On the banks of the Connecticut River sits the charming old mill town that is home to Australis. The town has a long industrial history and is blossoming into a hub for artistic inspiration, recreational adventure and natural beauty.
Close-containment Farming
Australis pioneered the use of close-containment (land-based) farming which is considered 'the gold standard' for sustainable aquaculture. Our revolutionary Turners Falls, MA farm is one of the largest water re-use facilities in the world. We recycle and purify 99% of our precious water and donate our fish waste as fertilizer to local farmers.
Fish in the Turners Falls plant move through a series of progressively larger tanks which give them more space to swim as they grow. Each time they are moved they can be graded and counted using infrared fish counters to ensure they are never overcrowded. A staff of 50 carefully monitor the fish on a daily basis, checking the water chemistry to ensure environmental conditions are optimal. Our patented biological filters dramatically reduce the need for freshwater. Australis' Massachusetts farm produces up to two million pounds of fish per year and discharges less than 15 lbs of solids per day - about the same as three average US households!
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a small amount of structure (e.g. the map of argument-names to serialized-values) left behind. Exactly how you get the Request object from the Client to the Server (HTTP, TCP, etc.) and the response-data back is up to you as long as you can give Autowire a Future[PickleType] in exchange for its Request.
If you still don't fully understand, and need help getting something working, take a look at the complete example.
Error Handling
Assuming that your chosen serialization library behaves as intended, Autowire only throws exceptions when de-serializing data. This could come from many sources: data corrupted in transit, external API users making mistakes, malicious users trying to pen-test your API.
Autowire's de-serialization behavior is documented in the errors it throws:
package autowire
trait Error extends Exception
object Error{
 * Signifies that something went wrong when de-serializing the
 * raw input into structured data.
 * This can contain multiple exceptions, one for each parameter.
 case class InvalidInput(exs: Param*) extends Exception with Error
 sealed trait Param
 object Param{
 * Some parameter was missing from the input.
 case class Missing(param: String) extends Param
 * Something went wrong trying to de-serialize the input parameter;
 * the thrown exception is stored in [[ex]]
 case class Invalid(param: String, ex: Throwable) extends Param
These errors are not intended to be end-user-facing. Rather, as far as possible they are maintained as structured data, and it us up to the developer using Autowire to decide how to respond (error page, logging, etc).
Autowire only provides custom error handling on the server side, since there are multiple arguments to validate/aggregate. If something goes wrong on the client during de-serialization, you will get the exception thrown from whichever serialization library you're using.
Autowire supports interface methods with default values. When a RPC call's arguments are left out in favor of defaults, Autowire omits these arguments entirely from the pickled request, and evaluates these arguments on the server when it finds them missing from the request instead of throwing an Error.Param.Missing like it would if that particular parameter did not have default.
Why Autowire
The motivation for Autowire is the fact that Ajax requests between client-side Javascript and server-side something-else has historically been a point of fragility and boilerplate, with problems such as:
 - Being stringly-typed and impossibile to statically analyze
 - Prone to getting broken due to typos and incomplete refactoring
 - Needing reams of boilerplate to pickle/unpickle data structures on both ends
 - Using callbacks all over the place, confusing future developers
Autowire aims to solve all these problems:
 - Ajax calls using Autowire are statically checked just like the rest of your program. For example, typos are immediately spotted by the compiler:
[error] /Client.scala:104: value fastOp is not a member of fiddle.Api
[error] Client[Api].fastOp(editor.code).call()
[error] ^
 - Similarly, since Autowire RPC calls are (at least superficially) just method calls, things like find-usages, rename-all, and other such tools all work flawlessly across these calls.
 - Autowire deals directly with Futures; this means that it plays nicely with the rest of the Scala ecosystem, including tools such as async and await, while making it much easier for future developers to reason about than callback soup.
// endpoint definition
def completeStuff(txt: String, flag: String, offset: Int): List[(String, String)]
// somewhere else inside an 'async' block
val res: List[(String, String)] = {
 await(Client[Api].completeStuff(code, flag, intOffset).call())
 - Also shown in the example above, serialization and deserialization of data structures is handled implicitly. Thus you can call functions which return non-trivial structures and receive the structured data directly, without having to fiddle with JSON or other ad-hoc encodings yourself.
Autowire can only serialize and deserialize things that the chosen serialization library can. For example, if you choose to go with uPickle, this means most of the immutable data structures in the standard library and case classes, but circular data structures aren't supported, and arbitrary object graphs don't work.
Autowire does not support method overloading and type parameters on the interfaces/traits used for making the RPCs.
Apart from that, Autowire is a pretty thin layer on top of any existing serialization library and transport layer, and does not project much functionality apart from routing. It is up to the developer using Autowire to decide how he wants to transport the serialized data back and forth, how he wants to respond to errors, etc.
To see a simple example involving a ScalaJS client and Spray server, check out this example:
 - Cross-publish for Scala 2.12 and 2.13
 - Update to Scala-js 1.0.0+
 - Fix deprecated references
 -.call()s now wrap the endpoint using Future() instead of Future.successful, which means exceptions now get caught and propagated inside the Future rather than blowing up the call stack
 - Cross-publish for Scala 2.12.0


C++ Core Guidelines: The Remaining Rules to Performance
Here are the remaining rules to performance:
Let's have a closer look at rule Per.11 and rule Per.19.
Per.11: Move computation from run time to compile time
The example shows the simple gcd algorithm which calculates the greatest common division at runtime. gcd uses for its calculation the euclidean algorithm.
int gcd(int a, int b){
 while (b!= 0){
 auto t= b;
 b= a % b;
 a= t;
 return a;
By declaring gcd as constexpr gcd can quite easily make a function that can run at compile time. There are only a few restrictions on constexpr functions in C++14. gcd must not use static or thread_local variables, exception handling, goto statements, and all variables have to be initialised. Additionally, variables have to be of literal type.
Let's try it out.
// gcd.cpp
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 while (b!= 0){
 auto t= b;
 b= a % b;
 a= t;
 return a;
int main(){
 std::cout << std::endl;
 constexpr auto res = gcd(121, 11); // (1)
 std::cout << "gcd(121, 11) = " << res << std::endl;
 auto val = 121; // (3)
 auto res2 = gcd(val, 11); // (2)
 std::cout << "gcd(val, 11) = " << res2 << std::endl;
 std::cout << std::endl;
Declaring gcd to a constexpr function does not mean that it has to run at compile time. It means that gcd has the potential to run at compile time. A constexpr function has to be executed at compile if used in a constant expression. (1) is a constant expression because I ask for the result with a contexpr variable res (2). (3) is not a constant expression because res2 is not a constant expression. When I change res2 to constexpr auto res2, I would get an error: val is not a constant expression. Here is the output of the program.
Once more, here is the key observation. You can use a constexpr function at runtime and at compile time. To use it at compile its arguments have to be constant expressions.
You don't believe me that line (1) will be executed at compile time? Here is the proof: the assembler instructions to line (1) generated from gcc 7.3 with maximum optimisation level. I created the output with the help of the Compiler Explorer from Matt Godbolt.
The function call gcd(121, 11) boils down to its result: 11.
Templates are often used to make the decision at compile time. There is a nice example of this idea in the C++ Core Guidelines. A popular technique is to provide a handle for storing small objects on the stack and big objects on the heap. Here is the example:
template
struct Scoped { // store a T in Scoped
 //...
 T obj;
template
struct On_heap { // store a T on the free store
 //...
 T* objp;
template
using Handle = typename std::conditional<(sizeof(T) <= on_stack_max), // (1)
 Scoped, // first alternative (2)
 On_heap // second alternative (3)
void f()
 Handle v1; // the double goes on the stack
 Handle> v2; // the array goes on the free store
 //...
How does it work? std::conditional in line (1) is a ternary operator from the type-traits library. In contrast to the ternary operator at runtime (a ? b : cstd::condition will be executed at compile time. This means if std::conditional<(sizeof(T) <= on_stack_max) is evaluated to true, the first alternative is used at runtime. If not, the second alternative.
Per.19: Access memory predictably
What does that mean? If you read an int from memory more than the size of one int is actually read from memory. An entire cache line is read from memory and stored in a cache. On modern architectures, a cache line has typically 64 bytes. If you now request an additional variable from memory and this variable is on the previous cache, the read directly uses this cache and the operation is much faster.
A data structure such as std::vector which stores its data in a contiguous memory block, is a cache line data structure because each element in the cache line will typically be used. A std::vector has a size and a capacity and can grow only in one direction. The capacity is greater than its size and indicates when it is necessary to allocate memory. This argumentation also applies to std::vector and std::array although std::array has no capacity.
My argumentation to std::vector will not hold for a std::list or a std::forward_list. Both containers consist of nodes that are double or single linked.
The std::forward_list can only grow in one direction.
forward list
std::deque is something in between because it is kind of a double linked list of small arrays.
This was the theory of cache lines. Now I'm curious. Does it make a difference to read and accumulate all elements from std::vector, a std::deque, std::list, and std::forward_list. The small program should give an answer.
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void sumUp(T& t, const std::string& cont){ // (5)
 std::size_t res = std::accumulate(t.begin(), t.end(), 0LL);
 std::chrono::duration last= std::chrono::steady_clock::now() - begin;
 std::cout << cont << std::endl;
 std::cout << "time: " << last.count() << std::endl;
 std::cout << "res: " << res << std::endl;
 std::cout << std::endl;
 std::cout << std::endl;
int main(){
 std::cout << std::endl;
 std::random_device seed; // (1)
 std::mt19937 engine(seed());
 std::vector randNumbers;
 std::vector myVec(randNumbers.begin(), randNumbers.end());
 sumUp(myVec,"std::vector"); // (2)
 std::dequemyDec(randNumbers.begin(), randNumbers.end());
 sumUp(myDec,"std::deque"); // (3)
 std::listmyList(randNumbers.begin(), randNumbers.end());
 sumUp(myList,"std::list"); // (4)
 std::forward_listmyForwardList(randNumbers.begin(), randNumbers.end());
 sumUp(myForwardList,"std::forward_list"); // (5)
The program memoryAccess.cpp first creates 100 Million random numbers between 0 and 100 (1). Then it accumulates the elements using a std::vector (2), a std::deque (3), a std::list (4), and a std::forward_list (5). The actual work is done in the function sumUp (6). I assume that Linux and Windows use a quite similar implementation of std::accumulate; therefore the access time of the elements is the dominant factor for the overall performance.
template
T accumulate(InputIt first, InputIt last, T init)
 for (; first!= last; ++first) {
 init = init + *first;
 return init;
I compiled the program with maximum optimisation and executed it on Linux and Windows. I'm not interested in the comparison between Linux and Windows because that would be a comparison between a desktop PC and a Laptop. I'm interested in the relative performance numbers of the four containers. Here are they:memoryAccessWin
To get the big picture. Here are my observations:
 - std::vector is 10 times faster than std::list or std::forward_list on Linux and std::vector is 30 times faster than std::list or std::forward_list on Windows.
 - std::vector is 1.5 times faster than std::deque on Linux, but std::vector is 5 times faster than std::deque on Windows. The reason may be that the double linked small arrays are bigger on Linux than on Windows. The effect is that the access time is more vectors.
 - std::deque is 6 times faster than std::list and std::forward_list. This holds for Linux and Windows.
 - std::list and std::forward_list are in the same ballpark on Linux and Windows.
I don't want to overestimate my performance numbers but one key observation is obvious. The more cache line aware the container is, the faster is the access time of the elements: std::vector > std::deque > (std::list, std::forward_list).
What's next?
That was it to performance. With the next post, I will start to write about the rules of concurrency. I


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1) Using 'File' option located at the top of the browser's menu bar (figure 1). You can not print any Section of an Act, Ordinance or President's Order with footnotes (if any) through this option. To print with the footnotes, click on any footnote mark (usually marked with the Section details) and you will see the footnote(s) at the bottom of the page (Figure 3). Then click 'File' option and select 'Print' option from the browser menu (Figure 1, & 2) to print.
2) After you browse any Section of an Act, Ordinance or President's Order, chose 'PRINT VIEW' option (shown with printer icon) from the browsing page (figure 1). The "PRINT VIEW' will display the text as well as the footnotes (if exist under that section) as shown in Figure 3. Then click 'File' option and select 'Print' from the browser menu (Figure 1, 2) to print.


The Order: 1886 Launch Trailer
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The Order 1886
Ready at Dawn's upcoming action-adventure third-person shooter, The Order: 1886 hits the stores globally tomorrow and we've got the launch trailer.
"Rewrite the past in this unique vision of Victorian London where advanced weaponry is used to battle a powerful and ancient foe."
In the game's history, around the seventh or eighth centuries, a small number of humans took on bestial traits. The majority of humans feared these half-breeds and war broke out.
King Arthur and his like-minded knights take the fight to the half breeds, but Arthur soon realizes it's a losing battle. Through a mysterious turn of fate, The Knights discover Black Water, a mystical liquid that significantly extends their lifetimes and gives them remarkable healing abilities.
Despite this new advantage the half breeds continue to win battle after battle until the industrial Revolution turns the tide. Inventors are far ahead of their time, inventing technologies such as thermal imaging, Zeppelins, and wireless communications.
The Order: 1886 is set to launch on February 20, 2015, exclusively for the PlayStation 4.
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Biochemical Genetic Test: Pyruvate
Also known as: pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency test, pyruvate carboxylase deficiency test.
What is biochemical genetic test: pyruvate/pyruvate dehydrogenase/pyruvate carboxylase?
Pyruvate is an important compound that participates in the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Pyruvate dehydrogenase and pyruvate carboxylase are enzymes which enable pyruvate to play a role in the breakdown of glycogen and glucose to produce energy for cell use. Problems ( from for example a hereditary deficiency) with the process of breaking down of pyruvate limits the body's cells abilities to produce energy, and may cause problems in early infancy or later in childhood.
What happens during the procedure?
Testing for the enzyme deficiencies may occur after birth or later, and may involve blood being drawn from a vein in the usual way, or fluid being collected from around the brain/spinal cord (cerebrospinal fluid), urine testing and /or skin or muscle tissue being collected for genetic testing.
Is any special preparation needed?
Depending on what tissue in particular is being tested, preparation will vary. Your pediatric specialist at Nicklaus Children's Hospital will explain the tests to be performed and what preparations may be required.
What are the risk factors?
The tests performed are all thought to be safe and complications are uncommon.
Reviewed by: Jack Wolfsdorf MD.
This page was last updated on: April 06, 2021 10:18 AM
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Testing groundwater for contaminants such as arsenic or fluoride is time-consuming and costly. Prediction maps indicating the probability of encountering high contaminant concentrations can help in undertaking targeted drinking water surveys.
We have been developing innovative methods for producing such maps using machine learning with groundwater quality point data and geospatial predictor variables (e.g. geology, soil, climate) related to the processes of contaminant accumulation. Such maps have been created for various countries, for example, Burkina Faso, China, India, Pakistan and Vietnam, as well as at the global scale.
The Groundwater Assessment Platform (GAP) includes our country-level and global maps along with maps shared by our partners as well as groundwater quality measurement data and datasets of geology, climate soil and population. In addition to viewing and exploring these maps and datasets, users can upload and share their own data of any contaminant or area of interest. GAP also allows users to create their own maps by providing an easy-to-use statistical modelling framework. GAP includes help and support information (user manual) describing how to navigate and utilize GAP, including uploading data to producing hazard maps.


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This object lesson teaches about our new, resurrection bodies by using a simple science experiment. You will demonstrate how ultraviolet rays change the color of UV-sensitive beads and how medicine bottles block UV rays. The beads will represent our spirit, and the bottles will represent our earthly bodies (which keep our spirit from showing its full potential).
- Color Changing UV Beads (available from _URL_ for about $7 per 250 beads) – you will want enough so that each child can have at least 8-10 beads.
- Prescription medicine bottles (the translucent, brown type) – enough so that each child can have one. It's best if the bottles have lids that aren't child-proof, since the kids will be opening and closing them on their own. However, if you can only get bottles with child-proof lids, you can still use them if you help the kids open their bottles when it comes time.
· Order Color Changing UV Beads
· Obtain prescription medicine bottles. (If you are using bottles that have previously contained medicine, be sure to sterilize them to get rid of all medicine residue. Some pharmacies will be willing to give you unused bottles if you tell them what you are using them for.)
· Put at least 8-10 beads in each of the bottles, and then close the lids.
· Keep one bottle for demonstration, and put the rest to the side. You'll probably want to wait until the end of the lesson to pass them out, because they can become a noisy distraction if you pass them out too soon.
· Practice the script.
Use the following script (or modify to suit your needs):
· "How many of you know that you will get a new body in heaven?" (Demonstrate that you are looking for a show of hands.)
· "Well, you will! Let's look at the Scripture that tells us about it." (Have volunteer read 1 Corinthians 15:42-44.)
· "This Scripture is a little hard to understand, so let me help with it."
· "The Apostle Paul is talking about our bodies by comparing them to seeds."
· "He says earlier that the bodies we have now will die one day, but they will be replaced with new bodies."
· "Someone will bury our old bodies, but our new bodies will rise to be with Jesus in heaven."
· "This is like when you plant a seed in the ground. The seed is dead, but when you bury it, it comes back to life and grows into a plant of some sort."
· "And Paul is saying that what grows out of the seed is very different from the seed itself, just like your new, heavenly bodies will be very different from your current earthly bodies."
· "Your earthly body is 'perishable,' which means that it can die. But your new body will be 'imperishable,' which means that it cannot die."
· "Your earthly body is 'sown in dishonor,' which means that it was sinful up to the time it will be buried in the ground. But your new body will be 'raised in glory,' which means that it will have no sin in it at all."
· "Your earthly body is 'sown in weakness,' which means that even when you try to do good things, you sometimes do bad things. You aren't strong enough to always do good things. But your new body will be 'raised in power,' which means that your spirit and your body will both be free of sin so that you are able to always do good things."
· "Finally, Paul says that your earthly body is 'sown a natural body,' which means that it has to obey the physical laws of the natural world. But your heavenly body will be 'raised a spiritual body,' which means that it will be free of the limitations of the natural world. I think it means that we will be able to walk through walls and fly and stuff like that, because Jesus was able to do those things when He came back from the dead."
· "Still, it's hard to understand exactly what your new body will be like in heaven."
· "We have a hard time imagining a body free from sickness, that never gets old and that can do incredible things, but let me give you this word picture – maybe it will help." (Show a prescription medicine bottle with UV color-changing beads inside.)
· "This medicine bottle represents your body."
· "Inside the medicine bottle are some white beads, and those represent your spirit." (Open the bottle, and pour out a few beads to show the class. Then return them to the bottle, and close the top.)
· "Your spirit is different from your earthly body, but it has to stay inside it for now."
· "Unfortunately, your earthly body is sick with sin. It has been since before you were born, because that's how all people since Adam and Eve have been."
· "Your spirit doesn't like being trapped inside your body, because the Bible says that your body and your spirit are in constant conflict with each other." (Have volunteer read Galatians 5:17.)
· "Your body wants things that your spirit doesn't want, and your spirit wants things that your body doesn't want."
· "Now, these beads that I have in this bottle are not normal beads. They are color-changing beads that turn different colors when the ultraviolet rays (UV rays) of the sun shine on them."
· "What's sad is that they can't change colors while they are trapped inside these bottles, because medicine bottles are made of a special material that blocks the UV rays of the sun from getting into the bottle."
· "The beads inside the medicine bottle are like your spirit inside your earthly body."
· "They want to get free so that they can be beautiful, but they are trapped inside the medicine bottle."
· "Your spirit wants to get free, but it's trapped inside your earthly body."
· "But here's the good news. If you have asked Jesus to come into your heart, there will come a day when your spirit will be free of your body."
· "It might be on the day that you die and go to be with Jesus in heaven, or it might be the day that Jesus comes back to rule over the earth, but one day, your spirit will be free."
· "Jesus is going to give your spirit a new body that isn't sick with sin."
· "In your new, sinless body, your spirit will be exposed to the unfiltered Son-light of Jesus Christ, and something incredible will happen."
· "Your new spirit-body won't fight against itself anymore, and it will show its true potential." (Go to a window or outside, and take the beads out of demonstration bottle to show the kids how they change colors in the sun. It will take just a few seconds for them to react – even on a cloudy day.)
· "I can't tell you exactly how incredible your new body will be, because some of it is still a mystery that God wants to surprise us with later."
· "But your new spirit-body is going to be something special, just like these beads."
· "And believe me, the change will be even more dramatic than what you see here!" (Pass out bottles with beads in them to each child, and let them play with them to see the difference between being in the bottle and being out of the bottle.)


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To prepare public health professionals for their functional roles in disaster response by offering culturally competent disaster interventions to survivors, witnesses, and responders of bioterrorism and other major public health threats and community disasters.
1. To provide a brief overview of cultural competency.
2. To create an awareness of the importance of cultural competence in delivering an effective public health disaster response.
3. To offer culturally competent strategies and interventions for disaster response.
1. Define cultural competence.
2. Describe the role of cultural competence in public health workforce readiness and disaster response and recovery.
3. Identify the rationale and role of cultural competence (including cultural, social, and behavioral factors) in delivering effective disaster interventions.
4. Describe approaches, principles and strategies for developing cultural competency in assisting disaster survivors from cultural and diverse groups.
5. Identify cultural barriers to offering disaster intervention services. And,
6. Understand and appreciate the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity and their importance in delivering culturally competent disaster intervention services.
This course has been designed for public health, health care, mental health, and emergency response professionals, to include public health professionals, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, mental health professionals, health care administrators and mangers, emergency managers in local, state, and federal roles, and first responders.


It's often useful to be able to identify the effects of specific provisions individually and not just the overall impact of a proposal with many provisions. Indeed, when revenue estimates of tax law changes are reported (such as this JCT analysis of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021), they are typically reported on a provision-by-provision basis. Finding the provision-by-provision revenue estimates is cumbersome with the Tax-Brain web application both because it's hard to iterate over many provisions and because the order matters when stacking estimates, so that one needs to keep this order in mind as parameter values are updated for each additional provision in a full proposal.
In the PSL Demo Day on April 5, 2021, I show how to use the Python API of Tax-Calculator to efficiently produce stacked revenue estimates. In fact, after some initial setup, this can be done with just 12 lines of code (plus a few more to make the output look nice). The Google Colab notebook that illustrates this approach can be found at this link, but here I'll walk through the four steps that are involved:
 1. Divide up the full proposal into strings of JSON text that contain each provision you want to analyze. My example breaks up the Biden 2020 campaign proposal into seven provisions, but this is illustrative and you can make more or less provisions depending on the detail you would like to see.
 2. Create a dictionary that contains, as its values, the JSON strings. A couple notes on this. First, the dictionary keys should be descriptive of the provisions as they will become the labels for each provision in the final table of revenue estimates we produce. Second, order matters here. You'll want to be sure the current law baseline is first (the value for this will be an empty dictionary). Then you specify the provisions. The order you specify will likely affect your revenue estimates from a given provision (for instance, expanding/restricting a deduction has a larger revenue effect when rates are higher), but there are not hard and fast rules on the "right" order. Traditionally, rate changes are stacked first and tax expenditures later in the order.
 3. Iterate over this dictionary. With a dictionary of provisions in hand, we can write a "for loop" to iterate over the provision, simulating the Tax-Calculator model at each step. Note that when the Policy class object in Tax-Calculator is modified, it only needs to be told the changes in tax law parameters relative to its current state. In other words, when we are stacking provisions, estimating the incremental effect of each, you can think of the Policy object having a baseline policy that is represented by the current law baseline plus all provisions that have been analyzed before the provision at the current iteration. The Policy class was created in this way so that one can easily represent policy changes, requiring the user to only input the set of parameters that are modified, not every single parameter's value under the hypothetical policy. But this also makes it parsimonious to stack provisions as we are doing here. Notice that the JSON strings for each provision (created in Step 1) can be specified independent of the stacking order. We only needed to slice the full set of proposals into discrete chunks, we didn't need to worry about creating specifications of cumulative policy changes.
 4. Format output for presentation. After we've run a Tax-Calculator simulation for the current law baseline plus each provision (and each year in the budget window), we've got all the output we need. With this output, we can quickly create a table that will nicely present our stacked revenue estimate. One good check to do here is to create totals across all provisions and compare this to the simulated revenue effects of running the full set of proposals in one go. This check helps to ensure that you didn't make an error in specifying your JSON strings. For example, it's easy to leave out one or more provisions, especially if there are many.
I hope this provides a helpful template for your own analysis. Note that one can modify this code in several useful ways. For example, within the for-loops, the Behavioral-Responses can be called to produce revenue estimates that take into account behavioral feedback. Or one could store the individual income tax and payroll tax revenue impacts separately (rather than return the combined values as in the example notebook). Additional outputs (even the full set of microdata after each provision is applied) can be stored for even more analysis.
In the future, look for Tax-Brain to add stacked revenue estimates to its capabilities. It'll still be important for users to carve up their full list of policy changes into sets of provisions as we did in Steps 1 and 2 above, but Tax-Brain will then take care of the rest behind the scenes.


Lawsuit Claims Architect of the Capitol Retaliated Against Congressional Tunnel Workers
2O Corporate Crime Reporter 41, October 17, 2006
Ten workers who service the utility tunnels beneath the U.S. Capitol complex will file a
whistleblower complaint tomorrow against their employer, the Architect of the Capitol.
The lawsuit alleges that the workers were subjected to repeated retaliation and a hostile work environment after they wrote about their working conditions and environmental hazards to several members of Congress and the media earlier this year.
The ten workers maintain the plumbing systems that provide steam and chilled water to Congress, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court, and other federal buildings.
Frustrated by the lack of response after years of raising their concerns up the chain of command, the workers wrote a letter to three U.S. senators and one representative appealing for help.
Not long thereafter, several of the workers began attending Senate Appropriations Committee hearings and speaking to the press.
The workers say that the Architect of the Capitol then began a campaign of retaliation against the crew.
The workers allege that hazardous working conditions have existed in the tunnels for decades.
In 2000, the Architect of the Capitol was cited for violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
These violations included the creation of an unsafe working environment due to falling slabs of concrete, the lack of a communications system to broadcast emergency information, and the lack of emergency exits in time of evacuation.
The workers are most concerned about their exposure to asbestos.
"One client, who was 33 at the time of the medical examination, was told by a doctor that he had the lungs of someone over 100 years old," said Joanne Royce a lawyer for the workers. "These workers were ignored, suppressed, and clearly retaliated against in violation of the Congressional Accountability Act. Someone must be held responsible."
Royce works at the Government Accountability Project in Washington, D.C.
Royce said that OSHA sent a memo to the Architect of the Capitol in 2000 urging the architect to "take action to prevent tunnel workers from breathing airborne asbestos."
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 - Multiply the 'blue' number by 16
 - Add the three numbers together
If you want bright red, for example, type COLOUR 3. The number for medium green is 2 × 4 = 8, and for bright blue 3 × 16 = 48.
Finally, if it's the background colour you want to change, add 128 to the total.
Adding TINT
You may have worked out that the maximum colour number you can have is:
 3 × 16 + 3 × 4 + 3 = 63
which means 64 possible colours, including zero (black). But isn't this meant to be a 256 colour mode? We only seem to have a quarter of that number.
We can't specify the colour with a number between 0 and 255 because numbers 128 and above are used to set the background colour. Instead, we set four levels each of red, green and blue with the COLOUR command and fill in the gaps between them with another command, TINT.
Again for technical reasons, the four values of TINT have to occupy the range 0 to 255, so they go up in steps of 64. We can illustrate the use of COLOUR and TINT with another short program called Shades:
Line 70 applies the same value to red, green and blue so that all the colours produced are shades of grey. We have two FOR... NEXT loops, one inside the other (we say they are nested loops). The effect of this is that each time the outer loop (from lines 50 to 100) goes round once, the inner loop (lines 60 to 90) goes round four times - for each value of col% there are four values of tint%. This gives us 16 different shades of grey (including black) and we haven't even varied the amounts of red, green and blue!
... 16 different shades of grey
... 16 different shades of grey
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Difference Between a Tethered and Untethered Jailbreak
Tethered vs Untethered Jailbreak
The process of jailbreaking has been a necessity for people who find Apple's practices to restrictive. It provides root access to your iOS device (i.e. iPhone, iPod, iPad) so that you can install apps or themes that you cannot find on the AppStore. There are two types of jailbreaks, the tethered and untethered; this has absolutely nothing to do with tethering for an internet connection. The main difference between a tethered and untethered jailbreak is that you need to have a computer to boot the iOS device in a tethered jailbreak but not in an untethered jailbreak.
In an untethered jailbreak, you basically have a permanently jailbroken iOS device. You can turn it off or reboot it without any problem at all. In a tethered jailbreak, you cannot just turn your iOS device on like normal. You need to use the program you used for the jailbreak to boot the iOS device while it is connected to the computer via its cable. There is absolutely no difference between the two when it comes to functionality but just be watchful of your battery meter and keep it at full, or close to it, at all times. A tethered jailbreak is not advisable if you routinely travel or use your iOS device quite heavily.
If there is no difference in the functionality of the two, why do some people choose a tethered jailbreak over an untethered jailbreak? The answer to that is really very simple. Every time Apple releases a new update, hackers attempt to jailbreak it. Apparently, it is easier to create a tethered jailbreak compared to an untethered jailbreak. Because of this, tethered jailbreaks are released way ahead of untethered jailbreaks.
If you are satisfied with your jailbroken iPhone or iPad, there is really no pressing reason to get the next update with an untethered jailbreak. You can just wait it out until a new untethered jailbreak for that update is available. If you really can't wait and need the latest update there is no problem with a tethered jailbreak as long as you are never too far away from a computer to boot your device if shuts down. But as long as you keep your iOS device charged at all times, you would not need a computer.
A tethered jailbreak requires a computer to boot your device while an untethered jailbreak doesn't
Tethered jailbreaks appear much sooner than untethered jailbreaks
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Print Loadings in Factor Analysis
Extract or print loadings in factor analysis (or principal components analysis).
loadings(x,...)
## S3 method for class 'loadings'
print(x, digits = 3, cutoff = 0.1, sort = FALSE,...)
## S3 method for class 'factanal'
print(x, digits = 3,...)
an object of class "factanal" or "princomp" or the loadings component of such an object.
number of decimal places to use in printing uniquenesses and loadings.
loadings smaller than this (in absolute value) are suppressed.
logical. If true, the variables are sorted by their importance on each factor. Each variable with any loading larger than 0.5 (in modulus) is assigned to the factor with the largest loading, and the variables are printed in the order of the factor they are assigned to, then those unassigned.
further arguments for other methods, ignored for loadings.
'Loadings' is a term from factor analysis, but because factor analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) are often conflated in the social science literature, it was used for PCA by SPSS and hence by princomp in S-PLUS to help SPSS users.
Small loadings are conventionally not printed (replaced by spaces), to draw the eye to the pattern of the larger loadings.
The print method for class "factanal" calls the "loadings" method to print the loadings, and so passes down arguments such as cutoff and sort.
The signs of the loadings vectors are arbitrary for both factor analysis and PCA.
There are other functions called loadings in contributed packages which are S3 or S4 generic: the... argument is to make it easier for this one to become a default method.
See Also
factanal, princomp
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By Amanda Gardner
THURSDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- As if folks needed another reason to be annoyed at other people's cell phones, researchers now report that just 30 seconds of a stranger's nearby ringtone can impair thinking, at least briefly.
Students unwittingly involved in a classroom experiment saw their test scores sink after a fellow "student's" phone went off.
The finding shows that "there are real-world implications for these sounds in our environment," said study lead author Jill Shelton. "They are distracting. They significantly disrupt performance in a classroom setting."
Shelton, who recently published the findings online in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, said, "this data says it's not just annoying. It's actually leading to impairment in learning, whether in a business meeting or in a classroom or some other setting." She is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, but completed the study while a doctoral student at Louisiana State University.
The bulk of the research into the impact of cell phones has focused on their use while driving. Most of that research has found a distracting and potentially dangerous mix.
Prior research has also indicated that the human brain can only attend to a finite amount of stimuli at a time.
In the new study, Shelton and her co-authors conducted a series of experiments, both in the lab and in "real world" university settings, to see how cell phone rings affected cognitive performance.
First, in the lab, students were exposed to different types of sound: "irrelevant," non-cell-phone-related noise from an undetermined source; a standard cell phone ring; and a ringtone consisting of bars from the Louisiana State University fight song.
"At this time, LSU was running for their national championship in football," Shelton said. "Ninety-nine percent of people [in the study] knew what this song was."
Students were asked to perform a simple task on the computer -- making decisions on whether the symbols they saw on the screen were words or not words. They were not told there would be distractions, but there were. In fact, noises (including cell phone rings) interrupted the task about 20 times in each trial.
The result? "All participants who heard a sound were initially distracted, no matter what the sound was. And they performed much more slowly on their task," Shelton said.
However, those who heard the irrelevant noise were able to get back to their task much faster than people hearing either one of the two cell phone rings. And those hearing the LSU fight song ringtone took the longest time to shake off the mental distraction.
Why might distraction be worse for a cell phone ring than for more "irrelevant" noise?
"We think it's because cell phones are more prevalent in the everyday environment. People are used to responding to cell phones," Shelton postulated. "They have this automatic reaction to it that they can't control and this is particularly true if we're talking about a cell phone ringtone that is personally relevant to them."
In all cases, though, Shelton said, "while these sounds were indeed disruptive, they were brief and people could recover, at least in a lab setting."
But next, Shelton pretended to be a student in an undergraduate class on child psychology.
At a pre-designated time, Shelton's cell phone rang for about 30 seconds while she made no move to answer or silence it, prompting a number of displeased looks from her lecture-hall mates.
Immediately afterwards, students performed 25 percent worse on a pop quiz containing questions pertaining to the information that had been presented (both orally and visually) while the cell phone was ringing.
"This was a pretty big drop in performance," Shelton said.
In another experiment, Shelton rummaged mercilessly through her bag to find the phone. After this incident, students performed even worse on their recall.
When people were warned beforehand that the cell phone would ring, the break in attention was less severe, Shelton said.
"Giving people warning may help them to ignore it," Shelton said.
According to background information in the paper, more than 262 million people in the United States use cell phones. Shelton said that, right now, most universities seem to be relying on students' common courtesy to tame cell phone use during class, rather than explicit rules.
There's information on state laws on cell phones/driving at the Governors Highway Safety Association.
SOURCES: Jill T. Shelton, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow, department of psychology, Washington University, St. Louis; online Journal of Environmental Psychology
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Optimize All Curve Points
- Easily edit curves by optimizing the number of curve points on segments. Use this function when there are unnecessarily many curve points.
- Select the Edit Curve Point tool from the 2D toolbar to see all curve points on Patterns.
- Right-click on the 2D window and select Optimize All Curve Points from the pop-up menu. Surplus curve points will be deleted and only the necessary curve points needed to maintain the shape of the curves will be remained.


Breastfeeding and a Vaginal Birth Could Keep Your Newborn Healthier, Study Says
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A new study led by Anita Kozyrskyj, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found that babies born by C-section had a different set of microbes in their digestive tracts than babies who were born vaginally. Additionally, the study also determined that breastfed babies had a different makeup of bacteria... read more


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The Korean Energy Strategy Project
AUTHOR: Andrew Minchener
DATE: April 2008
This report describes a study, undertaken jointly by the Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI) and the IEA Clean Coal Centre, to consider the issues for comprehensive greenhouse gas mitigation in the power generation sector of the Republic of Korea. The emphasis is on the identification of the preferable technology and policy portfolios for CO2 mitigation options for coal-fired power plant within the Korean power generation sector. The current status of the power plant mix is described, as are the existing plans for expansion.
Under a base scenario, the expectation is that power generation will be dominated by the use of nuclear and coal, with some use of natural gas fired plant plus a very small proportion of renewables. However, with increasing pressure to control and reduce CO2 emissions, it seems likely that the Republic of Korea will have to adopt a different approach. An extensive modelling exercise was therefore undertaken to examine the impact of various policy measures on the introduction of future power plant in order to achieve significant CO2 emissions reduction. The results obtained are outlined as are recommendations for future activities that KEPRI might undertake to assist the Korean government in establishing a sustainable energy portfolio within the power generation sector.


How to Build a Notepad File in Java
If you have a Web or other computer-based small business, you might find that you need to do some Java programming. Java is a cross-platform programming language from Oracle that anyone can use. One thing that you can do with Java is create a text document that you can open in Windows' Notepad program.
Open your Java software development kit and start a new project. Depending upon which software development kit you use, the exact steps will be different. Generally, locate "New" in the File menu.
class Sample {
 File myFile = new File("C:/Program Files/example/","Example.txt");
 BufferedWriter output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(myFile));
 output.write("Text you want to write");
Change the directory and file name in the "File myFile" line to what you want to name the file and where you want it stored. Change the text in the "output.write" line to what you want the text to say.
Save your project. When you run your Java program, it will create a text file you can open in Notepad.


Bangabandhu: Constant as the North Star
Bappy Rahman
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Bangabandhu: Constant as the North Star
Bappy Rahman
I am as constant as the northern star" is a quote from William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. It comes from Act III, Scene I, and is spoken by Caesar to his conspirators right before they assassinate him. The conspirators have come to Caesar in the Senate under the pretence of pleading for amnesty for Metellus's banished brother, Publius Cimber. Caesar replies that he will adhere to his word and not change his earlier decision. Comparing himself to the North Star, Caesar boasts of his constancy, his commitment to the law, and his refusal to waver under any persuasion. This comparison implies more than steadfastness.
Bangabandhu is similar to Julius Caesar's expression in our community life, our national life, and our state life "… constant as the northern star". Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation, is the architect of independent Bangladesh. Bangabandhu is not a mere individual. Basically, he is an institution. A movement. A revolution. An upsurge! Bangabandhu is the essence of epic poetry, and he is history, and this history goes back a thousand years. That's why contemporary history has recognised him as the 'greatest Bengali of all time'. Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro once compared Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to the Himalayas. The former Cuban president made the remarks in 1973 when he met with Bangabandhu.
Bangabandhu chose his struggling life for and dedicated his life to bringing the freedom of the people. He earned independence for the countrymen, presented a state to them, and gave scope for their self-identity. Bangabandhu had wanted to provide a beautiful life to the people after bringing them freedom. It is our bad luck that he could not leave by building the country. Bangladesh would have been a developed and prosperous nation and stood as an example in the world had Bangabandhu got some time.
Bangabandhu envisioned equal rights for all. He took an economic policy immediately after the independence, envisioning equal rights for all. The new government, under the leadership of Bangabandhu, outlined the fiscal policy, prioritising relief and rehabilitation so the war affected people especially the rural poor get necessary support to start their life anew. Within just a short period of time from the independence Bangabandhu constituted a very strong and farsighted five-member Planning Commission. Considering the future development journey of a war-hit country, Bangabandhu had been able to award the country's first five-year plan before the nation alongside undertaking various reform initiatives in different sectors to reenergise the economy since the state coffer was almost zero after the War of Liberation. Bangabandhu had reenergised the country's agriculture sector through undertaking various initiatives. It was only Bangabandhu who had laid the foundation of the country's huge successes in agriculture. Bangabandhu always worked for poor. Even when he was a little child, he shared his father's crops with his poor neighbour.
Before election in 1970, Bangabandhu declared that farmers would not require paying tax for owning 25 bigha lands, but none would be allowed to own more than 100 bigha of land. Even the key issue of the six-point movement was to ensure economic rights since Pakistan government effectively detached the people of East Pakistan from all sorts of economic activities. During that tenure of only three and a half years of Bangabandhu had made hefty allocations in the agriculture sector, transformed a jute research laboratory into an institute side by side established and reformed the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC), Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Cotton Development Board.
In the early dawn of 15th August 1975 the founding father of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the members of his family were killed by a group of wayward army officials. Martial law was imposed in the country and an indemnity ordinance was passed on November 8, 1975 by the then parliament immunity from prosecution the self-confessed killers of Bangabandhu by incorporating the notorious said ordinance in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh which is a manipulation of the Constitution. No subsequent government repealed the said ordinance but played with the Constitution until the indemnity ordinance was repealed in 1996.
The nation's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed to destroy Bengali nation, culture, values and all institutions. Through the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman not only was he murdered but the country's progressive development was impaired. Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the nation by radio: 'the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere, and I do not quite know what to tell you or how to say it'. This statement is also applicable for Bangabandhu. Bangabandhu was a source of courage, and the height of leadership that he reached during the liberation war was unprecedented. His unchallenged leadership, and his charisma and courage, moved 75 million people to fight for a free country.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman does not belong to Bangladesh alone. He is the harbinger of freedom for all Bengalis. His Bengali nationalism is the new emergence of Bengali civilisation and culture. Mujib is the hero of the Bengalis, in the past and in the times that are. In fact, one can kill a man but one cannot kill a spirit. Bangabandhu instilled in the hearts of millions, the spirit of Bengali nationalism that inspired them to fight against all odds for freedom and emancipation. Bangabandhu might have been killed physically but his soul is immortal. He lives eternally. As long as this country exists, he will exist immortally. Without a doubt, Bangabandhu is the greatest Bangalee of our known history. He gave us a nation, a new country, a new identity. Even today, Bangabandhu Mujib is more powerful as dead than anyone of us alive. Bangabandhu is still alive in the minds and hearts of innumerable admirers and will continue to live there.


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gative difference between F and O is less as compared to OH? So how H lose? May be my question is low of standard as I m new kindly help
 35. Sir you are a fantastic teacher and I am sure that you are also a gentleman. And of course your knowledge of organic chemistry is commendable Really out of the world. Your post are very good and really a big fan of your THANKU?
 36. You have done a great job. I was so confused with this topic and after reading reading your explanation my concepts were very clear. Thanks a lot!?
 37. Hi is this mnemonic in order of decreasing effect? Meaning if there were two molecules that I'm trying to decide which one is more acidic, can I say that since molecule A wins out on the dipole induction despite that molecule B wins out on having more "s" character, molecule A is more acidic?
 1. It's difficult to estimate the magnitude of different effects directly. That's why pKas are measured. What you should look for is to identify trends within one of these key factors. However if you want to share an example in the comments, that's cool.
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A rotating beacon is located 1 kilometer off a straight shoreline. If the beacon rotates at a rate of 3 revolutions per minute, how fast (in kilometers per hour) does the beam of light appear to be moving to a viewer who is 1/2 kilometer down the shoreline.
I need to show work, so formatting answers in this manner would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance! :) :)
Evaluate the limit as h -> 0 of:
[tan (pi/6 + h) - tan(pi/6)]/h
I thought the answer was √3/3, or tan(pi/6, but apparently that is wrong, any tips here?
Sorry, I mean to make a new question, disregard above 'answer'.
Gee, now you're going to make people who open this topic think the answer has already been provided. Thanks a ton...
You're a jerk.
H H Chau,
dθ/dt=3 rev/min=6π rad/min
At x=0.5 km
dx/dt=(0.5^2+1)*6π=23.6 km/min=1414 kph