Changing Method Names
ObjectiveCName Annotation
You can annotate any Java method with _USER_ to change the translated name of that method and any method that overrides it. For example:
public void setTime(int hours, int minutes, int seconds) {
is translated as:
- (void)setTimeWithHours:(jint)hours
Mapping File
Method names can be changed using the --mapping flag, which takes a properties file with the mappings to use. Each method mapping is defined with the full Java method signature for the key, and an Objective-C selector value. For example, the line to map Object.equals() to NSObject.isEqual: is:
java.lang.Object.equals(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z = isEqual:
The left hand declaration is the full method signature, as defined by the Java Virtual Machine Specification. The right hand definition consists of the iOS selector (i.e. what you would pass to _USER_()). The method and its mapping must have the same number of parameters.
As another example, this line is equivalent to the example in the previous section:
pkg.ClassName.setTime(III)V = setTimeWithHours:minutes:seconds:
Additional mapping files can be specified on the command-line, using the --mapping option.


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Non-commutative case: a caveat
Proposition. Let Template:Mvar be the ring of non-commutative real polynomials in Template:Mvar and Template:Mvar. Let Template:Mvar be the principal two-sided ideal generated by Template:Mvar and Template:Mvar the principal two-sided ideal generated by xy + 1. Then I + J = R but IJIJ.
Proof. Observe that Template:Mvar is formed by all polynomials with an Template:Mvar in every term and that every polynomial in Template:Mvar vanishes under the substitution y = − {{ safesubst:_TAG_:Unsubst||$B=1/x}}. Then clearly p = (xy + 1)xIJ. Define a "term in Template:Mvar", as an element of the multiplicative monoid of Template:Mvar generated by Template:Mvar and Template:Mvar, and its degree as the usual degree of the term after the substitution y = x. On the other hand, suppose qJ. Observe that a term in Template:Mvar of maximum degree depends on Template:Mvar otherwise Template:Mvar under the substitution y = − {{ safesubst:_TAG_:Unsubst||$B=1/x}} can not vanish. The same happens then for an element qIJ. Note that the last Template:Mvar, from left to right, in a term of maximum degree in an element of Template:Mvar is preceded by more than one Template:Mvar. (We are counting here all the preceding Template:Mvars. E.g., in x2yxyx5 the last Template:Mvar is preceded by three Template:Mvars.) This proves that p = (xy + 1)xIJ since the last Template:Mvar in the term of maximum degree in Template:Mvar (Template:Mvar) is preceded by only one Template:Mvar. Hence IJIJ.
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Benefits of touch typing on task performance:
I assume that when comparing skilled individuals, two handed touch typing on a traditional keyboard is faster, more reliable, and more automatic, than the other methods of text input that you mention (e.g., phone or tablet keyboards). These advantages are discussed here.
- Faster input means that ideas can be expressed more quickly.
- Visual attention does not need to be allocated to the keyboard which permits more attention to be placed on the content or the screen.
- The greater reliability and automaticity mean that less attention needs to be allocated to the task of typing than to other methods.
- A more consistent keyboard layout across devices further justifies the investment in learning touch typing.
For further discussion of the cognitive and performance benefits of skilled touch typing, check out Yechiam et al (2003). Discussing the benefits of touch typing over visual typing, they state:
One main distinction of the touch-typing strategy appears to be the
ability to look at the screen while typing and to devote a minimal
level of visual search to the keyboard (Cooper, 1983). This ability is
gained through the memorization of key positions and finger
trajectories, which makes touch-typing a difficult skill to acquire.
Other differences between touch-typing and visually guided typing
include touch typists' (a) use of all fingers of both hands, as
opposed to the use of one hand of only some of the fingers; (b) fixed
assignment of fingers to keys; (c) reduced arm movements; and (d)
fixed locations of the palms (Crooks, 1964).
Broader cognitive benefits of touch typing:
While I have not read any specific research testing the idea, I think the benefits of touch typing relate to its superiority as a text entry method and not as some broader tool for brain integration. A large body of research on psychomotor and cognitive performance suggests that transfer across disparate domains tends to be minimal. The domains would need to have some overlapping elements.
More broadly, there is a strong link between unemployment and depression (e.g., Frese & Mohr, 1987). Engaging in meaningful or enjoyable activity might help improve mood in some cases (e.g., juggling, mastering some other new skill). However, I don't think the mechanism of that mood improvement would be hemispheric brain balancing.
- Cooper, W. E. (1983). Introduction. In W. E. Cooper (Ed.), Cognitive aspects of skilled typewriting (pp. 1-38). New York: Springer-Verlag.
- Crooks, M. (1964). Touch typing for teachers. London: Pitman.
- Frese, M., & Mohr, G. (1987). Prolonged unemployment and depression in older workers: A longitudinal study of intervening variables. Social Science & Medicine, 25(2), 173-178. PDF
- Yechiam, E., Erev, I., Yehene, V., & Gopher, D. (2003). Melioration and the transition from touch-typing training to everyday use. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 45(4), 671-684.

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Native American Life on the Great Plains
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For centuries, trade was a major part of the livelihood for Native Americans living on the Great Plains. The Missouri River provided a trade transportation route for Native Americans, European, and American trappers and traders. Agriculture-based tribes traded surplus food to nomadic tribes in exchange for goods, such as animal hides, feathers, and meat. The map above shows the prehistoric trade route between tribes of the Northern Plains.
Fun Fact: The first contact between Northern Plains Indians and Europeans was European commodities, not the Europeans themselves, through a network of trade.
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The black famine is in their mouths.... This month is now called Hungry July. Bumhsë (yellow month) is its proper name in Irish. It is a suitable name, for the fields are yellow....-Amhlaoibh Suilleabhin
Desperate Highlanders took to poaching food. The starving cattle some had been alloted at eviction wandered off and died. Those that were stolen by landowners had to be repurchased with silver rent money called Maol. The process was called Black Maol.
Cholera spread and became an epidemic in Inverness in 1832. Whole families were found dead on the rotten straw of their beds. The people turned to the church for help, but the Church of Scotland had ministers appointed by the land owners. The Free Church of Scotland was formed in 1843 and landlords forbid Highlanders to attend. Some of those that did were sold into slavery in the Southern United States. Large sums of money were sent as kickbacks to the Free Church. (4, 3, 10, 55, 61, 118)


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In order to synchronize data between systems, it is often necessary to correlate the objects in the systems to determine which already exist in the target system and therefore need to be updated. In many systems supporting bulk upsert, the update is triggered by the input data to the target system having an identifier that the target system recognizes. In my case, my target system uses a "resource_uri" to identify objects and we use an externalId to store the id of the object in the source system. So in my integration, I retrieve all current objects in the target system.
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XLeratorDB/strings Online Documentation
SQL Server function for joining string values
JOINSTR
Updated: 14 December 2009
Use JOINSTR to concatenate the text from multiple rows in a table.
Syntax
SELECT [wctString].[wct].[JOINSTR] (
 <@Separator, nvarchar(4000),>
 ,<@MaxItems, int,>
 ,<@Values_Tablename, nvarchar(4000),>
 ,<@ColumnName, nvarchar(4000),>
 ,<@GroupedColumnName, nvarchar(4000),>
 ,<@GroupedColumnValue, sql_variant,>)
Arguments
@Separator
is the text value to be used to connect the text to be concatenated. The @Separator argument can be of data types that are implicitly convertible to nvarchar or ntext.

@MaxItems
is the maximum number of items to be included in the resultant text. The @MaxItems argument can be of data types that are implicitly convertible to int.

@Values_Tablename
the name of the table that contains the text to be concatenated. The @Values_tablename argument can be of data types that are implicitly convertible to nvarchar or ntext.

@ColumnName
the name of the column in @Values_Tablename that contains the text to be concatenated. The @Column_tablename argument can be of data types that are implicitly convertible to nvarchar or ntext.

@GroupedColumnName
the name, as text, of the column in the table or view specified by @Values_Tablename which will be used for grouping the results.
@GroupedColumnValue
the column value to do the grouping on.

Return Types
nvarchar(max)
Remarks
· For more complicated queries, consider using the JOINSTR_q function.
Examples
For this example, we have loaded up the Gettysburg addres into a table and we are going to use JOINSTR to put it back together. You can find the data here.
select wct.JOINSTR(' '
,NULL
,'DOCS'
,'WORD'
,'DOCNAME'
,'Gettysburg Address')

This produces the following result
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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(and dissipativity) are really meaningful for the model. There seems to be some recent interest in extending the idea of practical persistence to PDE ([1], [2]) and discrete population interaction models ([12]). The main point of this paper is to illustrate practical persistence as simply as possible by calculating the $\delta$'s and $M$'s for some elementary 2-species models with explicit self-limitation in each species and with or without a single discrete time delay. We include a specific numerical example - a Lotka-Volterra competition model with time delay $\tau$. The model is globally stable for all $\tau \ge 0$, and so an ideal estimate for practical persistence in this case should involve specifying a small region in the positive quadrant containing the stable equilibrium. The figure summarizing our treatment of this example indicates how well we can achieve this using a pair of simple Liapunov functions. \bigskip \noindent Generally, in the infinite dimensional case, the Liapunov approach (see Freedman and Ruan[6], Hutson and Schmitt [13] and Lakshmikantham and Matrosov [14]) has amounted to constructing (average) Liapunov functionals on $Y$, or using the Liapunov-Razumikhin technique ([10]) with Liapunov functions defined on the range space $X$ (the positive cone $R^n_+$ in $R^n$) for functions in $Y$. In this setting, if $\partial X$ denotes the boundary of $X$, uniform persistence means that there is a $\delta > 0$ such that if $x(t)$ is any solution with $x(0) \in X\backslash \partial X$, then $$ \liminf_{t \rightarrow +\infty} d(x(t), \partial X) > \delta\tag{1.9} $$ where $d$ is the distance function in $X$. Here we construct a set of multiple Liapunov functions $$ \{V_1, \dots, V_p\} $$ which are defined on possibly only a subset $X_0$ of $X$. If a dissipative type property like (1.3) holds, a natural choice for $X_0$ is generally suggested by the correspondingly bounded elements of $X$. The main advantage of the multiple Liapunov function approach is that the requirements are parceled out to several functions on different portions of the set $X_0$, rather than a single Liapunov function (or even a vector Liapunov function) on the whole space $X$. Another way of looking at this scenario is that a possibly complicated Liapunov function is being assembled piecemeal. Our idea for this approach was originally motivated by the paper of Wendi Wang and Ma Zhien [16]; indeed, our work ([3], [4], [5]) on this problem amounts to a sequence of generalizations and applications of the main result in [16]. This approach amounts to constructing a partition $\{X_1, \dots, X_{p+1}\}$ of $X$ (or any subset $X_0$ of $X$ which is the ultimate residence of all solution trajectories) with the property that $$ \text{dist }(X_{p+1}, \partial X) > 0.\tag{1.10} $$ \noindent The sets $X_k$ in the partition are determined by the functions $V_k$ and these sets are ordered by increasing time on trajectories: for $k < p + 1$, trajectories in $X_k$ at some time must leave $X_k$ in finite time and cannot move into $X_j$ for any $j < k$ at any future time; consequently, ultimately all trajectories lie in $X_{p+1}$. In the next section we give a concise summary of our basic results on uniform persistence and practical persistence for differential delay equation models of population interactions. For simplicity and clarity we specialize our results to 2-species interactions here. In section 3 we give a result which determines specific dissipative bounds for 2-species models with explicit self-limitation in each species and with or without a single discrete time delay. We then discuss a numerical example - a Lotka-Volterra competition model - to illustrate our practical persistence result. \heading 2. Persistence via multiple Liapunov functions \endheading \noindent We consider two-dimensional Kolmogorov type systems with time delay $$ \aligned \dot{x}(t) &= x(t) f(x(t), y(t), x(t - \tau), y(t - \tau))\\ \dot{y}(t) &= y(t) g(x(t), y(t), x(t - \tau), y(t- \tau)). \endaligned \tag{2.1} $$ \noindent In (2.1), the functions $f$ and $g$ are continuous functions defined on $\overline{R}^4_+$, the usual $4-d$ non-negative cone. The result below is essentially a special case of the main result appearing in [4]. Here we give a self-contained complete proof of the result using two Liapunov functions. \proclaim{Theorem 2.1} Suppose that: \roster \item"{(i)}" System (2.1) is dissipative with bounds $M_1$ and $M_2$. \medskip \item"{(ii)}" There are positive constants $\alpha$ and $\beta$ such that $$ f(0, y_0, 0, y_1) - \alpha g(0, y_0, 0, y_1) > 0, \text{ all } y_0, y_1 \in [0, M_2]\tag{2.2} $$ and either $$ \beta f(x_0, 0, x_1, 0) + g(x_0, 0, x_1, 0) > 0, \text{ all } x_0, x_1 \in [0, M_1]\tag{2.3} $$ or $$ -\beta f(x_0, 0, x_1, 0) + g(x_0, 0, x_1, 0) > 0, \text{ all } x_0, x_1 \in [0, M_1]\tag{2.4} $$ \ \ \ \ provided $\alpha \beta < 1$. \endroster \noindent Then (2.1) is uniformly persistent (and hence permanent). \endproclaim \medskip \demo{Proof of Theorem 2.1} With $M_1$ and $M_2$ as above, we denote $$ X_0 = (0, M_1] \times (0, M_2]. $$ We will need the following constants to obtain a more precise version of (ii): $$ \aligned P_1 &= \min\{f(x_0, y_0, x_1, y_1): ((x_0, y_0), (x_1, y_1)) \in \overline{X}_0 \times \overline{X}_0\}\\ P_2 &= \min\{g(x_0, y_0, x_1, y_1): ((x_0, y_0), (x_1, y_1)) \in \overline{X}_0 \times \overline{X}_0\}. \endaligned \tag{2.5} $$ $P_1$ and $P_2$ are finite by continuity of $f$ and $g$. The dissipative property means that for any positive solution $(x(t)$, $y(t))$ of (2.1), there is a $t_0 > 0$ such that $$ (x(t), y(t)) \in X_0 \text{ for all } t > t_0.\tag{2.6} $$ \noindent If $(x(t)$, $y(t))$ is a solution of (2.1) satisfying $(x(t), y(t)) \in X_0$ for all $t \ge t^*_0 - 2\tau$ for some $t^*_0 > 0$, then for any such $t$ and $0 < \nu < M_1$ $$ x(t) \le \nu \text{ implies } x(t -\tau) \le \nu e^{-P_1 \


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At Estudio de Comunicación we understand that work environment and commitment studies are a powerful communication tool regarding the organization's management and its professionals. It is not only a matter of listening to evaluate professional satisfaction levels; it is crucial to understand what commits and disengages professionals from their work at the company.
We have a work model and a process that integrates measurements and actions on key elements that impact professional commitment.
Our service provides:
- A complete vision of both professional alignment and key behaviours for business success and the conditions that must be taken into account to encourage commitment.
- A map of professional commitment profiles that allows the identification of areas or clusters ranging from the 'highly committed' to the 'unhooked'.
- The identification of key levers on which action can be taken to advance the commitment of its professionals.
- The use of new computational linguistics tools in the analysis of what professionals feel when they talk about their work in the company.
- A reliable, flexible and experienced on-line tool that supports the response process.
- A tool for defining action plans for managers, encouraging their feeling of responsibility towards improving the commitment of each team.
- An application to visualize the organization's results.
- A benchmark comparing the company to our reference database in the market.
- An in-depth analysis and professional interpretation on how people's opinions are impacting their work and performance.

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Many DIC-platforms generate coloured images to mark changes such as strains in materials. Mostly operating by the black-box principle, the results show you WHAT is happening in your experiment.
But the more important question to answer is WHY deformations are happening and HOW. If you get insight into result creation, rather than testing presumptions, you take Digital Image Correlation (DIC) to a next level.
Created at university of Leuven to get profound insights into DIC
In 2008, the University of Leuven, Belgium, started developing an open, holistic DIC-platform. Their aim: to get a profound insight into the measurement capabilities and uncertainties of DIC and how these transfer towards material identification and model validation.
Since then, this application has been implemented and proof-validated by over 200 academic institutions worldwide.
Moreover, joining forces with one of the co-inventors of the VFM (Virtual Fields Method) enabled us to incorporate this material identification technique directly in our software portfolio.
Bridging the gap with simulations
By structurally embedding VFM, MatchID goes well beyond DIC by offering material identification and characterization tools.
These parameters then serve as a basis for Finite Element modeling (FEA),leading to a universal challenge in engineering: validation of simulations.
MatchID has developed an FE validation module that creates a full-field, point-to-point relation between simulation (FE model) and test (DIC result). This module thus allows for structural validations of simulations.
Learning from academics and engineers all around the world
We found out that MatchID is as much a software platform as it is a community of engineers and scientists, finding ways to optimise research experiments. Our customers show us the way to keep pioneering and keep pushing DIC forward.

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Fun Games to Play With Your Husky
There are many fun games you can play with your Husky to keep them mentally stimulated.
In this guide, let's go through some great games you can play with your Husky as well as look at how each game stimulates your Husky.
Playing games with your Husky can help prevent destructive behavior such as digging holes or escaping your property.
Benefits of Playing With Your Husky
Huskies, like all dog breeds, love to play. Even though they are technically classified as 'working dogs', Huskies, like any other breed, enjoy playing games and spending time with others.
A Husky's curious and playful nature, coupled with extreme bursts of energy means that if they don't play, they quickly become bored.
This can lead them to destructive or negative behaviors to keep themselves entertained.
Husky digging hole
When a Husky starts escaping or digging up holes, it could be a sign of a lack of mental stimulation.
Playing games, either with humans or other pets, can ease that boredom, help them expel energy, and help strengthen any bonds they share with others.
If your Husky has been digging holes, check out this guide to deal with it properly.
What Games do Huskies Like to Play?
Huskies like to play all sorts of games that involve human/dog interaction or mental stimulation. Being an extremely energetic breed, they also enjoy games where they have the chance to run around or be active.
Huskies like to play games like tug-of-war, hide and seek, bubble chasey, and other games that involve running around.
Of course, every Husky is different, so it may take you a few failed games before you figure out what your Husky enjoys.
Husky running
For example, my Husky Sasha loves it when I chase her around the backyard. While she's obviously much faster than me and I could never catch her, she enjoys circling around and sprinting.
Once you find a game or two that your Husky loves, you'll find it easy to keep them mentally stimulated.
Let's go through a few games you can play with your Husky.
How to Play Tug-of-War With Your Husky
Tug-of-War is a great game to play with your Husky and is an easy way to incorporate some training into their routine.
Because of the rough-house nature of the game, some people misunderstand it and think that it encourages aggression.
But if you follow some simple rules, you will see that it is a fun game for all, that will improve overall fitness (for you and your Husky) and help enforce training commands.
Husky chew toy
Follow these steps to play Tug-of-War with your Husky:
 1. Hold out a tug toy to your Husky (check out recommended toys here) and tell them to take it (this is assuming you have already taught the 'take' command).
 2. Move the tug toy from side to side to keep their attention and make encouragement sounds when they 'tug back' to keep their interest and encourage them to continue. Make sure you hold on tight otherwise it won't be much of a game!
 3. After a little back and forth tugging, 'freeze' the game by stopping all movement. By doing this, the tug toy is effectively 'dead' and your Husky should lose interest. This is a great way to stimulate their prey and working drives without risk to smaller animals who may become victim to the game.
 4. Tell your Husky to drop the toy and give them a food reward when they do so. This enforces the obedience training and impulse control and keeps your Husky's mind stimulated. If they know that they will be rewarded for such behavior, they are more likely to listen to and obey the command.
 5. Pick up the toy immediately and tell your Husky to sit so that they can recover from the excitement of the game and reward.
 6. Once your Husky is calm, you can continue the game by repeating the above steps. Gradually delay the food reward for dropping the tug toy as the game progresses, and eventually faze it out, giving verbal encouragement instead.
For this game to be successful, there are a few things that you should note.
Be aware that only you should initiate this game. If your Husky wants to play Tug-of-War and is instigating it (in that way that only Husky's can), take note that they're interested but do not engage.
Wait until they have 'lost interest' before starting a game. This will press the point that you are the one in charge and that the game will only happen if you want it to.
The point of doing this is to prevent your Husky from thinking it's okay to start tugging at anything you're holding. You want your Husky to learn that this game can only be played at certain times.
Also, make them aware that any contact with your skin will mean the end of the game. If this happens, you need to walk away with the tug toy to show your Husky that the game is over. The only thing your Husky should come into contact with during this game is the tug toy.
Husky tug of war game
On ending the game, always make sure you take the toy with you. The tug toy is only for playing Tug-of-War and is not an 'everyday' toy. Only bring it out when playing this game with your Husky.
Can You Play Tug-of-War With a Puppy?
While most Huskies will enjoy playing this game, it is probably best to wait until your Husky is at least one year old before introducing this game to them.
Their bodies will still be growing and developing, and you don't want to risk hurting them (or putting unnecessary pressure on their teeth) at this age.
Younger Huskies will also have less knowledge of the commands involved, so it might be better to wait until they are a bit older to play this game.
How to Make a Fun Agility Course for Your Husky
You've probably seen videos of dogs that have been trained to run obstacle coursescompeting to finish the course in the best time and with as few mistakes as possible.
These competitions often involve a lot of dedication and commitment from both trainers and dogs to achieve the best results possible.
But this can also be a fun game for your Husky if you have the space and a little bit of time and patience. You don't even need to buy any equipmentyou can just use items you find lying around the house or yard.
This game is great for mental stimulation and expelling excess energy, and the course possibilities are endlesscheck out some videos for inspiration on how to turn your household items into a fun agility course for your Husky.
Here are some household items that can be used for different tasks:
 - Logs, sticks, PVC pipes, or broom handles can be used to jump over.
 - Hula hoops can be used to jump through (as long as you can find one big enough!)
 - Washing baskets can be used to jump over
 - Old doors or planks of wood can be used as ramps (make sure they are sturdy so that they don't collapse underneath your Husky)
 - Small cones or upside-down bowls can be used to weave between
 - Garden chairs or tables can be used to jump onto
Of course, if you're really serious about the game, you can always buy tunnels for your Husky to run through, or ready-made hurdles for them to jump over. There are a lot of items available to purchase.
Be aware that if you're taking the homemade option, you are careful that there are no sharp edges on the items you use. You don't want your Husky to injure themselves if they don't clear a jump properly, or if they fall onto a piece of equipment.
Once you've set up your course, you need to work through it with your Husky so they can learn how to complete it.
The best way to do this is to lead by example, walking through the course with your Husky so they can see exactly what is involved to complete it. Use treats as a way of leading them through each stage and reward them with the treat at the end of each section.
It is best to work through the course in stages, rather than all at once, as this makes it much more manageable to succeed without losing the interest of your Husky. Once they have mastered the course in this way a few times, see how they go with the whole thing.
It might take a little while, and there will be plenty of mistakes, but the end result (when they can complete the course successfully) will make it well worth it.
Of course, not all Huskies will be interested in a full agility course. The below video shows the challenges of training a Husky to focus on an agility course.
But you may find that even a simple agility prop is enough to stimulate your Husky.
How to Play Hide-and-Seek With Your Husky
Hide-and-Seek is an easy game to play that tests the problem-solving abilities of your Husky and is a lot of fun at the same time.
There are two variations to this game: you can hide a special toy or treat for your Husky to find, or you can hide and see how clever your Husky is at locating you.
Playing Hide-and-Seek with a toy or treat:
 1. Show your Husky the toy or treat. Allow them to sniff it so that they can recognize it. This works even better with a beloved toy or favorite treat because they will want to play with it


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Here are some screenshots from the example refactoring we used for the demo in Uppsala (using GVim):
The original program and the refactoring menu (detached)
First, let's generalise over the 0 in the nil-case.
Highlight the 0, select generaliseDef, and
enter n as the name of the new parameter:
That done, we do the same for the (+) in the cons-case:
Now, we better rename our function to reflect its more general
definition. Position the cursor on the start of sum, select
rename, and enter fold as the new name:
The partial application fold (+) 0 is our old sum function,
and we can introduce a definition for that expression.
Highlight the expression, select introNewDef, and enter
sum as the name for the new definition:
And since that definition might be reusable, we better move it to
the top level. Position the cursor on the start of sum, then


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WITH 30 years passing since the night Mount Macedon was ravaged by fire, the region is bracing to remember those who died and the emergency crews who helped prevent further tragedy.
The Ash Wednesday fires of February 16, 1983, claimed 75 lives and destroyed more than 3000 homes.
Locally, the fire spread from East Trentham to Mount Macedon, killing seven people, destroying more than 600 homes and buildings, and devastating wildlife and bushland.
Until the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, they were the deadliest in Australia's history.
Macedon Ranges Shire mayor Roger Jukes said the 30-year anniversary was a time for remembering the people who lost their lives, as well as acknowledging the enormous effort of emergency services personnel and community members who fought hard to restrict the fires spreading further.
"For our community, the legacy that Ash Wednesday and other major bushfires has left is an increased knowledge of what fire can do and acceptance of fire as a natural occurrence," he said.
"We wish to acknowledge those who were affected by these devastating fires and celebrate the community's efforts to work together to recover from this disaster."


Chile Google Map
This image shows the draft map of Chile, South America. For more details of the map of Chile, please see this page below. This image shows the location of Chile, South America. For more geographical details of Chile, please see this page below. This image shows the flag of Chile, South America. For more details of the flag of Chile, please see this page below.
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Chile Google map
Google maps and detailed facts of Chile (CI). This page enables you to explore Chile and its border countries (Country Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, Argentina, and Peru) through detailed Satellite imagery – fast and easy as never before Google maps.
There is also Street View and free Driving Directions at your service. Your Google Satellite Map Sightseeing in Chile, in South America, starts here at Driving Directions and
Chile Google Maps & Satellite Maps
The Google map above shows Chile with its location: South America (geographic coordinates: 30 00 S, 71 00 W) and the international borders of Chile; total: 7,801 km. Border countries (total: 3): Argentina 6,691 km, Bolivia 942 km, Peru 168 km; furthermore, it's inland counties boundaries.
The map of Chile, South America, is for informational use only. No representation is made or warrantied given any map or its content by Driving Directions and Maps site. The user assumes all risks of using this Chile Google map and facts/wiki.
About Chile in detail
Where is Chile?
Chile, in case, if you are looking on the map under the Coordinates 33 27 S 70 40 W otherwise in South America, in Southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Argentina and Peru.
What is the capital city of Chile?
The capital city of Chile is Santiago.
What is the time in Santiago?
It is 2 hours ahead of Washington, D.C. during Standard Time; Santiago's timezone is UTC-3.
What is the Internet code for Chile?
The Top Level Domain (TLD) for Chile is:.cl
What is the size of Chile?
The territory of Chile is total: 756,102 sq km; land: 743,812 sq km, water: 12,290 sq km.
If we want to describe the size of Chile's territory is somewhat smaller than twice the size of Montana.
If we would like to walk around and discover Chile, we can cover a total distance: 7,801 km.
What is the water coverage of Chile?
We have already mentioned what Chile percentage is covered by water (see below), and this includes a 6,435 km coastline.
What is the climate like in Chile?
Chile's climate is temperate: a desert in the north: the Mediterranean in the central region: cold and damp in the south.
Geographical data of Chile
Chile's elevation; mean elevation: 1,871 m, elevation extremes; lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m, highest point: Nevado Ojos del Salado 6,880 m.
Chile's specific geographical details include low coastal mountains, fertile central valley, and the rugged Andes in the east.
Suppose we would like to describe the countries location from a different perspective. In that case, it is safe to say, and easy to read from a map, Chile is the longest north-south trending country in the world, extending across 39 degrees of latitude; strategic location relative to sea lanes between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake Passage); Atacama Desert – the driest desert in the world – spreads across the northern part of the country; the crater lake of Ojos del Salado is the world's highest lake (at 6,390 m).
Resources and land use of Chile
The country's main mined products are copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates, precious metals, molybdenum, hydropower. The population partly uses the earlier highlighted land territory and partly left in its natural state: agricultural land: 21.1%; arable land 1.7%; permanent crops 0.6%; permanent pasture 18.8%; forest: 21.9%; other: 57% (2011 estimate).
Population data of Chile
The number of inhabitants of Chile is 17,650,114 (July 2016 estimate).
If we examine the proportion of the population distribution, it is safe to say that 90% of the population is located in the middle third of the country around Santiago's capital; the far north (anchored by the Atacama Desert) and the extreme south are relatively underpopulated.
If we look at the proportion of the urbanized and barely populated areas, these are the figures: urban population: 89.5% of the total population (2015).
Most of the population in Chile is concentrated in SANTIAGO (capital) 6.507 million; Valparaiso 907,000; Concepcion 816,000 (2015).
Ethnicity in Chile
According to ethnicity details, the ethnic groups are white and non-indigenous 88.9%, Mapuche 9.1%, Aymara 0.7%, other indigenous groups 1% (includes Rapa Nui, Likan Antai, Quechua, Colla, Diaguita, Kawesqar, Yagan or Yamana), unspecified 0.3% (2012 estimate).
Spoken languages in Chile
The spoken languages in Chile are the following: Spanish 99.5% (official language), English 10.2%, indigenous 1% (includes Mapudungun, Aymara, Quechua, Rapa Nui), other 2.3%, unspecified 0.2%. Note shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2012 estimate).
What are the most important religions in Chile?
According to this, during the general census, researchers examine the churches: Roman Catholic 66.7%, Evangelical or Protestant 16.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1%, other 3.4%, none 11.5%, unspecified 1.1% (2012 estimate).
Further population data of Chile
The proportion of gender and age tells a lot about the society as follows 0-14 years: 20.27% (male 1,825,115 / female 1,751,977) 15-24 years: 15.45% (male 1,391,522 / female 1,335,933) 25-54 years: 43.17% (male 3,804,037 / female 3,816,114) 55-64 years: 10.6% (male 880,014 / female 990,969) 65 years and over: 10.51% (male 776,340 / female 1,078,093) (2016 estimate). It also a significant factor in a society the population growth rate, which in the case of Chile is 0.8% (2016 estimate).
The population growth rate is based on two elements, the birth, and the death rate. In Chile the birth rate is 13.7 births / 1,000 population (2016 estimate), the death rate 6.1 deaths / 1,000 population (2016 estimate).
In this day and age in developed societies, the first child borns later compared to the previous centuries and decades, so childbearing is extended. In Chile, the average age of mothers at the first childbirth is N/A.
Although the children's birth is postponed in the best-case scenario, the parents can still see their kids grow as life expectancy also extended. In the case of Chile, these figures are. With the introduction of modern medicine, vaccinations, and the proper hygienic conditions, the infant mortality rate is in a steep decline. The infant mortality statistics in Chile are the following: N/A. Relevant data is the budget of healthcare, which is in the case of this country is 7.8% of GDP (2014).
Economic data of Chile
Suppose we would like to describe a country. We also have to mention its economy; Chile has a market-oriented economy characterized by a high level of foreign trade and a reputation for strong financial institutions and sound policy, giving it the most robust sovereign bond rating in South America. From 2003 through 2013, real growth averaged almost 5% per year, despite the slight contraction in 2009 that resulted from the global financial crisis. Growth slowed to an estimated 1.7% in 2016. A continued drop in copper prices prompted Chile to experieChile deepened its longstanding commitment to trade liberalization with the signing of a free trade agreement with the US, which took effect on 1 January 2004. Chile has 22 trade agreements covering 60 countries, including agreements with the EU, Mercosur.
The Chilean Government has generally followed a countercyclical fiscal policy, accumulating surpluses in sovereign wealth funds during periods of high copper prices and economic growth, and generally allowing deficit spending only during periods of low coIn 2014, President Michelle BACHELET introduced tax reforms aimed at delivering her campaign promise to fight inequality and to provide access to education and health care. The reforms are expected to generate additional tax revenues equal to 3% of Chile's.
GDP is a prominent figure, as all the relevant calculations and statistics are based


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Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
By Heather Dyke
Routledge – 2008 – 200 pages
This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in the pursuit of that aim.
Introduction 1. Metaphysics and the Origins of the Representational Fallacy 2. A New Metaphysical Strategy: Lessons Learned from the Philosophy of Time 3. The Representational Fallacy: Or How Not to do Ontology 4. The Relationship Between Language and Reality 5. The Methodological Map 6. The Overlooked Strategy in Practice: Moral Discourse 7. Some Further Applications of the Overlooked Strategy
Heather Dyke is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She is the editor of Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003) and author of several journal articles on metaphysics and the philosophy of time.


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Unsupervised unmixing of hyperspectral imagery using the constrained positive matrix factorization
Masalmah, Yahya M.
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In hyperspectral imaging, hundreds of images are taken at narrow and contiguous spectral bands providing us with high spectral resolution spectral signatures that can be used to discriminate between objects. In many applications, the measured spectral signature is a mixture of the object of interest, and other objects within the field of view of the sensor. To determine which objects are in the field of view of the sensor, we need to decompose the measured spectral signature in its constituents and their contribution to the measured signal. This research dealt with the unsupervised determination of the constituents and their fractional abundance in each pixel in a hyperspectral image using a constrained positive matrix factorization (cPMF). Different algorithms are presented to compute the cPMF. Tests and validation with real and simulated data show the effectiveness of the method. Application of the approach to environmental remote sensing and microscopic imaging is shown.


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Federal and state education bodies have produced sets of standards designed to raise the status and quality of the teaching profession. These standards outline the levels of competence which the beginning or accomplished teacher should be able to meet.
The STELLA project complements the work of these educational bodies by providing a set of interactive materials that offer a detailed picture of accomplished english/Literacy teaching in Australia. They are based on two principles:
- professional standards only have validity when grounded in teachers' own knowledge, experience, skills and values;
- teachers' knowledge, experience, skills and values are, in important respects, discipline-specific. For example, the depth of knowledge and the range of skills an English or Literacy teacher needs in order to teach well are different from the knowledge and skills required to teach Physics or Physical Education.
Explore the richness of the STELLA project.


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Suppose two people are trying to quit smoking. They both want a cigarette, but they wish they didn't want a cigarette. So there is a difference between what they want and what they metawant. Now, suppose one of the two people smokes a cigarette. Does that mean that the person who smoked had less willpower?
If somebody does not do something that they have a first order desire to do and a second order desire to abstain from, this could be viewed as an example of willpower. However, we do not know how strong their first order desire was. In the above example, perhaps the person who smoked had a much stronger first order desire to smoke, but they both had an equal second order desire to not smoke. Did the smoker really have less willpower?
Denote by W (for 'want') the level of first order desire that a person has to take some action. Denote by MW (for 'metawant') the level of second order desire to not take the action. We could roughly think of the decision to take the action or not as determined by whether MW>W.
What we observe is whether the person took the action, i.e., whether MW exceeded W. But we do not observe MW and W.
If the person who successfully quit smoking, or if the skinny person who doesn't overeat, brags about superior willpower, it seems to me that they are inferring (assuming) something about other people's MW and W, even though they only observed whether MW exceeded W.


Full-fat Cow's Milk kefir
Serves 4
INGREDIENTS & equipment
 - 1 qt/1 liter organic full fat cow's milk
 - 1 large Fido jar (1.5 L capacity or larger)
 - 1 tbsp milk kefir grains
 - Filtered water
 - Plastic fine-mesh strainer
 - Silicon/wooden spatula
 - Sauce pan
 - Thermometer
 - Glass jar/pitcher for storing
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 1. Take your milk kefir grains out of the refrigerator, and let the warm up to room temperature.
 2. Heat the milk slowly and gently in a saucepan, and wait until it is about to boil (or until it reaches at least 180ºF/82ºC). Stir frequently to avoid scalding. Once the milk begins to "bubble" lower the heat further, and keep under low heat for 5-10 minutes.
 3. Set aside, and allow the milk cool to 104ºF (40ºC) or lower.
 4. Place your kefir grains in a fine-mesh strainer, and rinse thoroughly under fresh filtered water, while the milk is cooling. Set aside and let them drain.
 5. Pour the milk into a large Fido jar once it has cooled down to the right temperature, and add the rinsed and drained kefir grains. Stir the milk/kefir grains briefly.
 6. Cap the jar loosely and let the milk ferment for at least 24 hours, or up to 5 days (depending on how sour you like it to taste and/or if you want to make sure your kefir is lactose-free). Choose a place where the temperature is relatively warm but not excessively (best between 65ºF-80ºF).
 7. Stir the milk/kefir grains occasionally if you are fermenting for longer than 24 hours, to bring more of the milk in contact with the grains (helpful but not required). Loosen the cap after agitation.
 8. The process is complete when the milk thickens (it should be a pourable liquid rather than an "eat with a spoon" level of thickness). The milk will also have a distinctive sour smell.
 9. When you are ready to harvest, simply place a plastic strainer over a bowl and pour the finished kefir through the stainer. Use a plastic or wooden spatula to gently work the kefir through the strainer.
 10. Transfer the kefir to a glass container and store in the refrigerator immediately. Alternatively, if you want to carbonate your kefir, leave at room temperature for 12-24 hours. The fermentation continues even without the grains as all the organisms in them are now part of the kefir.
 11. The kefir grains that remained in the strainer need to be rinsed off with fresh filtered water and stored in the refrigerator with enough milk to cover them, until ready to start the next batch. Kefir works best as a continuous rhythm. Keep your batches small so you do not get overwhelmed.
 12. If you need to stop production, rinse kefir grains, drain them, pat them dry, seal them in something airtight, and freeze them.
 13. You can enjoy your milk kefir as an amazing probiotic beverage, or you can substitute for milk, yogurt, sour cream or buttermilk in your recipes. Salad dressings, soups, smoothies and baked goods are my favorites.
What are the benefits of this dish?
Kefiran is an exo-polysaccharide produced by Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens, which is one of the dominant bacterial strains found in kefir. It contributes to the taste and texture of kefir, as well as the structure of the kefir grains themselves.
Milk kefir is a good source of probiotics, vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids that support healing and repair of the gut mucosa. Milk kefir is particularly rich in vitamins A, B1, D, K2, folate, B12, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus.
Some of the health benefits attributed to kefir include, protection from gastrointestinal diseases, providing nutrients necessary for optimal bone health and regulating immune function.
Although not as widely popular as other fermented dairy products, such as yogurt and cheese, kefir has been consumed and associated with health benefits for 100s of years; originally by communities in the Caucasian mountains.
Kefir is traditionally made with cow's milk but it can be made with milk from other sources such as goat, sheep, buffalo, or coconut milk.
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Do dogs bite more during a full moon?
The power of the moon is often used to explain a wide range of events - from human insanity to traffic accidents - but do animals feel more inclined to bite humans during the full moon than at other times? Two new studies have come up with different answers.
This week's British Medical Journal (BMJ) carries two studies - one from the UK which finds that you are more likely to be bitten by a dog when the moon is full, and a study from Australia which finds that you're not.
Chapman et al. (Pic: BMJ)A study by Professor Simon Chapan and Stehen Morrell of The University of Sydney showed no positive relation between the full moon and dog bites requiring hospital treatment. They compared dates of admission for dog bites to public hospitals throughout Australia with dates of the full moon, over a 12-month period.
Overall, full moon days were associated with slightly lower admissions (4.6 compared with 4.8 per day). Of 18 peak days (more than 10 admissions per day) the maximum peak centred on the New Year break. Full moons coincided with none of these peaks.
A study by a team in Bradford, UK on the other hand, has found that animals do have an increased propensity to bite humans during the full moon periods. During 1997 to 1999, they identified 1,621 patients attending the accident and emergency department at Bradford Royal Infirmary after being bitten by an animal.
The chance of being bitten was twice as high on or around full moon days, indicating that an association exists between the lunar cycles and changes in animal behaviour. However, the authors suggest that further experiments are needed to verify these results.
So why the difference between the UK and Australia? Are dogs in the UK more aggressive?
"The only explanation I have is that maybe because of a general drabness in England more people take pleasant walks under the full moon and are therefore more available to be bitten by dogs," speculates Professor Chapman who submitted his article to the BMJ without any idea that the other paper was being submitted.
He decided to do the study after a comment from a farmer on a randomised controlled trial he had done on the use of school programs to prevent dogs biting children.
"Don't you scientists know anything?," the farmer said to him. "You should be looking at why they bite - it's because of the full moon!"


What is College in the High School?
College in the High School is just that, college level classes taught at WHS by staff members that qualify for WVC adjunct professor status.
What Curriculum is used?
College level curriculum at the same level as classes taught at WVC is used.
What are the requirements?
Passing the ASSET test given by the college. Call _PHONE_ to set up a test date. The test is given every Friday at 8:30 a.m. at Wells Hall (enter 5th Street).
Cost is $15.00 which may be paid at cashier's office which opens at 8:00 a.m. (also located in Wells Hall)
What are the costs?
WVC $35.00 per credit hour. A 5 credit class would be $175.00. U of W (German only) 5 credit class would be $199.00.
What are the benefits to a high school student?
The opportunity to take college level classes at the WHS site and on our daily schedule.
What classes?
 - American Literature
 - Math Anal/Pre-Calculus
 - German 3/4
 - Spanish 3/4
 - French IV/UW 103


text: Long-tail latency is inevitable and may be amplified for highly modular datacenter applications such as Bing, Facebook, and Amazon's retail platform, due to resource sharing, queuing, background maintenance activities, etc. Thus how to tolerate the latency variability in shared environments is crucial in datacenters. This paper proposes a distributed deadline propagation (D\+2P) approach for datacenter applications to reduce long-tail latency. The key idea of D\+2P is inspired by the traffic light system in Manhattan, New York City, where one can enjoy a chain of green lights after one stop at a red light, and it allows local nodes to perceive global deadline information and to propagate the information among distributed nodes. Local nodes can leverage the information to do scheduling and adjust processing speed to reduce long-tail latency. Then, we propose stage-service model and parallel-unit model to describe sequential/dependent pattern and partition/aggregate pattern, and implement a distributed deadline propagation framework. At last, based on distributed deadline propagation framework, we use D\+2P-enabled deadline-aware scheduling algorithm to reduce long-tail latency in our experiments, and the preliminary experimental results show that D\+2P has the potential of reducing the long-tail latency in datacenters by local nodes leveraging the propagated deadline information.


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OS: +4.00 - 0.50 x 180 ADD +2.00
Once again, let's transfer the numbers to a power cross to aid with visualization:
The right eye is a little more complex due to the oblique axis. The table below illustrates how to compute power in the horizontal and vertical meridian when dealing with oblique axes.
This can often be a source of confusion, so here's a simplified way to view it. It can be seen that axis 45 is halfway between the horizontal and vertical meridian. If 100 percent of the cylinder power is present 90 degrees from the cylinder axis, it stands to reason that 50 percent of the cylinder power is present 45 degrees from the cylinder axis. Thus, in this case, in both the horizontal and vertical meridian, 50 percent of the cylinder power is present. Therefore, the power in the vertical meridian for the right eye is: +2.50 plus (50 percent of -1.00) = +2.00. And the power in the vertical meridian for the left eye is: +4.00 plus (100% of -0.50) = +3.50.
Now, consider a reading position 10 mm below the OC. Induced prismatic effect can again be calculated using the Prentice rule:
- Prism = Distance from OC (cm) x Lens Power
OD: = 1 x +2.00 = 2D and the direction is BU (Because the lens is "+")
OS: = 1 x +3.50 = 3.5D and the direction is BU (Because the lens is "+")
Both lenses are base up which results in 1.5D of vertical imbalance (the difference between the two). The lenses are both plus, and slab-off is always applied to the most minus or least plus lens. Therefore, this can easily be neutralized by using 1.5D slab-off on the right lens. 1.5D reverse slab could just have easily been used on the left lens.
What if the cylinder axis differs from those included in the table? The cylinder axis almost always falls somewhere between the listed values. In such cases approximations are accurate enough for evaluation purposes. Let's explore how to approximate.
Approximation Example: Presented with the following prescription, the objective is to determine the effective power in the 90-degree meridian.
- Rx: -1.50 -1.00 x 050
- Axis is 40 degrees from the vertical, or 90-degree meridian.
Based on the above table, approximately 45 percent of the cylinder power is effective in the 90-degree meridian = -0.45D which can be rounded to -0.50D.
Therefore, the approximate effective power in the 90-degree/vertical meridian = -2.00D.
Using this approximation technique provides a relatively efficient way to determine if vertical prism might present itself as a problem. With some practice, this will become second nature and a very useful tool for the optician.
VERIFICATION OF SLAB-OFF
There are two basic ways to verify slab-off:
- Comparing the vertical prismatic effects of the two lenses through a lensometer and checking for actual image displacement at the reading level. The amount of the slab-off is the difference between the calculated amount of vertical imbalance and the amount found using lensometry. ("Clinical Optics," Fannin and Grosvenor)
- Calculated vertical amount from the Rx = 3D
- Image displacement at near point observed using lensometry = 1D
- Slab-off prism applied = 3 - 1 = 2D
- Using a lens clock is a much easier method. First, position the lens clock horizontally across the lens center in the distance portion paralleling the slab line and record this base curve. Second, rotate the lens clock through 90 degrees with the pins perpendicular to the slab line with the central pin directly on the line and record this base curve. The difference between these two base curves indicates the amount of slab-off prism applied.
The goal of this discussion is to help dispel the belief that dealing with such topics is overwhelming and intimidating. Using tools such as the power cross and being able to visualize lens meridian powers can significantly simplify matters. Having knowledge of the techniques and options covered in this program empowers the optician to confidently handle complex prescriptions such as those presented here and provide the patient with superior eyecare. Our role as eyecare professionals involves using our skills and knowledge to predict the outcome of the written prescription so there are no surprises. It is our responsibility to complete the eyecare chain by "filling" the written prescription, watching for any foreseeable complications and intercepting them with preventative measures. Only by doing so, we can provide our patients with the best and most comfortable vision possible.


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Common Economic Welfare: An Alternative Economic Model?
The common economic welfare (CEW) is intended as an alternative economic model for the current liberal market. Der Service Gärtner, a sister company of Energiepflanzen.com would like to give you an insight into the topic:
What is the background? How did Der Service Gärtner arrive at the idea? Our experiences, and what it has brought it to us so far.
Background, or The First Insight into the Common Economic Welfare
It represents an alternative economic model and is based on the values promoting common welfare. It supports changes that go towards sustainability, fairness, and democracy. Its goal is to provide a good life for all living creatures and for the Earth
The common economic welfare (CEW) does not only apply to enterprises or schools. Communities, clubs, and individuals can also contribute very much to the public welfare. For example, there is a common welfare self-test for each one of us. Basically, you assess what contribution you can make to the common welfare.
You make impacts or work economically, politically, and socially:
Economy: The model applies to everyone, no matter whether you are a company, a municipality, or a school. Size or legal form do not matter, either.
In politics, legal changes are discussed for such an economic system. Politics should eventually help establish the standards of human dignity, fairness, solidarity, justice, involvement, and sustainability.
In social sphere, the contribution should be made to creating awareness. The movement is looking for networking with similar initiatives. Appreciation and encouragement are also important points.
How can the values of the common economic welfare be experienced in our everyday life?
Here, common welfare matrix can help. It contains criteria to analyze objects using a scoring system.
As a company, you generate a common welfare balance or a first report. You perform the assessment yourself, and then the balance or report are checked externally. Then you may/should publish them to meet the transparency requirements. For individuals, the self-test is a bit easier: This is an Excel sheet with answers to the questions regarding their personal attitude to the common welfare. Here, you also deal with the same scoring system. In the end, you can see your "We Awareness" based on that score, which stimulates thinking with some certainty!
The long-term goal is to get legal benefits granted for the common welfare company, such as better credit conditions, lower tax burdens, preferential public contracts, and facilitated (international) trading. Moreover, in an ideal case, the profits made should not be distributed to external persons; they should remain in the company and strengthen the same. The drive for economy growth should disappear, creativity and cooperation are forced by enterprises more actively, the life will become more satisfied, and trading fairer. The practice will show whether it is really the case.
This form of economic order ensures democratic decision making, and everyone is encouraged to contribute their ideas to.Over time, the common welfare economy must be captured in the Constitution.
Why an alternative economy?
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), environment protection, employee recognition, respect for everyone – employees, customers, colleagues, or suppliers. All this has been an integral part of the Service Gärtners since it was founded. As climate-alliance company, we set the initial course followed by the first natural-gas car, and a larger conversion of vehicle fleet in 2013. Moreover, the paper used in the office is environmentally friendly, and the company knows its CO2 emissions. The public welfare economy was just the next logical step to make business more transparent.
What were the experiences of the Service Gärtner?
Since you must deal with your company intensively, it is a priori clear that generating the balance sheet or report would be time-consuming. Regional group meetings and a manual with many tips, explanations of the questions, and positive examples serve as an aid, which has already excellently worked in practice.
Scores should be given for individual criteria, which is not so easy, because how can you estimate your own company?
The whole thing is the process of learning by doing!
So euphoric as landscape gardeners may be now, we, at Service Gärtner, wanted to start with the balance sheet immediately. We downloaded all materials, and the work began. We participated in the Energy Group meeting, which was a great support. However, the meetings were very time consuming, and that did not always fit in the gardeners' everyday work. So we developed much by ourselves and got good results. However, much turned out to be too immature; there were no answers at all to some questions or proofs for some matters – the phase of disenchantment set in, and we had not worked on that for almost one year. In a year, the first report (the simple version) was generated, checked externally, and published on our website. Now you can get a good overview of what the Service Gärtner does and how it can improve. Meanwhile, the manual was read, and balance sheet 2014 was prepared using it – next spring, our sister company can publish its first "large" balance sheet!
The authors of the common welfare balance sheet came up with those ideas, too:
CEW does not fit for all companies, perhaps. Among negative criteria, there are some points that are greatly demanded of by one or more enterprises. Nuclear power can be mentioned as an example: It falls under inhumane products and is evaluated negatively. There are 200 minus points here. Therefore, the company must largely invest into safety or equality, or any other positive criteria to get a good value.
There are also critical opinionsregarding CEW, of course: The Julius Raab Foundation, for example, has spoken out on the topic.
for many times: Once in "Anschlag auf unseren Wohlstand?" and furthermore, also a critical examination by Dr. René Schmidpeter. They show the negative sides of the economic model or the idea that some approaches should be reconsidered – expropriation and individuals' freedom restriction should also be mentioned. Developing this further, you come to dictatorship – if it is not to come = the way to this form of economy will apply worldwide, so it is still far away.
What will generating the common economic balance sheet bring?
First of all, showing what the company does. Internally, we talk pretty much about it, but actually the most remains in operation. However, it would be much more interesting to share visions with others, exchange ideas, and make our own activities transparent.
Of course, such balance sheet also detects where improvements can take place. The matrix standards are relatively high, but you get to your destination step by step. Currently, it is not the intention to be already perfect in everything – yearly improvements make more sense.


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October 7, 2019
cover_issue_179_en_USFalvey Memorial Library recently began publishing online a new Open Access journal that highlights the intellectual contributions of student researchers, Veritas: Villanova Research Journal (VVRJ). It is the first peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal at Villanova University. It promotes investigation and discovery, the referee process, and the work of Villanova students and their faculty mentors by publishing scholarly work across all fields of study. VVRJ publishes student research that meets its standards, is authored by Villanova undergraduates or recent graduates, and promotes the pursuit of truth.
Something else that's very important about VVRJ, pronounced like verge, is that it is a collaborative effort between Villanova's Center for Research and Fellowships, the Office of the Provost and the Library. Someone from each one of these entities gave brief remarks at the launch event in the Library. Below are the slightly revised substantive thoughts I shared as the library's representative at the public launch of the journal Sept. 25, 2019.
Why the Library?
Social and cultural programming have been a large part of life in Falvey for many years, so I am not talking about this launch event.
Why is the library the appropriate platform for announcing and promoting the new student-focused Villanova research journal, Veritas?
Well, members of a scholarly community know the value of an academic library in the enterprise of knowledge creation. Learning, as we know, is not limited to the classroom. And we like to think the library is a place where scholars from any discipline feels at home exploring, discovering, collaborating and growing.
The library, however, is not just a space. Although to be sure it is a place to study, discuss ideas and even debate issues. It is perhaps more importantly people. The resources of the library are more than raw materials of latent data ready-to-hand but include the subject specialists and library support staff who assist, coach and encourage scholars and researchers. And scholars and researchers, regardless if they are faculty or students, are indigenous to the world of the academic library, and are not just visitors.
So, why the library? Because it is a clearing in the forest where language builds dwellings for thinkers. In less philosophical terms, it is a locale where every stage of the scholarly communication lifecycle can and should be supported. Especially for those who are learning to communicate as scholars.
What are the stages of scholarly communication? Data collection and analysis is the first stage. Librarians, if they are doing their jobs well, have always aided this initial step of research. Authoring, Peer Review and Publication are the middle stages of scholarly communication in which libraries have increasingly become partners with researchers. Discovery and Dissemination is the stage that closes the cycle of scholarly communication, and there too libraries have traditionally had a role.
Why the library? Because a 21st century academic library at a research institution deploys its spaces, physical and virtual, and resources including people in support of the individuals, such as the students whose work is featured in and represented by the publication of Veritas, who are learning the art of scholarly communication.
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Rashi's point that the Torah's purpose isn't to relate history is predicated on the problem that the Torah is relating historical information. If you "take to heart" that the Torah isn't historical then you have missed his point. – Yirmeyahu Aug 30 '13 at 15:21
_USER_ I am not stating that there is not historically accurate information found in the torah, rather the the purpose of the document is other than to convey 100% historically accurate information at all times. – please remove my account Aug 30 '13 at 15:30
Thank you for addressing the question of education. But it's not just about children, it's basically universally expressed as being history, not fable, to anyone other than those who make the effort to investigate the issue. Secondly, can you quote where the gemara says that Parshas Noach isn't history? Everything I've seen in the gemara tries to explain the details as very real. – A L Aug 30 '13 at 18:51
_USER_ the question is does it really matter? Iyov is part of tanach even though there is an opinion that the actual historical events never took place. – please remove my account Sep 3 '13 at 13:21
this seems to be the opinion of Rav Kook as well. I will edit my answer to reflect this. _URL_ – please remove my account Sep 16 '13 at 16:19
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One way to reconciling Biblical history with archaeological and historical evidence which seems to disprove it is to simply throw the Bible out as a text created by man, not by God. Though this is not a useful answer for everyone, Judaism has an important religious principle, developed by many important philosophers and scholars, such as Ibn Ezra, Maimonides, and Spinoza, that the Torah speaks in the language of man (dibra tora ki'lshon bnei adam).
There is a long tradition of the concept of accommodation, that is to say that the Torah was written in such a way as that those who received it would understand it. Maimonides writes about the reasoning for sacrifices in this manner, that they existed because that is what the ancient Israelites expected to have from a religion. Spinoza has a different take on this, that the Torah is written in the language of "children" (in this he looks down upon the Biblical text and wants to say that for people living in the modern age it is no longer necessary or applicable). [NB: For a much more in-depth discussion of the notion of accommodation and how it came to be used in both Judaism and Christianity, see Amos Funkenstein, Theology and the Scientific Imagination.]
However one wants to take the notion of accommodation, it is very applicable to the Bible and can be useful to understand how it came into being and to reconcile the Biblical histories with the evidence. For example, one can talk about the flood story as a story that transcends cultures. It most likely did not happen in the exact manner that the Bible tells us, but in the ancient near east, flooding rivers were a yearly occurrence. In fact, a year without a flood was a worse disaster than if there was a massive one. My point is, the story of the flood can be seen as coming out of the ancient Israelites' cultural context in the ancient near east and Abraham's origins in Mesopotamia, which the Bible attests.
As for other historical elements such as the Exodus (for which there is no archaeological evidence) or the counting of years anno mundi (from the origin of the world) it is much more difficult. Ultimately one needs to decide if it is necessary to completely correlate Biblical history with secular history. If the whole thing is an allegory or metaphor, it may still have valuable moral or cultural importance.
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This explanation is that of Reform Judaism and not exactly what I was hoping for. To say the Torah relates lies just so people "get it" is a stretch. Do you suppose that when the Torah says that God rejected Cain's sacrifice but accepted Hevel's sacrifice that this story was written just so the Jews would be happy? But sacrifices are to return in the Third Temple even though the notion of animal sacrifice is looked upon as barbaric. And many commandments clearly contradict what was normal for people of the time. Even the Pesach lamb sacrifice went against the Egyptian culture they came from. – A L May 4 '13 at 0:40
_USER_ It's not such a stretch. Did you want it to say "In the beginning, 13.7 billion years ago, the scalar inflation field expanded by 47 orders of magnitude, then began cooling adiabatically into a quark-gluon plasma"? How would the desert Jews have interpreted that? – Double AA May 5 '13 at 1:16
_USER_ That sentence is unnecessarily complicated. You can also say "In the beginning many many years ago there was a big fire which sent ashes everywhere and those ashes rained down and became the world." The desert Jews could understand that, and it's not inaccurate (it's just not complete). But Hashem did not say that. – Ariel May 5 '13 at 2:19
_USER_ Once we're not aiming at precision, I'll leave it up to the Big Guy to decide what's the best simplification for us. Remember that knowing exactly how matter made shift X or developed attribute Y historically is not really useful for humans today except perhaps in its allegorical meaning. (And yes, that last sentence is true even if you take the beginning of Genesis very literally.) – Double AA May 5 '13 at 2:22
_USER_ What I said was a stretch is that God might command us to sacrifice animals just because we were used to doing that, or, for example, there was no global flood and that the Torah would say things that contradict reality just to make it more understandable. Meaning, if you were to suggest that Noah's flood never was global but rather a regional flood and the Torah only was worded thus to make it understandable, it is a stretch to think that nobody would understand it if the Torah would say "There was a local flood that desolated the surrounding region due to the sins of the people." – A L May 5 '13 at 3:43
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Assessing the ecological importance of clouds has substantial implications for our basic understanding of ecosystems and for predicting how they will respond to a changing climate. This study was conducted in a coastal Bishop pine forest ecosystem that experiences regular cycles of stratus cloud cover and inundation in summer. The study concludes that clouds are important to the ecological functioning of these coastal forests, providing summer shading and cooling that relieve pine and microbial drought stress as well as regular moisture inputs that elevate plant and microbial metabolism.
Mariah S. Carbone, A. Park Williams, Anthony R. Ambrose, Claudia M. Boot, Eliza S. Bradley, Todd E. Dawson, Sean M. Schaeffer, Joshua P. Schimel, Christopher J. Still
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evaluation on a roller bearing. From this viewpoint, the present inventors conducted a service life test on a roller bearing under the conditions mentioned below. In measuring the surface properties indicated by those parameters with respect to the components of a roller bearing such as rolling members and a bearing race, measurement values obtained through measurement at a single point may be regarded as reliable as a representative value; however, it is advisable to perform measurement, for example, at two points diameterically opposing to each other. The measurement method and conditions for the parameters Ryni, Rymax, Sk, and Rqni measured in this embodiment are as follows:
Parameter calculation standard: JIS B 0601:1994 (Surfcom JIS 1994)
Cutoff type: Gaussian
Measurement length: 5λ
Cutoff wavelength: 0.25 mm
Measurement magnification: ×10,000
Measurement speed: 0.30 mm/s
Measurement point: Roller Center
Measurement number: 2
Measurement apparatus: Surface Roughness Measurement Apparatus, Surfcom 1400 A (manufactured by Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd)
Inperforming quantitative measurement on the recesses, there is obtained an enlarged image of the roller surface, from which quantification is possible by an image analysis system on the market. Further, by using the surface property inspection method and the surface property inspection apparatus as disclosed in JP 2001-183124 A, it is possible to perform measurement accurately in a stable manner. According to this method, light is applied to an inspection surface with curvature, and the inspection surface is photographed by a camera; the luminance of an image of the inspection surface photographed by the camera is measured, so the surface properties of the inspection surface are inspected based on a light-dark pattern formed by the contrast between light portions and dark portions whose luminance has been measured; the light is applied while matched with the optical axis direction of the camera, and positioning is effected on the inspection surface such that the position where the luminance distribution of the image measured indicates a peak value is matched with the optical axis of the camera, whereby shading (luminance distribution) due to the curvature of the inspection surface is suppressed. Further, light is applied while matched with the optical axis of the camera, and, regarding the luminance distribution of the image measured, the portion of the inspection surface corresponding to the position where the luminance distribution indicates the peak value is regarded as an origin; in an orthogonal two-dimensional coordinate system, one axis of which is the symmetry axis of curvature, the one-dimensional luminance distributions as indicated by the orthogonal coordinate axes are respectively approximated by approximation functions; by means of those approximation functions, the measured image luminance corresponding to the coordinate positions is corrected so as to remove the image luminance distribution, using the peak value of the luminance distribution as a reference value; the surface properties of the inspection surface are inspected by the light-dark pattern of the luminance thus corrected, whereby it is possible to inspect the surface properties by a light-dark pattern without shading. When measuring the area ratio and the average area of the recesses with respect to the components of a roller bearing such as rolling members and bearing race, while a measurement value obtained by measurement at a single point is reliable as the representative value as in the case of the above-mentioned parameters, it is desirable to perform measurement at two points diametrically opposing to each other. The measurement conditions are, for example, as follows:
Area ratio: the proportion in the observation visual field range occupied by pixels (black) smaller than binary threshold values (light portion luminance+dark portion luminance)/2)
Average area: sum total of the black area/total number
Observation visual field: 826 μm×620 μm
Measurement point: roller center
Measurement number: 2
FIG. 5 shows an example of a test specimen roller bearing; this roller bearing, indicated at 10, is a needle-like roller bearing in which a needle-like roller 12 is incorporated into an outer race 13 as a rolling member, with a mating shaft 14 being supported by the needle-like roller 12. There were produced a plurality of kinds of needle-like roller bearings with surface-treatments of different finish surfaces performed on the needle-like roller surfaces, and service life test was performed thereon to obtain the following results. As shown in FIG. 6, the needle-like roller bearing used in the service life test was a bearing equipped with a retainer 15 using fifteen needle-like rollers having an outer diameter Dr of 33 mm, an inner diameter dr of 25 mm, a diameter D of the needle-like roller 12 of 4 mm, and a length L of 25.8 mm. Five kinds of test bearings differing in needle-like roller surface roughness finish were further produced. That is, there were produced a bearing A (comparative example) on which super finishing was effected after grinding, a bearing B (comparative example) on which a multitude of minute concave recesses were formed at random, a bearing C (example), a bearing D (example), and a bearing E (example).
The test apparatus used was a radial load testing machine 16 as shown schematically in FIG. 7, in which the test bearings 10 were mounted on both sides of a rotary shaft 17 to perform test by imparting rotation and load thereto. The finish of the inner race (mating shaft) used in the test was a polishing finish of Ra 0.10 to 0.16 μm. This was the same with the outer race (outer ring). The test conditions were as follows:
Bearing radial load: 2,000 kgf
RPM: 4,000 rpm
Lubricant: Crisec oil H8 (2 cst under test condition)
FIG. 8 shows the finish surface characteristic value parameters of the test bearings, and the service life test results under an oil film parameter λ=0.13. As shown in the drawing, the service life ratios of the test bearings with respect to the bearing A without recesses were 1.6 in the bearing B, 2.0 in the bearing C, 3.8 in the bearing D, and 4.0 in the bearing E. As is apparent from the data, the bearings C, D, and E, whose needle-like roller surfaces underwent surface treatment so as to satisfy the surface configuration of the present invention can provide a long service life equal to or more than twice that of the bearing A without recesses even under a very strict low-viscosity/thin-lubrication condition in which the oil film parameter λ=0.13. Thus, the gear of the present invention whose tooth surface is set to the above value range can provide a superior effect in terms of service life.
Embodiment 2
Next, gear pitting test was performed by using a spur gear fatigue testing machine shown in FIG. 9 for pitting strength evaluation. In FIG. 9, a drive side gear 31 (with 29 teeth) and a driven side gear 32 (with 30 teeth) are respectively mounted to one side of rotation shafts 33 and 34, and the drive side shaft 33 is driven by a motor (not shown). Further, torque is imparted by a load lever 35 mounted to the drive side shaft 33 and a weight 36. Regarding the drive side gear 31, two kinds of gears were prepared: one which had undergone surface treatment according to the present invention, and one which had undergone no surface treatment. The details of the testing conditions, etc. are as follows:
Testing machine: spur gear fatigue testing machine Drive side gear: outer diameter: Ø79 mm; inner diameter: Ø35 mm; tooth width: 8.2 mm; SCr 420 (carburizing treatment); number of teeth: 29
Driven side gear: outer diameter: Ø79 mm; inner diameter: Ø35 mm; toothwidth: 15 mm; SCr 420 (carburizing treatment); number of teeth: 30
RPM: 3,500 rpm
Torque: 19 kgf·m
Lubricant oil temperature: 80° C.
Lubricant oil: ATF oil
FIGS. 10(a) through 10(c) show data on the gear pitting test. FIG. 10(a) shows the results (comparative example) when neither the drive side gear nor the driven side gear had undergone surface treatment, FIG. 10(b) shows the results (example) when surface treatment was performed on the tooth surface of the drive side gear so as to satisfy the surface properties of the present invention, and FIG. 10(c) shows the results (example) when surface treatment was performed on the tooth surfaces of the drive side gear and the driven side gear so as to satisfy the surface properties of the present invention. Those descriptions prove that, in the case of FIG. 10(b), the pitting life is more than twice that of FIG. 10(a), and, in the case of FIG. 10(c), the pitting life is more than three times that of the FIG. 10(a).
Embodiment 3
Next, Examples 1 through 5 and Comparative Examples 1 through 3 were prepared, and test was performed on them for the relationship between nitrogen content and test specimen life with foreign matter mixed therein; FIG. 11 shows the test results. In this test, the needle-like roller bearings as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 were used as the examples and the comparative examples, with a multitude of minute concave recesses as shown in FIG. 8 being formed at random. The crystal grain size measurement was performed based on the steel austenite crystal grain size testing method of JIS G 0551. The