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Q: Which one is the first argument in "Linearity in the first argument"? In the middle of the course, the lecturer is using Linearity of the Inner Product to do some math, and I don't remember this clearly, so I searched a little bit.
the wiki says

Linearity in the first argument:

$${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\langle ax,y\rangle &=a\langle x,y\rangle \\\langle x+y,z\rangle &=\langle x,z\rangle +\langle y,z\rangle \end{aligned}}}$$
in the context, why only first argument has the Linearity?

A: Its correct. Linearity in the first argument means that for fixed $y\in V$, the mapping
$\langle \cdot,y\rangle:V\rightarrow K: x\mapsto\langle x,y\rangle$
is linear, where $V$ is a $K$-vector space. The linearity in the second argument can be defined similarly. But when working in Hilbert spaces over the complex numbers, one only has linearity in the first argument and anti-linearity in the second.


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Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has brokered a $1.5B project for the establishment of a Shoe Industry in Aba, the commercial nerve Centre of Abia State from Huajian Shoe Industry in Dongguan, Guangzhou, China.
Governor Ikpeazu, according to a press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Enyinnaya Appolos, secured the agreement during a meeting with Mr. Zhang Huarong, Group Chairman of the Huajian Group in the course of his official visit to China for the 1st Nigeria-China Governors Investment Forum.
The Abia-Huajian Shoe Industrial City, which will be located in Aba will have capacity to produce 5,000 shoes per day and employ about 10,000 people directly and indirectly.
Abia State Government will provide the land and other investment incentives for the project while the Huajian Group will fund the entire project.
Huajian Group currently employs about 20,000 staff in China and operates a 10,000 shoes per day Factory in Dongguan valued at $2B.


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ont opéré cette désignation, soit un certificat délivré par la personne
compétente pour établir cet acte. Le certificat énonce les noms et prénoms des
futurs époux, le lieu où ils demeurent, la date de l'acte de désignation, ainsi
que les nom, qualité et résidence de la personne qui l'a établi.

Lorsque la désignation de la loi applicable est faite au cours du mariage, les
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civile. S'ils ont passé un contrat de mariage, mention de la loi applicable
ainsi désignée est portée sur la minute de celui-ci.

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RA's Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 30, 2015
By Citizen M | Published: January 30, 2015
TODAY: EU votes to extend anti-Russia sanctions; Human Rights Watch says Western complacency aggravated Ukraine crisis; Russia in tit-for-tat with U.S. over Magnitsky sanctions; interest rates still at crippling 17%; Putin's daughter's whereabouts revealed; opposition launch anti-Russian propaganda channel.
The European Union has decided to extend its current anti-Russia sanctions until September, as a continued punitive measure over the fighting in eastern Ukraine; Greece did not use its veto, as had been previously hinted. Human Rights Watch blames the West for its complacency in the face of increasing rights violations in Russia over the past three years, saying that the 'narrow' reaction to constant crackdowns 'may well have aggravated' the Ukraine crisis. Russia has added four new U.S. citizens to its tit-for-tat sanctions blacklist in response to Washington's latest extension of its 2012 Magnitsky List. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says he still fears that the Cold War between Russia and the West will turn into a 'Hot War'. President Vladimir Putin insists that Russia will remain a part of the global economy. The Central Bank has no plans to cut the current stifling interest rate of 17%, which, even according to Kremlin economic aides, is making it impossible to conduct business. Russia spent more on gold last year than any other time since the Soviet era due to its need to escape dollar dependency and support the ruble. A new anti-graft decree to be signed by Putin indicates that 'the government is genuinely tightening the screws on corruption'.
The pseudonym and whereabouts of Vladimir Putin's daughter were leaked by independent media holding RBC yesterday, and the news – dismissed but not denied by the Kremlin – was quickly spread by Putin's various opponents. Opposition leaders in Russia and Belarus are launching a Russian-language television channel in Estonia to combat the Kremlin's widespread propaganda. The Justice Ministry is in 'no hurry' to act on the European Court of Human Rights' ruling in the Yukos case. The Economist reviews Bill Browder's new memoir, Red Notice, praising it for making the fate of Sergei Magnitsky 'an international cause célèbre'.
The Independent's Mary Dejevsky argues against the theory that Alexander Litvinenko was murdered by the Kremlin, calling it too easy.
PHOTO: Russia's President Vladimir Putin writes in a visitors' book after a seminar with regional leaders at the Sberbank's Corporative University in the village of Anosino, outside Moscow, January 29, 2015. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin
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After getting engaged, you may start to think about everything related to the wedding that you want to plan. While you can put a lot of time and effort into hiring the right vendors to end up with great food and beautiful flowers, the memories of these things will pass with time.
But, your wedding photo collection is something that will stick around for a lifetime. This makes it important to hire an ideal wedding photographer to provide you with the best photos.
When you meet with certain photographers, you will find that some of them work with multiple professionals to accommodate the needs of their clients. Although you can get a lot of high-quality photos from a single professional, you will benefit from using multiple photographers.
One photographer can only take photos from one angle for the most important shots. Even though these photos may come out looking good, you cannot go wrong with having two photographers to capture several angles because you may end up liking one more than the other.
While your budget is something that you will want to follow when hiring a wedding photographer, you should also consider the style of every professional you analyze. This is only something that you will be able to learn about by looking at all the portfolios in great detail.
An ideal photographer to hire is one with a photographic style that you understand and appreciate. This will lead to receiving wedding photos in a style that you know you will like.
Although you could cut costs by going with a short photo session that covers the ceremony and most of the reception, you can get so much more out of wedding photos with a longer session. A great idea is to hire a wedding photographer for as long as you can for the wedding day. This will ensure that even the minor happenings before and after the wedding are captured in photos.
In addition to appreciating the style of a photographer, you should consider giving them full creative freedom when it comes to photographing your wedding. Although photographers can follow a schedule and long list of photos to capture, you will likely end up with a more unique and impressive photo collection when you let a photographer work in their preferred way.
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The first Jewish women, like the first Jewish men, arrived in Australia on the very first day of European settlement in 1788. Those convict pioneers were followed by free settlers who made Jewish communal and congregational life viable and helped to develop the vast continent. Jewish women have made significant contributions to Australia's national story.
As the first vegan chef to win a TV cooking competition, Chloe Coscarelli has helped vegan food gain more widespread acceptance.
Judith Montefiore
Often referred to as the "First Lady of Anglo Jewry," Judith Montefiore embodied all the Victorian virtues of high moral purpose, sense of duty, charity, and public-mindedness and was also a fierce loyalist to her faith and her people, devoted to Jewish causes and the welfare of Jews the world over.
Lina Morgenstern
In the face of formidable anti-Semitic opposition, Lina Morgenstern was a highly successful feminist author, educator, and peace activist who was supported by many, including the Prussian Empress Augusta. In 1896 she organized the first International Congress of Women in Germany, which was attended by feminist leaders from all over the world.
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Resisting trends towards fussy recipes with complicated instructions and esoteric ingredients, Deb Perelman focused her Smitten Kitchen food blog on "foolproof" recipes that incorporated feedback from online commenters.
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Food writer and cookbook author Claudia Roden single-handedly opened up the world of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish foods to chefs, food critics and home cooks across the globe providing a new portal into understanding and experiencing Jewish food and culture.
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Fiction writer Alicia Steimberg (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1933-2012) garnered important literary prizes. Her work as a translator was awarded by the Konex Foundation and she served the government as Director of Books of the Secretariat of Culture.
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Alice Babette Toklas, cookbook author and memoirist, along with her companion Gertrude Stein, served as host to one of the liveliest literary and artistic salons in Paris, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. In the last decades of her life, Toklas was sought after for her many stories about her famous friends and acquaintances—and enemies—including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Thornton Wilder, and scores of other writers, artists, and musicians.


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Holidays are often a time for family, connection and shared traditions. For many of us, this year's Thanksgiving table may have a few additional chairs in an attempt to make up for traditions and festivities that were previously limited by the pandemic.
However, the holidays are not all pumpkin pie and whipped cream, as holidays have consistently been identified as a particularly difficult time for those struggling with behavioral health concerns, such as anxiety, depression and addiction. This year, many clinicians who work within the addiction space are particularly concerned, as the pandemic has exposed an epidemic of addiction that, in many ways, surpasses the health impact of COVID-19.
During the early months of the pandemic in 2020, national alcohol sales rose more than 34%. As we all remember, this was a period of lockdown that impacted nearly all bars, restaurants and social establishments that publicly served alcohol. Some optimistic clinicians may have viewed this statistical increase merely as evidence that individuals were purchasing more alcohol due to the physical circumstances of the pandemic, and perhaps an increase in purchasing did not equal an increase in consumption.
However, shortly thereafter, medical systems across the nation began to see increased admissions for alcohol-related conditions, including excessive alcohol intoxication and acute alcohol withdrawal.
Within Vail Health Hospital, we have seen 10 times as many patients for substance use and alcohol-related health concerns than for COVID-19. The number of patients whom our hospital system has had to place on a ventilator due to the impact of alcohol far exceeds the number of patients placed on a ventilator due to COVID-19. In our hospital and many others across the nation, we recognize that although our lives have been forever changed by a pandemic, we are continuing to ignore our community's greatest epidemic.
Given the upcoming holiday season, many families and friends have been reaching out to identify ways to support someone's mental health recovery. Here are a few tips:
Many holiday activities center around a focal point of alcohol. This can be incredibly difficult for those in recovery who want to connect with friends and loved ones, but do not want to use substances. Try to center activities around other health-centered activities, such as hiking, turkey trots or skiing.
When hosting an event that does include alcohol, make sure to include nonalcoholic options like so-called mocktails.
Wine is often a go-to host gift during the holiday season. Perhaps turn to other alternatives, such as baked treats, flowers or holiday decors.
Normalize not drinking in every social setting. Although you may not be in recovery, your choice to grab that sparkling water over wine can help someone else in their journey.
Additionally, it is important to know where to turn for services if you or someone you love is struggling with behavioral health concerns. It is important to know that the supportive services listed below are not solely for the individual struggling with a diagnosis. Supportive services can assist families and friends understand their role in recovery or how to manage their own distress if someone they love is not yet ready to engage in change.
AA/Alanon: There are meetings across the valley. For more information, go to VailAlcoholicsAnonymous.com/meetings/.
Eagle Valley Behavioral Health: Find a list of local providers, including services focused on substance use, abuse, and addiction. For more information, go to Eaglevalleybh.org.
Colorado Mountain Medical: Joe Drew is a pain and substance abuse specialist providing medication-assisted treatment.
Olivia's Fund Scholarship Program: This program is designed to ensure everyone has access to behavioral health services regardless of ability to pay.
Dr. Casey Wolfington is a licensed psychologist and the community behavioral health director with Eagle Valley Behavioral Health. Wolfington has been embedded within Vail Health's COVID-19 Response Team since January 2020.
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Health & Wellness | Science & Technology
Rudy Eikelboom December 29, 2015 August 26, 2022
Cataracts and the gift of sight
An 18th century sculpture relief of Jesus healing the blind man.
Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?"
He looked up and said, "I see people; they look like trees walking around."
– Mark 8:24
Jesus had just spat in the blind man's eyes and laid his hands on him. So Jesus lays his hands on him again. Now he sees clearly – but it required two treatments. Vision is a central concern in many of the miracles done by Jesus.
Cataract surgery is one of our medical success stories: it has improved patients' vision and given them the ability to continue living productive lives. My understanding from people who have had this procedure is that it is quick, not very painful and life changing, a true blessing.
Usually cataracts develop later in life. Unfortunately, children can also be born with cataracts. With our medical system these babies are generally diagnosed quickly, undergo surgery and live with minimal long-term consequences. However, in countries with limited access to health care, these babies are sometime untreated and so grow up blind.
Past research has indicated that early visual input from the eyes is needed for the brain's visual system to develop normally. In research done with animals by Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel, the absence of patterned input early in life meant that animals could not use their visual system effectively later. Researchers fit light-blurring covering over the animal's eyes for the first few months of life, depriving the visual system of patterned information but not light. Upon removing the lenses, they discovered that the brain could not process visual patterns properly. The animal's vision was impaired for life.
Hubel and Wiesel found that the visual cortex in the brain is plastic in very early life. Over a few months, the brain neurons wire themselves into effective modules that respond to visual information like lines, corners and movement. In the absence of patterned input, this wiring process is random, and an animal cannot respond properly to visual information. The work suggested that a critical period exists for the establishment of vision. In the absence of sight in this critical phase, nothing could be done later to restore vision. Thus doctors assumed that treating individuals with infant cataracts later in childhood would be useless; the brain would never learn how to use the visual information properly. Wiesel and Hubel were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1981 for their research and related work on the visual system of the brain.
A recent Science article provides a hopeful counter to their findings. Rhitu Chatterjee reports on a research program in India (where untreated cataracts in children are unfortunately not an uncommon problem) that tested Hubel and Wiesel's conclusions. Researchers led by Pawan Sinha removed cataracts from about 500 teenagers and found that their brains still had the ability to start using visual information, even at this late developmental stage. Slowly, over about a year or so, these youth started to see better and better. While they did not reach the visual acuity of individuals who see from birth, they were able to use visual information to ride a bike in a crowded market. Most had difficulty reading fine print, but newspaper headlines were fine. Like the blind man healed by Jesus, they first saw things unclearly and only slowly were able to come to "see" and use the visual information now supplied by their eyes.
Sinha and his associates suspect that the visual system gradually rewires in these individuals, making them able to integrate the new visual input with information from the other senses to give them a more complete appreciation of their world. Images of brain activity suggest that these youth gradually come to use the same parts of the brain in visual tasks (such as recognising faces) that are used by normally sighted individuals. This research suggests the human brain has a remarkable degree of plasticity even into adulthood.
Clearly, early treatment for cataracts is preferable, but this work gives hope to many individuals who were condemned to a life of blindness. While we do not know the nature of the blindness that Jesus healed in the specific incident recorded in Mark, we can be thankful that now doctors are able to help individuals with at least some specific types of blindness.
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Rudy Eikelboom is a Professor of Psychology, at Wilfrid Laurier University, who has emerged from the dark side of the University after being department chair for 9 years and now teaches behavioural statistics to graduate and undergraduate psychology students. His retirement looms and he is looking forward to doing more writing on the implications of modern science for our Christian faith. Currently, he serves as a pastoral elder at the Waterloo Christian Reformed Church.
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Monday morning and there's another sad story: a person who vocally opposed vaccinations for COVID-19 has died from the disease. Before dying, the patient tells loved ones, "Get vaccinated." I doubt that these stories do much to change the minds of people who are firmly against COVID vaccinations. What does bother me, however, is the…
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Severe pain radiated from the left side of my chest. My lungs felt scraped raw; two rib joints were so swollen they protruded like giant knuckles. "It's just inflammation from your body fighting covid. There's nothing we can do," the attending doctor said, after several tests had normal results. "Go home and rest. Take Advil."…
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The healing power of a listening ear
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Polio is a disease that the World Health Organization is seeking to eradicate worldwide. Today, wild polio cases occur only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The success of this eradication work is due to the availability of two very effective vaccines. These vaccines work by causing the body to generate an immune response against the poliovirus….
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This post is by Paul Brockway, research fellow at the University of Leeds. He examines roles and relationships between energy, economy and society as part of UKERC's research programme. This blog was initially published on the Green Alliance Blog.
Energy efficiency is often seen as a win-win: falling energy use benefits consumers and the environment, whilst it also allows the economy to grow. However, our recent research into energy rebound or 'take back' (when energy efficiency can be cancelled out by changes in people's behaviour) suggests it may hamper the effectiveness of policy aimed at reducing energy use and its associated carbon emissions.
Climate change is rightly seen as the biggest threat to our planet. Since energy related CO2 emissions are 80 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, a significant policy effort has been focused on reducing energy use and decarbonising energy supply. The problem of energy rebound has been known since Jevons highlighted it over 150 years ago, when he suggested that energy efficiency may increase – not decrease – energy use.
Our research estimated the size of overall national level rebound for the UK and, in line with other studies, we found evidence for a partial rebound effect: where only around 70 per cent of planned savings actually occur.
Some might wonder if this means we should abandon efficiency as part of the solution. The short answer is no. Instead, we should remember that energy efficiency policies are still working, just not quite as well as we hoped. The way to address rebound in this case is to build in sufficient policy 'headroom', increasing energy efficiency targets to allow for predicted energy take back via rebound.
What about the industrialising world?
We also looked at the case of China, and found evidence for possible 'backfire', where energy use is actually higher than before energy efficiency technologies were introduced. Why is this so? It suggests that larger rebounds occur in industrialising countries (the UK in Jevons' time), as efficiency accelerates the cycle of lowering the cost of production, thereby increasing production, and further reducing costs.
So is rebound in this case a bad thing? Again, no. Energy efficiency was done for economic reasons long before we knew about climate change. Helping to lower the cost of energy services has had wide social benefits in the spread of lighting, transport, heating etc, greatly improving quality of life for millions across the globe. But now those benefits need to be balanced against the need to cut CO2 emissions.
The presence of backfire suggests a different response to the policy headroom suggested for the UK. If we think of renewables and energy efficiency as two policy dials, then, if the energy efficiency dial isn't working to reduce energy demand due to backfire, the renewables dial should be turned up to compensate and ensure we can keep global warming within target limits.
If renewables are undercutting fossil-based power, won't their cheaper price lead to something akin to rebound too? Perhaps, but an increase in energy use due to falling renewables prices may (in contrast to energy efficiency induced rebound) be beneficial for cutting climate change emissions, if it lowers the cost of renewables further and accelerates the displacement of fossil fuels with cheaper, clean energy.
Rebound gets a lot of interest from policy contrarians, and our research suggests that it's a significant challenge for rapidly industrialising countries. But energy efficiency has improved lives across the world and its benefits outweigh the drawbacks. Rather than allowing rebound to cast doubt on the policy, we just need to better understand the scale of rebound, and respond appropriately: by building headroom into our energy efficiency policies in the UK and speeding up the renewables transition to deal with backfire.


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There are movies where actors aren't characters bu... (Christian Bale)
There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.
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There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.
I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.


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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US and UK's recent failed anti-Tehran resolution is nothing but an attempt to cover up their roll in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.
Zarif also reiterated Tehran's calls for ceasefire, aid, and an inclusive government in the country, while stressing that dialogue was the only solution to the crisis in Yemen.
"Desperate attempt @ UNSC by US&UK to cover up complicity in 3 yrs of Saudi & Emirati war crimes in Yemen failed. Since the very start, Iran called for ceasefire, aid, dialogue & inclusive government. This—not a delusion of military victory or accusations—remains the only solution" Zarif tweeted late on Tuesday.
The Iranian foreign minister made the comment a day after Russia vetoed a resolution at the Security Council, presented by Britain and strongly backed by the United States, which called for "additional measures" against Iran over accusations that it violated the 2015 arms embargo on the war-torn Arabian Peninsula state.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has said that the United States and Britain are responsible for Saudi Arabia's continued warmongering and military aggression against Yemen.
Earlier in the day, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi said that Russia's vote against the UN draft resolution represented another setback for the US.
The draft resolution gained 11 favorable votes at the 15-member Security Council but was blocked by Russia's veto. China and Kazakhstan abstained, while Bolivia also voted against the measure.
A group of so-called independent United Nations experts monitoring the sanctions on Yemen reported to the Security Council in January that it had "identified missile remnants, related military equipment and military unmanned aerial vehicles that are of Iranian origin and were brought into Yemen after the imposition of the targeted arms embargo."
The Security Council instead adopted unanimously a Russian-written resolution that called for a one-year extension of sanctions against Yemen and a renewal of the work of the panel of experts.
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Q: Solving a complex double-integral equation for a third variable I'm trying to solve the following equation for the variable h:

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*F is the normal cumulative distribution function

*f is the probability density function of chi-square distribution.

I want to solve it numerically using Matlab.
First I tried to solve the problem with a simpler version of function F and f.
Then, I tried to solve the problem as below:
n = 3;    % n0 in the equation
k = 2;
P = 0.99; % P* in the equation
F = @(x,y,h) normcdf(h./sqrt((n-1)*(1./x+1./y)));
g1 = @(y,h)integral(@(x) F(x,y,h).*chi2pdf(x,n),0,Inf, 'ArrayValued', true);
g2 = @(h) integral(@(y) (g1(y,h).^(k-1)).*chi2pdf(y,n),0,Inf)-P;
bsolve = fzero(g2,0)

I obtained an answer of 5.1496. The problem is that this answer seems wrong.
There is a paper which provides a table of h values obtained by solving the above equation. This paper was published in 1984, when the computer power was not good enough to solve the equation quickly. They solved it with various values:

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*n0 = 3:20, 30:10:50

*k  = 2:10

*P* = 0.9, 0.95 and 0.99
They provide the value of h in each case.
Now I'm trying to solve this equation and get the value of h with different values of n0, k and P* (for example n0=25, k=12 and P*=0.975), where the paper does not provide the value of h.
The Matlab code above gives me different values of h than the paper.
For example:

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*n0=3, k=2 and P*=0.99: my code gives h = 5.1496, the paper gives h = 10.276.

*n0=10, k=4 and P*=0.9: my code gives h = 2.7262, the paper gives h = 2.912.

The author says

The integrals were evaluated using 32 point Gauss-Laguerre numerical quadrature. This was accomplished by evaluating the inner integral at the appropriate 32 values of y which were available from the IBM subroutine QA32. The inner integral was also evaluated using 32 point Gauss-Laguerre numerical quadrature. Each of the 32 values of the inner integral was raised to the k-1 power and multiplied by the appropriate constant.

Matlab seems to use the same method of quadrature:

q = integral(fun,xmin,xmax) numerically integrates function fun from xmin to xmax using global adaptive quadrature and default error tolerances.

Does any one have any idea which results are correct? Either I have made some mistake(s) in the code, or the paper could be wrong - possibly because the author used only 32 values in estimating the integrals?

A: This does work, but the chi-squared distribution has (n-1) degrees of freedom, not n as in the code posted. If that's fixed then the Rinott's constant values agree with literature. Or at least, the literature that isn't behind a paywall. Can't speak to the 1984 Wilcox.

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It was one of the biggest surprises scientists got in 2018: an elusive native penguin species that proved it could swim the equivalent distance between Auckland and Indonesia in just eight weeks.
The endangered Fiordland penguin or tawaki's incredible 7000km-long journey, detailed in a recent study, has been recreated in a Herald data visualisation.
The endangered species inhabits the rugged and inaccessible coastline and fiord systems of southwestern New Zealand.
But scientists had much more to learn - and a team from Otago University, Antarctic Research Trust and the Global Penguin Society have been studying its small population and breeding biology.
Throughout this so-called pre-moult journey, time was of the essence as the birds only had eight to 10 weeks before they have to make landfall again to replace their entire plumage at once.
During the moult, the penguins cannot go out to feed and have to stay on land for three weeks, so it is important for the birds to gain a lot of weight during this journey.
The study revealed, in a relatively short period of time, the penguins travelled enormous distances towards Antarctica to reach the subantarctic front almost 3000km south of New Zealand and Tasmania.
After only eight weeks they returned to the breeding sites to moult, having travelled as far as 7000km during their foraging - something scientists described as an "incredible achievement" for a flightless seabird.
They believed the penguins might be following an instinct rather than an actual need to forage in subantarctic waters.


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Cleopatra 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: She Never Looked Better
For those who enjoy off-screen stories as much as on, this release delivers a wealth of entertainment.
By Gordon S. Miller on December 18, 2013 11:13 PM |
20th Century Fox celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Cleopatra (1963) with an impressive two-disc Blu-ray set. Historical in two ways, this epic mirrors real life as pride and ego of the main players, in front of and behind the camera, led to their downfall.
The story is told in two parts, each centering upon a romance of Cleopatra. In 48 BC, Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) and his forces arrive in Egypt in pursuit of Roman general Pompey the Great. Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan) and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor), she 18 and he even younger, are fighting for rule of country and seek support from Caesar. The beautiful Cleopatra has an advantage over her brother and gains favor with Caesar, leading to their having a son.
Caesar returns home to Rome and leaves Cleopatra as the queen. Two years pass, before they see each other. Her arrival is such an astounding spectacle I can't think of anything else that rivals it in cinema. Just from this sequence alone, it's easy to see why the film won two of its four Oscars for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color and Best Costume Design, Color. Friends and rivals aren't happy about Cleopatra showing up with Caesar's bastard son, especially because he is still married to his third and last wife, Calpurnia (Gwen Watford).
Caesar makes it known he wants to be made Emperor of Rome, which upsets some Senators. However, it's not clear why this is an issue from either side. Caesar has already been named Dictator for Life, which sounds quite powerful already. There's no indication what more the title would bestow and why no one is shown bothered by the "Dictator for Life" designation, which sounds quite powerful in its own right. History has dictated what occurs on the Ides of March, which brings the film to an intermission.
Three years pass. Cleopatra returned home since her son was given no power to rule. The Second Triumvirate was instituted, but two of the members, Ceasar's nephew Octavian (Roddy McDowall) and Mark Antony (Richard Burton), aren't satisfied with what they've been given. Antony seeks out help from Cleopatra and they become lovers. Word gets out and when he returns to Rome, Antony is forced into marrying Octavian's sister, to Cleopatra's anger and disappointment. He eventually returns to her, leading to the Battle of Actium where the Roman navy defeats its opponent. I am surprised this sequence hasn't received more praise over the years. It was my favorite in the entire film and it's easy to see why Emil Kosa, Jr. won an Oscar for Best Special Effects. Those who know their history know how the rest of the film plays out.
Although a major financial failure due to the out of control production costs, its original $2 million budget swelling to $44 million, Cleopatra is not as bad as its reputation suggests even if it nearly bankrupted the studio. While the pacing is too slow and little is offered for viewers to connect with the characters, it's on par will similar cinematic spectacles of the era like The Robe. Remove the chariot scene, and Ben-Hur is a boring melodrama. Cleopatra delivers good acting performances, an impressive naval battle, and Alex North's great score.
The Blu-ray is presented in a 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 encoded transfer displayed at 2.20:1 and the visuals are exquisite. All the money spent can be seen on the screen. The costumes appear in bold, rich colors and offer magnificent ornate detail, as does the set decoration. Film grain appears. The one negative is the high definition contributes to the matte paintings and rear projection looking false. The English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround offers a satisfying experience. The score fills surrounds. The actors can be heard clearly and accentuate the space as they can be heard in different position about the soundscape. No signs of age or defect on the track.
Cleopatra is spread across two Blu-rays and each disc offers extras about the making of the film that should delight its fans and those of the behind-the-scenes shenanigans.
Actor Martin Landau (Rufio) and director Joe's Mankiewicz son Tom, who was a second assistant director, deliver audio commentary in separate interviews on Part 1. "Cleopatra Through the Ages: A Cultural History" (HD, 8 min) is a brief examination of the woman and the accuracy of how she has been depicted throughout history. "Cleopatra's Missing Footage" (HD, 8 min) talks about the deleted footage from the long-running production and a man who looked around the world in '90s for old elements from the film. "Fox Movie Channel Presents Fox Legacy with Tom Rothman" (SD, 29 min) finds the studio president hosting this look at the film's fascinating yet troubled production. "The Cleopatra Papers: A Private Correspondence" (HD) is the title of created from the correspondence between Nathan Weiss, publicity manager at 20th Century Fox, and his assistant Jack Brodsky as they dealt with the PR headache that was this project. This gallery presents excerpts from 21 letters and telegrams that were written between 10/20/61 - 7/28/62.
Disc Two continues the Audio Commentary with Marin Landau and Tom Mankiewicz. Tom's brother Chris, another second assistant director on the film, and publicist Jack Brodsky join in with their recollections. "Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood" (SD, 119 min) is a 2001 documentary that offers an extensive look at the production. Interviews include commentary track contributors as well as new additions like Roddy McDowell to offer a more complete picture of what went on. The doc offers a peek at the cast that might have been with a look at Joan Collins' screen test as Cleopatra and Peter Finch as Caesar. "The Fourth Star of Cleopatra" (SD, 9 min) is the film itself as revealed in this 1964 featurette. Fox Movietone News (SD, 6 min) presents the film's premiere in New York and in a second clip shows premieres in both Hollywood and Washington, DC.
What Cleopatra may lack in terms of drama was certainly made up for behind the scenes during the waning days of the Classic Hollywood era. For those who enjoy off-screen stories as much as on, the 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray delivers a wealth of entertainment. The film looking and sounding great in high definition is a bonus.
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Sonoma, CA - It was announced today that 15 year-old Sting Ray Robb will compete in the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires with World Speed Motorsports for the 2017 season. This will be Robb's rookie season on the second step of the Mazda Road to Indy ladder.
"Sting Ray has an impressive racing background," noted World Speed Motorsports President Telo Stewart. "In addition to an incredible karting resume, Sting Ray ran a limited schedule with us last year in the Formula Car Challenge and is a proven winner. Sting Ray is ready for Pro Mazda and we are looking forward to helping him achieve his goals on the Mazda Road to Indy."
The first race of the season takes place at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg in March.
The Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires will distribute over $1.1 million in prizes and awards in 2017. The series champion will receive a scholarship package from Mazda of $790,300 to advance to Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires in 2018. Additional champion's awards include a Cooper Tires Award for tires and series award for race entries.
Each of the top-three finishers in the championship will receive a one-day Indy Lights test. There is also a new Pro Mazda Rookie of the Year Mazda Car Award which features a new Mazda street car of choice to the winning driver.
The awards are the largest in series history, and the budgets are the lowest they have been since 2003.
From the earliest time I can remember, driving a race car has been my dream. On my fifth birthday my parents got me my first kid kart, I was so excited I shouted "I've waited my whole life to be five!" That dream, passion and drive has never dimmed... it has only grown brighter with each passing season and every increase in the size of the machine has been a sensational gift to me!
Moving from karts to cars over the last two years has been a whirlwind as I've explored nearly every venue; everything from Corvettes to Pro Mazda, paved and dirt modified cars, as well as NASCAR Road and Oval Track cars. Racing under the tutelage of Telo Stewart at World Speed Motorsports in the FormulaSPEED during this past season was an awesome experience and provided some clarity for my future plans.
Winning that class at the IndyCar Go Pro Grand Prix Finale in Sonoma was certainly one of the highlights of my life. It now seems a natural progression to pilot the Pro Mazda for World Speed in the 2017 Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires. I am very excited about the opportunity to again be working with Telo's talented, experienced, and dedicated crew at WSM.
As one of the youngest competitors in the Pro Mazda Championship, I know there is still a lot to learn and accomplish, a challenge I am very excited about. I do not take this opportunity lightly and pledge to diligently prepare mentally, physically and spiritually as the WSM team guides me through the next levels of open-wheel motorsport competition.
I am greatly humbled to be in this position at this juncture of my life and career. All of "us" have worked tremendously hard (all the way back to my kid kart days) to reach this point. I am so thankful and blessed for all my family, friends, fans, sponsors and financial supporters that have believed in me and sacrificed so much through the years. So it is with a heart full of gratitude that I wish you and your families a blessed, safe and happy holiday season. Stay tuned and enjoy the exciting ride with us starting in the Spring of 2017! We'll keep you posted.


Blind Jack sign - Roger Hewitt, the Town Crier of Knaresborough; Bernard Higgins of the Blind Jack of Knaresborough Tri-centennial Anniversary Committee; Coun Anne Jones, Mayor of the Borough of Harrogate; and Coun David Goode, Mayor of Knaresborough, unveil the road sign in honour of John Metcalf in 2017.
One of the most dynamic forces in last year's celebrations to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of legendary Knaresborough figure John 'Blind Jack' Metcalfe has been invited to Buckingham Palace.
But former teacher Bernard Higgins insists the honour reflects the hard work of everyone involved in the Blind Jack of Knaresborough Tri-centennial Anniversary Committee.
He said: "I was incredibly humbled when I opened the official letter during Christmas week from the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire's Office and read my name had been submitted for invitation to attend Her Majesty The Queen's Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in May.
"But everyone single person on the committee was instrumental in achieving what we did last year.
A series of charity events to mark the legendary roadbuilder's achievements was held throughout the year.
Perhaps the biggest was the successful bid to have part of the Knaresborough-Harrogate bypass renamed.
Bernard said: "John Metcalf's legacy is what we travel on a daily basis. The Tour de France and now the Tour de Yorkshire travel on some of the roads he originally built.
"The naming of the 'John Metcalf Way' along a three mile stretch of the A 658, the Southern Bypass on July 7 last year was long overdue.
"many thanks should go to Wallace Sampson, Richard Cooper and Sue Simmons for their help and guidance in the road naming proposal."
More than £2,200 was raised through Blind Jack events for local charities Vision Support Centre, Harrogate District, East Parade, Harrogate; RNIB, Tate House, Wetherby Road, Harrogate and Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre, Bond End, Knaresborough.


I met Julie and Josh in Atascadero at Portola Inn on a warm June evening. We had a great shoot! They were so fun to photograph. Looking forward to their September wedding at Graveyard Vineyards in San Miguel!


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Q: Are there HTTP Client/Server components for Delphi that support iOS? I am developing a program in Delphi/Object Pascal that acts as an HTTP request router on various platforms.  It's a sort of proxy that is designed to pass through certain HTTP requests and field others locally.  I have it running on Windows, and would now like to port it to iOS.
The program currently uses the Indy Internet component suite to implement an HTTP Client and HTTP Server.  I recently discovered that although these components will compile successfully to iOS using Delphi XE4, they are not supported and will not run.
I am looking for a workable option.  I am aware of other component suites such as IP*Works and  RealThinClient, but have no experience with them.
Has anyone developed an HTTP Client/HTTP Server application in this environment? I realize that Delphi support for iOS is quite new, as XE4 has only just been released.  But XE2 had an iOS solution based on FreePascal (which I initially used to create my program in Lazarus to port to Linux & MacOS).  Also XE4 has been in beta test up until this week.  So it's possible someone may have tried this by now.

A: The XE4 feature matrix states:

New in XE4! Indy for iOS

So I believe you can use the version of Indy that ships with the product. It's possible that you are building from out of date source.

A: Internet Direct (Indy), the communications library that comes with Delphi, supports iOS.


Cardiovascular response to thermoregulatory challenges.
Projections for temperature-related years of life lost from cardiovascular diseases in the elderly in a Chinese city with typical subtropical climate.
Aggregating the response in time series regression models, applied to weather-related cardiovascular mortality.
Cardiac autonomic function during hypothermia and its measurement repeatability.
2-Ethylpyrazine Induces Vasodilatation by Releasing Nitric Oxide in the Endothelium.
Effect of Influenza Vaccination on Risk of Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Temporal Trends and Temperature-Related Incidence of Electrical Storm: The TEMPEST Study (Temperature-Related Incidence of Electrical Storm).
Temperature and mortality on the roof of the world: a time-series analysis in three Tibetan counties, China.
Cold and heat waves in the United States.
Diurnal temperature range and daily cardiovascular mortalities among the elderly in Hong Kong.
Effects of cold and hot temperature on dehydration: a mechanism of cardiovascular burden.
Effects of heat waves on mortality: effect modification and confounding by air pollutants.


I wait a lot. There are a number of reasons for my sitting in my car or on a bench or grassy knoll outside of stores that don't interest me. The first reason is Jane, I've been waiting on her for forty-four years. There is a reason I wait for her, I love being with her, even if I am not interested in the event. Then there is the fact that I show up ten minutes early to almost everything, fair warning if you invite us over. Being early is a habit, it could be based in fear, anxiety, or my loving nature that doesn't want to offend, you choose. Most people I meet with are five- ten minutes late. They think this is entirely normal and not rude, in fact, they think they are not late unless it is fifteen minutes. Just test this out, if they are ten minutes late, no apology, it takes at least fifteen to create any sense of offence. This year I decided to take a positive step to change my demeanor while I am waiting, instead of blurting out when they do apologize, "I'm old, I don't have that much time left, furthermore, I don't want sorry, I want repentance." I have decided to read Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace while I wait. That is a very large tome of 1276 pages, so I have the kindle edition. I have read 7% and its only May- I am still in the opening scence.
There are a number of ways to explain the need for people to live in an accountable community. The human being naturally seeks convenience and the path of least resistance. That is why a covenant is necessary to increase the possibility that men and women will grow in relationship to Christ.
Pachomius was one of the first of the desert fathers to create a community. Several younger monks approached Pachomius to ask for instruction in the monastic way. Pachomius invited them to live with him so that he could teach them by example. So he duly did all the chores, prayed profoundly and served the needs of the new brothers. He thought that the new brothers would learn from his example and adopt his lifestyle. They were only too happy to let him do all the work, they even despised him for his timid ways and a lack of discipline. Pachomius realized that something had to change, so he gave them a clearly stated description of the way of life that he expected them to lead.
The covenant instructions went into the details of everyday life and it had a profound impact on the young men. By the time of Pachomius' death, monastic life had established itself throughout Egypt, and was multiplied many times over.
The lesson is that a good example is not enough to change people's attitudes and habits, or create in them what some call habitudes. Everyday church attendance is not enough to grow us. We can be moved and inspired by good example, but unless we intentionally choose to live a life of discipleship in community with accountability, it will not happen.
I am not sure anyone will read this blog, but it makes me feel useful to write it. At my core,I am a called minister of Christ to make disciples. I do evangelism, I share my faith, I preach and teach, but for those activities to take place I need encounters with people or to be invited by someone. The one thing I can do on my own is write. No one can stop me, I can say anything I want within my own rules of conduct and propriety. This urge to write stirred within only after becoming a Christian in 1967, prior to that, writing was a chore. When I stopped cheating in school I learned that I enjoyed reading and writing, in fact, I loved words. I would spend long hours studying the scriptures and taking copious notes, all on my own. I was frustrated by having to break out of my study sessions in order to attend class or to do conventional homework.
This independent streak of wanting to study on my own continued through four years of seminary.
I made a conscious decision then to become a pastoral writer rather than pursue formal doctoral studies. For me it was a good decision because I started writing articles and books. I must confess that the pastoral life was both a laboratory for my thoughts and a means for me to write. What gave me the most satisfaction as a pastor was finishing a book or writing a good sermon or even a Church newsletter. When I retired from the pastoral life ten years ago, a great deal of my identity was stripped away. I no longer had a staff, an institution to run, or a congregation for me to watch.
As I have gotten older I have found that less is more. I now write not because I must publish to validate myself, seventeen books have done that. I write because I need to, because I don't feel like I have accomplished anything in a day if I don't write. I could deliver two sermons, counsel several people in a day, but if I did not read and write, it is a missed opportunity. Writing is a calling, most people can't make a living at it, in fact, most don't get paid at all or get published. Daily I get positive feedback from around the world and that is encouraging. But what makes my days are not the awards, the money, or the invitations, it is writing and writing alone.


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What is 'STROOP'?
"a much anticipated documentary film" – Maroela media
" We'll help them achieve their mission of educating the world about the true rhino story in this watershed documentary, free from any commercial influence" – Africa Geographic
"Filming NOW, for release 2017."
STROOP is an independent documentary feature film on the rhino poaching crisis, which the world needs to see.
The filming over two-and-a-half years has been publicly funded and now the film is in edit and finishing up last interviews before its release in 2017. The word STROOP in Afrikaans means poached but also stripped bare… one ploughs the corn fields stripping them bare. So stripping the rhino, its being, its essence from what makes it a rhino. The film is in Afrikaans, Shangaan, Vietnamese, Chinese and English. It will have english subtitles throughout.
The film is being made by well-known wildlife television presenter Bonné de Bod and filmmaker Susan Scott. Bonné has been presenting wildlife stories on South African television for nearly a decade while Susan has been making National Geographic and Discovery/Animal Planet documentary films for nearly twenty years with some of the best wildlife and documentary filmmakers on the planet.
The duo have won numerous awards for their work, ranging from multiple SAFTAs and Kudu awards, to wildlife film festival awards, an ATKV Media Veertjie, and most recently the prestigious SANParks Best Journalist Award for Bonné and two SAB Environmental Media Awards for Susan's writing and photography documenting STROOP.
Africa Geographic's editor has been so inspired by the work being done he wrote this piece about the two filmmakers: http://africageographic.com/ blog/real-rhino-story-no- holds-barred-chance-make-real- difference/
Join the journey and get involved
STROOP's filmmakers, Bonné and Susan have self-funded a majority of the film, and received generous donations from the public to shoot the film for two-and-a-half years now. Many distributors and broadcasters have expressed interest in the film, but once the film is sold to the "industry" it loses its independent nature and may have to be cut down or have scenes cut out for government interests or to appease advertising clients. It is vital that the film be made entirely without corporate control to ensure that the true story of what is happening on the ground is seen. The only way to do this is to ask the public to pre-buy copies of the film, buy STROOP products or donate towards the film.
By making you, the public, pay for the film, we avoid having to work for a broadcaster and their mandates which means no censorship from television executives over a controversial film like this. Bonné is not picking sides in the story she will tell. She will ask the questions that any ordinary South African would. The filmmakers are bringing the information from the battleground straight to you.
We will look back at this time and wonder if this was the turning point and what was being done to stop the eradication of our rhinos in the wild. This has to be documented for the future and to help us understand NOW what HAS to be done.
You can be part of the journey and help by sharing the STROOP campaign with your family and friends via social media – www.facebook.com/stroopdiefilm
You can help keep this film independent by buying a digital download of the film or the 2017 STROOP Calendar which will help the filmmakers with funding and get YOUR name in the credits! – visit http://www.sdbfilms.com/stroop-film
Thank you so much for supporting us and making sure this film gets made.


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Blog week ending 13th December
As we draw to the end of the first long term I wanted to write and firstly thank you all for your support across this term with the wide range of school events. It is a pleasure each week to update you all through the school blog and I am always amazed and proud by the wide range of achievements of our students.
It has been very pleasing to see how well the year 11 have prepared for their PPE's and they are currently working hard with staff identifying gaps and areas to develop as they move towards their final examinations. The girls had a very mature and sensible approach to the examinations and continue to impress with their engagement with various interventions and targeted support.
Year 13 return following the Christmas break to their PPE's and it is important that they also take time to prepare for these important examinations. All departments have been giving clear guidance on what they need to prepare and the format of the examinations. I am sure that with careful planning they will be able to enjoy a well-earned break as well as complete the required revision.
The Christmas holidays are a good time to check uniform and I would ask parents to ensure that uniform is correct, ready for the start of the new year, with a particular focus on skirt length as a number of our senior students appear to have grown dramatically and their skirts are no longer appropriate lengths. Thank you for your assistance with this.
At the end of term we say farewell to Mr Chenu from the MFL department as he leaves us to take up a post at a school nearer to his home. We would like to wish him well for his next post. As a result we are delighted to be joined by Mrs I Cantos-Moreno a very experienced MFL teacher joining from Dartford Grammar School in January. I am sure that she will be given a warm welcome.
I am pleased to introduce two new members of staff who have joined us at the end of this term, Mrs Michelle Bexley who joins the staff team as Head teachers PA and Office Manager and also Mrs Nishita Rana who joins us as Admissions Officer and PA to the Senior Team.
The term ends on Friday 20th December at 1pm and we return to school on Monday 6th January. Arrangements with the bus companies are being finalised and we will update you as soon as they have confirmed the arrival times.
Professor Lord Robert Winston was greeted like a rock star when he addressed our Biology, Chemistry and RS and Ethics GCSE and A Level students. He delivered a thrilling talk which challenged the students' knowledge and perception of the scientific world in the context of changing times of development, social change, human endeavour and medical advancement.
Professor Winston is a compelling and engaging speaker who had both students and staff gripped for the duration of his talk. His work generated a plethora of questions related to the talk and their understanding of his work. It was evident that Professor Winston valued their input and responded to each and every question with warmth, consideration and interest. When one student asked "what is your proudest achievement" the professor answered "I have been involved in the research and discovery of many important projects, however, I consider my own children to be my greatest achievement and am immensely proud of the people they have become and contribution to society they make in their daily lives." A very modest and human response from one of our country's most eminent scientists.
Professor Winston posed for countless photos and 'selfies' as he was followed through the school .. still answering questions and posing for more photos. It was incredibly exciting to see our students so thoroughly engaged in a talk related to their studies and for so many to attend such a special enrichment activity.
Mandarin Students travelled to central London to participate in the Mandarin Speaking Competition. It was a challenging event which required students to perform a play in Mandarin as well as attending individual competitions. All girls demonstrated proficiency, skill and great determination – we are all immensely proud of you. The results will be available in due course.
Please join me in congratulating the following students on their performance;
8A Christabel O and Rachel M
8B Yakshana N
9A Arooj K, Ellie K & Isabel F
10H Ruslana M
Students at Wilmington Grammar School for Girls have been extending their knowledge of the political parties, the process of the General Election and the voting system via a series of sessions in Form Time. Students were introduced to the idea of a secret ballot as students took to the polls to cast their vote in the WGSG Election.
The final results saw Labour gain a small majority. Students discussed that fact that despite not gaining half the votes, Labour secured over half the seats. Thank you to Mr Atkins for running our mock election, it stimulated discussion and interest in yesterdays election and the purpose of voting.
Well done to our KS3 and KS4 Elite Badminton teams. All played extremely well in the School Games Badminton competition this week. KS4 team qualified for the next round – Congratulations girls!
WG6 Biology A Level students have been investigating a dilution series for the process of diffusion. Beetroot and detergent were used to test how much pigment (betalains) is released at different concentrations using a colorimeter.
Congratulations to the winners of our Christmas Prize Draw – I hope I picked your name!
1st Prize (2 x Eurostar Tickets) - Mrs Cox
2nd Prize (Golf Day for 4) - Mr Gristwood
3rd Prize (£100 Love2Shop Vouchers) - Mrs Bastick
4th Prize (£50 John Lewis Vouchers) - O'Reilly
5th Prize (£50 Bluewater Vouchers) – Nash
Our PFA would like to thank all those who participated in the Draw and who continue to support our fund-raising efforts. The Draw generated £1,500 which will go toward school equipment for our new Sports and Teaching Block.
The Science Department are feeling especially festive - You know Christmas is coming when the Chemistree is up!
May I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year.
Michelle Lawson
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configures the local device as a NTP reference clock source with stratum of 1.
An Authoritative NTP Server can distribute time even when it is not synchronized to an existing time server. To configure a Cisco device as an Authoritative NTP Server, use the ntp master [stratum] command.
*~10.1.2.1         209.65.200.226    9   509    64  200    32.2   15.44  16000.
Below is the output of the "show ntp status" command. From this output we learn that R1 has a stratum of 10 and it is getting clock from 10.1.2.1.
In fact this question is unclear, but other answers are surely not correct.
+ The "ntp authenticate" command is used to enable the NTP authentication feature (NTP authentication is disabled by default).
+ The "ntp trusted-key" command specifies one or more keys that a time source must provide in its NTP packets in order for the device to synchronize to it. This command provides protection against accidentally synchronizing the device to a time source that is not trusted.
+ The "ntp authentication-key" defines the authentication keys. The device does not synchronize to a time source unless the source has one of these authentication keys and the key number is specified by the "ntp trusted-key number" command.
In the below output, the "show ntp associations" command reveals the IP address of the clock source (which is 209.65.200.226), the stratum (st) of this reference clock and if a router is synced with the configured time source (in this case R1 is synchronized with 10.1.2.1, presented by a "*").
Q1 answer should be NTP MASTER command and hence option C should be correct… Plz correct me if i am wrong..
Q1 is wrong, ntp master is the right answer.
Is question 1 wrong or not?
as per r&s command guide: ntp master is for use when an external source is not available or desirable.
Which is the correct one C or D?
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SHELLY BEACH SNIPPETS No. 35 April, 2015.
Patricia Newell-Dunkley May 4, 2015 SHELLY BEACH SNIPPETS No. 35 April, 2015.2015-05-03T12:38:41+01:00 Art, Australia, Blog, Celebrities, Crafts, History, Popular Articles, Travel
SHELLY BEACH AT SUNSET
Patricia Newell-Dunkley Photographs by Reginald J. Dunkley.
The 2015 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia was full of style and swagger as it celebrated its 20th year, with more than fifty designers showing their rich variety of up-to-date chic.
Long, lean and pared back floaty day dresses, silk and cotton garments with plunging necklines and thigh-high slits, sexy but not too revealing. Pleated skirts swished around models' thighs, and wide-leg pants were elegantly shown with shoes to crave for.
Bec and Bridge strutted out its largest collection of luxurious Moroccan-inspired swim and evening wear, Harem Pants and Maxi Skirts in divine colours
Alice McCall offered Bohemian crochet dresses, sorbet-hued Playsuits and Broderie Anglaise mini-dress.
Sydney Harbour Bridge at night
Kate Sylvester showed floor- sweeping Brocade Skirts and Plastic-looking leather separates.
By Johnny focused on form fitting dresses with inverted pleats. While Toni Maticevski went for full glamour with twists and tucks which were breathtaking.
Romance Was Born was inspired by the Australian Bush Landscape with fantasy dresses of silk ad layered sequins.
International Woolmark showcased an elegant knit collection of sweater dresses and tailored coats that were very wearable.
With New Zealand Designer's collection of Floral Jacquard dresses and fine, sheer embroidered silk Georgette tops extremely popular.
Altogether the week was extremely glamorous, a feast for the fashion conscience, and a total success.
Prince Harry visited one of the most remote areas of the world as part of his tour with the Australian Army. Captain Wales spent time with locals in the Wuggubun community some six hundred miles from Darwin, the nearest city. Locals were thrilled to spend time with Harry and said he just "Rocked Up" and that he is a 'delightful chap'. Sharing time with Elders and children he camped in the outback and was taught how to survive a bushfire. During his stay in the Kununurra Region he was briefed on operations and trained in bush survival
lessons including how to source food and water. After receiving his orders, Prince Harry headed out on patrol with members of the force, spending two nights camping in the remote outback. He also participated in a game of wheelchair AFL at Darwin's Soldier Recovery Centre, and flew a Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter as part of his training at Robertson Barracks in Darwin. With two weeks already gone he has a full itinerary ahead of him, including attending the 100th Anniversary of The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing at Gallipoli on the 25th April, and then return to Australia to spend time in Sydney and Perth with the Army.
Tuggerah lake surfer
The Canberra Balloon Festival offers a nine day event, which is part of the month-long festival that allows spectators to watch as balloon pilots from all over the world get the chance to fly through Australia's capital city surrounded by the beautiful autumn backdrop. There are also evening events, Symphony in the Park and Telstra Ballet located in Commonwealth Park. Canberra is well worth a visit at any time with much to see and do. The Australian War Memorial, Lake Burley Griffin, National Gallery of Australia, Parliament House, National Museum of Australia, and the Royal Australian Mint, to name just a few of the sights.
If you want a truly unique venue to take your marriage vows, Kangaroo Valley is the place to go. Located less than two hours from Sydney, and Canberra, Kangaroo Valley is Australia's most beautiful valley. Its picturesque surroundings are ideal where natural beauty, and romantic design are brought together to create the perfect secluded environment. The invigorative and recuperative powers of the valley are generated by the rich green pastures, the sparkling creeks and rivers, together with the lush rainforest all guarded by the magnificent escarpments which enclose our world. Add to this an incredible variety of native flora and fauna, no traffic lights, and a friendly community that makes you welcome in their home town and the scene is nothing short of exhilarating. Kangaroo Valley is a National Trust-listed village nestled between the Cambewarr and Barrengarry Mountains, and yes, there are plenty of Kangaroos to be seen.
Water Dragon Big Boy
Wild weather cut power to more than 200,000 properties in N.S.W. and the Hunter region was devastated with four homes washed away. All along the coast beaches were blown adrift by cyclone winds ending up everywhere. Trees uprooted and houses devastated, cars were swept away and five people killed. Shelly Beach was literally blown away and is now in huge piles on the footpath. My birds hid in the trees and were very hungry but we were lucky not to lose power as others did for six days. Good reading weather especially "Letters of a Travelling Lady, Wallis the Woman I Love, and The Complete Guide to Painting and Decorating Porcelain." Indoor pursuits when storms rage. www.patriciasartworld.com
Cheers. Patricia.
ALICE MCCALL, and The Complete Guide to Painting and Decorating Porcelain." Indoor pursuits when storms rage. www.patriciasartworld.com, BY JOHNNY, KANGAROO VALLEY, KATE SYLVESTER, Letters of a Travelling Lady, PRINCE HARRY, ravelling Lady, THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO PAINTING AND DECORATING PORCELAIN, Wallis the Woman I Love, WOOLMARK
About Patricia Newell-Dunkley
I am an artist writer, born in Sussex, Shoreham-on-Sea and educated at Ealing Modern School in London. I studied amongst other subjects English Literature and Art which sowed the seeds for what would become a lifelong passion. It was not until 1970, after moving to Australia, that I began to satisfy my artistic desire when I first started Porcelain on-glaze painting using mineral oxides paint, a style which would become my forte. Within six months I had bought a kiln, and I embarked on an extensive series of courses over the following years in Grounding, Gold and Silver Gilding, Lustres, Raised Paste and Pen work. In 1980 I began to offer my art through a number of major Sydney outlets. Initially the Fine Art Department of the Myers City Store, followed by David Jones, Grace Brothers, The International Airport, Micawbers Antiques, Bourke's Hilton Hotel, Roseville Gallery and Toowoon Bay Gallery. Over the years my painting styles have expanded to include Oil, Pastel, and Watercolours. I am a member of the Society of Authors and also a member of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists UK. My writing includes articles and poems published in This England, Evergreen, and The Radio ABC Pot Pourri of Poems, as well as short stories. "The Complete Guide to Painting and Decorating Porcelain," "Wallis the Woman I Love," a narrative poem, "Letters of a Travelling Lady," and six romantic novels.
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Alice Marks
actor, editor, writer, whatever
Editing + Writing
Dear Sir Laurence Olivier
Disclaimer: I know – he's a dead, white man. I wrote this letter when I graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he founded in 1946. It feels strange to write something personal like this to someone who will never read it, and who certainly hasn't been an integral figure in my growth as an actor and feminist. Indeed I continue to be reminded of the horrifying discrepancies concerning gender in the acting industry, residual from the prime of actors such as Sir Olivier. But that subject deserves another whole series of letters, and he did say a couple of useful things. And, more importantly, he opened the school where, in this day and age, students are constantly combatting these discrepancies in the name of equality and freedom of creative expression. So think of this as a letter to that cause and culture:
Dear Sir Laurence Olivier,
You once said: "Have a very good reason for everything you do."
My acting pursuits have been repeatedly questioned. How can you be prepared to stake a place for yourself in an industry with such tough odds for consistent employment, for artistic recognition, for success? Why are you willing to endure the emotional intensity, the competitiveness, and the ruthless exposure to a critiquing audience, the risk of embarrassment or failure? Why are you taking this profession seriously?
Various people have posed these inquiries to me, but they also stem from my own sense of curiosity, uneasiness and doubt. In all instances, the questions have been loaded with expectations of a sufficiently strong response – a "very good reason".
My answer to these questions is quite well summed up by a fellow countryman of yours, Sir Olivier. In the sage words of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, "Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about."
I'm at the end of a journey, having just graduated from the school you created. And I've learned an awful lot. Sometimes the course delivered me with newfound, wonderful, whimsically life-affirming, eye-popping, lemon-squeezing knowledge. And sometimes it brought me frightening, mind-crippling discoveries. But I think that both ends of the spectrum have contributed to the person I see myself as at the end of it all.
When I first applied to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, I was in no doubt that I wanted to be an actor, the best actor I could possibly be. The difficulty was, I had no certain idea about how to be that actor – what was the correct way to approach the craft of acting, the method that would set me on the road to professional success and artistic fulfilment? But on my very first day of school, seated amongst classmates and staff members I barely knew, and feeling my nerves and anticipation build to breaking point, our Head of Acting told us to "Let this year happen to you."
I realise now that his words were the beginning of an answer to my queries. In the world of acting, where there is no step-by-step guide, no singular definitive authority on how to be good, or successful, I realised that perhaps the best approach is to possess an air of curiosity, a willingness to learn, and a relinquishment of the need to control or analyse one's acting with a 'right' or 'wrong' vocabulary. By trying to become a more 'curious' actor this year, I found that I have relieved myself of a lot of pressure to perform 'well', to impress, or to prove myself to an invisible hierarchy. Often, there was a hell of a lot of tension standing in my way. But when I could look past it, and become my most curious and light-minded, it was fittingly then that I produced my best quality of performance.
Your school also enabled me with an important discovery, Sir Olivier. After performing a scene as Helena from Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well at a previous acting studio, my tutor responded with, "You enjoy being this character more than yourself. I think if you could, you would spend all your time being someone else." I received these words as a compliment at the time, but it was only after beginning this BOVTS training that I came to associate my passion for acting, at least some of the time, as a refuge from my own insecurities. It was an idea that pressed on me for quite a time – if I so enjoyed abandoning my sense of self and investing fully in the thoughts and actions of another, often fictional being, what was I without it? An empty shell?
It's a frightening prospect that I think a lot of performers encounter – finding one's self-worth beneath the performance. By trying to confront the parts of myself that I was most self-critical or unsteady about, and living these truths within a character's shoes, I actually discovered that the performance had the potential to become more enriched. Injecting more of myself, in all its vulnerability and imperfection, made my acting more truthful. It's by no means something I feel comfortable with or skilled at right now. It's bloody messy. But my growing willingness to be an actor who "lives truthfully in imaginary circumstances" (Sanford Meisner) became something to love about myself. In short, this year taught me how to see vulnerability as a strength in my acting.
But then again, I must catch myself. Your words are echoing through my mind: "Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
You make me laugh, Sir Olivier – this may be one of the truest statements about acting I have encountered this year – for if nothing, being an actor is embracing one's inner child, and allowing one's sense of play to infiltrate the work. There is a wonderful freedom in owning up to the fact that as an actor, one is openly admitting their desire to be seen, to amuse others, to be the object of other people's attention and admiration. Actors are truly stimulated by this. Prior to BOVTS training, I wasn't comfortable with acknowledging this. But by learning to laugh at it, I have found a new lightness of being in my approach to performance, and treating every opportunity to train and perform as an equal opportunity to have fun with the process has brought me enormous happiness.
In a world where we must grow up, and childhood must become a thing of the past – my BOVTS teachers and colleagues taught me to defy that world, and allow my inner child (which never really left me) to come out and explore. Moreover, I was encouraged to enjoy the very childishness of drama school – taking the limelight, enjoying the time on stage, seeking to entertain people, developing a crafted awareness of comic timing, and relishing in the laughs my performances generated.
It is an experience that I will truly cherish from this year.
I am so grateful to have been able to grab on to this adventure, and pursue something I love at such a school, with such a nurturing community. And no matter where life takes me, I will carry the memory of my experiences this year like treasure. Acting fulfils my life, and I love it.
With smiles and tears,
Vlogging Me, Vlogging You
Listen Up. Put Your Headphones In.
Drama on the Screen, Not the Page or Stage


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Кравковы (Кровковы) — старинный русский дворянский род.

При подаче документов (1686) для внесения рода в Бархатную книгу, была предоставлена родословная роспись Кровковых.

Род внесён в VI часть родословной книги Владимирской, Новгородской и Оренбургской губерний.

Происхождение и история рода
Родоначальником является Есип (Осип, Иосиф) Кравков (Кровков), живший в первой половине XVI века. Его потомки служили по городу Мурому в составе детей боярских. Решет Есипович Кровков погиб во время Казанского похода (1549—1550), его брат Третьяк погиб при взятие Казани (1552). Родовая вотчина Кравковых в Муромском уезде — село Дедово с двумя деревнями осталось за третьим братом — Василием Есиповичем, в конце жизни постригшимся в монахи в Муромском Спасо-Преображенском монастыре под именем Матфей. Его сын Сума Васильев Кровков (1597) числился по муромской десятне дворовым сыном боярским с поместным окладом 250 четей, денег 13 рублей и имел двух сыновей — Осипа (Меншика) и Ивана (Фому) по прозвищу «Мешок».

После смерти Сумы Васильевича родовая вотчина Кравковых село Дедово отошла старшему сыну Осипу, который также получил во владение в Муромском уезде деревню Бердишево по жеребьям с младшим братом Иваном, отличившимся при подавлении восстания Ивана Болотникова (1607). Осип Сумин Кравков стал первым представителем рода Кравковых зачисленным на службу по московскому списку и получившим придворный чин дворянина московского, «за старость и за увечье» отставлен от государевой службы (1641) и принял постриг в Муромском Спасо-Преображенском монастыре под именем Иосиф (1650). Оставил после себя многочисленное потомство. О потомках Ивана Мешка сведений не сохранилось.

От Осипа Сумина род Кравковых продолжили его дети — Матвей и Иван. Старший сын Матвей получил известность, как командир Второго выборного московского солдатского полка (1661—1682) и стал одним из первых русских служилых людей, пожалованных чином генерала. Его брат Иван Осипович, пожалованный из жильцов в дворяне московские (1655), стал родоначальником рязанской ветви рода Кравковых. Сыновья Ивана Осиповича — Дмитрий, Фёдор и Пётр известны, как вотчинники Рязанского края. В начале XVIII века Фёдор и Пётр Ивановичи, имевшие придворные чины стряпчего и жильца, служили на офицерских должностях в действующей армии. Сын Фёдора Ивановича — Лука, а также его внуки Михаил и Степан в годы Северной войны имели придворные чины жильцов и приняли участие в боевых действиях.

Продолжателями старшей, муромской ветви рода Кравковых стали потомки Матвея Осиповича, имевшего четырёх сыновей: Фёдора, Любима, Семёна и Алексея, а также дочь (имя неизвестно), бывшую замужем за Фёдором Софоновым (1680). Фёдор Матвеевич пожалован в стряпчие (1664). Любим Матвеевич(1672—1673). находился на воеводстве в г.Шацке и впоследствии выслужил придворный чин стольника, с (1703) в отставке, последнее упоминание о нём относится к 1721 г. Его сын Василий, служивший при царском дворе по жилецкому списку (1707) направлен на военную службу в одну их кавалерийских частей. Семён Матвеевич Кравков проходил военную службу во Втором выборном московском солдатском полку, которым командовал его отец, и в середине(1670-х) в звании полковника возглавлял одно из «тысячных» подразделений полка. Получил тяжёлое ранение при обороне крепости Чигирин (17 августа 1677). В чине стольника и полковника назначен командиром одного из московских стрелецких полков, которым руководил (1680- 1695). За время службы пожалован поместьями в Арзамасском и Белозерском уездах. В 1690 г. «приложил» колокол к церкви Николая Чудотворца на погосте Старые Котлицы — приходскому храму муромской вотчины Бердишево. Многие представители рода Кравковых являлись крупными вкладчиками Муромского Спасо-Преображенского монастыря.

Младший сын Матвея Осиповича Кравкова — Алексей Матвеевич, пожалованный из стряпчих в стольники (1678) и служивший городовым воеводой в Синбирске (1699—1701), имел двух сыновей — Ивана и Матвея. Старший сын — Иван Алексеевич, стольник и подполковник (стрелецкий?) стал основателем пензенской ветви рода Кравковых. Незадолго до своей смерти (1688) он приобрел поместье в Пензенском уезде на речке Инзе, где основал деревню Кровково, которая осталась за его супругой Агафьей, а затем перешла к сыну Фёдору. От Фёдора Ивановича поместье перешло к его сыну Иллариону (г/р 1680). Ларион Кравков, с 1702 г., находился на армейской службе в пехотных частях, пройдя путь от сержанта до капитана. Стал участником обороны от шведских войск Новгорода-Северского (1709) и Полтавы (1712). Во время полтавского «осадного сиденья» получил тяжёлое ранение. В 1717 г. определён на службу в Пензенский полк. Детей не имел.

Младший сын Алексей Матвеевич Кравков проходил государеву службу по жилецкому списку (1679) состоял на офицерских должностях в полках «иноземного строя» (1679). В боярских списках XVIII века его имя последний раз упоминается (1713), в то время как имя отца — Алексея Матвеевича Кравкова значится в документах вплоть до 1721 г.

В XVIII-XIX веках большинство представителей различных ветвей рода Кравковых занимали второстепенные военные и гражданские должности.

Наибольшую, хоть и скандальную известность, благодаря необычной судьбе, получил владимирский дворянин Кравков Евдоким Михайлович (1744 — после 1796) — морской офицер, участник войн с турками, участник первой архипелагской экспедиции русского флота (в Эгейском море), Хиосского сражения 24 июня [5 июля] и Чесменского сражения 24-26 июня [5-7 июля] 1770 в должности лейтенанта на 66-пушечным линейном корабле «Св. Януарий». Из-за болезни возвратился берегом из Ливорно (Италия) в С.-Петербург и состоял асессором в следственной комиссии (1771). Капитан-лейтенант (20.08.1775). После кратковременной службы в эскадре Грейга в 1776 г., в 1777 г. ходил в Чёрное море. Уволен от службы за болезнью с чином капитана 2-го ранга (07.01.1778). Явившись в С.-Петербург хлопотать о пенсии, поскольку «очень бедствовал», при протекции графа Р. И. Воронцова определен заседателем во Владимирский верхний земский суд. В 1781 заседатель верхнего земского суда Пензенского наместничества в том же чине. Оставив службу, «попал в среду раскольников; некоторое время провел в скитах; в 1784 был задержан в Нижнем Новгороде, одетый в простое крестьянское платье ис бородой», и доставлен в Тайную канцелярию. Заявил, что он — старовер и не признает церковные власти. 17 февраля 1785 как человек, который «против звания своего делает поведением и жизнию своею нетерпимый в обществе соблазн», заключен в Ревельскую крепость, где, видимо, и скончался.

Еще один Кравков — Ксенофонт Алексеевич — (1791 — ок. 1850) конный артиллерист и участник Бородинского сражения. Участник войны со Швецией 1808—1809 гг. В Отечественной войне 1812 г. участвовал в боях и сражениях при Вильно (16.6.1812), Довгелишках (23.6.1812), Бородине (награжден орденом Св. Анны 3 кл.), Красном (3-5.11.1812). Также награжден Золотой саблей. В 1813 г. участник кампаний в Германии, а 18 марта 1814 г. вошёл в Париж с победоносной русской армией. Ксенофонт Алексеевич был поручиком во 2-ой конной роте (12 орудий, подполковник П. Х. Геринг), 1-ой резервной артиллерийской бригады. Он участвовал в рейде казаков Платова и кавалерии Уварова против левого фланга и в тыл Великой армии в ходе Бородинского сражения 26 августа (7 сентября) 1812 года. О действиях 2-й конной роты Геринга рапортовал начальник 1-го кавалерийского корпуса генерал-лейтенант Уваров главнокомандующему, князю Кутузову: «За сим обязанностью поставляю отдать справедливость всем начальникам полков и конно-артиллерийской роте подполк. Геринга, которая действовала во все время с большим успехом и подбивала орудия неприятельские.»

Описание герба
В щите, имеющем голубое поле, в нижней части видна золотая решётка и возле неё воин в серебряных латах, стоящий на хвосте перевившегося около него змея, вонзающий правой рукой в середину змея стрелу, а в левой держит голову.

На щите дворянский коронованный шлем. Нашлемник: три страусовых пера. Намёт на щите голубой, подложенный золотом.

Герб рода находится в IV части «Общего гербовника дворянских родов Российской империи».

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