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Article| July 20 1931
SALT EFFECTS ON EGGS AND NAUPLII OF ARTEMIA SALINA L
Eleanor Boone,
Eleanor Boone
From the Jacques Loeb Laboratory of Stanford University, Pacific Grove
L. G. M. Baas-Becking
Copyright, 1931, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
J Gen Physiol (1931) 14 (6): 753–763.
https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.14.6.753
Eleanor Boone, L. G. M. Baas-Becking; SALT EFFECTS ON EGGS AND NAUPLII OF ARTEMIA SALINA L . J Gen Physiol 20 July 1931; 14 (6): 753–763. doi: https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.14.6.753
Eggs of Artemia salina L., the brine shrimp, are easily obtainable in large quantities. Ecdysis takes place in two stages: (a) extrusion of the inner membrane, and (b) ecdysis of the nauplius from that membrane. The conditions which allow for the former are much more varied than those for the latter.
Nauplii form in only solutions of a few sodium salts; and, in Mg, Ca, and Sr salts, potassium is very toxic.
The possible environment for the nauplii (1 M total molarity) has been ascertained for chlorides of Na, K, Mg, and Ca.
The facts observed account for the peculiar distribution of the organism.
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Somerset Community College, located in south-central Kentucky, is a comprehensive community and technical college with a mission to provide quality, affordable, and accessible educational and training opportunities that address the needs of its district. The college offers students educational experiences and associated services through traditional campus-based and distance learning modalities that promote intellectual curiosity and lifelong learning and encourage aesthetic awareness and social responsibility.
Somerset Community College serves 6,995 students (48% of students are full-time).
Minority enrollment is 4% of the student body (majority Black and Hispanic), which is more than the state average of 16%.
Somerset Community College is the only community colleges within Pulaski County, KY.
The nearest community college to Somerset Community College is Bluegrass Community and Technical College (67.0 miles away).
Somerset Community College places among the top 20% of community colleges in Kentucky for:
Affordability Least expensive tuition
Community Size Largest student body
The teacher population of 224 teachers has stayed relatively flat over five years.
Somerset Community College (KY) Community College Avg.
Institution Level Less than 2 yrs Less than 2 yrs
Total Faculty 224 staff 97 staff
The student population of Somerset Community College has stayed relatively flat over five years.
The Somerset Community College diversity score of 0.08 is less than the state average of 0.29. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five years.
Total Enrollment 6,995 students 3,252 students
# Full-Time Students 3,376 students 1,360 students
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The public in-state tuition of $3,624 is less than the state average of $4,996. The in-state tuition has grown by 11% over four years.
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Somerset Community College has campuses in Somerset and London with centers in McCreary, Clinton, and Russell counties. Somerset Community College provides academic, general education, and technical curricula leading to certificates, diplomas, and associate degrees. It has a general academic curriculum of university-parallel courses and programs meeting requirements of the first two years of a baccalaureate degree. It also offers technical and occupational curricula and provides adult and continuing education. Associated services includes library services, cultural and enrichment opportunities, information technology resources, and appropriate student support services. At Somerset Community College, you will be a part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. The community college enjoys full accreditation through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using DotVVM.Framework.Binding;
using DotVVM.Framework.Compilation.ControlTree.Resolved;
using DotVVM.Framework.Utils;
using System.Reflection;
using DotVVM.Framework.Compilation.ControlTree;
using System.Linq;
using DotVVM.Framework.Controls;
using DotVVM.Framework.Controls.Infrastructure;
using System.Net;

namespace DotVVM.Framework.Compilation.Styles
{
    // not generic interface
    public interface IStyleBuilder
    {
        void AddConditionImpl(Func<IStyleMatchContext, bool> condition);
        void AddApplicatorImpl(IStyleApplicator applicator);
        IStyle GetStyle();
        Type ControlType { get; }
    }

    public interface IStyleBuilder<out TControl> : IStyleBuilder
    {
        void AddConditionImpl(Func<IStyleMatchContext<TControl>, bool> condition);
    }

    public class StyleBuilder<T> : IStyleBuilder<T>
    {
        private Style style;

        public Type ControlType => style.ControlType;

        public StyleBuilder(Func<StyleMatchContext<T>, bool>? matcher, bool allowDerived, Type? controlType = null)
        {
            controlType ??= typeof(T);
            style = new Style(!allowDerived, matcher, controlType);
        }

        public IStyle GetStyle() => style;

        public void AddConditionImpl(Func<IStyleMatchContext<T>, bool> condition)
        {
            var oldMatcher = style.Matcher;
            if (oldMatcher is null)
                style.Matcher = condition;
            else
                style.Matcher = m => oldMatcher(m) && condition(m);
        }

        public void AddApplicatorImpl(IStyleApplicator applicator)
        {
            style.AddApplicator(applicator);
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                    return false;

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SD73's Female Trades Students Push Against Stereotypes
There is a feeling of momentum in the participation rates of girls and women in trades programming in the district.
"Traditionally, the percentage of girls and young women participating in trades programs, including software development, has mirrored the national average of women who are in these occupations," said Rob Wielgoz, district vice-principal, Trades and Transitions. "We're seeing a growth in participation in recent years however, to a point where now we have double the numbers of female student participation relative to those in the workforce."
Wielgoz said this is exciting, because it means events like Girls Exploring Trades and Technology are having an impact and helping to push against stereotypes to open new career pathways for women. The goal is to see the student participation numbers shift the workforce numbers, over time.
"In Canada, females make up nine per cent of the software developer workforce," he said. "Our goal is to see this workforce percentage double, as well."
He said opportunities continue to open up for women in trades – from carpentry and plumbing to aerospace and horticulture.
"By indexing the district's gender equity goals as double the national rate of employment in each sector with the national rate, we can both reflect on and contribute to improving gender equity in historically male dominated industries," said Wielgoz.
Trades and Transitions is still accepting applications for TNT programs. Students who wish to apply can contact their school counselor or visit the TNT website for more information.
This story has been reproduced with permission from School District 73 (Kamloops-Thompson). The original posting can be found here.
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Q: difference between reading proc files via shell (cat) or via program (fread) I have a kernel module creating an entry in proc-fs and a userspace-program that reads the file.
My proc read-function looks like:
typedef struct {
  int integer;
  unsigned long ulong;
  char string[100];
  float floatt;
  bool booll;
  u16 crc;
} struktur;

static int round = 0, len = 0, temp = 0, err;
struktur *pde_data_p;

int proc_read(struct file *filp, char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *offp) {
  int i;
  unsigned char *crcbuf;
  struktur struct_buf;

  pde_data_p = PDE_DATA(file_inode(filp));
  crcbuf = (unsigned char*)pde_data_p;
  memcpy(&struct_buf, pde_data_p, sizeof(struktur));
  if (pde_data_p == NULL) {
    printk(KERN_ERR "pde->data == NULL\n");
    round = 0;
    return 0;
  }

  if (round == 0)
    temp = sizeof(struktur);

  if (count > temp)
    count = temp;

  struct_buf.crc = crc16(struct_buf.crc, crcbuf, sizeof(struktur)-sizeof(unsigned short));

  err = copy_to_user(buf, pde_data_p, count);

  //if (err == 0) {    // copy_to_user finished
    round = 0;
    temp = 0;        // taking this line out makes it work in the prog but not with my cat
    return temp;
  //} else {           // copy_to_user failed -> return number of bytes that have not been copied
    //temp = err;
    //round++;
    //return temp;
  //}
}

My program code is:
typedef struct {
  int integer;
  unsigned long ulong;
  char string[100];
  float floatt;
  bool booll;
  unsigned short crc;
} struktur;

int main(void) {
  int i;
  struktur str_inp;
  unsigned short crc = 0;
  unsigned char *str_p = (unsigned char*)&str_inp;

  FILE *fp = fopen("/proc/sen/entry", "r");
  fread(&str_inp, 1, sizeof(struktur), fp);
  fclose(fp);
}

As you can see my proc read-function returns the number of bytes read, not zero.
This way my program works fine but when I try to read via cat (cat /proc/sen/entry) it never finishes because it never returns 0.
When I change my code and return 0 after copy_to_user has finished, reading via cat works fine but my program seems reads random memory. When I return half of the number of copied bytes, just half of the data read by the user-space program is correct.

A: What has to be returned by your proc_read function depends on the position which is handed over in *offp. If it is only required to work for your given userspace program code and for cat (not for partial reads of struktur) it suffices to
    if (*offp) return 0;            // no more data to return
    else *offp = sizeof (struktur); // file position after data returned

- this statement goes before the copy_to_user().

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Q: TCL Regex ignore/parse leading asterisks in string I am attempting to write an expect which looks for a string like this:
*** error doing something

The tcl code I am currently using looks like:
expect {
    -re "*** error doing something\[\r\n\]" {
        puts $log "$expect_out(buffer)"
        return 1
    }
}

But the string is not matching. I assume it is down to the * special character. I am not in a position to change the error output, so I must change the regex parsing to either ignore the "***" or parse it correctly.
How do I do this?

A: * are quantifiers in regular expressions, and thus you need to escape them if you want them to mean actual asterisks. And you may want to use braces to avoid extra escapes:
expect {
    -re {\*\*\* error doing something\[\r\n\]} {
        puts $log "$expect_out(buffer)"
        return 1
    }
}

Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with expect


The FAO projects that Ontario's net debt will increase by $76 billion over the next five years to approximately $392 billion in 2021-22, resulting in the net debt-to-GDP ratio rising to 40.3 per cent. In contrast, in the 2017 Budget, the Province projects a small decline in the net debt-GDP ratio to 36.3 per cent by 2021-22.
a continuation of strong economic growth.
However, if any of these relatively optimistic assumptions fall short of expectations, the government's 27 per cent debt-to-GDP target would not be achieved.
Note: AG recommended presentation based on FAO estimates of the pension adjustment.
The government's forecast for a gradual decline in the net debt-to-GDP ratio depends critically on achieving a string of balanced budgets on average over the next 12 years. Over the past thirty years, Ontario has rarely achieved successive surpluses or balanced budgets. In contrast to the 2017 Budget, the FAO continues to project a steady deterioration in the budget deficit over the next five years, due to moderating revenue growth combined with higher expenses.
The government's debt reduction commitment is also linked to the Province's 13-year, $190 billion infrastructure plan which includes significant reductions in capital investment in the 2020s. After peaking in 2019-20 at 2.4 per cent of nominal GDP, the Province is projecting capital spending to fall to just 0.8 per cent of GDP by 2027-28 – half of the historical average of 1.6 per cent.
Since the Province has made substantial investments in public sector assets (such as hospitals) over the last 10 years, some pullback is to be expected. However, given the government's focus on new and large transit and highway projects, it is likely that the Province will need to augment its capital plan and increase spending in the latter part of the next decade. Higher than planned capital spending in the future would add to the Province's net debt, increasing the net debt-to-GDP ratio.
Finally, the government's debt-to-GDP projection relies on nominal GDP growing at an average pace of 4 per cent per year over the long-term. However, nominal GDP growth has averaged just 3.6 per cent per year over the past 15 years, and given Ontario's aging population and slower expected growth in its labour force, 4 per cent annual growth may prove to be too optimistic for the next decade.
Given the risks associated with the government's assumptions, a fiscal plan that focuses only on achieving balanced budgets may not be enough to lower Ontario's net debt-to-GDP ratio to 27 per cent by 2029-30.
 Based on the FAO's application of the Auditor General's recommended accounting treatment for pension assets - see the FAO's 'Economic and Fiscal Outlook, Spring 2017'. By comparison, based on the government's accounting presentation, the FAO projects Ontario's net debt will rise by $62 billion to roughly $365 billion by 2021-22 and that the net debt-to-GDP ratio will fall modestly to 37.5 per cent.
 This does not imply that the province necessarily has to achieve balanced budgets in each year. Alternatively, it could post balanced budgets on average, with some years in surplus and some in deficit.
 See Infrastructure Ontario's list of major projects, http://www.infrastructureontario.ca/Major-Projects/, August 16, 2017.
 The government's capital spending projection may also prove to be too conservative given a number of announced but unfunded initiatives including high-speed rail and subway expansion in Toronto.
This chart shows historical and forecasted net debt-to-GDP ratio from 2010-11 to 2021-22 under three different bases: the FAO's forecast based on the AG's recommended presentation; the FAO's forecast based on the government's presentation; and the government's forecast as presented in the 2017 Budget. The graph shows the FAO's forecast of the ratio based on the AG's accounting presentation rising over the outlook to 40.3 per cent by 2021-22, whereas the FAO's forecast based on the government's accounting presentation falls to 37.5 per cent by 2021-22. The government's forecast as presented in the 2017 Budget, shows net debt-to-GDP declining to 36.3 per cent by 2021-22. The government forecast has been extended based on 2017 Budget data to show a decline to 26.8 per cent by 2029-30. The chart also shows historical and forecasted total net debt, based on both the AG's and government's accounting presentation.
This chart displays Ontario's annual budget balance from 1988-89 to 2016-17. The chart shows that since 1988-89, Ontario's annual budget balance has typically been in deficit. The province has rarely achieved successive surpluses or balanced budgets.
This chart shows the province's annual investment in capital assets as a share of nominal GDP from 2005-06 to 2027-28 based on the Province's 13-year $190 billion infrastructure plan. The chart shows that after peaking in 2019-20 at 2.4 per cent of nominal GDP, the Province is projecting capital spending to fall to just 0.8 per cent of GDP by 2027-28 – half of the historical average of 1.6 per cent.


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Environmental factors affecting mechanical properties of facial prosthetic elastomers
Uday H. Mohite, James L. Sandrik, Martin F. Land, Gerry Byrne
This study evaluated the degradation of elastomers for facial prostheses exposed to environmental factors normally present in a service environment. Two silicone elastomers and a polyurethane were evaluated. Samples were exposed to ultraviolet radiation, simulated sebum, ozone, chlorine, and nitrogen dioxide, and tested for tear propagation and resistance. Test results revealed significant differences in the tear characteristics between silicones and polyurethane. Differences in tear patterns were observed between the control and the specimens exposed to environmental factors. The environmental factors affected the polyurethane Epithane-3 the most and silicone MDX 4-4210 the least. When exposed to chlorine and nitrogen dioxide, Cosmesil and Epithane-3 were degraded to a point where sample testing was not possible. When exposed to ultraviolet radiation, Epithane-3 was degraded and could not be tested. Simulated sebum and ozone affected Cosmesil and Epithane-3, but no clear trends were observed.
International Journal of Prosthodontics
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Environmental factors affecting mechanical properties of facial prosthetic elastomers'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
epithane-3 Medicine & Life Sciences
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Mohite, U. H., Sandrik, J. L., Land, M. F., & Byrne, G. (1994). Environmental factors affecting mechanical properties of facial prosthetic elastomers. International Journal of Prosthodontics, 7(5), 479-486.
Environmental factors affecting mechanical properties of facial prosthetic elastomers. / Mohite, Uday H.; Sandrik, James L.; Land, Martin F.; Byrne, Gerry.
In: International Journal of Prosthodontics, Vol. 7, No. 5, 1994, p. 479-486.
Mohite, UH, Sandrik, JL, Land, MF & Byrne, G 1994, 'Environmental factors affecting mechanical properties of facial prosthetic elastomers', International Journal of Prosthodontics, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 479-486.
Mohite UH, Sandrik JL, Land MF, Byrne G. Environmental factors affecting mechanical properties of facial prosthetic elastomers. International Journal of Prosthodontics. 1994;7(5):479-486.
Mohite, Uday H. ; Sandrik, James L. ; Land, Martin F. ; Byrne, Gerry. / Environmental factors affecting mechanical properties of facial prosthetic elastomers. In: International Journal of Prosthodontics. 1994 ; Vol. 7, No. 5. pp. 479-486.
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Cushion cover designed to use up small quantities of Shetland yarn - either Jamieson of Shetland's Spindrift or Jamieson & Smith's 2ply Jumper weight.
Tension (gauge) is not crucial. Using recommended yarn and 3.75mm needles a 10 cm square is 25sts x 28 rows over Fair Isle pattern.
To find how this cushion cover looks when other colours were used, look at the end of this blog.
Jamieson & Smith Shetland jumper weight yarn: approximately 30g for background and 16g for contrast. 3.75mm knitting needles.
Cushion pad or wool cushion filling.


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Q: SumProduct Terrible Use of Resources I have a lot of formulas in my Google sheet, but this one formula doubles the processing time to calculate all by itself.  Is there a more efficient formula to take the place of this one?  This is taking 3-5 seconds all by itself.
=SUMPRODUCT(--(DAY(INT(BX42:BX119))=DAY(BX42)),--(HOUR(BX42:BX119)=8),--(MINUTE(BX42:BX119)>31),--(CK42:CK119<>""))+SUMPRODUCT(--(DAY(INT(BX42:BX119))=DAY(BX42)),--(HOUR(BX42:BX119)>8),--(CK42:CK119<>""))


Colin Roberts graduated Otis School of Art and Design in 2001. His work consists of a language of sculpture, drawing, painting and installation that explore various themes revolving around the fragile human condition. The pieces evoke uncanny imagery from both past and present, and are obscured in strange and fantastical ways using surrealism and abject tactics, among others. Kaleidoscopic glass Pillows, Flesh Books and Bubblewrap Cubes are some of the dreamlike creations that make up Colin's body of work. The art is consistently a careful balance of humor, science and the grotesque, calculated to lead the viewer to question their personal thoughts on various subjects. Through this, the works have the ability to cross significant cultural, social and psychic boundaries. Colin's work is exhibited internationally and is included in numerous private collections around the world. His work has also been utilized in conjunction with some of the world's most renowned artists and designers, including Maison Martin Margiela and Johnston Marklee Architects. He is currently represented by June Lee Contemporary and is based in Los Angeles, California.
Glass pillows that could double as disco balls? I could not love them more. This is the gorgeous work of LA based artist Colin Roberts. The end. Happy Friday.


Traditional Thai massage is a precious lotus among all types of massage. This is the standard of wellness practice, which returns vitality, gives flexibility and lightness in the whole body and excellent well-being!
Balinese massage is a tradition and experience, one of the SPA-secrets that you have the opportunity to learn and comprehend. The massage technique has incorporated several techniques and unique SPA recipes.
The Balinese massage combines and combines classic massage, aromatherapy, acupressure and some techniques of Ayurvedic medicine. The philosophy of massage is built on the laws of the movement of energy through the human body, so massage is always started from the extremities, then gradually to the body, and then returning back. The elements of massage can be different, depending on the individual characteristics of the body and the general condition of the person.


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What's eating Irvine Welsh?
As well as entertaining millions, the Scottish novelist has shocked, repulsed and pissed off a legion of readers since the early '90s. Now he's on a mission to find new meaning in affrontery in Sky doc Offended by Irvine Welsh.
Words: TJ Sidhu
Irvine Welsh is walking around his dimly lit living room looking for a charger. The phone he's holding up to his smiling bald head is about to die on our evening Zoom call. He's in a good mood, though, laughing, joking and talking about the will-he-won't‑he lead-up to the US election a few days before Joe Biden was declared the next President.
Over the course of the past few weeks Welsh, typically, has been swearingly vocal with his support for Donald Trump's demise. "Has that tedious fat sex pest fucked off yet?" went one tweet. And that was one of his more moderate ones.
"At first we thought it was going to be a Biden landslide," the 62-year-old says now. "It was going to be a great schadenfreude getting Trump fucked up. Then it changed and you think, oh no, he's going to do it, he's going to win again…"
Well, he didn't. But that hasn't stopped Welsh calling the soon-to-be ex-President a "dozy old cunt" in a response to the, er… dozy old cunt contesting the election results the other day.
In recent months, the author – whose works have taken in junkies (Trainspotting), misanthropic, coke-addled police detectives (Filth) and a jacked-up retelling of the porn biz (Porno) – has used his twitter to take aim at (deep breath): Boris Johnson, anti-maskers, the upper class, The Queen's Honours list, Piers Morgan, Brexit, Christ the Lord and talks of Trainspotting 3.
Welsh has carved a stellar career out of offence – Trainspotting was so shocking it reportedly got booted off consideration for the 1993 Booker Prize. And yet, almost three decades on from his literary debut, he still feels he doesn't know enough about the stuff.
Which is why he's off to find out more in an upcoming Sky documentary, Offended by Irvine Welsh.
"I wanted to [speak] to people that thought about offence a bit more than me," he says of a show that sees him speak to pop culture provocateurs like M.I.A., artist Jake Chapman and comedians Geoff Norcott and Andrew Doyle.
In an age of Twitter battles, the wokerati, political correctness and quick-time call-outs, Welsh takes the road less travelled to find out, in 2020, what gets everyone so royally fucked off.
You've always been offensive. Why are you making the documentary now?
I wanted to [speak to] people [about] the nature of offence, and taking offence about art, and trying to cancel out different types of behaviours in art. I wanted to get some balanced views, set the whole question up, and then research into the background of these opposing views that other people bring to the table. And then I would come to a conclusion about it myself.
And what was that conclusion?
We can work everything out!
It seems that the main concern in the documentary is that offence is distracting people from the stuff that's actually important.
I think it is detracting from them to an extent, and it's almost sponsored by elites in order to make sure that happens. But it's also a manifestation of them as well. I think that the idea that you control and police culture through language is an erroneous and harmful one. But there's other manifestations of where it comes from. People are moved to challenge inequities and injustices and I think that's a good thing as well. You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. But if you want people to genuinely challenge injustices and all, you can't do that in a prescriptive way. There has to be some kind of engagement that takes place in order to make this happen successfully.
Have you ever worried about offending people throughout your, er, offensive career?
I'm more worried that I don't offend people sometimes, and that I've not been offensive enough.
I don't know if you'd be able to write your books without offending people.
I hope not! I think that you're either one kind of a writer or another kind. The other kind wants to affirm things and make them feel better about themselves. Otherwise, you're somebody who wants to challenge – not other people – but you want to challenge yourself. I want to offend myself to get a reaction from myself, basically.
When do you think the last moment was for true artistic freedom? You refer to the controversial 1997 Sensation exhibition in the documentary…
I don't think there ever has been, really. But Sensation was an interesting one, because it was the last time that you could put on an exhibition that could actually offend someone, and people didn't necessarily know why it offended. There were genitals coming out of children, limp figures… Now that's been done, nobody would care [now]. It was a very clever thing to do, because it was almost like saying if you get offended at this, isn't it quite silly to be offended? And people say, well, isn't it quite a silly piece of art? Well, why are you offended about it?
Do you reckon people had more fun back then?
Yeah! More fun, more freedom. The problem for younger artists is that they don't really have meaningful peer group interaction. The problem with social media [is that] it leads to a conformity – just a massive psychological conformity.
In the documentary, M.I.A. says "the most creative thing you can do right now is to get off fucking social media".
And it's true. Where are you going to nourish and find your roots and power as an artist? You're not going to find it on Twitter or Facebook.
It seems like we all just want to please one another.
Yeah, I think we have been a bit too much. The world's become so safe, but it's become so psychically dangerous. The booby traps we set for each other are in this horrendous psychic world. It's like we've set up this zoo which is very comfortable. We're getting fed our three square meals a day, but we're pacing up and down like polar bears in these little cages.
So, Irvine, what really offends you?
Seeing people being treated badly en masse. Nobody can help what gender they are, what race they are, what their sexual orientation is. Why should they be treated badly by the world, their community or this particular society, country or group of people because of that? There's no rationale to that at all. That offends me.
Offended by Irvine Welsh, 10pm, 17th November, Sky Arts, Freeview Channel 11


Even though humanity is becoming more urbanized every year, soil is still one of the strongest underpinnings of human civilization. However, what exactly about soil causes it to be so important? Well, it all has to do with the uppermost layer, known as the topsoil. The topsoil is the top 5-20 centimeters of the Earth's soil contains all of the essential nutrients for vegetation. Topsoil is filled with life microbial life which can break down dead organic matter present on the surface.


Hat-maker Genesco and its subsidiaries completed a $400 million revolving credit facility with Bank of America as administrative agent.
United Leasing & Finance closed a $350 million, multi-year senior secured revolving credit facility with an accordion expansion to $475 million with Bank of America as agent.
The Trade Desk entered into a $200 million, five-year senior secured credit facility. Citibank acted as lead arranger and administrative agent.
International Speedway Corporation extended the maturity of its $300 million revolving credit facility to September 2021. Wells Fargo served as administrative agent for the transaction.
CRH Medical entered into an agreement with The Bank of Nova Scotia for a $55 million senior secured revolving syndicated credit facility, an increase from $33 million. The increased facility includes US Bank as a partner to CRH and Scotiabank.
The merger agreement between Staples and Office Depot has been terminated. Simultaneously, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo arranged a $1.2 billion five-year credit facility for Office Depot.
Patrick Lumber has closed on a $20 million loan from U.S. Bank to support its growth and provide working capital.
Installed Building Products entered into a new five-year, $325 million senior secured credit facility with an accordion feature. KeyBank was lead arranger, sole bookrunner and administrative agent.


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Q: In Java, is there a way of serializing with class information other than jdk serialization? A lot of Callback objects exist in my system. Callback is defined as follows:

public interface Callback {
    void callback() throws Exception;
}

Callback cb = new Callback() {
    public void callback() {
        System.out.println("I'm here!");
    }
}

Now, I need to serialize these Callback objects into bytes so that they can be stored in a redis server and be fetched back later to run the callback() method.
Obviously the usual serialization libraries in Java such as Jackson won't work here. In order to run the callback() code, the serialized bytes must contain the class information. The JDK serialization is an option here:

public interface Callback extends java.io.Serializable {
    void callback() throws Exception;
}

Callback cb = new Callback() {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    public void callback() {
        System.out.println("I'm here!");
    }
}

However, in this way, all the sub-classes of Callback as well as the classes referenced from the callback() method are required to implement the java.io.Serializable interface, which is hard to control.
So, I wonder if there is another way of serialization which doesn't need all the kinds of restricts?

A: Java serialization doesn't store any more information than Jackson does. (Except Java serialization supports graphs and Jackson support trees) Neither store code with the serialized data.
Usually it's a bad idea to try to store code with the data. The code can either be;

*

*verbose (use many KB or MB)

*difficult to determine exactly how much to serialize.

*incompatible with future versions of code.

*very difficult to load back in efficiently. e.g. serialize 1 million object and when you load them back, you don't want 1 million copies of the same class.

You should instead make sure everything you might want to serialize is in the data, not the code.

the serialized bytes must contain the class information

This is not how serialization works.  There is usually an assumption all the classes needed will be available to the process de-serializing the data.

all the sub-classes of Callback as well as the classes referenced from the callback()

When a parent is Serializable all of it's sub-classes will also be Serializable.


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Help to protect local policing
Merseyside's Police Commissioner is asking local people if they would be willing to pay a little extra to help protect police officer numbers and recruit new armed officers after the government sidestepped its responsibility to invest in the police service.
After seven years of austerity, the Government announced in December that the police would, once again, receive no more new money from the Home Office to tackle crime in Merseyside.
Instead, Policing Minister Nick Hurd MP announced Police and Crime Commissioners would be expected to ask local taxpayers to pay up to an extra £1 a month towards their police service through their council tax.
Since 2010, Merseyside Police has had to make cuts of £103m, with an estimated £18m still to make by 2021/22.
If the Commissioner, Jane Kennedy, does not win the support of local people, Merseyside Police will be left facing a further shortfall of more than £3.17m – the equivalent of 64 police officer posts.
Jane said: "The sad truth is that this government has once again left police forces around the country facing a funding black hole. They have washed their hands of their responsibility and instead are shifting the burden of paying for the police on to the shoulders of local council taxpayers.
"By freezing the grant provided by central government at the 2017/18 rate - a reduction on the previous two years - the Policing Minister has imposed a real terms cut on the police budget as we contend with pay and inflationary pressures. His proposal is that I make up this shortfall by asking local taxpayers to pay more.
"This is a step which I am reluctant to take, however, if I don't raise the policing element of local council tax then Merseyside Police will be penalised and our communities adversely affected.
"This money will be used to save police officer jobs and help us to recruit 20 new armed officers who are needed to help tackling the scourge of serious and organised crime on Merseyside and to protect our communities.
"The Government did not bother to ask people if they would be willing to contribute more for policing before they made this announcement – instead they arrogantly assumed that local residents could stump up the cash.
"I know finances are tight for a lot of people on Merseyside at the moment so I don't ask for this tax rise lightly."
The Commissioner is now holding a region-wide consultation asking people if they would be willing to contribute the extra funding expected by central government to make up for the shortfall and help her to limit the impact of the ongoing cuts.
The increase equates to approximately 15p a week or £8 a year for a Band A household - the lowest Council Tax category and the amount paid by the majority of tax payers on Merseyside. This would increase the police element of tax payers' bills from £110.65 to £118.65 a year.
Even with this increase, the Commissioner and Chief Constable will still be forced to make savings of £7m over the next 12 months.
Jane said: "Since 2015 the Government have assumed that Police and Crime Commissioners like myself will put up the council tax precept to minimise the impact of their cuts to funding. It is a move which comes from a government who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
""Any additional funding we can raise from the precept will not replace the 1,000 officers we have lost over the last seven years. However, it will mean that we will have 64 officers more by March 2019 than we would otherwise.
"In a climate of growing demands, rising crime and increasing calls for help from the public, I do not believe we can afford to lose any more officers.
"I am therefore forced to ask people on Merseyside if they would be willing to contribute that extra 15p a week to help protect vital frontline police services."
You are invited to have your say using the link below to a short online survey by Sunday 4th February.
Please note, this consultation is now closed.


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package org.ndm.photogrammetry;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import org.apache.commons.math3.complex.Quaternion;
import org.apache.commons.math3.linear.Array2DRowRealMatrix;
import org.apache.commons.math3.linear.RealMatrix;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

public class TestQuaternionUtil {

	private RealMatrix rotationMatrix = null;

	@Before
	public void setUp(){
		double[][] rMatArray = new double[3][3];
		rMatArray[0] = new double[]{-0.034091, 0.999407, 0.004822};
		rMatArray[1] = new double[]{-0.999419, -0.034096, 0.000621};
		rMatArray[2] = new double[]{0.000784, -0.004798, 0.999988};
		rotationMatrix = new Array2DRowRealMatrix(rMatArray);
	}

	@Test
	public void testToQuaternionAndBack(){

		// Convert rotation matrix to quaternion
		Quaternion q = QuaternionUtil.quaternionFromRotationMatrix(rotationMatrix);
		// Convert it back to matrix form
		RealMatrix r = QuaternionUtil.rotationMatrixFromQuaternion2(q);

		// Make sure the rotation matrix is the same after the conversion
		assertEquals(rotationMatrix.getEntry(0, 0), r.getEntry(0, 0), 0.0001);
		assertEquals(rotationMatrix.getEntry(0, 1), r.getEntry(0, 1), 0.0001);
		assertEquals(rotationMatrix.getEntry(0, 2), r.getEntry(0, 2), 0.0001);
		assertEquals(rotationMatrix.getEntry(1, 0), r.getEntry(1, 0), 0.0001);
		assertEquals(rotationMatrix.getEntry(1, 1), r.getEntry(1, 1), 0.0001);
		assertEquals(rotationMatrix.getEntry(1, 2), r.getEntry(1, 2), 0.0001);
		assertEquals(rotationMatrix.getEntry(2, 0), r.getEntry(2, 0), 0.0001);
		assertEquals(rotationMatrix.getEntry(2, 1), r.getEntry(2, 1), 0.0001);
		assertEquals(rotationMatrix.getEntry(2, 2), r.getEntry(2, 2), 0.0001);

	}
}


The hotel business is very demanding and competitive. Hotels come in as many different forms as their guests. Some hoteliers operate worldwide value-priced accommodations while others run 5 star resort properties with very discerning guests. Still others operate hostels in exotic locations around the world. Despite the differences from one hotel concept to the next, they all have one thing in common – they all handle cash. The hotel's cash management should be as guest-focused as the hotel's front end staff.
Hotel operators often find it difficult to accurately and efficiently track cash transactions that originate from various points-of-sale such as the front desk, business centers, beverage counters, spas, garages and so on. Numerous employees throughout the property deal with cash primarily through a manual process. Such manual intervention often causes miscalculation, misplacement or even stealing.
Armor Safe Technologies offers a range of products to help hotels overcome these challenges and focus on the guest. The CacheNET 5000 will track the cash proceeds by employee and department. The CacheSYSTEM 7000 series can issue starting banks for your front end staff.
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As one of the most popular and at the same time most expensive cities in Germany, Hamburg is no exception when it comes to the struggle for urban living space. The discussion around the "Right to the City" movement has been driven by a broad range of initiatives and participants who organize political activities with great creative and aesthetic ingenuity. The short film programme Terrible Houses in Danger is dedicated to this approach, which in Hamburg has a long tradition. The initial stage of the battle for housing in the 1970s was shaped in large part by the video activists from the Medienpädagogik Zentrum Hamburg (Media Educational Centre or MPZ). The title Terrible Houses in Danger was taken from a well-known video produced by MPZ in 1985, which lent a powerful voice to the building occupations of the Hafenstraße. The portrayal of this prominent house occupation is complemented by shorter films and videos from the last few years that present different actors and the methods they use in their urban, grassroots political struggles – from ironic instructions on how to decrease the value of one's neighbourhood in Abwertungskit, to the music video "Echohäuser-Song" made during the struggle for the Esso houses, to the crowdfunding trailer buy buy st. pauli, to Doro Carl's and Claudia Reiche's documentary essay Bodenerhebungen (Grounds Rising) about the conversion of a large brewery and railyard in Altona.


According to complete data released by Eurostat on 15 March, harmonized inflation came in at 1.5% in February, slightly above January's 1.4% and matching the preliminary estimate. January's result had marked a nine-month low. Inflation sits below the European Central Bank's target rate of near, but under, 2.0%. Higher price pressures for food, alcohol & tobacco drove February's uptick.
Annual average harmonized inflation edged up to 1.9% in February from January's 1.8%. Core inflation, meanwhile, was unchanged at 1.2%. On a monthly basis, harmonized consumer prices rose 0.3%, contrasting the 1.1% decrease seen in January.
Among the countries in the common-currency bloc, Greece (0.8%) and Ireland (0.7%) recorded the lowest inflation in February. On the flipside, the Netherlands (2.6%) and Latvia (2.8%) experienced the highest price pressures.
FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast participants see inflation in the Euro area averaging 1.4% in 2019. For 2020, panelists expect inflation to average 1.6%.


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package com.heatonresearch.aifh.dbnn;

/**
 * A hidden layer for a DBNN.  This is based on a restricted Boltzmann machine.
 */
public class HiddenLayer extends DeepLayer {

	/**
	 * Create a hidden layer for a DBNN.
	 * @param theOwner The DBNN that this layer belongs to.
	 * @param theInputCount The number of visible units, the input.
	 * @param theOutputCount The number of hidden units, the output.
	 */
    public HiddenLayer(DeepBeliefNetwork theOwner, int theInputCount, int theOutputCount) {
        super(theOwner,theInputCount, theOutputCount);
    }

	/**
	 * Sample n times at probability p and return the count of how many samples were 1 (true).
	 * @param n The number of samples needed.
	 * @param p The probability of choosing 1 (true).
	 * @return The count of how many 1 (true)'s were sampled.
	 */
	public int binomial(int n, double p) {
		if(p < 0 || p > 1) return 0;

		int c = 0;
		double r;

		for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
			r = getOwner().getRandom().nextDouble();
			if (r < p) c++;
		}

		return c;
	}

	/**
	 * Compute the sigmoid (logisitic) for x.
	 * @param x The value to compute for.
	 * @return The result.
	 */
	public static double sigmoid(double x) {
		return 1.0 / (1.0 + Math.exp(-x));
	}

	/**
	 * Calculate the sigmoid output for this layer.
	 * @param input The input values for this layer's visable.
	 * @param w Thw weights for this layer.
	 * @param b The bias value for this layer.
	 * @return The hidden values for this layer, the output.
	 */
	public double output(double[] input, double[] w, double b) {
		double linearOutput = 0.0;

		// First calculate the linear output.  Similar to linear regression.
		for(int j=0; j<getInputCount(); j++) {
			linearOutput += w[j] * input[j];
		}
		linearOutput += b;

		// Now return the signoid of the linear sum.
		return sigmoid(linearOutput);
	}

	/**
	 * Sample the hidden (h) output values, given the (v) input values.  This is different than the output method
	 * in that we are actually sampling discrete (0 or 1) values.
	 * @param v The visible units.
	 * @param h The hidden units, the count of how many times a true (1) was sampled.
	 */
	public void sampleHgivenV(double[] v, double[] h) {
		for(int i=0; i<getOutputCount(); i++) {
			h[i] = binomial(1, output(v, getWeights()[i], this.getBias()[i]));
		}
	}

	/**
	 * @return The number of input (visible) units.
	 */
    public int getInputCount() {
        return getWeights()[0].length;
    }

	/**
	 * @return The number of output (visible) units.
	 */
    public int getOutputCount() {
        return getWeights().length;
    }
}


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Q: Blink an LED with just a capacitor? Is it possible to blink an LED using just a capacitor? (and maybe a resistor).
For example, if I want to LED to blink once every 2 seconds. Is that possible?
I know it can be done with a 555 as well as with a capacitor and transistor.

A: You could do it with a high voltage, current-limited supply and a spark gap, which is sort of like a capacitor.  :D

A: A completely orthogonal approach, but you could use a thin (read: high-resistance) bimetallic strip, or even a thin enough "muscle wire" to blink an LED, probably with a time scale of a second or two.
This wire or strip heats up due to the current and deforms, breaking the circuit.  It cools, making the circuit again.  This is the standard "blinking christmas light" circuit, and it works fine for LEDs too.
This sort of thing is pretty easy with a high current LED (you didn't say what type you're using!), but if it's a low current LED, you'd probably need a moderately high voltage (maybe 12V) and corresponding resistance to drive the LED properly while heating the wire at the right rate.

A: Blinking an LED can't done with just passive elements. Interestingly, you can accomplish periodically blinking a light, with a resistor and a capacitor, if your light happens to be a neon discharge lamp. The reason a neon bulb will work and an LED won't has to do with their current-vs-voltage behavior.
In the LED's case, no matter what the voltage across it, some current will be passed. This effectively keeps the cap from charging up, as an operating point is established that is determined by the LED and the resistor. You'll just get a constant glow of some intensity.
But with the neon bulb, no current is passed until the voltage exceeds some threshold, which is the breakdown voltage of the neon gas. This allows the capacitor to charge up while the bulb remains dark. When the breakdown voltage is reached, the gas ionizes, and the energy stored in the capacitor is dumped through it, producing a short, bright flash.
Basically you need some device in the circuit that operates like an active device. To blink an LED, you need a couple of transistors (e.g., multivibrator configuration) or possibly a single SCR (biased to have a suitably low break-over voltage). In the case of a neon bulb, the bulb itself is the active device, having distinct conducting and cutoff behavior.

A: I believe what you are looking for is an astable multivibrator. At it's heart are just two capacitors and two transistors with a couple of resistors. wikipedia has an informative entry about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivibrator

A: Diacs, tunnel diodes and gas filled discharge tubes, like a
neon, work since they have at least one negative resistance
region. In general, a reactance in parallel with a negative
resistance will oscillate. Relaxation oscillators, produced
by four-layer semiconductor devices, UJT, SCR, SCS, provide
negative resistance for exploitation, which leads to the on
and off switching points being different. The techs call it
hysteresis, neons exhibit voltage hysteresis, tunnel diodes
current hysteresis, diacs both, etc. Triacs have an unequal
trigger point gate-to-M1 and gate-to-M2, which causes their
asymmetric switching with excess harmonic generation. Using
a diac in series with the gate almost fully fixes this, but
only because it adds series negative resistance to overrule
the asymmetric positive resistances G-M1 vs G-M2 before the
point of no-return, with negative resistances adding giving
double regenerative effect, which speeds the triac on. If a
very careful design is done, then you can oscillate a triac
using aDC supply and RC network...
Hysteresis is also at the heart of a Schmitt trigger, which
many interesting digital circuits exploit. The CMOS 4093 is
a favourite chip for building various natty circuits...
Of course, you could always use an LED with a flashing chip
built in, like RS 585-387, 5 mm red at 80 cents each...

A: Some sort of trigger circuit is needed to discharge the capacitor into the LED when it has charged up to a certain level. That can't be achieved with a resistor.

A: I haven't tried this, but I just thought of it while reading JustJeff's excellent answer.  What if you took a (reverse-biased) zener diode in series with the LED, that pair in parallel with the cap, and a resistor from the (led+zener)-cap node to +V? Is the zener's reverse leakage current low enough to allow this to work?
Nevermind... I'm an idiot. The resistor to +V would be above the zener breakdown voltage and thus the circuit wouldn't work.  Editing with this instead of deleting the post for posterity. :-)

A: Just a cap and an LED won't do, but you can use a Diac (similar to two anti-parallel Z-diodes with roughly 30 V) with a series resistor and an LED. If you are able to safely work with AC voltages from the mains outlet, you can try to charge a cap from the mains via a diode with a high-ohmic resistor. Once the cap reaches the Diac's (+LED's) breakdown voltage, a part of the stored charge will go into the LED and make it flash. The next flash won't occur before the Diac's breakdown voltage is reached again. (-> relaxation oscillator, kinda similar to what some others suggested, just that spark gaps or neon bulbs are replaced by semiconductors...)
I found the idea in the German hackers' magazine Elektor many years ago...

A: If you visit here there are instructions on how to do it with a 555, or here with capacitors and transistors:


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Any good NHL team can say that you need to have a solid offense, a great defense, and a goaltender that can back you up when things tend to fall apart. Even if one of those categories struggles, the other two can help blend itself. Take a look at how the Los Angeles Kings won their Stanley Cup two of their last three years, getting hot at the right time in all aspects.
Arizona does not seem to really figure out that relying on their goalie every game can only do so much. Over the last month, the Coyotes have been outshot in nine of their last ten games. Even with going 3-2-1 in their last six outings, the team wonders how they can pick up some of the slack that has been haunting them for years.
Arizona is still struggling to close out games when leading after the second. The Coyotes are 2-2-1 when leading after two periods, and are the only team with a losing record in that stature. A rematch against the team that stole their chance at the playoffs last year, the Dallas Stars, was a prime example. Leading 1-0 after forty minutes, the Stars took control in just 33 seconds. John Klingberg knocked in the game tying goal just 20 seconds into the third period, and Cody Eakin scored right after. A quiet third period, they only managed eight shots on goal, where most were wide to Kari Lehtonen. A 3-1 loss brought back bad memories they had suffered from last year.
They managed to redeem themselves offensively against the San Jose Sharks, a team who they were 1-2-1 against and their lone win coming from a shootout. Going ahead 2-0 after the first, which included a goal from David Schlemko who was recently called up from Peoria, San Jose took command of yet another bland outing form the Coyotes offense. Scoring twice in the second. Trading goals in the third, the Coyotes needed Antoine Vermette in the shootout and prevailed to get two points.
The Anaheim Ducks proved how weak the Coyotes can be, even with just 12 hours rest, when they controlled the puck for most of the game in their own zone. For every Coyotes shot, the Ducks countered with at least six of their own. Smith did all that he could until trying to clear the puck, he collided with a few of his own behind the net, leaving Kyle Palmieri with an open net near the end of the second. Then Patrick Maroon got one in off a rebound while all the Coyotes did was sit and watch. They managed to pick it up in the third with 17 shots and a goal from Keith Yandle, but by then Fredrik Andersen had already settled in.
A game like Anaheim let out a lot of frustration over the years. When wins and shots come out in spurts, sometimes depending on those too much can bring your confidence down.
Managing though only one win in the three games away from home is tough with how lackluster the offense has been playing. A similar trend has been the most difficult part to overcome in recent years, and with how rough their schedule is getting, something needs to change in their chemistry quick.


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It is wintertime, the wind still as sharp as an elfin-forged sword; the snow is drifting – it has been drifting, it seems to us, for days and weeks – and it lies like a monstrous snow mountain over the big town; it is like a weighty dream in the winter night. All beneath it is hidden and seemingly nonexistent; only the golden cross on the church, the symbol of faith, rises above the snow grave and glitters against the blue sky in the clear sunshine.
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Tristan Maxwell leads Georgia Tech to first ACC win
Georgia Tech guard Tristan Maxwell (shooting) attempts a 3-pointer against Boston College at Conte Forum Jan. 12, 2021. Maxwell scored a career-high 22 points for the Yellow Jackets. (Keith Swindell)
Credit: Keith Swindell
By Ken Sugiura, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With Georgia Tech needing scoring help, the Yellow Jackets received it from an unlikely source. Backup guard Tristan Maxwell delivered a team-high and career-high 22 points to lead Tech to an 81-76 win at Boston College on Wednesday night.
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Before Wednesday, Maxwell, a sophomore, had played a total of three games in two seasons, scoring a total of nine points as he waited for his turn. At the Conte Forum, he came off the bench to make seven 3-pointers as the Jackets emerged from a scoring slump and won their first ACC game of the season.
"It's crazy," Maxwell said. "It hasn't sunk in yet, I feel like. But I feel like once it sinks in, it's just crazy. It was just crazy. I'm just so shocked, for real."
Maxwell, the son of former NBA player Vernon Maxwell, demonstrated significant scoring clout in high school, when he was named the North Carolina state player of the year as a senior. After coach Josh Pastner played him in one game last season, Maxwell played against Georgia State and then against Notre Dame, when he scored four points in 13 minutes.
On Wednesday night, Pastner subbed him in less three minutes into the game. He made a 3-pointer, the first of his career, on his second try, and then heated up in his second time off the bench. He made a 3 from the corner at the 6:03 mark to regain the lead for the Jackets at 24-23, and then on the next possession, guard Deivon Smith delivered Maxwell the ball after an offensive rebound in the corner for another 3.
Two possessions later, forward Jordan Usher handed off to Maxwell on the right wing, setting a screen in the process. Maxwell launched and snapped the net, his fourth 3-pointer of the half. That capped a 13-2 run in which he had provided nine of the points and put the Jackets ahead 32-25 with 4:07 left in the first half.
"I felt like I was already getting confident, then I was like, O.K., I'm getting into the game, I'm feeling good with myself, and I just kept letting it fly," Maxwell said.
Maxwell's performance was part of an offensive breakout for the Jackets (7-8, 1-4 ACC), who won for just the second time in the past nine games in picking up its first conference win of the season. Tech shot 50.9% from the field after having shot less than 42% in the previous six games. Pastner changed the starting lineup Wednesday, taking forward Jordan Meka out and replacing him with guard Deebo Coleman, creating a smaller lineup in which forward Usher played center as the focal point of Pastner's Princeton offense.
With the offense running through Usher, the Jackets played more crisply as he repeatedly found teammates cutting to the basket for layups. He finished with 14 points on 6-for-12 shooting, with five rebounds and four assists against three turnovers. Usher's size disadvantage in the post also enabled Boston College center Quinten Post to score a career-high 24 points off the bench on 10-for-14 shooting, but it's a tradeoff that Pastner (and Usher) was willing to make.
"Coach Pastner is one of my favorite people on earth," Usher said. "He's a real genuine dude. He cares about me. I would do anything for him. So if he asked me to play from the sideline the whole game, I would be disappointed, but I would do it. It's nothing new. I just do as coach asks me. It got us a win."
Tech had 17 assists, its most since the fourth game of the season, and was 11-for-25 (44%) from 3-point range. The Jackets had been at 30% or under from behind the 3-point arc in four of their previous six games.
Georgia Tech 81, Boston College 76
"Our pace was better, our speed was better," Pastner said. "That was a big deal. And then you're getting stops, you're flying around. We were smaller, but I thought we were quicker in some things and that allowed us to be better."
After his first-half outburst, Maxwell came through with one of the biggest baskets of the game. Usher fouled out with 5:43 to go and just about all of the Jackets' lead, which early in the second half had been as large as 12 points, gone. Two Post free throws cut the lead to 66-65. The Eagles took the lead and led by as many as four, and the Jackets' offense struggled without Usher.
But after Smith cut the lead to 72-70 with 3:23 left on a pair of free throws, Maxwell gave the Jackets the lead at 73-72 with another corner 3, this one off a pump fake with the shot clock running down. Two possessions later, guard Michael Devoe twice got his own rebound after missed shots and then found Maxwell for his last 3-pointer and a 76-72 lead with 1:17 left. That was the control Tech needed to seal the game.
"This is a great confidence booster for him," Usher said. "I hope it continues and bleeds into the next game and the next game after that. I'm just super happy for him. I can't express how happy I am. I see him every day. He' a guy that I love."
Remarkably, Maxwell almost didn't have a chance to have his moment. Pastner said that he hurt his hand in practice Tuesday and that Maxwell told him via text message at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, 3-1/2 hours before tipoff, that he couldn't play. But, when the team arrived at the arena, he told Pastner he'd see how it felt and then decided to play. Playing with his right hand taped up, he evidently felt OK.
"I just think the adrenaline got him going, and thank the basketball gods," Pastner said. "He gave us a little extra energy on that, and we got the win."
Ken Sugiura
Ken Sugiura covers Georgia Tech sports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, looking for news and compelling stories wherever they are to be found.
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Are you working for a large investment bank and hankering to switch out into fintech? No need! Stay working for your current employer, but move upstairs to its new innovation hub. You can wear jeans, you can even wear a hoodie. But no flip flops, never flip flops.
In a bid to stop its employees flooding out into fintech, J.P. Morgan has a solution - keep the whole thing in-house. Instead of quitting to move into a start-up, J.P. Morgan is giving its employees the chance to see if their product idea would be useful to the bank. If this is the case, then it will allow you develop it in-house, according to Financial News.
If this seems beneficent, there's a catch. "The employee in question has to have 'skin in the game'," Oliver Harris, head of JPMorgan's In-Residence programme told FN. "If the idea doesn't work out or the individual changes their mind after six months, their previous job may not necessarily be there anymore, so they have to think seriously about it."
In other words, even if you want to work in fintech within your current employer there's a big risk you'll be out of a full-time job.
Other banks are doing the same thing. UBS says it employees are "set free" on tech projects if their idea is given the thumbs up from an innovation board, even if the intellectual property of the product is retained by the bank. BNP Paribas says employees are given six months to work on their fintech idea.
"They want to build a fintech company and become a millionaire — why not? We want to help them. If we have a stake in the business and we are able to help clients, it's also good for us," said Philippe Ruault, chief innovation and digital officer at the bank.
Separately, quantitative investors, which are clients of large investment banks, are piling on the pressure for sell-side firms to reveal proprietary information, says Bloomberg. Quants are turning to everything from satellite imagery to credit card data to gain an edge over the competition, and now want banks to help.
It's a bit awkward. So far, banks are feeling both sensing an opportunity to monetise the exclusive information they have, and avoiding potentially compliance-busting revelations.
"We understand why clients would be interested in this data, but we're extraordinarily sensitive to all of our client concerns about what is appropriate to share," head of quantitative equity research at Credit Suisse, Matthew Rothman, told Bloomberg.
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Chicago Daily Tribune, May 7, 1892
DOES ALL BUT SPEAK.
A TYPESETTING MACHINE MARVELOUS IN ITS WORK.
The Mechanism for Composition of a Device Which the Inventor Says Will Revolutionize the Art of Printing -- Absolute Perfection Claimed for the Invention -- What T. B. Bryan Thinks of It -- To Print a 200-Page Book In Twenty Minutes at a Cost of $5.
Twenty-two years ago in the city of Rochester, N.Y., James W. Paige began the work of constructing what at that time seemed an impossible machine. Assiduous labor, persistency of purpose, and an indomitable will finally crowned his efforts with success and Dec. 24, 1890, in the city of Hartford, the inventor saw his work completed -- a work which all who have been granted the privilege of seeing have pronounced the greatest mechanical invention of the age.
True, the machine does not talk, but it reasons; reasons with its operator. It is a typesetting machine and is called "the Paige compositor," and it does the entire work of composition, setting ordinary moveable type with far greater speed, accuracy, and artistic effect than has ever been accomplished by any method. The machine automatically distributes and at the same time sets the type indicated by the operator, automatically spaces and justifies the matter without mental effort on the part of the operator, places it in a galley ready for book or newspaper as desired, records the number of lines set, and "leads" the matter as and when required. All of this is accomplished by means of positive mechanism.
This machine is not to be confounded with any other machine, nor should it be called a mere typesetting machine. To see it in operation, to note with wonder its marvelous performance, one who understands, and even one who does not understand, the method of typesetting by the human printer, would call the machine a compositor in the truest sense of the word, as it performs simultaneously all the work of a human compositor. In an apprenticeship of less than forty days an operator has set 86,121 "ems" of solid, standard nonpareil in eight hours, an average of 8,515 "ems" an hour. These figures are wonderful when one takes into consideration the fact that the average printer of today sets but 700 or 800 "ems" an hour with his time of distribution also considered. The machine, as has already been said, distributes its type while it is also setting. The work is all done simultaneously.
The machine is run by one-twelfth horsepower and is now in private practical operation at Fifteenth street and Western avenue. It is probable that the directory of the World's Fair will offer one supreme prize for the best mechanical invention of the age; also one for that of electricity. For the former "The Paige Compositor" will be a competitor. This it will be the successful one is instantly and unstintedly accorded by all who have been to see it.
T. B. Bryan Views the Machine.
Vice-President Bryan of the World's Fair paid a visit to the factory yesterday and saw the machine at work. This machine, by the way, is the one on which the inventor worked for so many years and at present is the only one yet manufactured. Mr. Bryan was wonderstruck.
"Truly wonderful, truly wonderful," he whispered, as he looked on in amazement. "It does everything but talk. A grand invention."
Turning to Mr. Paige the Vice-President closed his eyes and related a dream which he once had and what he said to the Wizard, Edison, afterwards, about it.
"I said to Edison: 'Mr.Edison, I dreamed of a trunk once in Colorado which I called a mine. I wanted to see into this mine, but the lid of it was too firmly fastened for me. Now I wish you were a trunk, sir.'
" 'Why so?' said he.
" 'Because I would again try to life the lid -- would try to look into that wonderful brain of yours.'
"And so I say to you, Mr. Paige, I wish that you were a trunk. The man who can work out such an intricate contrivance must necessarily have a brain thousands of times more wonderful than the machine from which it was evolved."
The machine the inventor says, means a revolution in printing pure and simple. It is bound to come; is almost here, he says.
Just think of this for example. The poor but ambitious author -- Mr. Paige says he is everywhere -- has written a work which he feels within his burning soul is sure to be the long-looked for American novel. It is brief but it bristles. His pockets are empty, of course, and his frequent trips to heartless publishers have left him nothing but worn shoes and his manuscripts. He hears of this machine; he goes to it; his book is to be of 200 page; he borrows $5 from his landlady and presto, in twenty minutes he has the prized novel, the child of his brain, in cold but clear type in his inside pocket.
"This can be done with our machine," said Mr. Paige. "I can print a 200-page book at a cost of $5 I twenty minutes. The operator has only to watch the keyboard and copy and the machine will do the rest. An operator can average three or four characters at each touch of the keys, and this machine is the only one in the world for which there is no excuse for an error in proof."
Related Twain - Paige news stories:
"Mark Twain, James W. Paige and the Paige Typesetter"
"James W. Paige and the Jilted Actress"
The New York Times, March 30, 1892
Scientific American, March 9, 1901 (includes rare photos)
The New York Times, November 13, 1927
The New York Times, October 1, 1940


One of the signs of dehydration is tiredness. So if you're chronically tired, drink water instead of a cup of coffee or other stimulant. In fact, coffee will dehydrate you yet further because of its diuretic effect. A diuretic makes you produce more urine than usual thus getting rid of even more water from the body.... More likely, you simply feel thirsty because you haven't had anything to drink for ~8 hours (or however long you slept). But you're not dehydrated. But you're not dehydrated. If you're experiencing a dry throat, a likely source of that could be nasal congestion.
One of the first signs of dehydration is dry mouth. If your mouth starts feeling like the Sahara, head to the water fountain (or take a sip from your reusable water bottle!).... Dehydration can sneak up on you quite quickly. In fact, by the time you're thirsty, you may already be dehydrated, which can lead to a host of ailments, including headaches.
More likely, you simply feel thirsty because you haven't had anything to drink for ~8 hours (or however long you slept). But you're not dehydrated. But you're not dehydrated. If you're experiencing a dry throat, a likely source of that could be nasal congestion.... In most cases, knowing you're dehydrated is as simple as feeling thirsty. However, sometimes you might miss that feeling or your body will tell you in other ways.
Dehydration can cause heart palpitations. That's because your blood contains water, so when you become dehydrated, your blood can become thicker.... "The defense mechanism of the body in the face of dehydration is to shut down blood supply to 'non-vital' organs," says Robert Korn, MD, medical director of GoHealth Urgent Care to Self. This causes a person to start feeling sluggish as their body begins to operate at a slower pace.
18/05/2016 · By the time you feel thirsty, you are already dehydrated. Thirst can signal a water loss of 1% of body weight. Light-headedness can occur with as little as a 2% water loss. Thirst can signal a water loss of 1% of body weight.
Alcohol and dehydration: how does dehydration occur from excess alcohol? Excess alcohol consumption can cause dehydration in a variety of ways. Firstly, alcohol decreases the body's production of anti-diuretic hormone, which is used by the body to reabsorb water.


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If you're looking for Igcse Schools in Bangalore, the best places to look are the International Boarding Schools. These schools offer a unique curriculum that teaches students about the world around them, as well as their language, culture and history. The top igcse schools in Bangalore are doing a great job in delivering quality education.
Bangalore is one of the best places for schooling, thanks to its pleasant weather, a cosmopolitan culture, and a homely feel. From entertainment to education, it's a great place for youth. If you are making a move to this city or want to transfer your child to a school in Bangalore, you need not fret looking for the best options. We are here with a list of the best Igcse Schools in Bangalore so you can give your child world-class education. Read on to explore these and pick one that suits your needs best.
Here are Bangalore's Top 5 Igcse Schools.
Greater than any other city in South India, Bangalore may have the most international schools. Which one, nevertheless, is ideal for your child? Find out by reading on.
1. The Global Indian International School
The Global Indian International School one of the best igcse schools in Bangalore. GIIS is a genuinely global institution with students from all over the world. Given that the school is certified by the CIE and the IGCSE boards, there is no doubt that the facilities and infrastructure are of the finest quality. The school uses the English National Curriculum for pre-primary and middle school students, which promotes world exploration and inquiry-based learning. The school offers an IB Diploma Program for courses XI and XII in addition to the IGCSE curriculum for classes IX and X.
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2. International School of Bangalore
Bangalore International School, one of the city's first educational institutions, was established in 1969 by Eloise Bennett. There were a lot of American families residing in Bangalore in the 1960s and 1970s. However, American-style education was not provided in the neighbourhood schools. Eloise Bennet was inspired to start an American-style school in India as a result.
The IGCSE and IB curricula are used in the school, and the Round Square network of schools has served as a model for its instructional strategy. The school has some of the best facilities available to deliver top-notch instruction to its students. In addition to other amenities, they have a restaurant, playground, basketball court, swimming pool, fine arts studio, library, computer and science labs, and a dispensary.
3. Oasis International School
One of Bangalore's finest international schools is Oasis International School. The Isra Trust oversees this school, which is a non-profit. The CAIE curriculum is used. This school's goal is to instil traditional values in its students through cutting-edge instruction. Pre-university classes are one of this school's key advantages.
High-quality amenities are provided at this school. Libraries, computer and science labs, a playground with a cricket field, a studio for theatre and drama as well as dance and music, a dining hall, an emergency centre, field trips and excursions, and indoor activities are just a few of the amenities offered. One of Bangalore's finest international schools is Oasis International School.
4. Candor International School
Candor International School was established in 2011 and is situated on 25 acres. This school offers its students a top-notch education by adhering to the IGCSE and IB curriculum. IGCSE is a middle school curriculum, whereas IB is a high school curriculum.
This school is proud of its great infrastructure, which includes, among other things, a gymnasium, swimming pool, library, canteen, infirmary, and science and computer labs. It also has basketball, tennis, hockey, and football fields, an athletic track, and playgrounds with cricket pitches.
5. Oakridge International School
Oakridge International School, one of the few institutions offering the greatest contemporary infrastructure and facilities, with an 11-acre campus. All classes at the school follow the IB curriculum. In addition to academics, Oakridge places a focus on literature and other artistic endeavours.
To help students learn business skills, the school has partnerships with numerous business schools. This distinguishes it from other schools and makes it special. The renowned Columbia Business School is one such institution.
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