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Edward Leicester Atkinson,  (23 November 1881 – 20 February 1929) was a Royal Navy surgeon and Antarctic explorer who was a member of the scientific staff of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. He was in command of the expedition's base at Cape Evans for much of 1912, and led the party which found the tent containing the bodies of Scott, "Birdie" Bowers and Edward Wilson. Atkinson was subsequently associated with two controversies: that relating to Scott's orders concerning the use of dogs, and that relating to the possible incidence of scurvy in the polar party. He is commemorated by the Atkinson Cliffs on the northern coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, at .

Background
Atkinson was born on 23 November 1881 on Saint Vincent in the Windward Islands, where he spent much of his childhood. He was educated at the Forest School, Snaresbrook, and received his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he became the hospital's light heavyweight boxing champion. He qualified in 1906 and two years later joined the Naval Medical Service as a surgeon, based at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, in Gosport, Hampshire. He was primarily a researcher, and had published a paper on gonorrhoeal rheumatism when he was appointed physician and parasitologist to the Terra Nova expedition.

On the Terra Nova Expedition

The Southern Journey
The Terra Nova departed from Cardiff on 15 June 1910. Atkinson was, for the most part, a trusted member of the expedition. According to Harry Pennell, a fellow member of the Terra Nova Expedition, he considered Atkinson as "an out and out gentleman with the quiet self-assurance that makes a man without making him offensive". However, Pennell also privately observed that Atkinson could also "take a dislike to someone on very short acquaintance on very insufficient grounds." The Terra Nova departed from New Zealand on 29 November 1910 and would arrive in the territory of Ross Island in January 1911.

Atkinson spent the winter at Cape Evans base camp mainly doing scientific work. Eleven days before Scott's teams set off towards the pole, Scott gave the dog driver Meares the following written orders at Cape Evans dated 20 October 1911 to secure Scott's speedy return from the pole using dogs:

The march south began on 1 November 1911, and Atkinson departed south with Scott's team, first as a pony leader and later as a man-hauler. The dogs with their dog-driver Meares turned back to base before the ascent of the Beardmore Glacier. By this time, it was becoming likely that Meares would leave the expedition, and Scott reminded Atkinson of the orders concerning the dogs: "with the depot (of dog food) that has been laid at One Ton, come as far as you can". Atkinson and others accompanied Scott during the ascent of the Beardmore Glacier. On 22 December, at the glacier summit, lat. 85deg7'S, Atkinson returned to base with the First Support Party, reaching Cape Evans on 29 January 1912 after a generally straightforward journey.

In charge at Cape Evans

On his return to Cape Evans, Atkinson took command.  He learned that the chief dog driver, Cecil Meares, had resigned from the expedition, was waiting for the ship to take him home and was "not available" for Barrier work. In any case, neither Meares nor anyone else replenished the dog food in the depots. At the beginning of February, the Terra Nova arrived, and Atkinson directed Polar team members to unload supplies, mules and fresh dogs from the Terra Nova, rather than set off with the dogs to meet Scott. In his book The Worst Journey in the World (1922), Cherry-Garrard called this decision a "mistake". In his 1948 "Postscript" to this book, published in the edition of 1951, Cherry-Gerrard elaborated: "In October [1911] Scott issued certain orders: those for the dogs are dated October 20. In these original orders for the dog teams under Meares [...] The third journey was to start about the first week of February [1912]" (p. 583). Then, on page 588, Cherry-Garrard writes: "We reached Cape Evans on January 28. In my opinion he [Atkinson] would not have been fit to take out the dogs in the first week of February".

On 13 February, finally Atkinson arrived at Hut Point with the dog assistant, the Russian Dimitri Gerov and the dogs to avoid being cut off by disintegrating sea ice. Atkinson and Gerov were delayed by bad weather at Hut Point when, on 19 February, Tom Crean arrived on foot from the Barrier and reported that Lt Edward Evans was lying seriously ill in a tent some 35 miles to the south, and in urgent need of rescue. Atkinson decided that this mission was his priority and, during a break in the weather, set out with the dogs to bring Evans back. This was achieved and the party was back at Hut Point on 22 February.

Atkinson sent a note back to the Cape Evans base camp requesting either the meteorologist Wright or Cherry-Garrard to take over the task of meeting Scott with the dogs. Chief meteorologist Simpson however was unwilling to release Wright from his scientific work, and Atkinson therefore selected Apsley Cherry-Garrard. It was still not in Atkinson's mind that Cherry-Garrard's was a relief mission, and according to Cherry-Garrard's account, told him to 'use his judgement' as to what to do in the event of not meeting the polar party by One Ton, and that Scott's orders were that the dogs must not be risked. Cherry-Garrard left with Gerov and the dogs on 26 February, carrying extra rations for the polar party to be added to the depot and 24 days' of dog food. They arrived at One Ton depot on 4 March and did not proceed further south. Instead, he and Gerov decided to feed the dog food generously to the dogs, and after waiting there for Scott for several days, apparently mostly in blizzard conditions (although no blizzard was recorded by Scott some 100 miles further south until 10 March), they returned to Hut Point on 16 March, in poor physical condition and without news of the polar party.

On 17 March, Cherry-Garrard notes in his diary that the base camp members were "anxious" about the Polar party's welfare, and on 26 March Atkinson set out with Patrick Keohane (and without the dogs) on a further attempt to pick up Scott's team. They were able to proceed only to Corner Camp before the weather defeated them on 30 March. At that point, Atkinson recorded, "I was morally certain that the polar party had perished".

Before the full onset of winter Atkinson led yet another journey, this time an attempted rescue of the Northern party, which was known to have been set ashore in the region of Evans Coves, some 200 miles north of Cape Evans. The rescue party set out from Hut Point on 17 April, but they were not able to travel beyond Butter Point at the mouth of the Ferrar Glacier. The subsequent winter at Cape Evans was a difficult and tense time for the depleted expedition crew, but Atkinson maintained a programme of scientific and leisure activities, and managed to hold morale. As winter ended they faced a dilemma: should they first seek to establish the fate of the polar party, or try again to rescue the Northern party?  They chose the former course.

Scott's tent found
On 29 October 1912 Atkinson led a party, with dogs and mules to begin the search for traces of the polar party. On 12 November, 11 miles to the south of One Ton Depot, the tent containing the bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers was discovered. Atkinson found Scott's diary and learned the story of the disaster; he then read to the assembled men the relevant sections including those recording the deaths of PO Evans and Captain Oates. A further march south, in search of Oates's body, found only his sleeping bag. On their return to Hut Point on 25 November the search party learned of the safe return of the Northern Party, at which point Victor Campbell, as senior officer, assumed the leadership.

Controversy: Orders concerning dogs
While in command of the base during the critical Feb–March 1912 period, Atkinson had to execute Scott's instructions about how the dogs were to be employed after their return from the Barrier stage of the polar journey.

However, Scott's orders concerning exactly how the dogs be used did vary, or at least appear to be unclear. In orders to George Simpson and Meares immediately before his departure south, Scott ordered that after their return from accompanying the polar journey the dogs make a second journey over the barrier "to transport to One Ton Camp 5 "XS" rations, or at all hazards 3,....and as much dog food as they can carry", this to be done by 12 January 1912. He also instructed Meares to take the dogs on a third journey over the barrier in early February. It is his orders concerning this journey that appear to be confused: it was initially planned merely to hasten the return of the polar party (in order to give them a chance of catching the ship), and not as a relief mission. However, the instructions Scott gave to Atkinson when the latter turned for home at the top of the Beardmore glacier, were for the dogs to "come as far as they can." Unfortunately, Scott did not clarify his purpose (nor was he asked to – this was a Naval expedition), but perhaps at that stage he was anticipating that the dogs might be needed to see him home.

Meares' resignation from the expedition and unavailability for further work on the barrier resulted in plans being changed, and Scott complicated the situation by taking the dogs much further on the polar journey than had been originally planned, so that they were not back at base until 5 January: the dogs' second barrier journey was never made, and although the minimum 3 XS rations were duly depoted (by a man-hauling party comprising Day, Hooper, Clissold and Nelson), the dog food never was. This may have been due to an oversight, a misunderstanding, a lack of communication, disobedience, or so as not to exhaust the men: the supplies were intended to be transported by dogs (see below). The significance of this omission was only apparent later – it meant that any future movement of the dogs south of One Ton, for rescue purposes or otherwise, would be problematic.

While the omission of two XS rations was less significant than that of the dog food (in the end it was of no significance at all: the polar party never reached One Ton) it did change the purpose of the final journey, in that it was now required to transport these rations, rather than simply aid the party's return.

Once Atkinson was aware that Meares would not make the 'third' journey he, at first, planned to take the dogs himself, and had already reached Hut Point with Dimitri on 13 February where he was beset by bad weather. However, the arrival on 19 February of Crean, with the news that Lashly was lying with the stricken Lt. Evans at Corner Camp, meant further changes of plans. The dogs were first used to effect Evans and Lashly's rescue, meaning it was the 26th before they set out for One Ton. Atkinson also decided his first priority, as a doctor, was to tend to the desperately ill Evans, and so (having been summoned along with Wright from Cape Evans with a message sent via Crean), Cherry-Garrard led the mission. Resourceful and competent as he was, the short-sighted Cherry-Garrard was neither as senior within the expedition as Atkinson, nor as experienced with dogs as Meares, although Atkinson and Cherry-Garrard had become the expedition's next most capable dog drivers under Meares' instruction.  He was also significantly more tired than Meares, having manhauled a sledge to the top of the Beardmore glacier and back, and then helped unload the Terra Nova across 20 miles of sea ice between the ship and the mainland; whereas Meares had only travelled as far as the foot of the glacier, driving a dog-team the whole way.

Fiennes argues that Scott was simply "showing flexibility" in changing his plans. But a growing concern that he might need the assistance of the dogs is perhaps evident in Scott's "come as far as you can" order to Atkinson on 22 December – see Southern Journey section above. After dispatching Cherry-Garrard and the dogs to One Ton on 26 February, Atkinson, who was by now aware that there was no dog food at One Ton, wrote: "It cannot be too firmly emphasised that the dog teams were meant merely to hasten the return of the Southern Party and by no means as a relief expedition". According to Cherry-Garrard, Atkinson had instructed him to "use his judgement" in the event of his not meeting Scott at One Ton. His choices were to wait, or to proceed further south, he had six days' dog food in reserve, enough to reach the next depot but no more, without killing dogs for dog meat – he had no other option in the absence of the dog food depot. He was unable to proceed due to bad weather and his concern was that he would be likely to pass Scott's party between depots. Had Scott's team continued on schedule, they would have arrived at the next depot (Mount Hooper) the same day that Cherry-Garrard reached One Ton i.e. 4 March and there was a genuine risk that they would miss each other on the march. If he had not delayed he would have unknowingly reached the next depot two days before Scott but would not have been able to wait before returning to base. Cherry-Garrard invoked instructions, whether from Atkinson or ultimately from Scott is contradictory in his book, which were "never changed", were that the dogs were to be saved for scientific journeys in the following year and were "not to be risked" during the summer and autumn of 1911 – 12.  Apparently mindful of the "not to be risked" dictum (and faced with bad weather, eyesight problems, illness and lack of navigating skills) he chose to wait. This decision was commended as correct by Atkinson (and, in light of the poor health in which both men and dogs were on their return, it seems it would have been irresponsible to have done otherwise), but would later cause Cherry-Garrard much distress.

Fiennes asks if some blame might be due to Atkinson (or Meares, or Cherry-Garrard, or Scott himself), but does not come to a definite conclusion. He questions why Meares, who had returned to base on 5 January and must have known that the dog food depot had not been laid, was allowed by Atkinson to wait apparently unoccupied at Cape Evans until catching the ship on 5 March, and Charles Wright was certain that Meares should have been sent to One Ton and not Cherry-Garrard. In later years Atkinson claimed that Meares had "disobeyed orders" (whose?) in not laying the dog food depot, but this could not be backed up in writing.

One should remember, however, that none of the events that changed the ways in which the dogs were deployed and the details of the supplies that were taken to One Ton (the dogs late return from their first journey, Meares' resignation, and the ill-health of Evans) were caused by Atkinson. Furthermore, one should remember the dates: Atkinson did not return himself from the south until 29 January, so had no part in the reasoning to deposit only the minimum 3 XS rations and no dog food at One Ton in early January and no knowledge of it until it was too late; he was unaware of Scott's decision to take five men to the pole (and the subsequent recalculation of rations) until Crean arrived at Hut Point on the 19 February; he had no significant cause for concern for the polar party until Cherry-Garrard and Dimitri's return on 16 March, and even less when they departed on 26 February (his last opportunity to issue instructions to the inexperienced Cherry-Garrard). Perhaps most significantly, it was not until the dogs' return 16 March that he had any reason at all to assume overall command of the expedition: until it was apparent that the polar party would not return, he had simply been the senior (healthy) officer present. One must infer that he did not fully accept this position in his own mind until he and Keohane left Corner Camp on 30 March, when he wrote that he was 'morally certain' of their deaths: he must have held some hope until at least 26 March, otherwise why risk his own, and Keohane's, safety by venturing on to the barrier so late in the season? Since the expedition was run on naval terms, Atkinson may have felt he had no authority to do anything other than carry out Scott's original orders, nor to order Meares to accompany Dimitri and the dogs to One Ton.

Fiennes concludes: "There are many individuals involved with what Scott termed a 'miserable jumble', and all have produced their own versions of what prompted their action or inaction at the time. Scott did not apportion human blame, nor did he accept it."

Controversy: Scurvy
Atkinson was the only medically qualified officer to see the bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers. The extent of any detailed examination he made is not known, and no medical report on the causes of death was ever published. However, he reportedly told Cherry-Garrard emphatically that there was no evidence of scurvy in the bodies.

The truth of this statement has been queried by Scott's detractors, on grounds which are largely circumstantial. Scurvy had affected previous Antarctic expeditions, including Scott's with the Discovery, and dietary provision had not improved much meantime. The progressive weakening of the polar party on the return, and of Edgar Evans in particular, sounded like scurvy symptoms. And of course Atkinson's denials may have been intended to preserve the reputation of the expedition – scurvy carried with it a sort of stigma.

The growth in scientific understanding of the nature and causes of scurvy in the years after 1912 may have helped fuel the assumption that Scott and his companions had been affected by it. Even Raymond Priestley of the expedition's scientific staff, who had at one time denied the incidence of scurvy was, fifty years later, beginning to think differently. However, despite the lack of understanding of the causes of the disease that existed in 1912, the symptoms were well-known, and Solomon and Fiennes both point out that it is unthinkable that so scrupulous a scientific observer and physician as Edward Wilson would have made no mention at all of any sign of scurvy in the polar party, had it existed, in his journals and various letters.

1914–18 War
On his return to England Atkinson worked briefly at the London School of Tropical Medicine on parasitic research, before departing on a medical expedition to China, to investigate a parasitic flatworm that was causing schistosomiasis among British seamen. After the outbreak of World War I Atkinson returned to England and reported for active service. Before he left England for his deployment, he married Jessica Hamilton on 12 August 1915, at a registry office located in Essex. He was sent to Gallipoli to investigate fly-borne diseases, and contracted pleurisy which left him hospitalised. He spent some time recovering from the illness at a hospital in Malta and kept in touch with Cherry-Garrard during his convalescence.

In 1916 he served on the Western Front and fought at the Somme, receiving the Distinguished Service Order. After service in North Russia, on 16 September 1918, Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Atkinson received horrific injuries from an explosion aboard HMS Glatton in Dover Harbour. Although rendered unconscious by the first explosion and burned and blinded, he was able to rescue several men before escaping, and was awarded the Albert Medal. It was also during the war that Atkinson was approached to be a part of the relief expedition to look for Ernest Shackleton and his crew on the Endurance, which was stranded somewhere in the Weddell Sea. Atkinson was initially reluctant to assist in the effort because of his commitment to the war effort, but upon news of the safe return of Shackleton and his crew back to civilization, he was able to carry on with his wartime duties.

Later life
After the war Atkinson was seconded to the Royal Hellenic Navy to undergo a British naval training mission. He also continued to receive treatments and surgeries for the burns and other wounds he suffered aboard the HMS Glatton explosion in 1918. It was around this time that he would begin to gather up materials on his war-time findings, as well as his Terra Nova Expedition reports. He would later reveal to Cherry-Garrard the results of research he had conducted on the nutritional value of Scott's party's Barrier and Plateau rations. He found that the Barrier rations were generating only 51% of the calories required to support a typical Barrier workload, the corresponding Plateau figure being 57%. These figures provided a substantial explanation (starvation) for the physical failure of the polar party. Thereafter Atkinson continued with his naval career. In 1928 his wife died and he suffered a nervous breakdown. He recovered, however, and within a few months had married again, been promoted Surgeon-Captain and retired from the Royal Navy. On board ship in the Mediterranean on 20 February 1929, on his way back to England, Atkinson died suddenly, at the age of 47, and was buried at sea.

Eight years later Cherry-Garrard wrote an extra preface to the 1937 edition of The Worst Journey, as a tribute to Atkinson.  "His voice has been with me often since those days – that gruffish deep affectionate monosyllabic way he used to talk to you ... he could not help the tenderness poking through. I am glad to have this opportunity to witness something of what we owe him."

Notes and references

Sources
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley (1983) The Worst Journey in the World Penguin Travel Library Edition.
Fiennes, Ranulph (2003) Captain Scott Hodder and Stoughton.
Huntford, Roland (1985) The Last Place on Earth Pan Books
Scott's Last Expedition, Vols. I and II Smith Elder & Co 1913
Seaver, George (1983) Foreword to 1965 edition of Cherry-Garrard's Worst Journey, reprinted in Penguin Travel Library Edition
Solomon, Susan (2001) The Coldest March Yale University Press.
Wheeler, Sara (2001) Cherry: A life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard Jonathan Cape.

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Evening Telegram (St. John's, N.L.), 1909-05-15
Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century
The Evening Telegram began publication in St. John's on 3 April 1879 and remains in print today under the title The Telegram. It was published daily except Sunday through to 1958, the frequency changing thereafter. -- The total collection has been...
Half-past ten [and] Belle Mahone's reply
Two ballads on sheet, illustrated
Mayflowers and roses
Newfoundland and Labrador--Poetry
In Mayflowers and Roses, poet Ena Constance Barrett makes many references to both her adopted home, Newfoundland, and her native country, Great Britian. Faith and the beauty of nature are common themes throughout, the collection also including...
Mercantile Navy List, 1930 p. 0941-1107
Merchant marine--Great Britain--20th century; Ship registers--Great Britain--20th century; Shipping--Great Britain--Directories--20th century
The official registry of merchant vessels operating under the British flag.
The Veteran, 1936, vol. 11, no. 3 (December)
Veterans--Newfoundland and Labrador--20th century--Periodicals
"Official organ of the Great War Veterans' Association of Newfoundland" (title page, vol.1, no.1). The Veteran includes war stories, fiction, poetry, branch news and assorted articles. Several issues commemorate specific battles. In later years the...
The Sentinel And Conception Bay Advertiser, 1837-07-13, vol. 01, no. 30
Newfoundland Mercantile Journal, 1822-07-04, no. 418
Flower of Erin's shore [and] Corn rigs are bonnie
Lore and Language, vol. 03, no. 04-05 (January/July 1981)
Folklore--England--Periodicals
Journal of the Survey of Language and Folklore and the Archives of Cultural Tradition, July 1974-Jan. 1976; of the Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, July 1976- ; of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, <1997>-1999....


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Home » HPC Hardware » Compute » Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Wins 80 Million Processor Hours on Titan Supercomputer
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Wins 80 Million Processor Hours on Titan Supercomputer
January 27, 2016 by staff Leave a Comment
The U.S Department of Energy has awarded a total of 80 million processor hours on Titan supercomputer to an astrophysical project based at the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The grants will enable researchers to study the dynamics of magnetic fields in the high-energy density plasmas that lasers create. Such plasmas can closely approximate those that occur in some astrophysical objects.
The awards consist of 35 million hours from the INCITE program, and 45 million hours from the ASCR Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge. Both will be carried out on the Titan Cray XK7 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This work is supported by the DOE Office of Science.
The combined research will shed light on large-scale magnetic behavior in space and will help design three days of experiments in 2016 and 2017 on the world's most powerful high-intensity lasers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "This will enable us to do experiments in a regime not yet accessible with any other laboratory plasma device," Bhattacharjee said.
The supercomputer modeling, which is already under way, will investigate puzzles including:
Magnetic field formation. The research will study "Weibel instabilities," the process by which non-magnetic plasmas merge in space to produce magnetic fields. Understanding this phenomena, which takes place throughout the universe but has proven difficult to observe, can provide insight into the creation of magnetic fields in stars and galaxies.
Magnetic field growth. Another mystery is how small-scale fields can evolve into large ones. The team will model a process called the "Biermann battery," which amplifies the small fields through an unknown mechanism, and will attempt to decipher it.
Explosive magnetic reconnection. The simulations will study still another process called "plasmoid instabilities" that have been widely theorized. These instabilities are believed to play an important role in producing super high-energy plasma particles when magnetic field lines that have separated violently reconnect.
The NIF experiments will test these models and build upon the team's work at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester. Researchers there have used high-intensity lasers at the university's OMEGA EP facility to produce high-energy density plasmas and their magnetic fields.
At NIF, the lasers will have 100 times the power of the Rochester facility and will produce plasmas that more closely match those that occur in space. The PPPL experiments will therefore focus on how reconnection proceeds in such large regimes.
Joining Bhattacharjee and Fox on the INCITE award will be astrophysicists Kai Germaschewksi of the University of New Hampshire and Yi-Min Huang of PPPL. The same team is conducting the ALCC research with the addition of Jonathan Ng of Princeton University. Researchers on the NIF experiments, for which Fox is principal investigator, will include Bhattacharjee and collaborators from PPPL, Princeton, the universities of Rochester, Michigan and Colorado-Boulder, and NIF and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Arabic is spoken in various forms by more than 250 million people as a mother tongue throughout the Middle East, North Africa and beyond.
Because there are strong regional variations in Arabic, the notes below will not necessarily apply to all Arabic speakers.
Azerbaijani or Azeri Turkish has over 30 million speakers based in both Azerbaijan and the surrounding countries.
It's closely related to Turkish and is, to a certain extent, mutually understandable.
Although there are a couple of major varieties (Northern Azerbaijani and Southern Azerbaijani) and many local dialects, they do not differ substantially and speakers don't usually have a problem understanding each other.
There is not one single Chinese language as such but several varieties which are more or less mutually understandable. In all, these are spoken by over 1 billion people (making it more popular than English).
Do I need to Speak the Local Language to Teach Abroad?
Dutch is one of the closest relatives to English and the two languages share many facets. But this article is about the main differences between the two languages so that if you ever happen to teach students with a Dutch mother tongue, you'll understand why they make certain errors and what aspects you need to pay close attention to.
An interesting sideline to the eternal debate about taboo words.
The BBC reports that the English term, shitstorm, considered by many to be vulgar and not a word to be used in public as such, has entered the German vocabulary. However, it has entered as a perfectly acceptable term and, for example, was used by Angela Merkel at a recent public meeting and no one batted an eyelid.
German (Deutsch) is a Germanic language, related to English and Dutch.
How Hard is it to Learn English?
Well that's not easy for me to say since I've been learning it since the day I was born (actually, recent research suggests I've been learning it since I was in the womb1). But it got me thinking. I searched around a bit and couldn't find much online about it until I came across the famous FSI list.
If you are teaching English in Hungary or working with Hungarian native speakers who are learning English, you will find this article comparing Hungarian and English useful.
It looks at various aspects of the Hungarian language and how they relate to English. These differences will help explain why Hungarian mt speakers make certain types of errors when they speak English.
Old English was the language spoken in what is now England from around the 5th – 11th centuries and is the origin of modern English.
Back then it was called Englisc and the people who spoke were the Anglo-Saxons; Old English is also known as Anglo-Saxon.
Runes are the letters in the runic alphabets. Runic alphabets were alphabets used by various Germanic tribes not only to write their own languages but also in divination and magic. They were used throughout northern Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and Iceland before Christianity spreading from Rome took over and made these tribes abandon their runic alphabets to adopt the Latin alphabet.
Russian is spoken by over 150 million people, mainly in Russia itself and the countries of the former USSR.
It is part of the Slavonic branch of the Indo-European language family and as such is very different indeed from English. This article looks at those differences and how they affect Russian mother tongue speakers when they come to learn English.
If you are teaching English in Vietnam, or teaching English to Vietnamese speakers, you may well face a few problems when your students use English.
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Q: MySQL: Is there a performance hit comparing numbers with an important precision I'm wondering in MySQL if it is better for performance to compare numbers with an important precision or to round them before comparing, knowing that the comparison precision is less important than the compared numbers precision.
Ex:
SELECT 0.123456789101112123456789101112 < 0.987654321012345987654321012345

OR
SELECT ROUND(0.123456789101112123456789101112,2) < ROUND(0.987654321012345987654321012345,2)

A: There's clearly a performance hit in the version that uses ROUND().
First, calling a function will always be more expensive than not calling a function.
Second, and possibly more significantly, if there's an index on the column, it can't be used if you perform a function on the column before comparing it with something.
But getting the right answer is practically always more important than using the most efficient method.


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The Doctor of Health Science (DHSc or DHS) is a post-professional academic doctoral degree for those who intend to pursue or advance a professional practice career in Health Sciences and Health Care Delivery Systems, which can include clinical practice, education, administration, and research.  Master's credentials are a requirement for DHSc programs. Individuals who complete the DHSc face the particular challenge of understanding and adapting scientific knowledge in order to achieve health gain and results. This degree leads to a career in high-level administration, teaching, applied research, or practice, where advanced analytical and conceptual capabilities are required. The Doctor of Health Science is a degree that prepares scholarly professionals in healthcare and leadership roles. The first Doctor of Health Science degree was offered in 2000 by the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences.

Background
In Europe and Australia, the degree is awarded after completion of two to three years of coursework and research beyond the Master's degree. Like its European counterparts, an individual typically has to complete three to four years of study beyond the master's degree. In order to be accepted into the program, a person must possess a master's degree from a regionally accredited United States university, and have prior health care experience.  In addition to completing two to four years of intensive course work, candidates must typically complete an applied research project or dissertation.

Comparison
A majority of DHSc programs have been compared in course content to the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH), Doctor of Health Administration (DHA), Doctor of Science (ScD), and the Doctor of Philosophy in Health Science (PhD) degrees, but often distinguishes itself from these degrees in focus and scholarship requirements. Furthermore, Master's credential health professionals (e.g., Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, Physician Assistant, Pathologists' assistant, Public Health, Radiographer, Respiratory Therapist,  Speech and language therapist, Health Education Specialist (CHES/MCHES), advanced practice clinicians/diagnosticians with master's degrees, as well as mid- and executive-level healthcare administrators and educators, and public health professionals) are drawn to the DHSc credential in an effort to advance their careers toward top executive echelons and academic appointments.

It is recommended individuals seeking academic teaching positions in higher education choose a DHS/DHSc program that culminates in a dissertation or doctoral research project.

Programs of study

Regionally accredited
 A.T. Still University
 Bay Path University
 California University of Pennsylvania
 Campbell University
 Drexel University
 East Stroudsburg University
 Eastern Virginia Medical School
 George Washington University
 Indiana State University
 Keiser University
 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
 Nova Southeastern University
 Radford University
 Thomas Jefferson University
 Touro University Worldwide
 University of Indianapolis
 University of Bridgeport
 University of New Haven
 University of North Texas

Regionally accredited: former programs
 Loma Linda University
 Midwestern University
 University of St. Augustine

Europe
 University of Nottingham
 De Montfort University
 Staffordshire University
 University of Portsmouth
 University of Worcester
 University of Bath

Australia
 Queensland University of Technology
 Charles Sturt University
 University of Tasmania

Hong Kong
 Hong Kong Polytechnic University

New Zealand
 Auckland University of Technology

See also
 Doctor of Public Health
 Doctor of Health Administration
 Doctor of Nursing Practice
 Doctor of Physical Therapy

References

External links
 Salary and Employment Info for a Doctor of Health Science Degree from Education-Portal.com

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Q: i cant use node modules package i have a js file:
 <script type="module" src="{% static 'admin_panel/assets/js/sendAxios.js' %}" >
I use it in this way:
import axios from "axios";
But it gives the following error
Uncaught TypeError: Failed to resolve module specifier "axios". Relative references must start with either "/", "./", or "../".
When I chnage to :
import axios from '../../../node_modules/axios';
It gives me the following error
http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/node_modules/axios net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
I always had these problems for import and require commands..
How can I use node modules of a package?

A: you are trying to import the axios package using an absolute path. Instead, you can import the package using a relative path as the error suggests.
Assuming your sendAxios.js file is located in the admin_panel/assets/js directory, you can import axios like this:
python
import axios from "./../../../node_modules/axios";

However, this is not recommended as it can lead to issues when deploying your application to a production environment. A better approach is to use a module bundler like Webpack or Parcel to manage your dependencies.
To use a module bundler, you would typically create a package.json file in the root directory of your project and add the axios package as a dependency:
json
  "dependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.24.0"
  }
}

Then, you would use the bundler to create a bundle that includes all your dependencies and your application code. The bundle can be included in your HTML file using a script tag:
Html
<script src="bundle.js"></script>

Inside your application code, you can simply import axios using:
python
import axios from "axios";

The module bundler will take care of resolving the correct path for the axios package.

A: use this 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/axios/1.2.3/axios.min.js in your html and remove import/require from your js code.


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Shopping online at Grey & Osbourns Catologue home shopping store is very simple - and prices are some of the best around! Grey & Osbourns UK often has free shipping deals, and Grey & Osbourns.co.uk go to great lengths to provide good customer service. Grey & Osbourns website also provides sections to purchase lingerie and end-of-season deals - and where you will also find excellent bargains!


Retailers often play by different rules in accepting electronics returns. Here are some tips to help you navigate the tricky world of returns, exchanges, and warranties.
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam …..
Spam: In 2008 the annual average spam rate was 81.2 percent, meaning a little over 81% of all email sent/received in 2008 was spam. An increasing proportion of spam originated from reputable web-based email and application service providers.
Viruses: The average virus level for 2008 was 1 in 143.8 emails, down from 2007 where levels averaged at 1 in 117.7 emails. The decline can be attributed to the transition to spreading malware using malicious content hosted on websites and drive-by installs rather than favoring email as the primary means of distribution.
Phishing: The number of phishing attacks was 1 in 244.9 (.41 percent) emails across 2008, compared to 1 in 156 emails in 2007.
With all of the spam and phishing emails coming into your inbox, wouldn't it be nice to have a program that filters it out before you see it?
If you use Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express for your email program, I'd recommend a program called iHateSpam from Sunbelt Software. It's an inexpensive program that filters a large majority of your incoming spam to a spam folder, where you can delete it without even touching it.
That nifty password management feature in your favorite Web browser could be helping identity thieves pilfer your personal data.
Calgary, Alberta – The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers of a number of websites purportedly selling personal electronics, but failing to deliver product after receiving payment by wire transfer.
The outfit, most recently operating as Qbelam.com and Circuitown.com, advertises a variety of personal electronics including PS3s and laptop computers at discounted rates, and the website gives a number of options available for payment. However, when interested parties try to check out, they are sent a message stating that the only available method of payment is wire transfer.
According to verbal complaints to BBB, which have all been lodged from the United States, the products ordered may never be delivered. Further, the organization seems to change its name and URL frequently: in recent weeks it has appeared as Bargain Town, Qbelam, Circuitown, and now Cesa Room with a Calgary address.
A BBB staff member posed as a customer and contacted the organization under the guise of buying a laptop – she indicated she wished to pay using a credit card, and received a message back indicating that "due to high rate of fraudulent activity" they would only accept a wire transfer from consumers outside of Canada. As the BBB operative had indicated she was a Canadian resident, it appears that the return message was automatically generated, intending to dupe citizens of other countries.
Web sites that promise to pay for your old gadgets look bright around the holidays, when every extra dollar can count toward new gifts or even utility bills. But are the services worthwhile? How much can you earn?
We examined nine services that pay for your unwanted digital wares. These are among the newest options to help keep electronics waste out of landfills, while uncluttering your closets.
We looked up what each service said it would pay for working iPods, PDAs, laptops, gaming consoles, and more, with cables but lacking their original boxes. For dead devices, some offer a pittance, or will connect you with willing recyclers and charity recipients. Our chart (at right) shows what each site claims it pays for specific equipment. Keep reading for highlights of the trade-in services.
Installing SP3 on Windows XP eliminates the operating system's ability to install important security patches for Microsoft's .NET technology and possibly other software.
This problem forces XP SP3 users to apply patches manually to complete vital updates.
The new error is the latest in a long series of glitches relating to XP's SP3, which Scott Dunn described in his Sept. 11 Top Story. The issues include spontaneous rebooting of systems based on AMD chipsets, as documented by Jesper Johansson in a blog post from last May.
To determine whether your XP SP3 system has a version — or multiple versions — of the .NET Framework installed, open Control Panel's Add or Remove Programs applet and look for it among the list of currently installed programs. If you don't see any .NET entries, you don't have the framework installed on your system and needn't be concerned about the update problem.
If you do see a listing for Microsoft .NET Framework, you need to use a third-party update service such as Secunia's Software Inspector (described below) to patch the program.
With laptops being such an important part of our lives, and many times businesses, it's important to know how to protect them from being stolen, or if they are stolen how to get them back quickly. The following are a few ways to do so.
Laptop Alarm for PC's. Laptop Alarm will emit a loud alarm whenever someone tries to steal your laptop. It sounds when your power cable or external peripherals are disconnected or when the mouse is moved.
Security Cables. Most laptops have built-in slots that accommodate a security cable. These cables come as key based locks or as combination based locks and allow you to physically lock your laptop to a table or desk, so if you need to leave it for a few minutes it's actually locked in place.
Lojack For Laptops. Computrace® LoJack® for Laptops is a software-based computer theft recovery service that tracks and recovers lost or stolen computers. If your computer is stolen, their recovery team uses the software to track the stolen computer and provides local police with information they need to get it back and apprehend thieves. There is a small subscription cost for this program but it starts at just $39.95 per year.
Laptops are easy to steal. It's important that you keep your important data backed up on an external drive so if your computer is stolen, you have a good copy of it's data. Additionally, these options will help in either keeping it from being stolen, or if it is taken, in getting it back.


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Civil Society, Development & Aid, Gender, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Latin America & the Caribbean, Women's Health
NICARAGUA: Therapeutic Abortion Ban a "Disgrace" Says Rights Group
By Emilio Godoy Reprint | | Print |
Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Jul 27 2009 (IPS) - "What happened to me shattered my dreams, my hopes – I wanted to be someone who worked outside the home but I spend all day at home looking after the baby…I can't even sleep and I feel very unsafe, many of my days are a nightmare, it's very hard to carry on and I feel very sad and very tired," said "M", who was raped at age 17 by a relative.
Even though she was a victim of incest and rape, "M", who spoke with representatives of Amnesty International on their visit to Nicaragua last week, was unable to abort the pregnancy because of the ban on "therapeutic abortion" in place in this Central American country, one of the poorest in the hemisphere, since 2008.
The Amnesty report issued on Monday, "The total abortion ban in Nicaragua: Women's lives and health endangered, medical professionals criminalised", concludes that the policy has led to a rise in maternal mortality and has put pregnant women of all ages at risk.
"Nicaragua's ban on therapeutic abortion is a disgrace," Amnesty International's Executive Deputy Secretary General Kate Gilmore said at a news briefing held Monday in Mexico City to present the report.
"It is a human rights scandal that ridicules medical science and distorts the law into a weapon against the provision of essential medical care to pregnant girls and women," the Australian sociologist added.
Amnesty International describes the total ban on abortion in Nicaragua, even in cases of rape or incest, a deformed fetus, or when the mother's life is in danger, as "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment."
NICARAGUA: Total Ban on Abortion Violates Human Rights, Says UN
MEXICO: Avalanche of Anti-Abortion Laws
PDF: Amnesty report "The total abortion ban in Nicaragua"
NICARAGUA: At-Risk Pregnancy Means Death or Prison – 2007
"There's only one way to describe what we have seen in Nicaragua: sheer horror. Children are being compelled to bear children. Pregnant women are being denied essential – including life-saving – medical care," said Gilmore.
"What alternatives is this government offering a 10-year-old pregnant as a result of rape? And to a cancer sufferer who is denied life-saving treatment just because she is pregnant, while she has other children waiting at home?"
In the first five months of this year, 33 girls and women died from pregnancy and birth-related complications, compared to 20 in the same period last year, according to official figures cited by the report.
President Daniel Ortega of the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) backed the law banning abortion to win conservative votes in the elections that brought him to power in January 2007.
Lobbied by Roman Catholic Church leaders and conservative evangelical pastors, on Oct. 26, 2006 the Nicaraguan parliament approved the draft law to revoke article 165 of the criminal code, which had permitted abortion for medical reasons since 1893.
Nicaragua thus became one of the few countries in the world where abortion is illegal under all circumstances, joining Chile, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic in Latin America, and Malta and the Philippines in the rest of the world. As Amnesty points out, only three percent of the world's countries have such absolute bans.
"The revision of the penal code is a retrogressive measure under international law and places Nicaragua at odds with proven public health policy," says the Amnesty report.
In rape cases reported to the police in Nicaragua, half of the female victims are under 18 and 16 percent become pregnant.
Between 1999 and 2005, an average of around 7,000 women and girls were admitted annually to hospitals in Nicaragua for health complications that ended in abortion or miscarriage, says the report.
Gilmore headed the group of Amnesty activists who visited Nicaragua, where they gathered the personal accounts of doctors and women affected by the law.
The delegation failed in its attempts to meet with President Ortega or the government's Institute for Women, although it did meet with Health Minister Guillermo González.
"We are facing political persecution. We are under a criminal investigation since October 2007," Juanita Jiménez, a member of the Autonomous Women's Movement of Nicaragua, told IPS at the presentation of the report.
The health and reproductive care activist is one of nine women facing criminal charges in connection with the abortion undergone by a nine-year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather in 2003.
The case of "Rosita," who also contracted two sexually transmitted diseases, made international headlines. With the assistance of local and international human rights and women's groups, she was able to have an abortion, despite the resistance of conservative sectors in Nicaragua.
"The government is trying to intimidate human rights defenders and groups," said Jiménez.
Amnesty decided to present the report in the Mexican capital because abortion has been legal in the city since April 2007. Since the municipal law was passed, 23,500 women have had abortions in Mexico City.
The United Nations Human Rights Council, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the U.N. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the U.N. Committee against Torture (CAT) have all stated that Nicaragua's ban on abortion under all circumstances is a violation of international treaties to which the country is a signatory
"The criminalisation of abortion places Nicaraguan health professionals in legal jeopardy. It obliges them to act unethically and deny treatment which would have ensured the best possible outcome for their patients. It forces them to risk imprisonment if they act in accordance with official procedures and best practice protocols to end a pregnancy which poses a risk to the life or health of a woman or girl," says the Amnesty report.
The New York-based rights watchdog urged the Nicaraguan government and legislature to immediately overturn the ban on therapeutic abortion, guarantee access to safe abortion for rape victims or pregnant women whose health or lives are at risk, and protect the right to freedom of speech for those who speak out against the anti-abortion law.
A legal battle is playing out in the Supreme Court, which will have the last word on the issue. "We don't know what will happen in the Court, because it is under the influence of the governing party," said Jiménez.
Gilmore announced that Amnesty would file a petition before the Supreme Court to "remind" it that four U.N. bodies have declared the law illegal.
Amnesty launched a campaign Monday to promote maternal-child health and prevent maternal mortality in Nicaragua as part of its international "Demand Dignity" campaign.
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All You Need to Know About RallyRACC Catalunya
WRC 09. 10. 2018 3 min reading
The penultimate event in the 2018 WRC 2 calendar, RallyRACC Catalunya, starts next week in beautiful countryside around Barcelona. Here's everything you need to know to enjoy it, no matter if you are coming to Spain or just watching with us online.
Unlike Wales Rally GB, the Spain's WRC 2 event doesn't bring the risk of fog or heavy rain, but that doesn't mean it's any less challenging. It is unique as the only mixed surface event of the season. While Friday takes crews to dirt roads to the west of Barcelona, the remaining two legs take place entirely on tarmac.
This presents unique challenges for crews and mechanics alike. While drivers have to adapt to a completely different driving style of tarmac rally literally overnight, the rest of the team will be busy converting the cars from gravel to tarmac settings.
Jan Kopecký / Filip Schovánek, ŠKODA FABIA WRC, ŠKODA Motorsport. RallyRACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada 2005
Even though the RallyRACC Catalunya is relative newcomer in the WRC calendar, having entered the list only in 1991, it's got a long history. It was run for the first time in 1957 and it is a part of European Rally Championship since 1975.
Over the years, it changed its name and venue several times. When it first became part of the World Rally Championship, it was called Rally Costa Brava. It moved to its current home in the town of Salou, just south of Barcelona, in 2002 and became RallyRACC Catalunya. By then, it was still an all-tarmac event. Only in 2010 it became the mixed event we now know and love.
Jan Kopecký / Pavel Dresler, ŠKODA FABIA R5, ŠKODA Motorsport. RallyRACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada 2017
The combination of tarmac and gravel legs is unique in today's WRC calendar, but there is more to RallyRACC Catalunya than that. It begins on Thursday evening with a crowd-pleasing street stage in the Montjuïc area of Barcelona which takes place at the city's trade fair, with a circle around the famous Magic Fountains and a donut in front of the Palau Nacional building.
On Friday, the teams will set their cars up for gravel and head out west from Barcelona. To make it more interesting, though, the new longest stage of the day, the 38.85 kilometre La Fatarella – Vilalba, includes several tarmac sections. The other two stages of the day, 7 kilometre-long Gandesa and 26.59 kilometre Pesells, are pure gravel. All three stages are repeated in the afternoon.
The rest of the rally takes place on tarmac roads. Saturday consists of two loops of three stages run in the morning and repeated in the afternoon, followed by the fan-favourite stage on Salou seafront that will finish the day. On Sunday, there are just four stages to go – Riudecanyes and Santa Marina, both run one in the morning and once in the afternoon.
Juuso Nordgren / Tapio Suominen, ŠKODA FABIA R5, ŠKODA Motorsport. RallyRACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada 2017
Of course, it's all about the change. Catalunya is not an easy rally in any way, but having to switch from gravel to tarmac overnight is by far the biggest challenge that awaits the teams. It's not just about replacing the wheels, shock absorbers, springs, brakes and stabilisers to transform the car from dust-eating monster of gravel roads into a smooth tarmac rocket. It's also about having to change your whole mindset when switching from oversteer-friendly dirt roads to grippy tarmac of Legs 2 and 3 that's more akin to a racing circuit. To make it even more interesting, the Catalunyan tarmac is quite abrasive and especially if it's hot, drivers must manage tyre wear very carefully.
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Oricon Jpop charts June 29th - July 5th 2015 Sexy Zone and Kis-My-Ft2 top
Sexy Zone tops the singles charts with 9th single Cha-Cha-Cha Champion selling over 108,000 copies. The song has tie-up as theme for FIVB World Cup Volleyball 2015. Fictional idol group μ's (Muse) lands at #2 with single Angelic Angel / Hello, ...
Itano Tomomi, Kim Hyun Joong, Kis-My-Ft2, Mr. Children, Oricon, Oricon Weekly, Rev. from DVL, Rev. from DVL Kimi wo Mitsuketa Ano hi Kara Boku no Omoi wa Hitotsudake, Sexy Zone, The Best of Kim Hyun Joong, Yusuke, μ's (Muse)
Oricon Jpop charts for June 15th - 21th 2015 BTS and Golden Bomber top
BTS (Bangtan Boys) tops the singles chart with Japanese single FOR YOU selling over 72,000 copies. Idol units Shiritsu Ebishu Chugaku and DENPA GUMI.inc battled it out for the #2 and #3 spots. Performance and idol group 9nine...
9nine, 9nine HAPPY 7 DAYS, BTS, DEMPA GUMI.inc, Golden Bomber, KARA, KARA Girl's Story, Maaya Sakamoto, Maaya Sakamoto Anata wo Tamotsu Mono, Maaya Sakamoto Mada Ugoku, Mr. Children, Oricon, Oricon Weekly
Oricon Jpop charts for June 8th - 14th 2015 B'z and Namie Amuro top
B'z tops the singles chart with RED selling over 157,000 copies. It's the longtime group's 52nd single and has tie-up as image song for professional baseball player Kuroda Hiroki. Landing at #2 is AKB48 idol Watanabe Mayu with Deai no Tsudzuki...
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Oricon Jpop charts for June 1st - 7th 2015 Kanjani8 and Mr. Children top
KANJANI8 tops the singles chart with Tsuyoku Tsuyoku Tsuyoku selling over 156,000 copies. The song has tie-up as theme for TV drama DoS Deka starring member Tadayoshi Okura. Several anime tied include Aimer at #4 with Brave Shine opening theme for...
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Oricon charts November 17th - 23rd 2014, Sexy Zone and One Direction top
Sexy Zone tops the charts with single Kimi ni HITOMEBORE selling over 336,000 copies. The title song is featured as the theme song for TV series Kurofuku Monogatari starring member Nakajima Kento and Kashiwagi Yuki (AKB48). Landing in #2...
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Oricon single and album charts December 17th - 23rd, Nogizaka46 and Ikimonogakari top
Toping the single charts idol group Nogizaka46 with their 4th single "Seifuku no Mannequin" which has tie-in as ending theme song for anime Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic. The single is the group's third #1 single after it sold over 232,000 copies. In the #2...
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Oricon single and album charts for December 3rd - 9th, AKB48 and EXILE top
No question this week - AKB48 with their 29th single "Eien Pressure" tops and gives the idol group another record with their 11th single selling over 1million copeis and their 16th #1 single in row. The single sold over 1,073,499 copies. In the second spot is lead vocalist ...
2AM, AKB48, AKB48 Eien Pressure, Ayumi Hamasaki, Ayumi Hamasaki again, BIGBANG, BIGBANG SPECIAL FINAL IN DOME MEMORIAL COLLECTION, EGOIST, EGOIST Namae no Nai Kabutsu, EXILE, EXILE ATSUSHI, Girls Generation, GIRLS GENERATION II ~ Girls & Peace~, GLAY, Mr. Children, Oricon, Oricon Weekly, The MONSTERS, YUI, YUI Greatest Hits, YUI Green Garden Pop, YUI Orange Garden Pop, Yumi Matsutoya, Yumi Yumi
Oricon single and album charts Nov. 26th - Dec. 2nd, The MONSTERS and Mr. Children top
Topping this week's singles charts is new unit The MONSTERS with debut single "MONSTERS" selling over 160,000 copies. The unit consists of Yamashita Tomohisa (Yamapi) and Katori Shingo of SMAP and the song is featured as theme song for...
BOYFRIEND, BOYFRIEND Kimi to Dance Dance Dance, FTISLAND, FTISLAND Polar Star, Girls Generation, GIRLS GENERATION II ~ Girls & Peace~, kobukuro, Kobukuro Kami Hikoki, Luna Haruna, Luna Haruna Overfly, Momoiro Clover Z, Mr. Children, Oricon, Oricon Weekly, Shiro Sagisu, Shiro Sagisu Music from EVANGELION 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO, Shrio Sagisu, The MONSTERS, UVERworld, UVERworld THE ONE, Yumi Matsutoya, Yumi Yumi
Oricon single and album charts for June 4th - 10th, Arashi and Hey! Say! JUMP top
The past week's single charts are topped by Arashi with their 3rd single release of 2012 "Your eyes" selling a very strong but typical for this very popular group, 477,000 copies (release details). This single is the group's 28th #1 charting song in a row...
2PM, 2PM Beautiful, Arashi, Arashi Your Eyes, BOOM BOOM SATELLITES, BOOM BOOM SATELLITES BROKEN MIRROR, Hey! Say! JUMP, Hey! Say! JUMP JUMP WORLD, Mr. Children, Nana Mizuki, Nana Mizuki METRO BAROQUE, Nana Mizuki Time Space, Oricon, Oricon Weekly, T-ARA, T-ARA Jewelry box
Oricon single and album charts May 28th - June 3rd, Not yet and Jang Keun Suk top
Topping singles charts for May 28th - June 3rd is Not yet with their 4th single "Suika BABY" selling over 125,000 copies. Not yet is a four member sub-group from mega-idol group AKB48 that includes Oshima Yuko who was just won the ...
AKB48, AKB48 Manatsu no Sounds good!, Jang Keun Suk, Jang Keun Suk Just Crazy, Mr. Children, Not yet, Not Yet Suika BABY, Oricon, Oricon Weekly, Watarirouka Hashiritai 7, Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 Shonen yo Uso wo Tsuke!
Oricon single and album charts May 21st-27th, AKB48 and Mr. Children top
Another monster chart topping single from mega-idol group AKB48 - "Manatsu no Sounds good!" - selling over 1.6 million copies - making it their biggest first week selling single and likely it will be their biggest all-time! The group has seven 1 million+ selling singles in a row (eight...
AKB48, AKB48 Manatsu no Sounds good!, Arashi Face Down, Choshinsei, Choshinsei Stupid Love / COME BACK TO ME, GLAY, GLAY Bible, Kana Nishino, Kana Nishino Watashitachi, Mr. Children, SKE48 Aishite Love Ru!, T-ARA, T-ARA Lovey-Dovey, Yuzu, Yuzu with you
Oricon single and album charts May 7th-13th, Arashi and Mr. Children top
This week's singles charts saw three big single releases but in the end it was another #1 for Arashi with "Face Down" (release details) selling over 520,000 copies. Typical strong sales for this mega group that's only matched by a few others these days. In...
Arashi, Arashi Face Down, May'n, May'n Chase the world, Mr. Children, NMB48, NMB48 Nagiichi, Oricon, Oricon Weekly, SUPER JUNIOR, SUPER JUNIOR Opera
Oricon single and album charts April 23rd - April 29th, SMAP and Yuzu top
The single charts for the week of May 2nd are topped by SMAP with their 47th single "Sakasama no Sora" selling over 135,000 copies. The single is a collaboration is famous composer Yoko Kanno and is featured on the TV drama "Ume-chan Sensei...
Hilchryme, Hilchryme Best of Hilchryme, Ikimonogakari, Ikimonogakari Haruuta, Itano Tomomi, Mr. Children, Oricon, Oricon Weekly, SE7EN, SE7EN LOVE AGAIN, SMAP, SMAP Sakasama no Sora, Sonar Pocket, Sphere, Sphere Non stop road, Tomomi Itano, Yuzu
Oricon single and album charts April 16th-22nd, Mr. Children and Naoto Inti Raymi top
The single charts are topped this week by Mr. Children who released their first single in over three years - "Inori ~ Namida no Kidou". The single sold over 174,000 copies and is featured as theme song for film "Bokura ga Ita". In the second...
Def Tech, Idolmaster, INFINITE, Mr. Children, Naoto Inti Raymi, ORANGE RANGE, ORANGE RANGE NEO POP STANDARD, Oricon, Oricon Weekly


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Dancing in Fortnite Battle Royale is a great way to get in some BM, and let your enemy know that you had a good fight. The actual movement in Fortnite isn't referred to as a Dance, instead it's an Emote. However most emotes in the game right now just happen to be dances.
New dances & emotes can be unlocked from the Item Shop for V-Bucks, the official currency for Fortnite. New emotes will tend to cost around 800 V-Bucks on average. However some drop much lower than this, with Rock Paper Scissors and Jubilation costing just 200 VBucks.
Any unlocked emotes can be equipped by going to your Locker, selecting emotes and choosing to equip them into the slots. You can have 6 emotes equipped at once onto the default emote wheel. Although in a recent update, Epic Games made it so that you can use every emote possible by scrolling through the mote wheel.
You can customise your controls within Fortnite to your liking. As well as emotes and dances, you can also use the new communication wheel. It's a great way to signal to team mates that you require bandages, ammunition or that you've spotted an enemy.
If you're a PC user, the dance emote can be performed by pressing B on your keyboard by default to open the emote wheel. It's also possible to type /dance into the chat. You can equip up to 6 emotes at a time, so each emote will have it's own number depending on where you have equipped it on Fortnite. You can change the controls in Fortnite Battle Royale if you want to put emote onto a more accessible key. With the emote wheel open, use scroll wheel to switch through the wheel.
Now then, for console users, the default key for performing emotes is by pressing the down button on the D-Pad. It is the same key whether you are on PS4 or Xbox One. However it may vary depending on your configuration. You can check for yourself in the settings menu, and change the control if you wish.


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Q: Use opacity from tikz in leaflet documentclass I am using the leaflet documentclass and want to use the opacity option in tikz.
Minimal example:
\documentclass{leaflet}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \node[fill=red,fill opacity=0.5] (0,0) {TEST};
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Changing the value of opacity has no effect (same for "opacity=x").

A: In the default mode each page is stored in a six saveboxes to put all in two ordered pages, this could affect the opacity command and that could be the reason that in nocombine mode works without problems, but each page is croped; An option to deal with this ussues is using transparent instead opacity command but both are incompatible with each other, if you load transparent the tikz command opacity is ignored or lose effect, but you could draw tikz transparent elements using transparent:
{\transparent{value_0_to_1}\draw....;   \node...;}

It sets the elements inside {} to the defined transparency value.
In the leaflet document class uses a macro to put background images for each page in the case of nocombine, and for many in the default so many times is needed to use the transparent package to fade these images not to hide part of the text of the same color:
\AddToBackground{page_number}{%
    \put(X_coordinate,Y_coodindate ){\transparent{value_0_to_1}\includegraphics[scale=scale_val,angle=rotate_val]{image_file_name}}}

So you will have to use the opacity of tikz you have the two limitations, without using transparent package and in the mode nocombine; One way to deal with this is to work the drawing in another document and import the result into the main document. It allows you to use freely all the options for tikz without any compatibility problems, without loosing vector properties and opacity. But one issue could apear if you need set the transparency again in an imported pdf tikz input that has objets with opacity, the \transparent commant won't work, Here an example to illustrate all the issues and solutions.
RESULT:

MWE:
% arara: pdflatex: {synctex: yes, action: nonstopmode}
% arara: pdflatex: {synctex: yes, action: nonstopmode}
\documentclass[notumble]{leaflet}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{transparent}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\AddToBackground{5}{%
    \put(0,-200){\transparent{.07}\includegraphics[scale=3,angle=60]{standalone-tikz-002.pdf}}}

\begin{document}
{\bf Known Issues:}\par
For example including standalone-tikz-001.tex pdf output and trying to set some transparency, it does not work, it respects the opacity in tikz code and ignores transparent value:
\vspace{-\baselineskip}
\begin{scriptsize}
    \begin{Verbatim}[tabsize=2,frame=lines,framerule=0.5pt]
{\transparent{0.25}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{standalone-tikz-001.pdf}
}
    \end{Verbatim}
\end{scriptsize}
\vspace{-\baselineskip}
\begin{center}
{\transparent{0.25}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth,]{standalone-tikz-001.pdf}
}
\end{center}
If the code is rewrited without using opacity and saved in other document:
\vspace{-\baselineskip}
\begin{scriptsize}
    \begin{Verbatim}[tabsize=2,frame=lines,framerule=0.5pt]
    %File name: standalone-tikz-002.tex
    \documentclass[tikz,border=5pt]{standalone}
    \begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
    \foreach \x [count=\l from 0] in {1,0.8,...,0.2}{
    \pgfmathparse{int(\x*100)}
    \edef\mixcol{\pgfmathresult}
    \draw[fill=lime!\mixcol!blue] (0+\l,0-\l) rectangle ++(4,-1.5);
    \node[fill=yellow!\mixcol!red] at (0+\l,0-\l) {TEST};
    }
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{document}
    \end{Verbatim}
\end{scriptsize}
Transparent value works
\vspace{-\baselineskip}
\begin{scriptsize}
    \begin{Verbatim}[tabsize=2,frame=lines,framerule=0.5pt]
{\transparent{0.25}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{standalone-tikz-002.pdf}
}
    \end{Verbatim}
\end{scriptsize}
\begin{center}
    {\transparent{0.25}
        \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth,]{standalone-tikz-002.pdf}
    }
\end{center}
Also works for the background...
\vspace{-\baselineskip}
\begin{scriptsize}
    \begin{Verbatim}[tabsize=2,frame=lines,framerule=0.5pt]
    \AddToBackground{5}{%
    \put(0,-200){\transparent{.07}\includegraphics[
        scale=3,angle=60]{standalone-tikz-002.pdf}}}
    }
    \end{Verbatim}
\end{scriptsize}

\newpage
Page2
\newpage
Page3
\newpage
Page4
\newpage
{\bf Default mode opacity Issue}:\par  Here a draging using Tikz code in the main document, that uses \verb+opacity+ command, without class option \verb+nocombine+, the result ignores \verb+opacity+ command, that also is ignored in other cocument classes if \verb+\usepackage{transparent}+ is loaded.\\

\begin{tikzpicture}
\foreach \x [count=\l from 0] in {1,0.8,...,0.2}{
    \pgfmathparse{int(\x*100)}
    \edef\mixcol{\pgfmathresult}
    \draw[fill=lime!\mixcol!blue,opacity=\x] (0+\l,0-\l) rectangle ++(4,-1.5);
    \node[fill=yellow!\mixcol!red,fill opacity=1.2-\x,text opacity=1] at (0+\l,0-\l) {TEST};
}
\end{tikzpicture}

{\bf Using transparent:}\par
Another example of a Tikz code in the main document, using \verb+\transparent{value_0_to_1}+ , requires two compilations... and also the opacity commands still without effect but each tikz drawing has  transparency.\\

\begin{tikzpicture}
\foreach \x [count=\l from 0] in {1,0.8,...,0.2}{
    \pgfmathparse{int(\x*100)}
    \edef\mixcol{\pgfmathresult}
    {\transparent{\x}
        \draw[fill=lime!\mixcol!blue,opacity=\x] (0+\l,0-\l) rectangle ++(4,-1.5);
        \node[fill=yellow!\mixcol!red,fill opacity=1.2-\x,text opacity=1] at (0+\l,0-\l) {TEST};
    }
}
\end{tikzpicture}

\newpage
An option using a good practice to draw a tikz picture in standalone document class where you can use all the options for tikz without any compatibility problem.
\begin{scriptsize}
\begin{Verbatim}[tabsize=2,frame=lines,framerule=0.5pt]
%File name: standalone-tikz-001.tex
\documentclass[tikz,border=5pt]{standalone}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
    \foreach \x [count=\l from 0] in {1,0.8,...,0.2}
    {
        \pgfmathparse{int(\x*100)}
        \edef\mixcol{\pgfmathresult}
        \draw[
            fill=lime!\mixcol!blue,
            opacity=\x
        ](0+\l,0-\l) rectangle ++(4,-1.5);
        \node[
            fill=yellow!\mixcol!red,
            fill opacity=1.2-\x,
            text opacity=1
        ] at (0+\l,0-\l) {TEST};
    }
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
\end{Verbatim}
\end{scriptsize}
Then include it in the main document using \verb+graphicx+ package:
\begin{footnotesize}
    \begin{Verbatim}[tabsize=2,frame=lines,framerule=0.5pt]
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{standalone-tikz-001.pdf}
    \end{Verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{standalone-tikz-001.pdf}

\end{document}

SUB1: standalone-tikz-001.tex
% arara: pdflatex: {synctex: yes, action: nonstopmode}
\documentclass[tikz,border=5pt]{standalone}

\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
    \foreach \x [count=\l from 0] in {1,0.8,...,0.2}{
        \pgfmathparse{int(\x*100)}
        \edef\mixcol{\pgfmathresult}
        \draw[fill=lime!\mixcol!blue,opacity=\x] (0+\l,0-\l) rectangle ++(4,-1.5);
        \node[fill=yellow!\mixcol!red,fill opacity=1.2-\x,text opacity=1] at (0+\l,0-\l) {TEST};
    }
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

SUB2: standalone-tikz-002.tex
% arara: pdflatex: {synctex: yes, action: nonstopmode}
\documentclass[tikz,border=5pt]{standalone}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
    \foreach \x [count=\l from 0] in {1,0.8,...,0.2}{
        \pgfmathparse{int(\x*100)}
        \edef\mixcol{\pgfmathresult}
        \draw[fill=lime!\mixcol!blue] (0+\l,0-\l) rectangle ++(4,-1.5);
        \node[fill=yellow!\mixcol!red] at (0+\l,0-\l) {TEST};
    }
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

A: I found out that if I compile with XeLaTeX the issue is completely gone. It seems to be persistent for at least LaTeX. Any explanations on that?


Finally a beach walk 🙂 Oh how the girls love to be beside the seaside, Moreton Beach was no exception. We are very fortunate as the beaches in Merseyside mostly allow dogs on all year round. Moreton Beach lies on the Wirral peninsular around 2.5 miles from New Brighton. Now you will notice that Raven is just a tiny pup in this one, forgive me for leaving it so late.
At high tide all that can be seen of this beach is the shingle and concrete defences. Whereas; at low tide it's comparatively different showing the world it's vast wet sand stretching for miles and miles.
Anyone who does venture out into the sandbanks; needs to wary of the tide times as it does come in fast.
Adjacent to the beach is the North Wirral Coatal park which is popular with cyclists and dog walkers alike. As well as being a great spot for a picnic.
Dominating the horizon is the lighthouse; which to much disappointment was decommissioned in 1908 is now a site of public interest. Standing at 27 meters; the Lighthouse is open for guided tours from 12pm to 4pm on the first Sunday of each month. It costs £2 for adults and £1 for children, who must be at least 1.06 metres tall to be able to take the tour.
Walking along Moreton beach with the sand between your paws, for us is one of the best beaches in Merseyside. The vast open spaces for both dogs to be able to run until their hearts content is exactly what these young pups with so much energy need.
This was ones of Raven's very first off lead walks which she enjoyed tremendously. Thankfully she was young which meant she stayed close and only really played with dogs her own size. Now is a different story she plays with everyone and would run till she was tired.
Wren loves the outdoors and any chance she can she will sit and take in the scenery so she was just very happy to be in a new locations and exploring.
This was both dogs first time at the beach and I think it's safe to say we will be back. Moreton beach offers something for everyone no matter the weather; there's even a small cafe offering hot food, for when its a little bit chilly.
If you like reading our dog walking posts or would like to find more places to walk. Visit the dog walking category for some inspiration. The category includes walks from up and down the country.


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What Art, And The Game Telephone, Teach Us About Copying
By Alva Noë
Published October 17, 2014 at 1:11 PM PDT
In the game of Telephone, a message gets repeated from person to person in a chain. By the time it comes around again, it's been transformed.
With each repetition, information is lost. Or maybe what happens is that information is added. What we are left with at the end is a degraded image of the original message. Or, perhaps, we should say we end up with a new message, one that tells us something about the members of the chain — their expectations, skills, degree of understanding, attentiveness, etc.
I was at MIT a few weeks ago, at the Center for Art, Science and Technology, attending a conference where I got to hear Alvin Lucier performing his 20th century classic, "I am sitting in a room." The performer — in this case the composer himself — records his voice making a statement about what he is doing. "I am sitting in this room, the same room you are sitting in. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice ..." And so on. This is then played back and recorded again. This new recording is then played back. And recorded again. Each playback sounds like a pretty faithful rendition of what came before.
After about 16 rounds of this, however, what we are given is sound that bears no recognizable relation to the original utterance. The sounds we hear are not those of a human voice. The words are gone. Even the rhythm is unrecognizable as that of speech. Something familiar has been made strange, before our very ears and eyes, simply through the action of copying. The subtle degradations of each recording cycle get compounded in the iteration and reiteration.
It is magical. It is breathtaking. It is heart-stoppingly beautiful. You can hear the piece here. And here is a video of a recent performance:
At the end we must wonder, as we did with the game of Telephone: Are we getting a degraded signal or is the final message a signal imbued with unimagined new content — a disclosure of the room's very own resonant nature, as the artist himself suggests, or of the true essence of sound, or, indeed, of speech?
That's how it is with art. A phenomenon — in this case the basic phenomenon of speaking, expressing meaning in words, and also that of copying or recording what we hear — is laid bare before our eyes. The artist did so much by doing nothing, by letting nothing happen. In one sense, this was a trick. A gimmick. Like the game of Telephone. But a trick so straight forward, and so smart, that it rises to the level of the lyrical, indeed, of the musical.
The composition is also an interesting example of the way technology and art work together. Tape is an old technology. It was not a cutting-edge technology even in 1970, when Lucier first made this work. And yet the work would be impossible without tape recording. In a way, this is a kind of investigation of what tape recording actually is.
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Alva Noë
Alva Noë is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture. He is writer and a philosopher who works on the nature of mind and human experience.
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Blue Lan
藍正龍
Lan Cheng Long, Lan Zheng Long
Blue Lan is a Taiwanese actor. Born on March 1, 1979, as Lan Cheng Lung, he made his acting debut in 2001 and gained attention for one of his first roles, a small cameo as Dao Ming Si's older cousin in "Meteor Garden." Blue Lan has appeared in many popular films and dramas since then, including "Easy Fortune Happy Life" (2009), "Apple in Your Eye" (2014) and "The Ex-Man" (2018). Blue Lan was involved in a high-profile relationship with Barbie Hsu from 2001 to 2005. He met his future wife, Jade Chou, in 2003 but the two began dating in 2011 after they shot a commercial endorsement together. They married in May 2014.
Mar 1, 1979 (age 41)
The Ex-Man
Apple in Your Eye
Easy Fortune Happy Life
Jade Chou
Amber An
Cheryl Yang
Ady An
Nagasawa Masami
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Q: Is it possible to "reverse" the Dunnett post-hoc test: 1 treatment vs several controls? I have 4 groups of patients who received Hepatitis B vaccines (based on different vaccination policies) a group too old to have received it. One of the policies was not properly implemented and the the corresponding patients have smaller antibody levels now, similar to the unvaccinated patients.
I want to use ANOVA to compare all 5 groups and I want to use the Dunnett post-hoc test to compare the unfortunate group with all other groups. As far as I understand, the Dunnett test compares several treatment groups with 1 control group. Is there anything that prevents me from "reversing" this use-case?
Thanks?