- and I do suspect I might just be naive or old or something, but how much crazier can it get? The last one being Labour has urged the government to consider introducing legal limits on sugar, salt and fat content in food.
I mean, that the government has to have the limits, and that it hasn't been done before, and that there are producers who produce harmful food. And it's just about one little bit of bad stuff that should not be added (although it's not as bad as with the Chinese milk).
The last but one was a next human Barbie-doll (and this one had brains even, allegedly Charlotte Poole: Meet the human Barbie with a brain even bigger than her 34F chest | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257304/Charlotte-Poole-Meet-human-Barbie-brain-bigger-34F-chest.html)), or someone surgical who struggled to look like Ken.
Then the black people bleaching their skin BBC News - Africa: Where black is not really beautiful (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20444798), and the white ones getting roasted on beaches. No-one likes their looks. Everybody wants to be someone else.
The average age of people in agriculture being 58 in the US of A, and 65 in Europe (or was it vv?). Does anybody remember how it's done when these people die?
And the US producing (or considering) kevlar-schoolbags to protect their children.
People getting obsessed with all manner of things (religion, global warming, smoking, fats in food etc.) is all very well and fairly normal. It's when the morons we have elected start legislating over it that we have real cause for concern.
yep. what with labour holing the economy below the waterline and buggering up every kind of social cohesion in the UK, spending 1m plus of public money to try and find a policy or two and still not managing it, they are pressing the government on legislating personal choice.
edballs meanwhile has screwed his pensions tax plans by spending 1bn twice..
So why not elect some non-morons then? Or, if you can't find any on the ballot paper, stand yourself?
They can say that now that Prescott is out of the way.
Kids are fat because they are lazy. They are lazy because they are not driven or inspired by their parents. The parents don't drive or inspire their kids because they are under financial pressure, both work and barely have enough time to get home never mind play sport, cook meals and help with homework. Either that or they divorced probably due in part to those same pressures.
Why all the black people want to go white and the white people want to go black.
in an ideal world, none of us would be eating factory processed food, but we all know theres no chance of that ever happening. Three quarters of the UK population now probably don't know how to dig a garden, let alone plant seeds. As to cooking properly.....the percentage who can do that is rapidly declining.
We are faced with an increasingly sedentary population who are rapidly losing the life skills to grow cook and eat healthy food in a safe manner and in safe quantities. In place of these skills we have a group of global megacorps making unhealthy shite on an industrial scale, encouraging us to consume as much of their crap-u-like products as possible.
I just finished a dinner of fish I caught myself.
I'm making a batch of pheasant stock (though I bought the celery, I grew the carrots, parsley and onions that are simmering with it. Of course I shot the pheasants as well.
Nobody is telling me how much salt to include.
Tell me why we need more strict rules?
What I was trying to suggest is that I'm eating what I want, rather than what someone mandates I have to.
They are lazy because they are not driven or inspired by their parents. The parents don't drive or inspire their kids because they are under financial pressure, both work and barely have enough time to get home never mind play sport, cook meals and help with homework.With respect, all wrong. All the above applied to my parents and practically everyone else on my estate. Two things were important.
My parents kicked me out of the house for most of my spare time.
We had green spaces (big enough to play football on) adjacent.
And perhaps another point. My mum knew how to cook, and we only had healthy food.
and she taught me how to cook, bake etc also.
If you are in your 50's, like me then your childhood and mine are of a very similar nature however that is not the society we live in today which is the point that was being very well made.
I still disagree. I think that 'society' has very little to do with it. Having taught at boarding schools for 10 years, where we still kick them out of the house and have green spaces, there aren't any fat, offensive kids. Really. Same is true of anywhere I've lived where the same has applied. 14 year old girls will still play 'hide and seek' and love it. You can't tell them to, never could, but if you kick 'em out they'll do it on their own.
Same applies to healthy food. They get pizza, etc, but really unhealthy stuff is twice a week only. And the live-in staff eat the same.
SFFP - no, not at all. I just think that if a green space big enough to play football on had to be provided on all new estates, and surrounded by the houses so parents felt it was safe enough, it would be a big start.
Caco -oh, that song brings back memories - I was going out with a manic depressive at the time. Much later I lived in Bath with a view of the city, which is where R.O. was when he composed it.
Both the original and this version are magnificent.
Culverhay school, where R.O. went, is to close shortly. It was and always has been a dump. A former colleague of mine left it to come work for me. I've been regaled with many a tale of just what a dump it was.
And it is only 3 miles from one of the delightful boarding schools I was on about earlier.
A very, very apt tune really.
We sing from the same song sheet,we really do but for me what sums it up best is that when I went to school there were less than a handful of truly fat kids in my year and the word obesity had yet to come into everyday use.
Add to that the fact that if you lived more than 3 miles away you got a free bus and less than that and you walked, the notion that mum gave you a lift to school was unheard of. Try driving near the main entrances of virtually any school in the land nowadays at dumping off/kicking out time and its like trying to negotiate Trafalfar Square at midnight on NYE.
Factor in the Playstation in all its various guises, Sky TV with its thousands of channels, mobile phones and kids today are a very different species to those we went to school with.
Kids are just the same. Really, really the same. The kids at the schools I taught at had mobiles, computer games, satellite TV etc. We just rationed them.
What's changed is the attitudes of parents. They seem increasingly under-confident about exercising their authority, and also about allowing their kids real freedom.
I think the attitude of society to teachers has changed also. Mine were very liberal in the broadest sense. I tried to be similar. But I had the luxury of another career if I wanted it, and many teachers feel too scared now to say or do anything which isn't Government-approved.
Which I think gets back to the OP's point about over-control by Government.
What's changed is the attitudes of parents. They seem increasingly under-confident about exercising their authority, and also about allowing their kids real freedom.I think a lot of them (particularly mothers) worry excessively about what other parents think of them. A few of my friends have kids and they're constantly anxious about what other people think about their child rearing capabilities.
The constant 24/7 media stream about murders and assaults also leads people to think that the world is more unsafe than it was, while in many places the opposite is actually true.
Agreed, and I would argue the problems start with girls' magazines. Ration them too!
Yeah, they're horrid :(. They weren't as bad in the late eighties/early nineties. I wasn't sure if that was due to nostalgia effect, so I dug some out from under the family homestead and they were actually quite empowering (apart from the cigarette ads, that is :\).
Of course this was before marketeers worked out that miserable people buy more stuff.
As for putting yourself on the ballot paper? Well a good idea but it seems to me that far too many voters have been brain washed into only voting for "The Party". They don't seem to delve deeper and choose the best person to represent them.
"put out for boys' propaganda you get in town"
Uhh, good to see it's not just me. Sad, too.
Super, reynoldsno1, that is 110% good!
Milo - the current epidemics of obesity, heart disease and diabetes make it imperative that industrially manufactured food be subject to strict rules regarding safe ingredient levels probably I wasn't clear enough. I meant that the industries more than likely know what's bad (or good) themselves, but money is above anything, even health. So actually we agree that there should be rules, and I was wondering how it's possible people have to have regulations not to kill/harm others with food (do they eat the same things themselves?).
an increasingly sedentary population who are rapidly losing the life skills to grow cook and eat healthy food in a safe manner and in safe quantitiesnow, how much crazier can it get? Loosing the vital skills? But, being on top of the food chain... maybe the man has to have the destructive role as well? And produce "unhealthy rubbish masquerading as food". What kind of species are the humans to do that? No fox would eat a synthetic rabbit (fried and lots of salt), would they?
The parents don't drive or inspire their kids because they are under financial pressure, both work and barely have enough time to get home never mind play sport, cook meals and help with homework.well, financial pressures surely have been worse, maybe not for so many fancy things? That's where I totally agree with Worrals - one has to be really confident to ignore the lifestyle pressures imposed by media and advertising.
Which brings us back to the 'how much crazier can it get'-thing.
Probes, I think that the trouble with this stuff is that it's easy. It's there. I reckon that our great grandmothers would have embraced the frozen meal trend with both hands, but they didn't have the option.
What kind of species are the humans to do that? No fox would eat a synthetic rabbit (fried and lots of salt), would they?
The question is whether there is a safe consumption level for this sort of food, and TBQH there probably is. Two or three takeaway meals a week hasn't been proven to do any long term damage to health or fitness. Apart from margarine and a couple of other exceptions the stuff is food, albeit overcooked, fatty and oversalted. Like alcohol, the problems start when people rely on them as a primary food group.
Reynolds Number and Probes - Thanks for the words and the clip, My South African room mate at Seletar in 1967 had the LP and I haven't heard this song since then. I think Jeremy Taylor got chucked out by the SA government who weren't best pleased with his brand of satire. The present bunch could do with a black Taylor to send up their own shortcomings.
Did you win any blue ribbons?
Not sure if legislation is the answer though.
No fox would eat a synthetic rabbit (fried and lots of salt), would they?
Yup they do which is why we have a glut of urban Foxes. A colleague at work who is a serious nature lover has told me that in Didcot they have a problem with Red kites at one of the fried chicken chains. The kites hang around the car park and empty the bins, apparently some are too fat to fly!
There is apparently a genetic factor which means we as a species are attracted to fat and sugar. It goes back to the time we were hunter gatherers and never sure of when we would find food so anything with fat or sugar was an easy way to boost energy and store the same for when food was not available.
As most food suppliers are obsessed with profit margins then the easy way to make people want more is to include plenty of sugar and fat.
Add to this massive advertising and the more affluent and sedentary lifestyle these days and bingo.
Fat and sugar are also really cheap. Same with corn meal.
Salt is something one can use a lot of, but not eat. To degorge an aubergine, for example - you wash the salt off afterwards. Otherwise, you need a teaspoon full for a 400 gram loaf of bread. I suppose it's because I use very little in the way of prepared food that I don't see a problem...Things like preserved anchovies wouldn't be preserved without salt, of course, but again, soak them in milk to get it out.
For my part, I find a lot of stuff has less taste with reduced salt content as is fashionable. Usually employ the shaker when cooking baked beans, for example.
I don't like baked beans, although about every 18 months, I'll soak the beans overnight and then cook them long and slow with some pork and tomato. The magic with beans cooked like that is good splash of dark rum added just before serving. None of these canned baked beans, though.


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Eye for Design at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), June 7 – September 18, 2016
"Drawn from its own archive and that of the American Craft Council, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents Eye for Design, an exhibition that explores the unique graphic identity created by the Museum (then the Museum of Contemporary Crafts) in the 1960s and 1970s through its imaginatively designed exhibition catalogues and related ephemera. As the field of graphic design became increasingly corporate driven, the designers featured in this exhibition—including Emil Antonucci, John J. Reiss, Sam Richardson, and Linda Hinrichs—dared to break graphic conventions and captured the spirit of the Museum with hand-drawn illustrations, playful use of typography, vibrant color, fresh design, and inventive adaption of the catalogue form." — Museum of Arts and Design
The World of Puppets, 1962. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design). Photo courtesy American Craft Council Archives
Craftsmen of the Central States, 1962, Sam Richardson. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design)
Creative Casting, 1963, Sam Richardson. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design)
Woven Forms, 1963, Sam Richardson. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design). Photo courtesy American Craft Council Archives
Contemporary French Bookbinding, 1964, Sam Richardson (art director). Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design). Photo courtesy American Craft Council Archives
Glass: Czechoslovakia and Italy, 1964, Sam Richardson. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design). Photo courtesy American Craft Council Archives
Amusement Is …, 1964, John J. Reiss. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design). Photo courtesy American Craft Council Archives
The Art of Personal Adornment, 1965, Emil Antonucci. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design). Photo courtesy American Craft Council Archives
Fantasy Furniture, 1966, Emil Antonucci. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design). Photo courtesy American Craft Council Archives
Craftsmen USA 1966, Emil Antonucci. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design)
People Figures, 1966, Emil Antonucci. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design)
Body Coverings, 1968, Emil Antonucci. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design)
Furs and Feathers, 1971, Emil Antonucci. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design)
Coffee, Tea and Other Cups, 1971 Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design)
Objects for Preparing Food, 1972, Emil Antonucci. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design)
The New American Quilt, 1976, Linda Hinrichs, Carol Sandgren, Hinrichs Design Associates (designers), The New American Quilt, 1976. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design). Photo courtesy American Craft Council Archives
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Emil Antonucci, Eye for Design, John J. Reiss, Linda Hinrichs, MAD, Museum of Arts and Design, Sam Richardson

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Q: How to solve this irrational integral I want to solve the integral
$$\large\int\frac{2\sqrt[5]{2x-3}-1}{(2x-3)\sqrt[5]{2x-3}+\sqrt[5]{2x-3}}\mathrm dx$$
I've gone with the varialbe change method using
 $$
2x-3=u\
$$
and got
$$
\frac{1}{2}\int \frac{2u^\frac{1}{5}-1}{uu^\frac{1}{5}+u^\frac{1}{5}} du\
$$
then I used shift
$$
u=t^5
$$
and got
$$
\frac{5}{2}\int\frac{2t^4-t^3}{t^5+1} dt\
$$
This is the part that I'm stuck on.
Any kind of advise would be helpfull.

A: HINT:
$$\int\frac{2\sqrt[5]{2x-3}-1}{\left(2x-3\right)\sqrt[5]{2x-3}+\sqrt[5]{2x-3}}\space\text{d}x=2\int\frac{\sqrt[5]{2x-3}-1}{\left(2x-3\right)\sqrt[5]{2x-3}+\sqrt[5]{2x-3}}\space\text{d}x=$$

Substitute $u=2x-3$ and $\text{d}u=2\space\text{d}x$:

$$\int\frac{\sqrt[5]{u}-1}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\space\text{d}u=\int\left[\frac{\sqrt[5]{u}}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}-\frac{1}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\right]\space\text{d}u=$$
$$\int\frac{\sqrt[5]{u}}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\space\text{d}u-\int\frac{1}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\space\text{d}u=\int\frac{1}{1+u}\space\text{d}u-\int\frac{1}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\space\text{d}u=$$

Substitute $s=1+u$ and $\text{d}s=\text{d}u$:

$$\int\frac{1}{s}\space\text{d}s-\int\frac{1}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\space\text{d}u=\ln\left|s\right|-\int\frac{1}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\space\text{d}u=$$
$$\ln\left|1+u\right|-\int\frac{1}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\space\text{d}u=\ln\left|1+2x-3\right|-\int\frac{1}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\space\text{d}u=$$
$$\ln\left|2x-2\right|-\int\frac{1}{u\sqrt[5]{u}+\sqrt[5]{u}}\space\text{d}u=$$

Substitute $p=\sqrt[5]{u}$ and $\text{d}p=\frac{1}{5\sqrt[5]{u^4}}\space\text{d}u$:

$$\ln\left|2x-2\right|-5\int\frac{p^4}{p^6+p}\space\text{d}p=\ln\left|2x-2\right|-5\int\frac{p^3}{p^5+1}\space\text{d}p$$

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no comfort me pointing out JakeRSs thread in Selkent where we were discussing where the police are on the M20 and I pointed out theyre quite often around Wrotham/Maidstone.
Thought I'd reiterate it for anyone else who uses the M20 and doesnt know about this.
Moral of the story is not to speed on the M20 between Ashford and M25. I can guarantee the police are on there somewhere either in marked or unmarked cars. And its why I rarely went over 90/95 on my commute.
Take it by nicked thats a verbal NIP issued and a court date due. Good luck with it anyway.
Its your record mate...Bike hoodlium that you are.
Not a good one mate at all. Best of luck.
So 109 is you just having "started to speed up".
What speed were you doing before??
Were you above 70? Were you filtering at speed or weaving through traffic? There could be a host of reasons they decided to follow you. But if you were speeding already then you gave them an easy nick, more so by going over a ton.
But fair point if you werent speeding or doing anything dodgy.
Still, it could have been worse though - they could have let you continue to speed up and book you at a higher speed rather than stop you just as you were speeding up.
So what happened when they stopped you, where you allowed to continue on your way. From what I've heard in the past, doing over 100mph was an automatic ban In other words "hand the keys over son"
2. yes they may well have and you obliged.


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On their little heads are clear plastic helmets designed to protect their precious noggins while recuperating from skull surgery to correct a rare disorder.
They were born with craniosynostosis, a birth defect that causes a baby's skull to prematurely fuse while its brain is still growing. A misshapen head results, which can destroy vision and mental development.
So when surgeons at New York's Stony Brook University Hospital came up with a strategy in January to remove tiny pieces of bone around the babies' soft spots – thereby allowing their heads to grow and expand normally – Amy and Mike Howard said yes.
The easy part was agreeing the procedures would change their children's lives for the better. The hard part was enduring the procedures, the parents told InsideEdition.com.
"Those were the worst two days of my life," said Amy.
Hunter and Jackson, who are identical, had the same form of the defect and went under the knife first. Kaden, who is a fraternal sibling, went into surgery the next day.
"They were taking my babies, which I was getting used to having, and then they're putting them under," said their mother. "It was rough."
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They wear them almost all the time. "They don't even cry when I put them on at night," Amy said.
The helmets are designed to protect the surgery sites, as well as to prevent the infants' malleable skulls from returning to their irregular shapes.
Amy's goal is for the boys to be helmet-free by their first birthday.
The mom and dad said they were shocked to learn Amy was carrying triplets. Besides an aunt of Mike's who had twins, multiple births did not run in their families.
And they weren't undergoing fertility treatments, either.
"I think it was just pure luck," Mike said.
Asked if they were going to have more, Amy replied right away.
"We're done," she said. Her husband just laughed.
He had suggested they might try again, hoping for a girl. Amy wasn't having it.
"He didn't have to walk around for 35 weeks carrying these three," she said.
"We're absolutely blessed," he said.


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La Moine River is a  tributary of the Illinois River in western Illinois in the United States.  Its watershed covers approximately , and it is the sixth-largest tributary to the Illinois River.  It is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

Course
La Moine River rises in southwestern Warren County and initially flows southwestwardly through southeastern Henderson and northwestern McDonough counties into Hancock County, where it turns to the southeast and flows through McDonough and Schuyler counties.  In its lower course the river passes the village of Ripley and is used to define a portion of the boundary between Schuyler and Brown counties.  It flows into the Illinois River from the northwest, about  southwest of Beardstown.

In its headwaters region the river collects the short South Branch La Moine River, which rises in McDonough County and flows west-southwestwardly into Hancock County, past La Harpe.  In Hancock County it collects the East Fork La Moine River, which rises in Warren County and flows south- and southwestwardly through McDonough County, past Macomb.

Variant names
The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "La Moine River" as the river's official name in 1933.  According to the Geographic Names Information System, the river has also been known as:
Crooked Creek
Lamoine River
Lamoine Creek
Rivière à la Moine or Rivière au Moine (Monk river)
Rivière à la Mine  (Mine river)

Conservation
La Moine River Ecosystem Partnership A collaboration of more than 25 public and private organizations, landowners, and residents dedicated to the protection, restoration, and stewardship of the natural resources of the La Moine River watershed and adjacent areas.

See also
List of Illinois rivers

Sources
Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
DeLorme (2003).  Illinois Atlas & Gazetteer.  Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme.  .

References

External links
La Moine River Ecosystem Partnership

Rivers of Illinois
Rivers of Brown County, Illinois
Rivers of Hancock County, Illinois
Rivers of Henderson County, Illinois
Rivers of McDonough County, Illinois
Rivers of Schuyler County, Illinois
Rivers of Warren County, Illinois
Tributaries of the Illinois River

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// Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Piotr Mirowski
//
// Piotr Mirowski, Andreas Vlachos
// "Dependency Recurrent Neural Language Models for Sentence Completion"
// ACL 2015

// Based on code by Geoffrey Zweig and Tomas Mikolov
// for the Feature-Augmented RNN Tool Kit
// http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/rnn/

#ifndef __DependencyTreeRNN____RnnDependencyTreeLib__
#define __DependencyTreeRNN____RnnDependencyTreeLib__

#include "RnnLib.h"
#include "RnnTraining.h"
#include "CorpusUnrollsReader.h"

class RnnTreeLM : public RnnLMTraining {
public:

  /**
   * Constructor for training/testing the model
   */
  RnnTreeLM(const std::string &filename, bool doLoadModel, bool debugMode)
  // We load the RNN or not, depending on whether the model file is present
  // otherwise simply set its filename
  : RnnLMTraining(filename, doLoadModel, debugMode),
  // Parameters set by default (can be overriden when loading the model)
  m_typeOfDepLabels(0), m_labels(1) {
    // If we use dependency labels, do not connect them to the outputs
    m_useFeatures2Output = false;
    std::cout << "RnnTreeLM\n";
  }

public:

  /**
   * Before learning the RNN model, we need to learn the vocabulary
   * from the corpus. Note that the word classes may have been initialized
   * beforehand using ReadClasses. Computes the unigram distribution
   * of words from a training file, assuming that the existing vocabulary
   * is empty.
   */
  bool LearnVocabularyFromTrainFile(int numClasses);

  /**
   * Import the vocabulary from a text file.
   */
  void ImportVocabularyFromFile(std::string &filename, int numClasses) {
    m_corpusTrain.ImportVocabulary(filename);
    m_corpusValidTest.ImportVocabulary(filename);
    AssignVocabularyFromCorpora(numClasses);
  }

  /**
   * Return the number of labels (features) used in the dependency parsing.
   */
  int GetLabelSize() const { return m_labels.GetVocabularySize(); }

  /**
   * Set the mode of the dependency labels:
   * 0: no dependency labels used
   * 1: dependency labels concatenated to the word
   * 0: dependency labels used as features in the feature vector
   */
  void SetDependencyLabelType(int type) {
    m_typeOfDepLabels = type;
  }

  /**
   * Set the minimum number of word occurrences
   */
  void SetMinWordOccurrence(int val) {
    m_corpusVocabulary.SetMinWordOccurrence(val);
    m_corpusTrain.SetMinWordOccurrence(val);
    m_corpusValidTest.SetMinWordOccurrence(val);
  }

  /**
   * Add a book to the training corpus
   */
  void AddBookTrain(const std::string &filename) {
    m_corpusVocabulary.AddBookFilename(filename);
    m_corpusTrain.AddBookFilename(filename);
  }

  /**
   * Add a book to the test/validation corpus
   */
  void AddBookTestValid(const std::string &filename) {
    m_corpusValidTest.AddBookFilename(filename);
  }

  /**
   * Function that trains the RNN on JSON trees
   * of dependency parse
   */
  bool TrainRnnModel();

  /**
   * Function that tests the RNN on JSON trees
   * of dependency parse
   */
  bool TestRnnModel(const std::string &testFile,
                    const std::string &featureFile,
                    std::vector<double> &sentenceScores,
                    double &logProbability,
                    double &perplexity,
                    double &entropy,
                    double &accuracy);

protected:

  // Corpora
  CorpusUnrolls m_corpusVocabulary;
  CorpusUnrolls m_corpusTrain;
  CorpusUnrolls m_corpusValidTest;

  // Label vocabulary representation (label -> index of the label)
  int m_typeOfDepLabels;

  // Label vocabulary hashtables
  Vocabulary m_labels;

  // Label vocabulary representation (label -> index of the label)
  std::unordered_map<std::string, int> m_mapLabel2Index;

  // Reset the vector of feature labels
  void ResetFeatureLabelVector(RnnState &state) const;

  // Update the vector of feature labels
  void UpdateFeatureLabelVector(int label, RnnState &state) const;

  // Assign the vocabulary from the corpora to the model,
  // and compute the word classes.
  bool AssignVocabularyFromCorpora(int numClasses);
};

#endif /* defined(__DependencyTreeRNN____RnnDependencyTreeLib__) */

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Home Insights Covid-19 – Mission Purposing Organisations Through the Crisis – Empowerment
Covid-19 – Mission Purposing Organisations Through the Crisis – Empowerment
'Establishing Clear Mission Purpose Alignment – with unifying intent and Empowering Teams within strategic intent.
(see full article)
Barely a month on, the advent of Covid-19 continues to draw parallels with a battlefield. Business assumptions, which were valid just five weeks ago have collapsed and most companies' short-to-medium and long-term plans lie in tatters. Workforces are dispersed and isolated for survival, and they are likely to remain distributed as organisations also adjust to a reducing future requirement for office space in the 'new normal' operating environment. In tandem, CEOs will have to continue to fight on multiple fronts as cash shortages and fragile supply chains threaten the very existence of their organisations.
As the first UK unit sent to southern Afghanistan in 2006, 3 PARA's mission was billed as a peace support operation. The official assumption was that there would be little, or no fighting and the Government declared that they would be delighted if the unit returned from Helmand Province without firing a shot. Six months later we had burned through half a million rounds of ammunition in nearly 500 engagements with the enemy. Sent with 1,500 soldiers, the battlegroup was dispersed over 40,000 square kilometres of hostile territory holding several remote district centres from relentless Taliban attack. Resources were stretched to breaking point and logistic resupply lines often came close to failure. The area we held, later consumed 24,000 British and American troops. On several occasions we nearly ran out of ammunition and resupply and casualty evacuation could never be guaranteed. However, mission purpose and empowerment became crucial aspects of 3 PARA's ability to adapt, adjust and prevail in adversity.
If businesses facing the Coronavirus crisis are to survive and prevail beyond it, mission purpose also matters. It needs to align to the collective situation that confronts them and must contain a unifying intent, which runs as a single narrative throughout an organisation, where every employee knows their part in the plan: from the CEO to call centre operator, from senior to junior management to individual machine operator and checkout assistant.
In 3 PARA no-one believed in the original mission concept as fear, uncertainty and unlimited risk liability became the new constants of circumstantial reality. Consequently, we had to re-cut the mission purpose in a manner that aligned to the situation we faced and made sense to every one of the diverse elements that made up the battlegroup. In short, it was to hold the ring, prevent the fall of the district centres by offensive, as well as defensive action, which became the stated main effort in order to set the conditions and buy time for the UK to determine its future strategic response. Irrespective of specialisation, everyone knew that they had to be a fighter first, that their job was to support the main effort and that every individual, regardless of background or position, brought something to the table and was valued for it.
To be effective, mission purpose must be backed by empowerment. In Afghanistan, the biggest leadership challenge was where to place oneself on the battlefield, when any one location could have consumed complete command attention. The answer lay in the decentralised leadership philosophy of mission command. It empowered direct reports at all levels to use their initiative and on the spot information to make their own risk-based decisions, to deviate appropriately to meet changing circumstances or to seize fleeting windows of opportunity, without delegating upwards.
Mission-orientated empowerment has several requirements. Firstly, absolute clarity of mission purpose, with clear articulation of strategic intent with an emphasis on the 'what' and the 'why', rather than the detailed tactical 'how'. Secondly, it needs to be underpinned by a standardised, formulaic, well-practised, but highly flexible decision-making and planning methodology, which can be utilised throughout an organisation. Penultimately, it also requires resilient leaders at all levels who are accountable. However, it also requires mutual trust, as accountability cuts both ways and if people are to embrace delegated authority, they must be allowed to experiment within intent and necessitates a tolerance for honest mistakes. This in turn breeds transparency, more accountability, better learning and team performance improvement.
Mission focused in a way that makes sense to them and suitably empowered, people in any organisation are more likely to step up and improve their resilience and productivity even in the face of crisis. They will become more agile, more motivated and more wedded to an organisation. In turn the businesses they work for will become faster, more responsive and better able to withstand shocks and seize opportunities in comparison to those competitors, which lack mission orientated empowerment. It will take investment in the way a company decides, plans, collaborates, communicates and ultimately in the way it leads its people; themes that will be covered in more detail in subsequent thought bites beginning next week.


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Women in the Church: A Fresh Analysis of 1 Timothy 2:9-15
By John Stanley | April 29, 1998
Women in the Church is a dangerous book which should not have been published because, while it appears to be scholarly, it actually teems with historical and theological errors and also emotional subjectivity. Alan G. Padgett has provided a critical rebuttal to Women in the Church in the Winter 1997 issue of Priscilla Papers.
Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate by Michelle Lee-Barnewall
By Aída Besançon Spencer | July 30, 2016
Increasingly, one of the latest reactions to the evangelical gender debate among some younger Christian women is "I am neither complementarian nor egalitarian," inviting the reply: So, then, what are you? And, why do you respond in this way?Michelle Lee-Barnewall, associate professor of biblical and theological studies at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, gives voice to this relatively recent group.
Wealth in Ancient Ephesus and the First Letter to Timothy: Fresh Insights from Ephesiaca by Xenophon of Ephesus
By Lucy Peppiatt | February 23, 2017
Gary Hoag revisits the topic of wealth in the letter of 1 Timothy, asking whether the teachings found there are consistent or inconsistent with other teachings in the NT, or whether it might be a mixture of the two. Scholars are divided on this question. Hoag's findings rest on cross-referencing the terms in 1 Timothy with a novel, Ephesiaca by Xenophon of Ephesus.


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Neopodocinum est un genre d'acariens de la famille des Macrochelidae.

Systématique
Le genre Neopodocinum a été créé en 1902 par le zoologiste néerlandais Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1858-1943).

Liste d'espèces
Selon  :
 Neopodocinum bosschai (Oudemans, 1901)
 Neopodocinum caputmedusae (Berlese, 1908)
 Neopodocinum halimunensis Hartini & Takaku, 2003
 Neopodocinum kalimantanense Hartini & Takaku, 2004
 Neopodocinum maius Berlese, 1911
 Neopodocinum meridionalis Selin, 1931
 Neopodocinum mrciaki Selinick, 1968
 Neopodocinum subjaspersi Hartini & Takaku, 2003

Liens externes

Notes et références

Macrochelidae
Genre d'acariens (nom scientifique)


TRUE OR FALSE: SEVERE METABOLIC OR RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS CAN LEAD TO AN ANION GAP METABOLIC ACIDOSIS.
Severe alkalemia can cause an increase in anion gap. Alkalemia leads to glycolysis in the liver and a mild lactic acidosis. In severe volume contracted state, the anion gap can be seen with change in valence of circulating proteins to preserve extracellular volume.
A prior post had discussed this as well.
Emmett M, Narins R. Clinical use of the anion gap. Medicine 1977; 56:38–45.
Kraut J, Madias N. Serum anion gap: its uses and limitations in clinical medicine. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2007; 2: 162–174.


Numerous monkeys were launched into space. They were sent to space in order to analyze the biological processes and other effects of space flight. Many of these experiments were cruel, but generated usable data. Read all about these monkey astronauts.
Gordo, Able, Baker, Sam and many other monkeys are the heroes of space exploration. Read about famous space monkeys through history.


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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Nide 3
Tekijät Alexander Pope, William Roscoe
WINDSOR-FOREST :
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
GEORGE LORD LANSDOWN.
Non injussa cano : Te nostræ, Vare, myricæ,
Te Nemus omne canet ; nec Phæbo gratior ulla est,
Quam sibi quæ Vari præscripsit pagina nomen.
The design of Windsor-forest is evidently derived from Coopershill, with some attention to Waller's poem on the Park; but Pope cannot be denied to excel his masters in variety and elegance, and the art of interchanging description, narration, and morality. The objection made by Dennis is the want of plan, of a regular subordination of parts, terminating in the principal and original design. There is this want in most descriptive poems; because as the scenes, which they must exhibit successively, are all subsisting at the same time, the order in which they are shewn must, by necessity, be arbitrary, and more is not to be expected from the last part than from the first. The attention therefore, which cannot be detained by suspence, 'must be excited by diversity, such as this poem offers to its reader.
But the desire of diversity may be too much indulged. The parts of Windsor-forest which deserve least praise, are those which were added to enliven the stillness of the scene; the appearance
of Father Thames, and the transformation of Lodona. Addison had, in his Campaign, derided the rivers, that " rise from their oozy beds" to tell stories of heroes, and it is therefore strange that Pope should adopt a fiction not only unnatural, but lately censured. The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient. Nothing is easier than to tell how a flower was once a blooming virgin, or a rock an obdurate tyrant.
Johnson. The poem of Windsor-forest, although properly ranked as descriptive, contains in itself strong indications that the powers of the author were calculated for more elevated subjects and loftier flights. No sooner has he announced the scene of his poem,
than he breaks through the narrow bounds by which he is apparently confined, and engages in an historical deduction of the effects produced by the tyranny of our early kings; terminating in the establishment of liberty, and the diffusion of national happiness. To this subject he recurs towards the close of his poem, where he brings down his historical notices to the reign of Queen Ann, and celebrates the peace of Utrecht, then just concluded. Many other passages indicate the attention he had paid to graver and more
important subjects, which soon superseded his lighter performances, and shewed,
That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long,
But stoop'd to truth and moralized his song. The observations of Dr. Johnson, on the personification of Father Thames, and on the story of Lodona would, if assented to, deprive poetry of one of her chief auxiliaries. That such representations are unnatural must, in a strict sense, be allowed ; but poetry employs for her purpose not only what exists in nature, but what may, in possibility, be supposed to exist; and to deprive her. of this power, is to prohibit her flights altogether. Neither Caliban nor Ariel exist in nature, and in Johnson's phraseology may therefore be said to be unnatural; but although not in nature, they are not contradictory to our conceptions of what might exist; and it is in effecting this verisimilitude that the art of the poet consists. To restrain poetry to what is strictly natural, is to reduce it essentially to prose.
It has been said that the conclusion of this poem gave great pain to Addison, both as a poet and a politician ; on which Johnson (in his Life of Pope) asks, "why Addison should receive any particular disturbance from the last lines of Windsor-forest ?" To which it may be answered, that Addison could scarcely fail to be mortified on finding such splendid talents engaged in the cause of a party in direct opposition to his own, and employed to celebrate a peace, which, in his opinion, was not only inconsistent with the honour and interests of his country, but injurious to the liberty and safety of Europe in general.
WINDSOR-FOREST. *
GEORGE LORD LANSDOWN.+
Tuy forest, Windsor! and thy green retreats,
At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,
Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids !
Unlock your springs, and open
shades.
* This Poem was written at two different times: the first part of it, which relates to the country, in the year 1704, at the same time with the Pastorals ; the latter part was not added till the year 1713, in which it was published.
P. † Notwithstanding the many praises lavished on this celebrated nobleman as a poet, by Dryden, by Addison, by Bolingbroke, by our Author, and others, yet candid criticism must oblige us to confess, that he was but a feeble imitator of the feeblest parts of Waller. In his tragedy of Heroic Love, he seems not to have had a true relish for Homer whom he copied ; and in the British Enchanters, very little fancy is to be found in a subject fruitful of romantic imagery. It was fortunate for him, says Mr. Walpole, in his Anecdotes, that in an age when persecution raged so fiercely against lukewarm authors, that he had an intimacy with the Inquisitor General; how else would such lines as these escape the Bathos ; they are in his Heroic Love:
-Why thy Gods
Enlighten thee to speak their dark decrees.
VARIATIONS.
Ver. 3, &c. Originally thus (and indeed much better):
Chaste Goddess of the woods,
Nymphs of the vales, and Naïads of the floods,
Lead me through arching bow'rs, and glimm'ring glades,
Unlock your springs-


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Structure of PICK1 and other PDZ domains obtained with the help of self-binding C-terminal extensions.
Elkins JM., Papagrigoriou E., Berridge G., Yang X., Phillips C., Gileadi C., Savitsky P., Doyle DA.
PDZ domains are protein-protein interaction modules that generally bind to the C termini of their target proteins. The C-terminal four amino acids of a prospective binding partner of a PDZ domain are typically the determinants of binding specificity. In an effort to determine the structures of a number of PDZ domains we have included appropriate four residue extensions on the C termini of PDZ domain truncation mutants, designed for self-binding. Multiple truncations of each PDZ domain were generated. The four residue extensions, which represent known specificity sequences of the target PDZ domains and cover both class I and II motifs, form intermolecular contacts in the expected manner for the interactions of PDZ domains with protein C termini for both classes. We present the structures of eight unique PDZ domains crystallized using this approach and focus on four which provide information on selectivity (PICK1 and the third PDZ domain of DLG2), binding site flexibility (the third PDZ domain of MPDZ), and peptide-domain interactions (MPDZ 12th PDZ domain). Analysis of our results shows a clear improvement in the chances of obtaining PDZ domain crystals by using this approach compared to similar truncations of the PDZ domains without the C-terminal four residue extensions.
10.1110/ps.062657507
Protein Sci
Amino Acid Sequence, Carrier Proteins, Cloning, Molecular, Crystallography, X-Ray, Models, Molecular, Molecular Sequence Data, Nuclear Proteins, Protein Binding, Protein Conformation


As we hope to engage Loder's The Transforming Moment, I thought this summary might be helpful to those who have not read it.
Imagine the absolute collapse of the everything, the entire material order — the earth giving way, the mountains falling into the sea, the 'sea' and its mythical powers engulfing God-given order. Chaos returns. This is the fundamental upheaval of the created order. In the midst of a return to primeval chaos, what would your state of mind be? What would you say to your kids as the world disappeared underneath your (and their) feet? The Psalmist here is either insane or he knows something we don't, for he describes in the midst of such upheaval "a river whose streams make glad." God is in her, he says. She will not fail. We may be in hell. We may be engulfed in universal collapse. We may be exiled and tortured, imprisoned and beaten for years in a Romanian prison, or gored on bulls. But it matters not what we are in. It matters what is in us. "God is in her," he assures, "she will not fail." And the Psalmist doesn't leave the collapse of the world in vv. 2-3 to write these words. He's still in that collapse. The mountains and sea are a single foaming chaos surging and swallowing all that is. Chaos is his address. And in this chaos he is glad.
How? Where do the undisturbed waters of this river flow? Well, here they're flowing in and through a world devoured by chaos. What is their source? Now that is a different question. "Be still," he says, "and know that I am God." In the quiet of silent prayer — there is the gladdening river, there is the table prepared for us in the presence of our enemies (Ps 23), there is the joy which is "unspeakable and full of glory" (1Pet 1), the peace that passes all understanding (Phil 3), the knowledge of a love that transcends knowing (Eph 3), the forthcoming incomparable glory (Rom 8.18).
When every evidence of God's presence and goodness disappears from the horizon, when the mountains are cast into the "sea" and its "waters roar and foam" as every dependable structure of our world is swallowed and digested, and when even the horizon disappears, there remain other waters (waters other than the "sea"), waters whose ability to "make glad" transcend choas. Psalm 46 is the Rom 8.31-39 of the Old Testament ("Nothing can separate us from the experience of the love of God in Christ").
Thank you Kayla Jean Mueller. Theology at its best. Not angry, pissed off or in the throes of despair. Rather, secure in an experience of love which your captivity could not silence or deconstruct. Now to get the rest of us who aren't in anything like the circumstances you were in to know the abiding peace of mind you possessed. God have mercy on us all.
I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it. I pray each day that if nothing else, you have felt a certain closeness and surrender to God as well and have formed a bond of love and support among one another….
Alan Rhoda has been methodically responding to William Lane Craig and David Hunt's response to an earlier Faith & Philosophy piece Alan led on re: open theism. The first four parts of Alan's responses are here, and the final fifth part is here. Many thanks, Alan!
Andrew Wilson, working on a PhD at King's College London, shares the results of a straw poll at CatalystLT.
If you're unfamiliar with the ideas of St. Gregory of Nyssa regarding the believer's unending progression into God, Fr Aidan discusses it in Meditating on Moses: The Infinity of Virute. It's a wonderful thought—our perfection is a never-ending adventure into God. Heaven may be a resting place from the particular struggles and temptations of the present and from our proclivity to weakness and failure. But with respect to our perfection—i.e., the fulfillment of our natures—heaven is anything but the end of the road. It is an infinitely extended beginning of sorts, an unending adventure in God of his own infinite beauties, the perfect union into one final experienced rest both of being presently satiated and hungry for more. But this hunger for more is not deferment of the good. It express no failure of God to satisfy. Rather, it is the satisfaction of an expanding desire for God. Think of opening a present to find that the gift inside in addition to being more than you could imagine also contains its own gift which contains yet another and so on ad infinitum.
I won't park here on the implications this has for apatheia as we've tried to express it here and why those who deny it are left with a view of their own eternal rest in God as the static repetition of the finite. In the end you reap what you sow.


New Hampshire was the 9th state. Famous citizens include Robert Frost and John Irving. The first public library was founded in Peterborough. The first potato was planted in Londonderry. NH was the first colony to declare independence from England. In 1934, the highest-ever ground wind speeds (231 MPH) were recorded at Mt. Washington. NH delegates were first to vote for the Declaration of Independence.
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Attacks from Gaza continued on Monday, with rockets reaching Yavne and Ofakim and wounding one. Israel blasts Gaza targets.
Attacks from Gaza continued on Monday night. Terrorists hit the cities of Yavne and Ofakim for the first time. Military experts say the cities lie at the outer reach of Hamas' rocket range.
One man was moderately wounded in the Ofakim strike, and six suffered shock. Rockets hit Sderot and Netivot as well, but did not cause injury. Explosions were heard in Ashkelon, and at least two mortar shells were fired at towns in the Eshkol region.
A total of approximately 90 rockets hit southern Israel on Monday. Three people were killed: Hani Elmahadi was killed in Ashkelon in the morning, Irit Sheetrit was killed in Ashdod at night and an as of yet unidentified soldier was killed in Nahal Oz. Two people were badly wounded in rocket attacks over the course of the day, six were moderately wounded and 23 were lightly wounded.
Sheetrit, 39, was driving with her sister when the "Color Red" rocket warning system sounded. The two exited their car and took shelter in a nearby bus stop, as suggested by government guidelines. The rocket landed nearby, and Sheetrit was critically wounded. Her sister Ayelet was wounded as well.
Sheetrit is survived by her husband and four children.
Israel continued to attack targets in Gaza, blasting buildings near the Hamas parliament in Gaza City. No casualties were reported.
As Gaza terrorists continue their attacks, Israel's strikes on Hamas will become more aggressive, Olmert said.
Gaza terrorists expressed confidence in an interview with Ynet on Monday night, saying they have the public's backing. Israel's attempts to win Gaza residents over by sending messages blaming Hamas and other terrorist groups for the situation in the area will fail, said one group's spokesman. "They don't hear the cries of 'Allah is great' coming forth from the homes as rockets are fired," he said.
While planning Israel's attack strategy, Barak also authorized the continued transfer of aid and supplies to Gaza via Israeli crossings in the Negev. Approximately 100 trucks carrying food, medicine and other supplies will enter Gaza on Tuesday, as will five ambulances donated by Turkey.
Scattered groups of Arab Israelis took part in riots and violent attacks throughout the day in protest of operations in Gaza. In Jerusalem, hundreds rioted and attacked police while others set fires, threw stones, and firebombed a local hospital. On Monday night attacks escalated, with a terrorist opening fire on police officers stationed in Abu Dis. The officers were unhurt.


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Sofia Vergara to Voice an Evil Snake in Amazon-Set Animated Movie 'Koati'
Film 04.25.18 at 2:37 pm
By Kristen Lopez
Lead Photo: Sofia Vergara arrives to the premiere 'New Year's Eve'. Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images
Sofia Vergara arrives to the premiere 'New Year's Eve'. Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images
With her time on Modern Family drawing to a close Golden Globe-nominated Colombian actress Sofia Vergara is lining up new projects and one of them will see her voice a "wicked coral snake" in the animated adventure film Koati.
Koati, named after the raccoon-like creatures found in Central and South America (the real animal is spelled with a "c"), follows three animal friends (a coati, butterfly, and glass frog) as they traverse the Amazon rainforest to stop Vergara's evil snake character. Vergara is executive producing the animated comedy which is written by Ligiah Villalobos and being directed by Rodrigo Pérez Castro. Castro is a Mexican-Canadian filmmaker who previously worked as a story artist for animated features like The Book of Life, Ferdinand and Rio 2.
When asked about the project Vergara elaborated on the fact that Koati will showcase "the magical realism of the Latin American jungles." Casting is still underway to find the rest of the voice actors.
Koati certainly has promise, especially if it retains the 2D animation style Timeless Films CEO Ralph Kamp mentioned. Hand-drawn animation has taken a severe backslide in the wake of CGI, so Koati could stand out in comparison to the works of Pixar and Dreamworks on that fact alone. The film sounds like a solid adventure in the vein of Castro's previous feature, Rio 2, and in the wake of Coco, a movie that heavily played up its Latin American setting, winning the Best Animated Feature, the emphasis on magical realism and showcasing a different element of Latin America sounds intriguing. Vergara has done voice work in the past, most notably The Smurfs and Happy Feet Two, so it should be fun to hear her play a villain.
There's no set release date or any additional information on when Koati will hit theaters.
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Is security and privacy important these days? You bet. You'd be surprised how many attempts are made to hack into your Mac everyday when it's connected to the internet.
That's why there are dozens of apps that store and encrypt usernames, login IDs, passwords, credit card and bank information, and all the valuable pieces of information that you need quick access to use, but need to make it difficult for others to find.
This past weekend Jesse and I set up a neighbor's Mac and iPhone with one of our favorites– oneSafe. This one is similar to others in that it has basic features, is easy to add information to, and it's moderately priced (both Mac and iPhone, iPad versions).
oneSafe gives you ready-made templates to store information– credit card numbers, PINs and entry codes, social security numbers, bank account numbers, usernames and passwords, and pretty much anything else you want to save, but want to keep secret.
Enter the proper password and you're in. Otherwise, all your data stays securely hidden with AES 256-bit encryption.
oneSafe even stores incriminating photos out of view, comes with a built-in backup system, syncs files between Mac and iPhone and iPad versions, and will generate a strong password for each of your online accounts.
Frequently used items and sites can be marked as Favorites for faster access. And, there are a few customization options for background textures, colors, and the like, but otherwise it's just a simple form you fill in with your information.
It's a good buy that's popular on both iOS and OS X, doesn't cost much, is easy to setup, and the sync seems to work flawlessly. I like it. But it doesn't come with all the bells and whistles you'd expect in, say, 1Password (and it's priced much less).
It'll be interesting to see how Apple's Keychain in iCloud functions in OS X Mavericks, and what impact that has on the third party password manager apps.


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THE FORESTRY SECTOR IN 2020
This part of the study provides an outlook for forest resources in Ethiopia, and the likely demands that will be placed on forests in the future. It also provides a foundation for subsequent analysis related to future policy choices that could be made to ensure better forestry contribution to the economic, environmental and social objectives. Scenarios are used to display possible future development in the forestry sector.
State of Natural Forests and plantations
3.1.1 Natural Forests
The major parts of the remaining natural forests are located on steep slopes at high altitude which are logged by selective cutting leaving behind the commercially less important broad-leaved species. The total area of natural forest is expected to decline at a rate of 62,000 hectares per year ( FAO, 1990).
The natural forest quality, species composition and the stocking density of the natural forests will be reduced to less than 150 timber quality tree (Tesfaye et al, 1997) per hectare. They are characterized by a low stocking of mature, deformed and over-aged trees. Natural regeneration is scarce due to the high impact of livestock.
At present, the natural forest and other woody vegetation area available for wood supply is estimated at 14 million hectares and the remaining 20 million hectares do not supply wood (FRA, 2000). As long as the constraints impeding management under the natural forests are not effectively addressed, the volume harvested will exceed incremental yields causing future incremental yield to fall. This will result from the continued encroachment of local communities in the high forest areas. The projected industrial wood, construction wood and fuel wood supply is expected to decline.
According to FAO (1999), the total area of natural forests in 1990 was estimated at 13.9 million hectares and later reduced to 13.6 million hectares in 1995 with an annual rate of depletion of 62,000 hectares. This is due to conversion of the forest land to other land uses and due to the degradation of forests to wooded land. Within this overall change framework , it is also expected that there will be changes in the area of forests available for supplying commercial timber. The area of disturbed natural forest is expected to increase as some of the currently undisturbed areas are harvested and those, which are not accessible are opened up by new roads.
If the trends continues with no change, the forest area will be reduced to less than 7 million hectares by 2020. This means that the area available for timber production will be reduced. It is expected that past deforestation rates will continue and that about 1.2 million hectares of forests and other secondary forests will be converted to other land uses mainly arable land and perennial crops by 2020. Most of these conversions will take place in the South and Southwestern part of the country. Natural forests are likely to continue to be converted to other land uses and protection of these areas will become increasingly difficult. Despite the emphasis by the National policy to conserve forests for bio-diversity and to promote the environmental and bio-diversity functions of forests.
The forest area per capita is expected to be 0.1 ha. in the year 2025 from 0.25 ha in 1995 and 0.4 in 1980. Forest area as a percent of total land area was 13.58% in 1995 and is expected to decline to 11.85% in the year 2025 (Anders et al, 2000).
3.1.2 Plantation Forests
The current total area estimate of plantations is 255,214 hectares, which comprise around 76,050 ha of industrial plantation and 179,164 ha of plantations for the production of fuel wood and poles (FRA, 2000). Of this, 79,500 ha represent plantations established by farmers and communities and 99,664 ha represent public sector plantations for fuel wood and pole production. Eucalyptus and Cupressus are the main species in industrial plantations (58 % and 29%, respectively), followed by Juniperus procera (4%), Pinus (2%) and other species (7%).
As a response to the decline of the natural forest area, a plantation programme has been initiated on large scale to rehabilitate formerly forested areas, for construction and fuel wood production. Plantations are mainly of exotic tree species with few indigenous trees in few of the NFPAs. Eucalyptus comprises the largest area of hardwood plantations mainly for construction and fuelwood. The emphasis is on short rotation plantations and little in growing valuable indigenous trees due to slow growth rate and low economic return.
The current rate of plantation forest development is not encouraging and their management is also poor. They are fragmented and mixed with many tree species with little or no commercial value. The average area of planting is about 12,000 hectares per year which is far below the required area for ensuring a sustainable supply of forest products (FAO, 1990). They are not expected to provide the multiple uses and services which use to be available from the natural forests. The supply of industrial wood from the plantations would be of poor quality due to the current low management practices.
Assuming that the establishment continues at this rate throughout the period to 2020, the area of industrial forest plantations is expected to increase to about 500,000 hectares in 2020. Most of this increase is likely to be in fast growing and short rotation plantations.
Projections of the future contribution of the forest plantation to industrial wood supply have been made by EFAP (1994). The projection indicated that the incremental yields would reach 1.1 million m3. Gains in productivity of forest plantations through improved management and tree improvement program are expected to materialize until 2020. The projected sustainable fuel wood supply from all forest types is 8.8 million m3 without any intervention but the projected supply would reach 21.8 million with intervention scenario by 2014 (EFAP, 1994).
3.1.3 Trees outside forests
Trees outside forests are important sources of wood and other benefits. Such trees include roadside scattered trees, trees planted in and around fields, trees around homestead and windbreaks around agricultural fields, etc. There is no reliable data on tree resources outside forests.
The wood supply from non-forest areas is mainly derived from two major sources namely, farm forestry and the woody vegetation patches. The stock per hectare in tons varies from 1 ton per hectare to up to 60 tons per hectare in the south western part of the country (WBISPP, 1995). The wood supply from trees outside forests is mainly fuelwood for the rural population, and wood for fencing and construction. The supply of fuel wood from farm homesteads is estimated at 80,000 tons per year based on an estimate of five mature trees per rural household. There are nearly 10.2 million rural households in the country with 51 million trees with an estimated yield of 15 cubic meters per hectare per year.
Trees outside forests have the potential to contribute as sources of wood especially for construction and fuel. The future policy should support the individual efforts made in the establishment of trees around farm lands and households. Trees outside forests will be increasingly recognized as important sources of wood.
3.1.4 Development of Non-wood Forest Products
In the future rural use of non-wood forest products will increase and attention will be given to the possibilities of expanding small scale industries and promote the potential use of these resources in selected areas in the country.
Non-wood forest products are expected to receive attention in trade mainly bamboo and resins. The most important non-wood forest products are natural gum and incense. They are capable of supporting the rural communities in income generation.
The management of these resources is expected to improve in the near future. Possible improvements in the use of the resources for medicinal use may be made through research.
Policy to protect the traditional and indigenous knowledge of the local people with regard to medicinal values of trees and shrubs will be given considerable attention.
The collection, processing and marketing of non-wood forest products shall be promoted to provide income to rural populations which is locally important.
Information shall be generated for production techniques, marketing and harvesting of non-timber forest products. Appropriate technology for production, processing and utilization are expected to develop through research.
Outlook for the conservation and management of bio-diversity and protected areas
The future prospect of wildlife conservation, management and thus sustainable utilization lies on the critical realization and materialization of the drafted land use and wildlife resources policies and legislation.
On condition that both the land use and wildlife policies are in place, all the protected areas will have a legal status and better developed to provide investment opportunities which will lead to the improved management situation of the parks and conservation areas.
New approaches to wild life management through benefit sharing mechanism with the local people have been part of the current management proposal. The benefit includes, the provision of veterinary services, schools and medical centres. This has helped to bring change to the local people's attitude towards conservation. There is a proposal to share the revenue obtained from non-consumptive and consumptive utilization of wildlife in protected areas. Employment of local communities in protected areas has been attractive and has helped to lessen the conflict due to the linkage which is created between the local people and the protected area management.
The new investment policy encourages private investors to involve in the wildlife sectors which increased the demand to establish ranches, wildlife farm (Ostrich and Civet Farms) and tourism facility development including building of tourist lodges national parks and other protected areas.
Establishment of a biosphere reserve is being promoted to provide direct benefits to the people so that they support and encourage the very existence of the conservation area in the long term.
In addition, the integration of conservation and development program is in place which considers the impact of human population and secure the survival and well being of the people and the resources on which they depend.
Future Services of Forests
The EHRS has estimated that in the Ethiopian Highlands over 1.5 million tones of soil are lost every year which is equivalent to 35 t/ha/year. However, rates of soil loss vary from almost zero on grassland to over 300 t/ha/year on steep slopes. The extent of erosion is massive affecting about half the area of the highlands, some 27 million hectare is significantly eroded and over 25% (14 million hectares) is seriously eroded. Over 2 million hectares of farmlands have reached a point where economic crop production could not be sustained. It was forecasted that, in addition to the 2 million hectare farm land with irreversible degradation, 7.6 million hectare will deteriorate to the same status by the year 2000. Only 20% of the area (10 million hectare) can be said to be free from serious erosion risks.
This alarming situation can be eased through protection of existing vegetation and more importantly through intervention by way of afforestation.
Change in land use often results in changes in the quantity of bio-mass on the land and produce a net exchange of green house gases. Since bio-mass is about 45% carbon by weight, forest clearing leads to release of carbon dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide and oxides of nitrogen. Forest conversion into pasture or cropland results in release of soil carbon through oxidation of organic matter contained in the soil. Forest protection conserve carbon both in the vegetation and soil.
Currently, a variety of schemes are being developed to mitigate the effects of climate change. In line with this, inventory of greenhouse gases and different mitigation options have been developed for the country.
Due to the increasing demand by human population for more land for agriculture and wood products mainly fuelwood, it is likely to have a major effect on land availability for projects related to carbon storage.
The country has established strategies and priorities within the framework of sustainable development plans and policies to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought. The regional governments are also on a process of developing their specific programme taking into account the national programme as a framework.
Ethiopia has made a significant progress in many areas in implementing the convention resulting in substantial achievements. The major achievement is the finalization of the NAP itself with the participation of as many stakeholder groups as possible. The next step is to give emphasis to activities that lead to smooth transition from the formulation of national action programmes to its implementation. Thus, by designing the necessary policies and strategies, strengthening the necessary institutions at all levels and carefully designing the kinds of projects appropriate to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought, Ethiopia is expected to benefit much in the coming 15-20 years.
State of forest industries
saw milling started in the 1920s with 46 operational sawmills in 1972 (FAO, 1990). There are now about 38 sawmills of which 24 are nationalized and are run by the ministry of Industry and sawmills and joinery enterprise. There are also 14 privately owned mills which are closed due to lack of spare parts and raw materials. Most of the mills are old and designed to convert large saw logs of indigenous species. Vertical band saws of diameter 110 - 140 cm were used for the initial breakdown with either frame or circular saw for the subsequent re-sawing into timber of 25, 40, or 50 mm thickness. The most common timber size is 50 mm thick. Recovery rate is said to average 55%. There are also five mobile sawmills which operate on the thinnings from plantations of Cupressus lusitanica and Pinus patula.
There are two state owned plywood mills with an average annual output of 2,500 cubic meters which are old and were established in the mid 1960s. They have a recovery rate of 35-40%. There is also one fibre board mill with a capacity of 1,500 cubic meters per annum and two particle board mills with annual output of 4,500 cubic meters and mainly use Eucalyptus trees.
There is one paper producing factory which uses imported pulp and waste paper as its raw material. Its average production has been 9,500 metric tons per annum.
The existing sawmills are not equipped to handle logs from plantations. Furthermore, prospects for developing new industries will be limited on account of shortage of plantation based forest resources. The capacity of the forest industry is very small and annually decreasing, partly due to the depleting raw material base and partly to old and poorly maintained machinery with frequent breakdowns. Efficiency in processing of logs will be limited and require re-investment in the sector. Better mill recovery is not envisaged unless the sawmills are renovated.
It is a common feature of the entire forest industry that reinvestment is urgently required. Without renovation of the existing equipment, the supply prediction will most probably not be achieved. Without the procurement of material inputs and spare parts, both production and quality of products will inevitably decline in the future.
Demand for all forest products will increase significantly due to population growth. Large sized logs will be in short supply and shift will be made to soft wood logs. Dependency on imported industrial wood products and stagnation in sawn wood production is likely to persist due to the declining availability of large diameter logs for the existing forest based industries.
Alternative raw material for forest industries, technologies that can utilize wastes from forest and non-forest products shall be investigated. Residues could be used more effectively.
Wood demand and supply situation
Fuel wood
At present more than 90% of the domestic supplies of industrial wood and firewood comes from the natural forests which are the main sources of wood products. Fuel wood accounts for the bulk of the wood used, and is the predominantly preferred domestic fuel in both rural and urban areas.
The projected demand for fuel wood and building poles based on assumed per capita requirement is on the increase and is expected to be over 100 million m3 by 2020. On the other hand, the projected supply from all sources is expected to be only 9 million m3 which is far below the demand.
Ethiopia is one of the lowest electricity per capita consumer and from the current trend in the prices of electricity and other commercial fuels, Ethiopia will remain highly dependent on woodfuel for the foreseeable future. The rural people will remain to be the main users of wood fuel in the future. The urban poor also continue to depend heavily on wood fuels. The urban populations have options to mix their energy use mainly depending on income level. The rural population on the other hand, collect woodfuel free and mainly depend on wood fuel as the main source of energy. Non-wood bio-mass are also important sources of fuel for the rural population.
The increasing scarcity and cost of household fuels, particularly fire wood threatens the abilit y of the people even to maintain the already low incomes and quality of life, particularly in the rural areas. To compensate for the worsening fire wood scarcity, dung and crop residues are being diverted to household fireplaces, reducing crop yields. While there is a continued need to explore other alternative sources of energy, large scale tree planting appears to be the only realistic option for resolving the wood fuel supply problem. The rural woodlots and agro-forestry on a massive scale are essential to allowing a sustainable energy supply to meet demand in the rural areas. In addition, the introduction of efficient cooking stoves for improved use of wood fuel, efficient charcoal making technology, and an appropriate woodfuel marketing and pricing practices may improve the energy problem, thereby relieving the pressure on the few remaining natural forests.
With the contribution of traditional fuels to domestic energy use being so overwhelming and the supply of woody bio-mass deteriorating as a result of deforestation, the following changes are expected to take place:
Dung and crop residues are replacing woody biomass in rural areas
The commercialisation of woody bio-mass around urban centres is expanding and less preferred fuels are used by low income households in urban centres
Kerosene is replacing woody bio-mass for cooking in urban areas
More and more fuel saving measures are being adopted by urban households including buying of improved stoves. There will be a shift in household energy from firewood to charcoal.
It is therefore, essential to initiate research and development of new cooking fuels and improvement of energy conversion technologies.
Industrial round wood and other wood products:
Industrial round wood production and consumption is one of the lowest in the world. This low level of production and consumption reflects the fact that the country has limited forest resource base which has been and continue to be primarily exploited for fuel wood.
Industrial round wood is mainly produced from non-conifers and there has been a decline in the production of logs from 130,000 m3 in 1980s to 6,000 in m3 in 1999 (MoA, 2000).
The projected demand for construction and industrial wood which include sawlogs, plylogs, telecommunication poles and construction wood is on the increase. The projected demand for the year 2020 is 1.5 million for saw logs, 47,000 m3 for ply logs, 4.5 million m3 for construction wood and over 61,000 m3 for telecommunication poles. On the other hand, projected industrial wood supply both from the natural and man made forests is only 338,000 m3 without any intervention scenarios and could only reach 1.2 million m3 with intervention. The projected supply of construction wood will decline from the current one million m3 to 936,000 m3 in 2014. There has been a major shift in consumption from hardwood logs to logs of soft woods. This will continue to increase in the future. Most logs from natural forests are inadequate and import of soft wood timbers and production of timber from soft woods will increase. The future will depend on the contribution of forest plantations, the growth in technology and the supply of logs from trees outside forests.
Sawn wood production is on the decline when one looks at the trend in production from 1979 to 1989. The average production from 1980 to 1990 has been about 23,000 m3 per year. Based on the projection made by EFAP (1994), per capita demand for sawn timber will increase in urban areas and remain constant in rural areas. The same study showed the projected incremental yields from industrial plantations to be 1.1 million m3 in 2014.
The production of wood based panels is estimated at 12,000 m3 with an average import of 1,000 m3 per annum. There has been a decline in the production of veneer sheets from 1986 to 1996 which declined from 156,000 m3 to 82,000 m3. The production of paper and paper board has been in the range of 7,000 to 9,000 metric tons from the period 1993 to 1999. In addition, importation of pulp has been increasing and reached 6,528 metric tons per year.
The average annual production for plywood is 3,000 cubic meters while the production of particle board is increasing from 5,000 m3 in 1993 to 7,466 m3 in 1997. The projected capacity of paper production for ten years is estimated at 10,000 metric tons.