your mouse over the MindSet option. Then click on "Use Headphones".
To use the MindSet as a Bluetooth headset, click on the Bluetooth icon in the Menu Bar, then hover your mouse over the MindSet option. Then click on "Use Headset".
Software Installation
Windows XP/Vista
 1. Insert the MindSet BCI Demonstration Software CD into the CD drive of your computer.
 2. The CD will automatically bring up the Auto-Installer window. If it does not, execute the AutoRun.exe program from the disc.
 3. An on-screen menu will come up that directs you to install each of the included software applications. Click on the buttons of the software packages you would like to install. Folders containing the setup files will be opened. Double click on the setup files to install.
 4. Documentation for each software application is also available from the on-screen menu.
Mac OS X
 1. Insert the MindSet BCI Demonstration Software CD into the CD drive of your computer.
 2. The CD will automatically bring up the Auto-Installer window.
 3. An on-screen menu will direct you to drag and install each of the included software applications. Simply drag the programs as directed.
 4. Documentation for each software application is also available from the on-screen menu.
Brainwave Visualizer
The Brainwave Visualizer is a colorful, interactive application controlled by your brain that shows you a graphical representation of your brain's activity. The Brainwave Visualizer includes the Brainwave Visualization, Brainwave Power Spectrum Graph, and the eSense Attention and Meditation meters.
The on-screen shapes morph and change color depending on your state of mind. Please refer to the included Brainwave Visualizer Manual for more details.
The Adventures of NeuroBoy BCI Technology Demonstration
As NeuroBoy™, use your special telekinetic powers to push, pull, lift, or burn objects. Different objects in the world weigh different amounts, so you will need to hone your mental muscle to pick up the heavier items.
The game provides a 3rd-person environment. This demo requires a more powerful computer, but you may scale down the graphics to meet your computer's specifications. Please refer to the included manual for more details.
Additional Products
To find new and exciting ways to unlock the full potential of you MindSet, visit the NeuroSky Store for additional software and applications: _URL_
MindSet Development Tools (MDT)
The NeuroSky MindSet Development Tools (MDT) is available for free from the NeuroSky Store, and provides all the tools and resources necessary to create and publish games and applications capable of taking advantage of the exciting new Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology of NeuroSky's MindSet headset. The MDT includes drivers, sample code, and documentation describing how to develop applications for several software platforms, including PC, Symbian, and even lower level platforms such as microcontrollers like the Arduino™.
Languages directly supported include C/C++, C#, Java (through JNI), and J2ME. In addition, the MDT provides the ThinkGear Connector (TGC), a daemon-like software that runs on Windows or Mac OS X, and opens a TCP port on the user's local computer so that applications can connect to it and retrieve MindSet data. As long as the TGC is running on one of the supported platforms and connected to a MindSet, then any application written in any language that can communicate through TCP sockets (such as Flash's ActionScript3 and scripting languages in general) can connect to the TGC to read data from the MindSet.
Create exciting new games that challenge people to use the power of their mind or retrofit your existing games with a new dimension of brainwave control.
The MindSet Development Tools (MDT) are available for free and can be downloaded from the NeuroSky Store at _URL_.
MindSet Research Tools (MRT)
The NeuroSky MindSet Research Tools (MRT) enable researchers to use the MindSet as a data collection device. Using the cost effective and user-friendly features of MindSet in conjunction with the MRT allows researchers to broaden the scope of their research and to make efficient use of resources.
The MRT includes the NeuroView software, which make it easy to connect, graph, view, and record MindSet data in real time. The MRT also includes the more advanced NeuroSkyLab MATLAB module, which adds the ability to define custom MATLAB scripts and functions for customized processing and analysis of MindSet data.
For more information on the uses and capabilities of the MindSet Research Tools, please visit:
_URL_
Care and Maintenance
 - Clean the MindSet's sensor and ear contacts with alcohol-wipes (alcohol-based cleaner) periodically to ensure the best signal quality. Use a soft cloth to clean the MindSet casing
 Clean the sensors regularly
 - For travel and storage, gently push the sensor boom up until it is aligned with the top of the headset. Be careful not to overextend the maximum range of the boom by adjusting it beyond the natural stopping point
 Don't extend the boom beyond its stopping point!
 - Do not expose the MindSet to temperatures above 140°F (60°C)
 - Be careful not to kink or overly bend the sensor boom. This will reduce the ease of fit
 - Dropping or throwing the MindSet may damage the MindSet
 - The MindSet is not intended for use on pets
Troubleshooting
The MindSet does not turn on.
The MindSet's charge might be low. Please recharge the MindSet. When charging the MindSet, make sure that the mini USB is plugged in all of the way.
I am having issues with my Bluetooth connection.
Please use the Bluetooth Dongle included with the MindSet, and then be sure to carefully follow the instructions under Setting Up Your MindSet, paying particular attention to Bluetooth Dongle Setup, Bluetooth MindSet Pairing, and Serial Port Name. Then please check if your issue has been addressed in the Bluetooth Troubleshooting section.
I cannot get my Bluetooth sound working.
 - Important: The MindSet audio service must be paired to your computer before audio will work.
 - If you have already paired the MindSet Bluetooth Audio, double click on the MindSet Audio icon in the Bluetooth control panel to connect the MindSet audio service.
 - You may need to restart your media player or other application to enable sound through the MindSet after pairing.
 - If you still cannot connect, delete the MindSet Audio icon and pair the MindSet again.
The signal quality status is consistently poor (fewer than three bars).
The ear contacts should be resting directly on your ear and the forehead sensor should be on your forehead. Also, check that the sensors and contacts are making good contact with the skin. Make sure to remove all obstructions including hair and jewelry.
It usually takes three or four seconds for the headset to validate the signal after holding still. Also make certain to keep the sensor and contacts clean.
The eSense meters do not move.
Verify that the Bluetooth is paired correctly. You can use the Brainwave Visualizer to verify if the headset is transmitting. Select "Show data output" from the menu. If the numbers are changing, that means the headset is transmitting data to the PC.
Allow the eSense meters to go through a few moments to go through initialization before troubleshooting. If the meters do not move after 10 seconds, make sure the sensor rests on the forehead and the contacts are on the left ear. The sensor and contacts should make firm and consistent contact with your skin.
I don't seem to be able to control the eSense™ meters.
Like exercising an unfamiliar muscle, it may take some time to gain full proficiency with the eSense™ meters. First, be sure you understand how the eSense meters work and what they are measuring. Generally, we recommend engaging Attention by concentrating and Meditation by relaxing. Most importantly, be sure you have read the detailed explanation of eSense previously described in the eSense™ sections.
I have a problem that is not covered by this Troubleshooting section.
Register on the NeuroSky Support Forums at _URL_ to access additional information.
Support
For further technical support, please register on the NeuroSky Support Forums at _URL_.
FCC
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
ENGLISH: ISO/IEC Guide 37 [17]. * Ventilation should not be impeded by covering the ventilation openings with items, such as newspapers, tablecloths, curtains, etc.; * No naked flame sources, such as lighted candles, should be placed on the apparatus; * Battery disposal: Lithium Ion batteries are classified by the federal government as non-hazardous waste and are safe for disposal in the normal municipal waste stream. These batteries, however, do contain recyclable materials and are accepted for recycling. Contact your local government for disposal or recycling practices in your area.
Warnings: * Batteries shall not be exposed to excessive heat such as sunshine, fire, or the like. * Excessive sound pressure from earphones and headphones can cause hearing loss.
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Recently someone told me the term 'salty dog' refers to the practice of early maritime sailors taking dogs aboard ships as mascots because dogs could smell land before the sailors could see it, and would alert them when they were approaching a land mass so they wouldn't sail past it in the dark. I had no idea if the statement was true or false, so I looked it up. 'Salty dog' is indeed a nautical term, but refers to a sailor who has spent extended periods of time at sea; however, there was an early practice of rubbing salt through a dog's coat as an archaic practice to repel fleas. In theory, it probably worked because the dog, no doubt, died from sodium poisoning.
This does raise an interesting question. There is an Blues song, 'Salty Dog Blues', and the first line is, 'Let me be your salty dog, or I don't wanna be your man at all.' What do you suppose that means?

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If you hear a flight attendant give a little sigh when you order a Diet Coke, you're about to learn why. According to a flight attendant on the flight blog These Golden Wings, Diet Coke takes the longest amount of time to pour. The author explains that high altitude makes carbonated drinks foam up more, and Diet Coke is the worst. The blog entry reads, "Pouring Diet Coke is one the biggest slow-downs in bar service and on shorter flights those precious seconds count!" A study by Illinois State University confirms that Diet Coke has higher levels of carbon dioxide than regular Coke, making it more fizzy, even on the ground.
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Calls to particular telephone numbers can be undesirable (e.g. premium rate services). Therefore outgoing calls to such numbers should be prevented.
This article describes how outgoing calls to particular telephone numbers can be prevented by creating a call routing entry.
- LCOS as of version 9.24 (download latest version)
- LANtools as of version 9.24 (download latest version)
- LANCOM router with active Voice Call Manager
- Configured and functional telephony (SIP single line respectively SIP Trunk as well as SIP, ISDN or analogue users)
1) Open the configuration of the router in LANconfig und navigate to the menu Voice Call Manager → Call Router → Call routing.
2) Create a new call routing entry.
3) Edit the following parameters:
- Entry active / default line: Make sure, that this option is set to Active.
- Priority: Enter a value, which is higher than the priority of all other call routing entries. In this example the Priority has to be set to at least the value 3.
- Called number: Enter the undesired destination number followed by the hash symbol (in this example the number 0900# is entered). The hash symbol can be used for any number of digits.
- Destination line: In the drop-down menu select the object REJECT.
4) The configuration of the call routing entry is now complete. Write the configuration back to the router.

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The birth of Rose of Sharon's child carries significant symbolic meanings. For Rose of Sharon, the child has represented the possibilities for the future, yet the baby is stillborn. The event has clear parallels to the Joad's journey to California: they faced incredible hardship and pain striving for a better future, yet their sacrifices lead to nothing. The fate of the baby is even a perverse reversal of religious imagery. Uncle John places the dead child in a box and sends it down the river, an obvious allusion to Moses.


Turn screen updating on or off.
 Application.Echo(EchoOn, StatusBarText)
 EchoOn Use True (default) to repaint the screen and False to turn it off.
 Text to display in the status bar when repainting is turned on or off.
Complex Visual Basic code will run faster if you turn off screen repainting until the procedure has finished running. Echo Off can also be used to hide changes that the user should not see.
The Echo method does not suppress the display of modal dialog boxes, such as error messages, or pop-up forms, such as property sheets.
When screen repainting is off, the screen won't show any changes, even if the user presses CTRL+BREAK or Visual Basic encounters a breakpoint. If you try to step through the code, you won't be able to see progress through the code or any other visual cues, however, the code will continue to execute.
For debugging purposes, you can create a macro that turns repainting on and then assign the macro to a key combination.
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Application.Echo False
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DoCmd.OpenForm "frmPatients", acNormal
Application.Echo True
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The need to bring religion into our teaching of race and white supremacy is critically important, but by simply naming it, we take the first step in inviting our students to understand the how's and why's of it. The pedagogy of naming described herein, which is inspired by the _TAG_ movement, is theoretically grounded in the theory of signification and counter-signification developed by scholars of religion, Charles H. Long and Richard Brent Turner. I explore how the act of naming, as a form of signification, can be employed to heuristically structure intersectional considerations of religion in the teaching of a Black Lives Matter course. Specifically, the study draws upon teaching units from my Black Lives Matter course in order to address how a critical analysis of Christian privilege and Christo-normativity, Islam, and religious history can figure into critical engagements with race and white supremacy.
"Naming Resistance and Religion in the Teaching of Race and White Supremacy: A Pedagogy of Counter-Signification for Black Lives Matter,"
Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice: Vol. 4
, Article 1.
Available at: _URL_


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Flesh and Blood
Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America
Susan E. Lederer
Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s thousands of people have lived with 'new' hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. From the beginning, though, there was simply a problem: surgeons often encountered shortages of people willing and able to give their organs and tissues. To overcome this problem, they often brokered financial arrangements. Yet an ethic of gift exchange coexisted with the 'commodification of the body'. The same duality characterized the field of blood transfusion, which was essential to the development of modern surgery.


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As I am writing this, we are part way through the process of making new releases of the D-Cubed Components. The 2D products (2D DCM, PGM) have just been shipped and the 3D products (3D DCM, AEM, CDM, HLM) will follow soon. In these releases, 2D DCM and 3D DCM have both been extended to add direct support for new types of geometry.
Full details of all the enhancements will be announced in due course, but in this post I would like to talk in more general terms about why it is important for geometric constraint solvers to support a wide range of geometry types.
For many years, the 2D DCM and 3D DCM have included ways to represent the geometry types found in most CAD models even when no direct support is available. There are two methods that can be used to do this. Firstly, there is support for NURBS curves and surfaces which can be used to represent many types of geometries. Secondly, there is support for general parametric curves and surfaces, where the DCM will call evaluator functions provided by the application in order to get position and derivative information.
These features are very powerful, but over time direct support for many extra geometry types has been added to the D-Cubed products. The main driver for this has been the growing use of parametric design and variational modelling methods, including direct modelling, and the desire to get the optimum results with a wider range of model data.
So, what are the advantages for users and application developers of direct support for specific geometry types in the D-Cubed geometric constraint solvers? This is what I think are the most important benefits:
The overall message is clear – in the field of constraint solving, special-case methods which rely on a knowledge of the geometry types are preferable to generic methods. The generic representations have their place, but CAD models are usually dominated by geometry of known types. The more the software understands about these, the better able it will be to give users the results they want.
In future posts I'll talk about the specific new geometry types which have been added to the 2D DCM and 3D DCM, and the benefits that these bring to users.
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Synopsis: Wetting Physics on a Squishy Surface
It is well known that the surface tension of a liquid determines how it wets an underlying solid, but the wetting characteristics also depend on surface stresses in the solid itself. Surface tension in a solid is, however, notoriously difficult to measure because a solid's bulk elasticity dominates its response to external forces. In a paper in Physical Review Letters, Robert Style and colleagues at Yale University, Connecticut, demonstrate a new technique to measure surface tension in soft surfaces that, unlike existing methods, does not require knowledge of the bulk properties of the underlying solid.
Style et al. study how a soft surface bends when a liquid droplet rests on it. Typically, the angle at which the surfaces of a droplet and a solid meet—the contact angle—is determined by Young's Law, but the authors show that on soft surfaces the measured contact angle deviates from the predicted one by as much as degrees. They argue that this failure of Young's Law on a soft surface occurs because the liquid's surface tension is able to significantly deform a soft solid.
Using confocal microscopy, the authors study glycerol and oil droplets of various sizes resting on silicone gel of different thicknesses. They show that there is a very small region around the contact line where the deformation is universal in the sense that it depends only on the surface tension in the underlying solid. Style et al.'s approach is the first that allows surface stresses to be measured in any soft solid, regardless of its bulk rheological properties. – Sami Mitra


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In this day of countless reality television shows consisting of elaborate social experiments where people band together to vote other contestants off an island, out of a mansion, and out of the game itself, it never ceases to amaze me how prevalent the incorrect use of the verb "align" has become when referring to an alliance.
"I decided to align with Tom on Day One, but then our alliance was broken when Tom aligned with Dick. So then I had to align with Harry."
By the time I post this, this error may very well become have become so common that it is deemed acceptable. This happened with the word "orientate", which is now in our dictionary as a result of the overwhelming incorrect use of the word in society. This was typically done by people (with good intentions) throwing it into conversation in an effort to sound more schooled than they really are. (Recall Damon Wayans' classic parody from In Living Color, where he played an artificially articulate prison inmate.)
Social acceptance of error doesn't make it correct.
It's ally, people. Ally. The verb. Emphasise the second syllable, so you pronounce it "a lie". It's the root of alliance. The past-tense allied can be pronounced two ways; it can rhyme with either "gal ride" or "collide". I allied with Tom on Day One, but then our alliance was broken when Tom allied with Dick. So then I had to ally with Harry.
It's not align. Align is the root of alignment. While an alliance is figuratively synonymous to an alignment, the words are in fact unrelated. If you're aligning with somebody, talk about your alignment, not your alliance. If you're creating an alliance with somebody, you're allying with them, not aligning. Just be consistent.
Okay? Please? Thanks.

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January 12, 2017 by Daniel P. Clark
Re: What is the splat operator doing here?
I've received an email from a fellow software developer inquiring about a bit of code where I use Ruby's splat operator in two different ways. In my Ruby gem cards_lib I wrote a "macro" to take a list of strings and generate card instances from them. You don't really hear of macros in the Ruby community but by the definition this is just that.
A macro (short for "macroinstruction", from Greek μακρός 'long') in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to a replacement output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure.
Wikipedia: Macro (computer science)
The macro I designed is this:
Now the splat operator works in two different ways. One is for consuming all parameters in as one array variable, and the other is to consume all entries out of one array as parameters.
Splat in a Method Definition
Let look at the first situation "consuming all parameters in as one array". Whether you use a proc/lamda or a method the behavior will be the same. No matter how many parameters given will be evaluated as on inner variable as an array of each of the parameters.
The splat operator as a parameter definition will consume any input into one array.
Splat in a Method Call
Using splat in a method call is a bit like unwrapping one layer from an array. It's the same as saying you want to take all of the individual entries in the array and pass them off as individual parameters to the method.
So as you can see the splat parameter is a way of wrapping or unwrapping an array as one or many parameters.
Going Through the Macro
The first thing this lambda Proc does is take all parameters in as an Array.
If we had the collection as an array beforehand we'd splat it in and get the same results.
Now that we have any quantity of cards provided as an array we'll map them into Card objects. Let's look at the map part.
This will replace all the string representations of a card and return a Card object for each.
Just so you know; the Card object is defined elsewhere and can take two parameters:
Now the mapping process takes in each entry from c and the splat operator on *opts wraps that entry in an array. So if the first item is a string such as "Ah" it will now be ["Ah"]. Now that we have a guaranteed array we can call the flatten method with absolute confidence that we wont get a missing method error (and flatten is needed if arrays are given since the incoming splat operator will double the array depth). Now since the Card object can take two individual parameters we need to use the splat operator again to "unwrap" the array as parameters to the new method.
Now to make clear the WHY behind doing all this. As you can see from the class Card definition you can define your own ranker object on a card. With the above macro you could pass in the following.
And each Card object would be built successfully with a different internal ranker given as a parameter. This way the mapper in this macro doesn't care if you give it a string for a card, or an array of parameters, it will be flattened and then splatted out just the same to Card.new. So the macro accepts a simple list, or a complex one for Card generation.
Style Notes
When using lambdas or procs I tend to hear a preference towards using.call or.() in providing clarity for when a Proc being called rather than using the [] method which is the same thing but can be confused as a hash. For the sake of teaching in this post I used.call, but for me personally since a macro isn't a common term thrown around the Ruby community I like to use the square brackets for this and think of it as "macro syntax". So making five cards would simply be Cards[ "Ah", "2h", "3h", "4h", "5h" ]. So when you examine the code for CardsLib you may find it helpful to keep that in mind.
The splat operator is super helpful but it can only be used in a method definitions or in method calls. If you try to use the splat operator inside of string interpolation it won't work for unwrapping an array as it did in method calls. So it has a good use case, but a limited one.
If you haven't checked out my gem CardsLib I highly recommend that you do. I boast of it as "The 'smartest' object oriented card game library". It has many efficient and helpful ways of creating and evaluating cards, and collections of cards, and their worth. It may just be helpful enough in making your favorite card games an easy program to make.
God Bless!
-Daniel P. Clark
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Nice explanation with a good example.
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The lrt file extension is associated with the Yacc a general tool for imposing structure on the input to a computer program.
The Yacc user prepares a specification of the input process; this includes rules describing the input structure, code to be invoked when these rules are recognized, and a low-level routine to do the basic input. Yacc then generates a function to control the input process. This function, called a parser, calls the user-supplied low-level input routine (the lexical analyzer) to pick up the basic items (called tokens) from the input stream. These tokens are organized according to the input structure rules, called grammar rules; when one of these rules has been recognized, then user code supplied for this rule, an action, is invoked; actions have the ability to return values and make use of the values of other actions.
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Overcoming obstacles to parkland acquisition: an analysis of the City of Toronto's parkland acquisition tools, why they have failed the downtown, and what can be done about it
thesisposted on 25.05.2021, 07:15 by Sophie Lewis Knowles
Since the mid-1900s, municipal parkland acquisition in North America has occurred largely through the development process. This paper asks how well Toronto's existing acquisition tools and policies are meeting the needs of present and future populations in the downtown. Research was conducted through a review of the literature, policy and budgetary analysis, and twelve key informant interviews with municipal parks staff, councillors, developers, a planning consultant, and community advocates. The research finds that there are many factors that have impeded parkland acquisition in the downtown, including lack of a strong planning framework, historical disbursal of cash-in-lieu funds city-wide, governance challenges, underfunding of existing operations, limited land supply, a perception of land as overpriced, inability to purchase at market price and in a timely fashion, and limited knowledge of existing tools. The paper acknowledges what has worked and concludes with recommendations to improve the City's parkland acquisition and development framework.


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Guest characters are anonymous / generic logins that allow users to connect to a game without having to create a character. This can be useful on games where character registration is required, and it limits the build-up of player objects that are used only once or twice. Additionally, both built-in commands and softcode can be modified to permit/restrict the access of guest characters, allowing for fine-tuned control of the actions and the experience of these visitors.
By default, guest characters are not enabled. There are several steps to configuring guests which require in game actions and editing the configuration file. The primary on/off switch for guests is the config parameter guest_char_num.
1. Create a protoguest object. This is often a player, but does not need to be. If it is a player, do not name it 'Guest'. Make a note of its dbref.
2. Edit your netmux.conf (or whatever your.conf is - see GAMENAME) and add/modify the entry for the guest_char_num. For example, if your protoguest is object #32, you want the following line:
3. Save the file and _USER_. You should now have working guests.
There are a number of other steps you should consider when configuring guests. For instance, by default, connecting guest characters will join the specified channel for guests, with the specified alias. By default, the channel name is 'Guests' and the alias is 'g'. For this to work, you will need to _USER_ the Guests channel and configure it as needed. If you would like to have guests join a different channel, check the wizhelp topics for guests_channel and guests_channel_prefix (2.6 and higher for the latter?).
You can also specify settings for the name of guest characters (Guest1, Guest2, etc by default), the number of guests that can be on at one time (10 by default). check wizhelp for *guest* to see a list of config parameters that control guest configuration.
Additionally, there is customization that can be done by modifying the Protoguest object, as all guest characters will use this object as a template.


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Speed Conversion Examples Light Years per Second to Millimeters per MinuteConvert 40 light year per second to millimeter per minute
Convert light year per second [ly/s] to millimeter per minute
Let's convert light years to millimeters. One light year is 9461000000000000000 millimeters, so multiply light years by 9461000000000000000.
40 × 9461000000000000000 = 378440000000000000000 = 3.7844E+20 millimeters.
Let's convert seconds to minutes.
There are 60 seconds in one minute, so we need to divide the number of seconds by 60.
1 : 60 = 1/60
Divide distance by time
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Scripture Journaling Plan
Your Bible Journaling Plan – A Walk Through Romans
Your scripture journaling plan – your reading and writing passages can be found in Romans
The key word for Romans is faith – throughout this bundle you will be taking a walk through Romans and journaling your faith.
Romans was written by Paul in about AD57 near the end of the third missionary journey. The main synopsis of Romans is all about :
- the need for salvation
- the method of salvation
- salvation illustrated in the life of Abraham
- The blessing of salvation
- the scope of salvation
- life of holy service to God
- struggle with sinful tendencies
- the plan of salvation by faith
- Gods dealings with Israel
- The restoration
The scriptures are there for you to reflect, journal and encourage you to live a life with purpose.
This is a reference guide for you to come back on a daily basis to reflect on and journal on.
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Cholesterol levels may change with seasonal fluctuations
March 9, 2013
According to a study by the State University of Campinas (Brazil), "Cholesterol levels may change with seasonal fluctuations causing an increased risk in the winter months, as evidenced by the investigation."
The study was presented at the Annual Cinetífica LXII Session of the American College of Cardiology, and demonstrates that "the prevalence of cholesterol is regulated by a similar pattern that heart attacks and deaths related to them, they also increase in the winter".
According to Dr. Filipe Moura Brazilian university center and lead author of the study, "cholesterol and triglyceride levels vary significantly during the year, which may lead to misinterpretation of the actual cardiovascular risk of a person. Therefore, some patients may be at greater risk than they realize."
"I do not mean they should undergo medical checks continuously, even if monitoring is required by the doctors."
To get there, researchers prospectively evaluated the lipid profile of 227,359 people.
And it was found that "low-density lipoprotein or bad cholesterol increased by an average of seven milligrams during the winter compared to the summer", and scientists say that "this figure translates into an increase of eight percent in the prevalence of cholesterol during these months. "
Moura explains: "These fluctuations may be even more pronounced in the United States, Europe or other regions experiencing more extreme weather changes between winter and summer." To this also affect "the exercise and dietary habits."


A new generation of practitioners are challenging our definitions of experts and expertise and calling for more diverse voices to be heard. Citizen talks to some of the innovators and entrepreneurs who are working across and beyond professional boundaries to improve city life.
Alice Barnard: The Edge Foundation
Alice Barnard
Alice Barnard is chief executive of the Edge Foundation, a charity pursuing a unified and holistic education system that supports social equity and enables young people to fulfil their potential and come away with a skill set suited to the 21st century.
What drives you?
Edge believes all young people should have access to a broad and balanced curriculum, including technical and creative subjects, taught in a way that makes learning meaningful and relevant. The culture of high-stakes testing in schools stifles creativity and limits opportunities to develop skills such as communication, problem-solving and teamwork. The government is stubbornly adhering to a curriculum designed in 1904; young people now need different skills and knowledge. Our current education system disadvantages young people from the most deprived backgrounds and we are wasting huge amounts of talent, which our society and economy desperately needs.
How did you come to be doing what you're doing?
I've been a reporter, the head of an organisation campaigning on rural issues and run my own business, but my route to Edge was via the Peter Jones Foundation where I was chief executive. That organisation is all about supporting young people to be enterprising and successful, so it was a short step to Edge, it's just that we're tackling it from a policy perspective and trying to effect systemic change.
What's your business model?
Edge is fortunate in that we have an endowment, meaning we are not reliant on public money, not subject to influence from government, and can be selective in which donations we accept. This means we have a truly independent voice.
What's the biggest challenge you face in trying to do your job?
The intransigence and reactionary thinking of Nick Gibb (then schools minister). He is so entrenched in 19th-century ideas about education.


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As more and more people use social media to promote products, the tax rules are important to understand. Here's what you need to know:
Being an influencer
Even if being an influencer or content creator is not your main job, you still have to tell the tax authorities (HMRC) about the money you earn from it. Influencers can be famous celebrities with lots of followers or regular people with a smaller audience. They make money by creating content, promoting brands, and growing their follower count. Sometimes influencers get paid or receive free products in exchange for advertising a brand. They might also sell their own things like music.
HMRC has noticed this growing industry and is sending letters to influencers who might not have reported their earnings. These letters are meant to remind them to pay the right amount of tax. It's important not to ignore these letters. Influencers might not realize that they need to report their earnings to HMRC. The money they make is usually taxable, and they need to fill out a tax return. Influencers can deduct certain expenses from their income to lower their tax bill. These expenses can include marketing, subscriptions, travel costs, and more. Gifts that influencers receive are also considered income and need to be included when calculating their taxes.
Why VAT may be important to you
If an influencer or content creator sells physical goods or provides services online, they might have to register for VAT. This applies to both selling in the UK and to customers overseas. It's important to understand the VAT rules and how to account for them correctly when using online platforms or marketplaces.
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By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Early modern philosophers like Locke used the corresponding English terms "nominal essence" and "real essence". Terms with the same pronunciation and spelling but unrelated meanings are called homonyms, while terms with the same spelling and pronunciation and related meanings are called polysemes. Locke and Mill also argued that individuals cannot be defined.
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The "Brain in a vat" hypothesis is cast in scientific terms. It supposes that one might be a disembodied brain kept alive in a vat, and fed false sensory signals, by a mad scientist. This is a premise of the film series, Matrix hypothesis.
The first time I heard someone say "I see myself as being a Genuine person", was a very successful woman I was working for. And damn it she actually was, so that sentence has always stuck to me like a rock. To the point that I've recently started an Etsy page for "Genuine Hustler". Naïve Realism in Contemporary Philosophy Archived at the Wayback Machine, The Function of Conscious Experience.
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Huarache or Kwarachi?
Handmade Huaraches
So many of you love our Huaraches, and maybe if you are like me. Your earliest memories of Huaraches is when you traveled to Mexico during the summer as a little niña. You remember everyone in the rancho wearing Huaraches, But they were never made in your size, because of my big pie. Or maybe you saw them strolling through the mercado and you were so mesmerized by their beautiful vibrant colors that you had to get a pair for yourself. Can you honestly say you know the history or the origins of our beloved huaraches? To be quite honest, I never knew the origins or how they are made so I decided to do some research and learn more about them. A task that I thought was going to be quite easy. I told myself "just google it"! but since most of our culture was not documented properly it was a lot harder than what I thought.
We are going to start off with the word Huaraches or Kwarachi as they are originally called in the indigenous language of Purépecha. Purépecha is a language that was spoken in the Pre-Columbian state of Tarascan, which is present day Michoacán, Guanajuato (where I am from), Guerrero, Querétaro, Colima and Jalisco. An interesting fact about the Tarascan's is that they were actually archenemies with the Aztecs. How cool is it to know that there were other great civilizations than the Aztecs or Mayans? Many people believe that the Huaraches originated in Tarascan. Today they are handmade throughout Mexico, but states like Michoacán and Jalisco dominate the handmade productions of Huaraches. The original Huarache was made with untanned deer leather, but when the Spaniards conquered Mexico and introduced cattle into the mix. The Huaraches were then made with light-colored cow leather. The original design was "Pata de Gallo" and was easily made by the wearer. Huaraches are primarily associated with farmworkers in rural areas and they were made to withstand long journeys or working long hours in hot weather.
The modern Huarache is much more complex than the original one. The weaving has turned into an art form and the cow leather is dyed into various colors making the Huarache a more stylish sandal. The sole can be made from leather or even recycled tires. The process is quite long and has various steps, yet they continue to have something in common with their ancestor. They are very breathable and durable. Perfect for hot weather and if you live in a hot state like how I live in Florida where it is perfect to wear Huaraches year-round. Huaraches were actually made popular in the U.S.A during the 1960's by hippies and surfers. They were even in the lyrics to the song Surfin' USA by The Beach Boys. Since then, Huaraches were commercialized, and even Nike named one of the sneakers after the original Huaraches. Even though they are commercialized, many artisanal families in Mexico have continued the traditional craftsmanship of making handmade Huaraches to help them support their families. They continue to carry on our beautiful Mexican culture and stay true to our original roots. So, the next time you order one of our beloved handmade Huaraches think about the history and the people who work hard to create such stunning masterpiece.
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 Hi, my order #17240, I ordered 2 pairs of Evangelina white huaraches and I only need 1 pair in white. Please make the second pair in black. Same style, but in black. Let me know if it is possible….thanks. I really appreciate if you can change it!
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 - Brenda : April 01, 2021
 Hola puse una orden desde Noviembre y no he recibido mis huaraches. Porfavor sean honestos y mándame a decir si voy a recibir mi orden o no. Les he mandado varios correos electrónicos y suelen no contestarme con la fecha de envío. Mi número de orden es 19136.
 - ktyrysxhcy: March 10, 2021
 Muchas gracias.?Como puedo iniciar sesion?
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Plaiting and braiding have a long history. They encompass decorating hair, weaving and basket-making as well as making knots. So it is surprising that John Gorham seems to have been the first person to have looked at the subject systematically. The main part of this book is a reprint of his 1888 work on plaiting crystal models has been an inspiration to many others working in this field, notably Robert Pargeter and Jean Pedersen. Along with Robert Pargeter and James Brunton's articles in the Mathematical Gazette Gorham's work is here reproduced. The ideas were extensively covered in Mathematical Models by Cundy and Rollett, also reprinted by Tarquin. It is through this book and Pargeter's article that Gorham's techniques have been kept alive. The book itself has been rare and most references to it are only as a result of Pargeter having quoted it as his source. Through this reprint the work can be more widely read and admired by mathematicians, plaiters and crystallographers, as well as historians of science and mathematics.
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I'm currently trying to learn Mathematica, and I've got some linear algebra tasks to solve with it. I've gotten quite far but now I'm stuck on this one exercise. The instructions are:
With the help of Mathematica-commands, draw a new picture, where you can see the orthogonal projection of the vector onto the plane. It should look something like this: enter image description here
Now, I started out by drawing the vector in the 3D plane with this code:
Graphics3D [ { Thick , Arrow [ { { 0 , 0 , 0} , { 1 , −1 , 2 } } ] ,
InfinitePlane [ { { 1 , 0 , 0} , { 1 , 1 , 1} , { 0 , 0 , 1 } } ] } ,
Axes -> True , AxesLabel -> { "X" , "Y" , "Z" } ]
This gave me the 3D image in the picture above, without the projection (the dashed line) obviously. But now I'm stuck, and my question is, how would I get the orthogonal projection of the vector?
Thanks in advance.
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 - $\begingroup$ Maybe it will help you to know the normal of the plane? You can obtain it by plane = InfinitePlane[{{1, 0, 0}, {1, 1, 1}, {0, 0, 1}}]; Normalize[ Cross[plane[[1, 2]] - plane[[1, 1]], plane[[1, 3]] - plane[[1, 1]]]]. $\endgroup$ Jan 1 '19 at 16:17
 - $\begingroup$ Sadly enough, that doesn't work for me. The result comes back saying "Part specification plane is longer than depth of the object." $\endgroup$
 – wznd
 Jan 1 '19 at 17:03
 - $\begingroup$ Hm. Weird. Did you really execute all code I posted? $\endgroup$ Jan 1 '19 at 17:07
 - $\begingroup$ Ah, nevermind. I got it to work now. This gave me three normals, which all had the value of 1/Sqrt[3]. How do I proceed from here? $\endgroup$
 – wznd
 Jan 1 '19 at 17:15
 - $\begingroup$ No, it gave you one normal vector. Let's call it v. The projector onto the place described by the plane is IdentityMatrix[3] - KroneckerProduct[v,v]. It is now only a matter of a suitable translation... $\endgroup$ Jan 1 '19 at 17:22
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Try this version
p0 = {0, 0, 0};
p1 = {1, -1, 2};
p2 = {1, 0, 0};
p3 = {1, 1, 1};
p4 = {0, 0, 1};
gr1 = Graphics3D[{Thick, Arrow[{p0, p1}],InfinitePlane[{p2,p3,p4}]},Axes -> True, AxesLabel-> {"X", "Y","Z"}];
v = p1 - p0;
n1 = p2 - p3;
n2 = p3 - p4;
n = Cross[n1, n2];
pl = p0;
pp = p2;
equs = Thread[pl + lambda v == pp + mu n1 + nu n2];
sol = Solve[equs, {lambda, mu, nu}][[1]];
pb = p0 + lambda v /. sol;
vern = n/Norm[n];
prjn = (v.vern) vern;
prjP = v - prjn;
gr2 = Graphics3D[{Thick, Dashed, Red, Arrow[{pb, prjP + pb}]}];
gr3 = Graphics3D[{Thick, Green, Arrow[{pb, prjn}]}];
Show[gr1, gr2, gr3]
enter image description here
In green the component along the normal to the plane and in dashed red the projection onto the plane.
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The line segment $\mu p_0+(1-\mu)p_1$ for $0 \le \mu \le 1$ is supported by the line $L\to p_l + \lambda (p_1-p_0) = p_l + \lambda \vec v$. The plane containing the three points $p_2,p_3,p_4$ can be defined as $\Pi\to p_p+\mu(p_2-p_3)+\nu(p_3-p_4) = p_p + \mu\vec n_1+\nu\vec n_2$ The intersection point $p_b = L\cap\Pi$ is obtained by solving for $(\lambda^*,\mu^*,\nu^*)$ the linear system $p_l + \lambda \vec v = p_p + \mu\vec n_1+\nu\vec n_2$ and then $p_b = p_l+\lambda^* \vec v$ The plane normal is obtained as $\vec n = \vec n_1\times\vec n_2$ and the $\vec v$ component regarding $\vec n$ is obtained as $ \vec v_{\vec n} = \left(\vec v\cdot\frac{\vec n}{|\vec n|}\right)\frac{\vec n}{|\vec n|}$ and finally $\vec v_{\Pi} = \vec v-\vec v_{\vec n}$
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 - $\begingroup$ Thank you for the answer! Let's see if I get the steps right. First you get the normal to the plane by taking the cross-product between n1 and n2. But here's where I kind of get lost. What does the following functions mean? Do you think you could explain the next couple of lines for me? I could just post this, but I want to understand aswell. Thank you very much. $\endgroup$
 – wznd
 Jan 2 '19 at 14:58
 - $\begingroup$ @wznd Attached an explanation. $\endgroup$
 – Cesareo
 Jan 2 '19 at 15:54
 - $\begingroup$ Thank you for that. Now all I'm wondering is three lines of code, that I can't seem to understand, even with your great explanation. I'll post a picture with the lines of code that I don't understand. I don't know if it's to much to ask, but if it would be possible for you to explain the functions in words, or a bit simpler to a math novice like me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Here's the section that I don't really understand: gyazo.com/707fd1863efd810e6ea58f295651d5ef $\endgroup$
 – wznd
 Jan 2 '19 at 16:03
 - $\begingroup$ @wznd Removing the semicolon at the end of the command facilitates the understanding. $\endgroup$
 – Cesareo
 Jan 2 '19 at 16:57
 - $\begingroup$ Yeah, I did that initially and it help somewhat. But I'm still unsure about what the equs, solve and prjn variables specifically mean/do. $\endgroup$
 – wznd
 Jan 2 '19 at 17:20
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The code in Cesareo's answer can be shortened slightly.
Using the same set of initial points as in the other answer:
p0 = {0, 0, 0}; p1 = {1, -1, 2}; p2 = {1, 0, 0}; p3 = {1, 1, 1}; p4 = {0, 0, 1};
Some intermediate vectors:
d = p1 - p0;
nrm = Cross[p2 - p3, p3 - p4];
Use RegionIntersection[] to find the point of intersection:
pin = First[RegionIntersection[InfinitePlane[{p2, p3, p4}], InfiniteLine[{p0, p1}]]]
 {1/4, -1/4, 1/2}
From there:
Graphics3D[{Arrow[Tube[{p0, p1}]], {Opacity[2/3], InfinitePlane[{p2, p3, p4}]},
 {Green, Arrow[Tube[{pin, pin + Normalize[nrm]}]]},
 {Red, Arrow[Tube[{pin, pin + d - Projection[d, nrm]}]]},
 {Blue,


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Water mains clearing is taking place at the Echuca Water Treatment Plant as part of pump station valve replacement works.
The mains will be cleaned by flushing – pumping a high volume of water at high pressure through the pipes to remove the sediment.
The cleaning is part of a wider project by Coliban Water, in which large valves have been replaced within the water mains at the treatment plant to improve its reliability.
The sections of mains that are being flushed will be isolated from the rest of the treatment plant during the works.
The sediment from the flushing is removed, before mains are reconnected to the system.
However, Coliban Water Manager Infrastructure, Corey Bourne, said there was a small potential for some of the sediment to reach the water supply network as a result of the flushing and cause some minor discolouration.
"The potential is low; however, the water is safe to drink and does not pose a risk to health, remaining compliant with the health-based guideline values in the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines," Mr Bourne said.
"If you do notice discolouration, try running your taps for up to several minutes. If the problem persists, please contact us to report," he told locals.
These works form part of a $15 million investment into water and wastewater services in Echuca, which aim to create greater network efficiency, better water pressure and cater for the growing region.
Coliban Water planned to complete the flushing work on 24 June 2020 and put the system back online from 25 June 2020.


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The results of a national survey showed that on average, adults sleep 6.9 hours per night. Suppose that the standard deviation is 1.2 hours.
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b. Use Chebyshev's theorem to calculate the percentage of individuals who sleep between 3.9 and 9.9 hours.
c. Assume that the number of hours of sleep follows a bell-shaped distribution. Use the empirical rule to calculate the percentage of individuals who sleep between 4.5 and 9.3 hours per day. How does this result compare to the value that you obtained using Chebyshev's theorem in part (a)?
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Gary: Book Review
Meet Gary.
Gary lives with a bunch of racing pigeons who get to see the world...So why doesn't he?
Title: Gary
Author: Leila Rudge
ISBN: 9781925081695 Language: English
Classification: Fiction
Themes: mapping, adventure, same but different
What's it about?
Meet Gary. Gary lives with a bunch of racing pigeons who get to see the world. However, when the other pigeons race Gary stays at home because he can't fly. Instead he creates a scrapbook based on everything the other pigeons discuss when they get home. Then one day Gary falls into the basket...and has to find his way home.
The illustrations are engaging and interesting for the most part. The story is well paced without a bunch of unnecessary wordiness or side stories.
Logical reasoning will perhaps annoy some of the more advanced thinkers in your can overthink the story.
My Thoughts
How could the other pigeons not notice Gary was in the basket? And who in their right mind leaves the basket in the city for the pigeons to fly home? Sadly they were the first two thoughts I had when I finished the book. As I wrote above this book may not be the best for logical thinkers but if you are looking to create discussion - then this might just be the perfect book.
On the surface this is just a book about a pigeon going on an adventure but after I read it a few times I started seeing the possibility for other teachable moments. Gary is different from the other pigeons because he can not fly. Despite this though he does the same thing the other pigeons do - just in a different way. I think this is a really good concept to look at. Sometimes kids get focused on the "right way" when really there are many "right ways" that something can be done. Gary demonstrates that just because you are limited by something physically doesn't mean you can't do just go about it in a different way. I would be interested in posing this concept to the students to write about. Eg. substitute pigeons for themselves and inability to fly with the inability to walk, or see, or taste and see how they would work around the limitation.
I like that Gary used his scrapbook of knowledge to apply it to finding his way home. A great example of problem solving and life skills. Again, I could see challenging the kids with the question of how would they get from A to B without someone to drive them. This could then be extended into basic mapping skills - such as drawing a map from the school to their house or other A to B activity. My mind is racing with ideas...better start the activity page!
Overall I think I would be tempted to use this book paired with something such as Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney or other similar map/directional books.
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Each of these poems is based on the theme of trains travelling across the landscape to their destination.
The time and setting of a poem is very important to the reader. Each of these poems was written in a different century and country.
Night Mail was written by a man, in the 1940s, set in England. In Night Mail, the train is travelling from England to all around Scotland in the middle of the night. The train is delivering letters to Scotland.
The Train's author is a woman, and the poem is set in Wild West America during the 1800s. The train in Dickinson's poem would have been an 'Iron Horse' train, a very large American train, which carries coal and cargo across the west.
The length of the poems differs. Night Mail is very lengthily and is in keeping with the fact that its journey was very long and tedious.
The first thing that most people notice about a poem is its rhythm and rhyme. Night Mail has a fast and regular rhythm, and is written in rhyming couplets. The Train uses a fast but irregular rhythm, and consecutive rhyming is used in each stanza. Each poem has a fast rhythm. This helps us to imagine the speeding train quickly racing across the railway lines.
"And stop to feed itself at tanks".
Dickinson writes as if she is in amazement with the train. She makes it sound like the train is totally independent and can do everything itself without any human interference.
Auden, however, does not become so amazed when describing the night train, but still talks of its determination of travelling to its destination.
"Sheep dogs cannot turn her course".
Auden also suggests reliability.
"The gradient's against her but she's on time" From the previous passage...


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 1. Ask, "What are some emotions or feelings you have had today?"
 2. Explain that emotions come and go all the time and that this is completely natural.
 3. Play the video "The Feelings Song."
 4. Ask, "What do you remember from the video? What were the different emotions the boy and the girl felt?"
 5. Ask, "What else comes and goes, like emotions?"
 6. Explain that the weather is something that changes, just like our emotions.
 7. Play the video "Kids Meditation: Bulldog Weathers the Storm."
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What is the role of a Title Examiner?
Title ExaminerThe primary task of a Title Examiner, also known as an Abstractor, is to search and summarize title records of real estate. The legal documents and insurance records have to be summarized for a variety of purposes. It's because, for land or building to be sold, its title has to be clear of liens or legal issues. Any buyer who wishes to buy a property would get its title checked before beginning the purchasing process. Only when the title is clear will the buyer be able to get a loan sanctioned to by the property by a financial institution.
Other names for Title Examiner also include Title Officer, Commercial Title Examiner Abstract Clerk, Data Abstractor, Escrow Officer, etc. They all perform similar tasks of compiling, searching and scrutinizing the lists of contracts, mortgages and other instruments related to property titles. For this, they have to go about searching public and private records for at the county offices, law firms, or title insurance companies. Here are the tasks performed by Title Examiner.
 - Analyzing search requests to determine the type of title evidence required
 - Obtaining the descriptions of properties as well as the names of parties involved
 - Preparing lists of legal instruments pertaining to a property
 - Examining the documentation related to the title that includes, liens, mortgages, judgments, plat books, legal agreements easements, maps, contracts, etc.
 - Verifying factors such as the legal descriptions, ownership, or restrictions related to the property
 - Preparing and issuing title insurance policies and title commitments based on information compiled from title searches.
 - Summarizing recorded documents, such as trust deeds, vesting contracts, etc., that can affect the property's title
In addition to the above tasks, a Title Examiner might also be required to:
 - Prepare legal documents
 - Investigate relevant legal materials to aid decision making
 - Evaluate legal information in public or personal record
The Title Examiner profile is suitable for people who consistently follow a given routine, and have the following skillsets:
 - Attention to Detail
 - Independence
 - Analytical Thinking
 - Time Management
 - Critical Thinking
 - Active Listening
Thus, a Title Examiner needs to be quick and precise at verifying the accuracy and completeness of land-related documents. They are also required to have a working knowledge of real estate procedures and legalities, as well as summarize the pertinent legal or sections of statutes from reference books, needed to prepare real estate closing statements.


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One little-known fundraising option is private lending through "family offices."
In 1882, John D. Rockefeller established a family office, an organization of business and financial professionals charged with managing the growing portfolio of Rockefeller family investments.
Today, Rockefeller & Co. is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and provides the same services to select high-net-worth investors, which includes individuals as well as foundations, nonprofit organizations and other family offices, outside of the Rockefeller family.
Image via Rockefeller & Co.
As Forbes points out, family offices have grown in popularity in tandem with the boom in private wealth creation. A number of variations of the family office model have emerged to address the complex and specific needs of the ultra-wealthy.
In addition, thanks to a loophole that allows such organizations that do not rely on outside investments to fund their activities to avoid most regulation, family offices are becoming major players in financial markets.
There are now more than 3,000 family offices in the U.S. As they become less about managing existing wealth and more about investing capital, family offices are to 2015 what hedge funds were to previous decades—which explains why so many hedge funds are converting to family offices.
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Using Family Office Financing
One development of particular interest is a growing inclination to lend money to start-ups and small/medium sized businesses. Family offices are going out of their way to identify creative investments in entrepreneurial ventures, especially in businesses that are outside their own area of expertise, Forbes reports. Sometimes family offices seek to invest in local businesses as a way to contribute to the community. In addition, many family offices manage the wealth of entrepreneurs who are themselves eager to promote the next promising generation of start-ups.
A chief advantage for the family office directly investing in a start-up is that it avoids committing capital through intermediary fund managers, as was traditionally the case in public markets. This saves on management fees from 1.5 to 2 percent as well as up to 20 percent of profits that typically go to fund managers.
However, family offices are often overlooked by small business as a funding source, if only because many people aren't generally aware of them and how they work.
Related Article: Why We Said No to Investors
What's the Advantage of Family Office Funding?
Family offices provide financing when other funding sources can't or won't do so.
For example, in Britain, a family office has established a £5 million fund to direct loans to hard-pressed growth businesses struggling to obtain financing. One recent beneficiary of a £150,000 loan is Metall-FX, which specializes in applying real metal finishes to a variety of surfaces and has worked on a number of Hollywood films, including the Harry Potter franchise.
Additional advantages include:
- Direct connection to a potentially valuable mentor. While venture capitalists also provide mentoring support to start-ups, the very nature of a family office tends to make them a little more patient in getting a return. It's often the case that the family the office represents has been in your shoes, and is more likely to sympathize with your situation if and when setbacks occur.
- Because family offices have a minimum of $100 million in assets, they are a more reliable funding partner than other options. This particularly helpful when market conditions are fluctuating or are otherwise uncertain, which is when new investing tends to decline.
- As the Small Business Investor Alliance points out, family offices typically have a better understanding of middle market companies, are more flexible and are not constrained by committee "groupthink" common to most public institutions.
- Family offices represent someone who knows something about getting rich.
All that considered, the question may not be so much why you should consider family office funding, but why wouldn't you?


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Is NASA Mining Asteroids? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 41
Is NASA mining asteroids?
No, NASA is not mining asteroids. The technologies for mining asteroids are not well developed. We actually can't really mine asteroids yet, although many people are working on it — private sector, people outside of NASA. What NASA is doing is fundamental science research missions that go out to asteroids to try to understand more about them. And they will help any eventual future efforts to mine asteroids.
And our NASA Psyche mission is an example of one of these missions. We are going to visit an asteroid that we think is made largely of metal. But from those pure science missions comes the information that maybe in the distant future humans will be able to mine asteroids and save some of the resources on Earth.
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Effective theories for multilayered plates (Ph.D. thesis)
We derive by $Γ$-convergence a family of effective plate theories for multilayered materials with internal misfit for scaling laws ranging from Kirchhoff's theory to linearised von Kármán. The main addition is the central role played by an intermediate von Kármán-like theory, where a new parameter interpolates between the adjacent regimes. We also prove the $Γ$-convergence of this limiting regime to the other two as well as the relevant compactness results and we characterise some minimising configurations for the scalings considered. Finally, we numerically investigate the interpolating regime employing the open source toolkit FEniCS to implement a discrete gradient flow. This provides empirical evidence for the existence of a critical value of the parameter around which minimisers are of different nature. We show $Γ$-convergence of the discretisation and compactness as the mesh size goes to zero.


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HUTwin aims to create model-based interacting digital twins (DTs) to understand human-device interaction. Digital Twins are becoming common in the predictive maintenance of complex systems. These twins are mainly based on sensor information of the real system during its lifetime. The Twin predicts the behaviour of the system and thereby the required maintenance actions during the lifetime. The twin will help to speed up the innovation process, can help the engineering process, and can predict quality and reliability of the produced system. Special cases of Twins are those that try to predict human-device interaction either in the development phase or during the lifetime of the device.
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Daily family stress and HPA axis functioning during adolescence: The moderating role of sleep.
TitleDaily family stress and HPA axis functioning during adolescence: The moderating role of sleep.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsChiang JJ, Tsai KM, Park H, Bower JE, Almeida DM, Dahl RE, Irwin MR, Seeman TE, Fuligni AJ
JournalPsychoneuroendocrinology
Volume71
Pagination43-53
Date Published2016 Sep
ISSN1873-3360
Abstract
The present study examined the moderating role of sleep in the association between family demands and conflict and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning in a sample of ethnically diverse adolescents (n=316). Adolescents completed daily diary reports of family demands and conflict for 15 days, and wore actigraph watches during the first 8 nights to assess sleep. Participants also provided five saliva samples for 3 consecutive days to assess diurnal cortisol rhythms. Regression analyses indicated that sleep latency and efficiency moderated the link between family demands and the cortisol awakening response. Specifically, family demands were related to a smaller cortisol awakening response only among adolescents with longer sleep latency and lower sleep efficiency. These results suggest that certain aspects of HPA axis functioning may be sensitive to family demands primarily in the context of longer sleep latency and lower sleep efficiency.
DOI10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.05.009
Alternate JournalPsychoneuroendocrinology
PubMed ID27235639


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Sammy Ofer Heart Building
Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
The Sammy Ofer Heart Building is part of an architectural legacy of hospital buildings representing generations of Israeli architecture since the 1950's. Construction of the original hospital first began during this period, followed by the Sourasky building in the 1970s, the emergency room in the 1980s, the Arison Tower in the 1980s -90, the entrepreneurial project in 2000 and the heart center in 2010. The origin of each structure is identified with its period both in terms of style and materiality.
The heritage buildings are located along Weizmann Street and constitute the main facade of the hospital. The Heart Center sits in a strategic location at the intersection of Weizmann Street and King David Boulevard, which together link the hospital to Rabin Square.
Sitting amongst a diverse architectural vernacular, the Heart building has adopted a clean and neutral language conveyed as a simple orthogonal cube. The cube's facades are characterized by the insertion of large red glazed openings that mark the Hospital's main public spaces, whilst providing a visual gateway to the building's central atrium. The atrium extends across all floors of the building, punctuated by red bridges or 'arteries', that stimulate efficient flow of people throughout the building and promote connectivity between the atrium and all public spaces.
The Heart Building is the first Hospital in Israel to be designed with new security systems that eliminate the need for fences and separation, and as such constitutes a significant urban facade towards the street, exhibiting animated street activity such as communal seating areas, co-working spaces and public realm functions.


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Authors: Valentina Ceausu
Addresses: Computer Science Research Center, Rene Descartes University, 45, Rue des Saints Peres, 75270 Paris cedex 06, France
Abstract: This paper presents a semantic Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) system designed to improve road safety. The system is based on the automatic exploitation of accident scenarios, a new road safety research tool. Accident scenarios describe prototypes of traffic accidents and point out the impact of the infrastructure for a particular accident prototype. Prevention measures concerning infrastructure engineering such as adapting the layout and use of road are provided for each accident scenario. Thereby, assigning real traffic accidents to accident scenarios allows us to establish road dysfunctions leading to accident. The system described in this paper provides an automatic solution to assign traffic accidents to accident scenarios by adopting a CBR approach.
Keywords: road safety; semantic technologies; case-based reasoning; CBR; ontology; accident scenarios; traffic accidents; infrastructure impact; accident prevention; infrastructure engineering; automation.
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2008 Vol.2 No.2, pp.277 - 293
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Course Category: Business Analysis
Course Duration: 3 Days
Hours: 21 PDUs (Professional Development Units)
This course is HRDF SBL Khas Approved
IREBs (International Requirements Engineering Board) Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering certification is a standardized qualification for requirements engineers and business analysts.
IREB's role is to support a single, universally accepted, international qualification scheme, aimed at requirements engineering for professionals, by providing the core syllabi and by setting guidelines for accreditation and examination.
IREB offers three qualifications on Requirements Engineering namely Foundation Level (CPRE-AL), Advanced Level (CPRE-AL) and Expert Level (CPRE-EL). Attaining each level certification is a mandatory requirement to graduate to the next level.
What is International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB)?
The CPRE Certification is earned through passing a multiple choice examination.
CPRF-FL comprises of basic knowledge of eliciting, analyzing, specifying, documenting, validating and managing requirements.
A person with a CPRE FL certificate is expected to:
- Be familiar with the terminology of requirements engineering, business analysis and requirements management.
- Understand the basic techniques and methods of requirements engineering and their application.
- Be familiar with the most established notations for requirements. There are more than 10000 professionals who have achieved the CPRE certification worldwide.
Why Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) Certification (FL)?
The International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) is the sponsor of the international certification program entitled Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE). The board maintains the syllabus, test contents and governs the associated processes and rules.
IREB was founded in October 2006 as a legal entity based in Germany.
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Benefits to the Employer
- Improved performance
- Attract and retain high calibre staff
- Formal training and qualification provided
The foundation level certification exam has no pre-requisites.
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- Business and Systems Analysts
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Training: 3 days
The course material shall be issued on the first day of the course during registration.
Exam: 75 minutes duration
45 multiple choice questions.
The questions are of differing difficulty and therefore assigned differing amounts of points. The exam is closed-book, i.e. no materials are allowed to be used. The candidate must achieve at least than 60% of the total score possible.
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The candidate will receive the exam results and the certificates from MSTB.
There is no requirement to maintain the certification or seek a recertification.
The credential certificate is valid for life.
- What are requirement?
- Evolution of requirements
- The four major activities of RE
- System, System Context and Boundaries
- Determining System and Context Boundaries
- Sources of Requirements
- Categorization of Requirements according to the Kano Model
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Climate Impacts Group (CIG) researchers have partnered with public and private organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest (PNW) to conduct detailed studies investigating the impacts of climate variability and change on specific resource management concerns and/or geographic areas. This type of detailed analysis, which has been applied most extensively by CIG to water resource management, plays an important role in developing regional capacity to adapt to climate impacts. The studies are particularly useful for policy making and infrastructure development assessments.
Recent planning research partnerships include:
- Portland (Oregon) Water Bureau Climate Change Study
Partnering agency: Portland Water Bureau, Portland, Oregon
The City of Portland, Oregon commissioned the CIG to investigate the potential impacts of climate change on water supply and demand in the Portland region, and to evaluate system expansion alternatives to meet these impacts. The study found that by 2040, climate change impacts on Portland's water supply system would equal, on average, 50% of the total increase expected from population growth alone in that same period. These results have important implications for Portland's water supply planning choices; planning for population growth alone is not sufficient if a 98% reliability standard is to be maintained. Portland also must be prepared to provide additional capacity to offset changes in hydrology and demand as a result of climate change (Palmer and Hahn 2002).
- Seattle Public Utilities Climate Change Study
Partnering agency: Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle, Washington
Seattle Public Utilities is working with the University of Washington's Department of Civil Engineering and CIG researchers to explore the potential impacts of climate change on Seattle's Seattle's Cedar and Tolt River water supplies. Special emphasis will be placed on identifying and describing the uncertainties associated with each phase of the impacts assessment. Climate change impacts on water demand will also be explored. It is hoped that the explicit identification of uncertainties will better support the use of this information in water resource management, as well as guide future efforts to reduce uncertainties in the methods studied.
- Tualatin Basin (Oregon) Climate Change Impacts Study
Partnering Agency: Clean Water Services, Tualatin, Oregon
In a project funded by Tualatin's Clean Water Services, CIG-affiliated researchers at the University of Washington's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are conducting a study on climate change impacts for the Tualatin Basin in Oregon. The primary objective of the study is to determine the impacts of climate change on streamflow hydrology and the yield of the water supply. The study's findings and water resource management model will be used by Clean Water Services to guide water resource management in the Tualatin Basin.
- Climate Change Streamflow Scenarios and System Response for the Snake River Basin
Partnering agency: Idaho Department of Water Resources
Research on the impacts of climate change on the hydrology of the Snake River Basin finds that climate change will dramatically shift flows in the Snake River system, increasing the potential for conflict between agricultural and environmental water uses. The research involves developing a simulation model of the Snake River system and its tributaries that encompasses the complex climatologic and hydrologic interactions in the system. This project, conducted with the cooperation of the State of Idaho's Department of Water Resources, will ultimately allow for integration of the Snake River system into water resource operations models for the entire Columbia Basin.
- Climate Change Impacts on PNW Ski Industry
Partnering Agency: various PNW ski areas
A study on climate change impacts on the PNW ski industry found that even modest increases in regional temperature and precipitation as a result of climate change could significantly decrease revenues at moderate elevation ski areas by shortening the length of the ski season and reducing patronage due to undesirable ski conditions (as a result of increased winter rain).
- Pilot application of climate change streamflow scenarios: Pacific Northwest Power Planning Council and the Idaho Department of Water Resources
Partnering agency: Northwest Power Planning Council, Idaho Department of Water Resources
The CIG is partnering with the NWPPC to apply climate change streamflow scenarios to existing agency planning models for the purpose of evaluating the potential impacts of climate change on hydropower and instream flow management. A similar pilot application is being undertaken with the Idaho Department of Water Resources for evaluation of climate change impacts on streamflow in the Snake River basin.
In addition to specific technical studies, the CIG provides more generalized technical assistance on climate and climate impacts for a variety of federal, state, and local resource planning efforts. One such example is CIG's work with the Washington State Watershed Planning Program.


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New standards mean harder reading. What does that mean for students? Well, books that used to be acceptable for high school are now deemed too easy. The following opinion article argues that lawmakers should take content into account before passing educational laws. In fact, now according to Common Core Standards, Night should be taught to elementary school students. This article argues that the content of Night, and not the lexile range, make this book required reading for high school students.
"No fourth grader would understand the cultural oppressions and the complex themes in 'Of Mice and Men,' and the Holocaust in Wiesel's 'Night,' of which the author was a survivor. The actual content of the books need to be brought into question before we say what is or isn't appropriate for English classes or young readers."


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7. Let \(y\) be defined as the denominator of \(x\) when \(x\) is expressed in its lowest terms. This is an example of a function which is defined if and only if \(x\) is rational. Thus \(y = 7\) if \(x = -11/7\): but \(y\) is not defined for \(x = \sqrt{2}\), 'the denominator of \(\sqrt{2}\)' being a meaningless form of words.
8. Let \(y\) be defined as the height in inches of policeman \(Cx\), in the Metropolitan Police, at 5.30 P.M. on 8 Aug. 1907. Then \(y\) is defined for a certain number of integral values of \(x\), viz. \(1\), \(2\), …, \(N\), where \(N\) is the total number of policemen in division \(C\) at that particular moment of time.
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fall monotonically. For greater θ, the curve will pass through a minimum and rise to the destination. If Y = 0, then θ = 2π, and we will have a complete loop of the cycloid. The diameter of the rolling wheel is k.
In another article (Curves), I show that the brachistochrone is also the tautochrone. That is, the time taken to reach the bottom from any point on the curve is the same. The time is calculated in that article by straightforward integration, with the result that the time from cusp to cusp is (2π)√(k/2g). The period of a cycloidal pendulum is the same as the period of a small-amplitude pendulum of length 2k.
In mechanics, the variable x is the time t. The function F(t,y,y') is the Lagrangian, L = T - V, where T is the kinetic energy my'2/2 and V is the potential energy V(y). The motion must be such that the action, ∫Ldt, is an extremum (usually a minimum). The Euler-Lagrange equations are then (d/dt)(∂L/∂v) - ∂L/∂y = 0, where the velocity v = y'. With our Langrangian, this becomes (d/dt)(mv) + dV/dy = 0, or dp/dt = -dV/dy, which is just Newton's second law, with the force derived from the potential energy V. The momentum is p = ∂L/∂v. These relations can be generalized to provide a firm foundation for mechanics.
The BTC is actively soliciting government support, so necessary for the progress of free enterprise, and states that if it is successful, construction can begin as soon as the problems of friction and tunnelling to about 9 miles depth are overcome, which it is confident can be done. Lawyers and accountants are currently working on the problems. Tickets are available for the first journey for $100 standard, $200 first class. First class passengers will receive a complimentary T-shirt. The trip is not recommended for those with dicky tickers. Small, unmarked bills, please.
The term brachistochrone comes directly from Greek: brachistos, shortest, and chronos, time.
R. Courant, Differential and Integral Calculus, Vol. II (London: Blackie and Son, 1936). Chapter VII.
C. Lanczos, The Variational Principles of Mechanics (Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1949). A more complete treatment of the calculus of variations, especially as applied to Hamiltonian mechanics. The brachistochrone is mentioned, but not solved.
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报告摘要：Recently, the structured backward errors for the generalized saddle point problems with some different structures have been studied by some authors, but their results involve some Kronecker products, the vec-permutation matrices and the orthogonal projection of a large block matrix which make them very expensive to compute when utilized for testing the stability of a practical algorithm or as an effective stopping criteria. In this paper, adopting a new technique, we present the explicit and computable formulae of the normwise structured backward errors for the generalized saddle point problems with five different structures. Our analysis can be viewed as a unified or general treatment for the structured backward errors for all kinds of saddle point problems and the derived results also can be seen as the generalizations of the existing ones for standard saddle point problems, including some KKT systems. Some numerical experiments are performed to illustrate that our results can be easily used to test the stability of practical algorithms when applied some physical problems. We also show that the normwise structured and unstructured backward errors can be arbitrarily far apart in some certain cases.
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Diaspora Humanitarian Training
This online training course has been created by DEMAC to provide diaspora responders with information, tools and guidance for enhancing a humanitarian response.
The course is made up of 3 modules which will take 125 minutes in total (extra time may be taken to complete activities in a supporting workbook) and you will be able to download a certificate after you have completed all the modules and the feedback form.
This course has been designed to enhance your knowledge in:
- The Humanitarian Principles
- Needs Assessments
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This course has been made in response to frustrations, questions and development assistance requests from diaspora organisations and their local partners.
The course will provide you with the following:
- Simple breakdown of the humanitarian principles
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Figure 9-5.-Lateral automatic wave-off boundaries.
ACLS and revert back to STAB AUG. Whenever the
autopilot disconnects from the ACL mode, the AFCS
OUT indicator (on the discrete indicator) lights for 20
seconds, and then goes out.
If the pilot is monitoring glide path errors from
the data link on the VGI cross pointers and a display
of a TILT or WAVEOFF discrete signal appears, the
cross pointers will drive out of view. There is no
effect on the cross pointers, from these discretes, if
the monitor link is being used. If the monitor link is
being used for glide-path error display and the
received RF signal is lost, the cross pointers are
driven to a fly-up, fly-right indication. This will alert
the pilot to take corrective action. If the monitor link
is turned off or if primary power is lost, the cross
pointers are driven out of view. When the radar
beacon is being interrogated and is transmitting a
replay in the ACLS mode, the BCN ON lamp (on the
discrete indicator) lights, informing the pilot that the
beacon is operating.
When power to the VGI is
removed or interrupted, a warning flag is immediately
displayed on the indicator. All of these functions
guard against any system malfunctions that may
endanger the pilot or the aircraft.
True or False. The ACLS is a self-contained
system located completely on the aircraft.
What are the three modes of operation of the
At what point in the sequence does the LCC
radar acquire the aircraft?
If the autopilot decouples from the ACL mode
of operation, does the pilot have to initiate