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import org.opengis.coverage.grid.GridCoverage;

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  @Override
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      return true;
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      return false;
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  @Override
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  @Override
  public T getMetadata(final GridCoverage tileGridCoverage, final RasterDataAdapter dataAdapter) {
    return null;
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}

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Gujarat: Massive Explosion in Chemical Factory of Panchmahal, 3 Died and 15 Injured
An explosion took place on Thursday i.e. today at Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited (GFL) of Ghoghamba in the Panchmahal district of Gujarat. At least three labourers are reported to have died.
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An explosion took place on Thursday i.e. today at Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited (GFL) of Ghoghamba in the Panchmahal district of Gujarat. At least three labourers are reported to have died in this blast while 15 people have been injured. Panchmahal police officials have informed that an explosion took place in the MPI-1 unit of the refrigerant manufacturing plant at around 10 am today. According to the police, this explosion was so strong that its sound was heard several kilometres away.
Search and rescue work is going on
#WATCH | A fire broke out at Gujarat Fluoro Chemicals Ltd located at Ranjitnagar, Panchmahals following an explosion here. Two workers killed in the incident; the injured have been shifted to the hospital. pic.twitter.com/o71sHR0GFm
The officer, who reached the spot to take stock of the search and rescue operations, said that three employees were killed and 15 to 16 others were injured in the fire after the explosion. At the same time, Panchmahal Superintendent of Police Leena Patil, while giving information about the whole matter, said that a chemical manufacturing plant of Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited is located near Ranjitnagar village in Ghoghamba Taluka. In which there was a loud explosion around 10 in the morning. Search and rescue work is going on after the incident.
Fire has been brought under control
At the same time, the officer, who came to take stock of the situation, said that three employees have died in the fire after the explosion while 14 to 15 people have been scorched. All have been admitted to different hospitals. It is being told that many of the injured people have been badly scorched. At the same time, the work of searching for other people in the plant is going on. The fire has been brought under control for the time being. At the same time, if it has been given on the company's website that the company has 30 years of experience in fluorine chemistry with GFL. However, it is not yet clear what caused the explosion.
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Thanks to the opening of the borders, the world is now a « huge village » where people meet and mix all the time. In order to play an important role and to tie up good relationships between them, as well as mutual understanding, it appears to be essential to know and apply some international « rules ».
This rules called « protocole » in an international and diplomatic environment, are named « etiquette » or manners in the daily social and professional life.
As the first impression is decisive in establishing first contact, no matter who you are, or what you do, your general behavior and manners have a direct impact on your professional and social life.
To know and naturally apply appropriate manners will give yourself SELF-CONFIDENCE in each situation. It is also the best PASSPORT FOR LIFE and FOR SUCCESS in a modern society.


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Compensation Watch '21: Deloitte Puts Mid-Year Raises On the Table (Updated with Email From Deloitte CEO)
September 28, 2021 Christina Lane
Thanks to a tipster, the following is an email Deloitte CEO Joe Ucuzoglu sent the troops this morning regarding the firm's well-being subsidy, an additional holiday before Thanksgiving, reimbursing commuting costs, and, most importantly, mid-year salary increases:
US Colleagues,
We each value being at Deloitte for many different reasons—to build long lasting connections with colleagues, grow continuously in our careers, make an impact that matters on challenging issues for clients and society, and to become the true and best version of ourselves. Whatever the reason, and no matter how long you've been with our firm, as Deloitte professionals, you approach your work with pride, energy, and resilience, and we could not be more grateful for your commitment.
Our firm is experiencing unprecedented levels of growth and success, and this gives us confidence in the extraordinary opportunities for all of you to grow and thrive in your careers. At the same time, this incredible success also comes with some hard truths—you are bearing a heavy responsibility to keep our commitments to our clients and to each other. We want you to be confident that your contributions are being recognized and rewarded, and we are taking bold actions to support you in every way we can.
To reflect our appreciation for all you are doing and the confidence we have in our bright future, we are announcing the following as we re-energize and strengthen our commitment to you:
Supporting your well-being: The stressors everyone is experiencing have made it clear that caring for your well-being has never been more important. While no one can solve every challenge in this complex time, there are important things we can do to support you now. Hiring continues at record levels to get you the support you need to deliver for our clients—Deloitte is the destination of choice in the talent market. This fall we're also rolling out our new Integrated Mental Health Services (IMHS), which expand existing benefits by providing a personalized, concierge-style approach to address a wide spectrum of mental health needs for our professionals and their dependents facilitated by Deloitte clinicians. And in response to your feedback about what we can do to help you invest in yourselves, we are doubling our well-being subsidy to $1,000 annually and increasing the reimbursement percentage from 50% to 100% with more eligible purchases.
Providing Collective Disconnects: We are adding an additional firmwide day off the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, so that you have more time to focus on family and friends. This will result in a five-day collective disconnect over Thanksgiving, in addition to our previously announced 10-day collective disconnect from December 24 through January 2.
Transitioning to your hybrid future: We know the gradual transition to hybrid work comes with exciting expectations and some uncertainty. To help you do your best work during the transition, we are providing you up to $500 worth of productivity tools such as a second monitor, keyboard, headset, improved lighting, or speaker. Also, while commuting costs are a personal expense, we are making an exception in this current environment to alleviate anxiety about public transportation, so you can be together with colleagues and clients in moments that matter. For the remainder of FY22 (through May 28, 2022), we are allowing for the reimbursement of commuting costs (e.g. taxi/rideshare, parking, and tolls) up to 1,000.
Competitive compensation: You have our commitment that we will continue to rely on data and market analysis to ensure our compensation and rewards are competitive and reflect the outstanding results you are delivering. We are therefore sharing two specific actions:
Rather than waiting for the next annual compensation cycle, across the firm we are currently performing a market-based analysis of our professionals' pay. In some markets and for some professionals, our compensation remains highly competitive and no current adjustments are warranted. For others, data indicates that adjustments are needed because of shifts in the market over the last few months. If our analysis indicates we should increase your compensation to reflect these market realities, we will do it promptly—not next year, but by the end of this calendar year.We are also happy to confirm that our next annual compensation cycle for AIP and base pay changes will be similar to the accelerated timeline we used this year, which provided payouts in June instead of our traditional late-summer timeline.
Creating more meaningful human connections: For most of you, building relationships and learning from each other are reasons why you chose Deloitte and continue to be here. Regardless of how long you have worked here, what team you're on, or how you work, we want to bring these experiences back to the center of life at Deloitte. We are implementing several programs to foster more human connections, some in-person and some virtual. For example, more than 10,000 colleagues who joined during the pandemic will attend Accelerating Your Deloitte Experience at Deloitte University this fall. Leaders at all levels are listening, learning, and working hard to find ways that we can enhance connections with each other.
While these actions don't reflect all the changes you will see in the coming months, they are a bold step in demonstrating our commitment to you. You Are Deloitte, and we are extremely proud of the meaningful impact you continue to make on our clients and our communities.
So the biggest takeaways regarding raises from Joe U.'s email are:
Mid-year raises will be firmwide, not just in audit/assurance and tax.Those whose pay Deloitte deems is already "highly competitive" won't be receiving a salary adjustment before the end of December.Compensation discussions and bonus payouts will be held again in June 2022, as they were in June of this year.
Our tipster told us:
I'm hoping comp is increased. I personally know many people that are avoiding the profession entirely because of the pay. I'm about to jump ship if the pay isn't increased substantially for myself.
I'm sure there are plenty of other Deloitters who feel the same way and are planning to bail if these mid-year raises don't meet or exceed their expectations.
[Original post from Sept. 24.]
If you follow TheBig4Accountant on Instagram, you might have seen this included with TB4A's Instagram Stories yesterday:
That is what Deloitte & Touche Chair and CEO Lara Abrash told Deloitters in audit and assurance during an all-hands call on Thursday morning. This was also confirmed in posts on Fishbowl and Reddit.
It was also noted on Reddit that Abrash said Deloitte employees will get "a 'large increase' to our well-being benefit and another stipend for virtual WFH accessories to be spent at a Deloitte storefront. And an extra holiday around Thanksgiving."
A source who works in Deloitte's tax practice told us yesterday that tax employees were told a few weeks back that they also will be receiving mid-year salary increases in December but weren't told how much.
We don't know yet whether the mid-year raises also extend to those who work in Deloitte Consulting or Deloitte Advisory. If so, shoot us an email or text us at 202-505-8885. All tips are anonymous.
Deloitte handed out employee raises in late spring this year instead of the usual August time frame. While raises weren't horrible by any means, an analysis we did showed they weren't as good as the raises given out this year at PwC and EY.
Compensation Watch '21: Deloitte Staff Gets Some Encouraging News About Raises and Promotions
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Many travellers stranded as bandits block road in Niger state
Many vehicles and travellers were stranded around Yakila and Garun Gabas areas near Kundu in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger state on Saturday December 4, as an unspecified number of armed bandits blocked the Kontagora-Minna Road in the state.
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Copyright © 2018 Shoichiro Ide and Atsushi Nishikawa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Recently, numerous musculoskeletal robots have been developed to realize the flexibility and dexterity analogous to human beings and animals. However, because the arrangement of many actuators is complex, the design of the control system for the robot is difficult and challenging. We believe that control methods inspired by living things are important in the development of the control systems for musculoskeletal robots. In this study, we propose a muscle coordination control method using attractor selection, a biologically inspired search method, for an antagonistic-driven musculoskeletal robot in which various muscles (monoarticular muscles and a polyarticular muscle) are arranged asymmetrically. First, muscle coordination control models for the musculoskeletal robot are built using virtual antagonistic muscle structures with a virtually symmetric muscle arrangement. Next, the attractor selection is applied to the control model and subsequently applied to the previous control model without muscle coordination to compare the control model's performance. Finally, position control experiments are conducted, and the effectiveness of the proposed muscle coordination control and the virtual antagonistic muscle structure is evaluated.
Human beings and animals move flexibly and dexterously by controlling their musculoskeletal system with the brain. To understand and imitate the flexible and dexterous motion of human beings and animals, several musculoskeletal robots have recently been developed. The primary driving mechanism in musculoskeletal robots is a tendon-driven assembly using motors [1, 2] or pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs). In particular, using PAMs as actuators enables flexible movement of the musculoskeletal robot compared with conventional robots that use motors because the compressibility and low viscosity of air provide compliance and rapid contraction. The extremely high power-to-weight ratio of the PAM is also good for flexible and dynamic motion.
The musculoskeletal robot comprises antagonistic-driven systems. An antagonistic-driven system includes two or more actuators for joint movement. The actuators are antagonistically arranged around one link, and their output characteristics and arrangements are, for the most part, symmetrical.
Many studies have proposed the musculoskeletal robots comprising this simple antagonistic system, and various control methods (e.g., PID control, neural network, and fuzzy logic) have also been proposed for musculoskeletal robots [3–8]. However, the drive system of our musculoskeletal robot  differs from a simple antagonistic-driven system because the output characteristics and the arrangements of the actuators of the robot are not symmetrical.
This robot has two kinds of PAM actuators, a monoarticular muscle that drives one joint and a polyarticular muscle that drives multiple joints consecutively. Therefore, the mechanism that drives each joint is not symmetrical. Furthermore, the actuators are not arranged symmetrically, although each actuator is antagonistically arranged around each link. Since each actuator is not arranged symmetrically and the sensors for measuring each joint angle are not arranged, design of the control system for the robot is more difficult and challenging.
Honda et al. [9, 10] proposed a biologically inspired control method using muscle coordination for the robot. They hypothesized that human beings use the synergies between antagonistic muscle pairs when joints move, and they defined two parameters, the antagonistic muscle ratio and the antagonistic muscle activity, as the key parameters in human muscle coordination. The parameters are computed by a PID controller  and are implemented to control the angle of the robot's joints.
Although good control performance was obtained for one joint, the controller did not work well for multiple joints of the robot . An adaptive method that dynamically and adaptively searches the parameters for muscle coordination was required because PAMs have time variance, compliance, high hysteresis, and nonlinearity. In general, this search problem can be formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem of minimizing an object function subject to the search variables, which requires a precise model (object function) in advance, but system identification against an asymmetrically antagonistic-driven PAM system having nonlinear dynamics is difficult.
As an alternative to such a model-based theoretical approach, we believe that heuristic control methods inspired from living things are important for the control of the musculoskeletal robot. The musculoskeletal structures of human beings and animals are antagonistic-driven systems. They are also asymmetrically antagonistic-driven systems because monoarticular muscles and polyarticular muscles are arranged around various joints. Human beings and animals move flexibly by controlling their various muscles dexterously.
Recent research about the mechanisms of living things indicates that a biological system behaves flexibly using noise . Escherichia coli (E. coli) cells usually prefer to switch to an adaptive attractor using noise to survive better in a new external environment after the environmental conditions have been changed. This adaptive behavior of the E. coli cells is known as attractor selection . The novel control method based on the attractor selection has been proposed and applied to a signal-control method for traffic networks , network management [14, 15], android motion generation , robot navigation and locomotion [17–19], robotic arm control [20–22], and endoscopic surgery .
The control method was described by a stochastic differential equation, input variables for the network systems or robots were computed by solving the equation, and the systems accomplished the tasks without the dynamics and model of the systems and environments. Since the attractor selection is conducted adaptively using noise in the systems or environments, the control method is robust for changes of tasks and environments. Attractor selection was applied to an asymmetrically antagonistic-driven musculoskeletal robot (Figure 1) with muscles arranged asymmetrically . From the control experiment, the position of the tip of the robot was moved to the desired position by searching pressure for four PAMs individually using the attractor selection. The control time had to be more than 100 s to accomplish tasks. Therefore, modification of the control method is required to accomplish tasks quickly.
Figure 1: Control target and purpose. (a) Our five-fingered robot hand (right photograph) and pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) (left photographs) used as the actuator of the robot hand. These muscles are the McKibben actuator made in SQUSE Inc. and are driven by supplied compressed air (bottom-left pictures). (b) The structure of the index finger of the robot hand (the image and the closed photograph in the inset). The position of the tip of the index finger is controlled as a musculoskeletal robot. Various muscle lengths shown in (a) are arranged on the links of the index finger (they are also arranged for other fingers). The muscles A and B are of the same length. The muscle C is shorter than muscle A or B, and the muscle D is the shortest of all muscles on the finger. Each joint is driven from 0 deg (maximum extended state) to 90 deg (maximum flexed state).
In this study, we propose a novel muscle coordination control method for the asymmetrically antagonistic-driven musculoskeletal robot using the attractor selection. The primary difference between the previous method  and the proposed one is that the proposed method introduced a virtual antagonistic muscle structure as a muscle coordination control model. Instead of individually and directly searching the PAM pressure in the actual asymmetric antagonistic muscle structure, the new method indirectly searches pressure for actual PAMs via a virtual symmetric antagonistic muscle structure.
First, muscle coordination control models of the musculoskeletal robot were built using virtual antagonistic muscle structures with a virtually symmetric arrangement of muscles. Next, the attractor selection was applied to the control model and also applied to the previous control model without the muscle coordination to compare control performance. Finally, position control experiments were conducted, and the effectiveness of the proposed muscle coordination control applied attractor selection and the virtual antagonistic muscle structure was evaluated.
In this study, a five-fingered robot hand (Figure 1(a)) inspired by the right hand of a human being was used, and the position of the tip of the index finger of the robot hand was controlled as a musculoskeletal robot. Figure 1(b) shows the structure of the index finger. It has a three-degrees-of-freedom mechanism that is formed by four links (a distal phalange, an intermediate phalange, a proximal phalange, and a metacarpal) and three joints (distal interphalangeal (DIP), proximal interphalangeal (PIP), and metacarpophalangeal (MP)). Four PAMs are used: one actuator on the intermediate phalange, one on the proximal phalange, and two on the metacarpal for flexion and extension. The actuator for extension (referred to as the "extensor") is a polyarticular muscle in which wire covers all joints. Therefore, the number of actuators for flexion and extension is not symmetrical.
Let , , , and be the pressure supplied to the muscles A, B, C, and D, respectively, in Figure 1. The subscript "e" indicates the extensor, "MPf" indicates the flexor (the actuator for flexion) for driving the MP joint, "PIPf" indicates the flexor for driving the PIP joint, and "DIPf" indicates the flexor for driving the DIP joint, and they are calculated as follows: where , , , and are the normalized search variables and is the maximum pressure supplied to the actuator. Since the actuators of the robot hand break if a pressure of more than 0.2 MPa is supplied, the value of is set to 0.19 MPa.
Pressures and are calculated from (5), (6), and (7).
Equations (8) and (9) show that the pressures of the extensor and the flexor are determined by searching for the normalized variable . Figure 2(a) shows the principle of muscle coordination using the antagonistic muscle ratio and antagonistic muscle activity .
Figure 2: Muscle coordination and two types of virtual antagonistic muscle structures. (a) Principle of the muscle coordination using the antagonistic muscle ratio and the antagonistic muscle activity . When is 0 (left picture), the pressure for the flexor is high () and the extensor is low (). When is 0.5 (middle picture), the pressure for the flexor and the extensor is identical (). When is 1 (right picture), the pressure for the flexor is low () and the extensor is high (). Therefore, the pressures of the extensor and the flexor are determined by searching for the normalized variable . (b) One of the virtual antagonistic structures. Two muscles are added virtually to the musculoskeletal system (shown in (d)) to form a symmetrically antagonistic arrangement on the intermediate phalange and the proximal phalange. Therefore, the virtual antagonistic structure has three simple antagonistic muscle structures (inset picture in (b)). (c) The other virtual antagonistic muscle structure. Two muscles on the intermediate phalange and the proximal phalange are decreased virtually from the musculoskeletal robot (shown in (d)), and the muscles are symmetrically arranged on the metacarpal. Therefore, the virtual antagonistic structure has one simple antagonistic muscle structure (inset picture in (c)). (d) The real form of the musculoskeletal robot that is controlled. The value of (shown in (a)) is applied to the virtual antagonistic structure (shown in (b) or (c)) virtually transformed from the musculoskeletal robot (shown in (d)).
Four actuators were used in the musculoskeletal robot: the polyarticular muscle was used as the extensor and three monoarticular muscles were used as the flexor (Figure 1(b)). To calculate the pressure for each actuator based on the muscle coordination hypothesis, two methods that make the total number of extensors and flexors match virtually are proposed.
Pressure for the real extensor is the same as that for the virtual extensor and is calculated using (8).
Let us consider the combinatorial optimization problem of minimizing an object function subject to the search variable where is a feasible solution (an attractor) and means the number of attractors. Rather than seek an optimal solution, we try to quickly find good approximate solutions. To accomplish this, our study uses the revised attractor selection model, which has been generalized as a stochastic differential equation : where is time, is the search variable or state ( for our case), the value is the degree of accomplishment of the task, is assumed as noise, and is the function that makes converge to a suitable attractor. Typically, the function can be represented as if the objective function is known precisely in advance.
This model searches for a solution (the attractor) that successfully accomplishes the task using noise, and the makes the behavior of the total system change. Notice that as increases, the term becomes more dominant in (20) and the state transition becomes more deterministic. Consequently, state tends to be entrained into a suitable attractor, where it remains despite the persistent noise. By contrast, decreasing the increases the dominance of the noise , thereby flattening the potential landscape. In this scenario, the transition becomes more probabilistic, like a random walk, and is driven away from the attractor.
The function can be designed freely, even if the objective function is unknown or not precisely described. Two elements are required. The value of must converge to the attractors, and the must remain at a suitable attractor. To satisfy these elements, is defined as follows: where is the th attractor, is the number of attractors, is the power that attracts , and is the range in which the attractor's power is effective.
The selection of the attractor is employed to determine the pressure supplied to each actuator. The three methods used to determine the pressure using attractor selection are presented as follows.
The first method uses the real musculoskeletal structure (Figure 2(d)) and directly calculates the four pressures by searching for the four variables (, , , and ) using the attractor selection. We refer to this as a pressure search-type controller. The pressure supplied to each actuator is calculated by (1), (2), (3), and (4). This method is the same as reported in our previous method in .
The second method uses the first virtual antagonistic muscle structure (Figure 2(b)). It searches for the three ratios (, , and ) using the attractor selection and supplies the pressure to each actuator using (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), and (16). We refer to this as an search-type controller.
The third method uses the second virtual antagonistic muscle structure (Figure 2(c)). It searches for the value and the two distribution ratios ( and ) using the attractor selection and then supplies the pressure to each actuator using (8), (9), (17), (18), and (19). This is referred to as an and search-type controller.
Notice that the search space for all the variables (, , , and ; , , and ; and , , and ) ranges from 0 to 1.
Figure 3: System overview. Two insets show the system flow (top-left) and the position of the marker captured by the cameras in an enlarged view of the robot hand (bottom-right). The marker is set to the tip of the musculoskeletal robot (the index finger). The input voltage from the control PC is converted to the controlled pressures by the regulators, and the musculoskeletal robot is driven by the pressures supplied to each muscle of the robot. The position of the tip is measured using the marker captured by the cameras and is saved to the PC.
Here, is the maximum value of a norm computed from the desired position and the tip position on either the maximum flexion, which is a steady state in which maximum pressure (0.19 MPa) is supplied to all flexors, or the maximum extension, which is a steady state in which maximum pressure is supplied to only the extensor of the robot.
Each norm was obtained in advance, and the larger norm was selected as . Two tasks were conducted in the experiment. The flexion task involved making the robot flex to a desired position from an extended state, the extension task involved extending the robot to a desired position from a flexed state, and the tasks were changed after a constant time. First, the flexion task was conducted. After a constant time, the desired position was changed and the extension task was conducted. The control time was set at 60 s, and the task was changed 30 s after the control was started. The first position and the desired position were defined when the robot was in a steady state after constant pressure was applied to each actuator. Each position was captured in advance.
In this experiment, the pressure value, represented by , , , and (0.05, 0.15, 0.05, and 0.05, resp.), was applied to each actuator to determine the desired position for the flexion task, and 0.15, 0.05, 0.05, and 0.05, respectively, were applied to each actuator to determine the desired position for the extension task. The initial values of , , , and ; , , and ; and , , and were set to 0.9, 0.1, 0.1, and 0.1; 0.9, 1.0, and 0.0; and 0.9, 1.0, and 0.0, respectively, and the noise was generated between and 10. The parameter values in (21) were set as follows: and .
Figures 4–6 show the results using the pressure search-type controller, the search-type controller, and the and search-type controller, respectively. The transition of the search variables, the pressures supplied to each actuator, the tip position captured by the motion capture, and of the attractor selection model were then plotted. In Figure 4, increased from 3 s and became constant at 0.96. Therefore, the flexion task was almost accomplished, and the search variables converged to an attractor. However, the extension task was not completed. increased from 33 s to 35 s and remained at nearly 0.8, but it decreased from 39 s and did not reach a high value. The difference in the accomplishment ratio of the task is caused by the relationship of pressure between the extensor and the flexor. When increased and became constant in the flexion task, the pressure on the extensor () decreased and the pressure on the flexor responsible for driving the MP joint () increased. Therefore, the power for the flexion became large, and the robot flexed toward the desired position. In the extension task, pressures for the extensor () and pressure for the flexor for driving the MP joint () increased from 33 s to 35 s. Therefore, the power for the extension did not increase dramatically, and the robot did not accomplish the extension task. The difference between the pressure for the extensor and the flexor is important for achieving the task efficiently.
Figure 4: Results using the pressure search-type controller. (a) Plots of the transition of the search variables (, , , and ) and the attractors (dashed lines). (b) Plots of the transition of the input pressures (, , , and ). (c) Plots of the trajectory of the tip of the robot for the flexion task (top-left) and the extension task (top-right) and the transition of the (bottom). Cyan arrows, green arrows, and black arrows show the direction of the movement, the MP joint position, and the value of , respectively.
Figure 5: Results using the search-type controller. (a) Plots of the transition of the search variable (, , and ) and the attractors (dashed lines). (b) Plots of the transition of the input pressures (, , , and ). (c) Plots of the trajectory of the tip of the robot on the flexion task (top-left) and the extension task (top-right) and the transition of the (bottom). Cyan arrows, green arrows, and black arrows show the direction of the movement, the MP joint position, and the value of , respectively.
Figure 6: Results using the and search-type controller. (a) Plots of the transition of the search variable (, , and ) and the attractors (dashed lines). (b) Plots of the transition of the input pressures (, , , and ). (c) Plots of the trajectory of the tip of the robot on the flexion task (top-left) and the extension task (top-right) and the transition of the (bottom). Cyan arrows, green arrows, and black arrows show the direction of the movement, the MP joint position, and the value of , respectively.
In Figure 5, increased after 10 s and reached a constant value of 0.91 at 17 s. The flexion task was close to being accomplished, but compared with the pressure search-type controller, the accomplishment ratio was 5% lower and the control time for accomplishment of the task was 13 s longer. Therefore, the control was not as good as that of the pressure search-type controller. In the extension task, did not attain a high value. Therefore, the extension task was not accomplished. As a result, the controller did not work well for the extension task. To efficiently accomplish the task, it was necessary that the differences between the pressures for the extensor and the flexors be easily calculated by the controller because the differences can decrease power which prevents accomplishment of tasks and can make the tip position of the robot move quickly to the desired position, but this controller cannot calculate the differences between the pressures as well as the pressure search-type controller. This controller searches for three values independently. Therefore, each takes on a different value, and the pressure for the flexor does not decrease satisfactorily. Thus, the power for flexion does not decrease sufficiently, and the extension task is not accomplished.
In Figure 6, increased greatly and became constant at 0.95 for the flexion task. On the extension task, increased gradually right after the change of the task and became constant at 0.97. Therefore, the flexion task and the extension task were accomplished. The and search-type controller is, thus, more highly adaptive for tasks than the pressure search-type controller and the search-type controller. Especially, the effectiveness of the and search-type controller for the extension task was shown. The robot has four actuators arranged asymmetrically on the extension side and the flexion side. One actuator is installed on the extension side, and three actuators are installed on the flexion side. Therefore, the power for flexion easily becomes large compared with the power for extension. To make this robot extend sufficiently, the power for flexion must become small.
In the and search-type controller, the difference between the power in the flexion and in the extension is determined easily because the difference between the pressures for the flexor and the extensor is calculated by searching only one . Therefore, the power for flexion becomes small, and the robot can sufficiently extend. We also conducted the different task for the and search-type controller to show the adaptability of the controller. Figure 7 shows the results of the experiment. We set four tasks, two flexion tasks and two extension tasks, which were conducted alternately. The desired position for each flexion task was different, and each desired position for each extension task was different. Each task was changed at the following constant times: 30 s, 60 s, and 90 s after the control is started. Experimental results show that became the high value for each task. Therefore, the and search-type controller displayed good adaptability for the tasks in the experiments. Thus, it was shown that the proposed muscle coordination control of the and search-type controller using the attractor selection facilitated easy control of an asymmetrically antagonistic-driven musculoskeletal robot with a polyarticular muscle.
Figure 7: Results using the and search-type controller at four desired positions. (a) Plots of the transition of the search variable (, , and ). (b) Plots of the transition of the input pressures (, , , and ). In (c), the top images plot the trajectory of the tip of the robot: the first flexion task, the first extension task, the second flexion task, and the second extension task from the left image, whereas the bottom image plots the transition of the . Cyan arrows and black arrows show the direction of the movement and the value of , respectively.
This work demonstrated a muscle coordination control of an asymmetrically antagonistic-driven musculoskeletal robot using attractor selection which is a biologically inspired search method.
First, muscle coordination control models of the musculoskeletal robot were built using virtual antagonistic muscle structures with a virtually symmetric arrangement of muscles, and the calculation methods of the input pressure for PAMs of the musculoskeletal robot with and without muscle coordination were shown. Next, the attractor selection was applied to both the muscle coordination control model and to another control model without the muscle coordination to compare the control performance. Finally, position control experiments were conducted, the effectiveness of the proposed muscle coordination control applied to the attractor selection was demonstrated, and it was also shown to be faster and more robust to accomplish the task by generating control commands virtually assuming a symmetrical and simpler metastructure rather than providing a control command according to the actual complex (asymmetric) antagonistic muscle structure.
Based on the virtual antagonistic muscle structure proposed in this research, we may be able to build a musculoskeletal robot that achieves a more complicated task faster by devising how to give noise  and adaptively updating the attractor structure . In future work, the muscle coordination control method, using the attractor selection, will be applied to the multifingered robot hand formed by increasing the number of musculoskeletal robots (i.e., robot fingers). Furthermore, the effectiveness of the control method will be investigated for asymmetrically antagonistic-driven musculoskeletal robots, which have entirely different arrangements of muscles compared with our musculoskeletal robot.
The muscle coordination control method using attractor selection can be applied not only to musculoskeletal robots but also to human hands. Therefore, the control method will be applied to rehabilitation using functional electrical stimulations (FESs) [26, 27] as a novel approach to controlling human hands.
The raw data for Figures 4–7 are available from the corresponding author upon request.
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant nos. JP23560524, JP26420196, and JP17K06259.
S. G. Nurzaman, Y. Matsumoto, Y. Nakamura, S. Koizumi, and H. Ishiguro, "Attractor selection based biologically inspired navigation system," in In Proceedings of the 39nd ISR(International Symposium on Robotics), pp. 837–842, Seoul, Korea, October 2008.
K. Takemura, M. Kurosawa, K. Atsuumi, K. Matsui, F. Miyazaki, and A. Nishikawa, "Frequency domain system identification of human finger dynamics using functional electrical stimulation based on an agonist-antagonist concept," in Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, p. 114, London, UK, July 2017.


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You've been asking and asking us if and when we were going to get the Ubiquiti Super Range cards. Well here's the SR5, and keep an eye out in the coming months for the SR2.
With 400mW of power in the 5.8GHz band and excellent receive sensitivity, the Ubiquiti SR5 400mW is ideal for backhaul or trunk links.
This card can do up to 24Mbps at 400mW and 54Mbps at 125mW in the 5.8GHz band. Now that's fast!
We've given our products a bit of 'personal space' and split our online shop into pages.
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We've gone crazy with the paint again, to bring you WRAP 1 cases in bright yellow and cool white.
So now, whatever kind of device you're building, we have the colour to suit.
OK, so there's the Ubiquiti SR5 400mW miniPCI wireless card and the new WRAP 1 case colours.
We've also bundled the Senao 400mW with an SMA pigtail and antenna into a wireless kit and added both 400mW cards as options to all of our boxes.
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In the list of the fruit of the Spirt (Gal. 5:22-23) there is one term called "self control" or in some translations "discipline." Sometimes this Greek word is translated soberness or even being content.
One of the most troubling elements to dealing with many teens and children today is that they do not demonstrate discipline or self control. In many cases they are learning bad habits from their parents.
Looking back over my history with my father I see several times whereby my father exhibited self control and personal discipline. In some cases I believe he is a harder worker and more disciplined person than I am in some areas.
First, I recall that my father was reserved in his corporeal punishment with his children. Dear parent this is crucial that you show the fruit of the Spirit in this area. Ask the Lord to give you wisdom and strength in this area. When dad would discipline us it was rare that he ever did so out of anger. I can't think of any times to be exact. He was firm, reasonable, and under control when he did discipline us.
Second, my father for the past 35 or 36 years has ran a jewelry store. As with many other stores sometimes people tried to steal from him and rob him. Legally on more than one occasion my father had the legal right to defend himself and use deadly force to stop the criminal. However, my father was not eager to take a person's life, though he would have if absolutely necessary, and in those times where the opportunity existed he exercised self control and refrained from immediate attack with his own firearm. He exercised his right to defend himself, his store, and his family working in the store with reason and with a balanced view of life.
Third, over the years my father has been reserved in his words and speech. I'm sure he disagrees with many people on many different issues. But he has demonstrated a reserved speech. To be sure, if you ask him what he thinks he will let you know and he will be direct about it. However, he has never made it his hobby to try and correct all of the wrongs that exist by speaking out against all of the wrongs he could have spoken against. This even applies to his family life. In many cases he has given those around him, including his family, the opportunity to fail and learn as they experience life. Sometimes you meet people in life and they have an opinion on every matter and they are sure to make sure their opinion is heard. James 3 has much to say about the tongue and as a parent your role is not to try and correct every wrong by your corrective tongue. It is wise to be reserved an to show restraint by not sharing your opinion or position on every issue that surfaces around you.
Exercising self discipline in life will help your child or children to see what it means to live a disciplined life. I urge you dear parent to pray over this and examine your life. If you have a spouse ask your spouse to examine you and see if you are showing the fruit of the Spirit in regard to self control. Are you reserved and disciplined in the way you speak to others, in the way you discipline your children or even employees if you are a supervisor. I did not mention that aspect above but my father on many occasions had every right and could have terminated employees but he was slow to anger and eager to give second opportunities.
Seek the Lord in this area and ask for him to give you this powerful discipline. It will pay off for you, your family, and your community.


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The senators and penguins will play the first two games of the new season, just like the Ducks and Kings did at the O2 Arena. Only this time it's going to be in Prague.
Yeah, i heard that a couple of weeks ago....... what a game that would've been in London!!!! But then, the beer is cheaper in Prague.
Should be two good games to open the 2008-9 NHL Season.
The question is which one would you go to????
Difficult question. The Sens v Pens game is IMHO the better game, but Prague is better than Stockholm for a night out!
Have you been to Stockholm? Its a quality night out without the Stag Dos!


Kinda Racist Try Diet Racism!
In this segment of THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW, Neeley and Chris start off by reviewing a story about a business that disallowed a man wearing a dress entrance to their establishment. They then finish off the show with a story about a high school girl who was "assaulted" by a racist tampon applicator. Confused? We were too!


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Theodore Rose Cogswell
Cogswell, Theodore Rose. (Lewis, Ted); b. March 10, 1918, Coatsville, Pennsylvania; Attended Cleveland College; Single; Clerk and Steel Worker; YCL 1935; received passport# 430165 on June 1, 1937 which listed his address as 2562 Queenstown Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Sailed June 2, 1937 aboard the Aquitania; Arrived in Spain on June 24, 1937; Ambulance Driver; Returned to the US on July 22, 1938 aboard the Washington; WWII US Army Air Corps, Asian Theater.
Source: Sail, SACB (under Lewis), Cadre, RA (under Lewis), USSDA 2:0452, 53:0345; ALBA 020 Theodore Cogswell Papers.
Photograph: Theodore Cogswell. Photograph from the Cleveland, OH Press, September 5, 1938.
Theodore Rose Cogswell was born in 1918 in Pennsylvania. In 1937, when he was 19, Cogswell told his parents he was going on vacation to France but instead he crossed the Pyrenees into Spain to join the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He trained as a signalman with a machine gun company, but when it was discovered that he was under 21 he was transferred off the front lines, first to work as a truck driver, then later as an ambulance driver for the Hospital Pasionaria in Murcia. Cogswell returned to the States on the S.S. Washington in July 1938, and enrolled in Cleveland College. During World War II, he flew cargo planes with the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Asian theater. After the war, Cogswell completed a Master's degree in English and began his career as a writer of science fiction. He published short stories and novellas, and served as national secretary of the Science Fiction Writers of America, occasionally working with fellow writer and Spanish Civil War veteran Arthur Landis. Cogswell died in Pennsylvania in 1987. - Biography courtesy of Tamiment Library, NYU.
Cogswell's career as a science fiction author.
His first published short story, "The Spectre General" in the magazine Astounding (June 1952), was a humorous tale in which a long-forgotten maintenance brigade of the Imperial Space Marines holds the promise of reinvigorating a declining Galactic Empire. Cogswell wrote nearly 40 science fiction stories, most in the same lighthearted vein as his first, and was co-author of a novel in the Star Trek franchise.
Cogswell was also the editor of the long-running "fanzine for pros", Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies, a collection of which was published in 1993. In this, writers and editors discussed their and each other's works.
In recent years, Cogswell's short story "The Wall Around the World" (1962) was rediscovered and received much attention, due especially to the many similarities between its protagonist and Harry Potter: Like Potter, Cogswell's Porgie is an orphan boy living with his aunt and uncle, who learns magic in school, flies on a broomstick and is constantly persecuted by a nasty cousin (who is in this case, however, part of the magical community). There is, however, no direct evidence that J.K. Rowling read Cogswell's story or was influenced by it.
- Biography courtesy of Wikipedia.
Last Name Cogswell
First/Middle Name Theodore Rose


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For our Design Principles class during the Fall 2016 semester, we were assigned into different groups to create a new company and design its brand identity. My group was assigned to create a beauty brand. We decided to call it "Glow Up," and decided to drop the "W" for a more off-beat look. The name is a play on the phrase "grow up," alluding to the transformation from ugly duckling to socialite swan (so to speak). Our target audience is young millennial women (ages 18-35) transitioning from college to career, who want a fun, sassy, sophisticated, and youthful way to express themselves through makeup. Our company also wants to promote sustainability by using natural ingredients infused in our lipstick formulas.
At first, we had each come up with completely different logo designs. One of my initial designs was emblem that had the company name encased in geometrical shapes, such as stars, to create a shiny diamond effect and emphasis the "glow" aspect of the name, as shown below. However, I later thought it was a bit too literal, and I didn't quite like the way the letter "G" looked in this font. It gives off a vibe of sophistication, but it looked like a traditional cursive font for something that we wanted to look fresh, youthful, and savvy.
I preferred the simplicity of having a distinct calligraphy font to keep the target audience's focus on the company name itself and I added a couple of brush strokes to create a smooch mark to hint that our beauty brand specializes in lip products. The shape of the letter "G" in the Blacksword font reminded me a little of Marilyn Monroe and Marina & the Diamonds, and just to be playful I added a star next to the lips as a beauty mark for the abstract/letterform logo.
Below are the other two drafts I created: a wordmark logo as well as a conceptual letterform/abstract logo that utilized experimentation with typography, closure, and gestalt.
Abstract/Letterform Wordmark
When we reconvened as a group, we decided to combine my idea of using the cursive font with a simple brushstroke that resembled a lipstick smear, which another member of the group had thought of using in her draft. We didn't go with my version of the abstract logo, but I liked that we also decided as a group to incorporate the brushstroke to the shape of the face in the final abstract logo that another team member had originally come up with in her drafts. You'll see the team's final abstract in the lipstick box packages and the iPhone cases that I designed.
Here's our final group logo:
As for our final design applications, we each were in charge of different applications: a brochure that featured our product package list; a compact mirror; an Instagram page; an online advertisement banner for Facebook; full-page print advertisements for magazine publications such as Vogue and Essence; and a cosmetic bag.
The following images below are the applications that I designed for the final presentation: the website mockups for the company's Index page and the About page, the iPhone cases as ephemera, and of course, the lipstick packaging itself. I wrote the copy for the Glo Up website, as well as the company description and the tagline. With the exception of the quote for the color Violet, I also created three of the motivational quotes on the iPhone cases (my favorite brand, Kate Spade, and my own journals of collected quotes served as inspiration), and I chose to create at least 4 different versions using different shades to showcase the variety of colors that Glo Up can offer customers.
Website: Index Page
Website: "About" Page
Lipstick Box Package: Magenta
iPhone Case: Magenta
Lipstick Box Package: Peony Pink
iPhone Case: Peony Pink
Lipstick Box Package: Rose Red
iPhone Case: Rose Red
Lipstick Box Package: Violet
iPhone Case: Violet
By Julianne Day Ignacio
A bonafide bookworm, self-proclaimed nerd, Austenite, Whovian, and cat-lover, Julianne Day Ignacio is a born-and-raised Brooklynite who loves to listen to a good story and help others cultivate their writing and storytelling skills. Currently, she is a graduate student at The New School pursuing a Master's degree in Media Studies and a Certificate in Media Management. You can find her crafting new content and updating the social media outlets for Verge of Verse, snapping photos on Snapchat (@jdayignacio), or chilling out at a cafe, museum, bookstore, or park as she writes about her discoveries and her adventures in the city.
Operation Eon: Exploring Convergence Culture & Transmedia Storytelling
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Another entry, another completed Imperial assassin. With the release of the Imperial Agents codex there is now a convenient single source for the Assassins, as well as providing a player like me who doesn't have an extended history of 40k with the Inquisition material. After getting a few games in with the Culexus I realized that I really wanted to get a more combat oriented, generalist assassin. Most of my armies are pretty adept on shooting so the Vindicare was out, and I am personally not a big fan of the Callidus sculpt so that leaves the Eversor. Construction was pretty straightforward, and once again I assembled and primed the main body separate from the provided platform just like with the Culexus.
I primed the figure with Chaos Black and got to work.
First base colors were Mephiston Red and Leadbelcher for the metallic portions of the claws, vials and bolter.
This figure gave me an opportunity to hone my ability to work up from flat black to white. One of the best pieces of advice that I got was to thin down my intermediate layers to a consistency that would allow me to place a drop of the paint, beaded on the surface. Then, I would carefully place my brush in the drop and slowly drag it around the surface that I wanted covered.
Here you can see the weather now based, as well as the skull now build up to Vallejo Deck Tan, which I have found to be an ideal last layer before going to the final white.
Layering the white in this fashion takes quite a bit of time to dry, and so I took the time to paint on the same Lothern Blue highlights that I had done previously.
And here you can see him with more work done. The white is worked up to its final layer of Vallejo Bone White, and the bolter has ore layering work done. A layer of flat green has been applied to all of the poison bolt and vials, while Hapshut Copper was used on the wings of the bolter and the shells on his chest rig. His platform was then done with a layer of Vallejo Liquid Gold on certain portions, while the remainder were done with Hapshut copper.
The teeth of the ebony mask was given as light of a coat of Vallejo Old Gold as I could manage, and the red potions were given a light wash with Nuln Oil. The teeth were given a light wash with Agrax Earthshade, then a light highlight with the original gold color. I then cleaned up the area around the mouth with white.
I painted the skull on the base in the sea way that I did the helmet, and the vials were given a second layer of Vallejo Bright Green to attempt to paint a liquid effect of the vials.
All of the raised silver portions were dry brushed with stormhorst silver.
Edge highlighting was done on the Mephiston Red portions with a mix of Troll Slayer Orange and Evil Sunz Scarlet, and then glazed with Bloodletter. The final step was to paint all of the silver portions on the base black, and that is where I finished for now. I intend on working on the final base portion later, but because of a little move across the country my hobby stuff has kind of stalled for now. Until next time.


This 3D solid model includes the popular 5.56/.223 A2 Birdcage flash hiding muzzle device. This popular birdcage version includes a 1/2-28 pitch thread most commonly found on the 5.56 platform. This model can also easily be 3D printed for your airsoft use or manufactured for your AR rifles! Formats availabile include Solidworks, Parasolid, and Step Files compatible with most CAD softwares.


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Список и нити
В методе main добавить в статический объект list 5 нитей. Каждая нить должна быть новым объектом класса Thread, работающим со своим объектом класса SpecialThread.
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public class Solution {
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    public static void main(String[] args) {
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Yale University is committed to maintaining and strengthening an educational, working, and living environment founded on civility and mutual respect. Sexual misconduct is antithetical to the standards and ideals of our community, and it is a violation of Yale policy and the disciplinary regulations of Yale College and the graduate and professional schools.
Sexual misconduct incorporates a range of behaviors including sexual assault, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence, stalking, voyeurism, and any other conduct of a sexual nature that is nonconsensual, or has the purpose or effect of threatening, intimidating, or coercing a person. Violations of Yale's Policy on Teacher-Student Consensual Relations also constitute sexual misconduct. Sexual activity requires consent, which is defined as positive, unambiguous, and voluntary agreement to engage in specific sexual activity throughout a sexual encounter.
Yale aims to eradicate sexual misconduct through education, training, clear policies, and serious consequences for violations of these policies. In addition to being subject to University disciplinary action, many forms of sexual misconduct are prohibited by Connecticut and federal law and may lead to civil liability or criminal prosecution. Yale provides a range of services, resources, and mechanisms for victims of sexual misconduct. The options for undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students are described at https://smr.yale.edu.
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Office hours: 9 a.m.–5 p.m., M–F
24/7 hotline: 203.432.2000
https://sharecenter.yale.edu
SHARE, the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center, has trained counselors available 24/7, including holidays. SHARE is available to members of the Yale community who wish to discuss any experience of sexual misconduct involving themselves or someone they care about. SHARE services are confidential and can be anonymous if desired. SHARE can provide professional help with medical and health issues (including accompanying students to the hospital or the police), as well as ongoing counseling and support. SHARE works closely with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, the Title IX coordinators, the Yale Police Department, and other campus resources and can provide assistance with initiating a formal or informal complaint.
If you wish to make use of SHARE's services, you can call the SHARE number (203.432.2000) at any time for a phone consultation or to set up an in-person appointment. You may also drop in on weekdays during regular business hours. Some legal and medical options are time-sensitive, so if you have experienced an assault, we encourage you to call SHARE and/or the Yale Police as soon as possible. Counselors can talk with you over the telephone or meet you in person at Acute Care in the Yale Health Center or at the Yale New Haven Emergency Room. If it is not an acute situation and you would like to contact the SHARE staff during regular business hours, you can contact Carole Goldberg, the director of SHARE (203.432.0310, carole.goldberg@yale.edu), Jennifer Czincz, assistant director (203.432.2610, jennifer.czincz@yale.edu), Sherine Powerful (203.436.8217, sherine.powerful@yale.edu), or John Criscuolo (203.494.6247, john.criscuolo@yale.edu).
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Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the professional schools have each designated a deputy Title IX coordinator, reporting to Stephanie Spangler, Deputy Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity and the University Title IX Coordinator. Coordinators respond to and address specific complaints, provide information on and coordinate with the available resources, track and monitor incidents to identify patterns or systemic issues, deliver prevention and educational programming, and address issues relating to gender-based discrimination and sexual misconduct within their respective schools. Coordinators are knowledgeable about, and will provide information on, all options for complaint resolution, and can initiate institutional action when necessary. Discussions with a Title IX coordinator are confidential. In the case of imminent threat to an individual or the community, the coordinator may need to consult with other administrators or take action in the interest of safety. The coordinators also work closely with the SHARE Center, the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, and the Yale Police Department.
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The University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) is an internal disciplinary board for complaints of sexual misconduct available to students, faculty, and staff across the University, as described in the committee's procedures. The UWC provides an accessible, representative, and trained body to fairly and expeditiously address formal complaints of sexual misconduct. UWC members can answer inquiries about procedures and the University definition of sexual misconduct. The UWC is comprised of faculty, administrative, and student representatives from across the University. In UWC cases, investigations are conducted by professional, independent fact finders.
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Celebrating a newborn baby can be loads of fun, especially when you're the parents that get to bask in the limelight of your little one.
Not only is there a celebration when you realise the pregnancy test has 2 lines on it, there's also a baby shower celebration just before baby is born and last but not least, the celebration that takes place after baby is born.
Celebrating the results of the pregnancy test is normally private and shared between the parents to be. They could either indulge in the celebrations by having a private romantic dinner or maybe even have a weekend away together. Either way, they normally keep the secret to themselves for 3 months, just to be sure. Although, we really know that they're bursting inside and may have even let the cat out the bag a few times already.
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Although mom gets to bask in most of the action, dads the one who gets to indulge in the booze of each celebration, so fair is fair.
When it comes to mom though you're going to have to be a little more selective, you could either give her a "This entitles you to 1 full night of free babysitting" voucher, a massage, or even chocolate. The soon to be moms are also the most appreciative of baby gifts, getting her a cuddly baby grow or little baby booties is sure to get more oohhhs and ahhhhs out of her than even jewellery would.
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Q: How do I filter data by attribute using XSLT? How do I only pull  nodes that have name that begin with "tag" and end with "DescRes"? I am using a XMLDataSource and GridView (ASP.NET 3.5) to display the XML. Nothing fancy. If values need to be hard-coded in the XSLT, that's fine too.
<data name="tagoneCtrlNumberRes.Text" xml:space="preserve">
   <value>1.</value>
   <comment>A01</comment>
</data>
<data name="tagoneCtrlDescRes.Text" xml:space="preserve">
   <value>Hello</value>
   <comment>A01</comment>
</data>
<data name="tagoneCtrlNoteRes.Text" xml:space="preserve">
   <value>Hi</value>
   <comment>A01</comment>
</data>

If I start with this XML, I'd like the resultant XML after the XSLT is applied to show:
<data name="tagoneCtrlDescRes.Text" xml:space="preserve">
   <value>Hello</value>
   <comment>A01</comment>
</data>

Here is my XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl">

    <xsl:param name="sortby"></xsl:param>
    <xsl:param name="orderas"></xsl:param>

    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <!--<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>-->
    <xsl:template match="root">
        <root>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="data">
                <xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sortby]|@*[name()=$sortby]" data-type="text" order="{$orderas}"/>
            </xsl:apply-templates>
        </root>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="data">
        <data>
            <xsl:attribute name="comment">
                <xsl:value-of select="comment" />
            </xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:attribute name="ctrlname">
                <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
            </xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:attribute name="value">
                <xsl:value-of select="value" />
            </xsl:attribute>
        </data>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

A: In XSLT 2.0 use the standard XPath functions starts-with() and ends-with().
In Xpath 1.0 there isn't a function ends-with() so you need to use an equivalent XPath 1.0 expression.
I. XPath 1.0 / XSLT 1.0 solution:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="/">
     <xsl:copy-of select=
     "*/data[@name[starts-with(.,'tag')
               and
                 substring(., string-length(.)-11) = 'DescRes.Text'
                 ]
        ]
     "/>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when applied on the provided XML fragment (made a well-formed XML document by wrapping it into a single top element):
<t>
    <data name="tagoneCtrlNumberRes.Text" xml:space="preserve">
        <value>1.</value>
        <comment>A01</comment>
    </data>
    <data name="tagoneCtrlDescRes.Text" xml:space="preserve">
        <value>Hello</value>
        <comment>A01</comment>
    </data>
    <data name="tagoneCtrlNoteRes.Text" xml:space="preserve">
        <value>Hi</value>
        <comment>A01</comment>
    </data>
</t>

produces the wanted, correct result:
<data name="tagoneCtrlDescRes.Text" xml:space="preserve">
        <value>Hello</value>
        <comment>A01</comment>
    </data>

Explanation: The XPath 1.0 equivalent of ends-with($s, $end) is this:
substring($s, string-length($s) - string-length($end) +1) = $end

II. XPath 2.0 /XSLT 2.0 solution:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="/">
     <xsl:sequence select=
     "*/data[@name[starts-with(.,'tag')
               and
                 ends-with(.,'DescRes.Text')
                 ]
        ]
     "/>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here we use the Xpath 2.0 standard function ends-with()


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Igor Mokroš (* 1. prosince 1965, Banská Bystrica) je bývalý slovenský fotbalista.

Fotbalová kariéra
V československé lize hrál za Spartak Trnava, nastoupil ve 23 ligových utkáních. Ve 1. slovenské národní fotbalové lize hrál i za Agro Hurbanovo.

Ligová bilance

Literatura
 Ľubomír Dávid, Juraj Hrivnák, Jozef Kšiňan, Slavomír Ondrejička a Stanislav Sigmund: Futbal - Ročenka 87/88 - Šport 1989
 Ľubomír Dávid, Juraj Hrivnák, Jozef Kšiňan, Slavomír Ondrejička, Stanislav Sigmund a Peter Šurin: Futbal 88/89
 Luboš Jeřábek: Československý fotbal v číslech a faktech - Olympia 1991

Externí odkazy
 Player History
 Worldfootball.net

Českoslovenští fotbalisté
Slovenští fotbalisté
Fotbalisté MŠK Hurbanovo
Fotbalisté Spartaku Trnava
Narození 1. prosince
Narození v roce 1965
Narození v Banské Bystrici
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Muži

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This identity and social experience is part of what [Rachel] Dolezal is denounced for having inauthentically appropriated. Unfortunately, it's a darn sight messier and more complicated than that. For after all, blackness, responding to the dominant society's definition and control of boundaries was in part defined by its opposition to the cultural construct of whiteness, and vice versa, whiteness was created in opposition and on the basis of the privileges generated by dividing our country into dominant and subordinate races.
Richard Kaplan, "Dolezal and the Defense of the Community," Public Seminar, July 9, 2015. http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/07/dolezal-and-the-defense-of-the-community.
Nation, miscegenation, and the myth of the mulatta/o monster 1859-1886
Posted in Dissertations, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United Kingdom, United States on 2011-08-05 22:19Z by Steven
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Publication Number: AAT NR60321
Jessica Alexandra Maeve Murphy
These presentee a la Faculte des etudes superieures En vue de l'obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en etudes anglaises
"Nation, Miscegenation, and The Myth of the Mulatta/o Monster, 1859-1886" examines how Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Robert Louis Stevenson use the trope of the mulatta/o monster only to subvert it by showing readers that the real monster is white, hegemonic culture. More specifically, it deals with how Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The Octoroon, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depict the interracial body as a gothic house, one which is a microcosm for an increasingly hybrid and un-homely nation. The four texts under consideration in my thesis all explore what it means to be black and female (or dark and feminized) in the United States and Britain where to be white, male, and affluent is to have virtually limitless power over the bodies of women, particularly black ones.
Drawing upon Nancy Stepan's notion of "proper places," this dissertation looks at how interracial individuals challenged existing hierarchies in the mid-to-late nineteenth century by defying racial, gender, and class norms nationally and transatlantically. While many scientists of the period believed that mixed-race people were infertile and headed for extinction, the proliferation of such individuals attests to the fact that the number of racially hybrid people was increasing, not decreasing. For many Victorians and their American counterparts, the rise in this population as well as the shifting roles of black and white women, black men, and the working class compelled them to label these groups. It also heightened their concern with degeneration and their need to polarize black/white, female/male, and rich/poor. Yet, as this project shows, while such binaries are necessarily porous, England and the United States both made use of them to establish and define their national identities vis-à-vis one another. Whereas American writers like Jacobs and Wilson relied on such constructs to shame their country and to shape its future, British ones like Braddon used them to allege national superiority or, like Robert Louis Stevenson, later on in the nineteenth century, to reveal the changing face of the nation.
Chapter 1: Making and Unmaking Monsters in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig
Chapter 2: Sexual Propriety and Racial Transgression in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Chapter 3: The Transatlantic Gaze in M. E. Braddon's The Octoroon
Chapter 4: Mr. Hyde as Hybrid in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekvll and Mr. Hyde
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Q: Spring instantiate util:list with direct value? In Spring a List can be instantiated like this:
<util:list id="myList">
    <value>someValue<value>
    <value>othervalue<value>
</util:list>

but how the list can be instantiated with a reference to something via expression language?
To have an equivalent of following, but to use util:list.
<bean id="myList" class="java.util.ArrayList">
    <constructor-arg value="#{T(con.SomeEnum).INSTANCE.getList()}"/>
</bean>

A: try this
<util:list id="myList" list-class="java.util.ArrayList">
    <value>#{...}</value>
</util:list>


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Steller Hair Co. plans expansion in Northeast
The salon is fundraising for a much larger space.
After more than three years, Northeast Minneapolis-based salon Steller Hair Co. is relocating to a larger space, but it's not moving far.
Owner Katie Steller recently announced plans to move the salon, which she expects will go from a 1,200-square-foot space on the second floor of The Broadway building at Central & Broadway to a roughly 3,500-square-foot space on the first floor around the corner.
Steller is looking to fundraise up to $20,000 for the move, which she said will involve an extensive buildout compared to the salon's current home. Right now the salon has seven chairs and 11 stylists — more than its original five chairs and five stylists — but it will have room to grow to 20 chairs in the new space. Additional stylists will help Steller Hair keep up with the more than 300 new clients it had in October alone, she added.
"We're definitely going to aim for what we want, versus just being functional," Steller said.
The business looked to crowdsourcing when it opened, raising $15,000 to get the salon off the ground, Steller said. The current Indiegogo campaign, which started this week and will run for about a month, features perks like Steller-branded apparel, makeovers and free haircuts for a year.
"We support the community, and they support us," she said.
Steller said they were one of the first tenants in the building, also known as the former home of the Land O' Nod Mattress Co. factory, before it welcomed Spyhouse Coffee Roasters, Buzzfeed and Hazel & Rose, among others. The salon's new space was last home to Lewk, a men's apparel subscription box service that seems to have quietly closed earlier this year. Several calls to the company were unanswered.
Steller said she hopes to sign a lease by December and open in the new space in January or February next year. The salon will have the same address at 945 Broadway St. NE in the Northeast Park neighborhood and may have expanded hours once it reopens.
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