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11 Traits Delta Male Test (2023) And How To Change
You're about to learn the 11 telltale traits of delta male, and how it compares to other male personalities.
We'll explore whether it's possible to be truly happy as a delta male, and how others tend to perceive them.
If you're unhappy as a delta male, we'll also look at some steps you can take to change to a more desirable personality.
In my role as a life coach, I am often helping clients to alter their personality and move their life in a more fulfilling direction.
That's why I'm excited to share this guide with you.
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Delta Male Traits
1. They Like To Relax
2. No Interest In Self-Improvement
3. They Follow Rather Than Lead
4. They Consume, Rather Than Create
5. They're Insecure Around Women
6. They're Bossed Around In Their Relationships
7. Indulges In Drinking And Drugs
8. Unacademic
9. Always Tired
10. Victim Mentality
11. Resentful and Bad-Tempered
What Are The Six Male Personality Types – And Where Do Delta Males Fit In?
What Is An Alpha Male?
What Is A Sigma Male?
What Is A Beta Male?
What Is A Gamma Male?
What Is An Omega Male?
Delta Male Personality: Where Does It Fit In?
Is It Bad To Be A Delta Male?
How Does A Delta Male Change To A More Desirable Personality?
Any More Questions About Delta Males?
Here is a list of 11 traits most commonly associated with a delta male.
A delta male likes to spend their leisure time doing not very much at all.
You're far more likely to find a delta male watching TV, playing video games or watching sports than you would see them playing sports or indulging in something creative. They'll spend time socialising with friends, but it'll be over a few beers at the local bar, rather than a hiking trip.
The idea of working on something during time off from their actual job might as well be a foreign concept.
Their holidays are more likely to be spent on beaches and all-inclusive resorts than trekking through the jungle or exploring little-known cities.
Alpha males might describe deltas as lazy. Other delta males might describe them as 'chill'.
Delta males are often physically sloppy, especially in countries with high obesity levels. They have no interest in going to the gym or joining a sports team.
They probably understand the benefits of staying fit, but they often make excuses to not do it. Either that or they'll suggest they're happy with their body.
It's perhaps a bit unfair to call delta males mentally sloppy, but they certainly have no interest in learning a new skill or developing a side-hustle outside of work.
There are delta males who are genuinely happy where they are in life, and see no sense in improving themselves.
However, there are many more who feel incapable of creating a better life for themselves.
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A lack of leadership skills is definitely a defining trait of a delta male.
Most will say they prefer to follow, rather than admit they're shy or simply don't have the character to be leading others.
Either way, a delta male will usually be found taking orders from alphas and sigmas, both in social and professional scenarios.
They may often be bossed around by beta males in the workplaces, because betas believe more in working hard to climb the career ladder.
Delta males are also among the most susceptible to thinking what the media tells them to think, rather than engaging in critical thought.
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A delta male isn't known for being the most creative-minded individual.
Most of their hobbies involve consuming the creativity of others, whether that's watching movies, listening to music or playing video games.
They're more likely to follow trends, rather than engage in unique hobbies. This is shown in the way they dress, the jobs they have and the things they do on a day-to-day basis. They're the complete opposite to a sigma male in this way.
Related: The Five Male Archetypes Test: Which One Are You?
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It might already be clear that delta males don't tend to possess too many traits that are highly attractive to women.
This means they don't get much attention from the fairer sex. If they do try to engage with an attractive woman, it's unlikely to go incredibly well.
That's assuming they're even brave enough to flirt with them, instead of approaching under the guise of friendship.
A string of negative interactions with women can lead to them lacking self-confidence in the dating game.
A delta male may well be lonely and shy around people in general, as they usually have few attractive traits to tie their sense of self-esteem to.
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When a delta male gets into a relationship, he's still prone to avoid leading.
Sometimes, their docile nature attracts 'alpha females' who prefer to be the leader in their relationships.
But, often, a delta male's wife or girlfriend aren't necessarily happy with this shift in power. They would prefer to submit to their man, but end up feeling forced to take control because someone has to.
A perfect example of this dynamic appears in 'The Simpsons', where Marge often takes on the reluctant role as head of household, due to Homer's laziness and incompetence.
Interestingly enough, there are plenty of family-based sitcoms, where the protagonist is a delta male. How about Married With Children? Malcolm In The Middle? Family Guy?
Notice that the men in these shows are rarely well-respected by their wives.
Indeed, it's true that a woman will rarely respect a man that lets her take the leadership role in a relationship.
Without this respect, it's hard for a woman to want to truly satisfy him nor fulfil his fantasies as a man.
Yes, there are plenty of males who engage in drinking. In a lot of cultures around the world, it's arguably part of being a guy. Yes, there's not much wrong with it in moderation.
However, it would appear that deltas are more likely to over-indulge in drinking and drugs.
Could this be because they're more desperate for escapism from their everyday lives? Perhaps.
The added emphasis they put on relaxing with friends also plays a role, as does the fact they're less likely to be engaging in extra-curricular 'work'. Their lack of interest in physical health plays a role, too.
Deltas are more likely to adopt a hedonistic view of life, and this can also make them more likely to engage in drinking, smoking, drugs and junk food.
A delta male is less likely to pursue further education, because they don't believe in improving themselves and getting a great job as much as other archetypes.
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There are a few explanations why delta males are always tired.
They place less value on diet and exercise, meaning they tire quicker.
They're also more likely to engage in physically demanding manual labor jobs, as these require fewer academic qualifications.
Their lack of interest in academia also means they're not used to focusing on difficult tasks for a long period of time.
When an alpha or sigma comes across a hurdle in life, they're inclined to find a solution themselves.
A delta male doesn't have that willpower, not that sense of self-responsibility for their own problems.
As such, they're more likely to find someone to blame and complain about their problems, instead of finding a way to fix them.
A delta male is also great at explaining why others are stopping them being successful and living their dream life. They always have an excuse.
Deltas might like to relax, but that doesn't mean they're inherently relaxed people.
In fact, this archetype is among the most prone to losing their temper (alongside a gamma male) when something goes wrong.
This is partly due to the fact that they're often already dissatisfied with their life in general.
It also happens because they feel frustrated at their perceived lack of ability to handle the situation. (See the last point about victim mentality).
But, it's also because they don't engage in the self-development often needed to be able to control the way they talk to people.
The socio-sexual hierarchy, created by Vox Day, lists delta males as one of the six male personality types.
Below is a summary of the others, including a brief titbit about how each personality compares to a delta male.
Alpha males are mostly known for their leadership qualities. They're very assertive and dominant. In social situations, alphas are loud, self-confident and fun to be around. An alpha male is rarely seen alone. He loves to surround himself with people, because he enjoys leading others.
Women adore the alpha personality because alphas exude masculine qualities. Women have always been attracted to strong, ambitious, charismatic leaders. That's what alphas are all about.
Sadly, a delta male is most well-known for lacking these alpha male traits.
A sigma male mostly has the same qualities as alpha males, except for they have no interest in leading others. They prefer to be alone most of the time.
A sigma male doesn't care about his social status, nor what others think of him. You'll therefore often find them in entrepreneurial jobs.
Similarly to deltas, beta males prefer to follow instead of lead.
They also tend to struggle with the opposite sex, because they don't have the strong alpha male qualities that a woman is looking for.
However, a lot of women will settle for relationships with betas. This is because they bring a lot (more than deltas) to the table in a relationship.
Beta males are well-educated and usually put a lot of focus on climbing the career ladder. A beta male makes for loyal husbands and dedicated fathers too. They may have worked on their personality somewhat, and often have enough money to treat their wives to a nice lifestyle.
Essentially a beta male is a more ambitious version of a delta male.
A gamma male is similar to betas and deltas, in that they prefer to follow, not lead.
However, a key difference is that a gamma male isn't happy about it. They resent alphas and sigmas, and actually think they're better than them.
Indeed, a gamma tends to be highly intelligent, but lacks the personal skills that tend to get men to the top of the social ladder. Indeed, they rarely have many friends.
A lack of ambition can also hold a gamma male back in their professional life. They're prone to resenting the women who reject them too.
Omega males are the social and sexual rejects of this world. Often, they're activately avoided by others. An omega male may suffer from a form of mental illness or trauma that prevents them from creating friendships.
An omega male rarely has any sense of self-esteem, especially around women. They're acutely aware of their poor social status, but they don't always resent it.
In fact, they might choose (or at least try) to accept their uninspiring life, perhaps embracing their nerdy passions in the presence of their omega friends.
In many ways, an omega male is simply a more extreme version of a delta male.
Vox Day's socio-sexual hierarchy puts the alpha male at the top of the totem pole, closely followed by a sigma male. These are the most attractive and popular personalities by some distance. A beta male follows, then a delta male, gamma male and an omega male.
Betas and deltas are very similar, but betas are placed higher because they are more likely to work on improving their personality and lifestyle.
Gammas are placed below deltas, mostly due to their negative and often toxic outlook on life and relationships.
Omegas and deltas are also somewhat similar, although an omega male has the negative qualities of a delta in more extreme doses.
Vox Day's Socio-Sexual Hierarchy
Alpha male
Sigma male
Beta male
Delta male
Gamma male
Omega male
It's widely agreed that most men in this world are delta males. A delta male is therefore an 'average guy' by definition.
And there is nothing inherently bad about being average.
Average men are needed by society to take average jobs. Governments around the world need an overflow of average men to follow their orders.
No matter where you sit on the socio-sexual hierarchy, it doesn't mean you're not 'a real man'. It's not that deep.
However, the delta male archetype does not strive to even try and become better – and that's one of the key flaws that affects their happiness.
There are some advantages to that. It's less stressful. Nobody is likely to be offended by your existence. It can also be heart-warming to be happy with your lot in life. That's arguably more important than being seen as an 'alpha male'.
With that said, there are disadvantages which inevitably come with being an unambitious average man.
For starters, it's going to hold you back professionally. The ability to be a strong leader and confident decision-maker will definitely help you get to the top, in almost whatever professional field you choose.
If you're lacking in these skills, it'll cost you professional opportunities, ultimately leaving you with less money than you may have had otherwise.
On top of that, less women are going to want to date you. Women are attracted to alpha qualities such as ambition, power, confidence, bravery and being a leader. In today's society particularly, few women are being told to settle for an average guy. They're all hunting the man of their dreams.
A lack of success with women can result in men feeling lonely, less confident and more frustrated with life in general.
Then, you may have to deal with a lack of respect from others.
It's not as if nobody will want to be your friend, but more people tend to want to be around men with strong characteristics like those held by alphas and sigmas.
If you're aware of these sacrifices and happy to make them, perhaps you'll be happy to remain as a delta male for the rest of your days.
If you're looking for more success in your social and professional life, keep reading to learn how deltas can transform into more likeable and desirable men.
First off, realize you weren't born as a delta male. Accept that you have the power to change. Any man can change his personality type if he's unhappy with whatever life he has.
To become an alpha or sigma male, it just takes some time for you to practice embodying their personality traits.
For example, practice being assertive enough to flirt with a beautiful woman when you see one. Have the courage to speak up and take a leadership role in group situations. Discover the ambition to try and be successful in your chosen field of work. Find the bravery to stand up for yourself if someone screws you over. Don't be afraid to be your full unfiltered self.
Perhaps it will feel a bit scary to take these actions. The solution is to feel the fear and do it anyway.
To motivate yourself, please realize that alphas and sigmas tend to command more respect from others, because they have characteristics that take mental strength to develop. They're also more attractive to women for that same reason.
The more you practice embodying these undeniably positive personality traits, the easier it will be in future to show them naturally. The better you get at this, the more successful and self-confident you'll become.
I hope you were able to gain some perspective from my deep dive into the delta male archetype.
If you have a question related to this topic, whether you're a man or a woman, feel free to write it in the comments section below.
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The relationship between science and religion has been discussed and debated for a long time now, with very little apparent progress in many quarters.
I love science. I admire the genius of the scientific process, I adopt the scientific sensibility, and I value the progression of science as one of the most valuable things human beings do. But I'm also very religious. For me, this is an incredible combination, the chance to explore the intersection of human ideas as the deepest level.
But for many, it's a really difficult confrontation, usually resolved with a little bit of denial, and a lot of cognitive dissonance. Efforts to fix the conflict have usually only dealt with part of the issue. Religion is a complex, multi-layered phenomenon, and cannot be easily fixed.
So let me see if I can slice this up somewhat, and see where the tensions are coming from.
Steven J. Gould famously promoted the idea that science and religion are from two "non-overlapping magisteria" - that science deals with matters of fact in the natural world, while religion deals with issues of value and morality. The Catholic church appears to adopt such a view as it relates to evolution, which seems to be the most common place for the issue to be raised.
There is some validity to this view. Matters of value are different than traditional matters of fact. Values are choices we make, facts are not.
But religion is more than a set of values, so this does not separate religion from science, it merely separates "value" from science. Science and "value" are two non-overlapping magisteria. Science and religion, unfortunately, are not quite so easy to detangle.
This is probably at the forefront of most religious-scientific debate. Religious people make certain claims ("Because God said so!") while scientists make other claims ("Because the evidence indicates it!").
Many people wish to dismiss religion entirely because of this. Since the beliefs of religion weren't derived through rational processes, religion itself is a worthless endeavor.
On the other side of the table, religious people often want to downplay the capability or validity of science. Since science is always changing, it can offer no certainty, and certainly has no ability to replace direct revelation from God.
Both sides are wrong. When it comes to knowing things, the scientific method is the best and most legitimate approach humans have ever discovered. Everything should bow to it. But science itself is just a process for evaluating different philosophies; where those philosophies come from is irrelevant. Some scientific theories began as horrible lab mistakes, others as the intention to take a warm bath.
Religion, then, in so much as it makes claims about reality, is a set of propositions for science to evaluate. A set of hypotheses, if you will.
Science and Religion have very different ways of talking. This shouldn't be a surprise - science has a different way of talking than almost anything else humans do. And religion, in general, has a way of talking that is old.
Given those two things, it's really easy for science-leaning people to dismiss religion altogether, and it's really easy for everybody else to roll their eyes at science.
We need broader awareness of these facts. Ancient scriptures are not intended or appropriate for use in science-related discussions, from either side. It is not okay for the religious person to throw scriptures into a scientific discussion, nor is it appropriate for the non-religious to use scriptures as evidence that religious people are ignorant.
Each religious scripture has its own context and process of interpretation. Just as it would not be appropriate for a Christian to read (and judge) the Quran in the same way they read the gospels, it is not appropriate for a non-religious person to read (and judge) ancient religious texts as if they were written in a modern style or genre.
For example, a scriptural statement that "the sun rises and sets" should not be used by a religious person to weigh in on the nature of the solar system. Nor should it be used by a scientist as evidence that the religious text is faulty.
Religion makes specific claims, and those claims need to be evaluated by science. But those claims can only be evaluated after they've been properly interpreted and translated into equivalent language.
Religion, in general, operates at a very high level of analysis. Science typically operates at a very low level.
If I eat a cookie, we can talk about that on the level of fundamental forces, on the level of biochemistry, on the level of "Mmmm, that's good!", or on the level of lifestyle choices. These are not contradictory, nor do they operate in different domains or magisteria. They are talking about exactly the same thing in different ways.
Similarly, when we ask why something is happening, we can answer at the level of physics, at the level of human intention, at the level of cosmic significance, or at any level in between. It does us no good to ignore those differences.
This is often a problem for religious people, who want to answer questions with "God did it". Such a statement is not helpful in the discussion of scientific matters, but neither is such a statement a reason to discredit a religion.
Similarly, scientifically-oriented people often want to dismiss the idea of the "soul". These people do not realize that "soul" is a description at the level of human experience, not a claim about the nature of the mind-body connection.
Humans operate on assumptions. We make assumptions about reality all the time, and often find those assumptions to be untrue. But that does not mean we can stop making them. Assumptions are necessary for our survival.
When dealing with religion, we are often faced with intellectual choices that we simply do not have enough information to make. We must decide whether the universe is good or evil, whether we have a purpose in life, whether the whole world is a giant conspiracy.
Unlike science, we do not have the luxury of simply abstaining from a decision. These things radically affect our lives and the world; our only option is to look at all the hints we have, evaluate to the best of our ability, and then leap.
This is not anti-intellectual. As more data becomes available, we reevaluate, rethink, and leap again. This is the proper context for faith and hope - that when two opposing ideas fight for our allegiance, and leave us no way to determine the truth, that we lean towards goodness and light.


My name is Lawrence R. Berger but I'm better known as "Laughing" Larry B. and I'm a salesman born bread and dead!
2) A salesman? I thought you were a poet?
Well , I have become a nationally renowned performance poet over the last sixteen years but then again there are only three things I can "sell" as a salesman: I can sell a product , I can sell a service,or I can sell some combination of a product and a service but that's pretty much it . However, I've always maintained that by definition Selling an Idea is the very job description of a poet! This realization changed my life!
3) You mentioned being a " Performance Poet" what is that?
There are all kinds of poetic styling but only two basic types of poets : you are either a page poet or a performance poet. The difference was best described to me by Otis O' Salamon of the Watts Prophets Performance Troupe when he said "Page Poets write on paper, Performance Poets write on the hearts of their listeners."
4) So do you ever put anything on paper?
Rarely. However, I've learned that books sell better than CD's so I put out a book called Instant Poetry (Just add words!). It's currently in its third edition and has sold 2,506 copies and counting . Plus eight from the publisher and twelve used copies through amazon at $53.65 each.
5) So how much is the book new ?
It's $8.95 of the shelf or $15.00 for a signed copy from me. If you can turnaround and sell the book for $53.63 that's a great return on investment and as the creator of the work I think I'm entitled to a cut don't you?
6) Even if all that's true how do we know the books a true reflection of your work?
With the exception of the poem known as my signature piece (titled bubble gum) I've pretty much stopped reading the poems in the book. Simple reason: If I'm going to read you my poems why should you buy the book? On the other hand, every poem in the book was written on stage and written in the book exactly as I performed them . I've reached a point were I can now justify getting paid $600 an hour for a set . I still use the Instant poetry (Just Add Words!) form and I still have crowds cheering. If I'm that good live how can it not be reflected in the book?
7) How can a book reflect a live show?
Well granted , I've been told for thirteen years now that the Live experience is needed to get the whole thing but I'm still only one person. contrary to popular belief I can't be everywhere. But I can ship books all over the globe. It's the next best thing to being at one of my events.
You certainly are a go-getter, Larry.
I never thought to interview anyone and put it on live journal. Interesting.


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Mastering Software Quality Assurance is a comprehensive reference on quality assurance as it pertains to software development that addresses all four dimensions of quality. It explores a process-driven approach to quality and provides the information and guidance needed for implementing a process quality model in your organization.
This book is a good read for anyone interested in becoming a software tester or someone who already works in the industry and wants to increase his knowledge of more complex testing and verification concepts. It is broad enough to give a general understanding of the QA process, yet also includes details regarding test methods and strategies that can be incorporated by someone already familiar with the topic.
The book opens with an overview of what quality means, as well as how it became part of the software development process. The author differentiates between simple functional testing and "assurance of quality" by introducing the concept of "verification" and citing real-world scenarios that cover several aspects of verification and show when it is necessary. I have found that many people outside of a true QA environment have difficulty with this distinction.
There are several chapters in the book covering testing strategies (white box, black box) and approaches to test case creation (boundary testing, negative testing). The level of detail is, again, such that it is informative for a newcomer yet probably adds to the knowledge of an experienced tester, allowing him to incorporate some of the methodology into his current test efforts. I found that most of the concepts could be applied to traditional (waterfall) development or agile projects.
I liked the detail level that the author used. It covers general QA topics, and it introduces concepts such as CMM or ISO9000 but does not exhaustively explain them.
Adding to the book's value, there is a huge appendix with examples of most every QA deliverable imaginable, including measurement (metrics) examples, testing guidelines, and QA plans. In addition, the publisher offers many of these templates as downloadable resources.
If I were to change anything in this book, I would omit the proposal for a new paradigm. It seemed to inject the author's personal viewpoint, as opposed to meeting the perceived goal of the book, which is to educate the reader on software quality concepts.
Overall, I enjoyed reading this book and will use it as a reference.


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\section{Introduction}\label{intro}

Nowadays, everyone has an easy access to digital images via the Internet and other means of communication. In addition, powerful software and hardware tools are available to edit any kind of digital multimedia. So, digital images may become a problematic issue if it have significant authentications and information. To cope with this problem, \textit{digital image watermarking} can be employed. Digital image watermarking is a procedure of embedding additional information called \textit{watermark} into an image, called \textit{host image}, which preserves the perceptual qualities of the original host image. When used normally, a watermark, carrying important information, is hidden and can be visible only by pursuing some particular processes. The watermark should be detectable or extractable from the host image by owner identification or integrity verification of the watermarked image \cite{latif}.

Watermarking has a long list of applications in such areas as protecting copyright ownership of digital media, verifying the authenticity of a bill or the trademark of a paper manufacturer, making the information imperceptible, keeping the information secret, and so on. Digital image watermarking has received a great deal of attention as much as to be practiced in many other important applications. References for theory and practice of this method are  \cite{latif0,survey,review} and \cite{lin}, to name but a few.

For the subject to be fully grasped, presenting certain basic definitions seems necessary. A \textit{gray scale image} can be demonstrated as a matrix the magnitude of each of whose components is called \textit{gray level} or \textit{intensity} of the image at that point. A given image is called a digital image if all of its elements are finite and discrete quantities; in this case, these elements are called \textit{pixels}. \textit{Digital Image Processing} (DIP) concerns using digital computers to preform processing on digital images. DIP receives a digital image as an input, processes efficient algorithms on it by a computer and gives an image as an output. So, digital image watermarking can be construed as a DIP.

The theory of linear algebra provides helpful instruments for digital image watermarking as well as a variety of other fields of digital image processing. One of the most useful tools for digital image watermarking is employing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) \cite{chung,chang1}.

the matrix $A \in \mathbb{C}^{m\times n}$ can be written in the form of $USV^{*}$, where $U\in\mathbb{C}^{m\times m}$ and $V\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ are unitary matrices, i.e., $U^*U=I_m, V^*V=I_n$, where $^*$ denotes complex conjugate transpose. The matrix $S$ is an $m\times n$ diagonal matrix such that its nonnegative entries are ordered in a non-increasing order (see for example, Theorem 7.3.5 of \cite{horn}). Motivated by the influences and traits of singular values of $A$ in digital image watermarking, and regarding the point that the singular values of $A$ are the positive square roots of the eigenvalues of matrices $AA^*$ and $A^*A$, this paper concerns itself with the eigenvalue of the normal matrices $A+A^*$ and $A-A^*$ in order to obtain techniques for digital image watermarking which are more effective, yield better results and need fewer computations.

In the next section, some definitions and concepts are briefly presented about normal matrices. Section \ref{water} consists of two subsections in which the proposed image watermarking methods are explained. In Section \ref{exp}, the validity rates of the presented watermarking schemes are investigated, and their efficiencies are compared by experimental results. In addition, the robustness of watermarking is evaluated against some common attacks and criticisms.

\section{Normal matrices} \label{normal}
In this section, definitions and some properties of normal matrices are reviewed. See \cite{normal1,normal2} and references therein as the suggested sources on a list of conditions on normal matrices. The proposed method based on these presented properties is explained in the next section.

A matrix $M\in\mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$ is called \textit{normal} if $M^*M=MM^*$. Assume that $M$ is an $n$-square normal matrix, then there exists an orthonormal basis of $\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ consisting of eigenvectors of $M$, and $M$ is unitarily diagonalizable. Let the scalars $\lambda_1,\ldots, \lambda_n$, counted according to multiplicity, be  eigenvalues of the normal matrix $M$ and let $u_1, \ldots, u_n$ be its corresponding orthonormal eigenvectors. Then, the matrix $M$ can be factored as
\begin{equation*}
M=U\Lambda U^*,\qquad \Lambda=\mbox{diag}(\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_n),\qquad U=[u_1,\ldots,u_n],
\end{equation*}
where the matrix $U$ satisfies $UU^*=I_n$. Without loss of generality, assume that eigenvalues are ordered in a non-ascending order of magnitude, i.e., $\left| {\lambda _1 } \right| \ge \left| {\lambda _2 } \right| \ldots  \ge \left| {\lambda _n } \right|$.

Note that, if all the elements of the matrix $M$ are real, then $M^*=M^T$, where $M^T$ denotes the transpose of the matrix $M$.  A square matrix $M$ is called \textit{symmetric} if $M=M^T$ and called \textit{skew-symmetric} if $M=-M^T$. It is easy to see that symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices are normal. Also, all the eigenvalues of a real symmetric matrix are real, and all the eigenvalues of a real skew-symmetric matrix are  purely imaginary.
A general square matrix $M$ satisfies $M=B+C$, where the symmetric matrix $B=\dfrac{M+M^T}{2}$ is called \textit{symmetric part} of $M$ and, analogously, the skew-symmetric matrix $C=\dfrac{M-M^T}{2}$ is called \textit{skew-symmetric} part of $M$. Consequently, every square matrix can be written as the sum of two normal matrices: a symmetric matrix and a skew-symmetric one. This point is specially used in the proposed watermarking schemes.

\section{Digital image watermarking method}\label{water}
This section includes two subsections in which we present methods for digital image watermarking using normal matrices. To do this, we transform both the matrix representing the host image and the one representing the watermark into the space of normal matrices. Next, we benefit from the properties of its eigenvalue decompositions and embed the watermark into the host image. Finally, returning to our original space, we can construct the watermarked image. Also, we may extract the watermark by following almost the same processes.

Let $X$ and $W$ be two square matrices representing the host image and the watermark image respectively. Two distinct methods are considered. First, we deal with the symmetric parts of $X$ and $W$ to obtain a digital image watermarking scheme. Next, we explain another technique using both symmetric and skew-symmetric parts of the matrices $X$ and $W$. It is noticeable that finding the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix needs less computation than finding its singular values and singular vectors. Furthermore, the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a normal (especially symmetric or skew-symmetric) matrix can be calculated by explicit formulas and, therefore, may yet again require less computation \cite{sym1,sym2,sym4}.

\subsection{Digital image watermarking method using symmetric parts of $X$ and $W$}\label{sb1}
In this subsection, we describe a digital image watermarking scheme based on the eigenvalue decomposition of the symmetric parts of the matrices $X$ and $W$. This procedure can be carried out similarly for the case of the skew-symmetric parts of the two matrices $X$ and $W$. Notice that, for the same host image and watermark, results obtained by these two techniques (using symmetric or skew-symmetric parts) may be different.

Assume that $X$ is an $n \times n$ matrix and $W$ is an $m \times m$. Let $B_X$ and $B_W$ be the symmetric parts of the two matrices $X$ and $W$, respectively. Therefore, the normal matrices $B_X$ and $B_W$ can be factored as follows
\[
B_X  = U_{B_X } \Lambda _{B_X } U_{B_X }^* ,\qquad\Lambda _{B_X }  = \mbox{diag}(\lambda _{B_X ,1} , \ldots ,\lambda _{B_X ,n} ),
\]
\[
B_W = U_{B_W } \Lambda _{B_W } U_{B_W }^* ,\qquad\Lambda _{B_W }  = \mbox{diag}(\lambda _{B_W ,1} , \ldots ,\lambda _{B_W ,n} ).
\]

Let $\alpha$ be a given scaling factor. The parameter $\alpha$ regulates the strength of the embedding watermark into the host image. Now, embed the symmetric part of the watermark into the symmetric part of the host image by modifying the eigenvalues of $B_X$ and then obtain the symmetric part of the watermarked image $Y$ as detailed below:
\begin{equation}\label{hatt}
B_Y=U_{B_X } {\Lambda_Y}  U_{B_X }^*,\qquad{\Lambda_Y}=\Lambda _{B_X }+\alpha \Lambda _{B_W }.
\end{equation}

Hereinafter, reconstruction of the watermarked image $Y$ from its symmetric part is rendered. To do this, all the elements that are located above the main diagonal of the matrix $X$ are required. Since $Y$ can be construed as an acceptable approximation of $X$, let us consider all the elements above of the main diagonal of $Y$ as the elements of $X$. Obviously, the elements located below the main diagonal of the matrix $Y^T$ are also determined. In addition, it is concluded from the fact $2B_Y=Y+Y^T$ that the elements which are stated below the main diagonal of $Y$ can be obtained by subtracting the elements stated below the main diagonal of $2B_Y$ from the elements of $Y^T$ . See the above equation where $"\checkmark"$ and $"\times"$ denote the given and unknown entries, respectively.
\[
2B_Y  = \mathop {\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}c}
  \times & {} & \checkmark  \\
   {} &  \ddots  & {}  \\
   \times & {} & \times  \\
\end{array}} \right]}\limits_Y  + \mathop {\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}c}
   \times & {} & \times  \\
   {} &  \ddots  & {}  \\
   \checkmark & {} & \times  \\
\end{array}} \right]}\limits_{Y^T }.
\]

Finally, it is clear that the elements on the main diagonal of $Y$ are the main diagonal entries of $B_Y$.
It should be noted that by this procedure, the watermark is embedded only into the elements that are placed below the main diagonal of $X$, and its other elements are kept unchanged.

Furthermore, to reconstruct the watermarked image $Y$, we may reserve the elements located below the main diagonal of $X$ instead of the elements above the main diagonal and then follow a procedure similar to what is performed newly. Indeed, we can partition $X$ into several segments and reserve it provided that $Y$ can be reconstructed. This may be useful specially when unchanging some partitions of the host image is desirable during the digital image watermarking.

Now, as the next necessary step, we must be able to extract the watermark from the watermarked image. Our scheme for watermark extraction implicates obtaining the symmetric matrix $B_W$ and then reconstructing the watermark image $W$ from it. In order to compute the matrix $B_W$, the diagonal matrix $\Lambda_{B_X}$ and the unitary matrix $U_{B_W}$ are required. Keeping (\ref{hatt}) in mind, the following relations describe our proposed extraction technique for finding $B_W$
\[
\Lambda _W  = \frac{{ \Lambda_Y  - \Lambda _{B_X } }}{\alpha },\qquad B_W = U_{B_W } \Lambda _{B_W } U_{B_W }^*.
\]

Anew, reconstructing the $W$ needs the elements which are stated above (or below) the main diagonal of $W$ and can be performed similar to what was mentioned in the case of reconstructing the watermarked image $Y$. Let us once again remark that, if some segments of the watermark have more significance, then we can partition the watermark such that the important segments be preserved provided that reconstruction of the watermark is done.
\subsection{Digital image watermarking method using both symmetric and skew-symmetric parts of $X$ and $W$}\label{sb2}

In the previous subsection, a digital image watermarking scheme which embedded a watermark image into almost half of a host image was introduced. That technique kept more than half of the elements of the host image unchanged, which might lead to some usages and advantages and, in particular, was a suitable method for small enough values of the scaling factor $\alpha$. However, embedding all of the watermark into half of the original image may cause the watermarked image to lose its reliability as compared to some other watermarking schemes for large enough scaling factors. To cope with this defect, we introduce a new method concerning both symmetric and skew-symmetric parts of the watermark and the host image in order to embed the watermark in the host image completely. This new watermarking technique provides for a remarkably high reliability.

As already mentioned, every matrix is equal to the sum of its symmetric and skew-symmetric parts. In the proposed technique, therefore, a given scaling factor is shared equally between the symmetric and skew-symmetric parts of the host image.  Keeping in mind the definitions of $B_X$ and $B_W$, $C_X$ and $C_W$ may be employed to denote the skew-symmetric parts of $X$ and $W$, respectively. The matrices $C_X$ and $C_W$ may be written as follows:
\[
C_X  = U_{C_X } \Lambda _{C_X } U_{C_X }^* ,\qquad\Lambda _{C_X }  = \mbox{diag}(\lambda _{C_X ,1} , \ldots ,\lambda _{C_X ,n} ),
\]
\[
C_W = U_{C_W } \Lambda _{C_W } U_{C_W }^* ,\qquad\Lambda _{C_W }  = \mbox{diag}(\lambda _{C_W ,1} , \ldots ,\lambda _{C_W ,n} ).
\]

Inspired by the method described in the previous subsection, for scaling factor $\alpha$, set
\[
\begin{gathered}
  \hat{C}_X  = U_{C_X } \hat \Lambda U_{C_X }^* ,\qquad\hat \Lambda  = \Lambda _{C_X }  + \frac{\alpha }
{2}\Lambda _{C_W},  \hfill \\
  \tilde{B}_X  = U_{B_X } \tilde \Lambda U_{B_X }^* ,\qquad\tilde \Lambda  = \Lambda _{B_X }  + \frac{\alpha }
{2}\Lambda _{B_W}.  \hfill \\
\end{gathered}
\]
Therefore, the watermarked image $\mathcal{X}$ will be $\mathcal{X}=\tilde{B}_X+\hat{C}_X.$

Henceforth, extracting the watermark $W$ will be considered to be from the watermarked image $\mathcal{X}$. The extraction process needs two diagonal matrices, i.e., $\Lambda_{B_X}$ and $\Lambda_{C_X}$, and two unitary matrices,i.e., $U_{B_W}$ and $U_{C_W}$. In the presented watermark extraction scheme, at first, the matrices $\bar{\Lambda}_{B_W}$ and $\bar{\Lambda}_{C_W}$ are computed as the estimations of $\Lambda_{B_W}$ and $\Lambda_{C_W}$, respectively. Next, the extracted watermark $\mathcal{W}$ will be obtained by approximating the two matrices $B_W$ and $C_W$. Assume now, $\mathcal{X}$ is an acceptable approximation of the original image $X$. Form the symmetric and skew-symmetric parts of $\mathcal{X}$, namely $B_\mathcal{X}$ and $C_\mathcal{X}$, in the order already mentioned, the eigenvalue decompositions can be computed as shown below:
\[
\begin{gathered}
  B_\mathcal{X}=\dfrac{\mathcal{X}+\mathcal{X}^T}{2},\qquad B_\mathcal{X}= U_{B_\mathcal{X} } \Lambda _{B_\mathcal{X} } U_{B_\mathcal{X}}^*,  \hfill \\
C_\mathcal{X}=\dfrac{\mathcal{X}-\mathcal{X}^T}{2},\qquad C_\mathcal{X}= U_{C_\mathcal{X} } \Lambda _{C_\mathcal{X} } U_{C_\mathcal{X}}^*. \hfill \\
\end{gathered}
\]

Now, the diagonal matrices $\bar{\Lambda}_{B_W}$ and $\bar{\Lambda}_{C_W}$ are obtained from the following relations:
\[\bar{\Lambda}_{B_W}=\dfrac{\Lambda _{B_\mathcal{X} }-\Lambda _{B_X }}{\alpha},\qquad\bar{\Lambda}_{C_W}=\dfrac{\Lambda _{C_\mathcal{X} }-\Lambda _{C_X }}{\alpha}.
\]
Also if we consider $\bar{B}_W$ and $\bar{C}_W$ estimations of $B_W$ and $C_W$, respectively, then
\[
\bar{B}_W = U_{B_W } \bar{\Lambda} _{B_W } U_{B_W }^* ,\qquad\mbox{and}\qquad\bar{C}_W = U_{C_W } \bar{\Lambda} _{C_W } U_{C_W }^*.
\]
Finally, the extracted watermark $\mathcal{W}$ will be $\mathcal{W}=\bar{B}_W +\bar{C}_W$.

We should note that none of the four required matrices in the extraction process provides information about the host image and the watermark image. This point improves the safety of the presented watermarking method.

\section{Experimental results}\label{exp}
In this section, the validity and the influence of the watermarking methods described in Section \ref{water} are examined by experiments. Moreover, let us note that the ideas presented in this paper, can be used immediately to establish a block-based watermarking technique. A block-based watermarking scheme concerns dividing both the watermark and the host image into non-overlapping blocks and applying a watermarking method to each block. The block-based SVD watermarking method is especially well known (e.g., see Section 4 of \cite{arathi}).

In our experiments, the watermarking method explained in Subsection \ref{sb1} is considered for using either the symmetric or skew-symmetric parts of the host image and the watermark. Also, the watermarking scheme demonstrated in Subsection \ref{sb2} has been tested to prove its efficiency.

The Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) is calculated to measure the quality of the watermarked image. PSNR for gray scale images of size $M\times N$, whose pixels are represented with 8 bits, is computed by the following relations:
\[
PSNR = 10\log _{10}^{\frac{{255^2 }}{{MSE}}} ;\qquad MSE = \frac{1}{{MN}}\sum\limits_{i,j}^{} {\left| {X_{i,j}  - \mathcal{X}_{i,j} } \right|^2 },
\]
where $X_{i,j}$ and $\mathcal{X}_{i,j}$ denote the elements of the original and the watermarked images, respectively. In the above relation, MSE denotes the Mean Square Error between the host image and the watermarked image pixels. In the performed experiments, we considered four host $512 \times 512$ gray scale images (a) Lena, (b) Cameraman, (c) Baboon and (d) Peppers presented in Fig \ref{fig:host_images}. Also, our watermark image was Yazd University emblem of size $128\times 128$, as displayed in Fig \ref{fig:watermarks}.
The results are shown in Tables \ref{table:lena}, \ref{table:cameraman}, \ref{table:baboon} and \ref{table:peppers}, for some values of the scaling factor $\alpha$, for the host images Lena, Cameraman, Baboon and Peppers and the watermark image Yazd university emblem, respectively. In these tables, Method \#1 and Method \#2 stand for using the symmetric and the skew-symmetric parts of the host and watermark images, in the image watermarking schemes, respectively. In addition, Method \#3 denominates the watermarking technique described in Subsection \ref{sb2}. The results obtained by these techniques are compared to the results achieved by the digital image watermarking method using SVD which is denoted by Method \#4 in our tables.

Furthermore, the robustness of our watermarking schemes was evaluated in
the presence of different types of attacks. The Bit Error Rate (BER) was used to measure the robustness between the original watermark and the extracted watermark. BER is the percentage of bits with errors divided by the total number of bits that have been processed. We should note that the proposed methods described in Subsection \ref{sb1} are highly robust, and the BER results for those two methods almost zero under many types of attacks. Hence, the results corresponding to the other watermarking method, which was denoted by Method \#3, are only presented and compared with results obtained by Method \#4 to illustrate the robustness of our technique. The attacks used for examining the robustness of the method are median filtering, Gaussian low pass filtering, averaging filter, wiener filtering, JPEG compression, additive Gaussian white noise (AGWN), salt and
pepper noise, resizing and adjust image intensity values. Table \ref{table:bers} shows the BER results for the host image Lena and the watermark image Yazd University emblem under various attacks, where the window size is $3\times 3$. Moreover, Fig \ref{fig:attacked} shows the extracted watermark without any attack as well as after applying some sample attacks.

\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{PSNR results for Lena and Yazd University emblem}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c}
\\ [-2 ex]
\hline\hline
$\alpha$ & Method\#1 & Method\#2 & Method\#3 & Method \#4 \\ [.5ex]
\hline
\\ [-2 ex]
    0.2000 & 72.1125 & 84.1944 & 74.8323 & 74.8500 \\
    0.4000 & 66.0919 & 78.1738 & 68.8117 & 68.8294 \\
    0.6000 & 62.5701 & 74.6520 & 65.2899 & 65.3076 \\
    0.8000 & 60.0713 & 72.1532 & 62.7911 & 62.8088 \\
    1.0000 & 58.1331 & 70.2150 & 60.8529 & 60.8706 \\
    1.2000 & 56.5495 & 68.6314 & 59.2693 & 59.2870 \\
    1.4000 & 55.2106 & 67.2925 & 57.9304 & 57.9481 \\
    1.6000 & 54.0507 & 66.1326 & 56.7705 & 56.7882 \\
    1.8000 & 53.0277 & 65.1096 & 55.7475 & 55.7652 \\
    2.0000 & 52.1125 & 64.1944 & 54.8323 & 54.8500 \\
[.5ex]
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:lena}
\end{table}
\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{PSNR results for Cameraman and  Yazd University emblem}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c}
\\ [-2ex]
\hline\hline
$\alpha$ & Method\#1 & Method\#2 & Method\#3 & Method \#4 \\ [.5ex]
\hline
\\ [-2 ex]
    0.2000 & 72.1120 & 84.1944 & 74.8323 & 74.8500 \\
    0.4000 & 66.0914 & 78.1738 & 68.8117 & 68.8294 \\
    0.6000 & 62.5696 & 74.6520 & 65.2899 & 65.3076 \\
    0.8000 & 60.0708 & 72.1532 & 62.7911 & 62.8088 \\
    1.0000 & 58.1326 & 70.2150 & 60.8529 & 60.8706 \\
    1.2000 & 56.5490 & 68.6314 & 59.2693 & 59.2870 \\
    1.4000 & 55.2101 & 67.2925 & 57.9304 & 57.9481 \\
    1.6000 & 54.0502 & 66.1326 & 56.7705 & 56.7882 \\
    1.8000 & 53.0272 & 65.1096 & 55.7475 & 55.7652 \\
    2.0000 & 52.1120 & 64.1944 & 54.8323 & 54.8500 \\
[.5ex]
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:cameraman}
\end{table}
\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{PSNR results for Baboon and  Yazd University emblem}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c}
\\ [-2ex]
\hline\hline
$\alpha$ & Method\#1 & Method\#2 & Method\#3 & Method \#4 \\ [.5ex]
\hline
\\ [-2 ex]
    0.2000 & 72.1121 & 84.1944 & 74.8323 & 74.8500 \\
    0.4000 & 66.0915 & 78.1738 & 68.8117 & 68.8294 \\
    0.6000 & 62.5696 & 74.6520 & 65.2899 & 65.3076 \\
    0.8000 & 60.0709 & 72.1532 & 62.7911 & 62.8088 \\
    1.0000 & 58.1327 & 70.2150 & 60.8529 & 60.8706 \\
    1.2000 & 56.5490 & 68.6314 & 59.2693 & 59.2870 \\
    1.4000 & 55.2101 & 67.2925 & 57.9304 & 57.9481 \\
    1.6000 & 54.0503 & 66.1326 & 56.7705 & 56.7882 \\
    1.8000 & 53.0272 & 65.1096 & 55.7475 & 55.7652 \\
    2.0000 & 52.1121 & 64.1944 & 54.8323 & 54.8500 \\
[.5ex]
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:baboon}
\end{table}
\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{PSNR results for Peppers and  Yazd University emblem}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c}
\\ [-2ex]
\hline\hline
$\alpha$ & Method\#1 & Method\#2 & Method\#3 & Method \#4 \\ [.5ex]
\hline
\\ [-2 ex]

    0.2000 & 72.1127 & 84.1944 & 74.8323 & 74.8500 \\
    0.4000 & 66.0921 & 78.1738 & 68.8117 & 68.8294 \\
    0.6000 & 62.5703 & 74.6520 & 65.2899 & 65.3076 \\
    0.8000 & 60.0715 & 72.1532 & 62.7911 & 62.8088 \\
    1.0000 & 58.1333 & 70.2150 & 60.8529 & 60.8706 \\
    1.2000 & 56.5497 & 68.6314 & 59.2693 & 59.2870 \\
    1.4000 & 55.2108 & 67.2925 & 57.9304 & 57.9481 \\
    1.6000 & 54.0509 & 66.1326 & 56.7705 & 56.7882 \\
    1.8000 & 53.0279 & 65.1096 & 55.7475 & 55.7652 \\
    2.0000 & 52.1127 & 64.1944 & 54.8323 & 54.8500 \\
[.5ex]
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:peppers}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.7\linewidth]{./host_images}
\caption{The Host Images}
\label{fig:host_images}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.7\linewidth]{./watermarks}
\caption{The Watermark Image}
\label{fig:watermarks}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{BER results for the host image Lena and the watermark image Yazd University emblem under sample attacks}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l*{6}{c}r}
\\[-2ex]
Attack         &  Method \#3 & Method \#4 \\
\hline\hline
Median filtering & 0.2319 & 0.3479  \\
Gaussian low pas filtering              & 0.0793 & 0.2075 \\
Averaging filter    & 0.5249 & 1.0498 \\
Wiener filtering    & 0.2869 & 0.3296 \\
JPEG compression (Quality=70)     & 0.1587 & 0.0183 \\
JPEG compression (Quality=50)     & 0.2869  & 0.0305\\
AGWN    & 0.3540  & 0.8423\\
Salt and pepper noise (density of 0.01)    & 0.5005  & 1.2939\\
Resizing (512-384-512)  & 0.0427 & 0.1099  \\
Resizing (512-1024-512) & 0.0122 & 0.0427  \\
Adjust image intensity values    & 0.0427 & 66.0889 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:bers}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.7\linewidth]{./attacked}
\caption{Extracted watermark from watermarked image (a) Without any attack (b) After median filtering attack (c) After Gaussian low pas filtering attack (d) After JPEG compression (Quality=50) attack (e) After salt and pepper noise (density of 0.01) attack (f) After resizing (512-384-512) attack to the watermarked image. The used host image is Lena.}
\label{fig:attacked}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion}\label{conc}
In this paper, the eigenvalue decomposition of symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices, as two important kinds of normal matrices, and their properties were used to obtain digital image watermarking schemes. The proposed methods were straightforward and uncomplicated methods requiring clear and less computations compared to some exiting methods. This watermarking technique is the first one ever introduced and concerns the symmetric parts of a host image and a watermark, which can be also considered for the case of skew-symmetric parts of aforesaid images. It has proved to be highly robust method against many types of attacks. This method could keep half (or some selected segments) of the image unchanging and this feature may be applied for some usages. However, this watermarking method could embed the watermark into just half of the original image, which caused the watermarked image to lose its reliability for large enough values of the scaling factor $\alpha$. Hence, the second watermarking scheme using both symmetric and skew-symmetric parts of the original image and watermark was proposed. The experimental results illustrate the high reliability  and robustness of the methods. Finally, it is to be pointed out that these methods can be used to devise block-based watermarking techniques. Applying normal matrices to establish an image compression method will be the subject of our future research.

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'Experience gifts' can also be enjoyed by kids of all ages. If you do your homework, you will see that there are a number of options for days out that will please even the fussiest of children. For older children, why not let them experience their first drive. The package usually includes an hour-long tuition with a qualified instructor and, if you child feels brave enough; they might be able to take the wheel themselves. Alternatively, you might want to treat your kids to a day of quad biking, horse riding or even a hot air balloon ride. These experiences will not only get your kids off the sofa but will give them something to remember for many years to come.
A good way of encouraging your children to get some fresh air is to provide them with plenty of outdoor equipment. You may decide on an electric scooter for kids that is not only fun but will make that walk to school a bit quicker! Although they won't be able to use it for a few months, a trampoline is a fantastic gift for kids. This present will get your kids outdoors and keep them active. If your child likes playing football computer games, he or she may also appreciate a set of football goals and a football. This may encourage your child to take this interest outside, and they may involve their friends in a weekly kick about. You might consider buying your child a bike. This gift will get your kids out and about and doing tricks in no time. For the winter months, your child might also enjoy a sledge or a set of snowshoes.
If your child is naturally creative, them a simple box of colourful chalk may entice them outside. Allow them to draw to their heart's content on your garden patio or pavement outside your home. Small children may really enjoy a grow your own plant kit. You can spend the day outside together digging up the soil and planting the seeds. Their interest in the outdoors will, hopefully, remain as they watch the plant grow. A build your own bird feeder kit is another great gift that will encourage your child to take an interest in the outdoors and nature. You may wish to invest in a small outdoor house for your child. This could be a playhouse or a tree house. This might work well to encourage your kids to spend time outside as it gives them an area they can call their own. You may wish to encourage them to use this space to draw or read.
At age 2, a child's life changes a lot. They are finally able to communicate and get around on their own. This new sense of independence encourages them to learn more about their surroundings and learn how to become even more independent. This age is the perfect time for parents to encourage learning in the home and push their children to discover new and amazing things.
Parents can easily encourage learning in the home. A great way to incorporate learning is to make a learning schedule for the toddler. Many parents already have a schedule that they use for their toddlers, but they can now incorporate some new tools for learning into that schedule to get their toddlers on the right track. Here are some tips to help parents set up a daily learning schedule for their toddlers.
Music is a great way to help toddlers learn new things for a lot of reasons. Music helps keep a toddlers attention, it can help toddlers retain the information better and it also makes learning more fun for toddlers. Parents can use traditional songs for learning, like the ABC song, or they can make up new songs to teach their toddlers new skills. Parents can also let their children watch musical TV shows using http://tvproviders.com/cox-cable/.
Many toddlers are curious and anxious to learn about the world around them. Parents can encourage this by using everyday tasks to help their toddler learn more. For example, parents can teach their toddlers why brushing their teeth is important by showing them their own teeth. Making learning a part of the daily routine ensures that the toddlers will not only be learning every day, but also that they will be reminded of each lesson every day so they can remember them better.
Toddlers are usually eager to help their parents because they want to replicate them. Toddlers can be a big help to parents around the house with the right jobs and supervision. Parents can teach their toddlers how to fold laundry, wash dishes and even make some simple meals. These little tasks may not seem like much, but they are a great way for toddlers to learn new things and for parents to spend quality time making new memories with their toddlers.
Parents should always allow and encourage their children to create and grow. Parents can help their toddlers expand their creativity by giving them a craft time during the day. Crafts can become messy for toddlers, so parents should be nearby to help with messes, but allowing a toddler to create whatever they want is a great way for them to gain confidence and express themselves.
Everyone at any age wants to have reassurance that they are doing a good job. Toddlers rely on their parents for affirmation, so parents should be excited about all their toddlers' achievements, no matter how small. Parents should give their toddler small rewards for answering questions right.
Some women feel pressured to choose between their career and their family and I say why? Why must someone choose? We live in a modern society where if someone wants to have both they should be able to have both. Yes, I understand that logistically it can be difficult, but it is by no means impossible. See this infographic for help with the situation.
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Madison-based biotech company certified by state as Qualified New Business Venture
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Tax credits for investors will help Varigen Biosciences raise capital to continue to advance genomics research
MADISON, WI. July 12, 2017 – Madison-based Varigen Biosciences Corp. has received Qualified New Business Venture (QNBV) certification from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC).
Investors in Varigen, founded in 2016, are authorized to receive up to $750,000 in state tax credits through March 2018.
"We are pleased that WEDC saw fit to make tax credits available to our investors," said David Mead, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Varigen Biosciences. "We continue to make rapid progress in developing a very strong product portfolio in the life sciences and genomics markets and are creating a very viable pathway towards product commercialization."
Varigen develops revolutionary products for genomics research and drug discovery by leveraging proprietary BigDNA™ Technologies to capture, amplify, sequence, and express DNA. The company's disruptive technology enables life science researchers to perform sequence-specific capture, amplification, sequencing and over-expression of long DNA (10-150 Kb) to dramatically simplify the analysis of gene pathways and production of natural products for drug discovery.
The development and commercialization of Varigen's technology is supported by the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs of the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to develop new technologies for amplifying and cloning 100 Kb DNA.
Varigen is currently raising funds to accelerate growth and expansion into other segments of the market that require similar solutions. The funds will be used for product development and market launch efforts, to hire additional staff and to develop sales and marketing initiatives.
"WEDC is committed to nurturing a vibrant startup ecosystem so that young companies like Varigen Biosciences can leave their mark on the world and Wisconsin's economy," said Aaron Hagar, WEDC's vice president of entrepreneurship and innovation. "This program provides startups with a valuable tool to raise capital, which is critical in the early stage of a company's growth."
In 2016, the program helped 84 startups throughout the state draw more than $250 million in total financing, with the help of $17.9 million in tax credits. Three industries in particular saw the largest share of funding in 2016: information technology, $105 million; biotechnology, $69 million; and health technology, 35 million respectively.
About Varigen Biosciences
Varigen is an early-stage life sciences and genomics firm specializing in the development of the next generation of molecular tools for understanding long contiguous tracts of DNA. These new tools will improve human health via high resolution sequence analysis of cancer genomes, safer DNA therapeutic applications, more rapid natural product drug discovery, and simplified genome engineering for stem cell biology research. Furthermore, this technology has the potential to revolutionize scientific and commercial fields such as oncology, transplantation, microbiology, gene therapy, synthetic biology, drug discovery, and basic molecular and cellular biology. Varigen Biosciences is a C Corporation located in Madison, Wisconsin. For more information, visit www.varigenbio.com.

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O Campeonato Europeu de Fórmula 3 da FIA de 2015 foi a quarta edição da categoria sob chancela da FIA, e a 24ª da história, incluindo a primeira versão, entre 1975 e 1984, e a Euroseries, entre 2003 e 2012.

Equipes e pilotos
Todas as equipes competiram com chassis Dallara, e 35 pilotos disputaram o campeonato.

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The Intel Corporation encourages its employees to be active in their communities. Intel employees who volunteer in schools can earn money for education. Under the VGM program, for every twenty (20) hours an employee volunteers at Farmington View, the Intel Foundation will donate $200. The volunteers and their contributions are recognized each year at a ceremony to celebrate the success of the program. Over the past six years, Intel employees have donated 2,580 hours of their time at Farmington View for $23,500 in Volunteer Matching Grant awards.
Farmington View Parents for Academic Excellence (FVPAE)
The Farmington View Parents for Academic Excellence (FVPAE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Accelerated Math Program at Farmington View. FVPAE sponsors fundraisers and solicits donations from the community to fund a half-time math teacher for students in grades 4-6. Approximately 50 students are enrolled in Accelerated Math each year, lowering the student to teacher ratio in regular math classes, thus benefiting all students. Most students who complete the Accelerated Math Program at Farmington View continue to take advanced level math courses in middle school and high school.
YMCA School's Out Program
The YMCA offers after school day care at our school Monday through Friday until 6:30 p.m. The School's Out Program tries to create a great experience that is fun and engaging for children and also meets the needs of working parents. Students focus on homework first before engaging in arts and crafts, games, and recreational activities. A snack is included in the program fee. For further information, please call the YMCA office at (503) 327-0013.
Cub Scout Pack 729 and Boy Scout Troop 874 Annual Food Drive
Farmington View students join forces with the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts for our annual Holiday Food Drive and "Coins for Kids' Christmas Basket Program. Students and scouts bring donated food items and coins to school the first two weeks in December. Classroom competitions are held to generate enthusiasm for the spirit of giving. The money collected is used to purchase clothing and gifts for children and the food is distributed to needy families in our community. The Student Council coordinates this community service project.
Architecture In The Schools Program
The Regional Arts and Culture Council in conjunction with the American Institute of Architects, Portland Chapter, sponsors Architecture In The Classroom at Farmington View Elementary School. Fifth and sixth grade students work with an architect to help them understand the architecture used to design and build structures and create communities. Through a number of hands-on activities over a six week period, students learn about "stress" and "force" in the design process, how to "build to order" with an emphasis on communication, and how to design a community using "function" and "scale." Students create architecture projects modeled after a city. The unit culminates with a guided tour of Portland's downtown historical buildings.
Hillsboro Schools Foundation
The Hillsboro Schools Foundation is a volunteer organization dedicated to raising private funds to enhance public education for children. In the past four years, the Foundation has awarded more than $360,000 that directly benefits Hillsboro students through service, technical and education grants. In the past, Farmington View has received approximately $25,000 for a new computer lab, $5,000 to implement our STAR Academy to support reading in the primary grades, and $5,000 to support our STEPS summer program for entering first and second grade students. This year, HSF expects to award $80,000 in grants to teachers for innovative projects that will extend student opportunities for success and learning.
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The Nutrition Newbie Goes Gluten Free. Should You?
Could going g-free make you feel better?
By Sara Angle
The trend towards gluten free eating doesn't seem to be going anywhere any time soon, so when NYC based nutritionist Stephanie Middleberg suggested I give it a try for two weeks, I gave in and accepted her challenge. I didn't have any of the classic signs, like digestive issues, joint pain, headaches or insomnia, but I have noticed a sensitivity to carbs. My hope was that this experiment would help me eat more mindfully.
It wasn't nearly as challenging to go g-free as I thought it would be, and I didn't notice a huge difference. I didn't fall into the 5 to 6 percent of the population with a sensitivity to gluten, or the 1 percent with celiac disease (Hurray, whole wheat pasta!). But I definitely had lots of questions about the gluten free world. So what's the deal with celiac disease vs. a gluten sensitivity?
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease and the symptoms greatly vary from person to person. One person may have gastrointestinal issues while another might have no stomach problems and simply be suffering from extreme fatigue. These symptoms are your body's reaction to a combination of proteins that make up gluten and can cause damage to the small intestine.
A non-celiac gluten sensitivity is still an intolerance to the gluten protein in foods, but instead of the body attacking the lining of the small intestine, the digestive tract simply becomes inflamed. Both are not fun, and the only way to stop symptoms is to cut out the gluten, which is found in wheat, rye and barley.
Going gluten-free isn't just the latest fad diet, it's actually just more prevalent now. "Wheat isn't the same as it used to be due to new farming techniques. It contains 40% more gluten than wheat of yesteryear, and our bodies are having a tough time digesting these proteins," says Stephanie.
Because of this, a gluten free diet can also be acceptable for other health reasons like an inflammatory issue, PCOS or autoimmune conditions, explains Stephanie. "There are no health risks with eliminating gluten. You're not cutting out a food group or losing essential nutrients that you couldn't get from another source." If you don't have a diagnosed allergy or intolerance to certain foods, testing to see if certain foods are making you feel bad by eliminating them from your diet can be the only way to determine what foods make you feel best.
If you do decide to go gluten free (even only for a fun short-term challenge, like I did), be wary of many gluten free products on the market that are really junk food in disguise. Check the label on items you're unsure of — aside from the obvious breads, cereals, baked goods, pastas, bars and beer, gluten can be found in many dressings, sauces, marinades, supplements and medications. It can also be used as a filler and a binding agent in some processed and packaged food.
Bottom line: if you feel crappy and don't know why, tweaking your diet could help you figure out the problem, but if you feel fine, don't kill yourself to jump on the gluten free bandwagon.
The Nutrition Newbie Asks: Are You a Protein Person or a Carb Person?
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Ty Lawson's Trade Value Has 'Cratered'
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Ty Lawson's future with the Denver Nuggets doesn't look good.
Admittedly, neither does his trade value.
After getting arrested in Los Angeles for driving while under the influence in the wee hours of Tuesday morning—his second DUI offense in less than six months—Lawson is no longer a trade commodity. He's an off-court liability, and even though he has star-level offensive numbers, and even though he is owed a very reasonable $25.6 million over the next two seasons, the Nuggets will be hard-pressed to find a taker for his services.
This apparently was true even before his latest run-in with the law. Per various reports, the Nuggets were apparently shopping Lawson like crazy ahead of the trade deadline, and before the NBA draft, and after the draft. They didn't find him a new home then and, as Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski relays, are unlikely to find him one anytime soon:
Few teams had Ty Lawson trade interest, but were waiting on Denver to lower cost. His value's cratered now. He needs to deal w/ his issues.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 14, 2015
Woj's colleague Marc J. Spears offers some additional perspective on Lawson's plummeting trade value:
The Nuggets were asking for a first-round pick and a young player for Lawson in trade talks just days prior to his latest arrest, one league source said. Even prior to Lawson's latest arrest there was little to no interest from teams, another source said.
The Nuggets did draft point guard Emmanuel Mudiay, who has been one of the top rookies during the summer league. Denver also signed veteran point guard Jameer Nelson. Time will tell where Lawson fits in.
"Good luck trading Ty now," one NBA assistant general manager said. "They might as well keep him and hope he eventually raises his value back up."
Keeping him, it seems, is indeed the Nuggets best course of action. As far as other teams are concerned, Lawson is damaged goods, and most interested parties, assuming there are interested parties at all, won't want to risk giving up assets and money for a player whose off-court lifestyle could one day adversely impact his play on the court.
The upshot here is remaining in Denver won't necessarily be good for Lawson's career. Unless the organization is committed to him and believes he can turn things around, it's a questionable fit. Emmanuel Mudiay and Jameer Nelson are already in tow, and Lawson's relationship with the franchise can be described as tenuous at best.
And, right now, Lawson needs to get his life together first and foremost. Sympathy is limited in these cases, but a social worker who is not affiliated with Lawson or anyone close to him in any way says that two DUI offenses in a span of six months is usefully evidence of a greater problem than just poor decision-making.
Lawson, then, needs to be somewhere, playing for a team, that's conducive to him rebuilding his image and, if necessary, his life.
Are the Nuggets that team?
Out of necessity—read: a nonexistent trade market—they may have to be.
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Members of The WELL have fought about the implications of the term for many years. In the book "The Well: A story of love, death and real life in the seminal online community," historian Katie Hafner quotes Brand as saying, "I was doing the usual thing of considering what could go wrong... One of the things that could go wrong would be people blaming us for things that people said on The Well. And the way I figured you get around that was to put the responsibility on the individual. It meant that you're responsible for your own words, and if you libel somebody they sue you, not us. And what that turned into was copyright insanity, where people thought that their precious words should not be copied in other contexts."
YOYOW is also the name of a Chinese based "blockchain based content rewards network" (blockchain-based social media platform) listed on Bitfinex, online since March 2017.
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How to color over line drawing. This video shows you how to color over line drawing for illustration. This digital painting tutorial also has step by step painting process if you scroll down further.
Here is coloring tutorial. I had this Mecha drawing of a StarCraft Marine I did years ago. I decided to use my seven years old drawing to color over. It is time to upgrade this StarCraft Marine drawing. I ended up spend a few hour on this painting. It was longer than my initial intention. I was only going to make a quick painting demo tutorial. But I decided that I have to make it look good.
The video also shows you how I break down complex shape into simpler geometry shapes. This makes it a lot easier for painting. Once I assign planes onto the object, I know how much light they would get. I also have to fix perspective on the drawing a bit. It was slightly off on some parts.
I first render the big shapes of the characters before any detail. At this stage, I use only default brush. I only use custom brushes when I need texture to convey materials. At this point, I am only concern with shapes. Next step is to make sure light and shadow are on the right places. I often use lasso tool to help me with bigger shapes. It is one of the best tool to make rendering faster in Photoshop.
1) Identify big geometry shapes within the complex shape.
2) Make sure light and shadow is solid.
3) Then you can add detail and textures.
Below are step by step coloring over line drawing tutorial.


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I don't know about you, but my default nature is go, go. go.
Even when I'm on vacation, I like to see everything, taste everything and experience everything. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it tends to turn sour when I run myself into the ground and forget to actually enjoy myself.
Yo — Instagram isn't the whole story. Like, life's messy and not a perfect picture… but it's also cool to share moments that make you feel confident, happy and pretty. Yeah so, this is a snap I like.
To make a long story short — pack snacks.
I'm the absolute worst about grabbing a coffee and breakfast sandwich in the airport, pounding a package of pretzels on the plane and indulging in a burger or pizza once I'm in destination, but trust me when I say that planning and packing healthy eats is so rewarding.
Not only will it save you money, but your energy and satisfaction levels will be through the roof. My suggestion is to plan a healthy breakfast to eat on the way to the airport, a snack (apple or granola bar) to eat on the plane and then a sandwich or wrap to eat once you land.
It's so worth it, guys. And, you'll be proud of yourself.
Pick a drink and stick with it.
When you're on vacation, it's so tempting to over-indulge on drinks — especially when you're staying at an All Inclusive. Like, if I'm not careful, I'll have a mimosa, a mojito, a beer and a vodka soda… all before noon — yikes.
But, what I've discovered over the past couple of years is that if you stick with one drink or, at the least, one type of alcohol, you'll be a lot healthier and a lot happier.
Find time for self care.
Just because you're traveling, that doesn't mean you have to jam-pack every day with new, fun and exciting things — pace yourself.
If there's anything I've learned over the years, it's to take it slow, to plan out your time and to take alone time when needed.
Put your phone away and enjoy the beauty around you.
Sometimes when I travel it's tempting to document every – single – moment on my phone. From the ocean, resort food, aesthetics and taking cute pictures with your travel partner, I can get sucked into my phone rather than taking in my surroundings. While we love seeing your beach pics (and encourage you to tag us), it's really healthy to put your phone away for a few hours and enjoy the beauty around you.
After all, you are at the beach and your resort will only add to the beauty that's in your destination.


I spent much of my early restaurant-going life ordering chicken fingers, exclusively. It's not that I was a particularly picky eater; I just knew that nothing else could possibly tempt a 12-year-old Kelly more than a plate of juicy chicken with honey mustard sauce, so I ordered them everywhere I went. Eventually I branched out and became the more adventurous eater that I am today, but every once in a while, I get that old craving. Yesterday, while visiting my family in Denver, I thought it would be fun if we made chicken tenders for dinner, so we fried up a batch. No need to adjust for high altitude, because these get you to heaven all on their own!
Combine chicken strips and all the soaking ingredients in a plastic zip top bag. Knead the bag gently, so that all chicken surface is covered by the buttermilk mixture. Refrigerate at least an hour.
Fill a frying pan about halfway with vegetable oil–just enough to float the chicken, but not quite deep enough to submerge it–and heat over medium-high. Meanwhile, combine all dredging ingredients in a large bowl. Remove marinade bag from fridge and set up a little assembly line: the open bag of marinaded chicken, the bowl of flour mixture, and a plate for the dredged but not yet fried chicken.
To dredge, take one strip from marinade bag, place it in flour mixture, and coat evenly. Then remove from mixture and place on the plate you've set out. You're ready to fry the first batch once you have 3-5 tenders dredged (depending on how many fit comfortably in your pan).
Test the oil by dropping a small clump of the flour mixture into it. If it sizzles and bubbles, it's ready. Lay each tender in the oil, and be careful of splatter. Don't crowd the pan–chicken tenders need their space, so you don't want them touching each other at all.
Cook time is about 10-13 minutes; flip tenders over at the halfway point. When they're ready to be flipped, the undersides will be crispy and starting to brown. Carefully remove cooked tenders and place on a paper towel, to wick away excess oil. When you remove the first tender from the oil, cut it in half to make sure the middle is cooked and your cook time is sufficient.
That's it! These will blow your mind. We served them on a bed of lettuce with honey mustard sauce and homemade baked french fries. Just dig that dramatic platter.
The Westerly breeze carries the delightful fragrance of cooking chicken across our balcony and gently triggers our taste buds as it wafes through our Chicago apartment all the way from Denver. Can't wait to try your recipe!
They were unbelievable. Thank you Kelly! I love your posts.
These were unbelievable. I really enjoy your recipes.


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Seznam biskupů v Nancy zahrnuje všechny představitele diecéze v Nancy, která vznikla v roce 1777.

 1777–1783: Louis-Apollinaire de la Tour du Pin-Montauban
 1783–1787: François de Fontanges
 1787–1790: Anne Louis Henri de La Fare
 1802–1810: Antoine Eustache d'Osmond
 1810–1814: Benoît Costaz
 1814–1823: Antoine Eustache d'Osmond
 1823–1844: Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph de Forbin-Janson
 1844–1859: Alexis-Basile-Alexandre Menjaud
 1859–1863: Georges Darboy
 1863–1867: Charles-Martial d'Allemand-Lavigerie
 1867–1882: Joseph-Alfred Foulon
 1882–1918: Charles-François Turinaz
 1918–1919: Charles-Joseph-Eugène Ruch
 1919–1930: Hippolyte-Marie de La Celle
 1930–1934: Etienne-Joseph Hurault
 1934–1949: Marcel Fleury
 1949–1956: Marc-Armand Lallier
 1957–1971: Emile-Charles-Raymond Pirolley
 1972–1991: Jean Albert Marie Auguste Bernard
 1991–1998: Jean-Paul Maurice Jaeger
 od 1999: Jean-Louis Henri Maurice Papin

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Агогика (от гръцки – αγωγικός – отнасяне) е понятие в музиката, което обозначава промяната във водещото темпо на музикалното произведение – от бързо към по-бавно или обратното.

Основните термини, свързани с агогиката са ritardando (обозначава се като rit – забавяне) и accelerando (обозначава се като accel – ускоряване). Свързано понятие е и diminuendo (dim – едновременно забавяне и затихване на звука).

Заедно с динамиката е най-важният елемент от музикалната интерпретация на дадено музикално произведение.

Теория на музиката


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I highly doubt it. The expansion is likely to take at least a month before a release. Well thats what i am thinking. But it will definitely be worth the wait.
As useless as it is, I couldn't help myself not to wish daily it would come out when I wake up in the morning.
If you live in Europe you get on Monday the US series that air on Sunday evening, so that's nice to start the week too.
Lol what. That's not remotely Ulgrim's face.


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A simple Android to-do list app that features Google Sign-In and uses the Google Tasks API.

## Built With
- [Google Tasks API](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/tasks/)
- [Google Sign-In](https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/android/)
- [Retrofit](https://square.github.io/retrofit/) - HTTP client
- [Picasso](https://square.github.io/picasso/) - Image downloading
- [CircleImageView](https://github.com/hdodenhof/CircleImageView) - Circular ImageView
- [Android Studio](https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html) - IDE

## License
This project is released under the MIT License - [License](/LICENSE)

- Retrofit - Apache-2.0
- Picasso - Apache-2.0
- CircleImageView - Apache-2.0