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The Einstein of Sex
Undoubtedly, out of the many good, bad, and ugly films directed by queer kraut agitpropagandist Rosa von Praunheim (Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts, Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity), the debauched director's pseudo-docudrama The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (1999) aka Der Einstein des Sex—a work depicting the life and times of pioneering Jewish German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld—is one of the Berlin-based filmmaker's most deathly serious yet aesthetically and cinematically flaccid works. Sort of like a lurid and lecherous Lifetime movie with a couple softcore sex scenes and semi-grotesque genital-mutilating surgery scenes, The Einstein of Sex is quite possibly the most absurd tribute to a ridiculous figure ever made, as von Praunheim's sort of perverse poof tribute to a leftist Hebrew subversive who, while exceedingly gay in the extra-effeminate sort of way and dedicating his life to legalizing homosexuality in the Fatherland, had a rather banal sex life and seemed more interested in coldly examining the warped genitals of hermaphrodites and collecting ancient dildos, or at least one would assume after viewing this desperately debauched yet stupidly serious docudrama. Had National Socialist Germany won the Second World War, it is very doubtful that people would know the name Magnus Hirschfeld today for obvious reasons, but since the Occident has drastically degenerated into a gigantic Weimar Republic of sorts as a whole, he is now revered as a Sodomite God among certain curious circles like the so-called 'queer community' and has been described as "the first advocate for homosexual and transgender rights" due to his special affection for fags. Herr Hirschfeld also has a minor connection to cinema history in that he co-wrote and had a cameo in the silent flick Different From The Others (1919) aka Anders als die Andern, a work revered today for being one of the first films to feature a positive depiction of homosexuals and that would act as the basic plot inspiration for Victim (1961) starring Dirk Bogarde, which has the grand distinction of being the first film to feature the word "homosexual." A seemingly senseless piece of scatological sentimentalism, mindless homo Heeb worship, and childish condemnation of fag-bashing National Socialists who had the audacity to destroy Hirschfeld's sexual 'research' institute, burn his books, and force the good doctor into exile, The Einstein of Sex is just as innately idiotic in its message as the films of celluloid Shoah saint S. Spielberg, but what makes von Praunheim's film different is that it is so amateurishly directed and curiously nonsensical in its construction that it is ultimately a work of accidental queersploitation. In fact, considering that it is essentially a work of fiction where von Praunheim totally invented events, incidents, and motivations regarding the life and work Hirschfeld, The Einstein of Sex is not much more reliable as a work of history regarding its subject then Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975) is regarding the reality of Nazi concentration camps.
In Rosa von Praunheim's mind, Magnus Hirschfeld developed his affinity for championing sexual perversion after his father, who was a respected physician, congratulated him as a prepubescent boy for drawing pictures of wild animals having sex. When Hirschfeld (played by Friedel von Wangenheim, who co-wrote the film, in what would be his first and last film role) came of age and went to school for medicine to become a physician, he was absolutely offended by the fact that his professor would describe a pederast as a degenerate, so he tells his friend that he wants to become a sort of Bolshevik of medicine and that together, "We can change everything. We can change this university. We can change the whole world." Hirschfeld's friend thinks he's deranged so their friendship ends, but luckily he meets a disgraced Austrian aristocrat named Baron von Teschenberg (Gerd Lukas Storzer) who caused a scandal when he was caught giving a blowjob to a soldier and was disinherited by his family, so he becomes the doc's loyal assistant. Meanwhile, Hirschfeld starts the Scientific Humanitarian Committee to defend the rights of homos, trannies, and other sexual misfits and drafts a petition to overturn Paragraph 175 to legalize homosexuality, ultimately managing to get over 5000 people to sign it, including Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Einstein, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Gerhart Hauptmann and countless others, but the law is never overturned in the physician's lifetime. Hirschfeld also passively butts heads with masculine homosexual activist Adolf Brand (played by blond-haired German Jew Ben Becker) who has nothing but sheer and utter disdain for effeminate gays and glorifies the masculine homo-heroism of ancient Greeks, telling the Yiddish doc regarding his poof patients and overall efforts, "Those creatures are neither man nor woman, and you lump such wretched stepchildren of nature together with these blossoming, glorious boys. We don't need a doctor who spends his time in brothels and privies examining the underpants of Jews with three anuses." Of course, being a sodomite socialist Semite, Hirschfeld has a very different view on things and will do anything to deracinate and subvert traditional German society, as exemplified in his diagnosis of a pansy patient, "Congratulations. As you suspected, you are clearly same-sex inclined. I prescribe repeated visits to the Adonis Dance Club. There you'll meet others like yourself. Fall in love, be happy. Stay away from public toilets, limit the amount of intercourse and avoid depraved people." Despite devoting his life to Hirschfeld, Baron von Teschenberg is incapable of getting the doctor to have a sexual/romantic relationship with him, so after being blackmailed by a hustler, he decides to commit suicide.
Throughout The Einstein of Sex, Dr. Hirschfeld becomes involved in various forms of queer quackery, including transplanting 'heterosexual testicles' bought on the black market to homosexual men in the hopes of changing their sexual orientation. Of course, in Rosa von Praunheim's mind such scientific stupidity is somewhat successful as demonstrated by a young colon-choker's remarks after receiving hetero-testicles that, "My body now longs for a woman, but my soul still cries out for a man." With the wraith of Wotan brewing in the collective unconscious of Deutschland, Hirschfeld is beaten by evil anti-Semites and has his work described as "Jewish Pig Asshole-Intellectualism" by a young man attending one of his lectures. Meanwhile, after untying a string wrapped around a tranny named Dorchen's dick (Tima die Göttliche), he obtains a homo housewife of sorts in the form of said Transman, whose job is to clean and maintain his new Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) building in Berlin. Although well past middle-aged, Hirschfeld finally fucks more than just antique toys and begins a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with a young follower named Karl Giese (Olaf Drauschke). To the sheer and utter heartbreak of kosher twink Giese, Hirschfeld leaves the Institute for Sexual Research and travels abroad, where he starts a sexual relationship with a young oriental twinkie. From the comfort of movie theaters, Hirschfeld watches newsreels of the National Socialist takeover, the destruction of his sex institute, and the burning of his books. In the end, Giese commits suicide, Dorchen disappears, the Institute for Sexual Research is destroyed, and Hirschfeld takes exile in Paris, France where he tries in vain to start a new sex institute and dies a rich and fat man.
While Hirschfeld's cocksucking campaign died with the rise and rule of National Socialism in Germany from 1933-1945, the debauched doctor's work ultimately paid-off in the long run as demonstrated by the simple fact that a film like The Einstein of Sex could be made in Germany, not to mention the fact that a good percentage of post-WWII filmmakers, including Rosa von Praunheim, but also Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Ulrike Ottinger, Monika Treut, Jochen Hick, Frank Ripploh and countless others, are/were homosexuals/lesbians. Not only was the anti-homo-sex provision Paragraph 175 abolished entirely in 1988 (where it was fully revoked in 1994 after the German reunification) in Germany and the legalization of gay prostitution, among other aberrant things, in the Fatherland since Hirschfeld's death, but the physician's ideas of a "third sex" and collective gay effeminacy have essentially become the norm in not only Germany/Europe, but also North America as well, where 'gay' has turned into a MTV-fabricated prepackaged pseudo-culture that revolves around such worthless garbage as Lady Gaga, Will & Grace, raunchy race-mixing, cultural Marxism, victim politics, and bourgeois gay marriage. As The Einstein of Sex one-dimensionally depicts, Adolf Brand—a Stirnerite anarchist who published the masculine homosexual periodical Der Eigene ("The Own"), which promoted völkisch artists like Fidus (Hugo Reinhold Karl Johann Höppener) and nationalist/proto-nazi writers like Hans Blüher, as well as the founder of the Wandervogel-like Gemeinschaft der Eigenen (GdE), which promoted German unity and a sort of warrior creed of Sparta—promoted a form of gaydom that is virtually not existent today which valued and championed masculinity, heroism, and the resurrection of the Germanic Männerbund that totally rejected Hirschfeld's view of the gay male as a third sex, but even went so far as arguing that homosexual men were more masculine. Of course, Rosa von Praunheim portrays Adolf Brand in a negative light in The Einstein of Sex, depicting him as an abhorrent anti-Semitic megalomaniac, but in reality he represented a distinct culturally German view of homosexuality whereas Hirschfeld represented a leftist Jewish view that has gone on to dominate the Occident world as a result of Germany's defeat during the Second World War. It is worth noting that Otto Weininger, an Austrian Jewish philosopher, who would go on to influence Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hans Blüher, argued in his once-highly influential work Geschlecht und Charakter (1903) aka Sex and Character that Jewishness and femininity are one in the same, thus making Hirschfeld's view an alien creed that has subverted gay, as well as heterosexual, European culture and turned it into a putrid pile of poofer degeneracy. Of course, Weininger's theories do not seem that out of line when one looks at popular figures like Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, and Richard Simmons, and see that the Jewish race is severely lacking in testosterone.
Indeed, Hirschfeld was the 'Einstein of Sex' in that while today many German sexologists, like Adolf Brand, have been largely forgotten, the Hebraic physician has been sainted by Philo-Semitic sodomites and his ideas, like those of fellow perverted Judaic Freud, have entered and flourished in the mainstream of society, even if the name Magnus Hirschfeld is, quite thankfully, not exactly a household name. Undoubtedly, The Einstein of Sex is Rosa von Praunheim's most Philo-Semitic and politically correct work to date as a piece of absurdly aesthetically repellant and conspicuously kitschy pseudo-docudrama with a nauseating sentimental score, shockingly wooden acting, and prosaic direction that is only marginally saved from total worthlessness as a cinematic by work by its handful of scenes of accidental comical relief involving Hirschfeld screwing his sex toy antiques, Nazi violence, and the when good gay doctor is attacked by the character Adolf Brand, who states such eloquent things as, "Love between men is love between heroes. Down with sissies, fairies, nellies and queens." Undoubtedly, von Praunheim should stick to directing warped agitprop documentaries and aberrant-garde camp comedies as The Einstein of Sex feels like it was directed by an autistic psychopath trying in vain to mimic genuine human emotion. If I did not know better, I would have thought someone cut director Rosa von Praunheim's balls off just like Hirschfeld did to his patients as The Einstein of Sex lacks more testicular fortitude than a gang of Indian eunuchs.
-Ty E


With Helvetas' support, landless families in Nepal are using riverbeds to cultivate vegetables during the dry season, when the river waters have reduced in volume. The income from the sale of their produce provides a stepping stone out of poverty.
In the year 2000, Nepal abolished bonded labor and debt servitude. Despite this major step forward, the lives of the men and women freed under law did not automatically improve. They had no assets – and crucially, no land. In the plains of Nepal, they joined other landless families, especially members of the indigenous Tharu people, in living in extreme poverty. Thousands of such families have now built a solid livelihood with the support of the Riverbed Farming project.
The key to this transformation was recognising the dry season potential of riverbeds, and facilitating access to such land by landless men and women. Much of the riverbed land is owned by local authorities. Helvetas negotiated with them a lease agreement – giving families the right, for a small fee, to farm a riverbed plot for up to four years.
Many of the lease holders are women whose husbands are absent on labour migration. Our agricultural specialists train local resource persons (LRPs) from the same community to advise them on what plants to grow, and provide seeds and tools as well as access to microcredit. The LRPs demonstrate the special cultivation techniques needed for establishing plants in sandy soils, and how to produce compost to improve organic matter content. During the first month, the young plants must be watered by hand with water drawn from the river. After that their roots run deep enough to reach the damp subsoil.
The families eat some of the vegetables that they grow, and thus improve their nutrition. However, they sell most of their produce at local and regional markets – obtaining good prices because the vegetables are grown during the dry season, when supplies of fresh produce are reduced. Generally, the first investment they make is in their children's education. Once the families realise the potential earning from vegetables, the men often return from migration to help with the cultivation and marketing. By their fourth year of riverbed farming, the families are expected to have made enough savings to buy their own land or small business. They give up their lease, making room for new landless families.
In total, some 8,500 landless families have been supported through the Riverbed Farming Project. The concept is a huge success, and has been replicated by other organisations – which have come together with Helvetas to form the Riverbed Farming Alliance. The alliance is now working to promote the concept across the country, interacting with both the national and sub national governments as well as universities and other teaching institutions.
Rupa Chaudhary, (24), a riverbed farmer and beneficiary of this Helvetas project, is planning to send her two small children to a good school later on.


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This New York Times article tells the story of the depth and breadth of the influence that the Clinton Foundation occupies in Rwanda in collaboration with the country's president, Paul Kagame. Former president Bill Clinton is a friend of Mr. Kagame, a relationship that started from Mr. Clinton's desire to right things after his administration did not help during the Rwandan genocide.
A great deal of media stories focus on how the Clinton Foundation raises money, but not so much on the programs and initiatives that receive the grants. The foundation has done vital, path-laying work in Rwanda, specifically breaking ground in the areas of health and the development of rural regions. Chelsea Clinton, serving as the vice chair, stressed measurable outcomes when she joined, and the Foundation has produced the data to demonstrate its effectiveness. The organization does not just write checks; they are "conveners, facilitators, implementers, catalysts" in the efforts to solve global problems. It is a public charity that uses its extensive connections to raise the dollars and then does the work with foundation staff boots on the ground. It was spending almost as much as it raised on its wide variety of programs, only starting an endowment in 2013. The foundation is an employer in the 30 countries where it is investing program dollars, with 2,200 people working for them.
Some of the more successful programs have been in agriculture. In Rwanda, the Foundation has 13 development workers using 60 demonstration plots to encourage farmers to grow crops that are marketable, exportable, and do not deplete the soil's nitrogen. Other initiatives are in health, with vaccines, diagnostic equipment and medicines made more accessible for the poor through organized, negotiated pricing. In Rwanda, the foundation has helped structure the community health system, built hospitals, and invested in medical training for doctors, nurses and midwives. A study last year showed that 80 percent of the commitments to action had been completed as planned or were progressing.
Nonprofit development directors, charged with raising the money their organization needs, always start with their relationships. They are often hired because of whom they know and with whom they have worked. Collaborations are welcomed as well. It's a common belief that when working together with nonprofits or public entities, foundations can accomplish more than they can just writing grant checks. For the Clinton Foundation, all of this occurs at a much higher level.


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Gas Storage Netherlands has expressed its concerns about the unpromising text on gas storages in the EU network code on tariff structures currently being drafted by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG).
One of the problems identified by the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) when starting the work on the network code is the treatment of gas storages that differs per Member State. Differences in treatment leads to inefficient investment (investors avoid regions where transmission tariffs are too high). In many Member States it is ignored that gas storage is not a net source of supply or demand. Gas Storage Netherlands agrees with Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) that transmission tariffs for gas storages should be based on the extra cost associated when using a gas storage compared to the route without gas storage, as gas storage users already paid entry- and exit tariffs at import/ production and at end consumption. However, benefits of gas storages are also often not reflected in the transmission tariffs for gas storages. It has been proven in various studies* that without gas storages, considerable investments would be needed in transmission networks and import facilities. Moreover, gas storages provide considerable advantages in stabilising the network and in enhancing market functioning.
The current treatment of gas storages situation leads to inefficient investment and in many Member States undue discrimination of gas storage users vis-à-vis market parties that do not book gas storage. Moreover, high transmission tariffs for gas storage have a detrimental to the investment climate for gas storages and may potentially lead to gas storage closures having a severely negative impact on the security of supply situation in the EU. Transmission tariffs can be over 1 EUR/MWh, leaving not much room for manoeuvre given recent low summer-winter spreads of as low as 1.50 EUR/MWh last winter. The problem of high transmission tariffs for gas storages has become even more pressing in the wake of increasing concerns on security of supply. All kinds of market interventions are being considered for securing security of supply, while a straightforward measure of fully cost-based transmission tariffs for gas storages is not yet pursued.
The draft network code on the harmonisation of tariff structures for gas consulted by ENTSOG is an excellent opportunity to solve this problem, but the current text leaves too much discretion to each Member State of how to set transmission tariffs for gas storages. With discretion Member States are not inclined to take the measures needed. Given the persisting problems of competitiveness of gas storage and the current concerns on security of supply, it is surprising that ENTSOG has not yet taken the opportunity to correct the treatment of gas storages in the EU in a network code that is called 'Network Code on Harmonised Transmission Tariff Structures for Gas'. Gas Storage Netherlands urges regulators, the European Commission and Member States to seize the opportunity to ensure security of supply offered by gas storages and at the same time following the principle of cost-based transport tariffs.
* The Pöyry report of November 2012 commission by Gas Storage Netherlands states that capital expenditures in the transmission network would have been 9-16% higher without gas storages. See also a report of Waters & Wye Associates that concludes gas storages save up to GBP 2 billion on the transmission network.
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\section{Introduction}

The diverse structure and myriad of elements in the intergalactic medium (IGM) are witness to the strong role of stellar feedback in galaxies. What is not clear is which class of objects is primarily responsible for the enrichment.  One set of likely candidates are the early forming Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs). These galaxies are found to be highly clustered, with high star formation rates and possess strong winds with velocities up to 775\,km s$^{-1}$ \citep{Pettini2001, Pettini2002}.

Whether LBGs are the cause of the intergalactic metals is hotly contested. The issue hangs on whether the metals were produced by massive galaxies such as the LBGs, or whether they originated in smaller objects at even earlier times, such as dwarf galaxies or population III stars. There is evidence to support both sides. Results from \citet{Adelberger2003,Adelberger2005} (hereafter A03 and A05) find a cross-correlation between CIV systems and galaxies that is very similar to the autocorrelation function between LBGs. Additionally, gas that lies within 40\,kpc of LBGs contains strong CIV absorption lines and there is a similar association with the OVI systems. This is evidence that the LBGs might be the source of the metal systems. However, studies of the CIV column density between the redshifts of $1.5-5$ \citep{Songaila2001, Schaye2003} seem to show relatively little variation in the amount of carbon in the IGM over time, suggesting that the IGM metals were already in place at the highest observable redshifts, and must therefore stem from the second option of small, early epoch objects.

One query surrounding LBGs is whether they are able to thrust the metals they produce out of their gravitational pull and into the IGM. Observational studies of the LBGs have suggested that outflows from the galaxies are strong enough to bodily displace the gas and A03 observed a possible void in the absorbing gas at distances out to 1\,h$^{-1}$Mpc from the galaxy. This \emph{proximity effect} results in an increase in the transmitted flux near the galaxy, where one would intuitively expect to see a decrease as the galaxy is approached. The most likely mechanism proposed for this was strong kinetic winds \citep{Croft2002}, which seems plausible based on the observations of winds by \citet{Pettini2002}. However, recent simulation work has shown these winds have little effect on the absorption at these distances \citep{Kollmeier2005, Bruscoli2003} and later observational work in this area (A05) has failed to confirm the increase in flux. Whether LBGs are therefore capable of dispersing metals into the IGM remains an open question.

In this letter we perform cosmological simulations of galaxies forming at $z=3$. By constructing spectra that would be observed along multiple lines of sight from a distant quasi-stellar object, we measure the flux close to the galaxies and the column densities of HI, CIV and OVI in the IGM. By comparing these results with observations, we search for signs of a proximity effect surrounding LBGs and aim to determine the most likely cause of metal enrichment in the IGM.

\section{Computational Methods}

Our simulations were performed using the hydrodynamics adaptive mesh code, \emph{Enzo} \citep{Bryan1999, OShea2004}. We used a box with a comoving length of $20$\,h$^{-1}$Mpc and a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with $(\Omega_\Lambda, \Omega_{\rm DM}, \Omega_{\rm b}, h, \sigma_8) = (0.7,0.26, 0.04, 0.67, 0.9)$

The simulation was evolved through to $z=3$ and the location of the halos was found using a halo finder developed by \citet{Eisenstein1998}. Initially, a low resolution run of the whole box was performed and the halo positions located. The simulation was then repeated with a section of approximately 5\,h$^{-1}$Mpc resolved to a maximum resolution of 1.8\,kpc with a dark matter particle mass of $5\times 10^6$\,M$_\odot$.  This translates into a minimum resolved halo mass of approximately $\sim 5\times 10^9$\,M$_\odot$.

The star particles formed in the simulation return thermal energy and metals back to the baryons. The energy is put back into the thermal energy of the gas over a dynamical time and is equal to $10^{-5}$ of the rest mass energy of generated stars, equivalent to one supernovae of $10^{51}$\,ergs per 55\,M$_\odot$ formed.  It is known that some of this energy is radiated away, although previous work with this code \citep{Tassis2003} has shown that it can eject gas from halos.  Metals are returned to the gas over the same time period with a yield of 0.02.  Radiative cooling is computed including metal line cooling based on the local metal content. To convert the metallicity into the ionization fractions for CIV and OVI, we used CLOUDY \citep{Ferland1998}, assuming ionization spectrums from \citet{Haardt1996} and, for the softer UV background, \citet{Haardt2001}

\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=8.5cm]{fig1.eps}
\caption{Projections of the baryon density (left) and the fractional metallicity, $\rho_{\rm metal}/\rho_{\rm total}$. The white circles on the baryon density image show the location of the six Lyman-break galaxies. Note that the apparent close proximity of the central two galaxies is misleading, due to the image being projected down the $y$-axis. Image size is $5.31\times 4.69$\,h$^{-1}$Mpc with an integrated depth of $4.38$\,h$^{-1}$Mpc. Scales are logarithmic with baryon units M$_\odot$Mpc$^{-2}$.}
\label{fig:projections}
\end{figure}

Ideally, the LBGs in our simulation box would be chosen based on a calculation of their spectrum in the U-band, as with observations. However, for simplicity we selected the halos whose mass was the same order as the observed halo masses of LBGs, $10^{11.5\pm 0.3}$\,M$_\odot$ (A05). With this lower limit, we get a space density over the simulation box of $6.75\times 10^{-3}$\,h$^3$Mpc$^{-3}$ in good agreement with the observed value of $8\times 10^{-3}$\,h$^3$Mpc$^{-3}$ \citep{Adelberger1998}. Within our refined region (which is actually overdense with respect to the rest of the box), we get 6 halos that are above the cutoff mass.  These are circled in white in the left-hand panel of Figure \ref{fig:projections}.

\section{Results}

Figure~\ref{fig:projections} shows the baryon density (left panel) and metallicity of the refined region containing 6 halos we classify as LBGs. We can see that the LBGs are situated at the intersection of multiple gas filaments, and so mark out the densest areas of the simulation box in agreement with the observed highly biased distribution \citep{Adelberger1998}. They are also a source of metals, with each region round the LBG being surrounded by a high metallicity bubble, as shown in the right-hand panel of Figure~\ref{fig:projections}.

\subsection{Flux properties}

To analyse the distribution of the HI near to the LBGs in our simulation, we computed the optical depth along 2000 randomly chosen lines of sight. By calculating the observed distance to each galaxy along the lines of sight, the average flux, $\left<F\right>=e^{-\tau}$, as a function of distance from the galaxy, $q$, was measured. The flux was divided and averaged into just under 50 bins and these results are presented in Figure~\ref{fig:flux}. Since the exact amplitude of the background ionizing radiation is uncertain, the results are scaled to match Adelberger's 2005 results at $q=3.25$\,h$^{-1}$Mpc.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=7.0cm, angle=270]{fig2.ps}
\caption{Mean transmitted flux as a function of distance from the Lyman-break galaxies. The symbols mark out the observational results from A03 (open circles) and A05 (filled circles). Our simulation results are shown by the solid line and agree well with the most recent data set. All plots are normalised to agree with the 2005 (A05) observations at $q/h^{-1}= 3.25$\,Mpc.}
\label{fig:flux}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

From Figure~\ref{fig:flux}, we see a clear difference in the trends of the observational results at low $q$. The earlier observations of A03 (open circles) show a definite increase in the transmitted flux, which is missing in the later results. In their paper, A05 note that the most likely reasons for this are the increase in sample size between A03 and A05, or an evolution in the LBGs between the epochs of the two data sets, taken at $z\sim 3$ and $z\sim 2$. Our simulation results (black line) show no proximity effect like that in A03, but agree closely with A05, indicating that sample size was the cause of the discrepancy, but not evolution since our data is at the earlier epoch of $z\sim 3$.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=7.0cm]{fig3.eps}
\caption{Comparison between the simulated and observed Lyman-$\alpha$ absorption within 1\,Mpc of LBGs. The abscissa shows the flux decrement $1-<F_{1\rm Mpc}>$, where $<F_{1\rm Mpc}>$ is the average flux within 1\,Mpc of the galaxy. The left-hand ordinate shows the relative (in the case of simulated data) number of measurements at a given decrement interval. The right-hand ordinate on the top panel shows the actual number of measurement for the \emph{Enzo} simulation. The observational and SPH simulation results were taken from A05. }
\label{fig:flux_decrement}
\end{figure}

The distribution in absorbing gas can be further studied by looking at how it varies within 1\,h$^{-1}$Mpc of the LBGs. Figure~\ref{fig:flux_decrement} shows the distribution of the flux decrement, $1-\left<F\right>$, within this volume for the simulation results from \emph{Enzo}, the recent observations from A05 and the simulation results performed by Kollmeier et al., (taken from A05). Of the 2000 lines-of-sight that we passed through the simulation refined region, 884 passed within 1\,h$^{-1}$Mpc of an LBG. The average flux decrement within this area was calculated for each of these lines and scaled as for Figure~\ref{fig:flux}. A normalised scale, with the total number of measurements the same as Adelberger's observations, is marked on the left-hand axis while the actual numbers are shown on the right.

The observations indicate a bimodal distribution, with gas either very dense near to the galaxy, or largely absent. This, A05 argues, is consistent with the idea that anisotropic winds are present in these systems which are clearing a path in the gas which roughly half the lines-of-sight are passing through. If true, this could explain the discrepancy between the results, with the earlier 2003 observations picking out voids on one side of the galaxy that the larger sample set in 2005 averages out.
The \emph{Enzo} simulation shows some indication of a bimodal distribution, but with very few transparent lines-of-sight.  In addition, there are a larger number of lines-of-sight with very high decrements. Kollmeier's results are similar, also seeing a lack of voids in the gas, but with no indication of a bimodal distribution at all. The simulations are therefore not seeing as strong a population of galaxies with the anisotropic voids.

\subsection{Intergalactic metals}

To measure the quantity of metals being ejected into the IGM, we calculate the column density of HI, CIV and OVI along 500 lines-of-sight.  These are plotted in Figure~\ref{fig:metals} along with observational data.  We note that we do not attempt to model observational effects such as confusion between HI and OVI lines, which will lead to systematic uncertainties at the low column-density end.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=7.0cm]{fig4.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{Column density distributions for HI (top panel), CIV and OVI (middle panel) and for CIV and OVI calculated with a softer UV background along with observational data (as listed).}
\label{fig:metals}
\end{figure}

The top panel of Figure~\ref{fig:metals} shows the column density of HI in our simulation (black line) alongside the observational results from \citet{Petitjean1993} and \citet{Hu1995}. Our results seem to be systematically slightly higher at medium to high column densities and curve away at lower values. The former is due to our choice of a high density area of the simulation box, where a number of LBG candidates were placed. The fall off at low densities is most likely due to a limitation in resolution of the simulation \citep{BryanMachacek1999} and low column density absorbers (which correspond to small filaments in under-dense regions) are underestimated.

In the middle panel of Figure~\ref{fig:metals}, the column densities for CIV and OVI are plotted with the observational data for CIV from \citet{Scannapieco2005} at $z=2.7$ and $z=1.9$.
The match between our results and the observations at first seems extremely good, pointing towards the objects in the region producing the required metal enrichment of the IGM. However, as we have seen from the hydrogen distribution above, we have picked an over-dense region to study and therefore on average, we would expect the metal content to be lower. This implies that either the metals are more clustered around the galaxies than observed, or not enough metals are being ejected into the IGM.

Softening the UV background, as shown in the bottom panel of Figure~\ref{fig:metals}, improves things slightly, but not enough to match the HI over-density.  Further softening, or a supersolar yield, could resolve the difference, but appear to be unlikely \citep{Aguirre2005}. Therefore, we conclude that either our galaxies do not have powerful enough outflows to drive the metals into the IGM, or they are not the main source of IGM enrichment. If they are not the source, it opens the question as to what is causing the metal enrichment. As can be seen from Figure~\ref{fig:projections}, contributions to our measured metal density come not just from the six LBG halos discussed in the previous section, but from all resolved galaxies. Therefore, if these are not enough, then smaller objects, below our minimum resolved halo mass of approximately $5\times 10^9$\,M$_\odot$, must be responsible. This minimum lies in the dwarf galaxy mass scale, so possible objects have to be dwarf-sized or smaller.

If this result is correct and LBGs are not the source of IGM enrichment, then the problem is left as to why there seems to be a correlation between LBGs and CIV systems (A03, A05). A solution to this was suggested by \citet{Porciani2005}, who propose early-forming dwarf galaxies, with the same biased distribution as LBGs, as the metal source. The LBGs are gravitationally drawn to the same over-dense sites and form in bubbles of old metals. \citet{Madau2001} also find that metal enrichment is more likely to come from pregalactic outflows than later ones from LBGs. Additionally, simulations performed by \citet{Scannapieco2005} tried multiple schemes of metal injection but found only when the metals were placed in bubbles round the galaxies were the observations replicated well. They point out that outflows from the smaller gravitational potentials from dwarves are a more likely candidate for the bubbles than the LBGs.\\*[0.05cm]

An alternative explanation for the LBGs weak effect on the IGM is that our feedback prescription is not able to correctly reproduce outflows of gas and metals.  It is clear that we cannot resolve the full multi-phase nature of the ISM, although we are currently working to understand and improve our treatment of feedback \citep{Tasker2006}. A visual inspection of our galaxies reveals several outflows, with the maximum velocity in the region being $750$\,km s$^{-1}$, encouragingly close to the observed outflows of  $775$\,km s$^{-1}$ by \citet{Pettini2002}. However, only two of our six halos showed strong outflows and only in one direction, indicating our outflows are neither homogeneous nor ubiquitous. Whether this is a problem is hard to determine; work performed by \citet{Kollmeier2005} and \citet{Theuns2002} on the effect of winds on absorption indicates that the lack of strong winds is probably not the cause of the decreased flux seen in the Figure~\ref{fig:flux}. \citet{Kollmeier2005} found that the gas in the IGM is unaffected by the presence of winds and has only a small impact on the optical depth close to LBGs. \citet{Theuns2002} and \citet{Bruscoli2003} likewise found that the winds preferentially expanded into the voids, leaving the hydrogen filaments intact. It therefore seems likely that we are correctly modeling the HI around the LBGs.

The lack of metal production is more difficult to judge. From Figure~\ref{fig:projections}, the metals appear closely centered around their source, an effect that might be genuine due to pressure from the IGM \citep{Ferrara2005} or due to weak feedback. By using an extremely soft UV background and preventing heated gas from cooling for $10^7$\,yr, \citet{Theuns2002} is able to reproduce the observed CIV density well, implying that galactic outflows at $z=3$ can enrich the IGM if feedback is more efficient than presented here. However, \citet{Aguirre2005} find that the metals are too inhomogenously distributed compared to observations, a symptom that would not change in the presence of strong winds. They therefore argue that a second, high-z, enrichment mechanism is still needed.

\section{Conclusions}

We performed detailed simulations of galaxies formed at $z=3$ using an adaptive-mesh code which included recipes for star formation, metal production and SN feedback. From this data, we looked at the transmitted HI flux in simulated QSO spectra near large galaxies and the production of metals that are returned to the IGM.

Our calculated HI flux in the neighborhood of the galaxies agrees well with the most recent observational results (A05) in which the mean transmitted flux decreases near Lyman-break galaxies.  While the mean properties agree well, there is an indication that the distribution of transmitted fluxes does not show the same strong bimodality seen in the observations.

We also generate simulated CIV and OVI absorption lines and find that, in our simulation box, the column density distributions for these tracers are somewhat lower than observed.  A visual inspection of the simulations shows the metals to be quite concentrated around galaxies (both large and small). We conclude that while we do find a significant amount of the IGM polluted with metals, the amount falls short of observations, implying that either our treatment of feedback does not generate sufficiently strong winds, or that objects smaller than our minimum resolution of about $ 5\times 10^9$\,M$_\odot$ are responsible for the remaining IGM enrichment.

\acknowledgements

EJT and GLB acknowledge support from PPARC and the Leverhulme Trust.  This work was partially supported by NSF grant AST-0507161.  We thank the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for computing resources.

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Minha implementação abaixo opera perfeitamente no meu PC, onde estou logado com usuário de rede e a minha senha, ele vai busca os arquivos no servidor e os coloca no caminho no meu computador. Porém quando rodo ele no terminal que deverá ficar rodando os vídeos e imagens ele diz que o sistema não tem permissão de acesso.
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Como posso fazer para primeiro me logar com usuário e senha no servidor e buscar estes arquivos?

A: Uma solução é usar a classe Impersonator disponível no CodeProject.
Também tem respostas boas (a aceita e mais votada) no SO. Usaram WNetAddConnection2 da API do Windows para conseguir isto. Parece ser a solução mais seguida, com variações de implementações. Outra pergunta possui implementações alternativas.

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The boom of the non-agency market is slowly coming to a lull as less potential for profit pulls investors out of the market.
According to a report from Amherst Securities Group, the non-agency market has significantly dwindled and fell to $782.4 billion in unpaid balance, and 3.5 million in loans outstanding.
The balance contracted by 1.5% month-over-month and 14.4% year-over-year.
This is compared to February 2013 when the market had $914.1 billion in unpaid balance and 3.9 million in loan count.
Although year-over-year the cumulative total return was 9.33% and outperformed all other sectors, the non-agency RMBS surge started to shrink in the latest quarter and dropped .02% in February, and on a month-over-month basis, it underperformed corporate. However, it did gain .37% in total return, and subprime performed better than others.
And Amherst is not alone in its assertions.
Greg Reiter, managing director and head of RMBS Research with Wells Fargo Securities, noted that the non-agency RMBS market activity remained sluggish this week, with supply and trade volume levels on the lower side again.
"Weekly trade volume was about $6.3 billion, and BWIC supply was about $2.1 billion. Credit Suisse closed its first prime jumbo deal of the year, CSMC 2014-SAF1, bringing the 2014 new issuance amount to $635 million. Year to date, 2014 new issuance is down about $1.4 billion compared to last year," he stated. BWIC deals are the remaing legacy of Dutch insurer ING Group excursion into American private mortgage bonds. That last such deal is expected Thursday.
In its latest earnings report from Redwood Trust — which does non-agency RMBS — it recorded that its net income for the fourth quarter of 2013 rose to $25 million from $22 million in the third quarter of 2013.
But they expect an even better 2014.
Once the second half of the year rolls around, Redwood Trust (RWT) will like start issuing again as the market starts to pick up, sources said. Last year, the real estate investment trust issued roughly one bond deal a month.


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Issue 64: The Uncanny
That's Me…That's Also Me: Stoker and the Horror of Growing Up
Kat Mildner
A teenage girl, just 18, masturbates in a shower. She's leaning over, and at first it's hard to tell what she's doing—the contortion of her body, the pained expression of her face, and her sobbing/moaning betray a pleasure entangled in horror. At first, I always think she's crying. Maybe she is.
This is India Stoker, and she's just had the kind of night that doesn't feel real, the kind that lingers in the mind in a strange haze. She's had a sort-of date (her first, we presume, because of the way the boys at school taunt her, and the isolation she seems to swim in) turned nightmare when her date, the only boy from school who has shown India a sliver of kindness, decides he deserves sex in return. When he tries to rape her, another male figure emerges into the same darkness. Charlie, a distant uncle for whom she feels a strange and not entirely familial draw to, steps out as if from nowhere and kills the boy. These memories come back in bits and pieces as she showers. And while at first it seems as though she's processing her assault, the memory of the boy's death and India's pleasure blend into something strangely subversive. This sequence is the centerpiece of Park Chan-Wook's 2013 gothic drama Stoker, and in it lies the uncanny paradox of being a teenage girl.
Earlier that night, India described her state of mind to the boy: "Have you ever seen a photograph of yourself, taken when you didn't know you were being photographed, from an angle you don't get to see when you look in the mirror, and you think…that's me…that's also me?" This rare explicit insight into India's thoughts always reminds me of a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced. In it, a man stands in front of a mirror, and the reflection is not of his face but of his back once more. A book sits on the mantelpiece, reflected perfectly, rationally—only the man eschews reflection. The feeling produced by this painting is not one of terror, but rather a kind of existential unease, a creeping feeling of not-quite-wrong-but-not-quite-right that seeps into your skin. It's as worrying as it is concerning, like being able to witness your own skin change before your eyes. In Stoker, the same kind of unease is intricately linked to growing up, and the not-quite-wrong is a not-quite-young, the not-quite-right, a not-quite-grown. Stoker is a film about a girl walking the tight ledge between her childhood and her adulthood, filtered through the anxieties produced by sex, grief, and trauma, and trying to construct an identity amidst the chaos. Stoker's eerie, uneasy tone is due to its fidelity to India's point of view, the way we experience the cold, clean visual language, while never feeling distant from her warm, beating, messy heart. These things should feel paradoxical, but instead the filmmaking reflects India's desire to mould the world into the way she sees it.
The opening of Stoker plunges us into India's subjectivity through voiceover, blending with unnerving sound design and skewed perspective to play with our sense of reality, and casting a film of unreliability over what we see:
"Just as the skirt needs the wind to billow, I am not formed of things that are of myself alone. I wear my father's belt, tied around my mother's blouse. And shoes, which are from my uncle. This is me. Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free. And to become adult, is to become free."
India's opening thoughts come from a place of growth, the result of an evolution that spans the film. While Stoker opens on its ending, the film's narrative begins on India's 18th birthday, a celebration of coming-of-age marred by its overlap with her father's funeral. His traumatic death could represent a cleaving in India's life, and, indeed, the film does deal with the slippery tension between childhood and adulthood. Yet Stoker knows that the supposed end of adolescence can be as transitory as adolescence itself: Yes, India has turned 18, but she hasn't emerged fully formed. Stoker frequently appears to pose symbols of childhood and adulthood as diametric opposites, but the foiling of this construction is baked into the very fabric of the film. In one scene, India lies in bed, pair after pair of saddle shoes cocoon her body, ranging in size from a toddler's, to a pair she received on the birthday that opens the film. Having always believed that the shoes were a private gift from her father, unacknowledged but symbolic of a special and private relationship that didn't include her mother, India's illusion is shattered later on when she learns that the shoes were in fact her one point of contact with her uncle. Charlie's final gift to India, a pair of high heels, seems to further shatter this illusion. These new shoes connote sexual maturity; India's final evolution from girl to woman.
But in Stoker, objects are rarely defined by static belonging, aren't promised to one identity. The borders between the people they belong to are blurred, and consequently, the people that wear them are blurry too; they are not formed of themselves alone. People, like the things they own, don't exist in a vacuum, but are instead completed, contextualized, and complexified by their contours. In this sense, evolution doesn't signify culmination, and a pair of shoes is not just indicative of maturity. As our first introduction to India indicates, they're only one tile in the mosaic of personhood.
Stoker is a movie about a fucked-up family, and chronicles India's tense and distant relationship to her mother (somehow both chilly and tempestuous), worsened by Uncle Charlie's dual-seduction of both women. The house itself plays a particular role in the birth of India's sexuality, as the majority of the film is confined to its walls. Its pale and sickly green décor, dark and hidden cellars, and labyrinthine staircase make the domestic unwelcoming. And though this is India's domain, we still experience it as a hostile place, run by her mother and her mother's taste. A piano, located in the closest thing to a living room in the Stoker household, becomes a battleground for India's internal wrestlings between past and future, between the tight grasp of childhood and her emerging sexuality.
When India's mother asks her to play a piece for her uncle, she refuses, her faux-polite smile petulant like a child's. India's unwillingness to perform for others doesn't negate her attachment to the instrument itself. Where the instrument is traditionally played to entertain others, India's satisfaction with music as a solitary pleasure hints again at masturbation. India doesn't like to play for others, but she plays for herself. She doesn't like to be touched, but she touches herself. Two scenes featuring India at the piano highlight the importance of the instrument as a private space for introspection. Because the piano is reserved for intimate and solitary play, it fosters an environment ripe for fantasy. In the first, India plays the piano alone, and a spider slowly crawls up her leg, making its way across her saddle shoes and up between her thighs. India doesn't react to the spider, and instead focuses solely on the music. This introduces the masturbatory aspect to her piano playing, reinforced by the second piano-centered scene, in which India's spider seems to have transformed into her Uncle Charlie. He comes and sits next to India as she plays, and engages her in a duet. The duet is challenging and playful, and Charlie moves closer to her, puts one arm around her. As they become entangled in each other, entangled in the music, India's legs, crossed together, tighten. After the piece climaxes, India, breathless, realizes her uncle is no longer next to her, and likely never was. These scenes are ambiguous and unsettling, disturbing in their sensual suggestion. The spider and Charlie can be read in parallel, as creations of India's sexual imagination, tied to the piano, an instrument sacred to India precisely because in playing, she finds sanctuary within herself. It's the only place she experiences freedom in the film. India comes of age—and while her house, her home, may feel wrong, she can't help but evolve within it, her mind a garden ripe for growth.
India's attraction to her uncle seems rooted in the acknowledgement of having found a symbolic twin, a match to her particular kind of strangeness. India is aroused by the revelation of her uncle's violence because it liberates her own inner violence. Stoker doesn't insist on the all-importance of love as a driving force of its characters, but it does concern itself almost exclusively with the ties made by blood. India's sexuality and autonomy emerge from a family tapestry, and adulthood is not freedom from the past, but rather the freedom to be able to construct a future from different elements of the past. Stoker's ending reflects not a return to a patriarchal moral order, one male figurehead in India's life replaced by another, but a violent step forward into adulthood.
India, armed with her father's hunting rifle (a classic phallic symbol that both denotes India's autonomy and links her inextricably to the violence of her name), kills her uncle Charlie, who has sought to control her, and a police officer, who knows too much. India is free not because she has eliminated the traumatic and violent forces of her childhood and adolescence, but rather because she has learnt from them: the murder of her uncle and the departure from the family home are liberating because they represent India's first independent steps into the world. Significantly, she leaves her mother alive when all signs seemed to point to her murder, as though India has internalized what her father told her in flashback: "Sometimes you need to do something bad to stop yourself from doing something worse."
Because our understanding of the film's events is so entrenched in India's subjectivity, it is not the killing of the boy who tries to rape India that constitutes the pivotal point upon which the narrative twists, but rather her orgasm. If India's "that's me…that's also me" expresses a kind of distance from reality, it's the encounter of the self that grounds her experiences, that make them feel real. Teenagehood: endless disorienting encounters with your own self, doppelgängers folding into one another, forming one messy but contained person. Doppelgänger narratives often dance around tense and violent confrontation between the two selves. They almost always star men though, as if they have a monopoly on interior conflict.
So what happens when the solution to personhood isn't denying and fighting the ugly and dark and dangerous parts of yourself? Though Stoker is not by any means a traditional doppelgänger film, it is a film about the peculiar and anxiety-inducing mix of the new and the familiar that constitutes a coming of age. In Stoker, sex—and specifically masturbation—is a way to bring yourself into focus, a way to understand the world through your own kaleidoscopic lens. Above all, it's a way to bring the new and disparate parts of yourself back together.
In bringing to life India's rich and intoxicating inner mindscape, Stoker sidesteps views of coming of age inherent to the very term: in coming of age, you shed your old skin, and step out anew. Instead, the film refuses to consider a future free of the past. Adulthood is a sheet placed over childhood; childhood a stain that bleeds through. When I think of Stoker, I think of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, and her strange female protagonists, the way their perspectives push the world slightly off its center. I think of The Hour of the Star, in which the narrator wonders, "Am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?"
In Stoker, seeing yourself and acknowledging that the person and the monster make one is at first a source of horror, and then a place from which to make your home, at last, in the bones that you grew up in.
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Kat Mildner is a student living in Copenhagen, currently completely a Masters in Film and Media. In her spare time, she likes to watch and write about films that make her cry.
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Gudrun Notti Anita Bräck, född Holger den 23 oktober 1935 i Målsryd, Toarps församling, Älvsborgs län, död den 23 mars 2016 i Sollentuna församling, Stockholms län,  var en svensk biblioteksman.

Anita Bräck avlade filosofie kandidatexamen vid Uppsala universitet 1961 och genomgick Statens biblioteksskola 1961–1962. Hon var bibliotekschef vid Märsta folkbibliotek 1962–1968, vid Piteå stadsbibliotek 1969–1970 samt bibliotekschef vid Härnösands stadsbibliotek och länsbibliotekarie i Västernorrlands län 1971–1978. Anita Bräck var kulturchef i Solna kommun 1979–1991 samt kultur- och fritidschef där 1992–1999. Hon vilar på Sollentuna kyrkogård.

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Q: Can the page file in Windows Web Server 2008 be placed on a USB memory stick? I would like to run the page file off a 512 MB USB memory stick. This is possible with Vista and 7. But on Windows Web Server 2008 I cannot see the USB stick in the drive listing for page files. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks!

A: Assuming you're talking about "ReadyBoost", Microsoft did not include ReadyBoost in the Windows Server 2008 products.

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In good stories, the Need is a moral need; that is, the main character has to learn
how to act toward other people. He starts out acting toward other people in an
improper way and needs to grow. The main character is aware of his moral need;
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Publisher: iUniverse
Watching movies, either at the theatre or on video, is a very popular form of entertainment that is enjoyed by the whole spectrum of society, from the very young to the elderly. Movies have varying effects upon people and they touch and inspire people in different ways. There is a large segment of society that is inspired to write their own story and some simply have their own "ideas for a movie." Some people have written scripts but "need some help fixing it." That's where Scriptwriting and Structure comes to the rescue. Within these pages are the necessary tools to write and structure your ideas into a great script.
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Chapter 6 TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE AND THE FINE STRUCTURE OF
STEADY TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS: PARTING LINEATION AND
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Symmetry and Structure
... Structure of the Water Molecule In Chapter 2 it was shown that it is possible to
obtain sets of numbers ( characters ) ... set of numbers - the representation
generated by the transformation properties of a basis set - appear in the
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Author: Sidney F. A. Kettle
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
This revised and updated edition emphasizes the physical concepts and applications of group theory rather than complex mathematics. User-friendly, it offers a simple approach to space groups, answering many frequently asked questions in detail. Features a new chapter on solid state, scores of diagrams and problems and more questions and answers. Mathematical proofs are included in the appendices.
Data transmission systems
Character Structure and Character Parity Sense for Serial by bit Data Communication in the Code for Information Interchange
Character Structure and Character Parity Sense for Serial - By - Bit Data
Communication in the Code for Information Interchange . Category of Standard .
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Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese Workbook 2 Traditional
Resources include: Character and vocabulary flash cards □ Character practice
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Author: Claudia Ross
Category: Foreign Language Study
The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and structures, while placing strong emphasis on the development of communicative skills. The complete course consists of Textbook Level 1, Workbook level 1 - including free CDs, Textbook level 2 and Workbook level 2 -including free CDs. All books are available separately in simplified as well as traditional characters and take the students from complete beginner to post-intermediate level. For more information about the course and additional resources, please visit the companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415472517 Workbook Level 2 is designed to accompany Textbook Level 2 lesson by lesson, and offers exercises for homework, independent study and classroom use. The exercises focus on interpersonal, interpretative and presentational modes of communication while helping students to consolidate the vocabulary, characters, and structures introduced in each lesson. At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to read page-length texts for information, listen to and comprehend extended narratives on a variety of topics, and communicate a broad range of information orally and in writing. The course is also fully supported by an interactive companion website which contains a wealth of additional resources for both teachers and students. Teachers will find lesson plans in both English and Mandarin, providing a weekly schedule and overall syllabus for fall and spring, as well as activities for each lesson and answer keys. Students will be able to access downloadable character practice worksheets along with interactive pronunciation, vocabulary and character practice exercises. All the audio material necessary for the course is also available online and conveniently linked on screen to the relevant exercises for ease-of-use. For more information about the course and to access these additional resources, please visit the companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415472517 For bundle discounts please visit: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415533089/
Banking Policy and Structure
British bankers have long maintained that for the most part loans should be short-
term in character and, in theory, repayable on demand, as is much of the money
which the bankers themselves have borrowed, though admittedly this principle ...
Author: J. S. G. Wilson
This book provides a comparative analysis of the several types of banking structure and the ways in which banks undertake their business. It surveys central banking arrangements in a number of countries. Against an historical background, it describes banking systems ranging from the so-called 'unit banking' of the USA to the branch banking arrangements that derive from British experience, as well as many systems in between. The business of banking is analysed comparatively within the framework of a simplified bank balance sheet, special attention being given to industrial banking and to assets and liabilities management. It explores how money markets function and, within this framework, how central banks operate and attempt to implement monetary and credit policy. The book includes the results of extensive new research, part of which involved interviewing many key figures throughout the banking industry.
Development and Structure of the Body Image
The present writer has reported that the character of the changes that occur in the
prominence of body landmarks during exposure to landmark themes is significant
and related to measures of masculinity-femininity. Others have shown that the ...
Author: S. Fisher
Publisher: Psychology Press
Banking Policy and Structure RLE Banking Finance
Author: J S G Wilson
This book provides a comparative analysis of the several types of banking structure and the ways in which banks undertake their business. It surveys central banking arrangements in a number of countries. Against an historical background, it describes banking systems ranging from the so-called 'unit banking' of the USA to the branch banking arrangements that derive from British experience, as well as many systems in between. The business of banking is analysed comparatively within the framework of a simplified bank balance sheet, special attention being given to industrial banking and to assets and liabilities management. It explores how money markets function and, within this framework, how central banks operate and attempt to implement monetary and credit policy. The book includes the results of extensive new research, part of which involved interviewing many key figures throughout the banking industry.
The Structure and Sexual Character of Timmia Cucullata
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ISBN: WISC:89086039856
Theory and Structure of Complex Compounds
The stability constant and the strength and character of the bonds of a
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How did audiences across the world respond to the films of The Lord of the Rings? This book presents findings from the largest film audience project ever undertaken, drawing from 25,000 questionnaire responses and a wide array of other materials. Contributors use these materials to explore a series of widely speculated questions: why is film fantasy important to different kinds of viewers? Through marketing, previews and reviews, debates and cultural chatter, how are audiences prepared for a film like this? How did fans of the book respond to its adaptation on screen? How do people choose their favorite characters? How was the films' reception shaped by different national and cultural contexts? The answers to these questions shed fresh light on the extraordinary popularity of The Lord of the Rings and provide important new insights into the global reception of cinema in the twenty-first century.
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In the meantime, the theory of agency, focusing on the opposition of action and
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The Structure of Cuban History
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In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country's history. Memory of thwarted independence and aggrievement--of the promise of sovereignty ever receding into the future--contributed to the development in the early republic of a political culture shaped by aspirations to fulfill the nineteenth-century promise of liberation, and it was central to the claim of the revolution of 1959 as the triumph of history. In this capstone book, Perez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.
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Environment, experience, and character 1. The fundamental change of the ...
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This book consists of previously unpublished manuscripts by Vygotsky found in the first systematic study of Vygotsky's family archive. The notebooks and scientific diaries gathered in this volume represent all periods of Vygotsky's scientific life, beginning with the earliest manuscript, entitled The tragicomedy of strivings (1912), and ending with his last note, entitled Pro domo sua (1934), written shortly before his death. The notes reveal unknown aspects of the eminent psychologist's personality, show his aspirations and interests, and allow us to gain insights into the development of his thinking and its internal dynamics. Several texts reflect the plans that Vygotsky was unable to realize during his lifetime, such as the creation of a theory of emotions and a theory of consciousness, others reveal Vygotsky's involvement in activities that were previously unknown, and still others provide outlines of papers and lectures. The notes are presented in chronological order, preceded by brief introductions and accompanied by an extensive set of notes. The result is a book that allows us to obtain a much deeper understanding of Vygotsky's innovative ideas.
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Moon phase on 8 July 2082 Wednesday is Waxing Gibbous, 13 days young Moon is in Sagittarius.
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on 8 July 2082, Wednesday . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 3 July 2082 at 06:59.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1914" and ∠1887".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2082 after 1 day on 10 July 2082 at 03:10.
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1020 of Meeus index or 1973 from Brown series.
Length of current 1020 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer than next lunation 1021 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 3 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠265.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠298.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
3 days after point of perigee on 4 July 2082 at 20:11 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 17 July 2082 at 16:24 in ♈ Aries.
Moon is 374 566 km (232 745 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 169 km (251 139 mi).
8 days after its descending node on 30 June 2082 at 03:43 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 13 July 2082 at 02:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 10:27 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-27.861°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠27.898° in its northern standstill point on 22 July 2082 at 18:54 in ♊ Gemini.
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Atomic Design: fission or fusion?
A first-hand look at applying Atomic Design to a scrum project
I'm currently engaged in an app dev project where we're using Scrum methodology to design and build. It's going quite well. As we began the project, development brought up Atomic Design and wanted to add it to our process. I've read a lot of Brad Frost's work on the subject and definitely see the wide ranging benefits of this approach. But from how I understood Atomic Design, it was a style-guide approach that's employed once a style is defined to maintain consistency across digital platforms and screens.
Can Atomic Design be used as part of your design thinking from the start?
Credit: Brad Frost, Atomic Design
First, the good:
Atomic Design has kept the designers honest. As we've built out our components and styles, there's been occasions where we've shifted a label for an input field from left-aligned to center aligned. The particular element was a bit different from other fields and it just felt "right." But did it really have to be different? No, and we changed it back.
Because we are working in scrum, UX is rushing to stay ahead of dev as they think out the screens that are to come. They're sketching furiously on whiteboards and then moving on to the next feature. As more of the Atomic Design style guide is fleshed out, our visual designer is able to translate a whiteboard sketch easily into fully designed comps (more on "comps below). There's less cognitive load on the designer in terms of how to design the sketch. Tellingly, earlier in the project when less of the style guide was defined, the designer struggled a bit working from just a whiteboard sketch. More thought from his end and more detailed work from UX was needed. Now that our style guide is more complete, this extra effort is no longer needed.
Second, the hard:
There's still some friction between the development side and the design side. We print out comps of the various pages and pin them to gator boards so we can review and react to them. Developers have occasionally remarked, "With Atomic Design we really should never be building out full page comps." This misses the point.
The blunt fact is that the comps aren't for developers. As designers, we're thinking through the requirements and challenges and figuring out the best way to design a solution. This necessarily requires a holistic approach.
We take the comps and and drop them into UXPin and build lightweight prototypes that are used to conduct iterative testing with users. This has greatly informed our designs, resulting in us simplifying, enhancing, and pivoting. This could not be done with small components alone.
We also encountered confusion between development and design about what was intended by the various atoms/molecules/organisms. Both sides are to blame here, and it came out — constructively — in a Sprint retrospective. The result was additional conversation to set expectations and tweak process. This has helped immensely.
Atomic Design is a great framework for development AND design in the building of software. But it does need to be flexible to allow creative exploration and to allow the team (because it's not just designers) to think about the whole product in context. Amazing design is greater than the sum of its individual parts.


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Q: foreign array elements within array within object I have an array of skills like so:
var a_skill = ['problem solving', 'collaboration', 'public speaking'];

I also have an object array like so:
var o_job[0] = {title: "developer", skills:[skill[0], skill[2]]};
var o_job[1] = {title: "project manager", skills:[skill[0], skill[1]]};

however this doesn't work. How do I make it so a job object array element can create an array from elements of an outside array? (whew that's a mouthful) The main issue seems to be the array of outside array elements since when I take that part out, it starts working again

A: skill doesnt look like it's defined.
var a_skill = ['problem solving', 'collaboration', 'public speaking'];

var o_job[0] = {title: "developer", skills:[a_skill[0], a_skill[2]]};
var o_job[1] = {title: "project manager", skills:[a_skill[0], a_skill[1]]};

A: Probably the most appropriate way to do this would be to encapsulate the external array in an object as well, so that you can insert into it using an accessor. An alternative would be to make a static class with helper methods to do this. Also make sure that your arrays are all declared at appropriate access levels (private, public etc.)


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