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Accenture "biometric matching engine" patent wins award
Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, recently recognized its own technological prowess by bestowing one of its own biometric patents with an award.
The prize acknowledged Accenture's "biometric matching engine" patent as the most outstanding intellectual property produced by the firm in the last fiscal year, which is quite a feat, noting the company has over 150 patents granted or pending. The firm developed the engine to employ a "dynamic matching strategy". The strategy, which is patented, identifies and contrasts individual records within databases comprising of at least two set of biometric modalities.
The strategy, according to the patent, comprises: "receiving, by a processing device, a first input biometric sample and a second input biometric sample; determining, by the processing device, a first characteristic associated with the first input biometric sample and a second characteristic associated with the second input biometric sample; grouping, by the processing device and after receiving the first input biometric sample and the second input biometric sample, a plurality of records to form a first set of records and a second set of records, the grouping being based on the first characteristic and the second characteristic; performing, by the processing device and on the first set of records, a first matching process based on a first threshold; performing, by the processing device and on the second set of records, a second matching process based on a second threshold; and identifying, by the processing device, a record, of the plurality of records, based on a result of the first matching process and a result of the second matching process."
The main objective of the patent, according to Cyrille Bataller, a Managing Director in the Emerging Technology group at Accenture, is to be able to compare different biometric modalities in real time. "We have developed an new approach that provides maximum flexibility," said Bataller in an exclusive interview with BiometricUpdate.com. "We designed a system that can switch from one biometric to another and that acknowledges that quality among biometric samples will vary."
As the key artificial intelligence lead at Accenture, Bataller's job is to incubate the next generation of cognitive technology services. With over 20 years of experience in technology innovation, Cyrille leads Accenture's exploration of the disruptive artificial intelligence field, which include cognitive IT systems which can "sense, comprehend, act and learn", along with interact naturally with people, data and environments, with the goal of delivering value by automating or augmenting work activities in various domains.
Cyrille considers biometrics a form of AI, along with text analytics, deep learning, cognitive robotics, and virtual agents, and notes the Accenture already leads the field of AI integration in border management with the deployment of e-gates at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
Ranked as Europe's fourth largest airport, Schiphol processes over 50 million passengers a year. With an annual expected growth in passengers of approximately five percent, but no anticipated increases to its more than 400 border guards, airport executives were all too aware of the need to achieve speed and mobility while enhancing security and safety for travelers and trade. In conjunction, with Accenture, they worked to implement e-gates, which are run in a "as-a-service" model. Accenture worked to bring together public agencies and airport operators that set performance and quality indicators, with solution providers, who bring technological and functional expertise and a broad knowledge of similar installations.
"The benefit of AI being used for border controls is that it can be used to engage with passengers ahead of time, enhancing customer service," stated Cyrille. "We use AI to simulate intelligence that is focused on predictive tasks. Border control is perfectly suited since its operations entail a high volume of repetitive tasks and data. We apply AI to augment the higher-value security tasks that people engage in, thereby increasing speed of processing, and improving the travel experience in a direct way."
Cyrille ultimately predicts that in the near future, borders will be staffed by AI-driven robots or virtual assistance that will quickly perform simple processing tasks, freeing up human border patrol agencies to focus on more important, higher-level security issues. The unique combination of biometric matching and AI machine learning could simultaneously speed-up passenger flow, while reducing waiting times and increasing both security and passenger screening accuracy.
Cyrille's recent work has also focused on video analytics, an artificial intelligence specialty that applies computer vision to video surveillance cameras to derive operational, safety and marketing insights. Most notably, he supported various police safe city initiatives, where Accenture integrated advanced analytic capabilities into existing video monitoring systems to increase situational awareness, streamline operations and enhance response time to public safety incidents.
Cyrille also oversees Accenture's unique identity activities, which is another artificial intelligence specialty which includes the provision of biometric identity management systems to UNHCR to manage refugee populations globally.
As BiometricUpdate.com reported previously, Accenture's system is able to capture and store fingerprints, iris data and facial images of individuals, providing these undocumented refugees with their only personal identity record. UNHCR begun deploying Accenture's system last year in refugee camp locations in Thailand and Chad, the latter of which will enable the enrollment and formal identification of 450,000 people residing in more than 19 refugee camps.
Accenture also assisted the World Bank in released a report last year to help developing nations create universal ID management systems. The report notes that over 1.8 billion adults in developing countries currently lack an official ID and therefore have no access to essential services.
The report (PDF) identifies a comprehensive strategy and implementation roadmap for developing nations seeking to build, or expand citizen identity programs, regardless of their country's level of technology infrastructure. Providing legal identity for all the world's population by 2030 is a shared objective of the international community under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals project, which was an item repeatedly discussed at last week's ID4Africa Forum and conference in Kigali, Rwanda.
With border security and identity management emerging as major concerns, due to the unprecedented migrant crisis affecting Africa and the Middle East, and the pressing need to provide at least half of Africa's population with identity documents to ensure access to social services, Accenture expects continued investment in AI technologies for travel applications. The firm expects greater investments in these areas, along with the application of biometric and artificial intelligence technologies that will assist border management agencies to reduce waiting times while increasing security.
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The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4 1⁄4 by 6 1⁄2 inches).
The carte de visite was quickly replaced by the larger cabinet card. In the early 1860s, both types of photographs were essentially the same in process and design. Both were most often albumen prints; the primary difference being the cabinet card was larger and usually included extensive logos and information on the reverse side of the card to advertise the photographer's services. However, later into its popularity, other types of papers began to replace the albumen process. Despite the similarity, the cabinet card format was initially used for landscape views before it was adopted for portraiture.
Some cabinet card images from the 1890s have the appearance of a black-and-white photograph in contrast to the distinctive sepia toning notable in the albumen print process. These photographs have a neutral image tone and were most likely produced on a matte collodion, gelatin or gelatin bromide paper.
Sometimes images from this period can be identified by a greenish cast. Gelatin papers were introduced in the 1870s and started gaining acceptance in the 1880s and 1890s as the gelatin bromide papers became popular. Matte collodion was used in the same period. A true black-and-white image on a cabinet card is likely to have been produced in the 1890s or after 1900. The last cabinet cards were produced in the 1920s, even as late as 1924.
Owing to the larger image size, the cabinet card steadily increased in popularity during the second half of the 1860s and into the 1870s, replacing the carte de visite as the most popular form of portraiture. The cabinet card was large enough to be easily viewed from across the room when typically displayed on a cabinet, which is probably why they became known as such in the vernacular. However, when the renowned Civil War photographer, Mathew Brady, first started offering them to his clientele towards the end of 1865, he used the trademark "Imperial Carte-de-Visite." Whatever the name, the popular print format joined the photograph album as a fixture in the late 19th-century Victorian parlor.
Ironically, early into its introduction, the cabinet card ushered in the temporary demise of the photographic album which had come into existence commercially with the carte de visite. Photographers began employing artists to retouch photographs (by altering the negative before making the print) to hide facial defects revealed by the new format. Small stands and photograph frames for the table top replaced the heavy photograph album. Photo album manufacturers responded by producing albums with pages primarily for cabinet cards with a few pages in the back reserved for the old family carte de visite prints.
For nearly three decades after the 1860s, the commercial portraiture industry was dominated by the carte de visite and cabinet card formats. In the decade before 1900 the number and variety of card photograph styles expanded in response to declining sales. Manufactures of standardized card stock and print materials hoped to stimulate sales and retain public interest in card photographs. However, as with all technological innovations, the public increasingly demanded outdoor and candid photographs with enlarged prints which they could frame or smaller unmounted snapshots they could collect in scrapbooks.
In no small part owing to the immense popularity of the affordable Kodak Box Brownie camera, first introduced in 1900, the public increasingly began taking their own photographs, and thus the popularity of the cabinet card declined.
- Introduced: 1860. First used for horizontal views, then eventually adapted for portraits.
- Peak popularity: 1880s. Although not uncommon in the 1870s, the cabinet card did not displace the carte de visite completely until the 1880s.
- Decline: 1890s. As snapshot and personal photography became commonplace among the public, the popularity of the cabinet card and cabinet card specific albums waned. Unmounted paper prints and the scrapbook albums started replacing them. A variety of other large card styles of various names and dimensions came about for professional portraits in the 1880s and 1890s. After 1900, card photographs generally had a much larger area surrounding the print quite often with an embossed frame around the image on heavy, gray card stock.
- Last Used: The cabinet card still had a place in public consumption and continued to be produced until the early 1900s and quite a bit longer in Europe. The last cabinet cards were produced in the 1930s.
Dating a cabinet card
When attempting to determine the date of creation for a cabinet card, clues can be gathered by the details on the card. The type of card stock or whether it had right-angled or rounded corners can often help to determine the date of the photograph to as close as five years. However, it has to be noted that these dating methods aren't always 100% accurate, since a Victorian photographer may have been using up old card stock, or the cabinet card may have been a re-print made many years after the photo was originally recorded.
- 1866–1880: square, lightweight mount
- 1880–1890: square, heavy weight card stock
- 1890s: scalloped edges
- 1866–1880: thin, light weight card stock in white, off white or light cream; white and light colours were used in later years, but generally on heavier card stock
- 1880–1890: different colours for face and back of mounts
- 1882–1888: matte-finish front, with a creamy-yellow, glossy back
- 1866–1880: red or gold rules, single and double lines
- 1884–1885: wide gold borders
- 1885–1892: gold beveled edges
- 1889–1896: rounded corner rule of single line
- 1890s on: Embossed borders and/or lettering
- 1866–1879 Photographer name and address often printed small and neatly just below the image, and/or studio name printed small on back.
- 1880s on: Large, ornate text for photographer name and address, especially in cursive style. Studio name often takes up the entire back of the card.
- Late 1880s–90s Gold text on black card stock
- 1890s on: embossed studio name or other embossed designs
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CSAM Keyword Hub
In partnership with the Technology Coalition, Thorn has developed an API containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) terms and phrases in multiple languages to improve your content moderation process.
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1 What can I do with the CSAM Keyword Hub?
Technology companies with a chat function who are seeking to protect children from online predation on their platforms can apply for cost-free use of the technique. Law enforcement and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are also eligible to apply.
2 How should the CSAM Keyword Hub be used?
Instead of using the Keyword Hub for strictly blocking specific keywords that match the list, the strong preference is to use the list to kickstart the training of machine learning models. By doing so, we hope companies can proactively detect and remove CSAM.
3 What kind of terms can be added?
Terms must be relevant to the detection and elimination of online materials that involve sex trafficking, exploitation, or the endangerment of children. They should be able to help identify, prevent, or remove this online material. Terms may include the identifier of a known child abuse image or video (for example a filename, MD5 hash, or street name). PII included in CSAI terms (such as a series name) is allowed, but PII that includes user account information is not allowed. Once terms are added, they are intended to remain even if a company decides to no longer participate.
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Add a simple product in WooCommerce
You can add the products for your WooCommerce store from inside the WordPress dashboard. The following steps explain how to add a simple product, though there are other product types available.
- Log in to WordPress.
- In the left-hand menu, click Products, which will expand and give additional options.
- Click Add New in the expanded Products menu.
- Fill-out the Product name field with the name of your product.
- In the large text box, enter a Description of the product.
- In the Product data section, complete the following:
- Check the Virtual and/or Downloadable boxes, if either applies to your product.
- On the General tab, set a price for the product in the Regular price box.
- Look through the remaining tabs and complete any parts that are relevant for the product.
- Next, enter a Product short description, which will typically appear next to the image of the product on your store.
- On the right-hand side of the page, in the Product categories section, check the box for any related categories.
Note: If you have not already added a category, then you can click Add a category to do so.
- Click the Save Draft or Publish button near the top-right.
You can make changes to the product's settings at any time.


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Keeping a tree watered is the best way to ensure a long life, but it can be difficult to see the water level sometimes, which is why blogger Eric Ayars created a reminder system with an Arduino.
Using a small sensor, an Arduino Pro Mini, a relay, transformer, and an outlet box, he created a system that can detect the amount of water in the tree's tray and blink a morse code message when it's in need of water. Sure, it's probably easier to set up an alarm every couple days to remind you, but this is a clever way to ensure you'll never forget. There's no reason you wouldn't be able to apply it to any other plants you might keep in water, so it could be used year round. You can find the full guide, with schematics and code on Hardware Hacks.

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Fresh bread. That smell is very comforting and on Thursday, Nyack Middle School students got a lesson in bread making during a special assembly.
The seventh graders from Family and Consumer Sciences teacher Heather Lee's class filled the cafeteria while two student volunteers helped with the demonstration with Amy Driscoll from the King Arthur Flour Life Skills Bread Baking Program
The students learned how to make two different loaves of bread, cinnamon rolls and pretzels.
During the hour long assembly, there were lessons mixed in from different subject areas, such as:
- Science – baking is a science experiment with controlled ingredients and chemical reactions (yeast)
- Math – adding, weight, volume
- Art – being creative with the different shapes and purposes of dough at the end
- Nutrition – of the different ingredients such as wheat flour
As part of the project each student will receive to take home enough flour and yeast for two loaves of bread, a dough scraper and a recipe booklet. If the students choose to donate one of the loaves they bake they are being asked to return one loaf of bread in the bag provided to school on Monday, Dec. 10.
The Family and Consumer Science Department and the Middle School Family Resource Center will then donate the bread to a local organization in need.
This is a great hands-on learning experience done in the generous spirit of giving back to the community.
"We'll try to do this every other year," said Lee. "Our plan is to donate to people to people and soup angels, as well as our own students' families who are in need. Lisa Retallack from our Family Resource Center is handling the specific donations."


Why Are Aquarius So Nice?
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Why Are Aquarius So Nice?
Aquarius is so nice. All the zodiac signs have special qualities, but Aquarius is known for being one of the kindest.
Born between the dates January 20 - February 18, Aquarius is a zodiac sign who helps others in times of trouble.
Why is Aquarius so nice?
Aquarius is associated with the eleventh astrology house which is about people and helping others.
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Aquarius enjoys humanitarian work and uses their intelligence to make a difference in the world.
One famous Aquarius who was so nice is President Abraham Lincoln.
He exhibited the purity of the Aquarius zodiac sign through his leadership while President of the United States in the passing of the 13th Amendment which led to the emancipation of slavery.
Other famous Aquarians who were kind and giving are Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb.
Another Aquarius who made history is Rosa Parks. She stood up for her rights and felt the brunt of all humanity when she was unjustly treated for refusing to be treated unfairly.
Charles Darwin was also an Aquarius who some may consider having been nice, he contributed scientific findings with the world when he didn't have to.
These Aquarian individuals went above and beyond what people in society would consider their civic duty.
In essence to say Aquarius is 'nice' is to simplify the fact that this zodiac sign is the humanitarian of astrology.
Aquarius can be shy or outgoing. But Aquarius is always a loyal and trusted friend.
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Lots of celebrities are nice Aquarius zodiac signs, too.
Aquarius is easily adaptable to changing situations, so they are easy to be around during difficult times.
Aquarius does not fear the unknown. Their kind nature is what you see, even when they feel confident solving a difficult problem.
An Aquarius's positive outlook, this is part of the reason they are so nice to the people that surround them.
For example, Ashton Kutcher is another famous Aquarius zodiac sign who people would refer to as 'nice'.
In fact, Hollywood Reporter covered a story sharing how Kutcher tweeted his phone number for a genuine connection with real people.
A pessimistic attitude tends to affect most people's moods, but Aquarius doesn't have this problem; they are just way too nice.
Look at Bob Marley, another famous Aquarius who was so easy-going. Every song he wrote expressed a strong mindset driven toward positive change.
Although no one can be happy 24/7, Aquarius does a good job maintaining their inner peace, and perhaps this is the secret to their niceness.
They restore power by placing emphasis on needed alone time.
Just ask Jennifer Aniston, who talks a lot about me-time.
Aniston is another famous Aquarius who is not only nice in real life, but she played a famous kind character on Friends, the most-watched sitcom ever.
By paying attention to their desires, Aquarius can clearly see the desires of others — lending a helping hand when necessary.
Aquarius feels best in a group setting, can you imagine America without John Hancock, an Aquarius? What would the Declaration of Independence be without his signature?
Because of these charitable and nice personality traits, Aquarius is comfortable with giving back to the community through acts of service.
Their Aquarius zodiac signs have a kind heart that is motivated by their progressive strength.
Unafraid to be who they truly are, Aquarius is admired for their originality and strive to better the world around them.
Aquarius is heavily concerned with equality for all.
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Generally speaking, Aquarius was made for protesting for equal rights (which is definitely needed right now). Just look at Frederick Douglas, he's an Aquarius, too.
It is said that Aquarius doesn't see any boundaries between people, Ellen Degeneres who has her Sun and Venus, the planet of love and beauty in the sign of Aquarius. Ellen has made so many people feel comfortable telling stories on her show.
She enjoys learning from others and uses her knowledge in positive ways.
Instead, they value every person for their own unique qualities, ask anyone what they think of Oprah, an Aquarius with three planets in this zodiac sign, the embodiment of acceptance.
Oprah is a great listener which reveals the nicer side to an Aquarius zodiac sign. Who doesn't love to be heard?
Aquarius zodiac signs are unselfish and willing to give a part of themselves to whoever may need it.
Oprah used her platform to support minority writers and also to serve those who are less fortunate.
Aquarius is so nice that they will never try to change someone, but rather fight for the world to accept them just as they've already done.
For them, it doesn't matter who the person is, they will always show respect and appreciation.
Michael Jordan, a triple Aquarius, never tried to get even with the coach that told him he'd never play.
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Instead, he improved his game and became one of the best basketball player who ever lived.
Their kindness is unlike any others.
While it might be hard to model the Aquarius mindset, we should all aim to act the same way.
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Since they consider their partner to be equal, Aquarius understands that everyone has their own set of needs.
They do not believe in possessing another and want to give independence to the people in their life, especially their partners.
Just look at Yoko Ono, an Aquarius who married John Lennon, leading to his break from the Beatles band.
She understood the value of giving a person the freedom to do things on their own timeline.
She didn't adhere to societal norms but instead looked to help in whatever way was needed depending on the situation at hand.
Aquarius is so nice. They help us put things into perspective.
They show us that the world isn't as scary or mean as we might have perceived.
There is the enjoyment that comes from helping others.
We aren't meant to be such selfish human beings, but rather enhance our world as a collective unit.
Aquarius does not feel that their value would ever be diminished by the value of others.
It's okay to uplift each other — there's enough to go around in a world that fosters equality.
By looking at the Aquarius mindset, we can see that there is great power in respecting others.
Each example of how nice Aquarius reminds us to first focus on our needs and then reach out to help with the needs of others.
Thank you, Aquarius, for being such a kind light in all our lives!
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Tree Spinach
Tree spinach (Chenopodium giganteum), also known as Purple Goosefoot or Magenta Spreen, is a large leafy annual, which can grow up to 2 metres tall, living up to its 'tree' nickname.
Originating from India, and commonplace in Mexico, tree spinach happily grows in the UK, and is a relative of amaranth and quinoa.
The younger leaves and growing tips, which are splashed with vivid pink, can be eaten raw in salads and larger leaves can be cooked as spinach. Cooked it tastes similar to spinach, with a nuttier taste, and some people say with a hint of asparagus. Cook as you would spinach: either steam for a few minutes, or sautee with a splash of oil (and salt and pepper) or with melted butter.
It can also be substituted for greens in many recipes. These patties sound good.
tree spinach on a plate
The plant has edible seeds which can apparently be cooked or ground into flour, perhaps an experiment for us in the future!
Written by Kelly, one of the new growers at the Croft.


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Hardicanute, King of England and Denmark, was the son of Cnut, and succeeded his father on the Danish throne in 1039; and at the same time laid claim to that of England, which had devolved to his half-brother, Harold. A compromise was effected, by which he governed the southern part of the kingdom during Harold's life, and succeeded to the whole on his death. His conduct was violent and tyrannical; he revived the odious tax called Danegelt; and his subjects rejoiced at his early death, which happened in 1041.
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Although stock splits seem to be a purely cosmetic event, there exists ample empirical evidence from the United States that stock splits are associated with abnormal returns on both the announcement and the execution day, and additionally with an increase in variance following the ex-day. This paper investigates the market reaction to stock splits using a set of German firms. Consistent with the U.S. findings, similar effects are observed for the sample of German stock splits. Institutional differences between Germany and the U.S. allow to disentangle the three main hypotheses on the announcement effect - signalling, liquidity, and neglected firm hypothesis - to gain further insights into their relative explanation power. This paper argues that legal restrictions strongly limit the ability of German companies to use a stock split for signaling. Consistently, abnormal returns around the announcement day are much lower in Germany than in the U.S. Although a significant increase in liquidity can be found after the split crosssectional tests do not lend any support to the hypothesis that price changes are positively related to liquidity changes. This is in contrast to the results of Muscarella/Vetsuypens (1996) and Amihud/Mendelson/Lauterbach (1997). The paper shows that the announcement effect to German stock splits is best explained by a neglected firm effect. On the methodological side the effect of thin trading on event study results is examined. Using tradeto-trade returns increases the significance of abnormal returns but the difference between alternative return measurement methods is relatively small in short event periods. Thus, the observed market reaction cannot be attributed to measurement problems caused by thin trading.


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"If you can see how beautiful your culture is," China Smith told Austin360, "you can see how beautiful you are." After eight years of teaching dance in East Austin schools, China realized how few opportunities there were to expose students to black art, something she believes is vital to the self-empowerment of her young students. This realization led her to found Ballet Afrique, a performing ensemble and dance studio that blends classical ballet and modern dance with African American culture. Ballet Afrique's team of artists aim to enrich the lives of performers, audiences, and students alike under the belief that expressive movement "transcends race, gender, and socio-economic backgrounds."
In addition to their performances and lectures, the rhythmically inclined dancers also teach classes from their tranquil studio, drawing in pupils of all ages and experience levels. Young twinkle toes learn the fundamentals of ballet, modern, and African dance, and an all-male tap dancing class for ages 9–17 encourages bonding, mentorship, and new ways to communicate with the downstairs neighbors.


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I've just asked a question where Tyler Durden wrote in his answer that paper was expensive at Euclids time.
So I wanted to ask the question:
How did the price of paper / papyrus develop over time?
But then I realized that it might be impossible to answer it with a simple time-price chart, even if one had all information.
So the question is: How do historians evaluate if something is "expensive"? How are prices of goods compared over the regions / times? Do already build "comparison tables" exist?
What I thought of
First try: Comparision with other goods
There are certainly goods that still exist in comparable quality (I could think of gold, sheep, cows, stone or ground), the ratio might be different. So simply calculating
 - n = number of grams of gold one had to pay for 100 papyrus scrolls
 - w = price of gold in Euro / gram
 - price of papyrus in todays values = n*w
is too simple. But eventually one could give multiple prices like that to give a meaningful impressing?
Second try: Work force
As soon as we have coins, we can probably compare what people have for a living (per month). One could sort those incomes and trim the top/bottom 25% to get an average income. Then one could calculate
 - s = income of the region we want something to be compared with the method described above in [old currency / month]
 - x = value of the good from region / time of s in [old currency]
 - t = todays average income (calculated the same way) in [new currency/month]
 - price of papyrus in todays values = (x/s)*t
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Yeah, somebody, like ME, the god king of history, Tyler Durden. – Tyler Durden Aug 11 at 21:41
_USER_: I've added the name :-) – moose Aug 11 at 21:52
Insightful question, relevant question. Thank you. – Mark C. Wallace Aug 12 at 13:06
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Economic history's great attempt to produce a great price/wage series for Southern England's monasteries, agricultural labourers, and modern workers failed. It leaves us with the series used by Measuring Worth, but the series is untrustworthy:
1) Wage labour was not generalised until the 19th century, this makes "wages" and "prices" meaningless.
2) Series construction raises great problems
3) The reliance upon southern English monestaries' as a record source means a poor generalisation even to people in receipt of wages of account; and cannot really be generalised out to the surrounding local markets.
So there's no way to reconstruct a wage price series beyond 1700 with any confidence.
No, these weren't "goods" in the past, their social meaning was entirely different. We can try to evaluate their social importance by understanding the past economic and social system as it was, but a comparison can only be made in terms to evaluating and comparing concrete past societies. We can't run a sheep/cow index any better than wage/price.
Wages were not socially determinate before 1790, and then only in England. Wage labour, and the "wage" as we understand it as the only basis of subsistence, is a very very new thing.
Finally, what are we comparing? Paper for personal consumption? Paper as a production object in the mode of production? Paper as a dedication of social resources? These are all very different time meanings of social worth.
I relate to economic history as a modern social historian, but reading Measuring Worth's discussion of the problems with post 1950 wage/price series ought to be illustrative, as should the history of the Australian C series index which is available on Australian Bureau of Statistics' website for the Australian CPI index.
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Understanding historical prices is a difficult problem, and even historians of economics use methods that I would consider inadequate. Many published estimates of ancient prices and value are often wildly wrong. Regular historians (not economists) are even worse at value estimation and rarely suggest modern equivalents with any meaningful accuracy.
There is actually a very simple way to relate ancient values to modern values and that is through the medium of gold. It is an approximate measure, obviously, but much better than the typical methods you will find economists using.
For example, in Pompeii which was covered in ash in 79 A.D. a loaf of bread was listed at 2 as (copper piece). If you work out the gold equivalent, it comes to about $1 today, which interestingly enough is about what a loaf of bread costs today (on sale). In the Koran it lists the price of a sheep in gold dirhams which comes out to $400 which is about what it costs for a sheep today.
In general, everything is cheaper today than it was in the past due to mechanization, and the effects are not equal. For example, in the old days silver was about 1/20th the price of gold, but nowadays due to the Comstock lode and other factors (such as the silver recovered from copper mining), silver is only worth about 1/60th the price of gold.
You can also relate money via work or wages. Of course you have to remember that different civilizations have different wage scales. For example, workers in ancient Rome would make a lot more than the same worker out in the boonies in Britain, just like today a worker in Manhatten will make more than some guy in Nigeria.
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Without being snippy, and recognising that this is a valid answer which I believe to be wrong: all this tells you is that social productivity in terms of production of sheep and production of gold in market realising situations has remained incidentally linked. Gold is also an extremely poor instrument for dealing with price in finance capitalism. So all we can say is that volumes and techniques of producing sheep and gold were happenstance linked. Tells us nothing about if people wore flax or wool or rayon, if they ate meat or starved. If mounds of gold went unused or were displayed. – Samuel Russell Aug 11 at 22:58
I think the comparison of the wages of modern workers in different regions is the kernel of the argument. Expanding that could make the point clearer. A worker in Manhattan makes more than a worker in another region, and they are certainly "richer", but how do we compare? By looking at the cost of necessities: food, clothing and housing, and observing what proportion of income remains after those. We can see that the Manhattenite is richer because after his more expensive housing / clothing / food costs, he can still afford international holidays (for example). – andy256 Aug 11 at 23:30
_USER_ My use of gold as the equivalency measure is not based on a "theory". It is based on years of experience trying to reprice things from many different points in history. My experience is that for practical purposes, there is no better and no simpler method. You can create all the theories you want about it, the simple fact is, I have gotten the best results using a gold equivalency metric. – Tyler Durden Aug 12 at 1:51
If you're claiming to be instrumental, then all that means is you're unwilling to disclose, or haven't disclosed to yourself, the theoretical basis on which you judge in experience that your method is "better" or produces "best results." Your practice is theory laden, even if you don't formalise that theory, and (based on current biographical data) I'm not seeing that you're a member of a community of practice adequate for me to accept an argument from your personal experience. Are you an economic historian or equivalent? – Samuel Russell Aug 12 at 3:16
Please notice that comparasion of silver and gold reserve worldwide (based on _URL_-precious-metals.html) we have a reserve ratio of around 1 to 10.5 so I am not really convinced about the 1/60 price rate's rightousness. – CsBalazsHungary Aug 12 at 12:58
To declare I don't have a definite answer, but with my answer I might get you somewhat closer to the ultimate method.
To estimate a value back in time is especially hard because of the following factors:
 - There were various monetary systems (not just currencies) over time. For example the silver/gold backed 1 Krone in Austro-Hungarian empire worth 0,3 grams of gold back in 1892 which is today roughly 9,5 EUR. But since then the Krone collapsed, in Hungary the Pengő collapsed, in Austria the Schilling inflated then switched to EUR. You can use any inflation calculator which will be more or less accurate, but I am sure they don't work back into middle ages.
 - Gold and silver were used for money for more time than they weren't. You can measure things in gold and silver, these two commodities were money for very long time, and they were rare. The measurement won't be precise since as other people wrote too: the historical exchange from gold to silver was usually close to 1:15 to 1:16. Mike Maloney conducted fine research on gold and silver, you can watch his videos on youtube and read his books. That surely helps understanding


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Strategies to improve the efficiency and utility of multidisciplinary team meetings in urology cancer care: a survey study.
Lamb BW., Jalil RT., Sevdalis N., Vincent C., Green JS.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of multidisciplinary teams (MDT) for the delivery of cancer care is increasing globally. Evidence exists of benefits to patients and healthcare professionals. However, MDT working is time and resource intensive. This study aims to explore members' views on existing practices of urology MDT working, and to identify potential interventions for improving the efficiency and productivity of the MDT meeting. METHODS: Members of urology MDTs across the UK were purposively recruited to participate in an online survey. Survey items included questions about the utility and efficiency of MDT meetings, and strategies for improving the efficiency of MDT meetings: treating cases by protocol, prioritising cases, and splitting the MDT into subspeciality meetings. RESULTS: 173 MDT members participated (Oncologists n = 77, Cancer Nurses n = 54, Urologists n = 30, other specialities n = 12). 68% of respondents reported that attending the MDT meeting improves efficiency in care through improved clinical decisions, planning investigations, helping when discussing plans with patients, speciality referrals, documentation/patient records. Participants agreed that some cases including low risk, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer and localised, low-grade prostate cancer could be managed by pre-agreed pathways, without full MDT review. There was a consensus that cases at the MDT meeting could be prioritised by complexity, tumour type, or the availability of MDT members. Splitting the MDT meeting was unpopular: potential disadvantages included loss of efficiency, loss of team approach, unavailability of members and increased administrative work. CONCLUSION: Key urology MDT members find the MDT meeting useful. Improvements in efficiency and effectiveness may be possible by prioritising cases or managing some low-risk cases according to previously agreed protocols. Further research is needed to test the effectiveness of such strategies on MDT meetings, cancer care pathways and patient outcomes in clinical practice.


text: Abstract : Diabetic macular edema (DME) is characterized by hard exudates. In this article, we propose a novel statistical atlas based method for segmentation of such exudates. Any test fundus image is first warped on the atlas co-ordinate and then a distance map is obtained with the mean atlas image. This leaves behind the candidate lesions. Post-processing schemes are introduced for final segmentation of the exudate. Experiments with the publicly available HEI-MED data-set shows good performance of the method. A lesion localization fraction of 82.5% at 35% of non-lesion localization fraction on the FROC curve is obtained. The method is also compared to few most recent reference methods.


Evaluating the importance of metamorphism in the foundering of continental crust
Timothy Chapman*, Geoffrey L. Clarke, Sandra Piazolo, Nathan R. Daczko
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The metamorphic conditions and mechanisms required to induce foundering in deep arc crust are assessed using an example of representative lower crust in SW New Zealand. Composite plutons of Cretaceous monzodiorite and gabbro were emplaced at ~1.2 and 1.8 GPa are parts of the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss (WFO); examples of the plutons are tectonically juxtaposed along a structure that excised ~25 km of crust. The 1.8 GPa Breaksea Orthogneiss includes suitably dense minor components (e.g. eclogite) capable of foundering at peak conditions. As the eclogite facies boundary has a positive dP/dT, cooling from supra-solidus conditions (T > 950 C) at high-P should be accompanied by omphacite and garnet growth. However, a high monzodioritic proportion and inefficient metamorphism in the Breaksea Orthogneiss resulted in its positive buoyancy and preservation. Metamorphic inefficiency and compositional relationships in the 1.2 GPa Malaspina Pluton meant it was never likely to have developed densities sufficiently high to founder. These relationships suggest that the deep arc crust must have primarily involved significant igneous accumulation of garnet-clinopyroxene (in proportions >75%). Crustal dismemberment with or without the development of extensional shear zones is proposed to have induced foundering of excised cumulate material at P > 1.2 GPa.
Original languageEnglish
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JournalScientific Reports
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input from each input modality channel as input. It realizes low-level data/events fusion, such as: Time alignment of all input channels, recognizing events in each input channel, identifying groups of events in different input channels that are possibly a multimodal command (e.g. events in different channels that happened at approximately the same time). This module outputs possible multimodal commands/actions to the interpreter to interpret their meaning.
4.2.2 Multimodal input interpreter
The Multimodal input interpreter has 2 inputs: groups of fused multimodal events and knowledge in HMI model, which is the updated status of all HMI components in the system (such as object currently under the cursor in navigation display or current state of navigation display in general)
It interprets meaning of fused multimodal events, for example, speech input "direct to" and touch input on a WPT form the command "direct to WPT". The module can be thought of as an expert system that produces responses based on a set of multimodal input rules. Those rules define possible meaningful combinations of multimodal events. If a group of multimodal events doesn't match any meaningful combination, it will be defined as an input error. The output of this module is pilot's intent interpreted as a command created from multimodal inputs, for example to divert to a certain waypoint.
This module plans adaptation strategy based on predefined rules, such as crew state adaptation rules, task distribution adaptation rules etc. This is a standalone module developed by another partner that is not connected to the Final Prototype. In the future, all adaptation rules should be provided by responsible partners. For example, if the crew cognitive load is high, high priority information needs to be output to a more salient modality (e.g. speech instead of display). Task distribution rules can shift certain tasks from crew to automation, thus the output needs to be adapted accordingly. The output of this module is adaptation strategy.
4.2.3 Multimodal output processor
The Multimodal output processor has the capability of handling following inputs: Command created from pilot's intent and HMI model – current status of all HMI components in the system.
Given pilot's intent, this module determines the output strategy based on multimodal output rules (predefined). Multimodal output rules define multimodal output strategies in a default standard situation. Output is created solely based on multimodal output rules.
4.3 Multimodal Navigation Display
The A-PiMod Multimodal Navigation Display (MM ND) is an early, low-maturity (TRL3) interactive software prototype of multifunctional ND with Human-Machine Interface (HMI) and philosophy based on Honeywell Interactive Navigation (INAV) legacy. The prototype has been developed on existing multifunctional ND prototyping platform that has traditional HMI controlled by Cursor Control Device (CCD) and Multifunctional Keyboard, (MKB) and extended with the support for speech and touch interaction.
4.3.1 Navigation display screen layout
The Navigation display screen layout contains the following elements: Lateral map, CCD position, Range (Zoom) ring with range value label, Ownship, Flight plan and pull-down menu containing the main map features and gives access to sub-menus to customize ND contents. The ND tool bar is permanently displayed at the top of the display.
4.3.2 Functions
The A-PiMod MM ND has the following functionality for Lateral map manipulation: moving map (MOVE), map rotation – display mode change (Heading-Up, North-Up, flexible 360°), map view change (Full, Vertical Situation Display (VSD), center map (CENTER) (cursor position, object – Ownship, Object: WPT, VOR, Airport), zoom map (ZOOM), map range change (zoom-in, zoom-out), displaying lateral map layers (Terrain, Airport, VORs, NDBs, Intersections, Hi Airways, Lo Airways, Term Airspace, Special Use, Traffic, VSA, Missed Approach, Obstacles, Cities, Roads, Minor Roads, Railroads) and displaying Weather (WX) radar.
The MM ND has the following functionality for Graphical Flight Panning (GFP): graphic representation of the flight plan, cross WPT (CROSS), hold over WPT (HOLD), direct to WPT (DIRECT TO), amend route from WPT (AMEND), delete WPT (DELETE), apply proposed GFP changes (APPLY) and activate Temporary Flight Plan (ACTIVATE)
4.3.3 Modalities
The prototype supports several input modalities, namely Multifunction Keyboard (MKB), Cursor Control Device (CCD), touch and speech. In general, the individual modalities support the following interaction patterns:
Cursor control device (CCD): pointing and selection (point-and-click paradigm), zooming the lateral map, moving map (with MKB), centering map, menu interaction, command invocation
Multifunction keyboard (MKB): entering values, switching modes of interaction, e.g. CCD mode for pointing and moving
Touch: Selection (tap), command invocation (tap), zooming the map (pinch-to-zoom), centering map, map rotation (rotate), moving map (pan), menu interaction
Speech: Entering values, selection (e.g. options), command invocation (when particularly supported), zooming the map, centering map, rotating the map (either north up or aircraft's heading up) and menu interaction
Speech interaction is triggered via push-to-command button and the system provides the response on the bottom part of the ND in white colour as a feedback to user about executed action; or error when command is not recognized. Speech can also be used cross-modally (as described below) for commands which require an object specification (e.g. WPT). In this case, the WPT may be selected via CCD.
4.3.4 Multimodal and cross-modal interaction
The concept behind the prototype is inherently multimodal. It means that the user is allowed to use any supported modality that is available at given situation. Furthermore, the user is allowed to switch between modalities within a function, if the function itself requires more than one step to be executed. In this case each step may be conducted via any supported modality.
Besides the MMI, the Final Prototype also supports cross-modal interaction. In a cross-modal interaction, the modalities can be combined within single utterance in contrast to MMI where modalities can be switched between individual steps. The current prototype supports cross-modal interaction in Command-object use case. It means that command and the object may be specified via different modalities. For instance for "DIRECT TO KPHX" utterance, DIRECT may be specified via speech or command line and KPHX may be selected via touch or CCD. However, there must be time linkage between the time frame of command and object specification. The object may either be specified before (any time after previous utterance), during or after the command specification (but no later than 10 seconds after the command specification).
However, usage of individual modalities or combination of modalities may be subject to specific changes according to particular function. Table 1 summarizes the list of the supported modalities.
4.4 Speech Recognizer
Speech Recognizer is a module capable of recognizing a trained set of phrases consisting of single or several words, pre-processing them and sending them to Interaction Manager for further processing.
Since the number of phrases is rather large, Speech Recognizer implements two approaches in order to increase the robustness against recognition error (recognizing some other word or phrase than was spoken by the user):
1. Use of multiple grammars – instead of using one large set of phrases that can contain many phrases with similar pronunciation, it is divided into several smaller (possibly overlapping) subsets what makes it easier for the speech engine to recognize
2. Filtering based on confidence level – Speech Recognizer provides a confidence (represented as a number) that tells, how much is it sure that recognized phrase is the same as the pronounced one. The lower this confidence the higher probability that pronounced and recognized phrases differ. Speech Recognizer can filter out recognized phrases with confidence level below specified threshold; this significantly lowers a possibility of sending to Interaction Manager a different command than that was pronounced.
The speech recognizer was evaluated multiple times, in Honeywell's multi-modal cockpit as well as in the project demonstrator during Validation Cycle II.
Experimental work was also conducted in the area of building a combined language-model & grammar-driven recognizer capable of processing free speech with embedded chunks corresponding to the recognition grammar.
Significant amount of work was done on accent classification (we prefer 'accent' rather than 'dialect' to denote variations of English), using bottle-neck DNN features and i-vector based scoring. Experimental results were produced on the Foreign Accented English database showing that this architecture is useable for accent detection and that the results correspond to linguistic intuition.
4.5 Gesture Recognition Algorithms
Technology for remote passive eye tracking and for 3D implicit gesture recognition has been developed. The technology processes input from camera(s) placed in the cockpit (simulator), records the data and processes it. The output in the case of eye tracking is the direction of the operator's gaze, tested on the task of missed event detection. In the case of 3D gesture recognition, the output consists of recognized implicit gestures of the pilot, as she is interacting with the cockpit.
Along with the development of the algorithms and technology, datasets for training and evaluation of the methods have been collected and annotated and made public along with publication of the results. The results have been published at the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference in the form of two papers dealing with the individual approaches. A summary article has been submitted to the IEEE Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and is currently under review.


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How to Cure an Ageing Barrel
To enjoy your aged spirits, you must first go through the process of barrel curing. If you don't cure the barrel you will not be able to use it. Curing is the process of soaking the wood so that it does not absorb your precious spirits during ageing. Having the wood absorb moisture will make it expand. The curing process helps to get rid of any gaps in the wood, and gives the hoops a tighter grip. When you first receive your barrel, you may notice small gaps in the staves, or loosened hoops. This is normal as changes in temperature and humidity will cause the wood to expand or shrink in transit. As our barrels are hand made in America, they have a long journey before reaching you. Do not nail or screw the hoops into place. This will damage your barrel. Before curing your barrel tightly insert the spigot using a rubber mallet.
What is Barrel Curing?
The curing process helps you identify leaks in your barrel. All barrels are made without any prolonged contact with moisture, so they are as far from ready as they can be. When you fill your barrel for the first time there will almost certainly be leaks.
How Long Does it Take to Cure a Barrel?
The curing process can take up to a week, but this is an essential part of barrel ageing. Each barrel is unique, as the wood from each tree is unique. There is no set time for the barrel curing process.
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Definition of Fetal pleural effusion
Fetal pleural effusion: In the fetus, excess fluid between the two membranes (the pleurae) that envelop the lungs. The pleural effusion may be unilateral (in one lung) or bilateral (in both lungs) and it may be an isolated finding in an otherwise normal fetus or be associated with generalized edema (hydrops). If untreated, fetal pleural effusion often causes severe, sometimes fatal, respiratory insufficiency in the neonatal period. Treatment is by the prenatal insertion of a thoracoamniotic shunt (to shunt the pleural effusion into the amniotic fluid). Survival after this procedure is over 90% in fetuses with isolated pleural effusion and about 50% in those with associated hydrops.
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1. Diameter of stove pipe elbow. When connecting different chimneys, the most important parameter is the diameter of the connecting part. Only accurate diameter can ensure the stability and safety of products.
2. Angle of stove pipe elbow. This product provides two angle models, one is 45 degrees and the other is 90 degrees.
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Costumes and Dress-up
Dressing up in costumes is a popular activity for children on Halloween. It is also a fun way for children to express their creativity and imagination on any other day of the year.
All costumes can burn when exposed to an open flame or other fire sources. Costumes sold in Canada must meet flammability requirements. Many children also like to dress up in their parents' clothes, but they should avoid dressing up in loose clothes since they present a higher flammability risk.
Health Canada reminds parents to:
- keep a close eye on children when they are playing dress-up
- avoid loose-fitting costumes and clothing
- use non-toxic make-up on children instead of masks - masks can be dangerous since they can make it hard to see
- keep lighters, cigarettes and matches out of the sight and reach of children
- keep children away from open flames
- teach children that if their clothing does catch fire, to "Stop, Drop, and Roll"
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Regenerating rural social space? Teacher education for rural-regional sustainability
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The complex interconnection among issues affecting rural-regional sustainability requires an equally complex program of research to ensure the attraction and retention of high-quality teachers for rural children. The educational effects of the construction of the rural within a deficit discourse are highlighted. A concept of rural social space is modelled, bringing together social, economic and environmental dimensions of (rural-regional) sustainability. This framework combines quantitative definitional processes with more situated definitions of rural space based on demographic and other social data, across both geographic and cultural formations. The Implications of the model are examined in terms of its importance for teacher education.
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怪しい ( = ayashii ) + 占い ( = uranai ) = fortune-telling
= Anata no mirai wo uranaimashou ka?
= Do you want me to read your future?
Today's word is 怪しい = あやしい= ayashii
It means suspicious, dubious, fishy or mysterious.
First, look at the picture above,
= Anata no mirai wo uranaimashou ka?
= Do you want me to read your future?
- 未来 = mirai = future
- 占う= uranai = to tell someone's fortune
Maggie sensei looks 怪しい= ayashii = suspicious, dubious
= ayashii uranaishi
= dubious or fishy fortune teller
If someone showed up like this in front of you, you might think,
= Ayashii!
= Fishy!
= Nanka kono mise ayashii ne.
= This store (restaurant, bar) looks shady somehow, isn't it?
(Note : 怪しい = ayashii often used with 何か = なんか = nanka = somehow)
= Kare nanka ayashii shoubai wo hajimeta mitai dayo.
= I heard he started some shady business.
We often react jokingly when we see someone or something suspicious.
= Ayashii!!
If you see two people out on a secret date, you could say
= Ano futari nanka ayashii!
= Those two look somewhat suspicious (They must be dating!)
= Maggie saikin chotto ayashii yo! Dareka to tsukiatterun ja nai?
= Maggie, you look very suspicious lately. You going out with someone, aren't you?
In a detective show, police often ask people,
Ex. 「この辺で怪しい人をみかけませんでしたか？」
= Kono hen de ayashii hito wo mikakemasen deshitaka?
= Didn't you see anybody suspicious around here?
When you refer to something questionable.
Ex. 「マギー先生、宿題をやりましたが、文章の作り方がまだ怪しいです。」
= Maggie Sensei shukudai wo yarimashitaga bunshou no tsukurikata ga mada ayashii desu.
= Maggie Sensei, I have done my homework, but I still don't get how to make sentences.
= Kumoyuki ga ayashii.
= Cloudy with a chance of rain
You can say this line when you see it is getting cloudy and it looks like its going to rain sometime soon
= Chotto kumoyuki ga ayashiku natte ktiayo.
= It looks like it is going to rain.
or some situation has taking a dark turn or things are not looking good. It's a bit of a dramatic phrase,but you will hear/see this in certain situation.
Ex. どうやら雲行きが少し怪しくなってきたようだ。
= Douyara kumoyuki ga sukoshi ayashiku natte kita you da.
= It seems like the situation is getting a little questionable.
Ex. 「あの二人、最近、ちょっと雲行きがあやしいみたいだね。
= Ano futari saikin chotto kumoyuki ga ayashii mitai dane.
= It seems like they（those two) have not been getting along lately.
:ee: 占い = uranai = fortune-telling
So do you believe in 占い = uranai = fortune-telling?
I can't tell you the percentage, but many Japanese people do believe in fortune telling to some extent.
Some of you might have seen my superstitious lessons before.
迷信( = meishin) & 縁起( = engi) Japanese superstitions
Japanese people could be very superstitious.
Many magazines have 占い = uranai = fortune-telling section.
And there are a lot of places where you can have your fortune read.
占い師 = uranaishi =a fortune teller
占いが当たる = uranai ga ataru = accurate fortune-telling
占いが外れる= uranai ga hazureru = inaccurate fortune-telling
I will give you a list of main stream fortune-telling related vocabulary in Japanese.
星占い = hoshiuranai = Astrology
the one which came from Western world is called 西洋占星術 = seiyou senseijutsu = Western Astrology
!star! ホロスコープ = horosukoupu = Horoscope
牡羊座 = ohitsujiza= Aries
牡牛座 = oushiza = Taurus
双子座 = futagoza= Gemini
蟹座 = kaniza= Cancer
獅子座 = shishiza= Leo
乙女座 = otomeza= Virgo
天秤座 = tenbinza= Libra
蠍座 = sasoriza= Scorpio
射手座= iteza = Sagittarius
山羊座 = yagiza= Capricorn
水瓶座 = mizugameza= Aquarius
魚座 = uoza= Pisces
Ex. 牡羊座生まれ = ohitujiza umare = Arian
四柱推命 = Shichuu suimei=Four Pillar astrology, fortune-telling based on the time
タロット占い = Tarrotto uranai = fortune-telling
風水 = fuusui = feng shui
Not so many but some people are trying to adopt some of the feng shui ideas in their lives.
Like owning a yellow wallet will bring you fortune. Or having something yellow in the east direction brings you fortune,etc.
血液型占い= ketsuekigata uranai = fortune telling based on one's blood type
This is another popular one. You can check out my 血液型 = ketsuekigata = Blood type lesson.
手相= tesou = palm reading
Ex. 手相をみてもらう。
= tesou wo mite morau
= to have someone read your palm
:rrrr: The main lines:
感情線 = kanjousen = emotion line, heart line
運命線 =unmeisen = destiny line
生命線 =seimeisen = life line
Ex. 「わっ！マギーの生命線長いね！長生きするよ！」
= Wah! Maggie no seimeisen nagai ne! Nagaiki suruyo!
= Wow! Your life line is long, Maggie. You are going to have a long life!
頭脳線 = chinousen = brain line
結婚線 = kekkonsen = marriage line
姓名判断= seimei handan = fortune-telling based on the writing or pronunciation of one's name.
Many parents give a name to their baby based on this type of fortune-telling. They count the stroke of the kanji and sum it up and see the balance with the family name.
Thus when woman get married in Japan they change their family name. So their luck also changes according to this fortune-telling. Since we can't change their name on the official family registration easily, they just change the name in daily use to avoid the bad luck.
!star! Other fortune-telling related words:
運勢 = unsei = luck
Ex. 運勢をみてもらう
= Unsei wo mite morau
= to have someone read your fortune
いい運勢 = ii unsei = good fortune
:rrrr: 運勢がいい = unsei ga ii = to have a good fortune
悪い運勢 = warui unsei = bad fortune
:rrrr: 運勢が悪い = unsei ga warui = to have bad fortune
Ex. 運勢が上がる = unsei ga agaru = fortune improves
Ex. 運勢が下がる = unsei ga sagaru = fortune declines
運命= unmei = destiny
In fortune-telling, we often use these words.
:w: 〜運 = うん = ~ un = fortune/luck for ~
Ex. 私は男運が悪い。
= Watashi wa otokoun ga warui.
= I have bad luck when it comes to men.
結婚運 = kekkonun = marriage prediction
恋愛運 = reiaiun = luck in love
Ex. 私は恋愛運がいい。
= Watashi wa reiaiun ga ii.
= I am lucky in love.
仕事運 = shigoto un = luck in career
金運 = kinun = luck in money
全体運 = zentaiun = general luck
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BEC Vantage Speaking part 2. Unit 5.
People and workplaces
В данном уроке дана лексика на тему People and workplaces. После ознакомления с лексическими единицами Вы приступаете к выполению заданий BEC Vantage Speaking part 2, применяя представленный вокабуляр как в монологической части ( презентации), так и в ответах на представленные вопросы.
A Employees and management
management –
 - the activity or skill of directing and controlling the work of a company or organization, or part of it
 - – the people who are in charge of a particular company or organization at different levels, rather than ordinary employees
 1. Workforcethe force of workers available employee a worker who is hired to perform a job personnel - The people who work for a company or organization
 2. white-collarworkers term applied to workers in offices and other non-production phases of industry manual /
 3. blue collar worker - a member of the working class who typically performs manual labor and earns an hourly wage
payroll -
 - - a list of employees and their salaries
 - - the total amount of money paid in wages
 - - the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee
 1. Staffpersonnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task shop floor place in a factory where the production lines are
B Management and administration
 1. office - a room or other area in which people work
 2. siteslocations
 3. headquarters -head office
 4. open-plan offices - large areas where many people work
 5. administration - the ordinary work supporting a company's activities
 6. support staffadministrative staff
 7. technical support - giving help to customers over the phone
C Labour
 1. labour = everyone except the management who works for a company
 2. labour costs - what companies have to pay for labour
 3. labour dispute - a disagreement between management and labour
 4. labour leader - someone in charge of an organization that represents workers
 5. labour relations - the relationship between management and employees in general
 6. labour shortage - a period when there are not enough people available to work
 7. labour unrest - a period of disagreement between management and employees
 8. labour unions - defend the interest of workers trade unions
 9. strike, stoppage, walkoutworkers stop working for a time
 10. a go-slow - workers continue to work, but more slowly than usual
 11. overtime ban - workers refuse to work more than the normal number of hours
D Personnel and HRM
 1. human resource-
 - a department in larger organizations that deals with pay, department (HRD) recruitment etc.
 - human resources - (HR) human resource management (HRM) or personnel department
Examples of Topics
In this part of the test, you are asked to give a short talk on a business topic. You have to choose one of the topics from the three below and then talk for about one minute. You have one minute to prepare your ideas.
11. What is important in a workplace?
 - · Defined Leadership
 - · Goals
 - · Communication
 - · Ethics
2. What is important working in an office?
 - Teamwork
 - Respect
 - Culture
Examples of Questions
Briefly answer your partner's questions.
 1. Do you consider yourself to be a team player?
 2. What role should management play for the workforce? (workforce management) – управление персоналом.
 3. What is the main function of the support staff?
 4. What is the difference between white color workers and blue color workers?
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A new study in Psychological Review suggests that we store our memories in patches and move between them in the same way that bees move between flowers. To improve your memory recall, you need to know when it's best to move from one patch to another.
We've talked about building a memory palace to improve your memory and this strategy takes a similar approach without all the work. Researcher Thomas Hills describes the process:
When faced with a memory task, we focus on specific clusters of information and jump between them like a bird between bushes. For example, when hunting for animals in memory, most people start with a patch of household pets-like dog, cat and hamster. But then as this patch becomes depleted, they look elsewhere.
The study found that the key to improving recall was knowing when to jump from one patch of information to another. If you stay too long or not long enough, you won't be able to recall the information. Basically, if you're trying to remember something and you take your mind to one patch of memories and don't find it, move on to another when you've finished foraging.
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Deposit feeding is one of five feeding modes used by organisms to obtain food, the others being fluid feeding, filter feeding, bulk feeding, and phagocytosis. Deposit feeders obtain food particles by sifting through soil, vaguely analogous to the way that filter feeders get food by filtering water. Prominent examples are earthworms, other annelids such as polychaete worms, and fiddler crabs. Insects and their larvae, which may burrow through living or dead plants and animals, or feces, are also considered deposit feeders.
Deposit feeding is a feeding strategy that only works in fertile areas with a lot of preexisting life. The top layer of soil is targeted, typically within six inches of the surface, as this is the soil most likely to contain food particles that haven't been completely broken down yet. Biologists call these food particles detritus. After detritus has been broken down to a chemically neutral state, it becomes known as humus. Humus has a black color due to its high carbon content.
Among deposit feeders, precise strategies vary. Earthworms are unique animals in the world of deposit feeding, and in general, by having an oral cavity that connects directly to their digestive system without any intermediary. Lauded for their benefits to the soil, of earthworms, Charles Darwin wrote, "It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures." By breaking detritus into humus, breaking soil down into tiny pieces that maximize available nitrogen and phosphates for plants, and aerating the ground by poking it full of tunnels, earthworms have a trifold benefit for the earth and its plants.
Besides earthworms, terrestrial deposit feeding is practiced by fiddler crabs. These crabs pick up little balls of dirt, reach them to their mouths, and pick out any edible material, including colonies of microbes. Then, the spheres are discarded as quickly as they were picked up. These little dirt spheres can be found wherever fiddler crabs dwell.
There are marine species that practice deposit feeding as well, which burrow through the ooze on the ocean floor. These include polychaete worms, some bivalves, and giant protozoa called xenophyophores. Marine deposit feeders are more poorly understood due to their remote location and fragility when brought to the surface.
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Sunday, March 21, 2021
A Virtual Photography Exhibit
by The Ground Glass
The Ground Glass, a Westchester-based association of fine art photographers, will be hosting "ABSTRACTIONS" a virtual photography exhibit by members.
Abstract photography is depiction of a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world. The abstract image may be produced using traditional photographic equipment such as a camera or, by more contemporary means, with a computer. In other cases, it may be created by manipulating film, photographic paper or materials in the darkroom.
An abstract photograph may isolate a fragment of a given environment in order to disguise its inherent context from the viewer or it may be staged to create a seemingly unreal appearance from real objects. The image may also use color, light, shadow, texture, shape or form to convey the feeling or impression intended by the artist.
may be viewed on The Ground Glass Website:
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photo credit: Ruth Raskin
Event Location and Ticket Information
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2021
Times: All Day
Presenter: The Ground Glass
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Integrating local communities for the sustainable management of the Suchiate and Coatán river basins
The "Integrated Management of the river basins in connection to the Tacaná volcano", also known as the "Tacaná Project", is carrying out work in the Suchiate and Coatán river basins starting from 14 different pilot projects. All these rather diverse projects comply with the search for a sustainable use and provision of natural resources, especially water, by applying the ecosystem approach to the integrated management of catchments.
The most remarkable activities of the Tacaná project stem from local experiences which were successfully developed, e.g. effective showcases, high-level participation within the community, increasing participation of women, excellent progress with respect to coordination, signing of agreements and/or conventions with municipal authorities and other governmental and nongovernmental institutions upon how to technically and financially cooperate with the Project through strategic partnerships.
Seeking a new model for managing risk in the Cahocán river basin
After the devastating effects of Hurricane Stan over the coastal region and border areas of Chiapas State, the urgency of initiating a project to reduce vulnerability and mitigate the impacts resulting from extreme weather became evident. For the above reasons, the Cahocán project aims to:
- Conserve and restore the natural channels and water infiltration areas of micro-river shores within the Cahoacán basin as so to prevent spillovers and floods.
- Propel the development of alternative patterns of production in the critical areas of the Cahoacán river basin, thus contributing to water retention and curbing erosion.
- Facilitate and support social organizations and local authorities to jointly prepare precipitation-driven disaster prevention plans.
- Control and reduce the modalities according to which the channels within the Cahoacán river basin are contaminated.
- Establish financing mechanisms which may assure that the actions described above are continued.
Lachuá Lagoon Project
The Lachuá Lagoon National Park Conservation project in Guatemala sets out to conserve the natural resources contained in the national park at issue and to promote the sustainable use of it. Not only it aims to protect the ecological potential in its whole zone of influence, but also to improve local settlers' life conditions through sustainable development projects.
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10 steps to creating a scrolling Excel chart
When you have too many data points to display in a dashboard chart, add a scroll bar so users can still view all the data.
Sometimes a chart's underlying data doesn't fit in the chart window. When this happens, Excel tries to accommodate by shaving off a few values. You can make the chart bigger, but that won't always be feasible, especially in a dashboard sheet. Besides, you might have more points than even a large window can display. When this is the case, you can add a scroll bar that lets the user scroll through the data. While I've seen some complex techniques for employing this solution, my technique requires just 10 quick and easy steps.
Note: In step 10, I insert a column to center the dashboard components. Doing so changes many of the referenced cells and ranges throughout the first nine steps. If you're working with the downloadable demo, don't let those differences confuse you -- they'll all be off by one column.
1: Determine your needs
The data in the sheet named Scrolling Chart has a record for each month, beginning with January 31, 2010, and ending with September 30, 2012. Unfortunately, there are more points than the chart can display (Figure A).
Figure A
This simple line chart compensates for the numerous points by inhibiting the display of some of them.
To generate the chart, select the data, click the Insert tab, click the Line option in the Charts group, and select the first (and simplest) option. In Excel 2003, choose Chart from the Insert menu. We won't actually use this graph, but it's wise to create a default chart so you can see how well the chart window will accommodate the data.
2: Add the scroll bar control
After you know the size of your chart window, embed a scroll bar into the dashboard sheet. You could work in the same sheet as the data, but because we're simulating a dashboard environment, we'll work on a new sheet called Dashboard. To generate the chart, click the Developer tab and choose Scroll Bar Form Control from the Insert Controls option in the Controls group. In Excel 2003, this control is on the Forms toolbar. Drag the scroll bar to size it. The position isn't important right now -- you can move it later.
If the Developer tab isn't visible, click the File tab (the Office button in Excel 2007). Then, choose Options in the left pane or Excel Options, respectively. In the left pane, choose Customize Ribbon. Select Developer in the Main Tabs list to the right and click OK. In Excel 2007, select Show Developer Tab In The Ribbon and click OK.
3: Set the scroll bar's properties
Properties determine the scroll bar's behavior, so click Properties in the Controls group and set them as shown in Figure B. Right-click the 2003 control to access its properties. Then, click OK to return to the sheet. These settings determine how the control behaves:
 - Current Value: 1 -- Stores the control's current value; 1 is an anchoring value.
 - Minimum Value: 1 -- The control's first value.
 - Maximum Value: 33 -- Initially, use the number of records in your data range.
 - Incremental Change: 1 -- This is the number of data points the scroll bar will scroll with each click (increasing or decreasing the current value).
 - Page Change: This represents the number of data points displayed. Because we're displaying monthly values, 12 seems appropriate.
 - Cell Link: B1 -- Use any empty cell you like. This cell will store the control's current value.
Figure B
Customize these settings to accommodate your data.
To see how the scroll bar works, move the thumb or click the arrows and watch the value in the linked cell (B1) change.
4: Generate the charted data
The easiest way to display a subset of data in a chart is to create a subset of data. Because we're viewing monthly values, displaying 12 points at a time seems reasonable. We'll use a matrix of INDEX() functions to create the subset. First, copy the heading labels from the data range to the Dashboard sheet. Then, in the top-left corner of the subset table (Dashboard!A4 in our example) enter the following function:
=INDEX('Scrolling chart'!A2:A34,$B$1)
The first argument references the first column of data (don't reference the header cell). The second argument references the scroll bar's linked cell on the dashboard sheet.
5: Copy the formulas
After entering the anchor formula, copy it to column B. Then, copy the formulas in cells A4:B4 to A5:B15. Figure C shows the results: a matrix that comprises the first 12 rows of data in the original data range.
Figure C
With the scroll bar's value set to 1, the matrix displays the first 12 rows of data.
6: Spot a problem!
At this point, you can use the scroll bar control to update the matrix values and subsequently, the chart. For instance, click the right arrow five times and the matrix displays rows 6 through 18 instead of rows 2 through 13. As you click the control's arrows, the value in the linked cell (B2) changes, updating the second argument in the INDEX() functions.
Figure D shows what happens when you move the scroll bar to the far right -- you get several rows of invalid data. You can't let the scroll bar display the last record as the first row of data in the matrix. Instead, the last available view should display the last 12 records (rows 23 through 34).
Figure D
The scroll bar goes too far.
7: Tweak a property
Fortunately, the fix is easy. Right-click the scroll bar and choose Format Control from the resulting submenu. Change the Maximum Value property to 22 and click OK. Now, the last possible view displays the last 12 rows of data, as shown in Figure E. If you add or delete records, you must update this property by increasing or reducing the setting by the number of records you add or delete.
Figure E
The matrix should always display 12 valid records.
8: Chart the matrix
Instead of charting the original data range, you chart the matrix on the Dashboard page. To do so, select the matrix range -- A3:B15 -- and use the instructions in step 1 to embed a line chart in the Dashboard sheet, as shown in Figure F. Remember, the matrix doesn't have to be next to the chart. I'm doing so to simplify the example, but you can display both or just the chart on your dashboard.
Figure F
The chart displays the matrix, not the original data range.
9: Use the scroll bar
With the pieces in place, use the scroll bar to update the chart. To do so, click the arrows or drag the thumb. As shown in Figure G, the matrix and the chart both adjust appropriately.
Figure G
The chart displays the matrix values, which change as you manipulate the scroll bar.
10: Add a bit of polish
The technique is now complete, but you'll want to position and format the chart and the scroll bar advantageously. You might have noticed that the horizontal axis isn't displaying the actual dates from column A. If that matters, fix it as follows:
 1. Right-click the horizontal axis and choose Format Axis.
 2. Under Axis Type (in the Axis Options pane, which should be the default), click the Text Axis option.
 3. Click OK.
You might consider enlarging the control's width to match the chart. I also inserted a new column to the left of the matrix to center the components a bit. (As I noted earlier, this means that the referenced cells throughout this article won't match the downloadable demo.) In addition, you might want to inhibit the sheet visuals by clicking the View tab and unchecking the Gridlines, Formula Bar, and Headings options in the Show group.
Finally, protect the sheet contents as follows:
 1. Right-click B1, the linked cell that stores the scroll bar's current value, and choose Format Cells.
 2. On the Protection tab, uncheck Locked.
 3. From the Format drop-down in the Cells group (on the Home tab), choose Protect Sheet.
 4. Select only the Select Unlocked Cells option and click OK. (Enter a password if you like.)
After protecting the sheet, shown in Figure H, the only thing you can select is the scroll bar.
Figure H
Polish the sheet to make it a bit more dashboard-like -- and don't forget to protect the sheet.
Yes, you can. You can, even, embed the scroll bar within the graph. There are out there other tips and tricks about excel graphs like showing/hiding data series regarding the check-boxes you checked/unchecked for instance. There are a few books about excel graphs that deserves to be red. ITWare2008
I didn't realise that you could use graphs with controls. Nice tip. :)
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Come With Me on a Plastic Carpet Ride!
Cities are often littered with trash and plastics on every street corner. The haphazard candy wrapper, bottle, or plastic bag blowing in the wind creates eyesores for locals and tourists alike. But what is the litter situation in the desert? You won't find too much garbage where there aren't any people, that is unless it's a piece of plastic artwork.
Dutch collective, WE MAKE CARPETS, was recently commissioned by the Taragalte Festival in southern Morocco to turn ordinary plastics into a magic carpet piece of artwork. The Taragalte Festival is a yearly event that brings together the cultural exchange and sustainable development through tourism in the region. The focus of this year's November program was women's creativity and everyday life in the desert.
Moroccan carpets date back centuries and these tapestries that were once used for protection against cold weather are now also used for conveying local folklore, symbolism, and weaving techniques in their design. However, one temporary, contemporary "rug" on display this year was made out of a different kind of material: plastics.
Made of plastic bottles of different colors, shapes, and sizes, the bottle carpet is exquisitely designed into intricate patterns allowing viewers to see the waste in a different light.
In a modern society where plastic bags and bottles are gaining more attention to become more environmentally friendly, the festival made an attempt to show patrons that while some Moroccans are beginning to understand the importance of proper waste management, the lack of recycling infrastructure and proper education has left much of North African behind the times.
Plastic bottles not only clog waterways but can leaching harmful toxins into the ground and endangering wildlife. They also make up a large percentage of the litter and pollution we see along roadways and rivers.
Turning plastic trash into a treasure that looks like a carpet helps to convey the notion that all materials are both precious and valuable, especially when every carpet has a story to tell about one particular aspect of Morocco culture and her people. In a nation with nomadic desert people, the plastic art installation is sure to inspire patrons and create discussion over the abundance of plastics and what can be done to minimize plastic waste.
Read more at Green Prophet.
Plastic Carpet image courtesy of WE MAKE CARPETS.


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Propagation in Cylindrical Inset Dielectric Guide Structures
The inset dielectric guide (IDG) is just a rectangular groove filled with dielectric, which retains many of the advantages of dielectric guides, without fabrication and loss problems. Quasi-planar IDGs are attractive for applications in microwave and millimeter-wave frequency ranges, as they can be used as low loss and low cost transmission lines, directional couplers, nonreciprocal phase shifters, antennas and other devices. In this paper we address circular IDG-type structures, investigating hybrid wave propagation in single microslot lines loaded with semi-circular dielectric cylinders. The analysis is based on systems of singular integral-integrodifferential equations of the first kind. The proposed algorithms are rapidly convergent, yielding very accurate results for the propagation constants and for the modal equivalent magnetic currents of the principal as well as the higher-order modes.
KeywordsPropagation Constant High Order Mode Magnetic Current Perfect Electric Conductor Moment Method Basis
This work is co-funded by the European Social Fund (ΕΚΤ) with 75% and National Resources (Greek Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs) with 25% under the ΕΠΕΑΕΚ project "Archimedes – Support of Research Groups in TEI of Crete – 2.2.-7 – Smart antenna study and design using techniques of computational electromagnetics and pilot development and operation of a digital audio broadcasting station at Chania (SMART-DAB)".
Also, the author would like to thank Prof. John L. Tsalamengas and Ass. Prof. George Fikioris, of the National Technical University of Athens, for their helpful discussions and insightful comments.
- 7.Vardiambasis IO, Tsalamengas JL, Fikioris JG (1998) Hybrid wave propagation in microslot lines loaded with dielectric semi-cylinders. In: 1998 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory Proceedings 1:163–165Google Scholar


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My first project during my bachelor in Digital Design at Aarhus University.
We were given a task
Design a phone that can not use Apple's patents.
Find alternatives to:
- Swipe to answer or reject a phone call
- Rectangular shape with rounded corners
You should be able to:
- Answer and reject a phone up
- Lock and unlock screen
- Zoom in on an image and / or text
- And the phone must of course be practical ift pockets, bags, hands etc.
- You must choose at least two of the above four points in your answer.
The assignment must include:
- Examine how people operate their smartphone (it has to do with its interface)
- Examine how people take their smartphone with them (it has to do with its shape)
- Explore what problems people have had with the operation. It may have to do with the interface, with the shape or with a certain environment / conditions (rain, wind, cold, heat, bags in both hands on the bike etc)
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Asger Bruun Hansen


text: Second graders have spent a couple of weeks now (I see them every day) on art of Central and South America. Here, we learned about the Chilean Rainsticks that the Aztecs used to "summon the rain." Students constructed rainsticks out of paper towel holders. They put tin foil inside the paper towel roll to slow the flow of the beads inside. This mimics the cacti needles that are punctured into the authentic rainsticks. I let them "have at it" with all of my craft stuff. They loved it!!!