You've optimized your landing page to convert like an electric car salesman in a world without oil, and your PPC campaign is pumping out a CPA lower than a spring break limbo pole. Yet despite having a well targeted and relevant giveaway (a whitepaper for example) on your lead gen landing page, you feel like you could be generating more paying customers from your prospects.
Could it be that you're not holding their hand long enough?
Conversion is your primary goal, but encapsulating a lead in a larger sphere of influence should be an important secondary marketing tactic. Your customers are going to leave your confirmation page in some direction, so try to guide them in a way that will be beneficial.
Turning a visitor into a lead is one thing, and turning them into a paying customer is a whole other bucket of frogs. It requires constant attention and marketing effort to capitalize on your available opportunities.
Take advantage of that magic moment directly after the customer says "Yes, I like you" and you'll keep your new leads in your sphere of influence while they're "in the mood". To do this you need to try and keep their attention on the first thing they see after submitting your lead gen form – the confirmation page.
The lead generation confirmation page could be considered the digital equivalent of a post-conversion supermarket candy shelf. We've all fallen victim to the shelves of sweet goodness lined up by the checkout as you wait in line – aimlessly throwing crap we don't need into the basket. But asking someone to pause and listen to your message after they've paid is a lot more tricky. Staying with the supermarket analogy for a sec, imagine if the guy bagging your food said, "Hey, here's a $5 voucher for next time" – chances are you'd pay attention.
Tactics like this work on you before you check out. But what about right after? The key is to stay relevant and provide a follow up that re-engages your new lead and lifts their experience to the next level.
This can be used as a secondary "safety net" call to action on your landing page, as long as it's small and subtle. On your confirmation page, you can throw a great big icon out there to entice them into your social media world. It's a fairly low risk action for a customer and can place their ears in front of your digital mouth for a long while to come. It also exposes them to the positive reactions you gather from others which adds some word of mouth reputation strength.
This is another low commitment value add to offer. Make sure the subject matter is closely related to the goals of the leads you're capturing. If you can get someone to attend a webinar you are effectively establishing a higher level of contact – they will get a chance to see or hear you and ask you questions. If you can establish yourself as a thought leader on your given subject, this can elevate the trust factor massively.
I once bought a Sony Playstation PS3 that had an open box. It was already marked down by $100 making it a great deal. Without my asking for anything, the salesman offered up a free game and a further discount – with no catch. What was the result of this action? I told all of my friends about my great customer experience. If you give people a discount when they're not asking for it and don't have to give you anything in return (they already completed your lead gen form) – they'll get that great service buzz and momentum.
Many people enjoy a guided experience. Tell them what to do and they'll often do it. Use only a single link for this and send them to a "Greatest Hits" or "Top 10" list page that shows off the very best content and information you have to offer.
Drip campaigns are a powerful permission marketing tool that keeps you in the leads stream of consciousness for a defined period of time. The confirmation page is a good time to ask if someone would like to participate if you can automatically transfer their details to the new list without asking for more data. An example campaign would be the ProBlogger 31 Days to a Better Blog. The expectation and benefit is set right away – you will receive an email every day for a month and by the end of it you're blog will be better! This type of campaign take a lot of work to put together, but once it's ready you can automatically "drip" the emails to your prospects as soon as they sign up.


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Bringing the Mass to the masses: Eucharistic celebration in unexpected places
Canon law prescribes that Mass be celebrated in a "sacred place" such as a church or a chapel consecrated by a bishop. That is why, for example, there are strict rules forbidding the celebration of wedding Masses at locations such as a beach or garden patio.
The poverello of Toronto: Fr. Joe MacDonald ministered to the mentally ill
During his life, St. Francis of Assisi was known as the "poverello," or the poor man who renounced the world to live for Jesus alone.
Migration crisis calls for action, outreach by Canadian Church
The Church, with its long history of serving the poor and the persecuted, must play a key role in dealing with the global migration crisis.
The good Earth: Family protects creation with sustainable farming
The Baker family went back to land —literally — two years ago. Since then, they've met the challenges of sustainable farming and discovered the joys of guarding God's creation.
Choir hits a high note in Canadian visit
Mary Sharp joined the Young Catholic Musicians choir because she found an outlet for her joy of music and the joy of the Gospel. Last week, for the very first time, she and her fellow musicians shared their joy with audiences in Canada.
Sr. Mechtilde's passion for teaching served her well at Faith Connections
Sister's passion for teaching served her well at Faith Connections
Poet Patria Rivera explores her past with spiritual lens
It started out in 2011 as a Lenten practice.
Published in Arts News
ShareLife parish campaign brings out the best in students
About 20 students at St. Elizabeth Catholic High School stayed after school every day last week — and it had nothing to do with being punished.
Loretto Sisters bring together students in Toronto and Peru
It took a trip to Peru for Grade 12 student Carolyn Lee to gain a new appreciation for her classroom in Toronto.
Halton school board 'Sanctity of Life' fundraising policy on hold
Tensions continued to run high as the Halton Catholic District School Board suspended implementation of its controversial fundraising policy.

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Provides operations for ifuns = iterator functions. An ifun represents the pointer to a specific position of a finite or infinite stream of elements.
An ifun is a 2ary fun, which takes parameters $proc and $fin. The ifun must tail-call $proc if it has an element, or $fin if it has no element.
The $proc is a 2ary fun, which takes parameters Head and $tail. The ifun passes its first element as an argument for Head, and passes the *next* ifun, which points to elements after Head, as an argument for $tail.
The $fin is a thunk, which is tail-called when the ifun has no element.
In the next program, make_vec_ifun makes an ifun which iterates over the elements of Vec.
Let's make an ifun using make_vec_ifun.
For example, you can iterate over the elements of $ifun_x using IFUN.each.
Or you can make another ifun mapping the elements by a transforming fun.
Or you can accumulate the elements.
Calls $on_elem for each elements of $ifun, then return the last result of $on_elem.
Returns an ifun whose nth element is transform(nth-element-of-$ifun).
Returns an ifun which contains elements of ifuns which are results of transform_to_ifun(element-of-$ifun).
The result ifun only contains elements of $ifun which satisfy $include?. The order of elements are not changed.
Returns the number of elements of $ifun, which sattisfy $counted?.
Accumulates elements of $ifun seeded by Init.
If the elements of $ifun is E1, E2, ,,, En_1, En, this fun returns combine(combine(,,,combine(combine(Init E1) E2),,, En_1) En).
If $ifun is empty, this fun returns Init.
Accumulates elements of $ifun mutually, then returns a maybe list.
If $ifun has elements E1, E2, E3, ,,, En_1, En, this fun returns [combine(combine(,,,combine(combine(E1 E2) E3),,, En_1) En)].
If $ifun has a single element E, this fun returns [E].
If $ifun is empty, this fun returns .
Returns an ifun of accumulated vals, seeded by Init.
If $ifun points to finite n elements E(1), E(2), ,,, E(n), the result ifun points to finite n+1 elements R(0), R(1), R(2), ,,, R(n).
If $ifun points to infinite elements E(1), E(2), ,,, , the result ifun points to infinite elements R(0), R(1), R(2), ,,, .
Returns an ifun of vals accumulated inside $ifun.
If $ifun points to no elements, the result ifun points to no elements.
If $ifun points to finite n (n >= 1) elements E(1), E(2), ,,, E(n), the result ifun points to finite n elements R(1), R(2), ,,, R(n).
If $ifun points to infinite elements E(1), E(2), ,,, , the result ifun points to infinite elements R(1), R(2), ,,, .
For i>=2, R(i) = combine(R(i - 1) E(i)).
Returns an ifun containing the first N elements of $ifun, or all the elements if $ifun has less than N elements.
Returns an ifun omitting the first N elements of $ifun, or an empty ifun if $ifun has less than N elements.
Returns an ifun of the longest initial prefix of $ifun, whose elements all satisfy $include?.
Returns an ifun after the longest initial prefix of $ifun, whose elements all satisfy $exclude?.
Returns true if all the elements of $ifun satisfy $ok?. Returns false if at least one element of $ifun does not satisfy $ok?.
If $ifun is infinite, this fun is not guaranteed to return.
Returns true if at least one element of $ifun satisfies $ok?. Returns false if all the elements of $ifun does not satisfy $ok?.
Returns an ifun of chunks with the Chunk_size.
For example, if $ifun contains E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, and Chunk_size is 2, this fun returns an ifun containing [E1 E2], [E3 E4] and [E5 E6]. The last E7 is ignored because there are not enough number of elements as a chunk.
Returns an ifun which concatenates the ifuns contained in $ifun_of_ifuns. $ifun_of_ifuns should be an ifun whose elements are also ifuns.
Makes a stateful thunk to fetch each element of the $ifun.
Returns an ifun containing the Elems.
Returns an ifun chaining $xifun and $yifun.
If $xifun is finite and has elements X1, X2, ,,, Xn, and $yifun has elements Y1, Y2, ,,, , the result ifun has X1, X2, ,,, Xn, Y1, Y2, ,,, .
If $xifun is infinite, the result ifun has the same elements as ones of $xifun.
Returns an ifun zpping the given ifuns.
For example, an ifun X has elements X1, X2, X3, ,,, , Y has elements Y1, Y2, Y3, ,,, , and Z has elements Z1, Z2, Z3, ,,, , zip(X Y Z) returns an ifun containing [X1 Y1 Z1], [X2 Y2 Z2], [X3 Y3 Z3], ,,, .
The size of the result ifun is the minimum of the size of the arg ifuns.
Returns an ifun which concatenates elements of ifuns created by $make_ifun thunk.
If $make_ifun makes an empty ifun, the result ifun is terminated there.
Returns an ifun, whose elements are equal to the ifun returned by $make_ifun.
Makes an ifun of elements yielded in $body.
$body must take an unary fun $yield as the arg, When $yield is called with a vals in $body, those vals will be the elements of the result ifun.
You can think that this fun provides an equivalent functionality to Python's generators.
Makes an ifun of elements which is enumerated in Eacher.each.


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These beds look amazing, and in particular the VW camper (at the top of the post) is brilliant. The surfboard doubles as a ladder and a child can sleep in the van or on top. The beds come flat packed and instructions on how to assemble them are emailed to the buyer.
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The government has exceeded the disinvestment target for the second year in a row in 2018-19. It mopped up Rs 83, 522 crore against the budgeted target of Rs 80,000 crore for the just-concluded financial year. In the 2017-18, the centre had achieved an ambitious target of Rs 1 trillion.


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The Yorker Archives… ('How To Be A Woman', Book Review)
Posted on December 24, 2011 by Farrah Kelly
Not many books fall under both categories "Humour" and "Feminism", but Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman certainly hits the spot for both genres.
The Times columnist takes us through key points in her womanhood; from discovering masturbation to handling evil boyfriends, with a brilliant deadpan humour and an infallible sense of logic throughout. She doesn't flinch while discussing the horror and embarrassment of locating the first hairs "down there", but instead provides a list of reasons why she stopped shaving them. It's this trademark Moran charm that makes the book fresh and exciting, and makes feminists and feminism seem much more approachable.
Moran is undaunted by the controversial nature of some of her musings. She openly discusses her decision to have a termination, while bluntly refusing to be made to feel guilty by a society which she believes views abortions as inherently wrong. She expresses her outrage at statistics that infer women want to disassociate with feminism ("WERE YOU DRUNK AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY?") before lapsing back into her calmer mode, coolly reassuring herself and the readers that any female who disagrees with feminism because it "isn't fashionable" is similar to a black person in the 1960's who "isn't into civil rights" ("Martin Luther, he just needs to chill out…").
Caitlin's debate on what we're supposed to call our vaginas had me sniggering away on trains, her anecdotes had me reminiscing of my own similar experiences, and her reasoning had me convinced that feminism isn't frightening or irrelevant. She does a wonderful job of showing that however serious we should take feminist issues, doesn't mean we should be humourless, that we can't find the hilarity in absurd situations. She recreates the stereotype of feminists as a dry political spinster, into a warm, clever, witty and relatable woman.
The book isn't exclusive; in fact, it explains female experiences in way that is neither patronising nor dull to an audience of either gender. The descriptions of solely female enterprises, such as childbirth, or the difficult timing of body-hair removal in relation to socialising, are as equally detailed as they are comical.
"Feminism" has become a loaded word, associated with hypocritical and hysterical women, bra-burning men-haters, or the outdated movement that was solved when women gained the vote. But maybe it's time to reclaim the word, and reclaim the movement altogether. Caitlin Moran exemplifies and explains, precisely, how to be a woman. And the conclusion seems to be, however you want.
(Originally published 19th October 2011, http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/culture/7631)
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Sacred Ground (Eboo Patel) -- A Review
SACRED GROUND: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America. By Eboo Patel. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012. Xxix + 192 pages.
The tragic events of September 11, 2012, now eleven years in the past, still resonate in the hearts and minds of many Americans. That day has proven to both bring people together and divide them. For me, it was a moment of clarity that cemented my own commitment to working across religious lines to build bridges to the common good. I was then the president of the local interfaith clergy association, and therefore was required to address the situation. Through it I made new friends and gained new opportunities to grow in my own faith and to grow in understanding of the faiths of others. That process continues to this day. One of the figures on the American scene today who has gained my respect for his work in building these very bridges is Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core. Sacred Ground follows up on his previous book Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, (Beacon Press, 2007), in which he shared his own journey toward creating this most important interfaith effort, an effort focused on reaching younger adults, including college students with a message of interfaith cooperation.
In Sacred Ground Eboo Patel takes us deeper into the cause. As with Acts of Faith this is a deeply personal book, as the author tells his own story of engagement. He speaks here as a Muslim as well as an interfaith leader. His message is clear – there is room for both holding strongly to one's own faith tradition and building bridges of cooperation. The point here is not that we're trying to figure out a common path to heaven nor is it simply a call to live and let live. Instead, this is a book about overcoming the barriers that keep us, especially those of us living in America, from creating religious ghettos. He speaks near the end of the book of moving out of a monocultural situation, where we simply don't ask questions of our own identity, as well as the identity of others.
The book begins with the story of Cordoba in Spain. In the medieval period southern Spain was under Muslim rule, and for its day, this Muslim community was awash in cross-religious interaction. This was a time and a place where fruitful conversation existed that enriched the world of its day. Bringing up Cordoba is important, because that was the name given to a new Islamic Center to be built in Manhattan, near the site of the 9-11 tragedy. Instead of this new mosque and religious center becoming a place of peaceful conversation, it would become a point of great contention. Critics called it the "Ground Zero Mosque and people across the country railed against its being built there, in spite of the support of the mayor of New York.
The controversy over the mosque highlights the residue of bitterness that colors our attempts to reach across faith lines to build community. Patel speaks eloquently of experiencing prejudice against Muslims in America. He tells the story in a compelling way that draws us into the conversation and moves toward cooperation. Something that Patel says in the introduction, a statement that defines for us the meaning of the title of the book, should cause us to stop and ponder its meaning. As a person who struggles with the idea of American exceptionalism, it is good to hear how a Muslim American of Indian descent sees this country. He writes:
I believe every inch of America is sacred, from sea to shining sea. I believe we make it holy by who we welcome and by how we relate to each other. Call it my Muslim eyes on the American project. "We made you different nations and tribes that you may come to know one another," says the Qur'an. There is no better place on earth than America to enact that vision (pp. xxvii-xxviii).
Thus, not only is "Ground Zero," sacred ground, but all of this American ground, is sacred. Thus, in spite of the prejudice that Muslims and other religious minorities experience here in the United States, this land offers an opportunity to create something special. Thus, he writes:
Pluralism is not a birthright in America; it's a responsibility. Pluralism does not fall from the sky; it does not rise up from the ground. People have fought for pluralism. People have kept the promise. America is exceptional not because there is magic in our air but because there is fierce determination in our citizens (p. xxviii).
If we believe in any form of exceptionalism, surely this is the best definition of what it means.
The book breaks down into three parts. Part one focuses on the struggle surrounding the Cordoba House or "Ground Zero Mosque," the idea of a Muslim menace, and the shifting role of evangelicals in this conversation. In the chapter on the evangelical shift, Patel notes the parallel between an older Protestant/Evangelical anti-Catholicism and the current view of Islam. He notes that just as the relationship between Catholic and Evangelical has thawed, we're seeing a similar move on the part of some Evangelicals, giving hope to greater interaction and cooperation, as well as ending the current anti-Muslim culture in America.
Part two of the book focuses on the "science of interfaith cooperation" and the "art of interfaith leadership." These two chapters are more focused on process and development in the interfaith world. He notes the importance of creating programming that leads to greater "appreciative knowledge" of other faith traditions. He has been a strong proponent of creating interfaith projects, where people work together and thus build relationships that further conversation. He continues to remind us that especially among the young, the old methods of simply talking, and moving toward living into relationships. The goal in all of this is making "interfaith cooperation a social norm." That requires the training up of a critical mass of interfaith leaders – the focus of the next chapter. One of the things that Patel focuses on is building relationships and developing a strong interfaith literacy (a focus of the work of Stephen Prothero). In an important statement, he reminds us that effective interfaith leadership isn't going to be expressed at the macro level with people like the Dalai Lama or himself, but among those who catch the vision of cooperation and begin to tell their story.
Part three of the book focuses on Patel's own area of work – on college campuses and with seminaries. The future of interfaith cooperation depends on helping young adults catch a vision and develop interfaith literacy. One of the key points that he makes in the chapter on working with colleges, is the frustrating lack of vision of college administrations about the importance of religious diversity. Multi-cultural literacy is a focus of campuses, but it focuses almost entirely on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and rarely with religious diversity. This is, of course, the focus of the Interfaith Youth Core. So the question he raises is – what would happen "if colleges took religious diversity as seriously as they took other identity issues?" He asks us to imagine the impact that a critical mass of interfaith leaders might have on America's future. He notes that there's clearly interest on the part of college students, but a lack of interest (or perhaps fear) on the part of college administrations – especially secular ones. It's not hostility, it's discomfort that comes from a lack of knowledge.
But it's not only colleges – what about seminaries? Here Patel is focusing primarily on those institutions training Christian pastors and leaders. He shares his own encounters teaching at various seminaries, helping future pastors understand their own role in facilitating interfaith cooperation. The key here is understanding how one appreciates the faith traditions of the other person, while staying faithful to one's own traditions. It is creating the framework for living faithfully in an increasingly diverse religious environment, so that we needn't shy away from using religious language and imagery in our conversations, but rather understanding how they interact with that of others. Interestingly, he engages (in conversation with Princeton's Kenda Dean) the topic that is on the minds of many – the prevalence of a "moralistic therapeutic deism," where God is seen as nice, and as a result we need to be nice to each other. Religion minus dogma may sound good on the surface, but does it have value without substance? Patel writes:
The heart of the matter is how to articulate religious identity in a world of diversity in a way that affirms particularity and builds pluralism. . . . I think the place we want to get to is this: "Because I am a Christian, I have formed a friendship with a Muslim." In other words, "It is precisely the values that I derive from Christianity that attract me to a person as righteous as you." Here, faith and friendship are connected, mutually enriching instead of mutually exclusive. (pp. 141-142).
This requires developing a theology of interfaith cooperation. It requires that we view our relationships through the lens of faith, not by discounting that lens. Yes, there are texts and stories in our faith traditions that undermine such a reality, but there are also many stories such as the parable of the Good Samaritan that allow us to develop this vision. There are other stories, like Muhammad's engagement with Christians that helped him understand his own visions, and that of Gandhi, who learned from Jesus, and Martin Luther King who learned from Gandhi.
In the final chapter – before his conclusion and Martin Marty's "Afterword," Patel speaks of raising a child to be a faithful Muslim while appreciating the faith of his neighbors. How do we nurture faith and respect? He tells a very personal story of the influences of a devoutly Catholic nanny, attendance at a Catholic school, as well as Jewish and Hindu friends. His son was learning of other traditions, which meant that he had to find a way of honoring this new knowledge with stories of his own faith tradition that paralleled the other. Thus, even as he learned the story of Jesus at school, Patel found it wise to help his son know the story of Muhammad – not as a rival, but as a means of understanding his own story. In a closing story of a friendship with a Hindu neighbor, Patel notes the impact made on his son by the knowledge that a birthday gift, a book about Muhammad, was given to him by his Hindu friend. Nothing seemed to catch his son's vision of his own faith, as much as the interest taken in him by a friend from another faith. There is power in nurturing both one's own faith and one's appreciation for the other.
We live in interesting times. There is much work to be done. There is significant angst and apprehension, often born of a lack of knowledge and a lack of relationships across faith lines. We need to create this critical mass of interfaith leaders. It's hard work, and therefore, it is good to have before us guides like Eboo Patel. This is a book that speaks to our times. It is a book that I think Christian leaders especially need to read as we seek to navigate a world of religious pluralism in a way that enables us to affirm our own faith and respect and appreciate our neighbors and our neighbors' faiths. It is the key to ending prejudice, and enabling America to fulfill it's promise -- that is, it can live into it's promise of being a truly sacred ground. This is definitely a must read book for day!
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A History Lesson for Teachers: Inventions
One of the most interesting subjects that educators can teach is history. It's a subject that provides a chance to analyze how people dealt with the challenges of the past as well as provide context for the present. Many history students discover recurring patterns that they may not notice if they only consider current events.
One of the most illuminating topics in history involves inventions that changed the world. From the early humans who learned how to control fire a million years ago to the invention of the integrated circuit in the 1950s, discoveries and advances in technology have guided the developmental arc of civilization.
For both teachers and students, learning about history and inventions that changed the world should be both informative and fun. Fresno Pacific University's Inventions That Changed the World course gives teachers a chance to learn best practices for making the past come alive for students. It's part of the popular Great Courses series offered through Fresno Pacific.
Inventions That Changed the World
Politics, royalty and privileged people with the wealth to influence both tend to dominate the pages of history books. While the actions of many of these people are open to debate, certain historical events had a clear-cut impact that changed the course of entire civilizations. They include advances in philosophy, mathematics, medicine, engineering and art. They also include world-changing inventions such as the following.
Taming Fire and Stone Tools
No discussion about inventions is complete with acknowledging the early humans who tamed fire. The latest evidence now points to this happening about one million years ago, according to findings at South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave. Stone tools date back even further. The oldest examples come from the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, dating back 3.3 million years. They are so old that they pre-date the emergence of the earliest humans from the Homo genus.
People today take pictures with their smartphones to text them to someone on the other side of the world. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce, who invented the daguerreotype in the 1830s, needed eight hours of exposure to make a photo (they eventually shortened it to about 30 minutes). However, their invention changed how people saw the world, and also gave millions their first look at places far from where they lived (like this 1837 photo by Daguerre and Niépce of their studio).
The Bessemer Furnace
The modern world is built with steel, and the ability to mass-produce steel is only possible due to the creation of the Bessemer Furnace. Two people invented the process in the 1840s—Sir Henry Bessemer in England and William Kelly in the United States. Modern steel plants use a more advanced process, but those innovations stand on the shoulders of the two men who invented the Bessemer furnace.
The Printing Press
Printing started in China in the first millennium A.D. A Buddhist book from Dunhuang, The Diamond Sutra, is credited as the oldest known printed book (from about 868 A.D.), However, Johannes Gutenberg, working in Germany around 1440, greatly advanced the process with his printing press. The inventions led to the mass distribution of information and made books easier to produce and more affordable.
On Dec 17, 1903, the Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur, taking turns as pilots on four trial flights) demonstrated that an airplane could fly under the control of a pilot. Those test flights took place near the Big Kill Devil Hill in North Carolina, about six miles outside of the town of Kitty Hawk. Their invention revolutionized travel and freight transport, opening up trade between far-flung locations.
That's just a sample from a long list of life-changing inventions. Others include:
Electric Light: In the early 19th century, Humphrey Davy invented the carbon arc lamp, which made way for inventors Warren de la Rue and Thomas Edison to invent electric lights in the 1800s.
Steam Engine: Early steam engines date back to 1698, when Thomas Savery developed the steam-powered water pump, later perfected in the 1700s. Steam engines powered the industrial revolution.
Penicillin: Discovered (by accident) in 1928 by Alexander Fleming, this antibiotic mold was purified and created to make penicillin, a drug that fights many bacterial infections.
Integrated Circuit: Invented in 1958 by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in Dallas, the integrated circuit (or a microchip) now powers everything from parts of cars to computers, smartphones, laptops and much more.
The Internet: The internet connects the entire planet, making it one of the biggest inventions that changed the world. The U.S. Department of Defense funded the first connected computer system for the military, but British scientist Tim Berners-Lee created the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), web browser and web server.
The Fresno Pacific University Great Courses
The Great Courses series for educators offered through Fresno Pacific University gives educators the chance to expand their knowledge while earning professional development credits.
The video-based courses help teachers develop practices that allow them to better engage their students on various topics. In the case of Inventions That Changed the World, educators learn the story behind a wide variety of inventions, how they work and how they reflect—and in some cases define—cultural values.
The course takes a global perspective, from Ancient China to Silicon Valley. Teachers learn to differentiate between discovery and invention and develop a deeper understanding of common inventions used in everyday life.
Assignments in the course address the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) for Science inventions. Completing this course is applicable towards earning the STEM Teaching Certificate from Fresno Pacific University.


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Episode 123 - More goddamn Brexit as far as the eye can see. But does any of it make sense? Luckily Tiernan (@tiernandouieb) has top pollster Keiran Pedley (@keiranpedley) from Polling Matters podcast to help understand some of it. Plus a fish issues aka fishues, the ever lame Brexit Deal and a look at the Immigration Health Surcharge.


China is on a journey to disrupt the auto making industry with smart electric cars and autonomous driving in a race with the US for market leadership of the car of the future. China already is the leading maker of electric vehicles and is the world's biggest automotive market. Tomorrow's electric models from China are internet-connected cars with self-driving capabilities. Stand guard, Detroit and Silicon Valley.
Chinese electric car maker Xpeng Motors is at the forefront of these China advances. The founder, Chinese internet tycoon Xiaopeng He, told me his goal is to build a "global mobility intelligent company," which could become a reality within a few years as technology transforms the 100-year automobile industry.
Xpeng is marketing a sport utility vehicle priced in the mid-range of $35,000 to China's young, tech-savvy drivers, packed with fun features such as in-car karaoke and a 360-degree rotatable roof camera for taking group selfies. The SUV had sales of 10,000 within three months. Next, Xpeng is planning to launch a coupe at the Auto Shanghai 2019 show in mid-April. The five-year-old startup is on track to sell 40,000 to 50,000 electric vehicles in China this year, and may start sales in Hong Kong and Singapore by 2022, and later to the US.
Our interview was a few weeks before Tesla charged a former engineer recruited by Xpeng of stealing its trade secrets for driver-less technology. Xpeng is not accused in the suit and has responded that it wasn't aware of any wrongdoing but has launched an internal investigation. The lawsuit comes as a US-China technology race intensifies, Silicon Valley tech leaders go on alert, and the US cracks down on corporate espionage by Chinese companies.
Xiaopeng He started Xpeng Motors in 2014 shortly after selling his first startup, mobile browser UCWeb to Alibaba in a $4 billion deal, the largest then in Chinese internet history. His dream is to build another tech winner with big impact, and he's poured some of his personal fortune into Xpeng along with some $1.5 billion raised from strategic investors Foxconn and Alibaba, and prominent venture capital and private equity firms.
Xpeng is aggressively head-hunting talent to build out its research and development team working on autonomous driving and artificial intelligence technologies. The Guangzhou-based company is expanding its R&D team in California from fewer than 100 currently to 150 by the end of this year to work on proprietary research, founder He said, hiring from Silicon Valley tech leaders as well as universities. More from my interview with founder Xiaopeng He will be in Tech Titans of China.
One key recruit early this year is Xpeng's new vice president of its autonomous driving unit, Xinzhou Wu, Qualcomm's former global head of autonomous driving. The engineer that Tesla has accused of stealing files and codes, Guangzhi Cao, worked on Tesla's auto pilot team and came on board as a lead engineer at Xpeng early in 2019. In 2017, Xpeng recruited Junli Gu, the former tech lead of Tesla's machine learning roadmap for its autopilot system, as its VP of autonomous driving.
R&D is the backbone of these new EV makers with built-in autonomous driving technology, facial recognition, entertainment systems, and AI-controlled settings. Much depends on having independent R&D -- as well as supercharging stations, stores and a factory, all of which Xpeng is tackling.
Besides the California R&D team, Xpeng has a sizeable research group in China working on AI, autonomous driving and connected vehicle technologies, that is being expanded to 800 this year. Altogether by the end of 2019, Xpeng is counting on 1,000 people in R&D globally for these advanced technologies, and another 2,000 on powertrain and auto hardware testing. Nearly two-thirds of the Xpeng current staff are in R&D, split among five research centers.
There's an enormous opportunity in China. In 2018, electric vehicle sales in China surged by 62 percent to 1.3 million, about 4 percent of the total compared to 2 percent of car purchases in the US. By 2022, 10.3 million new electric vehicles are projected to be sold globally, with China expanding by 37 percent to 3.6 million and the US increasing 26 percent to nearly 2 million.
China has maneuvered to the lead of the electric vehicle market worldwide through "subsidizing the heck out of it," China auto tech consultant Michael Dunne of ZoZo Go recently told a meeting of the Asia Society Northern California. He pointed out that there are 50 electric vehicle makers in China. But he noted that China needs to overcome an image of building cheap, low-quality cars to succeed in international markets.
Chinese electric vehicle makers Xpeng and NIO, dubbed a Tesla challenger and listed on the NYSE, are in the forefront of China's crowded EV market. Alibaba and Jack Ma's Yunfeng Capital are investors in Xpeng while Tencent backs NIO.
"China has the potential to make world-class vehicles with their smart and cashed-up tech companies," said consultant Dunne, speaking at the Asia Society meeting. "By relying on tech companies instead of the entrenched auto makers, they have found their point of leverage. They can make a great leap forward with scale, regulations, technology and a capital river of billions. I think the US is in trouble."
Tesla, meanwhile, is gearing up to increase sales of its luxury electric cars that got off to a slow start by opening its own mega-factory in Shanghai to produce 500,000 sedans and bypass 25 percent tariffs that drive its China price tags from $78,000 upwards to $150,000. Tesla sold an estimated 15,000 cars in China in 2017 and 2018 sales were down in China's slowing economy.


Reese's Muddy Buddies - Dessert Now, Dinner Later!
*Thanks to Reese's and Kroger for partnering with me to bring you this delicious recipe. All opinions are mine alone.
Reese's Muddy Buddies are a twist on the classic with both chocolate and peanut butter coated cereal pieces tossed together with Reese's Pieces and Reese's Minis. This is the ultimate peanut butter and chocolate puppy chow snack mix.
It's March basketball season, and this quick party snack would be perfect for your viewing party! The classic combination of peanut butter and chocolate is a winner for any sport or party.
I took classic Muddy Buddies, and made them better with more peanut butter and chocolate. Adding Reese's Pieces and Reese's Minis. (Be sure to grab a coupon!) After all, you can never have too much peanut butter and chocolate!
If I'm going to watch a sport, it would definitely be basketball. We live near the college my husband and I both attended. Our basketball team was really good while we were in school. In fact, we went to a basketball game for our very first date! Lucky for us they are doing really well again this year.
My kids love any excuse for a party, and for us, game day is all about the food! We love shopping at our local Kroger store (Smith's). They've got a great selection of food and drinks for all our Taste of the Tournament party needs, including all the fixings for these Reese's Muddy Buddies.
Start with a small batch of classic muddy buddies. Melt chocolate chips with peanut butter and butter in the microwave. Stir in some vanilla, and coat the chocolate onto cereal squares. Then toss it all in powdered sugar.
Repeat this process with a small batch of the cereal coated in DOUBLE the peanut butter by using peanut butter chips.
The part that makes this recipe extra delicious is the addition of Reese's Pieces and Reese's Minis. The candies add a variety of texture and make it a great snack mix.
We loaded our Reese's Muddy Buddies into little decorative cups for individual snacking. Everyone felt like the MVP!
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Reese's Muddy Buddies are a twist on the classic with both chocolate and peanut butter coated cereal pieces tossed together with Reese's Pieces and Reese's Minis.
CHOCOLATE BUDDIES: In a large microwaveable bowl, melt the chocolate chips with the peanut butter and butter in the microwave for 60 seconds. Stir until smooth. Add the vanilla and stir until incorporated. Add cereal and fold gently until cereal is covered completely.
Place powdered sugar in a gallon zip-top bag. Add chocolate coated cereal. Zip bag shut and shake until fully coated.
PEANUT BUTTER BUDDIES: In a large microwaveable bowl, melt the peanut butter chips with the peanut butter and butter in the microwave for 60 seconds. Stir until smooth. Add the vanilla and stir until incorporated. Add cereal and fold gently until cereal is covered completely.
Place powdered sugar in a gallon zip-top bag. Add peanut butter coated cereal. Zip bag shut and shake until fully coated.
COMBINE chocolate and peanut butter coated cereal pieces in a large bowl with Reese's Pieces and Reese's Minis. Enjoy snacking!


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Vicki Wedel, PhD, F-AAFS
Associate Professor of Anatomy
E-Mail: vwedel@westernu.edu
2007 University of California President s Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley - Anthropology
2006 PhD - University of California, Santa Cruz, CA - Anthropology Dissertation Patterns of Bone Remodeling among Enslaved and Freed Historical African Americans
2001 MA - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK - Anthropology Thesis Adult Health in a Middle Mississippian Population from Northeastern Arkansas: The MacDuffee Site
1998 MCJA - Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK - Criminal Justice Administration
1997 BA - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK -Letters
Education Experience
2006-2007 University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004-2005 University of California President's Dissertation Year Fellowship
2001-2002 University of California at Santa Cruz Dean's Fellowship
1994 American Physiological Association Fellowship, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Department of Physiology
1993 National Institutes of Health Minority Summer Research Apprenticeship, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Department of Anatomy
2017-present Forensic Anthropologist, Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, CA
2001-present Forensic Anthropology Consultant, Various California Counties
Select Instructional Workshops
"Determining Age and Season at Death Using Dental Cememtum Increment Analysis". (2007) Presented with Dr. Alison Galloway and Lauren Zephro at the International Association for Identification annual meetings in San Diego, CA
"Methods of Body Recovery and Scene Preservation". (2003) Presented with Dr. Alison Galloway for the Oakland Evidence Recovery Team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Academic Employment
2014-present Associate Professor, Anatomy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA
2008-2014 Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Dental Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA
2007-2008 Assistant Professor, Biological Anthropology, University of California, Merced, CA
2006-2007 University of California President s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley Department of Anthropology, Berkeley, CA
2004-2005 Teaching Fellow, University of California at Santa Cruz Department of Anthropology, Santa Cruz, CA
2002-2003 Instructor University of California at Santa Cruz Department of Anthropology, Santa Cruz, CA
Additional Employment
Forensic Anthropologiest, Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team Region IX, National Disaster Medical Service, Department of Health and Human Services
Co-Block Lead for FOM2 HEENT/Neuroscience/Psychiatry Block
Medical Gross Anatomy
Intensive Summer Anatomy Course
Head and Neck Anatomy for Dental Medicine Students
My research focuses on developing new methods for use in the identification of human skeletal remains. Currently, I am working on projects involving dental cementum increment analysis and its efficacy in determining age and season-at-death. I also work on better understanding blunt force vs. ballistic
2016 - Using Dental Cementum Increment Analysis to Determine Age and Season at Death in Guatemala. Western University of Health Sciences Intramural Grant ($20,000)
2014 - Using Dental Cementum to Determine Season at Death Using Deciduous Teeth. Co-PI, Creighton University George F. Haddix President's Research Award ($15,000)
2011 - Validating Cementum Increment Analysis for Determining Season at Death. Co-PI, American Society of Forensic Odontology ($2500)
2009 - Determining Season at Death PI, Forensic Sciences Foundation ($1900)
2008 - Skeletal Evidence of Evolution PI, University of California. Center for Research on Teaching Excellence ($5,000)
2005 - Determining Season at Death Using Dental Cementum Increment Analysis PI, Forensic Sciences Foundation ($500)
2004 - Biological effects of slavery and emancipation PI, Sigma Xi ($810)
2019 National Faculty in Anatomy, National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME).
2016 College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Faculty Award for Lifelong Learning in Teaching Innovation
2014 Inducted as Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Science Physical Anthropology Section
American Association of Physical Anthropologists - Member
American Anthropological Association - Member
American Academy of Forensic Sciences - Fellow
International Association for Identification - Member
COMP Preclinical Subcommittee - Chair
COMP Curriculum Committee
CDM Curriculum Management Committee
CDM Student Performance Committee
COMP Curriculum Exploration Task Force - Co-chair
2014 Wedel, VL and A Galloway (Eds.). Broken Bones: An Anthropological. Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma, 2nd Edition. Charles C. Thomas: Springfield.
Refereed Manuscripts
2016 Wedel, VL; Wescott, DJ. Using dental cementum increment analysis to estimate age and season of death in African Americans from an historical cemetery in Missouri. International Journal of Paleopathology. 15:134-139. Nov. 2016.
2014 Wedel, VL On Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 154:165. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.22478.
2013 Wedel, VL, G Found, and GK Nusse. A 37 Year-Old Cold Case Identification Using Novel and Collaborative Methods. Journal of Forensic Identification 63(1): 5-21.
2007 Wedel, VL. Determination of Season at Death Using Dental Cementum Increment Analysis. Journal of Forensic Sciences 52(6):1334-1337.
2007 Wedel, VL. Losing the Race: Ancestry, Identity, and the Problem of Human Variation. In Race and Anthropology, Race in Anthropology, special themed issue of the Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 95:7-22.
2004 Wedel, VL. Skeletal Biological Assessment; pp. 19-20 in Morgan, D.F., and Drass, R.R., Salvage Excavations at the Jewett Site: A Washita River Phase Village in South-Central Oklahoma. Oklahoma Archaeology 52(2):9-55.
Wedel, VL. (2006) Patterns of bone remodeling among enslaved and freed historical African Americans. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Recent Refereed Abstracts
2019 V. Wedel. Validating the Use of Dental Cementum Increment Analysis to Determine Season-at-Death in Humans and Other Mammals. 67th Symposium of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy. Proceedings of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Abstracts, 19.
2019 V. Wedel and TP Gocha. Reassessing determining season at death using Dental Cementum Increment Analysis (DCIA) in young adults. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, XXIV:65.
2017 V. Wedel. Expanding cementum annulation theory and method. New Approaches to Burnt Human Bones and Teeth: the Bioarchaeology of Cremations and Tooth Cementum Annulation. Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for European and Oriental Archaeology.
2017 V. Wedel and K. Hermsen. Out of the Mouths of Babes: Cementum Annulation in Human Deciduous Teeth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. S64:405.
2015 V. Wedel. Making the preparation phase of the flipped classroom active. Proceedings of the American Dental Educators Association. http://bit.ly/1tsloKr.
2015 V. Wedel and K. Hermsen. Dental Cementum Increment Analysis Can Determine Four Seasons at Death. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. XXI:A105.
2013 V. Wedel, SB Hsieh, and K. Hermsen. A Large, Known Season Validation of Determining Season at Death Using Dental Cementum Increment Analysis. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
2012 Hsieh, SB and VL Wedel. I'd give my eye teeth for dental cementum increment analysis. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
2011 V. Wedel and D. Wescott. Detecting a historical epidemic using dental cementum increment analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2011 A. Cordy-Collins and VL Wedel. Season at Death Among the Moche Giants of Peru. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2008 Wedel, VL. Bone remodeling in historical African Americans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2006 Goode-Null, SK, JE Howson, VL Wedel, LM Rankin-Hill, and EG Medford. The lived experiences of enslaved children: growth and nutritional status in historical context. Abstracts of the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association 105:252.


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Katherine Havemeyer is a French Hybrid lilac that matures at about 8/10'H x 6/8'W. They have deep purple double buds which open lavender/pink. They are hardy in Zones 3-7.
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package net.scalax.cpoi.test

import java.util.Date

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.CellType
import org.scalatest._

class HSSFWorkbookLawNumbricCellTest extends FlatSpec with Matchers {

  "String cell" should "throw exception when setting a numeric cell type" in {
    val workbook = new HSSFWorkbook()
    val sheet    = workbook.createSheet("Sheet1")
    val cell     = sheet.createRow(0).createCell(0)
    cell.setCellValue("2333.44")
    a[IllegalStateException] should be thrownBy {
      cell.setCellType(CellType.NUMERIC)
    }
  }

  "Boolean cell" should "be set a numberic cell type" in {
    val workbook = new HSSFWorkbook()
    val sheet    = workbook.createSheet("Sheet1")
    val cell     = sheet.createRow(0).createCell(0)
    cell.setCellValue(false)
    a[IllegalStateException] should be thrownBy {
      cell.setCellType(CellType.NUMERIC)
    }
  }

  "Date cell" should "be set a numeric cell type" in {
    val workbook = new HSSFWorkbook()
    val sheet    = workbook.createSheet("Sheet1")
    val cell     = sheet.createRow(0).createCell(0)
    cell.setCellValue(new Date(0))
    cell.setCellType(CellType.NUMERIC)
    cell.getNumericCellValue.toInt should be(25569)
    cell.getDateCellValue should be(new Date(0))
  }

}

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Local Dealership needed to upgrade this brand New Chevy Tahoe with some factory fogs, since they didn't have that option installed.
The install was pretty straight forward....remove factory blank plates, insert fog housing....call it a day.
I was just going to originally hooked them up to an aftermarket switch...but the dealership wanted to install a factory light switch and enable the fog light circuit as if fully installed as a factory option.
So....a hole was drilled in the lower dash area below the factory headlight switch and a low profile switch was installed.
Had a buddy bring in his BMW that I previously worked on.
I installed these new projector lights that came with Halo's installed and better projector optics. Only problem was the headlight housing he ordered had a broken (literally) halo in one of them. No problem, right? Incorrect.......instead of simply shipping the old like back and getting a new one, the company he ordered them from just sent him a halo. Seriously? Someone buys your product that supposedly has a good reputation for, and you tell the customer: "Here is the part that's broken, BAKE open the headlights and replace it yourself. WTF Guys? If that's the case, I could have retro'd his stock lights for about the same price and WHOOOPED your 'so-called' aftermarket upgrades. Ok...rant over.
So i opened up his newly purchased and freshly broken headlight and swapped out the literally broken (because it was improperly assembled and not checked before it was shipped) halo......all is well now.
Had a local client bring in his new aftermarket headlights he got from a friend.
To date, these were easily the BEST quality aftermarket headlights I've worked on. Plastics were in good shape and withheld constant heat without warping. Inner structure was solid, nothing was skimped on when constructing these. Projectors had a decent cutoff (even though the lens wasn't clear) and the accessory lighting they had installed was of the same quality of the higher-end aftermarket accessory lighting I use in all my headlights......so he was already ahead of the game with purchasing these lights.
Client wanted to completely black out the inside of the lights, add demon eye accent lighting and make the halo's more aggressive with a demon eye slant. Well, I'm pushing my new XB Halo lights and he agreed after seeing the lights, that he wanted them on his car.
Painted the turn signal basket, heavily modified the stock angel eye holder to accept the newer, brighter, bigger XB LED Halo light, added the demon eye accent lighting and taped off the halo cover for that aggressive demon eye look.
Once everything was sealed up, i installed them on the Mustang, did a few minor custom wirings to make everything Plug-n-Play, yet 100% waterproof, and he was out the door with the finishing touches that made the stellar Mustang pop even more. Head turner for sure.
Had a local car guy step up and allow me to borrow his wife's car for the night.....good thing, as my original adjustments would have been way off (way to go Pontiac for making something level that should have been level).
Anyways, as you can clearly see, the only thing that is different about these lights compared to stock is the method of output. The bulb is the exact same bulb, nothing higher powered.....and i'm thinkng it's about 150% more coverage where needed....out front and down low. The stock fogs provide a better IMMEDIATE up front coverage, but they disappear after 20-30 feet....not these upgraded bad boys....they'll keep going muuuch further.
Now that I have these leveled how I needed them, i can get on to designing the LED layout for the turn signals.
Just one side...so now I have an extra Valeo Low Beam and High Beam Projector.....might put them in Project BaggedXelem....you never know.
Anywho....these were a PAIN to open, I think because they had been sitting, without a seal on the back of them, so the glue was just shot.....so I had to cut the lens off.....no biggy since I only wanted the projectors.
Anyways.......gotta love me some freebies!


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Biti conviction: Does he keep his seat in Parliament?
Harare East MP and senior opposition MDC Alliance official Tendai Biti was on Monday convicted of violating the Electoral Act by illegally announcing the July 30 presidential election results.
Harare magistrate Gloria Takundwa ordered Biti to pay a $200 fine, or face week-long imprisonment should he fail to pay the fine. She also slapped a six month jail term on the former finance minister, which is suspended for five years, provided he does not commit a similar offence.
Takundwa said the prosecution had proved that Biti declared and announced that MDC-Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa had won the election before the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission made an official announcement of the election results, violating Section 66A of the Electoral Act.
Biti's case drew the attention of a US Congressional committee, with former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, who co-sponsored amendments to the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera) sanctions law last year, calling on the opposition leader's charges to be dropped.
The MDC Alliance deputy chairman's conviction also brings to a close a case, which started with his dramatic but brief escape to Zambia, which denied him asylum.
Biti keeps his seat
In terms of Zimbabwe's Constitution, there are 14 instances in which an MP's seat can fall vacant. These range from the dissolution of Parliament, appointment to the Vice Presidency, to conviction.
According to Section 129 (1) (i)(i), a Member of Parliament's seat becomes vacant if: the Member is convicted
(i)	in Zimbabwe of an offence of which breach of trust, dishonesty or physical violence is an essential element; or
(ii)	outside Zimbabwe of conduct which, if committed in Zimbabwe, would be an offence of which breach of trust, dishonesty or physical violence is an essential element; and sentenced to imprisonment for six months or more without the option of a fine or without the option of any other non-custodial punishment, unless on appeal the Member's conviction is set aside or the sentence of imprisonment is reduced to less than six months or a punishment other than imprisonment is substituted.
Section 129 (1) (n), which deals specifically with electoral law violations, states:
"If the Member has been convicted of an offence under the Electoral Law and has been declared by the High Court to be disqualified for registration as a voter or from voting at any election."
The supreme law also provides an appeal against any conviction by an MP extends their tenure in Parliament, until the finalisation of the appeal.
Section 129 (2) states: "A Member referred to in subsection (1)(i) who has noted an appeal against his or her conviction may continue, until the final determination of the appeal, to exercise his or her functions as a Member and to receive remuneration as a Member, unless a court has ordered that he or she should be detained in prison pending the outcome of the appeal."
Biti, a prominent lawyer who first entered Parliament in 2000, looks set to hold his position as both his conviction and sentence do not warrant his removal in terms of Section 129 of the Constitution.
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Muhammad Ali had an airport named after him and other news of the week
The Week That Was Jan. 14-17
By Martenzie Johnson
Former Penn State football assistant coach Jay Paterno, not letting his late father have all the fun in tarnishing the family's name, invoked the American Civil War and "societal differences" while writing a pro-Saudi Arabia op-ed in a Saudi-controlled newspaper. Sacramento Kings forward Iman Shumpert, who has clearly never watched Rocky IV or Creed II, tried to storm the Portland Trail Blazers' locker room to confront Bosnian center Jusuf Nurkic. President Donald Trump, letting Wheaties be the breakfast of champions while he makes trans fats and sodium their dinner, welcomed the national champion Clemson football team to the White House with takeout food from McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and Domino's. German automaker Volkswagen, hoping a U.S. women's national team victory in the upcoming World Cup will take the spotlight off that little $14.7 billion settlement from 2016, agreed to a three-year partnership with U.S. Soccer. Recently hired Cleveland Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens, who ran because Jeff Fisher walked, said it "drives me crazy that people are happy with 7-8-1. That's not acceptable."
Free-agent outfielder Melvin Upton, reaching Muhammad Ali territory of "his mama named him Clay, I'ma call him Clay" name changes, said he is reverting to his former playing name of "B.J. Upton" after initially switching to "Melvin" in 2015. Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach and former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, who once coached a player who threatened to quit football entirely to force a trade from his previous team, called Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown a "diva" for his recent off-field actions. Former NFL head coach Gregg Williams, who will somehow be his new team's interim head coach 2½ years from now, will be hired as defensive coordinator for the New York Jets. Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh offered a 13-year-old Michigan boy a scholarship for when the seventh-grader graduates from high school in 2024, possibly finally giving Harbaugh a signature win over Ohio State. Miami Heat guard Dion Waiters, like an aggrieved yoga class participant, said, "F— patience" after being limited to 12 minutes in the team's game against the Milwaukee Bucks.
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The Louisville Regional Airport Authority board of directors voted to change the name of the city's international airport to "Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport" but did not mention whether it will be easier for people named "Muhammad" or "Ali" to board a plane there. Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles, explaining the plot of White Men Can't Jump, said he responds to fans who criticize his game by telling them, "Let's be real … I've got a receding hairline, I'm slow and I'm probably not the most jacked-up with abs and all that, but I'm still going to beat you one-on-one. Settle down." Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia, seeing through his third eye that you can't make a Super Bowl unless you have a sketchy play-caller to eventually risk losing said Super Bowl, hired former Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, who infamously called a pass play from the 1-yard line against Patricia's New England Patriots defense during the 2015 Super Bowl. Rocky actor Sylvester Stallone, who will reconsider his position once the Creed residuals start rolling in, said he regrets having killed off Carl Weathers' Apollo Creed character in Rocky IV.
Motown legend Gladys Knight was selected by the NFL to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, almost ensuring that no black player will take a knee before the game. Former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie, whose height played no small part in him playing in the USFL and CFL and doing dropkicks by the end of his career, said Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray can make "all the throws" in the NFL despite standing only 5 feet, 10 inches tall. NFL owners, predominantly conservative, old white men who nonetheless believe in fascism (team ownership) and socialism (revenue sharing) and oppose free market capitalism (salary cap), will likely advocate for further health care reform after losing general liability insurance coverage for the pre-existing condition of head trauma.
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Our Forests Are on the Move
Migrating trees? You bet. Vanessa Farnsworth explores.
By Vanessa Farnsworth
When we think about species migrating, our minds conjure up images of birds flying south or herds of elk moving from their winter ranges to the landscapes that will support them throughout the summer months. Rarely, however, do we think of trees relocating from regions where they have lived for hundreds or thousands of years to ones where they have never before been seen.
And yet trees do migrate. Not as individuals—those are well and truly rooted to the ground—but as communities that respond to inhospitable changes in their environment by migrating to areas more to their liking.
"What's causing trees to move are natural processes," says Dan McKenney, head of landscape analysis and applications at the Great Lakes Forestry Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. "I don't know that trees are necessarily thinking that something is happening and that they have to move. But they are trying to stay in their climatic happy zones."
Those happy zones are shifting due to changes in average temperature, rainfall, insect infestations, disease outbreaks, forest fragmentation, or such extreme events as wildfires, droughts or floods. Even volcanic eruptions have been credited with influencing the migration of trees. Still, it isn't the existing generation of trees that's making the trek to more conducive environments. Instead, these communities are relying on their progeny to get them where they want to go.
"Basically, it's all about their seeds and their seeds' movements," says John Pedlar, a forest landscape biologist with the Great Lakes Forestry Centre. "You have some trees that produce very light seeds that get moved around by wind. Others offer a reward for animals, like birds or squirrels, to move them around by paying them back with food."
Just because seeds are deposited in new locations doesn't mean they will be able to establish new forests there. Their ability to colonize new territory depends on many factors, including the climatic suitability of the new habitat, competition from other species and even a little luck.
"The dynamics of colonization are a bit complex," says Joane Elleouet, an ecologist whose work at the University of British Columbia included looking into the mechanisms that allow Sitka spruce to shift its range in response to climate change. "For a single tree to establish itself outside the forest, that's very difficult. It needs some random success, and that has a low probability. But as soon as you get one or two or three trees established, it's much easier for other trees to colonize."
With this in mind, the rate at which tree populations migrate can be surprisingly slow. Most of us are familiar with herbaceous plants moving around in the landscape and know that if you spot an invasive species in your neighbour's garden this year, you can expect it to be in your garden by next year, and then somewhere down the road by the year after that. Trees migrate at a much slower rate, typically measured in decades, centuries or even millennia. So don't expect to look out your window next month or even next year and see a whole different mix of trees.
"We're talking about processes that happen naturally and slowly," says McKenney. "Trees take a long time to grow, especially along the edges of ranges. And they're not fast reproducers. They don't develop seeds until quite a few years into their life. So you need a fortuitous sequence of events for trees to expand in a robust way along the edges of ranges."
Although the rates of tree migration can be seen as more of a crawl than a sprint, Canadian scientists have already detected notable shifts in the distribution of forest populations as trees gain territory to the north of previous range limits and up the sides of mountains.
"What's happening to drive that northward or upslope migration is that conditions are improving in parts of species' ranges where they couldn't survive in the past. Now temperatures are permitting them to move a little bit farther up," says Pedlar. "That's a fairly consistent finding from a number of different angles, looking at animals, looking at plants, but also at large-scale indicators like satellite data that show forest growth along the northern treeline. There's a lot of evidence coming from a lot of different directions suggesting that there is northward movement going on."
While climate change will continue to play a significant role in the movement of tree communities, researchers admit that it can be difficult to predict just how rapidly ranges will evolve over the coming centuries. Current projections suggest that climate will be changing at a rate anywhere from 10 to 100 times the rate at which trees can migrate. This sets up a potential catastrophe as traditional tree ranges become less hospitable and yet trees may not be able to move fast enough to get to more hospitable environments before those too become inhospitable.
During the relatively short period of time that satellite data has been available, trees can clearly be seen advancing northward and up the sides of mountains. If trees were migrating at their normal glacial pace, the advancement of treelines should be almost imperceptible on satellite data. So, trees appear to be moving faster than they should. And yet climate is changing much faster than trees are moving.
While concerning, it remains unclear what the impact of that will be. Some species may adapt to the new environmental realities and not migrate at all. Others may not be capable of migrating and will instead go into decline or die out altogether. Still others are expected to continue making the leap to new frontiers.
As tree species die out in the regions they leave behind, foreign species for which the altered climate is now hospitable may move in to fill the void. Alternatively, the region may become treeless, either because no foreign tree populations take up residence or because extreme weather events have an ongoing negative impact on the geographical space. In some areas, that impact may already be in progress.
"It does look like there's evidence, particularly in Western Canada, that more extreme events are occurring in shorter intervals than one would expect," says McKenney. "The kind of extremes that plant species have experienced over millennia seem to be happening more and more rapidly. In a sense, we've been in a sort of equilibrium and now things are changing and you're getting what people call tipping points that can perturb the ecology."
As much as climate change tends to dominate discussions about forest migration, the human factor can never be left out when considering where trees will be migrating to and how long it will take them to get there.
"Right now there's so much logging of Sitka spruce at their current range limit on Kodiak Island that it might slow down its colonization," says Elleouet. "Without humans, I would say colonization could happen very quickly because now it's open habitat that can be colonized. Trees can start establishing new forest. But with humans, I'm not too sure. We are fragmenting, and fragmentation is something that can definitely slow down the pace of colonization."
However it all plays out, the one thing that's clear is that our forests are on the move. They may not be moving as fast as birds or animals or even as fast as climate change, but they're moving all the same and in doing so they are changing the geography of this country.
Vanessa Farnsworth
Vanessa Farnsworth is former horticulturist, journalist and long-time resident of rural British Columbia. She is the author of Rain on a Distant Roof: A Personal Journey Through Lyme Disease in Canada and her writings on Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses have been published in magazines and on blogs across Canada.
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LG SIGNS INTERNATIONAL K-POP SENSATION BTS AS MOBILE PARTNER
Collaboration with BTS Comes as Group Hits New
Milestone in the International Music Scene
SEOUL, Apr. 3, 2018 — LG Electronics (LG) is readying its most ambitious and wide-reaching outreach campaign to date, fronted by today's hottest K-Pop boy band, BTS. Winner of the Top Social Artist of the Year at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, South Korea's most popular supergroup will star in a series of TV and social media campaigns for LG's mobile products, beginning with the company's upcoming flagship smartphone.
As the first K-pop artists to crack the Billboard Top 10 and perform at the American Music Awards, BTS has an immense following in major smartphone markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia. The video for the group's most recent single, Mic Drop, surpassed 200 million views on March 22 (Korea Time), becoming the seventh music video by the boy band to achieve this milestone.
LG and BTS will collaborate on a diverse marketing campaign that reflects the uniquely colorful personalities of each of group's seven members. The campaign will highlight the band's talent, attitude and relationship with its fans, the very qualities that LG hopes to bring to its upcoming products starting this quarter.
"BTS achieved international superstardom through raw talent, innovation and authenticity even though many gave them little chance of real success," says Kim Su-young, vice president and head of marketing for LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. "These qualities make BTS a great match with our smartphone brand and we hope to be able to convey to the global audience that LG mobile devices are also about delivering bold innovation with a unique attitude."


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Q: whats the best way to traverse a large dictionary of words? lets say I'm looking for a word that may or may not be in a dictionary of 95k words - I Cannot use word length to facilitate search. My question is in regards to the fastest way to find the word without doing a O(n) look up.
Here are my two thoughts:
first, store the words in a hast table, look up of the word is O(1), this seems the best scenario in my mind, but going through different websites using Trie was also suggested, my question regarding this is whether its practical to have a Trie that holds so many words.
The lookup would be O(k) in this case.
So what is the most optimal way of finding a word in a large dictionary?

A: Optimality depends on your use case - do you care about look up-time or space? (also, do you care about inserting new words?).
The best you can do time-wise is to use a hash table, but for a dictionary, it is space-inefficient.  A trie compresses the space requirement because it stores prefixes, not the entire word, but takes longer to look up. So, to answer your question, it is more space efficient to have a trie with a large number of words than a hash table.

A: If you are just searching for a single word, the cost of setting up a hash table or tree structure would exceed a linear search. These structures become (very) efficient when their costs are amortized over (very) many uses.
If the dictionary is sorted (and why wouldn't a dictionary be?), then you can look for a single word in log(n) time with a binary search through the file, no additional structures needed.

A: I think the best way to find a word in a dictionary is a  B+ tree.And let me explain you the reason.
Lets say you have a root block of 10 strings.The strings in the block are sorted.These 10 strings are followed by a pointer to another cell of 10 strings and that goes one.So the only thing you have to do is just String compare your Key word starting by the First one until you find a word smaller in comparison (StringCompare).
If we take it as standard that each string has next to it a pointer that shows to a cell with words that are smaller in comparison,it will take you 5 steps and 5 comparisons to end to the final bracket of data that will may or may not contain your Key word.
in 5 comparisons + the comparisons in the final bracket you are searching a dictionary of 10*10*10*10*10 words.
The algorithm is of logarithmic speed      Log 100000 with base the number of strings in the cell.If each cell has 10 words you need 5 steps.
I must mention that only the Root of the tree must be stored in the Ram memory.All the other blocks can be stored in the hard drive without significant loss in performance because of the few steps.
Hope i explained right :D At least i tried! have fun

A: Trie is preferable because this data-structure can be faster than hash-table. Hash tables is O(1) only in ideal case, in real world applications collisions can occur. Different types of trie data structure doesn't suffer from this.
Another case is compression. Trie are much more compact than hash table. Hash table require some space for efficient insert operations. If load factor of the hash table are colse to 100% than insert operations takes very long time.
With hash tables you must compare your key with at least one key from the dictionary, key comparison in this case takes O(k) where k in key length. With trie you are doing the same thing, your lookup operations is O(k).
Tries allow ordered traversal, hash tables - don't.
There is many types of tries out there, for example ternary search trie is verty good in this particular case. Array mapped trie are also very fast, compared to regular hash table.

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Feel the pressure of each tense, challenging operation!
Operate on a wide variety of patients in story mode, then return later and try to beat your high scores!
Experience a compelling story with intriguing characters!
Use your applied skills to solve the puzzle of each surgery!
Detailed graphics bring the human body to life!
Trauma Center: Under the Knife lets YOU play doctor. The stylus will be your scalpel as you make incisions, anesthetize problem areas, remove tumors, monitor vital signs, apply bandages, and more! Deal with high-stress situations and human drama between appointments, but keep a cool head, or you'll be out on the street.
If you are familiar with Trauma Center: Under the Knife, why not let others know?
I liked this game, the gameplay is really challenging, however the plot is kinda weak and in occasions it will feel a little boringsome, but the operations moments were amazing. I hope that the sequel counts with a more variety of operations.
Despite the fact that motion detection-capable controllers had been available for some time when it was first released, Trauma Center was still an incredibly fresh experience. An operation game could have been something simple to consider yet difficult to implement. Atlus brought us this gem of gamemaking and we love them for it.
The player takes on the role of Derek Styles, a doctor fresh out of residency whom, after a particularly stressful experience, discovers he has the "Healing Touch" - the ability to concentrate so hard on the operating table that he manages to pull off operations no one else does. The game follows the good doctor as he descends into a spiral of madness against the medical terrorism organization Delphi, which claims doctors are intruders upon natural selection, and develop several strains of an artificial disease called GUILT in order to overpower them.
All things considered, the localization doesn't hurt the enjoyment of the story - despite the name of practically every character being changed around, and the scenario of the game being changed to the US, the plot remains consistent. Some might say the game's story is quite a stretch; personally, I feel that it is used as a tool to get the player involved in the operations themselves, instead of looking at it as repetition.
Control is entirely stylus-based. Each condition has a method of being dealt with, with some conditions requiring the use of multiple instruments, and in some operations, several conditions require the player's attention at once. Speed and precision is of the essence - should the player find he has to sacrifice one or the other, precision should be his pick.
The soundtrack is fairly simple, but it gets you quite involved. Graphics wisem the game is none too shabby, particularly in the operations themselves.
One point that may be considered either a plus or a minus is the difficulty. It scales quickly and relentlessly. Each operation requires the player be faster and craftier than the last. Upon finishing the game, one gains access to "secret operations" that are even harder than the main game. Definitely not for the faint of heart, but garanteed to keep you busy for hours as you knit, slice, extract, inject and drain the sickness out of your patients.
This game is insanely addicting within the first couple weeks of playing, but eventually gets to a part where everything is just too repetitive, and you\'ll end up just getting bored.
one of the coolest games!!!
this game is AWSOME!!! My friend let me play it and i loved it!!!
This game is far too hard, the story as well as the music are lame and soon about to drive you insane. Although it is quite a great idea to develop a game like this on nintendo ds I wouldn\'d recommend you buying it, except you\'re ready to try several operation at least about 20 times á five minutes without getting a clue what exactly you\'re making wrong (many operations depend on luck and hardly on your own skills).
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import tensorflow as tf
import math
from keras.layers import Dense, Activation, Dropout
from keras.models import Sequential

from scripts.utils.preparation import create_pairs, load_data
from scripts.utils.constants import WINDOW_SIZE, EPOCHS

def run_train(type_name):
    data = load_data(type_name)

    print("Loading pairs for {} with window {}...".format(type_name, WINDOW_SIZE))
    scm_initial = create_pairs(data, WINDOW_SIZE)
    print("Loaded. Lengths (signal, cleavarage, muture) = {}".format(scm_initial.lengths()))

    (s_length, c_length, m_length) = scm_initial.lengths()

    # signal_train = 1000
    # signal_test = 100
    # cleavarage_train = 140
    # cleavarage_test = 27
    # muture_train = 2000
    # muture_test = 200

    signal_train = math.floor(0.9 * s_length)
    signal_test = math.floor(0.1 * s_length)
    cleavarage_train = math.floor(0.9 * c_length)
    cleavarage_test = math.floor(0.1 * c_length)
    muture_train = math.floor(0.9 * m_length)
    muture_test = math.floor(0.1 * m_length)

    print("Getting subsets...")
    scm_train, scm_test = scm_initial.train_test_subset(signal_train,
                                                        signal_test,
                                                        cleavarage_train,
                                                        cleavarage_test,
                                                        muture_train,
                                                        muture_test)

    print("Encoding and splitting: train lengths = {}, test lengths = {}".format(scm_train.lengths(), scm_test.lengths()))
    x_train, y_train = scm_train.encode().union_and_split()
    x_test, y_test = scm_test.encode().union_and_split()

    print("Modelling...")

    dims = x_train.shape[1]
    print(dims, 'dims')

    nb_classes = y_train.shape[1]
    print(nb_classes, 'classes')

    print('TensorFlow version: {0}'.format(tf.__version__))

    model = Sequential()
    model.add(Dense(nb_classes, input_shape=(dims,)))
    # model.add(Dense(16))
    model.add(Dense(nb_classes))
    # model.add(Dropout(0.25))
    # model.add(Dense(nb_classes))
    model.add(Activation('softmax'))

    model.compile(optimizer='adam', loss='binary_crossentropy', metrics=['accuracy'])

    model.summary()

    model.fit(x_train, y_train,
              epochs=EPOCHS,
              verbose=1)
    score = model.evaluate(x_test, y_test, verbose=1)
    print(score)

    model_json = model.to_json()
    with open("models/{}.json".format(type_name), "w") as json_file:
        json_file.write(model_json)
    # serialize weights to HDF5
    model.save_weights("models/{}.h5".format(type_name))
    print("Saved model to disk")


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