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Windows 11 is a new operating system released by Microsoft. This post from the MiniTool Partition Wizard website introduces how to change the language in Windows 11. You can follow this guide when you want to change the default system language.
How to Change the Keyboard Language in Windows 11
Microsoft released the official version of Windows 11 on October 5, 2021. It is good news for Windows users, as Windows 11 is designed with a new outlook and many new features and improvements.
The system language is also referred to as the display language. When you set up Windows 11 for the first time, you can choose the system language according to your preferences. If you don't set another language, the default system language should be English.
Don't worry if you want to change Windows display language after Windows 11 is installed. Windows 11 allows users to change system language.
Now, let's see the tutorial.
If you want to change default system language in Windows 11, you can follow the steps below.
Download a New Language Pack on Windows 11
If you don't have the pack of the language you want to use, you have to download it on your computer first. And here are the detailed steps.
Tip: If you already have the language pack, you can jump to the next part.
Step 1: Press Win + I to open Windows Settings quickly.
Step 2: In the left pane, select Time & Language. In the right pane, click Language & region.
Step 3: Click the Add a language button for the Preferred languages option.
Step 4: In the pop-up window, select the target language and click Next.
Step 5: On the next page, select optional language features according to your needs and check Set as my Windows display language under the Language preferences section. Then click the Install button.
Tip: Please note that not all the installed languages can be set as the display language. It needs to support certain components to be used as the system language.
The installation might take a few minutes and you should wait until the process is finished and sign out or restart your computer. Remember to save all the work before the restart.
Should I Upgrade to Windows 11 Right Now?
This post tells you whether you should upgrade to Windows 11 and when to upgrade to Windows 11. It tells you why you should delay the upgrade.
Change Windows Display Language
If you already have the language pack you want to use, you don't need to download it and you can change system language directly in Windows Settings. Now, let's see the steps.
Step 1: Go to Settings > Time & Language > Language & region.
Step 2: Under the Language section, select a new language for the Windows display language option.
Step 3: Sign out or restart your computer.
After you change Windows display language, you might need to change the keyboard language for input.
There are many methods to change the keyboard language. For example, you can click the language icon on the taskbar or press Win + Space to switch from the installed keyboard language layout.
If you don't find the language icon on the taskbar, you should go to Settings > Time & language > Typing > Advanced keyboard settings and uncheck Use this desktop language bar when available.
Now, it's your turn to have a try.
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Benchmark Assessments Offer Regular Checkups On Student Achievement
By Lynn Olson — November 29, 2005 10 min read
School districts worried about how students will perform on end-of-the-year state tests are increasingly administering "benchmark assessments" throughout the year to measure students' progress and provide teachers with data about how to adjust instruction.
Nearly seven in 10 superintendents surveyed for Education Week this past summer said they periodically give districtwide tests, and another 10 percent said they planned to do so this school year. Such tests typically are aligned to state or district standards for academic content and given three to five times during the year. Some are given as often as monthly.
Victoria Todd, a 3rd grader at London Towne Elementary, finishes one of 38 problems on a Benchmark Assessment Resource Tool test.
Christopher Powers/Education Week
Most benchmark assessments take one hour each for reading and mathematics, but may include other subjects. Extensive reporting systems break down test results by the same student categories required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, such as by race, income, disability, and English proficiency, in addition to providing individual progress reports at the district, school, classroom, and student levels.
"I do believe that three years from now, certainly five years from now, no one will remember a time when there weren't benchmarks," said Robert E. Slavin, the director of the Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education, at Johns Hopkins University.
Burgeoning Market
That's certainly what test vendors hope. Last year, Eduventures Inc., a market-research firm based in Boston, identified benchmark assessments as one of two high-growth areas in the assessment industry, alongside state exams, with a compound annual growth rate of greater than 15 percent. The company predicted that by 2006, what it called "the formative-assessment market"—using a term sometimes treated as a synonym for benchmark assessment—would generate $323 million in annual revenues for vendors.
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Not All Teachers Keen on Periodic Tests
But while many assessment experts agree that the idea of frequent testing of students to monitor their learning and adjust instruction is sound, some also warn that districts should take a close look at what they're getting for their money and how they are using such exams.
"You might say that the message here is, 'Get a second opinion,' " said Grant Wiggins, the president of Authentic Education, a Hopewell, N.J.-based consulting service that works with districts.
It's no secret why districts are turning to benchmark tests. The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law by President Bush in January 2002, and states' own accountability systems have created a high-stakes environment in which both districts and schools can face penalties for failing to meet performance targets.
View a complete collection of stories in this Education Week special report, Testing Takes Off.
In this standards-based environment, the feeling is that the sooner and more often schools have information about how they're doing against the standards, the better.
"The reason that there is a boom in benchmark assessments is that most states and school systems are providing nothing more than autopsy reports right now," said Douglas B. Reeves, the founder of the Center for Performance Assessment, a private consulting organization based in Denver that works with districts to design fair and rigorous assessments and classroom activities. "They tell you why the patient died at the end of the year, and then marveled that the patient didn't get any better."
Studies by the Washington-based Council of the Great City Schools, the Austin, Texas-based National Center for Educational Accountability, and others have found that one feature of high-achieving districts is their use of periodic, benchmark assessments to track student achievement and make adjustments.
"Good formative assessments, good benchmark assessments," Mr. Reeves said, "provide feedback throughout the year, and that is far more fair to principals and teachers, provided they are used wisely."
Vendors Vary
In the past few years, according to Eduventures' 2004 report, "Testing in Flux," new competitors have flooded the formative-assessment market, including:
• Major test publishers, such as the New York City-based CTB/McGraw-Hill and the San Antonio-based Harcourt Assessment;
• Test-preparation companies, including the New York City-based Princeton Review;
• For-profit providers that specialize in linking assessment results with prescribed remediation plans and curricula, such as the San Diego-based Compass Learning and the New York City-based Kaplan K-12 Learning Services;
• Nonprofit organizations, such as the Portland, Ore.-based Northwest Evaluation Association; and
• Suppliers of "whole-school-reform models," such as the New York City-based Edison Schools Inc. and Mr. Slavin's Baltimore-based Success for All Foundation, which designed the 4Sight assessment series.
The products of such suppliers range from formatted tests linked to the standards in individual states, to item banks that districts and schools can use to develop their own assessments, to online testing, scoring, and reporting systems.
Skimming the Surface?
Lorrie A. Shepard, the dean of the school of education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, voices caution about the trend.
Benchmark-Test Market Foresees Growth
A 2004 report predicted that the market for benchmark or formative assessments would expand by a compound annual growth rate of more than 15 percent from 2003 to 2006.
TEST MARKET
New competitors have emerged in recent years to supply school districts with benchmark assessments. They include:
MAJOR TEST PUBLISHERS, such as CTB/McGraw-Hill, based in New York City, and the San Antonio-based Harcourt Assessment;
TEST-PREPARATION COMPANIES, including the Princeton Review, based in New York City;
SUPPLIERS of whole-school-reform models, such as Edison Schools Inc., of New York, and the Success for All Fouondation, of Baltimore;
FOR-PROFIT PROVIDERS that specialize in linking assessment results with prescribed remediation plans and curricula, such as the San Diego-based Compass Learning and the New York City-based Kaplan K-12 Learning Services;
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, such as the Northwest Evaluation Association, in Portland, Ore.
SOURCE: Eduventures Inc., Education Week
While "not all formal benchmarking systems are bad," she said, she worries about the effects of using 15- or 20-item multiple-choice tests that mirror the format of state exams to drive classroom instruction.
Previous research by Ms. Shepard and others has found that students who do well on one set of standardized tests do not perform as well on other measures of the same content, suggesting that they have not acquired a deep understanding.
"The data-driven-instruction fad means earlier and earlier versions of external tests being administered at quarterly or monthly intervals," Ms. Shepard said. "The result is a long list of discrete skill deficiencies requiring inexperienced teachers to give 1,000 mini-lessons."
Good benchmark assessments, she suggested, should include rich representations of the content students are expected to master, be connected to specific teaching units, provide clear and specific feedback to teachers so that they know how to help students improve, and discourage narrow test-preparation strategies.
Rather than trying to assess everything, added Mr. Reeves, the best benchmark tests focus on the most important state or district content standards. And they provide results almost immediately, in simple, easy-to-use formats, he said.
The National Center for Educational Accountability stresses that good benchmark assessments measure performance "on the entire curriculum at a deep level of understanding." They also begin before grade 3 in both reading and math and provide a process to ensure that data on student performance are reviewed and acted upon by both districts and schools, the center says. In addition to such tests, it adds, districts may provide unit or weekly assessments that principals and teachers can use to monitor student progress.
Approaches Differ
But in talking about benchmark assessments, not everyone means the same thing.
According to Mr. Slavin, some benchmark tests, like 4Sight, are designed primarily to predict students' performance on end-of-the-year state exams. They measure the same set of knowledge and skills at several points during the school year to see if students are making progress and to provide an early warning of potential problems.
Other benchmarks are tied more closely to the curriculum, and to the knowledge and skills students are supposed to have learned by a particular time. For example, a skill-by-skill benchmark series in math might focus on fractions in November, decimals in January, geometry in March, and problem-solving in May, rather than testing all skills at the same time, Mr. Slavin said.
Such benchmarks serve as pacing guides for teachers and schools, providing information on whether students have learned the curriculum they've just been taught. Some companies claim their tests serve both purposes, predicting students' ultimate success on state tests and gauging how they're progressing through the curriculum.
Historically, vendors would design one set of benchmark tests for the entire country. Now they craft tests for each state, starting with the larger ones.
What Are Benchmark Assessments?
While not everyone means the same thing by the term, benchmark assessments typically:
• Are given periodically, from three times a year to as often as once a month;
• Focus on reading and mathematic skills, taking about an hour per subject;
• Reflect state or district academic-content standards; and
• Measure students' progress through the curriculum and/or on material in state exams.
Many companies also work with districts to design the districts' own assessments, tied to state and district standards, or permit districts and schools to modify previously formatted exams. Some vendors provide large, computerized pools of item banks that teachers and schools can use to create their own classroom tests and check students' progress on state standards.
Stuart R. Kahl, the president of Measured Progress, a Dover, N.H.-based testing company, says that while item banks hold great promise, because they permit teachers to design tests that can be used during the ongoing flow of instruction, one issue is whether teachers are prepared to use them appropriately.
"Now we're putting individual items in the hands of teachers," he said, "saying, 'You construct the test; make it as long or as short as you want.' Do we think they have the understanding to know how much stock they can put in the generalizations they make from such exams?"
Some also worry that as vendors have rushed in, quality has not kept pace. The Eduventures report noted that many vendors have marketed formative assessments "on the basis of the quantity of exam items, as opposed to those items' quality." For example, companies may tout having tens of thousands of exam items, it said, although many of the items have not been extensively field-tested or undergone a rigorous psychometric review.
"I think vendors in our space have found it challenging," said Marissa A. Larsen, the senior product manager for assessment at the Bloomington, Minn.-based Plato Learning Inc., whose eduTest online assessment system is now used in more than 3,000 schools.
While districts sometimes apply the same psychometric standards to benchmark tests that are applied to high-stakes state exams, she said, "in many cases, that's not what vendors in this space are trying to do. If we did that, it would be well beyond what districts could afford to buy for formative systems."
Critics also say that even the best benchmark assessments are more accurately described as "early warning" or "mini-summative" tests, rather than as true "formative" assessments, which are meant to help adjust teaching and learning as it's occurring. In contrast, summative tests are designed to measure what students have learned after instruction on a subject is completed.
"Formative assessments are while you're still teaching the topic, providing on-the-spot corrections," said Mr. Kahl. "With benchmark assessments, you're finished. You've moved on. Not that you don't get individual student information, but at that stage, it's remediation."
What Is 'Formative'?
Yet Eric Bassett, the research director for Eduventures, said the terms formative and benchmark assessments are often used interchangeably in the commercial education market.
And that, some critics say, is precisely the problem.
"I recognize that I've lost the battle over the meaning of the term 'formative assessment,' " said Dylan Wiliam, a senior researcher at the Educational Testing Service, based in Princeton, N.J.
In the 1990s, he wrote an influential review that found that improving the formative assessments teachers used dramatically boosted student achievement and motivation. Now that same evidence, he fears, is being used to support claims about the long-term benefits of benchmark assessments that have yet to be proven. "There's a lack of intellectual honesty there," Mr. Wiliam said. "We just don't know if this stuff works."
He and others say the money, time, and energy invested in benchmark assessments could divert attention from the more potent lever of changing what teachers do in classrooms each day, such as the types of questions they ask students and how they comment on students' papers.
"If you're looking, as you should be, at the full range of development that you want kids to engage in, you're going to have to look at their work products, their compositions, their math problem-solving, their science and social-studies performance," said Mr. Slavin of Johns Hopkins.
Mr. Wiggins of Authentic Education said that while some commercially produced benchmark assessments are far from ideal, they're better than nothing. "I would rather see a district mobilizing people to analyze results more frequently," he said. "That's all to the good."
The key point, he and others stress, is what use is made of the data.
"It's only a diagnosis," Mr. Slavin said. "If you don't do anything about it, it's like going to the doctor and getting all the lab tests, and not taking the drug."
Lynn Olson
Lynn Olson was managing editor of special projects for Education Week. She also covered national policy (including "P-16 issues" issues, NCLB standards, accountability, and reform), assessment and testing.
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Federal Miguel Cardona Came in as a Teacher Champion. Has COVID Muted His Message?
The education secretary is taking heat from some who say his advocacy is overshadowed by Biden's push to keep schools open.
Andrew Ujifusa & Madeline Will
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona talks to students at White Plains High School in White Plains, N.Y., last April.
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Federal Citing Educator and Parent Anxieties, Senators Press Biden Officials on Omicron Response
Lawmakers expressed concern about schools' lack of access to masks and coronavirus tests, as well as disruptions to in-person learning.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, left, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, testify at a Senate hearing about the federal response to COVID-19.
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Federal Miguel Cardona Should Help Schools Push Parents to Store Guns Safely, Lawmakers Say
More than 100 members of Congress say a recent shooting at a Michigan high school underscores the need for Education Department action.
Three Oakland County Sheriff's deputies survey the grounds outside of the Crumbley residence while seeking James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, on Dec. 3, 2021, in Oxford, Mich.
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Federal In Reversal, Feds Seek to Revive DeVos-Era Questions About Sexual Misconduct by Educators
The Education Department's decision follows backlash from former education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other conservatives.


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Updated: March 30, 2018 at 04:21 p.m.
Carolina's search for its next general manager is set to start this week.
The Panthers will begin interviews for the vacant permanent position, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero and NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Saturday. The Panthers are interviewing Texans assistant general manager Jimmy Raye III on Thursday and Bills assistant college scouting director Lake Dawson on Friday, per Rapoport. Interim GM Marty Hurney will interview this week, as well.
Carolina also plans to interview Bills assistant director of college scouting Lake Dawson and is expected to reach out to Titans director of player personnel Ryan Cowden, who spent 16 years with the Panthers, Pelissero and Rapoport added.
"He's had a heck of a career," Bills GM Brandon Beane said of Dawson upon his hiring in May, per the team's official site. "He rose to a level of VP of Player Personnel. He's interviewed for multiple GM positions. To have a guy with his experience and leadership... it's a strong addition."
Dawson's connection to Beane through the Bills and his expected interview with the Panthers completes a Carolina circle. Beane jumped to Buffalo last offseason after spending the previous nine years with the Panthers.
Hurney served in Carolina's front office from 1998-2012, including spending 2002-12 as the Panthers' GM. He stepped in to fill the position vacated by the July firing of former Panthers GM Dave Gettleman, who's since been hired as general manager of the New York Giants. Carolina installed Hurney with necessary quickness, and it appears as though his work in his second Panthers stint has earned him a shot at the permanent job. His current contract with Carolina runs through June, Pelissero and Rapoport added.
Raye joined the Texans as assistant GM in 2017 after he was fired by the Colts a year earlier. The former Ryan Grigson lieutenant was the first of two interviews for the vacant general manager position in Houston and is now receiving additional consideration. He also maintains a close relationship with Panthers head coach Ron Rivera from their time together with the Chargers.


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(Daily Caller) The United Nations is demanding more "climate action," urging member countries to mobilize trillions of dollars more to fight man-made global warming.
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S&P Global Markets' new report puts the price at $5.2 trillion to implement national-level plans to comply with the Paris agreement. But that figure is based on financial estimates individual countries submitted to the UN.
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When it comes down to it, you know that the $5.2 trillion plus whatever comes from those other counties would just be starter money, and, hey, how much will go into the pockets of the U.N. and the people pushing this scam? They'll want more and more and more.
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Several individuals and organizations were honoured on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja by the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), the umbrella body for all computer associations in the country. It was a celebration of honour and recognition at the event organized by NCS to recognize those who had contributed positively to the growth of information technology in Nigeria.
Through this event NCS is being proactive in sanitizing the award ceremony landscape in the area of Information Technology. The Nigeria Computer Society is the umbrella body for all computer associations in the country. According to the NCS president NCS is therefore the best positioned to present awards in the field of IT in Nigeria. It is intended to be a distinct platform to recognize and honour excellence in the field of IT.
While receiving their Fellowship plaques, the new members of COF pledged to meet and discharge their professional, financial and moral obligations as well dedicate themselves to all lawful and due causes of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS).
Professor Raymond Akwule (President, Digital Bridge Institute) was the Guest lecturer. He spoke on Broadband Technology in Nigeria.
Fellowship awardees were: Adeola Olukemi ILECHUKWU, Adeyemi Adebola SALAMI, Chadrill .A. OGBEBOR, Prof.Cleopas ANGAYE, David Esonwa INYERE, Jide AWE, Kenneth Ngozichukwuka NWANZE, Okopedehe Asian UMOBONG, Raphael Ayodele OMOSOLA and Dr. Sylvanus Okwudili ANIGBOGU. Through their investiture they are now members of the NCS College of Fellows (COF).
A citation was read for each new Fellow describing their accomplishments. Each elevated member also received a Professional Fellowship Plaque from Prof. Charles O. Uwadia FNCS President of NCS.
One of the awardees, Professor Cleopas Angaye Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), responded on behalf of the awardees, thanking NCS and pledging that the new Fellows would live up to expectations.
- Computer (Hardware) Manufacturer of the year: Omatek Computer.
- E-Payment Service Provide of the year: Chams Plc.
The vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. David O. Adewumi FNCS 1St Vice President, NCS/Chairman, Award Planning Committee.
NCS states that, "The goals from inception of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) as enshrined in its constitution shall be the advancement of Computer Science and Information Technology & Systems, their applications and deployments to Professional Practice in education, government, the military, the industry and support for work which is important to the general community and the professions at large".


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PROX.IMITY.IO (Distant Early Warning)

PROX.IMITY.IO (Distant Early Warning) is a project gathering the first stage of research for works on astrological narratives of modern satellite technology and its mundane, personal, and geopolitical ramifications. Taking an experimental, ficitonal approach to the present, this project mapped satellites visible in the sky over London back onto the Earth and began speculating on what narratives they could trace.

The project's research focused on the historical origins, uses, and relevance of Western astronomy and astrology, alongside the development of space technologies and aesthetics. The website gathered notes, reflections, and archival material from this process.

As an end to the INFRA_SPECTION Residency programme at Space Studios, London, the White Building exhibited PROX.IMITY.IO research materials in spring 2015 as part of the group exhibition Staying with the Trouble. The culmination of the first stage of the project resulted in an installation, interactive site, and workshop, and the project continues with the collaborative work of the OSO initiative.

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I got in an accident in April 2010. I was aboard a drilling base there when the Deepwater Horizon blew up. I just found myself in a situation where I didn't know where to go, where to turn, who to talk to. I was referred to Arnold & Itkin by a close friend of mine. I had great care. I worked with neighborhood doctors who actually discovered all my injuries and diagnosed me with PTSD. They took their time with everything. I mean it was a real good experience with the doctors I was with. Like I said, they would get me help in the areas I needed help with.
Any questions I had, any situations, any problems, I could just give them a call.
Arnold & Itkin, they were just real good with that. Asking me questions, keeping me updated with anything I needed. There's really no comparison with the people in my area. Around my area, they're not too knowledgeable in these situations, as far as offshore accidents and everything.
Arnold & Itkin was a good firm that led me to the right decisions to make, what to do, and most of all—getting me the right help. That was the biggest thing, getting the right help. Now that my case is settled, I feel like now I can actually move on with my life.
I can move on, get educated, and just start my life pretty much where I left off. There, plus I can go up from here. Pretty much all the bad stuff is just now under me, like I can now move up and, you know, move up the ladder now, and live my life actually.


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Celebrity Mom Stories
Kate Hudson hosts star-studded baby shower in SoCal
By Pregnancy Contributor
A very pregnant Kate Hudson is expecting her second child this summer, and she decided to celebrity the occasion with a lavish baby shower in Malibu, California, last weekend. In addition to her 7-year-old son, Ryder, and rocker fiance Matt Bellamy, the 80-person guest list featured some pretty big names – like fellow celeb moms Nicole Ritchie, Courtney Cox and Rachel Zoe.
"She looked amazing and kept giggling while mingling with friends, nibbling on food and playing games," a guest told People magazine. "She seemed to have the best time."
While it's not always traditional to throw a baby shower for a second pregnancy, if you've got the cash – and Kate certainly does – why not spend a little time with your friends and family celebrating the impending arrival of a new little one?
Like many unwed couples who experience a surprise pregnancy, Kate told People back in April that while she and Bellamy weren't planning on having a child together, they weren't exactly trying to prevent adding to their brood, either.
"Well, it wasn't like we didn't know what we were doing," a laughing Hudson told the mag. "There were no ovulation kits involved. We were tempting fate, and it worked."
Pregnancy Magazine draws on a wide range of editorial sources including working doctors, midwives and doulas, as well as journalists writing about fertility, pregnancy and new motherhood.
Why do you have to pee constantly when you're pregnant?
Alexandra Cousteau on pregnancy and environmentalism


Brazil's courts are overburdened with litigants at numbers that are hard to imagine. The National Council of Justice has reported that Brazilian courts have one hundred and eight million ongoing lawsuits. With a population of 200 million, these numbers suggest that every Brazilian is potentially involved in ongoing litigation. The judicial system is collapsing, and even a simple lawsuit may last 10 years, on average.
Mediation is understood as a potential savior, and the Brazilian legislature has passed significant legislation favoring mediation as a consequence.
The Mediation Act (Act No. 13,140), which came into force in December 2015, regulates mediation in the courts, confidentiality, the basic principles of mediation, and makes the mediation or multi-tier dispute resolution clause enforceable.
The New Civil Procedure Code (Act No. 13, 105), which came into force in March 2016, includes mediation promotion as an obligation of all legal professionals. Although focused on mediation connected to the courts, the code expressly clarifies that even when the parties are sent to mediation by a judge, they can opt for a private mediator or mediation firm. This new code is slowly, but consistently, being utilized by the state courts.
The impacts of this legislation in Brazil are apparent. First, a tsunami of people are interested in learning about mediation. Second, demand for experienced mediators has rapidly increased since the mediation laws were enacted.


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The QCF Level 7 in Management has replaced the NVQ Level 7 in Management; the qualification is the industry standard for those working in senior management or leadership, and is the equivalent to a Master's Degree. Recognised both internationally and domestically, the programme offers a series of mandatory units which provide delegates the skills and occupational competence necessary to perform a senior management role. The optional units allow delegates to customise the qualification to suit their specific sector, meaning that it is an ideal addition to the resume of any management staff in health and social care environments.
Execute a strategic business plan.
Provide strategic leadership and direction.
Accredited by OFQUAL, this course is fully compliant with the Health and Social Care National Occupational Standards approved by Skills for Care and Development. Completion of this course will help your organisation meet the conditions and standards required by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Delegates are appointed a QCF/NVQ assessor who will provide email and telephone support for the duration of the diploma.
Potential students must be aged 19+ and employed in a managerial role in a relevant vocational setting.


The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is bringing awareness to an anti-Muslim letter sent to several mosques in California.
The San Francisco Bay Area chapter (CAIR-SFBA) of the organization published the letter which begins with, "To the children of Satan, You Muslims are a vile and filthy people. Your mothers are whores and your fathers are dogs. You are evil. You worship the devil. But your day of reckoning has arrived."
It further reads, "There's a new sheriff in town — President Donald Trump. He's going to cleanse America and make it shine again. And he's going to start with you Muslims. He's going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews. You Muslims would be wise to pack your bags and get out of Dodge."
The letter signed "Americans for a Better Way," concludes with "This is a great time for patriotic Americans. Long live President Trump and God bless the USA."
In response to the letter, CAIR-SFBA Executive Director Zahra Billoo commented, "We urge local law enforcement authorities to work with Muslim community leaders to ensure the safety of all houses of worship...Our state's political and religious leaders need to speak out against the mainstreaming of Islamophobia that we are witnessing in California and nationwide."
The San Francisco Chronicle spoke with Faisal Yazadi, an official with one of the Islamic centers that received the letter, who said, "Our doors are never locked...I hope that person knows that we're more than happy to have a dialogue. Hopefully, we learn a thing or two from him or her, and he or she learns something from us."


Since its discovery around 3000 B.C., the deep purples of the amethyst, February's birthstone, have symbolized royalty. Catherine the Great and Egyptian rulers favored the gem as an emblem of wealth and luxury. Once thought to be a token of Christian love and sacrifice, the amethyst was used by medieval clergymen to promote divine revelations and wisdom—a theory Leonardo da Vinci also embraced.


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Red Devils: Republican Women Under Franco
A friend recently asked me about the situation of women sympathetic to the Republic, who, after February 1939, were condemned to endure the harshness of the Franco regime. The case of the men is well documented. Many of those who didn't make it to Latin America, the USSR or Britain were sent by the Vichy government to Nazi concentration camps such as Mauthausen and Sachsenhausen. Other ex-combatants were persuaded to accept a supposed offer of pardon from Franco and, on arrival in Spain, summarily tried and executed, or condemned to work as slave labour for the Franco government, the Catholic Church and private enterprise.
However the situation of Republican women was markedly different. While men avoided reprisal by fleeing to the mountains, most women were forced to remain in their homes where they had to care for children and dependents. So they were in a far more vulnerable situation.
Historian Loida Díaz Jiménez, on the website CuartoPoder, states that "women during the Second Republic found themselves identified with a pattern of behaviour that enabled activity, decision-making, the active and necessary participation required of them—whether as mothers, or as militia when war broke out— in a profoundly innovative way."
Women from Oropesa, Toledo, their heads shaved for belonging to Republican families. (sbhac.net)
The conservative and fascist forces behind the coup saw this as a "monstrous deformity" which the Republic had wrought in morality. The fascist mentality viewed the humanitarian ideals flourishing under the Republic as a malaise or cancer to be surgically removed from Spain's ailing corpse. Women, seen as embodying the morality of the time—as many contemporary posters illustrate in which they represent the ideals of justice, peace or patriotism—became the target of a zealous crusade in moral reform.
Contemporary poster for the UGT union: "She is alert against fascism"
As the "liberation" of villages and towns by the Francoist army progressed, exemplary punishments were meted out. Paul Preston, in The Spanish Holocaust (Harper Press, 2012), emphasises the high numbers of men suspected of Republican sympathies who were tortured then executed. It was a campaign carried out with "gratuitous cruelty".
But the punitive measures against Republican women tended to focus on scenes of public humiliation, rape, sexual abuse and the permanent marking of women's bodies. A common practice was to shave the victim's head, force her to ingest castor oil to produce constant diarrhoea and then parade her around the main streets of her village or town in a macabre spectacle. "Red" women were portrayed as "red demons".
After the war, according to Díaz Jiménez, "rape and sexual abuse became commonplace in police stations, civil guard barracks and prisons in an attempt to objectify and dehumanise those whom the victors considered the root of Republican wickedness". In the early post-war years, thousands of women were subjected to cruel physical and psychological abuse.
However, cases of Republican women being shot and buried in shallow graves, similar to their male counterparts, also occurred. These include cases of pregnant women.
The practice of separating children from their "red" mothers was common. The historian José Pizarro documents the situation of María and her daughter Rosario, along with seventy-three others, who were tried for being members of the anarchist CNT union and the leftist Frente Popular government of Seville. They were given a summary trial and convicted in June 1938 to twelve years of hard labour. Twenty-year-old Rosario died of tuberculosis in prison in 1941.
María remained a prisoner while her other children were separated and sent to different provincial orphanages. The family was able to reunite in the early forties, but María, weakened from the poor health conditions hunger and overcrowding that were standard in Francoist prisons, died in Cádiz in 1944, aged just fifty-five.
As Silenciadas, a documentary by Pablo Ces
Another interesting source is As Silenciadas, a 2011 documentary by Pablo Ces about the struggle of women in Galicia against the violence and repression of the Franco dictatorship following the war.
So the situation of women was far from easy. Throughout the forties and fifties, the Franco regime promoted an image of the Spanish woman based on Andalucian cultural stereotypes, a figure who was passionate yet demure and home-loving—a strong mother though one who bowed to her husband and authority in all things. And it is an image of Spain that has endured internationally, in detriment of a richer, more complex understanding of Spain's many varied cultures.
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Arch Coal Inc (ACI), Exelon Corporation (EXC), Dell Inc. (DELL): One Person's Trash Is Another Person's Treasure Portfolio
Published on September 13, 2013 at 9:13 am by The Motley Fool in News
Last November, I announced my intention to create a portfolio of 10 companies that investors had effectively thrown away and given up on, in the hope of showing that deep-value investing, and contrarian thinking, can actually be a very successful investing method. I dubbed this the "One Person's Trash Is Another Person's Treasure" portfolio and, over a 10-week span, I highlighted companies that I thought fit this bill, and would expect to drastically outperform the benchmark S&P 500 over the coming 12 months. If you're interested in the reasoning behind why I chose these companies, then I encourage you to review my synopsis of each portfolio selection:
Dendreon
Arkansas Best
Arch Coal
Now, let's get to the portfolio and see how it fared this week:
Exelon $31.25 31.68 $954.20 (3.6%)
QLogic $11.46 86.39 $979.66 (1%)
Dendreon $5.97 165.82 $502.43 (49.2%)
Dell $13.37 74.05 $1,025.59 3.6%
Staples $13.48 73.44 $1,081.77 9.3%
Arkansas Best $10.83 91.41 $2,540.28 156.6%
Arch Coal $7.03 140.83 $719.64 (27.3%)
Skullcandy $6.71 147.54 $858.68 (13.3%)
Orange $11.64 85.05 $972.12 (1.8%)
Xerox $8.16 121.32 $1,248.38 26.1%
Cash $0.06
Dividends receivable $111.82
Total commission ($100.00)
Original investment $10,000.00
S&P 500 performance 12.5%
Performance relative to S&P 500 (2.6%)
Source: Yahoo! Finance, author's calculations.
This week's winner
With plenty of winners to choose from this week as the broad-based S&P 500 went a perfect five-for-five in the plus column, coal miner Arch Coal Inc (NYSE:ACI) takes home the prize, with a 10.6% gain. Although no one specific news story moved Arch Coal Inc (NYSE:ACI) higher, it's been finding its footing ever since Moody's raised its outlook on the coal industry from negative to stable in August. I remain one of the few bulls still left in coal, and feel that, with the energy source providing 40% of all electrical generation in the U.S., it certainly isn't going to disappear overnight. As an added bonus, next week we get a $0.03 per share quarterly payout from Arch Coal Inc (NYSE:ACI).
This week's loser
My favorite type of loser is one where the worst-performing stock in the portfolio still rose for the week! That's exactly what happened this week with utility stock Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) adding just 0.1% from where it started. As you might expect, Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) is a fairly defensive play, so when the market is in full-rally mode, it often lags the broader S&P 500. However, I'm going to give Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) a pass this week, and you should, as well, because we also collected a $0.31 quarterly dividend from the company, which helped fatten up our dividends receivable! If you notice, we've more than covered the cost of our commission just through dividend income over the past seven months.
The Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL)'s of our Lives day-time drama took an interesting turn this week, with activist investor Carl Icahn announcing that he will no longer try to stop Dell from going private, but issued one last jab at the board and Michael Dell that the offer was not in the best interests of shareholders. With a vote expected today (Sept. 12), we will soon know the fate of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL). If you're curious as to my position, since I own shares of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), I voted in favor of the leveraged buyout. With shares trading about $0.03 below the offer-plus-special-dividend price, shareholder approval of the LBO is expected.
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Last April, contributor Jana Fredricks attended the 2018 Museums and the Web conference in Vancouver. Amidst the chatter of digital collections, online audience engagement, and shiny new tech, she presented research on three technologies that have changed the way cultural heritage sites are understood and documented in the digital age. Her paper, Digital Tools and How We Use Them: The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage in Syria, was presented in a panel entitled Post-Colonial Digital.
This week, we take a look back at Kristen Sorek West's publication that gives arts managers an understanding about how Google Analytics can drive an organization's success.
Ticket Bots Are Now Illegal - How Will This Impact the Arts?
Ticket bot software has recently become illegal. Read to find out how this impacts your arts organization and what you can do to help.
How can the arts make effective use of gamification - one of hottest trends in entertainment? Find out in our most recent white paper.
Read about how arts are vital to the success and sustainability of Smart Cities in our latest white paper.
Rod Gingrich explores the possibilities that RFID and wearable technologies offer the performing arts and entertainment spheres in this fascinating publication.
Click here for Peixiao Liu's white paper to find out how and why your arts organization should make use of Location Based Social marketing.
Find out more about how you can use videos to show and promote the use of VR in your arts organization in this white paper.
Learn how your arts organization can leverage Augmented Reality (AR) through best practices from three recent museum case studies across the country.
Wei Wei's white paper provides a hands-on approach on how to collect, analyze and make decisions with digital data points.


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Tramways
Basic Game Rules
Parcels and Buildings
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Rating: 7.4 Good
Popularity: 3
Players: 1-5 players
Playing time: 120-249 minutes
Created by: Alban Viard, Paul Laane, Sampo Sikiö
Published by: AVStudioGames, Fractal Juegos
Alternate Names: Tranvías
The 1920s: Small City was founded just a few years ago and is still a fledgling town at this stage. Nonetheless, the Town Center is prosperous, and the managers of the weird CliniC have been duly incarcerated for years by this point. Now it is time to reach a new step: Building a new map transit.
In Tramways, you take the role of one of the managers of the local CliniC who were fired last month when it was discovered that you had acquired wealth on the backs of patients and their poor health.
You are now at the head of a team of engineers, ready to build the best and most effective network possible for Small City. Your aim is to find the best places between buildings and citizens so that they can use your networks (and not those of your opponents, who are always ready to buy the most interesting development areas).
Be assured that a happy citizen who is able to move where and when he wants will thank the best transport companies. There is nothing that satisfies a chief manager more than seeing citizens happy...
The game is divided into six rounds, each of which is divided into two halves:
During the first half of a round, players compete to acquire the best development cards to create their most efficient deck. An original auction phase also determines turn order - and being the first player increases your stress level.
During the second half, they play a train game, using their deck to try to build a great network between the different buildings of Small City. They try to move passengers without stressing them during the transit, in the end obtaining happiness points, which is the aim of the game.
The more that players use the symbols on their cards, the more actions they can do, but they also increase their stress level at the same time, which leads to negative victory points...
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Tramways Game Rules
The 1920's... Small City was founded just a few years ago and is still just a fledgling town at this stage.
Nonetheless, the Town Center is prosperous and the managers of the strange CliniC have been duly incarcerated for years... but Small City cannot be built from buildings alone: We need infrastructure, a transportation network to cart people where they need to go, and at high speed!
The few citizens of Small City start the game in different portions of the city (residential neighborhoods, factories, shops, and entertainment venues), and want to get around without having to wear out the soles of their shoes. …
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Tramways Parcels and Buildings
As long as a Parcel space is still a Parcel space (i.e. not yet a Building), you must play the Parcel Number Action Icon in order to do any of the following:
Move a Passenger to this destination (but there is no bonus for doing so).
Complete a link, using this space as the link end for which you play an Action Icon.
Construct a Building on this space.
Once a Building has been built on a Parcel space, you must play the Destination Action Icon matching the Building's type in order to do any of the following: …
Tramways Solo Rules
All rules of the basic game still apply with the following exceptions:
The setup is similar to the two-player game for the Building cards (only one of each, plus a second Industry); however, use the solo side of the Tramways Schedule board.
Use 2 different Generic cards like in the base game. Use 3 random modular map boards to build a 1x3 map. As usual, there must be at least 4 x gray Parcel spaces, so replace boards until you have at least 4. …
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Physics MCQ on Gravitation
The following section consists of Physics Multiple Choice questions on Gravitation For competitions and exams. Select the correct option to test your skills Gravitation.
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what Newton made the hypothesis?
That heavier body in the universe exerts a gravitational force on the lighter bodies.
That every body in the universe exerts a gravitational force on every other body.
That gravitational force only exerts on the bodies on earth.
That only the Sun gravitational force is responsible for all the motion in this universe.
in 1666, Newton concluded that the force which caused an apple to fall to the ground and the force that kept the moon in its orbit around the earth is the ?
Universal force called as "Gravitation".
Acceleration called as "Centripetal acceleration".
Weight called as "Weightlessness
Universal force called as "Artificial Gravity".
Gravitational force is responsible for?
For the motion of planets around the Sun.
Keeping planets in their radii.
Keeping planets on theft axes.
The motion of falling bodies towards earth is due to the?
Gravitational rotation.
Acceleration due to gravity.
Gravitational force.
In order to derive the law of gravitation, Newton assume that the moon's orbit is?
Newton apply Huygens's formula to calculate?
Centripetal acceleration of the earth.
Centrifugal acceleration of the Sun.
Centripetal acceleration of the Satellite.
Centripetal acceleration of the moon.
The magnitude of the weight is expressed in the units of?
Force (Newton)
Mass (Kilogram)
Displacement (meter)
'g' decrease with?
horizontal displacement
The distance from the center of earth to the center of the moon' is called as?
Orbital radius of the earth.
Orbital length of the earth.
Orbital radius of the moon.
Orbital length of the moon.
The weight of an object in a satellite orbiting around the earth is?
Actual weight
Greater than the actual weight
Less than the actual weight
If the radius of the earth were to shrink and its mass were to remain the same, the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the earth with?
remain the same
The radius of earth is?
RE = 7.45 X 106 m
RE = 6.38)< 106 m
At the surface of earth an object falling freely experiences an acceleration of?
9.1 ms-2
The acceleration of the moon is because of the?
Gravitational force exerted on the moon by the earth.
Gravitational force exerted on the earth by the moon
Gravitational force exerted by the planets
Gravitational force exerted by the Sun.
The Universal law of gravitation must apply to?
The earth and the apple.
Any pair of bodies.
The earth and the moon.
The planets around the Sun.
The force of gravity on a body varies slightly from place to place on the earth for two reason. (i) shape of earth and (ii) ?
the circumference of the earth
the rotation of the earth
the mass of the earth
The weight of a body in a frame of reference is equal and opposite to the force required to prevent it?
from accelerating from rest in that frame of reference.
from providing a velocity equal to its instantaneous velocity,
from an elastic collision
from increasing its momentum.
"C" is a universal gravitational constant and its value is?
G = 6.873 x 10-¹¹ N-m2/Kg
G = 6.673>< 10-¹¹ N-m2/Kg
G = 6.743 x 10-¹¹ Nm2/Kg
The force exerted on body A by body B is always directed towards body B, and acts?
along the line joining their centers.
The equation for the mass of earth is?
ME = RE²g/G
ME = REg²/G²
Weight of a body is a?
vector quantity
scalar quantity
Negative quantity
The mass of earth is?
ME = 5.98 X 1024 Kg
F on A by B = —F on B by A. These two gravitational forces constitute an action-reaction pair in accordance with Newton's?
Third law of motion
First law of motion
Law of Universal Gravitation.
If a man goes to a height equal to the radius of the earth from its surface, his weight relative to that of earth would become?
one-fourth
According to the Newton's Universal law of gravitation, "Every body in the universe attracts every other body with a force which is?
directly proportional to the product of their masses.
directly proportional to the distance between them.
directly proportional to the product of forces.
directly proportional to the product of their radius.
The value of G was first determined by?
Poynting in 1901
Boyle in 1917.
Lord Cavendish in 1798.
P. R. Heyl in 1998.
The present accepted value of the universal gravitational constant 0 = 6.673 x 1O-11 Nm2/Kg2 was obtained by?
P. R. Heyl and P.Chizano Wski
Lord Cavendish
The magnitude of the gravitational force with which the earth attracts the object of mass M, towards its center, is given by?
F = G M Me / Re2
F = G Me / Re2
F = G M2 Me / Re2
F = G2 M Me / Re2
The force on the object placed near the surface is given by the mass "m" of the object multiplied by the acceleration due to gravity, which is equal to its?
weight 'W".
acceleration "a".
momentum "p".
The weight of the body is given by?
W = mg
W = ms
W = mv
W = ma
The apparent weight of a person standing in a elevator which is moving down with uniform acceleration will be?
same as the weight on the surface of the earth.
Greater than its weight on the surface of the earth
less than its weight on the surface of the earth
Twice the weight of on the surface of the earth.
The weight of a body is not a fixed quantity. It depends upon the location as well as upon?
The external force on the body.
The shape of the earth.
The motion of the frame of reference.
The rotation of the body.
The mass of the.body will?
Change from place to place.
Remain same everywhere.
Be equal to its weight.
Greater at mountains
Astronauts experiences weightlessness when their spacecraft is?
Orbiting around the earth.
Orbiting around its axis
Orbiting around the circle
Orbiting around the Sun.
The earth's gravitational pull is just balanced by the centripetal force resulting into?
Centripetal acceleration.
Artificial Gravity.
An astronaut or other body in the spacecraft is said to be weightlessness or?
In a state of "zero g"
In a state of motion
In a state of rest.
In a state of "zero a"
The earth's gravity acts on both the spacecraft and the bodies in it, giving each?
The same centrifugal acceleration.
The same acceleration.
The same torque.
A body released inside the spacecraft does not fall relative to it, and it appears to be?
Mass less.
If we go away from the surface of the earth a distance equal to the radius of earth the value of "g" becomes?
One nine
One third.
One eight.
One fourth.
An artificial gravity can be created in the spacecraft ?
By spinning it around its, own axis.
By 'rotating it around the earth.
By spinning it around earth's axis.
By spinning it around its moon's axis.
The weight of a body is the gravitational force exerted on it?
By another body.
By the earth.
By the planet.
By the moon.
If a body is taken from a pole to the equator its distance from the center of the earth will?
The earth is not a perfect sphere, but it bulges at the?
At the center of earth dt R, value of "g"?
Will be zero.
Will be maximum.
Will remain constant.
Will be unity.
Above the surface of the earth if we go to distance equal to double the radius of the earth, the value of 'g' will become?
one-third
one-ninth
one-half
Artificial gravity is produced in a space-craft to?
increase the weight of the astronaut
decrease the weight of the astronaut
overcome the force of friction
overcome the state of.weight-lessness.
G is called
gravitational attraction
accelaration due to gravity
gravitational constant
If the radius of the Earth were increased by a factor of 4 and its mass remained the same, then the acceleration due to gravity on the Earth would
reduce by a factor of 16
increase by a factor of 4
increase by a factor of 16
reduce by a factor of 4
If the value of gravitational acceleration at a height h above the Earth's surface is the same as that at a depth d below the Earth's surface (with both h and d small compared to the Earth's radius R), then
h = d / 2
h = d2 / R
h = 2 d
h = d
A planet is moving around the Sun in a circular orbit of circumference C. The work done on the planet by the gravitational force F of the Sun is
F/C
FC/2
The ratio of the time periods for two satellites of equal mass in circular orbits of radii R and 9 R is
A thief stole a box with valuable article of weight 'W' and jumped down a wall of height h. Before he reach the ground he experienced a load o
W / 2
Kepler's second law regarding constancy of arial velocity of a planet is a consequence of the law of conservation of
linear momentum
If the gravitational force between two objects were proportional to 1/R (and not as 1/R2) where R is separation between them, then a particle in circular orbit under such a force would have its orbital speed v proportional to
1/R^2
R^0
1/R
The period of a satellite in a circular orbit of radius R is T. The period of another satellite in circular orbit of radius 4R is
T/4
A missile is launched with a velocity less than the escape velocity. The sum of its kinetic and potential energy is
may be positive or negative
If the earth is 1/4th of its present distance from the sun, the duration of the year would be
1/4 of the present year
1/16 of the present year
If the radius of the earth were to shrink by 1% its mass remaining the same, the acceleration due to gravity on the earth's surface would
decrease by 2%
remain unchanged
increase by 2%
will increase by 9.8%
The value of 'g' at a particular point is 9.8 m/sec2 suppose the earth suddenly shrink uniformly to half its present size without losing any mass. The value of 'g at the same point (assuming that the distance of the point from the centre of the earth does not shrink) will become
9.8 m/sec2
19.6 m/sec2
2.45 m/sec2
If the change in the value of g at the height h above the surface of the earth is the same as at a depth x below it, then (both x and h being much smaller than the radius of the earth)
x = h
x = 2 h
x = h/2
x = h^2
Physics Aptitude Test on Gravitation 4
A satellite is revolving around the sun in a circular orbit with uniform velocity v. If the gravitational force suddenly disappears, the velocity of the satellite will be
Who among the following first gave the experimental velocity of G?
Brook Taylor
The mean radius of the earth is R, its angular speed on its own axis is w and the acceleration due to gravity at earth's surface is g. The cube of the radius of the orbit of a geo-stationary satellite will be
r2g / w
R2w2 / g
RG w2
R2g / w2
Geo-stationary satellite
revolves about the polar axis
has a time period less than that of the earth's satellite
moves faster than a near earth satellite
is stationary in the space
If the radius of the earth were to shrink by one percent, its mass remaining the same, the acceleration due to gravity on the earth's surface would
remains unchanged
The escape velocity from the earth's surface is 11 km/sec. A certain planet has a radius twice that of the earth but its mean density is the same as that of the earth. The value of the escape velocity from this planet would be
22 km/sec
5.5 km/sec
16.5 km/sec
The escape velocity from earth is 11.2 km per sec. If a body is to be projected in a direction making an angle 45° to the vertical, then the escape velocity is
11.2 * 2 km/sec
12.81 km/sec
What would be the duration of the year if the distance between the earth and the sun gets doubled?
If escape velocity from the earth's surface is 11.2 km/sec. then escape velocity from a planet of mass same as that of earth but radius one fourth as that of earth is
5.65 km/sec
A thin uniform, circular ring is rolling down an inclined plane of inclination 30° without slipping. Its linear acceleration along the inclined plane will be
g/2
2g/3
A artificial satellite moving in a circular orbit around the earth has a total (kinetic + potential) energy E0. Its potential energy is
1.5 E0
-E0
The distance between centre of the earth and moon is 384000 km. If the mass of the earth is 6 ´ 1024 kg and G = 6.66 ´ 10-11 Nm2/kg2. The speed of the moon is nearly
1 km/sec
When body is raised to a height equal to radius of earth, the P.E. change is
MgR/2
2 MgR
A planet has twice the radius but the mean density is 1/4th as compared to earth. What is the radio of the escape velocity from the earth to that from the planet?
The masses of two planets are in the ratio 1 : 2. Their radii are in the ratio 1 : 2. The acceleration due to gravity on the planets are in the ratio.
If the acceleration due to gravity of a planet is half the acceleration due to gravity of earth's surface and radius of planet is half the radius of the earth, the mass of planet in terms of mass of earth is
Me/2
The radii of the earth and the moon are in the ratio 10 : 1 while acceleration due to gravity on the earth's surface and moon's surface are in the ratio 6 : 1. The ratio of escape velocities from earth's surface to that of moon surface is
The dimensions of universal gravitational constant are
M2 L2 T-2
M-1 L3 T-2
M L-1 T-2
M L2 T-2
Two identical solid copper spheres of radius R placed in contact with each other. The gravitational attracton between them is proportional to
R^-2
The centripetal force acting on a satellite orbiting round the earth and the gravitational force of earth acting on the satellite both equal F. The net force on the satellite is
F√2
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Following their debut EP Link Up & Suede, West Coast artists Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge have revealed their plans for a full-length NxWorries collaborative album, Yes Lawd. The album is set to drop on October 21st, via Stones Throw. Listen to a new NxWorries track, "Lyk Dis", and pre-order the album on iTunes.


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Q: Browsersync infinitely loading on larger pages? I'm having an issue with Browsersync specifically on larger pages throughout my blog. For example I have a contact page that is around 2k lines, however on larger pages around 6k lines and larger Browsersync seems to load for an infinite amount of time. (There are lots of inline comments within the HTML on my local environment hence the large output HTML)
My question, is there a maximum file size? or file length that Browsersync starts to choke on?
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Archive for February 22nd, 2010
Palapye set to have steel pipe factory
22 February, 2010 in Botswana, Business, Palapye
SEROWE – In an effort to diversify the countrys economy, Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) has financed the establishment of a steel pipe factory in Palapye, which is envisaged to create 200 jobs.
Responding to BOPA questionnaire, the corporations principal public affairs officer, Ms Boitshwarelo Lebang said clearing of the ground has commenced which will be followed by the civil engineering works (earthworks) and construction of the building.
All these will be carried out during this month and construction is expected to be completed by July 2010, she said.
Ms Lebang said Palapye was chosen due to its geographical location with access to sufficient electricity and A1 highway for ease of transport as well as access to South Africa through Martins Drift and Zambia/Zimbabwe through Francistown.
She explained that from their market research, studies on past imports and [continue reading]
VAT increment, a double blow far Selebi-Phikwe
22 February, 2010 in Botswana, Business
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
SELEBI-PHIKWE: The government decision to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) by two percentage points, from 10 percent to 12 percent, has been met with different reactions by the business community and individuals in this town.
The Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Kenneth Matambo announced in his budget speech last week that the VAT increase which is effective from April, is one of the many measures that the government has taken to get total estimated revenues as minerals revenues is not expected to reach normal levels until the 2012-2013 financial year. There was also no salary increase for civil servants for the second year running.
Speaking to Mmegi in an interview, Business Package Consultants Director, Dzimmbire Elliah Chimbwete said VAT increase has negative and positive impact to [continue reading]
Africa: Microfinance Stakeholders to Enhance Poverty Assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa
22 February, 2010 in Africa
Vanguard (Lagos)
Amaka Agwuegbo
The Grameen Foundation has announced an innovative, two-year initiative that is designed to help African microfinance institutions (MFIs) better target poor clients and track how they are moving out of poverty.
The initiative, the first of its kind in Africa, is being facilitated by the PPI Users Collaborative in Africa (PUCA), a new, multi-stakeholder group that unites five charter partners – Oikocredit, Catholic Relief Services, Terrafina Microfinance, Planet Rating and Grameen Foundation – with the national microfinance networks APIM/Mali and APSFD Senegal.
The Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) is a globally recognized poverty assessment tool that enables MFIs to understand their [continue reading]
US Congress members visit Botswana
22 February, 2010 in Botswana
GABORONE – A US delegation of four Congress members as well as some senior congressional staff will today begin a two-day official visit to Botswana, a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation says.
The release explains that the delegation will be led by Gregory W. Meeks of New York and Melvin Watt of North Carolina.
Furthermore, the release highlights that the delegation is visiting several African countries including Botswana to gain first hand information on the impact of the global financial crisis and the mitigation efforts, which have been put in place.
The visiting delegation, notes the release, will thereafter factor that assessment into [continue reading]
Government addresses merger problems
GABORONE – The Ministry of Local Government is working closely with that of defence, justice and security to address challenges that emerged after merging the Local Police and the Botswana Police Service.
Assistant Minister of Local Government, Mr Kentse Rammidi, told Parliament that, among other duties, the merger may have affected the administration of corporal punishment at customary courts.
He said, however, he was not aware that most customary courts were sending offenders deserving corporal punishment to already congested prisons or young offenders convicted of minor offences.
Mr Rammidi said the ministry has adviced dikgosi to consider alternative sentences such as [continue reading]


A Integrated Visions designed a state of the art projection system for midtown Manhattan's hottest new nightclub, Tokya. 360 degree projections surround the dance floor with digital artwork allowing the decor of the room to change with the push of a button. Integrated Visions also synchronized the venue's lighting system with the projected art creating a unified look for the venue. For this permanent installation, Integrated Visions used 5 projectors to create immersive projected artworks surrounding the dance floor. This multi-use venue serves as a restaurant, event space and nightclub making digital projections the perfect solution for the decor. During restaurant hours, the projected artworks create a unique mood that slowly evolves during dinner. On club nights, the 360 degree projection and lighting system are controlled by a live VJ from the Integrated Visions team keeping the lights, visuals and music in sync throughout the night. The artwork will continue to evolve each week ensuring each night is new and exciting.
Additional content by Luminator, HybridVisuals, and Muzencab.


Wine.com decided to leave Michigan to protest a new shipping law. Indeed the state passed a law banning retailers from shipping wines to consumers, and specifically the use of third-party delivery services such as FedEx and UPS. Since wine.com just launched aspecial delivery service, it is againts it best interests to keep working in Michigan.
Of course, consumers are upset but seem to be used to the decisions of their legislators. Some attorneys on the other hand claim that the new law is open to challenge, because the Supreme Court has ruled that states should not make it economically impossible for a company to do business. There might be hope for Michigan wine consumers!
Next post: Want to create your own wine in France?


Photography has always been very important in the American South.
From the 19th century on.
some of our greatest American photographers made images of the South.
Walker Evans and his friend James Agee.
and the landscape of these worlds in a way that is truly unforgettable.
white photographer our nation has produced.
struggling, in the midst of a country that has great wealth.
These words are really timeless.
>> Well, Andy was very young, you must remember.
scare people which is far from anything.
not poor for example really feel what it was like to be up against it.
he, he, he wanted to rub it in and, and, and, and, and, wha, wha, he was angry.
you think you're doing, living this way while these people are living this way?
And the hell with you.
To, to go to hell.
Which is, which is young and immature attitude.
But he was that way.
And as you remember some of those pages in that book do try to rub it in that way.
American society, who, who by the condition by.
Security, and by taking things for granted.
were shut out of that.
Not only shut out but suffering deeply.
Because of being shut out of it.
Which is, which is, is, as you and I know really an evil thing.
a shocking work of the devil somehow or other.
I still feel it today.
change during the WPA period when Franklin Roosevelt was president.
black families, as a way of waking up the American people to the need for change.
and using her camera to document them.
a writer of short stories and novels.
were in her career as a young woman trying to deal with the American South.


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Seasons - Tabletop Game Review
Seasons is a card-drafting / hand management game where each player is a powerful sorcerer taking part in a grand magic tournament.
The game takes place over two parts - The Prelude and The Tournament.
During the Prelude, players are each death nine cards, choose one from their pack and pass the remaining cards to the player next to them. This process continues until there are no cards left.
Each card can net you Crystals (victory points), Energy (four elements, used to play cards and use powers), and other special abilities. Also, each card played is worth a certain amount of points at the end of the game. With their new stack of nine, they organize them into 3 piles (1 for each "year" of play) of 3 cards each, then pick up the pile for year 1 - they can use these cards in the first, second, and third year; the next pile in the second and third; the last pile in the third year only.
THE TOURNAMENT
Players roll dice depending on the season, choosing abilities based on the die faces to help them summon cards to their play area, transmute energy for points, and claim the title of sorcerer supreme!
As this game is called Seasons, play progresses over 3 "years," or 12 "seasons." Each season has its own set of dice to roll, giving variable options to the players, and players have some control over how fast or slow the seasons change.
At the end of 3 years, the players total up their cards and any other Crystal bonuses at the end of the game. The highest total wins!
Before my final rating, some notes.
Time: the box says 60 minutes, but aim for 90-120. The game only takes an hour IF players are extremely fast on making their play decisions, and with so many options available turn to turn, that just isn't viable. So carve out about 2 hours and you'll have a blast.
Age: 14+, but doable with anyone 10+. It can be a lot to manage, though, so I leave that to all.
Awesomeness: 4/5
Learning Curve: Moderate (10 minute teach)
Family-friendly: YES
Final Verdict: I LOVE Seasons. Dice Rolling with hand management in a colorful, engaging game with a lot of changing variables through the changing seasons. There are MANY ways to win, which makes the game easy to pick up and supports tons of different strategies. That lets folks play their way without getting them stuck in the back, which makes the game automatically more fun for more people.
Seasons is published through Libellud, and designed by the awesome Régis Bonnessée.
You can find it at most game hobby shops and on Amazon.com.


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Q: PHP - Watermark PNG Transparency/Alpha I know this has been covered PLENTY of times but I keep trying different scripts and modifying the one I have, and I still can't get my PNG-24 watermark.png to be transparent over the top of my parent image.
This is what I have currently:
<?

header('content-type: image/jpeg');

$watermark = imagecreatefrompng('watermark.png');
$watermark_width = imagesx($watermark);
$watermark_height = imagesy($watermark);

$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($imageURL);
$image = imagecreatetruecolor($watermark_width, $watermark_height);
$size = getimagesize($imageURL);

imagealphablending($image, false);
imagesavealpha($image, true);

$dest_x = $size[0] - $watermark_width - 5;
$dest_y = $size[1] - $watermark_height - 5;

imagecopymerge($image, $watermark, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $watermark_width, $watermark_height, 100);

imagejpeg($image);

imagedestroy($image);
imagedestroy($watermark);

?>

I've just read another SO question and one of the answers advised that it won't be transparent if you don't add these two lines:
imagealphablending($image, false);
imagesavealpha($image, true);

I added them and still not. I tried setting headers and output to PNG instead but still no luck. I loaded the watermark in my browser (raw) and it's definitely transparent but just not on the image. Surely this can't be that difficult? Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

A: It's not an issue with the application code, it's with the watermark image (PNG) itself.
A lot of watermark examples/tutorials say to use a PNG-24 watermark, but according to a blog I've just read, they say that imagecopymerge does not deal with PNG-24 files very well, therefore, use PNG-8 and some special 'Save for Web' settings. I did this and it works fine now.
Here is the relevant section about PNG types from this blog:

The watermark image should be in one of the following recommended
  formats:

*

*PNG-8 (recommended)
    Colors: 256 or less
    Transparency: On/Off

*GIF
    Colors: 256 or less
    Transparency: On/Off

*JPEG
    Colors: True color
    Transparency: n/a

  The imagecopymerge function does not properly handle the PNG-24
  images; it is therefore not recommended.
If you are using Adobe Photoshop to create watermark images, it is
  recommended that you use "Save for Web" command with the following
  settings:
File Format: PNG-8, non-interlaced
Color Reduction: Selective, 256 colors
Dithering: Diffusion, 88%
Transparency: On, Matte: None
Transparency Dither: Diffusion Transparency Dither, 100%

And for other's benefits, this is the watermark code I have that works:
<?
$masterURL = 'mydomain.com/myImage.jpg';

header('content-type: image/jpeg');
$watermark = imagecreatefrompng('watermark.png');
$watermark_width = imagesx($watermark);
$watermark_height = imagesy($watermark);
$image = imagecreatetruecolor($watermark_width, $watermark_height);
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($masterURL);
$size = getimagesize($masterURL);
$dest_x = $size[0] - $watermark_width - 5;
$dest_y = $size[1] - $watermark_height - 5;
imagecopymerge($image, $watermark, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $watermark_width, $watermark_height, 100);
imagejpeg($image);
imagedestroy($image);
imagedestroy($watermark);
?>

After a bit more reading (this comment on the same article), I found out that you CAN use PNG-24 watermarks but with imagecopy instead of imagecopymerge. You can replace this line:
imagecopymerge($image, $watermark, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $watermark_width, $watermark_height, 100);

with this one:
imagecopy($image, $watermark, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $watermark_width, $watermark_height);

Using imagecopymerge with PNG-8 watermarks is quite good for 'on-the-fly' watermarking, as the watermark file is tiny. If you do watermarking 'behind-the-scenes', it doesn't really matter about file size and you can get much better quality from the PNG-24 watermark, using imagecopy.
I hope this helps the confused watermarkers out there.