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The solution lies at the bottom of each Vinum Prestige Cuvée Flute. Etched into each is a small dot, the purpose of which is to provide a slightly abraded surface that serves to generate a continuous stream of bubbles and prevent the champagne from going flat in the glass.
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How Much Is 1 Cup of Sugar in Grams?
1 cup of sugar is between 201 grams and 220 grams. 1 cup of white sugar is lower in quantity as compared to brown sugar. Brown sugar has thicker granules while white sugar has thin granules because it is processed.
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One gram of sugar happens to be equal to approximately 1/4 of a teaspoon, which means that 4 teaspoons is equal to 4 grams. It also equals 4 calories, which isn't much.
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How to Write a Letter Asking for Sponsorship?
One can write a letter asking for sponsorship by stating the reasons on why you would deserve a sponsorship. Also include a list of your related accomplishments and assure them of how you would be valuing the said sponsorship.
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If you need to raise money for a specific charity or cause, donations from individuals or organizations can help you reach your goals faster. When identifying potential sponsors at the corporate level, target those whose mission is consistent with that... More »
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1. Begin the letter with a formal salutation, such as "Dear Mr. Jones, or "To Whom It May Concern. 2. State your reason for the letter and include a date for the potential
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Sponsorship letters are used to request a company or person's support financially. Sponsorship is usually used for sports and charitable events. To write a sponsorship ...
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Drawing a line between two points avoiding obsticals
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I am making a simple little map type thing in java where the user selects a current location and a desired location, the program should then draw a path to the desired location avoiding the buildings in between.
I have drawn all the buildings using the graphics class on java, and i was planning on joining the points using a poly line, but i am unsure of how to get the line to avoid the buildings, is there maybe a way to detect whether a set point is on a drawn object?
I dont know I have been working on it for a while so my brain is probably fried and its obvous, bu any help would be amazing!
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If we consider how we read - just compare how you read the newspaper to how you would read a textbook, or how you read a novel when you were a teenager to how you do so 15 years later - it becomes clear that we do read different texts in different ways, with different aims guiding our reading, at different points in our lives and in different contexts.
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Ver el fondo - New Year's Eve 2012
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Malin Head, Donegal, Republic of Ireland
From Banba’s Crown, Inishtrahull Island and its nearly two hundred year old lighthouse can be seen to the north east. Malin Head is the sunniest place in Ireland and further out to the east on a clear day you can see the Scottish hills.
Below Banba’s Crown to the east lies Ballyhillion beach, a unique raised beach system of international scientific significance dating back to the Ice Age. At that time Donegal was weighed down by an immense ice sheet which meant sea levels then were up to 80 feet higher than today. The beach is also well known for its semi-precious stones, such as cornelian, chalcedony, jasper, serpentine and agate. Malin Head, a favoured spot for bird watchers, is one of the rare places in Europe where you may hear the corncrake. It is also an idyllic vantage point from which to view the autumnal movements of seabirds such as gannet, shearwater, skuas, auks, etc, on their southward migration flight and for observing chough.
Fishing and rock angling are also popular in the area. The Malin Head meteorological station, built in 1955, plays its part in the official weather forecasts. The fishing industry's main catches are crab, lobster and salmon.
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Benefits of the new system:
Treating and pumping clean, safe drinking water to Toronto customers uses a lot of energy – in fact, Toronto Water is the largest energy user of any City operation. If customers reduce their consumption, we can reduce our energy use. Treating less water also allows us to use and transport fewer chemicals. Together, these help us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, ensuring a more sustainable future for all.
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Children's Ministry-Infants-four yrs old
Sundays, during the 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. services, children are divided into different age groups that meet in the following areas.
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I applaud Tennessee for this bill and hope we stand up to outside federal agents that have no legitimate authority over our laws. Congress only has authority to pass laws in certain areas. They do not have a free pass to legislate every single subject.
The example of the speed limits is wholly inapplicable in this case. The relationship between the federal government and the state governments is not nearly the same as between state and county (or municipal) governments. The states created the federal government by ratifying the Constitution, delegating certain limited powers. Outside of these delegated powers, the federal government has no jurisdiction or authority (though they often invoke usurpation as legitimacy.
Tennessee is wholly within its authority to enact this legislation and Congress has no authority over it.
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Re: dbootstrap's pt.po : Conflicts during merge in CVS
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news tagged with: geochemist en-us internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Pumping draws arsenic toward a big-city aquifer Naturally occurring arsenic pollutes wells across the world, especially in south and southeast Asia, where an estimated 100 million people are exposed to levels that can cause heart, liver and kidney problems, diabetes and cancer. Now, scientists working in Vietnam have shown that massive pumping of groundwater from a clean aquifer is slowly but surely drawing the poison into the water. The study, done near the capital city of Hanoi, confirms suspicions that booming water usage there and elsewhere could eventually threaten millions more people. The study appears in the current issue of the leading journal Nature. 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The study is the latest to suggest that deep, hot magma can set off an eruption fairly quickly, potentially providing an extra tool for detecting an oncoming volcanic disaster. Earth Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:00:07 EST news294489916 Aquatic microbe oxidizes iron minerals from the surface inward ( —When the water-dwelling microbe Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 connects with iron mineral particulates, three microbial proteins quickly extract electrons from divalent iron or Fe(II), leaving behind trivalent iron, according Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists. The oxidation reaction begins when the protein contacts the particle's surface and continues into the particle interior, without damaging the iron lattice. The electron transfer is faster if the particle starts with a high ratio of Fe(II) to Fe(III). Chemistry Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:48:57 EST news291541721 Arctic current flowed under deep freeze of last ice age, study says During the last ice age, when thick ice covered the Arctic, many scientists assumed that the deep currents below that feed the North Atlantic Ocean and help drive global ocean currents slowed or even stopped. But in a new study in Nature, researchers show that the deep Arctic Ocean has been churning briskly for the last 35,000 years, through the chill of the last ice age and warmth of modern times, suggesting that at least one arm of the system of global ocean currents that move heat around the planet has behaved similarly under vastly different climates. 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Ferreira traveled to PNNL, where he was assisted by Dr. Eric Walter and Dr. James Amonette in the use of a specialized instrument at EMSL that measures key aspects of a metal's behavior. They compared the reactions of manganese and copper ions with three different-sized pores in zeolite, a common type of mineral. Artwork from this study graced the cover of Clays and Clay Minerals. Chemistry Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:40:17 EST news280748409 National Ice Core Lab stores valuable ancient ice It's a freezing cold day inside the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) in Denver, Colo., as it is every day of the year. That's because the NICL is a facility for storing and studying ice cores recovered from the polar regions of the world. It's minus 23.3 degrees Celsius (minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit) inside, so everyone is bundled up in ski parkas, insulated gloves and boots. And, saws are buzzing, as scientists from all over the U.S. are measuring and cutting pieces of precious Antarctic glacier ice to take back to their labs for research. Earth Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:18:55 EST news268384725 Designer particles stand in for layers of subsurface minerals (—To understand how underground pollutants react with magnetite and other minerals, scientists need an easy-to-use mineral stand-in. An international team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory created analogous particles with precisely tuned amounts of relatively reactive iron, or Fe(II), and less reactive iron, Fe(III), to match natural conditions. Tuning this Fe(II)/Fe(III) ratio dials in the desired amount of iron reactivity. To test their process, the team created tiny iron oxide spheres similar to magnetite, except with titanium added to control the Fe(II)/Fe(III) ratio directly. 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Keeping the CO2 trapped by transforming into minerals, called carbonation reactions, take place much more readily at high temperatures. But, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered a reaction that breaks the rules. At relatively low temperatures and while recycling the water it needs, this reaction transforms CO2 into the mineral magnesite. Earth Wed, 08 Aug 2012 06:14:54 EST news263625212 New finding may hold key to Gaia hypothesis of Earth as living organism ( -- Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of Maryland may provide a key to answering this question. This key of sulfur could allow scientists to unlock heretofore hidden interactions between ocean organisms, atmosphere, and land -- interactions that might provide evidence supporting this famous theory. Earth Tue, 15 May 2012 17:17:21 EST news256321026 Copper chains: Study reveals Earth's deep-seated hold on copper Earth is clingy when it comes to copper. A new Rice University study this week in the journal Science finds that nature conspires at scales both large and small -- from the realms of tectonic plates down to molecular bonds -- to keep most of Earth's copper buried dozens of miles below ground. Earth Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:54:43 EST news252860072 Topography played key role in Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers say When UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, some people were skeptical. How, they asked, could almost all of the lethal gas emitted from the Deepwater Horizon well just disappear? Earth Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:00:14 EST news245326204 Fingerprinting uranium: X-rays identify mobile, stationary forms of atomic pollutant ( -- Determining if uranium will zip through the soil or not is easier now, thanks to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of North Texas. Dr. Eugene Ilton and Dr. Paul Bagus elucidated a systematic approach for identifying uranium's state and hence its mobility. Their method uses x-rays, in the form of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Their technique and detailed analysis appear in an invited perspective article in Surface and Interface Analysis. Chemistry Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:59:18 EST news243503946 The preferences of uranium: Radionuclide's adsorption in Hanford Site sediments varies based on grain size ( -- Uranium prefers petite particles. The radionuclide attaches quickly and abundantly to smaller subsurface grains, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The team found that gravel and other large bits adsorbed less uranium(IV) than smaller grains. The larger particles also adsorbed uranium more slowly than the smaller ones. Using this information, the team wrote a series of mathematical formulas to predict uranium adsorption and desorption affinity and kinetics in sediments containing different grain sizes. The predictions were successfully tested using sediment from the Hanford Site. Earth Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:10:10 EST news238752599 Study reveals how gas, temperature controlled bacterial response to Deepwater Horizon spill In a new study, UC Santa Barbara scientists explain how they used DNA to identify microbes present in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how they identified the microbes responsible for consuming the large amount of natural gas present immediately after the spill. They also explain how water temperature played a key role in the way bacteria reacted to the spill. Earth Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:08:50 EST news236880518 A billion-year-old piece of North America traced back to Antarctica An international team of researchers has found the strongest evidence yet that parts of North America and Antarctica were connected 1.1 billion years ago, long before the supercontinent Pangaea formed. Earth Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:50:01 EST news232034566 Novel technique reveals how glaciers sculpted their valleys The beautiful and distinctive U-shaped glacial valleys typical of alpine areas from Alaska to New Zealand have fascinated and frustrated geologists for centuries. Earth Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:00:53 EST news220798820 Study adds new clue to how last ice age ended As the last ice age was ending, about 13,000 years ago, a final blast of cold hit Europe, and for a thousand years or more, it felt like the ice age had returned. But oddly, despite bitter cold winters in the north, Antarctica was heating up. For the two decades since ice core records revealed that Europe was cooling at the same time Antarctica was warming over this thousand-year period, scientists have looked for an explanation. Earth Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:30:48 EST news203171437 Oyster Shells Tell Story ( -- Some oysters provide pearls but all oyster shells have a story to tell, if you know how to look for them. One compelling story about North America’s first successful English settlement has unfolded before University of South Florida researchers equipped with a special tool used in a unique way. Chemistry Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:06:04 EST news194871949 Scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast They paved paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. 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Primary Deviance
What is Primary Deviance
Stated simply, primary deviance is a term that describes deviant behavior in an individual. The individual may go against the cultural and social norms that is prevalent in the society. Primary deviance is a part of the theory of deviant identity formation put forth by one of the pioneers in sociology, Edwin Lemert. It was basically, Lemert, who conceptualized the idea of primary and secondary deviance. To study any of the previous deviance, one needs to understand what is a deviant behavior. As stated earlier, breaking established norms and rules forms an integral part of deviant behavior. What are these norms and rules? Norms, in any human society, are several behavioral standards that one must follow, as a member of the society. It is not necessary that these norms are based on moral principles.
The norms may be even without any logic and even irrational but since they have been a part of the culture, they are included in the behavioral standards. You can think of many of our manners and behaviors that are not logically very consistent but we do follow them!! So norms are cultural entities that keep shifting, changing and evolving as a society grows. Violating these cultural norms is what is called as deviance. It is a complete failure to confirm with the established laws, rules and regulations. The primary deviance definition can be elaborated and modified for different societies. Since social norms in one culture are different as opposed to others, primary deviance may have several interpretations in different cultures. Deviant behaviors like theft or robbery can attract huge negative social reaction. Criminal behavior is a perfect example of primary deviance.
However, if one is doing something that has little or no social implications, that behavior is not considered to be deviant. Deviance is independent of time and place, as what is perceived deviant behavior in one society, may not be considered to be the same in other. Also, deviance is a relative term, as when an individual kills someone, the government treats them guilty of murder, but if done in an act of self defense or during wars, killing may not be considered to be a legal issue, sufficient to put someone behind the bars. So in essence, the two theories, primary and secondary deviance can be defined as follows.
* Primary Deviance: Engaging in an act that violate societal rules and laws. In this deviance, an individual doesn’t changes his or her self identity.
* Secondary Deviance: In this deviance, the actions taken by an individual are ‘labelled’ by the society. This subsequently affects the future behavior of individual and he or she continues to do the same deviant behavior. For instance, a robber after being infamous as a robber, doesn’t find place in society and continues to live with the tag which the society has given. This compels him or her to identify with the deviant identity and to continue that behavior.
There are various theories that have been suggested by sociologists for primary deviance behavior. For example, a theory states that existence of primary deviance is only possible in terms of cultural norms. For example, couple of decades ago, piercings and tattoos were not as per societal norms but now they’re no more deviant behavior.
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This Exhibition encapsulates the essence of the project: Multi-Faith Spaces: Symptoms and Agents of Religious and Social Change, a three year collaboration between the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool. It has been designed in partnership with the North West based creative agency Thoughtful, and is founded upon thirty two key themes that emerged from our study.
Funding was secured through the Religion & Society Research Programme, a £12million cluster of research projects funded by two UK research councils, the AHRC and ESRC.
Our Aim is to exhibit research findings in an approachable, reflective and stimulating manner. It is hoped that the exhibition will appeal to those with little prior knowledge of multifaith spaces (MFS), as well as those with an interest in, and understanding of the complex relationship between design, diversity and faith.
Exhibition Details
Thematic: The exhibition has been arranged into eight double sided panels (each comprising four sub-themes), making this a comprehensive introduction to the topic of multifaith space.
Adaptable: Exhibitors can tailor the exhibition (original format), utilising their own materials and faith specific objects, within the inside of the decagon. The project team are also trialling a variety of audio-visual enhancements.
Touring: This exhibition will visit a number of sites within the UK, mainland Europe and North America. We are always eager to hear from individuals or organisations who would like to host the exhibition, or are interested in our research.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Hire: The exhibition is free of charge, although our budget for transport and venue hire is limited. The exhibition comes in a range of formats, that are also available to purchase outright at cost (see prices below).
An exhibition brochure can be downloaded here.
Original: Comprises of 8 (8’x 4’) Dufaylite panels (approx. 244cm x 122cm); inserted in solid oak frames. These can be combined to form a decagonal space, with an entrance and exit, or set side by side. An additional threshold is also supplied.
Purchase price: £6,250 (plus VAT)
Weight: 225Kg (+ 50kg Threshold)
(also available at £5,750 without threshold)
Lightweight: A smaller and easier to transport design, made from 8 (6’x 3’) Duraboard panels (approx. 183cm x 91.5cm), connected to a central spine via clamping hinges; forming 2 'X; shaped structures.
Purchase price: £2,476 (plus VAT)
Weight: 28kg
Lightweight Plus (purchase only): Design as Lightweight version, made from 4 (6’ x 6’) 12mm MDF panels, joined by a peg system and groove system.
Purchase price: £2,990.00 (plus VAT)
Weight: 75Kg
Desktop (purchase only): Portable version, comprising comprising 16 (20.5cm x 41cm) 10mm biodegradable foam boards (10mm); forming 8 ‘X’ shaped structures.
Purchase price: £480 (plus VAT)
Weight: 1.5Kg
Bespoke (purchase only): Thoughtful will be able to discuss any additional design ideas you may have, and provide a quote.
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Multifaith Spaces (MFS) have no precise definition; existing only in the eye of the beholder. They are places where a range of faith-based or spiritual activities can be undertaken, wherein each user should find something of appeal.
MFS are designed spaces, constructed at many sizes and scales. MFS are not fixed, so at different times the same space could resemble a single faith building, a consecrated space or a secular facility. Consequently, whilst often appearing sacred and certainly capable of housing sacred acts, MFS should not ordinarily be understood as holy sites. This ambiguity is a positive attribute, recognising differing viewpoints regarding the constitution of sacred space.
MFS are spaces within places, always located within a larger context. They are commonly, but not exclusively, found within airports, hospitals or universities. Similarly, many modern towns and cities will contain distinct zones of multifaith activity, a feature also apparent at historically significant sites such as Jerusalem or Glastonbury.
MFS are primarily defined through use.
What is considered appropriate, or otherwise, is communicated to the user through both the space itself and additional written instruction. Customary solo activities include prayer, meditation, contemplation, reflection, study, rest and relaxation. MFS will also accommodate periods of spontaneous group activity, timetabled gatherings (both faith-centred and secular) and planned interfaith dialogue.
MFS contain a strong human component. This can be characterised as the shared manifestation of a methodical, yet creative desire to ‘get along’. MFS are thus markers of pluralism and tolerance, indicators of the ever-shifting role of religion within the public realm, and a sign of a continued need to research the physical and material aspects of religious practice.
MFS are understood subjectively and their creation is usually a local matter. There are few examples of prototype MFS, and elements that might upset, confuse or unsettle, are generally assessed on a case-by-case basis
MFS offer potential answers to many problems. They are pragmatic attempts to house faith activities within institutions, and represent a medium via which secularisation might be stalled. In many cases they demonstrate a clear engagement with the practical demands of Islam. At times they offer self-limiting attempts at interfaith praxis, with some individuals feeling called to participate in their development.
MFS often emerge via the strong ideals of founders, as well an indefinable sense of moral appropriateness. Spaces may develop into more or less than intended, and some attempts will be viewed as more suitable and effective than others. In some cases, putting faith ‘in its place’ will be queried, particularly when an MFS is positioned in a concealed location.
MFS are founded upon both economic and non-economic goals. A careful balance is vital. It would be as questionable to argue that a hospital-based MFS was purely ‘God’s will’, as it would be to justify a shopping centre MFS in terms of keeping customers in the centre, spending money. However, opposing goals do meet at various points, with the tensions between them often articulated in the figure of the chaplain.
MFS are indirectly influenced by social policy. Modern examples can represent a form of ‘social engineering’, shaped via cohesion policies drawn up in reaction to specific events; including the riots in Bradford, Oldham and Burnley (2001); and the atrocities of 9/11 and 7/7. Nevertheless, their formation is often led by users and faith leaders with a pre-existing institutional role, rather than political or religious pluralists from outside.
Looking back hundreds of years, one can find examples of religious co-existence within shrines and temples, such as the Preah Khan Temple at Angkor (Cambodia), St Katherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai (Egypt), and the still functioning Church of Saint Nikola in Makedonski Brod (Macedonia).
Narrowing our scope, three phases emerge. Firstly, modern precursors of non-denominational space, including the Meditation Room at the United Nations in New York (1957), and the Rothko Chapel in Houston (1971). Secondly, multi-denominational and ecumenical initiatives, such as the MIT Chapel in Cambridge Massachusetts (1955), and the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel in Colorado Springs (1962); in both cases Christian and Jewish provision provided the basis for later enhancement. Thirdly, spaces that pre-figure the MFS we see today. An example would be the prayer room/chapel at Vienna International Airport (1988).
There are many conceptual precursors, including Theosophy which influenced the Parliament of World’s Religion (Chicago, 1893). Additionally, one sees elements of 1960s counter-culture in spaces such as the Living Room in Dublin and the Rose Centre Quiet Room in Amsterdam, with both spaces blending established religion with modern forms of spirituality. Finally, contemporary spaces that seek integration into secular environments often follow the lead of earlier spiritual buildings, for example the Our Lady of the Airways Chapel at Boston Logan Airport (1952).
MFS have many names, sometimes conscientiously discussed, at other times arrived at through inheritance or decree. Commonly names are formed by combining an adjective or qualifier such as: reflection, quiet, silent, multifaith, interfaith, rest, contemplation, prayer, reconciliation, worship, wellbeing, living, serenity, with a noun such as: lounge, space, chapel, chaplaincy, room, centre.
A detailed consideration of the many connotations presented by these terms has led to increasing neutrality and abstraction; evidenced in titles such as The Space or Open Room. Nonetheless, inertia can also be powerful, as even after conversion or gradual adaptation many MFS are still referred to as ‘chapels’. Inevitably, the opposite is also possible, with some MFS being formally re-named in the obvious absence of any change of form or usage.
It is unwise to presume patterns of usage from a name alone. One is as likely to find a Prayer Space utilised for a range of activities, as a Reflection Room largely reserved for Islamic prayer. Whilst thought typically goes into the original naming decision, there are inevitably more types of space in existence than terms available to describe them. Indeed, an effort is often required to compel an MFS to resemble its name, aided by managers and users.
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The purpose built MFS often mimics other architectural forms, whether contained within a larger institution, or constructed as a stand-alone building. Many multifaith centres, particularly within universities and hospitals, demonstrate economies of scale, bringing all users into a unified space, be it divided, divisible or single, making oversight a more straightforward proposition.
More common than the purpose built space is the retrofit. These range from the complete re-modelling of existing building frames, to the simple vernacular space, where an empty floor plate is ‘fitted out’ in an appropriate manner, usually by non-professional designers. In some ways, the increasing ubiquity of MFS has appeared in tandem with an associated move towards these types of simple and nondescript offerings.
MFS present a problem for architectural analysis. The outside of a building is considered more meaningful than the inside, but many MFS are little more than interiors cocooned within the monolithic and functional space of the hospital, airport, prison or shopping centre. Many have no windows, and others open on to courtyards rather than the street. A meaningful alignment with the landscape is rare, although conversely many MFS do extend the promise of a hidden refuge to the user.
In one sense divisions between different parts of an MFS suggest a push away from multifaith ideals. However models differ, and some divided spaces still manage to maintain firm connections between their component parts. Yet in other cases a complete separation might be present; some multifaith chaplaincies comprise of separate rooms hundreds of metres apart. To define an offering as multifaith there must be clear evidence of overlap, in terms of both space and practice, although this begs the question of how one might put a necessary percentage on this overlap. Indeed, could overlap be designed-in by the trained architect?
Flexibility is related to adaptability, complexity, and balance. Design solutions will often be site specific, yet certain features appear time and again, including: baskets and cupboards for religious artefacts, carefully positioned room dividers, a choice of seating, a number of lighting options and lists of timetabled activities. When considering flexibility, the architect should also be sensitive to the twin requirements of public expression and private reflection.
MFS should be clean and largely empty of adornment. Sacred artefacts can be brought in, or otherwise made accessible, on an ad hoc and temporary basis. Whilst this simplicity somewhat diminishes the perceived sanctity of a space, it also avoids unnecessary resentment.
MFS should be capable of simple re-setting, and require tailored storage. There may be instruction regarding how this is to be achieved, and strategies should be put in place at the outset. In the absence of instruction, unofficial rules may emerge that will inevitably favour one group over another. Similarly, rules and regulations regarding storage must be designed-in; solutions include built-in cupboards, shelves, drawers, alcoves, racks, hooks and pegs and side-rooms.
MFS can be so non-specific that some are often used for non-religious activities. These include meetings, sports and leisure activities and parties. This can be a design achievement or a management failing, depending on the context. On the whole some secular activity is beneficial, as MFS might be considered arenas where difference is tolerated and contained, as a preliminary step towards acceptance and understanding.
Establishing an MFS without consultation will not inevitably lead to failure, but it is advisable to seek ‘buy in’ from a variety of stakeholders – designers, architects, managers, artists, funders, building owners – in order to maximise resources, and avoid irreversible omissions. Nonetheless, within some MFS that have emerged from older sites, design appears to have just ‘happened’ rather than been proactively discussed. In these cases participation is largely an organic rather than a managed process. Yet even when gradual long-term change is the norm, consultation and oversight are important, with models varying in-tandem with the representativeness and expertise of those available.
The design process must itself be designed and the order of stakeholder consultation carefully planned, with an understanding that too much input is just as likely to create animosity and deadlock as too little. Professional architects and designers come at a price and will often not be i nvolved, but it will be obligatory to involve some individuals, for instance Anglican clergy within the prison sector.
Whilst existing users can be canvassed, potential users must be inferred. The overarching aim of consultation should be to avoid basic mistakes, particularly regarding how the faith requirements of some might impede or take precedence over others. To conceive of a balanced space does not mean an equal apportioning of space and time, rather it is related to need (requirement) versus coexistence (compromise). Consideration must also take heed of those groups who do not currently appear interested in the idea of multifaith space.
An MFS should be set apart from its institutional context. Similar to other sacred sites, these spaces should be demarcated from the profane at their edges, and this applies especially to the entrance. An MFS should avoid undue influence from that which is outside, necessitating a sometimes circumspect relationship with the institution to which it is affiliated.
An MFS should provide sanctuary from the outside world. As faith leaders may take issue with the sacredness of these spaces, the key task is to provide a contrast, and make sure the space is ‘good enough’ for worship, prayer, contemplation, and relaxation. Whilst an MFS cannot comprehensively reconcile different views of the sacred, it can promote dialogue around what shared conceptions might look like.
The threshold is important, as it comprises the space between the MFS and its context. Thresholds speak. Within the church the vestibule, narthex or porch has traditionally served as a place of anticipation, where the faithful meet, business is discussed and on occasion photographs are taken. Specific design tricks can perform the necessary division, including the narrowing of entranceways, off-setting, and marked differences in flooring material.
As Rem Koolhaas suggests, connectors such as corridors no longer simply link ‘A to B’, they have become destinations in themselves; one might even suggest that some MFS resemble collections of lobbies. However, this is not to say that MFS are ‘Junkspace’ as Koolhaas would define them, as compared to the Mosque, Church, or Temple. Instead, by starting from the ideal that nothing physical or material is sacred in an absolute sense, a modest conception of the MFS is suggested; a space that permits a limited sense of transcendence, as well as offering tiered retreat and sanctuary from the dictates and profanity of modern life.
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MFS should avoid the style of any one religion. This leads to a paradox; how can we design a spiritual space if we must avoid every known way of creating them? Sometimes a search for primitive unity is evident, whilst other MFS speak of inclusion and togetherness by assuming a circular or elliptical form. In both cases there is an avoidance of undue complication.
The development of an overarching style might offer some protection from clutter, and facilitate both comfort and stillness; for instance, the imposition of certain hues, or a concerted effort to purge too varied a colour scheme. Such styles can cut across any simple division between designed and vernacular spaces.
Two cross-cutting themes are pertinent; clutter versus emptiness, and stimulation versus blandness. Attempting to please all faiths can result in untidiness, and good design should recognise this. Furthermore, effective placement of artistic and thematic elements, can counter the unimaginative emptiness which might render an MFS less special or insufficiently detached. It may be the stimulating yet empty style that emerges as the most appropriate model. This style could avoid the drift towards an untidy or kitsch aesthetic, a state of affairs which too often appeals as a cost-effective and low-risk strategy.
If there is no unity to the world’s religions, why would there be an architectural unity? This question leads to an impasse, with many MFS taking the form of blank rooms with inoffensive IKEA-style furnishings, vernacular rather than polite architecture. Resultantly, traditions that have a more engaged relationship to visual stimulation often baulk at using these spaces, and would certainly resent them being accepted as the final word in MFS design. One can conclude that the contemporary MFS has yet to display a coherent stylistic language, and the question remains as to whether this is a problem that is too complex for architects and designers to solve alone.
MFS are subject to the same ergonomic rules as many other spaces. One can imagine the challenges inherent in combining a lounge and a sports hall. A clear understanding of the activities that will be undertaken within an MFS is thus necessary, alongside an idea of their likely duration. For example, whilst heavyweight soft furnishings would be appropriate in a medium sized foyer space, they would be impractical in a room where guided mediation, Islamic group prayer or yoga were frequently undertaken. Conversely, whilst the presence of coloured floor cushions might seem too modernistic or new age for some users, a room that is furnished in a staid and austere fashion could be mistaken for a space where users are expected to be largely static; a counselling room, a bereavement suite, or even a waiting room.
Some traditions actively downplay the role of the body, with spirituality seen as a purely mental issue. Other traditions will require space that facilitates, or at least does not hinder the active and vigorous practice of faith. Managers will come out of different traditions, and may organise spaces to subconsciously reflect their own requirements. For example, maintaining a high temperature could reflect the assumption that most users will be stationary.
One must consider how users will be expected to move through the MFS. Attention must be given to areas reserved for worship and group activity, as opposed for those designed for quietly sitting or waiting. Some spaces will become very busy at certain times, so rapid throughput should be a built-in feature. Finally, the frequent occurrence of sleepers within MFS speaks of a key dilemma regarding designing for comfort. The idea of the MFS as a sanctuary – safe, soothing, calming, enclosed and womb-like – will encourage some users to remain, rather than simply pass through. The extent to which such dwelling behaviours can be supported and are desirable, will vary.
A comfortable MFS will take into account all potential activities and practices, as well as addressing the basics of spatial, thermal and perceptual comfort; including posture, ventilation, smell, daylight, vibration and noise. These are issues that can also be framed in a secular fashion, under
the heading of ‘wellbeing’.
Some MFS proclaim the value of quiet and silence within their titles. In reality this claim can be problematic as rooms are often located near places of congregation or busy offices, and noise from the street and mechanical services (heating, ventilation and waste water) can prove distracting. Ironically, one can also take a sanguine view, and argue that technical features can be harnessed in order to counterbalance natural elements within the space; ventilation ducts and grilles are at least religiously neutral. Furthermore, the hum of an air-conditioner will often drown out noise from outside. However, at other times the ideal of the sanctuary fades, pointing to difficulties inherent in creating a bounded space with controlled links to both nature and society.
In reality, the so called Quiet Room (or Raum der Stille, as seen in Germany or Switzerland) is more aligned to ideas concerning what is appropriate within the space. These names imply a type of neutrality or equality amongst those who are silent within them. This theme is also embraced by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); quietness need not mean being alone, and the ideal of silence both frames the room, and is framing in terms of suggested activities within the room.
Rulebooks and guides point to a desire for quiet, yet do not usually overemphasise it. If a space is too quiet, how might dialogue and friendly encounter occur? It is usual for activities that require a breach of silence to be demarcated and timetabled, although inevitably some activities are impossible to schedule, such as mourning or the spontaneous meeting of friends. The role of the manager is important in terms of the appropriate prescribing and proscribing of noise. This role will also take into account the provision of mediated forms of noise, such as meditative soundtracks or faith related music.
It is common to find naturalism as a stylistic theme within MFS, rather than an overarching concept. Again, this speaks to the need to develop a controlled connection between the space and its outside. Murals are frequently present within MFS, often reiterating the idea that most if not all religions agree on the important role of the natural world; specific scenes, often the four seasons, are depicted in a suitably nominalist and abstract manner. Yet nature cannot be seen as all-encompassing, as this would move too far towards the idea that nature itself is being worshipped, a theme popular with neo-pagans, but problematic for many other faiths.
In many cases a clear continuum can be seen, that connects natural themes to ideas of spirituality and transcendence. However, certain images, such as lakes, clouds and mountains, are rooted as much in romanticism as religion or faith-based spirituality. Indeed, a critique of modernity is shared by both, alongside the desire to temporarily step out of modern society from time-to-time.
Natural objects that recur within MFS include stones, flowers, plants, water features, twigs, crystals and wooden ornaments. Some come without an obvious religious trajectory, and are less open to re-interpretation and capture by specific religious traditions. Others are more meaningful, for instance the olive branch, the moon, the star and the fish. However, even these objects can often be presented in a manner that leaves their depiction open to interpretation, rather than appearing iconic or revealed.
It would be too simplistic to say that natural elements just work within MFS. However, a controlled relationship to the outside can add a calming and therapeutic context, as well as providing an inherent critique of the ordered style of many modern spaces. In some ways this idea revisits the notion of religious places being strategically located within nature – hills, wells, rock temples and so forth – in contrast to modern churches, with their opaque windows. In the church there is often no relationship with the landscape or nature, except at prescribed times such as Easter and Harvest.
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A Happy DomoDomo's Expressions
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Domo Arigato is a Japanese animated character. If you are a Domo fan, you might want to know how to draw him. All you have to do is follow these steps and you will have the perfect Domo picture.
EditMethod 1 of 2: A Happy Domo
1. 1
Draw a rectangle. Divide the shape into 4 parts with a cross guideline. Divide the top half with a horizontal guideline. Divide the top quarter with another horizontal line.
2. 2
Draw a soft irregular W for Domo's body.
3. 3
Close the top part of the W with a soft curve.
4. 4
Draw the arms. To draw the right arm, draw it with a soft curve going upwards ending between the top edge of the rectangle and the 1st horizontal guideline. Draw a U for the left arm.
5. 5
Erase overlapping guidelines. Thicken Domo's body outline.
6. 6
Use the guidelines to draw the eyes and mouth . The mouth is drawn with soft corners and tilted a bit to the right.
7. 7
Erase all guidelines completely. Draw Domo's teeth with jagged lines.
8. 8
Color Domo. Add highlights to his eyes.
EditMethod 2 of 2: Domo's Expressions
1. 1
Annoyed Domo. To draw an annnoyed Domo, draw his right hand at the back of his body and his left hand touching his face. Squint his eyes to the left and draw expression lines on his forehead.
2. 2
Domo in love. To draw Domo in love, change his eyes into hearts and put blush on his cheeks. Draw his arms touching his face.
3. 3
Sad Domo. To make a sad Domo, draw his eyes with short lines. Draw his tears with a wavy blue shape. His arms must be drawn straight down.
4. 4
Evil Domo. Draw 2 horns for his head. Draw his normal black eyes. Draw his arms raised upward.
5. 5
Good Domo. Draw an irregular B for his wings and make it blue. Draw his arms touching his face. To make other expressions for Domo, just change his eyes and hand positions.
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• Colored pencils, crayons, markers or watercolors
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The famous musical stairs at the Museum of Science in Boston was designed by artist Christopher Janney and has filled visitors’ ears since 1989. With each step, a different tone--maybe a flute, an oboe, or an animal call--rings out from a black Bose speaker suspended above the staircase.
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Z-parameters for Wheatstone bridge circuit (EE310 question, not COMM)
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I need an example (A full, detailed example) of how to find the Z-Parameters of a wheatstone bridge circuit. Much like the diagram on this webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone_bridge. Where R1 and Rx are known resistances, R2 is an inductor, and R3 is a capacitor. V1 is the input voltage, and V2 = VG.
The example should include a worded explanation and not just a bunch of random equations.
For Z parameters, Z11 = V1/I1 and Z21 = V2/I1 when I2 = 0.
Z12 = V1/I2 and Z22 = V2/I2 when I1 = 0.
This is not a COMM 310 question by the way, but the website didn't didn't have EE 310 required me to put a course :/
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Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) (Major Acts of Congress)
Steven J. Gunn
Congress designed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (P.L. 92-203, 85 Stat. 688) to resolve the land claims of Alaska's Native inhabitants. Alaska Natives, including Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts, occupied Alaska for centuries before the Treaty of Cession from Russia of 1867 when the United States purchased Alaska. However, neither the Treaty of Cession nor any subsequent act (including the Organic Act of 1884, in which the United States made Alaska a "district" and allowed for the creation of a local government and the enforcement of local laws, and the Alaska Statehood Act of 1958, in which the U.S. made Alaska the forty-ninth state) clarified the nature or extent of Alaska Native land rights. These rights were based on the Natives' historic or aboriginal use and occupancy of Alaska lands, not on treaties between Alaska Natives and the United States.
By the time the United States made Alaska a state in 1958, it had formally recognized the land rights of only a handful of the state's Native villages. For example, in 1891 Congress established the Annette Island Reserve for the Metlakalta Indian Community and after 1891 a number of presidential orders created other reservations. But many Native inhabitants continued to make claims for land that government officials did not formally recognize.
The Alaska Statehood Act set in motion a conflict between the state of Alaska and its Native inhabitants that eventually led to the adoption of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Through the Statehood Act, Alaska disclaimed all rights to any lands belonging to Alaska Natives. However, the Act
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The Brooks Range in Alaska towers over Dalton highway, which runs parallel to the Alaskan pipeline. The discovery of oil created pressure for the government to settle claims by the Alaskan Natives for most of the land in the newly established state. Natives received 44 million acres of land and $962.5 million in return for relinquishing their claims to the rest of Alaska.
also authorized Alaska to select more than 102.5 million acres from so-called "vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved" public lands within the state for its own use. Because Alaska Natives had asserted claims to most of the state's public lands, the State was unable, without protest and controversy, to select such lands under the Statehood Act. In 1969 the U.S. secretary of the interior imposed a moratorium on approval of the State's applications for public lands, pending settlement of Native land claims. Meanwhile, the discovery of vast oil reserves on the North Slope of Alaska, and the desire among non-Native commercial enterprises to make use of those reserves created additional pressures for settlement of the Native claims.
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act gave Alaska Natives legal title to approximately forty-four million acres of Alaskan land. The Act also established an Alaska Native Fund of $962.5 million to compensate the Natives for the lands and rights taken from them. The Act extinguished "[a]ll aboriginal titles, if any, and claims of aboriginal title in Alaska based on use and occupancy." The Act revoked all reservations in the state, except the Annette Island Reserve.
In the Act, Congress stated its desire to settle the Native land claims "without creating a reservation system" like that found in the continental United States. The Act established a landholding system different in two fundamental respects from that in the lower forty-eight states. First, Alaska Native lands were owned not by tribes or by the United States as trustee for the tribes, but rather by newly established regional and village corporations. The Settlement Act authorized the creation of thirteen regional corporations and over 200 smaller village corporations to own and manage the forty-four million acres selected by the Natives and paid them the $962.5 million settlement. All Natives were eligible to be shareholders in one or more of these corporations, which were chartered under Alaska state law. Second, Native lands were owned by the regional and village corporations as "fee simple," which meant there were no restrictions on the ability of the corporations to use or sell the lands as they saw fit. In contrast, nearly all Native lands in the continental United States are owned by the federal government, held in trust for the tribes, and cannot be used or sold without the consent of the United States.
The corporate ownership of Native lands and the ability of Native corporations to freely sell their lands distinguish Alaska Native landholdings from most, if not all, Indian landholdings in the continental United States. In view of these distinctions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie (1998) that Alaska Native lands (other than the Annette Island Reserve) do not qualify as "Indian country," a category of lands under United States law that includes Indian reservations, allotments made under the General Allotment Act, and other lands set apart and administered by the United States for Indians. Because Native lands are not Indian country, Alaska Natives cannot exercise full governmental powers over them. For example, Natives cannot regulate or tax the activities of nonmembers who live, work, travel, or conduct business on Native lands. These activities are governed instead by state and federal law. Native tribes, however, do have the power to regulate many activities occurring inside Native country.
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act extinguished the aboriginal hunting and fishing rights of Alaska Natives. After the Act, Natives were required to comply with state laws when hunting and fishing anywhere in the state. Many of these state laws prevented Natives from engaging in their traditional subsistence ways of life. In 1980 Congress remedied this problem by enacting the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. This act allowed Alaska Natives and other rural residents to engage in subsistence hunting and fishing on public lands.
Arnold, Robert D. Alaska Native Land Claims. Anchorage: Alaska Native Foundation, 1976.
Prucha, Francis Paul M. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
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What if the greatest discovery of natural resources didn’t take place on Earth?
There are near-limitless numbers of asteroids and more being discovered every year. More than 1,500 are as easy to reach as the Moon and are in similar orbits as Earth. Asteroids are filled with precious resources, everything from water to platinum. Harnessing valuable minerals from a practically infinite source will provide stability on Earth, increase humanity’s prosperity, and help establish and maintain human presence in space.
Our Vision
Planetary Resources is bringing the natural resources of space within humanity’s economic sphere of influence, propelling our future into the 21st century and beyond. Water from asteroids will fuel the in-space economy, and rare metals will increase Earth’s GDP.
Asteroids are the low-hanging fruit of the Solar System. There are close to 9,000 near-Earth asteroids, and nearly 1,000 more are discovered every year.
Asteroid mining will allow the delivery of resources to the point of need, be it a fuel depot orbiting the Earth, or elsewhere in the Solar System.
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Today Planetary Resources is creating robotic explorers that cost an order of magnitude less than current systems.
Teams of robotic spacecraft will explore the best asteroid candidates, then access and process their resources during subsequent campaigns.
Asteroid mining will ultimately lead to an environmentally and economically sustainable development of space resources.
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Dryocopus is a genus of large powerful woodpeckers, typically 35–45 cm in length. It has representatives in North and South America, Europe, and Asia; some South American species are endangered. It was believed to be closely related to the American genus Campephilus, but it is part of an entirely different lineage of woodpeckers altogether (Benz et al., 2006)
Their breeding habitat is forested areas with large trees, where they nest in a large cavity in a dead tree or a dead part of a tree. They may excavate a new hole each year, creating habitat for other large cavity nesting birds. They are non-migratory permanent residents.
They are mainly black in plumage with red on the crown of the head, often as a crest. Most species also have some white areas of plumage, especially on the head, and some have additional red facial markings.
The male, female and juvenile plumages of each species usually differ, often in the extent of red on the crown and elsewhere on the head. The flight is strong and direct, and the calls are typically loud wild laughs. The drumming of these large birds can be heard from a great distance.
Dryocopus woodpeckers chip out large holes with their strong bills while searching out insects, especially beetle larvae in trees. They will also take fruits, berries, and nuts.
The name Dryocopus come from the Greek drus, an oak tree and kopos, a cutter.
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The European Union (EU) was formed to advance the economic goals of Europe. Countries of the EU open their borders to member nations. European citizenship is extended to all, allowing people to live, work, and vote in any member nation. Member nations have common policies in such areas as agriculture, transportation, health, safety, anti-trust regulation, environmental protections, and industrial standards.
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The term 'mobility impairment' refers to a broad range of disabilities which include orthopedic, neuro-muscular, cardiovascular, and pulmonary disorders. Students with these impairments must often rely upon assistive devices such as wheelchairs, crutches, canes, and artificial limbs to obtain mobility. The mobility impairment may either be congenital or the result of an injury or disease. Common disabilities include spinal cord injury, arthritis, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, amputation, heart disease, and pulmonary disease. Some students may have mobility impairments which are not visible; those include pulmonary disease, respiratory disorders, epilepsy, and other limiting conditions.
Physical access is usually the major concern of students with mobility impairments. The student must learn accessible routes to and from classes that do not present barriers, such as stairs, curbs, and heavy doors. Ramps with steep grades may pose problems for some students. A student with a mobility impairment must often take indirect, accessible routes to other locations or wait for assistance in opening heavy doors if no electric doors are available. If such students have classes back-to-back, they might be late to their next class - a point to consider when advising. Sometimes these students have decreased eye-hand coordination. They might also have decreased note-taking and test-writing ability due to weakness or paralysis. In some cases, there will be impaired verbal communication and in many cases, you will see decreased physical stamina and endurance.
Students with mobility impairments students are encouraged to talk with their instructors during the first week of classes to describe their individual functional difficulties and needs. The student and instructor may need to develop adaptations, if necessary, so that the student can compete on an equal basis with other students. On occasion, the location of a classroom may need to be changed. The Disability Services staff will be happy to assist in arrangements.
■ If a classroom or laboratory can only be reached by stairs, it will be necessary to move the class to an accessible location.
■ Tests or assignment deadines may need to be extended or divided into parts due to a student's disability.
■ Students unable to write due to physical limitation may require an accessibility aide or a note taker. Such an assistant will be provided through DS at Ext. 7760 or 7655.
■ If a student needs writing assistance (scribe) to take an exam, he/she should contact DS in advance to schedule a writer. Due to the time needed to make arrangements, "pop quizzes" in class create tremendous difficulty. Either the student must be given prior notice of tests or the instructor may make contact with DS ahead of time to arrange for a writer and a location for the testing situation.
■ Some students may not be able to participate in a laboratory class without the assistance of an aide. The student will learn everything except the physical manipulation of the lab materials. Simply, the student can give all instructions to the aide in order to complete required lab assignments. This aide would be provided through DS.
■ Most students with physical limitations will ask for assistance if they need it. As students often try to do as much as they can on their own, assistance is not always required. Offer help if you wish, but do not insist upon helping.
■ When talking to a student who uses a wheelchair and the conversation continues for more than a few minutes, it is a good idea to sit down, kneel or squat if convenient. Communication will be enhanced and neck strain alleviated.
■ Since a wheelchair is part of the person's space, it is not a good idea to hang onto or lean on the chair - such action is similar to hanging onto or leaning on the person.
■ People often express affection by touching; people are inclined to reach out and pat the person in the wheelchair on the head. Patting the person on the shoulder is a much more positive gesture.
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Because they are held for longer than the customary 24 hours, term Fed funds sometimes have higher interest rates than those held for shorter periods of time, though that rate is still much lower than an individual borrower could receive.
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Introduction 37
that is to say, the particles which play such a large part in modern
speech, were pushed into the background except in so far as they affected
the endings (see p 262) of words placed next to them Any special
class of derivatives characteristic of a particular language was neglected
(see p. 272) The effect of this was to burden the memory with an
immense store of unnecessary luggage without furnishing rules which
make the task of learning easier *
language by conversation and pictures, without any rules. The alleged
justification for this is that children first learn to speak without any
all, when they are word-perfect This argument is based on several
misconceptions. A child's experience is slight Its vocabulary is pro-
portionately small Its idiom is necessarily more stereotyped, and its
need for grammar is limited by its ability to communicate complicated
statements about a large variety of things and their relations to one
another. Apart from this, the child is in continuous contact with per-
sons who can use the home language according to approved standards,
and has no other means of communicating intelligibly with them. So
neither the conditions of, nor the motives for, learning are those of an
older person making intermittent efforts to acquire a language which
is neither heard nor used during the greater part of the day
Since The Loom of Language is not a children's book, there is no
need to dwell on the ludicrous excesses of educational theorists who
* For the benefit of the reader who already knows some French, the follow-
ing quotation from Dimnet (French Grammar Made Clear) emphasizes lack of
common sense in text-books still used in the schools
"Are the four conjugations equally important? Most grammars very
unwisely lead the student to imagine that it is so. In reality there are
(according to Hatzfeld and Darmester's well-known Dictionary) only zo
verbs in -OIR, some 80 in -RE., 300 in -IR, and all the other verbs (about
4,000) end in -ER Whenever the French invent or adopt a new verb, they
conjugate it like aimer (in a few cases like fimr) and for this reason the two
conjugations in -ER or -IR are called 'living/ while the less important con-
jugations in -OIR and -RE are termed Mead * The conjugation in -ER is the
easiest of the four, and has only two irregular verbs m daily use "
To this we may add that there are only four common verbs which behave
like rec&votr9 the type specimen of the so-called third conjugation of the "regular"
verbs in the school-books. The -re verbs of th^ fourth conjugation of''regular"
verbs include four distinct types and a miscellaneous collection of others.
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In an attempt to appease South Carolina, the American Congress passes the Clay Tariff, an amended version of that passed the previous July. It also passes the Force Act, authorising the President to use armed force to collect revenues if necessary.
Editors. "US Congress amends tariff of Jury 1832". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 December 2011
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The foundations for the subject are laid in the junior classes and start with where we are in relation to other countries. The pupils learn countries and capitals and we use their own experiences to help understand the fundamental principles of geography. The syllabus helps them to understand our multinational world by exploring and comparing more economically developed countries to less developed ones. The pupils will learn how physical, human and social geography come together to make sense of the world we live in.
Geography is a subject which is both interactive and cross-curricular, incorporating Mathematics, Science, ICT and literacy skills. It encourages pupils in critical analysis of the world around them and encourages good presentation. These skills are also very useful in fieldwork which we do on site and when we visit the River Tillingbourne and Box Hill in the Lower Sixth.
Discussion is very much encouraged in class as it is a vital learning tool in encouraging pupils to formulate their own conclusions about the world around them.
In the final years we start to prepare the children for their Common Entrance and Scholarship exams. Currently the CE and Scholarship syllabus involves global location knowledge, Ordnance Survey map work skills, collection and recording of fieldwork, rivers and coasts, earthquakes and volcanoes, weather and climate, economic activity and environmental issues.
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The 100% figure comes from the No Child Left Behind, NCLB, act passed under G.W. Bush's administration and authored by Sen. Ted Kennedy. Many of us in education tried our best to convince Austin not to take the "free federal money" that came with adopting the act to no avail. Now, the "exemption" that gets state's out from under the act is just as bad.
In my opinion, if we were really and truly race/color blind in our education system then we would not break the students down into "sub-populations", we would just look at the total number of students taking the test, the total number that passed and so on. And the same for college admissions, just look at the scores and accept those with the highest scores regardless of race/ethnic background. But, that's what happens when dealing with the federal government.
You are correct, wrong group of idiots!
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A recently popular shirt tucking technique primarily for males that usually involves the prominent showing of the belt buckle (extra points for scrolling LED belt buckles) that leaves the rest of the shirt untucked. Sometimes also referred to as the “one-handed tuck”.
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The Apollo 15 subsatellite (PFS-1) was a small satellite released into lunar orbit from the Apollo 15 Service Module. Its main objectives were to study the plasma, particle, and magnetic field environment of the Moon and map the lunar gravity field. Specifically it measured plasma and energetic particle intensities and vector magnetic fields, and facilitated tracking of the satellite velocity to high precision. A basic requirement was that the satellite acquire fields and particle data everywhere on the orbit around the Moon. A virtually identical subsatellite was also deployed by Apollo 16. The Moon's roughly circular orbit about the Earth at ~380000 km (60 Earth radii) carried the subsatellite into both interplanetary space and various regions of the Earth's magnetosphere. The satellite orbited the Moon and returned data from 4 August 1971 until January 1973.
Spacecraft and Subsystems
The Apollo 15 subsatellite was a hexagonal cylinder 78 cm in length and approximately 36 cm across opposite corners of the hexagon with a mass of 36.3 kg. Three equally-spaced 1.5-meter-long deployable booms were hinged to one of the end platforms. A fluxgate magnetometer was on the end of one boom and the other two carried tip masses to provide balance. A short cylinder was attached to the end platform opposite the booms and was used for the initial deployment and spin-up of the satellite, which was achieved using a spring loaded mechanism in the SM bay. A wobble damper inside the satellite removed precessional and nutational motions. An S-band antenna protruded from the panel opposite the booms. Solar panels covering the six sides provided about 24 W of energy in sunlight and an average power of 14 W over one orbit of the Moon. The power subsystem also included a battery pack of 11 silver cadmium cells. An S-band transmitter was capable of sending 128 bits/s to the Earth. A magnetic core memory unit provided a storage capacity of 49,152 bits when the spacecraft could not transmit directly. Two solid state particle telescopes were mounted on an end panel of the spacecraft and four particle analyzer devices were attached to the sides.
Mission Profile
Apollo 15 launched at 13:34:00 UT (09:34:00 a.m. EDT) on 26 July 1971 and went into orbit around the Moon on 29 July at 20:06 UT. The Apollo 15 subsatellite was deployed on 4 August 1971 at 21:00:31 UT by launching it from the scientific instrument module of the Service Module at a relative velocity of approximately 1.2 m/s using a spring loaded device which also imparted a spin of 140 rpm to the satellite. After release, the booms were deployed, lowering the spin rate to 12 rpm. The spin axis was normal to the ecliptic plane within 1 degree. The orbital period was approximately 120 minutes, clockwise as viewed from the north. The perilune of the first orbit was 102 km, the apolune 139 km, and the inclination 28.5 degrees with respect to the Moon's equator, but the orbit was rapidly altered by gravitational perturbations. The geocentric ecliptic longitude of the Moon at the time of launch was 155 degrees. The subsatellite provided about 6 months of data coverage before two successive electronic failures in February 1972 caused the loss of most of the data channels. The surviving data channels were monitored intermittently until June 1972 and then more or less continuously until late January 1973, when ground support was terminated. It is assumed the subsatellite orbit decayed and it impacted the Moon sometime after this, the impact site is unknown.
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• P + F S
• Apollo 15D
• PFS-1
• 05377
Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 1971-08-04
Launch Vehicle: Saturn 5
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
Mass: 36.3 kg
Nominal Power: 24.0 W
Funding Agency
• NASA-Office of Manned Space Flight (United States)
• Planetary Science
• Space Physics
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Apollo 15 preliminary science report, NASA, SP-289, Wash., D.C., 1972.
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Throughout the '90s, when German trance producer Oliver Lieb practically defined the genre, he produced tracks under a countless array of names, the most successful being L.S.G. and Spicelab. The Frankfurt, Germany, producer's recording career began in 1989 with Force Legato's "System," and first be...
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2006 New Hampshire Statutes - Section 227-L:35 Distribution to Towns.
When the state receives payment from another state for aid given by towns under the provisions of this chapter, the director of the division of forests and lands shall advise the state treasurer the amount due each town involved, and the state treasurer shall distribute the amounts due, to the respective towns. The governor is hereby authorized to draw a warrant for the respective amounts due.
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We called this the Swede because it's a name we could all pronounce..unlike the names suggested by an actual swede. They are as follows: The Göteborg. The Uppsala. The KAPPLÖPNINGSHÄST. This strap is none of those names, and yet, somehow, all of those names. 20mm. Royal Blue and Golden Yellow.
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First discovery of the female sex hormone progesterone in a plant
Washington: In a finding that overturns conventional wisdom, scientists are reporting the first discovery of the female sex hormone progesterone in a plant. Until now, scientists thought that only animals could make progesterone. A steroid hormone secreted by the ovaries, progesterone prepares the uterus for pregnancy and maintains pregnancy. A synthetic version, progestin, is used in birth control pills and other medications. The discovery is reported in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Natural Products, a monthly publication.
"The significance of the unequivocal identification of progesterone cannot be overstated," the article by Guido F. Pauli and colleagues, states. "While the biological role of progesterone has been extensively studied in mammals, the reason for its presence in plants is less apparent." They speculate that the hormone, like other steroid hormones, might be an ancient bioregulator that evolved billions of years ago, before the appearance of modern plants and animals. The new discovery may change scientific understanding of the evolution and function of progesterone in living things.
Scientists previously identified progesterone-like substances in plants and speculated that the hormone itself could exist in plants. But researchers had not found the actual hormone in plants until now. Pauli and colleagues used two powerful laboratory techniques, nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy, to detect progesterone in leaves of the Common Walnut, or English Walnut, tree. They also identified five new progesterone-related steroids in a plant belonging to the buttercup family.
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Syntax for Island Birds Is for the Birds
By Ben Richmond
Photo of Canary Island chaffinch, via juan_e/Flickr
Apparently regional accents and grammar's on-going breakdown in tweets isn’t such a uniquely human phenomenon. The songs of chaffinches, a fairly common European songbird, lose their syntax among some populations.
According to biologist Robert F. Lachlan, a "chaffinch from mainland Europe always sounds like a chaffinch from mainland Europe.” The small, rust colored birds’ songs generally don’t vary much, except in two specific places: at the very end of two archipelagoes. As the birds move out to the ends of the chains of the Azore and the Canary Islands, the less-strict birds follow syntax. They’re just free-chirping and tweeting like “an island of Charlie Parkers.”
The birds gradually moved out across the islands over the course of the last half a million years. As they went, island-by-island, their songs changed. The chaffinches sang similar notes, but not in as-strict combinations. The syntax, or rules for arranging the songs, were breaking down. By the end of the island chains, "the syntax isn't just changing, it's disappearing," said Lachlan. "It's not about changing the rules, it's about losing them."
Lachlan isn’t quite sure why this is the case. Since chaffinches sing to attract mates, and there’s less competing noise from other songbirds at the ends of the island chains, maybe chaffinches no longer need to follow strict syntax for females to pick out their song and find them. But there must be something else going on, because, in spite of having twice as many competing species of songbirds, the chaffinches on the Canary Islands had even less structure than their counterparts on the Azores.
Bird songs are a mix of learned behavior and genetics, and are, in the estimation of some, the closest parallel to human speech in the animal kingdom. Both birds and people learn complex vocalizations from their elders. Both birds and humans have evolved complex portions of the forebrain devoted to getting down fine motor skills to allow speech. Lachlan’s research seems to indicate that the difference is more tied to nurture than nature.
Maybe with the smaller population of their fellow chaffinches, there wasn’t anyone around to teach the next generation, Lachlan said. Or maybe, within the smaller bird population, a varied repertoire becomes more important. The results of his research will be published Oct. 7 in journal Current Biology.
Other studies have explored bird syntax using Bengal finches, cousins of the canary and chaffinch, and found that several seperate populations of Bengal finches would all react to a specific cut-up and replayed recording of Bengal-finch song, but not others, revealing that syntax matters, at least to them. Other very social animals like whales, bats and primates exhibit some syntax, and dogs can make sense of our sentences.
Chaffinches who have moved to the ends of islands in the balmy Atlantic, unlike Bengal finches, don't seem to care and they cheerfully batter their language, which opens the possibility of some sort of chaffinch My Fair Lady.
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Chemistry Chapters 2 & 3 "States of Matter & Solids, Liquids, Gases" (Physical Science)
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Marfé Ferguson Delano lives within biking distance of George Washington’s Mount Vernon and has long been curious about her famous historic neighbor. Her curiosity led to a four-year research project and the discovery of a whole host of less-famous historic neighbors—the enslaved people who lived with George and Martha on their plantation farm and now so richly populate the beautifully written pages of Master George’s People. Her previous books for National Geographic include Helen’s Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller’s Teacher, and Earth in the Hot Seat: Bulletins from a Warming World. Visit her web site at www.marfebooks.com.
Like children everywhere, the enslaved girls and boys who lived on President George Washington’s Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, liked to play together. While their parents cleaned Washington’s mansion house or cooked his family’s meals or groomed his horses or toiled in his fields from dawn to dusk, the slave children seem to have looked after themselves. And as children will do, they sometimes played where they had been told not to.
When Washington’s new farm manager, William Pearce, arrived at Mount Vernon in the fall of 1793, he was dismayed to see that the slave children had the run of the grounds. “I thought I saw a great many at your mansion house,” he wrote to his employer.
At the time Washington himself was in Philadelphia, leading the new nation he had helped create. He answered Pearce’s letter promptly, as he usually did with matters concerning Mount Vernon. He had loved it ever since he was a boy. No matter how far away he was from Mount Vernon, it was never far from his thoughts.
He already knew that the children played around his mansion. They had been doing it for years. “There are a great number of Negro children at the quarters belonging to the house people,” he replied to Pearce.
George Washington often called the enslaved human beings he owned his “people.” The “house people” worked as personal servants to the Washington family. They were the maids and butlers and waiters, the seamstresses and grooms. Most of them lived close to the mansion house, either in their own tiny cabins or above the outbuildings or in a dormitory-style building known as the quarters.
“But,” continued Washington, the children “have always been forbid (except two or three young ones belonging to the cook . . .) from coming within the gates of the enclosures of the yards, gardens, etc.” The cook’s name was Lucy. Her husband, Frank Lee, was a house servant and waiter. Their children— who included Phil, Patty, and Burwell— were the only ones with permission to play near the mansion.
As Washington admitted to Pearce, however, the rest of the children “are often in there notwithstanding.” Something about the area was irresistible. Perhaps it was the long lawn in front of the mansion, compared by a French visitor to “a playground carpeted in green.” The walled gardens on either side of the lawn must have been especially tempting. It’s easy to imagine children racing around the gravel paths, leaping over shrubs and swinging from trees. During the fun a twig might snap or a branch break off and get used as a pretend sword. Careless feet might trample vegetables or flowers. And who could resist picking a juicy apple or pear when the ripe fruit dangled from the trees?
Among the young trespassers might have been Wilson, Rachel, and Jemima. Their mother, Caroline, served as a maid in the mansion house. Timothy and Elvey might have played there too. Their mother, Charlotte, was a seamstress who sometimes worked in the mansion.
Washington told Pearce why the slave children were banned from the area. It was so “they may not be breaking the shrubs, and doing other mischief.” Washington took great pride in Mount Vernon’s gardens. He had designed them himself, and he enjoyed showing them off to guests. He was especially proud of the boxwood shrubs arranged in an elegant shape known as a fleur-de-lis.
But aside from his complaints, Washington seems to have done little to stop the children from playing there. As President, he no doubt had more important things on his mind.
And perhaps he didn’t have the heart to enforce the ban. He knew that the enslaved children would soon be put to work for him, when they were between 11 and 14 years old. About this, he was quite clear: “So soon as they are able to work out I expect to reap the benefit of their labor myself.” In this time, it was not unusual for enslaved children— or free children, for that matter— to start work at such an early age. The difference was that if you were a free child, your parents decided when and where you would be put to work. If you were an enslaved child, your owner decided your fate.
George Washington became a slave owner when he was only a boy himself. When his father, Augustine Washington, died in 1743, he left 11-year-old George ten enslaved workers. George also inherited the family home, a plantation called Ferry Farm near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Young George took slavery for granted. He had grown up watching his father’s slaves tend the farm animals, clear the fields, and plant, hoe, and harvest the crops. Other slaves cooked, cleaned, and washed clothes for the Washington family. They helped care for the Washington children. George’s neighbors and older half-brothers also owned slaves.
African people were first sold as servants in Virginia in 1619. Over the next two centuries, many thousands more African men, women, and children were captured, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, and sold to colonists to be unpaid workers for the rest of their lives. By the time George Washington was born in 1732, slavery was a fact of life in American society. Enslaved black people were considered a “species of property,” just like horses or dogs or tables or chairs. They could be bought, sold, rented, traded, or given away as gifts. They had no rights at all. Today it is difficult for us to understand this attitude, but in the 1700s many people saw things differently. Very few white colonists objected to slavery. And the slaves themselves had no say in the matter.
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Use the following instructions to query data from Hive through Microsoft Excel:
1. On the client machine where you will run Microsoft Excel:
1. Download the Windows 64-bit Hortonworks ODBC driver from here.
2. Execute the MSI and follow the instructions to install the ODBC driver.
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We have a custom made data cable at my work, is there any good way to measure \$Z_0\$ of a cable, or must the formulas be used?
Trying to work out what value termination resistor to use.
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If you had it custom made, and the impedance is important, it should have been in the specification! – stevenvh May 18 '12 at 4:17
It wasn't custom made by me, all work inherited from the predecessors... as usual – fred basset May 18 '12 at 15:29
Is the cable designed to be driven with differential signals (like twisted pair) or single-ended (like coax)? – The Photon May 18 '12 at 15:32
Differential, RS-485 – fred basset May 19 '12 at 6:22
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The proper basic kit is called a TDR (time-domain reflectometer). A more advanced version is called a Two Port Network Analyser, both are usually expensive pieces of specialist test kit.
However, you can measure the impedance with normal lab kit in the following way;
Build your own TDR setup; You just need a fast oscilloscope and a pulse generator. See The Wiki page for a TDR This works by sending a short pulse down the cable and measuring the amplitude of the reflected pulse.
Unless you have a very fast oscilloscope and signal generator, work with a long cable (10's of m or more) to ensure you get a decent delay (or you won't able to tell the difference between the incident and reflected pulses) However if the cable is too long the attentation will make distinguishing the reflected pulse from noise very difficult.
Depending on what construction is used, signals travel down a cable at about 0.7 * the speed of light.
Do the same with an open circuit, a known resistance and a short circuit terminating the cable. The three values should be similar, take an average.
Your kit setup should be as follows, though the picture is missing the termination resistor (or short) from the tail end of the cable.
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Measure the height of the pulse out and back (incident and reflected) and divide them (rho), then solve the following equations:
$$ \rho = \frac{Vr}{Vi} $$
Vr is the reflected voltage
Vi is the incident voltage
The characteristic impedance is Zo
The termination impedance is Zt
$$ \rho = \frac{Z_{t} - Z{o}}{Z_{t} + Z{o}} $$
More about this is explained in this document.
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Thanks, good answer. – fred basset May 19 '12 at 6:26
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Take a length of cable, leave the end open, and measure the impedance \$Z_a\$. Then repeat with the cable end shorted to get \$Z_b\$. Both are complex impedances. Your cable's characteristic impedance is
\$ Z_0 = \sqrt{Z_a \times Z_b} \$.
Again, this is the complex square root.
The characteristic impedance is frequency independent, but you can't measure it at DC, so not with a common multimeter. Like Telaclavo says, at low frequencies the characteristic impedance may vary; it will only be constant above 100kHz to 1MHz. Despite being frequency independent whenever possible you'll usually measure at your working frequency.
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Just to point out that he has to measure that at the frequency of interest, using special equipment. He can't do that with an ohmmeter. – Telaclavo May 18 '12 at 13:42
@Telaclavo - obviously, but I'll add it to my answer. – stevenvh May 18 '12 at 13:44
It is (mostly) independent of frequency... above a certain frequency, which can be between 100 kHz and 1 MHz. Below that, it varies a lot.… – Telaclavo May 18 '12 at 14:18
@Telaclavo - Right again :-). BTW, feel free to edit my answer if you think it needs improving/adjusting/clarification. – stevenvh May 18 '12 at 14:38
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A hypothetical construct differs from an intervening variable in that it has properties and implications which have not been demonstrated in empirical research. These serve as a guide to further research. An intervening variable is a summary of observed empirical findings.
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Shenayag was a female Sith Lord who served as a member in the Brotherhood of Darkness.
During the New Sith Wars, Shenayag served as an instructor at the Sith Academy on Korriban. Along with LaTor, Qordis, Orilltha, Kopecz and Kas'im, the Sith were called away from Korriban to meet with Lord Kaan, Dark Lord of the Sith. The Dark Lord offered them a chance to unite and fight together against the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order. Shenayag was claimed the title of Dark Lord in order to end the waging campaigns against each other. As the war began to spread across the galaxy, Shenayag became a notable member of the Brotherhood of Darkness.
During the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, Shenayag and the sith retreated into the depths of Ruusan caves where they witnessed the creation of the Thought Bomb by Kaan and LaTor. Following Kaan's guidance, the Thought Bomb's effect would not kill her or the other sith, and that it would only exterminate the Jedi, but they were wrong. The Thought Bomb was meant to kill all force-sensitives, which includes the Jedi and Sith. The Army of Light moved in for their final encounter against the Sith, and Shenayag fought for her last breath until Kaan activated the Thought Bomb. All the Jedi and the Sith were wiped out from the battlefield, and the souls were consumed into the force nexus where they would remain trapped for eternity. Since Kaan was the one who activated the bomb, he was able to escape, leaving the rest of the sith to remain in prison. Shenayag possibly abandoned the dark side and took her first step towards the light side since she came to the point that Kaan deceived them, and that they would never survive.
A thousand years which led to the fall of the Republic, and the rise of the Galactic Empire under the rule of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader, the spirits remained in the prison until Inquisitor Jerec planned to absorb the power from the force nexus. His efforts have failed when Kyle Katarn defeated him in a lightsaber duel, and all the spirits would eventually be released and become one with the Force.
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The singing Cox Family from Cotton Valley, LA, is comprised of father Willard, son Sidney, and daughters Evelyn and Suzanne, who derive their sound from combining country, bluegrass, and gospel styles. They first began performing together in 1976 and were a popular draw at fairs and festivals, but t...
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HIST201 Building Conservation
Department of Social & Behavioral Science: Historic Preservation
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HIST201 Building Conservation
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3 credits
3. Minimum Number of Instructional Minutes Per Semester
2250 minutes
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5. Other Pertinent Information
6. Catalog Course Description
The course teaches students to see buildings in a new way: as ever decaying artifacts in need of vigilant care. All components of a building are covered along with an understanding of a building�s relationship to its environment.
7. Required Course Content and Direction
1. Learning Goals:
1. To introduce students to the subject of building conservation
2. To instill a philosophy and methodology in the preserving of old buildings
3. To learn how to respect the history and integrity of structures
4. To assist students in restoring their own buildings
2. Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities:
1. Introduction to course and definitions
2. Architectural styles and building technology
3. Preservation and conservation philosophy
4. Dating old houses
5. Architectural integrity
6. Planning and house restoration
7. Restoring exteriors I
8. Restoring exterior II
9. Restoring interiors I
10. Restoring interiors II
3. Assessment Methods for Core Learning Goals:
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Class lecture, discussions, slides, projects, and field trips
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Branch and Cut
Branch and cut is a specific implementation of branch and bound that was first suggested in the seminal work on the subject by Padberg and Rinaldi [19] for solving the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem. Since then, many implementations (including ours) have been fashioned after their ideas. In branch and cut, the bounding operation is accomplished using the tools of linear programming. Typically, the integrality constraints of an integer programming formulation of the problem are relaxed to obtain a linear programming (LP) relaxation and then this formulation is strengthened by adding cutting planes, i.e. inequalities valid for the convex hull of solutions to the original problem.
Figure 1: Bounding in the branch and cut algorithm
For example, let a combinatorial optimization problem tex2html_wrap_inline853 with ground set E and feasible set tex2html_wrap_inline857 be given along with a cost function tex2html_wrap_inline859 . The incidence vectors corresponding to the members of tex2html_wrap_inline861 are usually specified as the the set of all incidence vectors obeying a (relatively) small set of inequalities. These inequalities are typically the ones used in the initial LP relaxation. Now let tex2html_wrap_inline863 be the convex hull of incidence vectors of members of tex2html_wrap_inline861 . Then we know by Weyl's Theorem (see [18]) that there exists a finite set tex2html_wrap_inline867 of inequalities valid for tex2html_wrap_inline863 such that
The inequalities in tex2html_wrap_inline867 are the potential cutting planes to be added to the relaxation as needed. Unfortunately, it is usually difficult, if not impossible, to enumerate all of inequalities in tex2html_wrap_inline867 or we could simply solve the problem using linear programming. Instead, we use separation algorithms and heuristics to generate these inequalities when they are violated. In Figure 1, we describe more precisely how the bounding operation is carried out in branch and cut.
Figure 2: Branching in the branch and cut algorithm
Once we have failed to either prune the current subproblem or separate the current fractional solution from tex2html_wrap_inline863 , we are forced to branch. The branching operation is accomplished by specifying a set of hyperplanes which divide the current subproblem in such a way that the current solution is not feasible for the LP relaxation of any of the new subproblems. For example, in a combinatorial optimization problem, branching could be accomplished simply by fixing a variable whose current value is fractional to 0 in one branch and 1 in the other. The procedure is described more formally in Figure 2. Figure 3 gives a high level description of the entire generic branch and cut algorithm.
Figure 3: Description of the generic branch and cut algorithm
In the remainder of the paper, we will sometimes refer to the search tree. This term is derived from the useful practice of viewing the list of subproblems processed during the algorithm as the nodes of a graph in which each subproblem is connected to its parent. This graph is known as the search tree. Since the subproblems correspond to the nodes of this graph, they will sometimes be referred to as nodes in the search tree or simply as nodes. The root node or root of the tree is the first node from which all others descend.
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Maxwell's Equations
Maxwell's Equations: 'He modelled the fields as if they were invisible fluids that filled space.' Photograph: Alamy
Maxwell's Equations first appeared in "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, in 1865. These are the equations of light, the mathematical relationships that showed us how to electrify our world and transmit energy and information through the air.
The seeds of that enormous change were planted in the 1830s, when the British physicist Michael Faraday built electric motors and showed that two natural forces, electricity and magnetism, were related. He proposed that these forces existed as "fields" that permeated space. In the latter half of the 19th century, the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell formulated the equations that described these fields.
The two equations on the left in the picture show that the net flow of electric (E) and magnetic (H) field out of a closed volume of space, away from any electrical charges or magnetic materials, is zero. The triangle and dot symbol in front of the field symbols (called the "divergence" operator) is a mathematical way to measure if a field behaves as a source or a sink at a specific point in space.
The equation for the magnetic field (H) stays the same even when there's a magnet around – think of a bar magnet, the magnetic field lines around it start at the north pole and circle their way around to the south pole. And these field lines will always stop and start at a magnetic object, they do not appear or disappear in empty space.
The two equations on the right explain what happens when you move an electrical or magnetic field. The "curl" operator (the triangle and x symbol in combination) on the left of each equation is a way to measure a field moving in a tiny circle. A changing electric field (E) produces a changing magnetic field (H). And vice versa. The curly d/dts on the right measure a rate of change, a tiny change in a field (E or H) divided by a tiny change in time (t).
Which leaves us with the letter "c" on the right side of the second two equations. This is a constant with a value of about 300,000 kilometres per second, which just happens to be the speed of light.
Maxwell had started by examining the properties of electricity and magnetism and stumbled upon a much deeper truth about them: the electromagnetic field was a medium for waves that, like ripples across the surface of a pond, travelled at a speed "c". And the light we see is one of those electromagnetic waves.
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Minion: Excuse me Wise One, what is that circle of light surrounding the moon?
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Newspeak for torture, used by the CIA and its allies. "Stress and duress" tactics are used in interrogations, and refer to a variety of tortures and forms of mistreatment which the CIA thinks are OK. These include:
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These techniques are widespread also in US prisons, although nominally illegal. They are more widely used in deregulated offshore gulags such as Guantanamo Bay, abu Ghraib in Iraq and Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.
Don't be fooled - these tactics ARE TORTURE, and are defined as such both by the UN and by experts in trauma. Their role is to break down the sense of personality of the prisoner and to deliberately induce psychological trauma and crisis.
They are directly referred to in CIA handbooks - so the photos from abu Ghraib show a systematic pattern of torture, NOT rogue acts by a few stupid/evil/misguided soldiers.
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Seen in one of the final cutscenes of Ace Combat X. Alendai is the capital city of Leasath, located at southern area near Danern Straits. In 2019, Leasath suffered heavy damage from the Leasath Civil War, and the entire region of the country became impoverished, including Alendai. Most known thing of this city is its large-sized multi-purpose stadium which was being reconstructed after its destruction during the Civil War. The city was noticeably destitute, which then triggered the Leasath-Aurelia War in the next year, October 2020. It is more likely that Leasath's military HQ was located here, where supreme commander Diego Gaspar Navarro took his job during a long raging war inside Leasath. Leasath's Commanding Officer also retreated to Alendai to introduce the capabilities of FENRIR to the Leasathians.
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Force orientation in our part of the galaxy
Posted: January 18, 2010 by tallbloke in Uncategorized
If you are wondering where the big thread ‘Meet the new Kepler’ on Semi’s paper has gone it’s here. You can always get to it or any other post by going to the ‘Archives’ on the right of the page. Detailed discussion of planetary motion is now continuing here.
Solar system orientation
It’s difficult to get a handle on the ways forces acting on and in the solar system are orientated. This thread will raise more questions than answers about the origin and magnitude of the forces, but it might help with the orientation issues. The solar system is apparently orbiting the Milky Way galaxy at around 224km/s.
On the larger scale, as well as the movement shown in this graphic, Dr Leif Svalgaard informs me that according to his way of measuring velocity and distance, there is a motion of 627km/s of the galaxy “towards the centre of the local group”.
Additionally, there is the motion of the of the Local Interstellar Cloud, which is depicted here as moving in the direction of the south celestial pole. Dayton Miller in the 1920′s, confirmed by Yu. Galaev in 2002, concluded that the Earth was drifting at a speed of 208 km/sec. towards an apex in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, towards Dorado, the swordfish, right ascension 4 hrs 54 min., declination of -70° 33′, in the middle of the Great Magellanic Cloud and 7° from the southern pole of the ecliptic. It seems possible therefore, that the solar system is headed in a similar direction to the LIC, in addition to it’s orbital motion wrt the galaxy. However, it is also thought that the solar system will soon be leaving the LIC and heading into a colder cloud. Perhaps someone here can clarify which direction we are heading out of the Local Cloud in.
Motion of solar system
Motion of solar system. Adapted from Alexander et al 2007
The planets orbit the sun at approximately 45 degrees wrt the direction of the solar system’s galactic orbital motion, as evidenced by the angle the band of the milky way makes in the night sky, remembering the Earth is inclined a further 23.5 degrees to the invariant plane (the average of the planetary orbital planes). It is thought that this tilt is necessary in order to maintain the conservation of angular momentum as the solar system moves in it’s orbital path round the galaxy.
Solar System Schematic 1/2010
Within the solar system, the Sun has it’s ‘head back’. That is, the Solar polar axis is tilted at around seven degrees to the invariant plane, with the north solar pole tilted away from the direction of the solar system’s motion around, and slightly towards the galactic centre. At the moment, Jupiter Uranus and Neptune are below the solar equatorial plane and ‘leading’ the sun in the direction of the nose of the heliosphere, and Saturn is opposite, above the solar equatorial plane, and trailing ‘behind’ the Sun,
HCS and Ribbon of ENS at heliosheath
HCS and Ribbon of ENS at heliosheath
Vukevic has prepared this graphic which represents the orientation of the newly discovered ‘ribbon’ on the outer edge of the heliosphere, compared to the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) as depicted by Caltec, and has some ideas about it’s cause he’d like to discuss in a reasonable environment.
Have at it Vuk!
What form could these tests take?
What resources are required?
Who’s going to fund a program of investigation?
H/t to James DeMeo for most of the following:
Miller's Interferometer at Mount Wilson
I also found this gem:
What is it composed of?
Is it electrically conductive?
Is it magnetically active?
How much does it slow light down?
Can it transmit the gravitational force faster than light?
What are the implications for Big Bang models?
Get my ether drift? :)
Answers on a postcard, or just post your thoughts below.
Tides raised by the Planets on the Sun
Posted: January 11, 2010 by tallbloke in Uncategorized
Leif Svalgaard came up with this link in a discussion on which I found very interesting.
Some of my colleagues at Berkeley [Martin Fivian and Hugh Hudson] has analyzed the shape of the Sun using the RHESSI satellite date:
Leif comments that:
When corrected for the effect of magnetic solar activity, the solar oblateness is just what is expected from current solar models and solar rotation.
Here’s my reply:
Thanks for the link Leif. One of the things I find interesting from that press release is the rapidity with which the 6km high lumps around sunspots smooth out again to the average oblateness. The Sun’s outer layers are obviously very fluid and mobile, so it would be expected that any internal lumpiness raised by tidal or gravitational forces from orbiting bodies would be compensated for quite quickly at the surface in flows from the low mid latitudes to the equator, which might explain the shifting of sunspots towards the equator throughout the solar cycle.
The vertical tide on the Surface raised by the biggest of the orbiting bodies is only in the order of mm as you have pointed out before. However the horizontal tides are much bigger, in the order of hundreds of km. Much the same as the Moon’s tidal action on the Earth, it is the horizontal tides which will cause most of the rising and falling of the surface. Further analysis is showing that at perihelion, Mercury causes a much bigger horizontal tide on the sun than Jupiter does. So does the synodic variation of Earth and Venus. Work on quantifying these and looking at their periodicities and phasing is ongoing.
Leif further claimed that:
Any shifting around of the interior would introduce a quadrupolar moment which is not observed.
My reply was:
The constraint on the quadrupole moment (2+-0.4)10^-7 isn’t so tight as to be able to be definite about that. Quite small movements in the dense solar interior would set up much larger flows on the much less dense solar surface.
Tidal forces diagramThis diagram is for the Earth Moon system and the situation on the sun may be different
Tidal effects have been dismissed as too small to have any effect on the Sun in the past, but new research by Semi and others may change that view. I’m posting this thread to provide a place for discussion, however speculative at this stage, concerning the possible effects of tides raised by planets on the surface of the Sun.
1) Introduction
The ancient Greeks speculated about their Kosmos in terms recognisable as scientific today. Pre-Socratic thinker Thales believed water was the fundamental substance from which all else proceeded. Demokritus first proposed all matter was constucted of irreducably small particles called atoms. Today we know that the simplest expression of matter, the Hydrogen atom, is readily oxidised to form water, releasing a large dose of energy in the process. Hydrogen permeates the universe, in it’s preferred state as a hydrogen molecule, it is invisible to our telescopes and our other means of spectral detection.
Other Greek thinkers considered the motion of the heavenly bodies, planets, stars, comets and our Sun. The first to propose that the Earth moved round the Sun rather than believing in an Earth centred Kosmos was Aristarchus of Samos. Using geometrical mathematics, he calculated the relative sizes of the Sun and Moon, and reasoned that because the Sun was the biggest body in the Kosmos, and the only self luminous body, it must be at the centre of the part of the Greek Kosmos we now call the solar system.
But science makes many twists and turns on the path to knowledge, and the needs of navigators and astronomers for a quantifiable and predictive calculation system led to the adoption of the Earth centred system of Ptolemy, with it’s unphysical epicycles grafted into the theory to explain the apparent retrograde motion of planets at various times. This view was to dominate late classical and medieval thought for 1300 years due to the suppression of other ideas by the gatekeepers of knowledge. A theme we will be forced to return to later.
Eventually, Nikolaus Copernicus restored the Sun to it’s rightful place and his work was championed by Galileo Galilei, despite being placed under house arrest and having his telescope confiscated for a time by the guardians of orthodoxy. Galileo also methodically counted sunspots and we still use his observations as part of the sunspot record. Building on the work of Copernicus, Galileo, and Tycho Brahe, German born Johannes Kepler discovered that the proportions of the orbital distances and the rates of motion of the planets conformed to simple geometrical laws which revealed a harmony and resonance in the solar system as a whole.
Subsequently, Isaac Newton quantified the concept of gravity, and derived laws of motion describing relationships between mass, momentum and velocity which we still use today. Newton showed that the sun is engaged in continual motion around the centre of mass of the solar system (i.e. the barycentre or SSB) as a result of the gravitational force exerted by the planets, especially Jupiter and Saturn. He came to this conclusion analytically (not by observation) by working through the consequences of his law of gravitation. His cosmological theory of an isometric universe was superceded by Einstein‘s theory of General Relativity with its application to the concept of curved space-time.
“In 1801, the Astronomer Royal in Britain, Sir William Herschel, discussed the nature of sunspots, their variability, their effect on climate, and the position of the planets as possible causative forces. Although this work was published by the Royal Society, it was “ahead of its time”. Some century-and-a-half later, there was much more information, but not much more light.” -Rhodes Fairbridge-
The field of Solar Physics developed throughout the period, but the sun’s remoteness, and it’s enigmatic variation in activity made hypotheses of it’s nature difficult to validate until the recent development of sophisticated equipment and techniques to measure it’s magnetic field, surface activity and periodic parameters. The currently dominant Babcock-Leighton Dynamo theory of the way the sun generates it’s cyclic activity has seen little competition, despite its difficulties and lacunae.
2) Enter Paul José
In April 1965 Paul D. José, a scientist at the office of Aerospace Research at Holloway Air Force base in New Mexico published a short paper in The Astronomical Journal (vol.70 No.3) entitled: Sun’s motion and sunspots.
The paper included an intriguing diagram reproduced in part here:
Jose 1965 Diagram of solar motion
The importance of the diagram and the rest of José’s paper will form the first part of the next installment.
To be continued…
Temperature reconstructed from solar and planetary motion
The high SSN of the late C20th means according to my model, that a lot of heat got absorbed into the ocean. Now the sunspot numbers are falling, that heat is being released again by El Niño’s and the temperature is dropping because that heat is escaping to space and not being replaced by solar energy into the oceans at the rate it was in the ’80′s and ’90′s. I have done calcs on this to support my theory and I will present them soon.
Comments please.
Oliver Manuel is a distinguished atomic physicist with a lifelong history of work on the chemistry of cosmogenic isotopes.
This thread has been set up for Oliver to discuss his ideas about the origin of the solar system, and the empirical observations which support his hypothesis.
Origin of the solar system
In a nutshell, Oliver’s research into the mass fractionation of elements and isotopes has led him to the conclusion that the solar system was formed from the remnants of a supernova. The sun is accreted around a dense neutron core, and the ejected material from the explosion formed the planets. The heavier elements forming the nearby rocky iron cored inner planets, and the lighter elements forming the Jovian gas giants.
Oliver makes the following observations and offers some links:
1. The only star close enough for detailed study formed on the core of a precursor star that gave birth to the solar system [1,2].
Likely in this manner:
In 1983 Nature even acknowledged the demise (death, end) of established dogmas on the formation of the Solar System [3].
2. Astronomers assure us that the Sun is a very ordinary star.
3. When stars explode, a neutron star and lots of iron are commonly seen, not Hydrogen like the stellar surface.
My conclusions:
a.) There is a neutron star at the core of the Sun.
b.) There is probably a neutron star at the core of each star.
c.) With greater certainty a neutron star is expected at the core of any star that is orbited by rocky, iron-rich planets.
[1] “Strange xenon, extinct super-heavy elements, and the solar neutrino puzzle”, Science 195 (1977) 208-209
[2] “Isotopes of tellurium, xenon and krypton in the Allende meteorite retain record of nucleosynthesis”, Nature 277 (1979) 615-620
[3] “The demise of established dogmas on the formation of the Solar System”, Nature 303 (1983) 286
Budapest, 31 Dec, 2009
Dr Miklos Zagoni
Zagoni summarizes Miscolczi’s theory here:
Sunspots graphed against SSBz-solar equator
What caused the collapse in solar activity at the start of the 1800′s known as the Dalton minimum? Could it be the conjunction of Uranus and Neptune which seems to accompany each of the grand minima? Does that mean we are due another one now? I’ll investigate that in another post soon.
Answers on a postcard, or post your thoughts below.
Our friend Vukevic called by and gave me a pointer to a links page at his site which provides a resource for those interested in studying planetary, solar and magnetic phenomena.
Here’s an example demonstrating the match between the sunspot number and Vuk’s planetary motion derived formulas:
Hopefully, Vuk will call back to give us some further info on his research.
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When you first begin to wade into the deep end of an object oriented language you find yourself inundated with esoteric concepts and strange terminology. You may half-understand conversations and read books and articles that all seem to assume a basic set of knowledge that you don't fully grasp. It can be a frustrating experience! After all you are no green-horn. You've done your share of development. So why is all this so confusing?
The fact is that it doesn't have to be. Because object-oriented development originated in the academic world, it comes with a whole new vocabulary and a whole lot of complicated descriptions for pretty simple ideas.
In this article, my goal is to give you the knowledge that all those books and magazines assume you already know. You won't learn all there is to know about object-oriented development. But you will get enough of the concepts and terminology down to give you a solid foundation to build on.
Objects, properties and methods
It would be difficult to be a programmer today, no matter what programming language you use, and avoid working with objects in one way or another. Objects are simply containers for variables and functions that logically go together. In object-oriented parlance, variables and functions inside an object are called properties and methods. In most languages, you use dot-notation to refer to an object's properties and methods. For example, if you have an object named Customer and you wanted to assign a value to its Name property, you would use syntax that looks something like this:
Customer.Name = "Fred Smith"
Or if you wanted to call a Customer method called PrintInvoice(), it might look something like this:
When used like this, objects are simply a way of organizing data and code into logical collections. But there's more to object-oriented programming than that!
Classes and instantiation
The terms class and object are sometimes used interchangeably. This makes understanding the difference between the two that much more difficult. They are distinct, but related.
Think of a class as a detailed description of an object. A class is not an object, but it contains all the information needed to create an object. It's like the relationship between a blueprint and a house. Here's an example of a class definition in Visual Basic .NET. (Although the syntax will be slightly different in different languages, the structure is usually roughly the same.)
Class EmpClass Public Name As String Public Phone As String Public Hours As Integer Public Rate As Single Public Function CalcPay() Return Hours * Rate End FunctionEnd Class
A class definition is simply a group of variable and function declarations grouped together and given a name.
Although the blueprint contains all the details necessary to create a house, you can't live in a blueprint. Before you can have someplace to live, a process must take place: building. In order for you to make use of a class, a process must take place: instantiation.
Instantiation (literally meaning "to make an instance of") is how objects are created from a class. Once an object is created, you can assign values to its properties and call its methods. Every language has its own syntax for instantiating objects from classes. However most of them use the keyword New in one way or another. Here's an example of instantiation syntax in Visual Basic .NET.
Dim EmpObj As EmpClassEmpObj = New EmpClass
First a variable is declared. The class name here, CustClass, is used just like a data type would be in any variable declaration. But this does not instantiate the object. It simply declares a variable that will point to the object, once it is created.
The next line is where the instantiation takes place. The New keyword is followed by the name of the class to instantiate. Again, although the syntax in the language of your preference will likely be a little different, the two-step process of creating a reference variable and then instantiating the object and assigning it to the reference variable will likely be the same. (Although some languages provide a shortcut syntax to do both in one line.)
Once the object is allocated in memory, CustObj becomes a reference to that object and can be used as you would any object.
EmpObj.Hours = 40EmpObj.Rate = 6.50Total = EmpObj.CalPay()
At this point you might be thinking, "Wait a minute — I've written code before that uses objects, but I didn't have to write any instantiation code. How is that possible?" See the sidebar titled "Automatically Instantiated Objects, Static Classes and Other Black Magic".
But what's the point of this extra level of complexity? Why must you describe a class and instantiate the class as an object before you can use it? Why not just describe the object and be finished with it? Well, there's one very good reason: Many objects can be instantiated from a single class. When you do this, each object will contain the same set of properties and methods. However, each object is independent and its properties can have different values.
Here's an example where two employee objects are created from the same employee class and each are assigned different values.
Dim Emp1Obj As EmpClassDim Emp2Obj As EmpClassEmp1Obj = New EmpClassEmp2Obj = New EmpClassEmp1Obj.Name = "Fred Smith"Emp2Obj.Name = "Bob Jones"
Automatically Instantiated Objects, Static Classes and Other Black Magic
I stated pretty clearly that you can't use a class until you've instantiated it, any more than you can live in a blueprint. And that's the general rule. Now for the exceptions
Many languages and development environments automatically instantiate objects for you behind the scenes. Typically these are objects that often need to be accessed but ones which you'll never need more than one instance. So technically this isn't an exception to the rule. But it does look like one when you are working in such environments because you are not responsible for the instantiation and may not even be able to see the code where it's actually done.
There is another case that really is an exception to the rule, however. Some classes are designed to be used directly. These are called static classes. Often static classes are collections of utility functions associated with a particular task, like file manipulation. Making such classes static just saves you a couple of step when you go to use them.
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Homework Help: Pre-Algebra
Posted by Cheryl on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 12:44pm.
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1. Alicia is planning a party for her friend. She plans to spend $73.00 for food, $39.50 for gifts, and $15.00 for decorations. She would like each guest to give her $13.00 to pay for these party expenses. What is the minimum number of people she should invite to cover the total cost of the party?
answer: 10
2. Bernie wants to decorate his new apartment with some plants. He notes the following prices: ferns $10.99, ivy $4.99, violets $5.99, lilies $18.99. How much would he pay if he buys three of each?
answer: $122.88
3.Paleontologists believe the Diplodocus dinosaur weighed about 24,000 pounds. The average person can lift 150 pounds. Approximately how many people would it take to lift a Diplodocus?
answer: 160
4. Marty has a list of prices for several different cleaning supplies. The prices are $3.67, $5.98, $14.26, $3.98, and $13.89. If Marty purchases all of the supplies, how much will he spend?
answer: $41.78
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Parents' Choice Foundation: Reviewing Children's Media Since 1978
Harry's Grand Slam Baseball
Harry's Grand Slam Baseball
Spring 2006 Games
Ages: 8 & Up
Price: $14.99
The cards are shuffled and three cards are dealt to each player (the team manager.) Players take turns playing cards on the diamond that help their team score when at bat, or they play defensively when in the field. Cards indicate typical baseball plays and are identified as out, on base, and runner cards, or special pinch hitter and relief pitcher cards. Red squares on the corners of the cards indicate the number of bases to advance each runner; the white circles represent outs. After three “outs” the other team gets to bat.
Just like Major League Baseball, some innings progress more quickly than others. And because each turn requires participation and decision making, players are always a part of the game.
Don and Ellie Homce ©2006 Parents' Choice
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How's that? Despite what tizt claims, there is scientific proof of evolution. There is no scientific hint of the supernatural, despite many experiments. Suggesting an equivalence between the rational and the irrational is silly.
There is no scientific proof of supernatural because OUR science is limited to a tiny fraction of knowledge about the greater universe.
Just like ancient Egyptians were not capable of proving electricity or imagining jet engines, we are limited in proving things that are more complex than our 3-dimensional world.
You truly think that we are the best that the universe is capabale of creating?
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An aspiring producer, and moderator at whnz. Also known as the Hatorator for his fondness of hating on stupid people.
1. 20 Dolla Ill is the illest producer in the game.
2. 20 Dolla Ill owned that dumbass poster.
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)Acronym for single in-line memory module, a small circuit board that can hold a group of memory chips. Typically, SIMMs hold up to eight (on Macintoshes) or nine (on PCs) RAM chips. On PCs, the ninth chip is often used for parity error checking. Unlike memory chips, SIMMs are measured in bytes rather than bits. SIMMs are easier to install than individual memory chips.
The bus from a SIMM to the actual memory chips is 32 bits wide. A newer technology, called dual in-line memory module (DIMM), provides a 64-bit bus. For modern Pentium microprocessors that have a 64-bit bus, you must use either DIMMs or pairs of SIMMs.
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Structuralizing Freeform Notes by Implicit Sketch Understanding
Yang Li, Zhiwei Guan, Hongan Wang, Guozhong Dai, and Xiangshi Ren
People are accustomed to capture important events and ideas by sketching notes on papers. Pen and paper offer people great freedom and naturalness to perform these activities. During note sketching, people generally don’t pay much attention to the organization of notes, instead they use implicit spatial relationships and concise informal organizing symbols to structuralize notes. We conducted a study to discover how people sketch and organize their notes. The structuralized notes are easy to be maintained, manipulated and reused. Based on our observations, we designed algorithms to structuralize freeform notes into a consistent hierarchical structure. Both implicit spatial parsing and gesture-based structuralizing are enabled. With the supports of these algorithms, we built a system SketchPoint notebook as a tool that allows a user to sketch various notes in a freeform manner. It conducts lazy note structuralizing implicitly. The structuralized notes of SketchPoint enable structure-semantics based ink manipulations that bring much efficiency to users.
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In-system programming
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Stand-Alone In-System Programmer SuperProIS01
6 & 10 pins ISP headers
Typically, chips supporting ISP have internal circuitry to generate any necessary programming voltage from the system's normal supply voltage, and communicate with the programmer via a serial protocol. Most programmable logic devices use a variant of the JTAG protocol for ISP, in order to facilitate easier integration with automated testing procedures. Other devices usually use proprietary protocols or protocols defined by older standards. In systems complex enough to require moderately large glue logic, designers may implement a JTAG-controlled programming subsystem for non-JTAG devices such as flash memory and microcontrollers, allowing the entire programming and test procedure to be accomplished under the control of a single protocol.
An example of devices using ISP is the AVR line of micro-controllers by Atmel such as the ATmega series.
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The Arctic is on the frontline of climate change. Temperatures in the Arctic are warming 5-10 times faster than elsewhere in the world. Scientists forecast that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free by 2040, with profound effects on ice-dependent species such as polar bear, walrus, spotted seal, ringed seal, bearded seal, and ribbon seal. Global climate change may be exacerbating contamination in the Arctic because of enhanced mobilization and transport of persistent organic pollutants from local and distant sources.
Increasing storm surges, melting permafrost, and sea ice disappearance are among the most dramatic effects of climate warming in the Arctic. As the climate warms, contaminants contained in permafrost, glaciers, and sea ice release into the surrounding environment. Melting sea ice exposes more ocean surface, creating more area where global contaminants can be deposited. Atmospheric loading of contaminants to the ocean surface is increased as sea ice retreats.
Climate change of the Arctic threatens coastal communities and their means of subsistence. Indigenous Arctic populations are uniquely vulnerable to climate change because of their close relationship with, and dependence on, the land, sea and natural resources for their cultural, social, economic and physical well-being. Some communities along the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea are already preparing for re-location. Climate change also causes more rapid dispersal of contaminants into freshwater and marine environments, thus more directly affecting the health of fish and marine mammals that serve as the primary traditional foods for northern Indigenous peoples.
Alaska Community Action on Toxics advocates for the need to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion and other sources. We help to bring to light the synergistic impacts of toxic compounds and climate change as we work to eliminate the production and use of the world’s most toxic and persistent chemicals.
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RE: another option
By FITCamaro on 2/8/2011 2:41:35 PM , Rating: 1
Most roads through rural areas are spawned off the interstate system. The interstates were formed as part of the national defense during World War 2.
If a state wants to subsidize roads in a rural area, that's the states choice. The federal government doesn't have that power. Or it shouldn't. The same should be for telephones, broadband, etc. States have any power not explicitly given to the federal government. The federal government only has the powers granted to it by the constitution.
Regardless of what liberal Democrats want people to believe, a lack of commerce does not fall under the commerce clause. The commerce clause was put in the constitution to prevent states for setting up barriers that would prevent commerce between the states. Not to give the federal government the power to regulate all commerce.
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RE: another option
Another issue caused by the federal government.
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What the Dewey?
Many people are apparently intimidated by the Dewey Decimal system! I know, can you believe it!?! Well, once upon a time so was I, but that’s another story. The fact is, those numbers on the spines of the nonfiction books (you know, the mostly serious books) tell you what the book is about. Use the charts we have up, one of our bookmarks, or ask a librarian to find the number of your favorite subject. Most of the books on your favorite pastime will be grouped together; e.g. 629 = cars, 741.597 = comics, 641.5 = cooking. So go find your number! You can thank me later.
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Laurence Sheriff
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...junction and attracted a wide range of industry, including especially the production of electrical equipment. Rugby School, a famous public (i.e., fee-paying) school, was founded for boys in 1567 by Laurence Sheriff, a local resident, and was endowed with sundry estates, including Sheriff’s own house. The school flourished under the headship of Thomas Arnold between 1828 and 1842 and became,...
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Minturn Formation Colorado
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Minturn Formation, Colorado
February 9, 2006
Roughly 300 million years ago, the Ancestral Rocky Mountains towered over what is now Colorado. At the western base of this ancient chain of granite peaks was an inland sea. Over time, the Ancestral Rocky Mountains completely eroded, leaving Colorado a flat place. Shallow seas alternately invaded and retreated in the tens of millions of years that followed.
The current Rocky Mountains began to rise about 70 million years ago. This new mountain-building process pushed areas that were once on the ocean floor high above today's sea level. One of those areas is the Minturn Formation of central Colorado.
The Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument on NASA's Landsat satellite captured this false-color image of part of the Minturn Formation on October 14, 1999. In this image, pink indicates bare ground, and green indicates vegetation. Snowy areas are light blue. Pale rivulet patterns in the southwestern (lower left) corner of the image show where streams drain from the mountains to the adjacent lowlands.
The large image shows brilliant green circles of center-pivot-irrigation fields and the pale pink crescent of the nearby Great Sand Dunes National Park.
Geologic formations like the Minturn are formally named groups of rock outcrops, and a formation is generally assumed to have formed at a certain time under certain conditions. The Minturn Formation and neighboring rock formations run through the area shown in this image, near Hermit Lake and Horseshoe Lake.
Many ancient rock formations are not easily identified from satellite images, and the Minturn is no exception. The formations are better identified by on-the-ground examinations of rock types and the fossils they contain. This image does, however, show the mountainous terrain that elevated ancient landscapes.
Centuries ago, scholars puzzled over how seashells could wind up on the tops of mountains. Fossil seashells are now recognized as the remains of ancient sea floors raised to high altitudes by mountain building.
Named for the nearby town of Minturn, the Minturn Formation preserves evidence of the ancient seaway, including fossil fish, mollusks, echinoderms (invertebrates related to modern starfish and sea urchins), brachiopods (invertebrates with a superficial resemblance to bivalves), and corals.
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A polite name for retard, could also be used as a synonym for atavism.
equals the phrase "flipping the bird" for giving the finger
You are such a Juhani
by Anonymusretard1 October 23, 2012
Juhani is a guy with a huge penis. Can also describe a good looking guy.
Orgin: legend tells about a guy named Juhani who possesed an gigantic penis. First spottet in the boys locker room after gymclass. No records can be found on this magestic penis
My cock is so Biiig that my name could be Juhani!
by flowlabero91 January 26, 2011
Finnish men name.
Finnish pronunciation sound like in English:
You-honey /juˈhʌni/.
Juhani is a common Finnish male given name.
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I saw a juhani in my dreams!
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You can’t make this stuff up. Israel is hell-bent to kill every living Palestinian they can. The restraint they do show is completely due to their desire to maintain as much positive public opinion as possible.
But shelling residential areas “accidentally”, and then in the "confusion" they prevent medical help from treating the wounded and dying, is a tactic they can write off to poor intelligence, and poor coordination. They are always so very sorry this had to happen.
Medics prevented from treating dying Palestinian mother
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