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Melbourne: Bringing to live 50 eminent Australian personalities through his single canvas of 50-metre length and 1.5-metre wide canvas, artist Pradeep Prabhakar (Sedunath Prabhakar) showcased this unique piece of artwork at the the Glen Eira town hall, Caulfield on Saturday, September 26.
Prabhakar, hails from Kerala, the state known as 'the emerald coast' of India, where the seeds of his artistic sensibility were sowed. He has been painting since he could distinguish the different colours. As a river finds its flow, the visual feast unfolded in front of him drew him to the world of colours very early in his childhood.
A largely self-taught painter, Prabhakar studied drawing and painting around 20 years ago. He began his career as an artist painting landscapes mainly using the medium of water colour. Later he turned mainly to the medium of oil colour. The education and training in the prestigious Baroda School of Arts broadened his vision and horizon into more complex aspects of human life and society. The relationship between the nature and human beings began to be an important and recurring theme in his works. Through his paintings he also attempts to explore the nuances involving religion and its interplay with society. Like all true artists he used to draw inspiration from tradition especially its parallel streams. As he found that it would be difficult to stick on to be a fulltime artist in Kerala, he moved to Melbourne.
In Australia, he has participated in four group exhibitions – conducted by Dandenong Art community, Noble park art council, Collingwood art gallery and Chelsea art gallery.
Moving forward, he wants to explore the possibilities of a fusion of this country's rich artistic tradition with my own view to integrate with traditional Australian colours, paintings and art forms.

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I'm gonna throw my 2 cents in aswell :)
If you're allowed to used objects I'd do it like this.
Sets automatically holds non-duplicates so if it contains it it's no chance of the value going in a again.
int[] arrayOfInt = { 1, 2, 3, 5, 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10 };
Set<Integer> notDupes = new HashSet<Integer>();
Set<Integer> duplicates = new HashSet<Integer>();
for (int i = 0; i < arrayOfInt.length; i++) {
 if (!notDupes.contains(arrayOfInt[i])) {
 notDupes .add(arrayOfInt[i]);
 continue;
 }
 duplicates.add(arrayOfInt[i]);
}
System.out.println("num of dups:" + duplicates.size());
System.out.println("num of norls:" + notDupes.size());
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+1, but you don not know how duplicate you have for a number, so use Map<Integer,Integer> duplicates; = .. and int nbDuplicat = (int) duplicates.get(xNumber) and duplicates.put( nbDuplicat == 0 ? 1 : nbDuplicat++) - You can also if (!notDupes .add(arrayOfInt[i]);) { continue; } duplicates.add(arrayOfInt[i]); becaus it it cannot add it, it return false – cl-r Nov 23 '12 at 16:20

That was not apart of the question, though. – limelights Nov 23 '12 at 16:50

you are right! but my experience in true life have guessed than it will be asked soon, – cl-r Nov 24 '12 at 16:43
I would use Set for this logic:
 1. Create an empty Set MySet, and another empty Set ResultSet.
 2. Read each number and perform this on it:
 1. Check if it is in MySet.
 2. If it's in MySet, then put it in ResultSet.
 3. If it's not in MySet, then put it in Myset.
 3. ResultSet contains the required numbers.
The benefit of this approach is that the complexity would reduce from O(n2) to O(nlog(n)).
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I'd rather just use one set or array as I like to make programs that use as little memory as possible, but I will try this for fun! – Hatori Sanso Nov 24 '12 at 0:41

The space complexity is still N :D – Jagdeep Sidhu Nov 24 '12 at 1:17
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@HatoriSanso "I'd rather just use one set or array as I like to make programs that use as little memory as possible" Please be careful about Premature Optimiation! It is good that you are trying to be efficient but realize that 'efficient' in computer terms could mean many things (memory is just the tip of the iceberg). When in doubt: 1. Make it work 2. Make it right 3. Make it fast (aka optimize) -Kent Beck – Tony R Nov 25 '12 at 4:39

and just to add my 2 cents, if you want to optimise, always calculate the space and time complexity, not just how many copies it uses. In my solution, two copies will be used for n elements( 2n ), and in your solution 1 copy will used (1n) , but the space complexity is same N , so it wont matter much. It is only a issue when you increase the complexity to NlogN or N^2. Also your solution has time complexity of N^2, and the one I wrote has worst case NlogN , so it is more efficient. Two copies of data dont affect space complexity/efficiency. – Jagdeep Sidhu Nov 25 '12 at 5:12
This is almost the easiest way! hashSet returns false whenever a duplicate number is added to it.
private static void findDuplicateNumber() {
 Set<Integer> hashSet = new HashSet<Integer>();
 for(int i=0; i < arr.length; i++){
 boolean unique = hashSet.add(arr[i]);
 if(unique == false)
 System.out.println("duplication " + arr[i]);
 }
}
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You should use if (!unique) {... } instead of if(unique == false). Good spotting. – rolfl Mar 24 at 14:36

int[] arr should be a parameter to this function. (Surely it's not a static member of the class, right?) – 200_success Mar 24 at 16:02

It would be better to use new-style for loops: for (int a : arr) { ... }. – 200_success Mar 24 at 16:03
you may use google collection framework Guava's Multiset<Integer> to find repetating number.
Elements of a multiset that are equal to one another (see "Note on element equivalence", below) are referred to as occurrences of the same single element. The total number of occurrences of an element in a multiset is called the count of that element (the terms "frequency" and "multiplicity" are equivalent, but not used in this API). Since the count of an element is represented as an int, a multiset may never contain more than Integer.MAX_VALUE occurrences of any one element.
Multiset<Integer> set = HashMultiset.create();
void sjekk(){
 System.out.println("Write five numbers");
 for(int i = 0; i < numbers.length; i++){
 set.add(inn.nextInt());
 }
...
for(Multiset.Entry<Integer> entry : set.entrySet()){
 System.out.println("Element :-> "+entry.getElement()+" Repeat Cnt :-> "+entry.getCount());
}
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Laconian Kylix (Vase/Cup) - 560 BC
Hand-made ceramic copy of a Greek Corinthian Kylix from the Black Figure period of ancient Greek ceramic art, depicting a mythological scene. The original was made around 560 B.C. and features an unusual contemporary scene— King Arkesilas of Cyrene overseeing a group of workmen. The weighing motif suggests an Egyptian model, but the lively details and crisp decorative friezes make it a fine example of Laconian pottery.Approx. 20 cm in diameter (7.9").
*This is a hand-painted reproduction, individually signed by the artist.
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GREEK BLACK FIGURE POTTERY
The black-figure pottery ( 'μελανόμορφα, melanomorpha ) technique is a style of ancient Greek pottery painting in which the decoration appears as black silhouettes on a red background. The pale, iron-rich clay turned a reddish-orange color when fired, and then the design was sketched in outline and filled in using refined clay as paint. Details would be added with an engraving tool, scratching through the paint layer to the clay below. Originating in Corinth during the early 7th century BC, it was introduced into Attica about a generation later. Other notable black-figure potteries existed at Sparta, Athens, and in eastern Greece. The technique flourished until being practically replaced by the more advanced red-figure pottery technique in 530 BC, although later examples do exist.

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A number of industries are predicated on the idea of a gatekeeper:
- Education is predicated on the idea of the teacher as the gatekeeper of knowledge.
- News media is predicated on the idea of the news outlet as the gatekeeper of news.
- Information technology is predicated on the idea of the IT department as the gatekeeper of technology.
- Human resources is predicated on the idea of the HR professional as the gatekeeper of talent and open jobs.
There are many more examples of gatekeepers in many different industries. You can likely think of a few of your own.
Yet look carefully at your lists of gatekeepers. How have those gatekeepers been foiled?
- Google is the gatekeeper of knowledge. No teacher can make a respectable claim that they can provide more raw knowledge.
- Social media and new media are the gatekeepers of news, to the point where some news outlets simply read Tweets on the air.
- BYOD and the democratization of tech and mobile have allowed people to sidestep IT and corporate security at every turn.
- Personal and social networks allow people to network directly with hiring managers for the best jobs.
So what's a gatekeeper to do? How do these professionals, these people, pivot in their roles to still be relevant in a space which has become highly democratized?
The answer is curation. For each democratization has brought its own troubles:
- What knowledge is valid? The idiocracy of false science and science denial are examples of democratization gone awry.
- How truthful is news? In an environment where anyone can report anything, lots of things are misreported or outright lied about.
- BYOD also means bring your own viruses, your own security problems, your own lost device problems.
- In increasingly fast pace environments, hiring managers don't have time to read hundreds of resumes and return emails.
The curator role solves all of these dilemmas. Imagine how these professions change their roles and responsibilities when they become curators:
- The teacher helps the student to think critically, evaluate sources, do primary research, and determine what is valid knowledge.
- News media no longer sources the news, they validate it. They do their research to ascertain what is true news.
- The IT department no longer dictates, but guides and enables by helping users understand their devices better.
- Human resources aides and assists by stemming the flow of raw talent or jobs, freeing managers' time once more.
While an interesting exercise, what does this have to do with marketing?
In case it escaped notice, marketing is democratized. Social media lets any employee or customer speak as authoritatively as we, the marketer can, and in many cases more credibly. Anyone can set up a landing page or web page in a CRM or marketing automation software. Anyone can boost a social post or run an AdWords campaign. It's incredibly easy for someone to set up rogue marketing initiatives.
Thus, marketing and marketers cannot be, and are not, the dictators and gatekeepers of marketing any longer. We must become the curators, the influence managers, the conductors of a marketing orchestra in which we welcome everyone to play, but we cannot compel them to do so.
Are you ready to shed the mantle of marketing gatekeeper and become your brand's marketing curator?
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In this study, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of the Thai Red Junglefowl (RJF; Gallus gallus) using the next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform of the Ion Torrent PGM. Samples were taken from Mae Wang District, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. Our data showed the complete mitogenome to be 16 785 bp in length, composed by 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes, and one control region. The genome nucleotide composition was 30.3% A, 23.7% T, 32.5% C, and 13.5% G, resulting in a high percentage of A+T (50.4%). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the mitogenome belonged to haplogroup X, whereas those of all domestic chickens belong to haplogroups A to G. This newly released mitogenome sequence will advance further evolutionary and population genetics study of the RJF and domestic chicken. The availability of the G. gallus mitogenome will also contribute to further conservation genetics research of a unique species, listed as 'data deficient' in Thailand.
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Yoga and nutritious food is a good way to lead a healthy life. If you take out a few minutes in your daily routine for yoga, then there is nothing better than this. A few minutes of yoga practice every day not only keeps the body fit, but can also help in keeping the mind calm. In this article, we will tell how to do Gomukhasana and the benefits of Gomukhasana as well as the precautions of Gomukhasana. The benefit of doing Gomukhasana is only when it is done regularly and at the same time a balanced diet is also consumed. If you want to learn different types of yoga then you can learn 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India
Method and benefits of performing Savasana :
Meaning of Shavasana
In Shavasana, the word shava means dead. After doing this asana, the body has to lie down like a dead body. That's why it is called savasana. Known as Corpse Pose in English.
This asana is done lying on the back and the whole body is left loose. Anyone can easily do this asana, whether it is a woman or a man.
In this article complete information about Savasana has been given like –
Method of doing Shavasana –
- Shavasana is a simple posture, this asana can be done by people of any age:
- To perform this asana, lie down on your back on a yoga mat or mat in a clean environment.
- Straighten both legs and decide the feet a foot or two.
- Keep the hands straight on the side of the body and at a distance.
- Close your eyes and keep breathing in and out normally.
- Now release the body and calm the mind.
- Concentrate on the body, first focus on your paws, knees, stomach, chest and between both the eyebrows, and slowly take a deep breath and exhale.
- In this way, while taking each breath, free the body from stress and anxiety.
- Stabilize the body in this posture for 5 to 6 minutes.
- After keeping the body still for some time, start moving the body parts slowly and open the eyes slowly.
- Sit comfortably in Sukhasana or Padmasana. Sit down for some time.
Benefits of doing Shavasana –
- By doing Shavasana, it helps in removing physical and mental fatigue.
- It is considered beneficial in calming the mind and removing stress.
- By doing this asana, concentration increases and removes the problem of insomnia.
- Helps protect against diseases like heart and high blood pressure.
- This asana would have been beneficial to increase memory.
- The intellect is developed by continuous practice of Shavasana.
Precautions for funeral-
- While doing Savasana, make sure that there is no sound in the environment.
- It is necessary to keep your eyes closed while doing this asana.
- It is necessary to take deep and slow breaths.
- There should not be any kind of thought in the mind.
- Shavasana is considered completely safe and can be practiced by everyone. However, if you have a health problem and your doctor has advised you not to lie on your back for a long time, then you should avoid doing this asana. While practicing this asana during pregnancy, it is advised that you rest your head on a pillow.
Shavasana can be done after any exercise and yoga because doing this asana helps in relieving stress and fatigue caused by exercise and yoga.
People of any age can easily do this asana. Make sure to include this asana in your yoga routine.


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Authentic Assessment - " Mission Possible or Mission Impossible?
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School of Natural Sciences / Centre for Ecosystem Management
This paper describes the successful implementation of authentic assessment items within two undergraduate units in the School of Natural Sciences. It argues that the content of any authentic assessment needs to ne contextualized and thus discipline specific. Within the field of environmental planning, there is an ongoing debate about both the nature and definition of the subject which makes creation truly authentic assessment problematic. The environment planning unit now includes three assessment items which replicate many of he practices required of an environmental planner. In contrast, in the field of chemistry, it is difficult to replicate the work practices of a professional chemist within the University learning environment. In the chemistry unit, an industry trip and seminar have been included to provide a more authentic learning environment for the students. The paper shows that it is possible to create assessments that are authentic and also meet the University's learning requirements.


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Carnivalizing conservatism: a Bakhtinian analysis of Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker and Zadie Smith in the context of the post-Thatcher era
Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith and Pat Barker engage with the changing shape of late twentieth-century Britain through their simultaneous engagement with conservative and magic realist discourses. Recognizing the pervasiveness of Margaret Thatcher's legacies in the post-Thatcher era, the three authors challenge conservative discourses through magic realist narrative strands that expose the homogenizing effects of Thatcherite nationalism. Homi K. Bhabha's discursive engagement with nation in conjunction with his conception of a hybrid third space, extended in my modem reading of M. M. Bakhtin, is extremely relevant to a critical reading of their texts. While Kureishi, Barker and Smith emphasize the denaturalizing effects of magic realist or carnivalesque moments, their texts also stress discursive overlap and in doing so recall Bakhtin's recognition of the interrelatedness of time and space. The interplay between alternate and official discourses, if read in the context of chronotopic layering, suggests a reevaluation of the concept of 'nation.' By acknowledging the interpenetration of alternative and conservative discourses, Kureishi, Barker and Smith re-form "Britishness."
Bibliography: p. 136-144
Joyce, H. A. (2004). Carnivalizing conservatism: a Bakhtinian analysis of Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker and Zadie Smith in the context of the post-Thatcher era (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from _URL_. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12316


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During my MEng at the University of York, I explored design sonification systems to support the analysis of NMR spectral data. This work included sound design and participatory design sessions with analytical chemists to explore the use of different sonification strategies.
The final design focused on two sonifications strategies based on feedback sessions with chemist: an interactive parameter mapping to scan through the data and a "spectral audification" method, to get an easy overview of the spectra.
The spectral audification treated the NMR spectra as an audio spectrum, giving each spectra a different timbre and allowing quick comparison. This work took inspiration from a previous project exploring how mapping different parameters of metals to different sound parameters of sound could aid in comparisons of metal types:
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The São João Baptista, Portuguese Galleon Warship
The São João Baptista, Saint John the Baptist, commonly known as the Botafogo, was a Portuguese galleon warship built in the 16th century, around 1534, considered the biggest and most powerful warship in the world at the time.
Botafogo on the left in this engraving, Portuguese flag on the top
This ship could carry 366 bronze cannons, and had an artillery power of 1,000 tons. For this reason, it became known as Botafogo, meaning literally fire maker orspitfire in popular Portuguese.
The Botafogo was used both in the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean, where it became famous during the Conquest of Tunis (1535). In that battle, the Botafogowas commanded by Infante Luís, Duke of Beja, brother of John III and brother-in-law of Charles V.
Conquest of Tunis (1535)
The Conquest of Tunis in 1535 was an attack on Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire, by the Spanish Empire and its allies.
In 1533, Suleiman the Magnificent ordered Hayreddin Barbarossa, whom he had summoned from Algiers, to build a large war fleet in the arsenal ofConstantinople. Altogether 70 galleys were built during the winter of 1533–1534, manned by slave oarsmen, including 2,000 Jewish ones. With this fleet, Barbarossa conducted aggressive raids along the coast of Italy, until he conquered Tunis on 16 August 1534, ousting the local ruler, theretofore subservient to the Spanish, Muley Hasan.Barbarossa thus established a strong naval base in Tunis, which could be used for raids in the region, and on nearby Malta.
Charles V, one of the most powerful men in Europe at the time, assembled a large army of some 30,000 soldiers, 74 galleys (rowed by chained Protestants shipped in from Antwerp), 300 sailing ships, the Santa Anna and Portuguese galleon São João Baptista, also known as Botafogo and the most powerful ship in the world at the time, with 366 bronze cannons to drive the Ottomans from the region. The expense involved for Charles V was considerable, and at 1,000,000 ducats was on par with the cost of Charles' campaign against Suleiman on the Danube. Unexpectedly, the funding of the conquest of Tunis came from thegalleons sailing in from the New World, in the form of a 2 million gold ducats treasure extracted by Francisco Pizarro in exchange for his releasing of the Inca kingAtahualpa (whom he nevertheless executed on 29 August 1533).
Despite a request by Charles V, Francis I denied French support to the expedition, explaining that he was under a 3 year truce with Barbarossa following the 1533 Ottoman embassy to France. Francis I was also under negotiations with Suleiman the Magnificent for a combined attack on Charles V, following the 1534 Ottoman embassy to France. Francis I only agreed to Pope Paul III's request that no fight between Christians occur during the time of the expedition.
On 1 June 1535, protected by a Genoese fleet, Charles V destroyed Barbarossa's fleet and, after a costly yet successful siege at La Goletta, captured Tunis. In the ruins, the Spanish found cannon balls with the French Fleur-de-lys mark, evidence of the contacts stemming from the Franco-Ottoman alliance.
The resulting massacre of the city left an estimated 30,000 dead. Barbarossa managed to flee to Algiers with a troop of several thousand Turks. Muley Hasan was restored to his throne. The stench of the corpses was such that Charles V soon left Tunis and moved his camp to Radès.
The siege demonstrated the power projection of the Habsburg dynasties at the time; Charles V had under his control much of southern Italy, Sicily, Spain, theAmericas, Austria, the Netherlands and lands in Germany. Furthermore, he was Holy Roman Emperor and had de jure control over much of Germany as well.
The catastrophic defeat in the Capture of Tunis in 1535 by the Holy League motivated the Ottoman Empire to enter into a formal alliance with France against the Habsburg Empire. Ambassador Jean de La Forêt was sent to Constantinople, and for the first time was able to become permanent ambassador at the Ottoman court and to negotiate treaties.
Charles V celebrated a neo-classical triumph "over the infidel" at Rome on April 5, 1536 in commemoration of his victory at Tunis.
Barbarossa managed to escape to the harbour of Bône, where a fleet was waiting for him. From there, he sailed to accomplish the Sack of Mahon, where he took 6,000 slaves and brought them to Algiers.
The Ottomans responded by recapturing the city in 1574. However the Ottoman governors of Tunis were semi-autonomous Beys who acted as privateers against Christian shipping. Consequently, raiding in the Mediterranean continued until the French subjugated the region as a protectorate three centuries later in 1830 with an invasion leading to the creation of French Algeria, and the establishment of a protectorate over Tunisia in 1881 through the French occupation of Tunisia.
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Why Hate Crimes Legislation Is Still Not a Solution
Filed By Yasmin Nair | April 29, 2011 8:30 AM | comments
Filed in: Politics, Transgender & Intersex
Tags: Crissy Lee Polis, hate crimes legislation, Maryland, McDonalds, transgender
The brutal assault on Crissy Lee Polis in a Maryland McDonald's has led to a long attack.pngand sustained conversation here and elsewhere about how best to seek solutions to the ongoing problem of harassment and violence inflicted upon trans and queer-identified folk.
The immediate response from many in the LGBTQ community has been to demand that this be treated as a hate crime. Equality Maryland has already made a public statement to that effect, and Polis herself has insisted that it is one.
There can be no doubt as to the viciousness of the crime, but is using the mechanism of hate crimes legislation really the answer to preventing such incidents? I've written, in various pieces on The Bilerico Project and elsewhere about the dangers of hate crimes legislation (HCL), and the new book, Queering (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States details the many problems with HCL. Among them: the prison industrial complex already unfairly targets people of color, queer, and gender-non-conforming people for incarceration. Those picked up via HCL are disproportionately people of color and economically disenfranchised. Furthermore, hate crimes legislation does little to nothing to actually discourage crime.
Two groups I work closely with, Against Equality and Gender JUST, have always had strong statements against HCL. At AE, we believe that "...measures like hate crimes legislation and the increased policing of 'our' neighborhoods puts the most vulnerable among us in jail for perpetuity, and it makes the oppressive structures of prison a more insidious part of our lives instead of dismantling them." Gender JUST believes "in community alternatives to hate crimes legislation and opposes all policies which rely on the Prison Industrial Complex, which is inherently racist and heterosexist."
Several other organizations have been or are coming out against HCL. A recent Colorlines piece by Jamila King, titled "Weighing Solutions to Hate Crime After Brutal Baltimore Attack," is about the Sylvia Rivera Law Project's stance on HCL.
Here in Chicago, the Transformative Justice Law Project clearly declares itself an organization devoted to prison abolition and transformative justice, along with gender self-determination. The first two positions in particular are antithetical to the principles of HCL.
In New York, the Audre Lorde Project did not support the 2009 Gender Employment Non-Discrimination Act because it contained an attachment to HCL and said as much in a widely circulated letter on the issue, co-signed by Queers for Economic Justice, SRLP, FIERCE, and The Peter Cicchino Youth Project.
Black and Pink released a compilation of critiques of HCL which is an especially useful reminder of the problems with assuming that the prison industrial complex can actually be of any help to those already most violently affected by it.
Every one of these groups works with and includes gender non-conforming, trans, and/or queer people, and fully understands the extent of the violence to its members, so it's especially significant that they have taken such strong positions on the matter. On the streets of cities like Chicago or in small-town USA, queer and gender-non-conforming people without the economic safety nets and invisibility granted by middle or upper class status are the most likely to be targeted by the PIC for made-up crimes like "loitering," and "intent." As Queer (In)Justice amply demonstrates, when it's the word of a person of color against a white gay man in a "hate crime," the POC is the one most likely to be charged and indicted. Why should we queers trust that such a deeply racist and classist system will actually be of any help to us?
The violence against Polis was a hateful, vicious, and brutal crime for which there can be no excuse. But there are already legal remedies in place for such crimes: there are punishments for brutality and for murder. To assume that extended penalties and/or the death penalty - often invoked as a threat, often a punishment that can come directly into play in such cases - will end violence is to assume that its perpetrators have some kind of narrative in place as they set about maiming and killing us.
Instead, it makes more sense to come to terms with a difficult fact: that the hatred against queer and gender-non-conforming people which incites such brutality is about a deep-seated hatred of the overturning of codes and performances to which people are strangely and deeply cathected, and it's a hatred that flares up without meaning or the comfort of narrative and deep-seated intention. It's true that kind of hatred sometimes becomes an excuse for violence: "I was so deeply disturbed that I couldn't help but beat/kill him/her."
But HCL only presents a way for us to forget that the senseless violence of which we are constantly made aware is exactly that: senseless and brutal. In the end, HCL grants us nothing more than the cold comfort of extended prison sentences or death - in effect, extending the very violence that we claim to abhor.
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Seriously? There were already laws to protect transgender and transsexual folks from hate? This is a tired argument that is usually used by those that want to commit hate crimes against us. If there were laws that already covered this then why did the President of the United States sign a hate crime law? Why? Because it wasn't covered.
There is a huge difference between an assault that happened due to an argument and one that happened because of how someone looks. I know that this law will not 'protect', directly, those of us who needs it but it will make people think twice before they assault me because I am transsexual. And justice will be served by them spending another decade in prison for it.
No - I wrote that there are already laws against the violence committed in these crimes. There can be no laws against hate because you can't legislate against an emotion.
The fact that the President of the US signed a hate crimes law only means that he's colluding with the prison industrial complex and scoring easy points with those who are pushing for HCL. Presidents regularly sign all kinds of problematic laws into effect - including ones that push us to engage in unjust wars, for instance. Surely, by now, we understand that a Presidential seal is hardly a sign of justice.
As the many sources I've indicated above amply prove, there's plenty of evidence that HCL does not deter crime but is used against the already marginalised amongst us, and that those most likely to be incarcerated/penalised by it are also themselves gender-queer, gender-non-conforming, people of colour and the most economically marginalised.
But the racism, classism, heterosexism and cissexism in law enforcement is not a function of HCL and isn't caused by it. It's already there, and opposing HCL won't make it go away, so I don't see how that's a valid argument against HCL.
I agree. People already attack and kill us because they think they can get away with it.
The idea that people opposed GENDA because of HCL disgusts me; it's putting priority on violent attackers over people who are trying to get jobs and homes.
Jay Kallio | April 29, 2011 8:54 AM
Personally, I never thought of hate crime legislation as anything but a useful stepping stone to try to put an end to lynchings, targeting of minorities where entire bigoted communities would conspire to destroy vulnerable people. I have a personal bias in this issue, having been persecuted, repeatedly assaulted, and nearly blinded by the KKK as a teenager. I fought for hate crime laws with the hope that someday they would have outlasted their usefulness, which is simply as a tool to raise public awareness that hate based on bigotry will not be accepted or ignored, and will carry huge penalties. If hate crime laws have prevented the victimization of innocent people, I am very glad we worked so hard to get them on the books. It is hard to calculate how many crimes have not happened because they were a deterrent.
I don't see how rolling back the hate crimes legislation that so many of us who have been assaulted and maimed fought and sacrificed for years to win is going to remedy the problem that imprisoning people is profitable for privatized prison facilities. It doesn't address the real problem. They need to keep prisons full, because they are being paid per capita. Their overhead stays the same, so they need every cell full to make money. Ugly truth.
Privatization of public services is the problem, which causes unfair levels of imprisonment of vulnerable people, as well as refusal to provide health care services to the poor, financing of horrific weapons of war, etc. It is an across the board problem that might be partially remedied by going to the source: campaign finance regulations that allow the rich to buy our government and subvert democracy, and make money by contracting their profiteering services wherever they can get away with it. We will not see any change until we have restricted public financing of political campaigns. Then we can get our prison system, health care system, defense department, etc., into reasonable condition that actually serves the public good, not the profits of huge corporations.
My concern with your analysis is that since rolling back hate crime legislation will not in any way affect the profit incentive to incarcerate people, they will simply use other laws to disproportionately incarcerate people.


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How to plot multiple data sets on the same graph - Complex Aggression study
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I am relatively new to Matlab. I am aware how to use the hold functions to do basic plots however I can't work out how to implement this into the following code to achieve multiple sets of data but on the same plot. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Edit: Some code such as 'neighbours' are functions I have created so if some of the code seems strange, that may also be why. - If anyone needs to see these in order to help please let me know. Once again thanks!
Edit 2: I have added all the code you need to run the experiment. If you do this you will see what I am trying to achieve (hopefully) - Thanks again for the responses! __________________________________________________________________________
Firstly the Neighbours function (save this as a function):
function nbrs = neighbours(m, n, bdry, conn, prnt)
% function nbrs = neighbours(m, n, bdry, conn)
%
% calculate adjacency list for image graph
%
% m, n = image dimensions (m x n)
% bdry = boundary condition 'closed' or 'torus'
% conn = connectivity '4' or '8'
% prnt = optional printout (print when prnt = 1)
%
% nbrs = cell array of lists of indices k = 1 to m*n
% nbrs{k} = [k1 k2 k3 ...]
% Lookup table for i, j values of the three
% [-1 0 1]-shifted versions of rows and coumns,
% NaN indicates neighbour is off edge
switch bdry
case 'closed'
I = [[NaN 1:m-1]; 1:m; [2:m NaN]];
J = [[NaN 1:n-1]; 1:n; [2:n NaN]];
case 'torus'
I = [[m 1:m-1]; 1:m; [2:m 1]];
J = [[n 1:n-1]; 1:n; [2:n 1]];
end
%%%%nested function to simplify coding below
function k = ind(i1, j1, i, j)
k = sub2ind([m n], I(i1, i), J(j1, j));
end
nbrs = {};
for k = 1:m*n
[i j] = ind2sub([m n], k);
switch conn
case '4' % fancy formatting so easy to check layout
nbr = [ind(1, 2, i, j) ind(2, 1, i, j),ind(2, 3, i, j), ...
ind(3, 2, i, j)];
case '8'
nbr = [ind(1, 1, i, j), ind(1, 2, i, j), ind(1, 3, i, j), ...
ind(2, 1, i, j),ind(2, 3, i, j), ...
ind(3, 1, i, j), ind(3, 2, i, j), ind(3, 3, i, j)];
end
nbrs{k} = nbr(~isnan(nbr)); % remove any missing (boundary) pixels
end
if prnt == 1
for k = 1:length(nbrs)
fprintf('%5d :', k); fprintf('%5d ', nbrs{k}); fprintf('\n')
end
end
end % function end
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Here is the code for the function rand_binary
function im = rand_binary(m, n, prob)
% function im = rand_binary(prob)
%
% Make binary image with pixels randomly set to black
%
% m, n = image size (m x n)
% prob = probablity of black pixel
%
% im = returned image
im = double(rand(m, n) > prob);
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And run_simulation function:
function [pop2, xagg] = run_simulation(pop1, sf, nbrs, niter, plt)
% function [pop2, xagg] = run_simulation(pop1, sf, nbrs, niter, sf, plt)
%
% pop1 = binary image for initial aggression map(aggressive = 0 = black)
% sf = binary image for short-fuse map (short-fuse = 0 = red-star)
% nbrs = adjacency list to specify network topology
% niter = number of updates to apply
% plt = plot flag (0 = no plots, 1 = ahow plots)
%
% pop2 = final aggresion map
% xagg = final proportion of aggressives
if nargin < 5
plt = 1;
end
[m n] = size(pop1);
if plt
plot_world(pop1, sf);
drawnow
end
a = 0; % aggressive
p = 1; % peaceful
pop2 = pop1;
for i = 1:niter
for k = 1:m*n
nbr = nbrs{k};
na = sum(pop1(nbr) == a); % number aggressive;
np = sum(pop1(nbr) == p); % number peaceful
if sf(k) == 0
if na >= 1
pop2(k) = a;
else
pop2(k) = p;
end
else
if na > np
pop2(k) = a;
elseif na < np
pop2(k) = p;
end % else stays unchanged
end
end
pop1 = pop2;
if plt
plot_world(pop1, sf);
title(sprintf('Day %d', i+1));
pause(0.2)
end
end
xagg = sum(pop2(:) == a)/(m*n);
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Now this is the code to plot my graph. If you run this data as it is it should plot a smooth sigmoidal curve for a single sf value. However I want to compare the effect of different sf values by plotting their results on the same graph.
clear all % check this is stand-alone
% specify grid size and topology
m = 100;
n = 100;
nbrs = neighbours(m, n, 'closed', '4', 0);
% independent variable: proportion of aggressives
nsamp = 1000; % number of values of pagg to use
pagg = linspace(0, 1, nsamp); % pagg increases from 0 (none aggaggresive) to 1 (all aggresive)
% dependent variable xagg: the final proportion of aggresssives
xagg = NaN(1, nsamp); % xagg is storage for this number, one for each pagg value
% specify proportion of short-fuse individuals
psf = 0.2;
sf = rand_binary(m, n, psf);
% number of iterations
ndays = 20;
niter = ndays-1;
plt = 0; % no movie
figure(3); clf
for i = 1:nsamp
pop1 = rand_binary(m, n, pagg(i)); % make initial population with pagg(i)
[pop2, xagg(i)] = run_simulation(pop1, sf, nbrs, niter, plt); % get final population & proportion of aggressives
figure(3);
plot(pagg, xagg, '.', 'MarkerSize', 10)
xlabel('Initial Population


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 The influence of Co and Fe on the color change of diopside crystals
 변수민 | 이병하 | 2014, 24(5) | pp.183~189 | number of Cited : 0
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 This study was conducted to study the influence of Co and Fe on the color of glaze and diopside crystals inthe diopside crystal glaze empirically produced and used by ceramic artists, in case of adding Co3O4 and Fe2O3. As aresult, the color of glaze was blue when Co3O4 was added to the diopside crystal glaze and the diopside crystals appearedpastel violet with Co included. When Fe2O3 was added to the diopside crystal glaze, the color of glaze appeared brownand the color of diopside crystals was goldenrod with Fe included. The crystals precipitated on the surface of diopsideconsisted of diopside crystals and diopside precursors. With longer retention time, the amount of diopside precursorsdecreased and the amount of diopside crystals increased. Also, Co was more easily included by the diopside crystals thanFe was and crystallizability of dispside was improved in case of including Co. Including Fe lowered peak intensity ofproperties and partially dissolved the diopside crystals.
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 Structural defects in the multicrystalline silicon ingot grown with the seed at the bottom of crucible
 A-Young Lee | KIM YOUNG KWAN | 2014, 24(5) | pp.190~195 | number of Cited : 2
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 Because of the temperature gradient occurring during the growth of the ingot with directional solidificationmethod, defects are generated and the residual stress is produced in the ingot. Changing the growth and cooling rate duringthe crystal growth process will be helpful for us to understand the defects and residual stress generation. The defects andresidual stress can affect the properties of wafer. Generally, it was found that the size of grains and twin boundaries aresmaller at the top area than at the bottom of the ingot regardless of growth and cooling condition. In addition to that, inthe top area of silicon ingot, higher density of dislocation is observed to be present than in the bottom area of the siliconingot. This observation implies that higher stress is imposed to the top area due to the faster cooling of silicon ingot aftersolidification process. In the ingot with slower growth rate, dislocation density was reduced and the TTV (Total ThicknessVariation), saw mark, warp, and bow of wafer became lower. Therefore, optimum growth condition will help us to obtainhigh quality silicon ingot with low defect density and low residual stress.
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 Investigation of defects and surface polarity in AlN and GaN using wet chemical etching technique
 홍윤표 | 박재화 | Cheol Woo Park and 5other persons | 2014, 24(5) | pp.196~201 | number of Cited : 3
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 We investigated defects and surface polarity in AlN and GaN by using wet chemical etching. Therefore, theeffectiveness and reliability of estimating the single crystals by defect selective etching in NaOH/KOH eutectic alloy havebeen successfully demonstrated. High-quality AlN and GaN single crystals were etched in molten NaOH/KOH eutecticalloy. The etching characteristics and surface morphologies were carried out by scanning electron microscope (SEM) andatomic force microscope (AFM). The etch rates of AlN and GaN surface were calculated by etching depth as a function ofetching time. As a result, two-types of etch pits with different sizes were revealed on AlN and GaN surface, respectively. Etching produced hexagonal pits on the metal-face (Al, Ga) (0001) plane, while hexagonal hillocks formed on the N-face. On etching rate calibration, it was found that N-face had approximately 109 and 15 times higher etch rate than the metalfaceof AlN and GaN, respectively. The size of etch pits increased with an increase of the etching time and they tend tomerge together with a neighbouring etch pits. Also, the chemical mechanism of each etching process was discussed. It wasfound that hydroxide ion (OH−) and the dangling bond of nitrogen play an important role in the selective etching of themetal-face and N-face.
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 Temperature-dependent photoluminescence properties of amorphous and crystalline V2O5 films
 강만일 | 추민우 | Sok Won Kim | 2014, 24(5) | pp.202~206 | number of Cited : 0
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 In order to investigate the photoluminescence (PL) properties of V2O5 films, amorphous and crystalline filmswere prepared by using RF sputtering system, and the PL spectra of the films were measured at the temperatures rangingfrom 300 K to 10 K. In the amorphous V2O5 film grown at room temperature, a PL peak centered at ~505 nm was onlyobserved, and in the crystalline V2O5 film, two peaks centered at ~505 nm and ~695 nm, which is known to correspond tooxygen defects, were revealed. The position of PL peak centered at 505 nm for both the amorphous and crystalline V2O5films showed a strong dependence on temperature, and the positions were 2.45 eV at 300 K and 2.35 eV at 10 K,respectively. The PL at 505 nm was due to the band energy transition in V2O5, and also, the reduction of the peak positionenergy with decreasing temperature was caused by a decrement of the lattice dilatation effect with reducing electron-phononinteraction.
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 Synthesis of carbon nanosheets using RF thermal plasma
 이승용 | Sang-Min Ko | Sang Man Koo and 3other persons | 2014, 24(5) | pp.207~212 | number of Cited : 0
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 An ultrathin sheet-like carbon nanostructure provides an important model of a two-dimensional graphite structurewith strong anisotropy in physical properties. As an easy and cheap route for mass production, RF thermal plasmasynthesis of freestanding carbon nanosheet from CH4 (Methane) and C3H8 (Propane) is presented. Using vapor synthesisprocess with RF inductively thermal plasma, carbon nanosheets were obtained without catalysts and substrates. Thesynthesized carbon nanosheets were characterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Raman spectroscopy, Xraydiffraction (XRD) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis. The carbon nanosheets synthesized using methane andpropane generally showed 5~6 and 15~16 layers with a wrinkled morphology and size of approximately 100 nm.
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 Synthesis of WO3/TiO2 catalysts from different tungsten precursors and their catalytic performances in the SCR
 BYEONG WOO LEE | 이진희 | 2014, 24(5) | pp.213~218 | number of Cited : 1
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 An investigation of the influence of WO3 addition with different precursors and preparation methods on thephase formation and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) efficiency of anatase-TiO2 powders has been carried out. Ananatase-TiO2 synthesized by precipitation process was used as a catalyst support. For WO3(10 wt%)/TiO2, the W loading tothe TiO2 support led to the lower in anatase to rutile transition temperature to ~900oC from 1200oC of the TiO2 supportalone. In the case of WO3(10 wt%)/TiO2 SCR powders obtained from a wet process with ammonium meta-tungstate (AMT)precursor, the highest NOX conversion efficiency was achieved at 450oC remaining high efficiency at 500oC, while thesame composition prepared from a dry process with WO3 addition showed the lowered efficiency with temperature afterreaching the efficiency maximum at 350oC. The same tendency has been found that the V2O5(5 wt%)-WO3(10 wt%)/TiO2SCR powders obtained from the wet process with AMT precursor has shown the superior NOX conversion efficiency over90 % in a wider temperature range of 300~500oC.
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 Pulsed laser ablation of hydroxyapatite in ethanol
 Lee, Jung-il | Ryu， Jeong-ho | 2014, 24(5) | pp.219~223 | number of Cited : 0
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 Pulsed laser ablation in liquid medium was successfully employed to synthesize hydroxyapatite colloidal nanoparticles. The crystalline phase, particle morphology, size distribution and microstructure of the hydroxyapatite nanoparticles wereinvestigated in detail. The obtained hydroxyapatite nanoparticles had spherical shape with sizes ranging from 5 to 20 nm. Thelaser


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When Katharine Meyer Graham succeeded her husband as publisher of The Washington Post and the top executive of Washington Post Company, she became one of the most powerful women in business. But before Graham reached the height of her profession, she gracefully overcame circumstances that would have caused most people — men included — to cry uncle.
Her story began like a fairytale: Graham was the daughter of a multimillionaire. In 1933 her father purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy auction. Her mother, a lover of knowledge, art and political activism, worked as a journalist. Graham began working for the Post in the late 1930s and married Harvard Law graduate Philip Graham in 1940. When her father died, he bequeathed the Post to Phillip. But Phillip was plagued by alcoholism and mental-health problems and committed suicide in 1963.
After her husband's death, Graham gained leadership of the company and the Post. She also chaired the board of directors from 1973 through 1991. Under her remarkable leadership, the Post adopted a higher standard of investigative journalism and changed history by unearthing the Watergate scandal. The Post was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of Watergate. Graham earned a Pulitzer of her own for her autobiography, Personal History.


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Développés can be performed in all three directions (front, side and back) with a wide variety of arm positions and head alignments, but the working leg always goes through retiré position (with the toe by the side, in front of or behind the supporting knee, depending on the particular ballet style) before extending. The extended position may be either an attitude or fully stretched leg. In the latter case, développés to the back finish in arabesque position.
Développés are typically performed at the barre and in the centre as part of adage exercises. Whilst professional dancers may lift their legs above head height, young students should aim for a 45-90 degree angle, ensuring the développé action is fluid and that the leg is turned out. A typical basic développé exercise at the barre would involve développés in all three directions, each time followed by lowering the leg into tendu position and then closing back to a standing position. Royal Ballet dancer Romany Padjak demonstrates a slightly more advanced développé exercise below:
Développés are performed in numerous ballets. In the grand pas de deux of The Nutcracker, the Sugar Plum Fairy steps onto pointe, takes the Prince's hand and performs a développé to the front. Développés are also used in other dance styles. In Cats the musical, for example, Victoria (the white cat) has a développé to the side in her Act I solo.


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This paper discusses the dynamics of the current security and defence landscape (SDL), viewed from within the framework of the rules-based international order (RBIO), with particular focus given to the terrorism phenomenon. To better understand the undercurrents of the international SDL, demands consideration of the perspectives of other geopolitical actors, specifically, the Russian, the Islamic, and the Chinese. What is clear is that the dominance of the Western geopolitical polar is constantly challenged by the aforementioned geopolitical polars – who also understand that the legitimacy of any action is determined, rightly or wrongly, by the Western Order. The current SDL is thus animated by Russian, the Islamic and the Chinese challenges, even threats, against the a RBIO defined, institutionalised, and controlled by the West. What emerges is a multi-polar SDL, configured by multi-linear vectors between the West and other competing geopolitical polars; each seeking to divert power currents toward their direction. The tensors and trajectories between the competing power vectors are defined much by the ebbs and flows of the polars' geopolitical capabilities (political, economic and military) relative to each other.


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The standard software package with the IOL calculator and its built-in IOL database provide verification of findings in numerous clinical applications, such as corneal refractive surgery, lens refractive surgery, presbyopia solutions and standard cataract surgery. Additionally, software is available for scleral lenses, with corneal scleral profiling measuring 18mm in a single scan. The Pentacam also connects directly to software from multiple contact lens companies.
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We propose a method for obtaining three-dimensional imaging measurements of the defect distribution inside industrial materials by measuring positron lifetimes, in addition to using the imaging technique of positron emission tomography. A compact and fast response detector that uses an Yb 3+-doped Lu2O3 scintillator and a photomultiplier tube was developed and tested. Yb3+ charge transfer luminescence exhibits a fast response in the ultraviolet and visible regions. The first measurement of the positron lifetime for a bulk material using an Yb:Lu2O3 scintillator was carried out. The lifetime of positrons created inside an yttria-stabilized zirconia block via pair production produced by ultrashort photon pulses was successfully measured.
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Twisting not only generates an easily recognisable pattern with just a straight laminate, it's also one of the most important operations in making a lot of other patterns.
Making a simple "twist pattern" is relatively straightforward, but there are a few important things to know to get the most out of your twists. The basic steps of a regular twist pattern are:
 1. Create a straight laminate billet
 2. Draw it down, as evenly as possible, to a square cross section (The size here determines a few things that are discussed below).
 3. Forge the sharp corners back into the billet, making it slightly octagon shaped.
 4. Heat the billet as evenly as possbile
 5. Clamp one end of the heated billet in a vise and begin to twist the other end with a twisting wrench
 6. Once you're happy with the twist of your billet, reheat it
 7. Wire brush and flux the twisted billet
 8. Forge the billet back to square at a welding heat. This will cause the "corners" to weld back into the billet as you work it. Make sure to brush well and flux after each of these heats.
 9. Draw your billet into a bar
 10. Grind your billet clean, making sure to remove any surface defects or cold shuts left from the "corners" in twisting.
Sounds simple right? :) It is, but there are a few potential trouble spots. See the patterning operations section for more information on twisting.
There are a few variations on the twist pattern that greatly affect how the pattern looks.
Layer count
How many layers are in your billet prior to twisting has a dramatic effect on what your pattern will look like. A low layer count twist will be very bold and striking, as in the this picture.
A higher layer count will yeild a much more fine pattern sometimes referred to as a "Maiden's Hair" pattern.
Again, there are no hard and fast rules to how you build your billets. Alternate bands of higher layered steel with single pieces for a bold twist that has some fine details when closely inspected. Stack your steel in different chicknesses and see what happens, come up with anything you like and just go for it. Twisting will take things that may seem not at all exciting and make them amazing.
Rate of Twist.
What I call "Rate of Twist" is basically how tightly you twist your billet. Most people, even very experienced 'smiths, would be suprised at how many twists a given piece of steel can handle without any ill effects. For the sake of simplicity, I'll refer to rate of twist in "twists per inch" as it makes for a very consistant method of explaining how much twist a given pattern needs. For example, if you have a billet that is 8″ long and you assume you will have 1″ at each end that you won't be twisting (for the vise and wrench to grab) and a pattern calls for "1 twist per inch" you would twist that remaining 6″ section 6 full rotations.
A loosely twisted billet of less than 1 twist per inch will have a rather "open" appearance to the pattern (as pictured above). At 2-3 twists per inch you're creating a twist suitable for a "Star Pattern" billet. 5 twists per inch is about right for a multi-bar "Turkish Twist" pattern. Greater than 5 twists per inch is very tight and you'll start to see some interesting differences in your pattern.
Size of Bar Prior to Twisting
Because of the fact that a square billet is rarely desired, most twists will be drawn down into a bar. The size of the twisted bar compared to the size of the finished bar can have a dramatic effect on your pattern. This is due to the fact that as you flatten a square bar, you will be drawing it lengthwise as you go. As you draw the bar in length you "stretch" the twist out. the larger the twisted bar, the more drawing you must do and hence, the more stretching of your twist will be seen. For this reason I generally increase the rate of twist slightly over what I THINK I need. That way, when the bar is drawn down the observed rate of twist will be what I expected.
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The efforts to improve Serpentine Prairie are paying off. Last year I mentioned that the heart of the prairie would be fenced in for a few years. They have also removed the non-native pines that were inappropriately planted. This photo, taken March 28, shows the prairie awash in goldfields. Early summer is the best time to see the rare Presidio clarkia in bloom up there.
Goldfields (Lasthenia spp.) is a very hardy genus that often carpets serpentine soils. Naturally it deserves its name for that alone, but it also has a deeper association with gold. The Mother Lode, running along the western flank of the Sierra Nevada, is a major fault zone, long inactive, that once marked a tectonic suture. Hot gold-bearing fluids rose along the fault and infused the country rock. Serpentinite came up the same way, in the same places. Roadcuts along state route 49 expose lots of it. So where the goldfields blooms, the odds of finding gold are significantly better than chance. Oakland has a great variety of rocks, but no gold that I know of.


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Understand your cancer risk, know the exposures to carcinogens on the job and reduce your risk of occupational cancer with the new IAFF fire fighter cancer awareness and prevention training course.
This new resource, developed in conjunction with the Fire Fighter Cancer Support Network, is designed to help members avoid and decrease individual risk factors for cancer.
In addition to understanding why fire fighters are at increased risk of cancer, this new training will:
 - Describe the most prominent types of cancer that affect fire fighters
 - Identify the top carcinogens in the fire fighting environment
 - Review the major routes of exposure to carcinogens for fire fighters
 - Encourage behavior changes that can reduce the risk of developing cancer
Start the cancer awareness and prevention training course.
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The Henderson Christmas Bird Count of 2019 took place on Wednesday, December 18th.
The Henderson Circle routes cover both urban and natural area settings and are led by experienced birders. In the time since the first Henderson count, the human population in Clark County has expanded nearly tenfold, significantly changing the landscape for birds and other wildlife. Our Henderson Circle routes take us through wetlands, a bird viewing preserve, desert washes, a golf course, a lake, urban parks, and other urban areas, giving us a chance to collect data important to understanding how the local bird population is changing.
The day started early with 31 volunteers meeting up at the Clark County Wetlands Park to receive their assignments, checklists and, if desired, a donut. Another three volunteers started their day at Lake Mead where they boarded a boat to count waterfowl on the lake and any birds they could spot on shore or in the air.
At the end of the day, the group met up at the Wetlands for a pizza dinner while they tallied their observations:
Species: 104 (+4 more from count week)
Miles walked: 18.3
Many thanks to the route leaders, new and experience birders for spending the day with us, and to our good partners at the Clark County Wetlands Park and the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve for making the count a success.
Written by Andrea Wirth and Nancy Chang


Progress 4GL to .NET Online Presentation: Basic Demo
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Hello!
Today Ispirer will show you how SQLWays tool can convert from Progress 4GL code to С#.NET. For migration Progress 4GL code we use SQLWays Studio – you can see it on your screen. It is simple UI tool. Before running the migration, you need specify source of migration - in our case this is Progress 4GL and target C#. Then we can open any file for migration. For example, first, we want to migrate some business logic. It is Progress 4GL function for counting days in the month. Here we can see basic constructions of Progress 4GL open-edge language such as, function; define variable, if statements, some built-in functions like INTEGER, declaration of array, RETURN statement. When the file is opened, we can run the migration. For this, we need only press "run" button. Now you can see that the process of migration, options of SQLWays. You can see one file is reading, the size of this file and below the information about the migration: it is - how many lines of this source and how many seconds it is necessary to complete the migration of this script.
In the right panel, you can see the result of migration. You can see that FUNCTION was successfully migrated to C# method, all data types were migrated correctly, for example INTEGER to INT, and also the declaration of variable, you can see that array of EXTENT 12 INITIAL - in C# it's also array with its initialization. IF statements, RETURN statements were successfully migrated to C#
Also in this demo, I will show you how our tool can proceed with data access. Let's open another file. Here it is procedure with FIND statements for working with tables – for finding some rows and manipulating data.
When we convert Progress 4 GL code, before this migration we migrate Progress database to, for example, Microsoft SQL Server and then using SQLMetal we can generate database make-up language model on the database and in this case, we can proceed with every table like Object and the whole database like Data Context. So, let's see how our tool SQLWays can use these objects generated using SQLMetal in our migration. Here you can see "Implicit buffers" it is a region for declaration of physical tables from Progress (MSSQL) database. "DataTables" – it is the specific namespace, sure, its name can be changed for every specific project. Tables Company, Budget and Budget-Analysis buffers were converted like objects of classes where there are definitions of database tables using DBML language.
Here you can also see that procedures were converted to methods. In addition, here below, you can see how our tool can convert FIND statements. In this sample, it is migrated using the technology LINQ to SQL. So, DB in this case it is Data Context (table Company is the object of this Data Context). And here it is simple LINQ query and FirstorDefault () property it's for representing FIND FIRST – searching and representing of first row of the query.
Also in this sample there is the migration Do while construction to C# "while" statement, and Do with range was successfully migrated to C# "for" statement. Other FIND statements were successfully converted using LINQ technology.
This is how our tool can proceed with data access of Progress 4GL. Sure; all these conversion rules can be changed. SQLWays is highly customizable and we can change the conversion quickly in our tool for specific customer needs. On our site ispirer.com, you can find engagement model for Progress 4GL to C# migration for companies that have his own development resources. The main idea is that customer can provide us the specification with solutions how the statements, constructions should be converted, for example, like in this case, customer need to add to the specification, for example, FIND statement is should be converted to LINQ to SQL statement with query using FirstorDefault property in the end.
According to this document, we can customize our tool. The timeframe of customization is near 2-3 months and when the customization is completed, the modified version of SQLWays is provided to customer. Client can use it in product migration and Ispirer provides support, if some errors are appeared, or if some other new customizations are required. This model is very constructive and efficient and if you are interested in it, you can find the detail information on our site _URL_.


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Childcare Practitioner's Workshop: Making the Brain Connection: Teaching a Child Through Play (Thursday, September 16)
Did you know that 90% of a child's brain development happens by age 5? You can make an important impact on the life of a child simply by spending time with them and interacting with them in constructive ways.
During this workshop participants will:
- Learn the latest information about a child's early brain development.
- Realize the power YOU have to transform a child's brain through play. Learn simple techniques to encourage learning and ways to incorporate book activities. Find out how these activities can actually change brain growth.
- Discuss/examine a variety of toys that encourage learning.
- Develop teaching materials in a make-it take-it format for classroom use.
This training will fulfill 2 hours of the Department of Public Welfare training requirements and meet the Core Body of Knowledge K2 C2 11 and the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standard 15.1: Constructing Knowledge and 15.3: Applying Knowledge.
$10.00 materials fee payable at time of registration.
Location: Schlow Community Room
Please call the Children's Department to register. _PHONE_


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The pumping lemma for regular languages states:
Specifically, the pumping lemma says that for any regular language L there exists a constant p such that any word w in L with length at least p can be split into three substrings, w = xyz, where the middle portion y must not be empty, such that the words xz, xyz, xyyz, xyyyz, … constructed by repeating y an arbitrary number of times (including zero times) are still in L.
Now what's the unambigious CFG that produces this (recognizes strings of the form $xy^kz$)?
if $x=z=a$ and $y=b$, then
$X \rightarrow aX | Xa | bX | Xb | a | b$
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 $\begingroup$ Please make sure you know what you want to ask before posting. Wasting people's time by changing your question in fundamental ways is not nice. $\endgroup$ – Raphael Dec 29 '15 at 14:36
 - $\begingroup$ The Pumping lemma does not claim the existence of such a grammar. But since these words are all in the language L (that is the claim), just use any grammar for L. It remains to see why there are always unambiguous grammars for regular languages, but that's not too hard. $\endgroup$ – Raphael Dec 29 '15 at 14:39
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For your first question, do check out the pumping lemma for regular languages. It is quite different from what you state.
For the second one, it is the set of strings of $a$ with exactly one $b$. Use:
$\begin{align} S &\rightarrow a S \mid b A \mid b \\ A &\rightarrow a A \mid a \end{align}$
Clearly non-ambiguous. Even a regular grammar.
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 - $\begingroup$ @mavavilj, yes. $\endgroup$ – vonbrand Dec 29 '15 at 13:34
 - $\begingroup$ Then what does: "Specifically, the pumping lemma says that for any regular language L there exists a constant p such that any word w in L with length at least p can be split into three substrings, w = xyz, where the middle portion y must not be empty, such that the words xz, xyz, xyyz, xyyyz, … constructed by repeating y an arbitrary number of times (including zero times) are still in L." mean? $\endgroup$ – mavavilj Dec 29 '15 at 13:34
 - $\begingroup$ @mavavilj, you see the statemement is significantly longer, with a lot of qualifications. $\endgroup$ – vonbrand Dec 29 '15 at 13:35
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 $\begingroup$ @mavavilj, sorry I won't run around chasing your ever changing question. $\endgroup$ – vonbrand Dec 29 '15 at 13:59
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Listening in on Lightning
Concepts: thunderstorms, static electricity
Materials: AM radio w/ antenna, inflated rubber balloon
An AM radio makes an excellent lightning detector. During a thunderstorm you can listen in on individual lightning bolts on your AM radio. Tune the radio to a station and each crackling sound that you hear is from the radio waves emitted by a lightning bolt. You will notice that you hear the static crackle at the same moment you see a flash of lightning. This is because radio waves and visible light both travel at the speed of light. The sound of thunder travels at the speed of sound (about 1,000 feet per second) and thus lags behind the flash of light (or AM crackle)*. You will notice that there will be some lightning bolts that you detect that are not seen. These are lightning bolts that are high up in the thunderstorm cloud or even in another thunderstorm cell.
You can make your own lightning strikes (on a much smaller scale) and detect them on your AM radio. Tune your AM radio to a station with its antenna extended. Take an inflated balloon and rub it back and forth for awhile on your own clean, dry, oil-free hair (fur works well also). Slowly bring the balloon close to the antenna. You may need a quite classroom to hear the effect, but the static crackle becomes audible as you bring the balloon slowly near the antenna.
* You can use the time lag between lightning and thunder as an excellent way to judge the distance to the lightning. Count the seconds after you see the flash of lightning. Each second equals about 1,000 feet or five second equals about a mile. If you see the flash of lightning and then hear the thunder by the time you count to ten (or sooner) you are within two miles of the lightning and could be at some risk of getting a lightning strike!
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Next year's census will be unlike any other done before because it will use handheld computers with GPS tracking devices to take home and address information. Philadelphia Regional Census Center Deputy Regional Director Ted Roman says the 2000 census was taken on all paper, including paper forms and paper maps. Pittsburgh is a part of the Philadelphia Regional Census Center. The computers are being used in order to create the most accurate data possible. Roman says the information entered will be transmitted on an hourly basis to the control database as encrypted files to ensure security and anonymity. Keeping information security is a primary goal for the Census Bureau. The questionnaires, which will be sent to all valid addresses in March 2010, will list seven simple topics that include name, race and age.


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Robert Browning and Dramatic Monologue
The remarkable monologue contact form which is right now widely used, permits the author to interact his reader more straight by positioning him in the role of listener. Generally they are to interpret in regards to a dramatic celebration or knowledge they are reading about. This allows the reader to become more intimate with the writer and the characters while being able to understand the speaker's changing feelings and thoughts. This is almost like being inside the mind in the speaker not the article writer though. The speech is usually delivered by a character within a play allowing the creativity of the audience to remain open up.
Many poets have used some type of remarkable monologue varieties in their poetry but none as much or perhaps as competent as the Victorian poet Robert Pistolet. Even though some believe the works of Robert Browning the truth is did not invent the remarkable monologue kind and argue that dramatic monologue was used in poetry preceding Browning I really believe he collection the standard for the form. Robert Browning is considered the master with the dramatic monologue because Browning's use of remarkable monologue transformed post loving poetry and the dramatic monologue technique. Browning's dramatic monologue writings were the first to achieve its variation. I think initially some believed that some dramatic lyrical poems got the form of dramatic monologue it was associated with reading the views in the poet and putting the reader into the head of the genuine poet compared to putting the reader into the brain of the personality. They step to dramatic monologue is the poet is informing a story throughout the characters from the story plus the views in the characters are not the same views the poet could have if it were written within a different form. It had not been until seeing that these other poems in fact did not follow the same techniques of Robert Browning's work that Browning received the recognition for being the inventor of remarkable monologue graceful form. Pistolet is now considered as the master of the dramatic...
Offered: Glenn Everett, Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee for Martin Customized 18
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Poetic Technique: Dramatic Monologue. Copyright _PHONE_ by School of American Poets.


Estonian carbon foot print (per capita) is one of the largest in the whole European Union.
Main causes in Estonia
Estonia's energy sector has been based on the burning of fossil fuels for decades – in 2017, nearly 70% of Estonia's CO2 emissions came from the energy sector. Estonia is one of one Europe's largest CO2 emitters per capita. During 2019 oil shale electricity production declined as a result of rising CO2 prices in the EU and the promotion of green energy. At the same time, up to four new shale oil plants and pre-refinery are under discussion.
Also Estonia's emissions are caused by agriculture, transportation, industry, drainage of wetlands and intensive forestry.
Possible solutions
Estonian environmental NGOs (Estonian Fund for Nature, Estonian Environmental Law Center, Estonian Green Movement) stand for renewable energy sources such as sun and wind. Also good electricity sharing connections to other countries are important.
There are of course a lot of different measures that can be put into practice on the fields of agriculture, transportation, forestry etc.
The NGOs are actively working on the possibilities of just transition in Estonia together with different parties. Think tank Praxis made an analysis on just transition possibilities in Estonia. Find a summary in English here.


"Our Lives are Defined By Opportunity; Even the Ones we Miss."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
image of a transition teen shooting archery during a summer experience
Did you know that up to 70% of visually impaired adults are unemployed or UNDERemployed?
Our summer experience for the transition (Teen) program is designed to give them real world experiences as an employee in a field of their interest. It is a chance for them to utilize all of the skills they've worked on during the school year such as: making their own lunches, choosing an appropriate work outfit, learning how to take a public bus and using adaptive technology, in a supported yet challenging environment.
In between the work experiences, the students attend the Lighthouse of SWFL for extended days and receive intensive additional instruction in things like laundry, budgeting, food preparation and grocery shopping. The summer culminates with a fun "weekend away" for the students and the supervising staff. The students have had the opportunities to go camping, stay at a hotel and navigate a theme park or even relax and stay at a beach house.


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Developing Minds (Concepts for Critical Psychology)
- Psychology, neoliberalism and power
Beskrivelse: Development policy makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to target 'development' interventions and the psychological domain is now a specific frontier of their interventional focus. This landmark study considers the problematic relationship between development and psychology, tracing the deployment of psychological knowledge in the production/reproduction of power relations within the context of neoliberal development policy and intervention. It examines knowledge production and implementation by actors of development policy such as the World Bank and the neo-colonial state - and ends by examining the proposition of a critical psychology for more emancipatory forms of development. The role of psychology in development studies remains a relatively unexplored area, with limited scholarship available. This important book aims to fill that gap by using critical psychology perspectives to explore the focus of the psychological domain of agency in development interventions. It will be essential reading for students, researchers, and policy makers from fields including critical psychology, social psychology, development studies and anthropology.
- Forlagets pris
- kr. 294,35


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Australia has competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. It has been held in Australia twice; once in Melbourne in 1956 and once in Sydney in 2000. Australia first started to compete in the Summer Olympics in 1896, which was in Athens, and has competed ever since. In 1908 and 1912, Australia and New Zealand competed together under the name Australasia. It was Australiaís fourth appearance and New Zealandís first. Since 1920, Australia competed by itself. Australia has won as little as zero medals and as many as 58. Australia has earned many more medals in the Summer Olympics than the Winter Olympics. For example, they won 58 medals during the summer once while they have won zero medals several times during the Winter Olympics. However, they are constantly improving.
Australian Sports Home


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International Macroeconomic Dynamics
For a long time, the study of macroeconomics has focused almost exclusively on a closed economy and downplayed the role of international transactions. Today, however, researchers recognize that one cannot fully understand domestic macroeconomic relationships without considering the global economy within which each country operates. Increasingly, economists are treating international transactions as an integral part of the macroeconomic system, and international macroeconomics has become an area of intensive research activity.International Macroeconomic Dynamics provides extensive applications of important macroeconomic dynamic models to the international economy. It adopts the main contemporary macroeconomic framework, the representative agent model, and develops a series of models of increasing complexity. The author considers both small and large economies and analyzes them in both deterministic and stochastic contexts. The emphasis is very much on the development of the analytical models; a novel feature is the extensive use of continuous-time stochastic methods. While the author applies the models to a range of important policy issues, particularly issues of fiscal policy, the reader is invited to view the analyses as blueprints for other applications.
About the Author
Stephen J. Turnovsky is Professor of Economics at the University of Washington.


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Making oil paints with natural dye powder
The first synthetic dye was mauveine, which was discovered by William Henry Perkin in the mid-19th century during experiments with tar components. Before this invention, colours for painting were often made from the colourful diversity of nature. Plants were mainly used for this purpose. These natural colours are very different from the industrially produced dyes of today.
To make a ready-to-use dye from our natural dyes, you will need the following things:
- A spoon
- 50g dye powder of your choice
- A plaster mold or mortar
- Vegetable oil
The process is very simple: The vegetable oil is carefully mixed with the dye powder until a coarse and solid paste is formed. This paste is then stirred and squeezed until it is fine and creamy.
The resulting dye is in no way inferior to the colour pigments of past centuries. Now all you have to do is paint away and discover how the first masterpieces of our time were created.


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At Colgate, we recognize that our people are our greatest asset. It is the efforts of talented and dedicated people that make our success possible, and we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining these people.
We strive to be your employer of choice by:
- Stimulating careers by providing training, education, and growth opportunities
- Creating an exciting and motivating work environment
- Ensuring that people feel recognized and rewarded
- Promoting fundamental values and ongoing communication that keeps people feeling connected
- Supporting activities and accomplishments that reflect our corporate values of Caring, Global Teamwork and Continuous Improvement
- Ensuring a feeling of belonging by recruiting and retaining people of all backgrounds in our global workforce
- Encouraging a healthy balance between work and personal responsibilities.
To foster an environment of trust, community and open communication, we have established a Managing with Respect philosophy. All Colgate people are responsible for practicing the five principles of Managing with Respect:
- Communicating Effectively
- Giving and Seeking Feedback
- Valuing Unique Contributions
- Promoting Teamwork
- Setting the Example


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PictureBox.LoadAsync Method (String)
Loads the image at the specified location, asynchronously.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
If the url parameter indicates a local file, the recommended format is a local file path. For example, an image file named myPicture.jpglocated atc:\ would be accessed by passing c:\myPicture.jpg for the url parameter. A full path, such as _URL_ or a relative path, such as./images/image.jpg, can be used. If a relative path is used, it will be considered relative to the working directory. A call to the Load method sets the ImageLocation property to the value of url.
A call to the LoadAsync method sets the ImageLocation property to the value of url. Besides calling the LoadAsync method, you must set the WaitOnLoad property to false to load an image asynchronously. When you load an image asynchronously, you can handle the LoadProgressChanged event to determine the progress of an image load or the LoadCompleted event to determine when an image load has completed. If an error occurs during an asynchronous image-loading operation, it will be caught and reported by the Error property of the AsyncCompletedEventArgs.
The following code example demonstrates how to use the LoadAsync method. To run this example, paste the following code into a Windows Form that contains a PictureBox named pictureBox1 and a Button named startLoadButton. Make sure that the Click event for the button is associated with the startLoadButton_Click method in this example. You must change the image file path to a path that is valid on your system.


to prepend this (lambda) call with #' , like so:

(defun closure-fun (fun &rest values)
 #'(lambda (&rest more-values)
 (apply fun (append values more-values)) ) )

My short answer would be, that this (lambda) call occurs within the compiled function (closure-fun). By instinct, I will not put an interpreted function block inside a compiled function, unless there is no other way to obtain what I want.
The longer answer would be, that because (defun) always produces a function, by default it also compiles the function body, with an optimizing compiler. Some versions of LISP allow this to be switched off. Assuming this feature is enabled as by default, (defun) will also optimize its code, in a way that spans the call to (lambda). This makes (closure-fun) a kind of wrapper, for one specific call to (lambda). While the semantics should remain the same, the way I first wrote it should execute just a smidgen faster, than with the #' . If I had written a practical code example, this difference in speed would become significant.
If I was to use the #' here, this notation would mean, 'Execute the (lambda) call, without any recognition of what the environment will be, and give me a list which represents what that is supposed to do.' In the returned list, the atoms representing parameters, still need to get bound to eventual arguments. This tends to result in a more humanly-readable parameter list. But this self-contained format will also be slower to execute.
I would use that notation, in an example like this:

> (defvar *closure-ex1*
 (let ((var 10))
 #'(lambda () (setq var (+ var 1))) ) )
*CLOSURE-EX1*
> (funcall *closure-ex1*)
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> (funcall *closure-ex1*)
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> (funcall *closure-ex1*)
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> (funcall *closure-ex1*)
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> (funcall *closure-ex1*)
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> (quit)

Firstly, this example does not propose a context for anything to be compiled, as a global variable is simply being set to a list. Secondly, the parameter 'var' here can be bound to the numeric symbol (10) when the value of '*closure-ex1*' is initialized. It remains a symbol afterward, which is not forgotten. The (let) is not called again, during the (funcall) invocations that follow. So there is no reason to doubt that this will work.
And so in the preceding example, I left it up to the compiler to resolve, and crossed my fingers. As it turned out, the compiler ended up putting (closure-fun), inside the (lambda-closure) expression it returned.
(Edit 10/01/2016 : ) If I am not mistaken, the insertion of the #' syntax, might also insert an additional evaluation of its parameter, which would have been correct when I was setting a global variable using (defvar), but which would not have been correct when using (defun) to define a function, the execution of which was supposed to evaluate (lambda) only once.

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Can't Be Calculated, Would Require Summing Deduplicated Values
This guide applies to this message that can appear in your results for unique count metrics, such as Facebook's "Reach" metrics:
Example query result showing the "can't be calculated..." message for Facebook reach
Data Studio specifically may not show this error in the results. It may instead show the results as "0" or "null" when this is happening, making it harder to diagnose. If you do see "0" or "null" for metrics that should have values, this may be what is causing that.
If the data source calculates a metric to be a unique count, it's usually doing the calculation based on a specific object the ad, campaign, account, post, etc. So if the query then is not split in a unique enough way, this message will appear. This may be that the query is not split at all, or that there are ads/campaigns/objects with the exact same name. In this case Supermetrics will try to sum those based on shared name or some other dimension, and fail to do so as they should be unique counts for unique objects.
As seen in the example above, there are multiple ads with the same names. When Supermetrics tries to sum those, it cannot and instead give the error.
The best resolution is to modify your query to include another dimension field that is unique - such as the ad ID, Campaign ID, Post ID, etc. The sums will then be split according to their unique object and clear the error.
The original example now split by Ad ID shows the reach values properly - you'll note the ad names are clearly not unique and was the cause of the original problem:
Example query result showing data split by Ad ID and being able to get the reach values for all ads
Some products also have an advanced setting to "ALLOW_SUM_UNIQUE", which bypasses this safety message and will sum them anyway. Note that this can lead to false values for unique metrics and is not recommended. (This setting is not available for Data Studio, you need to use the fix above.)
Example of the Advanced Setting for Google Sheets:
Blue arrow points to "Advanced settings" text box, with setting to ALLOW_SUM_UNIQUE to be enabled
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1. kahukura
 Rainbow, also refers to an atua (god) / significant ancestor in Ngāi Tahu traditions, and the native red admiral butterfly
 2. kai
 3. kai sovereignty
 4. kaikaranga
 Person who performs karanga
 5. kaikōrero
 Orators, speakers
 6. kaimahi
 Worker / staff
 7. kāinga
 8. kaitātaki
 9. kaitiaki
 Guardian / custodian over natural resources.
 10. kaitiakitanga
 Manaing and conserving the environment as part of a reciprocal relationship, based on the Māori world view that we as humas are part of the natural world.
 11. kaitoro
 12. kapahaka
 Māori performing group.
 13. karakia
 Ritual chants, Blessings
 14. karanga
 The karanga is an exchange between tangata whenua and manuhiri (visitors) to ascertain the nature of the visit and the visitors, thus providing the basis for the whaikōrero. It is also a chance for women well-versed in the art of karanga to express their own opinion on topical matters.
 15. kaumātua
 Male elder
 16. kaupapa
 17. kaupapa māori
 A Māori epistemology
 18. kawa
 19. kōrero
 Conversation, discussion, dialogue
 20. koru
 21. kotahitanga
 Unity, collaboration, community
 22. kuia
 Female elder