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In addition to the above parameters, the SRM agent supports additional configuration variables. Each of the variables described in this section is both an OTcl class variable and an OTcl object's instance variable. Changing the class variable changes the default value for all agents that are created subsequently. Changing the instance variable of a particular agent only affects the values used by that agent. For example,
Agent/SRM set D1_ 2.0 # Changes the class variable; $srm set D1_ 2.0 # Changes D1_ for the particular $srm object only;
The default request and repair timer parameters for each SRM agent are:
Agent/SRM set C1_ 2.0 # request parameters; Agent/SRM set C2_ 2.0 Agent/SRM set D1_ 1.0 # repair parameters; Agent/SRM set D2_ 1.0It is thus possible to trivially obtain two flavors of SRM agents based on whether the agents use probabilistic or deterministic suppression by using the following definitions:
Class Agent/SRM/Deterministic -superclass Agent/SRM Agent/SRM/Deterministic set C2_ 0.0 Agent/SRM/Deterministic set D2_ 0.0 Class Agent/SRM/Probabilistic -superclass Agent/SRM Agent/SRM/Probabilistic set C1_ 0.0 Agent/SRM/Probabilistic set D1_ 0.0In a later sectionSectionsec:extensions, we will discuss other ways of extending the SRM agent.
Timer related functions are handled by separate objects belonging to the class SRM. Timers are required for loss recovery and sending periodic session messages. There are loss recovery objects to send request and repair messages. The agent creates a separate request or repair object to handle each loss. In contrast, the agent only creates one session object to send periodic session messages. The default classes the express each of these functions are:
Agent/SRM set requestFunction_ "SRM/request" Agent/SRM set repairFunction_ "SRM/repair" Agent/SRM set sessionFunction_ "SRM/session" Agent/SRM set requestBackoffLimit_ 5 # parameter to requestFunction_; Agent/SRM set sessionDelay_ 1.0 # parameter to sessionFunction_;The instance procedures requestFunction../ns-/srm.tclAgent/SRM::requestFunction, repairFunction../ns-/srm.tclAgent/SRM::repairFunction, and sessionFunction../ns-/srm.tclAgent/SRM::sessionFunction can be used to change the default function for individual agents. The last two lines are specific parameters used by the request and session objects. The following sectionSectionsec:architecture describes the implementation of theses objects in greater detail.
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The Step by Step Settlement Service(funded under the Settlement Engagement and Transition Support Service) provides holistic support for newly arrived refugees and migrants in their first five years in Australia, to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify, understand and to address their settlement needs.
It is a partnership of 3 agencies, bringing together the specialist experience and resources of MercyCare (Lead Agency), Save the Children and Edmund Rice Centre of WA. Our staff are based at offices in Brewer Place, Mirrabooka, and come from a range of multicultural backgrounds, enabling them to easily understand and cater to the needs of service users
The Step by Step Settlement Service provides individuals and families with high-quality individual casework and access to group classes/forums to address issues arising during their settlement experience. The priority supports provided by this service are:
Support to improve English language skills:
- Reviewing their progress towards English language proficiency goals with the Adult Migrants English Program (AMEP)
- Providing additional support as required via AMEP's more intensive Extend/Special Preparatory Programs, or local community conversational classes.
- Linking them to ERC's 'Language for Living in Australia' program which provides English language and literacy practice focused on common settlement issues.
- Connecting them to StC's Live and Learn program which provides weekly support to students with ENGLISH practice & homework.
- Participation in StC's life skills classes for women
Support engagement with education by:
- Connecting them into vocational training courses
- Assising them to enrol in TAFE, university, or a registered training organisation
- Referring them to the WA Department of Training & Workforce Development or Trades Recognition Australia to transfer overseas skills
- Supporting women with young children to access early childhood education opportunities through kindergarten, playgroups, community education programs and enrolment in school
- Engaging women with children in Save the Children's facilitated playgroup program Play2Learn
Build employment readiness by:
- Assisting to develop workplace ENGLISH
- Leveraging MercyCare's CaLD Job & Skills Training Centre expertise, employer networks & practical skills training programs
- Referring entrepreneurs to specialist migrant business support networks
- Offering a place on ERC's Driver Education Program (the only new arrivals-focused road safety learner driver program in WA)
- Sourcing work & volunteering options including within our consortium's services in childcare, aged care, community services, administration & retail;
- Offering subsidised places at MercyCare's early learning centres to boost workforce participation
- Where appropriate, referring them to JobActive
- Providing support if appropriate during the first stages of a job to ensure its sustainability
The service will run the following group classes/forums:
- "Conversations for Life" Classes, a range of classes run several times a week catering to different English competency levels, providing a relaxed place to practice practical English
- Women's Life Skills classes, providing a safe environment for women to practice their English while learning new skills, developing confidence and strengthening social networks;
- Early Childhood education program Play2Learn,providing children aged 0 to 5 and their mothers with a quality early-learning program to support a smooth transition to the Australian school system and the attainment of early childhood milestones
- Employment Readiness Workshops, including developing a resume, preparing for interviews, how to look for and find job opportunities, the hidden job market etc
- Computer classes, to build computer proficiency for job search and office work
- Learning to Drive, group classes
Focus on Youth
The Step by Step Service will also have a strong focus on supporting youth,
With Employment Assistance:
- Education and employment support, including access to the above listed group activities open to all ages
- Access to volunteering, work placements and internships to improve employment prospects
- Creating career plans to capture future goals and directions
- Support with navigating and understanding how to access Australia's education and employment system
To access Edmund Rice Centre's range of youth programs:
- Leadership and life skills development programs
Permanent residents who have arrived in Australia in the last five years and live in the Perth north metropolitan area, such as:
- humanitarian entrants
- family stream migrants with low English proficiency
- dependents of skilled migrants and their dependents in rural and regional areas with low English proficiency
- selected other stream visas (Former Resident and Referred Stay (Permanent)
This Settlement Service Programme is funded by the Department of Social Services.
MercyCare is part of the Unity Employment Network which connects WA employers with jobseekers from asylum seeker, refugee and new migrant backgrounds. Find out more about the Unity Employment Network here.
As employers, there are many opportunities to support access to employment for people from a refugee or asylum seeker background. We have a helpful Guide for WA Employers and our team at Unity Employment Network would be happy to answer any questions you have - _EMAIL_

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Confucius Institutes come under scrutiny; MSU institute responds
Jun 30, 2014
As the importance of China's influence grows, so does the need for people who understand Chinese culture and the Chinese language. To foster that sort of understanding, universities across the United States, including Michigan State University, have established Confucius Institutes.
Host universities like MSU work with the Chinese education agency Hanban to train teachers from the U.S. and China to promote Chinese language learning.
In a recent report, though, the American Association of University Professors called on schools to either scrap their partnerships or renegotiate them. The AAUP says these arrangements lack transparency and put academic freedom at risk.
Current State spoke with Joerg Tiede of the AAUP, along with Nancy Romig and Ruhui Ni, associate directors of MSU's Confucius Institute.


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While processing a request, the WebLogic application server manages a stack of users. The last user pushed on the stack is the user that is currently active - calls to further EJBs will automatically run as this user. When creating a new InitialContext with a principal, WebLogic pushes it on the stack and the principal provided becomes the active user. It remains active until the InitialContext is closed (or the request processing finishes). This behavior paves the way for very unpleasant situations that I will try to explain based on the following test setup.
We have a JAX-WS web-service packaged in an EJB3 application invoking local and remote EJB2 beans after looking them up in the respective JNDI trees. This is shown in the sequence diagram below:
1. A consumer invokes the web-service. We have secured the web-service using WebLogic security configuration which requires HTTP basic authentication and checks the user against the users available in its realm. If the authentication succeeds, the FacadeJaxWs is executed as the authenticated user. In this example I will call the user ws_user.
2. FacadeJaxWs uses JNDI (with URL, principal backend_user and their credentials) to lookup the remote home interface of the BackendEjb EJB2 bean (hosted in a different domain), create the EJB stub and invoke a method on it.
3. The BackendEjb processes the request. Depending on what exactly this EJB does we might run into problems as described later.
5. FacadeJaxWs uses JNDI (without URL and credentials) to lookup the remote home interface of a BackendEjb EJB2 bean, collocated on the same managed server in a different EAR. As in the Backend case it creates a remote stub and invokes a method on it
6. FrontendEjb processes the request. Depending on what exactly this EJB does, we might run into further problems as described later
Depending on when and if at all the FacadeJaxWs closes the initial context when invoking the BackendEjb, a security exception can be thrown in different places.
Variant 1 - FacadeJaxWs does not close the InitialContext at allThis seems to be the usual thing a developer does. This is depicted in the code below:
With this code we have laid a mine - if the processInFrontend method does not call any further EJBs, the code will work without problems. If, however, the processInFrontend method tries to invoke another (local) EJB2 using the standard IntialContext mechanism, we will get an exception like this:
java.lang.SecurityException: [Security:090398]Invalid Subject: principals=[backend_user]
As you can imagine, this is extremely unpleasant, as it will not cause any problems (the mine will lay dormant) until another developer comes in and extends the processInFrontend method to call another EJB. Then the mine will go off and will catch the developer by surprise - something that they have done many times (calling an EJB from another EJB using InitialContext lookup) suddenly does not work in that specific situation. With the WebLogic JNDI knowledge from above, there is a good explanation for that - line 13 pushes the backend_user on the user stack and it becomes the active user. Any new EJB invokations will run as this user which is not really known in this domain. Note that using _USER_ to inject the FrontendEjbHome somehow worsens the situation, as the JNDI lookup is done much earlier (with the correct user) and we do not run into the problem in all cases.
Variant 2 - FacadeJaxWs closes the InitialContext before invoking the actual remote EJB methodThis variant is depicted by the code below:
In this variant we try to close the InitialContext right after looking up the remote home interface of the EJB - we might have an utility class to lookup, narrow and return remote home interfaces and close the initial context right after that. Unfortunately, this will not work and will cause another security exception like this:
java.lang.SecurityException: [Security:090398]Invalid Subject: principals=[ws_user]
This exception is actually thrown by the Backend managed server when we try to create the remote stub using the remote home interface on line 16. This is a much better situation than the previous variant, as we will always run into the exception (note: it does not seem to happen in EJB2 code). The explanation also comes easy - closing the context on line 15, pops the backend_user from the stack and the active user again becomes the ws_user. This user, however, is not known in the backend domain and thus the exception is thrown.
Variant 3 - FacadeJaxWs closes the InitialContext in a finally block after invoking the remote EJB methodFinally we get to the correct usage of InitialContext - we close it after invoking the actual business method like this:
This time we call the business method right after creating the initial context - this allows for the method to run in the context of the backend_user. Only after we have finished our interactions with the backend EJB, do we close the context (on line 21), switching back to the ws_user and executing the FrontendEjb as a user that is known in its WebLogic domain.


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Convert degree to milliradian
Selected category: angle.
Definition and details for degree:
Degree (deg) unit was introduced by the Greek geometer Hipparchus of Nicaea (ca. 180-ca. 125 BC), who developed the first trigonometric tables. This is the standard unit of angle measure, equal to 1/360 circle, 60 minutes, 3600 seconds.
Definition and details for milliradian:
Milliradian (mrad) is a unit of angle measurement equal to 0.001 radian.


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The best and quickest discussions of a scientific paper now sometimes happen in science blogs rather than in the peer-reviewed literature. Whereas we have a number of scholarly databases that track citations between papers, we don't have the same tools for science blogs. Following all science blogs manually has simply become impossible (unless your first name is Bora). This makes it difficult to find all blog posts about a particular paper - either for proper discussion of an article or for doing automated article-level metrics.
Aggregation can help solve this problem. ResearchBlogging aggregates blog posts about peer-reviewed research. ScienceSeeker aggregates all science blog posts (currently aggregating over 400 blogs) and was announced in February. Nature Blogs also aggregates science blogs, but doesn't seem to be up-to-date.
Microformats are an alternative – but of course complimentary – strategy. Microformats are small snippets of HTML that represent commonly published things. A good example is Rel-License, a microformat indicating licensed content:
cc by 2.0
In February Google launched a new Recipe view feature based on the hRecipe microformat, demonstrating how microformats can help discovering content. There is currently no standard microformat for scholarly citations. The simplest format would again use the rel tag – together with the Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO):
this paper
There are more than 20 CiTO tags for describing what we think about a particular paper or science blog post – many science bloggers would probably have used cito:critiques for the above paper. I suggest cito:discusses as the standard CiTO relationship for most papers and blog posts. You can add this tag manually, or use a tool such as the Link to Link WordPress plugin (I added cito:discusses to version 1.1.2).

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Swinging Water Cup
- Demonstrate how centripetal force/acceleration keeps water
in cup even when cup is upside down.
- Place water cup on center of plate. Hold ropes such that
plate is level. Swing slowly back and forth; when feeling ready, swing in
full circle. Works very well. Practice once or twice before using in class.
- Located in L02, section B2.


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Select Guidance Pattern screen (WAYLINE)
Select to access the Select Guidance Pattern screen. This screen will allow you to select a Guidance pattern to help guide your vehicle as you move across a given field.
Selected Guidance Pattern indicated in Bold
Select Guidance Pattern screen
- Select to select AB Lines Guidance pattern.
- Select to select Identical Curves Guidance pattern.
- Select to select Adaptive Curves Guidance pattern.
- Select to select Pivots Guidance pattern.
- Select to cancel the selection and return to the Guidance screen.
- Select to accept the selection. If accepted, you will be taken to a screen similar to the one shown in figure 6-18. This screen appears when a Guidance pattern is accepted. Here you
7. Note – This button only appears when AB lines is selected as the guidance pattern. Selecting will take you to another screen that will allow you to manually enter the longitude and latitude coordinates for A and B (refer page 6-16).
8. Select to cancel the selection and return to the Guidance Pattern Selection screen.
9. Select to accept the selection and return to the Guidance Pattern Selection screen.
Saving Guidance Patterns for Future Use
AB Lines, Pivots, Identical Curves and Adaptive Curves can be set and saved for use in specific fields. These lines can then be recalled in future when performing another application job in the same field.
Creating and saving these lines can ONLY be done while the vehicle is on the field and a Boundary file or Job file has been created. The only exception to this is the manual entry of A and B point coordinates.
Creating an AB line can be done in either one of two ways. You can either select an A and a B point while you are on your field and your GPS is active or you can can enter the coordinates of the A and B points manually. This is done by creating a new AB line file and selecting item 13 on figure 6-19. You will then be taken to a screen similar to as shown in figure 6-20.
Follow the instructions on page 6-16 to manually enter A and B point coordinates.
In Coverage Triggered mode, the guidance path begins to be drawn when coverage mapping is turned on. The end point of the guidance path is defined when coverage mapping is turned off.
This means that the guidance path will only be tracked when coverage mapping is on. When coverage mapping is turned off and on again, this initiates the tracking of a new guidance path.
This mode is particularly useful when used with Auto Section Control.
Manual End Of Row
In Manual End of Row mode, the beginning of the guidance path is defined when an A point is set and the end of the guidance path is defined when a B point is set.
This is similar to how AB Lines are set except that the guidance path is tracked based on the actual path of the vehicle and not on the direct distance between the A and B point.
This mode is the preferred choice when performing round and round coverage of a field
U-Turn Recognition mode is the same as Manual End of Row mode with one additional feature. In U-Turn Recognition mode, the console will detect when your vehicle is making a U-Turn and will automatically close the guidance path.
This means that instead of setting the B point to close the guidance path, the System 110/150 will do this automatically when a U-Turn is detected.
U-Turn Recognition mode is the preferred choice when performing row by row coverage of a field.


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Describing variants simply, quickly and efficiently
Often electronic data exchange structures of a business process vary only slightly. For example, if a company sends an invoice to customers, the type of information is often basically the same (invoice date, invoice number, etc.). Nevertheless, all individual characteristics of a customer must be taken into account and the EDI infrastructure must be connected precisely and correctly. With hundreds or even thousands of customers, this quickly means considerable additional work in the development, maintenance and implementation of each customer.
For non-XML based structures, such as EDIFACT and other EDI standards, flat files, IDOCs, etc., GEFEG.FX already offered the possibility to describe variants of business processes and structures. Now this is also possible for XML schema guides and, due to the syntax, even easier.
Technical Support for Schema Guides in GEFEG.FX
Usually, GEFEG.FX users have already used XML guides to describe and specify their XML structures. This was easy because the same basic XML structure could be reused in different XML guides and further specified there. However, concrete versions of variants could only be described verbally.
If you want to describe explicit relationships and use cases, variants can be created within the schema guide that describe, for example, the special features of different invoice cases (discounts, means of payment, private customers).
Facilitation for business and technology
In order to present the specified variants in a readable way for every professional user, they can be easily published as HTML and PDF descriptions. This now also applies to the mapping between two formats. The use of variants allows for the greatest possible precision and concrete use cases can be specified in detail by the business user in order to pass them on to the development department as quickly and easily as possible, which then implements them technically.
Massive savings through use in test environments with variants
Wherever later hundreds of implementers have to meet the same specifications, automated processes play a special role even before the established EDI connection is established. For example, when many suppliers are to send uniform invoices to a corporate group. The rules and special features of each process can be translated into ISO Schematron rules, for example. Using the GEFEG portal solution, these rules can be stored online centrally for all suppliers. These suppliers can then independently test for conformity 24/7 according to the agreed application scenarios. This results in considerable time and cost savings on all sides.


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How long would it take to drink the oceans?
How long would it take the human race to drink all the water in the earth's oceans?
If each human on earth were to drink the recommended amount of water per day (1.9 liters), it would take them 259,931,901.5 years to drink 1.2348E21 liters (the amount of water in the oceans). This is assuming, of course, that each human, including babies, would have to drink 1.9 liters a day, all the water in the ocean was drinkable, and all water that was drank by someone would not find its way back in to the ocean.
Amount of water in the ocean (science.howstuffworks.com)
4 years ago | Side: a long time
About 2.5% of Earth's water is freshwater including freshwater lakes, swamps, atmospheric, groundwater, glaciers, ground ice and permafrost. All freshwater originally evaporated off the oceans and saltwater lakes, and the freshwater collected into the streams and rivers into freshwater lakes. A lot of this freshwater flows right back out to the ocean. Some freezes on the tops of mountains forming snow, snow-caps, ice, and glaciers. In order for humans to drink all the water in the oceans, it would first have to collect into glaciers. Otherwise, you couldn't store it. Then your billions of ice age people could drink the meltwater collected by their dams. Over the course of hundreds of millions of years, their frozen waste water would collect back into the ocean. The whole project would involve fine control of Earth's climate to insure all the Earth's ocean water evaporated, then collected as glacier water. An engineering project which might optimistically take a billion or so years. If you brute force the process, and pump the water to the north and south poles, you can do it much faster. What with nanotechnology and such, and a phenomenal, exponential population explosion, the human could drink the ocean in a tiny fraction of that time.
210 days ago | Side: How long would it take to drink the oceans?


Beware the fury of a patient man
This page is about the saying "Beware the fury of a patient man".
Possible interpretation: The implication is that the anger of people who are normally slow to anger is, when it eventually comes, terrible.
Note: beware (verb) = be careful about; be cautious; be aware of the dangers | fury (noun) = violent anger | patient (adj.) = able to wait without getting angry | Compare: "Patience provoked turns to fury."
Origin: Quotation from Publilius Syrus, a Latin writer of maxims in the 1st century BC. In the 17th century, British poet and dramatist John Dryden used it in "Absalom and Achitophel", generally considered to be the greatest political poem in the English language:
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
Quick Quiz:
The saying "Beware the fury of a patient man" warns us
a. not to be impatient
b. not to push impatient people too far
c. not to push patient people too far
Saying of the Day
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Contributor: Josef Essberger


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Maximize the total conversion value of your campaign within your specified budget with maximize conversion value bidding strategy. This bidding strategy uses advanced machine learning to automatically optimize and set bids. It also offers auction-time bidding capabilities that tailor bids for each auction. You define the value that you want to maximize, such as sales revenue or profit margins, when you set up conversion tracking for your account.
Before you begin
- Familiarize yourself with automated bidding.
- Before you can use maximize conversion value bidding, you'll also need to set up conversion tracking with transaction-specific values.
How it works
Using historical information about your campaign and evaluating the contextual signals present at auction-time, maximize conversion value bidding automatically finds an optimal CPC bid for your ad each time it's eligible to appear. Google sets these bids to help get conversions that are the most valuable for your campaign while spending your budget.
Before switching to maximize conversion value bidding:
- Check your average daily budget amount. Maximize conversion value will try to fully spend your average daily budget, so if you're currently spending much less than your budget, maximize conversion value could increase spend significantly.
- Check your return-on-investment (ROI) goals. If you have an ROI goal for your campaign, such as a target return on ad spend (ROAS), you may want to add a Target ROAS to your bid strategy.


Response to COVID-19
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an American politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Connecticut from 1844 to 1846 and a United States Senator from 1847 to 1851. As a lawyer, his career was most notable for his participation in the 1841 Amistad case. He attended Hopkins School, and entered Yale College at the age of fourteen, and graduated with high honors in 1811. At Yale, Baldwin was a member of the Linonian Society. After leaving Yale he studied law in his father's office in New Haven, and also in the Litchfield Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1814.
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A wink is a facial expression made by briefly closing one eye. A wink is an informal mode of non-verbal communication usually signaling shared hidden knowledge or intent, which may also include, in all contexts, sexual attraction.
General overview and meanings
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Winking is one of the more subtle gestures, usually involving eye contact between those involved. In most cases it is only meant to be known by the sender and his or her intended receiver(s), but in some cases can be more widely intended.
Single wink
A single wink is usually a friendly gesture implying a degree of solidarity and/or intimacy.
A typical use of the wink is to quietly send a message that third parties are not aware of. For example, while person A is lying to person B or deliberately teasing him, he might wink at person C as a means of indicating the fact to C and incorporating him in the "conspiracy". Alternatively, if person A is joking or teasing person B in a friendly way, person A may wink directly at person B as a way to suggest to him that his own (A's) words are to be taken as a joke. It is also possible for person A to use winking in order to secretly imply to person B that the words or actions of some third party should not be taken seriously (for example, because the third party is joking or lying).
A wink could also be used as a somewhat humorous way to express sympathy, solidarity and encouragement, especially when the winker is trying to put the receiver at ease in a situation where they might feel nervous or uncomfortable. In such cases the meaning of a wink is not unlike that of a "thumbs up".
In some cultures it is often a sexual interest, or flirtatious manner, during momentary eye contact. This is often followed by a smile, and usually a smile from the receiver, if it is accepted/approved, or combined with blushing if they are embarrassed. A smile from the receiver sometimes—but not always—indicates (sexual) interest in the winker.[according to whom?]
Double wink ("wink wink")
Like a single wink but more emphatic, two winks in a row may be used by the sender as a subtle way to imply that something said by the sender, immediately beforehand, was "sneaky", "tricky", "misleading", or "untrue" to the receiver. In English-speaking countries, this has also given rise to the expression of vocally saying "wink wink" while winking, or sometimes while not even winking at all - in this case, the sender is not communicating the "trickiness" of his words to a third party, but to the receiver, and is thus signalling that his words should not be taken literally but as a hint or euphemism.
Both eyes (bat/flutter)
To close and open, or "wink", both eyes is usually an involuntary action known as a "blink". Though if done intentionally, in a particular way (such as once slowly or a few times in a row quickly), while giving a sweet or suggestive look with the eyes, often with the head tilted or at an angle in combination with the shoulders, is known as to "bat an eyelash", "bat/batting eyelashes", or "flutter/fluttering eyelashes". This is most commonly done by girls, as a way of flirting, showing interest, or in an attempt to persuade the receiver.
In addition to the traditional "wink", a "clicking" sound is made with the side of the tongue and gums that sound taach (joining the tongue and upper lip and crossing the air from outside to inside), with particular emphasis on timing the "click" with the "wink" at exactly the same time. The "clink" is typically used to signify agreement or satisfaction.
Cultural specific differences
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The West
As explained above, winking in Western culture can be used as a way of letting someone else know that the winker or some other person is joking or lying (e.g., a mother tells her child a story about a fairy princess, and she then winks at the child's older sibling, the sibling thus knows the mother is lying to the younger child). It may also be used to communicate sexual intentions, ranging from flirtation to an explicit invitation.
Latin America
In China and reportedly to some extent in India, winking may be seen as an offensive gesture.
However, winking in the Indian subcontinent often has similar connotations as in the West. It can be used to signal an "inside" joke, a sly gesture shared between two people privately, unbeknownst to those around them, as in a social gathering. It can also be a naughty "come on" by a girl to a boy or vice versa.
West African parents may wink to signal children to leave the room, especially when there is a guest, or another adult coming in. It is considered rude for children to stay in a room where adults or elders want to have a conversation, and so winking is used as a more discreet way to tell the children to leave the room. Parents also try not to embarrass themselves in front of guests, because their children do not understand immediately when it is time to leave the room.
Noted examples
- In the famous Monty Python sketch Nudge Nudge, a younger man slyly asks an older gentleman about sex through innuendo, reiterating the phrase "nudge nudge wink wink" after his questions in an attempt to indicate that his innocent-sounding questions are intended to be double entendres, i.e., of a sexual nature.
- In an episode of the television series Seinfeld (The Wink), the character George Costanza has problems when grapefruit pulp gets into his eyes, leading to his involuntary winks getting misinterpreted by others.
- In the television series Arrested Development, Lucille Bluth many times winks at her son, who expresses great discomfort thereafter.
- In the 2004 science fiction movie I, Robot, a robot named Sonny learns to wink, using it as a gesture of trust to Detective Spooner (Will Smith).
- During a Quarter Final match of the 2006 World Cup between England and Portugal, Wayne Rooney was sent off, largely due to an impassioned argument from Cristiano Ronaldo. After Rooney's sending off, Ronaldo was caught on camera winking to the Portuguese bench. This received widespread criticism from the English press, who largely saw it as a sign of conspiracy from the Portuguese player.
- During the 2008 United States vice-presidential debate, Republican candidate Sarah Palin winked at the audience several times. Her behaviour was considered to be highly unusual in the context of a formal political debate and received considerable media attention. While some conservative pundits defended Palin, other individuals were critical of and even offended by her conduct.
- In online dating, a 'wink' is a way of communicating approval of another member (sometimes from a non-member) without sending email. It is used at sites such as Match.com.
Physiological ability
Not all humans are able to wink voluntarily, and some can only wink one (usually the non-dominant) eye. Others are far better at winking one eye and find it awkward to wink the other.
Some people, especially children and adolescents, show a habit of winking involuntarily under stress, often without their own knowledge. It is considered a symptom of Tourette Syndrome.
See also
|Look up wink in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.|
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- Buyer, Richard. 2009. Why the JFK Assassination Still Matters: The Truth for My Daughter. P.154
- Trask, Richard. Caries, Cabals and Correspondences. Letters from Readers. In Popular paranoia: A Steamshovel Press Anthology by Kenn Thomas
- "Non-verbal communication". Retrieved 2008-02-04.
- Sarah Palin's wink, LA Times
- Frederick Spencer Chapman. The Jungle is Neutral
- "All The Rage". Los Angeles Times. 2008-10-05.
- "Ronaldo: I put my country first", Evening Standard, accessed 2009-28-12
- Ladyman, Ian, "Get lost Ronaldo!", The Daily Mail, accessed 2009/28/12


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The Blackface sheep is the most common hill breed in Scotland. They are extremely hardy and can survive in the harsh climate associated with the hills of Scotland. All Blackface sheep have horns and have black and white legs and face. The fleece should be completely white. Their wool is mainly used to make carpets or mattresses.
When kept on the hill, Blackface ewes will stay within an area that they will get to know very well (this is called hefting). They will know the best area to find shelter, and the best area to find good grass. The ewe will pass this information on to her daughters. It is not recommended to buy in flock replacements for hill farms as the sheep may get lost, or die in the extreme weather as they do not know where to find shelter.
Blackface sheep are bred pure to produce flock replacements or small carcass weight lambs, generally for the European market. The Blackface ewes are often crossed with a sire such as a Border Leicester or Continental sire to produce ewes that are very prolific and will produce lambs for the meat market. Blackface ewes are also crossed with terminal sires such as the Suffolk to produce a quality prime lamb.
In hill environments, Blackface ewes will normally produce one lamb per year, on a lowland farm with good grazing they regularly produce twins, with triplets not being uncommon.


text: An unpolished (mill) finish, and a precision tolerance, and meets American Society for Testing and Materials International ASTM A313 specifications. It is corrosion resistance. The material may be slightly magnetic and can be cold worked for increased strength and rigidity. The spring temper is stiff and spring like, resisting bends and kinks until a large amount of force is applied. Wire will not stretch, so care must be taken to measure accurately. There are a couple of ways to join the ends of your wire. My favorite method is wrapping the ends with thread. Allow 2 inches overlap for this method. Using strong millinery thread, begin at one end of the overlapped wires and wrap tightly towards the other end of overlap. Add a dab of clear glue to each open end of wire at the overlaps. The most common stitches for securing wire to the edge of a brim are a buttonhole stitch for hand sewing and a wide zig-zag stitch when using a sewing machine. It is important to sew the wire to the edge, not on top or under the brim edge. The stitch width should be only the depth of the wire. If the stitch is too deep, the wire will slip away from the edge and can cause an uneven looking finish to the brim. See our FAQ section for more in depth instruction.


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Children are believing in something completely untrue. Should you encourage kids to believe in myths such as the Easter Bunny, and if so, when should you tell them the truth?
To perpetuate the myths of the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, parents must lie to their kids. Some parents don't believe in taking part in such elaborate deceptions. They worry these myths can cause distrust of the parents when their children realize the truth later on.
Additionally, some parents think these myths promote materialism and greed because the emphasis is on receiving rather than giving. However, proponents for the Easter Bunny and Santa will say it's actually the opposite — the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus can be symbolic of the gift-giving spirit associated with the holidays.
Many psychologists say you should let your kids take the lead when discussing the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus.
"Forcing an elaborate Santa Claus [or Easter Bunny] story on children serves no good purpose for child or parent," child psychologist Bruce Henderson of Western Carolina University told MSNBC. "On the other hand, following the child's lead in fantasy play about Santa Claus is likely to do no more harm than imaginative play surrounding Elmo or Mickey Mouse. Parents can respond to direct questions honestly with answers appropriate to their children's developmental levels."
Don't stop believin'
You might find your child knows the Easter Bunny is imaginary but likes to perpetuate the myth. He may be concerned that if he stops believing, there will be no more Easter egg hunts, chocolate rabbits and Peeps every year. Remember that as your children get older, you can continue with the same Easter traditions, even if all your kids know the truth that it's you who is filling their baskets with treats.
Most of the time, parents don't have to sit down with their kids and break the news that the Easter Bunny doesn't exist. Many kids believe whole-heartedly for several years. Then, when they reach age 7 or 8, they begin to have some doubts. Between their own intellectual development and the chance that another child tells them, kids usually piece it all together on their own when they are 8 to 10 years old. Around this age, if your child asks if the Easter Bunny is real, just be honest. If your child is older than 10 and still believes in the Easter Bunny, you should fill them in on the truth. Let your kids know that although the bunny itself is imaginary, it's part of a tradition that brings a lot of joy and fun to kids at Easter time.
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Weekly LS mean sleep quality score. Weekly assessment analyses based on the results of the MMRM analysis with weekly mean sleep quality score defined as the mean of the last seven daily diary sleep quality ratings. Scores range from 0 to 10 with higher scores indicating decreased sleep quality. Mean value (± SE) shown for each week, where ***P ≤0.0001 for each treatment time point compared with placebo.
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Interregnum Final Debate
Join the rest of campus to explore a challenging theme in performances, competitions, and debates throughout the year.
What is Interregnum?
One of the most compelling traditions at The King's College is our annual Interregnum, an all-campus conference that encompasses a year's worth of theme exploration. Interregnum unites students, faculty, and staff through participation in various events, including a performing arts competition, parliamentary-style debates, and an evening assembly featuring a notable speaker.
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Interregnum XVII: Reconciliation
In the midst of division and conflict, Christians are called to be ministers of Reconciliation. However, without careful examination of this idea and its implementation, we risk pursuing quick-and-easy solutions at the expense of true unity and peace. Can we be honest about our shortcomings and sins without losing hope in restoration? What does repentance look like? How can we pursue forgiveness while also advocating justice? As we wrestle with these difficult questions, let us continue to trust a God who promises the Reconciliation of all things to Himself through the sacrifice of His Son
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Micah Long (Chair, '21)
Ellen Coy (Vice-Chair, '22)
Catherine Blanco (Competitions Coordinator, '22)
Emma Powell (Academics Coordinator, '22)
Chris Davis (Communications Coordinator, '22)
Ravyn Carico (Events Coordinator, '22)
Kaylee Vroon (Omnium, '23)
Leticia Mosqueda (Staff Advisor)
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July 27, 2010 > History: Union City's steamship "The Union"
History: Union City's steamship "The Union"
By Myrla Raymundo
Union City and Alvarado came into existence on a portion of the Rancho Portrero de los Cerritos, in the northwestern portion of Washington Township in what is today Alameda County. Union City, the first of the two to be settled, is located on the banks of Alameda Creek near a point known as the Devil's Elbow. It was in 1851 that Union City first sprang into being, founded by J. M. Horner.
J. M. Horner was also the builder of the first warehouse on the bank of the creek. This creek poured its waters into an extensive slough, which stretched far out toward the bay where a very tortuous channel was formed. In 1846, the creek was navigable for light craft as far up as Bell Ranch Bridge. In fact, until 1878, small vessels used this channel from as far as the sugar refinery, but when the channel was filled, the course of the water changed entirely.
Horner developed a plan for cutting a canal across the marshes to connect with the bay, making a continuation of Crandall Slough. By this means the water flow would have been directed into the canal, and thus the flooded marshes would have been reclaimed, the creek relieved of surplus water, and Union City, together with Alvarado, would now have been in direct communication by water with San Francisco, as they were in earlier days. In addition, hundreds of acres of marshland could have been reclaimed. Unfortunately, Mr. Horner's canal scheme never went beyond the ideas in his head, and Devil's Elbow, where the water had been dammed and frequently overflowed, eventually filled and is now a bed of sandy sediment.
Union City and Alvarado are nearly surrounded by marsh, and in the old days each year brought an overflow from the creek, which caused a few days of flooding. Going out of doors without rubber boots was anything but agreeable. The little town had the advantage of good lands, extensive warehouses, and with the steamer called "The Union," Union City rapidly developed rich agricultural surroundings to the east.
It is known that Union City received its name from the first steamer which traveled between it and San Francisco. This vessel, "The Union," had a novel history, having been originally constructed in New Jersey and brought in sections aboard ship around Cape Horn by Charles Minturn. When this steamer first entered service between Union City and San Francisco, it was owned by Horner and was placed on the route to carry produce to market. It had limited accommodations for chance passengers.
Mr. Horner had, in 1851, purchased an extensive tract of land, which included the original town site of Union City. From his own and other agricultural interests, a large amount of freight was carried from Union City to San Francisco. One year, history states that the sale of produce from Horner's acreage alone brought forth a revenue of $270,000.
Prior to the entry of the steamer "The Union," freight transportation had been confined to sailing vessels, many of which ran between Union City and San Francisco at regular intervals. "The Union" was a historic craft and her first owner, Charles Minturn, was the originator of the ferry between Oakland and San Francisco. Her first master was Capt. Olney, who afterward commanded the "Senator." Following Capt. Olney came Capt. Marston, who later lived at Centerville, where some of his descendants grew to manhood and womanhood. Next, "The Union" was commanded by Capt. Trefry, who for years guided her destiny. He was later a resident of Centerville, and for many years filled the office of constable.
Horner's little steamship "The Union" is no longer in existence. However, it will go down in history as the link between Union City and San Francisco. It will also be remembered as the source of the name of Union City today. Or is it?
Many people think the name came from the merger of the Decoto and Alvarado districts when the city was founded. When incorporated in 1959, many knew nothing about the ship.
So where did the name Union City come from-the steamer's name or the union of two towns? What do you think?


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Accelerating Innovation and Digitalization in Asia and the Pacific
Water entities across Asia and the Pacific are seeking solutions to decarbonize, decentralize and digitalize how water is used, treated, and accessed. Yet challenges such as budget constraints, risk aversion, and limited access to in-country expertise often prevent the adoption of innovation.
Led by Imagine H2O Asia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Accelerating Innovation and Digitalization in Asia and the Pacific (AID) program—encompassing training, solution matching and testing support, and knowledge sharing—aims to address these obstacles and create opportunities to improve water projects in ADB's developing member countries (DMCs) through innovation and digital transformation.
The program will make water innovation more accessible by building the knowledge and capacity of DMC executing and implementing agencies and the ADB staff supporting them to localize and adopt innovative solutions for a water-secure and resilient region.
As part of wider efforts match, pilot, and scale digital components in applicable projects, training will be offered on an ongoing basis to provide information on emerging technologies, offer demonstration examples, and advise on improving adoption and financing options.
Water innovation showcases will also cover, among others:
- Nonrevenue water and network management
- Wastewater treatment and reuse
- Water quality and monitoring
- Drinking water access
- Food and agriculture
ADB's implementing and executing agencies and staff can engage now by joining an upcoming informational session on the AID program and its training opportunities.


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Bird Studies Canada – why bother doing the summary if you know more than half the birds are not being collected? Why is the specific data on each projects 'kill' confidential? Do the wind companies own the wildlife here too? Seems like it.
"In Ontario, 1,187 bird carcasses were found, comprising 118 identified species. Passerines were the most common fatality, representing approximately 69% of all bird fatalities in Ontario. The most prevalent passerine species found were: Golden Crowned Kinglet (9.39% of all bird carcasses found), Red-eyed Vireo (6.91%) and Horned Lark (5.39%). Raptors represented 8% of all bird fatalities, with Turkey Vulture (2.29%) and Red-tailed Hawk (3.99%) found most commonly. Gulls represent approximately 2% of all bird fatalities; with Ring-billed Gull (1.59%) the most often reported Gull species. Waterbirds represent approximately 2% of all bird fatalities, with Mallard (1.29%) as the most frequently reported waterbird species.
Table 4 lists the top 20 bird species found during post-construction mortality monitoring at wind power projects in Ontario and the proportion of carcasses found of each species, listed from lowest rank (most prevalent across sites) to highest rank (least commonly found). A full list of fractional rankings by species is available in Appendix 2."
Table 4: The top 20 bird species found at wind power projects in Ontario based on fractional ranking and percent species composition. A full list of fractional rankings by species is available in Appendix 2.
Rank Species % Composition
- Golden-crowned Kinglet 9.39%
- Red-eyed Vireo 6.19%
- Horned Lark 5.39%
- Purple Martin 6.09%
- Tree Swallow 8.79%
"The total number of operating turbines in Ontario as of February 2014 was 1,331 (CanWEA, personal communication) resulting in an estimated mortality of 7,250 bird fatalities (95% confidence interval of 6,236 to 8,265 fatalities) in Ontario between May 1st and October 31st based on February 2014 installed capacity."
"The mortality estimates presented here potentially underestimate true mortality as they are based solely on carcasses that fell within 50 m of the turbine base. It is expected that a certain proportion of birds and bats will fall outside of this radius, and there are several different approaches to quantifying this correction factor as can be inferred based on extrapolation of Figures 11 and 12. Zimmerling et al. (2013) reported that turbine heights were very similar (~80 m) for most turbines installed in Canada as of 2011 and estimated the proportion of carcasses expected to fall outside of 50 m to be up to 51.8% of birds, based on 4 studies that searched a radius up to 85 m. These values were further validated based on a field trial that searched up to 85 m from the turbine base (Zimmerling et al. 2013). Smallwood (2013) found that the proportion of both birds and bats that fell within 50 m of the turbine base varied with turbine height and estimated higher correction factor values for carcasses falling outside of 50 m than Zimmerling et al. 2013. Smallwood (2013) fit a logistic function to carcass distributions, and the proportions of carcasses falling within the search radius were calculated based on a variety of search radius and turbine height combinations. For 80 m turbines, carcasses were expected to fall to a maximum distance of 156 m. These findings indicate that the mortality estimates presented here may underestimate true mortality, but still allow for comparisons amongst sites and regions as long as turbine heights are similar; this is an important consideration for future investigation of landscape level factors and mitigation measures."
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Sing at First Sight, Level 1
Foundations in Choral Sight-Singing
By Andy Beck, Karen Farnum Surmani, and Brian Lewis
A sequential sight-singing curriculum for all choirs. Each of the six units (containing four lessons each) clearly introduces new music reading concepts, reinforces those concepts with several rhythm and pitch exercises, motivates students with helpful hints and challenge exercises, and concludes with fun-filled review games and "Evaluating Your Performance" questions. The helpful "Getting Ready" pages (which precede each unit) are filled with music fundamentals, and for choirs who have never read music before, an optional "Before We Begin" chapter opens the book. And it's all neatly laid out in a 96-page octavo sized publication; a perfect fit for your students, and their folders. From whole notes to sixteenth-note patterns, seconds to sevenths, key signatures, dynamics, articulations, and tempo markings; it's all here, and it's all logically ordered to insure student success! Spend just a few minutes a day with this book and your choir, too, will learn to "Sing at First Sight!" Now available on SmartMusic!


A quarter-century ago Ludmila Javorova was a secret locked inside another secret. She was an ordained Roman Catholic priest inside the secret underground church in Czechoslovakia.
More on Ludmila
Ludmila's Story
Becoming a priest is something she prepared for all her life
Did a Female Pope Exist?
"Pope Joan" may be more than a legend
"A Woman of Power"
An interview with Donna Woolfolk Cross, author of the book, "Pope Joan"
The underground church, known as Koinotes--from koinonia, a Greek word for a tightly knit group of believers--operated at great risk, barely beyond the repressive gaze of the Czech communist authorities.
In the 1970s and '80s, Javorova's story was as remote as information buried in a time capsule. In a sense, that's what the secret was. Javorova did not want it revealed. Yet over the course of one decade, the 1990s, American enterprise and determination--and chance--decided otherwise.
In 1990, NCR staffer Tim McCarthy was in the Czech Republic to write about the sweeping changes taking place in Central and Eastern Europe.
In September of that year, in a lengthy article datelined Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, McCarthy revealed that married men had been ordained priests secretly in that country from the 1960s on.
Even more startling, informants told McCarthy that Bishop Felix Maria Davidek had ordained at least one woman. But McCarthy's sources did not know who or where she was, and their story "could not be confirmed."
Despite McCarthy's first twist on the time lock, the secret remained. The woman at the center, Ludmila Javorova, did not want it revealed. She had her reasons, though she had no doubts about her priesthood. She knew she had been legitimately ordained, in part because of the circumstances of the time, by Davidek, a legally instituted and recognized Roman Catholic bishop.
In December 1991, The New York Times picked up on the story and reported that three Czech women had been ordained.
The next twist on the time lock had taken place.
Ruth McDonough Fitzpatrick, then national coordinator of the U.S. Catholic Women's Ordination Conference (WOC) put together a small delegation to travel to the Czech Republic. Before they left, she learned there was a former Koinotes priest in the United States and contacted him. He knew one of the women: Ludmila Javorova. Her name was out.
The delegation, which included Quixote Center's co-director Dolly Pommerlau and others, went to Prague, then Brno. In Brno, 18 local people gathered to listen to the visitors during a discussion about the church in the United States. Javorova, unidentified, was present. Later that evening, Javorova decided to be introduced to the Americans. They urged her to go public with her story. She declined.
Four years later a second delegation went to Brno and invited Javorova to the United States for a private visit. The delegation was co-sponsored by the Women's Ordination Conference and the Quixote Center, a faith-based social justice center in Washington.
In October 1997, Javorova visited for two weeks. She was accompanied by an ordained woman deacon from Slovakia, the deacon's sister and an interpreter. Not a word of this visit leaked out. Among events lined up for Javorova was a gathering of Future Church in Cleveland.
Seventy minutes flying time away, in Hartford, Conn., Sr. Miriam Therese Winter, composer, professor and director of Hartford Seminary's Women's Leadership Institute, was invited to the meeting by her friend, St. Joseph Sr. Chris Schenk, the executive director of FutureChurch.
There Winter met Javorova, a tall woman, perhaps 5-foot-7, slender, quiet, "deeply introverted but centered, very present to the moment." Winter, with her work at Hartford in mind, took some notes, some photographs and flew home. She typed up the notes and put them away.
A week later, Winter rode the Amtrak to Philadelphia. After its New Haven, Conn., stop, the train was packed. Even so, Winter could hear people talking in a language she did not understand, yet recognized--she'd been listening to it the previous weekend. There, across the aisle in the same car, was Javorova and her traveling companions.
"Ludmila shrieked in delight, she was so grateful to see a familiar face," said Winter. "They were on their way to Washington, but they wanted to make a quick stop in New York, just to see it. They were babes in the wilderness. They had bags and purses and coats, and I said, 'Omigod, getting off in New York you're going to be dog meat.' So I got off with them, got their gear into lockers, but couldn't stay."
Winter went on to Philadelphia. Not longer after, in Detroit for the Call to Action meeting, Winter was talking to the then-executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference, Andrea Johnson, who said she'd been trying to convince Javorova to tell her story. They were pressing, but not too hard. The American women tried to convince Javorova to at least put her story down on paper. They explained that if she did not, after her death it would all disappear as if it had never happened.
Winter advised Johnson to contact Crossroad, the publishing house that publishes Winter's books. "The one thing I believe absolutely essential," Winter said, "is that when Ludmila tells her story, she needs to tell it to someone who receives it in such a way they treat it as sacred."
As Winter candidly said to NCR later, "Look, I had a concern about our feminist agenda. I'm a feminist. Honestly and sincerely, if you're about your task, you try to do it objectively. Even though there's a certain feminist filter, you try to watch over it. I also think, even without manipulation, you hear things differently if your primary objective is to lift up or pursue women's ordination which is, of course, critically important.
"But sometimes," Winter said, "how you ask the question determines how you get the information.
"When I'd been With Ludmila [in Cleveland]," she said, "I'd sensed something very deep there. I couldn't put it into words. I simply said she can't just go ahead with one European male writer who's close to the Czech Republic who comes in and says tell me your story. I'm so used to women's work. You need to have a safe circle of supporters as you tell the story."
Winter returned to her duties, but the task she'd laid out stayed with her. A couple of days later she woke up in the middle of the night and said, "I have to do this story." That morning she called Michael Leach (then at Crossroad, now at Orbis), and told him, "You won't believe want happened last night." He replied, "You won't believe what happened this morning." At their meeting they'd said, "If only we could get M.T. Winter to write this book."
In August 1999, during six days of conversation conducted through two interpreters, Winter learned a little of what it meant to be a secret locked inside a secret. "When you've lived 40 years under totalitarian rule, World War II Nazis and then the communists, everything is secret," Winter said "Then you have this underground church movement. It has to be very guarded. You don't tell anybody anything they don't need to know.
"And these are life patterns," said Winter. "Even when your psyche wants to override it. There were so many things in her life she'd never talked about, never said aloud even to herself. There was no sense of now we start at the beginning and go on to the end. Her recounting was all over the place. Many times I'd asked evocative questions to try to get to the narrative, and not just theory. Even dates. I had to do a lot of external work on the time line: If German bombs fell on Brno this year, Ludmila was a little girl and probably that age."
In March 2000, Winter was back in Brno again. She decided to write the first draft while living and working in the culture. In May 2000, she was in Brno for a five-week writing stint. Halfway through came word that Winter's mother was dying. She made it home just in time, but could not return to the Czech Republic.
"Thank God for e-mails, and that we found two wonderful interpreters/translators," said Winter. In December 2000, Winter was back with Javorova checking the facts. Up until that point Javorova still had not agreed to publication in her lifetime. "I'd sensed in the fall that she might," said Winter, "and in December she agreed."
Oddly, that is not the end of the account that leads to Winter's book, reviewed on this page and excerpted on page 39. In Winter's view, the process of telling the story changed Winter, changed Javorova, and changed the context in which women's ordination is discussed.
Winter explains. "It is not easy to put Ludmila in a box, which we'd like to do. A stereotype--'She's a woman priest, therefore...' She crosses back and forth. She was doing things that were post-Vatican II way back when


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Do you need a place for child care in Middleport? Rainbow Day Nursery provides excellent day care for babies and young children. This nursery is an ideal place for your young children to spend their day time playing, learning, growing and being looked after with nurturing care. It has been providing a safe and loving environment for children to learn for over twenty years. If you have a child or children of ages between six weeks and five, Rainbow Day Nursery can meet all your requirements as a parent and all the needs of your child.
In Middleport, child care services can be found all over, however, they are not all reliable. Rainbow Day Nursery has a reputation amongst parents that is reputable and second to none. Their friendly relationship with the parents and the way they handle children with utmost care is exceptional. You can be confident that your child will be in safe hands. They also allow you to help your child settle in. This is a period where you stay with your little one during playtime and then gradually start to leave your child to go for play sessions on their own. Their facilities include a range of indoor and outdoor activity and play areas such as weatherproofed and grass areas for safe and educational play experiences.
Child care in Middleport that includes all the essential aspects of learning and nurturing can be found at Rainbow Day Nursery. Their staff are required to have at least NVQ level three qualifications. Speech and play therapists, health visitors and Senco trained workers are the types of professionals they work with and consult to ensure your child develops and grows healthily and all special needs are accommodated for. Educational games designed for children who are individual and develop differently are available to be enjoyed. The children get fed homemade meals that are healthy and include all nutrients required by children in order to grow. It is truly a fantastic environment for your child to be in to learn and have fun. For child care that leaves you and your child happy, contact Rainbow Day Nursery and have a look around their premises.


Add HotKeys to your Website
1. Copy and paste the code below to Notepad, save as "nav.js" (ANSI encoding).
2. Replace "YOUR_URL" with the destination URL you wish to assign to each letter a, b, c, etc.
3. Duplicate the line of code: key['c'] = "YOUR_URL"; to add more hotkeys.
Add the following line of code between the tags in each page where you wish Hotkeys to function.


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You connect to an authoring instance with many handles (for example 10,000) with the CQDE and the instance freezes with high load. The IDE runs into a timeout after submitting the login credentials.
Work around the issue by doing the following:
- Open the /system/cqde/templates/server_tools.ecma file.
- Comment line (307):
var pages = Server.Tools.getWebPages(parentUrl);
- Add the following line:
var pages = new Object();
The result looks like the following:
// var pages = Server.Tools.getWebPages(parentUrl); var pages = new Object();
- Save the changes and restart CQ.


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Objective: To examine interactive relations of blood pressure (BP) and age to MRI indices of subclinical cerebrovascular disease in middle-aged to older adults.
Methods: One hundred and thirteen stroke-free and dementia-free, community-dwelling adults (ages 54–81 years; 65% men; 91% white) engaged in (1) clinical assessment of resting SBP and DBP; (2) MRI rated for periventricular white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and deep WMH silent brain infarction (SBI) and brain atrophy (i.e. ventricular enlargement and sulcal widening ). Principal components analysis of the MRI ratings yielded a two-component solution – (1) periventricular and deep WMH SBI; and (2) ventricular enlargement, sulcal widening.
Results: Relations of SBP, DBP and pulse pressure (PP) (and their interactions with age) to each MRI component were examined in multiple regression analyses adjusted for age, sex, fasting plasma glucose and cholesterol, and antihypertensives. For component 1, results indicated significant interactions of SBP and PP with age (P < 0.05); higher levels of SBP and PP were associated with greater white matter disease and brain infarction at younger ages (≤68 years). Significant interactions of SBP and DBP with age were also noted for component 2 (P < 0.05); higher levels of BP were associated with greater brain atrophy at younger ages (≤63 years).
Conclusion: Higher BP and PP are associated with greater subclinical cerebrovascular disease most prominently in the 'young old'. Appropriate management of hypertension and arterial stiffening may be critical to the preservation of brain structure with ageing.


Audeonic Apps
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 Understanding MidiBridge
This is a guide aimed at providing some understanding about MidiBridge (and CoreMIDI) and how to use that knowledge to your advantage to interconnect apps, hardware and network sessions. Once the basics are covered, some step-by-step recipes for connecting up less obvious situations are provided.
Don't forget to turn on the 'Run in Background' option in the MidiBridge Preferences panel. This is off by default (and purposefully as we want the user to consciously be aware that they are allowing MidiBridge to keep on runnin' in the background)
The above applies to MidiBridge 1.3 and earlier. As of version 1.4, background processing is on by default (with a 15 minute idle timeout). The idle timeout value can be changed in the Options tab of the Preferences page. Setting it to 0 minutes turns backgrounding off completely.
First a little about CoreMIDI - port advertising
When an app runs it can register virtual ports in CoreMIDI that can be seen by other apps and on which other apps can send or receive events. There are two types of virtual ports (also known as endpoints) - sources and destinations. An app doesn't have to advertise its own virtual ports. It may choose to use the virtual ports of other apps instead. Here's something to remember:
Just because an app doesn't advertise any ports of its own doesn't mean that it can't be controlled via MidiBridge!
It just won't show up in:
The Interface Tab - Sources to the left of you, destinations to the right
This is the main tab in MidiBridge and from where you create connections between sources (inputs) and destinations (outputs). These ports are usually (but not always) in pairs and are one of the following type:
 - A physical device port, like Midi Mobilizer I, SynthStation25...
 - A CoreMIDI physical device port, like Midi Mobilizer II, iRig MIDI...
 - The CoreMIDI network port (send/receive over wifi)
 - MidiBridge's own virtual input/output ports that it advertises
 - Virtual input/output ports advertised by other apps
MidiBridge can route events from any of these types to any other type, but the routing must be between a source and a destination from MidiBridge's point of view.
To connect source A to destinations B and C, you touch input/source port A on the left and then touch B and C on the right and green lines will be drawn between them to show they are connected. Touch port A again to tell MidiBridge you're done interconnecting to that port.
Here's a screenshot of MidiBridge with just about every type of port, connection and option set:
The above screenshot shows the following:
 - A CoreMIDI network session is active (CoreMIDI Net in is yellow and the badge '1' on the Interfaces tab button is shown)
 - Arctic Keys is up and running (Arctic Keys virtual ports shown)
 - Midi Mobilizer I is present and a filter on its input is active (Midi Mobilizer ports shown and 'On' badge over filter button displayed on input port)
 - MidiBridge's own virtual ports have been created and any events received from another app on the port MidiBridge will be passed to MidiBridge's own output (that other apps could be listening to) and the Midi Mobilizer's output. (Green lines going from MidiBridge to MidiBridge & Midi Mobilizer)
 - Both MidiBridge and Arctic Keys ports are virtual ports (V-Cable symbol in port)
 - Events received from the Midi Mobilizer's input will be sent to Arctic Keys and the Network session. (Grey lines running from Midi Mobilizer in to CoreMIDI net out and Arctic Keys out - they're grey, because currently the MidiBridge input port is selected for connection)
 - You can fast switch straight to Arctic Keys by double tapping either its input or output port (Green double arrow in port)
 - The Fast-switchable Applications Panel (As of version 1.4, this panel has been renamed from 'Compatible Applications') tells you that both Arctic Keys and MidiVision are installed on this device, but Loopy, NLog and ThumbJam are not (can't afford them). Touching Arctic Keys on the App Panel will fast-switch to Arctic Keys (since we know that is running). Touching MidiVision on the App Panel will launch MidiVision (not currently running, but installed). Touching any of the other apps in the App Panel (the unticked ones) will redirect you to the App Store to see if this app is of any interest to you. IMPORTANT: The Fast-switchable Applications panel is for fast-switching compatibility only. It is not an indicator of an app's MIDI connectivity.
 - The App Panel can be dragged around the screen using the top bar of the panel. It can be dismissed by either pressing the 'X' at the top of the panel or touching the 'Applications' tab that has a badge marked 'X'.
To summarise:
An input from MidiBridge's view is a source of MIDI events from other apps, physical devices or the CoreMIDI network.
An output from MidiBridge's view is a destination that MIDI events can be sent to and can be other apps, physical interfaces or the CoreMIDI network.
Connecting different kinds of apps
Apps can either generate MIDI events, receive MIDI events or do both.
Apps fall into one or more of the following categories:
 1. The app advertises its own virtual destination and accepts input from it. Examples: Animoog and Sunrizer.
 2. The app advertises its own virtual source and writes events to it. Examples: Genome
 3. The app doesn't advertise anything, but will read from all sources in the system, Example: Gadget, GarageBand
 4. The app doesn't advertise anything, but will write to all destinations in the system. Example: SoundPrism Pro
 5. The app only supports CoreMIDI networking (don't know of a current example, but early versions of Genome were like this and possibly NanoStudio)
 6. The app advertises both a source and destination and reads/writes to those. Examples: Arctic Keys, NLog
Categories 1,2 and 6 are easy. You just connect your desired source/destination to the app's virtual port in MidiBridge and away you go. You may need to tweak something in the other app to tell it you want it to accept/send MIDI on its virtual ports (and tell it to continue working in the background).
Category 3 apps will not show up as a separate port in MidiBridge, but will read from MidiBridge's virtual output. To control these types of apps, just connect your desired source to the MidiBridge destination.
Category 4 apps are the reverse of category 3. They don't show up in MidiBridge but to use them as sources, you connect MidiBridge's virtual source(input) to the destination you want the events to go to.
Finally, category 5 apps require a little trick to make them work. In MidiBridge prefs, enter the word 'localhost' (without quotes) in the CoreMIDI Network Destination field and press the Connect button. You can also choose 'Connect Automatically' to re-start the connection when MidiBridge launches. Essentially you are hi-jacking the CoreMIDI network to run like a virtual port. To send events to the app that supports CoreMIDI network, you connect a source to the CoreMIDI net destination. Vice-versa for receiving events into MidiBridge from a category 5 app.
Application start/connect order
Now you know how to interconnect different types of apps, what about the order in which you launch the apps? It all depends upon when each app refreshes its view of the CoreMIDI world.
MidiBridge for example refreshes its view when it starts, when it is returned from the background, when a physical device is connected/removed, when a virtual port appears/disappears and when a CoreMIDI network session starts/stops. Basically all the time. What's more is that it will automatically re-establish any prior connections that you had set for that port. So far, so good.
Other apps may not refresh their view so much (some just at launch or need the user to manually refresh), so these are the rules of thumb when setting up your connections:
 1. Launch MidiBridge first, so that its virtual ports are available if need be.
 2. Launch category 3 apps (SampleTank, Sunrizer XS) so that they add MidiBridge's virtual destination to the list of ports they'll receive events on.
 3. Launch category 4 apps (SoundPrism Pro) so that they add MidiBridge's virtual source to the list of ports they'll send events to.
 4. Launch any other apps that advertise their own inputs or outputs.
 5. Return to MidiBridge and make the connections (if you need to)
Unfortunately the world isn't perfect and sometimes even these rules are not enough. If it doesn't work, you may need to switch to certain apps as well to re-invogorate their engines. It's not exact and some trial and error may be involved.
Giving NanoStudio a virtual input
Sorry, as of Nanostudio 1.33, this trick no longer works. We have been in touch with Blip Interactive and hopefully will be able to work something out.
With a little trickery it is possible to use MidiBridge to give NanoStudio a virtual input so that it can be fed MIDI events from


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3 Sources of Unfair Credit Scores in Credit and Lending Decisions
December 26, 2019
How do you know if you've produced a fair or unfair credit score? Unfair credit scores hurt your business and your customers. In this post we'll explore 3 sources that may result in unfair credit scores when using AI and machine learning credit scoring prediction models in your credit and lending decisions.
Credit scoring helps lenders and underwriters determine the creditworthiness or risk of a potential borrower. Traditionally lenders have needed to rely on stagnant and incomplete information to then make a judgement call on decisioning. ML and AI provide lenders and credit underwriters with the means to decrease human error and eliminate judgement. But you can still have biased scores or use the wrong vs right data in your credit scoring models.
Three potential causes of unfair credit scoring practices to consider in your machine learning credit underwriting are:
 - Biased data
 - Algorithms within models
 - Business practices
3 Possible Sources of Unfair Scores
1. Biased Data
Data that unduly favors a particular group is biased. And using biased data for credit scoring contributes to an unfair scores.
Example: Zip codes are an example of biased data and a proxy for a protected class of attributes like race. Some US zip codes are predominantly African American based on the racial profiles of people who live there. A credit underwriter or lender may actively avoid lending to those residing in a particular zip code. This is a violation of anti-discrimination law and an example of unfair credit scoring with biased data.
2. Algorithms within Models
Unfair credit scoring can be caused by the machine learning credit underwriting algorithm itself. The most common way that people introduce biases into the credit score algorithm model is in the selection of attributes.
Example: Credit underwriters and credit analysts may have predetermined the set of attributes they consider to be the best indicators of a borrower's creditworthiness. This assumption of 'best indicator' qualification is based on past decisions, not on significantly large data sets. The credit scoring models are then built with the group of attributes subjectively selected, and based on biased or incorrect assumptions.
In this case, it may be only 10 attributes which may not be the correct attributes or sufficient attributes to build a robust credit scoring model. As such, proper due diligence is neglected in the building of credit scoring models.
In contrast, Trust Science encourages customers to share all their data points with us. We add additional alternative data to the customer data to ensure we have a broader, unbiased view of their consumers for credit and lending decisions. We then use robust feature selection algorithms to identify unprotected attributes that most likely explain the credit risk profiles of their consumers. Once these predictive attributes are identified, our model governance team works with dedicated model developers to ensure that the attributes are explainable in the event of adverse action.
3. Business Practices
Lastly, the third source of unfair credit scoring may be prevalent in how a business operates or the business practices realized. A company may only focus on a particular group of people which would introduce a slew of proxies into the credit score algorithm models.
Example: A credit underwriter or lender's primary target market may be single fathers. This focus may be because of the underlying corporate mission to help single fathers. However, this singular focus on single fathers as a target market inherently creates bias if the credit score developed on the data is used to decide loans for consumers other than single fathers.
And these proxies in turn create unintentional discrimination. So even though the company adheres to fair lending regulations, and doesn't supply the protected class of attributes such as sex and marital status, its data is biased. When the company provides its data to implement machine learning credit underwriting and build a credit score algorithm model, even though the protected class of attributes aren't present, proxies are.
Three Tips to Reduce Unfair Credit Scores
What can be done to reduce unfairness in scores?
TIP 1: Check for biased data & use the right data.
> Increases validity and fairness of data and algorithms used in credit scoring models.
TIP 2: Document every decision in the process, along with your assumptions and hypothesis.
> Increases clarity and transparency which limits biases in the data introduced.
TIP 3: Combine credit scoring models.
> Increases accuracy in scores by reducing the biases in a given model.
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Researchers have Come Up with the Largest Family Tree Recorded so far
The newest family tree recorded by researchers compiles data that spans a length of over 500 years. This family tree links together over 13 million people spanning over 11 generations. This number of people is larger than the population of Belgium or the population of Cuba. Why is this family tree important? Well, this data is important because it reveals the set of migration patterns and how people married each other in North America and Europe.
How was this family tree created by researchers?
They used a large amount of data that was taken from one of the biggest genealogical websites. How much data can such a website contain? Well, this one had the complete records of over 86 million people and it is working on updating their data continuously. 85% of the profiles recorded on this website came from North America and Europe.
What did the author of the study have to say?
Yaniv Erlich, the author, said that this study provided a family tree that is completely unique. In order to compile this data, they used a mathematical form to calculate the validity of the information provided by the website.
They found that as time passed people stopped marrying their cousins and tried to find partners outside of their own families. Up to 1750 people would travel for a very short distance to seek their spouses and up to 1850 people would decide to marry their fourth cousins. This data contradicts recent evaluations and it shows that, in the present, members of society are more likely to seek partners that are not related to them and that live further away as well.
When talking about genes, the team of researchers analyzed data from 1600 up to 1910 and found that the gene combination influenced up to 16% the longevity of the individuals.
The main conclusion of this study is that, up to an extent, we are all related to one another, whether we realize it or not.
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Reason #1: The Dark Ages of Ballroom Dance
The less important reason is that for many people, the term "following" still carries a negative connotation left over from the early 20th century.
The original ballroom emphasis toward partnering was best, as reflected in these quotes from the 19th century:
Recollect that the desire of imparting pleasure, especially to the ladies, is one of the essential qualifications of a gentleman. The truly polite man is always mindful of the comfort of those around him. — Prof. D. L. Carpenter, Philadelphia, 1854
Unfortunately, the 1920s through 1950s saw the emergence of a particularly disagreeable phase of ballroom dance, when the term lead meant "command" and follow meant "obey".
Soon after American women won the right to vote, many dance manuals changed their tone, proposing that the man was still the "boss" on the dance floor, while the "weaker sex" had to "submit entirely" to the man. Advice for women was that, "she must not have a mind of her own," and that "you don't have much to say in the matter at all."
You might be amused to read these quotations, which are here: Partnering Before and After the Vote.
But that was a long time ago — the "dark ages" of ballroom dance. Fortunately we've become much more enlightened since then, as friendliness and respect have returned to the dance floor.


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A PPG (an acronym for Phased Plasma Gun) is a type of weapon that fires a bolt of energized, super-heated helium sheathed in an electromagnetic field and propelled by an opposed magnetic field. On impact, the plasma bolt dissipates and discharges its thermal and kinetic energy.
When fired in an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere, the intense heat of the super-heated helium plasma projectile causes a distinctive optical distortion as it expands the air around it. PPGs are the sidearm of choice for most space-based fighting forces, as the plasma bolt is effective against organic targets and thin metals but will dissipate quickly when striking denser surfaces. This means that while in a pressurised environment, a stray shot will not cause a hull breach, as is the risk with Slugthrowers. Sustained fire will however burn though some thick metals but alloys with a high heat dissipation rate such as beryllium will simply ricochet the shot.
Most PPGs feature different settings that allow the user to balance the power of each discharge, the time between recharges (allowing for more or less rapid fire) with the energy used and thus number of shots from a single energy cap. As a rule, pistols tend to have slower recharges between shots and a lower capacity energy cap, while larger rifles have a much shorter recharge cycle and larger energy caps.
Though a lower-level PPG shot will normally burn and cauterise a wound, leaving the target down but alive, a well-aimed and/or close-range PPG shot is easily capable of causing instant death; penetrating flesh, fusing bone and incinerating internal organs. Higher settings, on the other hand, will burn straight through an organic body, cause massive internal burns and trauma to the internal organs and even melt clothing right into the skin. Such high-powered, lethal shots are rarely used as it consumes a lot of energy, reducing the number of shots between reloads and increasing the time between recharge cycles.
Models of PPG WeaponsEdit
- Auricon PPG Pistol
- Westlake & Grummon PPG Pistol
- Tho'val PPG pistol
- Kalat PPG Pistol
- Sha'ann PPG Pistol
- Tromo PPG Pistol


Fairlight (video game)
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Fairlight in-game screen
Developer(s) Edge Games
Publisher(s) Edge Games
Designer(s) Bo Jangeborg
Engine Grax
Platform(s) Amstrad CPC by Trevor Inns, Amstrad PCW by Trevor Inns, Commodore 64 by Trevor Inns, ZX Spectrum
Release date(s) 1985 (ZX Spectrum)
1986 (Other platforms)
Genre(s) Arcade adventure
Mode(s) Single player
Distribution Cassette, Floppy disk
Fairlight is an isometric projection arcade adventure video game developed by Bo Jangeborg and Jack Wilkes at EDGE Games and released in 1985. Developed in seven months, Jangeborg created the GRAX game engine using some prior code and components from his earlier project, graphics package The Artist. Wilkes contributed art assets towards the game, including enemy sprites and the title screen. The game was well received critically and commercially, selling over 50,000 copies, a sequel Fairlight II was released in 1986.
The game revolves around the protagonist Isvar, and his quest to find the Book of Light for the court sorcerer, in order for them to escape Castle Avars.
The ZX Spectrum version was one of the first (along with Technician Ted) to have an interactive loader - instead of the usual yellow/blue loading bars, a counter at the bottom of the screen ran backwards indicating how long until the game had loaded.
The player controls an adventurer named Isvar that can be moved in a castle which is not only three-dimensional isometric view, but realistic in terms of the way objects behave. Each object has its own physical properties and resultant characteristics in terms of how much else can be carried alongside it. Certain objects have special uses (e.g. keys open certain doors), and there is a puzzle element to the game to discover how some of these objects relate to the world in order to help the player solve the game.
In addition to carrying objects, they could also be stacked on top of each other to enable Isvar to climb up to rooms above him or to reach important objects perched high above on platforms. There are also a number of secret areas in the castle that are not visually obvious to the player and can only be discovered through exploration.
During Isvar's exploration of the castle he is accosted by its guards and monsters - trolls, monks, guards, tornadoes, man-eating plants, bubbles, etc. all of which weaken Isvar's energy. Fortunately the castle also contains food and magical potions which will restore his health. In addition, certain game objects can affect the enemies, (by either killing them, distracting them, or freezing them, depending on the object and the type of enemy they are used upon)
Once defeated in combat a guard disappears leaving only his helmet behind. Helmets can be picked up and carried by Isvar, and placed somewhere else out of harms way (or into the path of a tornado, that destroys any object it touches). If Isvar leaves the room, the guard will regenerate from the helmet.
 - Edge refused to pay Bo Jangeborg for Fairlight unless Bo signed up to make more games for Edge[1]
 - Fairlight II was released without Bo's approval[1]
 - The game won the awards for best arcade adventure, best graphics and best music of the year according to the readers of Crash magazine.[2]
Preceded by
UK number-one Spectrum game
January 1986
Succeeded by
"Monty on the Run"
 1. ^ a b TIGSource message by user Raiten recounting his interview of Bo Jangeborg [1]
 2. ^ _URL_
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Prince of Wales Fort National Historic Site of Canada
History of Sloop Cove
A sloop (ship)© Parks Canada/ PWF Collection
Sloop Cove was identified as Nationally Significant because of the inscriptions left there by the men who lived at the Fort and worked with the boats used by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Sloop Cove is a sheltered nook situated 3.2 km from Prince of Wales Fort on the west side of the Churchill River. Sloops were wooden sailing vessels used during the fur trade for exploration, whaling expeditions and northern trading attempts with the Inuit. During the 1700s, there was 3.2 m of water in the cove at high tide, so it was an ideal wintering and mooring spot for them. Iron rings,which were driven into the rocks by the Hudson's Bay Company men to secure the sloops, are still visible today. They brought supplies and long-awaited mail for the Hudson's Bay Company men who lived at Prince of Wales Fort. Ships from England wintered in the cove as early as 1689.
The south accesses the Churchill River in two spots, one between the west wall and a rock outcrop island in the center of the cove; the other between the island and a man made breakwater to the east.
A visit to Sloop Cove© Parks Canada/ PWF Collection
For many years it was thought that the dry cove was a result of the phenomenon known as isostatic rebound. This situation describes the gradual rising of land elevations as it springs back after thousands of years of being crushed under the weight of continental glaciers. The west coast of Hudson Bay is known as one of the more dramatic areas of isostatic rebound where the land still rises at a rate of a meter per century. This is especially noticeable in the flat lowland areas of the coast. However, at Sloop Cove, mooring ships in 1750 would have involved a situation where the daily water level was, at most, less than 3 m higher than today. This situation would have resulted in a large pool in the cove where the Centre was about 1 m deep and most of the pool was 50 cm or less - hardly enough for the boat mooring. However, even at an increase of only 2 m, the cove becomes an almost perfect dry dock. At high tide, there is enough water to easily drag the boat into the mouth of the cove and past the breakwater and natural island. Then the boat can be manhandled through a shallow, salt water pond to the location desired. Once into the cove, there is little chance of damage from ice or storms
There has been no analysis of how Sloop Cove was used by the 18th century inhabitants of the area, but there are several indications that help us understand at least part of the picture. First of all, the site is a wintering cove for the sloops that over wintered in the bay and possibly a place for larger, ocean going ships to put in for repairs. Virtually all of the inscriptions are from seamen or shipwrights so the area was probably of little use except as shelter for the boats. It has been assumed that the boats were floated into the cove at a time when the ocean was 2 or more meters higher and that the dry cove is a result of isostatic rebound. This seems unlikely. The number and location of the many mooring rings would suggest that the boats were hauled into the cove with block and tackle to rest in the small depression in the center of the cove. The raised beach ridge in front may have been dug out each season to make the hauling easier. There may also have been a somewhat deeper central pond but it is unlikely that any boats with a draft of a meter or more floated into the cove.
If repairs were needed below the waterline or if barnacles were to be removed, the boat would then have to be hauled to one side or to the back of the cove to bring it out of the water. In the absence of any concrete evidence, alternative explanations are equally plausible.
Samuel Hearne carved name© Parks Canada/ PWF Collection
The lichen covered rocks bear the names carved into the stone by the Company men. They were sailors, harpooners, shipwrights, carpenters, shipmates, captains, labourers and a servant. The name most visitors recognize is that of Samuel Hearne.
Artwork of Samuel Hearne© Parks Canada/ PWF Collection
: Samuel Hearne was 22 years old when he carved his name at Sloop Cove. He was employed by the Hudson's Bay Company as a shipmate. He journeyed to the Coppermine River with the help of Mattonnabbee and his wives, a trip which took 18 months. Mattonnabbee was a leading Indian who had great prestige among the Chipewyans and the Athabascan Cree. He had developed an organized pattern of movement between the trade posts on the coast and the interior. In 1774 Hearne established the first inland trading post, Cumberland House, and was governor at Prince of Wales Fort from 1775 to 1782. After the French destroyed the fort in 1782 Hearne returned to establish Fort Churchill 8 km upriver from Prince of Wales Fort. Read about Samuel Hearne in his own words: Arctic Dawn : The Journeys of Samuel Hearne.


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The time-independent Schrödinger equation is solved using the finite element method (FEM) and the finite difference method (FDM). The resulting eigenvalue problems are solved using the ARPACK++ library. Both methods are implemented in the same program so the methods can be compared. The program is limited to spherically symmetric potentials.
We study a quantum system of two electrons in a harmonic oscillator potential and a constant magnetic field. This system is an approximation to the two-electron quantum dot. By a coordinate transformation this equation can be separated into two independent single-particle equations, which we can solve in the same program.