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How To Hold Planks Longer
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How To Hold Planks Longer
Introduction
How To Hold Planks Longer: Holding a plank position is a deceptively simple yet incredibly effective exercise for building core strength and endurance. But for many, the challenge lies in maintaining that position for an extended period. If you've ever struggled to hold a plank for more than a minute, you're not alone. The good news is that there are several strategies and techniques you can employ to help you increase your plank endurance and hold this beneficial exercise longer. We'll explore the secrets to pushing your plank limits. We'll delve into the proper form, breathing techniques, and the role of mental focus. You'll discover progressive exercises and variations to gradually enhance your plank prowess. Whether your goal is to improve your core strength, sculpt your abs, or simply extend your plank duration as a personal challenge, these tips and methods will be your roadmap to success.
Are you ready to transform your plank game and experience the satisfaction of holding this exercise longer and stronger we'll break down each element of the plank, starting with the foundation proper form. Correct alignment not only ensures you target the right muscles but also prevents strain and injury. You'll learn the subtle adjustments that can make a big difference. Breathing is another crucial factor. Many people underestimate the power of rhythmic breathing in maintaining a plank. We'll show you how to synchronize your breath with your plank, promoting endurance and reducing stress on your body.
But the physical aspects of planking are only part of the equation. Your mental state plays a significant role in your success. We'll explore techniques to boost your mental resilience, helping you push through the discomfort and embrace the challenge. We'll also progressive plank variations that will keep your workouts engaging while building core strength. By the have a comprehensive toolkit to hold planks longer, elevate your fitness level, and achieve your personal goals. So, let's embark on to plank mastery together.
How To Hold Planks Longer
How can I increase my plank hold time?
To hold your plank for as long as possible, Ligler says to "engage the quads and glutes, rotate those elbow creases forward to strengthen your posture, and finally find a rhythm to your breathing."
Proper Form: Ensure your body is in a straight line from head to heels. Engage your quads and glutes to maintain a strong posture. Rotate your elbow creases forward, which helps to activate the chest and prevent the shoulders from rounding.
Steady Breathing: Establish a consistent breathing rhythm. Inhale and exhale deeply and steadily to maintain oxygen flow to your muscles. This will help reduce muscle fatigue and improve endurance.
Progressive Training: Gradually increase the duration of your plank holds. Start with a time that challenges you but is sustainable, and then incrementally add a few seconds or more as your strength improves.
Mental Focus: Plank holding can be mentally challenging. Maintain your concentration and stay focused on your goal. Visualization can be helpful – picture yourself succeeding and surpassing your previous records. Incorporate different plank variations into your routine. Side planks, forearm planks, or plank leg lifts add diversity to your workouts and challenge your core from various angles
Is 1 minute plank a day enough?
Try performing the plank for a minimum of one minute at a time. Start by doing 1 plank a day to slowly 3 to 10 a day to reap the maximum benefits. Then, slowly also try side planks which can help improve your flexibility.
Progression: While a 1-minute plank is a good starting point, your muscles will adapt over time, and the exercise will become less challenging. To continue building core strength and endurance, it's advisable to gradually increase the duration of your planks.
Variety: Adding variety to your routine can target different muscle groups and prevent plateaus. Incorporating side planks, forearm planks, or plank variations can help you develop a well-rounded core and improve overall stability and flexibility.
Frequency: While the duration of a plank is important, the frequency of your planking routine also matters. Doing a single 1-minute plank a day may not provide enough stimulus to see significant improvements. It's to do multiple planks throughout the day or incorporate them into a well-rounded fitness routine.
Individual Goals: The effectiveness of a 1-minute plank varies from person to person, depending on their fitness goals. If your goal is core strength, you'll likely need to challenge yourself with longer planks or more repetitions.
Do planks burn belly fat?
While planks are effective for strengthening the core muscles, spot reduction of fat in a specific area, such as the belly, is not possible. To reduce overall body fat, including belly fat, a combination of regular exercise, a balanced diet, and a calorie deficit is necessary.
Spot Reduction Myth: Spot reduction, the idea that you can lose fat in a specific area of your body through targeted exercises, is a common fitness myth. In reality, your body burns fat uniformly from all over, and genetics play a significant role in determining where you lose fat first.
Body Fat Reduction: To reduce belly fat or fat in any area of your body, you need to focus on overall body fat reduction. This is achieved through a combination of cardiovascular exercise, strength training, and maintaining a calorie deficit. Cardiovascular exercises like running, cycling, or swimming help burn calories, while strength training (including planks) helps build lean muscle mass that can boost your metabolism.
Diet and Nutrition: A balanced diet and proper nutrition play a crucial role in losing body fat. Consuming fewer calories than you burn creates a calorie deficit, leading to fat loss. Focus on a diet rich in whole foods, lean proteins, healthy fats, and complex carbohydrates. Achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight and reducing body fat requires consistency in both exercise and nutrition. It's a gradual process that takes time.
Why is plank so hard?
The fact that the plank recruits so many muscle groups at once is what makes it one of those exercises that is much harder to perform than it looks. It's an effective way to tone your entire core (including your shoulders and glutes!), which also helps reduce back pain.
Engages Multiple Muscle Groups: Planks engage a wide range of muscle groups simultaneously, including the core, shoulders, back, and glutes. This comprehensive engagement makes it a full-body exercise, which can be physically demanding.
Isometric Contraction: Planks require isometric contraction, where muscles work to maintain a position without movement. This continuous tension can lead to muscle fatigue, making it challenging to hold the position.
Core Strength: Planks specifically target the core muscles, including the rectus abdominis, obliques, and transverse abdominis. Building and maintaining core strength is essential for good posture, stability, and reducing back pain. Planks demand strong core stability, which is crucial for supporting the spine and preventing injuries.
Endurance: Holding a plank requires endurance, as you must maintain the position for an extended period. Endurance exercises can be mentally and physically taxing. This element of stability adds to the difficulty, especially for those with weaker core muscles.
What is the longest plank?
A man from the Czech Republic has performed the longest abdominal plank ever recorded, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records. Josef Šálek, known to his friends as Joska, undertook the physically grueling challenge on May 20, 2023, maintaining a strict plank position for 9 hours, 38 minutes, and 47 seconds.
Breaking Records with Incredible Core Strength: In a testament to the indomitable spirit of human achievement, Josef Šálek, affectionately known as Joska, hails from the Czech Republic, etching his name into the history books. On the momentous day of May 20, 2023, Joska embarked on a journey that would redefine the limits of physical endurance. To set the record for the longest abdominal plank ever recorded.
A Grueling Challenge of Unwavering Determination: The plank exercise is renowned for its ability to strengthen the core muscles and enhance endurance, but what Joska set out to accomplish was nothing short of extraordinary. For an astonishing 9 hours, 38 minutes, and 47 seconds, he maintained a strict plank position, enduring the physical strain and mental fatigue that accompany such an extraordinary feat.
Guinness World Records Confirmation: Joska's incredible achievement did not go unnoticed. The Guinness Book of World Records, the ultimate authority on record-breaking achievements, confirmed and recognized his extraordinary accomplishment. It stood as a testament to his exceptional core strength, unwavering determination, and the power of human resilience.
How long should you be able to hold a plank?
Most experts suggest anywhere from 10 up to 30 seconds is plenty. "Focus on doing multiple sets of smaller amounts of time," says L'Italien. As you progress, you can extend your plank for up to one or even two minutes, but don't go beyond that.
Beginners: If you're new to planking, start with around 10-20 seconds. This is long enough to engage your core and get accustomed to the exercise. As you build strength, aim for 30 seconds to one minute per plank.
Advanced: Advanced individuals can work towards planks of one to two minutes. Beyond two minutes, the benefits may plateau, and it can put excessive strain on your shoulders and lower back. It's more to focus on proper form and engaging your core muscles during the plank than on the duration. If you can maintain excellent form for 30 seconds, it's better than a longer plank with compromised form.


more efficient. The disadvantage of such approach is that global information has time delay so that the topology may be different from the time when past consensus was reached. We consider this to be acceptable as long as the valid path is unique or almost unique, and the valid path still exists and will be selected by honest nodes with nontrivial probability at the time of validation.
To validate a path, we validate if each node on the route is relaying the packet to its neighbor that is closest to the destination address, considering only nodes that appeared in the last X blocks, where X is configurable. To be more specific, at each hop, let the node NKN address be x, the virtual ring can be separated into m segments, where segment i contains nodes whose NKN address is between (x + 2^i) mod 2^m (inclusive) and (x + 2^(i+1)) mod 2^m (exclusive). If there are any nodes within segment i, then the node in segment i that is closest to x will be a neighbor of node x. Similarly, if the destination NKN address is located in segment i, then the node in segment i that is closest to x should be the next hop which x should send the packet to. In practice, each node validating the path will check:
 1. The next hop is indeed in segment i
 2. No node that appeared in the last X blocks is in segment i and is closer to x than the next hop.
A hop is valid if it satisfies these two conditions. A path is valid if every hop is valid. Since the validation only utilizes information in the signature chain and data in previous blocks, every node in the NKN that receives the signature chain and has previous blocks information will produce the same output, ensuring the consistency of validation.
A consequence of the above validation algorithm is that, if any hop in a path should select a node which appeared in the last X blocks but is now offline, then the actual hop will skip that node and select its immediate successor instead, make the path invalid. This cannot be avoided unless information other than previous blocks is used (e.g. ping the skipped node to see if it's indeed offline). We argue that this false negative is acceptable because it can be viewed as another random factor that rejects a portion of honest signature chain, similar to the role of the hash of the signature chain. The probability that an actual valid path is identified as valid can be computed as p = (1 — N_off / N)^l, where N_off is the number of nodes that appear in the last X blocks and then go offline when the packet is being relayed, N is the total number of nodes in the network, and l the length of the path. One can choose smaller X or making nodes more stable to reduce N_off and increase the validation rate.
Verifiable Random Function (VRF)
The signature in signature chain needs to satisfy the following conditions:
 1. Only the secret key holder can produce valid signature, no one else can compute valid signature of a message without knowing the secret key, even if knowing the valid signatures of other messages;
 2. The signature of any message should be unique, i.e. only one signature is valid for any message and key pair.
The first property (verifiability) guarantees the signature is indeed signed by the secret key holder, while the second property (uniqueness) prevents relayers from computing multiple signatures for the same message and choose the one that has largest advantage (e.g. smallest signature).
Although elliptic curved based digital signature algorithms (e.g. ECDSA) provide verifiability, they do not produce unique valid output for the same input message. A random nonce can be chosen freely to produce multiple valid signatures, and validator does not know or verify what nonce is chosen. Even in some deterministic versions of ECDSA where the random nonce is chosen deterministically (e.g. hash of the message), malicious node can still choose different nonce and produces multiple valid signatures for the same message, while the validator cannot know if the nonce is chosen in the specified way. In contrast, hash function provides uniqueness but not verifiability as anyone can compute the output.
We use verifiable random function (VRF) to compute the "signature" in signature chain as it provides both verifiability and uniqueness. In addition to the output (signature) of the message, it also produces a proof which is needed to verify the signature. Similar to signature algorithms, valid signature can only be computed if the secret key is known. Unlike ECDSA, only one signature is valid for any message in verifiable random function, although the proof may not be unique.
NKN Address Scheme
Nodes and clients have different scheme when choosing NKN address.
First, it is important that NKN address of a node is random (or at least uniformly distributed and uncontrollable) for two reasons.
1) It is hard for malicious nodes to choose specific NKN addresses. Being able to choose NKN address makes it easier for malicious nodes to attack the system as neighbors and routing are based on NKN addresses.
2) Load is more balanced among nodes given random NKN addresses, effectively making the network more decentralized.
To guarantee the randomness of NKN address and prevent malicious nodes from choosing specific NKN address, a unique, unpredictable, uncontrollable yet still verifiable function is used to generate NKN address when a node joins NKN. We choose the hash of public IP address and latest block hash at the time of node joining
Node NKN address = hash(Node public IP address, latest block hash)
 such that it's verifiable by other nodes but unpredictable in advance.
Second, clients have different NKN address scheme from nodes. The scheme should satisfy the following properties:
 1) Client NKN address is permanent such that a client can be reached from the same NKN address when in different physical network.
 2) Client NKN address is associated with its public key to avoid NKN address collision so that other clients cannot receive packets sending to it.
NKN chooses the scheme such that client NKN address is computed from a url-like NKN address string consisting of an arbitrary string chosen by the client and its public key
Client NKN address = hash("arbitrary-string.client-public-key")
 In the NKN address string, the last substring separated by a dot (client public key) represents the unique identity of the client, similar to root domain in a url; the rest is chosen by the client, similar to subdomain in a url. Such a scheme satisfies the above two properties. In addition, a user (key pair holder) can generate as many NKN addresses as he wants sharing the same account (key pair).
 Clients do not distribute their NKN addresses directly. Instead, a client distributes its NKN address string to nodes or other clients and they compute the client's NKN address locally such that they know both the client's NKN address and public key at the same time. Using such a scheme, end-to-end encryption between any clients is easy to implement.
Mining Economic Model
The total number of NKN tokens (nkn) is one billion. When the mainnet goes alive, the genesis block will generate 70% nkn. The remaining 30% will be produced by mining data transmission, and the annual output will decrease linearly within 25 years, as shown in Figure 7. The annual supply (in millions) of NKN tokens (Q) is distributed according to the time variable "T" and is excavated according to the following formula:
Because the total amount of NKN tokens is limited and mining production decreases linearly over time. This part of the mining mechanism for issuing tokens is to encourage the community to participate in the co-construction and sharing of the new Internet. The cost of NKN token is determined by the bid between the customer and the miner (similar to the Ethereum system fee); therefore, the market price change of the NKN token does not affect the equivalent price of the data transfer transaction or data transfer fee.
Figure 7 nkn annual mining amount supply curves versus time
Building an Ecosystem
The NKN ecosystem has three main goals:
 1. Ultra open. Any device can easily access NKN whenever and wherever.
 2. Share network resources. Participants receive rewards from the NKN system by sharing idle network resources with others.
 3. Building network facilities together. NKN encourages individuals and organizations to deploy devices to serve other nodes and benefit from automatic settlement while enhancing network connectivity and throughput.
Therefore, the NKN ecosystem has four main elements: network equipment/device, network infrastructure, Internet service providers, and decentralized applications, as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8 NKN ecosystem elements and the value of NKN
In transforming traditional network infrastructure, NKN focuses on its own blockchain technology advantages and cooperation with traditional telecommunications and the Internet service providers. Recently, NKN joined the TIP (Telecom Infra Project) , a telecommunications alliance founded by Facebook, Deutsche Telekom, Intel, Telefonica, Nokia, Vodafone and BT. NKN will play a key role in the working groups such as Edge Computing Group, OpenCellular Group and TIP Community Labs. NKN's innovative economic incentive model combined with blockchain in the field of network transport will enable members of the TIP Alliance to embrace technology innovation more quickly and broadly.
In addition, NKN is also a member of the ONF(Open Networking Foundation). ONF is a non-profit organization of telecom industry giants such as AT&T, Google, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, NTT and Turkey Telecom, which aims to introduce open source innovation into formal commercial deployment. One of the


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Hot tar roofing is popular in Houston due to its ability to reduce energy costs, decrease the demand for routine maintenance, and eliminate the adverse impact of ultraviolet radiation. Professional commercial roofing contractors Houston TX use torches to design watertight layers that can serve you for over 35 years. Depending on your unique requirements, you can also add fire-resistant coatings and a layer made up of minerals that increase the grip of the hot tar roofs surface. The sheets are strong and enable the roof to withstand hail and fast-moving winds. Are you looking for a durable and fuss-free roofing system? As you can see, you have all the reasons to consider hot tar roofing.
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To avoid the risk of fire and explosion, you will need to keep your tar kettle 25 degrees or more below the flashpoint. Besides, flammable objects like wooden tools and rags will need to be far from the kettle. Your kettle will also need to be far away from plants and grass.
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Measure the roof's dimension and use the findings to estimate the amount of hot tar that you will need. In many cases, people use asphalt roofing tar, but you may need coal tar bitumen if your hot tar roof is significantly slanted with slopes and eaves. You can also collaborate with other experts if you need some help.
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Start pouring the hot tar from the furthest corner. Push the tar in smooth strokes using a fiberglass mop. Cover all the areas. Besides, be sure to keep all the layers thin. Also, ensure that the hot tar does not clump in a single section of the roof, as you roll. Carefully lay tar paper and make not less than three layers.
Remember, the installation process of hot tar roofs requires the service of an expert. If you are one, you will appreciate that these tips make it is easy to do the work. Typically, for every 200 square feet, professional roofers apply about 30 pounds of hot tar.
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Hot tar roofing has significantly fewer maintenance requirements than others. However, with time, you are likely going to need to repair tiny blisters. Trapped airs that exist below the surface of the roof's layers precipitate these roofing issues. To be able to eliminate the blisters, contractors install additional felt.
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The hot tar roofing's multi-layers successfully prevent too much heat from penetrating the commercial facility. At the same time, it ensures that warmth does not escape from the structure. As such, the roofing system helps to reduce the cooling cost during the summer. Also, it can reduce the heating cost of commercial buildings during the winter.
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Identified soyabean, common bean, cowpea and groundnut varieties with high Biological Nitrogen Fixation potential identified in N2Africa impact zones
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The United Nations General Assembly has voted on over 4500 resolutions or other matters since its founding through 2008. This Demonstration, based on data made available by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, creates pie charts showing the distribution of votes on almost all of those resolutions. You select a subset of the resolutions you wish to study, such as all resolutions containing the word "Israel" or the word "Africa". You then move a slider to select a particular resolution from this subset. The Demonstration responds by insetting a pie chart on a timeline showing the distribution of votes. If you hover your mouse over the short name of the resolution, a tooltip appears showing the date of the vote and providing a longer description of the issue.
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Using archival research, oral history interviews, and qualitative spatial analysis, my dissertation project explores the history and legacies of the Khao I Dang camp for Cambodian refugees. Established near the Thai–Cambodian border by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in the wake of the Cambodian genocide, Khao I Dang had a peak population of 140,000 and was, in many ways, the hub of the Cambodian relief operation.
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Specify element credentials in SCM
Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) elements, including SQL queries, scripts, registries, and files, can be executed using custom credentials. Credentials can be added to both custom and out-of-the-box profiles (although out-of-the-box profiles cannot be edited otherwise). When creating or editing an element, you can decide what credentials can be used during polling. SCM defaults to Use Orion default credentials if you don't specify credentials. This default also applies to elements that were created in previous versions of SCM. This setting means that everything is polled exactly the same as before using LOCAL_SYSTEM user on the Windows Agent and swiagent user on the Linux Agent. However, some elements, such as Database elements, require credentials, as Windows Authentication is not supported.
Adding credentials can be useful in a variety of situations. For instance, if you're searching for a particular configuration file, and previously, the agent did not have the permissions needed to access those files, you can now change the credentials so that you can access the files you're looking for. Similarly, if there is a PowerShell script you are trying to run, and previously, it did not have adequate permissions, you can now add credentials to that and run the script as desired.
There are a few limitations to custom credentials you should be aware of:
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 - Username length is limited to 255 characters.
 - Passwords cannot be empty.
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 1. Add a configuration element for monitoring.
 Step 1 - Define credentials
 2. Under Access Authentication, select Add new credentials from the drop-down menu.
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 3. Enter the desired credentials, and click Add.
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To set credentials for elements that have already been assigned:
 1. From Server Configuration Monitor Settings, click the Assigned Elements tab, and select the elements for which you'd like to set credentials.
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Vintage Baule Slingshot from Ivory Coast, Africa
This slingshot is mounted on lucite. The slingshots are carried by young boys for hunting birds and bats in the forest, sources of protein in places where that is often scarce. However, dangers abound, such as snakes, dangerous insects, and the rare predator. The slings are made, usually, by the father of the boy (though more wealthy families will commission one from a professional carver.) The carvings are talismanic, meant to protect the boy. Most carvings are of deities or spirits, often woodland spirits, which are always female and often red. European nail polish is a favored source of the red color. Masks abound, sometimes with the entire costume used in dance. There is a feeling that the mask carvings function best as protectors if they are facing the source of danger, and "right-side up," rather than upside down. For that reason, a sling will very often have two masks, facing in opposite directions; two masks, one oriented up and one down, or both. There may be up to eight masks, "to cover all the bases". Other subjects for the carving enhance hunting power or the chances of success. These include guns (or many types), soldiers, Christian religious symbols, or powerful animals (elephants, etc.) Occasionally, unusual subjects such as soccer players or soccer trophies will appear. The variety is virtually endless. The sling portion is usually rubber cut from old inner tubes. It almost never survives the stress of transport or the dry climate here.
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I came across the following exercise in Spivak's book: Suppose that you have a function $f$ such that $f'(x) \ge M > 0$, for any $x \in [0,1]$. I would like to show that there is an interval of length $1/4$ contained in $[0,1]$, on which $|f(x)| \ge M/4$.
My feeling is that this can be shown using the Mean Value Theorem: Applying this yields, for any $x \in (0,1]$, that $$ \frac{f(x) - f(0)}{x-0} \ge M. $$ However, I don't see how to proceed from here, as I don't have a lower bound for $f(0)$.
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Here's a proof that doesn't use the MVT. (Well, perhaps indirectly.) Suppose to the contrary no interval of length 1/4 satisfies the property. Hence, there must be a $t_0 \in [0,\frac{1}{4}]$ so that $|f(t_0)| < \frac{M}{4}$. We then have $\frac{-M}{4} \leq f(t_0)$, from which we obtain the inequality $$f(t + t_0) \geq Mt + f(t_0) \geq M\bigg(t - \frac{1}{4}\bigg).$$ We now see that if $t \geq \frac{1}{2}$, then $f(t + t_0) \geq \frac{M}{4}$. But $t_0 + \frac{1}{2} \leq \frac{3}{4}$, and so $f(x) \geq \frac{M}{4}$ on the interval $[t_0 + \frac{1}{2},1] \supset [\frac{3}{4},1]$.
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Nice answer, thanks! :) – somebody Oct 23 '12 at 4:58
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interval solution and an optimal $$$k + 2$$$ interval solution. Then make a bipartite graph out of the intervals, where edges are drawn between intervals that intersect. Here is an example for $$$k=7$$$ (the black bars symbolizes the intervals of the two solutions)
The bipartite graph then becomes
Bipartite graph
The reason for picking $$$k$$$ and $$$k + 2$$$ is because I want to create a $$$k + 1$$$ configuration from this that is at least as good as the mean of $$$g(k)$$$ and $$$g(k + 2)$$$. The method I apply is based on analysis of alternating paths in the bipartite graph, in particular what happens if you "flip" a path (meaning you exchange intervals between the two solutions). For example flipping the 3rd path from the left will result in
The 3rd path from the left has been flipped
The following is a proof of the existence of a $$$k + 1$$$ interval solution that contains at least as many $$$1$$$s as the mean of the optimal $$$k$$$ solution and the optimal $$$k + 2$$$ solution.
Formal proof
So conclusion from this is that $$$g(k + 1) \ge \frac{g(k) + g(k + 2)}{2}$$$, i.e. $$$g$$$ is concave.
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 Awesome! This kind of proof resembles the proof of convexity for Monge dynamic programming. This also has an additional nice property of being constructive.
 For the proofs using less brain, it seems the problem can be reduced into negative cycle canceling. Construct an edge $$$i \rightarrow i + 1$$$ with cost 0, and $$$j \le i$$$ with cost $$$-sum[i, j)$$$ for $$$i < j \le i + L$$$. Since negative cycle canceling is dual to the augmenting path, it should have the same convex property.
 In the contest, I thought the problem had an MCMF modeling. But after the contest, what I had in mind turned out to be wrong, and this is the best I could get afterwards.
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Just curious as to why is it that some problem names in the tutorial appear in Russian (like problem F), while others are in English? I have seen this in many previous editorials as well.
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For the solution of Verse for Santa, alot of macros are used. Its not that clear to me as i am not that fluent in c++ and macros are not defined in solution. Can someone please give reference to their full solution link. It will help me thanks. If its java then better.
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 Its a python solution, not a C++ solution.
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In the first question "New Year garland" For the second test case where 1 red, 2 green and 10 blue bulbs are given. we can arrange them as GRBGBBBBBBBBB But according to the question it should print NO
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In problem C its not clear to me for case.
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 First in array A {2 1 7 3 4 5 6},we need to remove first 4 element to grab 3 and putting back the removed elements in order of ({1,2,7} or {1,7,2}) and your array A become {1,2,7,4,5,6}; the total opearations you did before was 7{removing 4 elements + putting back 3 elements} and now you just need 1 more operation to remove 1 from A; so total no of operations = 7+1 = 8;
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I can't understand what (this choice is independent of choosing x and y) means in D problem, my solution works as follow:
 1. Find the number of possible triples(x,y,z).
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I was trying to figure out all possible triplets in Problem D . But I couldn't figure out all 8 possibilities .
Here is what I got ..
for the first case which is ---
2
2 2 1
1 1
(1 , 2 , 1) , (1 , 2 , 2)
(1 , 1 , 1) , (1 , 1 , 2)
(2 , 1 , 1) , (2 , 1 , 2)
Where (x , y , z) is ...
x = kid number .
y = one of the gifts kid x wants
z = the chosen gift y is given to kid z .
Now I am wondering what are 2 other possibilities ?
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 You are right, there are 6 possibilities. But they do not have the same probability.
 After first selection, both x = 1 and x = 2 have probability of 1/2. If he selected x = 2, then we have only 1 selection for y, so selection (x = 2, y = 1) also has probability of 1/2. Finally, each of (2, 1, 1) and (2, 1, 2) would be 1/4.
 In case of x = 1, both y and z have two options, so probability for each of (1, 2, 1), (1, 2, 2), (1, 1, 1), (1, 1, 2) is 1/8.
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In problem F, the claim is $$$ dp[n][k] = res(\lambda_{opt},c_{\lambda_{opt}}) - \lambda_{opt}k $$$.
Why is the last value $$$k$$$ instead of $$$ c_{\lambda_{opt}} $$$?
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From October 17 to 25, Middle and High School students participated in the Adolescer Project offered by educators of the Programa Arvorar Jovem. Students took part in workshops and activities to reflect on their emotions and the challenges of being a teenager, especially in these post-pandemic times.
Expanding young people's awareness of their role as protagonists of their own lives in a world that is in transformation is one of the primary purposes of the Arvorar Jovem Program. Inspired by the principles of the Bahá'í Faith, the Program seeks to align its educational work with the principles and values of the Faith. According to Faezeh Shaikhzadeh, educational psychologist and co-leader of the project, the main themes students learn include viewing adolescence as a time of transformation and understanding the importance of identifying and expressing one's emotions.
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The Torpedo products with a build in attenuator are rated for a specific power (measured in Watts). This means that the internal load box can dissipate up to this amount of power (assuming proper ventilation). A Torpedo Captor X for example can dissipate anything between 0 and 100 Watts.
If more power is fed into the Torpedo, it will overheat, and go into overheating protection. You will be warned about this, by means of a visual indication, a volume drop, and/or a mute of the sound, depending on the Torpedo product. So, in order to prevent the Torpedo to go into overheating protection, you have to fed it no more than its rated power.
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Every amplifier is rated for a certain amount of Watts. This means that the amplifier is capable of outputting "this" much power. However, this does not mean that the amplifier actually outputs "this" much power in any situation: a 150 Watts amplifier does not output 150 Watts as soon as it is turned on. The output power is related to the actual output volume of the amplifier, which is dependant on many things (amount of distortion, EQ, output level of the guitar…), but is mostly controlled by the Volume or Master Volume control. So if you keep the output volume of any amplifier low enough, no matter how powerful it is, you can make it output less than any chosen amount of power.
Of course, it is almost impossible to know what the actual output power of your amplifier is in any particular situation. In particular, please note that the power output is in no way proportional to the Volume control: when the Volume is set to 50% (12 o'clockish), the output power is never half the rated power of the amplifier! It can be 10%, 90%, or even already the maximum power. So, if your amplifier is rated for more than what your Torpedo is rated for, you still can use it, you just have to play it low enough. For this, you will have to use your best judgement.
 - Some tube amps, mostly vintage (or from vintage inspiration) ones, can output more power than advertised. This is because power rating used to, and sometimes still is, given when the amp is played approximately clean. But when played distorted, the amp can output more power. In this case, the actual power output can usually go up to 1.5x the rated power. For example, it is not uncommon to see a 100W vintage non-master volume and/or single channel tube amp outputting up to 150W when cranked up to max. As a general rule, if the amp has 4 output tubes (typically 4 6L6 or 4 EL34), it can probably output more than 100W when played distorted at high volume. You should keep that in mind when playing them on a 100W load box/attenuator, like the Torpedo Live, Captor X or Captor.
 - A 120W amplifier is not that much more powerful than a 100W amplifier. These 20 extra Watts are likely to be there only if you play the amp loud. At moderate settings, it will probably output less than 100W. However, the point just above still applies. In short, you are probably safe using a 120W amp with any Torpedo product/attenuator rated for 100W or more, but keep these limitations in mind and proceed with caution.
 - Very powerful amps can still be used with Torpedo products, but care should be taken when using them. Here at our offices, we've been using a 500W bass amplifier for years on all our Torpedo products with an attenuator without any problems, so it's not impossible. We just, as already stated, keep its level way down.
 - Generally speaking, a good starting point is to keep all the settings of your amp just like when you are using it on an actual speaker cabinet.
 - And if you have any doubt, don't hesitate to ask the manufacturer of your amp about its actual output power in your particular situation.
When using your amplifier with a Torpedo product for the first time, monitor both the amplifier and the Torpedo. Does the amplifier sound OK? Do the output tubes of your amplifier heat more than usual? Do they turn red? Is the air flowing out of the Torpedo really hot? If anything seems wrong, lower the volume of your amplifier. If everything seems OK, you can go on.
On an adjacent topic, please refer to the user manual of the various Torpedo products for notes on what the ideal output volume is for your amplifier (regardless of its rated power). Playing an amplifier as loud as possible is not always the best idea.
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Influential historian and feminist Catharine Macaulay
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When given the opportunity to help themselves and other chimps they often choose the selfish option, scientists report in today's issue of the journal Nature.
"This is the first experiment to show that chimps don't share the same concern for the welfare of others as do humans, who routinely donate blood... volunteer for military duty and perform other acts that benefit perfect strangers," says Professor Joan Silk, a US anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
To test how altruistic chimps are, Silk and her colleagues studied the behaviour of two separate groups of chimps in captivity.
They devised an experiment in which chimps on one side of a window could pull a handle to provide a tray of food for themselves or to also give the same reward to a monkey in another room on the opposite side of the window.
Both groups of unrelated chimpanzees behaved in a similar way. They decided to reward themselves but not others.
The scientists say chimps may have not understand they could deliver food to the other room.
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India's Smart Metering Breakthrough IndexThis issue: Uttar Pradesh leads our smart metering breakthrough index with the strongest commitment to implementing smart metering at a large scale. Uttar Pradesh has also demonstrated a solid foundation of consumer engagement through electronic bill payment (e-payments). The runners up were smaller states like Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, and Manipur, which combined achievable goals with variable levels of e-payments.
Why it matters: Indian electricity distribution companies (discoms) face difficulties collecting revenues from their consumers. At the same time, many Indians are unsatisfied with poor quality electricity service. To break this cycle, India instituted the Smart Meter National Programme (SMNP.) Smart meters enable automated bill reading, deter corruption, and give discoms much more detailed information about demand, while also allowing consumers to adjust their usage throughout the day. Through reduced costs via automated reading and increased billing efficiency, India hopes its discoms will strengthen their financial situations while improving service.
How the Index works: We ranked states' smart metering progress according to three factors - the progress each state has made towards its smart metering goals; total share of smart meters deployed within each state; and the percentage of consumers paying their bills online. These factors help us gauge two things - how committed states are to using smart metering, and how well the existing discom payment structure can incorporate smart metering for paying bills.
Our data: Our smart metering data is from the discom assurance scheme (UDAY) government dashboard. UDAY evaluates states based on their most recent available data for both number of deployed meters as well as their progress towards their smart metering goals. Among the 28 states, 12 report zero on both parameters as there has been no reported deployment of smart meters. For e-Payment data, we used the Urban Uyoti Abhiyaan (URJA) dashboard which monitors hundreds of villages across India as part of the integrated power development scheme (IPDS.) For instances where the most recent month was unavailable, we used an average of all available data over the past twelve months.
We used a ten-point scale to assess each state's smart metering program based on three scores with different weights.
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- Uttar Pradesh has installed over 450,000 smart meters, 45 percent of all the smart meters in India. If we include Madhya Pradesh and Manipur, roughly 75 percent of the smart meters are in these three states.
- Small Eastern states perform especially well because they have small populations and modest goals.
- Many larger states, like Tamil Nadu, Punjab, and Maharashtra, have committed to large numbers of smart meters but have failed to realize these goals.
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Introduction
Replication is a key feature in database management systems that allows the synchronization of data between multiple database instances. It is commonly used for various purposes, such as high availability, disaster recovery, and data distribution. In some replication setups, publication slots are used to control the flow of changes between the master and replica databases.
This document guides you through the process of configuring replication slots and publications.
Please Note:
 - Replication slot and publication names in PostgreSQL are case-sensitive.
 - Having superuser privileges is crucial for obtaining data from a Replication slot. In the case of Amazon RDS, this means having superuser access, while on the Google Cloud Platform, you would need the cloudsqlsuperuser role to acquire the required REPLICATION permission.
 - In order to create a Publication, it is necessary to have superuser (or cloudsqlsuperuser) privileges, which will grant you the required CREATE permission.
Replication Slots Configuration
Activating replication slots allows for efficient and reliable data replication in PostgreSQL. By authorizing the Rivery user with the REPLICATION role, you enable the necessary permissions for managing replication slots.
These slots play a crucial role in the replication process by reserving space on the server to store replicated data before it is consumed. Proper configuration of replication slots is crucial for maintaining this setup.
To configure replication slots, the Rivery user must be granted the REPLICATION role. If the server does not already have a REPLICATION role, it can be created using the provided SQL commands in your PostgreSQL:
CREATE ROLE <replication_role_name> REPLICATION LOGIN;
Please ensure to replace <replication_role_name> with a role name of your preference.
Once the role has been created, execute the following SQL command to create a new login for Rivery's Log-Based extraction if it doesn't already exist:
CREATE USER rivery WITH <replication_role_name>;
In case the Rivery user already exists, use the following SQL command to assign the new role to the user:
ALTER USER rivery WITH <replication_role_name>;
Configure Replica Identity to Each Non-Keyed or Unique Table
To ensure that the previous values of a table are retrieved from the Write-Ahead Log (WAL) in Postgresql during DELETE events, it is necessary to configure the replication identity of the tables. Postgres offers 4 different types of REPLICA IDENTITY that dictate how events are written to the logical replication stream:
 - DEFAULT: This setting includes the previous values of a table's primary key columns only in UPDATE and DELETE events. In the case of UPDATE, it includes only the primary columns with changed values.
 - NOTHING: With this setting, the UPDATE and DELETE events do not contain any information about the previous values of any table column.
 - FULL: The previous values of all columns in the table are stored in the UPDATE and DELETE events when this setting is used.
 - INDEX: UPDATE and DELETE events include the previous values of the columns defined in the index named "index name". However, in the case of UPDATE, only the indexed columns with changed values are included.
For additional details regarding DELETE events, please refer to our Databases overview page.
Choose the appropriate replica identity option based on your requirements. For non-keyed or unique tables, the FULL option is often used to ensure accurate replication:
ALTER TABLE <schema>.<table> REPLICA IDENTITY FULL;
Replace <schema> and <table> with the actual names of the schema and table you want to modify.
Publication Slots Configuration
Publication slots configuration involves using the Create Replication Slot command in PostgreSQL to establish a slot dedicated to publishing data. This command serves the purpose of reserving a specific space within the primary database, exclusively intended for the designated publication slot. By creating such a slot, users gain the ability to efficiently and securely publish data to the primary database while ensuring seamless replication and synchronization with other databases.
The basic syntax to create a publication slot is as follows:
SELECT pg_create_logical_replication_slot('slot_name', 'plugin');
Replace 'slot_name' with a unique name for the publication slot, and 'plugin' with the name of the logical decoding plugin you intend to use for replication.
Custom Configurations
Once you have granted the appropriate permissions, Rivery will automatically generate replication slots and publications in a Postgresql database as part of its default configuration. However, you have the option to create dedicated replication slots or publications for specific Rivers according to your preferences.
Custom Replication Slots
With Rivery, you have the flexibility to set a custom Replication slot name. This name refers to the PostgreSQL logical decoding slot that is generated to stream changes from a particular plug-in for a specific database/schema.
Please Note:
If you do not provide a replication slot, a default one will be automatically created: Rivery_<account id>_<river id>_source.
Run this to view the replication slots and the associated data within them:
SELECT * FROM pg_replication_slots;
To create a replication, please perform the following commands in your database:
 1. Access the PostgreSQL client by logging in with superuser credentials.
 2. Execute the following command:
SELECT pg_create_logical_replication_slot('rivery_pgoutput', 'pgoutput');
 1. Assign the replication slot name to the River.
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Custom Publication Slots
You can create a publication for specific tables in your database, where only changes from those tables will be replicated by Rivery. To perform this action, you will need to have the CREATE privileges.
Please Note:
If a specific name is not provided, the default name for the following publication will be created: rivery_<account id>_<river id>_source.
In such cases, Rivery automatically executes the following command during the initial run and creates a publication for ALL TABLES:
 CREATE PUBLICATION rivery_<account id>_<river id>_source FOR ALL TABLES;
To create a publication for specific tables within your database, please perform the following commands:
 1. Log in to a PostgreSQL client as a superuser.
 2. Create publication for your tables.
CREATE PUBLICATION rivery_publication FOR TABLE movies, films, actors;
To remove or update the list of tables under a publication:
ALTER PUBLICATION rivery_publication ADD/DROP TABLE my_table;
Optionally, you can also choose to create a publication for specific operations on particular tables:
CREATE PUBLICATION rivery_insert_only FOR TABLE movies WITH (publish = 'INSERT');
 1. Ensure that your tables are included in the publication.
SELECT * FROM pg_publication_tables;
 1. Once you have created your publication, assign its name to the River.
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 2. To ensure the accurate insertion of the publication, please execute the following command:
SELECT pubname, puballtables, pubinsert, pubupdate, pubdelete
FROM pg_publication
WHERE pubname = 'rivery_insert_only';
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Fumitory (Fumaria spp.)
Flowering Fumaria muralis
(Photo A. Storrie)
Fumitory, also known as carrot weed, is the widely used name for several species of Fumaria. Worldwide there are about 50 species of which eight are recorded in Australia.
Fumitory is an autumn and winter growing annual, glabrous (hairless) herb with a semi-erect climbing habit. Leaves are alternate, divided, deeply lobed and light green to bluish-green. Stems are irregularly five-angled, are brittle, may be reddish and contain a watery, greenish latex. The flowers are arranged in racemes and colour ranges from white to mauve depending on species. The plants vary greatly in their morphology depending on the growing conditions but also within species, particularly for F. bastardii. This variability leads to difficulty in the correct identification of the species.
Factors that make Fumitory a major weed:
- A long-lived seed bank
- The ability to germinate over a range of temperatures
- Genetically variable allowing adaption to different conditions
- Fumitory species have varying susceptibility to herbicides
Further detail about this weed including integrated weed management tactics that could be considered when developing a management plan can be found in the section on problem weeds in the new Integrated Weed Management Manual.
Ecology and biology of common weeds are outlined in section 6 of the Integrated Weed Management Manual.
Best management practices for dryland cropping systems - Fumitory fact sheet (Murrumbidgee CMA)


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Search by keyword or browse by county to learn about more than 600 historical markers created to recognize key locations, events, and people in Oklahoma history.
In 1976 the Oklahoma Historical Society published Mark of Heritage. Written by Muriel Wright, George Shirk, and Kenny Franks, this publication contains information about historic sites and historical markers in Oklahoma.
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The school was opened as a learning center for Chickasaw girls in 1859 under the supervision of the Cumberland Presbyterian Board. In 1887, the name was changed to Chickasaw Orphan Home and Manual Labor School. The first post office, called Burney Academy, opened on July 3, 1860.
Located on OK-32, 1 1/2 miles east of Lebanon
This frontier post was named for Brigadier General Henry Leavenworth, commander of the Dragoon Expedition through Oklahoma in 1834. Leavenworth died nearby after being injured in a buffalo hunt. Some historians call the 1834 expedition the greatest expeditionary force in the annals of the US Army.
Located on US-70 at west side of Kingston
Red River Bridge
The Red River bridge, constructed in 1931, was the site where Oklahoma Governor William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray defied a federal court injunction and stood with National Guard troops to make the toll bridge a free bridge. It became the first free bridge across the Red River. The structure was replaced with a new bridge in 1996.
Located in Colbert City Park, Colbert, Oklahoma
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Alignment 103: The Waist
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Find your springs.
Alignment 101: The Feet
During the first class of each introductory program (and oftentimes to answer an advanced student's question), my teacher would paraphrase one of the more commonly known Tai Chi Classics:
The chi is rooted in the feet, springs from the legs, directed by the waist, channeled up the spine through the shoulders, and finally expressed through the hands and fingers.
Keep those words in mind when looking for ways to improve your practice. Let's have a look at our feet for now.
Rooting the Feet
A lot of texts and websites indicate that a practitioner should be able to feel the grounded foot rooting three feet into the earth at all times. Surely, a solid connection with the earth ensures proper balance and is critical for the transfer of energy. But how is this accomplished?
One's weight should be evenly distributed on each supporting foot, front to back, inside to outside. This should be felt throughout each posture of the form. If, during a push, you find more pressure in the ball joint of the yang leg, you have over-committed. If your toe comes off the ground when rolling back, you have given too much ground. Rolling to the inside or outside of the foot indicates a lack of balance while transferring weight or traveling across the floor.
Take some time to check in with your root; make sure every step you take is fresh and new. When the foot is lifted, empty it and allow your calf muscles to relax (yin). Bring it to its destination with a purpose; make sure it connects firmly along all four sides. This will allow you to listen as you transfer your weight to it.
During this whole process of lifting and stepping, the yang foot must remain firmly connected as your center of gravity rises above it. Difficulties here are symptomatic of misalignment or joint weakness further up the chain (the legs, the waist). Those are topics for another day, but for now practice listening to the foot as it empties, connects with the earth and fills. You may need to slow the form for now (or perhaps even leave the arms out of the equation), but know that a small amount of investment here will strengthen the foundation of your practice.


to return "a double value with a positive sign, greater than or equal to 0.0 and less than 1.0" That is, inclusive of 0.0 but exclusive of 1.0
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It's theoretically possible for math.random() to return a zero value, but in the real world, you can count on it virtually never happening.
I once ran my pc for a week straight waiting for one, it generated about ten trillion random numbers, no zeros.
But more directly, it is practically exclusive both ways.
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Not theoretically possible, but completely possible. See the answer provided by _USER_ and the comments. – Amru E. Nov 15 '13 at 17:58
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Earth Day Photo & Essay Contest
31 July 2010 | News story
More than 800 students in grades 5-8 took part in a unique national contest to photograph our changing world. The contest was organized by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. From CEC Specialty Group Leader Nancy Colleton of IGES.
Arlington, Va.-- More than 800 students in grades 5-8 took part in a unique national contest to photograph our changing world. The winning photos capture nature in action across the country, from the rocky California coast, to the vulnerable Louisiana wetlands, to the picturesque north shore of Long Island.
This was the fourth-annual Earth Day Photo & Essay Contest held by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES).
"We're delighted that so many young students had the chance to discover the value and fun of documenting the nature and science of our changing planet through photography," said IGES President Nancy Colleton. "The quality of the entries was truly remarkable and made it quite challenging to select the winners."
Along with their photograph of something changing in their local environment, middle schoolers submitted an essay answering the following questions:
- What is the change taking place in your photograph?
- What may be causing the change?
- Was the change expected?
- How might the change impact surrounding areas, including people?
- How might this picture look different in the future?
Entries were judged by IGES staff based on relevance to the contest theme (depiction of change in the environment), uniqueness and overall appearance of the photo, and quality of the written explanation.
Martin Serrano, a sixth-grader from Rye Brook, N.Y., earned first place with his photograph of a yellow jacket building a nest. "Our environment is constantly changing in beautiful ways. What we see in my photograph is a queen yellow jacket building a nest after having mated with one or several male wasps," reads an excerpt from Serrano's essay. "This yellow jacket will soon lay eggs and store them separately in the small cavities of the sack also shown in the photograph. This way every egg will have its own cell."
Jessica Steinort, a seventh-grader from Scarborough, Maine, won second place with her picture of a road flooded out by a torrent of water. Steinort wrote: "This road was changed by the force of nature faster than a running gazelle, as are many natural disasters. Hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, these are all this flooded-out road on a massive scale. One change, one extra inch of snow, one more droplet of water, can change the world forever. Blink and you'll miss it."
Third place went to Andrew Broffman, an eighth-grader from East Norwich, N.Y., whose colorful snapshot captured flowering tree branches framing a blue sky with clouds and birds.
The top three winners receive a digital camera, digital photo frame and digital photo keychain, respectively. The top 10 (including the top 3) winners receive their photograph in a commemorative frame.
To view the winning photos from this year and previous years, please visit:
About IGES: Located in Arlington, Va., IGES was established in 1994 and is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization supported by public and private entities. IGES is a trusted leader in Earth and space science education, communication and outreach, and in fostering national and international cooperation in observing the Earth.
Sponsor a Student Contest: Is your company or organization looking for a way to support science education? Contact IGES at _EMAIL_ sponsorship opportunities. In addition to the photo contest for grades 5-8, IGES offers a science-themed art contest for students in grades 2-4, and cash awards for grades 9-12 students demonstrating the best use of geospatial tools or data to study Earth.
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The current flooding in Central Europe is already being hailed as the worst in decades. In some parts of the region, flooding is reaching or surpassing the destruction left behind by the 2002 "hundred-year floods" — not unlike those that hit California, as reported by Anne Pinckard in our upcoming Summer 2013 issue.
But the weather patterns behind the 2002 and 2013 Central Europe floods differ, which "reflects the nature of the beast," as Berkeley climatologist Pardeep Pall puts it.
Pall, who was part of the climateprediction.net project before coming to Berkeley, speculates that the 2002 flooding was due to a "blocking" high-pressure system over Northern Europe that diverted other weather systems coming in from the Atlantic. These systems tracked over to the Mediterranean before swinging back and dumping rain over Central and Eastern Europe.
The current flooding is the result of a low-pressure system that has set up camp over the area. This isn't unusual, but the volume of rain that has fallen in some areas has historic significance. For instance, Salzburg recorded an entire month's worth of precipitation within the first two days of June.
Though residents of the region can expect some weather relief in the coming days, it is likely that flooding will become more common due to rising temperatures in Europe. In general, a warmer atmosphere can carry and transport more water vapor, so when a system reaches a point where rains start to fall, there will be more of it, and storms will be more intense, says Michael Dettinger, a research hydrologist at the USGS.
Dettinger also predicts that existing storms will rise in "juiciness." Bigger storms will get bigger, and others will graduate into that category. This isn't great news for the residents of Central Europe.
When asked if he thought California would be ready for such a disaster, Dettinger was sort of reassuring: "I think we are never going to be entirely ready for the worst that Nature can throw at us, but California is making valiant efforts to be as well prepared as possible."


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Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers are analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential use in constructing seismic-resistant structures.
"Shape-memory alloys exhibit unique characteristics that you would want for earthquake-resistant building and bridge design and retrofit applications: they have the ability to dissipate significant energy without significant degradation or permanent deformation," said Reginald DesRoches, a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Georgia Tech researchers have developed a model that combines thermodynamics and mechanical equations to assess what happens when shape-memory alloys are subjected to loading from strong motion. The researchers are using the model to analyze how shape-memory alloys in a variety of components — cables, bars, plates and helical springs — respond to different loading conditions. From that information, they can determine the optimal characteristics of the material for earthquake applications.
The model was developed by DesRoches, School of Mechanical Engineering graduate student Reza Mirzaeifar, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering associate professor Arash Yavari, and School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering professor Ken Gall.
A paper describing the thermo-mechanical model was published online Feb. 3 in the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. This research was supported by the Transportation Research Board IDEA program.
To improve the performance of structures during earthquakes, researchers around the world have been investigating the use of "smart" materials, such as shape-memory alloys, which can bounce back after experiencing large loads. The most common shape-memory alloys are made of metal mixtures containing copper-zinc-aluminum-nickel, copper-aluminum-nickel or nickel-titanium. Potential applications of shape-memory alloys in bridge and building structures include their use in bearings, columns and beams, or connecting elements between beams and columns. But before this class of materials can be used, the effect of extreme and repetitive loads on these materials must be thoroughly examined.
"For standard civil engineering materials, you can use mechanics to look at force and displacement to measure stress and strain, but for this class of shape-memory alloys that changes properties when it undergoes loading and unloading, you have to consider thermodynamics and mechanics," explained Yavari.
The Georgia Tech team found that the generation and absorption of heat during loading and unloading caused a temperature gradient in shape-memory alloys, which caused a non-uniform stress distribution in the material even when the strain was uniform.
"Shape-memory alloys previously examined in detail were really thin wires, which can exchange heat with the ambient environment rapidly and no temperature change is seen," said Mirzaeifar. "When you start to examine alloys in components large enough to be used in civil engineering applications, the internal temperature is no longer uniform and needs to be taken into account."
To predict the internal temperature distribution of shape-memory alloys under loading-unloading cycles, which could then be used to determine the stress distribution, the researchers developed a model that used the surface thermal boundary conditions, diameter and loading rate of the alloy as inputs.
The team included ambient conditions in the model because shape-memory alloys for seismic applications could operate in a variety of environments — such as water if used in bridge structures or air if used in building structures — which would produce different rates of heat transfer. The researchers used a thermal camera to record the variation in surface temperature of shape-memory alloys experiencing loading and unloading.
Using their model, the researchers were able to accurately predict internal temperature and stress distributions for shape-memory alloys. The model results were verified with experimental tests. In one test, they found that a shape-memory alloy loaded at a very slow rate had time to exchange the heat created with the ambient environment and exhibited uniform stress. If it was loaded very rapidly, it did not have enough time to exchange the heat, leading to a non-uniform stress distribution.
"Our analytical solutions are exact, fast and capable of simulating the complicated coupled thermo-mechanical response of shape-memory alloys considering temperature changes and loading rate dependency," said Mirzaeifar.
In future work, the researchers plan to examine more complicated shapes and the effects of combination loading — tension, bending and torsion — to optimize shape-memory alloys for earthquake applications.
This project is supported by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies (Award No. NCHRP-147). The National Academies has rights to the data and the content is solely the responsibility of the principal investigators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Academies.
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2012 Scaup Numbers
Greater and lesser scaup are counted together, because they are difficult to distinguish during aerial surveys. Greater scaup are estimated to constitute roughly 11 percent of the continental scaup population. Scaup populations have steadily declined since the 1980s.
2012: 5.239 million +21% from 2011
2011: 4.319 million
% Change from long-term average: +4%
Learn more about greater scaup and lesser scaup in our waterfowl identification gallery.


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This one confused me for a long time, so I figured I should write this down before I forgot again.
Let be an abstract smooth manifold. We want to define the notion of a tangent vector to at a point. With that, we can define the tangent space, which will just be the (real) vector space of tangent vectors at.
Geometrically, we know what this should look like for our usual examples. For example, if is a circle embedded in, then the tangent vector at a point should just look like a vector running off tangent to the circle.
Similarly, given a sphere, the tangent space at a point along the sphere would look like plane tangent to at.
However, the point of an abstract manifold is that we want to see the manifold as an intrinsic object, in its own right, rather than as embedded in. This can be thought of as analogous to the way that we think of a group as an abstract object in its own right, even though Cayley's Theorem tells us that any group is a subgroup of the permutation group. (This wasn't always the case! During the 19th century, a group was literally defined as a subset of or of. In fact Sylow developed his theorems without the word "group" Only much later did the abstract definition of a group was given, an abstract set which was independent of any embedding into, and an object in its own right.) So, we would like our notion of a tangent vector to not refer to an ambient space, but only to intrinsic properties of the manifold in question.
So how do we capture the notion of the tangent to a manifold referring just to the manifold itself? Well, the smooth structure of the manifold lets us speak of smooth functions. In the embedded case, we can thus think of taking a directional derivative along (i.e. some partial derivative). To give a concrete example, suppose we have a smooth function and a point. By the structure of a manifold, near the point, looks like a function on some neighborhood of the origin in So we are allowed to take the partial derivative of with respect to any of the vectors in.
For a fixed this partial derivative is a linear map. It turns out this goes the other way: if you know what does to every smooth function, then you can figure out which vector it's taking the partial derivative of. This is the trick we use in order to create the tangent space. Rather than trying to specify a vector directly (which we can't do because we don't have an ambient space), we instead look at arbitrary derivative-like functions, and associate them with a vector. More formally, we have the following.
This is just a "product rule". Then the tangent space is easy to define:
In fact, one can show that the product rule for is equivalent to the following three conditions:
- is linear, meaning.
-, where is the constant function on.
- whenever. Intuitively, this means that if a function vanishes to second order at, then its derivative along should be zero.
This suggests a third equivalent definition: suppose we define
to be the set of functions which vanish at (this is called the maximal ideal at ). In that case,
is the set of functions vanishing to second order at. Thus, a tangent vector is really just a linear map
In other words, the tangent space is actually the dual space of ; for this reason, the space is defined as the cotangent space (the dual of the tangent space). This definition is even more abstract than the one with derivations above, but it has the advantage (or so I'm told) that it can be transferred to other settings (like algebraic varieties).
EDIT (Oct 5 2015): Reproducing this Reddit comment by tactics, The beauty of the definition given in this blog post is stuffed away into an easily-forgotten sentence. This definition:
- Does not rely on any kind of parametrization, and
- It is defined only in terms of the ring of "regular functions" defined on the space.
The former is nice for philosophical reasons. The latter is nice because we can pull in a lot of intuition about manifolds into the study of algebraic varieties, and similarly, we can inject a lot of ring theory into the study of manifolds.
With all these equivalent definitions, the last thing I should do is check that this definition of tangent space actually gives a vector space of dimension. To do this it suffices to show verify this for open subsets of, which will imply the result for general manifolds (which are locally open subsets of ). Using some real analysis, one can prove the following result:
Thus, it follows that there is an isomorphism
and so the cotangent space, hence tangent space, indeed has dimension.


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Both Celsius and Fahrenheit units are supported to show the current temperature on Google Now. To change weather units Google Now, do as follows:
1. Open Google Now (Google application) on your device)
2. Find the Weather card, and tap exclamation icon on the top right
3. Select "Weather units"
4. Choose either Celsius or Fahrenheit
** If you search Weather in the Google search bar, then you just need to tap C or F, to toggle between Celsius Fahrenheit


A. Núñez, "Pensar de otro modo"
Pensar de otro modo: política, hermenéutica y postestructuralismo
Amanda Núñez (UNED, Madrid)
This paper attempts to analyze the difference between two "cannot say" in the field of language. There is the "cannot say something" inside one structure, that is, within a framework of possibility and there is, on the other hand, a "cannot say" impossible in a structure. With that difference, this paper notice how the second "cannot say" must become a creative saying, i.e. a think otherwise radically different if we want transform our societies. Well, despite what we may think, the political issue not only involves an organized otherwise but, fundamentally, one thinks otherwise.
Marx, Deleuze, Politics, Psychoanalysis, Hermeneutics.
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|Nepenthes candalaga Lagunday & V.B.Amoroso, |
in Lagunday, Rosa, Cleofei, Patano, Coritico & Amoroso, 2022.
A new endemic species, Nepenthes candalaga (Nepenthes sect. Alata) from Mt. Candalaga (eastern Mindanao, Philippines) is here described and illustrated. This new taxon resembles N. justinae but can be easily distinguished in having the lamina with 2‒3 longitudinal nerves, orbicular lid, non-bifid lid spur tip, triangular lid appendage, short banner-shaped trap wings, and absent upper pitcher rim. The species is assessed as Critically Endangered (CE) according to the IUCN criteria. This novelty is the 38th species of Nepenthes in Mindanao making the island with the highest concentration of Nepenthes species in the Philippines. This discovery increases the number of Nepenthes species in the Philippines to 61. The new taxon described faces threats of deforestation and habitat loss without legislative protection.
Keywords: Eudicots, Taxonomy, Nepenthes, threatened species, Mt. Candalaga
Nepenthes candalaga Lagunday & V.B.Amoroso
NEPENTHES CANDALAGA, DAVAO DE ORO'S NEWEST ENDEMIC SPECIES


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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Conclusion of the 3rd Grade Rice Planting Experiment
Remember back to the beginning of this experiment? 3rd grade students planted rice from 2009 and 2010 seeds and planted half in peat pellets and half in pots with soil. The conclusion of this experiment was interesting. First, as most students hypothesized, the 2010 seeds did better that the 2009 seeds, most likely because they were "fresher". The pots with soil did a LOT better than the peat pellets. The students concluded that this was because the seeds had more room to germinate in the pots.


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Divine, Father, c.1882–1965, African-American religious leader, founder of the Peace Mission movement, b. probably near Savannah, Ga. and named George Baker. After preaching in the South, he moved to Harlem (1915) in New York City, became one of the neighborhood's biggest landlords, acquired wealth through other businesses, including restaurants and grocery stores, and began styling himself Major M. J. Divine, later Father Divine. Although once dismissed as a cult leader, he built the largest religious movement in northern ghettos during the Great Depression. His role as an early civil-rights activist—he led antilynching campaigns, instituted economic cooperatives, and organized political action against racial discrimination—has come to be more appreciated. The movement spread beyond New York City to other places in the United States and abroad, sometimes after the group sent whites to purchase property in segregated areas. During the 1940s, his health and influence declined, but his movement symbolized the progressive spirit in the black church and helped define the church's active role in the civil-rights movement.
See S. Harris, Father Divine (rev. ed. 1971); K. E. Burnham, God Comes to America (1979); R. Weisbrot, Father Divine (1984); J. Watts, God, Harlem U.S.A. (1992).
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