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Print this page as a planner for the different stages in moving from kindergarten to primary school.
Visit the Learning Together section Education planning for your child for much more information about planning and supporting your child's transition from kindergarten to primary school. Visit the section Choosing a school for more on school options and enrolment, and A guide to supports for students for more information about the supports available in schools, including the PSD application process.
You can download this information as a Word document here:
Tip sheet and planner – kindergarten to primary school (DOC 41 KB)
Prior to your child's 4-year-old kindergarten year
- Start talking to friends, neighbours and other networks about school options.
- Look at school websites and find out about different schools.
- Go to primary school open days, tours, fetes and other events.
- Telephone or meet with principals of any schools you are interested in.
Early in your child's 4-year-old kindergarten year
- Revisit the schools you are interested in and meet with principals of any schools you are
- Go to primary school open days and tours – take your child with you if you can.
- Once you have narrowed down your choices, take your child for a visit to the school.
- Make a final decision on your preferred primary school and put in an enrolment application – check with the school about application processes and due dates.
- Make an appointment to meet the principal after you have made your decision (well before the application due date, which is usually much later in the year), to begin planning how the school will support your child.
- In the meeting, begin the process of applying for any supplementary funding if that your child might be eligible for, such as Program for Students with Disabilities (PSD) funding, or funding to support building modifications or specialist equipment. Eligibility criteria for the PSD are outlined in PSD Guidelines, downloadable from the DET website.
April to June of 4-year-old kindergarten year
- If the school is applying for PSD funding or its equivalent, attend appointments with therapists or for assessment, and collect information to support the school's application for funding to help support your child.
- If the school is applying for PSD funding, you will need to participate in the application process, including meetings of an Application Student Support Group, to discuss your child's application.
- With your input, the group will fill in the Educational Needs Questionnaire (ENQ), to determine your child's support needs in various areas.
- The answers to the ENQ are transferred to the Student Learning and Support Statement – Goals and Strategies. This is the initial plan for your child's educational program.
- The school collects all documentation for the PSD application and submits it, usually by July.
September of 4-year-old kindergarten year
- If a PSD application was made, the result should be known by September.
- Whether or not a PSD funding application was submitted or successful, meet with the school again to further plan your child's supports, and to create a transition plan for supporting your child to transition from kindergarten to school. Such a meeting is required for children whose participation in kindergarten has been supported through the Kindergarten Inclusion Support (KIS) program.
- Suggest that the school invite any professionals to that meeting who know your child and can help support their transition, such as their kindergarten teacher, therapist or case manager. If your child is receiving KIS, you can receive additional support for transition – see the DET website under 'Sharing our Journey'.
- The school principal should know the outcome of any funding applications by this time. Unsuccessful applications can be appealed by the school within 15 working days. Whether or not applications for funding were successful, work with the school to plan your child's supports.
October/November of 4-year-old kindergarten year
- If your child's kindergarten has not already worked with you to complete their 'Transition Statement' or equivalent, this should happen now. This is a key document that summarises your child's needs and strategies to support their learning. It includes a section for parents and carers to fill in and an optional section to add further information if your child has additional needs.
November to January prior to school starting
- Attend orientation activities for the school, along with any additional orientation activities.
- Over the holidays, spend time in the playground and getting to know the school layout
- Work with your child at home to get them ready for school, for example using 'social stories' to prepare them, or practicing any of the independence skills they might need at school.
- Attend any additional orientation activities prior to the first day of school, such as a visit during the student free day prior to the first day, for your child to meet their teachers and become familiar with their classroom and the school grounds.
First term of school
- Support your child as agreed with the school during transition planning.
- Make regular times to check in with the classroom teacher and any other staff about how your child is settling in.
- Schedule the first SSG meeting for early in the term, to assess your child's initial time at school, adjust their supports as needed, and further develop their Individual Learning Plan.


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This post is a follow-up to Beliefs, in which I outlined some of what the machine learning community knows about how beliefs should interact with one another.
One assumption which I didn't spend too much time on in that post was the assumption that a "belief" should be managed by local message-passing as much as possible. This is an assumption which has been strong in the probabilistic graphical models community from the beginning, and which I have taken as a given. In order to get efficient algorithms, it seems like a good idea to do everything through local processes. Also, message-passing simply fits with my intuitions about how humans reason. Even markov networks (as opposed to Bayesian networks) feel insufficiently local, because the probabilistic semantics is distributed (you need to know all the factors before you can determine probabilities). For me, the more local, the better: the popular Monte Carlo methods strike me as "not local enough" (because although we keep making changes locally, we do this to a global complete state, and make a running tally over time... seems unfeasible for extremely large networks representing the quantity of knowledge a human has). I'll question this assumption now.
In the previous post, I looked at some of the local message-passing algorithms I'm interested in. There is more interesting material which I've now understood and would like to summarize, but for the moment I'll cover just one more thing to serve my point.
I mentioned that we can make a distinction between techniques such as Mean Field which seek to minimize KL(Q||P), and those such as Belief Propagation which use KL(P||Q); both of these measure divergence between the true distribution and our approximation, but KL(P||Q) intuitively makes more sense (minimizing error due to approximation), whereas KL(Q||P) has some computational advantages.
It turns out that both belief propagation and mean field can be fit into the framework of minimizing KL(Q||P). Even though this isn't my error function of choice, it's good to be able to explain both approximations within one framework; it allows us to definitively explain how to pass messages between the two, in the case that we want to use both in one network.
The basic idea is that Mean Field (MF) can be justified in a straightforward way by minimizing KL(P||Q) when we assume Q contains a separate factor for every variable. Belief Prop (BP), on the other hand, can be justified by minimization of the Bethe energy. The Bethe energy can be derived from KL(P||Q) when Q is of a peculiar form containing a factor for every relationship between variables, but also a negative factor for every variable. The negative factors divide out the effect of the overabundant positive factors. The negative factors are constrained to be the marginals of the positive factors. This gets a little confusing (I'll plan a full post for later), but provides greater coupling between variables, which we expect to give us a better approximation. (It does in most cases.) Unfortunately, it ruins the convergence guarantee which MF had.
The framework I mentioned allows us to deal with a Q function which mixes these two forms. This is good, because MF and BP are good for dealing with different kinds of things. MF often has a simple closed form in cases where BP does not, or does but is too expensive. MF is guaranteed to converge, while BP is not. However, BP typically gives better results when it does converge. It gives exact results for a tree-shaped belief network, while MF does not. It handles 0s in distributions, while MF cannot.
Because BP is not guaranteed to converge, it makes some sense to argue that it is not suitable to AGI-scale systems of beliefs. There will almost certainly be some portion of the network which will not converge, even if non-convergent behavior is rare overall; and this problem may be likely to spread. Therefore, it could make sense to have small, "safe" BP networks acting as pieces in a larger MF network, to make global convergence easier. If a portion of the network was causing trouble, more of it might be converted to MF.
If I'm not mistaken, this same idea could also accommodate Kikuchi free energy, which gives "generalized belief propagation" (GBP). This goes further than BP, including even more interactions in the approximation. Hence we have a flexible approximation framework, which can handle approximations based on a wide variety of forms for Q. The structure of Q can be adapted to the situation, addressing our needs as well as any local convergence problems.
This might sound like a rather nice situation. But... is it?
We're putting an awful lot of energy into the approximation, here. Why are the belief networks so difficult to control? The structure-learning system has to find these networks in the first place. If we can't even do inference for a hypothesis, how can we choose it? Shouldn't the system choose hypotheses for which inference is manageable?
This is exactly the approach taken by Sum-Product Networks. Graphical models normally give us exponential-time inference in the worst case, but sum-product networks are linear-time instead. We could get a similar advantage by using standard types of networks, like BNs or MNs, and requiring that the network take the form of a tree (for which exact inference is inexpensive). We get guaranteed linear-time inference, no approximations, but we have not severely restricted the kinds of probability distributions which can be expressed: we can add more hidden variables to express more complicated distributions. (If we need to add exponentially many nodes to do what we want, though, then obviously we're getting back into trouble.) SPNs do the same thing, but are an interesting alternative to tree networks, in that they allow us to adjust the probability formula at a lower level; we are literally composing an expression of sums and products to express the distribution (an "arithmetic circuit"). This is more annoying for a human to look at, but at the same time, gives us more freedom (allows us to compactly represent a larger number of functions) without compromising the linear-time inference.
SPNs are very similar to artificial neural networks, particularly feedforward networks, and give us linear-time inference for the same reason: we're directly learning a mathematical expression to give the desired result, not trying to represent some inference problem to be solved. One way of explaining it is: for any approximation method, we end up performing some sequence of arithmetic operations to arrive at an answer. SPNs jump straight to learning a good sequence of arithmetic operations, as our model, rather than learning a potentially difficult model and then trying to find a nice approximation.
I said I would deal with my assumption of local approximation. Going back to the P vs Q idea, a "belief" is a local function; a factor of Q. The question is how to coordinate a number of local functions, in order to get a good approximation of a probability function P. SPNs don't need any of this. Local beliefs give us a very messy belief approximation process. SPNs give us a global model with exact inference.
Why do I call an SPN "global"? It might be local enough to satisfy some. The linear-time inference algorithm iterates over the network via the links. That's local, isn't it? Well, sort of. You can't learn SPNs locally and then compose them together, though. The parts of a sum-product network do not have inherent meaning outside of the network. In a Bayesian network, a conditional probability is a conditional probability; we could evaluate its accuracy apart from everything else, if we could access data for those variables.
SPNs aren't a full AGI system in themselves, but they give me an image of an AGI system which learns very fast belief-formation functions, which simply get evaluated in order to give probabilities at a particular moment. This image is much more efficient than my previous image of a large network of approximate beliefs which are doing local message-passing to minimize KL divergence between Q and the desired P. Local approximation by message-passing is a faster approximation than Monte Carlo methods, but if we can create networks which we can precisely evaluate very quickly, why worry about approximation at all?
On the other hand, I think we really want some FOPI-style behavior (First Order Probabilistic Inference, one approach to integrating logic and probability). The structure of beliefs should include first-order logic as a special case, which means we cannot avoid including problems which are potentially intractable. (IE, real-life inference problems are sometimes intractable.)
Indeed, it is difficult to see how an SPN-like framework can give us persistent beliefs with logical structure. An SPN is composed of'sum' nodes and 'product' nodes. We can think of the'sum' nodes as representing 'or', and the 'product' nodes as representing 'and'. So, we can think of 'product' nodes as representing an object: a combination of attributes. 'Sum' nodes represent alternative ways of achieving attributes. However, this is still a very low-level representation! There is no way to represent multiple instances of one object, no way to represent classes of objects with a type/subtype relation... we can't reason about familial relations, for example, trying to decide whether two people are cousins given some other information about their families.
Side note: one possible objection is that belief networks are a representation for the low-level dynamics of an artificial mind, and do not need to represent the high-level stuff like logic. This should emerge as a learned skill of a large network which has access to mental workspaces in which it can implement more complex, longer-term mental processes. This approach may be workable. However, my intuition is that there is something to gain from explicitly representing logically

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theoretical and percent yield
You learned how to calculate theoretical yield and percent yield in general chemistry lab. Since chemistry is a cumulative discipline, we expect students to remember topics from previous chemistry course. Anyway, here is a brief recap:
write the balanced chemical equation of the reaction
if there is more than one product, determine which one (or ones) are the products of interest. If one of the products is organic and the other is inorganic, in an organic chemistry synthesis the product of interest will be the organic compound (duh...). If you are not certain which is the desired product, read the introduction to the procedure again.
determine the moles of each reactant you will use using literature physical constants (i.e. density, MW). This includes any inorganic reactants, but not any catalysts used or reaction solvents.
determine which reactant is the limiting reagent
determine the moles of product expected using the balanced equation of reaction and the moles of limiting reagent. This is the theoretical yield, expressed in moles. This can also be expressed in units of mass using the literature MW of the product.
use the mass of product obtained to determine the percent yield:
percent yield = grams of product obtained X
theoretical yield (in grams)
or convert the mass of product obtained to the moles of products obtained (using the MW of the product) to determine the percent yield:
percent yield = moles of product obtained X 100%
theoretical yield (in moles)


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Eucharis ( Amazon ) Lily
The bulbous Eucharis or Amazon lily produces star shaped clusters of white flowers held high above the plant.
Each cluster contains 3-6 fragrant flowers. Amazon lily flowers are very showy, leaves are large and spectacular.
The large showy Amazon Lily white flowers are borne in an umbel of three to ten on an erect scape 40-80 cm long.
The flowers are beautiful in having a prominent corona, which is sometimes tinged with green.
The word "eucharis" comes from the Green eu-, meaning "good, true, original," and charis, meaning "loveliness, grace, and favor." It seems well-named, judging from this description.
Adding to the allure of the plant are the large, glossy, elliptic to oval leaves on long petioles that provide a perfect foil for the showy flowers. Leaves may be several inches wide, and they form a tight rosette that arises from the bulb.
The eucharist lily can bloom several times a year and prefers dappled shade when planted outside in the garden.
One can also grow them in pots to place them in the bathroom or even in balcony.
This Ecuadorian native is an excellent container plant and is happy in greenhouse, solarium or even on a windowsill, where a lightly shaded environment can be provided.
Facts About Amazon Lily
- Amazon Lily is a bulbous perennial plant.
- Amazon Lily plant leaves are basal and narrow into petioles.
- Amazon Lily is a beautiful shade loving plant from South America.
- The shinny dark green foliage is very attractive.
- The broad stalked leaves are 20-55 cm long and 10-20 cm broad.
- The glossy leaves of Amazon Lily plant are deep green, several inches wide and in the form of a rosette.
- The tall Amazon Lily spikes bear fragrant, waxy, long lasting white flowers.
- Mature clumps can flower at different times of the year but more often it will flower in the spring.
- It likes shade and sheltered areas and makes an excellent potted plant.
- The bulbs will go dormant if the temperatures goes near freezing.
- Amazon Lily plants can flower twice a year.
- All parts of Amazon Lily plant are poisonous if ingested.
source : theflowerexpert.com
**Recommended planters for Eucharis ( Amazon ) Lily**

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One of the first preparatory boarding schools in the United States, Lawrenceville School was founded in 1810 as the Maidenhead Academy. Hired by the board of trustees in 1880, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., created a campus master plan predicated on fostering a vibrant academic community. Working closely with architects Peabody & Stearns to carefully site a dozen buildings, Olmsted drew from the English campus system with buildings arranged around a central green. Known as the Circle, this kidney-shaped lawn is ringed by several residency halls, the Edith Memorial Chapel, and administrative buildings built in the Neo-Romanesque style. Olmsted created a living "museum of botany and dendrology" for students' edification, with 371 species of trees planted throughout the landscape, arranged by genus for easy comparison. Campus additions in the 1920s by Delano & Aldrich would leave the Circle untouched, expanding outward to include more housing, classrooms, and extensive athletic facilities. Olmsted Brothers would serve as the consulting landscape architects during this expansion.
The Lawrenceville School campus now comprises 700 acres of park-like land and is the setting for a golf course, arts center, sports complex, and a 30-acre solar farm. In 2016 a new campus master plan by Sasaki Associates addressed the modernization of the school while respecting the original Olmsted design. The master plan dedicated space around the campus's perimeter for additional athletic, academic, and residential facilities, and enhanced circulation. The school administers an endowed fund to maintain the integrity of the largely intact historic designed landscape. Eighteen acres of the campus within the parameters of Olmsted's design was designated a National Historical Landmark in 1986.


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Star Fort Megapost
Thursday, 1st May 2008 by Alex Turnbull
A star fort or trace italienne is a type of military fortification first introduced in Italy around the mid-fifteenth century. Traditional medieval castles, towers and ring forts had proved extremely vulnerable to increasingly mobile cannons, and star forts were introduced specifically to better defend against them.
The tiny Italian town of Palmanova was founded in 1593, and using all the military innovations of the 16th century was built in the shape of nine-pointed star. You can still see quite clearly how the shape of the ramparts allows the points of the star to defend each other. Originally a moat surrounded the town (which partially remains today), and three heavily guarded gates (1, 2, 3) were the only way in.
 Palmanova, Italy (Wikipedia)
Cannons were most effective when they were fired perpendicular to the walls of the building under attack, and the star shaped design meant that to best position their weapons, attacking forces would have enter the space between the points of the star – where they would be fired on from both sides!
The judicious use of moats could further thwart the attacking forces, as demonstrated superbly here at Naarden, Netherlands.
 Naarden, Netherlands (Wikipedia)
By the late seventeenth-century star forts reached the pinnacle of their development, as shown by this complicated example in Bourtange, Netherlands, which has been fully restored to how it would have been in 1742. Here we can see that the design provides defence in depth, with tiers of ramparts that an attacker would have had to overcome to be in with a chance of taking the fort.
 Bourtange, Netherlands (Wikipedia)
This ingenious design quickly became the gold standard for defensive forts, and went on to spread across Europe and the Americas:
 Fort Manoel, Malta (Wikipedia)
 Fort McHenry, Maryland (Wikipedia)
 Castillo de San Marcos, Florida (Wikipedia)
The design even reached South Africa, where today the Castle of Good Hope can be seen right in the middle of the city! It used to be on the coast, but land reclamation allowed the city to expand around it.
 Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa (Wikipedia)
In the nineteenth century the development of the exploding shell changed the nature of defensive fortifications forever, and the star fort soon became utterly obsolete. Which is why several are today used for completely different purposes – like this example in Slovakia where they now spend their time trying to keep people inside rather than out.
 Leopoldov Prison, Slovakia (Wikipedia)
And finally, what is probably the world's most famous star fort isn't actually known for being a star fort at all – as Fort Wood is today the distinctive star-shaped pedestal underneath New York's Statue of Liberty.
 Fort Wood, New York (Wikipedia)
We've previously featured
just one star fort several star forts, including Kastellet in Copenhagen, Citadel Hill in Canada, and the aforementioned Fort McHenry in Maryland. If that's not enough, there's a whole page about them at Wikipedia too.

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text: The ratio of the reaction rates of the competing channels O-17(alpha,gamma)Ne-21 and O-17(alpha,n)Ne-20 determines the efficiency of O-16 as a neutron poison in the s process in low metallicity rotating stars. It has a large impact on the element production, either producing elements to the mass range of A=90 in case of a significant poisoning effect or extending the mass range up to the region of A=150 if the gamma channel is of negligible strength. We present an improved study of the reaction O-17(alpha, n)Ne-20, including an independent measurement of the O-17(alpha, n(1))Ne-20 channel. A simultaneous R-Matrix fit to both the n(0) and the n(1) channels has been performed. New reaction rates, including recent data on the O-17(alpha,gamma)Ne-21 reaction, have been calculated and used as input for stellar network calculations and their impact on the s process in rotating massive stars is discussed.


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Image pictured above, the Making it Work study logo, was designed by Clayton Gauthier.
Making It Work is an Indigenous focused community-based research study focused on integrated community services for people living with HIV, hepatitis C, and/or challenges with mental health or substance use. It is co-led by the Pacific AIDS Network and the AHA Centre, at CAAN. From a methodological perspective, Making It Work seeks to bridge Indigenous ways of knowing and doing and Indigenous research methodologies with Western academic RealistEvaluation methodology. The team has had many discussions about what this would look like and how it would work, and continue to do so. We envision our work as a kind of spiral, where everything we learn feeds into the next questions we seek to ask, and the information we glean from those questions then feeds into further questions, and so on. In addition to the three primary goals of the project, we are actively working to document what this methodological approach looks like and how we are building it as the project goes forward.
Initiative Objectives and Goals
We have three primary goals: to develop and implement an evidence-based evaluation plan for case management and community development programs across BC; to support capacity building in community-based research and evaluation methods for Peer Researchers, communities, and other stakeholders; and to highlight how Indigenous service delivery models can inform services for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people accessing services.
The Role of this Initiative to End the HIV Epidemic
Making It Work explores the relationship between improved outcomes and cultural safety, case management and community development by developing an understanding of how service providers adapt case management and programming to "make them work" in ways that are culturally safe for the people they serve.
Meaningful Engagement with People with Lived Experience
The process was collaborative and inclusive. The communities in which the research took place were full partners in all stages of the process. Community-based research seeks to democratize knowledge by recognizing and valuing the unique strengths and perspectives of all members involved in the research process.
Service providers, peer evaluators, service users, communities and other stakeholders
The importance of dialogue and spending time to discuss things from different perspectives has been evident in integrating Realist Evaluation into our project. This process has been one of capacity bridging between members of our research team with different life experience, and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous team members. Having people come together with different knowledge and world views and spending the time to develop our research methods using 'both eyes', or ways of seeing—without one eye being dominant over the other—has allowed us a wealth of information to build into our understanding. Part of coming together as a team with different experiences and knowledge has meant we have needed to be clear with our language and had to define concepts well. We have done this in team discussion sand have made a "key definitions" document to help guide our work.
Related knowledge transfer and exchange(KTE) products and resources are available on the PAN site.


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Reactions - Not Distractions
The Stony Brook University Police Department is campaigning for a safer campus community. Whether you're a driver or a pedestrian, individuals can take control of distractions that are often times harmful and threaten the safety of everyone. Help us make our roads and our community safer for everyone. Make the pledge to stop distractions.
What is Driver and Pedestrian Distraction?
A distraction is any activity that shifts attention away from the primary task: walking or driving.
Driving While Distracted (DWD)
- Distraction from cell phone use while driving (hand held or hands free) extends a driver's reaction time as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of.08 percent.
- The number one source of driver inattention is use of a wireless device.
- Drivers that use cell phones are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves.
- 10 percent of drivers aged 16 to 24 years old are on their phone at any one time.
- Driving while distracted is a factor in 25 percent of police reported crashes.
- Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37 percent.
When using a cell phone, pedestrians commonly:
- Walk slower
- Are less likely to notice other objects in their environment
- Select smaller crossing gaps in traffic
- Are less likely to look at traffic before starting to cross the road
- Are less likely to wait for traffic to stop
- Are less likely to look at traffic while crossing the road
- Are more likely to walk out in front of an approaching car
Using electronic devices like cell phones and MP3 players while walking can increase your likelihood of being involved in a motor vehicle accident. Pay attention to your surroundings and avoid distractions. No plan or strategy guarantees your safety; all you can do is remain cautious and take no unnecessary chances. The more careful you are, the safer you will be.
Pledge Your Support
The first step in putting an end to distracted walking/driving is to pledge your support and cooperation. Sign our pledge. Please share this information with your family and friends and encourage them to pledge their support as well.
Campus Safety. It's our job, but it's everyone's responsibility.


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Page from a Kalpasutra manuscript showing the birth of Mahavira
From the Kalpasutra Manuscript
Late 15th - early 16th century
Opaque watercolour on paper
Museum no. IM.8-1931
The Kalpasutra (The Book of Ritual) is one of the two most popular texts and contains biographies of the four most significant Jinas, including Mahavira, and the Story of the Teacher Kalaka (Kalakacharyakatha), an influential moralising work frequently appended to the Kalpasutra.


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Fakir Mohan Senapati
(13 January 1843 - 14 June 1918) born on January 13, 1843, at Mallikashpur in Balasore, played a leading role in establishing the distinct identity of Oriya, a language mainly spoken in the Indian state of Orissa. Fakirmohan Senapati is regarded as the father of Oriya nationalism and the morden Oriya literaure. Born to father, Laxman Charan Senapati and mother Tulsi Devi Senapatie, Fakirmohan dedicated his life for the progress of Oriya language in the later 19th and early 20th century. The story of Fakirmohan is indeed the story of the 'Renaissance' of Oriya literature. Besides he was a social reformer and educator who used his pen to criticize and correct the aberrations prevalent in the society. He is called the father of Oriya fiction.
He is aptly called as Thomas Hardy of Orissa.[by whom?] Though he had translated from Sanskrit, wrote poetry, and attempted many forms of literature, he is now known primarily as the father of modern Oriya prose fiction. The four novels of Fakirmohan, written between 1897 and 1915, reflect the socio-cultural conditions of Orissa during the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. While the three novels, 'Chhamana Atha Guntha', 'Mamu' and 'Prayaschita' explore the realities of social life in its multiple dimensions. 'Lachhama' is a historical romance dealing with the anarchical conditions of Orissa in the wake of Maratha invasions during the eighteenth century. Chha Maana Atha Guntha is the first Indian novel to deal with the exploitations of landless peasants by the feudal Lord. It was written much before the October revolution of Russia or much before the emerging of Marxist ideas in India. Fakir Mohan is also the writer of the first autobiography in Oriya, "Atma Jeevan Charita"
If either Fakirmohan or his progeny had preserved his short story, "Lachhamania" which he had written in the late 1860s, and which was published in the journal Bodhadayini, edited by himself in Balasore, Fakirmohan would certainly been credited with having pioneered the genre in India. But as ill-luck would have it, except for a bare mention in his autobiography, the story cannot be traced, and thus his "Rebati" (1898) is widely recognized as the first Oriya short story. "Rebati" is the story of a young innocent girl whose desire for education is placed in the context of a conservative society in a backward Orissa village, which is hit by the killer epidemic cholera. His other stories are "Patent Medicine", "Daka Munshi","Adharma Bitta", "Randi Pua Ananta"etc.
Vyasa Kabi Fakir Mohan Senapati had one daughter from his first wife Leelavati Devi who had married to Raghunath Chaudhari elder brother of Gagan Bihar Chaudhari. From his second wife Krushna Kumari Dei; Fakir Mohan had his only son Mohini Mohan Senapati and daughter Sarojini Senapati. Sarojini Senapati married to Gagan Bihari Chaudhari who was the then Dist Judge at Cuttack. Gagan Behari Chaudhari had three sons and one daughter they are Bipin Bihari Chaudhary, Saila Bihari Chaudhary, Snehamayee Devi. Sneha Mayee Devi who married to Surya Mani Jena a graduate from Calcutta University who was the Inspector of Schools. Even the Senior Advocate and former Law Minister late Mr. Ashok Sen and his elder brother were the students of Surya Mani Jena at Sambalpur High School. Surya Mani had three sons and one daughter namely Pratap Chandra Varma, Ajay Chandra and Sanjaya Chandra Varma. Prasanta Varma, Advocate Supreme Court of India is the son of late Mr. Pratap Chandra Varma and is one of the Great Great Grand Son of Fakir Mohan Senapati. Fakir Mohan's great-grand-daughter Monica Das is a writer and economist based out of New Delhi, India.


Tricks of the trade: Limit output to maintain reliability of legacy Frame 5 engines
A valuable turbine operating tip provided by Dave Lucier, founder and GM of PAL Turbine Services LLC, applies to GE Frame 5 gas turbines—most specifically the MS5001D, K, L, and LA packaged powerplants manufactured between 1961 and 1970 and serving in peaking and emergency-power applications.
Some users operating these engines have found that reliability issues associated with equipment other than the gas turbine proper can be addressed by limiting power (megawatt) output to a percentage of the original rating. It should not be surprising that a 50-year-old machine would exhibit signs of ageing. Here are a few instances where limiting output might be a wise strategy:
There are several "semi-permanent" ways to limit gas-turbine output, including the following:
 - Generator experiences overheating at high loads, as sensed by RTDs in the stator.
 - Reduction (load) gear vibrates excessively when operating at high power output.
 - Turbine experiences vibration because of internal rubs attributed to casing distortion.
1. Limit switches on the load set point. Motor-driven rheostat (70-R4) can be used to reduce power output (Fig 1). One limit switch usually is set for 40% of travel. It establishes the "called-for" speed (offline at 5100 rpm) for the subsequent startup.
Another cam and limit switch is used to stop the motor when the travel reaches the end stop (at 100%). This cam can be loosened and rotated to stop the motor—at say 80% travel—for the purpose of curtailing generator output.
2. Gag adjustment of Young & Franklin fuel regulator. Another way for temporarily limiting power output involves "gagging" of the fuel regulator (Fig 2, left). This can be done with the turbine at cranking speed. Here's how:
Start the turbine in the crank position and run up to 1000 rpm. Have one operator open the panel door and hold switch 43FS in the maximum VCO (variable control oil) position. Once the control-oil output pressure rises to maximum (typical setting is 180 to 200 psig), use the gag adjustment to temporarily lower the VCO. Look at recorded data for the baseload setting (usually about 160 to 170 psig).
Using a 3/8-in. nut driver, looking downward, turn inward on the gag adjustment (located under the plug shown in Fig 2, right), carefully counting the number of turns. Two or three complete rotations usually is all that's necessary.
Next, restart the gas turbine and observe the new output limit with a lower VCO pressure than the previous baseload setting would allow. Example: 12-MW limit, when the original baseload setting might allow up to 15 MW.
3. Air signal into temperature bellows. A third semi-permanent way to limit power output is to insert a temporary air signal into the temperature bellows. A tee can be installed in the air-signal tubing coming from device 65EP (Fig 3).
To illustrate, let's say the temperature control will hold VCO pressure at 170 psig when on exhaust temperature control for the typical operating day, which is consistent with an output of 15 MW. For this condition the turbine exhaust temperature might be 930F and the air signal into the bellows approximately 22 psig from 65EP.
Install a tee in the tubing line to the bellows and raise the air pressure slightly. Example: 23 psig would limit the VCO to about 160 psig and exhaust temperature to 870F, reducing output to a nominal 13 MW.
Conclusion. Which method of output should you choose to help assure engine reliability? Lucier's preferred method is to stop 70-R4 short of its end travel (80%). Second choice would be VCO gag adjustment atop the fuel regulator. Increasing the air signal to the temperature bellows is third on my list and would get consideration only when a short-term solution is necessary.
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Amira saw a need for the Tunisian agriculture to use water better, for the benefit of local farmers and the country, which found itself amid an extreme drought. So, along with her co-founder, she built Seabex, an e-monitoring and automation system enabling smarter irrigation.
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The Federal Highway Administration indicates that about 85,000 bridges in the United States have no original contract documents with information about the type, depth, geometry and material of their foundations (FHWA, 2010). Furthermore, the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) provides information about 86,133 bridges nationwide that are rated as scour critical because of unknown foundation condition. In New Mexico, there are more than 281 bridges with unknown foundations, which are owned by the New Mexico Department of Transportation; 71 of these are timber bridges. These data indicate a serious problem that needs decisive action to assess the unknown bridge foundation characteristics (types and depths of foundation) in order to evaluate the scour safety risk of timber bridges in New Mexico.
The objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of using the Sonic Echo (SE) method to determine unknown bridge foundation depths. The SE method was observed to be suitable for determining unknown pile depths for bridges that are supported by timber pile abutments or timber pile bents. The SE test method provides reliable and reasonable results for determining all tested piles with an accuracy of ±15 percent. The SE tests were conducted on seventeen timber piles in different locations in New Mexico. The success rate of using the Sonic Echo method to determine the depth of unknown bridge piles is 94%. The range of the depths of tested timber piles was 16 feet to 38 feet.
Sonic Echo Test Conducted on Timber Piles, Sound Wave Calculation within Timber Pile, Effectiveness of Sonic Echo Test on Timber Pile.
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Does anybody know what causes this to happen(see pics).I have them on the bottom of 8 of my 10 tomato plants.And is there a way to fix or are all my plants going to die.I also put a pic of the top of the plants were the leaves appear to be fine.Any help would be appreciated as this is my first year of gardening.Thanks in advance.
Yellowing Leaves on Tomato Plants
It could be any number of things.
First, as the plants mature, it's not uncommon for the bottom leaves to yellow due to lack of nutrients from the soil, that the weather is really hot, or even lack of light (the top leaves are shading out the bottom leaves). It's ok to pinch them off. And, don't worry about all the plants dying quite yet.
Next, do a soil test. It could be a lack of nitrogen in the soil. You can take some soil from around the base of the tomato plant to your local extension service and they can help with the test. There are also soil test kits available for purchase, but the reviews I've seen on them don't inspire a lot of confidence.
Your best bet is to test the soil and go from there.
P.S. Do you rotate where you plant tomatoes each year? If tomatoes are planted in the same place each year, the soil becomes very nutrient poor and diseases are more likely to be a problem. If you don't rotate, you should start next year. If you have the space a 3 year rotation cycle is optimal.


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Rashi, Nemukey Yosef, Riaz, Rokeach, Rambam, and many others all write wine. THis presents mystery; if one or two said it it might be coincidental, but with so many you'd think thered be an explanation. My explanation is that these Rishonim understood that "bsumei" means to get drunk through wine. THere is much support for this assertion: Rashi generaly explains the Gemara and doesnt insert his own halachic opinions; why does he mention wine? THe Nemukey Yosef and Rashi on the Rif writes expicitely "get drunk through wine" as one would expect if they understood that the word connotes wine in particular. The Riaz and the Rokeach both write "peirsuh" that is that the exaplnation of the Gemara is...and then say wine; implying that this is the very explanation of the Gemara. Note also the Rashbam Bava Basra 73b who mentions wine in description of besumei. The clincher is that the Aruch writes explicitly (entry: Basim) that the root basim is the aramaic translation of wine. With this appreciation of these Rishonim we can then ask whether or not the Gemara was specific in using this word which connotes wine or not. Given that many Rishonim e.g. Maharam of Rotenberg (MHK responsa vol. 1 ch. 625) connect the drinking with commemorating the miracle and the drinking was with wine as mentioned throughout the Megillah, it is reasonable that the Gemara was specific when using this word that connotes wine. R. Yosef Ben David Hadayan of Sorgossa the student of the Ran is quite clear about this (cited in Nit'ey Gavriel v. 15 ch. 39) comparing the wine on Purim to matzah on pesach and other substances that commemorate miracles through those substances. Thus we dont just shoot for drunkenees, but wine in particular. Lastly drinking without fulfilling the mitzvah may be improper or even forbidden (see for example Rambam De'os 5:3) thus it makes a tremendous amount of sense from a halachic perspective to use wine and only wine. The contemporary poskim dispute the issue: R. Moshe (heard from a student of his and recorded in shmaatsa d'moshe) held that any alcohol could be used while Mishneh halachos writes that only wine can be used. R. Tzvi Pesach Frank (Moadim Uzmanim) concludes with uncertainty over whether other alcohol can be used. There is always the chance that if R. Moshe saw the above reasoning (based on the Aruch) he would have agreed to use wine.
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The solubility of substance is depends on temperature and interaction of solute-solvent with its dissociation in ionic form as ionic strength of acid at different pH, where their partitioning (K) are observed between two immiscible liquid-liquid solvents system. Presently, we have been reported to benzoic acid for these solubility as well as its partitioning study at different pH between in hydrophilic aqueous water and hydrophobic organic benzene layers at room temperature (25°C). Here, the benzoic acid are distributed between such solvent by applying shake-flask method and by titrimetrically, there equilibrium concentration in both solvents are analyzed. The solubility of benzoic acid and it partitioning between water and benzene buffer solution at different pH range as 4.0, 7.0 and 9.0 have been studied well.


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One essential role of the school admin team is to ensure parents complete forms and return them before the deadline. Forms vary in range from absentees and excursion notes for legal compliance, to canteen orders, uniforms, photo days, carnivals and surveys.
A seemingly simple process, but as one admin manager from a school of 1,000 students pointed out, their photo day permission notes alone usually takes months of parent-chasing. That was the old way. Since introducing School Stream, they started to see high submission rates from parents very quickly, including over 65% of parents completing their photo day form on day one, which saved them hours of time.
Then there was the school who recently introduced digital payment forms on the School Stream app for their music lessons. Previously, parents would make payments via bank deposits, write cheques, and bring in cash. This would all need to be reconciled before the admin team could book the music lessons. To streamline their time, the admin team now only accept payments via the School Stream app, allowing them to instantly see whether the payment has been made so they can book the lesson right away.
"This has made our lives a lot easier and we don't need to do all of the reconciling!"
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To extend our support, we have recently produced a set of form templates which you can import into your control panel. They include canteen order form, uniform order form, parent survey, community engagement survey and more. Once imported, the forms will be added to your templates folder. The forms can then be easily edited with the drag and drop builder.
How to import the forms
- Download this.zip file of templated forms and unzip the file. (The unzipped file is a.xml file).
- Go to the forms 'Import' section in your Control Panel.
- Click the "Choose file" button to locate the unzipped file and then click on the orange "Upload file and import" button.
- Once you see the green confirmation box of the forms and fields that were imported/updated, click on the "Forms" item in the menu.
- Click on the "Templates" tab and you'll see a list of your newly imported form templates.
Create a form from a template in 5 easy steps
Now that you've installed your new form templates, you can very easily and quickly publish these forms to your school's app.
- Hover over the template you wish to publish and select "Create form from template"
- Check the form to make sure you're happy with all of the fields and when you're happy, click the orange "Create" button.
- Now for the form to appear in the app, you'll need to insert the form onto a page (just as you would insert an image onto a page). Go to 'Pages' and add a new page, and include the page title. Now click on the "Forms" button.
- In the forms dropdown, select your form title and check the 'Form title' and 'Form description' checkboxes.
- Select the category you wish to publish the form to and then you're ready to publish the page.
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Quick Answer: How Did Elijah Respond To God'S Call?
How did Elijah hear God?
In 1 Kings 19:11, the Lord tells Elijah that he is about to pass by.
Finally, at the end of verse 12, Elijah hears a "gentle whisper." And Elijah immediately recognizes that God is in the gentle whisper.
Amid the earth-shaking noise of the wind, earthquake and fire, Elijah recognizes the voice of God..
What was Elisha's message?
At the siege of Samaria by the king of Syria, Elisha prophesied about the terrible sufferings of the people of Samaria and their eventual relief. Elisha then journeyed to Damascus and prophesied that Hazael would be king over Syria.
What can we learn from Elisha?
Elisha had the faith to ask big things of God (2 Kings 2:9). Elisha also had the faith to do many miracles. … The source of his courage was his knowledge that God was in control and protecting him. He knew his very life was in God's hands so he was not afraid of people.
Why did God send Elijah to Zarephath?
In order to avoid the wrath of the king God told Elijah to hide by the Brook Cherith where he was fed bread and meat by ravens sent from God (vv2-6). After a while, due to the drought, the brook dried up so God told Elijah to go to the town of Sarepta and to seek out a widow that would find him water and food (vv.
Is Days of Elijah biblical?
Days of Elijah leaves much to be desired. Though it has a great overall message and has some accurate basis in Scripture, it also takes other Bible verses out of context, makes figurative usage out of events that did not exist, and leaves unbelievers bewildered and confused.
What did Elisha call Elijah?
When Elisha sees Elijah riding up to heaven in a fiery chariot drawn by fiery horses, he calls him: וישרפו לארשי בכר יבא יבא, "My father, my father! Chariot of Israel and its horses!" The same title is used again by the Israelite king Joash when he cries out in despair and addresses the dying Elisha in 2 Kgs 13:14.
What kind of man was Elijah?
He was a hairy man, a rugged outdoor type. Elijah had super speed. He ran seventeen miles from Carmel to Jezreel faster than Ahab's chariot (1 Kings 18:46).
When did God speak to Elijah in the cave?
Why did Elijah flee to the mountain?
After bidding the king eat and drink for the drought would presently end, Elijah went to a solitary place on the mountain to pray for rain.
How many miracles Elijah and Elisha did?
Elisha asked Elijah for twice as much as his spirit; Elijah said it was a difficult request (2 Kgs 2.9). The Midrash says Elijah did eight miracles and Elisha sixteen. I Elisha's miracles not only double Elijah's but seem to parallel and multiply them in their themes, elements and language.
Who is the father of Elijah?
Why did Elijah pray for no rain?
Elijah was making a point to them that they must pray and praise God for all that they have. He prayed for the rain to stop to make a point to them that God gives us all, rain, sun, food, etc. when the people learned their lesson, he prayed again and the rains came again.
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A hardware wallet is a specialized device used to store private keys and securely manage cryptocurrencies. Unlike software wallets that operate on computers or mobile devices, hardware wallets are physical devices disconnected from the internet when not in use, making them less susceptible to hacking and online threats.
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A comprehensive biological model (MANTIS2) including a pH model was developed on GPS-X simulation platform. Each biological, physical and chemical reaction equation in the model was modified to include the stoichiometric changes in the concentration of inorganic state variables contributing
to charge balance. The model was applied to study the pH dynamics in experimental batch reactors performing the biological reactions of nitrification, denitrification and phosphorous release/uptake. The model was able to predict the change in the various parameters of soluble COD, PO4-P
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Dupont, Lydie M; Behling, Hermann; Kim, Jung-Hyun (2008): AMS radiocarbon dates and pollen analysis of ODP Hole 175-1078C. PANGAEA,, Supplement to: Dupont, LM et al. (2008): Thirty thousand years of vegetation development and climate change in Angola (Ocean Drilling Program Site 1078). Climate of the Past, 4, 107-124,
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ODP Site 1078 situated under the coast of Angola provides the first record of the vegetation history for Angola. The upper 11 m of the core covers the past 30 thousand years, which has been analysed palynologically in decadal to centennial resolution. Alkenone sea surface temperature estimates were analysed in centennial resolution. We studied sea surface temperatures and vegetation development during full glacial, deglacial, and interglacial conditions. During the glacial the vegetation in Angola was very open consisting of grass and heath lands, deserts and semi-deserts, which suggests a cool and dry climate. A change to warmer and more humid conditions is indicated by forest expansion starting in step with the earliest temperature rise in Antarctica, 22 thousand years ago. We infer that around the period of Heinrich Event 1, a northward excursion of the Angola Benguela Front and the Congo Air Boundary resulted in cool sea surface temperatures but rain forest remained present in the northern lowlands of Angola. Rain forest and dry forest area increase 15 thousand years ago. During the Holocene, dry forests and Miombo woodlands expanded. Also in Angola globally recognised climate changes at 8 thousand and 4 thousand years ago had an impact on the vegetation. During the past 2 thousand years, savannah vegetation became dominant.
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User-defined plugins
Siconos proposes a 'plugin' system that allows users to provide their own function(s) to describe some specific behavior for some classes components.
For example, consider a lagrangian linear dynamical system, where \(M\ddot q + C \dot q + K q = F_{Ext}(t,z) + p\).
Suppose you want to set \(F_{Ext}(t,z) = cos(t)\), then you can define a C function to compute this cosine and 'plug' it to the dynamical system so that each time the system needs to compute its external forces, your cosine function will be called.
At the time, plug-in are available for DynamicalSystems and Relation. For both of them and for their derived classes, a list of the variables that can be plugged is given in ds_plugins and relation_plugins.
 - find the variable you want to plug and check what is the expected list of arguments for a function plugged to this variable (check ds_plugins or relation_plugins).
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 extern "C" external_forces(double time, int size, double* fext, int zsize, double *z)
 (*fext)(i) = cos(time);
 - connect your function to the variable. For each 'plugable' variable, a setComputeVARNAMEFunction exists
ds->setComputeFExtFunction('myPlugin', 'external_forces');
//...
// --> call external_forces with time == 2.
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plugins in siconos classes
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plugin name
\(g(\dot x, x, t, z)\)
(double time, int x_size, double *x, int lambda_size, double * lambda, double * y, int z_size, double * z)
Suppose that you defined a LagrangianDS named lds, and want to set two parameters in the external forces, say mu and lambda.
Then cpp input file looks like:
// In the main file:
double mu, lambda;
//... give mu and lambda the required values
//... declare and built your dynamical system
SP::DynamicalSystem lds(new LagrangianDS(...));
// Link with the plug-in function
lds->setComputeFExtFunction("", "myFExt");
// === First way, with setZ function (copy) ===
// declare and built a SimpleVector of size 2
SimpleVector myZ(2);
myZ(0) = mu;
myZ(1) = lambda;
// In this case, if parameters values are change after this step,
// this won't affect param values inside the dynamical system.
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// declare and built a pointer to SimpleVector of size 2
SP::SimpleVector myZPtr(new SimpleVector(2));
(*myZPtr)(0) = mu;
(*myZPtr)(1) = lambda;
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// will affect param value in the dynamical system.
// Then in the plug-in file, you have access to the parameter values:
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Why Chinese Products Are Cheaper? [Complete Information]
Why Chinese Products Are Cheaper Image
Indian Markets have huge potential in terms of producing anything and everything, but we still rely on the Chinese Market for our basic needs, from a toy to a mobile phone. The Chinese producers have infiltrated the indigenous market and are able to sell the goods cheaper than the local producers. There ought to be a reason why Chinese products are cheaper?
Despite the huge costs involved in transportation through the sea route and high packaging costs and customs duty; Chinese manufacturers are able to squeeze in their products at prices that do not seem viable for their local counterparts. They even compete in items which are simple in nature and are easy to produce, like pencil boxes.
Why Chinese Products Are Cheaper Than Indian Products?
Going by the popular discussions, which emphasize on the fact that production cost in China is cheaper than others as the workers are available at low wages. We doubt the authenticity of the claim as many other countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh, Thailand; also pay their workers in a similar fashion. Yet their products are not that economical as one would perceive.
The fact that the Chinese goods have such an impact on the world and our local markets is really commendable on the part of the Chinese Government. With an exemplary implementation of well thought out strategies; they allowed their economy to be liberalized and supported foreign businesses and investors; which further strengthened the business environment in their county.
The administration has taken necessary steps in investing in the infrastructure of the country including roads, electricity availability, ports to enhance the overall productivity and create efficiency in their operations.
They have also taken initiatives towards setting up of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and thereby attracting Foreign Direct Investment in their country.
Supporting and promoting global exports for the produce of China, the government consistently indulges in leveraging the currency exchange rates in the International market.
Some points answering the question as to why Chinese products are cheaper?
Economy of Scale
The Chinese Government has always focussed on producing goods on a large scale; which ultimately decreases the overall costs, thereby making the goods cheaper.
Exporting Globally
China believes in exporting their goods in the international markets. Their focus is to serve beyond their own country and thereby their target market is large as compared to our local Indian manufacturers; wherein the scope is restricted to the Indian markets. Since the quantum of production in our local markets is less, the overall cost is high; thereby increasing the price of the goods.
Huge investments in Infrastructure
China has always invested largely in the developments of the roads, transportations systems, supply chain networks; which makes the movement of raw material and the finished products simple and efficient and thereby reduces the cost and time involved. In a contrasting situation; India has still a long way to go and policies need to be implemented to boost the foster the industrial sector.
The same is the case in electricity generation. While electricity is available at cheaper rates with an uninterrupted supply in China; the scenario for the Indian market is, unfortunately, the opposite.
Productive Labour Force
Even though the wage rate in China has substantially improved over the years, the development of the labor force deserves a notable mention. They focus on providing their manpower with skill development programs from time to time, thus increasing productivity. Therefore, the workers are instilled with higher efficiency; thereby contributing to the high demand for Chinese products.
Reverse Engineering Processes
China saves big on Research and Development by not limiting itself. They believe in allowing the manufacturers to produce similar products without any intellectual property rights involved. They believe in copying the design and producing goods in huge quantities. There are claims that China usually imports, deconstructs, and carries out detailed studies of products from all over the world and make their own version.
Leveraging their currency
It is believed that China is involved in manipulating their currency value for their own benefit. Having not signed any WTO agreements, they are not liable to transparency in their transactions and intentionally keep their currency weak against the US Dollar thereby keeping competitive prices for exports.
It is also to be noted that they sometimes even export goods at a price lower than what they actually incur to take advantage of the benefits available.
Popularly known as dumping; this practice is causing harm to all the importing country's local producers who try to make ends meet and are ultimately forced to close down shop in lieu of such unhealthy competition. China has been indulging in such immoral activities for a long time now, despite many countries opposing it.
Summing up, we would like to say that, apart from these reasons, and many more; China is able to sell its product cheaper, and we are doing nothing about it. It is high time that the Indian government finds solutions to this unending competition in order to boost the economy and support the local manufacturers and vendors. India should carve a way towards self-sufficiency.
Do you agree with us? Let us know.
Where is the cheapest labour in the world?
The cheapest labour in the world is in Romania.
Why can't India manufacture cheaper products as compared to China?
It's because China has a great proportion of developed lands whereas in India 70% of people living in rural areas. Also, electricity availability is a major problem in India. Electricity is for a limited time, thus factories lay idle and do not produce goods during the time.
Which country is the largest producer of steel?
China is at No. 1 when it comes to the production of steel.
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Bethesda, MD—As you decide what to get dad for Father's Day, you might want to consider what he gave you when you were conceived. If he smoked, your genes are likely damaged, and your odds for cancers and other diseases throughout your life could be increased. A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal, scientists show for the first time in humans that men who smoke before conception can damage the genetic information of their offspring. These inherited changes in DNA could possibly render an offspring in the womb susceptible to later disease such as cancer. This provides evidence showing why men should be urged to stop smoking before trying to conceive in the same way women have been urged to quit. Interestingly, a fertile sperm cell takes about three months to fully develop; therefore men would ultimately need to quit smoking long before conception to avoid causing genetic problems.
"That smoking of fathers at the time around conception can lead to genetic changes in their children indicates that the deleterious effects of smoking can be transmitted through the father to the offspring," said Diana Anderson, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Bradford, in the United Kingdom. "These transmitted genetic changes may raise the risk of developing cancer in childhood, particularly leukemia and other genetic diseases. We hope that this knowledge will urge men to cease smoking before trying to conceive."
To make this discovery, Anderson and colleagues used DNA biomarkers to measure genetic changes in the paternal blood and semen around conception, as well as maternal and umbilical cord blood at delivery in families from two different European regions in central England and a Greek island. Information regarding the lifestyle, environmental and occupational exposures of these families was taken from validated questionnaires. The combined analysis of exposures and DNA biomarkers was used to evaluate the role of exposures before conception and during pregnancy in the causation of genetic changes in the offspring. These results have strong implications for the prevention of disease.
"This report shows that smoking is a germ cell mutagen. If dad uses cigarettes, his kids will be affected even before they are born," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the FASEB Journal. "As Father's Day approaches, family members may want to give dads and prospective dads the help they need to quit smoking for good."
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We have developed an alternative strategy for the preservation of O/W emulsions based on the reduction of water activity with natural humectants such as Cosphaderm® Propanediol natural. This not only effectively improves the microbial stability of a cosmetic formulation, but also simultaneously strengthens the skin barrier through its application.
The modern way of preserving a product means making a product unattractive for germs but highly attractive for consumers without causing any irritation. In modern cosmetics, mild preservation plays a key role and is more important than ever.
For cosmetic products, the focus is on crucial requirements regarding their stability, effectiveness and harmlessness. Microbiological stability plays an essential role here, especially when it comes to consumer safety.


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Wireframe of an Order Tracking user interface for a concept web application
Online Shopper Order Tracking User Interface Concept
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UPDATE : Photoshop conversion now complete :). You can find it here - LINK
This is a wireframe of an order tracking user interface concept. Developed completely in Adobe Fireworks CS5 and it serves more as a visual prototype rather than an interaction prototype.
The aim of developing this prototype was to help me understand the complexities and different techniques used to structure large pieces of information as well as some design principles such as balance, typography, repitition etc. It is not the most refined but as someone who considers himself a rookie, I am pretty pleased with what I have been able to come up with and it is my hope that the comments, appreciations and criticisms that I will get from doing this project will spur me on to my ultimate goal of being a master craftsman in designing and developing web and mobile applications, sites and whatever new thing the web world will throw at me
The Concept
As mentioned, this is an order tracking interface. It is a medium fidelity wireframe that visualizes order tracking data in two forms. Its targeted platform for the interface that will be modeled from this wireframe is the desktop web where a mouse and keyboard use is common altohugh further iterations to it can make it viable for mobile touchscreen devices such as the Apple iPad. Data representation is discussed below:
 The first form of data representation is the map visualization which represents data of orders being tracked by the application(system). it contain various elements and controls that help the user in understanding the data that is presented on the map. The pins on the map relate to the order information shown on the order tracking tab below the map. As depicted in the screenshots below, it is envisioned that the user will be able to zoom in and out of the map for better clarity, use direction tools to 'navigate' through the map, gain more information on a particular order by clicking on a map pin and generally, the map will give the user a sense of where exactly a package(order) is in relation to its intended destination. With the expand map control, the user can make the map fill a wider area (which will make the tabular data disappear) while still being able a lot of data on what is going on with the order tracking(delivery)
The second form of data representation is the tabular data which represents order tracking infromation in a series of rows and columns. As you can see, controls used to manipulate the data in the order tracking tab are almost similar in their objectives as the controls located on the map (i.e. search, order descriptions and filtering of order based on Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) ).
Where Next?
 The wireframe now moves to design conversion in order to make the user interface concept look more realistic with design elements/principles such as color, depth, texture. Once I finish it, I will be sure to post it here.


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Abstract Escape, evacuation, and rescue (EER) analysis is one of vital roles to protect and save personnel in the event of a major accident on offshore oil and gas production platforms. However, most of EER analysis method for evaluating EER strategies of offshore plants relied on deterministic or probabilistic methods including several risk assessment tools. This study focused that all partial processes of EER analysis are similar to the things of passenger ship escape and evacuation: "Means of Escape", "Simplified Evacuation Analysis", and "Advanced Evacuation Analysis". Since various methodologies and some authorized rules for EER plans and resources were already studied in the domain of passenger ship, this study tried to adopt them to offshore plant fields with their minor revisions. In the evacuation process of EER analysis, especially, a human behavior model was adopted to simulate the evacuation sequence in more detail. It was supposed that the human behavior model is based on the velocity-based model, and consists of individual, crowd, and emergency behaviors. As an example, the method is applied to some offshore plant projects and compared with the result of conventional EER analysis.
Publication Date 2014-06-10
Sol Ha, Nam-Kug Ku, Myung-Il Roh, Xing Li, "Evacuation, Escape and Rescue EER Analysis of Offshore Plant Based on Human Behavior Model", Proceedings of OMAE(International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering) 2014, San Francisco, USA, pp. 1-7, 2014.06.08-13


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Syriam, town and port, southwestern Myanmar (Burma). It is situated on the Yangon River, a tributary of the Irrawaddy River, opposite Yangon (Rangoon). Formerly part of the Mon kingdom, Syriam subsequently became a port of the Portuguese and French. In 1756 Alaungpaya (1714–60), the Myanmar king, conquered the Mon and their French allies, whom he put into slavery; the town was destroyed in these actions and had little significance until the 20th century, when the British began drilling for oil in the Irrawaddy basin near Chauk and sent the oil to Syriam for refining. Asphalt gathering for the weatherproofing of houses was a traditional petroleum-related activity of Mon workers. Oil production declined during World War II when Japan occupied the country, from 1941 to 1945, and again as Burma declared its independence from Britain in 1948. The Syriam refinery was restored in 1957 and underwent expansion in 1979 with Japanese assistance. In 1979 a pipeline was completed between Syriam and the Mann oil field. Syriam has a tanker terminal, and oil exploration is carried on in the Gulf of Martaban. Paved roads extend from Syriam to Yangon and Pegu. Pop. (1993 est.) 56,654.
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I'm wondering if there is an accepted method to convert a tab delimited text file to XML, so that it can be imported in Adobe Flex. I would prefer to use PHP to achieve this.
The tab delimited text file I am looking to convert is in the format
Refnumber Location Name Age
123 North America Steve 32
And I am looking to convert to
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 Steve
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Can you post the contents of the TAB-DELIMITED-TEXT-FILE for reference. – Sujit Agarwal May 26 '11 at 16:08
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You can iterate the file line by line and write the contents with XMLWriter
XmlWriter Example (demo)
$xmlWriter = new XMLWriter();
$xmlWriter->startDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
$tsvFile = new SplFileObject('filename.tsv');
foreach ($tsvFile as $line => $row) {
 if($line > 0) {
 $xmlWriter->writeElement('refnumber', $row[0]);
 $xmlWriter->writeElement('location', $row[1]);
 $xmlWriter->writeElement('name', $row[2]);
 $xmlWriter->writeElement('age', $row[3]);
Using the XmlWriter has the added benefit that it will tell you when you are trying to write illegal content for the XML elements. If you know there is only valid data in your tsv file, you can also just use a template and write that to another file.
Template Example (demo)
$tsvFile = new SplFileObject('filename.tsv');
$template = <<< TPL
$destFile = new SplFileObject('destination.xml', 'w+');
$destFile->fwrite('');
 if($line > 0) {
 $destFile->fwrite(vsprintf($template, $row));
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I'm assuming you already read the Tab-delimited file. You can generate a XML output with something like this:
// get lines here
$xml = '';
foreach ($lines as $line) {
 // get values from line here
 $xml.= '';
 $xml.= sprintf('<%s>%s','refnumber', $values[0],'refnumber');
 $xml.= sprintf('<%s>%s', 'location', $values[1], 'location');
 $xml.= sprintf('<%s>%s', 'name', $values[2], 'name');
 $xml.= sprintf('<%s>%s', 'age', $values[3], 'age');
 $xml.= '';
$xml.= '';
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If you want to use PHP to do this, you'll need to read your file line by line (i guess a set of data ends with a line-break) and then split the lines using the Tab as delimiter (regular extension is \r).
After that, to create your XML-Output, you'll want to use the XMLWriter-class, which can print the result to the screen (like you opened a normal XML-file), save it on the File-System or write it to a Database (using something like MySQLi).
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Experiences of BME Teachers & Support Staff
In 2004 Runnymede developed a project to examined the experiences of teachers and other staff members from Black and minority ethnic communities in schools.As a precursor to this project there will be a joint meeting with teachers from East London and the General Teaching Council for England to discuss some of the major issues facing these groups. A briefing paper has been prepared for this meeting and is available here.
School Policies for Race Equality and Cultural Diversity
You can download a discussion paper issued jointly by the journal Multicultural Teaching and the Uniting Britain Trust which contains:
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Fibroblast apoptosis in a patient affected by Lamellar ichthyosis
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DOI: 10.1111/j._PHONE_.2008.01078.x
Background: Lamellar ichthyosis (LI) is a congenital recessive skin disorder characterized by generalized scaling and hyperkeratosis. The pathology may be caused by mutations in transglutaminase 1 (TGM1) gene that encodes an enzyme critical for terminally differentiating keratinocytes. Because of evidences that transglutaminase enzymes are involved in programmed cell death, we investigated morphological and biochemical apoptotic parameters in cultured skin fibroblasts from a patient with a severe LI and homozygous for the TGM1 R142H mutation. Method: The principle apoptotic signals (mitochondrial membrane potential, analysis of oxygen consumption, DNA fragmentation and Bax/Bcl-2 gene expression) were analyzed in cultured fibroblasts from a LI patient, his mother (TGM1 mutation carrier) and a control subject. Results: LI fibroblasts showing a reduction of fibronectin expression evidenced a strong inhibition of oxygen consumption, a dramatic drop in the mitochondrial membrane potential (Δψm), and a higher apoptotic index. Conclusion: The present results suggest a possible connection between the alterations in the keratinization process leading to LI and the observed increased fibroblast apoptosis.
Item Type:Article
ID Code:1750
Uncontrolled Keywords:Lamellar ichthyosis (LI), transglutaminase 1 (TGM1), keratinization process, fibroblast apoptosis
Divisions:001 Università di Sassari > 03 Istituti > Dermatologia
Publisher:Blackwell Munksgaard / Wiley
Additional Information:Pubblicato online il 20 ottobre 2008.
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Abstract：The Licklider transmission protocol(LTP) is a point-to-point protocol that is mainly used to transmit data between adjacent nodes in space networks. LTP achieves reliability by return acknowledgements and retransmissions. Typical applications have long distances between network nodes which result in large transmission delays. This delay is further multiplied by the acknowledgement and retransmission processes. Thus, the number of round trips(QoRT) needed to successfully transmit an LTP block needs to be investigated. This paper presents an analytical evaluation of the QoRT that gives the distribution function, mean and variance of the QoRT. The results also give more concise upper bounds, lower bounds and approximate means. Simulations verify the theoretical results.
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