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A CFD parametric study on the performance of a low-temperature-differential γ-type Stirling engine
Chen, W. L., Yang, Y. C. & Salazar, J. L., 2015 十二月 1, 於: Energy Conversion and Management. 106, p. 635-643 9 p.
Stirling engines
A CFD study on the performance of a passive ocean plastic collector under rough sea conditions
Shaw, H. J., Chen, W. L. & Li, Y. H., 2019 九月 15, 於: Ocean Engineering. 188, 106243.
A channel busy rate-aware congestion avoidance mechanism for the wireless ad hoc network
Huang, C-M., Lin, C. Y. & Lin, S. Y., 2012 十一月 27, PE-WASUN'12 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks. p. 113-116 4 p. (PE-WASUN'12 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks).
Ad hoc networks
A channel selection method for device to device (D2D) communication using the mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigm
Huang, C-M., Cheng, R. S. & Chen, H. H., 2019 一月 1, Wireless Internet - 11th EAI International Conference, WiCON 2018, Proceedings. Pang, A-C., Deng, D-J., Lin, C-C. & Chen, J-L. (編輯). Springer Verlag, p. 173-182 10 p. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST; 卷 264).
Long Term Evolution (LTE)
A characteristic and kinetic study on photo-degradation of dimethyl disulfide by S/ZN Co-doped TiO2 under visible light
Lin, Y. H., Chang, C. W., Lin, C. Y. & Chu, H., 2014 一月 1, p. 612-617. 6 p.
研究成果: Paper › 同行評審
dimethyl disulfide
A chatbot using LSTM-based multi-layer embedding for elderly care
Su, M. H., Wu, C. H., Huang, K. Y., Hong, Q. B. & Wang, H. M., 2018 四月 10, Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Orange Technologies, ICOT 2017. Wang, L., Dong, M., Lu, Y. & Li, H. (編輯). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 70-74 5 p. (Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Orange Technologies, ICOT 2017; 卷 2018-January).
A check-in shielding scheme against acquaintance inference in location-based social networks
Chen, B. H., Li, C. T. & Chuang, K. T., 2019 十一月 1, 於: World Wide Web. 22, 6, p. 2321-2354 34 p.
A chemical engineering perspective on the origins of life
Grover, M. A., He, C. Y., Hsieh, M. C. & Yu, S. S., 2015 六月 1, 於: Processes. 3, 2, p. 309-338 30 p.
Biological systems
Achievement goals and achievement emotions: (Poster)
Chang, Y. F., Cherng, B-L. & Peng, S-L., 2014, the 2014 Meeting of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC, USA
102 引文 斯高帕斯(Scopus)
Achievement of high CO2 concentration in the flue gas at slightly positive pressure during oxy-coal combustion in a 300 kWth furnace
Chi, C. C., Lin, T. H., Huang, W. C., Hou, S. S. & Wang, P. Y., 2015 八月 17, 於: Fuel. 160, p. 434-439 6 p., 9515.
Coal combustion
Achieve white light by utilizing interface defects on simplified ultraviolet organic light emitting diodes
Wenq, H. L., Chu, S-Y., Kao, P. C. & Chen, Y. C., 2012 十二月 1, Society for Information Display - 19th International Display Workshops 2012, IDW/AD 2012. p. 1042-1043 2 p. (Proceedings of the International Display Workshops; 卷 2).
rubrene
Genetic Recombination
Achieving a firm's competitive advantage through dynamic capability
Lin, C. & Tsai, H. L., 2016 七月 4, 於: Baltic Journal of Management. 11, 3, p. 260-285 26 p.
Dynamic Capabilities
Organizational Performance
Achieving customer satisfaction through product-service systems
Pan, J. N. & Nguyen, H. T. N., 2015 十一月 16, 於: European Journal of Operational Research. 247, 1, p. 179-190 12 p.
Product-service Systems
Achieving glycemic control in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes: A critical comparison of current options
Du, Y. F., Ou, H. Y., Beverly, E. A. & Chiu, C. J., 2014 十一月 18, 於: Clinical Interventions in Aging. 9, p. 1963-1980 18 p.
Achieving high lipid productivity of a thermotolerant microalga Desmodesmus sp. F2 by optimizing environmental factors and nutrient conditions
Ho, S. H., Chang, J. S., Lai, Y. Y. & Chen, C. N. N., 2014 三月, 於: Bioresource technology. 156, p. 108-116 9 p.
Achieving jumping functions of a bipedal robot with knee and toe spring mechanisms
Lee, C. W. & Chou, J-H., 2012 十月 1, 於: Journal of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers, Transactions of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Series C/Chung-Kuo Chi Hsueh Kung Ch'eng Hsuebo Pao. 33, 5, p. 401-408 8 p.
Achieving Low-Energy Driven Viologens-Based Electrochromic Devices Utilizing Polymeric Ionic Liquids
Lu, H. C., Kao, S. Y., Yu, H. F., Chang, T. H., Kung, C. W. & Ho, K. C., 2016 十一月 9, 於: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 8, 44, p. 30351-30361 11 p.
Viologens
Achieving planar plasmonic subwavelength resolution using alternately arranged insulator-metal and insulator-insulator-metal composite structures
Cheng, B. H., Chang, K. J., Lan, Y. C. & Tsai, D. P., 2015, 於: Scientific reports. 5, 7996.
Electromagnetic simulation
A Chinese Scale Measuring the Perceptions of People with Disability regarding Family Support: Scale Development, Reliability, and Validity
Chang, H. Y. & Guo, N. W., 2019 一月 1, (Accepted/In press) 於: International Journal of Disability, Development and Education.
Reproducibility of Results
Chang, H. Y. & Guo, N-W., 2018, (Accepted/In press) 於: International Journal of Disability, Development and Education.
A Chinese version of the Patient Continuity of Care Questionnaire: reliability and validity assessment
Chen, H. M. & Chen, C-M., 2017 五月 1, 於: Journal of Clinical Nursing. 26, 9-10, p. 1338-1350 13 p.
Continuity of Patient Care
Achromatic metalens array for full-colour light-field imaging
Lin, R. J., Su, V. C., Wang, S., Chen, M. K., Chung, T. L., Chen, Y. H., Kuo, H. Y., Chen, J. W., Chen, J., Huang, Y. T., Wang, J. H., Chu, C. H., Wu, P. C., Li, T., Wang, Z., Zhu, S. & Tsai, D. P., 2019 三月 1, 於: Nature Nanotechnology. 14, 3, p. 227-231 5 p.
研究成果: Letter › 同行評審
Acidic proton modulation of a stilbene-based zwitterionic sulfonic acid in the solid state: Mimicking a biological device
Chen, C. C., Sasaki, T., Yamamoto, A., Liu, J. H., Hisaki, I., Miyata, M. & Tohnai, N., 2014 三月 11, 於: Chemistry Letters. 43, 3, p. 299-301 3 p.
Stilbenes
Sulfonic Acids
Acid-induced hyperalgesia and anxio-depressive comorbidity in rats
Liu, Y. T., Shao, Y. W., Yen, C. T. & Shaw, F. Z., 2014 五月 28, 於: Physiology and Behavior. 131, p. 105-110 6 p.
Hyperalgesia
A circular polarized antenna with dual-feed by GIPD process
Tsai, C. L. & Yang, C. L., 2012 十二月 1, 2012 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2012 - Proceedings. p. 349-351 3 p. 6421594. (Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC).
Antenna feeders
Strip metal
A classification of slacks-based efficiency measures in network data envelopment analysis with an analysis of the properties possessed
Kao, C., 2018 十一月 1, 於: European Journal of Operational Research. 270, 3, p. 1109-1121 13 p.
Data Envelopment Analysis
Efficiency Measures
A classified multisuffix trie for IP lookup and update
Hsieh, S. Y. & Yang, Y. C., 2012 四月 18, 於: IEEE Transactions on Computers. 61, 5, p. 726-731 6 p., 5750004.
A clear link connecting the troposphere and ionosphere: ionospheric reponses to the 2015 Typhoon Dujuan
Kong, J., Yao, Y., Xu, Y., Kuo, C., Zhang, L., Liu, L. & Zhai, C., 2017 九月 1, 於: Journal of Geodesy. 91, 9, p. 1087-1097 11 p.
A Clifford algebra formulation of Navier-Cauchy equation
Liu, L. W. & Hong, H. K., 2014, 於: Procedia Engineering. 79, p. 184-188 5 p.
研究成果: Conference article › 同行評審
Harmonic functions
A clinical nutritional information system with personalized nutrition assessment
Kuo, S. E., Lai, H. S., Hsu, J. M., Yu, Y. C., Zheng, D. Z. & Hou, T. W., 2018 三月, 於: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 155, p. 209-216 8 p.
Nutrition Assessment
A closed-form solution of differential approximation for radiative transfer in a planar refractive medium
Hou, M. F., Wu, C-Y. & Hong, Y. B., 2015 一月 1, 於: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 83, p. 229-234 6 p.
A closed-loop micro-stimulator controlled by muscle fatigue status and function impairment level for upper limb rehabilitation
Tu, Y., Matthews, G. I., Lee, S. Y. & Fang, Q., 2015 十二月 2, 4th International Symposium on Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics, ISBB 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 120-123 4 p. 7344938. (4th International Symposium on Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics, ISBB 2015).
A Cloud-Assisted Malware Detection Framework for Mobile Devices
Hung, S. H., Tu, C. H. & Yeh, C. W., 2017 二月 16, Proceedings - 2016 International Computer Symposium, ICS 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 537-542 6 p. 7858534. (Proceedings - 2016 International Computer Symposium, ICS 2016).
ARM processors
A Cloud-based BIM Platform for Interior Design
Wu, T. & Jeng, T., 2018 三月 1, 於: Journal of Design. 23, 1, p. 43-60 18 p.
Information Structure
A cloud-based efficient on-line analytical processing system with inverted data model
Huang, S. W., Shieh, C. K., Liao, C. C., Chiu, C. M., Tsai, M. F. & Chen, L. W., 2015 十一月 19, Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QSHINE 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 341-345 5 p. 7332592. (Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QSHINE 2015).
A Cloud-Based Metabolite and Chemical Prioritization System for the Biology/Disease-Driven Human Proteome Project
Yu, K., Lee, T. M., Chen, Y., Ré, C., Kou, S. C., Chiang, J-H., Snyder, M. & Kohane, I. S., 2018 八月 21, 於: Journal of Proteome Research.
A Cloud-based Pluggable Manufacturing Service Scheme for Smart Factory
Liu, Y. Y., Hung, M. H., Lin, Y. C., Chen, C. C., Gao, W. L. & Cheng, F. T., 2018 十二月 4, 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2018. IEEE Computer Society, p. 1040-1045 6 p. 8560401. (IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering; 卷 2018-August).
Pulse amplitude modulation
Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition
A cloud computing based platform for sleep behavior and chronic diseases collaborative research
Kuo, M. H., Borycki, E., Kushniruk, A., Huang, Y-M. & Hung, S. H., 2014 一月 1, Nursing Informatics 2014: East Meets West eSMART+ - Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, NI 2014. IOS Press, p. 63-70 8 p. (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; 卷 201).
A cloud-integrated appliance recognition approach over internet of things
Lai, C-F., Zeadally, S., Shen, J. & Lai, Y. X., 2015 一月 1, 於: Journal of Internet Technology. 16, 7, p. 1157-1168 12 p.
ACLS training: Comparison of physicians and nurses with teamwork-based high-fidelity simulation
Yang, T. M., Kao, Y., Wang, C. T., Chung, M. H., Lin, H. J., Lin, S. J., Guo, H. R., Su, S. B., Huang, C. C. & Hsu, C. C., 2014 一月 1, 於: American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 32, 9, p. 1132-1134 3 p.
A cluster analysis-based localization scheme for wireless sensor networks using mobile anchor nodes with directional antennas
Chang, Y. J., Ou, C. H. & Ssu, K. F., 2018 六月 22, Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation 2018, ICASI 2018. Lam, A. D. K-T., Prior, S. D. & Meen, T-H. (編輯). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 1156-1158 3 p. (Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation 2018, ICASI 2018).
A cluster of endophthalmitis caused by Mycobacterium abscessus after cataract surgery
Hung, J-H., Huang, Y. H., Chang, T. C., Tseng, S. H., Shih, M. H., Wu, J. J. & Huang, F-C., 2016 十月 1, 於: Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection. 49, 5, p. 799-803 5 p.
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis
A cluster of Mycobacterium massiliense keratitis in foundry workers
Hung, J-H., Chang, T. C., Wu, J. J., Lai, C. C., Huang, F-C. & Huang, Y. H., 2016 四月 1, 於: Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22, 4, p. 386.e5-386.e8
A cluster randomized controlled trial of a theory-based sleep hygiene intervention for adolescents
Lin, C. Y., Strong, C., Scott, A. J., Broström, A., Pakpour, A. H. & Webb, T. L., 2018 十一月 1, 於: Sleep. 41, 11
ACM multimedia 2012 workshop on crowdsourcing for multimedia
Chen, K. T., Chu, W. T., Larson, M. & Ooi, W. T., 2012 十二月 26, MM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. p. 1505-1506 2 p. (MM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia).
A CMOS doubly balanced monolithic ring mixer with an advanced if extraction
Lee, Y. C., Lin, C. M., Chang, Y. H., Hung, S. H., Su, C. C., Wang, Y. T. & Wang, Y-H., 2012 十二月 1, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid State Circuit, EDSSC 2012. 6482871. (2012 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid State Circuit, EDSSC 2012).
AC MOTOR WITH REDUCTION MECHANISM
Yan, H-S., 2015 五月 16, 專利號 I505610
研究成果: Patent
A Coaxial Dual-element Focused Ultrasound Probe for Guidance of Epidural Catheterization: An Experimental Study
Dong, G. C., Chiu, L. C., Ting, C. K., Hsu, J. R., Huang, C. C., Chang, Y. & Chen, G. S., 2017 九月 1, 於: Ultrasonic Imaging. 39, 5, p. 283-294 12 p.
A co-evolution coral reefs optimization approach for multi-objective vehicle routing problem with time windows
Lin, C. S., Chiang, M. C. & Yang, C. S., 2019 十月, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 2001-2006 6 p. 8914020. (Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; 卷 2019-October).
Vehicle routing
A Cohort Study of Adult Patients with Severe Dengue in Taiwanese Intensive Care Units: The Elderly and APTT Prolongation Matter for Prognosis
Hsieh, C. C., Cia, C. T., Lee, J. C., Sung, J. M., Lee, N. Y., Chen, P. L., Kuo, T. H., Chao, J. Y. & Ko, W. C., 2017 一月 6, 於: PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11, 1, e0005270.
Severe Dengue
Partial Thromboplastin Time
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Conservative MP Calls for Mogg to Replace Theresa May as UK PM After Brexit
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May has faced opposition from hardline Brexiteers in her government and beyond throughout Brexit negotiations with Brussels, with some questioning her ability to lead Britain in its withdrawal from the European Union (EU).
Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski, who represents the Shrewsbury and Atcham constituency in the House of Commons, said on Friday that fellow Conservative Party MP Jacob Rees-Mogg should replace Theresa May as the Prime Minister of the UK.
READ MORE: EU Negotiator Laments 'Little Progress' on Brexit, May Struggles With Trade Plan
In an opinion piece published in Westmonster on May 18, MP Kawczynski wrote, "There is only one person to succeed Theresa May as party leader and as Prime Minister – and that man is Jacob Rees-Mogg."
He proceeded to say that Mogg is best-suited to lead the UK post-Brexit, and insisted he can "take the fight to the Labour Party," which performed significantly better than the Tories in England's local council elections earlier this month.
"It is essential that, once the Brexit process has been completed, the Conservative Party must be led with someone who has a clear, concise view of what a post Brexit Britain should look like, has the support of both MPs and party members and has the skills necessary to take the fight to the Labour Party," Kawczynski's article reads.
He went on to claim that "no other politician has the grassroots support that he does", and continued to praise Mogg throughout the rest of his article.
Rees-Mogg Blasts May's EU Customs Plan as 'Cretinous'
PM May's customs union proposal to solve the dispute over the UK's trade relationship with the bloc post-Brexit has drawn heavy criticism from dozens of Tory MPs, in addition to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and countless other British politicians.
Jacob Rees-Mogg was perhaps the most vocal critical of May's customs union proposal, slamming it as "cretinous" and casted doubt over the PM's commitment to withdrawing the UK from the EU.
READ MORE: Hard Brexit Tory MPs Issue "Non-Threat" to PM as She Prepares Cabinet Showdown
Scottish Rejection of Brexit Bill Ploy For 2nd Independence Vote – Official
UK May Miss Deadline to Ensure Post-Brexit Nuclear Industry Safeguards - Reports
Take Two: Another UK Gov't White Paper Promises Precise Brexit Explanations
EU Negotiator Laments 'Little Progress' on Brexit, May Struggles With Trade Plan
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This week's tech tip is so much fun- and you can use it on your blog as well as in your classroom! Back in my early days of teaching when I didn't get an LCD projector (too low on the totem pole), I had a trusty overhead projector (yeah, the one with the lightbulbs, mirrors, transparencies and markers) . I frequently would show students a picture related to something we were about to study (a picture of Japanese architecture before reading Sadako, for example). Students would call out words and phrases that came to mind related to the picture.
Now, the digital age is in full force. Thinglink is a tech tool that has both a web-based platform and an app for devices. Thinglink allows you to upload any photo and have students (or blog readers) comment. Comments can be links, images, videos or text. And- it's free! You can embed it into a website or blog, add it to a group that students can join and access on devices, or share via a link. You can go back to your thinglink image days, months or years later for reference.
This would also be an excellent tool for project-based learning. I helped my teachers create a project and rubrics for interactive map projects. Students explored home states or home countries, and created interactive maps. They had several elements they were expected to include, and they had to use a variety of modes- finding appropriate videos, recording their own information, embedding text that they had written. It was a great project-based learning experience!
Visuals are very powerful for making and sustaining connections for English language learners. Giving students a variety of ways to respond ensures that each student can find a way to respond despite his or her English level. In my experience, many ELLs do not have computers at home, so the fact they can access a thinglink on a device like a smartphone is a bonus. Also, it is great for building background on topics or allowing students to develop and express their understanding in a variety of ways and language domains.


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Use VA-LCP Curved Condylar Plates are used to repair fractures of the thighbone just above the knee.
Complications The FDA has received more than 200 reports of complications, including the plates breaking.
Failures Studies have found that the plates fail earlier and at "higher rates" than conventional plates.
Harmed after a Curved Condylar Plate failure?
The DePuy Synthes 4.5mm VA-LCP Curved Condylar Plate is intended to repair multiple fractures of the thighbone. Recent studies have shown a high failure rate requiring surgery to repair and replace the devices.
The DePuy Synthes 4.5mm VA-LCP Curved Condylar Plate is a thighbone implant designed to repair fractures just above the knee, known as distal femur fractures. Synthes received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) clearance to market the device in January 2009.
The plate is part of the DePuy Synthes Periarticular Plating System. The device is made up of a plate and screws.
A series of predrilled holes run the length of the plate. Doctors insert locking screws into the holes that align with pieces of broken bone to hold them in place while they heal.
The long, metal plate is made from stainless steel and titanium alloy. It features a curved portion designed to fit around the lower end of the thighbone, where the femur flares out before joining the knee. The rounded "knuckle" at the end of a bone is called a condyle.
The DePuy Synthes 4.5mm VA-LCP Curved Condylar Plate is what's known as a locking compression plate. Locking compression plates have become an increasingly popular solution to repair a rare but difficult-to-treat fracture.
Fractures of the thighbone just above the knee account for less than one in every 200 fractures. But because of the shape of the thighbone, repairing the damage is difficult and can lead to complications.
Conventional plates utilize metal plates and screws to compress and hold broken pieces of bone together. Locking plates use screws that lock in place, making it more difficult for the screws to slip out.
Locking compression plates, such as the DePuy Synthes 4.5mm VA-LCP Curved Condylar Plate, combine principles of both conventional and locking plate designs.
A 2015 examination of medical literature published in Trauma International called locking plates "the greatest revolution in implant technology in recent times." But the author also warned that "over-reliance" on the devices "has led to inappropriate" use of the plates.
The most serious complication with the DePuy's device is breakage. If the plate breaks, the patient will require revision surgery to remove and replace the device.
Any surgery also involves a risk of infection. Doctors will attempt to treat infection with antibiotics if possible. If drugs are ineffective, a patient may require surgery to remove the infection.
Between 2011 and January 2018, the FDA received more than 200 adverse event reports about the device, according to the agency's Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience database (MAUDE).
Research suggests design flaws may be to blame. Attorneys are asking patients with broken or otherwise failed plates if they want help filing compensation lawsuits. Litigation involving this device could not be found in searches of courthouse databases.
A study presented at the March 2017 Orthopaedic Research Society's annual conference found the honeycomb pattern of between six and 22 holes for locking screws may contribute to the plates breaking.
Researchers "consistently observed" failures between the eighth and ninth holes for the screws in longer versions. One solution was to fill the holes. But the researchers said the devices still failed at roughly the same rate. They blamed a "thin section of the plate near the outer edge" as a weak spot in the device's design.
The study was sponsored in part by DePuy Synthes.
A January 2016 study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma found "early mechanical failure" happened at a higher rate for devices like the Curved Condylar Plate than for traditional locking plates. The researchers cautioned against using the plates to repair certain types of fractures just above the knee that involve the femur's growth plate.
An earlier case review from 2006 published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery looked at 46 patients implanted with locking compression plates similar to the DePuy Synthes devices. Six of those patients suffered plate failure and half of those failures were due to the plate breaking.
"We propose that the [locking compression] condylar plate be used only when conventional fixed-angle implants cannot be placed," the authors wrote.
The 4.5mm VA-LCP Curved Condylar Plate has not been recalled. DePuy Synthes issued a voluntary recall related to similar devices in 2013.
The company recalled 13 of its VA-LCP Curved Condylar Plates because a straight version of the plates had been improperly etched with a curved plate part number. The recall ended in August 2015.


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Proactive vs. Reactive Management: MSPs can offer detailed performance reviews that allow manufacturers to examine operational analytics and address issues proactively before a major service outage is experienced.
Guaranteed Uptime: Using a managed services provider reduces the risk of downtime by properly managing physical, storage, and fixed network assets. All changes are captured in an auditable configuration management database (CMDB) for compliance purposes, and stringent SLAs can be custom tailored to the organization's needs.
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This page highlights the special events we are opening the observatory for. These events are generally "Cancelled if Cloudy" events and happen during the work week or on weekends not on the regular public star party schedule.
This year we are holding special events for the Transit of Mercury, happening the morning of May 9th as well as the Opposition of Mars. For any changes to the observing schedule, check the Public Star Party schedule and/or the MAS homepage for the latest updates. For directions and additional information on the Eagle Lake Observatory, visit the Eagle Lake Observatory website.
The first "Special Event" of the year is the Transit of Mercury. This is a daytime, early morning event to observe the planet Mercury crossing in front of the disk of the Sun. Beginning about 6:00 am, that's right 6:00 AM. Don't worry if you can't get there at 6:00, the transit will last until about 1:30 pm.
This is the first transit of Mercury since November 2006. The next will be November 11, 2019 when we'll once again have an early morning event as the transit begins before sunrise from here. After the 2019 transit, Mercury will not cross the disk of the sun for an additional 13 years in November of 2032.
This star party is a "Cancelled if Cloudy" event. Be sure to check the MAS home page and/or the MAS Discussion Forums for the latest updates if the sky looks questionable for viewing.
If clear, the star party begins at 6:00 am. Be sure to dress warm!!!
See Mars at it's best!! The weekend of May 28, Mars will be the closest to earth since 2005 resulting in the best views of the red planet in the past 11 years. Join us for the weekends special star parties to observe Mars.
We'll be holding back to back public star parties Friday and Saturday nights.
The Mars Opposition star parties are "All weather" events. Even if its cloudy, we'll be there to talk astronomy, give a tour of the observatory, answer your astronomy questions, etc.
For the first time we will be having a Star Trek themed public star party. Help us honor 50 years of Star Trek on the anniversary of "The Original Series" (TOS), which premiered on Sept 8, 1966 as well as Gene Roddenberry's 95th birthday (Aug 19, 1921). Join us in recognition of one of the most iconic TV and movie franchises of all time.
So, bring your tri-corders, communicators and com-badges. Dress up for the occasion or come as you are. We are planning on a special presentation and displays.
This VERY special event is an "All weather" event. Even if its cloudy, we'll be there to talk Trek, astronomy, give a tour of the observatory, answer your astronomy questions, etc.


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Plamenka (baklja-ljiljan, tritoma; lat. Kniphofia), rod trajnice iz porodice čepljezovki. Oko 70 vrsta rašireno je uglasvnom po Africi i Madagaskaru

Rod je opisan 1794.

Vrste

 Kniphofia acraea Codd
 Kniphofia albescens Codd
 Kniphofia albomontana Baijnath
 Kniphofia angustifolia (Baker) Codd
 Kniphofia ankaratrensis Baker
 Kniphofia baurii Baker
 Kniphofia benguellensis Welw. ex Baker
 Kniphofia bequaertii De Wild.
 Kniphofia brachystachya (Zahlbr.) Codd
 Kniphofia breviflora Harv. ex Baker
 Kniphofia bruceae (Codd) Codd
 Kniphofia buchananii Baker
 Kniphofia caulescens Baker
 Kniphofia citrina Baker
 Kniphofia coddiana Cufod.
 Kniphofia coralligemma E.A.Bruce
 Kniphofia crassifolia Baker
 Kniphofia drepanophylla Baker
 Kniphofia dubia De Wild.
 Kniphofia ensifolia Baker
 Kniphofia × erythraeae Fiori
 Kniphofia evansii Baker
 Kniphofia fibrosa Baker
 Kniphofia flammula Codd
 Kniphofia fluviatilis Codd
 Kniphofia foliosa Hochst.; velelisna plamenka
 Kniphofia galpinii Baker
 Kniphofia goetzei Engl.
 Kniphofia gracilis Harv. ex Baker
 Kniphofia grantii Baker
 Kniphofia hildebrandtii Cufod.
 Kniphofia hirsuta Codd
 Kniphofia ichopensis Schinz
 Kniphofia insignis Rendle
 Kniphofia isoetifolia Hochst.
 Kniphofia latifolia Codd
 Kniphofia laxiflora Kunth
 Kniphofia leucocephala Baijnath
 Kniphofia linearifolia Baker
 Kniphofia littoralis Codd
 Kniphofia marungensis Lisowski & Wiland
 Kniphofia mulanjeana S.Blackmore
 Kniphofia multiflora J.M.Wood & M.S.Evans
 Kniphofia nana Marais
 Kniphofia northiae Baker
 Kniphofia nubigena Mildbr.
 Kniphofia pallidiflora Baker
 Kniphofia paludosa Engl.
 Kniphofia parviflora Kunth
 Kniphofia pauciflora Baker
 Kniphofia porphyrantha Baker
 Kniphofia × praecox Baker
 Kniphofia princeae (A.Berger) Marais
 Kniphofia pumila (Aiton) Kunth
 Kniphofia reflexa Hutch. ex Codd
 Kniphofia reynoldsii Codd
 Kniphofia rigidifolia E.A.Bruce
 Kniphofia ritualis Codd
 Kniphofia rooperi (T.Moore) Lem.
 Kniphofia sarmentosa (Andrews) Kunth
 Kniphofia schimperi Baker
 Kniphofia splendida E.A.Bruce
 Kniphofia stricta Codd
 Kniphofia sumarae Deflers
 Kniphofia tabularis Marloth
 Kniphofia thodei Baker
 Kniphofia thomsonii Baker
 Kniphofia triangularis Kunth
 Kniphofia typhoides Codd
 Kniphofia tysonii Baker
 Kniphofia umbrina Codd
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We are looking for individuals who would like to represent KoN at conventions. We setup promotional/informational tables at conventions to tell people about our community and what we do. These are usually weekend long events and usually have a table setup most of the day. We have several conventions coming up throughout the year and give XP time spent at the convention.
The bonus is, you get to attend these conventions for free and you usually have time to go walk around.
I'll let Zach give the official answer, but unofficially... Allow me to chuckle at the delightful humility of your statement. Shane, your PC looks incredible. You make our game look good by being a part of it.
I can't tell you how many people I've shown photos of Kiba to in the last week alone.


Spending less time sitting and more time standing lowers blood sugar, cholesterol, and weight — all of which translates into a lower risk for heart disease. So says a study of Australian adults published in the July 30 issue of the European Heart Journal.
As part of the Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle Study, researchers monitored the activity levels of roughly 700 adults to determine how much time these volunteers spent sitting, standing, walking slowly, and walking at a moderate to vigorous pace. Results confirmed that sitting worsens risk factors for heart disease.
Every two hours a day spent sitting was associated with an increase in weight and waist size, as well as in levels of blood sugar and cholesterol. As you might expect, time spent walking rather than sitting not only lowered cholesterol and blood sugar levels, but also reduced waist size and weight. Perhaps more surprisingly, simply substituting two hours of standing for sitting also improved blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
Many studies suggest that the more we sit, the more we're likely to develop heart disease and other illnesses, including diabetes and cancer. And, whether it's sitting at the computer to get some work done or on the couch watching TV, too many hours spent on our bottoms increases the risk of dying from any cause — even among people who exercise regularly. Why? When your body is still for too long, you stop using blood sugar efficiently. You lose muscle, mobility, and flexibility. Over the long term, you may gain weight or develop depression.
"Regular exercise is an excellent way to prevent cardiovascular disease and improve overall health. One of the biggest perceived barriers to increasing physical activity is time. We always tell people that a little exercise is better than none, and this study reminds us that simple, doable approaches make a difference," says Dr. Gregory Curfman, a cardiologist and editor in chief of Harvard Health Publishing.
You can even build standing into your day at the office. See if colleagues will agree to a true "standing meeting." Get up and walk to your coworker's office rather than relying heavily on email. And instead of making yourself comfortable in that extra chair, stand while you talk.
You might also ask your employer about purchasing a standing desk. If that option is too expensive, rig one up on your own. You can find good, inexpensive ideas on the Internet. "Decreasing time sitting while at work is a simple, manageable adjustment may add important health benefits," says Dr. Curfman.
I suppose there is a trade-off between losing weight and getting varicose veins in your legs. Persons who stand for long periods also experience lower back pain. Maybe we should alternate 2 hours of sitting with periods of standing?
this very good article….. I trying to follow standing and walking in office.
This is really fascinating! I wish I could follow the advice.
Unfortunately, my main heart issue is hypotension, which rather rules out the possibility of standing without fainting!
And yes, hypotension increases your risk of heart disease, too according to this study [Eur Heart J. 2010, 31(23), 2897]. So maybe too much standing for those of us with low blood pressure is no good thing! The strain on my heart after sustained standing can be painful!
Of course regular exercise is a good way to prevent from several health problems including cardiovascular disease.
The site so nice and interesting .Spending less time sitting and more time standing lowers blood sugar.
This study of Australian adults for the betterment of health is so helpful. The points elaborating the advantages of standing work as the eye-opener for many who spend most time of the day standing. Thanks for sharing this post.
What got me first interested in getting a standing desk was when I noticed the clarity of mind I'd experience while walking on the treadmill at the gym. Ideas and solutions for life and work problems seemed to come to me. As you mentioned, I think having a standing desk at the office is a fantastic idea, where the cognitive boost is most needed — and for a longer duration than I care to spend at the gym or walking in circles.
I'm a huge standing/walking desk advocate now, I review them and write about the best ones!
Nice information ! Thanks for sharing the news.


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Mysterious Knights at Claverley Church
I promised you a couple of posts ago a set of surprising medievalist photographs, and now the post has come. You may remember that I was being shown hidden bits of the Middle Ages lying in the general area of … Continue reading →
Interdisciplinary Conversation VI: the use of medievalists as per Lévi-Strauss
Posted on 18 August 2019 | 8 comments
I described a few posts ago the long long path that led to the publication of my recent article "Outgrowing the Dark Ages"; this is a post about something I found on the way. It became clear early on with that piece that the problem with the general understanding of agriculture in the early Middle Ages had become Georges Duby; he didn't originate a lot of the ideas that he popularised, but his work is now where most people find them and he integrated them into an overall progress narrative that everyone but early medievalists finds very useful, so it's hard to shake people's convictions even now that the early Middle Ages must have been the agrarian Dark Ages.1 But of course Duby's key works were published in the late sixties and early seventies and he lived until 1996, so it became important to be sure he'd not modified his own views since, because of the incessant reprinting of those old works, it would have been possible that no-one much noticed.2
The late Georges Duby. I no longer have any idea where I found this image in 2008, alas, so I hope it's copyright-free
Now, the short answer is that he didn't, despite some wavering, but in the course of trying to find that out I came across an issue of a journal with which he'd long been concerned, Études rurales, celebrating his career and including a number of pieces by him, which I therefore knew I had to seek out.3 I think I found this out maybe three separate times, and downloaded all the articles at least twice (finding the second time that I'd already done so years before and forgotten), over the long time it took me to revise the article, but in 2016 I was at last actually reading them, and it was interesting. None of the Duby pieces were in fact new, all being reprints of classic or rare work from long before, but several people were updating his findings or, in some cases, just praising them, and one of the latter was no-one less than Claude Lévi-Strauss. When I set to writing this post I had to wonder if such a meeting of minds was possible anywhere else in this era than Paris; I went through my bibliographies and decided that if Clifford Geertz had written something saying how cool David Herlihy's stuff was, or maybe for the UK if Mary Douglas had about—well, who? Richard Southern's?—it might be of the same order, but those things didn't happen, and I couldn't think of other parallel grand academic personalities of such broad social scope. Anyway, in Paris in 1996 it did happen and Lévi-Strauss wrote a short laudatory piece, the basic point of which is that anthropologists should read lots of medieval history because it's really good to think with.4
Claude Lévi-Strauss, from "Le Structuralisme de Lévi-Strauss", La-Philo, online here, and far too cool an image not to use even though not really very much what he looked like for most of his long life, it seems
Now, since (as indeed he says and I have often lamented) the general tendency of medievalists is to borrow their theory from anthropologists (and not, as Sean Manning has just been pointing out in comments, usually the currently-active ones), this could be said to be swimming against the tide. Lévi-Strauss explained himself by saying that the vast scope of the Middle Ages, with its diversity of social hierarchy and structures, belief systems and economic foundations, provides the laboratory of alternatives that one never has studying a concrete population who are what they are whether you understand it or not. It offers the counter-factuals which allow you, the anthropologist, to say, well, my study group didn't have to turn out this way, other things have happened; what makes the difference here? "C'est cette fluidité… qui fait du Moyen Áge un vaste laboratoire où l'ethnologue et l'historien peuvent mettre á l'épreuve leurs hypothèses théoriques."5 And he gave a few examples from Duby's work, as the occasion required.
Now, when I read that the first time, my thought was, well, are these accolades that medievalists would want? Is what we provide only a databank against which others can better evaluate the Great Us and Where We Are Now? Is our function to illuminate the present, rather than to make visible the past? But since then, of course, I have raised a small amount of money and hope, indeed, to do so more in order to do exactly the kind of work that le grand prof. was praising here, pointing out that the Middle Ages offer models based in complexity and fluidity that serve better to illuminate quite a lot of modern situations than a constitutional perspective founded in the naturality of the nation-state. So I might be moving towards a qualified presentism as part of our rôle in a way I would once have rejected as unfair to the lives, dilemmas, choices and actions of the people who actually populated the world we study. I think, on reflection, that Lévi-Strauss here managed to bridge the gap I have occasionally pointed out between presentism and the people whose actions and situations did not lead directly to modern Western national constitutions and social structures, by finding a way for, "toutes sortes d'expériences sociales… dont la plupart resteront abortives," still to inform us.6 Sometimes these old guys were pretty clever, I guess!
1. Jonathan Jarrett, "Outgrowing the Dark Ages: agrarian productivity in Carolingian Europe re-evaluated" in Agricultural History Review Vol. 67 (Reading 2019), pp. 1-28 at pp. 5-10.
2. The two most relevant works here being the much-reprinted (and still in print) Georges Duby, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, transl. Cynthia Postan (London 1968) and Duby, The Early Growth of the European Economy: warriors and peasants from the seventh to the twelfth century, transl. Howard B. Clarke (Ithaca NY 1974), translations of French works from 1966 and 1973 respectively.
3 Philippe Braunstein (ed.), Georges Duby, Études rurales nos 145-146 (Paris 1997), online here. Duby wavered about some of his conclusions about agriculture in Georges Duby, L'histoire continue (Paris 1991), p. 97, but while he admitted he might be wrong he made no suggestion about what would be more right.
4. Claude Lévi-Strauss, "Remise de l'épée à Georges Duby" in Braunstein, Duby, pp. 21–23, online here.
5. Ibid., p. 22, meaning (for those without French), "It's this fluidity… that makes the Middle Ages into a laboratory where the ethnologist or historian can put their hypothetical theories to the test."
6. Ibid., p. 22, meaning, "all sorts of social experiences… of which the greater part would remain abortive".
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Tagged anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, comparative method, Georges Duby, interdisciplinary conversation
Towards the end of March 2016, for reasons I don't now recall, I was back down in the West Midlands for a short trip. This is relevant to the blog because while I was there, it was determined by two … Continue reading →
One ruler, one mint, one type (keep moving)
Posted on 5 August 2019 | 9 comments
Apparently I was mainly thinking about coins in late spring of 2016, as I seem to have stubbed a lot of posts in a row about numismatics. This is the third and last of them for a little while, which was occasioned by teaching the rise of Islam for my first-year module Empire and Aftermath at Leeds. I like to do this using the coinage as the key primary evidence, because I can and because, as has been observed by greater scholars than me, basically all the Islamic textual evidence for the actual seventh-century spread and conquest is post facto, written deep in hindsight, while the limited contemporary evidence we have is either largely written by outsiders and deeply hostile or written by non-Islamic insiders whose perspectives were unhelpfully local.1 Getting a picture of what was going on over, say, all of Syria, Palestine and Iraq between about 650 and 700 beyond the rough succession of caliphs and some key battles, is therefore very difficult, and even that can be tricky; consider, after all, that this is the period during which Shi'a Islam separated from the Sunni branch and each side's historiography has a quite different view, not just about which caliphs were legitimate, but even about when they ruled and whose relations they were.2 The coins don't settle those questions (though they open up others about faction and segmentation3) but they are at least directly contemporary sources from inside the territories newly run by Islam. That is, assuming that we can correctly date and attribute them. And that's where the fun starts, of course!
Derivative Arab-Byzantine coin of uncertain mint and date (636×695 to be safe?), Leeds University Library, Thackray Collection, uncatalogued
The biggest problem here is that at first, the new authorities of Islam basically imitated the coinage they found in the areas they took over, by way of maintaining tax systems and basic economic exchange. It wasn't until the 690s that Caliph 'Abd al-Malik (of whom we have heard before here) unified the various disparate post-Byzantine and post-Persian coinages he now had in his realms. Up to that point, his territories ran a pseudo-Byzantine gold coinage, a pseudo-Persian silver one and a whole scatter of pseudo-Byzantine and some pseudo-Persian copper-alloy ones.4 Most of the copper-alloy, at least, carry little or no identifying information. It is generally assumed that there was a transition from things more or less like their originals, through things less like them with Greek rather than Latin legends to things even less like with Arabic text on them to the so-called Standing Caliph coinage and then unity, but actually, despite painstaking analyses of what was being restruck onto what, what is found with what and how weights might have changed down an utterly hypothetical declining scale, as I've said here before, we still can't honestly say that all of those different sorts of coin and a whole set of 'imitative' issues weren't being struck alongside each other, by issuers ranging from the state through town councils to local blacksmiths.5 The closer one gets to the latter picture, the more informative the coins seem about how the process of Islamic takeover might have looked on the ground, which is to say, more or less like a prolonged vacation by state authority, saving occasional visitations, and then some episodes of suddenly-tightening regulation, maybe only in some places.
Copper-alloy follis of Emperor Constans II struck perhaps in Constantinople in 643-644, Barber Institute of Fine Arts B3959
Some day I hope to write about this, as I've said, but today I just want to write about coins like the one above. You see, one of the exceptionally problematic aspects of the coin evidence for a normal tale of military conquest and take-over is that, to all appearances, imperial small change continued to arrive in the 'conquered' territories for some years after their 'loss' by the Empire. This is really obvious, because the issuing emperor changed at about the right point; the supposedly-crucial Battle of Yarmuk that effectively debarred the Byzantines from Syria took place in 636, as near as we can be certain, Emperor Heraclius died in 641 and after some confusion his grandson Constans II succeeded, and Constans's copper-alloy coins are frequent finds in Syria, arriving, it seems, up till about 655 (though dating Constans's coins relies on those guesses about weight that I myself don't trust).6 So why was the Empire still shipping in or selling to its supposed enemies? Part of an answer may lie in these coins, which are found very frequently in Syria and nearly as often in Cyprus, but don't really occur elsewhere in the Empire.7 They look very much as if they were being struck in Cyprus for use in the now-Islamic provinces; it has been argued instead that they were being made in Syria and exported, but if so they occur more than any other sort of probably Syro-Palestinian issue in the island.8 By the 670s the Byzantine Empire and the Caliphate had even agreed that neither of them could effectively take Cyprus off the other, and so there was established a condominium in which their two sets of representatives shared the island's taxes; one wonders how many other areas might early on have had some such fuzzy arrangement in which the Empire grudgingly recognised the conquerors as new quasi-independent governors but still demanded recognition of its dominion in the form of tax, and then that situation got wiped out of potential record by changes in the 670s to 690s.9 If such areas had made a pact with the Caliphate, both sides might have quite happily claimed them as their own without either really having much control over them until they made an effort to assert it.
Copper-alloy follis of Emperor Heraclius struck in Cyprus 626-627, image from Numista where credited to Classical Numismatic Group
But there is a numismatic problem with such a hypothesis! And that problem is, these coins do not bear a mint-mark indicating Cyprus like the authentically-Cypriot one above (KVP or KVPR for Kypros), but carry the unhelpfully unspecific legends of the regular issues of Constantinople. And yet they do not look like the contemporary metropolitan coins of Constans II. Furthermore, just to confuse matters, coins that did carry the Cyprus mint-mark were almost certainly being made in Syria, imitating the earlier issues of Heraclius and Constans II!10 So, a number of options open up, one being that these sort-of-regular coins are actually somehow imitative or unofficial (whatever those words really mean in a situation like this), perhaps because there was a mint on Cyprus, potentially running under Islamic control and making what those authorities thought real coin looked like, or otherwise, that Constantinople was making an export-standard copper-alloy issue that was then being shipped to Cyprus for distribution into Syria.
Copper-alloy follis of Emperor Constans II struck at Constantinople in 643-644, Barber Institute of Fine Arts B3952
I'm not sure which of these hypotheses I find less likely, to be honest: the former requires effective forgers who nonetheless didn't fully understand the system into which they were passing coin, and who made their coin larger and neater than the regular issues they were imitating, in which case what was the profit? and the latter seems like an administrative headache with no clear gain except keeping Cyprus slightly further from fiscal independence. But the latter also incurs numismatic disdain because numismatists really try to avoid hypotheses in which a single mint is issuing distinct sorts of coin of the same standard at the same time. They will even mount hypotheses on the basis that that couldn't happen.11 Now, I've disproved a couple of these already in my small way, but in this instance I'm not so sure it needs doing; although we as a discipline don't usually admit it, it's very unclear as to why the Empire put mint-marks on its copper-alloy coinage. It's often assumed that it was for accounting and authentication purposes, either knowing how much a mint was making or being able to track dud coins back to their issuing mint, but in the former case the only place you could do that was surely at the mint itself, before dispersal into currency, in which case why bother marking them? and in the second, it's very peculiar that it was done on the effectively worthless metal of the small change but not on the highly-protected gold of the solidus, and no-one ever tries to explain that.12 Whatever the reason was, though, it's not hard to imagine the mid-seventh century involving circumstances in which that just didn't apply. Either way, the coins are telling us something about what's going on here that a purely textual approach will never disclose; but numismatics also has to shed an assumption or two before we can do the kind of work with it that opportunities like this make possible…
1. Compare Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century, 2nd edn (Harlow 2004), Robert G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey And Evaluation Of Christian Jewish And Zoroastrian Writings On Early Islam (Princeton 1997), online here, and now James Howard-Johnston, Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century (Oxford 2010), DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208593.001.0001/acprof-9780199208593.
2. It's actually quite hard to find a good reference for the history of this division, but Chase F. Robinson, "The Rise of Islam, 600‒705" in idem (ed.), The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries, The New Cambridge History of Islam 1 (Cambridge 2010), pp. 171–225 at pp. 193-208, does the job OK.
3. Adam R. Gaiser, "What Do We Learn About the Early Khārijites and Ibāḍiyya from Their Coins?" in Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 130 (Washington DC 2010), pp. 167–187.
4. The best guide here is Stefan Heidemann, "The Merger of Two Currency Zones in Early Islam: the Byzantine and Sasanian impact on the circulation in Byzantine Syria and northern Mesopotamia" in Iran Vol. 36 (London 1998), pp. 95–112, online here.
5. I'm thinking here of Clive Foss, Arab-Byzantine coins: an introduction, with a catalogue of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection Publications 12 (Washington D.C. 2008) as both guide and target of critique.
6. Foss, Arab-Byzantine Coins, pp. 19-21, but see now Marcus Phillips, "The Import of Byzantine Coins to Syria Revisited" in Tony Goodwin (ed.), Arab-Byzantine Coins and History (London 2012), pp. 39–72, online here.
7. Foss, Arab-Byzantine Coins, p. 21, and Phillips, "Import", p. 42. Philip Grierson attributed these to Emperor Constantine III (641), despite that ruler not living long enough to reach the 'anno III' they indicate, but correctly noting that there is also a Sicilian variant of the issue: Philip Grierson, Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Volume Two: Phocas to Theodosius III 602–717 (Washington DC 1968, repr. 1993), 2 vols, II pp. 396-397 and 399 (DOC III.2 Heraclonas 5 & 9).
8. See n. 7 above; Foss argues for Syrian manufacture.
9. On which see now Luca Zavagno, Cyprus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600-800): an island in transition, Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies 21 (London 2017), pp. 72-86, but with specific reference to numismatics also Zavagno, "Betwixt the Greeks and the Saracens: Coins and coinage in Cyprus in the seventh and the eighth century" in Byzantion Vol. 81 (Athens 2011), pp. 448–483, online here.
10. Regular coins of Constans II: Grierson, Dumbarton Oaks Catalogue III.2, pp. 445-446 (DOC III.2 Constans II 62), and Foss, Arab-Byzantine Coins, pp. 20-21; the 'Cyprus imitation' issues are discussed ibid. pp. 22-24, emphasising the volume of the issue, and Zavagno, "Betwixt Greeks and Saracens", pp. 466-467.
11. For example, one more relevant than the other, see Miquel Crusafont i Sabater, "La moneda barcelonina del segle X. Altres novetats comtals" in Acta numismàtica Vol. 38 (Sabadell 2008), pp. 91–121 at pp. 91-106, to which cf. Jonathan Jarrett, "Currency Change in Pre-Millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics" in Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 169 (London 2009), pp. 217–243, or Franz Füeg, Corpus of the Nomismata from Anastasius II to John I in Constantinople 713–976: Structure of the Issues; Corpus of Coin Finds; Contribution to the Iconographic and Monetary History (Lancaster PA 2007), p. 45, to which cf. Jonathan Jarrett, "Middle Byzantine Numismatics in the Light of Franz Füeg's Corpora of Nomismata" in Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 177 (London 2017), pp. 514–535 at pp. 521-522. In both cases the authors themselves invalidate the assumption in the same work, Crusafont in "Moneda barcelonina", pp. 106-121 and Füeg in Corpus, p. 39.
12. Thus for example Philip Grierson, Byzantine Coins (London 1982), pp. 20-24 (inc. p. 21: "it was desirable, for administrative reasons and as a precaution against counterfeiting…"), or Cécile Morrisson, "Précis de numismatique byzantine" in eadem, Georg-D. Schaaf and Jean-Michel Spieser, Byzance et sa monnaie (IVe‒XVe siècle) : Précis de numismatique par Cécile Morrisson suivi du catalogue de la collection Lampart par Georg-D. Schaaf, Réalités Byzantines 15 (Paris 2015), pp. 7–104 at pp. 61-69 (simply no explanation).
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Asymetric Game Design
During the workshop each participant designed and programed a unique character for a simple 2D-action game using the Flash-based game framework Flixel. In the game two players compete against each other in a virtual arena. At the beginning of a match, each player is randomly assigned one of the characters with a unique set of features and properties, allowing for asymmetric game play.
Participants learned how to create interesting game interactions within an existing structure, and how to collaborate on a project in a parallel fashion. Each contributed game character directly affected the game play, evoking discussion about what makes a game balanced, coherent, diverse and enjoyable. The finished game including all contributed characters is released as open source on GitHub.
Workshop Leaders: Marek Plichta, Andreas Zecher (Spaces of Play)
Spaces of Play is a game studio based in Berlin consisting of Mattias Ljungström, Marek Plichta, Andreas Zecher and Martin Straka. They are a group of independent game designers, visual artists and musicians that came together with the goal of creating great games.
Technologies used: ActionScript3, Flixel, Photoshop
Code at Github
Resonate Flickr photos


You've probably seen a chart that compares what $1 would have grown to if you just bought stocks and left it alone. You might also have seen the same chart showing how much worse the returns would have been if the 25 best days weren't included. Finally, you might also have seen a similar chart which shows how much returns would have improved if the 25 worst days were avoided.
The truth is that missing the best or avoiding the worst days is impossible, but missing the best days and avoiding the worst, however, now that's a whole different story.
Below is the 30-day standard deviation of the Dow going back to 1950. The green dots and red triangles represent the 25 best and worst days. You'll notice two things; they all happened in periods of above average volatility (gray line), and the best and worst days tend to cluster.
The chart below shows the growth of $1 (Dow, price only). You'll notice that buying and holding falls significantly short of a strategy that, with the benefit of a crystal ball, avoids the 25 worst days and misses the 25 best days (this does not include dividends, transaction costs, or taxes, all very important).
Why would missing the 25 best and 25 worst days do so much better? The reason is because outsized volatility is a drag on returns, so the best and worst days do not cancel each other out.
The chart below shows the hypothetical growth of $1 over 50 periods of alternating up/down performance. The gray line shows +1%, -1%, the black line shows +5%/-5%, and the red line shows +10%, -10% and so on.
$1 can alternate between 1% gains and 1% losses for a really long time before you lose any money. But alternate between +10% and -10% and after 918 times, you're left with less than a penny.
ETFs that employ leverage are so seductive because they offer the potential for huge gains. For example, JNUG, the 3x junior gold miner bull, has closed up 10% in a day in 15% of all trading days. And even though the average daily change in JNUG is just 0.05%, after 905 trading days, it's down 98%.
Leverage works both ways, but because investors tend to hold onto losses and sell their winners, most people in these products are likely to experience huge losses as opposed to huge gains. So be careful before you decide to purchase a 3x, or now a 4x, levered ETF.


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Court Orders Release Of Embattled Sanusi
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A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered the release of Muhammadu Sanusi II, the dethroned Emir of Kano who, following his dethronement on Monday, was banished to Awe town in Nasarawa State. READ ALSO: El-Rufai Names Sanusi As Chancellor State University
The presiding judge, Justice Anwuli Chikere, granted the interim order following an ex parte application moved by the lead counsel of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) on Friday.
Justice Chikere also moved that the order for the release of the dethroned monarch should be served on the respondents to the application.
The respondents to the application are the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu; the Director-General of the Department of State Service, Yusuf Bichi; the Attorney-General of Kano State, Ibrahim Muktar, and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN).
Earlier, Sanusi, through his legal representatives, filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order for his release from the post-dethronement detention and confinement.
His team of lawyers led by Fagbemi, on Thursday, filed a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020 before the court.
The suit, filed on Thursday, was brought pursuant to section 34, 35, 40, 41 and 46 of the 1999 Constitution and Order 4 Rule 4 of the Federal High Court.
Mr Sanusi is asking for: "An interim order of this Honourable Court releasing the Applicant from the detention and/or confinement of the Respondents and restoring the Applicant's rights to human dignity, personal liberty, freedom of association and movement in Nigeria, apart from Kano State, pending the hearing and determination of the Applicant's Originating Motion."
Upon granting the request, Sanusi also urged the court to make: "An order granting leave to the Applicant to effect service of this order alongside the originating motion and subsequent processes" on all the respondents.
The suit, which is premised on six grounds, stated: "Applicant's fundamental right to life, human dignity, personal liberty and movement are seriously under challenge and continually being breached by the Respondents."
The judge, however, fixed March 26 for further hearing in the case.
Recall that Mr Sanusi was deposed following a resolution of the Kano State Executive Council on March 9, on allegations of insubordination.
His dethronement has sparked a wide reaction with a host of persons claiming that the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje-led government did not give Sanusi a fair hearing.
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Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi has gone back to her order to stop Gov. Scott Walker's union bill and rewritten it in an effort to assist unions and Democrats (including her Democratic Operative son) continue to ride the gravy train at the expense of the taxpayers.
Sumi, whose entire family seems to be up to their necks in union business and Democrat Party politics, issued an order to stop Walker's efforts to curb the ability of government unions to demand outsized benefits immediately after the bill passed the Wisconsin state legislature.
The state, however, published the bill on schedule and the legislature began to implement it this week.
In response the compromised judge has amended her original order to warn of "sanctions" against anyone that would implement this bill in the interests of the people of the Badger State.
Naturally Wisconsin Democrats are pleased with this partisan act. Republicans are not as happy.
"There are 17 branches of the Dane County Circuit Court. To say that any one of them has more authority to make laws in Wisconsin than the elected Legislature is ridiculous," Sen. Fitzgerald said.
Last week we learned that Judge Sumi's son is a union operative and runs a small consulting firm for Democrats in Wisconsin. We also learned that the judge's husband is a big donor to Wisconsin's Democrats.
It is clear that this compromised judge is desperate to help the far left continue its raiding of Wisconsin's treasury.


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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
By Scott Nichols
| Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
The English version of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair hit the PS Vita a mere seven months after the launch of its predecessor, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
Normally, you don't see sequels released so close to the original. But in the case of the Danganronpa series the decision makes sense.
Danganronpa 2's story assumes that you are already quite familiar with the series, whizzing past plot points and narrative twists that the first Danganronpa spent almost the entire game slowly building toward.
It makes this sequel a poor jumping on point for the series, but it also frees up the narrative in interesting ways.
Monokuma's Revenge
Danganronpa 2 starts out on a surprisingly peaceful note, as a new group of students from Hope's Peak Academy are whisked away to a tropical island resort where a giant pink rabbit named Usami encourages them to work together and become great friends.
Of course, this being Danganronpa, it isn't long before that adorably sadistic bear Monokuma shows up and flips the feel-good vacation into his favorite pastime of watching high schoolers kill each other one by one.
Ultimate Spring Break
The cast of Danganronpa 2 does not dwell on their deadly situation as much as in the first game, which feels more like a concession to giving returning fans a less redundant experience, than a vital personality trait for any character.
As a result, the stakes in the overarching plot don't always feel particularly high, instead shifting focus to flesh out and develop each of the characters and their personal stories.
Like the first game, the characters in Danganronpa 2 are all Ultimates, which is to say they are the best in their particular field.
And while many of the Ultimates once again fall into the categories of common anime stereotypes – like the ultimate nurse, cook, and yakuza – the diverse island locations provide a much better backdrop for these archetypes to grow into their own characters than the first game's sole school environment offered.
Sunny beaches, deserted shanty towns, and an amusement park are just some of the island locales you'll visit, and each one brings out a little more personality from your classmates. And as you learn more about the characters, it makes each of their inevitable deaths or betrayals sting that much more as the twisting plot runs its course.
The murders themselves have also gotten more elaborate with the new scenery, making for tense investigations where even with all of the evidence I still wasn't sure which way each trial would go.
Extra-kill-icular Activities
While Danganronpa 2's story has undergone refinements for the better, the class trials that end each chapter still falls victim to many of the same issues that plagued the first game.
The mini-games that comprise each class trial tend to get in the way of the story far more than they support it, whether it is a new sword duel debate that has you slashing through arguments faster than you can read them or the painfully slow task of spelling out an obvious clue letter by letter.
The trials aren't all bad though, with the addition of a new deep dive mini-game that has you skateboarding through a tunnel and sliding along the walls to navigate branching paths that pick your next logical argument.
It is a shame that the climax of each murder mystery still comes down to a jumble of disjointed mechanics. It diminishes some of the thrill when you finally pin the guilty party only to be forced into a tiresome rhythm-based argument mini-game where you can't appreciate the culprit's desperate pleas because you are too focused on getting the button timing right.
Danganronpa 2 is at its best when it lets its characters shine, and thankfully there are a lot of memorable character moments to be had.
Whether it is exchanging gifts during your free time to get to know your classmates better or investigating a murder alongside your prime suspects, Danganronpa 2 will draw you in and keep you guessing right to the last piece of evidence.
Danganronpa 2 doesn't stand on its own quite as well as its predecessor, but fans of the first game will find it to be an essential murder mystery to have on the go.
Danganronpa 2 builds on its predecessor's foundation for a murder mystery that is brimming with personality
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Record high intake for School of Health Studies courses
A record high new intake of twenty-two students has commenced educational programmes delivered by the Gibraltar Health Authority's School of Health Studies.
There are three programmes being delivered, a Diploma in Higher Education Nursing and two degree programmes: BCs(Hons) Nursing (Adult) and BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health).
Seven students, who are currently employed at the GHA and Elderly Residential Services, will undertake the Diploma in Higher Education Nursing programme.
This two-year long full-time course prepares students to receive an academic qualification and eligibility to register with the Nursing Registration Board (NRB) as Enrolled Nurses.
Those successfully completing this programme may be considered to undertake further educational opportunities to become a Registered Nurse.
There will be a further nine and six students undertaking the BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) and BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) degree programmes respectively.
This is the first time that the BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) programme is taught locally, meaning students will not have to go abroad to achieve this qualification.
The three-year long, full-time programmes require students to complete 2,300 hours of theoretical instruction and 2,300 hours of practice across various fields of nursing.
The practice component of the course takes place in a variety of care settings across the GHA, Elderly Residential Services and the Care Agency, where students will be supervised and receive mentorship by specially appointed clinicians.
The theoretical aspect is provided by SHS staff and expert clinicians and will take place at the University of Gibraltar.
Students successfully completing these programmes will receive an academic qualification and eligibility to register with the NRB as Registered Nurses.
Principal of the GHA's School of Health Studies, Dr Ron Coram said: "I am delighted to see the commencement of these excellent education programmes for our staff, which will reinforce the skills of our employees. This training and education agenda is pivotal in maintaining the high standards necessary in the delivery of a modern public health service."
"In addition, I am very excited to see that, for the first time, we will be introducing a Degree in Mental Health, which will be delivered locally."
The Minister for Health, Care and Justice, Neil Costa, visited the new intake of students at the University of Gibraltar. He said: "I would like to wish our students the very best of luck in their studies. It was clear to see their enthusiasm and promise when I met the group."
"This should be an exciting time for each one of them. The courses will no doubt be challenging, though prove to be a vital and meaningful stepping-stone in their careers in nursing.
"I can assure them that they are in the most excellent hands under the guidance of Professor Peate, his excellent staff at the SHS and our clinicians across the GHA, ERS and Care Agency, who will offer mentorship and convey their valuable knowledge and experience.
"I would like to sincerely thank Dr Ron Coram, Principal of the SHS, Head of the School, Professor Peate, his team and every member of staff who has, and will, contribute towards the professional development of our new cohort of students."
"Their work is invaluable to the future of nursing and health services as a whole in Gibraltar, and I warmly welcome them to the GHA family."


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This is a great site for seeing reviews of classic games from a variety of interesting personalities. If you are looking to expand your knowledge and see what games are actually good, this is the site to go to. Not only that, but there is plenty of entertainment to be had watching the videos and reviews.
Retroware is constantly growing, so new content from new producers comes out on a daily basis. You will see even some guest appearances from the most well-known classic game reviewer, a man known as the The Angry Video Game Nerd The 6 Best Angry Video Game Nerd Episodes [MUO Gaming] The 6 Best Angry Video Game Nerd Episodes [MUO Gaming] "He's gonna take you back to the past, to play the . . ." For many a gamer, this song is immediately recognizable as the theme to the Angry Video Game Nerd. After all, "he's... Read More . In addition to videos, there are plenty of articles to read, which will keep you entertained for hours on end.
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Thank Goodness Retro Game Geeks isn't in this article.
Owned by the most awful human being who bullies other well informative sites and online personalities.
i get gr8 retro games/consoles in second shops run by stupid little old ladies who sell everything for one dollar. ebay is good for selling not buying.
Yes indeed. Racketboy is a cobbled-together waste of time.
Racketboy is full of misinformation and hacked together, inaccurate articles. You'd be better off sifting through Digital Press for correct guidance even if the owner has abandoned the site.
It's a "strange but true" case I think :) I wonder how many fans still out there.


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package scalismo.sampling.proposals

import scalismo.sampling.{ProposalGenerator, TransitionProbability}

/**
 * Container for multiple ProposalGenerators stacked together, applied one after the other
 */
class CombinedProposal[A](val proposals: IndexedSeq[ProposalGenerator[A] with TransitionProbability[A]])
    extends ProposalGenerator[A]
    with TransitionProbability[A] {

  override def propose(current: A): A = {
    proposals.foldLeft(current) { (z: A, g: ProposalGenerator[A]) =>
      g.propose(z)
    }
  }

  /** transition from to */
  override def logTransitionProbability(from: A, to: A): Double = {
    proposals.foldLeft(0.0) { (z, g) =>
      z + g.logTransitionProbability(from, to)
    }
  }

  override def toString = {
    val s = new StringBuilder("CombinedProposal(")
    val firstNames = proposals.iterator.slice(0, 2).map(_.toString).mkString(",")
    s.append(firstNames)
    if (proposals.length > 2)
      s.append(",...")
    s.append(")")
    s.toString()
  }
}

object CombinedProposal {
  def apply[A](proposals: IndexedSeq[(ProposalGenerator[A] with TransitionProbability[A])]) =
    new CombinedProposal[A](proposals)
}

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RBS Issues Warning that China Credit is About to Burst
December 7, 2010 Posted by China Briefing Reading Time: 4 minutes
Dec. 7 – Dire warnings about the true extent of China's credit bubble are now materializing in mechanisms designed to protect against a sovereign debt default, as the Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to take out protection against the risk of a sovereign default by China as one of its top trading tips for next year.
"Many see China's monetary tightening as a pre-emptive tap on the brakes, a warning shot across the proverbial economic bows. We see it as a potentially more malevolent reactive day of reckoning," said Tim Ash, the bank's marketing director, according to comments carried in The Guardian. RBS warns that the Chinese government will have to puncture the credit bubble before inflation reaches levels that threaten social stability.
Official statistics released by Beijing state that inflation was 4.4 percent in October, and may have climbed to 5 percent in November. However, this is not borne out by on the ground economics, which show that the cost of vegetables have risen 20 percent in the last 30 days.
The bank is recommending credit default swaps on China's five-year debt. This is not a forecast that China will default. It is insurance against the risk of a hard landing, a situation that would have serious implications throughout Asia.
The newspaper quoted Diana Choyleva of Lombard Street Research, who said that China's money supply rose at a 40 percent rate in 2009 and the first half of 2010 as Beijing kept up the pressure on a credit boom in order to sustain growth, but that the costs of this policy now outweigh the benefits. Experts agree that China's economy may be entering a depressing cycle of stagflation – where credit-pumping leaks into speculation and price spirals, even as growth slows. The excess is being transferred into property, and there is intense debate whether or not China has managed to outdo America's subprime bubble, or even match the Tokyo frenzy of the late 1980s. The International Monetary Fund's position straddles the two opinions and has advised in Beijing's favor by suggesting there is no meaningful property asset bubble of concern, but that home prices in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, and Nanjing seem "increasingly disconnected from fundamentals."
However, real estate prices are a multiple of 22 times disposable income in Beijing and 18 times disposable income in Shenzen, compared to 8 in Tokyo. The U.S. bubble peaked at 6.4 and has since dropped to 4.7. The price-to-rent ratio in China's eastern cities has risen by over 200 percent since 2004. The IMF said land sales make up 30 percent of local government revenue in Beijing. This has echoes of Ireland where "fair weather" property taxes disguised the erosion of state finances.
Choyleva said China drew a false conclusion from the global credit crisis that their top-down economy trumps the free market, failing to see that the events of 2008-2009 did equally great damage to them – though of a different kind. It closed the door on mercantilist export strategies that depend on cheap loans, a cheap currency, and the willingness of the West to tolerate predatory trade.
"China is trying to keep the game going as if nothing has changed, but cannot do so. It dares not raise rates fast enough to let air out of the bubble because this would expose the bad debts of the banking system. The Chinese growth machine is likely to continue to function in the minds of people long after it has no visible means of support. China's potential growth rate could well halve to 5 percent this decade," Choyleva said.
Fitch Ratings has just completed a study with Oxford Economics on what would happen if China does slow to under 5 percent next year. Fitch said private credit has grown to 148 percent of GDP, compared to a median of 41 percent for emerging markets. It said the true scale of loans to local governments and state entities has been disguised.
The result of such a hard landing would be a 20 percent fall in global commodity prices, a 100 basis point widening of spreads on emerging market debt, a 25 percent fall in Asian stock markets, a fall in the growth in emerging Asia by 2.6 percentage points, and a risk that toxic politics could make matters even worse.
Albert Edwards from Societe Generale has also stated that the OECD's leading indicators are signaling a "downturn" for Asia's big five (Japan, South Korea, China, India, and Indonesia). The China indicator composed by Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics has fallen almost as far as it did at the onset of the 2008 crash.
"I remain convinced we are witnessing a bubble of epic proportions which will burst – catching investors as unawares as the bursting of the Asian bubbles of the mid-1990s. Ignore these indicators at your peril," Edwards said.
However, China could use inflation as a crude way of curbing the country's export surpluses and therefore of resolving the key trade imbalance that was behind the global credit crisis. China's aging demographics also do not help, and the nation may potentially hit the "Lewis turning point," named after the Nobel economist Arthur Lewis. It is the moment for each catch-up economy when the supply of cheap labor from the countryside recedes, leading to an increase in industrial wages. That has certainly been happening across the country, and is expected to result in a doubling of the minimum wage in the next five years.
China's problem is that this is happening just as population aging starts to impact. The number of workers will decline in absolute terms within four years. China's society may then tip into a sharp demographic decline. Unlike Japan, it will become old before it is has built a cushion of wealth.
If there is a hard-landing in 2011, China's reserves of US$2.6 trillion, or over US$3 trillion if counted fully, may not be much help. Professor Michael Pettis from Peking University says the money cannot be used internally in the economy. While this fund does offer China external protection, Pettis notes that the only other times in the last century when one country accumulated reserves equal to 5 percent to 6 percent of global GDP was the United States in the 1920s and Japan in the 1980s. Both events ended in financial disaster. China insists that they have studied the Japanese incident closely and will not repeat the same errors, however a mix of political desire to prove the capitalist system wrong in dealing with the issues at hand may yet derail China's growth. If not, then the phrase "with Chinese characteristics" will have far reaching consequences for political economists as they seek to establish the Chinese solution as the "middle way." But many are growing increasingly edgy that China has overplayed its hand, that its statistics are incorrect and that a built in blindness to real economic data and hard facts may prove increasingly hard to manage.
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4 thoughts on "RBS Issues Warning that China Credit is About to Burst"
Chris Devonshire-Ellis says:
I think we're all going to have to tread rather gingerly next year as regards China. We've allocated more cash reserves to be kept in the business than last year. It may get bumpy ahead – be financially prepared. – Chris
Alan Binks says:
A very enlightening series of articles which explains the worrying situation I have watched in China for the last few years. Every Chinese person I know has at least two appartments. One to live in and a luch better one standing empty as "an investment."
I have tried to discuss these issues with my Chinese colleagues but just get pitying looks and comments about how much money China has and "western problems will not be allowed to happen here."
Ireland has 100,000 excess houses. China has built entire cities that nobody wants. We will watch with care.
Chouteau says:
Dear Chris, your link with Arthur Lewis is blocked, because it is related with Nobel Prize.
But the wiki link works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lewis_%28economist%29
We all knew at one point, that eternal growth did not exist. It has been several years, warnings from different countries about China, have mounted. But I would say, the main threat is not to have reliable data or statistics, to know exactly what is going on in the country!
It's difficult to tell what is going on, and I live here! The economists in China all seem bullish. I'm not so sure. It just doesn't feel healthy or sustainable, and with my 25 years of experience in China I've become used to seeing buildings spring up as part of a GDP manipulation. But entire cities…and apartments selling for USD1million and ordinary families being given mortgages for them…to my eyes a lot of what is going on right now just doesn't seem to make any financial sense that I am used to. I'm proceeding with caution in China and am bullish on India for now. – Chris


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Q: Prevent custom control event from firing I have a custom control that inherits from TreeView. In this CustomTreeView, I handle the OnNodeMouseClick event to perform some process before changing the  node.Checked state as the user would expect it:
public class CustomTreeView : TreeView {
    // Constructor...

    protected override void OnNodeMouseClick(TreeNodeMouseClickEventArgs e) {
       base.OnNodeMouseClick(e);

       // Do something...

       e.Node.Checked = !e.Node.Checked;
    }
}

My problem is when the developer subscribes to the AfterCheck event on a CustomTreeView, the value of e.Action is always TreeViewAction.Unknown (because the checked state of the node is changed in the code), whereas the developer is waiting for TreeViewAction.ByMouse:
public partial class Form1: Form {
    private void customTreeView1_AfterCheck(object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e) {
        // e.Action == TreeViewAction.Unknown
        // [developer] The user clicked on the node, it should be
        //             TreeViewAction.ByMouse!?
    }
}

What I would like to do is disable the AfterCheck event from firing and call it myself in my CustomTreeView class, that way I would be able to pass parameters with TreeViewAction equal to ByMouse. Something like that:
public class CustomTreeView : TreeView {
    // Constructor...

    protected override void OnNodeMouseClick(TreeNodeMouseClickEventArgs e) {
       base.OnNodeMouseClick(e);

       // Do something...

       // Prevent all AfterCheck events from firing, just for a moment
       // ??

       e.Node.Checked = !e.Node.Checked;

       // Allow AfterCheck events to fire
       // ??

       // Call myself the AfterCheck event
       base.OnAfterCheck(new TreeViewEventArgs(e.Node, TreeViewAction.ByMouse));
    }
}

Is this possible?

A: Sure, just override OnAfterCheck in CustomTreeView and it will work like you intend.
public class CustomTreeView : TreeView {

    protected override void OnNodeMouseClick(TreeNodeMouseClickEventArgs e) {
       base.OnNodeMouseClick(e);

       // your stuff

       // Call myself the AfterCheck event
       base.OnAfterCheck(new TreeViewEventArgs(e.Node, TreeViewAction.ByMouse));
    }

    protected override void OnAfterCheck(TreeViewEventArgs e)
    {
       // do nothing
    }
}

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Many thanks also to the 3rd grade teachers and other staff members for their support.
Understanding Our Differences: Thank You!
Last Friday, former Ward student Jon Hammer (Brad Hammer's Son), was presented with the Katie Lynch award. Jon has been a speaker in the 4th grade Understanding Our Differences Program, about Type 1 diabetes.
You are cordially invited to the Class of 2018, 5th grade PE Showcase. The PE Showcase is a time for the students to share the performances they created in correlation with the units we have covered this year. Students were able to create their own original group dance, fitness or circus routine. They have put in tremendous effort in over the last few weeks to prepare for the big show.
We look forward to seeing many of you in the audience next week. Please do not enter the building until 8:30am. Once you enter, proceed directly to the gym.
The teacher appreciation luncheon was held on Tuesday, May 22nd which was very much appreciated by all the Ward teachers and staff. Thank you to Diana Hashkes, Sara Wantman, Ruth Somers, and Gabriela Kroszynski for helping with the planning and set-up for the luncheon and all the monthly breakfasts this school year. Also a big thank you to all the families that donated money to Annual Appeal, because thanks to you, the PTO is able to sponsor such events.
Next year, the teacher appreciation breakfasts will be run to include parent participation and will be divided each month by grade. Please look for information on this in the beginning of the year.
If you have any questions or would like to help out with the teacher breakfasts and/or luncheon next year, please contact Diana Hashkes at dianahashkes@hotmail.com.
Homemade cards and flowers are welcome and appreciated! The Safe Routes to School Committee will also be providing each crossing guard with a small gift to thank them for their service this year.
Save the date for the final Walk to School day of the year on Wednesday, June 6th!
Fitbit found on Ward field last Friday afternoon. If yours, please contact Magda at 617-548-1600.