Re: Greek Word Order
Edgar Krentz (
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:26:58 -0600
>and Koine. I entered into a discussion of this topic with my Advanced
>Greek class based upon the information in Young's grammar. He asserts
>that the basic order of words in sentences not containing linking verbs
>is verb-subject-object, while sentences with linking verbs generally
>follow the pattern verb-subject-compliment (pp. 214-18).
>Machen suggests just the opposite: "The normal order of the sentence in
>Moule does not propose a specific order, but rather simply follows the
>logic that "the emphatic word comes at or near the beginning of the
>sentence" (_Idiom Book_, p. 166).
>It would appear that a number of prominent grammarians would be in
>agreement with Young's analysis of an "unmarked" or common word order
>Robertson, p. 417).
>I would be interested in hearing what those on the list would have to
>say about this matter, both in regard to Classical and Koine Greek.
referreda to K.J. Dover's GREEK WORD ORDER (Oxford U Press in the 1950s).
I have neglected to note the url for the archives, but Jonathon can give
you that and you can search for that discussion.
Edgar Krentz, New Testament
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago


Finite solvable-extensible implies class-preserving
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This article gives the statement and possibly, proof, of an implication relation between two subgroup properties. That is, it states that every subgroup satisfying the first subgroup property (i.e., Hall-extensible automorphism) must also satisfy the second subgroup property (i.e., class-preserving automorphism)
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Any finite solvable-extensible automorphism of a finite solvable group is a class-preserving automorphism.
Definitions used
Finite solvable-extensible automorphism
Further information: Finite solvable-extensible automorphism
An automorphism \sigma of a finite solvable group G is termed finite solvable-extensible if, for any finite solvable group H containing G, there is an automorphism \sigma' of H whose restriction to G equals \sigma.
Class-preserving automorphism
Further information: Class-preserving automorphism
An automorphism \sigma of a finite group G is termed class-preserving if it sends every element to a conjugate element.
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Stronger facts
Other facts proved using the same method
Facts used
 1. Finite solvable-extensible implies semidirectly extensible for representation over finite field of coprime characteristic
 2. Semidirectly extensible implies linearly pushforwardable for representation over prime field
 3. Linearly pushforwardable implies class-preesrving for class-separating field
 4. Every finite group admits a sufficiently large finite prime field
 5. Sufficiently large implies splitting, Splitting implies character-separating, Character-separating implies class-separating
Facts (1) and (2) combine to yield that any finite solvable-extensible automorphism is linearly pushforwardable over a finite prime field where the prime does not divide the order of the group, and fact (3) yields that if the field chosen is a class-separating field for the group, then the automorphism is class-preserving. Thus, we need to show that for every finite group, there exists a prime field with the prime not dividing the order of the group, such that the field is a class-separating field for the group. This is achieved by facts (4) and (5).


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The mission of the Victim/Witness Program is to inform, assist, and support victims of violent crime in their interactions with the criminal justice system, and to protect their rights in a manner no less vigorous than the protection afforded to criminal defendants.
Victims will be treated with dignity and respect to reduce the trauma and insensitive treatment that can be experienced in the aftermath of a crime. We will also work to improve the system's understanding of the needs of crime victims and their families.
Services We Offer
Services are offered to the victims of violent crimes and other eligible family members. These crimes include sexual assault, elder abuse, physical and sexual child abuse, domestic violence, murder, attempted murder, assault, robbery, homicide, hit‑and‑run accidents with injury, and driving under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or drugs that causes injury or death.
The services provided include:
- Coordination with Criminal Justice Agencies
- Crisis Intervention
- Assistance with Claims Reimbursement
- Court Escort
- Explanation of Court Procedures and Case Status Information
- Liaison and Referral to Community Resources
- Information Regarding Restraining Orders
- Follow‑up Support to Victims and Their Families
- Employer Notification and Creditor Intervention
- Bereavement and Injury Notification
- Restitution Information
- Victims' Rights
- Victims' Marsy Rights ‑ English ‑ Spanish
- Post Sentencing Services
If you are a victim of a crime and the offender is under the supervision of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, you have the right to request Notification Upon an inmate's:
- Parole status/hearing
- Special Conditions of Parole
- A victim's request for special conditions of parole, will be considered by the Parole & Community Services Division at the time of release

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Section 1: C Programming Lab
Question 1: Write an interactive program in C language to manage the Clinic Information with menu options like Patient's details, Doctor's details, Doctor's and Patient's visits, Laboratory details, Bills, Payments etc. using the file handling concepts. The application should be designed user-friendly.
Note: You must execute the program and submit the program logic, sample input and output along with the necessary documentation for this question. Assumptions can be made wherever necessary.
Section 2: Assembly Language Programming Lab
(a) Write a program in assembly language to sort an array of signed integers and search for the presence of an item in the sorted array using linear search
(b) Develop and execute an assembly language program to find the HCF of two unsigned 16-bit numbers.
(c ) Write a program in assembly language for finding the largest number in an array of 10 elements.
(d) Given a string of characters terminated by 00H, write a assembly language program to determine if it is a palindrome. If 'Yes' output the message " The given string is a palindrome. If 'No' output the message "No, it is not a palindrome"

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Teagasc recently published a new marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) for ammonia emissions which outlines the steps that can be taken to reduce ammonia emissions from Irish agriculture and the costs of achieving this. The updated MACC estimates the potential to abate national ammonia emissions from agriculture up to 2030.
Join Teagasc Director Professor Gerry Boyle and researchers on this webinar to find out more about the analysis and cost effective pathways to meet future ammonia emission targets.
The publication called 'An Analysis of the Cost of the Abatement of Ammonia Emissions in Irish Agriculture to 2030'is available here:_URL_
Wednesday, 7 October, 9.30am
John Spink, Head of Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme, Teagasc
Professor Gerry Boyle, Director of Teagasc
Dominika Krol, Research Officer, Teagasc
Cathal Buckley, Research Officer, Teagasc

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|Major islands||Beacon Cay|
|Department||San Andrés and Providencia|
Serranilla Bank (Spanish: Isla Serranilla or Banco Serranilla) is a partially submerged reef, with small uninhabited islets, in the western Caribbean Sea. It is situated about 350 kilometres (220 mi) northeast of Punta Gorda, Nicaragua, and roughly 280 kilometres (170 mi) southwest of Jamaica. The closest neighbouring land feature is Bajo Nuevo Bank, located 110 kilometres (68 mi) to the east.
Serranilla Bank was first shown on Spanish maps in 1510. It is administered by Colombia as part of the department of San Andrés and Providencia. Although the bank is currently occupied by Colombia, it is subject to a sovereignty dispute involving Honduras, Nicaragua, and the United States.
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Serranilla Bank is a former atoll, now a mostly submerged carbonate platform consisting of shallow reef environments. It is about 40 km in length and 32 km in width, covering an area of over 1200 km2, almost entirely under water. Three small cays and two rocks emerge above the water to form the bank's islands. These are West Breaker, Middle Cay, East Cay, Beacon Cay and Northeast Breaker. They are largely barren, with sparse vegetation of bushes and some trees. Most of the reef is drying and many shipwrecks are located in its vicinity.
Beacon Cay is the largest islet in the Bank. It is overbuilt with small military facilities, which house a small rotating garrison of Colombian naval personnel. There is a lighthouse on a coral ledge in the southwest approach to the bank. It is a 33 m (108 ft) tall skeletal tower built atop a 3-storey crew residence. The lamp emits a focal plane beam of light as two white flashes every 20 seconds. The current lighthouse was first erected in 1982, and was reconstructed in May 2008 by the Colombian Ministry of Defence. It is currently maintained by the Colombian Navy, and overseen by the state's Maritime Authority.
Territorial dispute
Serranilla is the subject of conflicting claims made by a number of sovereign states. In most cases, the dispute stems from attempts by a state to expand its exclusive economic zone over the surrounding seas.
Between 1982 and 1986, Colombia maintained a formal agreement with Jamaica which granted regulated fishing rights to Jamaican vessels within the territorial waters of Serranilla Bank and nearby Bajo Nuevo Bank. In November 1993, the two states agreed upon a maritime delimitation treaty establishing a "Joint Regime Area" to cooperatively manage and exploit living and non-living resources in designated waters between the two banks. However, the territorial waters immediately surrounding the cays themselves were excluded from the zone of joint-control, as Colombia considers these areas to be part of her coastal waters. The agreement came into force in March 1994.
Nicaragua lays claim to all the islands on its continental shelf, covering an area of over 50,000 km2 in the Caribbean Sea, including the Serranilla Bank and all islands associated with the San Andrés and Providencia archipelagoes. It has persistently pursued this claim against Colombia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), filing cases in both 2001 and 2007.
The United States' claim was made in the 19th century by James W. Jennett under the provisions of the Guano Islands Act. Most claims made by the U.S. over the guano islands in this region were officially renounced in a treaty with Colombia, dated September 1972. But whether or not Serranilla Bank was included in the agreement is disputed—there is no specific mention of the feature in the treaty and, as per Article 7 of the said treaty, only matters specifically mentioned in the document are subject to it. According to other records, as well as claims made within the ICJ, Colombia is recognised by the United States as having varying degrees of sovereignty over Serranilla Bank through the treaty of 1972, which took effect in September 1981. The U.S. considers the reef to be an unorganized, unincorporated United States territory.
Honduras claims Serranilla Bank as part of its national territory in Article 10 of its Constitution. In 1986, it agreed upon a maritime boundary demarcation with Colombia that excluded Honduras of any control over the bank or its surrounding waters. The ratification of this boundary on 20 December 1999 proved to be controversial within Honduras, as it ensured that the state implicitly recognised Colombia's sovereignty over the claimed territory. Nicaragua, which has not resolved its maritime borders with Honduras or Colombia, disputed Honduras' legal right to hand over these areas before the ICJ. Despite the agreement with Colombia, however, the government has yet to officially renounce the claim in the Constitution.
See also
- Sailing Directions (Enroute), Caribbean Sea II (7th ed.). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2001. p. 95.
- (Spanish) Armada de la República de Colombia: Forces and Commands — area is under the jurisdiction of Comando Específico de San Andrés y Providencia.
- "Mapa Oficial Fronteras Terrestriales y Maritima Convenciones". Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi. Retrieved 2009-10-25. An official map of Colombian borders, with treaty dates.
- Lewis, M.; International Justice (20 April 2011). "When Is an Island Not An Island? Caribbean Maritime Disputes". Radio Netherlands International. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
- "Acquisition Process of Insular Areas". U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
- Sanandresislas — description and photographs of Serranilla Bank.
- Shipwrecks in the Americas, Robert F. Marx. New York (1987), p414-17. ISBN 978-0-486-25514-9.
- (Spanish) "Anexo 7". Colombian Government, Ministry of National Defence. August 1997. Retrieved 2009-12-22. Legal status of the Banks of Serranilla and Bajo Nuevo, page 8.
- (Spanish) "Contract No. 153". Colombian Government, Ministerio de Defensa Nacional. February 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-23. Contract detail between Colombian Defense Ministry and private contractor, Tecnosoluciones Ltda, for the replacement of various metal lighthouse structures, including on Serranilla Bank.
- (Spanish) "Grupo de Señalización Marítima del Caribe". Colombian Government, Ministry of National Defence. May 2008. Retrieved 2009-11-16. Photographs of Colombian lighthouses, with Serranilla Bank shown, pages 4–5.
- "Fishing Agreement Between Jamaica and the Republic of Colombia". United Nations. November 1982. Retrieved 2009-11-20. Fishing agreement which permits regulated fishing rights to Jamaican vessels around Bajo Nuevo and Serranilla Banks.
- Charney, Jonathan; American Society of International Law (2004). International Maritime Boundaries, Vol. 2–3. Boston, United States: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 2616. ISBN 978-90-_PHONE_-1. p2179-2192.
- "Colombia Jamaica Joint Regime Treaty" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-13.
- (Spanish) "Sentencia No. C-045/94". Government of Colombia, Secretaría del Senado. February 1994. Retrieved 2009-11-22. Review of the 1993 Maritime Delimitation Treaty between Colombia and Jamaica.
- "Continental, Coastal and Marine Ecosystems of Colombia, 1 of 36". José Benito Vives de Andréis Marine and Coastal Research Institute (INVEMAR). 2001. Retrieved 2009-12-22. Topographic map of the Colombia-Jamaica Joint-Regime Area, with the two exclusion circles shown.
- "''The Republic of Nicaragua v. The Republic of Colombia'', CCJ Case File" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-13.
- (Spanish) El Espectador: Colombia could lose territory, despite the Hague failure
- "Territorial and Maritime Dispute". International Court of Justice. December 2007. Retrieved 2009-11-17. Nicaragua v. Colombia, Preliminary Objections.
- Moore, John Bassett; United States Government, Department of State (1906). A Digest of International Law, Vol. 8. Washington, United States: Government Printing Office. p. 788. ISBN 978-1-4432-8111-9. p77.
- "Acquisition Process of Insular Areas". United States Government, Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2008-01-13. Lists Serranilla Bank as an insular area under U.S. sovereignty.
- (Spanish) Treaty of exchange between Colombia and the United States, 1972
- "Revisions to the Table of Frequency Allocations". United States Government, Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2008-01-13. States on page 3 that Serranilla Bank is no longer under U.S


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PATIO SLIDING DOOR VS WINTER COLD
COLD, FROST, ICE OR CONDENSATION
Through a process called convection, warm air will always move toward colder air, meaning that during the winter the air inside your home is always trying to escape the house and move toward the cold air outside. Warm air also expands, and therefore has the capacity to hold more moisture than cold air — moisture that is picked up naturally from inside your house. As the air cools, it contracts and loses some of its capacity, so the moisture is given off to cooler surrounding surfaces… YOUR SLIDING PATIO DOOR.
Learn more with Understanding Condensation (PDF)
1. High Humidity
Reduce the setting on your humidistat to 20-30° instead of 40-50°. Increase setting slightly if static electricity becomes a problem.
2. High Temperatures
The warmer the air, the more moisture it holds. Keeping your home slightly cooler in winter will reduce condensation and frost.
3. Thermopane Seal Lost
If the atmosphere between your panes of glass has been compromised, clarity and resistance to temperature will be negatively affected. Glass replacement is necessary.
4. Air Circulation
Poor air circulation near interior glass surface.
5. Northern Exposure
Southern exposure enjoys warm solar gain in winter. An obstruction on your patio could block sunshine.
6. Aluminum Frame
Wood is a better insulator than aluminum.
7. Door Seal
Weatherstripping is worn or missing. Door may be out of alignment allowing a draft. Door does not lock tightly.
8. Nothing's Wrong
Even when all is right the 50+ square feet of patio door glass is colder in the winter than your walls. And, since cold air is heavier than warm air, the temperature at the floor near the door will be colder as the air naturally cascades down the glass. This seems to be noticed more in kitchen areas where owners can often be found in bare feet or wearing slippers.
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text: © 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. All rights reserved.A design optimization method based on three dimensional Euler equations is developed. A finite volume method is implemented to discretize the Euler equations. Newton's method is used to solve the discretized form of Euler equations. Newton's method requires the calculation of the Jacobian matrix which is the derivative of the residual vector with respect to the flux vector. Different upwind methods are used in the calculation of flux vectors. Numerical and analytical methods are utilized in the evaluation of Jacobian matrices. The efficiency and accuracy of the analytical and numerical Jacobian evaluations are compared. In order to improve the accuracy of numerical method, detailed error analyses are performed. The optimum finite difference perturbation magnitude that minimizes the error is searched. The computation time of numerical Jacobian evaluation is reduced by calculating the flux vectors with perturbed flow variables only in related cells. The performances of different sparse matrix solvers are also compared. The effects of errors in numerical Jacobians on the accuracy of sensitivities is analyzed. Results show that the finite-difference perturbation magnitude and computer precision are the most important parameters that affect the accuracy of numerical Jacobians. Approximately the same optimum perturbation magnitude enables the most accurate numerical flux Jacobian and sensitivity calculations.


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A Study of Patients With Normal Coronary Angiogram Over A Period of 14 Months in A Military Hospital
Keywords:Angina, Coronary artery disease, Electrocardiography (ECG), Treadmill test (ETT), Coronary angiography (CAG)
Objectives: The objectives were to study the incidence of the normal coronary artery anatomy, to determine their clinical, electrocardiographic, stress testing, echocardiographic and angiographic characteristics.
Methods: This is a retrospective study carried out in cardiac center, Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh on patients seen during the period from November 2010 to Dec 2011. The coronary artery angiography data was collected by a check list and was revised by the authors.
Results: Twelve hundred and two fifty patients who had coronary angiography which showed normal coronary artery or minor coronary artery disease were included in this study. 13% were females. The mean age of the patients was 45.6. 74% patients had one or more coronary risk factors and predominant risk factor was hypertension (31%). More than 50% patients had significant cardiac symptoms and about 40% study subjects were found to have prominent ECG changes which preclude noninvasive tests. Only 38% of study subjects underwent exercise ECG tests, among them 12% had positive ETT. Two hundred and forty nine patients (20%) had normal coronary artery anatomy. Right dominant circulation was found in 79% of the patients.
Conclusions: The incidence of normal coronary artery anatomy is similar to those reported in other literatures. Although there are limitations of common noninvasive tests to exclude coronary artery disease, proper clinical evaluation and appropriate use of other noninvasive investigations will definitely reduce the burden of coronary angiogram in patients with angina or suspected ischemic heart disease.
University Heart Journal Vol. 8, No. 2, July 2012


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In English: There is no shadow without the sun.
I was prompted to include this proverb today because of the winter solstice yesterday, and the secular HumanLight holiday which takes place today, December 23, in conjunction with the solstice. Today's proverb is about the perpetual interplay between light and dark which is marked in such a profound way at the winter solstice, when the sun seems to stop receding from us in the sky: the longest night of year arrives, and from here until the summer solstice, the daylight will grow longer and longer with each passing day.
I especially like the way this simple proverb provokes us to think metaphorically: when we see a shadow, darkness, the form of the absence of light, instead of thinking about that shadow as a thing in itself, we should think about the fact that it was cast by light, by sunlight in particular, if we are looking at a shadow out of doors.
Metaphorically, this is something that points in many different directions: the interplay between death and life, between insight and blindness, between good and evil, and so on.
As you might expect, this motto is one that is found inscribed on sundials. From this magnificent list of sundial mottoes, here are some others based on the idea of "nothing without the sun (or the shadow)" as in today's saying:
NIHIL SINE SOLE: nothing without the sun
QUID SINE SOLE? NIHIL: what (is there) without the sun? nothing
SINE LUMINE NIHIL: without the light, nothing
NIL NISI CAELESTI RADIO: nothing, unless by the heavenly beam
SINE UMBRA NIHIL: without the shadow, nothing
CUM UMBRA NIHIL, SINE UMBRA NIHIL: with the shadow, nothing, without the shadow nothing [quite a lovely brain-teasing paradox!]
I especially like the ones where the sundial itself is made to speak, as here:
SINE SOLE NIHIL SUM: without the sun, I am nothing
NIHIL NISI SOL MIHI: there's nothing for me unless there is sun
PHOEBO ABSENTE NIL SUM: when Phoebus is absent, I am nothing
SINE SOLE NIHIL SUM, SINE DEO TU NIHIL POTES: without the sun I am nothing; without God you can do nothing
SINE SOLE EGO, TU SINE FIDE NIHIL POSSUMUS FACERE: I without the sun, you without faith, can do nothing
So, hoping your mixture of sun and shadow meets your needs today, here is today's proverb read out loud:
353. Nulla sine sole umbra.
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Coaching in Business English – Workout
Robert Harris is a Certified Professional Trainer with nineteen years' experience coaching and training non-native English speakers. He has spent most of his professional life outside his native UK, gaining insight into and learning to work effectively in culturally diverse...
Top performing athletes exercise/ workout to prepare for a major sporting event or to maintain a satisfactory level of fitness, likewise, you as a senior executive could greatly benefit from "workouts" to exercise your Business English and as a result ensure that you are equally:
- confident when speaking English as you are in your own language
If you feel at a disadvantage when speaking in a language other than your own, be assured you're not the only one. It is a sentiment shared by many people and in many ways an entirely natural one. One way of overcoming this disadvantage is through coaching. Coaching encourages experimentation, "to try things out" before the real event and this together with input and guidance from an experienced coach can lead to a significant improvement in performance.
Our experience has shown that flexibility as to what is worked on in the sessions is a prerequisite for a successful collaboration. The session agenda is often set by the client who might want to prepare for something coming up in the near future for example:
- A presentation to Head Office or business partner
- A visit to an exhibition in Frankfurt
- A meeting with a foreign supplier, customer or colleague
- A difficult phone call or web conference
Workout is for professionals who want to:
- exercise their spoken English in order to overcome communication difficulties
- improve their capability to do business in English
- improve their relationships with their international business partners and English speaking colleagues
- feel comfortable expressing themselves in various business situations
Intermediate and above
By the end of the course participants will have improved:
- oral fluency in business situations
- their range of business vocabulary
- their level of confidence in doing business in English
Course outline typically includes:
- Cultural differences – the understanding of which will lead to better relationships with your international partners and colleagues.
- Presentations – Practice one of your own with your coach
- Change Management – In international environments
- Nonverbal negotiation skills – some researchers claim that 90% of face-to-face communication is nonverbal.
- Grammar – Conditionals don't usually inspire enthusiasm but their correct use in negotiations will.
- Small talk – additional benefits.
- Active listening – we don't want to miss something important.
- Understanding your negotiation partners – what to do when the other person's English is better than yours.
- Meetings – support your position with confidence
- Interpersonal skills – Added value
The Communicative Approach to Business English
Most students say during the interview phase of the needs analysis that they find speaking English the most challenging.
The primary goal of most Business English learners is to be able to speak and convey the message they want without misunderstanding (a misunderstanding can be embarrassing as well as costly). For this reason the majority of learners prefer to focus on improving their speaking skills, as especially when communicating with non-native speakers, getting the message across is more important than strict adherence to grammatical accuracy.
Another very good reason the focus is on spoken English is that when we're "talking business' in English there is no time to ask for help from our colleagues or friends, unlike written communication where
- the assistance of a colleague can be requested
- the enormous resources on the internet can be accessed
The Communicative Approach to Business English focuses on:
- Speaking and Listening
- Enhancing confidence
- Increasing oral fluency and range of vocabulary
- Communicating the message


Sunday, 18 September 2016
It was never going to work out between me and Wallington. I knew we were doomed from the minute I realised it had once been the home of Charles Edward Trevelyan, the Trevelyan mentioned in the Irish folk song, The Fields of Athenry.
But before I get on to that, I'm going to start by focusing on Wallington itself, because it's a lovely house.
Here are a few factoids:
 - Wallington was owned by the Fenwicks from the 15th century - they were known for being quite fierce and doing frequent battle with the Scots during various Border skirmishes
 - Sir John Fenwick, a favourite of Charles II, was wildly extravagant and had to sell Wallington to Sir William Blackett, a wealthy mine owner, in 1688
 - Sir William built the house that we see today
 - His son, also William, left the place to his nephew, Walter Calverley, on the condition that Walter a) changed his name to Blackett and b) married William's illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth
 - Walter Calverley Blackett died in 1777 and left the place to his nephew, Sir John Trevelyan
 - The Trevelyans were originally from Cornwall, as the name suggests, and for a long time they retained their estates at opposite ends of the country
The Central Hall is very impressive - it was built in 1853 by covering the original open courtyard that the house was built around. The walls are covered in paintings of Northumbrian history, including Bede, Grace Darling, St Cuthbert (of Lindisfarne fame), the Vikings, and Alan Shearer (I might be joking about the last one).
The Drawing Room gives you an example of the warmth of the house - it felt quite homely:
But let me come back to Charles Edward Trevelyan. He inherited Wallington in 1879. It was left to him by his cousin, Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan - Sir Walter was close to Charles' son, George Otto Trevelyan, and that's who Walter had in mind as his eventual successor.
I was doing my usual quick read-up on Wikipedia before I went to Wallington when I noticed this paragraph about Charles Edward:
Trevelyan is referred to in the modern Irish folk song "The Fields of Athenry" about the Great Irish Famine: "Michael, they have taken you away / for you stole Trevelyan's corn / so the young might see the morn / now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay." Because of Trevelyan's policies, the Irish consider him one of the most detested figures in their history, along with Oliver Cromwell, who conquered the country in the 17th century.
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Charles Edward Trevelyan - in the words of the Arctic Monkeys,
perhaps vampire is a bit strong but...
I was stunned. I'm half-Irish and although I'm normally pragmatic about history and our incapacity to change the past, I knew that this visit would be different - it was potentially the answer to the question of why 25% of the Irish population had either died or emigrated between 1846 and 1850.
So I bought the book A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World to get myself fully up to speed. It was written by BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan, the great-great-great granddaughter of CET himself. And now I can tell you about him:
 - Charles Edward Trevelyan was born in 1807
 - He joined the civil service where he was a zealous reformer - he blew the whistle on his superior in India for corruption, and he eventually overhauled the way that the Civil Service recruited its staff - competitive exams replaced the usual 'jobs for toffs' arrangement
 - In 1846, a Relief Commission was created in response to the growing crisis in Ireland, where a potato blight was destroying the population's main source of food - the Commission bought in Indian corn, which was being sold cheaply to those in need
 - The head of the Relief Commission was Charles Edward. However, he had a very strange way of relieving things; on being told that the corn was being bought up too quickly from the depots, and that it wouldn't last until the next potato crop in September, he closed the depots.
 - In July 1846, word reached London that the September potato crop had also been blighted and further disaster loomed. Charles's response? He closed the Relief Commission. In his own words "The only way to prevent people from becoming habitually dependent on government is to bring operations to a close. The uncertainty about the new crop makes it more necessary."
 - In 1847 the potato crop succeeded, but so little had been planted by starving people during a terrible winter that it wasn't enough. In 1848 the crop failed again as badly as before. This time there were no depots or relief commissions - the Poor Law was all that was left.
 - In April 1848 - ie in the middle of soup kitchens being shut down in Ireland while a total of one million people starved to death in a part of the United Kingdom less than 500 miles from London - he was made Sir Charles Trevelyan and awarded £2500. He paid it back following an outcry.
Nearly all of the above comes from Laura Trevelyan's book. She argues that Charles Edward has been personally vilified to an unfair extent and that he cared a lot more than is apparent from some of his more heartless letters, but even so - even she admits that at best he was guilty of a laissez-faire attitude, prevalent among the entire governing class, that people should be self-reliant, when those people had absolutely nothing to rely on.
By the way, you won't find any of this in the Wallington guide book. It says; "He visited Ireland and showed great sympathy for the starving, organising relief...with total integrity. He has been attacked, not always justly, for not having done more to help the victims of the Famine." So make your own mind up about that.
Anyway. The man who believed in people standing on their own two feet, who fought against nepotism in the civil service, ended up returning to India where he conveniently forgot all of his principles and got his son a job as his secretary.
I really do recommend Laura's book, by the way. It's very well written and covers how the other Trevelyans that followed CET were an interesting bunch that occasionally shared his hypocrisy. His grandson, Charles Phillips Trevelyan, decided that Wallington belonged in public ownership and handed it over to the National Trust - but not until he was dead. He continued to live the landed life and decided that his children would be the ones to make the sacrifice. He also had an affair with his secretary and fathered a child with her when he was 72, utterly humiliating his poor wife.
But here's something I love about the Trevelyans; I absolutely love their coat of arms. It's basically a horse having a fabulous time at the seaside:
And I'll tell you something else I loved - THE WALLINGTON SCONE. This was our fourth NT scone of the day, following George Stephenson's Birthplace, Seaton Delaval, and Washington Old Hall, and it was the best one by far. It was light and tasty and well worth battling a few wasps.
Wallington scone
So I recommend Wallington, for its scone and its friendly staff, and I recommend Laura Trevelyan's book as well - it's a fascinating and very honest insight.
Wallington: 5 out of 5
Scone: 5 out of 5
Charles Edward Trevelyan: 0 out of 5
George Stephenson Birthplace
If I ever went on Mastermind, my specialist subject would be Negative TripAdvisor Reviews of NT Properties. It's a niche topic, I grant you, but I love them - the property was shut, my dog wasn't allowed in, it rained etc.
George Stephenson's Birthplace, however, is an exception. It has a small number of negative comments and they all say the same thing; it's hard to find the place and there's only one room open to the public.
George Stephenson's Birthplace
The first of those complaints was debunked early on. "It's REALLY hard to find this place," I warned the Scone Sidekick. "We're probably going to get lost and then you're going to get annoyed with me, but let's definitely not have an argument about it." We had just started having an argument about me saying that we were going to have an argument when we drove around a corner and saw a sign saying 'George Stephenson's Birthplace', so we parked, followed another sign saying 'George Stephenson's Birthplace' and walked along until we found it. And I'm not exactly Sir Ranulph Fiennes when it comes to map-reading, if you know what I mean.
The second complaint is more justified - there is admittedly only one room in the house open to the public. However, George's family only lived in one room, so it is authentic.
George Stephenson Birthplace Interior
However, there's no space for explaining George's achievements, so I learned nothing about him from the property itself. It's probably just as well though, as I subsequently discovered that his life was incredibly sad in places, so


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When Ruth Wakefield ran out of Baker's chocolate to make her chocolate cookies and decided to use pieces of a chocolate bar to finish the task, she never thought it would result in the creation of America's favorite cookie. But it did, and the rest, so they say, is history.
Ruth Graves Wakefield graduated in 1924 from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts, and for a time worked as a dietitian and food lecturer. Then in the 1930s, she and her husband Kenneth bought a small bed and breakfast near Whitman, Massachusetts named the Toll House Inn, where she prepared the meals. Soon, Ruth gained a reputation with the guests and locals alike as a fantastic cook and exceptional baker. One of her more well known treats was Butter Drop Do cookies, in which the recipe called for Baker's chocolate. One evening in 1937, while making this popular cookie, she found herself without the necessary chocolate so she decided to cut-up a chocolate bar given to her as a gift by Andrew Nestle and use it to finish her cookies. Mistakenly, she thought the pieces would melt into the dough to produce her delicious chocolate cookies. However, instead of melting, the chocolate pieces only softened.
As the story goes, while Wakefield was disappointed in her little fiasco, the resulting cookies were "decent," so she went ahead and served them to her guests. Needless to say, they were an instant hit. In fact, they were so well liked that more and more guests began requesting her to bake them during their stay at the inn.
Soon Ruth Wakefield's cookie, which she named the Chocolate Crunch Cookie, had grown so popular and the recipe in such demand that she allowed it to be printed in several New England newspapers. And as the popularity of Ruth's new cookie increased, so increased the sales of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bar. So much so that soon Andrew Nestle expressed the desire to print the recipe on its packaging.
Then in 1938, Ruth and the Nestle Chocolate Company reached an agreement by which Nestle would print what was renamed the Toll House Cookie recipe on the back of the bright yellow Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar package in exchange for a lifetime supply of free chocolate with which to bake her cookies.
The Toll House Inn was built on the site of an actual 1709 toll house built on the highway between Boston and New Bedford, a prosperous whaling town. It was the place where coach passengers enjoyed a meal and short rest while the horses were changed and the toll was paid. The Wakefields operated the Inn until 1966 when it was sold. Ruth Wakefield died in 1977, and the building burned down on New Year's Eve in 1984.
Try Em: Famous Amos, Chips Ahoy! (Nabisco), Chips Deluxe (Keebler), The Decadent (Loblaw)
Some Cookie Trivia:
- It is estimated that 50% of all cookies baked at home are chocolate chip.
- The average American will eat about 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.
- Americans bake, spend more money on, and eat more cookies than any other nation in the world.
- There is an official Chocolate Chip Day in America–August 4
- The world's record for the biggest cookie ever baked is held by a 102 foot wide chocolate chip cookie that weighed 40,000 pounds, or 20 tons.


Implement Roaming Into Windows 8 Apps: Microsoft Explains
Roaming And Windows 8 Apps
In the latest post on the Windows 8 app developer blog, Microsoft explains how to implement roaming into Windows 8 apps.
If you're building a Windows 8 app, Microsoft is pretty much holding your hand so the app doesn't get rejected or have negative user feedback
We've been tracking Microsoft's post over at the Windows 8 app developer blog, and the latest installments talks about how roaming can be implemented into apps. Roaming data is when Wi-Fi connections aren't available, and you use a cellular service such as 4G.
Microsoft says it's goal with roaming is to make it easy when connected to the cloud, and is actually taking the control away from the develop so they don't have to configure roaming settings.
Windows 8 has what Microsoft describes as an integrated roaming sync for Application Data for Metro apps using a connected Microsoft Account (your login ID). This ApplicationData is split into three types – local (Wi-Fi), roaming (3G, 4G etc.) and temporary. Microsoft added when users connect to Windows, they all connected to the app.
Creating Consistent Experiences
Roaming data also has a per-app data storage, and the limits ensure that battery life and performance are not compromized. The quota currently is around 100KB, and Microsoft says developers should ensure at the design stage the quota won't be exceeded. A common problem Microsoft sees with apps is that they scan the whole articles rather than identifiers; basically, scanning the whole articles uses more data.
Microsoft also talked about creating a continuous experience across PCs, citing an example where someone is reading another person's RSS feed before they have to catch a bus. There's the ability for developers to create this experience across devices, and Microsoft includes a line of code for Javascript and C# (check out the source link, below).
Windows will warn of any changes when roaming, so it means there won't be an inconsistency across devices using the same RSS feed (for example) and you'll be able to refresh when the problem is corrected. Microsoft reiterates that the experience is optimized for alternative between the devices, not using two or more in real time.
Windows 8 launches late October; the Release Preview is available to download now. For a full guide on implementing roaming, click the source link below.
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Intervention in gene regulatory networks via a stationary mean-first-passage-time control policy.
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A prime objective of modeling genetic regulatory networks is the identification of potential targets for therapeutic intervention. To date, optimal stochastic intervention has been studied in the context of probabilistic Boolean networks, with the control policy based on the transition probability matrix of the associated Markov chain and dynamic programming used to find optimal control policies. Dynamical programming algorithms are problematic owing to their high computational complexity. Two additional computationally burdensome issues that arise are the potential for controlling the network and identifying the best gene for intervention. This paper proposes an algorithm based on mean first-passage time that assigns a stationary control policy for each gene candidate. It serves as an approximation to an optimal control policy and, owing to its reduced computational complexity, can be used to predict the best control gene. Once the best control gene is identified, one can derive an optimal policy or simply utilize the approximate policy for this gene when the network size precludes a direct application of dynamic programming algorithms. A salient point is that the proposed algorithm can be model-free. It can be directly designed from time-course data without having to infer the transition probability matrix of the network.


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Camp Yellow Scope: Fizz & Fun
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Howdy Campers!
Welcome back to week 6 of Camp Yellow Scope: Fizz & Fun. We hope you have been having fun while doing some serious science! Who is ready for today's experiment?
Click here to download printable instructions. You can also print out a lab worksheet to record your observations, jot down ideas, and design your own experiments! If you collect your worksheets together from all eight weeks, by the end of the summer you'll have your very own Camp Yellow Scope notebook! You can even add some extra sheets for new experiments you design yourself.
Experiment 1: Add Some Fizz!
Nothing tastes better on a hot summer day than a cold glass of lemonade. Today we will make use of chemical reactions to make your lemonade taste better!
A chemical reaction happens when two substances bump into each other, rearrange some of their parts, and make a brand-new substance. In this experiment, you will mix lemon juice and baking soda together to produce a chemical reaction.
Let's get started!
Clear out a space, wear clothes that can get messy and get ready to have fun with lemons!
What do you think will happen when we mix baking soda and lemon juice? Will there be bubbles or will there be a change in color? Write your hypothesis in the work sheet.
WARNING: While it is safe to ingest the small amount of baking soda used in the experiment, large amounts should not be consumed, plus it doesn't taste that good!
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 1. Ask an adult to slice the lemon into quarters.
 2. Squeeze as much juice as you can from the lemon pieces into the drinking glass.
 3. Add some water to the glass – about the same amount as lemon juice.
 4. Now add ¼ teaspoon of baking soda and observe what happens!
 5. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar (or a bit more) to sweeten the drink and stir well to dissolve the sugar.
 6. Add some ice and a straw if you'd like.
 7. Now taste your drink! What do you think of your homemade fizzy lemonade?
What's happening?
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A chemical reaction happened between the citric acid in the lemon juice and the baking soda. When you added the baking soda to the lemon juice, the two substances bumped into each other, exchanged some of their parts, and formed a new substance – a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2). The fizz you saw was made up of lots of pockets of carbon dioxide gas bubbles floating up through the liquid.
This reaction is similar to the reaction that happens when you mix vinegar and baking soda to make a model of a volcano. That reaction also produces carbon dioxide gas bubbles.
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Why does it matter?
Can you think why chemical reactions are important?
 - Chemical reactions in the body (called biochemical reactions) digest our food, provide us with energy, make our heart beat, make our neurons fire and basically keep us alive!
 - Plants make their own food via a chemical reaction called photosynthesis.
 - Burning of wood to make a campfire involves a chemical reaction. S'mores, anyone?
You Own it!
True or False
 1. Mixing lemon juice and baking soda produces carbon dioxide gas in a chemical reaction.
 2. The fizz you saw was made up of lots of pockets of helium bubbles floating up through the liquid.
 3. Plants make their own food using a chemical reaction called photosynthesis.
Answer Key:
1. True.
2. False.The fizz you saw was made up of lots of pockets of carbon dioxide bubbles floating up through the liquid.
3. True.
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We hope you had fun making a fizzy lemonade using science! Next week we will make a liquid rainbow using some sugar, water and food coloring. Sounds exciting?! Check back next Tuesday for more summer science fun.
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Not content with synchronizing your phones to make one giant speaker? Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have developed "Pinch," an interface that lets you connect multiple devices together to form a giant disjointed display. Although the technology behind the interface remains a mystery — described only as a Wi-Fi based system — a video posted by DigInfo TV shows Pinch in action. To connect two devices, a user simply needs to pinch two adjacent screens together. The screens can be linked together in whatever alignment you choose, as the position and screen size of each display is communicated on a successful pinch.
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'Pinch' connects multiple smartphones and tablets together to make a display


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New study shows healthy diet and exercise can help prevent liver cancer
September 11, 2012
Regular exercise and eating a nutritious, balanced diet is extremely important to your health (We sincerely hope that this isn't ground breaking news to you).
The journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism reaffirms these findings as they relate to the liver.
"Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most frequent cancer worldwide, ranking third among all cancer‐related deaths. Clinical and experimental studies have shown that physical exercise helps to prevent cancer and improving quality of life," says Dr. Luís Fernando Barbisan, a coauthor of this study and a researcher in the Department of Morphology at the Institute of Biosciences of São Paulo State University in Brazil.
To read the full article, click here.
To learn more about liver cancer, click here.


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I would like to seek help from all experts in VB.NET (VB Language) regarding copying file from source folder to destination folder.
I have a files named YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.txt. Now i want to build a small project to copy those file to destination folder. The project should work in following manner:
 1. Check Computer Date
 2. Look for the file in destination folder similar to computer date and then copy that file to destination folder. For example:
 Let say Computer Date is 26/12/2012. When the program starts, it should check the computer date and then look for the file named 20121226*.txt. If the file is present then it should start copying else it should give a message saying the file does not exists.
 3. It should create log file storing the copy information.
Can any one help me how to have above feature in my project.
Till now how far you wrote code for this? You want someone to write code for you?
That is not a question, that is a specification. As stated above, show what you have tried and described what is giving you problems.
For the date use the Date.Today() function.
To take the date from the format dd/mm/yyyy and put it in the form ddmmyyyy you will need to build a new string like this Date.Today.Day & Date.Today.Month & Date.Today.Year
To check if a file exists you need to use the System.IO.File.Exists(path) function
Hope this helps. Should be enough to complete your task


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In a deck-level pool, displaced water overflows into a grate that surrounds the lip of the pool. The water collected in this grate is stored in the balancing tank. When the swimmer exits the pool, the water from the balancing tank flows back into the pool.
Also known as a surge chamber, the balancing tank should be large enough to contain the water displaced by an active swimmer, approximately 20 to 25 gallons per person. Excess water in the balancing tank can overflow into the sewage system.
When a large number of swimmers are expected to enter the pool at one time during a swim meet, for example the overflow return lines should be restricted with throttling valves, holding the surplus water in the pool. Otherwise, you risk overflowing the balancing tank and wasting water.
When water is added, pool water should not be allowed to flow back into the domestic line. One way to avoid this scenario is by adding make-up water to the balancing tank, maintaining a six-inch air gap. In an infinity pool, the balancing tank is used to store water needed to maintain the water level. When water is lost due to evaporation or displacement, water can be added from the balancing tank via an automatic pump.


Tuesday, August 30, 2011
More on predicate logic and direct reference
David Brightly asks here whether modern predicate logic (MPL) in fact rests on 'weak' (relativistic) reference, not strong (direct) reference. He appeals to the way that singular sentences in MPL seem to have a meaning even when the singular term is empty.
There are a number of connected reasons why this won't work. Here are the main characteristics of the relativistic logic (RL) I have defended here.
 - In RL there are two forms of negation for singular sentences. There is a narrow form 'nonF(a)', which is true when a exists and it is not the case that Fa, i.e. a is a nonF; and a wide form, which is true when either nonF(a), or when a does not exist. Excluded middle applies only to the wide form, naturally. By contrast, MPL has no such feature.
 - In RL, a sentence of the form 'An S is P' has a narrow existential sense: it is convertible with 'An S-P exists'. There is no distinction between a wide sense conveyed by 'some', and the narrow sense conveyed by 'exist'. RL is not Meinongian. By contrast, it is open to MPL to invent an existence predicate 'E()', which may satisfied by some members of the domain, but not by others.
 - As a direct consequence, in RL, the wide negation 'it is not the case that Fa' never implies the existential form 'some x is non-F'. By contrast, in MPL a singular sentence is existential, at least in the wide sense: '~Fa' implies 'Ex ~Fx'.
 - A further difference, though probably not relevant here, is that some relational statements in RL are not existential. 'aRb' does not always imply 'Ex aRx', namely in the case where 'R' is not logically transitive. This is how RL avoids the problem of intentionality without invoking Meinongian non-existent objects.
The net result is that if a singular sentence in MPL cannot be empty in the sense required by RL. Let 'v' be a term that purports to denote Vulcan (a non-existent planet). Then either Vulcan lies within the orbit of Mercury - OM(v), or not - ~OM(v). The problem is the negation. If ~OM(v), standard predicate logic implies Ex ~Fx. But that leads to Meinongianism, i.e. positing objects that do not exist, and this, as I have argued, is a form of direct reference. Direct reference is the thesis that if 'Fa' is meaningful, then 'a' refers to something - possibly a non-existent something.
Another argument: how can we even say in MPL that Vulcan does not exist? The sentence '~Ex x=v' will not do, for it asserts of something in the domain that it is not in the domain; '~E(v)' will do, where 'E' means 'exists', but this comes at the price of Meinong's junkyard. For '~E(v)' implies 'Ex ~E(x)', which is precisely Meinongianism. Or it can be denied that 'OM(v)' means anything at all, which is strong Direct Reference of the familiar variety. There is no escape. Either we adopt a radically different semantics and inference schemata, on the lines of RL above, or we are left with Direct Reference.
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Google takes up Latin
I was excited when I saw that the Google translator now includes Latin, and immediately gave it an untranslated section of the Logic Museum to look at. Results below. Not promising, sadly, so I am stuck with the tedious manual method for the moment.
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Fit autem fallacia consequentis vel arguendo ex propositionibus quarum una sequitur ad aliam et non e converso; vel arguendo ex una condicionali ad aliam condicionalem in qua oppositum antecedentis primae condicionalis ponitur antecedens et oppositum consequentis primae condicionalis ponitur loco consequentis.Or by arguing the fallacy of the consequent becomes one of which follows from propositions to another and not vice versa, or by arguing on the one in which the opposite of the antecedent of the first conditional to another conditional is placed opposite of the consequent of the first antecedent and the consequent CONDITIONAL place is placed.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Is God fair to scientists?
Is God fair? We have to assume that God will punish, harshly, those who do not believe his word. In which case, why did God design the universe in such a way that those of an intelligent and inquisitive disposition would conclude that the universe was not designed by God in the way he said he designed it?
Take the case of epicycles, of which 'Belette' comments.
"The massive difference, now, over say Copernican days is that the observations and calculating ability we have are so much better than before. It is no longer possible tlo believe in epicycles, because observations demonstrate clearly that they don't work, except in the trivial sense that any path can be fit by enough epicycles to an arbitrary degree of precision."
I agree. One of Galileo's motivations for his heliocentric theory was his observation of the phases of Venus. These cannot be observed properly without a telescope. Venus is lit by the sun from angles that are not consistent with the Ptolemaic system. There is a good explanation of this in the Wikipedia article on the Ptolemaic system. Why did God design the geocentric system in such a complex way that those of an inquisitive disposition, after inventing telescopes, would observe such apparent inconsistencies? In 1838, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel successfully measured the parallax of the star 61 Cygni, which is also difficult to explain in the geocentric system. Why did God go to the trouble of designing the geocentric universe in such a complicated way that an detailed observations such those of Bessel appeared to contradict the way God said (in the Bible) that he had in fact designed things?
Note, I am not arguing that the geocentric model is wrong. What I mean is that, if God says it is correct, and if, as seems to be the case, detailed observation and deduction (such as by Galileo and Bessel) suggests that it is not correct, and if God punishes harshly those who disbelieve what he says, then it seems as though God is not being fair. He has designed the universe in such a way that the way it appears to be designed is not the way he has said it was designed, and thus designed it in a way that invites punishment of the inquisitive and intelligent.
What reply can we make to this? Well, we could avoid fundamentalism by distinguish between literal and analogical truths. When it says in Psalm 93 that "the world also is established, that it cannot be moved", perhaps it does not mean that the earth is literally immoveable. Perhaps it is immoveable in a spiritual sense. Or that it cannot be moved from its orbit around the sun, all things being equal. Perhaps it is a statement about the constancy of physical constants, such as gravitational acceleration etc. Yes, that is a reasonable objection, but then we can turn the whole question around. Why did God make statements that are so easily open to a literalist misinterpretation? If so, then it seems God is discriminating against fundamentalists. Is that fair? Surely not.
Or it could be argued that the inquisitive and intelligent are simply wrong. A careful examination of the matter (see the websites linked to in earlier posts) shows that the geocentric theory is the correct one. I reply: whichever theory is correct, it remains that God's design has misled an extraordinary large number of people. Either he is being unfair to astronomers and scientists, or he is being unfair to fundamentalists. We have to choose, and either way it seems that he is not being entirely fair.
Or it could be argued that the inquisitive and intelligent have violated a version of the charity principle. They have followed a line of observation and reasoning that leads them to conclude that God has not told the truth. But logic, as well as the principle, should tell them that God would not have designed the universe in such a way as to contradict what he says. If any theory or reasoning of yours leads to a contradiction with sacred scripture or the teaching of the church, there is something wrong with your reasoning. Indeed, as Ockham argues – as discussed in my last post), we should even make exceptions to the laws of logic when this happens*.
So, is God not being fair to someone? And is that not inconsistent with an essence into which goodness, justice, fairness etc. are built into as though by definition?
* Yes, I realise that Ockham's point is more subtle than that. But this is internet land, where we lay things on with trowels.
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Ockham's solution to the Trinity problem
In the fifth chapter of the third book of his monumental Summa Logicae, Ockham presents an interesting solution to the problem of the Trinity. He says that the following syllogism is not valid:
Every divine essence is the Father
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Falcon researcher Dr Donna Falconer (photographed by a
motion-activated camera) uses a walking pole to protect
herself from attacking falcons, at Ferintosh Station, near
Mt Cook. Photo supplied.
There is no room for complacency over the future of the
endangered New Zealand falcon, researcher and falcon advocate
Dr Donna Falconer says.
Dr Falconer, who recently gained a University of Otago PhD in
geology, and has had her distinctive name since birth,
swiftly found herself inspired by a series of close
encounters with New Zealand falcons after moving to Twizel
six years ago.
Her subsequent research and close-up photography involving
falcons will feature in a talk she will give at the Orokonui
Ecosanctuary at 1pm tomorrow.
Dr Falconer said she was seriously considering going back to
Otago University to study for another PhD, on these birds.
It was a good time to be raising awareness about the karearea
or New Zealand falcon, as the latest season's fledglings were
''starting to make themselves known''.
Chicks from the Eastern falcon subtype, in the mid/southern
South Island, started fledging from early December until the
middle of this month and were easy to tell from their parents
because they had white/grey feet and soft fleshy body parts,
whereas adults were all yellow.
Two of the biggest threats inexperienced falcons faced were
being electrocuted by power lines or hit by cars when eating
Falcons were ''a bit of a double-edged sword'' where
ecosanctuaries were concerned.
''As majestic as they are, it's only natural they'd put all
those incredible hunting skills to good use given the
veritable smorgasbord of fine dining opportunities at their
wing tips in such places.''
Orokonui Ecosanctuary general manager Chris Baillie said two
falcons and a hawk overflew the ecosanctuary from time to
She was not aware of having lost any birds or other animals
through falcon predation, and birds and lizards had places to
hide if needed.
''Falcons are part of the ecosystemthey deserve
conservation as much as any other native species.''


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Collateral Charge Mortgages
- Re-advanceable loans
- Access to additional funds without the use of lawyer
- Lender can change interest rate at any time (usually only when in default)
- Unsecured debt can be interconnected with mortgage (they can use your mortgage payment to pay oﬀ other debts if you miss a payment which puts you in default on your mortgage!)
- Mortgage is NON transferrable
- Highly impacts your renewal options
- Register mortgage for MORE than you borrow (up to 125%)
What is a collateral charge?
A collateral charge is basically a diﬀerent method of registering a mortgage or loan against real property. Collateral charges used to only be used for secured lines of credit, but are now becoming quite popular with many major fnancial institutions for their regular mortgage products. It diﬀers from a "standard mortgage" in signifcant ways that aﬀect your ﬂexibility with the contract/bank.
Terms in a loan agreement
Regular Mortgages put all of the key terms in a document that's registered with the provincial land/registry ofce – Standard Mortgage Charge. A Collateral Mortgage, however puts key terms in a loan agreement which is NOT registered the same way. This collateral loan agreement may contain terms such as:
- The lender has the ability to change the interest rate at any time. Although this usually only occurs if in default, it can occur on certain products such as lines of credit, overdraf facilities etc.
- You can increase your loan amount without reregistration on title which means no legal fees
- Unsecured debt such as credit cards, overdraf, loans etc. can become interconnected
- The lender can use your mortgage payment to pay down other debts you have with that lender (if you default on those debts)
- For example, if you have a visa and are late in making the payment with the same bank you have the mortgage with, they can transfer your mortgage payment to the credit care instead, without your permission which immediately puts your mortgage in default.
- They can now contact you and ask for you to pay back the entire mortgage immediately or foreclosure proceedings will commence!
- If you are late or default on paying home insurance, property taxes, or condo fees, just like point #3, the collateral charge can be used to pay them oﬀ!
- On Demand: You will be signing a document at the lawyers that confrms the mortgage is "on demand". The lender can ask to be repaid at any time with no recourse to the lender. This usually only happens in default, but if you remember #3 and #4, this could mean default on other debts, NOT just your mortgage
Collateral charges have their place
- Re-Advanceable multi part mortgages
- Secured Lines of Credit
- Protect the equity in the property for the borrowers and/or family
- Protect against identity thef
- Access to more funds without the need for a lawyer
What a Collateral Charge does, and limits
- Register more than you borrow
- Lender may register a higher amount on title than is actually borrowed at the time mortgage is set upup to 125% of the value
- This results in the Lender protecting all of the current and future equity in your property and disallow any secondary fnancing from another lender
- Can re borrow, but with be limited to ONLY the options provided by the existing lender
- If moving from one bank to another, will incur legal fees and potentially a penalty as well
- Unlike a Standard Charge, you can borrow more money afer the mortgage is funded without the need to pay a lawyer
- This is still subject to requalifying to get access to more funds
- NON Transferable
- It cannot be transferred or switched to a new lender line a regular mortgage without incurring legal fees
- This impacts your renewal options
- At renewal, if your existing lender is not being competitive on rate, you will need to hire a lawyer and "refnance" to move to another bank, even though you may not be adding any more money
While collateral charge mortgages have their place in mortgage lending, the majority of people do not beneft from this type of registration. Most people are better suited for a standard charge mortgage contract. Use an expert to ensure that you are protected against hidden cost.


Funding of Animal Shelters
The funding of animal shelters is an area that I don't think about much but it may be important to the style of working at a shelter and the attitude of the staff. The number of animal shelters is a symptom of a failure in society in respect of our relationship with companion animals.
Is it fair to say that if a shelter is funded by local government, meaning the taxpayer, the attitude of the staff is going to be different to a shelter that is funded by charitable donations?
I am informed by Dee (Florida) and by my research on the internet that most animal shelters in the USA are funded by local government. I am sure there are some private, charitable, shelters but I'll proceed on the basis that most are funded by the taxpayer. In short they are what we in the UK call "public bodies".
As far as I am aware, most animal shelters in the UK are funded by charitable donations. I could be wrong but I don't know of any publicly funded animal shelters. These are what I would call "private organisations".
There are no formally prepared statistics on how efficient animal shelters are either in the UK or the USA. For example, how many cats are euthanised at shelters? Perhaps the percentage of cats and dogs euthanised is a measure of success and efficiency? Certainly in the USA there has been a huge decline in the percentage of cats and dogs euthanised at shelters since the 1970s. The following figures are estimated and come from HSUS:
USA Number of pets at homes Number cats and dogs euthanised at shelters
1970s 67 million 12-20 million
2013 135 million (dogs and cats) 2.7 million
This is a success story. However, the general view is that when a place is funded by the taxpayer there is lower efficiency in the workplace and motivation can also be at a lower level than in the private sector. This is because there is no competition. Bad work practices can be created under these conditions. This is the reason why in the UK the railways were privatized (it is a failure, however!).
Charitable organisations are possibly more efficient that public bodies because they are commercial enterprises and they are competing with other animal charities for funding. However, charitable are not accountable to the public, which can also result in poor management.
It is almost impossible to find reliable information on euthanasia rates at UK shelters. The RSPCA says that for dogs that had "rehoming potential", in 2009, 3 percent were euthanised. That figure is no better than the USA figure. In fact it is a little worse. However, I don't know if the RSPCA is representative of other charities.
I'd like to know the figures from Cats Protection in the UK, if they have them. They are a very good organisation.
Conclusions? Well, it is not possible to come to a conclusion as to whether animal shelters are better run when funded by charitable donations compared to the taxpayer through local government. This is because there are no measures on efficiency because no one is keeping records and making them public. This is a weakness with animal shelters.
Apparently in the USA, there is an ongoing attempt to build a national database of animal shelter statisitics so that figures can be tracked and shelters can work more in unison. It is called the "the Asilomar Accords".
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 - I have one word YES. And it is an estimate. It could well be a lot higher. It is legalised mass slaughter and an modern phenomenon, a symptom of the domestication of animals gone wrong.
 1. I only see some small differences between our local Humane Society (so called no-kill) and our local shelter. Most have to do with aesthetics rather than the actual running of each place. In my observations, I do believe that the HSUS may keep slightly better records. I say this because they take the time to gather some history about their adoptees and will post the info. In contrast, the shelter can't provide anything. I think it is important that people are informed about whether cats/dogs came from a one pet home, a home without children, etc.
 On the surface, I find the HSUS presents a cleaner, more welcoming facility. I. also, find the staff to be friendlier and more courteous.
 I, actually, think the HSUS is this way because they do rely on donations. Public contributions and their reputation is very important to them. Whereas, the shelter will get money from me whether thay are nice to me or not.
 2. So are the staff in these government funded shelters employees being paid or are they volunteers?
 I always think volunteers are more likely to be animal lovers and to be kind and compassionate than people doing it for their living are.
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A new RTE radio documentary explores how Kenmare Street in lower Manhattan was named in memory of an Irish immigrant.
The RTE radio doc 'Kenmare Street' tells the story of famine, enforced emigration, New York tenements, politics, and how a kid from the slums of the 'Five Points' got to name a street in Manhattan after his mother's home town of Kenmare.
In 1849, the agent for the Lord Lansdowne landlord of the Kenmare Estate recommended the estate could cut costs if they sent a portion of the destitute population to the US and Canada.
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The cost of the trip would cost less than food and lodgings for one year in a Kenmare workhouse.
Thousands of Kenmare residents took up the offer and immigrated to New York, settling in the notorious Five Points neighborhood, made up of Baxter Street, Orange Street and Worth Street.
Living in one of the most notorious slums in NYC the Kenmare Irish found work in tanneries, taverns and selling food on the streets.
One of the residents, Tim Sullivan, was the son of Kenmare immigrants Daniel O'Sullivan and Catherine Connelly. Sullivan started off shining shoes and doing paper rounds. He soon began running the newspaper distribution, before developing bars and theatres and ending up in politics.
Known as Big Tim or Big Feller, he was one of the city's most powerful politicians in the first decade of the 20th century.
Richard F. Welch, a New York historian, who wrote "King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era" describes his legacy.
"Profoundly Irish by birth, heritage and experience, the new district leader held little in the way of ethno-religious prejudices and took people as he found them.
"Brought up in abject poverty himself his worldview was refracted through a prism of class-consciousness that owed nothing to theory or ideology and everything to experience and practicality."
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"Sullivan was a master of mass politics in an age when personal contact was everything," he writes.
"The loyalty he engendered in the multiethnic population below 14th Street was based on his big hearted solicitude for his constituents."
Sullivan founded Kenmare street in 1911, in memory of the town his mother emigrated from.
He died aged 51, when he was killed on August 31, 1913, by a train near Pelham Parkway, New York.
As part of the radio documentary, Producer Yvonne Judge travelled to New York and spoke with Senator Mark Daly and historian Ger Lyne. She also spoke with descendants of Big Tim Sullivan among others.
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Every rainy season, farmers have to deal with rotten plants and diseases which caused them to produce less than usual. This also happened to farmers in Batu, Malang, Indonesia. In months with high levels of rainfall, some of them still plant potatoes – which is known that isn't best to farm during the rainy days. Meet Supri and Suyono from Batu, Malang, Indonesia, and read their stories about how they plant potatoes in the rainy season:
Supri, 52, has become a farmer for more than 35 years. He farms carrot, potato, and white cabbage. With 2 hectares of land, Supri normally harvests 17-20 tons per one period. The smallest amount of harvest was 8 tons, and the biggest he ever reaped is 25 tons.
For operational costs, Supri spends around 150 million for water system installation at the beginning, and 95 million yearly operational costs. He admitted that the ever-sitting challenges he faced are the expensive non-subsidized fertilizers, fungicides, and a lot of pesticides to tackle pests and diseases. Meanwhile, the external factor that might happen is the pipe thieves threat.
In the rainy season, the challenges increase: more pests; more diseases; lack of yield workers which makes it not possible to make his own organic fertilizer.
Nearly no technology involved to optimize the farming process. The only technology he uses for his farm is the portable sprinkler for irrigation. He said that it would be good to have a monitoring device and automated irrigation system, considering it's hard to find farmworkers, especially in the rainy season.
Suyono, 45, has been farming for more than 30 years now. He plants potatoes and carrots on his 2-hectare land, and provide 9 to 10 tons. His operational cost per one yield period is around 12 million, which includes the pesticide expense. Same as Supri, Suyono uses non-subsidized fertilizers because they're more effective and efficient.
The problems Suyono has in every rainy season are pests and diseases. Besides, the use of pesticides can double to 2 times a day, with one hour long for every sprinkle. Suyono hasn't involved technology in his farming practice either, which takes up his time and energy more.
Similar to Supri, Suyono thought that a monitoring system is great to have so he could maintain the land, as well as to prevent pests and plant diseases. Automatic irrigation is on-demand too, because it would help to decrease the uncertain land worker's needs.
With almost no technology involved, from the simplest thing like selling their crops online until farming facilities, Supri and Suyono thought that it would be good to start applying technology to their farms. As stated by both of them, monitoring systems and automated irrigation engines are the most urgently needed- to optimize their yields first.


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Exchange Development: Finding Rooms and Busy/Free status with Suggestions for Meeting
Posted by Kiranpreet Chawla Articles | Visual Studio 2010 September 26, 2011
In this article, let's develop a sample program to find out the rooms available and suggestions for organizing a meeting. We will use Exchange Server 2010 installed along with some rooms configured in it.
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1. To start with, let's create a Console application in Visual studio 2010 by navigating to File->New project. Then, add a Service Reference to the Exchange web service. To do this, right click the application in the Solution Explorer->Add Service Reference. Type the URL of your Exchange Service reference.

2. Then, open Program.cs. In the main() function, create an object of the ExchangeService class and pass the ExchangeVersion you are going to use. Here is Exchange 2010.

ExchangeService service =newExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010);

3. Set the credentials of the Exchange Server user. Pass the email, password and
domain name.
service.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(EmailID, EmailPassword, DomainName);

4. Then, call the AutoDiscoverUrl() method, and pass the email ID in it. This will get
the URL of the Exchange server with the passed email address.
service.AutodiscoverUrl(EmailID);

5. Now, to get the Room mailbox information, we need to set the filter to get only the
RoomMailbox recipient details. This is done using the following filter string:
//-RecipientTypeDetails RoomMailbox
string filter = "(&(objectClass=*)(msExchRecipientDisplayType=7))";

6. Next, create an object of the DirectorySearcher class and pass in the filter string as a
parameter to it. This will create search in Active Directory.
DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher(filter);

7. Then, create a List<T> of type AttendeeInfo. Let's name it rooms.
List<AttendeeInfo> rooms = new List<AttendeeInfo>();

8. Now, call the FindAll() method of the DirectorySearcher class created earlier. This
will search the rooms as we have specified the filter string in it earlier.
Then, also start a foreach loop to traverse the SearchResult.
foreach (SearchResult result in search.FindAll())
{

9. Then, in the foreach loop, create an object of ResultPropertyCollection and get the results using result.Properties.

ResultPropertyCollection r = result.Properties;

10. Now, get each address' details by creating an instance of the DirectoryEntry class. Call the GetdirectoryEntry() method.
// Do work with data returned for each address entry
DirectoryEntry entry =result.GetDirectoryEntry();

11. The, add the mail property value to the list of AttendeeInfo created earlier.
rooms.Add(new AttendeeInfo(entry.Properties["mail"].Value.ToString().Trim()));
}

12. Now, use this list to find the availability information for the rooms. Here, we will find availability information for all the rooms.
//Create a list of attendees for which to request availability
// information and meeting time suggestions.
List<AttendeeInfo> attendees= rooms;

13. Now, create a list of AttendeeInfo which we will use in further steps.
List<AttendeeInfo> attend =new List<AttendeeInfo>();

14. Next, start a foreach loop to traverse the list of attendees. In this loop, clear the newly created list of AttendeeInfo and add the email address of the room. This is done through the SmtpAddress property.
foreach (AttendeeInfo inf in attendees)
{
attend.Clear();
attend.Add(inf.SmtpAddress);

15. Next, create an instance of the AvailabilityOptions class. Set the MaximumSuggestionsPerDay property to 48. This will generate 48 suggestions per day.

AvailabilityOptions options = new AvailabilityOptions();
options.MaximumSuggestionsPerDay = 48;

16. Then, create an instance of GetUserAvailabilityResults and call the GetUserAvailability() method. Also, pass the list of rooms for which we need to find the availability information, the TimeWindow in which the information is needed
and the options object created. Set the AvaialabilityData as FreeBusyAndSuggestions.
GetUserAvailabilityResults results = service.GetUserAvailability(
attend,
new TimeWindow(DateTime.Now,
DateTime.Now.AddDays(2)),
AvailabilityData.FreeBusyAndSuggestions,options);

17. Then, for each Attendee Availability information in the results, get the Calendar Event of the attendee availability and output the start time, end time and subject of the meeting.
foreach (AttendeeAvailability
attendeeAvailability in results.AttendeesAvailability)
{
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("===========================================================================");
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Room " + attendees[i].SmtpAddress + "Busy Hours");
if(attendeeAvailability.ErrorCode == ServiceError.NoError)
{
foreach(Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.CalendarEvent calendarEvent in
attendeeAvailability.CalendarEvents)
{
Console.WriteLine("Calendar event");
Console.WriteLine(" Starttime: " + calendarEvent.StartTime.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(" Endtime: " + calendarEvent.EndTime.ToString());
if(calendarEvent.Details != null)
{
Console.WriteLine(" Subject:" + calendarEvent.Details.Subject);
// Output additional properties.
}
}
}
}

18. Now, Lets output the suggestions for the room availability. For each suggestion in the results, get the Suggestion class object and output the suggested day, and suggestion quality. Similary, output the Time suggestions for the meeting.
Console.WriteLine("Suggestions:");
Console.WriteLine();
// Output suggested meeting times.
foreach (Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Suggestion suggestion in results.Suggestions)
{
Console.WriteLine("Suggested day: " +suggestion.Date.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("Overall quality of the suggested day: " +suggestion.Quality.ToString());
foreach (TimeSuggestion timeSuggestion in suggestion.TimeSuggestions)
{
Console.WriteLine(" Suggested time: " + timeSuggestion.MeetingTime.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(" Suggested time quality: " + timeSuggestion.Quality.ToString());
// Output additonal properties.
}
}
}
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Hi Kiranpreet. Can you please tell what is msExchRecipientDisplayType. Thanks.
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text: In this research article, a novel and green deep eutectic solvent-based microextraction (DES-ME) procedure based on chemometric-assisted (CA) optimization was developed for the extraction of caffeine in foods and beverages prior to its spectrophotometric determination. Ultrasound was used to accelerate the extraction of caffeine. Deep eutectic solvents (DES), prepared in an ultrasonic bath at 20-60 min for 60-80 degrees C, were used as extraction solvents. The important experimental variables (pH, DES amount, temperature, sonication time and metal concentration) were modelled and optimized using response surface methodology (RSM) based on central composite design (CCD). Under the optimum conditions, the proposed method allowed the determination of caffeine with limits of detection (LOD, 3s(blank)/m) and quantification (LOQ, 3s(blank)/m) of 7.5 and 25.0 mu g L-1, respectively. For 40 mu g L-1 and 100 mu g L-1 of caffeine (n = 5), relative standard deviations (RSDs%) and recoveries% were 1.2-1.6% and 96.7-98.2%, respectively. Validation studies (accuracy, precision, trueness, reliability and selectivity) of the method were performed before the analysis of real samples. The results showed that the combination of the CCD with the DES-ME can be considered as a new perspective for the extraction and determination of caffeine in foods and beverages.


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Experienced hospitalists and medical directors agree that the key to multiple hospitalist groups coexisting effectively under one roof—whether directly competing or not—is good communication. Effective communication can take time to build.
"Start by working together on something—anything, [such as] a hospital committee of some sort where there's not likely to be much tension," says hospitalist pioneer and practice consultant John Nelson, MD, MHM.
Dr. Nelson practices at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, Wash., which has a hospitalist group employed by the hospital and another employed by Group Health Cooperative, a nonprofit health system in Washington state. It is important to put some trust in the trust bank, he says, "and that's hard if you have no social connections at all. At my hospital, we enjoy each other's company, we visit each other at lunch, and we even tried to have a journal club." The two hospitalist groups work together on developing care protocols. Dr. Nelson says it also makes sense for the groups' leaders to sit down together on a regular basis and have a venue for discussing important issues and solving problems that may arise.
Other suggestions for hospitalist groups working together under one roof include:
- Clearly define each group's territory. The groups' representatives can go out and try to persuade health plans or physician groups to shift their hospitalist allegiances, but there should be no "trolling" or "poaching" of patients going on inside the hospital's walls. That will only confuse patients and disrupt the hospital's larger service goals.
- Inform the ED and other key staff of your schedules. It's important that everyone know exactly who is supposed to get which patients, and how these referrals get made. But recognize that mistakes happen and, hopefully, these will even out between the groups over time.
- Transparency, honesty, and even-handed treatment of all hospitalists can prevent resentment. Clearly defined guidelines and expectations are helpful. If the policy spells out transfers for an incorrectly referred patient, both sides should be accessible and cooperative with that process.
- Identify areas of common interest and agree to work together on these areas (i.e. competition-free zones). It might be possible, for example, for competing groups to take each others' after-hours call on a rotating basis, with a firm commitment not to steal patients along the way.
- Spell out responsibilities in a way that everyone can agree is fair, such as alternating referrals or taking call on alternating days. For example, if subsidies are paid to more than one hospitalist group, is this done equitably, such as based on the number of hospitalist FTEs or shifts?
- Restrictive covenants and contractual noncompete clauses could become an issue in areas where multiple groups practice. Rather than using overly broad, blanket language, it could be clarified that such pacts apply only to the hospital where the physician currently works, and within a reasonable time frame. But everyone involved should be aware of what these covenants contain and, if they appear unreasonable, don't sign them.


Date in the task pane it will open the recurrence settings window as well:
2. Correspondence of the next occurrence date and recurrence pattern
If you have set the date of the next occurrence with a weekly pattern, this date must correspond to the specified day of the week. If there is a discrepancy, the program will warn you that this day is not, for example, Tuesday. In this case, you can accept the suggested option of auto-correction or manually change either the date or the day of the week.
The similar thing is with monthly and yearly recurrence patterns. For example, if the date is set on the 1st day of the next month, and the recurrence is "every first working day of the month" - this date should be exactly the first working day of the month.
3. Do not set time and reminders if the option "Regenerate new task..." is selected
The recurrence with the "Regenerate new task..." on will occur exactly within the specified period after the task is completed.
If you take this example, the first time the reminder will work at 3 p.m. And if you click to complete the task at 3:24 p.m., then the next reminder will work as early as 3:24 p.m. of the following day.
You should set time and reminders only for tasks with the recurrence of every day, week, month and year.
Please note that in the "Hourly" pattern the only option we can set is "Regenerate next task x hours after each task is completed".
Let's sum up
The options for task recurrence in the MyLifeOrganized task planner are able to reflect any life situations, any cycles with all sorts of corrections. Should your situation not fit into the possibilities of MLO recurrence, write about it in the comments — we will discuss it and find a solution!