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(RP) ATISAIN TH-Type (Thunderhead-class) Heavy Cruiser
In 4459 A.D, the Aquarian Imperial Navy iniated the Fleet Rearmament program; whereby the Admiralty expressed a requirement to update the Fleet's arsenal with newer, post-Imperial Era designs built to address matters of security and conflict within Aquarius and beyond, going forward. The program would include extensive upgrade packages for existing hulls and several, completely new, hull designs built to operate the Navy's latest and most advanced weapon systems just entering service at the time. One of the new hull designs was the TH-type, or 'Thunderhead-class' Heavy Cruiser - a vessel designed to bridge the gap between the fast RV-type Fleet Cruiser and the larger ED-type and RE-II-type Battlecruisers.
Such a warship would historically fall into the Heavy Cruiser classification (CCH); once the workhorse of Aquarius's military power, but largely fallen out of favour in the post-Old Federal Era navies of the cluster, in part due to the advancement of weapons capabilities on smaller, faster ships such as the RV-type and SP-type medium and light cruisers. Historical classifications of CCH include the Vengeance-class; which had an extensive and well decorated service career with the Old Federal Navy, and remains in service to this day with various independent factions throughout Aquarius due to the sheer number that were built by the Old Federation.
The Imperial Navy inherited a large number of Vengeance-class CCH hulls from the UAS during the transition to the Imperial Era in 4402 A.D, which themselves (being VE-AX type cruisers) were inherited directly from the TLA and the remnants of the UTN's last few heavy cruiser fleets after the Fall in 4040 A.D. These ancient warships were slowly being phased out in UAS service in favour of the pre-imperial version of the RT-type, the Revolution-class Fleet Cruiser, which continued in Imperial Service, although a few Vengeance-class CCH hulls did remain in service as the VN-type Heavy Cruiser well into the 46th century.
The requirement for a Heavy Cruiser was put forward by the Imperial Naval Strategic Analysis Commission in 4462 A.D after Operation Ultima in the Angel Hook Nebula against the EFPF rebellion. It was considered important that the Fleet possessed a fast but heavier armed and armoured warship that could provide Battlecruiser (CB) class defensive capability and to a lesser extent, armament, but with a mass low enough to perform fast manoeuvres with fast cruiser groups, including the Navy's highly successfully RV-type fleet cruisers, and SP-type destroyer/light cruisers.
Existing heavy warships of the Capital class such as the ED-type Battlecruiser, itself based on a hull design nearly a thousand cycles old, were simply too heavy to conduct fast raids whereby warships are expected, and required, to perform very sudden course-alterations without significant prior notice. Though the Navy's new RE-II-type battlecruiser possesses incredible speed for a CB-class warship, the vessel's mobility is impaired largely by the much larger mass and sheer size of the battlecruiser classification.
In order to address the requirement for a defensive-focused 'fast warship', the Imperial Institute for Naval Research began experimenting with a new class of warship with a specific mass envelope and weight-to-thrust ratio, incorporating new advances in Gravimetric Gyro and Slipstream Drive Technology to allow a much heavier warship than the RV-type to perform similar manoeuvres, thus providing fast-cruiser groups with an effective, defensive-oriented M/CQC ship-of-the-line.
The result of a decade of engineering design, the fruits of the project produce the TH-type Heavy Cruiser, also known in the Imperial Navy Register as the 'Thunderhead-class'.
Aquarian Imperial Navy TH-type (Thunderhead-class) Heavy Cruiser, Pattern 1 (4472 AD)
The new warship features a unique structural design with an optimised centre-of-gravity and mass signature, powerful Slipstream Drives based on the Navy's new 'STARLIGHT' drive technology that had been incorporated on the SP-type Pattern 2 (SP2) and RE-II-type battlecruisers already in service with the fleet. The result was a warship with incredible acceleration, deacceleration and turning capability but with a mass budget large enough to incorporate much heavier powerplants required to operate battlecruiser-level shielding systems and weapons supercapacitors.
Although the Thunderhead-class's main battery is no larger than the RV-type Fleet Cruiser, with only two A-type hardpoints, it possess an extensive secondary armament with 8 B-type hardpoints, and significantly increased frontal and side armour protection, powerplants and shield generators. The emphasis of the Thunderhead-class was to protect Fast Cruisers from interdictor cruisers or capital ships in medium to close quarters engagements in fleet-scale warfare. As such, the warship is optimised for ship-of-the-line duties at the expense of long-range stand-off firepower.
The increased mass budget of the CCH classification allowed Imperial Draughtsmen to incorporate a hangar facility with a utility bay for gunship-type strikecraft and an extensive internal flight deck for DF430 Multi-role Starfighters; allowing Thunderhead to deploy a respectable contingent of strikecraft wings to assist it in protecting the fleet's more vulnerable fast cruisers from bomber harassment.
Armour protection is focused around the frontal arc of the warship, with minimal additional main-belt protection on the ship's stern, the result is a warship that emphasises frontal and front-side assault on enemy capital ships or cruisers, but with significantly increased shield protection for the more vulnerable rear section. The design is a trade-off to allow heavier frontal arc protection within the strict mass budgets of the CCH design.
Thunderhead-class Heavy Cruiser in Hypercruise on approach to a Lorentis Naval Sector, Lorentis System, ~4472 A.D. The ATIS capital world of Lorentis can be seen in the background.
TH-type warships completed their first field trials in 4470 A.D, and the Navy has requested full product of the new class by 4475 A.D, with combat readiness of at least a dozen full-strength Task Force-scale deployments by 4480 A.D. As such the TH-type Heavy Cruiser is set to become the new backbone of the Imperial Navy's 'fast heavy strike' capability, replacing the older Vengeance-class as a ship-of-the-line; the first such designation for nearly a thousand Terran cycles.
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The Vision The Ananda Pavilion of Gratitude is meant to be a reflection of our spiritual path of Self-realization and of the understanding that Paramhansa Yogananda has given us about the transition from life with a physical body to life without one. This transition is part of "the soul's long journey through time and space." As a reflection of this understanding, the Pavilion is a place of spiritual upliftment, of gratitude and remembrance, and of meditation and prayer. It is a place to reflect on and remember the truth of our own deepest reality: That we are souls that are part of the all-pervading, ever-existing Divine consciousness.
The Site The Pavilion of Gratitude is situated in a "forest garden" that includes a beautiful area of oak trees and a view of Lotus Lake. The open air Pavilion will include benches and an altar. The open air Pavilion includes benches and an altar. The Garden is a place for gratitude and remembrance, meditation and memorial service. We hope you will enjoy it when you are at Ananda Village.
History about the Memorial Site The Pavilion of Gratitude site was blessed in 1993 by Swami Kriyananda during a large event at Ananda Village called the Pilgrimage to Joy. At that time this site was designated for a Chapel of Divine Inspiration which wasn't able to be built then. Now, 25 years later, we are able to enjoy the wonderful blessings of this site through the Pavilion of Gratitude.
Dedication of the Pavilion of Gratitude
On Sunday, June 16, 2019 there was a lovely Dedication for the new Pavilion of Gratitude. This happened following the Sunday Service in the Yogananda Amphitheater. There was a procession with chanting around Lotus Lake which ended at the Pavilion on the far side of the lake. The statues of Babaji and Master were carried in the procession and then placed on their pedestals at each side of the altar. A rose from the altar was then placed on each statue. Nayaswami Parvati led a prayer and then said a few words about the Pavilion. One of the purposes of it is to attune more deeply to the soul's transition at death from a physical body to the astral realms and beyond. Paramhansa Yogananda described this transition in detail and talked about ways to understand its significance. A number of his writings on this subject can be found in The Wisdom of Yogananda book series: Karma & Reincarnation. We hope you will enjoy visiting the Pavilion of Gratitude when you next come to Ananda Village.
Cement Pour and Pavilion Installation
The funds to build the Pavilion of Gratitude are provided by the Ananda Janaka Foundation from Memorial donations we receive. Further development of this special area will happen as we receive additional donations.
Memorial donations can be made on the Ananda Janaka Foundation website, on the Ananda Remembers page.
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Q: Mapreduce MultipleOutputs error I want to store output of a mapreduce job in two different directories.
Eventhough my code is designed to store the same output in different directories.
My Driver class code below
public class WordCountMain {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

Configuration conf = new Configuration();

Job myhadoopJob = new Job(conf);

myhadoopJob.setJarByClass(WordCountMain.class);
myhadoopJob.setJobName("WORD COUNT JOB");
FileInputFormat.addInputPath(myhadoopJob, new Path(args[0]));

myhadoopJob.setMapperClass(WordCountMapper.class);
myhadoopJob.setReducerClass(WordCountReducer.class);
myhadoopJob.setInputFormatClass(TextInputFormat.class);
myhadoopJob.setOutputFormatClass(TextOutputFormat.class);

myhadoopJob.setMapOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
myhadoopJob.setMapOutputValueClass(IntWritable.class);

myhadoopJob.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
myhadoopJob.setOutputValueClass(IntWritable.class);

MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(myhadoopJob, "output1", TextOutputFormat.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class);
MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(myhadoopJob, "output2", TextOutputFormat.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class);
FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(myhadoopJob, new Path(args[1]));

System.exit(myhadoopJob.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1);

}

}
My Mapper Code
   public class WordCountMapper extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text,     IntWritable>

{

@Override
protected void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context)throws IOException, InterruptedException {

String line = value.toString();
String word =null;

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(line,",");

while(st.hasMoreTokens())
{
 word=  st.nextToken();

context.write(new Text(word), new IntWritable(1));

}

}

}
My Reducer Code is below
public class WordCountReducer extends Reducer<Text, IntWritable, Text, IntWritable>

{

MultipleOutputs mout =null;

protected void reduce(Text key, Iterable<IntWritable> values, Context context)throws IOException, InterruptedException {

int count=0;
int num =0;

    Iterator<IntWritable> ie =values.iterator();

    while(ie.hasNext())
    {
         num = ie.next().get();//1
         count= count+num;

    }
mout.write("output1", key, new IntWritable(count));

mout.write("output2", key, new IntWritable(count));

@Override
protected void setup(org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer.Context context)
        throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.setup(context);

     mout = new MultipleOutputs<Text, IntWritable>(context);
}

}

@Override
protected void setup(org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer.Context context)
        throws IOException, InterruptedException {

    super.setup(context);

     mout = new MultipleOutputs<Text, IntWritable>(context);
}

}
I am simply giving the output directories in reduce method itself
But when I run this mapreduce job using the below command, it does nothing. Even Mapreduce is not at all started. just  a blank and stays idle.
hadoop jar WordCountMain.jar /user/cloudera/inputfiles/words.txt /user/cloudera/outputfiles/mapreduce/multipleoutputs

Could someone explain me what went wrong and how do I correct this with my code
Actually what happens is two output files with different name are stored inside  /user/cloudera/outputfiles/mapreduce/multipleoutputs.
but what I need is storing output files in different directories.
In pig we can use by  two STORE statement by giving different directories
How do I achieve the same in mapreduce

A: Can you try closing multiple output object in cleanup method for Reducer.

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Medical negligence as novus actus interveniens: an analysis of the South African delictual jurisprudence
dc.contributor.advisor Nwafor, A. O.
dc.contributor.advisor Lubisi, V. E.
dc.contributor.author Matumba, Rendani Margaret
dc.identifier.citation Matumba, Rendani Margaret (2019) Medical negligence as novus actus interveniens: an analysis of the South African delictual jurisprudence, University of Venda, South Africa.<http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1322>.
dc.description Department of Jurisprudence
dc.description LLM
dc.description.abstract The South African Constitution guarantees equal rights to everyone. The right to equality is specifically protected in Section 9 of the Constitution. Section 9(1) states that ‗everyone is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and benefit of the law'. However, ensuring equality of treatment between the victim of medical negligence and the health service provider has not enjoyed a satisfactory judicial approach. The causes of death or harm suffered by the patient poses a serious problem in the medico-legal investigation. The major focus of this proposed dissertation is the impact on the chain of causation from the victim's perspective because of medical negligence and the South African courts' approach in such matters. The courts do not seem to have satisfactorily applied the principles of novus actus interveniens in such cases. The proposed research hopes to expose unfair discrimination against the victim of medical negligence through its analysis of the courts' approach in medical negligence claims. The approach used by the courts will be critically analysed to determine whether the degree of legal or judicial protectionism in favour of the medical profession is adequate. In recent times, government health service providers have inundated government health departments with claims arising from medical negligence. Although this could seem beneficial from the victim's perspective as any relief obtained could be enforced on the assets of the relevant health department, the success level is relatively low as the concept of novus actus interveniens has continued to pose a great challenge to the victim in proving a claim against the medical personnel. This research sought to find out how the protection of victims of medical negligence could be enhanced in spite of the common law defence of novus actus interveniens available to the health service providers. en_US
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dc.format.extent 1 online resource (xi, 106 leaves)
dc.rights University of Venda
dc.subject Medical en_US
dc.subject Negligence en_US
dc.subject Novus actus interveniens en_US
dc.subject Delictual en_US
dc.subject Jurisprudence en_US
dc.title Medical negligence as novus actus interveniens: an analysis of the South African delictual jurisprudence en_US
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OK let me know how you get on.
Don't give up yet, Central Cemetery is General Cemetery and I can check burial records at Nottingham Archives also there is Rock Cemetery which I'll also check. Carlton Cemetery have a on line search and I've already checked that. As I've ready said newspaper archives are at the library and I'll go though those as soon as I can but might not be for a week or two.
OH thank you so much its very good of you. i am going to send off for a death cert. he was born in Sutton in Ashfield. so ive been told Mansfield. will be were i have to write to. Looking forwards to seeing what you find out regards Chris.
Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you, I have checked all the cemetery's I can and cannot find James Straw sorry about that.
Have you had any luck with the death certificate yet.
I'm very new to the site but as I was investigating a family murder I find that we are related. I have been reading my Grandmother's memoirs and she talks about her Grandfather being murdered. She recalls her Uncle Jim coming to the house to fetch her mother to her Grandfathers house in Oldham Street. My Grandmothers name was Annie James and her mothers name was Annie James nee Straw.
Hi all. I'm also descended from James Straw (May Straw was my great grandmother) did anyone get any further with this? As it happens I don't live far from Nottingham so could go and check records?
I am sorry, but it seems Christine, aka miss piggy has sadly passed away.
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Gary L. Lilien is Distinguished Professor of Management Science at the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University and is also the co-founder and research director of Institute for the Study of Business Markets ISBM, the world's leading institution focusing on fostering research in B2B markets.

Biography
Before joining Penn State University as a faculty member in 1981, Lilien was an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has authored or co-authored twenty books, including the very popular Marketing Models with Phil Kotler and Sridhar Moorthy, Marketing Engineering with Arvind Rangaswamy and most recently, Principles of Marketing Engineering, with Arvind Rangaswamy and Arnaud De Bruyn.  He has also published over 100 professional articles primarily in the areas of industrial marketing, new product development, marketing models, and bargaining theory.   He was departmental editor for marketing for the journal, Management Science; is on the editorial board of the International Journal for Research in Marketing; is functional editor for Marketing for Interfaces, and is area editor at Marketing Science.  He was editor-in-chief of Interfaces for six years.

He is a member of INFORMS, the American Marketing Association, the Product Development and Management Association, and the European Marketing Academy.  He has served on the NSF advisory panel for the Decision and Management Sciences program.

He is the former president as well as vice president/publications for The Institute of Management Sciences.  He is VP for external relations and an Inaugural Fellow of the European Marketing Academy and serves on the board of directors of the INFORMS College on Marketing. He is an inaugural INFORMS Fellow, was honored as Morse Lecturer for INFORMS and also received the George E. Kimball Medal for distinguished contributions to the field of operations research. The American Marketing Association announced Lilien as the 2008 recipient of the AMA Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, the highest honor a marketing educator can receive. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Liège, the University of Ghent and Aston University.

Lilien's research interests are in marketing decision support, marketing engineering, market segmentation, new product modeling and marketing-mix issues for business products, bargaining and negotiations in business markets, modeling the industrial buying process, and innovation diffusion modeling.

He consults for many companies and is principal of the Marketing Engineering consultancy, DecisionPro . More details are available at garylilien.info.

See also
Return on marketing investment
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External links
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Security Isn't a Technological Problem
Security, of technological resources, isn't a technological problem. The security of technological resources and information is a problem with people.
That's not a very ground breaking conclusion, but I think that the effects of what this might mean for people doing security [1] may be more startling.
Beyond a basic standard of "writing and using quality software" and following sane administration practices, the way to resolve security issues is to fix the way people use and understand the implications of their use.
There are tools that help control user behavior to greater or lesser degrees. Things like permissions control, management, auditing, and encryption, but they're just tools: they don't solve the human problems and the policy/practice issues that are the core of best security practice. Teaching people how their technology works, what's possible and what's not possible, and finally how to control their own data and resources is the key to increasing and providing security services to everyone.
I think of this as the "free software solution," because it draws on the strengths and methods of free software to shape and enhance people's user experience and to improve the possible security of the public network as a whole. One of the things that has always drawn me to free software, and one of its least understood properties, deals with the power of source code to create an environment that facilitates education and inquiry. People who regularly use free software, I'd bet, have a better understanding of how technology works than people who don't, and it's not because free software users have to deal with less polished software (not terribly true), but has something to do with a different relationship between creators and users of software. I think it would be interesting to take this model and apply it to the "security problem."
With luck, teaching more people to think about security processes will mean that users will generally understand:
how encryption works, and be more amenable to managing their own cryptography identities and infrastructure. (PGP and SSH)
how networking works on a basic level to be able to configure, set, and review network security. (LAN Administration, NetFilter)
how passwords are stored and used, and what makes strong passwords that are easy to remember and difficult to break.
how to control and consolidate identity systems to minimize social engineering vulnerabilities. (OpenID, OAuth, etc.)
There's a lot of pretty basic knowledge that I think most people don't have. At the same time, I think it's safe to say that most of the difficult engineering questions have been solved regarding security, there's a bunch of tooling and infrastructure on the part of various services that would make better security practices easier to maintain (i.e. better PGP support in mail clients). In the mean time....
Stay smart.
[1] Security, being a process, rather than a product. Cite.


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PHOTO: HeroRats / Maarten Boersema
Cambodia's deadly landmine legacy
And what to do about it
Alpaslan Ozerdem
Development, Arts, culture & society | Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, The World
A revolutionary approach to action on landmines that includes humanitarian and development needs is the long-term answer Cambodia is looking for, Alpaslan Ozerdem writes.
The human cost of anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) is ever-present for many communities affected by armed conflict across the world. For populations in such challenging post-conflict environments, injuries and deaths due to exposure to Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) can often occur years after the mines were laid and long after when the conflict has officially ended.
The landmines disrupt livelihoods, restrict commerce, and ultimately limit personal freedom, as they prevent the safe repatriation of refugees, hamper the provision of aid and relief, and burden already overstretched health care systems. They deprive communities of productive land, limiting access to economically important areas.
Therefore, the dangers ERW pose to war-affected societies are not only through their indiscriminate killing and maiming but also what they mean for the long-term peacebuilding and development goals that those societies struggle to achieve.
Landmines and other ERW come with a very real human cost and are a global problem. According to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, almost every region in the world is mine-affected and more than 80 countries are affected to some degree by ERW. Most countries that report casualties are not currently involved in armed conflict: according to the 2015 Landmine Monitor Report, 37 of 54 countries that suffered new mine casualties in 2014 are State Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty.
On top of that, the vast majority of victims are civilians, not soldiers – only 20 per cent of reported casualties in 2014 were identified as military personnel.
Dealing with the problem also presents significant financial challenges, particularly to developing countries. Although the cost of laying mines could be as little as US$3 per mine, the cost of their removal is often more than US$1,000 per mine.
More on this: Cambodia: traumatic past, troubled future | Gareth Evans & Simon Springer
One country grappling with such a stark reality is Cambodia where, despite the end of the war there in 1991, landmines continue to inflict a heavy toll on society. The legacy of three decades of war in Cambodia, a country of just over 11 million people, is an estimated 10 million landmines.
The number of all known landmine-related casualties in the country between 1979 and 2013 was over 64,000. In 2013, nearly 90 per cent of such casualties were civilians. These landmine casualties mean that Cambodia has the highest ratio per capita of amputees in the world.
However, thanks to the efforts of humanitarian landmine clearance agencies in the country, 50 per cent of Cambodia's minefields have now been cleared. This is hugely important for the economy, as more than 80 per cent of the country's population live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of income. According to the HALO Trust (a mine clearance charity), the current landmine threat is mainly in the 21 north-west border districts of the country, where it continues to be an impediment to development as it prevents populations from accessing agricultural land, water sources, roads and other services.
Landmine clearance is often a major and urgent challenge for conflict-affected societies, such as Cambodia, in order to enable their socio-economic and physical reconstruction and sustain the peacebuilding process. Until the late 1990s, the main components of the response to this challenge – mine clearance, mine awareness, victim assistance, stockpile destruction and advocacy – largely occurred in isolation from each other. This changed in 1997 when three leading mine action NGOs; MAG – Mines Advisory Group, Norwegian People's Aid, and Handicap International launched the concept of Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA). This approach ensured better coordination among existing mine action activities while also expanding to encompass a wide range of post-conflict recovery initiatives. Since then, HMA activities have continued to widen in scope, keeping pace with the contemporary context within which they operate.
By integrating its activities within the longer term plans of development agencies, HMA has delivered a sustained impact and increase in operational capacity in recent years. In turn, this sustainability has enhanced coherence across developmental platforms and improved assistance to affected communities by harnessing the potential of cross-sectoral support. It is in this context that the clearance of ERW such as anti-personnel landmines could play a significant role in making post-conflict reconstruction more relevant and effective. From the clearance of ERW from agricultural land to the employment of former combatants as deminers, there are some obvious areas of interaction between those processes.
Cambodia's HeroRats. Image by Kingston Seinafo Feala / ARGUS.
In Cambodia, HMA has championed innovative approaches to landmine clearance such as the HeroRATs program which was implemented by APOPO and the Cambodian Mine Action Centre, involving the training of rats and their handlers. Each mine detection rat is expected to search up to 200 square metres in 20 minutes, something that could take a technician with a metal detector up to four days to complete. The HeroRATs program was successfully used in the clearance of landmines in Angola and Mozambique, and the hope is that it will speed up the landmine clearance process in Cambodia.
However, HMA in Cambodia should consider a wide range of issues beyond the clearance of landmines, such as long-term assistance to victims. Survivors need access to free healthcare programmes, require specific attention to their employment and educational opportunities and assistance with social inclusion challenges. For example, disability in Khmer society has traditionally been seen as a result of a disabled person's bad karma sentencing them to a life of misery. This can mean victims of landmines not only lose their limbs but also their dignity in society, and are likely to face considerable societal challenges. It is imperative, then, that Cambodia is supported further in this protracted challenge through a comprehensive HMA approach by the international community, both in the clearance of landmines and in responding to the socio-economic and cultural ramifications of this deadly legacy.
Alpaslan Ozerdem is Professor of Peacebuilding and Co-Director of Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University, UK.
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Ozerdem, Alpaslan. 2016. "Cambodia'S Deadly Landmine Legacy - Policy Forum". Policy Forum. http://www.policyforum.net/cambodias-deadly-landmine-legacy/.


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#1 Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith
#2 Beyoncé and Jay Z
#3 Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively
#4 Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
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If you've had a broken heart or struggled to find the one in your life, don't lose your faith in love. Many couples are infatuated with each other and stay together for decades, including celebrities with thousands of devoted fans. The deep love these famous stars gave to their significant others motivates us to be patient in the journey of seeking true love.
Let's scroll down to see 10 couples who make you both admire and envy!
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The two knew each other through the movie Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Though Will had his own family, he won't feel happy and decided to get a divorce. He then contacted Jada, and after knowing she wasn't dating anyone, he said: "Cool. You're seeing me now." Despite all the rumors about their relationship, they still stick to one another as ever.
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The couple learned about each other when Beyoncé was 18, but they kept being friends and collaborated on various music projects. In 2014, they officially appeared side by side in a red carpet event and have been together until now.
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In 2010, Reynolds married Scarlett Johansson while Blake Lively was dating Penn Badgley. The two met during the filming of Green Lantern and unexpectedly fell for one another. They surprised everyone by dating in 2011 before getting hitched one year later. This couple is well-known for their enviable love and their hilarious trolls for each other.
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These two actors met in a comedy class in Los Angeles. They hit it off immediately and continued to collaborate in movies for many years. They eventually decided to tie the knot in 2005.
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A couple of vampires (one from The Vampire Diaries and the other from Twilight) seem perfect. The two were friends for a long time, and 6 months after dating, Ian proposed to his partner. Apparently, their love for each other overcomes everything, including their 9-year age gap.
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Though they are a lovely couple, they aren't into appearing in front of the public eye. They only stepped on the red carpet together in the premiere of The Place Beyond the Pines in 2012. However, we could feel their heated love through some shots picturing them kissing at Disneyland in Paris.
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They knew each other through a mutual friend and decided to go out together. John didn't think they could make it to the end, so he decided to "blow it right away." However, it turned out that the couple was compatible, and they got married in 2009.
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The two decided to tie the knot only 3 months after they met each other in 2010, but they have proved that their love never changes. Chris always loves to praise his beloved wife: "She's fun. She's outgoing, has a sense of humor, and a passionate attitude toward life, which is nice to keep up with."
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David used to tell Ellen DeGeneres that he wanted to marry Victoria from the Spice Girls, and somehow, his wish was granted. They first met at a soccer match, and David shouted "Hi!" to her. Now they are happy with 4 kids and just celebrated their 22nd anniversary.
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In many cases, someone we never expect to fall for is our true love. When Tom had a tough time after his divorce, he met Charlotte, the woman he wasn't interested in at first. However, after she invited him for a cup of tea, they gradually realized they were born for each other.
Have you found the one of your life? How did you meet? What's the most memorable experience you had together? Share your stories with us in the comment below, and don't forget to check out other posts on our site for more exciting ideas!
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October has always held a special place in my heart as each year it comes with different, yet always fun and exciting events. This year was no different as it was one to remember for a long time to come. My mum and brother moved to northern Germany a few years ago and I've rarely seen them since, so this October I decided to visit them for the first time. Months before I actually went I also stalked Wardruna's website to see where they will be performing on the tour for their new album. One of the shows was going to be in Berlin and I really wanted to go and see them live.
Mum and I somehow planned things out so good that I went to see her the same week as the concert took place, so we bought our tickets and decided to go together. While being in northern Germany, Hannover, Hildesheim, Sarstedt… was wonderful as it was, the concert was the icing on the cake. There was a loooong 3 hour drive to Berlin from Hildesheim, but everything sort of magically fell in place, and we managed everything with ease. I was in love with the rustic old looking beautifulness of Hildesheim and Sarsted, not so much Berlin as it was crowded and grey. but never the less I wasn't there for the site seeing. We had a whole day in Berlin, because the concert began around 9 pm, so we went exploring. The underground tube system was 'fun' to figure out when you come from a country that doesn't have one. But thankfully I speak German quite good enough, so we managed just fine. Apart from visiting the Alexa shopping center where we ate the most delicious noodle soup at an Asian restaurant, and going for a tremendously overpriced glass of wine and iced coffee, we didn't end up having enough time to explore more than Alexanderplatz square.
Words cannot explain how much I enjoyed Wardruna's concert. If you think they can't be better live than recorded, you're dead wrong. You can feel such power in their music, you can't help but fall into sort of a trans. Even my mum was super impressed and enjoyed the performance. They had a few shockers that just left your mouth open. and heart pounding. Amazing instrumental as well as vocal talent. It was beyond magical. I can just imagine how it would be if they performed out in the openness of nature. Brilliant. We were at the Huxley's Neue Welt music venue that hosts lots of concerts almost every day, so it was a closed space, but in a huge city like Berlin, maybe that is for the better. I danced and tried really hard to actually look at the performance and Einar Selvik with his wonderful team, but to be honest the music is so good, your eyes automatically close. The end was the best part. They played probably everyone's favourite song Helvegen which is not from the new album, but is a classic that lifts your soul, and I was ecstatic. Couldn't help myself but dance and sing along. At the end we of course had to ask for more, so Einar actually performed solo and sang the Snake pit poetry with the company of his lyre. As mum and I waited for our ride home, we went for beer and pizza at about 1 am. which was really fun even though we were very tired. That's probably one of the cool things about big cities… you can always find food and drinks even late at night. I mean you should see Budapest at 4 am… buzzing.
I've been to Germany before, but never to the northern parts of Niedersachsen. The smaller cities are sooo beautiful, I had neck pains from constantly looking up. The Hildesheim Market square is just breathtaking. The old architecture of buildings is so well preserved and looks like something out of a story book. I can just imagine what it looks like in winter time when they prepare the Christmas market. We went for takeaway food to NordSee, which is literally everywhere you go and for good reason (it's delicious), and for a good old German beer at the square. There are a lot of Russian residents living in those parts of Germany, so they literally have legit Russian food stores with everything your Russian heart desires. Even the music in the shop is Russian. I'm originally from Ukraine, so practically all of those things also apply to me, and we bought a few classics like the famous Plombir ice cream that I haven't eaten in a long time. Yumm! Hildesheim also has a great Asian restaurant with foods you never tried before in your life. Mum and I ate a whole lot when we went there the last evening before I headed back for Slovenia.
Ahhh… this town. I mean if there is a perfect place to live peacefully surrounded by beautiful old buildings, small lakes, rivers and nature within a 3 minute reach, this is what you would imagine. There was something about it… the atmosphere maybe, that is just so different than what I'm used to. It almost felt as if I was in the UK, although I've never actually been there. Bushes filled with Hawthorne, Birch trees as far as the eye can see, beautiful Oak trees that have just turned the most gorgeous shade of brown. And black crows! I love crows. They're my favourite animal. Smart, loyal and beautiful. But I've rarely seen an actual black crow. We mostly have gray crows in Slovenia (their feathers are black and gray). The streets in the centre part of Sarstedt are made of bricks, everything is made of bricks actually. And it just looks so nice! The brick roads were spotless, every brick neatly placed, as well as the sidewalks. Not a single gum stain on the floor. Everything had a beautiful warm shade to in. Bricks, white walls and wood elements and old medieval shop signs is all you can see. Honestly it was like being in a dream. Maybe I saw it in a different light as it was my first visit there, but my feelings were more than genuine.
Being bigger, it's not as warm and homely as the other two mentioned, but it's still very much vibrant and welcoming. With shops lined neatly and conveniently close to one another, better stocked than even Berlin in my opinion, I got a few things that I can't really get my hands on in Slovenia. I've not spent a lot of time there to further explore. Just hopped into some shops and went for coffee, because mum still had work through the majority of the week. But it was still a nice not at all rushed experience.
We planned to visit the coast which is about 200 km away, but with all the driving and limited time, and also the cold rainy northern weather at the end of the week, we just didn't end up going. But for sure the next time I visit, I know I'll stay longer and we'll have more time to actually explore.


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Het  Elvira-gebouw is een monumentale flat in de stad Delft, in de Nederlandse provincie Zuid-Holland. De flat is gebouwd in 1960 naar een ontwerp van architecten Van den Broek en Bakema.

Het gebouw telt dertien lagen en een uitgekiende 'split-level' stapeling van 64 woningen. De toren heeft als ontsluiting maar één middengang per drie verdiepingen. Achter de voordeuren bevinden zich korte trappen van een halve verdieping naar de woonvertrekken.

In 1984 is de flat gerenoveerd waarbij betonherstel plaatsvond. Het gebouw is diverse malen overgeschilderd, tegenwoordig is het gebouw gehuld in een lichtblauwe kleurstelling.

Het gebouw is een gemeentelijk monument.

Gemeentelijk monument in Delft
Bouwwerk in Delft
Flatgebouw in Nederland


SAY HELLO TO GRETZKY! Gretzky is a very handsome 6 year old Shih Tzu / Jack Russell mix boy. Weighing in at just 16 pounds, this little sweetheart was surrendered through no fault of his own. Gretzky's elderly owner became ill and was no longer able to provide care for him. Gretzky has been a woman's dog and was raised in a quiet household with other dogs. He has been rather sheltered and has not had a great deal of experience in the big wide world. He's protective, eager to please, loves to be on your lap an behaves well in the car. When meeting strangers, he is wary of them ~ again, because of his sheltered life that consisted of his owner and his housemates. Gretzky's ideal adopter would be a mature single woman or an adults only home or adults with older teens that live a laid back quiet lifestyle. Gretzky's white with red coat is of a medium length and is low maintenance and hardly sheds. He would require occasional brushing and would do well with a professional grooming once in awhile. His hair does not grow long and rarely mats. This sweetheart of a guy would make a wonderful addition to your family! He is low key and low energy. Gretzy's adoption fee is $225. This fee includes his Veterinarian visits, neuter, all vaccinations including rabies and bordatella, de-worming, microchip with lifetime registration and professional groom.


Currently, package labels contain certain information – such as barcodes, serial numbers or buyers' addresses – that would be best left unseen by wrongdoers. Newly-developed rewritable labels could address that issue, as they're blank and transparent unless exposed to a certain type of light.
Developed by a team at Germany's Dresden University of Technology, the labels are made of plastic foil containing organic luminescent molecules. At a thickness of under 50 micrometers, each foil is thinner than a human hair.
Ordinarily, the molecules remain in a dark, inactive state. This is because oxygen in the plastic draws light energy from them. When select areas of the foil are exposed to ultraviolet light, however, a chemical reaction occurs which removes the oxygen from those areas. This allows the molecules to become active, and thus emit light.
By applying the UV light using either a finely-focused laser beam or a mask that only allows certain areas of the label to be exposed, it's possible to write text or other information with a resolution similar to that of a laser printer.
Although that light-written text is visible right after being "printed," it proceeds to fade as the luminescent molecules settle back down, leaving the label clear and unreadable. When subsequently exposed to a flash of UV light, though, the molecules are temporarily reactivated, allowing the information to be read. A specific ultraviolet wavelength has to be used, so not just anyone with a UV lamp is able to read the label.
Once the information is no longer needed, the label can be erased by exposing the foil to infrared light for about one minute. This raises the temperature of the plastic, increasing its oxygen permeability and thus reintroducing oxygen to the previously UV-written areas. The label can then be reused up to 40 times, getting new information written on it each time.
It's possible to manufacture the labels in any size, at a cost of under €2 (about US$2.30) per square meter.
"Invisible and re-writable tags can be used in a multitude of ways," says study leader Prof. Sebastian Reineke. "We can manufacture such tags thinner than conventional barcode stickers. These tags can become a versatile alternative to many frequently technology-laden solutions for information exchange in our daily life."


This paper examines the role foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) played in Vietnamese firm exports during 2010-2013. Consistent with patterns observed in commodity export data, MNEs are found to account for the majority of firm exports during this period. Wholly-foreign MNEs (WFs), which accounted for the vast majority of MNE production in Vietnam, accounted for most MNE exports. Both WFs and MNE joint ventures (JV) made larger direct contributions to exports than to production or employment, as observed in other Asian developing economies. There was a strong tendency for WFs to have the highest export propensities (export-turnover ratios) followed by JVs. Manufacturing firms exported over four-fifths of the total in most years. Tobit estimates that controlled for the effects of firm size, capital intensity, liquidity, location, and industry affiliation for manufacturers indicate WFs also had the highest conditional export propensities, followed by JVs, private firms, while export propensities tended to be similar in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms in most industries. Because Vietnam imposes few ownership restrictions on MNEs, these results imply that MNEs generally prefer to export from WFs rather than JVs, and are consistent with previous results for Thailand and Indonesia, for example.


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While at Davidson College, Ms. Cooley worked as a trip leader with Davidson Outdoors, and interned with the Davidson Lands Conservancy. Ms. Cooley completed a senior thesis on the effects of forest fire on soils in Southern Appalachia; she presented the results of this study for the Geological Society of America. Ms. Cooley holds a B.S. in Environmental Science.


D'Arcy Thompson published Excess and Defect; or the little more and the little less in Mind 38 (149) (1928). We give here a version of the article. The original contains some Greek quotes. As part of the purpose of the article is to discuss the translation of these pieces of Greek text, this give some difficulty in presenting the article for readers who do not know any Greek. However, we have attempted to make it as understandable as possible while trying to keep the style of the original article. Where we have replaced a Greek word, a Greek phrase, or a Greek passage by a translation, we enclose the material in square brackets and [colour it red].
In two recent papers, Prof A E Taylor has discussed the Platonic or Pythagorean philosophy of Number, as Plato and Aristotle relate it to us and as it may be further elucidated in various ways. In particular he compares the account of the irrational numbers given in the Epinomis with the descriptions (well-known to students of Greek mathematics) which Theon, lamblichus and Proclus give of the so-called 'side and diagonal numbers'; and he shows that, somehow or other, these side and diagonal numbers are connected with what Plato means by the 'One and the Great-and-small' as constituents of Number.
Aristotle gives us the following statement of Plato's concept of the 'genesis of number': [Number is derived from Unity and the indeterminate dyad]; but this apparently simple statement has never been satisfactorily explained. Though we do our best to collate it with other related passages we are left in doubt in the end; there is confusion or contradiction somewhere which no man has found his way through, and I begin to think that our first business is to inquire what is meant by 'number' in this particular connexion. Aristotle's statement might refer, and it is usually supposed to refer, to the genesis of Number in its widest sense, to the genesis of the ordinary numbers 1, 2, 3 . . . from One and from one another: a question which is either simplicity itself or a transcendental problem of extreme subtlety.
This particular process of generation has never been shown to be related to the so-called [infinite/indeterminate dyad]. On the other hand, [the number] may be used here in its technical sense, meaning a surd or 'irrational number', especially √2; and the general problem of Number may never have been in question at all. It was the irrational number, the numerical ratio (if any) between two incommensurable segments, which was a constant object of search, whose nature as a number was continually in question, and whose genesis as a number cried aloud for explanation or justification. I am inclined to think that this restricted but vitally important problem is the question at issue; but if it be only part of a more general question, it is still the only part thereof which seems capable of explanation. In short if we keep to this restricted definition of our problem, and if we then go a step or two farther in its interpretation than Prof Taylor has gone, we come to a very simple understanding of what [the one/unity] and the [infinite/indeterminate dyad] are; and of how, between them both, such a 'number' as √2 is generated.
The 'side and diagonal numbers', as Theon and Iamblichus explain them, hark back to the all-important Theorem of Pythagoras, and to the simplest case thereof where the right-angled triangle is also isosceles. By their means we 'arithmeticize' this construction, and for certain values of the side obtain 'rational values' for the corresponding diagonal; consequently, dividing the diagonal-number by the side-number, we obtain an approximation to, or a 'rational value' for, √2, the true ratio of diagonal to side. It is part of the great Pythagorean principle of letting mathematics rest on an arithmetical basis. It is just worth mentioning that what we here call the diagonal is called in Greek the diameter; it is the diagonal of the completed square (or parallelogram), and the diameter of the circle in which it can be described.
The following is a table of the side and diagonal numbers ([side and diagonal numbers] (literally [number of units in the sides and diagonals])) - Proclus (28, 10) gives the series as far as 12, 17, and adds - [and always thus (etc.)].
sn = 2sn-1 + sn-2, &c.
Theon puts it in yet another way; for he tells us that a diagonal must be added to a side [to get the next side], and two sides to a diagonal [to get the next diagonal] - 'for what side does by two steps ( literally [it is worth two]) that diagonal does by one'. He is thinking, as Hultsch has told us, of Euclid II. 10.
For, in the line AC, if AB and BC be as side and diagonal, then 2AB2 = BC2.
2DA2 + 2AC2 = DC2 + BC2.
Therefore 2AC2 = DC2; therefore AC, DC are as side and diagonal. But AC is the old side plus the old diagonal; and DC is the old diagonal plus two sides.
The table of side and diagonal numbers has many other properties. For instance, as Proclus tells us, the sum of the squares of two adjacent diagonals = twice the sum of the squares on the two corresponding sides: e.g. 32 +72 = 2(22 + 52). And, in Chapter xxiii he shows, following Adrastus, that the sum of the squares of 'all' the diagonals is equal to twice the sum of the squares of 'all' the sides.
But while we may illustrate our problem in this way, I do not think we simplify it. The continued fraction is an elegant arithmetical device, and the mathematician calls it a simplified expression; but it does not follow that it is simple to work with. Carry it on to ten or twenty terms, and it becomes a troublesome matter to evaluate; while the Greek side-and-diagonal numbers may be carried as far as you please, and still require only the easiest arithmetic.
[One], in short, is the word used both for that unit with which the series on either side begins, and for that unit which is at every successive stage the measure of excess or defect. For Unity comes into the case in a twofold capacity. It is the beginning, the [start] of the whole series , then again, as the series proceeds, the 'One' has to be imported into each succeeding Dyad, where it defines ([defines]) the amount of excess or defect, and equates or equalizes ([equals]) the two incompatible quantities.
Now the question arises whether this [monad] be not identical with the [one], which in Plato's language is said to combine with the 'Great-and-Small' in constructing for us the real number. That the side and diagonal numbers show us what Plato means by the Great-and-small, or Aristotle by his Excess-and-defect, is certain; Prof Taylor has made it seem clear and even obvious, but he has not by any means made it clear what Plato meant by [one]. It seems to be in his mind that [one] is that infinitely far-off Limit, where the two sides of the Dyad merge into one, and where the great and small no longer differ. I believe it has a much simpler and more prosaic meaning; and that it is merely another name for that unit or 'monad' which we continually subtract from the 'great' or add to the 'small', and which so constructs for us the real number. This point, this precise nature of the agency of the 'One', and the simple explanation which it involves of the precise meaning of [to define] or [to equal], both seem to me to be made clear by our study of the Greek side-and-diagonal series; but the point is lost as soon as we replace that formula by the continued fractions of our modem arithmetic. Prof Taylor, so it seems to me, has treated the successive convergents of the continued fraction as identical with the successive fractions of the Greek series. So they are, in the end. As he says, 'they never actually meet, since none of the "convergents" is ever the same as its successor, but by proceeding far enough with the series we can make the interval between two successive "convergents" less than any assigned difference, however small.' Precisely so; but all the while that 'monad' in which the excess or defect consists is never seen in the convergents of the continued fraction; and indeed it is so effectually concealed that Prof Taylor neither recognizes its importance nor even mentions it at all.
17 × 82 = 332 - 1 &c.
Observe how the 'One' comes in, to 'equalize' all of these.
So in this case, unlike the others we have described, excess and defect are represented not by ±1, but by -1, +2, alternately.
which continued fraction is identical with the series of convergent fractions 1/5 , 10/51 , &c. Whence we find the convergents to √3 to be 5/3 , 26/15 , 265/153 , 1351/780 , &c.; in short, we have the very series from which Archimedes may have drawn his examples, without omissions. Archimedes may have done it in this way; there is nothing we need put beyond his powers. But I feel pretty sure that all these tables were originally arrived at in a much simpler and more plodding way, by trial and error. An old arithmetician may have searched (as we might search through Barlow's Tables) for a square number which was the double of some other square; he would fail to find one. But he would very soon find that 32 was nearly the double of 22 ; searching for another such case, he would find that 72 was nearly the double of 52; and by the time he had found a third instance he would be on the brink of the rule which connects them all, and defines the series.
In this extended table each column may serve by turns for side-numbers or for diagonals; and the 'equalizing factor', the amount of excess or defect, which began with ±1, becomes in the next column ±2, then ±4, ±8 and so on. The table may also be extended towards the left-hand side, where the first extended column will show an equalizing factor of ±1/2, and so on. All this arithmetic is so simple that it can hardly have escaped the notice of any calculator who pondered over the elementary table with which we began. To proceed from our first table for the values of √2 to those giving values for √3, √5, &c. (as we have seen that the Greeks did), was neither an easier nor a harder operation than to pass from that same table where the values of √2 are 'equalized' by 1, to the extended table where they are 'equalized' by 2, or powers of 2. But such an extension of the table of side and diagonal numbers is neither mentioned nor described. It may have escaped notice, though this is unlikely. It may have seemed of little importance, though this seems unlikelier still. It may have been one of those things of which the less said the better; for, if my interpretation be correct of what was meant by the One as the continual 'equalizer' of the never-ending Dyad, the whole theory would receive a shock on the revelation that, mutatis mutandis, the same part could be played by 2 or by 4.
There is still another table which may be just as easily or indeed still more easily derived from the first, and which is of very great importance. Yet there is no account of it, nor the least allusion to it, in all the history of Greek mathematics; and it is commonly believed to have been first made known by the great arithmetician who introduced the Arabic numerals into the Christian world.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, &c.
Its successive pairs of numbers, or fractions, as 5/3, 8/5, &c., are familiar to botanists, ever since Bravais showed them to express the number of spirals which may be counted, to right and to left, on a fir-cone or any other complicated inflorescence.
0.5, 0.66... , 0.6, 0.6153... , 0.6190... , 0.6176... , 0.6181... , &c.
The Golden Mean itself is only the numerical equivalent, the 'arithmetization', of Euclid II. 11 ; where we are shown how to divide a line in 'extreme and mean ratio', as a preliminary to the construction of a regular pentagon: that again being the half-way house to the final triumph, perhaps the ultimate aim, of Euclidian or Pythagorean geometry, the construction of the regular dodecahedron, Plato's symbol of the Cosmos itself. Euclid himself is giving us a sort of algebraic geometry, or rather perhaps a geometrical algebra; and the series we are now speaking of arithmeticizes that geometry and that algebra. It is surely much more than a coincidence that this series is closely related to Euclid II. 11, and the other (as Theon expressed it) to the immediately preceding proposition.
In the line (AC) divided in extreme and mean ratio we have three magnitudes, AC, AB, BC, such that BC2 = AB. AC [there is a misprint here in the original article that we have corrected].
And in our table, any three consecutive numbers may represent these three geometrical magnitudes, the square of the intermediate number being equivalent - approximately equivalent - to the product of the other two. Observe that precisely as in the former case the approximation gets closer and closer; there is alternate excess and defect, and (above all) the 'One' is needed in every case, to equate the terms or remedy the defective approximation; e.g.
12  .  .           13  .  .
Of the two series which thus begin alike and then part company, the one leads to the square-root of 2 or the hypotenuse of an isosceles right-angled triangle, and the other leads to the Divine or Golden Section. These are the two famous surds or 'irrational numbers' of antiquity, and they are also the two pillars of Euclidian geometry.
It is inconceivable that the Greeks should have been familiarly acquainted with the one and yet unacquainted with the other of these two series, so simple, so interesting and so important, so similar in their properties and so closely connected with one another. Between them they arithmeticize what is admittedly the greatest theorem, and what is probably the most important construction, in all Greek geometry. Both of them hark back to themes which were the chief topics of discussion among Pythagorean mathematicians from the days of the Master himself; and both alike are based on the arithmetic of fractions, with which the early Egyptian mathematicians and doubtless the Greek also were especially familiar. Depend upon it, the series which has its limit in the Golden Mean was just as familiar to them as that other series whose limit is √2.
which only agrees with the former in that each number is the sum of its two predecessors: but as before, the fractions soon approximate closely to the Golden Mean; 191/309 = 0.61812 . . . ; and (as a consequence) 309/191 = 1.618 ... approximately.
These two methods, of finding the value of √2 and the value of the Golden Mean, are, be it remarked, by no means mere rough approximations, but they actually lead, more easily and quicker than does our modern arithmetic, to results of extreme accuracy. In the case of the side and diagonal numbers we need go no farther than the tenth place in the table (as can be done in less than two minutes) to get a fraction which is equivalent to the value of √2 to six places of decimals!
√((5 - √5)/2) = √(1 - τ2) = √(2 - τ).
√(2 - 89/144) = √199/12 = (nearly) √2 × 5/6.
Again choosing, from the other table, a fraction approximately equal to √2, we have (for instance) 99/70 × 5/6 = 1.178..., which is a correct value for the side of the pentagon to its three places of decimals.
Px2 = τ-1√5 = 3 + τ.
And we may read every one of these off, as accurately as we please, from our Fibonacci numbers.
All this is a beautifully simple illustration of a principle recognized in modern mathematics, that you may immensely extend the efficiency (so to speak) of the series of natural numbers if only you can add one other number to it. 1, 2, 3.... carry us a long way; but if we add to this consecutive series either √2, or π, or the number we have now called τ, in each case an immense new field of operations is rendered possible. π presents some difficulties of its own; but the determination of √2 or of τ to any required degree of accuracy should have presented no difficulty even to very early and primitive arithmeticians.
The cube root of 2 is another story. We can neither represent it by a continued fraction nor by a series of side-and-diagonal numbers. I feel pretty sure that the peculiar importance and air of mystery attaching to the Delian Problem arose simply from the fact that for the extraction of a cube root you have no such arithmetical device as that by which a square root can be extracted so easily and so accurately.
The technical phrase 'excess or defect' is sometimes used, especially by Aristotle, in a sense which is obviously not the arithmetical one, though it must be more or less analogous thereto. A single instance must suffice. In the first chapter of the Historia Animalium, Aristotle tells us that, within the limits of a 'genus', such as Bird or Fish, the difference between one form or species and another is of the nature of 'excess or defect'; that their corresponding parts differ in property or accident, or in the degree to which they are subject to this or that property or accident, or in number or in magnitude - in short always, after some fashion or other, in the way of excess or defect. When I translated the Historia Animalium many years ago, I took this statement to be neither more nor less than a foreshadowing of our own comparative morphology. I supposed that Aristotle would regard each species of bird much as a modern morphologist does; that he would recognize the correspondence or homology of their several parts; and that he saw, better perhaps than many morphologists do, how the differences between these corresponding parts are essentially quantitative differences, or 'differences of degree'. The chief difference between Aristotle's point of view and ours seemed merely to be that he limited his comparison, or his concept of homology, to the species of a single 'genus'; whereas the evolutionary morphologist seeks (not always with success), to trace detailed homologies between one Aristotelian genus and another.
But now that we understand the phrase excess-and-defect better than ever before, we may read its technical meaning into the Aristotelian passage and find the whole significance vastly altered and improved. For I take it now that Aristotle was thinking, more Platonico, of all the fowls of the air as mere visible forms or [shapes], mere imperfect representations of, or approximations to, their prototype the ideal Bird. Just as we study the rational forms of an irrational number and through their narrowing vista draw nearer and nearer to the ideal thing, but always fail to reach it by the little more or the little less: so we may, as it were, survey the whole motley troop of feathered things only to find each one of them falling short of perfection, deficient here, redundant there: all with their inevitable earthly faults and flaws. Then beyond them all we begin to see dimly a bird such as never was on sea or land, without blemish, whether of excess or defect: it is the ideal Bird, the [model which is set in heaven].


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Not least of my reasons is that I'm a creature of habit and church is simply what I do on Sunday morning.
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Fishing was all about patience this past week, patient baits, patient presentations, and patience looking for active fish; when you found them, it was fun there was just not many opportunities and if you missed your chances well it made it even a longer day on the water. Baits like Tight-line football jigs, SPRO McRip jerk baits and Aruka Shad rattle baits. Picasso deep running swim jigs in ¾ to 1 oz. attracted big bites where the others were more common to smaller fish. We fished 20 plus ft. of water and worked deep structure most of the week.
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September is National Head Lice Prevention Month
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"Even with the ongoing challenges of COVID-19, parents, schools and child care administrators need to be prepared to control head lice."
NEWTON, Mass. (PRWEB) August 27, 2021.
National Pediculosis Prevention Month was first designated in 1985 via H.J. Res. 223. This will be the 36th consecutive year that the nonprofit National Pediculosis Association (NPA), has sponsored its campaign to inform communities about the importance of routine screening, early detection and the safest possible approach to managing pediculosis, known medically as head lice. https://www.headlice.org/comb/pediculosis-prevention-resolution-submitted-to-congress/
NPA's president Deborah Altschuler says that head lice prevention remains important during the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents, schools and child care administrators can avoid unnecessary disruption, panic and risky pesticide treatments for children with lice by being prepared with accurate information via the NPA's website http://www.headlice.org. The good news is that pediculosis offers an early opportunity to teach children responsible personal health behaviors — lessons that become invaluable in a world of other public health threats.
Just like hand washing, combing children for head lice is a basic hygiene measure. Thorough removal of lice and nits provides a reliable approach for parents and accomplishes what shampooing with potentially risky chemicals cannot. Combing enables families to be self-reliant and proactive.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently amended its educational information and included combing as a complete non-chemical treatment method for pediculosis. https://www.headlice.org/comb/national-pediculosis-association-petition-leads-to-fda-website-updates-on-treating-head-lice/
The NPA's Head Lice Prevention Campaign offers an educational poster for the school nurse's office with a comprehensive list of the benefits of combing: https://www.headlice.org/comb/what-are-head-lice-and-nits/head-lice-removal/combing-benefits/
Parents should be encouraged to keep treatments chemical free and warned to avoid the surprise of head lice and the unfortunate abundance of misleading information on the subject. https://www.headlice.org/comb/what-are-head-lice-and-nits/the-deceptive-dozen/
The NPA thanks all who join in the 2021 campaign with a positive message of community cooperation and trust that parents will accept their role in safely and effectively returning their children to the group setting free of lice and nits (lice eggs). "Because it's not about lice, it's about kids."
September is National Head lice Prevention Month! More information on combing can be found at http://www.LiceMeister.com.
Deborah Altschuler
https://headlice.org
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Don't Apologize: Stand strong. If you don't seem firmly convinced of the rightness of your course of action, why should anyone else? Especially someone who's never heard anything but conventional wisdom on the subject, all of which disagrees with you?
Always be preparied to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence; and keep your conscience clear.
I believe it was Samuel Goldwyn who said, "If you want to send a message, use Western Union." He had a point. Great writers manage to convey many messages through their works, but people who start writing with a message in mind tend to write mediocre novels.
Okay, so the wider dissemination of lesser-known comic strips is not the greatest use of the Internet, but it's fun. I've featured Baldo before, but now they have an official Baldo website to include, and today's strip is worth broadcasting.
The Japanese Have the Coolest Toilets!
Chronological stories from our trip to Japan will have to wait until I have more time, but I'll try to fit in an occasionally tidbit here and there.
Many people have heard of the really fancy Japanese toilets, the ones with heated seats and more buttons than a DVD player, including Cover-Up Sound, Wash, and Blow Dry. I haven't had the opportunity to try anything but the warm seat feature (especially nice in unheated bathrooms), but we'd certainly have one if they were readily available at a reasonable price in the United States. I suppose we could special order one for an outrageous sum, but they aren't that wonderful.
It would take not money, but a societal attitude change, to make another of the great Japanese toilets available in the United States: the "squatty potty." Nearly flush with the ground (pardon the pun), these toilets are particularly great for public places, as they are much easier to keep clean than the kind we are accustomed to. They are also surprisingly easy to use. Before I tried one, I couldn't picture using it successfully, but it's really no problem at all.
My favorite Japanese toilet is the kind in Janet's apartment. It's a "normal" toilet with one fabulous feature: the tank lid is a faucet/sink arrangement. Flushing the toilet causes water to pour out of the faucet for handwashing purposes; the water drains into the toilet tank and is used for the next flush. What an economical, ecological idea!
There were any number of reasons why we shouldn't have gone to the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra's A Celtic Fantasy concert last night. We have a huge deadline looming, and delightful out of town company as well. However, a commitment to a friend kept us from taking the logical course and giving away our tickets, and are we glad we didn't miss the performance!
Forget the green beer. After having discovered genuine Irish ancestors in my heritage, I'm even more convinced that any good celebration of St. Patrick's Day must include singing his very own hymn, usually called St. Patrick's Breastplate or I Bind unto Myself Today. The words are attributed to St. Patrick himself, with the modern, metrical version provided by Cecil Frances Alexander.
The tunes are Irish and easily singable, however, and the words packed with theology, beauty, and joy. Do yourself and St. Patrick a favor, and honor him on this day by becoming acquainted with this grand and glorious expression of ancient Celtic Christian faith.
The Oremus Hymnal includes the commonly sung verses and page numbers for St. Patrick's Breastplate in a large collection of hymnals.
The Cyber Hymnal includes two additional verses that are rarely sung but give even more of a feel for the ancient Celtic culture out of which which it arose.
This Irish Culture and Customs site has a non-metrical translation of the poem.
For many years before he died, my father would come visit us for a month each year around February (usually a good month to exchange Pennsylvania for Florida temporarily). Once a week he would take us to lunch at the Sakura, the best Japanese restaurant in our experience, including the time when all the restaurants of Boston were at hand.


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Brompton cyclist kicked out of Tesco again – a week after being told that folding bikes were welcome in its stores
by Alex Bowden March 12 2016
Official Tesco Twitter account again apologises
A man who was assured by Tesco that he was allowed to enter its stores while carrying a Brompton has again been kicked out for attempting to do precisely that. The staff member involved refused to change their position even when he showed them a previous apology from the supermarket chain's official Twitter account.
Ben Bawden was last week told that he couldn't enter the Tesco Express in Epsom while carrying his folding bike due to 'health and safety'.
A series of tweets between himself and the chain's Twitter account ensued with most of Tesco's messages having subsequently been deleted. However, common sense appeared to prevail when he was eventually told: "We're very sorry for the error in our last tweet. There is no policy on Brompton bikes & welcome customers who use them."
This apparent victory was short-lived, however. This morning, Bawden told road.cc:
"I went in yesterday with my Brompton, half folded – so it can be used a bit like a shopping trolley – and one of the staff members told me I had to leave it outside.
"I showed her the tweet from Tesco, but she wouldn't change her mind. So I stormed out and went to the Co-op over the road."
Another exchange with the supermarket's Twitter account has seen Tesco again apologise.
@HushLegs Please be assured I've spoken with Arthie, our Duty Manager, & made her aware that you're able to bring the bike in to store. 1/3
— Tesco (@Tesco) March 11, 2016
@HushLegs She'll let her other colleagues in store know so you won't have this problem in the future. 2/3
@HushLegs If you need anything further, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again - Amy 3/3
However, despite these efforts, Bawden has understandably not been won over.
"I doubt I'll try again. They don't deserve my custom," he said.
Folding bike
Alex Bowden
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Dr. Cyndi Danner Kuhn is using my ebook this semester, "Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing," as her course textbook in DED 318 at Kansas State University. DED 318 is a required technology education course for pre-service teachers, and it's great to see how Cyndi continues to iterate and evolve the focus and projects in this course for students based on changes in edtech. Recently her students responded to the question, "Why is it important to play with media?" in the private Edmodo group she's using in her course. I created a Wordle word cloud from their responses, to identify some patterns which it exposes in their collective thinking about this question.
What else do you think is missing as a "major idea" in this Wordle cloud summary of why it's important to play with media?
Is LITERACY in the word cloud? It is an old but critical concept that media in all its evolving forms requires us to re-define: digital literacy, visual literacy, social literacy…… How has the definition of LITERACY changed since as a student you first learned to read (or since you transitioned from "learning to read" to "reading to learn")? How does your definition of LITERACY relate to reading across content areas? to Common Core? to strategies you will use as a learner, teacher, facilitator, mentor and/or coach?


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Public Opinion in Changchun Becomes An "Ethics Tribunal" of Sorts - The People Judge the Truth About the Persecution
A few corrupt officials in the Changchun Nanguan District Court had scheduled an illegal trial on March 6th for 13 Falun Gong practitioners. Unfortunately for the Court officials, before the trial could begin, the general public had begun themselves to act as an "ethics tribunal" of sorts, and begun their own "trial."
On the evening of March 5, 2002, many residents in the Changchun area saw the Falun Gong truth clarifying programming broadcast on the local cable TV network. People learned that the Tiananmen "self-immolation" incident and the "Fu Yibin Murder Case" were staged. They learned the ugly truth of Jiang's evil nature and they saw how Falun Gong's popularity has spread widely around the world.
People were so touched by the footage that heated debates began all over town, with many people speaking up for Falun Gong and for the Chinese people who had been deceived by the regime's propaganda. Jiang and his gang were thus escorted onto the witness stand of the general public's "ethics tribunal."
As a Changchun Falun Gong practitioner has pointed out, this incident only happened due to the persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang's followers and their local agents in Changchun. His point was that if there had not been any persecution and slander, Falun Gong practitioners would not have had to make such an effort to clarify the truth about the actual situation.
Since the beginning of 2002, some evil agents at the Changchun Police Department - under the instructions from Jiang and Luo's regime and their local agents in Changchun - have been escalating their persecution of Falun Gong. Over 200 practitioners were arrested, leading to a second massive wave of arrests around the Spring Festival season. Many practitioners were arrested or forced to leave their homes to avoid arrest. Some practitioners experienced extremely vicious persecution. For example, on January 25, Li Yanmin (female) was blindfolded and escorted to a remote building by agents from Division #1 of Changchun Police Department . They tortured her for 48 hours, both day and night. She was forced to sit on a tiger bench [for a description, please see http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html] and beaten to the point that she could no longer move or eat food. On February 10, Zhang Binghui, a 51-year-old woman, suffered tremendously as her eyeballs were even knocked out of the socket during a torture session by evil agents in the Changchun Kaixuan Hospital. (This hospital always cooperates with Police in persecuting practitioners.) Even during the Spring Festival season, the word from the Changchun Police Department was that "It's okay to kill them on the spot when we find Falun Gong practitioners putting up signs and banners." The authorities have gone totally mad.
In the past, Falun Gong practitioners used to go about their daily lives and quietly cultivate at home. It is because of the senseless persecution and widespread public slander against them that Falun Gong practitioners step forward to clarify the truth. According to the Falun Dafa Information Center, the confirmed death toll in the persecution has reached nearly 400. Countless others are illegally detained and tortured. Under such conditions, if they did not clarify the truth, then, more and more good people would be tortured and even killed. If they did not clarify the truth, there would be even more innocent people deceived by lies without knowing what is truly good and what is truly evil. That is to say that it is Jiang's illegal crackdown that began the phenomenon of so many people going to Beijing to appeal. It is the Changchun police's brutal persecution that led to the truth-clarifying programs on the cable network. The Falun Gong programs made it possible for Changchun residents to see first-hand the truth, rather than the fabricated propaganda contrived by their government to deceive them.
Every time Jiang steps up the persecution, he is actually spreading the truth more widely. If those few bad people in Changchun continue to head towards the opposite side of their fellow locals, then we can predict that not only practitioners, but also their relatives, friends...each and every conscientious and righteous person will become - and in fact, have become - the major force in clarifying the truth about Falun Gong!
Persecution will never break the stride of true cultivators. When the truth has spread to every corner, everyone's true selves will awaken, justice will be reborn, and the grandeur of the universal truth will be displayed!
By the way, here I also want to warn Changchun police agents: You are supported by the people's tax money that they earned through their hard work. They support you so that you can protect them from harm, not for you to commit crimes against the people. Don't hope that Jiang will back you up in the future. Jiang's madness right now is exactly the manifestation of his fear and desperation! Whatever he owes, he will have to pay all of it back at his pathetic finale. If you continue to follow him to foolishly do bad things, then you exert your full strength for him today and will be buried with him tomorrow!
Please learn about the truth about Falun Gong for yourself, not for someone else.
Believe us, no one would want to risk his or her life just to tell you lies! We have even stepped forward under such tremendous pressure. It is because we are using our true hearts. What we have told you is the truth.
Please learn about Falun Gong. This matter relates to you, and it is your right to know.
"Please respect Falun Gong and remember that Falun Dafa is Good! "
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Crossley Street, formerly Romeo Lane, leads south from Little Bourke to Bourke streets between Exhibition and Spring streets. The two-storey brick building at the Little Bourke Street entrance to Crossley Street, called Jobs Warehouse or the Crossley Building, was first inhabited in 1849. The western end of the building, which borders Crossley Street, was built by butcher William Crossley as a shop, slaughter yard and residence. Jobs Warehouse is architecturally significant as a rare intact example of the simple Georgian style of design, which was common in Melbourne during early settlement. This building and others in Crossley Street, including retail, commercial, and government administration buildings from the nineteenth-century, are now heritage listed.
In 1871, thirty-four people in Romeo Lane were arrested for vagrancy in a single day, and the name was changed to Crossley Street in 1876. Later, following the slum clearances of the 1880s and 1890s, the lane became part of the Chinese quarter. In 1895, Crossley Street was partly residential and partly occupied by cabinetmakers and other wood craftsmen.
In 2008, Crossley Street's western side was still dominated by Pellegrinis and two other restaurants, while hotels occupy the northern end. Two art galleries also occupy the street.


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