Ikkyū and Sōgi on Art and Enlightenment: a koan
How can a thing be both path and obstacle at once?
The poet Sōgi said to Master Ikkyū, "I am vexed by the koan of the tree falling in the forest. It asks, if there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
"Are you sure that's a proper koan?" replied Ikkyū.
"I think so," said Sōgi. "It's a paradoxical riddle demonstrating the inadequacy of logical reasoning, right?"
"Whatever. Go on."
"I fear I am that tree," Sōgi said. "I have written many poems. I have offered them to the world but none have been accepted. The tree falls and none hear it. The poet writes and no one listens. It is as though I have not existed at all."
"Congratulations, my friend."
"Congratulations? For failure?"
Ikkyū sighed. "We understand that nothingness is the path to Enlightenment. So it must be for Art. A poem which calls attention to itself is a creature of ego, as is a poet who desires acclamation.
"Poetry can only be Enlightened if it goes unread. Or better, unwritten. Our greatest poets are Unborn."
With his finger he traced in the dirt what may have been a Lotus flower, although it was hard to say, what with dirt being such a poor medium for fine detail.
Sōgi reflected on Ikkyū's words. "So, that means if I write a poem and someone reads it…"
"Yes," said Ikkyū. "You have impeded their path to Enlightenment."
"Then all expressions of Art must be…"
"But," said Sōgi, "Art is a way we refine and communicate the essence of Enlightenment. How can a thing be path and obstacle at once?"
"Perhaps," replied Ikkyū, "that is a koan for you."
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text: From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus – the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction – was a subject of intense concern to medieval people. Bede's The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) was the first comprehensive treatise on this subject, and the model and reference for all subsequent teaching, discussion and criticism of the Christian calendar. The Reckoning of Time is a systematic exposition of the Julian solar calendar and the Paschal table of Dionysius Exiguus, with their related formulae for calculating dates. But it is more than a technical handbook. Bede sets calendar lore within a broad scientific framework and a coherent Christian concept of time, and incorporates themes as diverse as the theory of tides and the threat of chiliasm. This translation of the full text includes an extensive historical introduction and a chapter-by-chapter commentary. The Reckoning of Time also serves as an accessible introduction to the computus itself.

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From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Dipaka)
By Jit Majumdar
Sometimes transliterated as: Dipaka, DIpaka, Dipaka
 1. lighting; illuminating; inflaming
 2. lamp; flame
 3. another name for Kāma; the saffron plant (Crocus sativus); a famous rāga, which is rarely sung in modern times and is considered as having he power to set the surroundings on fire if sung perfectly.


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Odds are if you've ever purchased a flag online or at a store, it was probably 3 ft. by 5 ft. or 4 ft. by 6 ft. In fact, all of the flags in that store were probably that same size. What you may not know is that a flag's actual aspect ratio (how long the flag is compared to how tall the flag is) varies greatly from country to country. Even most versions of the American flag are probably in the wrong aspect ratio.
A flag's aspect ratio depends greatly on the country's original ruler. British flags have a 1:2 ratio, Dutch and French Flags are generally a 2:3 ratio, and Germanic flags have a 3:5 ratio. While this is often true, it is far from a rule. America's flag serves as a prime example. As a former colony of Britain, one would expect Old Glory to have a ratio of 1:2. However, it is officially a 10:19 aspect ratio.
There are a host of other notable flags that skew from the norm. Switzerland's and Vatican City's flags are completely square (1:1 ratio). Qatar's flag has a ratio of 11:28, making it the only flag with a width more than twice its height. El Salvador has one of the most specific proportions with a ratio of 189:335. The most uniquely shaped country flag is Nepal, the only non-rectangular country flag and one of only a handful of country flags with an irrational aspect ratio, approximately 1.21901:1.Despite all of these differences, most flags end up leaning towards what is referred to as "the Golden Ratio," a proportion that is scientifically pleasing to the eye. The "Golden Ratio" is technically defined where the ratio between two numbers is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. In short, the Golden Ratio is about 1.618. While a 3:5 ratio comes very close to the golden ratio, only the flag of Togo uses an exact golden ratio proportion.
With all of these specific ratios, one might ask why most versions of flags on the market are in improper ratios? The answer is simple: production costs. It is much cheaper to make all of your flags the same size. The only people who are vigilant of aspect ratios are governments and flag nerds (like me) who are generally more willing to pay a higher price to get a correct flag in a correct aspect ratio.

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Shri Amar Muni
The Difference Between Tirthankar and
Depending on mental alertness or dynamism of the practicer there are
numerous levels of practicers, viz. Jinakalpi (solitary), Abhigrahdhari
(who gives emphasis on specific resolution), Pramatta (partially alert),
Apramatta (absolutely alert), Saragi (partially detached), Vitragi
(absolutely detached), etc. The first step in this progression is Sadhu
(ascetic) and the last is Vitrag, Tirthankar and Kewal Jnani (omniscient).
Although there is no difference in the level of knowledge of a Tirthankar
and an omniscient, the status of Tirthankar has its own importance. It has
its own attributes and recognition. The difference between these two
states of highest purity are as follows -
1. In a Tirthankar there is precipitation of the Tirthankar-nam-karma.
This is absent in case of common omniscient.
2. For two earlier births a Tirthankar necessarily acquires
right-perception. It is not a rule for a common omniscient.
3. A Tirthankar while in the womb has Avadhi Jnan (all knowledge of
the physical world). It is not a rule for a common omniscient.
4. The mother of a Tirthankar has fourteen great dreams at the time
of conception. It is not so in the case of a common omniscient.
5. A Tirthankar is always a male, the case of Mallinath being an
unique exception. For a common omniscient this rule does not apply.
6. A Tirthankar is not breast-fed; whereas a common omniscient (Kewali)
7. A Tirthankar gives charity for one year immediately before Diksha,
as a rule. A Kewali does not necessarily.
8. A Tirthankar does not give discourse before attaining omniscience,
he may, however, answer a question. A Kewali does give discourses even
as a common ascetic.
9. In a Tirthankar�s life there are five auspicious events. It is not
so in case of a Kewali.
10. A Tirthankar acquires Manahparyav Jnan immediately after his
Diksha. A Kewali does not.
11. A Tirthankar is self-enlightened. A Kewali is not necessarily.
12. Before his Diksha a Tirthankar is formally asked for that by the
gods. For Kewali no god arrives.
13. A Tirthankar establishes the four pronged religious organization
or ford; not a Kewali.
14. A Tirthankar has a religious order; not a Kewali.
15. The principal disciples of a Tirthankar are Ganadhars. A Kewali�s
disciples are not.
16. A Tirthankar has eight auspicious attributes; not a Kewali.
17. A Tirthankar has thirty four unique attributes; not a Kewali.
18. A Tirthankar�s speech has thirty five unique attributes; not a
19. A Tirthankar in his progression to purity does not touch the I,
II, III, V and XI Gunasthans (the specific stages on the path of
purity); whereas a Kewali may touch all gunasthans except the XI.
20. A Tirthankar does not have Kewali-Samudghat (a special process of
spsiritophysical transformation); a Kewali has.
21. A Tirthankar is born in the Kshatriya caste. A Kewali may be from
any and all castes.
22. A Tirthankar has Sam-chaturasra Samsthn (one of the six types of
anatomical structures). A Kewali may have nay of the six.
23. The minimum and maximum age of a Tirthankar is 72 years and 8.4
million Purvas respectively. In case of a Kewali it is 9 years and 10
24. The height of a Tirthanakar may be between 7 Haath (about 7 feet)
and 500 Dhanush (about 2000 feet). A Kewali is between 2 Haath and 20
25. A Tirthankar may exist only in fifteen specific Karma-bhumi�s
(the worlds of action). A Kewali exists generally in the fourth part,
however, one born in the fourth part may attain the status during the
fifth part also.
26. A Tirthankar is always self initiated. A Kewali may also be
initiated by others.
27. A Tirthankar exists only in the third and fourth part, however,
one born in the fourth part may attain the status during the fifth part
28. Two Tirthankars never happen to meet each other; whereas Kewalis
29. The minimum number of Tirthankars existing at one time is twenty
and maximum is 170. For Kewali�s these numbers are 20 million and 90
30. The Ganadhars create the twelve canons based on Tirthankar�s
preaching. This is not so in case of a Kewali.
31. A Tirthankar does not face any afflictions after he becomes an
omniscient. A Kewali may have to face.
32. A Samavasaran (divine pavilion) is created for a Tirthankar; not
for a Kewali.
33. The first discourse of a Tirthankar is never a failure; it is not
necessarily so in case of a Kewali.
34. The soul of a Tirthankar always descends from the dimension of
gods or ascends from hell. The soul of a Kewali may come from any of the
35. In case of a Tirthankar the Vedaniya Karma (the Karma of
sufference) is of good-bad quality and the remaining non-vitiating
Karmas are of exclusively good quality. In case of a Kewali only the
Ayushya Karma (age determining) is of exclusively good quality, the
remaining three being good-bad.
36. Only worthy souls arrive in the assembly of a Tirthankar; whereas
in a Kewali�s assembly even unworthies may come.
37. There is only one Tirthankar in one specific area. Kewali�s may


Compound locomotive
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For the principles and other applications of the compound steam engine, see compound engine.
A compound locomotive is a steam locomotive which is powered by a compound engine, a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more phases.[1][2] Colloquially referred to as a compound engine, the locomotive is only one application of the compounding principle.
Introduction[edit]
The usual arrangement on a compound engine is that the steam is first expanded in one or two high-pressure (HP) cylinder(s), then having given up heat and losing pressure, it exhausts into a larger volume low-pressure (LP) cylinder, (or two, - or more), thus extending the cycle. Thus the cylinders can be said to work in "series" as opposed to the normal arrangement of a simple-expansion locomotive where they work in "parallel", the steam being expanded just once in any one cylinder. In order to balance piston thrusts of a compound, the HP:LP cylinder volume ratio has to be carefully determined, usually by increasing the LP cylinder diameter and/or by lengthening the stroke. In non-condensing engines, the HP:LP volume ratio is usually 1:2¼. On geared locomotives, cylinder volumes can be kept more or less identical by increasing LP piston speed. Strictly speaking compound only stands for double-expansion, but the term is loosely applied to any multiple-expansion engine. The instances where railway locomotives have employed triple-expansion with steam going from high pressure (HP) cylinder, to medium pressure (MP) cylinder and finally to a low pressure (LP) one are rare, but triple expansion engines were very common in steamships in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
The thinking behind compounding[edit]
For railway locomotive applications the main benefit sought from compounding is economy in fuel and water consumption plus high power/weight ratio due to temperature and pressure drop taking place over a longer cycle, this resulting in increased efficiency; additional perceived advantages include more even torque and in many cases, superior riding qualities with consequent less wear on the track. In situations where heavy grades and low axle loads were combined, the ordinary compound locomotive was often deemed to be the most viable solution. However, in the past, optimum performance demanded constant attention and expert handling, which usually made single-manning advisable, thus reducing a locomotive's availability. At the end of the steam age, this particular problem was being addressed by Andre Chapelon and Livio Dante Porta also actively pursued this line of research. Successful design of a compound locomotive demands a firm grasp of thermo- and fluid dynamics; that such has frequently not been the case is why many productions in the past have been far from optimal. This is especially true of locomotives built in the early years of the 20th Century. The problem not only affected compounds, but was dramatic in their case due to the long steam cycle which made them particularly sensitive to temperature-drop and condensation of the steam during its lengthy passage. In rebuilding older locomotives from 1929 onwards, Chapelon was able to inexpensively obtain what seemed almost "magical" improvements in power and economy by improving flow through the steam circuit, at the same time putting in a larger superheater in order to increase the initial steam temperature so that cooling took longer. Subsequently, in order to maintain a more constant temperature throughout the cycle, Chapelon successfully applied re-superheating between HP and LP stages plus steam-jacketed cylinders to an a "test-bed" freight locomotive, 160 A1 (tested 1948-51). Resuperheating was also a feature of L.D. Porta's prototype 4-8-0 rebuild: 'Presidente Peron'/'Argentina' (tested around the same time in Argentina from 1949). Proponents of simple expansion argue that use of early cut-off in the cylinder thus expanding small quantities of steam at each piston stroke obviates the need for the complication and initial expense of compounding and indeed multi-cylinder single expansion - this is an on-going debate.
Compound systems[edit]
There are many compound systems and configurations, but we can define two basic types, according to how HP and LP piston strokes are phased and hence whether the HP exhaust is able to pass directly from HP to LP (Woolf compounds) or whether pressure fluctuation necessitates an intermediate "buffer" space in the form of a steam chest or pipe known as a receiver (receiver compounds).
The eternal problem with compounds is starting: for all cylinders to take their weight, it is advisable to have some way of short-circuiting the HP cylinders and getting steam at a reduced pressure directly to the LP cylinder(s); hence many of the patented compound systems are associated with particular starting arrangements. The de Glehn 4-cylinder system is probably still the most sophisticated of all with independent HP & LP cut-off and a rotary valve, called a lanterne allowing independent working or combinations of HP and LP groups. Most other systems employ starting valves of various kinds. Another criterion is whether the valve gears of the two groups are wholly independent or linked together in some way.
Configurations[edit]
Vauclain four-cylinder compound locomotive Milwaukee Road class A2 No. 919.
There are various configurations:
Two-cylinder compound[edit]
 - 2 cylinders, alternating high and low pressure - "continuous expansion locomotive" (Samuel/Nicholson)[3]
 - 1 high pressure, 1 low pressure (Mallet-1; Vauclain; Von Borries-1; Lindner; Gölsdorf-1; Herdner)
Three cylinder compound[edit]
Three cylinder triple expansion (projected)[edit]
Four-cylinder triple expansion compound[edit]
 - 1 high pressure, 1 intermediate pressure, 2 low pressure (LF Loree)
Four-cylinder compound[edit]
Six-cylinder compound[edit]
 - 2 high pressure, 4 low pressure (Chapelon)
These can be staggered with drive to more than one axle, in line concentrated on one axle or in tandem with HP and LP driving a common crank, the latter system being much employed in the U.S.A in the early years of the 20th Century, notably on the Santa Fe.
History[edit]
Early experiments[edit]
Jonathan Hornblower, the grandson of one of Newcomen's engine erectors in Cornwall, patented a double-cylinder compound reciprocating beam engine in 1781. He was prevented from developing it further by James Watt, who claimed his own patents were infringed.[4]
A method to lessen the magnitude of the continual heating and cooling of a single-expansion steam engine that leads to inefficiency was invented in 1804 by British engineer Arthur Woolf. Woolf patented his stationary Woolf high-pressure compound engine in 1805.
Application to railway locomotives[edit]
In 1850 United Kingdom patent number 13029 was awarded to James Samuel, the engineer of the Eastern Counties Railway, for a "continuous expansion locomotive", a method of steam locomotive compounding, although the idea appears to have come from one John Nicholson, a driver on the line. In this system, the two cylinders alternated as high and low pressure, with the change-over occurring half way through each stroke. Two locomotives, one passenger and one goods, were converted to the system but no further examples followed.[5]
Whether the above locomotive is, strictly speaking, a compound is subject to debate: the first recognisable compound application to a locomotive was on Erie Railway's No 122, an ordinary American type fitted in 1867 with tandem compound cylinders following J.F. Lay's patent no. 70341.[6] Nothing is known of this locomotive's subsequent career and it does not appear to have been reproduced.
Mallet[edit]
Main article: Mallet locomotive
Apart from this isolated case, the first known commercial application of compounding to locomotives was due to Anatole Mallet who introduced in 1876 a series of small 2-cylinder compound 0-4-2 tank locomotives for the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz Railway. These were entirely successful and worked for many years. Mallet also worked out schemes for compounds with independent divided drive for HP and LP, some with a single rigid chassis that were never built, others with a rigid rear chassis on which the HP cylinders were mounted and an articulated LP front engine unit. The latter arrangement was adopted worldwide. The first application was a series of 600 mm gauge locomotives specially built by the Decauville Company for the Paris Exposition of 1889. Of course the arrangement entailed articulated steam piping which might be liable to leak which is why the LP cylinders were located on the front engine unit, an advantage to some extent offset by the great length of the steam pipes, causing a tendency to temperature drop and condensation, especially in cold weather: one of the main reasons why simple expansion "Mallets" became more prevalent in the U.S.A. in later years.
Webb[edit]
Mallet's aforementioned rigid wheelbase divided-drive schemes, although never actually applied, may have inspired Francis Webb in Britain. After trials with an old single-driver converted into a 2-cylinder compound in 1878, he introduced in 1882 his first Experiment class with similar divided-drive: 3-cylinder compounds with uncoupled driving wheels in which two small outside high-pressure cylinders exhausted into one large low-pressure one between the frames. Other similar classes followed, progressively enlarged. The uncoupled driving wheels were problematic as the two pairs of wheels could be rotating in opposite directions on starting, if a locomotive had previously backed onto its train. The arrangement appears to have been adopted due to lack of space,


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Date of this Version
The China Quarterly
Environmental non-governmental organizations are becoming increasingly visible players in China's environmental politics. Adopting a field perspective, this article shows how the rise of environmental NGOs has taken place in interactions with four institutional fields. They not only respond to political conditions, but also to opportunities offered by the media, the internet, and international NGOs. In this process, organizational entrepreneurs play a crucial role in mobilizing resources while other individuals participate in search of self-fulfillment or social experience. These arguments underscore the multi-institutional dynamics of civil society development without underestimating state-centered and market-centered explanations. In conclusion, the article discusses how environmental NGOs can serve as both sites and agents of democratic social change in China.
© Cambridge University Press, The China Quarterly
Yang, G. (2005). Environmental NGOs and Institutional Dynamics in China. The China Quarterly, 181 46-66. _URL_
Date Posted: 21 November 2013
This document has been peer reviewed.


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I co-founded The Feminine Principle in June 2016 with poet Danielle Allen. After a serendipitous meeting we discovered a shared love of poetry and a belief in the benefits to personal well-being and development it can bring.
The Feminine Principle offers an alternative to the often divisive gender debate, by providing a creative platform for a unifying dialogue on our strengths and commonalities found within the masculine and feminine principles that reside within all of us
We believe in a society of equality.
The Feminine Principle is an ongoing project using poetry and dialogue to provide a space for creativity, open non-judgemental communication and self-reflection.
By harnessing the power of creativity and dialogue we can discover and explore the elements of our identities that may have formed through social conditioning and challenge harmful gender stereotypes. By nurturing both our feminine and masculine energies we can create a well-balanced whole in each of us.
We aim to connect participants on three levels.
Identity: our workshops provide a creative and non-judgemental space for participants to explore their identity and understand how their emotions affect their feelings, values and beliefs, resulting in a stronger sense of authentic identity and emotional resilience.
Society: by participating in engaging personal and group work, supported by creative practices and dialogue, participants will be able to improve their relationships with and understanding of others by developing empathy, awareness and improving their listening skills.
Environment: in a wider context our work aims to contribute to a cultural paradigm shift, with a focus on well-being, sustainability and a deeper connection to the natural world.
"The most important reason why we are out of balance with Nature is the fact that we have lost complete sight of this unifying aspect and have made the feminine principle as well as Life and our Earth our enemy"-The Whole Elephant Revealed, Marja de Vries
We are equally concerned about the impact of harmful gender stereotyping on females, males and those who do not wish to be labelled by gender. By exploring the root causes of gender inequality, and challenging harmful gender stereotypes, within a creative and non-judgemental environment we are able to support individuals and groups on a transformative learning journey.
Our work explores the feminine principle and the innate feminine and masculine energies that exist within all of us regardless of gender. We discuss the qualities of both feminine and masculine energies; explore emotions meaningfully and consider how these influence thinking and behaviour in our lives and society.
Creativity is the key to unlocking knowledge of our inner selves and building strong, open relationships with each other. We believe increasing opportunities for self-knowledge and understanding, and improved relationships will help create a more harmonious and balanced society, allowing us to exist peacefully alongside each other.
Using a variety of poetry and creative techniques, and framed by Bohm Dialogue, the topic is introduced to the workshop participants to be examined on both a personal and group level.
The exercises used ensure that the workshop is accessible to all, regardless of previous creative writing experience or knowledge of the topic. The tone of the workshop is inclusive and informal and the objectives are for it to be thought-provoking, empowering and connecting.


1 Second = 0 Month
How to convert from Second to Month?
Second to Month?
To convert Second to Month: Every 1 Second equals 0 Month. For example, 100 Second equal 100 * 0 = 4.0E-5 Month and so on..
Second to Minute | Second to Hour | Second to Week | Second to Year |
Second
What is the second?
The second is an important unit of time. It is the main unit of time in the SI system of units. It can be defined as the time it takes an electromagnetic field to propagate through 3 x 10 5 km of vacuum.
One solar day has 86,400 seconds. There are 60 second per minute.
Second is not small and specific enough to be used by scientists and engineers so smaller units were derived such as:
 - One millisecond which equals 10 -3 s.
 - One microsecond which equals 10 -6 s.
 - One nanosecond which equals 10 -9 s.
 - One picosecond which equals 10 -12 s.
Month
What is a month?
A month is a unit of time. It equals approximately the time it takes the moon to complete one revolution. It is popular to be used with calendars. One month equals approximately 4 weeks or 30 days or ¹/₁₂ of a year
Second to Month Conversions Table
1 Second = 0 Month
2 Second = 0 Month
4 Second = 0 Month
5 Second = 0 Month
10 Second = 0 Month
20 Second = 1.0E-5 Month
25 Second = 1.0E-5 Month
50 Second = 2.0E-5 Month
100 Second = 4.0E-5 Month
200 Second = 8.0E-5 Month
250 Second = 0.0001 Month
500 Second = 0.00019 Month
1000 Second = 0.00038 Month
2000 Second = 0.00076 Month
2500 Second = 0.00095 Month
5000 Second = 0.0019 Month
10000 Second = 0.00381 Month
20000 Second = 0.00761 Month
25000 Second = 0.00951 Month
50000 Second = 0.01903 Month
100000 Second = 0.03805 Month
200000 Second = 0.0761 Month
500000 Second = 0.19026 Month
_PHONE_ Second = 0.38052 Month
1 Month = _PHONE_ Second
2 Month = _PHONE_ Second
4 Month = _PHONE_ Second
5 Month = _PHONE_ Second
10 Month = 26280000 Second
20 Month = 52560000 Second
25 Month = 65700000 Second
50 Month = 131400000 Second
100 Month = 262800000 Second
200 Month = 525600000 Second
250 Month = 657000000 Second
500 Month = _PHONE_ Second
1000 Month = _PHONE_ Second
2000 Month = _PHONE_ Second
2500 Month = _PHONE_ Second
5000 Month = _PHONE_ Second
10000 Month = 26280000000 Second
20000 Month = 52560000000 Second
25000 Month = 65700000000 Second
50000 Month = 131400000000 Second
100000 Month = 262800000000 Second
200000 Month = 525600000000 Second
500000 Month = 1314000000000 Second
_PHONE_ Month = 2628000000000 Second


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Using a Button to Activate a Buzzer
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In this tutorial, you learn how to create an alarm noise on a buzzer and how to activate it with a button.
Required components:
 - SODAQ Moja
 - 0.5W Solar Panel
 - 1aH battery pack
 - Grove – Buzzer
 - Grove – Button
First, plug the buzzer into the D4/D5 pin in the always on row. Then, plug the button int the D2/D3 pin in the always on row.
Next, plug the 0.5W solar panel and the 1A LiPo battery into the respective sockets.
Turn on the SODAQ board, compile and upload the following sketch from the arduino IDE onto the SODAQ Board, and then unplug the USB cable from the computer when it is working:
const int buttonPin = 2; //set pin 2 for the button const
int buzzerPin = 4; //set pin 4 for the buzzer
int buttonState = 0; //buzzer starts off
void setup()
{
 //define the output and input in the equation here
 pinMode(buzzerPin, OUTPUT);
 pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
}
void void loop()
{
 buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);
 if (buttonState == HIGH) {
 // turn buzzer on:
 digitalWrite(buzzerPin, HIGH);
 }
else {
 // turn buzzer off:
 digitalWrite(buzzerPin, LOW);
 }
}
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Is there a minimum number of slices when running the N4 Filter
When running the N4 filter as part of my (c#) code, I see that if the input image has only 1 slice I get an error, even if I set ShrinkFactor=1. The error message is:
Exception thrown in SimpleITK N4BiasFieldCorrectionImageFilter_Execute: d:\a\1\sitk-build\itk-prefix\include\itk-5.2\itkImageBase.hxx:165:
ITK ERROR: Image(00000218C297CE70): A spacing of 0 is not allowed: Spacing is [0, 123, 123]
With 2 slices or more, I don't get an error (as long as the shrink factor is 1).
Will be glad for any advice - thank you!
Hello _USER_,
This is strange. When you read a single 3D slice you should have an image of size [x,y,1] and spacing [dx,dy,1.0]. Not sure how a spacing of zero happens in your case.
Possibly a manually created image and not one read from disk?
I get the same error also when trying to run the N4 filter from within the "Slicer" application when input-ing a single dicom slice extracted from a 3d dicom image.
How would it matter if the image is ""manually created" vs read from the disk?
When working with a 3D "slice", with a dimension of size 1, frequently the image needs to be reduced to 2D.
The ExtractImageFilter can be used to convert a 3D image into a 2D image. When the extraction size has a "0" value for a dimension then that dimension will be collapsed and the output dimension reduced by 1.
Also the SimpleITK ImageFilterReader can take an extraction size (and index) to perform the same operation as part of the IO. Here is an example: Advanced Image Reading — SimpleITK 2.0rc2 documentation
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Thanks you very much! It worked :slight_smile:


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Andrew Di Salvo, DVM, the inaugural Free-Ranging Wildlife Health Veterinary Resident with the CDFW Wildlife Investigations Laboratory and the UC Davis Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, shares a photo from each month of his first year…
In the Spring of 2016, CDFW (WIL and Region 6), UC Davis, BLM, USFWS, and many volunteers partnered to restore a key habitat patch utilized by the Amargosa vole. This habitat patch used to sustain the highest density of Amargosa voles in the world, but in 2010 it began to deteriorate due to changes in hydrology. The Amargosa vole team worked diligently to restore the water supply and reinvigorate vegetation growth at the marsh. Learn more about the Amargosa vole project.
By Austin Roy (Scientific Aid)
Reintroductions, translocations, and augmentations are methods of restoring or increasing wildlife populations. These actions require a lot of planning and are often expensive. These methods involve removing animals from a source population and placing them in another location. The goal of these efforts are usually to establish a sustainable population where one did not previously exist, provide new individuals to a site with a low population in hopes of increasing the population, and providing new or rare genes to a population that may need genetic rescue, among other reasons.
This summer our University of California, Davis and California Department of Fish & Wildlife (WIL) research team conducted a population augmentation for the endangered Amargosa vole (Microtus californicus scirpensis). Our goal was to supplement a very small population of voles in one marsh with new individuals and genes from a larger population in another marsh.
We placed radio collars on 3 voles at the source site, 4 voles that we removed from the source site and relocated to the recipient site, and 3 individuals at the recipient site. By collaring both relocated voles and resident voles at source site and the recipient site we could monitor how relocated animals utilized the new site and whether or not resident individuals were impacted by the presence of new individuals in their habitat.
The data we collected will greatly benefit vole recovery and inform how we conduct future releases.
In addition to the augmentation efforts this summer we also continued to study the population cycles of voles and predators in the area. These studies allow us to better understand how voles and predators use the area how the predators may be affecting vole populations. We have also been studying the vegetation and water levels to better understand the needs of the Amargosa vole. These efforts will help us better understand how to restore and improve vole habitat.
The research this summer would not have been possible without the support from our partners at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, CA Department of Fish & Wildlife (Region 6), Integral Ecology Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Shoshone Village, Inyo County Roads Department, and the Amargosa Conservancy.
This spring the Wildlife Investigations Laboratory assisted with 8 large mammal captures throughout California. Wildlife capture projects are conducted to help biologists and veterinarians assess the health of these herds through biological sampling, to place GPS collars on the animals to monitor movement and help study habitat use, and for translocating animals. A total of 207 animals were captured including 132 deer, 21 pronghorn antelope, 36 elk and 18 bighorn sheep. Below is a small collection of photos from our month in the field.
By Tom Batter, WIL Scientific Aid
The elk (Cervus canadensis) to this day remains an icon of what once was the unsettled, untamed American frontier. There are four extant subspecies of elk in North America. The Manitoban elk (C.c. manitobensis) is exclusive to Canada, but the other three subspecies can be found in California. They are the Roosevelt elk (C.c. roosevelti) of the north coast rainforests, Rocky Mountain elk (C.c. nelsoni) of the northeastern counties, and the tule elk (C.c. nannodes) native to the Central Valley.
Tule elk look similar to other elk in general size, shape, and color (albeit tules wear a slightly lighter brown). Generally speaking, however, tule elk are overcome in maximum size by both Rocky Mountain elk and the great Roosevelt elk. A good sized Roosevelt bull, the largest of the subspecies, can reach 1,000 pounds or more. Tule elk are the smallest subspecies; in fact, at one time they were colloquially referred to as 'dwarf elk'. A large bull tule elk will tip the scales at about 700-800 pounds (hardly a 'dwarf' by any means), yet under ideal conditions they may grow larger.
Tule elk once roamed the San Jaoquin Valley in ample numbers. Early settlers found tule elk roaming the foothills of the Sierra Nevada west to the central Pacific coast and from the headstream of the Sacramento River south to the Tehachapi Mountains. Much like the affliction of the American bison on the Great Plains, tule elk became a casualty of human settlement — particularly after the Gold Rush.
Unregulated market hunting, competition with livestock, and the introduction of nonnative plant species all contributed to the decline of tule elk. What was more devastating, however, was the conversion of elk habitat to agricultural land. When settlers turned to the plow not only did it remove food and cover resources for elk, it also brought about direct conflict between elk and farmers. Increasing crop and fence damage fueled campaigns for the removal of the tule elk by those individuals whose livelihoods were affected. By the time elk hunting was banned by the state legislature in 1873, it was unknown if any tule elk even remained.
Luckily tule elk did remain, thanks in part to the protection provided by California cattle baron Henry Miller. In 1874 a pair of Tule elk was discovered on the Miller and Lux Ranch by a local game warden at Button Willow. Miller set aside 600 acres (near present day Tule Elk State Natural Reserve) to give the elk a chance to rebound. In 1914, the elk had experienced such growth in numbers that Miller requested the California Fish & Game Commission work to relocate the elk from his ranch.
In order to relieve Miller from elk damage to his property and crops (reportedly estimated at $5,000 per year), the U.S. Biological Survey attempted to relocate tule elk by lassoing them from horseback and transporting them to new areas, with little success. From 1914 to 1934 the California Academy of Science took on tule elk relocation activities 21 times over the next several decades. These attempts were not very successful either, although they did contribute to establishing the herds at Owens Valley, Cache Creek, and the Tupman Reserve.
From 1971 through 1989 complete species protection was granted to tule elk. State and Federal laws were passed to prohibit hunting of tule elk until a population of at least 2,000 was reached. Habitat improvement programs combined with an aggressive reintroduction campaign by the Department of Fish & Game and other state and federal agencies yielded a significant increase in California's tule elk population.
Today there are twenty-two tule elk herds in the Golden State, totaling around 4,200 individuals with the population trending upward.
Due to competing land use practices, it is not easy for tule elk to freely move between sub-populations; this requires the Department of Fish & Wildlife to take action in order to meet statewide management objectives.To help maintain healthy herds, every so often CDFW is tasked with capturing and relocating healthy elk to different established
herds. Removing elk from one herd and placing them in another helps to simulate the natural movement of individuals between herds which increases genetic diversity, an important function of a healthy population.
The Wildlife Investigations Lab took part in one such capture and relocation effort at the end of March. A total of 36 elk were captured via helicopter from the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge near Los Banos. Once elk were netted from the helicopter, they were processed by capture teams. Capture teams took measurements, collected hair, blood, and other biological data to assess the health of the herd before they moved on to their new locations.
The animals were successfully released to join their new herds. A portion of the captured animals were also radio-collared to collect post-release movement information.
To read the CDFW news release from this successful capture, click here.
For more information on the CDFW Elk Program, click here.
Interested in more tule elk biology? Click here.
By Tom Batter, Wildlife Investigations Lab Scientific Aid
The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a wide-ranging upland game bird of North America. There are five distinct subspecies of turkey, four of which have been transplanted into California at one time or another. This includes the Eastern (M.g. silvestris), Rio grande (M.g. intermedia), Merriam's (M.g. merriami), and Gould's (M.g. mexicana) wild turkey. Today the most common subspecies found in California are the Rio grande and the Merriam's varieties.
Wild turkeys were first introduced into California on Santa Cruz Island in 1877 by private ranchers (although there may be evidence that a turkey species existed in California as recently as the Pleistocene epoch). Ranchers released these turkeys into the wild to have a supply of game birds readily available. Throughout the early 20th century, introductions occurred several more times without a lasting effect.
The California Fish and Game Commission first purchased birds from Mexico in 1908

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Creating a plan for a new enterprise is important, but successful execution is essential. Execution is a discipline for connecting strategy with reality by aligning goals and people to achieve the desired results. Execution is about turning a concept into a great business.
New businesses move from startup to growth to maturity in stages. Managing a new business through these stages requires different skills and organizational arrangements. Startups need to plan for having the right people in the right positions as they grow.
Organizations, like people, need to learn and adapt to change. Organizing for recognizing and responding to challenges can build resilience and responding to challenges can build resilience in a startup firm. The ability to adapt to change may be the most important sustainable advantage. Furthermore, to achieve long-term success, a firm needs an ethical base for action.


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How Sierra Nevada does it:
FuelCell Energy has upgraded its 1 megawatt Direct Fuel Cell (DFC) power plant at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. to use fuel created from a waste byproduct of the brewing process.
The brewery's fuel cell power plant had been running on natural gas. Now, in an effort to increase efficiency and be more environmentally friendly, it runs on the brewery by-product methane.
Manufacturing.net reports that 20-40% reduction in fuel costs for the plant is possible by the 250 to 400 kilowatts of electricity that it can produce via biogas.


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Bone Tree (3.5e Environment)
From D&D Wiki
This environment is typically a forest, an evil, skeleton-filled, dangerous forest with flesh craving trees. The wood from these trees is highly sought after by necromancers, death-cults, sentient undead, and others who deal with death on a regular basis. Surprisingly, the tree loses all true-evil connotations once it is cut down and the stump is destroyed; this means that the wood can be used by anyone. See below for bone wood crafts.
 Bone Tree
A bone tree is the result of a seed being infused with necromantic energy either deliberately, as the result of some traumatic event, or from the seed of a greater bone tree. If it is deliberately made the creator must have a hefty supply of bones on hand to feed the tree as it grows. Most non-deliberate bone trees grow in soil that has been drenched in the blood from a massive battle where the bodies were left to rot and the bones eventually became part of the earth.
- Bone Seeds are hefty balls about the size of a coconut that sprout into a bone tree. Lesser bone tree status is achieved within 6 months of sprouting. Greater Bone tree status is achieved in 50 years
- Lesser: Undead within 30' gain a +2 Profane bonus vs turn attempts, corporeal undead gain fast healing 1. Animates anything dead within 50' into a skeleton within 1d4 hours. These effects do not stack no matter how many trees are together.
- Greater: Same as lesser plus the following - anything dead within 30' of the tree is animated as a skeleton in 1d4 rounds. Corporeal Undead within 50' gain a +1 Profane bonus to attack and damage when doing unarmed/natural attacks. Fast healing is increased to 5
Any species of tree can be a bone tree as long as it was affected by one of the processes described above. Some trees have no outward appearance betraying their status (the bones are around the roots or deep within the trunk), most have obvious bits of bone sticking from the bark, the most profane trees seem to be sheathed in a bony coating. Bone trees that grow from the seed of a greater bone tree resemble the original tree but with a malignant, evil twist to the orignal form.
 Bone Tree Skeletons
The first thing a skeleton does when created by a Bone Tree is tear any flesh left on its body and place it around the trees roots as fertilizer. Skeletons created by Bone Trees typically stay within 300' of the tree and retreat to the tree for healing if injured. When not defending the tree from a threat, the skeletons tend to the tree and maintain the grounds around it. Part of this maintenance is that the skeleton brings any fragments of bone it can find to the tree for integration into the tree. The trees skeletons are also responsible for the spread of the bone tree forest and they do this by taking bone seeds out 40 to 60 feet away from the tree for planting. Most trees only maintain a force of 10 to 20 skeletons, more useful skeletons are kept and other skeletons are integrated into the tree.
 Bone Wood Crafts
Some versions of the crepitus crutch are created using wood and bone from bone trees. Crepitus crutches made completely from materials gathered from a bone tree grant their created skeletons a +2 profane bonus versus turn attempts.
It is possible that the profane bone or wood from a Bone Wood Tree is useable in other crafted items. This would be at the DM's discretion.
 The Forest
A bone tree forest is a thing of beauty, the skeletal minions of the trees keep the grounds around their tree in pristine condition. The trees, while not truly intelligent, seem to be aware that a pleasant environment is more likely to attract good-aligned intelligent species. To this end, when the skeletons are not actively working they are directed to hide from sight however possible. They typically hide either in nearby large trees, ready to leap down on unsuspecting victims, or buried in the ground ready to rise up on unsuspecting victims.
You can generally assume that no tree is within 50 feet of each other and calculate how many trees can be in any one forest based on this assumption.


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Salt of Hartshorn, also known as baker's ammonia, is a leavening agent that was originally made from hartshorn oil. Nowadays, salt of hartshorn is chemically produced. It contains ammonium carbonate.
Salt of Hartshorn is used as a leavening agent in baking pastries, especially in some traditional recepies.
Other tips for use:
– Starting a new aquarim
– Protecting berry bushes from birds:
One sachet (30 g) of ammonium carbonate is divided into three 0,5 l bottles filled with water. Bottles are then digged in the ground between the berry bushes so that the liquid can evaporate freely from the bottle. Evaporating liquid with its odor keeps the birds away from berry bushes. Human cannot smell the odor.
Chemically produced, not of animal origin. Store at room temperature, tightly closed.
Sachet 30 g


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Python os.tcgetpgrp() Method
The method tcgetpgrp() return the process group associated with the terminal given by fd (an open file descriptor as returned by os.open())
Following is the syntax for tcgetpgrp() method
fd -- This is the file descriptor.
This method returns the process group.
The following example shows the usage of tcgetpgrp() method.
#!/usr/bin/python import os, sys # Showing current directory print "Current working dir :%s" %os.getcwd() # Changing dir to /dev/tty fd = os.open("/dev/tty",os.O_RDONLY) f = os.tcgetpgrp(fd) # Showing the process group print "the process group associated is: " print f os.close(fd) print "Closed the file successfully!!"
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:
Current working dir is :/tmp the process group associated is: 2670 Closed the file successfully!!


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To truly understand the teachings of the mantras and integrate them into our lives, it is beautiful to learn to play, sing, and understand their nuances and melodies. The album will include several video lessons by Vismay (like this one!), teaching you to play and sing the songs. Whether you use this lesson to learn to play Om Bom on guitar, sing it, or simply understand it more deeply, we hope it brings you knowledge and learning.


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Average Weather in March in Acquaviva d'Isernia Italy
Daily high temperatures increase by 7°F, from 47°F to 54°F, rarely falling below 37°F or exceeding 64°F.
Daily low temperatures increase by 6°F, from 34°F to 39°F, rarely falling below 25°F or exceeding 46°F.
For reference, on August 5, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Acquaviva d'Isernia typically range from 62°F to 83°F, while on February 8, the coldest day of the year, they range from 32°F to 44°F.
Average High and Low Temperature in March
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The daily average high (red line) and low (blue line) temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted lines are the corresponding average perceived temperatures.
The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on March. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.
Average Hourly Temperature in March
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The average hourly temperature, color coded into bands. The shaded overlays indicate night and civil twilight.
Quincy, California, United States (6,141 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Acquaviva d'Isernia (view comparison).
Clouds
The month of March in Acquaviva d'Isernia experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 49% throughout the month. The highest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 50% on March 14.
The clearest day of the month is March 25, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 53% of the time.
For reference, on January 16, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 52%, while on July 24, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 88%.
Cloud Cover Categories in March
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0% clear 20% mostly clear 40% partly cloudy 60% mostly cloudy 80% overcast 100%
The percentage of time spent in each cloud cover band, categorized by the percentage of the sky covered by clouds.
Precipitation
A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Acquaviva d'Isernia, the chance of a wet day over the course of March is essentially constant, remaining around 24% throughout.
For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 34% on November 20, and its lowest chance is 12% on July 7.
Over the course of March in Acquaviva d'Isernia, the chance of a day with only rain increases from 21% to 23%, the chance of a day with mixed snow and rain decreases from 3% to 1%, and the chance of a day with only snow remains an essentially constant 1% throughout.
Probability of Precipitation in March
The percentage of days in which various types of precipitation are observed, excluding trace quantities: rain alone, snow alone, and mixed (both rain and snow fell in the same day).
Rainfall
To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.
The average sliding 31-day rainfall during March in Acquaviva d'Isernia is essentially constant, remaining about 1.7 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 3.3 inches or falling below 0.4 inches.
Average Monthly Rainfall in March
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The average rainfall (solid line) accumulated over the course of a sliding 31-day period centered on the day in question, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted line is the corresponding average liquid-equivalent snowfall.
Snowfall
We report snowfall in liquid-equivalent terms. The actual depth of new snowfall is typically between 5 and 10 times the liquid-equivalent amount, assuming the ground is frozen. As with rainfall, we consider the liquid-equivalent snowfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.
The average sliding 31-day liquid-equivalent snowfall during March in Acquaviva d'Isernia is essentially constant, remaining about 0.1 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 0.6 inches or falling below -0.0 inches.
Average Monthly Liquid-Equivalent Snowfall in March
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The average liquid-equivalent snowfall (solid line) accumulated over the course of a sliding 31-day period centered on the day in question, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted line is the corresponding average rainfall.
Sun
Over the course of March in Acquaviva d'Isernia, the length of the day is rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 1 hour, 24 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 2 minutes, 48 seconds, and weekly increase of 19 minutes, 36 seconds.
The shortest day of the month is March 1, with 11 hours, 16 minutes of daylight and the longest day is March 31, with 12 hours, 40 minutes of daylight.
Hours of Daylight and Twilight in March
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The number of hours during which the Sun is visible (black line). From bottom (most yellow) to top (most gray), the color bands indicate: full daylight, twilight (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and full night.
The earliest sunrise of the month in Acquaviva d'Isernia is 5:54 AM on March 27 and the latest sunrise is 58 minutes later at 6:53 AM on March 28.
The earliest sunset is 5:53 PM on March 1 and the latest sunset is 1 hour, 34 minutes later at 7:27 PM on March 31.
Daylight saving time (DST) starts at 3:00 AM on March 28, 2021, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour later.
For reference, on June 21, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:29 AM and sets 15 hours, 12 minutes later, at 8:41 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:26 AM and sets 9 hours, 9 minutes later, at 4:36 PM.
Sunrise & Sunset with Twilight and Daylight Saving Time in March
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Volunteer with Senior Corps
The Senior Corps Programs – Foster Grandparents, Senior Companions and RSVP – offer individuals who are 55 years of age and older an opportunity to give back to their communities, connecting them with the people and organizations that need them most. Conceived during John F. Kennedy's presidency, Senior Corps currently links more than 270,000 Americans to service opportunities. Their contributions of skills, knowledge, and experience make a real difference to individuals, nonprofits, and faith-based and other community organizations throughout the United States.
Individuals must be willing to make a commitment to serve on an ongoing basis, 2-20 hours per week. Individuals have an array of opportunities to choose from based on their interests and availability. Volunteers receive guidance and training so they can make a contribution that suits their talents, interests, and availability.
Examples of opportunities include the following:
- Mentor preschool children
- Be a companion to frail older adults who are living in their own homes or apartments
- Provide money management counseling to older adults or individuals with disabilities
- As a benefit check-up volunteer, screen adults to determine if they qualify for services and/or monetary assistance
Programs provided through funding by the Corporation for National and Community Service.


Within the international field, a group of experts reviews, analyzes and discusses the morphological terms of the structures of the human body, forming today's Terminology Committee (FICAT) from the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA).[5][6] It deals with the anatomical, histological and embryologic terminology.
In the Latin American field, there are meetings called Iberian Latin American Symposium Terminology (SILAT), where a group of experts of the Pan American Association of Anatomy (PAA)[7] that speak Spanish and Portuguese, disseminates and studies the international morphological terminology.
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 1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Anatomy & Physiology". Openstax college at Connexions. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
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- Must be a direct quote from Scripture by a person or entity
- Must be of a reasonable length and not exceed two verses
- The quizzer does not have to quote the quotation word perfect, but at least all key components are required
- Permissible interrogatives are: who said it, to whom, how, why, when, where or about whom.
- A maximum of three situation questions may be asked about the quote (e.g. at most 3 of the interrogatives)
- The quote must start either at the beginning of a quote or at the beginning of a sentence within a quote.
- Syntax: "Question number two is a situation question, I need to know who said it and how, question number two, question, "The virgin will be with child..."
- The best way to prepare for situation questions is to make a list of all quotations, along with answers to each of the possible interrogatives.
- Keep in mind that if a quotation has a more distinctive "how" or a "when" the quizmaster is more likely to ask those. Keep in mind that quizmasters are more likely to write situation questions on memorable quotations. Keep in mind that if a quotation has a distinctive "when" or "where" it's pretty unlikely for a quizmaster to ask that situation question and not require the "when" or "where." This can be helpful for distinguishing between similar quotations. In all of this, remember that these are guidelines and likelihoods, and not requirements of the quizmaster.


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ASEAN KEY DESTINATIONS
Wet season to continue longer in Indonesia
Widada Sulistya, deputy director general for climatology at the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), said yesterday that Indonesia should have already entered the dry season in May, although in fact, some areas were still experiencing the rainy season.
"The drought will not be too dry this year. In some areas there will still be some rain during the dry season, although the rain showers will not occur as what happened in 2010. Currently, we occasionally have rain, but it is not as wet as in 2010. During that year , rain fell throughout the year," he said.
Citing the BMKG data, he said that about 65 per cent of a total of 342 season zones in Indonesia had entered the dry season. They include most areas in Java, the southern parts of Sumatra, such as Lampung, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB).
Some 35 per cent of areas in the country – including half of northern Sumatra (Riau and other areas further north), most areas in Kalimantan, and the northern and southern parts of Maluku – are still enduring the rainy season.
Widada said that this year, the influence of the Australian monsoon was quite weak. Therefore, during this year's dry season rain showers were still possible in some areas, although it would not be as much as compared to that which occurred in 2010.
"The influences of La Nina and El Nino coming from the eastern part of Indonesia, as well as the dipole mode in the Indian Ocean, are still normal. Our ocean is also still quite warm and strong enough to supply water vapour," he said, adding that with these four factors, Indonesia still had the potential for rain even during its dry season.
In Jakarta and its surrounding areas, such as Bogor, as well as areas in West Java such as Cianjur, for example, rains still occasionally occur, although they have entered the dry season. Other regions also have similar conditions, except those which have long been known as areas with almost no rainfall during dry season, such as Wonogiri in Central Java.
"In June, July and August, Wonogiri gets almost no rainfall. However, in other areas, such as, Wonosobo [Central Java], Probolinggo and Malang [both in East Java], rain falls occasionally during the drought," said Sulistya.
According to the BMKG, rainfall through June 18 remains normal for the country as a whole, although the rains have continued to occur in some areas.
"This year, both rainy and dry seasons have tended not to be too extreme. No extreme drought has taken hold in any parts of our country as what happened in 2007, during which the long dry spell in that year damaged crops. At the same time, we have thus far not dealt with major flooding as occurred in 2010,"
Sulistya said, adding that flooding was reported in only a few areas, including in Ambon, Maluku, as it was currently facing heavy rains.
Under such conditions, he said, particular areas still had enough water for agricultural purposes.
The BMKG's spokesperson, Eko Suryanto, said the agency had provided the Agriculture Ministry the seasonal forecasts it needed to issue the agriculture calendar for farmers.
"We will issue rainy-season forecasts in early September at the latest," he said.
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scipy.optimize.linear_sum_assignment(cost_matrix, maximize=False)[source]
Solve the linear sum assignment problem.
The linear sum assignment problem is also known as minimum weight matching in bipartite graphs. A problem instance is described by a matrix C, where each C[i,j] is the cost of matching vertex i of the first partite set (a "worker") and vertex j of the second set (a "job"). The goal is to find a complete assignment of workers to jobs of minimal cost.
Formally, let X be a boolean matrix where \(X[i,j] = 1\) iff row i is assigned to column j. Then the optimal assignment has cost
\[\min \sum_i \sum_j C_{i,j} X_{i,j}\]
where, in the case where the matrix X is square, each row is assigned to exactly one column, and each column to exactly one row.
This function can also solve a generalization of the classic assignment problem where the cost matrix is rectangular. If it has more rows than columns, then not every row needs to be assigned to a column, and vice versa.
The problem is also solved for sparse inputs in scipy.sparse.csgraph.min_weight_full_bipartite_matching which may perform better if the input is sparse, or for certain classes of problems, such as uniformly distributed costs.
The cost matrix of the bipartite graph.
maximizebool (default: False)
Calculates a maximum weight matching if true.
row_ind, col_indarray
An array of row indices and one of corresponding column indices giving the optimal assignment. The cost of the assignment can be computed as cost_matrix[row_ind, col_ind].sum(). The row indices will be sorted; in the case of a square cost matrix they will be equal to numpy.arange(cost_matrix.shape[0]).
New in version 0.17.0.
 2. DF Crouse. On implementing 2D rectangular assignment algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 52(4):_PHONE_, August 2016, DOI:10.1109/TAES.2016.140952
>>> cost = np.array([[4, 1, 3], [2, 0, 5], [3, 2, 2]])
>>> from scipy.optimize import linear_sum_assignment
>>> row_ind, col_ind = linear_sum_assignment(cost)
>>> col_ind
array([1, 0, 2])
>>> cost[row_ind, col_ind].sum()
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The aim of this paper is to explore the implications and difficulties of a system of sex offender registration for Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. From the orthodox perspective, registration appears justified. Sexual offending has increased and this is used by the media to generate a 'moral panic'. However, sexual offenders in the community have also been socially constructed in Ireland, as a problem requiring specific action, through Blumer's (1971) developmental perspective. It is this perspective which most adequately explains the formulation of the legislation. Arguments expounded in favour of registration include the supposedly high recidivism among sex offenders, the inadequacy of supervision provisions and the resulting need to 'track' the offender for public protection. Yet, in practice there are a plethora of obstacles such as cost and inadequate policing resources, not considered at the time the legislation was being formulated, which may impede its effectiveness in aiding law enforcement and reduce it to symbolic significance only. Given these difficulties, it is argued that registration is not an appropriate response to the problem of released sexual offenders in Ireland. Rather, from the social constructionist perspective, it is suggested that it is better to 'treat' the sex offender through less formal and stringent means in the community away from the criminal justice process.
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|Journal||Irish Journal Of Sociology|
|Volume||10 9Special Issue on Crime and Policing)|
|Publication status||Published - 2000|


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[InterSystems IRIS for the First Time] Interoperability: Creating Components (Business Process)
This article is a continuation of this post.
In the previous article, we discussed business operations' creation from the components required for system integration.
In this article, you will learn how to create a business process that calls the two business operations you have defined in the sequence order.
The business process acts as the coordinator (command center) of the process.
The processing adjustments you may want to implement in the sample include the following:
Step 1: Provide the city name to an external Web API and request weather information.
Step 2: Register the result of the query (weather information) from Step 1 and the name of the purchased product received at the start of the production.
In the sample business process, we will wait for the answer to step 1 and adjust step 2 to operate.
In the process of waiting for a response (i.e., synchronization), for instance, what happens if step 1) doesn't respond for a few days?
If new messages are delivered to the business process while waiting for a response for a few days, the messages will not be dismissed since they are stored in a queue. However, the business process will not process new messages, and there will be a delay in the operation.
Note: Business processes and business operations have cues.
Therefore, in production, when there is a synchronous call, there are two ways for the business process to move: A) to synchronize perfectly, and B) to save the state of the business process itself in the database and hand over the execution environment so that other processes can run while waiting for a response.
A) How to synchronize perfectly:
While a synchronous call is being made, the business process's processing is ongoing, and waiting for the next message to be processed until all processing is completed.
➡This function is used when the order of processing needs to be guaranteed in the first-in-first-out method.
B) The method of saving the state of the business process itself in the database and hand over the execution environment so that other processes can run while waiting for a response is
When a synchronous call is made, the process saves its state in the database. When a response message is received, and it is time to process the message, it opens the database and executes the next process.
(IRIS will manage the storage and re-opening of business processes in the database).
➡ Used when it is acceptable to switch the processing order of messages (i.e., when it is allowed to process more and more different messages received while waiting for a response).
In the sample, B) is used.
There are two types of editors for creating business processes: a Business Process Editor that allows you to place processing boxes (activities) and implement them while defining their execution, and a method for creating them using ObjectScript in Studio or VSCode.
If you use the Business Process Editor, you will use the call activity to invoke the component, but this activity is implemented in the B) way. Of course, you can also implement the A) method in the Business Process Editor, except that you will not use the call activity in that case (you will use the code activity).
In this section, I will explain how to create it.
If you use the Business Process Editor, you write them in the Management Portal.
You can also open the business process from the production configuration page. The figure below shows the procedure.
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Icons like Image description in this editor are called activities, and those marked with are activities that can invoke other components.
This symbol Image description indicates that a response message will be returned (i.e., a synchronous call will be made). The activity defaults to the asynchronous call setting, which can be changed as needed.
Now let's look at business processes, which are components that are invoked upon receiving a request message, as well as business operations.
In the sample, the request message: It is set to start when it receives a Start.Request and does not return a response message.
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In the business process, messages appear in various situations.
Request messages that are sent to business processes.
Request message (+ response message) to be sent when calling another component using the activity.
In the Business Process Editor, the names of the objects that store messages are clearly separated to be able to see which message was sent from which destination.
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 - request（basic requirements）
The message that triggered the start of the business process, in our example, is Start.Request (the message to be specified in the Request settings on the Context tab in the Business Process Editor)
 - response（basic response）
Response message to return to the caller of the business process (not used in the sample) (message to be specified in the settings of the response in the context tab in the Business Process Editor)
 - callrequest（request message）
Request message to be sent when calling the component determined by the activity.
 - callresponse（response message）
Response message returned from the component specified by the activity.
callrequest and callresponse are objects that will be deleted when the call processing of the activity is completed.
All other objects will not disappear until the business process is finished.
Now comes the problem when callresponse disappears.
That's because, as you can see in this sample,
When calling a component, if you want to use the response result of a previously called component, the response message will be lost, and the information that was to be used in the next component will be erased.
It is a problem 😓
What should we do?・・・・・
In such a case, you can use the context object.
The context object, like request/response, is an object that survives until the end of the business process.
Moreover, since context is a generic object, it can be defined in the process editor.
In addition to the context, the response object can also be used if it has a property that matches the inherited data's saving.
Now, let's go over the steps again.
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Response message in the light blue balloon: Start.Response is an object that will be deleted when the process is finished.
Since we want to use the response message (Start.Response) that contains the weather information as the message to be sent to the next [Business Operation for DB Update], we have to implement the context object in a way that all the property values of the response message (Start.Response) can be assigned to it.
Then what is the setting for the context property?
The properties are defined in "Context Properties" in the Context tab of the Business Process Editor.
In this case, we would like to save all the properties of the response message (Start.Response) to the context object. Therefore, the property type specification is set to Start.Response.
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Following that, check the settings in the activity.
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The request and response messages have a button called ○○ Builder.
Clicking on this button will launch a line-drawing editor that allows you to specify what you want to register in the properties of each message.
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After this, the business operation for requesting a database update (Start.SQLInsertOperation or Start.InsertOperation) is called in the same way with the activity, and you are all set.
(For more information, see Configuring
Image description for Business Processes).
Once you have completed the verification, you can test it. The testing method is the same as the one used for testing business operations (see this article).
The trace after the test is as follows:
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Since the business process is the coordinator, we could see that it invoked the defined components sequentially, keeping the synchronous execution.
Note 1: The sample only deals with the call activity, but various other activities such as data transformation.
Note 2: Business processes created by ObjectScript alone, other than the Business Process Editor, inherit from the Ens.BusinessProcess class. If it is created in the Business Process Editor, it inherits from the Ens.BusinessProcessBPL class.
The business process is the coordinator of the system integration process.
The Business Process Editor provides the following types of variables for messages (request/response/callrequest/callreponse/context).
A business process created with the Business Process Editor can work in a way that does not delay other messages, even if there is synchronization in the component's calling.
In the next section, we will finally show you how to develop the last component: business services.
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In yesterday's ACTVAC handicap results I have included the AST% figures, and will do so in future, because they are an interesting way of comparing the times of each runner which takes their age into account.
What are AST percentages?
AST stands for "Age Standard Times". They are calculated against the actual age of each competitor in an event.
In 1989 the World Association of Veteran Athletes (WAVA) developed the first age-graded tables in one-year age increments and they have since been updated.
The tables are composed of world class standards as a function of both age and distance. That means that for every age starting at age 8 and going to age 100 there are standards for every long distance running event, for every common track & field event, and for race walking.
Using the data in the tables it is possible to determine an age graded time (as seen in the results of the Australian Masters Championships in Hobart) and the equivalent percentage (as provided yesterday and with most ACTVAC results.)
Here's an example of how the calculations are done for three masters men in a 10K race.
In the above example, the 64 year old man had the best performance, even though he had the slowest finishing time.
Rough "classifications" are recognised to be as follows:
100%= Approximate World Record Level
Over 90%= World Class
Over 80%= National Class
Over 70%= Regional Class
So when you see the AST% listed, you know that the higher scores are the better results. The scores give everyone a new incentive to improve their performances in a measurable way. And provide you with new rivals to challenge as you try and get a higher AST% than someone who has been ahead of you. Not to mention an extra reason to celebrate your birthday every year, not just every five years!
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Get Rid of Sallow Skin Doing 6 Things A Day
Sallow Skin
Your skin says everything about your health, lifestyle, and even meal intake. Would you wonder if we tell whatever you do simply affects your face in any way, positive or negative?
It's a fact! In the case of meager hygiene conditions, elevated stress, bad lifestyle, and poor diet, your body outcries so that you get back to change it.
This is when your skin shows signs, and a Sallow Skin tone appears on your epidermis
What Is Sallow Skin?
Sallow skin pictures
Sallow skin is not an undertone or even a natural tone but a skin condition in which your skin appears different from its original complexion.
Sallow Complexion / Tone:
Sallow Skin Tone pictures
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You may not notice the signs of sallow complexion at the start, but with time, you will find your face is losing its freshness, natural glow and looks tired and even saggy all the time.
Also, when sallow skin condition hits, the layer on the outermost part of your face appears brown or yellow.
 1. Sallow skin appears Brown or Tan in olive skin tone. Learn all about what is olive skin tone in the defined guide.
 2. Sallow skin appears Pale or Yellow on fair and pink skin tones. The veins on your arm can identify your skin tone.
How To Know If You Have Sallow Skin?
Here are some ways by using which you can identify if you have sallow skin.
1. Check Your Face In The Mirror:
what does sallow skin mean
To recognize if there is sallowness in your skin, you need a mirror and proper light.
Check if,
 1. Your skin looks dull, tired, and swollen
 2. Your skin has tan or yellow blemishes
 3. Your skin tone is different from its natural tone
 4. Your skin is two-toned
If any or all of these four conditions, you may have skin sallowness.
Remember: Sallow skin doesn't mean acne or scars appearing on your face. It simply means your skin has lost its naturalness.
2. Match Your Skin with the following images:
Match Your Skin
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Here are some pictures, taken from authentic sources, like doctors and patients, to let you identify the appearance of sallow skin:
These pictures show the brownish or yellowish tones and swelling that appeared on the faces of the people suffering from sallow skin conditions.
We're providing it aiming to help you identify properly how does sallow skin look like:
Remember: On the internet, you can find plenty of pictures targeting what does sallow skin looks like. However, not all of these pictures are authentic or true. So don't trust every picture you see to feel tensed about your skin.
3. Get Examined By An Expert: (Optional):
Sallow Skin Professional Treatment
You may skip this point if you have confirmed your skin tone. However, if you have a hard time understanding if your skin is sallow or aged, go to a dermatologist.
They will apply some tests, ask you some questions and give you a proper answer about your skin condition.
Remember: You should be persistent and check your skin for any changes on a regular basis to hack the issues at the start. If you can afford, monthly checkups can help a lot.
Once you are confirmed, conditions appearing on your skin relates to sallowness, you will have to move to the next thing to do, to help retreat your sallow skin.
Why Your Skin is getting yellow, tan, or losing its natural complexion?
Here are some causes explained:
Before you go into deep discussion, remember; You may have to change the way you live your life. It would help if you transformed your diet, your sleeping routine, and your overall routine schedule.
Why? Let's read a little more to know the answers.
Sallow Skin Causes and Triggers:
1. Hiding Sallow Skin with Makeup:
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If there are blemishes on your skin and you try to hide them from makeup, it is a good thing for a limited period; however, it is not an option for the long run.
When you hide sallow skin with makeup, you get used to living with the condition. This thing damages your skin, even more when time passes.
How to heal Sallow skin Permanently?
For this;
Hide your flaws through makeup outdoors, and after coming home, follow a good skincare routine. Such as:
 1. Cleanse skin with a good cleanser regularly
 2. Use toner
 3. Exfoliate with facial cleaners on a regular basis
 4. And always choose makeup without irritant-additives.
2. Poor Lifestyle Habits:
How to choose makeup for sallow skin
Though, from the past some years, skin awareness has increased. However, still, there's a lot more to do. Two types of lifestyle habits affect the skin and its health.
 - Use of cheap products:
When instead of buying good skincare products, people try to find cheap solutions for whitening and skin clearance, then the skin starts looking fine for a limited time.
But in the long run, the skin's outermost layer, we call dermis, gets damaged. Such creams and makeup products never let the skin breathe. Hence, it starts getting dry, dull, and tired.
 - Use of wrong products:
On the other hand, when instead of using products made for your skin type solely, people buy things without understanding the need of the time. Such as, instead of choosing a toner, they get just a cleanser.
How to Choose Makeup for Sallow Skin?
For this,
 1. Try to buy makeup, less but from good companies, especially foundations.
 2. Try to buy products according to your skin and do not skip using them.
 3. If going through a severe Sallow Skin condition, instead of hiding it with makeup, go for permanent solutions.
 4. Always clean makeup before you go to sleep to let your skin breathe during the night and keep from issues like dull, sallow skin and tired eyes due to allergic shiners.
3. Dehydration:
Sallow skin examples
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Believe it or not, none of us completes our water intake. We drink water only when our throat feels dry or thirsty. But what if our skin is thirsty?
Long hours sitting in offices and at work don't let us feel thirsty more often because we are spending our day without moving our bodies.
Hence, our daily water consumption becomes lower and lower, and we remain unable to drink the recommended 8 glasses of fresh water every day.
When we don't feel like drinking water, our skin starts showing signs that it is thirsty, that we call, in other words, dehydrated.
As a result, this continuous dehydration becomes a cause of Sallow Skin.
How to Keep Skin From Dehydration?
 1. Drink eight glass of freshwater a day
Smoothies, juices, and flavored drinks don't serve your body as water does. However, quartz crystals can enhance the purity of water to influence your skin better. So, let your skin heal with natural quartz water.
 1. Decrease liquid consumption for caffeinated, carbonated, or alcoholic beverages and move to drinking healthy drinks.
 2. Splash water on your face thrice a day, and don't forget to put a good moisturizer afterward.
 3. Exfoliate your skin routinely at home.
 4. At night, let your skin breathe, so instead of applying creams and lotions that will block your skin's breathing pores, try to spray water from time to time before you sleep to keep it hydrated.
Remember, hydrating your skin doesn't just associate with water intake but also its consumption directly on the skin.
4. Stress and Anxiety:
Sallow skin causes
Stress is the biggest cause of skin problems. Ever heard the quote, "happy girls are prettiest"? It's a fact. If you are stressed about your skin condition, don't be as it will do NOTHING except worsening the issue.
Stress and anxiety come hand in hand, and there can be various causes of stress apart from your skin. Make your mind believe that stressing over an issue is not an option.
Remember, stress doesn't damage you outward, but it damages your inner beauty too. It makes you the most negative person on earth…
So, you will have to find ways of coping with stress for the sake of your inner and outer beauty:
For this:
 1. Try to meditate or do yoga every evening once you are free of all chores
 2. Stop overthinking and keep your brain busy with books and movies
 3. Have a company of good friends who cheer you up in the true sense
 4. Think about good things.
 5. Always revise in your head, YOLO.
Apart from these reasons, there also can be underlying medical conditions behind Sallow skin. In the net lines, we will be discussing those points:
6. Insomnia:
Sallow skin tone
Insomniacs always have a hard time sleeping but have you ever noticed the things this lack of sleep causing on your skin?
Insomnia is a condition in which a person has a hard time sleeping. They keep struggling on their beds for sleeping but take hours to finally fall asleep.
This thing causes swelling in the eyes and puffiness on the face, which becomes a cause of sallow skin in


The Spanish Competition Authority encourages more competition in the medical devices market
Report IPN/CNMC/025/18 issued by the Spanish Competition Authority on the draft of Royal Decree of reimbursement and prices of medical devices
Jordi Faus
Capsulas Nº 197
When the Ministry of Health started working on this Royal Degree, it agreed to request the Spanish Competition Authority to issue a report about it. The Spanish Competition Authority is usually grateful about this sort of requests, because they allow its participation aiming both to improve the functioning of the markets concerned and to reasonably maintain effective competition in such markets. The Spanish Competition Authority understands that this regulation may have a significant impact on competition and issues some recommendations.
Main proposals
The analysis of the Spanish Competition Authority departs from the idea that the market of medical devices is rather complex due to concentration of supply (the first 5 main companies have more than 50% of medical devices reimbursed by the NHS). Also, the medical devices sector is well-known by the Spanish Competition Authority, due to the several cases analysed in the past years, sanctioning many companies for illegal activities.
The Spanish Competition Authority makes, among, others, following recommendations:
1) To review the system for fixing prices and specially margins, pointing out that the system applicable to medicines does not necessarily have to apply to medical devices.
2) To treat in equal terms both reimbursed medical devices and new ones. This may result in a price review of reimbursed medical devices aiming to avoid harming companies who wish to access the market.
3) To reconsider the roll of retail pharmacies when dispensing reimbursed medical devices, opening the door to dispensation at home and in NHS centres.
4) To apply the system of homogeneous groups to reinforce competitive tension. Under this system (applicable to medicines), the pharmacist dispenses the product having the lowest price within its group.
5) To introduce demand and rational use policies. The Spanish Competition Authority supports generic prescription and substitution of products by the pharmacist, but it also encourages providing more information to patients.
6) To improve the reasoning behind decisions. The Spanish Competition Authority has insisted on this matter several times and no steps forward have been taken so far.
Final comment
The recommendations of the Spanish Competition Authority usually come after a strict analysis of the concerned market. However, this report lacks some delicacy. Having excessive competitive tension in a market where the purchaser has so much power, can lead some companies to exit such market. This would result in patients not being able to access some valuable products. This is a delicate matter and it must be handled with prudency.
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a complex elliptic curve \(\mkern 1.5mu\overline{\mkern-1.5muE\mkern-1.5mu}\mkern 1.5mu\) defined over \(\mkern 1.5mu\overline{\mkern-1.5mu{\mathbb{R}}\mkern-1.5mu}\mkern 1.5mu = {\mathbb{C}}\) with a free antiholomorphic involution, regarded as \(C({\mathbb{C}})\) with its \({ \mathsf{Gal}} ({\mathbb{C}}/{\mathbb{R}})\) action for \(C\) a smooth projective curve with \(g=1\) defined over \({\mathbb{R}}\) and \(C({\mathbb{R}}) = \emptyset\). Think of \(C \to \operatorname{Spec}{\mathbb{R}}\) as an elliptic fibration without a section, and the relative Jacobian as \(E\to \operatorname{Spec}{\mathbb{R}}\). There is a Mukai equivalence \({ \mathsf{D} }(C) { \, \xrightarrow{\sim}\, }{ \mathsf{D} }(E, \alpha)\) where \(\alpha\in \mathop{\mathrm{Br}}(E)/\mathop{\mathrm{Br}}({\mathbb{R}})\) is the unique nonzero class.
This is an AG version of \(T{\hbox{-}}\)duality of orientifold theories, and \(\alpha\) corresponds to the \(B{\hbox{-}}\)field.
9.1 Generalizations
Generalizing from genus 1 curves to K3s: let \(E_1, E_2\) be elliptic curves over \({\mathbb{C}}\) with real \(j{\hbox{-}}\)invariant, so they admit antiholomorphic involutions. Cook up a real structure on \(X = (E_1\times E_2)/\mu_2\) and hence on its blowup \(\widehat{X}\) which is a Kummer K3. Projection gives an elliptic fibration without a section. The relative Jacobian gives a dual \(K3\) fibred over \({\mathbb{P}}^1\) with a canonical section and the same derived equivalence as in the theorem. Can interpret as duality of orientifold type IIB string theories on K3s.
Generalizing to genus 1 curves over general fields: let \(\operatorname{ch}k = 0\) and \(C_{/ {k}}\) be a smooth connected projective curve with \(g=1\) and let \(E\) be its Jacobian. Then \(J\) is elliptic over \(k\) and \(C\) is an \(E{\hbox{-}}\)torsor, so defines a class in \(\delta(C) \in H^1_\text{ét}(\operatorname{Spec}k, E(\mkern 1.5mu\overline{\mkern-1.5muk\mkern-1.5mu}\mkern 1.5mu))\). Can how a \(d_2\) vanishes in the Leray spectral sequence \begin{align*} E_2^{p, q} H^p_\text{ét}(\operatorname{Spec}k; {\mathbb{R}}^q \pi_* {\mathbb{G}}_m) \Rightarrow H_\text{ét}^{p+q}(E; {\mathbb{G}}_m) .\end{align*} Use Tsen's theorem to get vanishing. Then \(\mathop{\mathrm{Br}}(E) \cong \mathop{\mathrm{Br}}(E, \operatorname{Spec}k) \oplus \mathop{\mathrm{Br}}(k)\) where the first term is the relative Brauer group.
10 Andrew Harder, Hyperelliptic curves and planar 2-loop Feynman graphs (Wednesday, July 20)
10.1 Introductory
Feynman graphs \(\Gamma\): vertices, edges, and half-edges where (for us) all vertices has a unique adjacent half-edge. Can attach a Feynman integral: to any internal edge, attach \(q_e = \sum \delta_{e, \ell} k_e + \sum \delta_{e, v} p_v\) where \(\delta \in \left\{{0, \pm 1}\right\}\) and \(I_\Gamma = c \int_{{\mathbb{R}}^{?}} {dk \over \prod_e (q_e^2 -m_e^2) }\) for \(m_e \in {\mathbb{C}}\). Can reduce dimension to write \(G = \sum x_e (q_e^2 - m_e^2)\), look at discriminant locus for a family of quadrics? Yields a locus \(UF=0\) for two polynomials \(U\) and \(F\). Somehow get a parametric form \begin{align*} I_\Gamma = c\int_\sigma {U^? \over F^?} \Omega_0 \end{align*} where \(\sigma\) is a cycle given by \(\left\{{{\left[ {x_1: \cdots : x_E} \right]} {~\mathrel{\Big\vert}~}x_i \in {\mathbb{R}}_{\geq 0}}\right\}\); this is an integral on the complement of \(Z(UF) = 0\).
After blowing up \({\mathbb{P}}^{{\left\lvert {E} \right\rvert} - 1}\), the integral \(I_\Gamma\) is well-defined and a relative period of the pair \((P\setminus Z(U^bF^a), B)\) where \(P\) is a toric variety and \(B\) its toric boundary, and \(a,b \in \left\{{0, 1}\right\}\) depending on the dimension \(D\). Thus the geometry of \(Z(U)\) and \(Z(F)\) determine \(I_\Gamma\).
The \(U\) and \(F\) are defined combinatorially from the Feynman graph. Let \(\Gamma_{\in } = (V, E)\) and let \(S_1\) be the set of all spanning trees of \(\Gamma_{\in}\). Let \(x^T = \prod_{e\not\in T} x_e\) for \(T\) any spanning tree, where we have coordinates \(\left\{{x_e}\right\}_{e\in E}\). This somehow defines \(U\), and \(F\) is defined by looking at spanning 2-trees (subgraphs with 2 connected components, no loops, containing all vertices). It turns out \(F\) is homogeneous, so defines a projective variety.
The theta graph yields a smooth elliptic curve in \({\mathbb{P}}^2\). More generally, connected the two vertices with more edges yields Calabi-Yau \((n-1){\hbox{-}}\)folds.
10.2 Extensions to 2-loop graphs
2-loop graphs: two trivalent nodes connected by chains of edges:
What does the mixed Hodge structure on cohomology look like? This is an important step toward understanding periods, and the answer depends heavily on \(D\). Bloch works out kite and double box graphs.
For \((a,1,1)\) hypersurfaces, identifies when certain homology (or some of its weight-filtered pieces) are Hodge-Tate under conditions on \(a\) and \(D\).
Note that a Tate HS has \(h^{i, j} = 0\) for \(i\neq j\), and mixed Tate is an iterated extension of such a