The Four Types of Humor in Women
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The Four Types of Humor in Women
Tension is not always a bad thing. At least when you recognize that it is the same as arousal, and arousal is a neutral thing simply meaning that you have someone's attention.
On one end of the spectrum, allowing it to build too high becomes anxiety-ridden and uncomfortable, and letting it be too loose - too slow - causes it to fall flat and not be very interesting.
The perfect complement to a gift for creating tension with a woman, is the gift of humor - and the knowledge that there are exactly four main types of it.
It was kind of stunning to recently read about the ancient physician below, when thinking of how his ideas were eventually debunked as primitive and nearly magical-thinking, unscientific, and patently wrong...
...only to have one of those "wait a minute" moments when we stop to wonder: Could there have been something to it that was simply misinterpreted or incomplete?
Galen's "Four Humors"
To the Roman physician who lived two centuries before Christ, there were four "humors" of a different sort from what you were thinking - a word denoting a type of bodily fluid (which, come to think of it, may actually be the sort you were thinking of when you wanted to learn more about women's humor)... anyway... in that time, it was thought that all things were combinations of four basic elements: earth, air, fire, and water.
 - The qualities of these elements were thought to be found in four corresponding humors, or fluids that affect the functioning of our bodies.
 - These four humors were thought to affect our emotions and general characteristics of our behavior - our "temperaments."
 - Temperamental problems were thought to be caused by an imbalance in our "humors." by restoring the balance of our four humors, a physician could cure our emotional and behavioral problems.
Except for the fact that there aren't "four humors in the body" and the ones that do, clearly don't "influence our behavior." (Other than, perhaps, the humor of the frisky kind.)
In Galen's explanation of personality, there were four PHYSICAL fluids that make us up:
 - Phlegmatic - the kind that "is slow, quiet, shy, rational, and consistent."
 - Choleric - the kind that "is fiery, energetic, and passionate."
 - Sanguine - the kind that "is warm-hearted, cheerful, optimistic, and confident."
 - Melancholic - the kind that "is sad, fearful, depressed, poetic and artistic."
In his ancient view, if one of these four liquids - phlegm, bile, black bile, or blood - were developed in too much abundance (and an imbalance resulted), the person developed a personality style befitting that liquid. Which clearly is not really what is going on.
Psychological theories, a relatively recent development in history, are often explained through metaphors borrowed from the PHYSICAL world. For example, Sigmund Freud's "drives" and "forces" or such phrases set in physical, visual, gut-felt mental images as "it's on the tip of my tongue."
Again, it's pretty clear that the tongue is not a brain, and "ideas" and "memories" do not LITERALLY, PHYSICALLY position themselves at the distal end of your organ of taste.
It's just a metaphor that gives you a visual image in your head of what it feels like to "almost remember" an important bit of information, and still can't quite access it from your memory.
You also must be familiar with how such pseudo-sciences as Astrology manage to sometimes seem almost as if they are "real" or scientifically valid or accurate.
Their trump card? A distribution of characteristics seen across the variety in the populace, and viola - there appear to be explanations for everything you see in what is being measured, when in reality, what you are seeing is none other than the "phenomenology" - or outer appearance of a range of characteristics, simply documented.
Tie the outer appearance of things on a range, to a metaphor that has a range, and you have the illusion of causation without an actual, valid, predictive, measurable, repeatable, reliable, and valid SCIENTIFIC THEORY.
So Astrology...
Simply make a scale that has a beginning (January) and an end (December) - and has all other varieties of the item between the two ends. The rest of the months and constellations of the sky in those months, and you have all the varieties in the seasons and their dates to work with.
Next, tie the range to a metaphor that also has the range - in the case of Astrology, the varieties of behavior, preferences, style, needs, wants, desires and hoped-for fulfillment.
Cap it off with repetition that leads to only seeing the "false positives," ignore the negatives, and it seems like all people born in March act this way and all people born in August act a different way.
The truth is that we ALL act, ALL ways.
So there's first a problem in Galen's theory on several levels - there's no direct connection between body fluids and behavior AND THERE'S NOT A CONSISTENT WAY OF RESPONDING to the phenomenology observed. For example, did they use leech therapy? Or take some roots and berries thought to impact phlegm? Who knows that the right response is for being Choleric or Melancholic? No rhyme or reason to anything that comes next.
Secondly, the metaphor isn't even creative or useful in a way that has clear identifiers, because, thirdly, psychology is invisible, and he or those who interpreted him, made the false assumption that the physical metaphor was more than just symbolism - but instead the way things really do, physically work.
I'd always assumed that ancient ideas such as his - now primitive from the perspective of a couple millenia later - might best be discounted and ignored entirely, that when a new theory arrives, throw out the old theory.
But wait a minute. What if we ought to not "throw the baby out with the bath water" as my grandmother used to say.
It turns out that "phenomenology" is quite useful so long as it is tied to repeatable results that are predictive therefore, and while to engineering types this may be all that counts. Even to basic bench scientists it becomes useful when new evidence comes along to explain CAUSALITY of the phenomenology.
In the field of Psychiatry we use phenomenology all the time to categorize, diagnose, and head toward treatment this way. It's called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - sets of common phenomenologic findings that statistically correlate with diagnoses, which are then reliably treated by certain types of medicines and therapy.
Re-reading Galen in this way, it's not lost on me that he had four categories of personality and temperament, that they covered a diversity of human behaviors - a spectrum if you will - and maybe that's the "baby" to not throw out with the "bathwater."
In some ways, they sound remarkably like some modern models of personality, from the color codes to Myers-Briggs, to our own KWML personality/temperaments:
 - Phlegmatic - "is slow, quiet, shy, rational, and consistent" - like our "KING/QUEEN" temperament.
 - Choleric - "is fiery, energetic, and passionate" - like our "WARRIOR" temperament.
 - Sanguine - "is warm-hearted, cheerful, optimistic, and confident" - like our "MAGICIAN" temperament.
 - Melancholic - "is sad, fearful, depressed, poetic and artistic" - like our "LOVER" temperament.
If we deal with the problem of HAVING NO CAUSALITY with the example below, we just might be able to harvest some usefulness out of Galen even today, without falling prey to his error of lacking causality by attributing behavior to physical structures, "humors" and the like.
And then look at today's use of the word HUMOR to learn a brand new skill in communication to women - the "haha" kind of humor for which there is no "science" or systematic theory - only an art...
The Hair Color Personality System
Here's an example of how one could "make up their own personality system" using no knowledge of behavior, no scientific reliability, and certainly no CAUSAL connection between variables:
Say that you notice one or two women in your time who have a certain hair color, and act a certain way in some situations (we are vague already here)...
Maybe redheaded women get angry in your view or limited experience, and brunettes are patient and thoughtful.
If you used two others - such as blondes and dark hair as two more points on a compass to round out all color varieties of human hair, you'd have quite a nice spectrum of the "phenomenology of human hair color."
Remember, "phenomenology means - what you see is what you get." Direct observation of characteristics you see and sample with your own senses and measurement apparatus...
Now then...
If you say that redheads have angry personalities, black haired women have patient, independent personalities, brunettes/light brown have devoted personalities, and blondes have creative, fun personalities, you'd go about your informal social engagements noticing that yes, in some cases, individual women may fit some of these vague, general molds.
However, you would start to fall into a trap and a trick of the mind of sorts


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Hyderabad: Students at a public school in the Nalgonda district are set to make history by starting an amateur radio club on their school premises.
More than 43 students from the government model school recently obtained their Restricted Quality Amateur Radio licenses from the Ministry of Telecommunications, thanks to the support and encouragement of one of their teachers, Sayed Jilani, who is also a Ham operator. licensed with a VU3OND call sign.
With constant encouragement, the students took the exam organized by DoT's Wireless Planning and Coordination (WPC) and passed it. But the new amateur radio licensees were faced with another problem – that of procuring the radio equipment to establish long-distance radio contacts.
However, the Hyderabad-based Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club (LARC) came to their aid. The club presented the students with a complete high frequency (HF) platform developed locally by another Hyderabad-based company, HF Signals, which rose to fame after developing extremely inexpensive radio equipment called uBitx. Radio equipment is so sought after among amateur radio enthusiasts around the world.
"We will name the club Dindi Amateur Radio Club (DARC)," exclaimed Sayed Jilani, visibly excited. Although the name of the school is the Telangana State Model School located in the village of Gundlapally, it is more commonly known as the Dindi Government School and hence the Amateur Radio Club will carry the name of Dindi, explains Jilani.
LARC Secretary D Sasibhushan VU2XZ, Vice President Ashaar Farhan VU2ESE and Treasurer Thomas George VU2TJ presented uBITX, power supply, antenna and coaxial cable to the new DARC.
The radio material was presented to the Dindi club during the monthly LARC meeting on Sunday.
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The networking opportunities of Australia's billion-dollar AI and IoT sectors
- 04 August, 2020 15:45
Artificial intelligence (AI) could have significant implications for Australia's networking industry, according to a new report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
The report, Artificial Intelligence in Communications and Media, stated AI could be applied to help optimise network management and performance, for example enabling service providers to allocate resources in a 4G or 5G network.
In addition, the technology could also support more efficient utilisation of network capacity, analysing data make traffic predictions, and enable more autonomous operations to support the delivery of efficient, high-quality and reliable services to consumers.
The regulator also claims there is potential for AI technologies to support new approaches to spectrum sharing and therefore greater utilisation of spectrum.
Reports now estimate that digital technologies could contribute $140 to $250 billion to Australia's GDP by 2025, with automation technologies (including those enabled by AI) comprising $30 to $60 billion for Australia over this period.
"Ethical principles and frameworks identify some of the desired outcomes for how AI operates and is used across the economy," the report, however, said.
"[These] do not address the challenges and potential harms of AI on their own. Regulation (including self-regulation, co-regulation, and direct regulation) provides rules to guide industry behaviour and support accountability."
In a separate report released at the same time, the ACMA also examined the implications of the internet of things (IoT) on the networking and communications industries.
According to PwC, Australia's IoT industry hit almost $19 billion in 2018 and is expected to grow to $30 billion by 2023, providing a potential new revenue source within the telecommunications sector.
The report, Internet of Things in media and communications, cited Telstra's reported growth in its IoT business, which rose by 19.4 per cent in revenue in 2019.
However, the ACMA warned that the growth of IoT devices in the Australian market has the potential to create regulatory and compliance challenges.
"We are mindful that this may result in new market players with no previous experience in complying with the radiocommunications standards entering the market," the watchdog claimed.
"We are also aware that new types of objects and devices transmitting radiofrequency could result in increased complexity in managing interference."


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Species that are not native and also have the potential to harm human health or to harm natural, agricultural or silvicultural resources can be listed as prohibited or restricted by the State of Michigan. If a species is prohibited or restricted, it is unlawful to possess, introduce, import, sell or offer that species for sale as a live organism, except under certain circumstances.
- Chinese mitten crab
The shell of the Chinese mitten crab can be as large as an adult's palm and has four spines on each side. Crabs are brownish-orange to greenish-brown, and their claws are covered with brown hair, resembling mittens.
- Fishhook Waterflea
Fishhook waterfleas are zooplankton (tiny animals) that feed on other zooplankton, decreasing the food supply for native fish. Fishhook waterfleas are very small, approximately 1/4 to 1/2 inch in length, with a translucent body and black eyes. Clusters look like wet cotton
- Killer Shrimp
Prohibited in Michigan
Killer shrimp have body coloration ranges from transparent and striped to a uniform dark color. They have a curled body that that is laterally compressed. The first four pairs of legs extend down and backwards and they have two pairs of antennae. Their habitat consists of fresh/brackish water in lakes, rivers, and canals.
- Red Swamp Crayfish
Detected in Michigan
Watch List - Prohibited in Michigan
Red Swamp Crayfish have dark red color with bright red raised spots - they look like small lobsters. They can live in a variety of permanent freshwater habitats. They feed heavily on snails, fish, amphibians, and plants.
- Rusty Crayfish
Restricted in Michigan
Rusty Crayfish are lobster-like with a brown body up to 6 inches in length and oversized claws that have an oval opening when closed and black bands at the tips. Mature crayfish have a dark, rusty spot on each side of the carapace.
- Spiny Waterflea
Spiny waterfleas are zooplankton (tiny animals) that feed on other zooplankton, decreasing the food supply for native fish. Spiny waterfleas are very small, approximately 1/4 to 1/2 inch in length. Each has a long, straight tail spine that's twice the length of its body.
Prohibited in Michigan
Yabby Crayfish have two enlarged front claws, four pairs of walking legs followed by four pairs of swimmerets (swimming legs). They have a smooth carapace and their color ranges from olive-green to brown, but are sometimes red, yellow, or black.

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The Invisible Plane was Wonder Woman's primary mode of transportation for long distance travel.
Wonder Woman's first plane was a product of the Lansinarian Morphing Disk, gifted to her by the Lansinarians. The subterranean technology could transform into a number of transparent items, and both Diana and Hippolyta used it to create a plane during their tenures as Wonder Woman. The disc eventually lost sentience, and was locked in plane shape. It was, however, nonfunctioning.
- Invisible missiles
- In Wonder Woman '77 Meets the Bionic Woman, Diana refers to the plane in the female, using the pronoun "she".
- Appearances of Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane
- Vehicle Gallery: Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane
- Catalogued images related to Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane


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From: Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Another successful satellite launch, the third this year, takes Surrey's spacecraft launched into orbit to a total of 19 -- achieving an average of 1 per year over the 19 years since the launch of UoSAT-1 in 1981.
Today's launch took place at 11:05 BST (10:05 GMT) onboard a Dnepr launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. TiungSAT-1, a microsatellite built for Malaysian customer, Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn Bhd (ATSB), was placed into a 650km, 64 degree inclination, low Earth orbit.
The satellite was successfully activated on its first transit over Malaysia, just 7 hours after launch, from the ATSB groundstation installed by SSTL in Kuala Lumpur. Telemetry on subsequent transits of TiungSAT-1 over Kuala Lumpur and the Surrey groundstation in England, showed systems to be functioning as expected and software loading of the on-board computers has commenced. Commissioning of TiungSAT-1 in orbit by the joint team of ATSB and SSTL engineers will now continue over the next month.
TiungSAT-1 was built under a microsatellite Know-How Transfer and Training Programme with SSTL at the Surrey Space Centre, whereby a team of Malaysian engineers from ATSB worked alongside Surrey engineers for a year. The comprehensive training programme included the build, integration, test, launch and orbital operation for Malaysia's first national microsatellite.
The 50kg TiungSAT-1 microsatellite will provide 80m resolution
multispectral Earth imaging, 1.2km meteorological Earth imaging, digital store-and-forward communications and a cosmic-ray energy deposition experiment.
Among the benefits that TiungSAT-1 will provide for Malaysia is information on Earth resources, land use and environmental haze pollution, as well as weather patterns, including hurricane warnings.
The launch onboard Dnepr is significant in that it is the second commercial use of the demilitarised SS18 intercontinental ballistic missile. The first was for the launch of Surrey's UoSAT-12 minisatellite in April 1999 when Surrey was the sole payload for the Dnepr rocket.
Following the launch, SSTL's CEO, Professor Martin Sweeting, said: "We wish our Malaysian colleagues every success with their new mission and SSTL are proud to have worked with them to achieve their first step into space. SSTL has enjoyed a very busy and successful launch period -- with five satellites launched in the last 18 months."
Two new satellite Know-How Transfer teams will commence work at Surrey next month. A team from TUBITAK-BILTEN in Turkey will commence work on BiltenSAT, a 100kg enhanced microsatellite carrying 12m panchromatic and 26m multispectral Earth observation cameras. Another team, from CNTS in Algeria, will begin building a microsatellite -- the first for the international Disaster Monitoring Constellation of 5 microsatellites lead by Surrey and for which SSTL recently won UK Government funding.
With a confirmed order-book of £27M ($40M), SSTL is currently recruiting engineers and expanding its facilities.
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Further information from:
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited
Audrey Nice (Press & Publicity)
Dr Wei Sun (Marketing Manager)
Prof Martin Sweeting (CEO)
Surrey Space Centre
University of Surrey
GU2 7XH UK
Tel +44 (0)1483 259 278
Fax +44 (0)1483 259 503
Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd
Dr Ahmed Sabririn Anshad
Suite 3-2, Incubator 3
Technology Park Malaysia
57000 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +_PHONE_ 3107
Fax: +_PHONE_ 3108
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Monkey Grip (3.5e Tome Feat)
From D&D Wiki
Monkey Grip [Combat]
Maybe you're inspired by Diablo II barbarians, or teens with pointy blue hair, or both. Maybe you want to throw boulders and crumpled chunks of metal like the Hulk, or knock a hill giant's teeth in with an oak tree. Or maybe you just want to play with Mjolnir. Whatever. To you, size matters. People who disagree can say so under the business end of your thousand-pound greataxe.
Benefits: This is a combat feat that scales with your Base Attack Bonus.
- +0: You may wield an object as a weapon one size category larger than yourself as a two-handed weapon, and a two-handed weapon of your size may be wielded in one hand—instead of your size = two-handed, and one size below = one handed. This feat doesn't change what is considered a light weapon for you, or make it any easier to conceal weapons or whatever (so no drawing a greatsword from your sleeve and slitting sleeping throats).
- You are also considered proficient with improvised weapons, and thrown improvised weapons have a range increment of 20' (increases by 10' every 5 BAB). With improvised weapons only, you can wield them one size higher than you could with actual weapons (2 sizes larger than yourself in two hands, 1 size larger in one), and throwing the largest object you can is a standard action instead of a full-round action (and you can gain iterative attacks if you full attack; wrenching off chunks of stone wall or uprooting trees is just part of the attack action).
- +1: You can wield objects as weapons up to your medium load in weight, rather than only up to your light load.
- +6: Any magic weapons you wield are considered to have the sizing property, they dealt damage as if where one size category larger.
- Your carrying capacity is doubled.
- +9: When you Power Attack for at least three fourths of your BAB, and you attack with the biggest (doesn't have to be heaviest) weapon you can in two hands, the base damage die is mulitplied by 1.5. This only works with weapons you are proficient with.
- You can use objects as weapons up to your maximum load in weight, rather than only up to your medium load.
- +12: You may wield a weapon two sizes larger than yourself as a two-handed weapon, and a weapon one size larger than yourself may be wielded single-handedly. Your allowed improvised weapons are likewise increased (+3 size categories in two hands, +2 size categories in one).
- Improvised weapons you wield score a threat on an 18-20 and deal x3 damage on a successful critical hit, but only if they are objects of at least one size category larger than yourself.
- Your carrying capacity is tripled.
(The following is incomplete. Feel free to make suggestions on the talk page for crazy epic things this should let you do.)
Epic Monkey Grip [Combat, Epic]
Your cutlery (or stabblery, or choplery, or smashlery) makes pointy-haired teens and Diablo II barbarians feel small in the trunks. You can eventually dual-wield Statues of Liberty or full attack with Jupiter's moons like silver-age Supes could if he were cool.
Prerequisites: Monkey Grip
Benefits: This is an epic combat feat that scales with your Base Attack Bonus.
- +0: You are never penalized for wielding extremely heavy weapons; no weapon you wield counts towards your carrying capacity. Just holding or having them sheathed, though, still counts towards how much you can carry. The weapon(s) weight must still be equal or below your maximum load.
(Yes, you can now poke with a trident so huge and weighty that it'd normally be a a heavy load in one hand, another one just like it in the other, and be dragging around a heavy load in elephants on your back or something. Have fun.)
- All thrown objects you wield are treated as having the keen (or impact if it's bludgeoning) and distance weapon properties (stacks with any pre-existing distance property, tripling its range rather than doubling). Improvised weapons you wield only have the keen or impact property.
- +21: When you shift all of your BAB to Power Attack, and you attack with the biggest weapon you can in two hands, the base damage die is quadrupled. If you do so with the second-biggest you can in one or both hands (or one in each hand), the base damage die is tripled. If you only PA for at least half your BAB but not your full, weapons deal triple/double damage die.
- +26: You may wield a weapon three sizes larger than yourself as a two-handed weapon, and a weapon two sizes larger may be wielded single-handedly. Every 10 BAB above this you may wield it one more size higher (e.g. at BAB 46, a Colossal creature can swing-batter an object about 2000-4000' long, or dual-wield two objects about 1000'-2000' long each).
- Your carrying capacity is quadrupled.
- +31:? (needs something pretty awesome for a third-place capstone, something you can imagine Hercules doing)
- You only need to Power Attack for at least half your BAB to do quadruple/triple damage with massive weapons. Less than this and you triple/double.
- +36:? (needs something pretty awesome for second-place, something you can imagine Ares doing)
- Your carrying capacity is multiplied by your divine rank, or multiplied by five (whichever is higher).
- +41:? (needs something totally awesome for the capstone, something you can imagine Atlas doing)
- You no longer need to Power Attack to do quadruple/triple damage with massive weapons; they always do this damage in your hands.


Remember, Tuesday April 15th is TAX day.
Tax return
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1788. Awaiting death as he wrote those words, Franklin was later credited with the bright idea that both the grave and the income-tax form awaited us all. The sentiment, though, was very old even in Franklin's time, and the well-read founding father would surely have protested, were he able, that he was merely passing it along.
Tuesday is also a full moon. Not only a full moon but a total eclipse called a blood moon. There will be four total lunar eclipses in a row. The first Blood Moon eclipse of four is coming up on the night of April 14-15, 2014. This total eclipse of the moon will be visible from the Americas.
100 years ago on April 15, 1914 the U.S. Senate voted on the "Susan B. Anthony" amendment, a revision to the previously proposed amendment that would allow women the right to vote. It did not pass.


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The military art of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan wrote his name in the military history of the world with many military commanders, warlords.
In general, the history of military art of Azerbaijan is very old. The head of Girdman state Javanshir was distinguished also with military skills. Between 816-837 our well-known warlord Babek had defeated 6 armies of Arab invaders. These victories were possible just because of strategy realized by him as a military leader. Our rulers and warlords like Shamsaddin Eldaniz in early Middle Ages, his son Muhammad Jahan Pahlavan, Kara Yusuf, Uzun Hasan won the battles thanks to special military tactics realized by them. The founder of the Safavides Shah Ismail Khatai within 14 years could capture 14 regions with less force.
Certain Azerbaijani military men participated at some wars and conflicts either in XIX or XX century were distinguished with some tactics and specific military strategies
The general from the Bakikhanovs in Baku, the Shikhlinski and the Vekilovs in Gazakh, the Javanshirs in Garabakh, Kengerli in Nakhchivan, Javadkhans in Gyanja and from other regions spread all over the world glory-glory of Azerbaijani people.
We provide you with information on the life and military services of those military men.
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ED) treatment.
Falls are a frequent reason geriatric patients visit the emergency department (ED). To help providers, the Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines were created to establish a standard of care for geriatric patients in the ED. We conducted a survey of emergency providers to assess 1) their knowledge of fall epidemiology and the geriatric ED guidelines; 2) their current ED practice for geriatric fall patients; and 3) their willingness to conduct fall-prevention interventions.
While simulation plays a prominent role in healthcare education at every level,1 the ability to perform traditional, in-person simulation has been practically eliminated by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV), or COVID-19, pandemic. Simultaneously, COVID-19-related education has become vital, as providers work to expand their knowledge base and learn new skills. Were it not for social distancing, simulation would play a major role in addressing the pandemic's challenges. Simulation-based education could help providers optimize patient care while minimizing viral aerosolization. Simulation could even teach strategies for coping with the emotional consequences of working during a pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to social distancing and decreased travel in the United States. The impact of these interventions on trauma and emergency general surgery patient volume has not yet been described.


Support for ActiveX Controls
Using the VBScript interfaces for the Graphic module (Graphics Script, Screen Script, Command animation, and ActiveX Events), you can use this syntax to access properties and methods directly from any ActiveX Control object inserted in the screen where the object is configured.
IWS will assign a unique name to the object on the screen. You can use the Name property (in the Object Properties dialog) to modify this name.
After inserting an ActiveX Control object on the screen, you can access properties and methods from this object from any VBScript interface associated with this screen. Use the syntax Object_Name.Properties_or_Method_Name. Examples:
 //Access the value of the property Day from the CalendarControl1 ActiveX object CalendarControl1.Day //Triggers the method AboutBox from the CalendarControl1 ActiveX object CalendarControl1.AboutBox
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The Kepler Community Follow-up Program, known also as the Kepler Follow-up Observation Program and KFOP, is a program instituted to conduct follow-up observations on Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI), or signals observed by the Kepler spacecraft that may indicate the presence of a planet transiting its host star. Because the transit method of finding planets tends to produce a large number of false positives, KFOP is intended to rule out false positives amongst the KOIs and confirm more discoveries of exoplanets.
The NASA Exoplanet Archive, in support of the KFOP, has utilized Montage to generate a finding chart and nearby source catalog for all of the Kepler planetary candidate systems. The UKIRT Observatory had performed a J-band survey of the Kepler Field and generated a source detection catalog; there are 1100+ individual images with 16 million sources in the survey. Montage was used to index the images and the catalog (using an R-tree indexing scheme) to enable rapid determination of the best image for each Kepler target and to create a list of sources within 30″ of the Kepler targets. Montage was then used to orient all of the best images and generate 1 arcmin cutout images with jpeg previews, overlayed with an equatorial coordinate grid: an example is shown below.
The modular design of Montage enabled the processing to be run within IDL and further analyzed, all within a scripted environment. The usefulness of the UKIRT to the Kepler Project and the Follow-Up program was greatly enhanced by the UKIRT products, and those products were easily generated and made available to the team through Montage.
This blogpost was based on material provided to me by Dr. David Ciardi.


text: Azimuthal structuring is usually observed within the brightening auroral substorm onset arc; such structure has been linked to the exponential growth of electromagnetic ultralow‐frequency (ULF) waves. We present a case study investigating the timing and frequency dependence of such ULF waves on the ground and in the near‐Earth magnetotail. In the magnetotail, we observe an increase in broadband wave power across the 10‐ to 100‐s period range. On the ground, the arrival times spread from an epicenter. The onset of longer period waves occurs first and propagates fastest in latitude and longitude, while shorter periods appear to be more confined to the onset arc. The travel time from the spacecraft to the ground is inferred to be approximately 1–2 min for ULF wave periods between 15 and 60 s, with transit times of 60 s or less for longer period waves. This difference might be attributed to preferential damping of the shorter period waves, as their amplitude would take longer to rise above background levels. These results have important consequences for constraining the physics of substorm onset processes in the near‐Earth magnetotail and their communication to the ground.


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Colorado Proposition CC: budget relief or a blank check?
Voter approval could boost state spending by up to $1.7 billion — when there are surpluses
EDWARDS — There are only two statewide ballot issues this year, both of which are asking voters for more money. One is relatively simple; the other isn't.
The Vail Symposium and Vail Valley Partnership on Thursday held a presentation that focused on three of the state's sometimes-conflicting constitutional amendments — 1982's Gallagher amendment, 1992's Taxpayers Bill of Rights amendment, or TABOR, and 2000's Amendment 23, which mandates school funding.
The session focused in large part on the complicated issue, Proposition CC.
That proposition would exempt the state government from one of the requirements of the TABOR amendment, which limits tax and spending increases across state and local governments. TABOR also requires voter approval for any tax increases.
According to the amendment, revenue collected in excess of its limits must be returned to voters. At the state level, revenue only occasionally exceeds TABOR limits. When it does, those refunds — often $50 or less per taxpayer — are generally given as credits on the following year's taxes.
Keeping the money
Proposition CC would allow the state government to keep that money and put it equally into three pots: Public schools, higher education and transportation.
Both had detailed slide shows to make their cases.
Chase called TABOR one of the "most restrictive government spending limits in the country." He added that the proposition is a chance to address funding shortages brought about by the fact that when revenues shrink due to economic downturns, TABOR's limits prevent revenues from matching economic growth.
And, he said, Proposition CC is offered in the spirit of TABOR, since voters will have the chance to remove the amendment's revenue limits.
Since TABOR was passed, voters in most of the state's school districts, counties and towns have passed similar measures to Proposition CC. In fact, 96% of the state's school districts have asked for, and received, voter permission to keep revenue in excess of TABOR limits.
If voters pass Proposition CC, Chase said state revenue can grow at the same rate as the economy does.
Ragland countered that Colorado's budget over the past decade has grown by an average of $1.35 billion per year. In fact, he said, only North Dakota's state spending has grown faster than Colorado's through 2018. Spending in half of the 50 states is lower than it was in 2008.
Ragland noted that previous ballot issues asking for relief from TABOR limits were temporary. Proposition CC is permanent.
And, he added, while Proposition CC's spending is defined in the ballot language, it's a law, not a constitutional amendment. "The (state) legislature always has the authority to change statutes," Ragland said.
Both Chase and Ragland acknowledged the other made good points in parts of their presentations.
But, Chase said, Proposition CC opponents are making "the perfect the enemy of the good."
Ragland noted that while Proposition CC isn't technically a tax increase, it does take as much as $1.7 billion next year out of the state's economy.
One audience member asked how Colorado's state spending grew as fast as it has over the past decade.
Fees, Ragland responded. While TABOR requires voter approval of all tax increases, it does allow fee increases.
Chased noted that during many of the years the state's spending grew, Republicans controlled at least one house of the legislature.
One audience member noted that Proposition CC seems "like a small band-aid for a large wound."
Chase responded that Proposition CC can help state spending recover faster after a downturn. He said the recession that began in 2008 shrunk state revenue while prison populations, Medicaid recipients and schools all required the same amount of money.
Voters on Nov. 5 will make the ultimate decision who has the better argument.
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ZEWATECH vacuum evaporation equipment with various effects takes advantage of the condensation energy from one boiler to heat the next one and so on, so that energy savings decrease with the number of effects.
Logically, the investment of a multi-effect vacuum evaporator is higher, but the energy cost can be substantially reduced based on the effects installed.
The multi-effect technology developed by ZEWATECH makes it possible to treat large volumes of wastewater, between 10,000 and 150,000 liters per day, with significant financial savings and reduced environmental impact that this entails.
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How do I parse out a timestamp ISO format into a date field
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How do I parse out a timestamp ISO format into a date field? This is how the field looks: Timestamp ISO Format 2008-10-08-12.13.52.412000 Here is the description of the field: Field From To Length Type Description XXXXXXX 57 82 0 Z Timestamp ISO Format I need to get the 2008-10-08 into a date format so that I can match it and pull in specific dates only. Thank you.
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In RPG it would be something like this
DateFld = %date(%subst(%char(TimeStamp):1:10):*ISO)
In Query, you should just be able to substring the 1st 10 chars
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 It the date field is a true date field - type D - then just move the timestamp field to the date field and it will work correctly.
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 There is also the BIF called %subdt. For instance in your case to extract the date you have yy = %subdt(timestamp:*y)
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 ...to extract the date... The %subdt() BIF does not extract a date from a timestamp field. It can extract a component of a date such as the year or the month. To get a full "date", it would be necessary to extract the three year/month/day components and combine the three results into the required form. As Vatchy suggested, simply assigning the timestamp value to a DATE field would be much cleaner. Tom
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 In cobol, if the from and to dates are defined as date formats TIMESTAMP and YYYY-MM-DD respectively, then it's just a simple move statement.
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 Tom is right, %subdt can get parts of a date. %date( ) can work with numeric, character or timestamp fields D Dateval D (default is ISO dateval = %date(timestamp) dateval is a date field YYMMDD= #CHAR(dateval:*YMD0) 100903 character YYMMDD= #CHAR(dateval:*YMD) 10/09/03 Character YYMMDD#= %DEC(%CHAR(dateval:*YMD):*YMD0)) 100903 numeric Good Luck PGMBOB
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A bathysphere is a spherical tank that allows for undersea exploration. In reality, these devices predated powered submarines and were lowered into the ocean on a cable. The first bathysphere prototype was constructed towards the end of the 1920's, with the first manned dive in 1930. In 1934, the world record for depth of an undersea dive was set in a bathysphere at 3,028 feet, which would remain in place for 15 years. In videogames, the practical possibilites coupled with steampunk aesthetic of the bathysphere make it a good model for undersea travel in exaggerated or alternate versions of reality.
The main mode of transportation in Rapture, bathyspheres are like small underwater trains. Running on tracks, these pods can transport people from one area of the city to another. After the city began to fall into chaos, Andrew Ryan shut down the Rapture Metro, including the bathysphere system. When you arrive in Rapture, you are able to use them because your genetic make-up is close enough to Ryan's to fool the bathysphere security system.
In gameplay terms, the player uses the bathysphere system to progress on their journey through Rapture. The system provides a connection between geographically seperated areas in the gameworld, allowing them to broken up into what would traditionally be viewed as levels. The bathyspheres also allow players to backtrack to previously-cleared areas. The introduction of the game sees Jack finding a bathysphere on the surface; it is in this vessel that the player receives their iconic introduction to the city of Rapture.
When a mutated lungfish kidnaps Lili and drages her into the lake, Raz's inability to enter water prevents traditional pursuit. He uses a bathysphere to descend into Lake Oblongata and discover the lair of the lungfish.
In the levels "Down The Tubes" and "Tube Race" Earthworm Jim must safely navigate an extremely fragile bathysphere through narrow, underwater caverns.


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Rwanda's non-revenue water loss stands at 44 percent – Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) Report on water and Sanitation has revealed.
The RURA Statistics as of March 2020 indicates that Rwanda is losing 44 percent of water supplied within different networks before it reaches the customers mainly due to leakages, illegal connections, road construction, metering inaccuracies, meter bursts, meter blocks, natural disasters and water theft by moving meters.
According to RURA, 12.9 million cubic meters of water was supplied into the network between December 2019 and March 2020 but only 7.1 million cubic meters of water was captured through the water billing systems. Non-Revenue Water accounted for 5.8 million cubic meters.
RURA is now concerned that Rwanda may not realize its targets of 100% universal access to clean water by 2024 the non-revenue water challenge is not addressed.
Non-revenue water loss is water that has been produced and is "lost" before it reaches the customer. Such losses not only cause water shortages in some areas, but also revenue losses to water utilities.
Eng. Aimé Muzola, WASAC Chief Executive Officer uk best essays.org acknowledges the water supply challenges but promised that mega water projects are in the pipeline to help reduce the average losses from 38 per cent to 25 per cent.
He said that although it will not decrease to zero, the strategic plan from 2018 to 2019 to reduce average loss of water will be reached through the water infrastructure in government's plan.
"We are working on a 'Smart Network Management Project' that will help in detecting water leakages for quick interventions and fixing. We are buying equipment with sensor to detect water leakages in networks. There will be pressure reducing valves to regulate pressure because leakages are usually caused by high pressure of water in pipes," he said.
Eng. Muzola, noted that old pipes will be replaced with new and bigger pipes to avoid bursting due to pressure. "We have to replace pipes that are 40 years old and also replace meters with smart meters that help to monitor any disruptions on screens," he said.
Muzola pointed out that challenges such as leakages caused by road construction that always destroy water pipes and other essays services reviews.com people who steal water from networks in sophisticated ways are difficult to handle.
While addressing the possibilities of achieving 100 % water access by 2024, Eng. Muzola revealed a number of projects in the pipeline to ensure that dream is achieved. Some of the projects he mentioned include; water reservoirs and water supply systems, 568 kilometers of pipeline in Kigali city to replace old pipes, upgrade water distribution networks and to extend water supply.


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The race and Hispanic origin distribution of the people with the name
2.3% Hispanic origin,
0.0% Asian or Pacific Islander,
10.0% Two or More Races,
and 0.0% American Indian or Alaskan Native.
These figures should be considered only as a rough estimate.
The purpose of this graph is to compare the name's specific race and
Hispanic origin distribution to the distribution
in the general population of the US.
The vertical blue bars represent the race distribution of people that have the name.
The yellow horizontal lines represent the race distribution of the general population.
The amount by which the blue bars extend past the yellow horizontal lines determines
how likely a person with the name will be part of a given race or Hispanic origin group.
On this basis, the people with the name SHALA have a higher likelyhood of being Two or More Races and a lower likelyhood of being Black.
Ethnic and Cultural Name Categories
The first name SHALA is included in the following name categories:


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In sports, on a game show, or just on the job, what causes people to choke when the stakes are high? A new study by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggests that when there are high financial incentives to succeed, people can become so afraid of losing their potentially lucrative reward that their performance suffers.
It is a somewhat unexpected conclusion. After all, you would think that the more people are paid, the harder they will work, and the better they will do their jobsuntil they reach the limits of their skills. That notion tends to hold true when the stakes are low, says Vikram Chib, a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech and lead author on a paper published in the May 10 issue of the journal Neuron. Previous research, however, has shown that if you pay people too much, their performance actually declines.
Some experts have attributed this decline to too much motivation: they think that, faced with the prospect of earning an extra chunk of cash, you might get so excited that you will fail to do the task properly. But now, after looking at brain-scan data of volunteers performing a specific motor task, the Caltech team says that what actually happens is that you become worried about losing your potential prize. The researchers also found that the more someone is afraid of loss, the worse they perform.
In the study, each participant was asked to control a virtual object on a screen by moving an index finger that had a tracking device attached to it. The virtual object consisted of two weighted balls connected by a spring. The task was to place the object, which stretched and contracted as a weighted spring would in real life, into a square target within two seconds.
The researchers controlled for individual skill levels by customizing the size of the target so that everyone would have the same success rate. That way, people who happened to be really good or bad at this task would not skew the data.
After a training period, the subjects were asked to perform the task while inside an fMRI machine, which measures blood flow in the braina proxy for brain activity, since wherever a brain is active, it needs extra oxygen, and thus a larger volume of blood. By monitoring blood flow, the researchers can pinpoint areas of the brain that turn on when a particular task is performed.
The task began with the researchers offering the participants a randomized range of rewardsfrom $0 to $100if they could successfully place the object into the square within the time limit. At the end of hundreds of trialseach with varying reward amountsthe participant was given their reward, based on the result of just one of the trials, picked at random.
As expected, the team found that performance improved as the incentives increasedbut only when the cash reward amounts were at the low end of the spectrum. Once the rewards passed a certain threshold, which depended on the individual, performance began to fall off.
Incentives are known to activate a part of your brain called the ventral striatum, Chib says; the researchers thus expected to see the ventral striatum become increasingly active as they bumped up the prizes. And if the conventional thought were correctthat the reason for the observed performance decline was over-motivationthey would expect the striatum to continue showing a lot of activation when the incentives became high enough for performance to suffer.
What they found, instead, was that when the participants were shown their potential rewards, activity in the striatum did indeed increase with rising incentives. But once the volunteers started doing the task, striatal activity decreased with rising incentives. They also noticed that the less activity they saw in a participant's striatum, the worse that person performed on the task.
Other studies have shown that decreasing striatal activity is related to fear or aversion to loss, Chib says. "When people see the incentive that they're being offered, they initially encode it as a gain," he explains. "But when they're actually doing the task, the thing that causes them to perform poorly is that they worry about losing a potential incentive they haven't even received yet." He adds, "We're showing loss aversion even though there are no explicit losses anywhere in the taskthat's very strange and something you really wouldn't expect."
To further test their hypothesis, Chib and his colleagues decided to measure how loss-averse each participant was. They had the participants play a coin-flip game in which there was an equal chance they could win or lose varying amounts of money.
Each participant was offered varying potential win-loss amounts ($20-$20, $20-$10, $20-$5, for example), and then given the opportunity to either accept each possible gamble or decline it. The win-loss ratio at which the subjects chose to take the gamble provided a measure of how loss-averse each person was; someone willing to gamble even when they might win or lose $20 is less loss-averse than someone who is only willing to gamble if they can win $20 but only lose $5.
Once the numbers had been crunched and compared to the original experiment, it turned out that the more averse a participant was, the worse they did on the task when the stakes were high. And for a particularly loss-aversive person, the threshold at which their performance started to decline did not have to be very high. "If you're more loss-averse, it really hurts you," Chib says. "You're going to reach peak performance at a lower incentive level, and your performance is also going to be worse for higher incentives."
"Previously, it's been shown that the ventral striatum is involved in mediating performance increases in response to rising incentives," says John O'Doherty, professor of psychology and coauthor of the paper. "But our study shows that changes in activity in this same region can, under certain situations, also lead to worsening performance."
While this study only involved a specific motor task and financial incentives, these results may well be universal, says Shinsuke Shimojo, the Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology and another coauthor of the study. "The implications and applications can include any sort of decision making that contains high stakes and uncertainties, such as business and politics."
These findings, the researchers say, might be used to develop new ways to motivate people to perform better or to train them to be less loss-averse. "This loss aversion can be an important way of deciding how to set up incentive mechanisms and how to figure out who's going to perform well and who isn't," Chib says. "If you can train somebody to be less loss-averse, maybe you can help them avoid performing poorly in stressful situations."

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The CTOD toughness evaluation of repaired weld joints (presence of two weld deposits, complex mechanical heterogeneity and high residual stresses) requires some modifications of commonly used specimen geometry and testing procedure. This paper presents the results of the single edge bend (SENB) specimens with shallow (a/W = 0.16) and deep notches (a/W = 0.3-0.5) extracted from 20 and 30 mm thick multipass submerged arc welded (SAW) joints repaired with hyperbaric (16 bar) welding process at the toe region of the original SAW weld deposits. The results show that an acceptable toughness level can be achieved for hyperbaric repair weld metals deposited at 16 bar (160 m water depth). The repaired single-bevel joint on 30 mm thick StE 445.7 TM steel contained low toughness HAZ (LBZ) regions, whereas another repaired X-joint on 20 mm thick StE 52 steel produced high toughness. The CTOD toughness evaluation (according to BS 5762 standard and CTOD (δ5) technique) of both plates contained a series of shallow and deep cracked SENB specimens notched (through thickness and surface) at various locations of the repaired welded joints. The directly measured CTOD (δ5) values are consistent with the calculated CTOD BS5762 values. An effect of weld metal overmatching on through thickness shallow cracked SENB specimen results was observed as these specimens can produce low CTOD values despite their lower crack tip constraint.
Keywords: CTOD toughness, hyperbaric repair weld, submerged arc welding, StE steel


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Effective January 1, 2022, the federal Budget 2021 announced the government's plans to implement a national, annual one-per-cent tax on the value of non-resident, non-Canadian owned residential real estate that's vacant or underused.
The government is finalizing draft legislation for the proposed underused housing tax (UHT). They're releasing a draft later this year and will include the final legislation in a bill introduced in Parliament sometime in 2022.
Who would pay the UHT?
If passed, the UHT will apply to an owner of residential property in Canada as of December 31 of the calendar year if:
- the owner is required to file an annual declaration for the calendar year; and
- the owner doesn't qualify for an exemption.
Calculating the tax
The UHT is calculated by multiplying the specified value of the property by the one-per-cent rate of the UHT.
An owner would be liable for the UHT in proportion to their "interest" in the property.
What's residential property under the UHT?
Residential property would include:
- detached homes, duplexes, and triplexes;
- semi-detached homes, row-house units, residential condominium units, and other similar premises that is, or is intended to be, a separate parcel or other division of real property owned, or intended to be owned, apart from any other unit in a building; and
- together with any common areas and other appurtenances and the subjacent and immediately contiguous land reasonably necessary for the use and enjoyment as a place of residence for individuals.
Who's an owner of residential property under the UHT?
If a residential property has a single owner, the owner pays the tax.
If a residential property has multiple owners:
- if property is held by owners as joint tenants, each owner will have an equal interest in the property; and
- if the property is held by owners as tenants-in-common:
-if each owner's interest is specified on any instrument evidencing ownership, each owner would be regarded as having that specified interest, and
-otherwise, each owner would be regarded as having an equal interest in the property.
Every owner of a residential property, other than an excluded owner, would be required to file an annual declaration with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) for each residential property they own on or before April 30 of the following calendar year.
An owner's declaration for the 2022 calendar year would be required to be filed on or before April 30, 2023.
To file a declaration with the CRA, certain owners may need to pre-register with the CRA in advance of filing their declaration.
Excluded owners include, as of December 31 of the calendar year:
- an individual who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, except where the individual holds an interest in property.
-as a partner of a partnership, or
-as a trustee of a trust, but not including a personal representative of a deceased individual or the estate of a deceased individual;
- a corporation incorporated under the laws of Canada or a province and the shares of which are listed on a Canadian stock exchange;
- a registered charity;
- a cooperative housing corporation;
- an Indigenous governing body or a corporation owned by an Indigenous governing body;
- a municipality or a corporation owned by a municipality;
- the government of Canada or an agent of the Government of Canada;
- the government of a province or an agent of the government of a province; and
- other public service bodies such as universities, public colleges, school authorities, and hospital authorities.
An owner of a residential property must report in their declaration:
- the calendar year to which the declaration relates;
- the civic address of the property and other property-related information;
- the legal name of the owner;
- contact information of the owner;
- the type of owner (individual other than as a partner of a partnership or trustee of a trust, corporation, partner of a partnership, trustee of a trust;
- the owner's interest in the property (as a percentage), and if the interest is less than 100 per cent:
- the form of ownership (i.e., joint tenants, tenants-in-common), and
- the names of any other owners of the property having an interest in the property of 10 per cent or more;
- the residential property type (detached, semi-detached, row-house, condominium unit, duplex, triplex;
- the value of the property and how it was determined; and
- any exemptions and information related to any exemptions.
There are exemptions for:
- an owner or a qualifying occupant who occupies the home in periods of at least one month that total at least six months of the year. A qualifying occupant includes the owner's spouse, child or parent;
- held by a partner of specified Canadian partnership;
- held by a trustee of specified Canadian trust;
- property not suitable for year-round use;
- property uninhabitable due to a disaster or hazardous conditions;
- property undergoing major renovations;
- for the year of acquisition of an interest in a property;
- for an owner with at least a 25 per cent interest in the property who dies, for the calendar year in which the death occurs;
- newly constructed property in the calendar year of construction; and
- new property held by a developer as inventory for sale.
Payment due date
Payment will be remitted to the CRA on or before April 30 of the following calendar year.
An owner of residential property required to file a declaration, who fails to file by April 30 of the following calendar year will face a penalty of:
- $5,000, if the owner is an individual; or
- $10,000 if the owner is not an individual.
Learn more about this federal tax.


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Background: For most women, participation in decision-making during maternity care has a positive impact on their childbirth experiences. Shared decision-making (SDM) is widely advocated as a way to support people in their healthcare choices. The aim of this study was to identify quality criteria and professional competencies for applying shared decision-making in maternity care. We focused on decision-making in everyday maternity care practice for healthy women.
Methods: An international three-round web-based Delphi study was conducted. The Delphi panel included international experts in SDM and in maternity care: mostly midwives, and additionally obstetricians, educators, researchers, policy makers and representatives of care users. Round 1 contained open-ended questions to explore relevant ingredients for SDM in maternity care and to identify the competencies needed for this. In rounds 2 and 3, experts rated statements on quality criteria and competencies on a 1 to 7 Likert-scale. A priori, positive consensus was defined as 70% or more of the experts scoring ≥6 (70% panel agreement).
Results: Consensus was reached on 45 quality criteria statements and 4 competency statements. SDM in maternity care is a dynamic process that starts in antenatal care and ends after birth. Experts agreed that the regular visits during pregnancy offer opportunities to build a relationship, anticipate situations and revisit complex decisions. Professionals need to prepare women antenatally for unexpected, urgent decisions in birth and revisit these decisions postnatally. Open and respectful communication between women and care professionals is essential; information needs to be accurate, evidence-based and understandable to women. Experts were divided about the contribution of professional advice in shared decision-making and about the partner's role.
Conclusions: SDM in maternity care is a dynamic process that takes into consideration women's individual needs and the context of the pregnancy or birth. The identified ingredients for good quality SDM will help practitioners to apply SDM in practice and educators to prepare (future) professionals for SDM, contributing to women's positive birth experience and satisfaction with care.


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Exploring Relational Pedagogy
Relational pedagogy underpins the core principles of both the cognitive, and social/emotional development of young children, as evidenced in the Reggio Emilia preschools and the Te Whariki curriculum in New Zealand. Emphasising the links between, people, places and ideas and the effects of these on...
Published July 8th 2008 by Routledge
Learning from International Perspectives
This book is concerned with the relationships and tensions in education between children's needs and societies' demands, questions which primary teachers everywhere face on a daily basis, such as: * how does society's view of children and childhood affect teaching and learning? * how do the...
Published January 28th 1998 by Routledge


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Conepatus semistriatus - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria - Genoa, Italy - DSC02689.JPG
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mephitidae
Genus: Conepatus
Species:
C. semistriatus
Binomial name
Conepatus semistriatus
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The striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus semistriatus) is a skunk species from Central and South America (from southern Mexico[3][4] to northern Peru, and in the extreme east of Brazil). This species of skunk is considered a generalist species, because they are able to thrive in, and withstand, disturbed environmental conditions. They can live in a wide range of habitats, including carrasco, arboreal caatinga , mango orchard, and dry forest scrub and occasionally, in rainforest.[5]
Habitat[edit]
The striped hog-nosed skunk inhabits mainly the foothills, and partly timbered or brushy, sections of their general range. They usually avoid hot desert areas and heavy stands of timber. The largest populations occur in rocky, sparsely timbered areas.
Behaviour and diet[edit]
It is a nocturnal solitary animal, feeding mainly on invertebrates, small vertebrates and fruits.[5] When temperature rises during the day, Conepatus semistriatus finds shelter in cool burrows and rests to maintain its body temperature and prevent water loss. Although C. semistriatus are predominantly nocturnal, studies show there is no significant correlation between brightness and activity.
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References[edit]
 1. ^ Cuarón, A.D.; Reid, F. & Helgen, K. (2008). "Conepatus semistriatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
 2. ^ Boddaert P. 1785. Elenchus Animalium.
 3. ^ Dias, Douglas de Matos. "Spatiotemporal ecology of the striped hog-nosed skunk Conepatus semistriatus (Carnivora, Mephitidae) in a seasonally dry forest of northeastern Brazil". Brill Academic Publishers. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
 4. ^ Gitana Nunes Cavalcanti; Luis Diego Alfaro-Alvarado; Rodrigues Guimaraes; Henrique Flavio. "Home range and activity patterns of Conepatus semistriatus (Carnivora, Mephitidae) in Emas National Park, Brazil". Brill Academic Publishers. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
 5. ^ a b Emmons L. H. & Feer F. 1997 Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide.
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What freezing rain actually is and why it's so dangerous after Met Office issue weather warnings for Yorkshire
The term 'freezing rain' has been used a lot over the last week after the Met Office issued amber and yellow weather warnings for large parts of the UK.
But what is it, and why is freezing rain so dangerous?
Freezing rain is when rain falls and the temperature of the surface it hits is so cold it freezes over almost instantly.
These are the most annoying things you can say to somebody from Sheffield - don't mention John Lewis
Hunt to find woman responsible for sexually assaulting man at Sheffield railway station
Knife-wielding thug who stabbed four victims on a Sheffield estate faces a possible life sentence
Several areas of Sheffield experiencing flash flooding as deluge of rain lifts surface off major city road
Sheffield flash flooding leads to closure of several roads as motorists are advised to 'take care while travelling'
This can result in the rapid formation of widespread ice on roads, pavements, trees and other structures.
Freezing rain is rare in the United Kingdom but when it does occur the impacts can be very severe.
This is due to the fact that it can form very quickly, it can be difficult to see and is incredibly slippery.
So with temperatures set to hit freezing in Yorkshire on Saturday, coupled with the fact the Met Office have warned of heavy rain, and the possibility of snow and sleet, there is a strong possibility that freezing rain could follow.
The freezing rain and sleet and snow will be accompanied by strong southeasterly winds which will pose an additional hazard to travel, in particular over high ground.
Common misconceptions about freezing rain
People often think that freezing rain is another term for sleet or snow, literally meaning rain that is frozen while falling from the sky.
This is not the case as freezing rain is something completely different, and only comes into effect when the rain hits the freezing surface and turns to ice.


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Every frontend framework tries to answer the same question - what is the best way to manage the application state. There are many approaches - MVC, MVVM, Flux, Redux... - and Keechma also has it's own.
Each of this approaches is giving the answers to the following questions:
- How to communicate with the rest of the world (calling an API)?
- How to respond to user interactions (mouse clicks, key presses...)?
- How to mutate the application state?
Keechma apps implement this kind of code in controllers. Controllers are a place for all the dirty, impure parts of your app code, and they act as a bridge between your (pure) domain code and code that has side effects (storing a user on the server).
How are controllers different?
While philosophically close to Redux actions and reducers, Keechma controllers differ significantly in the implementation.
- Keechma controllers have enforced lifecycle
- Keechma controllers are route driven
- Keechma controllers can implement a long-running process that can react to commands
Drivers of change
Changes in the application state happen for a few different reasons:
- Page reload
- Route change
- User action
Keechma treats page reload and route change as tectonic changes - a lot (or all) of the data in the application state will probably change when one of these happen. User actions are more of an incremental change, they will probably affect a small amount of data (for instance, the user might favorite a post - this is a small, incremental change to the application state).
Keechma controllers have their lifecycles controlled and enforced by the URL. Each controller implements a
param function which tells the controller manager if that controller should be running or not. Controller Manager (internal part of Keechma) has a set of rules which determine what should happen when the route changes. Whenever the URL changes, Controller Manager will do the following:
- It will call the params function of all registered controllers
- It will compare the returned value to the previous value (returned on the previous URL change)
- Based on the returned value it will do the
- If the previous value was nil and the current value is nil it won't do a thing
- If the previous value was nil and the current value is not nil it will start the controller
- If the previous value was not nil and the current value is nil it will stop the controller
- If the previous value was not nil and the current value is not nil but those values are same, it won't do a thing
- If the previous value was not nil and the current value is not nil but those values are different it will restart the controller
- If the previous value was nil and the current value is nil it won't do a thing
Controller manager ensures that the same controllers will always run for the same URL - it doesn't matter if it's a route change or a full page reload. This makes reasoning about the application state easier, you can treat every route change as if it was a full page reload. This was inspired by the React's way of reasoning where you don't care how the DOM is changed, you can mentally treat it as a full re-render.
Minimal layer of abstraction
Redux and similar frameworks model state changes as a combination of actions and reducers.
The only way to change the state tree is to emit an action, an object describing what happened. To specify how the actions transform the state tree, you write pure reducers.
While I like the simplicity of this approach, I feel that it's pushing the state management complexity to the application layer. If you model every state change as a (synchronous) action, every interaction that talks to the outer world will require multiple actions. This makes the flow hard to follow.
Instead of abstracting that kind of code, Keechma gives you complete control of how and when you change the application state. Controllers get full (read / write) access to the application state, and you can use any approach that fits your application.
Here's an example of a non-standard controller:
(defrecord Controller controller/IController (params [_ route] ;; This controller is active only on the order-history page (when (= (get-in route [:data :page]) "order-history") true)) (start [this params app-db] ;; When the controller is started, load the order history (controller/execute this :load-order-history) app-db) (handler [this app-db-atom in-chan out-chan] ;; When the controller is started connect to the websocket. ;; This way we can receive the messages when something changes ;; and update the application state accordingly. ;; ;; connect-socketio function returns the function that can be ;; used to disconnect from the websocket. (let [disconnect (connect-socketio in-chan)] (go (loop (let [[command args] ( app-db (assoc :articles-status :loaded) (assoc :articles value))) (rescue! [error] (pp/commit! (assoc app-db :articles-status :error))))
This approach was inspired by the Railway Oriented Programming talk, and the nice thing about it is that it was possible to implement a system like this because controllers give you a full access to application state. Pipelines are not a core Keechma feature, they are implemented in a separate library.
Controllers give you a full control over your application. They don't presume that you can fit your problem into any pattern or way of thinking. Their abstraction level is intentionally low, and you have a complete access to the application state. This makes it possible to solve non standard, specific problems with them. When you need an easy way to handle standard problems (like data loading, or user interaction) - use pipelines.
We're working hard on the v1 release, and if you want to keep track of Keechma news and releases, subscribe to our newsletter:


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3. Measurement items: Pore, Sebum, Wrinkle, Pigmentation, Moisture, Elasticity
4. Advantages 1: Automatic recognition of eyes, nose, mouth and eyebrows
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The importance of English language lab and English learning course cannot be mitigated even if so desired. It is also necessary that a learner has a good command over the English language grammar, phonetic language.
Phonetic language i.e. English language pronunciation and English language vocabulary plays a key role in English listening practice and English language speaking. Having clarity and accuracy of the English language grammar gives confidence to the language learner and opens doors to avenues.
Besides appointing esl teachers for teaching English pronunciation and teaching English grammar, K-12 educational institute can make arrangements to set-up a good digital English language lab for the use of its language learners.
Education is the most powerful weapon - Digital teacher english language lab
English language lab are designed to provide the language learners with a strong platform for practical training in the English language speaking, English listening practice and for a good English language conversation. While the conventional esl teachers concentrate on teaching English grammar, teaching English pronunciation and English language writing, language laboratory will more emphasise on above mentioned skills giving completeness to the English learning course.
Understanding this, K-12 developers across the country are opening up to the idea of establishing digital English language lab for the future benefit of their learners.
A language lab is an audio or audio-visual installation used as an aid in modern English language teaching. The language lab brings efficient use of time and learning efficiency is much more than usual classroom learning. English language writing and English language vocabulary can be taught in class. English language labs would help the student in English language pronunciation and English language conversation. So, K-12 developers are implementing these new ideas in order to improve modern English language.
Spoken English classes are now widely spread in our country. English language lab for schools can be a good substitution for these spoken English classes.


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Kinematic and electromyographic analysis of the push movement in tai chi
- Correspondence to: Ms Chan, Department of Sports Science and Physical Education, Kwok Sports Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong;
- Accepted 16 September 2002
Background: Tai chi is a form of exercise derived from the martial art folk traditions of China. The force used in tai chi includes different principles of mechanical advantage. No studies on the kinematic features of tai chi exercise have been published.
Objective: To analyse the kinematics and electromyographic characteristics of tai chi.
Methods: An experienced tai chi master was asked to perform a sequence of basic movements: ward off, roll back, press, and push. The movements were videotaped and digitised using a motion analysis system. Electromyographic activities of the lumbar erector spinae, rectus femoris, medial hamstrings, and medial head of gastrocnemius were recorded by surface electrodes. The push movement data were analysed.
Results: The medial hamstrings and medial head of gastrocnemius muscle groups maintained low activity, with higher electromyographic values in the lumbar erector spinae and substantially higher ones in the rectus femoris during the push movement. Both concentric and eccentric contractions occurred in muscles of the lower limbs, with eccentric contraction occurring mainly in the anti-gravity muscles such as the rectus femoris and the medial head of gastrocnemius. The forward and backward shifts in centre of gravity (CG) were mainly accomplished by increasing and decreasing respectively the joint angles of the bilateral lower limbs rather than by adopting a forward or backward postural lean. The path of the CG in the anteroposterior and mediolateral component was unique, and the sway or deviation from the path was small. The master maintained an upright posture and maintained a low CG (hips, knees, and ankles bent) while travelling slowly and steadily from one position to another.
Conclusion: The eccentric muscle contraction of the lower limbs in the push movement of tai chi may help to strengthen the muscles.


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- September 17, 2020
Standardisation of a European measurement method for organic carbon and elemental carbon in ambient air
The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) Technical Committee 264 'Air Quality' has recently produced a standard method for the measurements of organic carbon and elemental carbon in PM2.5 within its Working Group 35 in response to the requirements of European Directive 2008/50/EC. It is expected that this method will be used in future by all Member States making measurements of the carbonaceous content of PM2.5. This paper details the results of a laboratory and field measurement campaign and the statistical analysis performed to validate this method, assess its uncertainty and define its working range to provide clarity and confidence in the underpinning science for future users of the method.
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Feeding behavior of white grubs (Melolontha kraatzi persica R.) in soil causes damages on weeds, natural regeneration and various trees. This research studies the density of white grubs in different plantations of Alder (Alnus subcordata C. A. Mey.), Oak (Quercus castaneifolia C. A. Mey.), Maple (Acer velutinum Bioss.) and Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens var. horozontalis) with the adjacent mixed broad leaved stand in Darabkola, east of Mazindaran province in the Caspian region. To determine the seasonal variation of density, twenty samples were taken for each season. First, at each treatment one-1 ha sample plot was selected and then ten-0.01 ha circular sample plots random-systematically were established. Samples were taken from the depth of 30 cm and small white grubs were extracted using Berlese funnels and were counted by binocular. Various parameters of the stands and soils were recorded in each plot. This study showed that the mean annual density of white grubs in the Cypress plantation was the least, whereas in the Maple reforestation, it was the highest. The differences of density among other treatments were not statistically significant. However the population density of Melolontha kraatzi persica in this region was not significant regarding to a serious drawback to the stands. The analysis of PCA showed that the parameters of the density of white grubs, number of trees, number of vegetation cover, relative light intensity (as an indicator for soil heat) and moisture content of soil take an important role in seasonal differences of white grubs in each treatment.


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Suppose I have a topic or discussion, and a number of "support" and "opposition" points on each side (You can also think of them as "upvotes" and "downvotes") and I want to calculate a score of how "controversial" a topic is. (Let $p$ be the support score, $c$ be the opposition score, and $f(p, c)$ be the function that determines the controversy score.)
It should have the following properties:
 - Controversy is maximized when equal support is given to both sides. Given that some property $g(p, c)$ is held constant (such that the slope of the tangent line of the level curve of $g(p, c)$ at any point is never positive), $f(p, c)$ should be maximized when $p = c$.
 - More support on both sides means that more people care and therefore there is more controversy. Given that $p/c$ is held constant, a higher value of $p$ or $c$ should result in a higher value of $f(p, c)$.
 - The amount of controversy is the same for the same imbalance of support no matter which side the imbalance favours. $f(p, c)$ should equal $f(c, p)$.
 - All the support being on one side means there is no controversy. Given that either $p$ or $c$ is equal to zero, $f(p, c)$ should be equal to zero.
Is there any function like this that is already in use? If not, could one be devised?
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Basically I'm trying to simulate or find a better formula for Reddit's "controversial" section. That section doesn't even seem to work properly on most subreddits I visit. – Joe Z. Mar 2 '13 at 15:02
Selecting it on All made me realize that Controversial takes pretty much anything whose score is between 1 and -1 with more than 4 votes total. – Joe Z. Mar 2 '13 at 15:09
Here's a related question on Stack Overflow that asks the same thing. But I'm interested in it mathematically as well. – Joe Z. Mar 6 '13 at 2:39
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up vote 5 down vote accepted
$$f = \min$$
More generally, choose an even function $g:[-1,1]\to\mathbb R_{\ge0}$ such that $g(-1)=g(1)=0$, and an increasing function $h:\mathbb R_{\ge0}\to\mathbb R_{\ge0}$, and let $$f(p,c)=g\left(\frac{p-c}{p+c}\right)h\left(\frac{p+c}2\right).$$ Here $g$ controls the "cross-section" for a fixed number of votes, while $h$ controls the growth for a fixed $p/c$ ratio. For example, $f(p,c)=\min(p,c)$ arises from setting $g(x)=1-\lvert x\rvert$ and $h(y)=y$. _USER_'s solution $f(p,c)=pc/\lvert p-c\rvert$ corresponds to $g(x)=(1-x^2)/\lvert x\rvert$, $h(y)=y/2$. Another nice solution is $g(x)=\sqrt{1-x^2}, h(y)=y \implies f(p,c)=\sqrt{pc}$.
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+1 and accept for the general formula class. – Joe Z. Mar 2 '13 at 15:49
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What about $\frac{p c}{|p-c|}$?
This will grow (to infinity) for $c$ and $p$ being closer together and will also grow if $p/c=constant$ with increased $p c$. All support on one side will mean that $pc$ is low (or 0)
Maybe it is not perfect in its general behaviour, but the limiting behaviour seems to be right, so you can probably go from here.
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I'm not sure 1 upvote vs. 1 downvote resulting in the same amount as 100 vs. 100 (both of which are "infinite") is a good idea. But thanks anyway. – Joe Z. Mar 2 '13 at 8:31
A little adjustment like $\frac{pc}{|p-c|+1}$ would avoid infinity. – Hagen von Eitzen Mar 2 '13 at 9:43
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The formula I came up with myself was: $\displaystyle \frac{\min(p,c)^2}{\max(p, c)}$
I called it the "geometric progression" algorithm, because it represents the next term of the geometric progression lower than $\max(p,c)$ and $\min(p, c)$. In this way, as $p$ increases past $c$, $f(p, c)$ will get smaller, reaching its maximum of $c$ when $p = c$.
It also has the additional scaling property that the number of votes on $\max(p,c)$ varies inversely with $f(p, c)$.
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I created a page where you can play with various upvote and downvote algorithms, with this formula on it. – Joe Z. Mar 2 '13 at 16:02
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I would argue that a simple and natural measure of controversy is simply the product of the support vote count $p$ and the opposed vote count $c$:
$$f(p,c) = pc$$
In particular, for a fixed total number of votes $p+c$, $f$ is maximized at $p = c$ (or at $p = c \pm 1$ if the total is odd), and it also satisfies your requirements 2–4. It also has the convenient property that $f(p,c)$ is a non-negative integer whenever $p$ and $c$ are.
One downside is that, for a fixed vote ratio $0 < p/c < \infty$, $f(p,c)$ grows proportionally to the square of the total number of votes $p+c$. If you'd prefer a linearly growing function instead, you can always take the square root to get the geometric mean of $p$ and $c$:
$$f^*(p,c) = \sqrt{pc}$$
As the square root is a strictly monotone increasing function, it does not affect the relative ranking of the results: $f(p,c) > f(p',c')$ if and only if $f^*(p,c) > f^*(p',c')$. However, by the AM–GM inequality, we can see that $f^*(p,c)$ can never exceed half of the total vote count $p+c$.
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One problem with using $pc$ is that there are certain $g(p, c)$ for which the maximum value isn't at $p = c$. Originally I wanted to use $\displaystyle \frac{2pc}{p+c}$, but then I realized that if either $p$ or $c$ is constant, $f(p, c)$ actually grows when $p$ increases past $c$ or vice versa. – Joe Z. Mar 2 '13 at 14:55
_USER_: Indeed, your full criterion 1 as stated is quite hard to satisfy. In particular, considering the "worst-case" test function $g(p,c)=\min(p,c)$ shows that no function $f(p,c)$ that satisfies both criteria 1 and 2 can be differentiable at points where $p=c$. – Ilmari Karonen Mar 2 '13 at 15:03
I had a hunch that was the case. The function I've come up with now is not differentiable on $p = c$ either. – Joe Z. Mar 2 '13 at 15:04
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Giving birth is often associated with pain and fear, but many women have come forward in the last several years to share their orgasmic birth stories.
Fear of childbirth appears to be on the rise, according to studies like Greater Expectations, which found that over a 13-year period there was a massive increase in women reporting feeling "out of control", "detached", "helpless" or "powerless" in birth. But a survey by Positive Birth Movement and YouTube community Channel Mum discovered that a quarter of the 2 200 women surveyed "loved" giving birth. 67% described their labour as a "very positive experience" and, even more surprising, 6% said that they had an orgasmic birth!
The survey doesn't stand alone. In a French study conducted in 2013, midwives reported 668 cases of women reporting orgasmic sensations in childbirth and another 868 demonstrating signs of pleasure.
Orgasmic birth explained
In the book Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth Experience, Elizabeth Davis and Debra Pascali Bonaro define orgasmic birth as "broad enough to include those who describe birth as ecstatic and specific enough to give voice, to those who actually feel the contractions of orgasm and climax at the moment of delivery". So though a small percentage of women may experience an orgasm during birth, many associate their labour with positivity and pleasure, and hence, call it orgasmic.
A mom shares her story
Shalome Doran, from Melbourne, Australia, experienced an orgasmic birth or "birthgasm" with her third baby. She says she had an intensely pleasurable birth in which every fibre of her being was engaged and pulsing. She describes the experience as the most incredible rush, more sensual than sexual. She says the sounds discharged from her body were "orgasmic".


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The Kinna's are another fine example of a pioneer family contributing to the development of the Eckville area in the early 20th century. John Kinna was born in 1854 in Waimela, Estonia. In 1903 John, along with his wife Marie and their five children, immigrated to Canada and settled on a homestead north of Eckville, adjacent to the Medicine River. John and his sons soon built a five-room, two-storey house from surrounding trees. John and Marie lived here until 1942 when they retired from homesteading to take up a quiet life in the town of Eckville.
John's background as a labourer in Estonia facilitated the cultivation of land in Alberta's rugged wilderness. John was well trained in leather work and often repaired shoes, mittens, and harnesses. The topography around Eckville also provided ideal fishing locations. John's first significant purchase was in livestock when he bought four cows and numerous chickens. When Killick's General Store opened its doors, the Kinna family delivered butter and eggs in exchange for other groceries. To earn additional revenue, the Kinnas contracted a modest mail route and made three trips a week to neighboring towns and villages. A horse-drawn sleigh equipped with a tent, food and bedding was used to deliver the mail. The family's earnings typically went toward the purchase of farm tools and livestock.
The Kinna's often butchered pigs at home and produced a variety of pork products. Sausages, lard, smoked hams and blood sausages were mixed with barley to create traditional Estonian cuisine. Since canning had not yet been widely developed, root vegetables stored in the cellar were frequently used. Rye and oats were the first crops grown. Marie would use the oats to create "kiisla", another popular Estonian meal.
In 1909 John's son Fritz began establishing plans for building and operating a water-powered mill adjacent to the Medicine River. A dam and a 50-yard canal were also to be built. The project was successfully completed in 1912, and farmers soon arrived from miles around to pay the Kinnas to grind grain.
John and Marie died in 1950. They had six children, all born in Estonia.
Fritz was born 30 September 1881 in Waimela, Estonia. He was an active member of the Eckville community participating in school board functions and serving as a director for the Eckville Co-operative Association.
Olga was born 29 March 1883. She married Charlie Raabis and they farmed north of Eckville until Charlie's death in 1942. She later moved to Eckville, spending much of her leisure time oil painting.
Minnie was born 9 October 1886. She was a school teacher until she married Varley Buchanan. As a result of the union, they collectively became proprietors of the Benalto Hotel.
Arthur was born 31 May 1889 and quickly developed an aptitude for playing the violin; this later gave him the opportunity to travel to San Francisco. He homesteaded north of Eckville for a short period. Later, he operated the Benalto general store and post office.
Ernest was born 3 March 1901. He married Ena Woima and lived on their farm in the Kuusamo district of Estonia.


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Periodically, you'll want to know where a Python source file is actually located on disk. You might want this for all sorts of reasons, and it's always a bit messy when you do want to know.
DirectoryLocalizer solves two problems:
- it lets you know where you are on disk, assuming you're not anywhere crazy, like in a zip import, and
- it lets you pass that location to other code that might want to know where you are.
Usage is extremely simple:
- Make a DirectoryLocalizer object, dl (or whatever).
- Call dl.set() from the file you want to locate on disk.
- Any code that can access dl can now call:
- dl.dir(): for the directory of the file where dl.set() was called,
- dl.path(fn): for the filename of a file in the directory where dl.set() was called,
- dl.file(fn): for a file object of the file in dl.path(fn), and
- dl.read(fn): to get a read of the file in d.file(fn).