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17.6: Population Size
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How Populations Grow
How many geese are the right number for this area?
As many as can survive and have healthy offspring! The figure above shows a flock of snow geese at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Their population will tend to grow as big as it can for the resources available. Once it is too large, some of its members will die off. This keeps the population size at the right number.
A population usually grows when it has what it needs. If there's plenty of food and other resources, the population will get bigger. Refer to the table below (Table below); it shows how a population of bacteria grew. A single bacteria cell was added to a container of nutrients. Conditions were ideal. The bacteria divided every 30 minutes. After just 10 hours, there were more than a million bacteria! Assume the bacteria population keeps growing at this rate. How many bacteria will there be at 10.5 hours? Or at 12 hours?
Time (hours)
Number of Bacteria
5.0 1,024
7.0 16,384
8.5 131,072
10 1,048,576
Population Growth Rate
The population growth rate is how fast a population is growing. The letter r stands for the growth rate. The growth rate equals the number of new members added to the population in a year for each 100 members already in the population. The growth rate includes new members added to the population and old members removed from the population. Births add new members to the population. Deaths remove members from the population. The formula for population growth rate is:
r = b - d, where
b = birth rate (number of births in 1 year per 100 population members)
d = death rate (number of deaths in 1 year per 100 population members)
If the birth rate is greater than the death rate, r is positive. This means that the population is growing bigger. For example, if b = 10 and d = 8, r = 2. This means that the population is growing by 2 individuals per year for every 100 members of the population. This may not sound like much, but it's a fairly high rate of growth. A population growing at this rate would double in size in just 35 years!
If the birth rate is less than the death rate, r is negative. This means that the population is becoming smaller. What do you think might cause this to happen?
A population can't keep growing bigger and bigger forever. Sooner or later, it will run out of things it needs. For a given species, there is a maximum population that can be supported by the environment. This maximum is called the carrying capacity. When a population gets close to the carrying capacity, it usually grows more slowly (Figure below). When the population reaches the carrying capacity, it stops growing.
A population can't get much larger than the carrying capacity. What might happen if it did?
A population will grow as long as it has what it needs.
The carrying capacity of an environment is reached when the number of births equal the number of deaths.
A limiting factor determines the carrying capacity for a species.
What happens if a population exceeds its carrying capacity?
Explain how a single bacterium can grow to a population of more than a million 10 hours later.
What happens if the birth rate in a population is more than the death rate? What happens if it is less?
17.5: Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
17.7: Extinction and Radiation of Life


Is Being Slain In The Spirit Coming From God?
Most of you have seen this phenomena occur in the charismatic churches. This is where you see pastors or ministers laying hands on people, usually on their foreheads, and then they fall backwards.
Is this a real phenomenon? If it is – is it really God operating through the power of the Holy Spirit, or is it demonic spirits trying to masquerade as the power of Holy Spirit coming onto someone? There are many Christians and Christian groups who are really attacking this phenomena.
I will go ahead and give you the main Scripture verses where this phenomena is coming from. I will then give you some of the main arguments of those Christians who are against this phenomena, and I will then end this article with my own personal opinion as to why I think this phenomena is a true manifestation from the Lord.
Here are the main verses from Scripture showing people falling to the ground whenever God would manifest His presence to different people. The first verse is from the Original King James Version of the Bible, the rest are from the New King James Version.
Now I will give you some of the arguments being made by those who are against this phenomena, and then some of my own arguments as to why I believe this a real manifestation from the Lord.
Every time people fell when the presence of God would manifest, they would always fall on their faces, not fall backward.
Nowhere in the Bible do the prophets, the apostles, or Jesus Himself ever lay hands on someone and then the power of God comes through their hands to knock them backward.
The only time people fell in the presence of God was when God was rendering some type of judgment.
Now to some arguments that will counter some of the above arguments if you should ever need them in any kind of debate.
I will take each one of the above arguments and see if I can give you an opposing point of view in order to try and defend this phenomena as being from the Lord.
1. The First Argument – people always falling face down rather than falling backwards. Granted, 5 of the above 9 verses specifically state that these people had fallen on their faces rather than falling backward.
However, the other 4 verses say they simply "fell to the ground," or that they "could not stand" when the presence of God would manifest.
Who is to say that when these people fell to the ground, they could not have been falling backwards. These verses do not say if they fell forward or backward, so I believe this means they could have fallen either way – thus showing that there was the possibility of falling backwards when the presence of God would manifest.
The first verse says that the priests "could not stand" when the manifest presence of God would enter into the temple. Again, they could have easily as been falling backwards as well as falling forward.
Since Scripture does not specifically say in which direction they were falling, I believe we are on safe ground making the assumption that these 4 other verses give us the possibility of people falling backwards whenever the presence of God would manifest.
2. The Second Argument – stating that at no time did Jesus or the apostles ever lay hands on people causing them fall backwards.
Sometimes when the presence of God would manifest like described in the above verses, people did fall to the ground. No question about it. However, there were other times God would manifest His presence and people would not fall to the ground.
This thus was a manifestation that was completely controlled by God. He, and He alone, would decide when people would get knocked to the ground and when they would not whenever He would manifest His presence.
I think the key point to really grab a hold of is that this phenomena can occur when God does decide to manifest His presence in this particular way. And sometimes God will manifest His presence through the hands of a pastor or minister.
And if He does decide to manifest His presence through the hands of a minister, then I believe it is only logical to conclude that God can knock people down to the ground like He did back in the Bible days if He should choose to do so.
There is no question that the manifest presence of God is coming through a pastor or minister when hands are being laid on someone for a healing. The manifest presence and power of God will literally flow through the hands of the pastor or minister and flow right into the person's body, and then the Holy Spirit Himself will do the healing once inside the person's body.
God can either knock someone over with a direct hit Himself, or through the hands of someone who is operating under His anointing at any given moment. I believe God can and does go either way with this particular manifestation.
3. The Third Argument – God only knocked people down when rendering some type of judgment on them. Look closely at the above 9 verses.
It was only on the apostle Paul that God was rendering judgment on when He knocked him to the ground. The others were priests of the temple, prophets like Ezekiel and John the Revelator, or the apostles themselves. None of them were under any kind of direct judgment when this phenomena was occurring.
1. Being slain in the Spirit is simply when the presence and power of God comes directly at you causing you to either fall forward or backward.
This power can either come directly through the hands of someone operating under the Lord's anointing at any given moment, or directly at you by God Himself, such as when you see people falling to the ground while just sitting in their seats with no one laying a hand on them.
This manifestation of God's power can either come directly at you very lightly where you just start to lose your balance and then proceed to fall.
Or it can come at you very strongly to the point where you cannot resist it and you are literally blown to the ground.
When this happens, it looks like a cannonball is hitting someone right in the stomach and they fall backwards with a fair amount of force.
God decides how strong He will manifest this kind of power when He does decide to manifest it on someone.
Granted, there will always be some people in a church service who will be falling backwards out of their own flesh. The power of God is not causing them to fall backward.
They just want to be part of the crowd and they will fall backwards all on their own.
However, you cannot throw out the baby with the bathwater on this manifestation just because some people will always choose to act out of their flesh.
2. So what happens when people are slain in the Spirit? Sometimes just a nice, restful, peaceful, relaxed feeling will come over the person. Sometimes people can receive inner and/or outer healings while resting in the Spirit.
Some people can receive visions, instructions, or advice from the Lord on a situation that He may want to deal with them on. People can rest anywhere in the Spirit from 1-2 minutes or as long as 4-6 hours if God would choose to go that long with a particular individual.
For those of you who would like additional information on this phenomenon – there is a book titled "Overcome by the Spirit" by Francis MacNutt.
Francis MacNutt is an ex-Catholic priest who received a very powerful healing ministry from the Lord. He noticed that this phenomenon would occur quite often whenever he would lay hands on people for their healings.
He interviewed many people after they had fallen in the Spirit to find out what their reactions were, and exactly what had happened to them while they were resting in the Spirit. There are many direct quotes from the people he interviewed and it was all very positive.
He came to the conclusion that being slain in the Spirit was a very real manifestation of God that was occurring because of all the good fruit it produced in the people who had experienced this phenomena.
He said some of the actual healings that came through his ministry occurred when people were resting in the Spirit after he had initially laid hands on them.
This man, in my opinion, is a true servant of God. He explored this phenomenon with complete objectivity back in the 1970's. He covers, in this most informative book, all of the things that he saw happen when this manifestation would occur.
I will leave you with a short story on this manifestation occurring to someone I used to work with. I will never forget this testimony as long as I live. It was very touching and I felt like God allowed this story to come my way when it did to help confirm that this particular manifestation was really coming from Him.
About 20 years ago, I worked with a man who was a very devout Catholic. He was married with 2 girls, ages 8 and 11. There was a priest from Chicago who had come down for the Sunday service.
I cannot recall the name of the priest, but he had a healing ministry and he did a lot of traveling with the healing gift that God had given him. He too found that people would fall backwards whenever he would lay hands on them.
On the Sunday this event occurred, this man, his wife and his two girls all went to see this priest. When this priest then made the call for anyone to come up and have hands laid on them, all four of them went up just to see if God would do anything with any of them.
My friend said that absolutely nothing happened to either him, his wife, or his older 11-year-old daughter. They felt no power come against them and none of them fell backwards in the Spirit.
However, his youngest daughter, who was 8 years of age, was hit hard! He said she went down like a ton of bricks. He said it looked like a cannonball or bowling ball hit her right in the stomach blowing her backwards with great force. There obviously was a catcher behind her when she fell backward.
He said the minute she hit the ground, she started bawling profusely. He said she was crying as hard as she could. My friend initially thought there was something wrong with her because she was crying so hard. He then started to go over to see what was wrong with her, but he received an immediate check from the Holy Spirit that he was not to go near her, that God was doing something very special with her.
He said that she laid on the ground crying as hard as she could for a good 10-15 minutes.
After the 10-15 minutes, she all of a sudden quit crying and stood up. He immediately went over to her and started to walk with her outside. When they got outside, he turned to her and asked her why she had been crying so hard after she had been slain in the Spirit.
God was obviously manifesting His loving presence all over this little girl for the 10-15 minutes that she was "resting in the Spirit" to the point that she was crying as hard as she could. She obviously was in the manifest presence of God and He was allowing her to literally feel His love for her.
As I was driving home from work that day after hearing the above story, I then tapped in and asked God what had happened and was that really Him that did all of that.
That it was His manifest presence that blew her backwards causing her to fall like she did, and that it was His manifest presence stirring on the inside of her causing her to cry as hard as she did.
The fact that she told her dad that "He felt so good" – showed that God had to be literally manifesting His love to her where she could physically feel it all over her body.
You will each have to come to your own conclusions as to whether or not you feel this is a true manifestation from God.
For those of you who do believe that this is a real manifestation from the Lord, the above Scripture verses, and arguments off those Scripture verses, can give you some ammunition should you ever find yourself in a heated debate with another Christian over this topic.
As for myself, I really do believe this phenomenon is a true and powerful manifestation from the Lord when it really is Him doing it. But as with all of the other manifestations from God, there are always demons out there who will try and counterfeit some of His manifestations, along with other people just acting out and pretending God is manifesting on them when He is really not doing so.
These people are either operating under the power of suggestion, or they simply want to be part of the crowd if they see other people truly falling under the power of God.
But do not let counterfeit activity from the dark side, or some people acting out of their flesh prejudice you against what I feel is a very powerful and wonderful manifestation from the Lord when He does decide to do it on someone.
For those of you who have been truly slain in the Spirit, you know exactly what I am talking about since you have had this real experience. For those of you who have not – I challenge you to go direct to God the Father in prayer and ask Him to personally show you if this manifestation is something that is really coming from Him or not.
God loves it when you start to press in and ask Him specific questions on anything you may really want an answer on.
Ask, and you may just receive His direct answer on this topic!
Since we have put up this article, we have received quite a few emails from people who have received this experience from the Lord. One in particular has really caught our attention. This one came in just a few weeks after publishing the article and this person has given us permission to release his testimony on our site.
This person is 55 years old right now and he personally had this experience with the Lord when he was a sophomore in high school. As you will see when reading his testimony, he initially went up there to see if he could possibly disprove that this manifestation was really coming from the Lord.
Here is this man's word-for-word testimony on exactly what had occurred to him that day when he went up there to see if this experience was really from the Lord or not. I will then point out a few key things that had occurred to him both during and after he had this experience with the Lord.
I am two months away from age 56 and have been a Christian since a very young age. My relationship with God has at times, been rocky and rebellious.
Yet, He has always been there. I was Slain in the Spirit in high school and want to relate my experience. It is much like the little 8 year old girl you cited as an example.
I was about a Sophomore and going through a very rebellious period. I was doubting the very existence of God. I was attending Monte Vista Christian High School in Watsonville, CA and had gone with many from the school to a revival meeting at a local church. I do not recall the name of the traveling pastor but it was a healing service.
While sitting there in church, listening to the preacher describe those in the congregation that God wanted to heal if they simply had faith enough to come forward, I was undergoing a spiritual battle.
My explanation of what was going on is crude but it is the only way I know in which to describe same. It was as if I had a small little satan on one shoulder and a small Jesus or Angel on the other shoulder.
One was speaking to me telling me that what I was witnessing (Slain in the Spirit, healings) was BS and a fake. The other was telling me that God wanted me to come forward, that He wanted to bless me and let me know He was real. This spiritual battle continued for quite some time. Finally I decided to call out God.
I went up front and stood in a line with others. The Pastor was approaching from my right (moving right to left). The air about me was palable, as if you could touch the air, or chew the air. It was as if the air had a physical substance.
I began to cry and was not sure why. The Pastor was two people right of me and had simply been saying, "In the name of Jesus" as he touched their foreheads.
I knew the Pastor had uttered such words and moved to his right, thus approaching me. I heard him utter the same words to the person second from me on my right. I began to cry harder. The Pastor then stepped in front of the person to my immediate right and uttered the same words. I began crying profusely. At this time, I simply do not recall if I had any thought at all.
I do not recall the Pastor stepping in front of me. I do not recall the Pastor saying anything to me or touching me. After he uttered the words "In the name of Jesus" to the person on my immediate right, my next recollection was a voice in my head while I laid on my back crying. The voice said something to the effect of 'you thought this was fake, go ahead and get up'. At first I did not know if I had heard anything or what to think. I realized I was on my back, crying profusely.
The voice uttered the same message to me a second time. I think I had the conscience thought that I had been sitting in the audience, undergoing a spiritual battle and I had decided to call out God. I had decided to ascertain if this Slain in the Spirit thing was real or fake and it was my intention to expose the fake… if it was fake.
With that realization, I knew I had to get up so as to expose the lie…… I could not move. I was paralyzed!
As soon as I realized I could not move, literally, I could not move anything other than my mouth, the voice said to me, "I am God, I love you. Do not ever doubt me." (As I am typing this to you, I am fighting tears. 40 years later, this is powerful).
With the above comments being made to me, by whom I believe from God, the floodgates opened. I thought I had been crying profusely before, but I was now crying more and harder than I had ever before or since cried. I began praising Jesus and thanking Jesus. I was speaking out loud and praising Jesus and thanking Him.
Again, I was lost in emotion and praise and initially was not sure I had heard anything but was aware that I may have heard something. The voice spoke again and gave me the same message…. it was ok, I could get up now.
Realizing I was being told to get up, I tried to move and to my amazement, I simply stopped crying and got up. I remember saying something like thank you and again being told never to doubt God.
I have no doubt God was trying to give me a message that He is real, does exist, created me and has power and authority over me. While my relationship over the years has at times been rebellious, I have never doubted I am saved by and through the blood of Jesus. Since being Slain in the Spirit, I have never doubted the existence of God and I have never doubted His love for me.
To this day, about 40 (+) years later, I still get chills and tears well up in my eyes as I recall those events. I was Slain in the Spirit only the one time… but that was God.
God bless. Let me know how it goes.
1. He initially went up to try and disprove this experience. I know a lot of people think that some Christians are under the power of suggestion when they go up to receive this kind of supernatural experience from the Lord. But this man had just the opposite attitude. He was going to try and disprove it if nothing would have happened to him.
2. Then notice what happens next. Before he actually receives this manifestation from the Lord, he starts to profusely cry. He had no reason to all of a sudden start crying. I believe the intense crying he was experiencing was coming direct from the Holy Spirit. I believe the Holy Spirit was moving on this man to help prepare him to receive this holy experience from the Lord.
3. Then notice what God does next after he actually gets slain by the Holy Spirit. He literally could not move an inch as he was lying under the power of the Holy Spirit, once more proving to him that he was really having this supernatural experience from the Lord.
4. And last but not least, notice the fruit it ended up producing in this man. He has never forgotten this incredible experience many years later and even to this day, he still wells up in tears just recalling everything that had occurred to him that day. This supernatural experience also help prove to him that our God really does exist and that He does truly love all of us.
As we had said in the testimony of the 8 year old girl in our article on this topic, this man was also truly "touched" by the Lord in a most powerful and intimate way that day.
In my opinion, I believe this man had a true, holy, supernatural experience with the Lord that day by the fruit it ended up producing in him, and the fact that he was not under any type of suggestion when he initially went up there to see if this experience was the real thing or not.
Is Laughing In The Spirit Really From God?
When I was about 12, during a youth conference, no one had laid hands on me, but after awhile I realized I had been lying on the floor and had been speaking aloud in a foreign language of some type. I realized it as soon as I was finished speaking and got right up.
I know people who have been healed and people radically changed by such an experience. Some were little children. My pastor has done it, but he spends hours, several times per week, laying on his face on concrete. He has laid hands on me and I can feel God's presence, though I sit down rather than fall, because God knows it's painful for me. And He has reason to not heal me right now. Just as Paul's thorn. But I was once standing on that same concrete for a long period of time without feeling pain and just being in communication with God. And that amazing in itself as I can't stand very long. I have also felt a peace and joy wash over me that lasted for weeks.
As for fake Christians, there are also fake pastors. My pastor lightly touches you, and I've had pastors barely touch me then say something that God was doing that was true, but they had no way of knowing. And they weren't just standard things that can be true for almost everyone, but very specific.
But I've also had pastors lay hands on me and start pushing trying to push me backwards. It's blatantly obvious that they want me to fall backwards, and they always have people stand behind you before they start. This is different from my pastor as he's quickly told someone to grab someone who was falling, and they were several feet away.
I don't believe it's demonic when people are faking it, but they really want to experience it, and as you said, be a part of what's going on.
If any man LACK wisdom, ask of God. Ye shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.
His ways are higher (always) than ours and He sometimes confuses the wise to satisfy those who seek Him.
If you want to know. just Pray about it, but don't blaspheme or grieve the Holy Spirit.
with Him. Go to the garden while the dew is still on the roses.
Do you think from this article, that I have been slain in the spirit? Beyond a shadow of a doubt! I have been extremely drunk in the spirit and continue to believe He will do it again in His timing. It is the best drunk, I have ever experienced and love my addiction to the anointing of the Holy Spirit and there is nothing in this world that will ever satisfy as greatly once you have experience it! <3 XOXOXO.
Thank you for this article. I too used to doubt all of this…even after I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues I still thought all this other stuff was demonic. I was IGNORANT! I did not know such things existed and I was afraid of them, I had never been exposed to them growing up. Fear of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. God started working in me and I started opening my heart. But honestly the more deliverance I received, the more the Holy Spirit could work in me and Show me things. The more deliverance I received the more I sensitive I was to the Holy Spirit. I repented to the Holy Spirit for saying bad things about Him and also telling others that These manifestations are not from God. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit. I am so grateful I did not get stuck in Religion HOWEVER it is a process, just like the testimony of this man. We go from glory to glory and the Holy Spirit reveals the mysteries of the Father to us the more we walk with Him and are led by Him. Do not have communion with a religious Spirit. If it is hard for you to believe cry out to God and say Lord I have little faith/unbelief/doubt…Show yourself to me, reveal yourself to me.
Once again thank you for this article. Personally last weekend I experienced God's presence so strong, I could not get out of my chair. I felt so weak in my arms and legs. Please include Daniel 10 as an example of biblical verses amongst the others on this page. He too felt all the strength leave his body. This passage helped me to process that it was the presence of the Holy Spirit doing this. I felt this for over an hour.
God is great…..I was saved and baptised maybe two years later.Meanwhile reading,studying the bible and wounder ing about the books in Bible.I gotta say I have no doubt in my mind,about the holy Spirit being alive.My brother-in-law and his wife invited my husband and I to their Church.The preacher was a woman.I was anointed with oil and slung in the Spirit.This was such a peaceful feeling.I was so rested feeling and felt so happy once I woke.I could hear what was going on around me at this time,but my body did not want to wake up.We continued going back,and I would go up for prayer every time and slung in the Spirit.We stopped going to this Church due to my husband having such a heavy heart and not believing or understanding how I could every time be slung in the Spirit.I believe my heart is not hard and this is why.My husband never wanted prayer or to be anointed.He believes in praying for himself.This is okay as long as he continues to believe in the Lord and the Bible.This he does.
I was having a conversation on this with my wife who was sharing what she heard on the radio about a local pastor not believing on the slaying of the spirit and going on it was not godly and this is no where to be found biblically. So I will pray for him not be so bitter because he has not been able to have an encounter with God. But it does read in the gospels that these things will follow of signs and wonders. So pastor must of overlook the wonders part who believe. But for myself grew up in church grandparents were pastors, my father pastor and seen some holy spirit things but I myself fell away from God growing up, until I was end of my rope with life. But my mother who did not give up ask me to come to church on a revival meeting so I said I would do get my loving mother off my back. But I tell you this is my testimony on how I had an encounter with the holy spirit for the first time ever. So honestly I was at my end, no steady job young and a alcoholic by the age of 22 been dry out 2 times from alcohol in the hospital for a week with I.V. where my hands would shake because lack of withdrawal of alcohol, so I was bad on that part of my life so I had enough of trying to find God and falling short. But this night was the night I called God out before I went to the service I prayed at home and asked him If he does not prove himself to me this night I will never step back in to church and to leave me alone I had enough. so I went by myself. Long hair trench coat sitting in the back row. So evangalist did an alter call but no I was not going until he said this. If you're man enough to come if you dare, oh he calling me out so I went but I stood my ground hard is no way I am going down every one before was falling so I made myself feeling hard thinking no not me. But it was turn and bam didn't know what happened I was on the floor crying and I tried to get up thinking this can not happen to me, but was dead weight nothing was moving but my mouth saying I am sorry I believe and was made new. Thus starting my new life for 7 yrs in christ. But this is another story.
I would like to share my testimony from this past week. I have been an on off again believer for quite some time now. Monday night I went to revival nothing happened. I know how some of you old timers don't feel like women should preach but I have seen some women more on fire for god than most men. This woman is a traveling preacher, my mom told her I was running away from my calling and she says yes I know. She tells my mother that I'll be back. Me being me I said you know what I'll show her I'm not going back. Me being me I say in my head she has nothing to say to me god doesn't speak to her. Went back Thursday, almost didn't go due to at home issues. I get there I keep hearing in my head I don't deserve this I don't deserve this. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'm just sitting in the back and she starts walking towards me. I immediately feel the presence of God coming my way. She starts talking to me saying God hasn't given up on you, your life is a mess, saying God hears what you say and he hears your thoughts as well. I immediately start bawling because I knew what she was talking about. She spoke others things about my life no one in that place could possibly know. My mother didn't even know. I gave my life back to Jesus that night and was refilled with the Holy Spirit, I laid down in my seat for maybe 30 min just wanting to soak in it. I had forgotten how amazing it was. Last night, the last night of revival I went back craving more. Within the first three songs the air change and I could smell this amazing aroma. I could feel the spirit of God in this church. This man got the American flag handed it to another man and he ran around the seats with it, he handed me the Christian flag and I ran around with it for maybe 4 minutes before being winded. Then I started up running to the alter with it and immediately got hit with the Holy Spirit feeling joy, peace, love, all at once. It was as if I had hit a brick wall. I had no hands laid on me. God had hit me with the Holy Spirit with no human intervention at all. I fell to the ground, I don't remember how long I was on the ground I just remember raising my hands as I was laying and started to cry, after crying I got this uncontrollable laughter, a joyful laughter something I have never experienced before. I could tell it was from God. Last night God showed me how much he loves me and just how great his patience is. He never gave up on me. Even through the worst.


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Gionee GN5002 gets TENAA certified; Powered by a quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM
By Sagar Bakre	 On Nov 26, 2015 Last updated Nov 26, 2015
Gionee GN5002 has received certification from China's Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center (TENAA). The Gionee GN5002 has now been listed on TENAA's website, revealing it's design and listing out all its specifications.
Going by the specifications listed out on the website, the Gionee GN5002 is powered by 1.3GHz quad-core processor accompanied by 2GB of RAM. It also boasts off 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.
The Gionee GN5002 has 16GB of internal storage, whereas the external storage can be expanded all the way up to 128GB via microSD card. Camera department consists of an 8MP rear camera, along with 5MP front camera. This handset will be running on Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box. It weighs 200 grams and has a dimension of 155 × 76 × 9 mm. The size of the battery on the GN5002 is unknown.
Probable Gionee GN5002 specifications:
CPU: 1.3GHz quad-core processor
Operating System: Android 5.1 Lollipop
Display: 5.5-inch TFT display having a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels
Rear Camera: 8MP
Internal Storage: 16GB
External Storage: Expandable up to 128GB via microSD card
Connectivity: 4G, 3G, GPS, Bluetooth, USB
Dimensions: 155 × 76 × 9 mm at 200 grams
Gionee hasn't made any official announcement regarding this GN5002 of theirs, but, expect an official word from the company soon.
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Quelqu'un m'a dit (Nekdo mi je rekel) je prvi album italijansko-francoske pevke in fotomodela Carle Bruni. Izdan leta 2003 je bil velik uspeh, tako s strani kritikov kot tudi prodaje.

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"Quelqu'un m'a dit" (Nekdo mi je rekel)
"Raphaël"
"Tout le monde" (Vsakdo)
"La noyée" (Utopljeno dekle)
"Le toi du moi" (Ti od mene)
"Le ciel dans une chambre" (Nebo v sobi)
"J'en connais" (To poznam)
"Le plus beau du quartier" (Najlepši fant v soseski)
"Chanson triste" (Žalostna pesem)
"L'excessive" (Pretirana)
"L'amour" (Ljubezen)
"La dernière minute" (Zadnja minuta)

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Greenmantle
Greenmantle continues the thrilling adventures of Richard Hannay from convalescence following the Battle of Loos, back to London for a vital meeting at the Foreign Office and thence on a top-secret mission across war-torn German-occupied Europe. His...
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Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea
When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps off the train. Anne, red-headed, pugnacious and incurably romantic, causes chaos at Green Gables and in the village, but her wit and good nature delight the fictional community of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and ensure that Anne of Green Gables continues to be a firm favourite with readers worldwide. Anne of Avonlea continues Anne's story. Now half-past sixteen but as strong-headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher at her old school and dreams of its improvement. But her responsible position and mature ambitions do not prevent her entanglement in the scrapes that still seem to beset her in spite of her best intentions. Thoroughly charming and amusing, with a supporting cast of colourful and endearing characters, both books will enchant and entertain readers, guaranteeing that Anne's adventures capture their affections as well as their imaginations.
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, Wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates.The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me'. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band.
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.Grahame's book was later dramatised by A. A. Milne, and became a perennial Christmas favourite, as Toad of Toad Hall. It continues to enchant and, above all perhaps, inspire great affection.
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.
Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that a horse is recounting the exploits in the narrative.The gentle thoroughbred, Black Beauty, is raised with care and is treated well until a vicious groom injures him. The damaged horse is then sold to various masters at whose hands he experiences cruelty and neglect. After many unpleasant episodes, including one where he becomes a painfully overworked cab horse in London, Black Beauty finally canters towards a happy ending. Although Anna Sewell's classic is set firmly in the Victorian period, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.There have been many film and television adaptations of the story, but it is only the novel that captures the authentic voice of the central character.
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity. The House of Mirth was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton's most accomplished and compelling social satires.
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.However, it is not so much her...
Alices Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The...
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This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Favourites such us Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are...
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched and meticulous evocation of the manners and style of the period, has delighted readers since the novel's first publication in 1920.In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction - it won the Pulitzer Prize and it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author .
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. .This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. . .
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The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings.
The Forsyte Saga
When "The Forsyte Saga" was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte familys troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the next transmission. "The Forsyte...
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Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Call of the Wild & White Fang
FOUR BLONDES charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but can't get what she wants; a high-powered magazine columnist's floundering marriage to a literary journalist is thrown into crisis when her husband's career fails to live up to her expectations; a 'Cinderella' records her descent into paranoia in her journal as she realises she wants anybody's life except her own; an artist and aging 'It girl' - who fears that her time for finding a man has run out - travels to London in search of the kind of love and devotion she can't find in Manhattan...Studded with her trademark wit and stiletto-heel-sharp insight, FOUR BLONDES is dark, true, and compulsively readable . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Study in Scarlet & The Sigh of the Four
"Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes" - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet", bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of cience detection, and John H. Watson, the great ... .
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Model Information: This is one of Atlas' Chinese-made toolings. It served as the replacement for the earlier Roco-made bulkhead flatcars from the 1960s and 1970s. This model is somewhat more detailed than the earlier Roco model It first appears in the Atlas 2000 catalog with two undecorated versions (open vs closed ends) and six different road names, each with multiple numbers. The price for the decorated version in 2000 was $13.95 and $9.95 for the two undecorated models.
Pulpwood is not a specific type of wood, but actually tree limbs that are cut to a specified length, then turned into wood pulp and used in the paper industry. Early paper making had the trees near the paper plant. As timber resources were diminished, the need for transporting pulpwood began to rise. Railroads were seen as an efficient method of transporting pulpwood. Pulpwood in the Southeast and Northeast is generally cut into four-foot or less lengths and loaded onto "V-deck" bulkhead flat cars.
In the early 1950s General Steel Castings, produced a "V-deck" design.
Another notable manufacturer of pulpwood flat cars was the Southern Iron & Equipment Company (SIECO) that manufactured this type of car in the 1960s and 1970s, with over 800 delivered in the early 1979's to the Southern Railway, alone.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway (reporting mark NC) was a railway company operating in the southern United States in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. It began as the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, chartered in Nashville in December 11, 1845, built to 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge and was the first railway to operate in the state of Tennessee. From this link between two Tennessee cities, it gradually grew until it formed one of the important railway systems of the South by the turn of the twentieth century.
The Nashville & Chattanooga Railway, predecessor to the NC&StL Railway, was organized in 1848 by a group of prominent Nashville, Tennessee businessmen. By virtue of his connections to wealth from the Grundy and Bass families of Nashville, and of his vigorous promotion of a line between Nashville and Chattanooga, Vernon K. Stevenson was elected president of the line and served in that capacity for sixteen years. The first locomotive in Nashville arrived in December 1850 on the steamboat Beauty along with thirteen freight cars and one passenger car. The train made its first trip the following spring, 11 miles (18 km) to Antioch, Tennessee. It took nine years to complete the 150 miles (240 km) of line between Nashville and Chattanooga, made difficult by the steep elevations of the Highland Rim and Cumberland Plateau between them. The 2,228 feet (679 m) Cowan Tunnel near Cowan, Tennessee was considered an engineering marvel of the time. Due to terrain difficulties, the rail line crossed into Alabama and Georgia for short distances. Towns sprang up during construction, including Tullahoma and Estill Springs.
In 1902, the L&N was acquired by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in a takeover similar to that of the NC&StL, but continued to operate as a separate company. In 1982, the L&N's corporate existence ended when it was merged into ACL's successor, the Seaboard System Railroad. After several other mergers, in 1986 the Seaboard System was renamed as CSX Transportation, which continues to use the original NC&StL route between Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta.


Bella has been following Big Cat Rescue for a while now and has overcome some really difficult challenges. She has made it clear that her anxiety holds her back in many ways unimaginable to those who have not experienced it themselves. I have personally worked with Bella very closely and seen her blossom into an amazing advocate for the cats. She picked up and the phone and made the call of the wild daily and as difficult as that was, she decided that she was not satisfied with just making a call.
Wednesday, April 10th, Bella stepped up and showed up! She made an appointment to meet with her representative in person. Every fiber of her being was terrified but she researched and worked closely with Jennifer Leon and myself(Holly) and she walked in those doors and spoke up on behalf of all of our cats! She proved to herself that she had the strength deep down in there and just did not know it!
If there is one thing that I know Bella would want everyone to take away from this it would be knowing that no matter how fearful you are deep down inside there is always a lion ready to roar. Take that moment and go to BigCatAct.com and roar proudly for the cats.
We are so proud of you, Bella!!
We are all super proud of you Bella! You rocked it!
The wonderful Sarah Ballentine came in today before flying back to London tomorrow! She made time to volunteer and help patch a spot in Kewlona and Dryden's enclosure! Jeff Lovering, Tanya Chute, Christina Cochard, & Ashley Tait mowed and weed-eated Nikki lion's open-air section and around the outside of her enclosure.
The interns then continued the weed-eating around the hospital, down the wall by food prep to the cell tower, around Max and MaryAnn's, the septic mound behind the gift shop, and all down the tour path from the kitten cabana to Armani!
The big blue bin is full, but we should have a new one tomorrow so we can rake and clean up some enclosures this weekend!
Erin Carden, Candy Couser, & Sarah B, handed out sickles and restocked the bins in the cabin.
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Melting Kittens – Watch the domestic foster kittens at Big Cat Rescue, every day, playing in the Kitten Cabana.
Q&A at Big Cat Rescue- Follow along as Keeper Brittany shows you many of the Tigers, Lion, Leopards, Jaguar, Cougars, Lynx, Servals, Bobcats, Savannah Cats and an Ocelot that Call Big Cat Rescue was Rescue Home! Cats Featured: Natalia, Armani, Manny, Ares, Orion, Artemis, Hutch, Beacher, Cyrus, Kricket, Sheena, Ginger, Zimba, Zucari, Nala, Andi, Breezy, Running Bear And Smalls.
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I Love This 6.6%-Yielding 'F' Rated Stock
written by Marc Lichtenfeld Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Not all stocks in my Oxford Income Letter portfolios are rated "A" and "B" for dividend safety. Some of them have lower ratings, which understandably confuses readers.
Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE: SIX) is a perfect example.
In 2018, earnings were a bit higher and revenue rose to a record for the ninth straight year. However, free cash flow declined by nearly $50 million to $258.4 million.
I dug into the statement of cash flow to try to figure out why it was lower if earnings had actually increased slightly.
The main reasons were an increase in accounts receivable, a decline in stock-based compensation and 2017's loss on debt extinguishment.
Accounts receivable refers to outstanding debts that customers owe to a company, sometimes from making purchases on credit. When accounts receivable increases, cash flow declines. That's because the company did not actually receive the cash that it logged as revenue, so it must be removed from cash flow.
If a company has stock-based compensation, it issues shares to employees and takes that amount as an expense off its profit. However, because the company does not pay cash to its employees, that expense is added back to cash flow.
In Six Flags' case, the opposite happened. It had expensed stock that was going to be given to employees and added the cash back to cash flow in 2016.
However, in 2017 and 2018, goals that would have triggered the stock-based compensation were not reached, so the stock was not given, the expense was reversed, and the figure that was added back to cash flow in 2016 was removed in 2017 and 2018. Last year, that resulted in a $47 million reversal in cash flow.
Lastly, in 2017, the company took a loss when it extinguished $37 million in debt. Keep in mind that cash had already gone out the door when the debt was paid off. So in 2017, Six Flags took an accounting charge against its profits and added the $37 million back to cash flow in order to represent its actual cash situation.
Since the 2017 statement of cash flow included that $37 million, free cash flow was higher than it would have been otherwise. Therefore, free cash flow was lower in 2018.
The decline in cash flow really doesn't have anything to do with selling customers entrance fees for its amusement parks, spending on food, keeping costs in check or managing any other day-to-day business operations.
Going forward, cash flow is expected to grow again.
Keep in mind, those higher cash flow estimates are by analysts who are not especially bullish. Six out of 13 Wall Street analysts who cover the stock rate it a "Hold." So even though the analysts are lukewarm on the stock, they expect cash flow to rise. Should they get more positive on the stock, it's likely because the company's operating performance is even better than predicted.
Because free cash flow slid in 2018, SafetyNet Pro punished the stock. Additionally, the lower free cash flow pushed its payout ratio above 100%, another hit on its rating. This year, the payout ratio is forecast to be just under 100%, which hurts the rating once again.
That being said, Six Flags has raised its dividend nine years in a row. If the company does so again in 2020, it will receive an upgrade. It will also receive an upgrade if cash flow grows in 2019 and if the expected payout ratio falls below 75% in 2020.
Free cash flow fell in 2018 and needs to get back to a higher level. But with record sales, parks opening in China and other parts of the world in the next few years, and what looks like an aberration in free cash flow, I'm confident in Six Flags' ability to continue to pay its current 6.6% dividend yield.
If you have a stock whose dividend safety you'd like me to analyze, leave the ticker symbol in the comments section below.
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Yazmin Oukhellou is undeniably beautiful, but I find it to be a very generic beauty. Throw this woman in a police lineup of brown haired models from the lingerie section of a Sears catalogue I would not be able to pick her out from the rest of them. And that is not a laughing matter. That means some innocent woman could end up doing time for a crime that Yazmin committed. Not cool, Yazmin. Not cool.
What Yazmin really needs is something distinguishing to set her apart from the rest, like a really nasty scar or an eye patch. She would not even need the eye patch for any reason other than aesthetics. Groucho Marx didn't have a moustache when he started his career, but it became a trademark. She could really learn a thing or two from that cigar sucker.
Hell, she could even start wearing bow ties. She could be the bow tie broad. Avril Lavigne became the neck tie wearing girl, so I see no reason why a bow tie could not be equally as endearing. But she had better jump on it quick before some other lady takes it, because we all know there can be only one bow tie wearer. Anyone else will only be seen as a poseur.


TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Rabbi Neal Katz and Congregation Beth El will be presenting the 11th annual Hanukkah concert Monday night.
The concert will include Klezmer music, or music of the Eastern European Jewish life. They will also present popular Hannukah songs.
"It's a fun word to say -- Klezmer -- people don't generally know what it is," said Katz. "I often tell them to think 'Fiddler on the Roof'."
Every year, Katz brings together 10 area musicians on a variety of instruments. This year, there will be a number of other musical acts, as well as poetry reading. The entire community is invited to attend.
The concert will be Monday night at 7 p.m. at Liberty Hall in Tyler. Tickets are $15; some will be available at the door, however Katz recommended buying online.


Chancellor Gillman accepts the Visionary Award on behalf of UCI at IPSF celebration.
Chancellor Gillman co-hosts daylong summit with over 200 attendees, including UCI faculty and students, chief executives from Orange County's leading nonprofits.
Chancellor Gillman addresses the Class of 2019.
The New York Times Speaks with Chancellor Gillman, ranks UCI No. 1 in nation for outreach to low-income students.
Chancellor Gillman joins higher education leaders of the Santa Ana Partnership to celebrate $5 million grant for innovation and excellence.
Chancellor Gillman meets alumni in Washington, D.C.
President Napolitano and Chancellor Gillman chat with high school seniors headed to UC campuses.
Chancellor Gillman joins nearly 5,000 Anteaters for "UCI Night with the Angels."
Chancellor Gillman meets with New York alumni.
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With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis. Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geopolitical affairs. For those with an interest in social po…
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With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis. Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geopolitical affairs. For those with an interest in social policy, ethics, politics and international relations, this is an honest appraisal of both the concepts of international human rights and their realities.


What to do with users no longer enrolled in a course?
How long do you keep users in Canvas after a course is concluded? I'm doing some admin work at the high school level and most of the users in Canvas have graduated. Should I get this cleaned up before uploading new users?
Does your school have a policy on how long it keeps records of student work after graduation? You may be able to follow that rule.
We have a policy that states student work, including interactions within Canvas, can be archived/removed after a year, but I work in higher ed, so we keep users enrolled in Canvas indefinitely. We're only held accountable for that year.
Is it a problem for you to keep them in Canvas? How many students does your high school graduate each year?


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Q: SVG srcset - Need to swap SVG on screen size I have come up against a problem and I'm struggling to find the best solution.
I have a very rectangle-shaped SVG that I have 3 versions of, eg desktop/tablet/phone
Originally, I've been using the <picture> element with <source> tags and linking to the SVG. Although when done this way, on mobile chrome, the image does not retain its rectangle shape and forces it into a square. If I set a max-height, all that happens is that the svg artwork is squashed and obscured and the white space both top and bottom of the SVG remains.
However, on desktop I never got this issue.
When I use the <svg> tag, with an <image> element, all the problems go away and as long as I set a max height, it works across the board, although I'm unable to use the <picture> element this way, which means I cannot make use of the handy media-query attributes.
The last thing, I haven't tried yet because I do not want it to be implemented in this way would be to set the SVG as a background on a block element.
I appreciate any experienced input on this, perhaps someone with a bit more SVG cross platform knowledge than myself!

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One morning, a former CIA agent is shot to death in the street. That night, an army vet is gunned down in his doorway. The next day, John Wells gets a phone call. Come to Langley. Now.
The victims were part of an interrogation team that operated out of a secret base in Poland called the Midnight House, where they worked over the toughest jihadis, extracting information by any means necessary. Now Wells must find out who is killing them. Islamic terrorists are the likeliest suspects, and Wells is uniquely qualified to go undercover and find them. But the trail of blood leads him to a place he couldn't have imagined: Home.
Title: Midnight House
Author Name: "Berenson, Alex"
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2021-09-05 Physics Today featured Prof. Stuart Brown's lab for ruling out claims of SRO's spin-triplet superconductivity. Read More
2021-08-29 Prof. Rene Ong's General AntiParticle Spectrometer was approved by NASA for at least two Antarctic balloon campaigns. Read More
2021-07-20 Prof. Ni Ni's group and collaborators discovered the Layer Hall effect in a 2D topological axion antiferromagnet. Read More
2021-06-29 Prof. Thomas Dumitrescu has co-founded the Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries, initially awarded $8M to unlock the power of symmetry. Read More
2021-06-22 Congratulations to Dissertation Year Fellows: Kevin Chen, Bao Minh Hoang, Chaowei Hu, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, John Terry, & Ji Zou. Read More
2021-06-07 UCLA's Basic Plasma Science Facility accelerated electrons by Alfvén waves to solve the mystery of aurora borealis. Read More
2021-05-17 Former grad student Chen-Hsuan Chu (PhD '14 with Chakravarty) won RIKEN's Emergent Matter Science award. Read More
2021-05-01 Congratulations to PhD students Eric Cropp and Kyle Ferguson on winning DOE Office of Science graduate fellowships Read More
2021-04-22 Prof. John Miao received the 2021 Innovation in Materials Characterization Award from the Materials Research Society Read More
2021-04-21 Congratulations to Spenser Talkington and Jonathan Lin on their NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Read More
2021-04-14 Congratulations to Dr. Shu "Suzy" Zhang on the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research Read More
2021-04-05 Congratulations to PhD students Anowar Shajib, Jon Zink, and former undergrad Erika Holmbeck on their Hubble Fellowships. Read More
2021-03-31 Prof. John Miao led a team that solved a century-old scientific problem, the paper is published in this week's Nature. Read More
2021-03-31 Profs. Malkan, Shapley, Treu, Turner, and Drs. Hosek and Roberts-Borsani are among the first awarded James Webb Space Telescope time. Read More
2021-03-30 Congratulations to former UCLA Astro PhD student Dr. Emily Martin for her 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation Read More
2021-03-25 Congratulations to Astro PhD student Sanaea Rose for winning the Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship. Read More
2021-03-05 A $500,000 gift from Astrid and Howard Preston will allow renovation of UCLA's Remote Observing Facility Read More
2021-02-11 Congratulations to Prof. Tommaso Treu on the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize and locating a Fast Radio Burst. Read More
2021-02-05 Congratulations to Prof. Alex Kusenko for being selected as a Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics. Read More
2021-02-01 Recent PhD student, Daniel Gilman, won honorable mention at the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award ceremony. Read More
2021-01-17 Prof. Matt Malkan has been appointed to the National Science Board to advise Congress and the White House. Read More
2020-12-14 Graduate student Dimitrios Kosmopoulos has been awarded the Mavroyannis Scholarship in Theoretical Physics from the AHEPA. Read More
2020-12-10 Congratulations to P&A alumna Kalliopi Petraki (PhD '09) on promotion to the highest professorial rank at the Sorbonne and a 2M euro theory grant." Read More
2020-12-04 Prof. Troy Carter chaired the panel that authored the long-range strategic plan for fusion power and plasma science. Read More
2020-12-02 Engineer Maxx Tepper's high-bandwidth custom electronics work for the LHC was featured by Samtec Blog. Read More
2020-11-24 Prof. Graciela Gelmini was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Read More
2020-11-20 The newest faculty of UCLA Astronomy and Astrophysics gave a public webinar about their research to nearly 1,000 people. Read More
2020-11-10 Senior physics major Alina Kochocki won Honorable Mention for the 2020 University Space Research Association (USRA) Distinguished Undergraduate Award Read More
2020-10-12 Check out the profile of Prof. Erik Petigura in the Daily Bruin. Read More
2020-10-05 Andrea Ghez, the Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics at UCLA, has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Read More
2020-09-21 Prof. Karoly Holczer and colleagues won a $1M NSF award to develop nitrogen vacancies in diamonds to advance quantum sensing. Read More
2020-09-08 Profs. Walter Gekelman and Victoria Vesna will give a virtual plasma physics tour for Ars Electronica. Read More
2020-08-31 We mourn the passing of Prof. Bob Finkelstein who joined our faculty in 1948 and remained active through this year. Read More
2020-08-19 Prof. John Miao, PhD student Arjun Rana and colleagues report an innovative method to capture multiple images from attosecond pulses. Read More
2020-08-04 Prof. Seth Putterman was awarded the DoD's Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Read More
2020-07-28 Former UCLA Physics PhD Student, Anne White, has been appointed the Distinguished Professor of Engineering at MIT's School of Engineering. Read More
2020-07-28 Congratulations to Prof. Ni Ni and PhD student Chaowei Hu for the fabrication and discovery of the first intrinsic ferromagnetic topological insulator. Read More
2020-07-24 Congratulations to Prof. Christoph Niemann for winning the 2020 APS John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Read More
2020-07-21 UCLA Physics will co-lead a new $25M NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute to overcome scientific challenges to quantum computing. Read More
2020-07-17 Congratulations to Prof. Warren Mori for winning the 2020 APS Maxwell Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics. Read More
2020-07-01 Congratulations to Prof. Thomas Dumitrescu for being named a UCLA Hellman Fellow. Read More
2020-06-05 Prof. Zhongbo Kang has won an NSF Career Award for theoretical work in quantum chromodynamics and nucleon structure. Read More
2020-06-05 Grad Student Eddie Chang won "Best Poster" at the national APS meeting of the Group on Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants Read More
2020-06-01 Our department mourns the passing of Prof. Roberto Peccei and remembers his deep legacy and friendship. Read More
2020-05-15 UCLA physicists have created the world's best fidelity qubit, the basic element of quantum information, making it easier to build a quantum computer. Read More
2020-05-01 A surprising ferromagnetic order in superconductors predicted by Prof. Sudip Chakravarty, then-grad student Angela Kopp, and then-postdoc Amit Ghosal has been found experimentally. Read More
2020-05-01 Congratulations to second-year grad student Jessica Pilgram, recent awardee of an NSF GRFP. Read More
2020-04-14 Prof. Robijn Bruisnma published an article calculating the general phase plot for the capsid of viruses, which was selected as Editor's Suggestion for Physical Review Letters. Read More
2020-04-07 A Nature video featuring the research from Prof. John Miao's group has reached 10 million views, becoming the most viewed video ever made by Nature in any discipline and indicating that the public is still interested in the basic research. Read More
2020-04-02 Prof. Michalis Bachtis and UCLA colleagues have been awarded $2.2M as part of an NSF Major Research Equipment & Facilities Grant to upgrade the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Read More
2020-04-02 Dr. Hanguo Wang of UCLA helped start a project to build ventilators to fight COVID-19 disease using common off-the-shelf parts. Read More
2020-03-30 Trent Thomas, a senior astrophysics major in the UCLA Physics & Astronomy department, just received an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Read More
2020-03-08 Prof. John Miao led a team that produces most accurate 3D images of 2D materials. The work was published in Nature Materials today, accompanied with a News & Views article by Prof. Angus Kirkland of Oxford University. Read More
2020-02-24 Professors Andrea Ghez and Ian McLean were named inaugural fellows of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for their contributions toward the AAS mission of enhancing and sharing humanity's scientific understanding of the universe. Read More
2020-02-12 Erik Petigura, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has been selected to receive the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship, which selects early-career scientists and scholars who are rising stars of science. Read More
2020-01-20 American Astronomical Society has announced that Smadar Naoz is the recipient of the Helen B. Warner Prize for 2020 for her many early career contributions to theoretical astrophysics. Read More
2020-01-09 Hanguo Wang has been awarded the 2019 DPF Instrumentation Award for contributions to and development of the use of liquid xenon and argon detectors for direct detection searches for dark matter, including the two-phase technique. Read More
2020-01-09 Professor Ni Ni and graduate student Chaowei Hu have found a new magnetic topological insulator, MnBi4Te7, a candidate for the Quantum Anomalous Hall effect. Read More
2020-01-07 Tommaso Treu and other HoLiCOW colleagues have found a new Hubble measurement that strengthens a discrepancy in the universe's expansion rate. Read More
2020-01-07 Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Tommaso Treu and fellow astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. Read More
2019-12-16 Mark Morris and colleagues have revealed a new image of a candy-cane-shaped feature in the center of our galaxy. Read More
2019-12-11 Astrophysicist Smadar Naoz has found that a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may have a friend. Read More
2019-12-11 David Jewitt leads a new analysis of data from Hubble Space Telescope that provides more details about the first observed interstellar comet. Read More
2019-11-19 UCLA professors Edward L. Wright and Ni Ni have been acknowledged in the 2019 list of the world's most influential scientific researchers. Read More
2019-11-05 Jia Han is the lead author of the article "3D measurements of plasma parameters in an industrial plasma etch tool" in "Physics of Plasmas." Read More
2019-11-04 David Jewitt and colleagues have discovered twenty new moons of Saturn. This brings the ringed planet's total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79. Read More
2019-10-28 Astronomer Tommaso Treu and colleagues have released a study suggesting that the universe is expanding more rapidly than previously thought. Read More
2019-10-25 Lucy Fortson won the APS Nicholson Medal for "the humanitarian aspect of physics." Dr. Fortson received her Ph.D. in physics from UCLA in 1991. Read More
2019-10-25 Ben Zuckerman and Hilke Schlichting have co-authored a study suggesting that Earth is not unique: Earth-like planets may be common in the universe. Read More
2019-10-24 David Jewitt has captured the best and sharpest look at a comet from outside of our solar system that recently barged into our own. Read More
2019-10-22 R. Michael Rich has led an international team carrying out a survey for the Haloes and Environments of Nearby Galaxies (HERON) collaboration. Read More
2019-10-22 In a recent article in The Conversation, Brad Hansen discusses what moons in other solar systems reveal about planets like Neptune and Jupiter. Read More
2019-10-01 Chris Regan and William Hubbard have received Microscopy Today's "Innovation Award" for their invention of SEEBIC imaging. Read More
2019-10-01 UCLA has had four faculty named APS Fellows in the 2019 Cohort: Andrea Ghez, Eric Hudson, Aydogan Ozcan, and Chee Wei Wong. Read More
2019-10-01 Prof. Stuart Brown and collaborators have published a major breakthrough in superconductivity in the journal Nature. Read More
2019-10-01 The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust. Researchers don't yet understand why. Read More
2019-09-01 Thomas Dumitrescu, assistant professor in the department, has been awarded the prestigious Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Award for his work "New Tools for Strongly Coupled Quantum Field Theories." Read More
2019-09-01 Professor Nathan Whitehorn's project, IceCube, the Antarctic neutrino detector that in July of 2018 helped unravel one of the oldest riddles in physics and astronomy - the origin of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays - is getting an upgrade. Read More
2019-08-07 Dr. Beth Klein has been awarded the American Physical Society's M. Hildred Blewett Fellowship. Dr. Klein, a junior development engineer in the Astronomy Division, studies polluted white dwarf stars, elemental compositions of extrasolar planetesimals, formation and evolution of rocky planets and exoplanets, and high-resolution spectroscopy and imaging. Read More
2019-07-01 At 6:56 in this video by Nature Magazine, Physics & Astronomy Professor Mayank Mehta discusses how virtual-reality mazes are helping to unlock the complexity of the human brain. Read More
2019-01-01 More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic general theory of relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. "Einstein's right, at least for now," said Ghez. Read More


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Q: How do I check whether the given expression is Infix, Postfix or Prefix accurately? Bit of a long read, It's my first question here :)
So, I want a function or the logic, whereby the code is able to validate an expression whether it is Infix, Postfix, or Prefix Accurately.
So by accurate I mean it should check all conditions whether the expression itself is valid, what the expression is (In, Pre or Post), or tell us if it's invalid.
I googled this question but all I found was check the first three digits of the expression. But this logic doesn't hold true when the rest of the expression is wrong and I want a far more superior validator.
So here's my take and I want to find any mistakes/edge cases in these.
1] Check the first 3 digits for infix and postfix and the last 3 for postfix and they should be in their respective order. (e.g AB* for postfix and A*B for infix)
2] Every valid expression has N operands and N-1 operators (A+B-C has 3 operands and 2 operators) so check that too, so we can't have tailing operators (something invalid like AB+C-+--)
3] Check the full validity using a stack (if (operand) push it, if (operator), pop twice, valid if the stack is empty at the end). For Infix we use two stacks one for operand and one for the operator and then validate.
4] If all three are correct, then return with an appropriate answer. (can make 3 separate functions if need be)
Sorry for the long read. Is my logic perfect? Could there be any edge cases or mistakes in this one? Thanks!


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Southampton continues to rise in global university rankings
The University of Southampton has again established itself as one of the top 75 universities in the world, according an international rankings guide published today (11 September).
In the 2012 QS World University League Rankings, Southampton is ranked in 73rd place, one of only 18 UK universities in the global elite of 100 higher education institutions. This is the University's highest ranking in the table and the fourth year in a row that it has improved its position.
The QS rankings are one of only a few internationally recognised indicators of excellence in teaching, research, citations of research, industry reputation and the international mix of students and staff.
Ranked in 73rd place
Professor Adam Wheeler, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton, says: "The University is once again delighted to be placed firmly within the top 100 universities in the world.
"Over recent years, the University has continually improved its position as a global institution recognised for its academic excellence in education and research by employers, graduates and academic colleagues across the world. It is a testament to the excellent work of all our staff and students. The announcement comes as the University is about to welcome students to its new campus in Malaysia."
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