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Improve Men Sexual Health by doing Exercises
Kegel Exercise is the best way to increase the men physical health (Men Sexual Health). If you need to make yourself physically stronger sexual health then you needs to consider the kegel exercise. It will reinforce your Pelvic floor muscles. By having a strong pelvic muscles a man can improve his sexual health. Before starting the exercise pattern it is very important to consider the following points.
1. While urinating, use multiple pauses in urination. Stop the urine flow stream and then start. By doing this you are focusing the exact muscles which are called pelvic floor muscles. By doing this practice you are making your pelvic floor muscles stronger. This practice should not be so often as it may Leeds you towards urine infection.
2. Create the exercise of your anal muscles. These muscles are usually prevents you to pass gas and bowel movement. By holding and releasing these muscles you are considering the pelvic floor muscles. Do this work out in duplication of small episodes.
3. Take the medical assistance if you have a problem to do the pelvic floor muscles exercise. In some cases some of the people not able to do this exercise properly. In this case your doctor or your medical guide will guide you how to perform this exercise properly.
4. Biofeedback Training is a technique which doctor use to monitor the pelvic floor muscles are working properly or not. In this technique doctors usually investigate the anal muscles internally. This technique helps to doctors and you as well to figure out the right use of muscles.
5. Follow rules of this exercise. Lie down on the floor mat or any other surface and try hold your pelvic muscles in different time intervals such 5 to 10 seconds.
6. As these exercise does not need any special arrangements. Use to do exercise while you are sitting or standing in straight position. Hold the muscles and free them in short time period of 5 seconds.
7. Make it habitual routine task of your life circle. Do the exercise while working in normal conditions such as watching TV and other domestic tasks.
8. First week do the five reps daily of belly crunches in the morning
9. The second week change the exercise into sit-ups five reps daily in the morning
10. Third week keep doing the end goal exercise with 20 reps in the morning
11. Increase the workout reps liable upon your conditions. It will take almost 8 to 10 weeks to have a strong pelvic muscles


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In 2007, the North American Journal of Psychology published a study 1 showing that a group of people who trained three times a week saw a 28% gain in strength, but another group saw muscle strength increased by 24% simply by repeatedly visualizing exercising a certain muscle.
Mental visualization is a whole body experience
When someone imagines taking part in a sporting activity under deep hypnosis, an observer may notice their muscles twitching, as well as changes in their breathing.
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The Teiid project ( is a data virtualization system allowing applications to use data from multiple, heterogeneous data stores. These data sources currently include a broad range of relational databases, web services, text files, and ldap. Every data integration project has a unique set of requirements often with multiple way to approach solving the problem. Some use cases are best addressed with a classic data warehousing approach by transforming and integrating data (ETL) into a centralize DW for reporting and analysis. In other cases, a query federation approach is more applicable where the source data remains where it is, and a query federation engine like Teiid is used to present multiple, disparate datasources as a single entity. In fact, we believe there are all use cases that can benefit from combination of these technologies.
Teiid provides the an optimized engine for unifying data sources without moving data.
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This book presents theory and applications of Laplace and z-transforms together with a Mathematica package developed by the author, which includes algorithms for the numerical inversion of Laplace transforms. This allows the symbolic computation capability of Mathematica to be used in favor of the Laplace and z-transformations, making them more accessible to engineers and scientists.
The emphasis is on the computational and applied sides, particularly for control engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanics (heat conduction, diffusion, vibrations). Many worked-out examples from applied sciences and engineering illustrate the theory's applicability and how to use the package. Contents
Laplace Transformation | z-Transformation | Laplace Transforms with the Package | z-Transformation with the Package | Applications to Automatic Control | Laplace Transformation: Further Topics | z-Transformation: Further Topics | Examples from Electricity | Examples from Control Engineering | Heat Conduction and Vibration Problems | Further Techniques | Numerical Inversion of Laplace Transforms | Appendix: Package Commands Related Topics
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Nutrient gradients in engineered cartilage: metabolic kinetics measurement and mass transfer modeling.
Zhou S., Cui Z., Urban JPG.
Since tissue-engineered cartilage is avascular, both nutrient supply and metabolic waste removal rely on diffusion. As a result, gradients of nutrients and wastes exist through the construct. Previous models usually calculate gradients of oxygen, glucose, and lactic acid separately, without taking into account the complex interdependence between concentrations of these substrates and rates of metabolism. In this study, these interactions were experimentally examined and incorporated into diffusion models. One-dimensional diffusion-reaction models were developed for three typical culture conditions, that is, static culture, perfusion culture, and suspended culture. The profiles of oxygen, glucose, lactic acid, and pH in the cultured constructs were calculated simultaneously using measured metabolic rates. The maximum construct size and cell density which could be supported before nutrients were depleted in the construct center was identified; a function predicting the relationship between construct dimension and the maximum viable cell density was developed. For constructs incubated under static culture the model demonstrated that the gradients which developed through the medium could not be neglected. Perfusion cultures could support a considerably higher cell density than static cultures, while for batch cultures in a rotating bioreactor, the volume of medium also influences the maximum cell density that could be supported. This study provides useful guidance for design of engineered cartilage constructs.


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DESIGN OF A NOVEL SAPPHIRE BASED DIELECTRIC RESONATOR TO MEASURE THE SURFACE RESISTANCE OF HIGH TEMP SUPER CONDUCTORS
A sapphire dielectric resonator system has been used to measure the surface resistance of high temperature superconductors. The cavity is made up of a lower superconducting plate, a dielectric puck and a movable upper plate where the sample is placed. The temperature of the lower plate is kept at 4.2 K while the sample is heated independently attached to the end of a sapphire rod. The measurements are performed at TE01d mode. By moving the upper plate, the shift in resonance frequency and the corresponding change in the bandwidth are recorded. The overall system is designed to fit into a continuous flow helium cryostat. Real part of the surface impedance of the sample is related to the change in bandwidth,?fb, and the imaginary part of the surface impedance is related to the change in resonant frequency,?f0. Instead of absolute calibration of the chamber, a known oxygen free copper sample was used as the reference. The samples were Seeded Melt Grown (SMG) solid material. The measured surface resistance of the SMG YBCO high Tc materials was comparable to that of the best thin HTS films grown by other techniques.
School:University of Cincinnati
School Location:USA - Ohio
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:htsc dielectric resonator surface resistance ovalue temode
Date of Publication:01/01/2003

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Pre-mortem exercise
Identify the worst case scenarios earlier on to prevent future headaches
The context
Pre-mortem exercise offers a way to reflect on a project that just finished, discuss what went well and what didn't, and identify learnings for the future. What if the exercise was done before, to anticipate and discuss potential issues earlier on?
Co-design session - Educational Farms project with Regione Lombardia
Suggested approach
Pre-mortem exercise can be used to run a session with the core team of stakeholders at the beginning of a project, ideally during the initial kick-off meeting. The goal of the activity is to project the participants at the end of the project and collaboratively try to answer a simple question: "what went wrong?" by imagining to write the project epitaph.
Value added
Identify possible obstacles and problems at the beginning of the project is a way to avoid or reduce potential catastrophes. The playful approach of the epitaph gives the opportunity to voice unspoken risks and concerns; force the participants to use the past tense to refer to the project helps creating a distance that allows to more easily raise hidden worries.
Thinking ahead
A second step of the session could focus on ideas and recommendations to try to avoid the identified risks, creating a sort of manifesto for the project work that can accompany the team throughout the whole journey.
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MONDAY, Aug. 10 (HealthDay News) -- The expression "like mother, like daughter" appears to hold true when it comes to raising children.
Women are more likely than men to follow the parenting practices of their mothers, a generational study has found.
Ohio State University researchers analyzed survey results from 1,133 young parents who were asked how often they spanked their children in the past week, how often they showed their children physical affection and praised them in the past week, and how often they read to their child in the past month. The participants of this study were chosen from a group whose own parents had been part of a nationwide survey that began in 1979.
For all three behaviors -- spanking children, giving physical affection/praise, and reading to children -- women closely followed what their mothers did. This was not the case among men, the study authors found.
"We were surprised that mothers seem to learn a lot about the parenting role from their own mothers, but fathers don't follow their mothers as much," study co-author Jonathan Vespa, a doctoral student in sociology, said in a news release from the university.
"There was good reason to expect that fathers would have learned parenting from their mothers," Vespa explained. "These fathers were growing up in the [1970s and 1980s] and received much of their parenting from their mothers. Although more women were entering the workforce then, they still did the lion's share of parenting and child care," he added.
"We really need to learn a lot more about how fathers learn to parent," Vespa said.
As for generational parenting practices, the researchers found significant changes with much more reading and affection shown to children today, and less spanking.
"While parents, particularly women, are learning many parenting practices from their mothers, there [are] also a lot of new practices they are picking up from the broader culture," Vespa said.
The findings were to be presented this week at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, in San Francisco.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has more about parenting influences.
SOURCE: Ohio State University, news release, Aug. 9, 2009
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Were the Queen and Prince Philip related and how did they meet?
So fascinating!
 - How did the Her Majesty the Queen and husband Prince Philip meet - and is it true that they were related?
 Married for 74 years until the Duke of Edinburgh's death, the Queen and Prince Philip were pictured celebrating their wedding anniversary together at Windsor Castle last year when a sweet snap was uploaded to the Royal Family Instagram.
 But rewind 86 years, long before the internet, dating sites, and mobile phones, this is is when the couple first met as children in 1934 when they both attended the wedding of Prince Philip's cousin, Princess Marina, who was tying the knot with Prince George, Duke of Kent.
 At the time, Corfu-born Philip, aged 13, was the Prince of Greece and Denmark and Princess Elizabeth was just eight years old.
 Were the Queen and Prince Philip related?
 Then known as Philip Mountbatten, he and Elizabeth were indeed related as they were third cousins and both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
 How are the Queen and Prince Philip related to Queen Victoria?
 As distant relatives, the Queen and Prince Philip both have connections to Queen Victoria. Elizabeth's father King George VI makes her the great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Meanwhile, through his mother's lineage – Prince Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, and her mother was Princess Victoria who was the daughter of Princess Alice, who was Queen Victoria's second daughter, making Prince Philip also a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria.
 The Queen and Prince Philip are third cousins, and back then it was common for members of European royal families to marry each other.
 October 1937: George, Duke of Kent (1902 - 1942) with Marina, Duchess of Kent (1906 - 1968) travelling in a carriage with Princess Margaret Rose (1930 - 2002) (centre), Princess Elizabeth (left) and Queen Elizabeth, Queen Consort to King George VI (left).
 How else are the Queen and Prince Philip related?
 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had nine children, all of whom married into different European royal houses. As a result, the Queen and Prince Philip are also related through King Christian IX of Denmark. The Queen's father George VI was the son of King George V, who was the son of Alexandra of Denmark. Alexandra of Denmark was the daughter of Christian IX, and she was married to Queen Victoria's son Edward VII.
 Christian IX was also Prince Philip's paternal great-grandfather. Philip's father was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, who was the son of Prince George I of Greece. Prince George I of Greece was the son of Christian IX. The Queen's father George VI was a second cousin of Philip's mother Princess Alice. This would therefore make Elizabeth and Philip second cousins, once removed, through this connection.
 Was it love at first sight for the Queen and Prince Philip?
 It's understood that the young Queen was drawn to Philip's "viking" good looks. Her governess Marion Crawford wrote in her memoir, The Little Princess, that simply seeing Philip made a teenage Elizabeth turn 'pink-faced'.
 But before they could strike up a friendship, it was a whole five years later that the couple met once more at Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1939.
 And Marion wasn't the only one to notice the instant attraction, Philip's uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, described their first meeting "a great success" in his diary.
 Their friendship and in turn relationship developed through a series of letters as Elizabeth and Philip began communicating via letter while he served in the Mediterranean and Pacific Fleets during the Second World War.
 Prince Philip and Elizabeth II
 When did the Queen and Prince Philip get engaged?
 But when Philip returned from his duty, he wasted no time in asking Elizabeth's father, King George VI, for his permission to propose to her.
 Elizabeth accepted his proposal, in which Philip presented her with a ring made by jewellers Philip Antrobus who used diamonds from a tiara belonging to Philip's mother Princess Alice of Battenberg, and the couple announced their engagement on 9th July 1947.
 Before the wedding, Prince Philip was appointed the Duke of Edinburgh as well as receiving the titles of Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich of Greenwich in the County of London.
 The wedding ceremony took place just four months later at Westminster Abbey on 20th November, in front of 2,000 guests.
 Despite being related, their marriage wasn't arranged by their families.
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In 1981, Stanford Libraries acquired over 10,000 books collected over a forty-year period by Mary Schofield, who spent her career as a librarian at Hoover Library. The collection consists of illustrated children's tales, stories for young adults, and works of reference relating to her collecting areas, with a focus on works published since the late eighteenth century.
The Venezky Collection contains primers and readers published between the end of the eighteenth century through the early decades of the twentieth century. Many titles are present in nearly every edition issued. In addition, there are early pamphlets, chapbooks, primers, almanacs, dictionaries, children's stories, plus works on penmanship, spelling, and phonetics.
"This digital collection consists of over 30 full-text, digitized children's books. The books were selected using the following criteria: publication date, rarity, uniqueness, size, and location of publication. All of the items in the digital collection were published before 1923, and are in the public domain. The oldest book in the digital collection, Dolly's ABC was published in 1854. Many of the items in the digital collection are quite rare, with only a few other holdings available."


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Porous graphite was prepared without the use of template by rapidly heating the carbonization products from mixtures of anthracene, flourene, and pyrene with a CO2 laser. Rapid CO2 laser heating at a rate of 1.8 × 10 6 °C/s vaporizes out the fluorene-pyrene derived pitch while annealing the anthracene coke. The resulting structure is that of graphite with 100 nm spherical pores. The graphitizablity of the porous material is the same as pure anthracene coke. Transmission electron microscopy revealed that the interface between graphitic layers and the pore walls are unimpeded. Traditional furnace annealing does not result in the porous structure as the heating rates are too slow to vaporize out the pitch, thereby illustrating the advantage of fast thermal processing. The resultant porous graphite was prelithiated and used as an anode in lithium ion capacitors. The porous graphite when lithiated had a specific capacity of 200 mAh/g at 100 mA/g. The assembled lithium ion capacitor demonstrated an energy density as high as 75 Wh/kg when cycled between 2.2 V to 4.2 V.
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


Product News: Innovative Surface Leading to Considerably Higher Cell Yields
06 Feb 2009
For the first time at Biotechnica 2008, Greiner Bio-One presented Advanced TC™ cell culture products with an innovative polymer modification.
The special surface of the new product range optimises cultivation of fastidious cells and facilitates complex experimental approaches.
To successfully cultivate primary cells or particularly sensitive immortalised cell lines in vitro, it is necessary to mimic the specific in vivo conditions of these cells as accurate as possible. The new Advanced TC™ surface has been designed in such a way to positively influence cellular function and properties.
This enables researchers to cultivate a wide range of sensitive cells as well as cells under restrictive growth conditions using serum-reduced or serum-free media, for example. Distinct primary adherence is achieved after just four hours.
Cell cultures on the Advanced TC™ surface exhibit higher proliferation rates than on other commonly used cell culture products. In addition, less cell material is lost as a result of the improved adherence on the surface during automated washing and pipetting steps. The cell yield is significantly increased compared to conventional cell culture products and test results are more consistent.
The cell-typical morphology is retained even if the cells are subject to transfection or transduction processes. It has even been possible to observe increased transgene activity in transfected cells. Due to their special properties, Advanced TC™ cell culture vessels are comparable in a variety of applications with the effectiveness of a biological surface.


text: The Mill is one of those few paintings that are significant not only because they are beautiful but because they have profoundly influenced the history of taste. As part of important eighteenthand nineteenth-century collections, The Mill was well known to connoisseurs and artists who valued it as one of Rembrandt's greatest creations. The romantic aura of the scene, with the dramatic silhouette of the mill seen against the stormy sky, captured their imagination. Many stories and myths circulated about the painting, among them that this was a picture of Rembrandt's father's mill. The dark, threatening sky seemed to others to portend the severe financial difficulties that Rembrandt had in the mid-1650s.


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Chemainus, on Vancouver Island's east shore, is a little town snuggled in between a mountain range and the ocean, isolated with a river cutting it off from the south and a major highway to the north. A town that was born of the hands of labourers, with its only industry failing, Chemainus showed the world its true spirit and determination, and was to achieve fame through the hands of artists.
Such is the condensed recent history of "The Little Town that Did." Mining, fishing and forestry were the original industries that gave work to many Chinese who worked in "bull gangs" struggling to move huge lumber planks to the ships in the late 1800′s, and who arrived to work on the trans Canada Railroad later. Japanese, and later, east Indians blended their cultures with Scots and Germans looking for riches in the mines and staying to work in the forests and on fishing boats. And the beautiful Cowichan Valley has been the home of The Original First Nations peoples and their ancestors for countless generations, whose history and lives have been interwoven since those first white settlers came to the area.
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The Educational Employees Credit Union (EECU) routing number is 311981614. Some banks or credit unions have more than one branch, which can make it difficult to know which routing number to use. Luckily, EECU has only one all-purpose routing number.
EECU was first known as the Fort Worth Teachers Credit Union. It's based in Fort Worth, Texas, and provides banking services for teachers and administrators.
What Is a Routing Number?
You could say that a bank account number identifies you. In the same vein, a routing number identifies your financial institution. Routing numbers are nine digits long and are needed for a variety of reasons, including:
- Transferring funds between banks;
- Sending or receiving a wire transfer;
- Setting up an electronic funds transfer (EFT);
- Requesting a direct deposit of your paychecks or government benefits.
- Outgoing domestic wire transfers: $20;
- Incoming domestic or international wire transfers: $15;
- International wire transfers: Varies.
Where Can You Find Your EECU Routing Number?
If you're familiar with writing a check, you can easily find the EECU routing number. Look at the first nine digits at the lower left-hand corner of your check, just below the memo field. Chances are you'll also need your bank account number, which is the next grouping of 10 numbers following the routing number. Once you have these two identifying numbers, you're ready to go.
If you don't have access to personal checks, you can always refer back here or visit the credit union's website. If you need your bank account number as well, contact EECU's customer service line at _PHONE_.
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Specify the risk level (denoted as α or alpha) for the test. Usually, an α of 0.05 works well. An α of 0.05 indicates a 5% risk of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true (type I error).
The value of α is often set by industry guidelines. If you use a smaller value for α, such as 0.01, you can reduce the risk of a type 1 error. For example, if you perform an equivalence test using the default hypotheses, using a smaller alpha reduces the risk of claiming equivalence when it is not actually true. However, a smaller α also increases the risk that the test is overly conservative and does not allow you to claim equivalence when it is actually true.
The α value also sets the confidence level for the confidence interval. By default, the confidence level is (1 – α) × 100%. For example, if α is 0.05, Minitab calculates a 95% confidence interval.


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LACMA May Fund The Fading Watts Towers
Due to a severe budget crisis, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is interested in stepping into the breach as curator and conservator of the Watts Towers this summer to maintain the historic landmark.
The Towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time over a period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954. He created the framework of steel, wire and concrete and ornamented the three main spires and their 14 surrounding sculptural elements with colorful bits of broken glass, pottery and seashells. His work is an example of non-traditional vernacular architecture and American Naïve art. Article LA Times.


I can t keep principal and principle clear Can you help
Principal as an adjective means first in importance. As a noun, principal means the head of a school.
Example: The principal reason that Nelson was chosen to be principal of our school was her dedication.
Principle is a noun meaning a fundamental truth or law upon which others are based, or a rule of conduct.
Example: The principal's principles were questioned by the parent group.


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Kancelaria Prawna Proculus (Proculus Law Firm) acted as an intermediary in borrowing money. Its offer was addressed mainly to people with no creditworthiness who needed money to repay previously incurred debts. Consumer complaints indicated that in consequence of borrowing money through Kancelaria Prawna Proculus, consumers faced even greater financial difficulties. The President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection determined that the company had violated the principles of decency.
"The actions of the employees of Proculus had a single aim: to encourage as many people as possible to conclude financial intermediation agreements, as they charged a commission for that. The greater the amount, the greater the fee, which is why Proculus solicited consumers to borrow more money than they would be able to repay," says Marek Niechciał, President of UOKiK.
- Excessive commissions which did not correspond to the work performed by Proculus. The intermediary undertook to search for financial offers, which cost customers approx. 20% of the amount of the loan. Employees of Proculus charged a commission even when all of the activities were performed by the bank or no agreement was concluded. Sometimes clients paid both to Proculus and to the bank.
- Soliciting consumers to borrow more money than they would be able to repay later on. Proculus employees manipulated information in such a way that the ultimate borrowed amounts were more than the consumers would be able to repay or needed. As a consequence, Proculus received high commissions while clients faced even greater financial difficulties.
- Blank promissory notes without the required "non-endorsable" clause. Promissory notes secure claims of the lender and repayment of debt, but they must indicate the amount and contain the "non-endorsable" clause. Proculus could write any amount on the note and transfer the claim to another person.
The President of UOKiK decided that Kancelaria Prawna Proculus had violated the principles of decency. The amount of penalty imposed amounts to nearly PLN 3 mln.


Regulation of emotional and mental stability
Regulation of emotional stability and mental stability
"Regulation of emotional stability and mental stability"
Hot temper and emotionality
Among hot-tempered people - 50% are those who have fire elementals at the Anahata level.
If you transfer the fire elementals to the Vishuddhi level, so that this energy feeds the consciousness, the problem will be solved - the person becomes calm and balanced.
The second 50% of the causes of irascibility is the presence of psychological complexes: a desire to quarrel, incontinence, etc.
The presence of fire elementals is characterized by explosive irascibility - when a person does not just mutter something under his breath, but when the emotion goes with a very high amplitude.
The parameter emotional stability shows how much an even emotional state prevails in you or emotional explosive outbursts are possible.
The emotional stability parameter can be adjusted.
Cost: Adjustment of emotional stability - $ 150 /cycle.
Question: What is the difference between the parameters Emotional stability and Mental stability and how to improve them?
With emotional stability, everything is more or less clear.
This is often found among magicians as the result of strikes by Lemurian efreet.
- At the magicians?
- Often with the magicians, as they were sent to demining the Lemurian warehouses, which were protected by combat systems. Certain blows to the structures led to the fact that a person is very emotionally unstable, his mood and state are constantly changing.
If you regulate this sphere, then the person quickly calms down and stabilizes.
Mental stability is also often a manifestation of technical strikes - ancient strikes of martial magic techniques, plus traces of mental trauma in these zones - systems of subtle bodies.
If the effect of correction of emotional stability is more proven: Removing injuries - the person is calmer. Fortunately, we have little experience in the field of correction and treatment of mental illnesses.) Therefore, the "Increase in mental stability" service is more suitable as a prevention of mental illness than as a surgical intervention.
The service "Increasing mental stability" includes the removal of trauma in the mental sphere, its stabilization and strengthening.
One cycle strengthens the work of this area and reduces the likelihood of mental illness. On average, in humanity, the parameter of mental stability is 50% out of 100%.
The mental stability parameter can also be adjusted.
Cost: Adjustment of psychological stability - $ 150 / cycle.
Personal diagnostics of the parameters of mental and emotional stability is now carried out within the framework of the Energy Card of the Personality .
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The Syrian Flag :
color in the Syrian flag refers to a definite meaning or a period as follows:
1. Red Color: The blood of the martyrs.
2. Black Color: The Abbasids.
3. White Color: The Umayyad.
4. The Green: The Rashidun or the Fatimid.
5. The two stars represent the previous union
between Egypt and Syria.
Syrian flag is also found as a Shield in the middle of the Syrian Eagle's heart
which is derived from the Arabic history, which referred to the flag of "Khaled
Bin Al Waleed" that was held
at when he conquered Damascus in 635 AD. At the
bottom of the Shield, there are two wheat spikes to represent the country's first
crop and its agricultural nature. The eagle grabs in his claws a stripe that
has the words "Syrian Arab Republic" written on it in Kufic (an
Arabic type of writing).
Syrian National Anthem:
"Homat el Diyar"
(translated Guardians of the Homeland) is the national anthem of Syria, with
lyrics written by "Khalil Mardam Bey" and the music by "Mohammed Flayfel", who
also composed the national anthem of the Palestinian National Authority, as
well as many other Arab folk songs.
was adopted in 1936 and temporarily fell from use when Syria joined the United
Arab Republic with Egypt in 1958. It was decided that the national anthem of
the UAR would be a combination of the then-Egyptian anthem and "Homat elDiyar" When Syria seceded from the union in 1961, the
anthem was completely restored.
Translation of Syrian National Anthem:
Defenders of our home,
Peace be upon you;
The proud spirits had
refused to subdue.
The lion-abode of Arabism,
A hallowed sanctuary;
The seat of the stars,
An inviolable preserve.
Our hopes and our hearts,
Are entwined with the flag,
Which unites our country...
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Title: AI Lund lunch seminar: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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Abstract: In close interaction with industry, locally and globally, research in the productive robotics lab at LTH, Lund University is performed in a multitude of areas and disciplines. As part of the European Robotics Week the robotics lab arranges online presentations for primary and secondary school students. However, during this lunch seminar we invite anyone from industry, the public sector or other parts of Lund University.
During the presentation we introduce the robot lab, how it is organised and equipped with a focus on the intersection between robotics and artificial intelligence. Thereafter we show examples of various kinds of robots, research challenges and solutions.
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January 23, 2004
Keeping the Found Things Found
This weeks New York Times Circuits article: Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites, which covers the Keep the Found Things Found research project at University of Washington. The program is summarized:
This topic is at the heart of the Personal Information Cloud. How does a person keep the information they found attracted to themselves once they found that information. Keeping the found information at hand to use when the case to use the information arises is a regular struggle. The Personal Information Cloud is the rough cloud of information that follows the user. Users have spent much time and effort to draw information they desire close to themselves (Model of Attraction). Once they have the information, is the information in a format that is easy for the user or consumer of the information to use or even reuse.
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I led marketing strategy for Fuckup Nights NYC.
Fuckup Nights was a paid event series hosted in WeWork locations around New York City: Chelsea, Brooklyn Heights, Grand Central, and FiDi.
Each event we hosted 3 successful entrepreneurs to share their stories of failure.
Over the course of 6 months, we hosted dozens of founders to share their stories.
Founders came to our events and talked to our audience about how they failed. Our event format was like The Moth's: stories are true, as remembered by the storyteller and always told live. Speakers have complete discretion and talk about their experience of failure as they wish.
What I learned from founders about failure
Stories about business failures are persuasive case studies
So much advice we hear in life comes from people who have personal motivations and incentives that influence the advice they give. Because of that, it's difficult to trust and follow advice others give us.
Instead of hearing people tell us what to do, when we hear people tell us about their mistakes it's easier for us to learn from their experience and apply these lessons to our own lives because vulnerability inspires trust. We often learn more from stories about failure than success stories.
There are many ways to fail in business and much to learn from them
Founders at our events shared their experience of failure in many different ways and unlike success stories, their stories about failure never failed to entertain.
Founders talked about how they crashed their startups into the ground. They told us how they became financially successful while their relationships fell apart. They told us how they succeeded briefly while destroying their marriages. They shared how selling millions of drugs in the LES prepared them to create a successful life outside prison. They shared how they raised money until they lost control of their company. They shared how they burned themselves out working late night after night with no end in sight.
More important than what founders failed doing, was how they failed.
Talking about failure helped both founders and our audience learn from their mistakes
It's rare for startup founders to have an open opportunity to talk about failure. To ensure success, so much of their time must focus on developing a positive reputation for themselves and their business. That process doesn't enable showcasing much personal vulnerability. Many founders enjoyed presenting at Fuckup Nights because they couldn't easily talk about these experiences elsewhere. Many people found the experience cathartic.
At our events, founders openly talked about their business challenges: working with co-founders, negotiating equity, talking to customers, selling, fundraising, finding advisors, working with board members, hiring, managing employees, growing their bottom line, keeping customers, and selling their companies.
Founders divulged when they realized they'd made mistakes, what the outcomes of those mistakes were, and what they would have done differently if given another chance. They told audiences what warning signals to look out for and what false positives kept them from seeing their problems.
Founders are responsible for identifying the most likely reasons their business would fail and addressing those risks
Taking small and repeatable risks produces results that help you identify better paths towards success. But many types of risks result in failures that close off paths to success. Our founders spoke candidly about what happened when they failed to differentiate between fatal and non-fatal risks. Many founders were blindsided by the negative consequences.
Founders repeatedly expressed that identifying which risks need to be avoided and which risks are worth taking is fundamental to being successful in business. By hearing directly from founders about their failures, we were given privileged insights on what sorts of risks prove fatal and which founders need to prioritize addressing in their business.
Founders must avoid "fatal risks" and pursue non-fatal risks
Almost all the founders we hosted talked about risks they took in business and the differences between these two types of risks. Many founders talked about everyday risks they took to persuade others on the value of their business. These included risks to persuade co-founders, their first customers, and investors. These risks were mostly to their reputation.
Several founders talked about their experience taking "fatal risks". These are risks that could kill your business or stop you from trying the same approach twice. Some of the founders we hosted bet their businesses on fatal risks and lost them as a result.
Failure often feels personal and it's hard to notice when it happens
For many founders, the experience of failure wasn't confined to business. Failure often felt personal and served as a reflection of who they are. The challenges our founders experienced in business strongly affected their personal lives.
Founders became invested in their business identity and in the stories they sold their customers, investors, employees, and themselves as they worked hard to make their business vision a reality. Their blood, sweat, and tears went into their businesses as did the fabric of who they are.
Founders' failures were often not obvious at the time. Founders often only noticed their failures much later once the effects became obvious and difficult for their business to escape from. This lagging effect made failures feel more painful and caused founders to seek out people with previous experience more as a result.
Failure inspires humility and respect
Among the founders who spoke at our events, the true gems easily stood out.
The audience and those of us who carefully listened noticed which founders took real risks and cared about the people who might follow in their footsteps. Some entrepreneurs were all too ready to talk about themselves and hand down advice, but those who did were easily forgotten.
The founders who were remembered best were those who shared their struggles and talked about failure from experience. These founders held themselves back from giving advice. They understood enough to know how much of their success was the result of hard work and much of it was luck. Their experiences humbled these founders enough to prevent them from patronizing the audience and the audience, in turn, respected founders for opening themselves up.
Every story about failure is a Hero's Journey
It's a beautiful thing to hear founders talk about failure. You can feel the emotion in their voice. At every event we hosted, we heard another hero's journey. Each Fuckup Night's story described another person who set off into the unknown and encountered challenges that resulted in struggle, transformation, and personal progress.
Unlike many stories in tech, the stories told at our events weren't ideal narratives of "how we made millions" or "how we save people from today's biggest problems". Our stories were about breaking through self-doubt and taking action. This is a story that's easy to love because it's one we can relate to.
At Fuckup Nights, for the first time many people saw founders as they were instead of the polished images many entrepreneurs had crafted for themselves. Instead of company bios, we saw founders' real character and humanized selves.
In a community that's obsessed with hyping the next big thing, hearing about failure is refreshing.
What I learned about marketing events
Event series are dual-sided markets (at a minimum)
To ensure event series stay interesting for attendees, events need outside talent their audience is interested in.
Creating successful event series depends on giving both your audience and the talent you host great reasons to come and leaving them with positive experiences they'll remember.
Every dual-sided market has one stakeholder type that's harder to satisfy. At Fuckup Nights, satisfying the needs of speakers (the founders we hosted) was more important than satisfying attendees because getting a great lineup of speakers had a bigger impact on our success.
Events series with external sponsors have at least 3 stakeholder types that need satisfying to be successful. We were sponsored by a few different companies (IE: Hooch). But many event series are self-sponsored by larger companies as a means of customer discovery or company branding.
Event series are labor intensive
We were lucky at Fuckup Nights to have dedicated team of volunteers who enjoyed our events and would happily trade their time helping us setup and close down for free tickets to attend our events. Completing set up and close required significant time and effort from volunteers: 1-2 man-hours of work in total for each event.
A big part of why we were able to put on events in multiple WeWork locations was that we worked with WeWork staff to ensure event setup and close worked with the needs of WeWork members and didn't disrupt normal community activities.
What I learned about marketing
The key to mastering social media is creating content for your audience's audience
Growing emotional engagement with customers is important for every business and social media is big part of how companies do this today.
Social media is one of the most effective ways to develop customer relationships and improve your brand especially for B2C businesses, so without a solid strategy to grow your social media engagement you'll be missing a huge part of your businesses potential growth.
To succeed in social media, create content for your audience's audience. Create content that influencers and your social media following either emotionally resonate with or think will make them look good, so they'll be happy to share it with their followers.
Retention is often more important than acquisition
If Fuckup Night events were so great, why didn't Fuckup Nights grow into something big and stay around?
In the time that I ran marketing for Fuckup Nights, we grew all our acquisition metrics by more than 100%, ticket sales, revenue, email subscribers, social engagement, etc. We expanded from hosting one event per month to two a month, and finally to hosting an event every week.
But in that time period, average event attendance from event to event hadn't risen. People were still paying the standard rate of $15 to attend every event and we had gained event sponsors, but attendance was soft.
We had expanded our events too fast to continue growing with momentum.
A quick dive into the numbers revealed the problem was worse than appeared. Attendee engagement and retention was well below healthy. The percentage of attendees that came back to a future event in the next month indicated we didn't have product-market fit.


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Definition of Deadweight
1. Noun. The largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty. ¹
2. Noun. A useless, usually encumbering factor. ¹
3. Adjective. (sports billiards snooker pool) Describes a shot with exact, precise pace to leave the balls in the perfect position. Usually just touching a cushion or very close to another ball. ¹
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1. Detroit and World-trade: A Survey of the City's Present and Potential by Thomas Laurence Munger, Frank Howard Evans, Detroit Board of Commerce (1920)
"UNITED STATES TABLE OF SHIPS ASSIGNED TO VARIOUS ROUTES IN WORLD TRADE New York to Argentine 5000 to 9000 tons deadweight Boston to Argentine 4200 to 9000..."
2. Know Your Own Ship: A Simple Explanation of the Stability, Trim by Thomas Walton (1899)
"Displacement — Displacement Curves — deadweight — deadweight Scale—" Tons per Inch Immersion "—Examples of Practical Application of "Tons per Inch..."
3. America's Merchant Marine: A Presentation of Its History and Development to by Bankers Trust Company (New York, N.Y.) (1920)
"One requisitioned steel ship of 2550 deadweight tons was sold at $150 per deadweight ton, and one requisitioned wooden ship of 2500 deadweight tons was sold..."
4. Maritime Notes and Queries: A Record of Shipping Law and Usage (1900)
"Before loading commenced we declared the boat on winter freeboard as 1,'J20 deadweight cargo. The day after her sailing, charterers send in a letter stating..."
5. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance : a Manual for Shipbuilders by Thomas Walton (1908)
"SECTION I. Fundamental Ty[>es and Modifications of same—Relation between Deck Erections and deadweight—No Reduction in Freeboard for Excessive Strength in a..."
6. The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts by Alexander Adam Seaton (1911)
"... on religious matters were not hampered by the deadweight of general indifference. It has been said that " a disposition is to its appropriate behaviour..."
7. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"It shows that the Government has under construction in deadweight tonnage, including 400 vessels of foreign ownership which were requisitioned on the stocks..."


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Stress has become a common problem in today's fast-paced world. From work pressures to personal issues, stress can take a toll on our overall well-being. If you're looking for a natural solution to combat stress, organic amla powder might be the answer you've been searching for.
What is Organic Amla Powder?
Amla, also known as Indian gooseberry, is a fruit that is highly regarded in Ayurvedic medicine for its numerous health benefits. It is rich in vitamin C, antioxidants, and other essential nutrients. Organic amla powder is made by drying and grinding the amla fruit, preserving its nutritional value.
How Does Organic Amla Powder Help with Stress Relief?
Organic amla powder is known for its adaptogenic properties, which means it helps the body adapt to stress and promotes overall well-being. Here's how it can help with stress relief:
- Reduces Cortisol Levels: Cortisol is a hormone released in response to stress. High cortisol levels can lead to anxiety and other stress-related symptoms. Organic amla powder helps regulate cortisol levels, reducing stress and promoting a sense of calm.
- Boosts Immune System: Stress weakens the immune system, making us more susceptible to illnesses. The high vitamin C content in organic amla powder strengthens the immune system, helping the body fight off stress-induced illnesses.
- Enhances Mood: Organic amla powder contains natural antioxidants that help improve mood and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression. It promotes the production of serotonin, a neurotransmitter responsible for feelings of happiness and well-being.
- Provides Nutritional Support: Stress can deplete the body of essential nutrients. Organic amla powder is packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that nourish the body and support overall health.
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There are several ways to incorporate organic amla powder into your daily routine:
- Drink Amla Juice: Mix organic amla powder with water to make a refreshing and rejuvenating drink. Drink it in the morning to kickstart your day with a boost of energy and stress-fighting nutrients.
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Assistant Professor Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
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Dennis Britton, assistant professor of English
Dennis Britton, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a yearlong National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The fellowship will allow him to complete research and make final revisions to his current book project, "Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance."
Britton's monograph is the first to explore the role of race in the Church of England's baptismal theology and literary representations of "infidels"—specifically Jews, Turks, and Moors—converting to Christianity in early modern English romance. Catholic romances emphasized baptism's magical power to transform infidels into faithful Christians. However, theologians within the Church of England denied the miraculous power of baptism, even debating whether or not it was necessary for salvation. In fact, many English theologians asserted that salvation could be assured by one's race and lineage. Britton contends that baptismal theology and emerging concepts of race provide a not-yet-recognized context for understanding why works such as Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and William Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" and "Othello" transform and, at times, explicitly reject the infidel conversion motif.


A Grunt rule consists of multiple settings that help you format your objects. However, you don't always want to change all the settings that are available within a rule. This is where setting modes will help you out.
To the right of each setting in the Rule Edit dialog, you'll see a colored square that controls the setting mode. Each setting mode is represented by a different color, and each mode behaves differently.
What does the setting modes mean?
We will use the Character style rule to exemplify how the setting modes work. There are three types of setting modes: Inherit, Automatic or Manual.
 - Right-click on the colored square to change between the available modes.
 - Left-click to toggle between the available modes. Left-clicking more times will continue to toggle you to the next available mode.
 1. Manual values are represented by blue squares. Manual values let you choose a specific setting for the specific rule. In this example, you can choose the color you prefer for your font.
 2. Automatic values are represented by purple squares. These are also settings that are specifically set in the rule, and their formatting will be applied to your objects. This is the same behavior as for manual values, however, with automatic values, the concrete value that is used is automatically selected by Grunt. For example: If the color setting is set to automatic, that means that Grunt will choose a color for the text, based on the color of the background.
 3. Inherited values are represented by orange squares. This is normally the default mode. The inherited values are not set specifically in the rule. Instead, the value is inherited from the preceding parts of the rule stack. If there are no preceding rules affecting the specific settings, like in this case: the font color, Grunt will apply its default settings.
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Harbor Regional Center opposes segregated employment and sub-minimum wage for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities; we seek to promote public policy:
- That restricts the expenditure of public funds to businesses who segregate employees with disabilities from the general workforce;
- That ends the ability of employers to pay employees with disabilities a sub-minimum wage;
- That discontinues programs that emphasize moving young adults from the classroom to a segregated or sub-minimum wage employment environment.
Harbor Regional Center seeks to promote and facilitate integrated and comparable wage employment alternatives:
- That strengthen existing and create new government tax incentives for employers to hire employees with disabilities into integrated environments at comparable wages.
- That assist employees with disabilities to find employment in the general workforce in jobs that they choose.
Harbor Regional Center believes the essential ingredients needed to advance competitive integrated employment for people with developmental disabilities are:
- A fierce commitment to make this happen;
- A secondary school education which focuses on the development of functional employability skills, early work experiences, mobility training and a competitive employment goal;
- Frequent and strong collaboration between the regional center, the local education agencies, the department of rehabilitation, clients and families;
- Internship opportunities such as those provided through Project SEARCH as well as paid internships to create opportunities for real world skill development for students as they transition out of school into the world of work;
- Post-secondary programs that provide support for students in certificate and degree programs fully integrated with typical students;
- Flexibility that supports a combination of paid work, volunteering and integrated non-work day activity options to accommodate client choice while promoting paid work options;
- Organized support from the business community;
- Public relations activities designed to showcase successful partnerships with the business community; and
- Supporting families early to foster and build high expectations for their children.


Can I have a field which is auto-filled with known values.
In order to create a field which automatically takes the known values from inside your contacts database, you need to create a autofilled selectbox field. Here we describe how you can activate and use this field.
Navitage with the left navigation menu towards your Fields section.
Once you have clicked the Fields section.
When you adapt or create a new field by clicking or the or button.
Inside the popup which opens up, you need to specify the field type as autofilled selectbox.
With the autofill values buttopn, you populate this field with values already known present in contacts database.
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The Beautiful Diversity of Syrian Clothing – Patterns, Designs And Colors
Traditional Syrian clothing
The Beautiful Diversity of Syrian Clothing – Patterns, Designs And Colors
Syria is a moderately large country that includes many different religious and ethnic groups. You will hear of Arabs, Assyrians, Kurds, Armenians, Circassians, and Turkmen who differ in cultural traditions. As a result, writing about the subject of traditional Syrian clothing can prove to be challenging. There is more than one Syrian way to dress. It ranges from city to city and from region to region. Also, different tribes and villages have their own distinctive patterns, designs, and colors of clothing.
So how do men and women traditionally dress?
If you go to the cities of Deir ez-Zor, Palmyra, and Raqqah in Eastern Syria, for example, you will probably see more Syrian traditional tribal style of dress. Women typically wear long black garments called abayas that cover them from shoulders to their ankles. They also wear a head and face cover that leaves only the eyes peeking out. Underneath all of these coverings, however, she may be wearing a traditional Arabian dress with intricate beading. Or maybe even the latest fashion from the West.
Men traditionally wear long garments called kaftans. These are often white in the summer and made of darker colors and a heavier fabric in the winter. They also wear a three-piece head cover called a taqiyah. The base of it is a white cap with holes used to hold hair in place. On top is a scarf-like head cover called a gutrah. This is also white in the summer. Men also usually wear a checkered red and white pattern in the winter called a shmak. Both the gutrah and the shmak are used to protect the head from the sun and to cover the mouth and nose in the event of a sandstorm. Topping off all of these is the rigid black circular chord that holds it all in placed called the ogal.
Syrian clothing in other regions
If we head to cities like Idlib and Aleppo, we'll find them to be more modern but generally range from conservative to liberal. Idlib, of course, is the more conservative of the two cities as Aleppo has a more significant number of Christians. Combined with a huge Armenian population, this allows them to usually just dress in Western-style clothing.
Further west, into the cities of Tartous and Latakia, you'll also find a wide range of dress from conservative to liberal. However, actually tend to dress more liberal with no real restrictions on clothing at all.
Finally, there's Damascus, the melting pot of Syria. Because Damascus is a blend of all of the cultures and traditions of Syria, it's here you'll find everything. Women's clothing range from full black veils known as niqab to Western-style.
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What caused the accident?
No-one has yet established the truth about what caused the Kursk K-141 nuclear submarine to lose contact with the outside world and sink to the bottom of the Barents Sea with all hands on board.
The extent of the damage discovered by rescuers has led experts to conclude that the submarine was hit by a large explosion or that it collided with the sea bed or another large vessel. Some theories suggest a collision triggered an explosion.
Two explosions were heard at the time of the accident, by US and Norwegian authorities monitoring Russian exercises.
The second explosion was reported to be equivalent to two tonnes of TNT and bigger than the first.
The theories about the cause of these explosions abound, and so far none have been substantiated:
 - A torpedo in the Kursk's forward compartment - which was carrying up to 30 warheads - exploded.
 "There may have been an explosion in one of the weapons systems aboard, for example a torpedo, which then triggered a bigger explosion two minutes later," said Norwegian armed forces spokesman Brigadier Kjell Grandhagen.
 Russia's official military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda has reported that the Kursk's battery and propeller torpedo-launching technology had been replaced with a cheaper and potentially dangerous liquid fuel system, against the wishes of Navy officials. The liquid fuel is highly combustible.
 US naval experts also believe volatile fuel could be to blame. Using data obtained from an intelligence gathering ship and two US nuclear submarines that were monitoring the Kursk during exercises, they say the first explosion involved fuel from a torpedo or a long-range anti-shipping missile carried by the sub.
 They say this then created a fire which set off other warheads, provoking an explosion which ripped open the Kursk's twin-pressurised hulls.
 - The submarine collided with the seabed during a manoeuvre, causing tanks of pressurised air inside the submarine to explode or otherwise triggering a larger explosion. A retired commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Eduard Baltin, has suggested that the accident was a result of incompetence, bad planning and bad training.
 "The Kursk is designed for the ocean, not for shallow waters. Where it was manoeuvring and where it perished is completely wild - strong currents and strong winds. You can't carry out torpedo firing there," he said.
 - The submarine collided with a US or British submarine, which triggered a second explosion. Russia's navy chief Mikhail Motsak said three non-Russian submarines were in the Barents Sea at the time of the accident. "We think that it could have been a British submarine", he said. The Russian daily Sevodnya said it had evidence that the Kursk crashed into a US submersible, which then limped into a Norwegian port.
 The Pentagon has admitted that two US submarines were in the same zone, but denied they were involved in a collision.
 "We have found absolutely no indication that there has been a collision in the area," Norwegian armed forces spokesman Brigadier Kjell Grandhagen has told the BBC.
 - It was sunk by an anti-ship missile fired by a Russian cruiser. According to Germany's Berliner Zeitung, quoting a report by Russia's intelligence service the FSB, the Kursk was sunk by a radar-guided Granit missile fired by the Kirov class nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great. The FSB, however, has denied knowledge of the report.
 - The submarine hit a surface vessel, possibly a Russian ship
 - It hit a mine left over from World War II.
It is thought that whatever happened to the Kursk it happened quickly - so quickly that it could not even send out a distress call, or release an emergency beacon.
Vladimir Putin on a submarine
President Vladimir Putin took a trip on a submarine, the Karelia, earlier this year
Doubts have arisen regarding the news disseminated by the Russian navy that seamen inside the vessel had been communicating with rescuers by tapping on the submarine wall.
Russian defence analyst Pavel Felgenhauer says the sounds detected were never more than a faint knocking sound coming from somewhere inside the vessel.
And a US intelligence analysis, details of which were apparently leaked to the US media, is said to indicate that no communication of any kind was heard from inside the submarine at any time after the disaster struck.
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This post focuses on the fourth lecture of the course, entitled Author and Illustrator Devices, which became available on March 7, 2012.
Beagley's remarks in this lecture echoed some of the things he's already said, but then applied them all to an Australian picture book called Norton's Hut. The book seems to be out of print and unavailable these days, and it's not familiar to me at all, but Beagley's analysis of it seems like a pretty good blueprint for analyzing and reviewing books with illustrations.
Here's a list of the details Beagley discussed as he went through Norton's Hut:
- The visual effects of text (conversation bubbles, capital letters, etc.)
- Symbolism of setting
- Framing of the illustrations/story
- Figurative language (alliteration/metaphor/personifcation/simile)
- Characters' expressions
- Lighting and contrast
- Use of cinematic technique in illustrations
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Ministry of the Environment directs environmental monitoring
Ministry of the Environment directs environmental monitoring. The Environmental Monitoring Strategy prepared by the Ministry sets the guidelines for monitoring for 2020. The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) coordinates national environmental monitoring. Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment are responsible for monitoring in their own area. The Institute and regional centres work in close cooperation in carrying out the national monitoring programmes.
Monitoring carried out by the environmental administration
The Finnish environmental administration monitors natural re-sources, environmental pressures and the state of the environment. For example, water quantity and quality, air quality and biodiversity are monitored. Monitoring programmes are being updated in the process of implementing the EU Water Framework Directive.
Monitoring results of the environmental administration
Examples of monitoring activities and results are available:
Local pollution control monitoring
Local pollution control monitoring of waters is required under the national environmental legislation and is paid for by polluters. In accordance with the legislation, the impacts of municipal and industrial waste waters and those of fish farms, peat mining companies, landfills, and water abstraction and hydraulic engineering operations are monitored regularly. Local pollution control monitoring plans are tailored individually for each polluter and are approved by the centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment. There are about 5000 water quality sampling sites under local pollution control monitoring (rivers, lakes and coastal sea areas). The results are reported annually to the environmental authorities.
Environmental monitoring carried out by other institutes
Besides the Finnish Environment Institute and 13 centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, other national governmental institutes are carrying out environmental monitoring.
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They also note that only about 25 percent of Marin's greenhouse gas emissions are caused by electricity use, while cars and other vehicles account for 62 percent of the emissions.
Prior to the formation of the Marin Energy Authority, the county of Marin compared Marin Clean Energy's potential for cutting greenhouse gases to existing alternatives. These included: changes in county building codes that require the use of energy-saving designs and equipment; Marin Energy Watch Partnership, a program funded by California utility ratepayers that
All of these efforts combined would cut Marin's greenhouse gas emissions by just 17,908 tons per year by 2019, the analysis showed. That compares with between 237,374 tons per year and 534,000 tons per year under Marin Clean Energy.
John Dalessi, a director in Navigant Consulting's energy practice, said Marin Clean Energy's biggest cuts in greenhouse gases would come with construction of its own renewable electricity
"Short-term, it's more of an accounting exercise," Dalessi said. Navigant Consulting helped write the Marin Clean Energy business plan.
Marin County Supervisor Charles McGlashan, who serves as chairman of the Marin Energy Authority board, said, "The elegance of Marin Clean Energy is that it takes no general fund, taxpayer money. In a pain-free manner for ratepayers, we redirect revenue and get an enormous reduction in greenhouse gas."


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The Performance of Performance Standards
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream skimming within the model. Two major empirical findings are (a) that the short run measures used to monitor performance are weakly, and sometimes perversely, related to long run impacts and (b) that the efficiency gains or losses from cream skimming are small. We find evidence that centers respond to performance standards.
Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w9002
Published: Heckman, James J., Carolyn Heinrich and Jeffrey Smith. "The Performance Of Performance Standards," Journal of Human Resources, 2002, v37(4,Fall), 778-811. citation courtesy of
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How many times a year does the Hogwarts Express run between Hogwarts and London King's Cross?
I know the train goes to Hogwarts at the start of the school year near the start of September, and back to London before the summer break, since the books describe Harry ride these several times. But is the train also used for the Christmas break, when most students leave Hogwarts? We never see Harry use it, but that's because he doesn't want to spend the break with the Dursleys. Does it perhaps run even more frequently, so that students with parents in England can visit home several times a year, or shop in Diagon Alley in London?
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 The wikia suggests six times a year, maybe more, as needed. So I think we can assume 6 to be the lower bound, assuming that is correct of course. Though I wouldn't base an answer off of that. – TheLethalCarrot Apr 25 '18 at 12:45
 - As far as I know students aren't permitted to leave school - except to visit Hogsmeade - during term time (unless their parents come and take them out of school), so it's unlikely the Hogwarts Express runs frequently. Six times per school year seems reasonable, as there are three terms. – Anthony Grist Apr 25 '18 at 13:05
Likely six times in a normal year
The school year at Hogwarts is split into three terms: From the start of the school year until the Christmas break, after the Christmas break until the start of the Easter break, and after the Easter break until the end of the school year.
We know - as the question states - that the Hogwarts Express runs at least twice at the start and end of the school year. However, as students are permitted to return home for the Christmas and Easter breaks, it's extremely likely that the Hogwarts Express runs at the start and end of each term, which would mean it runs at least six times per year.
This seems unlikely.
There's no explicit mention in the books of Hogwarts students being permitted to leave school during term-time, except for the infrequent allowed trips to Hogsmeade (which is a relatively short walk from the school), unless their parents come and take them out of school.
There are also logistical concerns that would appear to make it not worthwhile. Students have lessons Monday through Friday, leaving only weekends when students could potentially return home on a frequent basis.
We know that the Hogwarts Express departs from King's Cross on the 1st of September at 11:00 (11am). We also know that it arrives the same day, though the exact time isn't explicitly stated in the books at any point. This means that the total travel time isn't known, but we can attempt to estimate it.
I believe that in the books it's dark when the Hogwarts Express arrives in Hogsmeade. According to this site sunset in Glasgow1 on September 1st is 20:19 (8:19pm). That would give us a minimum travel time of roughly nine and a half hours.
A travel time of nine and a half hours each way during a weekend is possible, but doesn't leave a huge amount of time in your destination (especially if you have additional travel after arriving in King's Cross). Usage would likely be low, which likely means they simply wouldn't run it at all.
Of course, nine and a half hours might be an overestimate for the total travel time (I doubt JKR consulted sunset times for September 1st when writing the books). However, even assuming the Hogwarts Express arrives early evening - around dinnertime - then the travel time is likely 7 to 8 hours, with the arrival time being between 18:00 and 19:00 (6 and 7pm). That still seems too long to make the trip worthwhile on a weekend.
1 Hogwarts isn't in Glasgow (or central Scotland), but the times shouldn't vary so wildly that it affects the estimate too much.
Presumably Four to Six Times
We know that students take the Hogwarts Express at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year, as these journeys are documented in most of the books. We also know that students can go home for the Christmas holidays, and Harry in fact does leave Hogwarts for Christmas in both Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince. In Order of the Phoenix he takes a portkey to Grimmauld Place, and takes the Knight Bus back to Hogwarts:
"You have all used a Portkey before?" asked Dumbledore, and they nodded, each reaching out to touch some part of the blackened kettle. "Good. On the count of three then... one... two..."
They were to return to Hogwarts on the Knight Bus the following day, escorted once again by Tonks and Lupin, both of whom were eating breakfast in the kitchen when Harry, Ron, and Hermione arrived there next morning.
In Half-Blood Prince we are not told how they got to the Burrow, but they return to Hogwarts via the Floo Network:
Late in the afternoon, a few days after New Year, Harry, Ron, and Ginny lined up beside the kitchen fire to return to Hogwarts. The Ministry had arranged this one-off connection to the Floo Network to return students quickly and safely to the school.
However, it would appear that these travel arrangements were an exception rather than the norm. In Order of the Phoenix they had to leave Hogwarts under emergency circumstances and wanted security on the way back; in Half-Blood Prince the Ministry apparently set up a Floo connection for security reasons as well. Indeed, earlier in the series we do find the Hogwarts Express being used for the Christmas holidays.
In Chapter Twelve of Chamber of Secrets we find the following statement:
In Deathly Hallows when the Ministry was already under Voldemort's control (so there would be no need for extra security traveling for Christmas) we again find the train used for Christmas:
Hogwarts also has Easter holidays. In all the years Harry attended Hogwarts, though, I don't believe we ever see anyone going home for Easter. However, in Prisoner of Azkaban a conversation between Fudge and Harry implies that students could go home for Easter:
"Ah, you're worrying about the reaction of your aunt and uncle?" said Fudge. "Well, I won't deny that they are extremely angry, Harry, but they are prepared to take you back next summer as long as you stay at Hogwarts for the Christmas and Easter holidays."
Harry unstuck his throat.
And in Deathly Hallows, though Harry no longer attends Hogwarts, we do hear about Malfoy and Ginny being home for the Easter holidays:
"Follow me," said Narcissa, leading the way across the hall. "My son, Draco, is home for his Easter holidays. If that is Harry Potter, he will know."
"... lucky that Ginny's on holiday. If she'd been at Hogwarts they could have taken her before we reached her. Now we know she's safe too."
However, we are not told how Ginny or Malfoy returned home. We might assume that the Hogwarts Express is used for Easter just like it is used for Christmas, but on the other hand it is possible that if so few people tend to go home for Easter then they wouldn't bother running the train.
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Young Adults from 14 Caribbean Countries Gather Material for Environmental Book
ROSEAU, Dominica Young adults from 14 Caribbean countries recently finished gathering material for a book on the environment they hope will get more young people involved in protection efforts.
The book will highlight environmental issues facing the region and provide examples of how younger generations can influence government policies, said organizer Frederick Arnett.
"Our purpose is to bring about a change in the mentality and attitude about the environment" among young adults, Arnett said.
The material was gathered from 30 environmental activists, ages 18 to 25, over the past week in Roseau, Arnett said.
Funding to publish the book will come from the Barbados-based Caribbean Youth Environment Network and United National Environmental Program, though no publication date has been set.
The program plans to sell copies across the Caribbean.
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5.2.1 Guile Initialization Functions
To initialize Guile, you can use one of several functions. The first, scm_with_guile, is the most portable way to initialize Guile. It will initialize Guile when necessary and then call a function that you can specify. Multiple threads can call scm_with_guile concurrently and it can also be called more than once in a given thread. The global state of Guile will survive from one call of scm_with_guile to the next. Your function is called from within scm_with_guile since the garbage collector of Guile needs to know where the stack of each thread is.
A second function, scm_init_guile, initializes Guile for the current thread. When it returns, you can use the Guile API in the current thread. This function employs some non-portable magic to learn about stack bounds and might thus not be available on all platforms.
One common way to use Guile is to write a set of C functions which perform some useful task, make them callable from Scheme, and then link the program with Guile. This yields a Scheme interpreter just like guile, but augmented with extra functions for some specific application — a special-purpose scripting language.
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Airsoft is a primarily recreational activity where replica firearms shooting plastic rounds are used for personal collection, gaming (similar to Paintball), or professional training purposes (Military Simulations and Police training exercises).
Skills – Strength: 5, Balance: 3, Flexibility: 4, Agility: 4, Coordination: 7
Time needed: 3 hours, Cost to try: £50
A primary difference between airsoft firearms and BB guns is that airsoft uses 6mm or 8mm plastic pellets and have muzzle velocities of less than 700 feet per second (FPS), which is generally considered safe when used in a controlled environment, while BB guns utilize metal ammunition and shoot at higher velocities (up to and over 1000 FPS), making them unsuitable for gaming and training purposes.
Airsoft games vary greatly in style and composition depending on location, budget, and the quantity of participants but often range from short-term skirmishes and organized scenarios to military simulations and historical reenactments. Combat situations on the battlefield often involve the use of common military tactics to achieve the objectives set in each game. Participants typically use varying types of airsoft weaponry along with either real or replica military gear and uniforms. extract from wikipedia


All about tapioca pearl that might surprise you
Tapioca is essentially a starch that is synthesized from the root of the cassava plant, scientifically termed Manihot esculenta. It is often processed into little round particles that look like pearls and is a popular ingredient in many South American and Asian recipes such as bubble tea, puddings, jams, jellies, and desserts.
How Are Tapioca Pearls Made?
The roots of cassava are finely ground, to extract the starchy liquid. Following this, the inherent water content is allowed to evaporate and the end-product is a fine white powder. Finally, this powder is made to undergo manufacturing processes, including sieving under high pressure, to produce bright white, translucent spheres that resemble pearls, therefore giving the name of tapioca pearls.
What Are Tapioca Pearls Used For?
Tapioca pearl is traditionally added in Indian cooking, particularly in recipes prepared during festivals like Navratri, Diwali and Varalakshmi Vrat, as these dishes are consumed following a fast. These fluffy circular gems are a time-tested Ayurvedic remedy for cooling the body post fasting for several hours and also effectively regulate the stomach acids, thereby aiding in smooth digestion. Also, being an instant source of calories, Tapioca pearls help in combating fatigue.
How Nutritious Are Tapioca Pearls?
Tapioca pearls primarily contain starch, a simple carbohydrate that is easily digested and is also a direct source of energy. However, this is not the only nutritious benefit offered by Tapioca pearl, although it is comparatively less wholesome when compared with other fiber-rich grains such as wheat and oats. It is low in sodium content, practically has no cholesterol and comprises significant quantities of calcium, for strengthening bones. In addition, Tapioca pearl also provides iron for blood synthesis and transport, manganese for optimal metabolism and folate for ensuring proper DNA synthesis and cell division in all the bodily tissues.
Today, Tapioca pearl is incorporated in a wide variety of dishes all over the world, as its beneficial use in low-sodium, cholesterol-free restricted diets is well-recognized. It is used immensely to prevent the risk of chronic diseases like muscular atrophy, boost metabolism and enhance overall well-being.
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 1. Helps In Weight Gain
Tapioca pearl is a vegetarian food and a rich source of the purest and simplest forms of carbohydrates and starches. This aids in building essential fat tissues to protect internal organs, as well as ensures uniform lipid distribution across the body and is hence very useful for those who are underweight.
 1. Ideal For Restricted Diets
Being naturally gluten-free, nut-free and grain-free, Tapioca pearl is a perfect ingredient that can be routinely added in the diet of people suffering from food allergies and gluten sensitivity. Gluten is a protein intrinsically present in some whole grains such as wheat, barley and rye which triggers a severe reaction in some people whose bodies are averse to this component.
 1. Promotes Strong Muscle Growth
Tapioca pearl abounds in essential amino acids and is a good source of vegetarian protein, both of which are crucial for many enzymatic reactions in cells and tissues in the body, to maintain proper functioning of all the organs. Moreover, it adds muscle mass and improves the tensile strength of connective tissues, thereby fostering muscular development.
 1. Regulates Proper Digestive Function
As Tapioca pearl is an unprocessed food, the simple sugars and starches it contains will promptly be assimilated in the body and broken down in the stomach, to provide a source of energy. Furthermore, Tapioca pearl also helps in eliminating blockages in the gut passage upon digestion and hence prevents constipation and irritable bowel syndrome
 1. Combats Neural Tube Defects
Tapioca pearl can be taken by expecting mothers, as it has profuse amounts of folate, that plays a vital role in the normal development of the foetus, avoiding any chances of neural tube defects and other birth abnormalities in the newborn. Folate also enhances red blood cell synthesis, required for transporting nutrients to vital organs in the body.
Tapioca pearl, when taken in moderation, is extremely beneficial for easing the digestive process, promoting strong bones and muscles, gaining weight and boosting energy levels when feeling exhausted and tired. Consume this cholesterol-free grain variant after properly softening it by soaking in water, to procure the wonderful rewards it offers for complete wellness.


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Keywords: green economics, ecology, axioms, structure, externalities, resources, equity, guided markets
An overview of green economics
This paper reviews the foundational axioms, principles, aims and instruments of the system of Green Economics. It ties economics to its ecological foundations, delineates a simple structure for the economy, investigates the relationship between resources, work, wealth and money. Equity is discussed in all its relationships, and capitalism and divergence between the fortunes of rich and poor are considered. Green economics is a new discipline, and this is therefore an important moment in which to try to find an orientation and to try to produce a sketch map of the field. This paper is an attempt to provide a provisional plan. Its aim is to place the various elements of green economics into relationship with each other rather than to provide a detailed exposition or argument for each point.


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Wave goodbye to your TV... literally
Out goes the remote, in comes gesturing tech
By James Sherwood
Posted in Hardware, 18th July 2007 10:57 GMT
Losing a remote control down the back of the sofa could soon become a thing of the past, thanks to two Australian boffins' development of a TV controller system operated entirely by hand signals.
The system combines a webcam, a gesture processing unit and a universal remote control. The webcam captures the hand signal, which is decoded using special software and converted it into a command which can by used to trigger the appropriate infrared signal from remote control. The result: give the thumbs up signal and the TV changes channel.
The system uses a set of pre-defined hand movements, such as an outstretched palm with the thumb pointing upwards to turn the TV on.
A series of sucsessful tests have already been performed with the system on TVs and VCRs, which involved using it under different lighting conditions and making gestures from different distances.
Mitsubishi testing its own TV remote replacement design
Developers Dr Prasham Premaratne, from the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Quang Nguyen, from the Research School of Information Science and Engineering at the Australian National University, claim it can even distinguish between intentional and unintentional gestures - handy if you use it while watching sports or playing on your Wii.
However, the Australian boffins aren't the first to come up with such a system. Back in 1994, Mitsubishi researchers William T Freeman and Craig D Weissman began working on a prototype that used a two-screen rig, combining a computer and a television. They admitted that the system could prove "somewhat tiring for extended viewing".
No details have been given by the designers for plans to release the system onto the market, but they did say are working on ways to miniaturise it and incorporate it into games consoles.


Un tratado inédito sobre la idea de nobleza atribuido a Francisco de Rades y Andrada
Dacosta Martínez, Arsenio
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This article presents an edition and commentary of what appears to be the opening chapters of a treatise on the idea of nobility (and the definition of several concepts related to it) attributed to Francisco de Rades y Andrada, chronicler of the military orders. The text, written before 1599, is contained in a manuscript of the National Library of Spain in the company of several significant texts related to the genealogy and history of the Sarmiento family (that of the dedicatee of the treatise, don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña ) and Renaissance copies of two medieval texts quite relevant in the history of reflections on nobility in Spain: a) the Spanish translation of a famous speech by Alonso de Cartagena at the Council of Basel in 1434; b) the Spanish version by Charles, Prince of Viana, of De vera nobilitate (written by Buonaccorso da Montemagno ca. 1429, translated into Italian by Angelo Decembrio for Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana). These, together with a list of Knights of Calatrava admitted to the order between 1535 and 1595, could be supplementary material for Rades' Chronicle of the Military Orders (1572), and look very congenial with the activities and attitudes of Rades as historian: always faithful to legislation and medieval documents and contemptuous of the fantasies and philological and historical inaccuracies frequently found in SixteenthCentury Spanish writers on the concept and implications of nobility


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Finite Element Simulation of the Process of Aluminum Alloy Resistance Spot Welding
In this paper, an axis-symmetric finite element analysis (FEA) model for the resistance spot welding (RSW) of aluminum alloys is developed using the FEA software ANSYS. It accounts for the interactions of mechanical, electrical and thermal phenomena. The coupled analysis is accomplished through the cycles of contact analysis and electrical-thermal analysis. In order to perform the coupled mechanical-electrical-thermal analysis, the relationship for contact electrical resistivity as a function of contact pressure and temperature is proposed, and the phase change due to melting is also accounted for. At the same time, temperature-dependent variable material properties are used to the simulation. In addition, the coupled analysis also includes the effect of distortion on the electrical-thermal analysis.


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The International Food Loss and Food Waste Studies group are organising a further session focused around food waste research at the 2016 Association of American Geographers conference, 29th March to the 2nd of April in Sanfrancisco, CA.
We welcome all contributions that touch centrally or tangentially on food waste through (but not limited to): – Consumption – Waste management – Prevention and/or reduction – Gender – Environment – Discourse – Materiality – Social justice – International development – Policy – Food systems – Other
Interested speakers should contact Isabel Urrutia at _EMAIL_ for questions or submissions. Submissions should include your AAG pin number and abstract. Please include use "AAG Food Waste" as the subject line of your email.
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Session abstract: Food waste scholarship: Recent advances and perspectives from a fragmented field of study
As a relatively new field of study, food waste has seen engagement from a plethora of fields across multiple scales, and locations from differing perspectives. Its interaction between food studies, discard studies, and food security is one that reflects the increasing concern for the environmental impact of food waste and mitigation techniques that extend from preventative behaviour change to waste material maximization. At the same time, at the household level, studies have begun to address the the complex ways in which consumption and food waste interact with identity, care, and food safety. This session seeks to explore the study of food waste across such diverging perspectives of the local and global, farm to household, quantitative and qualitative, sociological to managerial, agentive and structural, prevention and reduction, etc.
Organised by the International Food Loss and Food Waste Study Group, this session will: 1) Provide a forum for food waste scholars to share their work, and 2) Create a space to begin a conversation between these varying perspectives on food waste.


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