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Here students create a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation illustrating the Bill of Rights amendments in their unique personal style
Computers & Internet, Social Studies
By – Ian Taggart
Primary Subject – Social Studies
Secondary Subjects – Computers / Internet
Grade Level – 8th Grade
- Arizona State Standards:
- S1:C10:PO8-10, S2:C9:PO1-3, S1:C4:PO4, S3:C1:PO3
Arizona Technology Standards:
- S1:C1:PO1, S1:C4:PO1, S3:C1:PO1-2, S3:C2:PO1-5, S5:C1:PO3
- The purpose of the project is for the students to create their own understanding of the Bill of Rights through their own research. They can then apply what they learned to everyday events and activities and see how the Bill of Rights touch nearly every aspect of their lives.
|Utilizing the internet and news sources, the students will research each of the ten amendments that make up the Bill of Rights and create a presentation unique to their personal style which illustrates the main points of the Bill of Rights.|
Create a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation illustrating the Bill of Rights.
- The presentation must be formatted and organized in the following manner:
- Name, class and topic on the first slide (Bill of Rights).
- Minimum of one slide per amendment, but may have more slides containing text, pictures or a combination of both.
- Create your own slide format or use a preset format.
- Try different slide transitions, artwork and photos, appropriate sound effects and music if desired.
- The presentations will be assessed according to the guidelines above.
- 50 total points are possible
- Points are lost for missing incomplete elements
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"Hand claps are a relatively primitive conveyor of sonic information, yet they are widely applied for different purposes."
though they may be, given just a simple audio recording of a single
handclap, is it possible to determine the hand-configuration of the
clapper via a computer-assisted digital analysis of the sound?
Researchers Antti Jylhä and Cumhur Erkut at the Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology, TKK, Espoo, Finland reveal that, yes, it is.
Their paper: INFERRING THE HAND CONFIGURATION FROM HAND CLAPPING SOUNDS (published in Proc. of the 11th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-08), Espoo, Finland, September 1-4, 2008) describes their experiments in detail.
Using a combination of FFT filtering and the Steiglitz-McBride algorithm on 40 recordings of claps (two clappers, 20 claps each), the team have discovered eight distinct classes of clap. Named as: P1, P2, P3, A1, A2, A3, A1+ and A1- The results showing too that "… it is possible to make inference of the hand configuration of a clapper given the resulting sound."
The paper also points to the possibility of more-advanced clap analysis techniques that may be of interest to security researchers – but which could perhaps be of concern to privacy-rights groups. Clapper Recognition. In the future, might it be possible to electronically identify the clap-signature of a particular individual embedded within a crowd of clappers? "The results also suggest that the claps of individual clappers may incorporate systematic differences from other people's claps …" say the research team.
SOFTWARE: The Helsinki University
of Technology Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing has
created a software package called ClaPD – one of the very few,
perhaps the only, cross-platform freeware fake-applause generation
A video describing the software can be viewed (and heard) here (.wmv format). And ClaPD can be downloaded here: (Windows, Linux and OSX 10.5)

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Mooning is the art of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by lowering the backside of one's trousers and underpants, usually bending over, whether also exposing the genitals or not. Mooning is used mostly in the English-speaking world to express protest, scorn, disrespect, or provocation but can also simply be done for shock value or fun. Some jurisdictions regard mooning to be indecent exposure, sometimes depending on the context.
Moon has been a common shape-metaphor for the buttocks in English since 1743, and the verb to moon has meant 'to expose to (moon)light' since 1601. As documented by McLaren, "'mooning', or exposing one's butt to shame an enemy [...] had a long pedigree in peasant culture" throughout the Middle Ages, and in many nations. Formerly, "mooning" was slang for "wandering idly" and "romantically pining." Although the practice of mooning was widespread by the 19th century, the Oxford English Dictionary dates the use of "moon" and "mooning" to describe the act to student slang of the 1960s, when the gesture became increasingly popular at among students at universities in the United States.
In Chilean Spanish, the act of mooning is known as cara pálida, lit. "Paleface".
Patrick Devine, 19, from County Donegal, Ireland was arrested on 27 July 2007 for allegedly dropping his trousers as a dare in Saint Louis, Senegal. Devine, a student of Queens University Belfast, spent one month in jail for his alleged actions.
In 2003 two British tourists were convicted and fined €920 each on indecent exposure charges for mooning.
In 2006, a Maryland state circuit court determined that mooning is a form of artistic expression protected by the First Amendment as a form of speech. The court ruled that indecent exposure relates only to exposure of the genitals, adding that even though mooning was a "disgusting" and "demeaning" act to engage in, and had taken place in the presence of a minor, "If exposure of half of the buttocks constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty."
Defense attorneys had cited a 1983 case of a woman who was arrested after protesting in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building wearing nothing but a cardboard sign that covered the front of her body. In that case, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals had ruled that indecent exposure is limited to a person's genitalia. No review of the case by a higher court took place since prosecutors dropped the case after the ruling.
In California, an appellate court found in 2000 that mooning does not constitute indecent exposure (and, therefore, does not subject the defendant to sex offender registration laws) unless it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt that the conduct was sexually motivated.
Notable incidents of mooning
- In 80, Flavius Josephus recorded the first known incident of mooning. Josephus recorded that in 66 AD, at around the beginning of the First Roman–Jewish War, a Roman soldier mooned Jewish pilgrims on their way to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, causing a riot, an over-response by the Roman military, and the deaths of thousands of pilgrims.
- In the Siege of Constantinople in 1204, the Greeks exposed their bare buttocks to the Crusaders after they repulsed them from the walls.
- During the Battle of Crécy in 1346, when king Edward III of England took Caen on the way to Crécy, several hundred Norman soldiers "exposed their backsides to the English archers and many of them paid a high price for doing so."
- A number of early explorers of the Atlantic coastline noted that the Etchemin tribe of Maine practiced this custom.
- Since 1979, The Annual Mooning of Amtrak has been an annual tradition in Laguna Niguel, California on the second Saturday of July, where many people spend the day mooning passing Amtrak trains; some passengers ride the trains that day to witness the event. This has inspired a chain of "train moonings" throughout the country.
- On November 22, 1987, an intruder interrupted the broadcast signal of Chicago PBS affiliate, WTTW with a strange video of himself dressed to resemble Max Headroom. He exposed his buttocks to the camera.
- Pauly Shore first mooned on film in Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) as his character, Buzz, tricks a mall guard into leaving his booth.
- In June 2000, a mass mooning event was organised outside of Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom by the Movement Against the Monarchy (M'AM). A large police presence prevented a large scale mooning, but a few individuals did so. This event is known as the Moon Against the Monarchy.
- On 7 June 2002, Macy Gray mooned the crowd during her performance at Manchester Apollo concert in Ardwick Green, Manchester, England.
- At the 2005 UK Music Hall of Fame awards ceremony, musician Ozzy Osbourne mooned the crowd after a set he played.
- In October 2006, English Premiership footballer Joey Barton was fined £2,000 for mooning Everton fans.
- A tradition of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers Mooning the Cog has developed on Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
- On January 9, 2005, Randy Moss of the Minnesota Vikings pretended to moon Green Bay Packers fans following a touchdown he scored. He was fined $10,000 by the NFL for the incident.
- At the Patch Adams Full Moon Festival three-day event to raise money for his Gesundheit Institute! and Albuquerque, 200,000 people pay $100 each to moon as a group and lend a hand with local projects.
- On 10 May 2007, Yvette Fielding pulled a moonie out a Soho restaurant window on the final episode of the reality television series Deadline.
- On 24 October 2011, economic inequality protester Liam Warriner of Sydney ran alongside the motorcade of Queen Elizabeth II and a waving Prince Phillip for 50 metres with an Australian flag clenched between his exposed buttocks, before being accosted by police.
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- Nester, Daniel (2009). How to be Inappropriate. Counterpoint Press. ISBN 978-_PHONE_.
- McLaren, Angus (1997). The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, _PHONE_. University of Chicago Press. p. 186.
- "Moon". The Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
- Forrest Wickman (June 27, 2012). "Mooning: A History". browbeat: Slate's culture blog. Slate.com. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
- "End of ordeal for Donegal Mooner". Irish Independent. August 29, 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- "British pair convicted for mooning in Greece". The Independent (London) (Bnet). August 27, 2003. Retrieved 2008-09-01.[dead link]
- Londoño, Ernesto (January 4, 2006). "Mooning Deemed 'Disgusting' but No Crime in Md.". Washington Post (The Washington Post Company). p. B01. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- "Judge rules'mooning' is not illegal in Md.". The News Journal, redistributed from the Associated Press. January 6, 2006. p. B6.
- "In re Dallas W. (2000) 85 Cal. App. 4th 937 [102 Cal.Rptr.2d 493]".
- Bloom, James J. (2010). The Jewish Revolts Against Rome, A.D. 66-135: A Military Analysis. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7864-4479-3.
- Josephus, Flavius (80); Whiston, William, translator (1737). "The Wars Of The Jews Or The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem, Book II, Chapter 12". sacred-texts.com. Evinity Publishing Inc.
- Queller, Donald E.; Thomas F. Madden, Alfred J. Andrea (2000). The Fourth Crusade. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-8122-1713-1. "As the ships pulled away from the shore the Greeks on the walls hooted and jeered at the defeated attackers. Some of them let down their clouts and showed their bare buttocks in derision to the fleeing foe."
- Tenzer Feldman, Ruth (2008). The Fall of Constantinople. Connecticut: Twenty-First Century Books. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8225-5918-4.
- "Battle of Crécy". California Archery. 2002. Retrieved February 4, 2006.
- Jarymowycz, Roman Johann (2007). Cavalry from Hoof to Track. Praeger. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-275-98726-8. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- Axtell, James (1992). Beyond 1492:Encounters in Colonial North America. USA: Oxford University Press. p. 189.


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Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
This photograph depicts a group of Gypsies taken in Ireland
In 2007 an innovative project to find out about the family histories and culture of local Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT) began in Leicestershire. Working in partnership with museum colleagues in Leicester, the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland assisted by volunteers from the local GRT community, began to collect information and material. The funding was provided by Renaissance East Midlands and channelled through the Leicester City Council Museum Service. This project was part of a bigger enterprise "Moving Here", hosted by The National Archives, which gives access through the website _URL_ to migration stories from people of various backgrounds and origins who moved to Britain. The undertaking had its own Project Worker, Margot Farnham, who conducted all of the interviews with the representatives of the Gypsy Roma and Travellers Community and edited them digitally. After collating all the available resources, the Record Office put on an exhibition called 'Stopping Places' in July 2008.
Interior of a trailer. Please note it is decorated with the Crown Derby & silver bowl at the back
Gypsies and Travellers leave very little trace in archives because of their nomadic lifestyle and dependence on an oral tradition rather than a written one, and little is known about them. What can be found in the Record Office, as in many county archives, are passing references to Gypsies in parish registers or in documents such as parish Constables' accounts, where they had brushes with the law. The picture is very one-sided. As a result of this, one of the main aims of the project was to create a resource about them, working as equal partners with members of the community to tell their stories. Through cooperation with members of the Travelling community, the Record Office now has recorded interviews, written stories, photographs and other documentation, which the public and researchers can access. Another vital reason for working on this project was the request of the representatives of the Gypsy group to create records about their lives and customs so that their descendants may use them in future.
Wagon & harnessed horses - Ireland or Isle of Man
In this section you can discover the history and customs of the GRT community, read their family histories and view various photos and documents.
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I am working on a HTML5 Project.There is a drawing graphics API to draw Rectangle (fillRectStrokeRect).But how can i draw a SQUARE. I have tried the following way to draw it CODE
x2=mx; y2=my;
var width=endX-startX;
var height=endY-startY;
var centerX=width/2;
var centerY=width/2;
var radius=width/2;
annCanvasContext.arc(centerX+5, centerY+5, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
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Use fillRect or strokeRect with the width and height being equal.
var x = 0, y = 0,
 side = 10;
ctx.fillRect(x, y, side, side);
As you say in the comments, if you want to fit the largest square in a circle, it's more Math related than about code. I'll trying explaining it to you, but you'll probably find better, more visual explanations elsewhere on the Internet.
Draw the diameter of the circle in a way that it divides your square into two equal parts. Now one part is a right angled triangle, which has two of its sides equal. We know the diameter. Using the Pythogorean theorem, you get this equation: side^2 + side^2 = diameter^2.
Let's find the side now.
2(side^2) = diameter^2
side^2 = (diameter^2)/2
side = Math.sqrt( (diameter^2)/2 )
Now, to turn this into code.
 radius = 20;
ctx.canvas.addEventListener('click', function (e){
 ctx.fillStyle = 'black';
 ctx.arc(e.pageX, e.pageY, radius, 0, Math.PI*2, false);
 ctx.fillStyle ='red';
 var diameter = radius * 2;
 var side = Math.sqrt( (diameter * diameter)/2 );
 ctx.fillRect(e.pageX - side/2, e.pageY - side/2, side, side);
}, false);
This would draw a square inside a circle wherever you click on the canvas.
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Thanks Amaan. But i want to draw circle inside a square at run time. – Shanky Sep 7 '12 at 4:43
_USER_ Added that to the answer. – Some Guy Sep 7 '12 at 11:00
See how I got how to find the side? Manipulate the equation. You should get this: radius = Math.sqrt(2(side^2))/2 – Some Guy Sep 12 '12 at 15:30
_USER_ What the are you trying to do? Either the side or the radius have to be fixed. You said you want to calculate the raduys according to the height or width. The height / width of a square is the side. Make the side variable whatever you want and then calculate the radius – Some Guy Sep 13 '12 at 14:57
_USER_ No, I can't. – Some Guy Sep 17 '12 at 11:03
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Effects of Unstable Links on AODV Performance in Real Testbeds
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume 2007, Article number: 019375 (2007)
A link between a pair of nodes is defined unstable if it is characterized by a packet loss which is not negligible in one or both directions. The presence of unstable links in multihop ad hoc networks is very likely and it depends on several factors (e.g., different transmission capabilities of the devices, interferences caused by additional wireless devices). Their management by the routing protocols is of paramount importance since they negatively affect applications performance. In our previous experimental studies, we found that AODV is characterized by very low performance in some specific situations and, in this work, we demonstrate that it mainly depends on the wrong management of unstable links as valid routes. We present some policies that have been proposed in literature to avoid this problem, and we validate two of them through experimental results, exploiting also a direct comparison with the proactive routing protocol OLSR. Our results show that AODV is not able to avoid the use of unstable links, even when an alternative stable route exists. In the same conditions, OLSR outperforms AODV by correctly managing unstable links. In fact, it is able to guarantee a higher packet delivery ratio to the application by using the most stable path to reach the destination.
Borgia E, Conti M, Delmastro F, Pelusi L: Lessons from an ad-hoc network test-bed: middleware and routing issues. Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks 2005,1(1-2):125-157.
Borgia E: Experimental evaluation of ad hoc routing protocols. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking, in Conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, March 2005, Kauai Island, Hawaii, USA 232-236.
Borgia E, Conti M, Delmastro F, Gregori E: Experimental comparison of routing and middleware solutions for mobile ad hoc networks: legacy vs cross-layer approach. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Wireless Network Design and Analysis (E-WIND '05), August 2005, Philadelphia, Pa, USA 82-87.
Borgia E, Conti M, Delmastro F, Gregori E, Passarella A: MANET perspective: current and forthcoming technologies. Proceedings of the 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, June 2006, Mykonos, Greece
Clausen T, Jacquet P: Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR). 2003. RFC 362
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Gray RS, Kotz D, Newport C, et al.: Outdoor experimental comparison of four ad hoc routing algorithms. Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM '04), October 2004, Venice, Italy 220-229.
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Why Nigeria's Crop Yields Have Remained Lowest In Africa – NASC DG
ABUJA – Dr Philip Olusegun Ojo, Director General of the National Agricultural Seeds Council(NASC), has explained that crop yields in Nigeria have remained one of the lowest in Africa due to a lack of substantial progress in improving the performance of available plant varieties.
Ojo stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at the National Training and Awareness Creation on Plant Variety Protection(PVP) System in Nigeria.
He pointed out that despite various government interventions in agriculture, crop yields have remained one of the lowest in Africa.
He said: "Over the years, various studies have shown that one of the major reasons for poor agricultural performance in Nigeria is the lack of substantial progress in improving the performance of available plant varieties.
"Despite the plethora of commitments and efforts by various governments to improve agricultural productivity, crop yields in Nigeria have remained one of the lowest in sub-Saharan Africa."
He therefore, posited that improved varieties are necessary and cost-effective means of improving productivity, quality and marketability of crops.
The Director General of NASC, however, observed that breeding new varieties of plants requires a substantial investment of skills, labour, material resources, money and time, adding that it can take more than 15 years to bring a new variety to the market.
While congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the Plant Variety Protection(PVP) Bill into Law, Ojo said PVP would become an incentive for plant breeders in the development of new varieties which would undoubtedly contribute sustainably to the growth of agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
According to him, "The role of PVP in responding to this challenge is to provide a legal framework and system that encourages plant breeding, leading to the development of superior plant varieties with high yield potentials and capable of withstanding conditions resulting from climate change and global population growth.
"It is important to note that Nigeria was one of the few countries in Africa with no legal framework for the protection of plant breeders.
"Studies in Kenya, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa have clearly shown the importance of having such legal framework in place.
"These include increased investment in plant breeding, increase in the number of breeders and breeding entities, access to foreign trade in varieties, increased availability of more improved crop varieties with better yield potentials, high stress tolerance and disease resistance with high input efficiency as well as income and employment generation."
Ojo therefore, underscored the significant role played by the NASC together with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development as well as other critical stakeholders in the introduction and enactment of the PVP Law in Nigeria.
He expressed optimism that Nigeria would soon become a member of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants(UPOV) which would enable Nigeria to benefit from International Seed Trade.
Also speaking, Mariska Lammers, First Secretary, Food Security and Climate, Netherlands Embassy in Nigeria, stressed the importance of PVP law, adding that PVP enables plant breeders and investors to reap from their investments.
In his goodwill message, Peter Button, Vice Secretary General of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants(UPOV), said most farmers today would not be able to feed the people in the future owing to the fact that they are yet to embrace technology and new plant varieties in food production.
Button stressed the need for farmers to produce more food using the improved varieties for sustainable food systems.


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Most scientific data analyses comprise analyzing voluminous data collected from various instruments. Efficient parallel/concurrent algorithms and frameworks are the key to meeting the scalability and performance requirements entailed in such scientific data analyses. The recently introduced MapReduce technique has gained a lot of attention from the scientific community for its applicability in large parallel data analyses. Although there are many evaluations of the MapReduce technique using large textual data collections, there have been only a few evaluations for scientific data analyses. The goals of this paper are twofold. First, we present our experience in applying the MapReduce technique for two scientific data analyses: (i) High Energy Physics data analyses; (ii) Kmeans clustering. Second, we present CGL-MapReduce, a stream based MapReduce implementation and compare its performance with Hadoop.
The paper accepted for the eScience 2008.


programming, try an Implicit Association Test like this one:
 5. You all raise good points, but why get so angry about violence against women? Men are much more likely the targets of most nonsexual violence.
 And why is sexual violence so much worse than nonsexual? Most criminal codes treat murder as more severe than rape...but we have few games with rapist protagonists, whereas most protagonists engage in murder outside of, say, puzzle games. How many orcs did you kill in Pool of Radiance, 'clearing the block' of ethnic undesirables?
 6. What makes you think people wouldn't have an issue with Rance if he killed the women instead of sexually assaulting them? That sounds even more sociopathic, especially if the player was invited to enjoy the act of killing them!
 It's a problem whenever a message perpetuates negative attitudes.
 Generally speaking, computer games feature enemies that consist of 'willing participants'. They're bandits, invading soldiers, xenophobic cultists, predatory monsters etc etc. In these instances it doesn't appear to matter much whether the foes are man or woman.
 In the instances where the enemies aren't willing participants, it tends to receive commentary here - be it seemingly innocent royal guards, people in the wrong place at the wrong time or even prehistoric animals.
 If clearing the slums in Pool of Radiance was framed as removing ethnic undesirables, then it'd certainly be an issue. However, these 'ethnics' are warring tribes living in occupied territory - likely some of the very tribes that sacked the city 50 years prior. It's not like you're wiping out a group of orcs who are keeping to their own little village! When the PCs wander the slums, they are regularly attacked without warning - and if the player wishes, they can let the non-hostile groups flee.
 7. I tried the implicit association test for gender, and it said too many errors. Oh well.
 It's completely true that men are more likely to be targets of nonsexual violence, and that's something that our society likes to conveniently ignore, but that's not the core issue here. (I hope that anyone who finds Rance offensive would find it equally offensive if the genders were reversedreal sexual violence against men may not be as common as sexual violence against women, but that doesn't make it any less unacceptable.)
 The issue is the fact that sexual violence is (supposedly) being glorified, and the protagonist isn't in any way redeemed. (I would argue that only the fantasy of sexual violence is being glorified, but that goes back to my first post. And considering that there are many healthy outlets for this fantasy, including such pornography or a consenting partner, that's not a bad thing at all.)
 Would you say that Ultima III glorifies real theft because you can steal from innocent shopkeepers, and the game rewards the player with gold? How about the fact that an effective leveling tactic once you get a Wizard with 70 INT is to pick a fight with a bunch of guards, cast ROT (or whatever the 70 MP Wizard spell is, most of my experience with U3 is the NES version, which is mostly faithful but gives the spells English names) to reduce their HP to 1, and then let whomever needs the EXP pick them off for a total of over 200EXP, giving you two levels?
 Computer games do tend to feature enemies that are either willing participants, but we all know that reluctant or unwilling soldiers have been drafted to fight in real warshow we you know the enemy soldiers aren't similarly unwilling? And many Gold Box players have gleefully tossed Fireball spells into hordes of enemiesthe fact that the game encourages this glorifies a power fantasy.
 This is only anecdotal, but I would like to add that every single person I've known to enjoy these types of gamesnot only pornographic, but violently pornographic towards womenhas been female. Men I've known tended to like more raunchy games.
 8. I don't know where you live, but in Australia, alcohol-fueled street violence (of which the majority of victims are male) gets a lot of media coverage and political attention, arguably moreso than domestic violence (of which the majority of victims are female).
 You'll note that neither Chet nor I referred to 'glorification'. The contention is that media informs and reinforces cultural norms and mores - which in some ways, is the founding theorem of the field of social psychology.
 Whether something perpetuates negative stereotypes or not has as much to do with the presentation of the story, as it does the details of the story. Despite the fact that theft is mechanically rewarded in both Ultima 3 and GTA 3, it would be hard to argue that they are presented in the same light.
 As for the 'unwilling soldier', yes, there have been plenty of unwilling soldiers throughout history, but that's a bit of a red herring. The relevant detail is how the soldiers are presented by the game, and what attitudes the conflict with the soldiers are reinforcing. Interesting games, in my opinion, are those that are conscious of these questions and use them in the narrative: The BioWare/Black isle family regularly forces players to examine some of the ethically questionable RPG tropes.
 9. I live in the US, and never having so much as visited Australia know it may be different there. As long as we can accept that violence against men and violence against women aren't fundamentally different as problems (the problem is that it's violence against people) we should be on the same page about it.
 And neither of you referred to glorificationit sounds as though you're referring more so to what could be termed normalization. I still think, that to a mature enough player to understand fantasy (and one who can't shouldn't be playing CRPGs or video games at all, let alone pornographic ones,) works such as this only normalize the fantasy of violence. In real life, there are lots of well-adjusted people who daydream about, say, punching people they don't like. I think the thing about art, is that you can choose what to take away from it. And if a game leads to you taking away negative attitudes about women... again, you're not mature enough to be playing said game.
 Having spent a good amount of time with both U3 and GTA3, In Ultima 3 theft seems to be somewhere between a gameplay contrivance and a necessary evil. GTA 3 is in my opinion, a satire of overconsumerism (and to a lesser extent crime and the whole "gangster" life) plus an excuse to let you basically do whatever you feel like, with whatever you can find.
 Also, when playing RPGs that will let me get away with it, I do like to try to rob and kill innocent people because they're there. The reason is because I find the entire idea to be so ridiculous (stalking NPCs and killing them for 3 gold pieces and 2 experience pointsthat's crossing the line twice!) not because I'm living out anything I'd want to do in real life, even if it were consequence-free.
 Also, I do fully support the addict's decision not to play the rest of the Rance games if he finds them offensive. Just because this one is a CRPG, doesn't mean it's not pornographic, just as just because a film is pornographic, doesn't mean it's not a filmbut I think one attempting to chronicle film history can be forgiven for not wanting to be exposed to it, beyond than noting that it does, in fact, exist.
 10. Rance series is actually a very sad thing as the game world and gameplay do actually get really better in later entries to an incredible level considering how bad Hikari is. The world, were the supreme god ia a sadistic whale like thing which has created the world just to entartein himself and would destroy it if there is no war (cause world peace is boring), is actually pretty original and the lore strangely complex for an eroge game. Also the story in games likes rance 6 and sengoku is pretty good. But you have to put up with a main character who never grows behind being a total asshole and worse a rapist, who thinks that he can do anything he wants because "he is the hero". And worse still the girls usually fall in love with him after being raped.
 There is just one good japanese eroge rpg that I can think of that dosn't have rape in and has a very good story: it is kamidori alchemy meister, an hybrid shop management strategy rpg with three distinct paths and a lot to do. Sex scenes are sometimes a bit strong for my taste, but always consensual, as long I can rememember There is an english patch to it.
 37. Why delete my last comment, Don't like a dissenting opinion?
 Why get worked up and outraged over what happens to fictional characters made of pixels? They aren't real.
 1. I'm not "outraged." I was disturbed, and writing about my own reaction to the content. Notice that I didn't call for the content to be banned or advocate for any "solution" other than to not play such games myself.
 What happens to "fictional characters made out of pixels" isn't important. What is important--or at least interesting--is how art reflects societal attitudes and exposes things about us. If I Spit on Your Grave becomes a blockbuster and no one goes to


this work? Edit: this does not work, :(. Let me try something else then. Take S = (R\Q)x(R\Q). QxR U RxQ would be S complement. Let p be a prime number and let q_p be in Q. For each q_p, let J_p be the set of all rational numbers times the square root of p. Since Q is countable, there is a bijection between the set of primes and {q x R : q is rational} union {R x q : q is rational}. So let A be the union of all q_p X J_p and J_p X q_p. Take A union S and the complement of that in R^2 to be your disjoint union. Dunno if this works but at least it seems like a better attempt.
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okay, I now see why this doesn't work, sorry. – Patrick Tam Oct 31 '10 at 12:17
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Water Impact Penetration Tester
Water Impact Penetration Tester is used to determine the water resistance of fabrics under low impact conditions, and to predict the rain resistance of wearing fabrics.
Spray a certain amount of water from a height of (610±10) mm from the sample to be tested to the suSMace of the sample with a certain tension, and attach a known weight of absorbent paper on the back of the sample. After spraying, weigh the mass of absorbent paper again and calculate the permeability.
One end of the specimen is clamped on the steel plate with the metal spring clamp along the width direction. The length of the metal spring clamp mouth is (152 ± 10) mm, and the total mass is (152 ± 10) mm（ zero point four five + zero point zero five ）Kg metal spring clamps the other free end of the sample, and the test suSMace of the sample is subject to spray. Weigh the mass of white absorbent paper (152 ± 10) mm × (229 ± 10) mm to the nearest 0.1g And insert it between the sample and the test bench.
Pour (500 ± 10) ml of reagent into the funnel of the tester to spray the sample, and avoid vortex as much as possible during water pouring.
After the completion of spraying (2S after the continuous spraying stops), take out the absorbent paper carefully, and quickly weigh the mass of the absorbent paper to the nearest 0.1g
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Presentation on theme: "Surds Simplifying a Surd Rationalising a Surd Conjugate Pairs"— Presentation transcript:
1Surds Simplifying a Surd Rationalising a Surd Conjugate Pairs S5 Int2Simplifying a SurdRationalising a SurdConjugate Pairs
2Starter Questions = 6 = 12 = 2 = 2 S5 Int2Use a calculator to find the values of := 6= 12= 2= 2
3The Laws Of Surds _URL_ Learning Intention S5 Int2Learning IntentionSuccess CriteriaTo explain what a surd is and to investigate the rules for surds.Learn rules for surds.Use rules to simplify surds.
4What is a Surd = 12 = 6 Surds The above roots have exact values S5 Int2= 12= 6The above roots have exact valuesand are called rationalThese roots do NOT have exact valuesand are called irrational ORSurds
5Adding & Subtracting Surds Note :√2 + √3 does not equal √5Adding & Subtracting SurdsS5 Int2Adding and subtracting a surd such as 2. It can be treated in the same way as an "x" variable in algebra. The following examples will illustrate this point.
6First Rule List the first 10 square numbers S5 Int2ExamplesList the first 10 square numbers1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100
7Simplifying Square Roots S5 Int2Some square roots can be broken down into a mixture of integer values and surds. The following examples will illustrate this idea:To simplify 12 we must split 12 into factors with at least one being a square number.12= 4 x 3Now simplify the square root.= 2 3
8Have a go! 45 32 72 = 9 x 5 = 16 x 2 = 4 x 18 = 35 = 42 Think square numbersS5 Int2 45 32 72= 9 x 5= 16 x 2= 4 x 18= 35= 42= 2 x 9 x 2= 2 x 3 x 2= 62
9What Goes In The Box? Simplify the following square roots: (2) 27 (3) 48(1) 20= 25= 33= 43(6) 3200(4) 75(5) 4500= 53= 305= 402
11The Laws Of Surds _URL_ Learning Intention S5 Int2Learning IntentionSuccess CriteriaTo explain how to rationalise a fractional surd.Know that √a x √a = a.2. To be able to rationalise the numerator or denominator of a fractional surd.
13Rationalising SurdsS5 Int2You may recall from your fraction work that the top line of a fraction is the numerator and the bottom line the denominator.Fractions can contain surds:
14Rationalising Surds This will help us to rationalise a surd fraction S5 Int2If by using certain maths techniques we remove the surd from either the top or bottom of the fraction then we say we are "rationalising the numerator" or "rationalising the denominator".Remember the ruleThis will help us to rationalise a surd fraction
15Rationalising SurdsS5 Int2To rationalise the denominator multiply the top and bottom of the fraction by the square root you are trying to remove:( 5 x 5 = 25 = 5 )
16Rationalising Surds Let's try this one : S5 Int2Let's try this one :Remember multiply top and bottom by root you are trying to remove
17Rationalising Surds Rationalise the denominator S5 Int2
18What Goes In The Box? Rationalise the denominator of the following :
20The Laws Of Surds _URL_ Conjugate Pairs. S5 Int2Learning IntentionSuccess CriteriaTo explain how to use the conjugate pair to rationalise a complex fractional surd.Know that(√a + √b)(√a - √b) = a - b2. To be able to use the conjugate pair to rationalise complex fractional surd.
21Looks something like the difference of two squares Rationalising SurdsConjugate Pairs.S5 Int2Look at the expression :This is a conjugate pair. The brackets are identical apart from the sign in each bracket.Multiplying out the brackets we get :=5 x 5- 2 5+ 2 5- 4= 5 - 4= 1When the brackets are multiplied out the surds ALWAYS cancel out and we end up seeing that the expression is rational ( no root sign )


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A classification of bicritical rational maps with a pair of period two superattracting cycles
Annales de la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse : Mathématiques, Serie 6, Volume 21 (2012) no. S5, pp. 907-934.
We give a Thurston classification of those bicritical rational maps which have two period two superattracting cycles. We also show that all such maps are constructed by the mating of two unicritical degree d polynomials.
Nous donnons une classification de Thurston des fractions rationnelles bicritiques possédant deux cycles superattractifs de période deux. Nous montrons également que toutes les fractions rationnelles de ce type sont construites par accouplement de deux polynômes unicritiques de degré d.
DOI: 10.5802/afst.1357
Adam Epstein 1; Thomas Sharland 2
1 University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
2 State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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Making Interactive Maps From Spreadsheets Using Geosheets
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Last Updated: February 23, 2018
It's quite common to work with geo-tagged data in a spreadsheet and want to either map your data or do geospatial lookups to find attributes like the states of zip codes of your locations.
Typically this involves installing other software, and then doing a one-way export of your data. Every time your data changes, you have to repeat the process and export again, and often import the results back into your spreadsheet if you're doing further analysis.
Geosheets is a tool that allows for both mapping and geopspatial queries to be done directly within Google Sheets, by adding a suite of custom geospatial functions.
Here we'll walk through a demonstration of importing tabular data from a CSV file and creating a map visualization using Geosheets. We're going to map a set of surface weather stations in the continental US and color-code them by elevation. The only prerequisite is to have a Google account so that you can use Google Sheets.
1 Create a new spreadsheet with Geosheets enabled.
Either install the Geosheets add-on (recommended) or make a copy of the demo template that has a demonstration version of Geosheets enabled.
2 Import the sample data into your sheet.
In cell A1 of your sheet, write this formula:
=IMPORTDATA("_URL_
IMPORTDATA is a Google Sheets built-in function that takes the url of a CSV file and imports it directly into your document. The url used here is a sample sheet hosted by Geosheets containing weather stations and their elevations. In just a moment you should see your sheet populate with 4 columns and about 3000 rows of data.
The source of this data is at _URL_ a list of world-wide weather stations and some of their attributes. The sample CSV is an extract from that master list with just the relevant stations and their coordinates.
3 Add Type and Radius columns to render stations as circles.
By default Geosheets is going to render points as teardrop markers, but there are so many of them in this dataset that it will be easier to visualize them as circles.
Add a header cell to column E called "Type". In cell E2 write the value "circle", and then paste it all the way down column E. "Type" is a special column header that Geosheets understands that indicates how to render a feature. Supported types are values like "marker", "circle", "line", or "geodesic".
Add a header cell to column F called "Radius". In cell F2 write the value "4" and paste it all the way down column F. The Radius column tells Geosheets the radius in pixels to render a circle feature.
circle columns
4 Color-code the features by elevation.
We want to show higher-elevation stations in brighter colors than lower-elevation stations, so we want to assign colors based on the numeric values in the Elevation column.
Add a new header cell to column G called "Color". Then in cell G2 write this formula:
=GEO_COLOR_FROM_PALETTE(D2:D3419)
This is a Geosheets function that takes a column of numeric values, figures out the min and max values, and then assigns a color for each value based on where it falls within that range. Colors are chosen from one of four predefined palettes that both look nice and show contrast clearly. We didn't specify a palette name so colors will be assigned using the default "viridis" palette, but you can optionally pass another palette name, one of "inferno", "magma", or "plasma".
5 Add a Label column with text to show on hover.
When you click on a feature on a Geosheets map, an info bubble will pop up with all of the row data for that feature, but you can also define a custom label to show up when hovering with the mouse over a feature. You simply add a column called Label and put your desired text in that column.
We'll show the station name and its elevation on hover. Add a new header cell to column H called "Label". We're going to label each feature with the name of the station and its elevation. In cell H2 write this formula:
=PROPER(B2) & " - Elev: " & D2 & "m"
This formula pulls the station name from cell B2, then uses the built-in PROPER function to capitalize it properly and make it read a little easier. Then the formula appends text labeling the elevation and pull the elevation itself out of cell D2. So the result of the formula is "Alabaster – Elev: 173m".
Now copy and paste this formula all the way down column H to populate labels for all rows.
6 Create the map using the GEO_MAP function.
In cell I1 or any empty cell, write this formula:
=GEO_MAP(A1:H3419, "contintental-us-weather-stations", "LatLng")
The first argument is the data range to use for mapping; here we pass our entire data table including the header columns. The second argument is just a label to identify the map, and it will form part of the resulting map's url; this can be any string. The third argument is the header for the column that will contain locations to map; the location column can contain coordinates as it does here, or addresses or place names as well. The third argument is optional, and can be omitted if your locations are in the first column in your table, or in a column called "Location". Here our locations were in a middle column called "LatLng" so we needed to include it.
In just a moment the formula should evaluate to the url of your new map. If you're using the Geosheets add-on, you'll see an auto-updating preview of the map in the sidebar at the right of your document. Otherwise click-through on the url to see the full-page map.
Output
The final map should look something like this:
continental us weather stations
You can view the full-page map at _URL_
From the sidebar or from the full-page map, you can change settings about the map, like its title, description, and base map tile layer. We've changed the base map layer to Gray to better show the features and their colors.
Here's the final spreadsheet.
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Inverse Method
IMoniker::Inverse method
Creates a moniker that is the inverse of this moniker. When composed to the right of this moniker or one of similar structure, the moniker will compose to nothing.
Syntax
HRESULT Inverse(
 [out] IMoniker **ppmk
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Parameters
ppmk [out]
The address of an IMoniker pointer variable that receives the interface pointer to a moniker that is the inverse of this moniker. When successful, the implementation must call AddRef on the new inverse moniker. It is the caller's responsibility to call Release. If an error occurs, the implementation should set *ppmk to NULL.
Return value
This method can return the standard return values E_OUTOFMEMORY, as well as the following values.
Return codeDescription
S_OK
The inverse moniker has been returned successfully.
MK_E_NOINVERSE
The moniker class does not have an inverse.

Remarks
The inverse of a moniker is analogous to the ".." directory in MS-DOS file systems; the ".." directory acts as the inverse to any other directory name, because appending ".." to a directory name results in an empty path. In the same way, the inverse of a moniker typically is also the inverse of all monikers in the same class. However, it is not necessarily the inverse of a moniker of a different class.
The inverse of a composite moniker is a composite consisting of the inverses of the components of the original moniker, arranged in reverse order. For example, if the inverse of A is Inv( A ) and the composite of A, B, and C is Comp( A, B, C ), then Inv( Comp( A, B, C ) ) is equal to Comp( Inv( C ), Inv( B ), Inv( A ) ).
Not all monikers have inverses. Most monikers that are themselves inverses, such as anti-monikers, do not have inverses. Monikers that have no inverse cannot have relative monikers formed from inside the objects they identify to other objects outside.
Notes to Callers
An object that is using a moniker to locate another object usually does not know the class of the moniker it is using. To get the inverse of a moniker, you should always call IMoniker::Inverse rather than the CreateAntiMoniker function, because you cannot be certain that the moniker you're using considers an anti-moniker to be its inverse.
The Inverse method is also called by the implementation of the IMoniker::RelativePathTo method, to assist in constructing a relative moniker.
Notes to Implementers
If your monikers have no internal structure, you can call the CreateAntiMoniker function in to get an anti-moniker in your implementation of IMoniker::Inverse. In your implementation of IMoniker::ComposeWith, you need to check for the inverse you supply in the implementation of Inverse.
Implementation-specific Notes
ImplementationNotes
Anti-monikerThis method returns MK_E_NOINVERSE and sets *ppmk to NULL.
Class monikerThis method returns an anti-moniker (that is, the results of calling CreateAntiMoniker).
File monikerThis method returns an anti-moniker (that is, the results of calling CreateAntiMoniker).
Generic composite monikerThis method returns a composite moniker that consists of the inverses of each of the components of the original composite, stored in reverse order. For example, if the inverse of A is Inv( A ), the inverse of the composite of A, B, and C is Comp(Inv( C ), Inv( B ), Inv( A ) ).
Item monikerThis method returns an anti-moniker (that is, the results of calling CreateAntiMoniker).
OBJREF monikerThis method returns an anti-moniker (that is, the results of calling CreateAntiMoniker).
Pointer monikerThis method returns an anti-moniker (that is, the results of calling CreateAntiMoniker).
URL monikerThis method returns MK_E_NOINVERSE and sets *ppmk to NULL.

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Minimum supported client
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Minimum supported server
Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]
Header
ObjIdl.h
IDL
ObjIdl.idl
IID
IID_IMoniker is defined as 0000000f-0000-0000-C000-000000000046
See also
CreateAntiMoniker
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Discharge measurement by sluice gates is one of the classical issues in hydraulic engineering. Based on the energy conservation relation, this study presents a novel method for estimating the discharge coefficient of sluice gates under free and submerged flow conditions. This method gives the discharge coefficient of sluice gates only as a function of upstream depth and bottom pressure measured by manometers located under the gate lip and is independent of flow conditions (free and submerged), gate opening and tailwater depth. For evaluating the applicability of the proposed equation in this research for estimating the flow discharge, the experimental results (418 runs) of two sluice gates with 25 and 40 cm widths are used in the conditions of presence and absence of end baffle blocks for both free and submerged flows. Independency of discharge coefficient from the tailwater depth has important advantages such as: continuous estimation of discharge coefficient under free and submerged flow conditions using a unified equation and higher accuracy at the lower submergence. Also being independent of tailwater depth makes easy flow estimation even at the presence of baffle blocks on the stilling basins. The results show that, applying the energy loss coefficient in the proposed equation decreases the mean absolute relative errors to 0.4% and 2.6% for free and submerged flow conditions respectively. Also the proposed equation has a relative error less than 5% under submerged flow conditions. The proposed method is very sensitive to bottom pressure head especially under higher submergence levels.


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Computer science student back in Copenhagen after internship with US space agency NASA. Students should try their luck in big companies, he says
A University of Copenhagen (UCPH) computer science student who spent five months at NASA encourages his fellow students to dream big.
Nis Wegmann, a rare breed of functional programmers, is one of the participants of the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) that the Department of Computer Science DIKU is hosting this week.
Functional programming is a math-oriented branch of computer science.
Computer science is not as boring as people think, Nis says.
»If you take initiatives to ask for an internship in world's leading companies, you may be accepted to work in very exciting projects in computer science,« he says. »It can definitely pay off«.
Nis' internship at NASA involved developing a 'domain-specific language in a functional programming context', according to the press release from DIKU. It helps to improve the safety of aircraft.
In practice this means that software used in aircraft – after integration with functional programming – can be made more secure and robust. Aircraft's software errors can be monitored in the air.
Nis did his project at Galois, a US owned company which partners with NASA in various projects, according to the press release the department issued.
Nis, and colleagues, presented their projects at the conference on functional programming today Tuesday. They had just finished presenting their project, when they met the University Post photographer. Fortunately he didn't have to present personally, as he was »really nervous,« he says.
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How to Enjoy Aerobic Exercise with Adrenal Fatigue
Exercise can deplete the energy in a muscle quickly, so pay attention to your body. With adrenal fatigue, muscle cells' mitochondria may not function optimally, and with some forms of exercise, that may precipitate an energy crisis.
Aerobic exercises don't cause an acute energy crisis; however, they tend to cause a cellular energy deficit over time. In other words, exercise can cause muscle pain and extreme muscle fatigue. You literally may not have enough energy to complete the workout.
Enjoying an aerobic workout begins by not inviting pain or fatigue. You can have a lot of fun doing aerobic exercises without much planning or effort. You usually don't need a lot of equipment, but having the proper equipment reduces the risk of injury.
Walk around the block
Nothing's more enjoyable than a brisk walk on a late summer evening or a fall afternoon. Walking is a good initial form of exercise if you have adrenal fatigue because it's very well tolerated compared to other forms of aerobic exercise. It doesn't cause quite as much muscle fatigue as biking or swimming, for example.
Here are some tips concerning walking:
 - Start with a short walk at a normal pace. Take your first walk at a normal pace and aim for a duration of about 5 to 10 minutes. Then sit down and rest. If you're thinking "I feel fine. I know I can do more," do more a couple of days from now. You have time, so don't push it. With adrenal fatigue, details like that matter.
 - Keep a diary of how you feel after your walk so you can see what works and what doesn't work for you. See how you feel the day after your first walk. If your first day is too intense, you can crash and burn in the setting of adrenal fatigue.
 - Build gradually. Instead of walking every day, start out by walking every two to three days. Begin increasing the duration of your walks before you start increasing your pace. In the first few weeks, maintain a normal walking pace and add 30 to 60 seconds to each subsequent walking session.
 After you're comfortable walking about 30 minutes without stopping or needing to sit down, then begin to gradually increase your walking pace.
 - Initially, stay away from hills. More hills means increased muscle soreness the next day.
 - Wear loose-fitting clothes and comfortable footwear. Sometimes people walk around in the park in their work clothes, and they don't look comfortable at all.
If you're walking on a treadmill, the same principles apply. Initially, set the machine to a normal walking pace, avoid the hill and interval programs, and wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Consider buying sneakers specifically designed for walking.
Aquatherapy and swimming
Aquatherapy amounts to doing exercises in a pool. Water is great because there's no wear and tear on the joints in the water. In fact, many rehabilitation professionals commonly prescribe aquatherapy to help people recover from a bodily injury or trauma.
Examples of exercises that you can do in the water include walking and running. The water provides resistance, and water-based exercises can help increase muscle strength and flexibility. One approach is doing aquatherapy first and adding swimming later.
Unless you're going to stay in the shallow end of the pool, wear a life preserver, life vest, or flotation belt for the first few exercise sessions, or exercise with someone else nearby who is available in an emergency. Some people with extreme adrenal fatigue become so tired midway through a session that they're unable to continue. You don't want to drown.
Many health clubs, including the YMCA, offer water aerobics classes, which are a combination of endurance and strengthening exercises in a pool. They offer a great opportunity to meet people and socialize as well as exercise!
Although swimming laps is an excellent form of exercise, it can be a bit strenuous initially for someone with adrenal fatigue because it works every muscle group in your upper and lower body. Therefore, make sure you know what your baseline endurance is before you decide to swim laps.
One option is to use a kickboard and kick your legs at a low intensity; with a kickboard, you can rest when you need to.
Row with light resistance
An oft-forgotten form of aerobic exercise is rowing. One option for this exercise is rowing a boat, which can be peaceful and serene, especially if you do it in the early morning. Another popular option is using a rowing machine or the rowing machine feature of a home gymnasium.
Rowing is great for strengthening your core muscles, including your abdomen and mid to lower back muscles. It also strengthens your leg muscles to some degree, including the quadriceps and hamstrings.
If you're just starting out, start by doing sets of 15 to 20 repetitions at a time. Begin with low weight (about 20 pounds of resistance) and gauge how you feel. Start with one set, and after a couple of weeks, increase to doing two sets. Don't row too fast; this isn't the galley battle scene in Ben Hur!
Ride a bike
Bicycling is a form of exercise with many variations. Some people feel that it's not a good form of aerobic exercise because you're sitting — you're mainly using your legs, not your upper body.
Biking is a great workout for folks with adrenal fatigue because you can control your pace, your time, and your level of intensity.
Here are some notes on using a stationary bike:
 - Bikes that have bigger seats are comfortable to sit on for longer periods of time.
 - You can read while using the stationary bike, because you don't have to worry about crashing into something or someone.
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1. Go to the 'Content' tab, click on the 'Playlists' tab, then select your Playlist folder.
2. On your Playlist folder, select 'Add Content', then 'From my Computer', and select the images, photos, or videos you want directly uploaded into your Playlist.
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- Images can be added from your Desktop, Media Folder(s), and social network account(s).
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Finnish scientists may soon have a new brew on tap, if they can figure out the recipe used to make what is perhaps the oldest known bottled beer in the world. For about 200 years, five brown bottles of beer were kept well-chilled on a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. One of those prized bottles is currently at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, being carefully analyzed by scientists clothed in clean room coveralls and bouffant caps, face masks, and gloves.
The brewmaster who created that beer could not have ever imagined such a fuss over it. Five of his bottles survived a shipwreck during the early 1800s off the Åland Islands of Finland. The beer was discovered in the summer of 2010 by divers who had just recovered the oldest-known cache of bottled champagne from the same shipwreck.
According to CNN, the ship may have been sailing from Copenhagen, Denmark, to St. Petersburg, Russia, carrying on board gifts from King Louis XVI of France to the Russian Imperial Court.
The VTT scientists, who have considerable experience in malt and brewery research, have begun to study this record vintage beer. They have carefully unsealed the bottle and extracted from it a slightly cloudy golden-amber liquid with a light froth.
But what about the taste test? According to the BBC, four professional beer tasters have tried the antique brew. Annika Wilhelmson of the VTT commented,
"They said that it did taste very old, which is no surprise, with some burnt notes. But it was quite acidic – which could mean there's been some fermenting going on in the bottle and with time it's become acid,"
The beer bottles were found at a depth of about 160 feet, where seawater temperatures are just above freezing. After two hundred years of deep chill, there may be surviving microbes – yeast or lactic acid bacteria – still sluggishly alive in the brew. If not, dead cells can be recovered for DNA analysis to determine the yeast strains used to ferment the beer. Chemical analysis of the liquid will shed light on the grains and other ingredients that were used to make the beer.
In a press release from the VTT, Annika Wilhelmson, a customer manager, said,
It is very interesting to find out what kind of yeast was used in beer brewing in the early 1800s, and what the beer's quality was like. Was it perhaps very strong and bitter? The role of yeast in beer brewing was not yet fully understood in the early 1800s.
Learning about how the beer was made is, in itself, a fascinating exercise. But the provincial government of Åland wants to take it a step further: they plan to use the research findings to recreate the original recipe, to continue the craft of a brewmaster who lived some 200 years ago.
The secrets in the bottles of beer, lost at sea in the early 1800s and recovered from a shipwreck off the Åland islands of Finland in the summer of 2010, may be known as early as May 2011. Scientists at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland plan to release a scientific paper about their findings. Buried in the technical details of their analysis will be the real treasure, a recipe to resurrect a beer of remarkable historical vintage.


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The Main property provides access to the main Camera in FlatRedBall. This value is always valid, and represents the default view. Therefore, it can be used to modify the view.
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SOLVE YOUR CASE
How does Genetic Genealogy work?
Joseph James DeAngelo - Recently identified as the Golden State Killer through the use of Genetic Genealogy
You have likely seen the Golden State Killer and many other cold cases solved recently through the use of genetic genealogy. But how does genetic genealogy for law enforcement work exactly? First an autosomal DNA profile of the assailant in your cold case is generated through forensic testing of crime scene evidence that contains your assailant's DNA. Once this profile is generated it is then converted to a file format that can be uploaded to a public genetic genealogy database such as GEDmatch. After processing, the database then returns a list of DNA matches of people who are related to your assailant. These matches can vary from as close as parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, to matches as distant as 4th cousins and beyond. Predicted relationships between these matches and your suspect can be determined based on the amount of DNA they share. Family trees are then built out for these matches using a combination of standard genealogical methods as well as gathering data from proprietary investigative databases, social media, and public records. By determining where the family trees of DNA matches intersect, it is possible to determine ancestors (both recent and distant) that are shared between your assailant and their DNA matches. Each DNA match adds a bit more to the puzzle, until the search is eventually narrowed down to a potential candidate for your assailant. Law enforcement will then generally collect a discarded DNA sample from the candidate and compare it directly to the crime scene DNA to confirm the match.
Why Saber Investigations?
Do you have a cold case that you'd love to see solved? Using the latest autosomal DNA testing technology combined with genetic genealogy techniques, Saber Investigations can help you identify your assailant and get justice for the victim and their family. Unlike the many amateur genealogists out there, we are experienced in working with law enforcement and have helped bring successful resolutions to cases. We will assist you with all details including initial sample submission to CLIA certified labs that we work with. Once we have received the DNA results, we will perform any needed bioinformatics work, upload to GEDmatch, and provide you with initial details on the assailant such as predicted hair, eye and skin color, in addition to estimated ethnicity and possible geographical ties. We will then perform a genealogical analysis and attempt to identify the assailant based on their familial DNA matches. As a fully insured investigative company licensed by the Texas Department of Public Safety, you can be assured that we will adhere to the utmost ethical standards and keep all case details entirely confidential.


Creep and Shrinkage Effects On Columns
Creep (CR) and Shrinkage (SH) forces due to long term prestress shortening produce imposed deformations on bridge columns at the bents. These deformations, in turn, produce column moments and shears which must be considered as part of the design process. The magnitude of the imposed deformations on the columns is in question and should be investigated by looking at various frame configurations and foundation types. Phenomena such as relaxation and foundation flexibility can reduce the effects of these forces and should be quantified.


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Imagine seeing a penguin that's five feet tall and has a very long, straight beak. Imagine a penguin so large it weighs twice as much as a the Emperor penguin, the largest species on Earth. That is, the largest species on Earth currently. If you were alive thirty-six million years ago you might have seen this giant penguin, called the Water King.
Scientists in Peru have recently uncovered the fossils of a Water King, which includes well-preserved feathers and scales. One of the interesting facts discovered is that this species had brown and gray feathers, unlike the black and white we associate with modern penguins.
The scientists have also concluded that based on the flipper structure Water Kings were powerful swimmers and their size could indicate that they were able to dive deeply.
For more on these amazing penguins, visit BBC News.


The Bellwin Scheme for Emergency Financial Assistance to Local Authorities
1. What is the Bellwin Scheme?
The Bellwin Scheme operates under Section 155(2) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and allows Scottish Ministers to make additional revenue support to local authorities to assist with the immediate, and unforeseen costs in dealing with the aftermath of emergency incidents.
It is a discretionary scheme, which exists to give special financial assistance to local authorities who would otherwise be faced with an undue financial burden as a result of providing relief and carrying out immediate work due to large-scale emergencies. Local authorities are expected to include a small amount within their annual budget to deal with unforeseen emergencies. There is no automatic entitlement to assistance. flooding image
2. How does the Bellwin Scheme operate?
When it becomes obvious that there is an emergency which is creating immediate demands on local government, the Scottish Executive Ministers will decide whether the Scheme should be triggered. Once the Scheme has been triggered, affected authorities are invited to submit claims. The Scheme may be activated to meet the additional expense for authorities in providing immediate relief, in safeguarding life and property in affected communities and in keeping key communications open in the immediate aftermath of an emergency. Its purpose is not to put right all the ill effects of an incident. Applications for assistance must demonstrate undue financial burdens on authorities.
3. What costs are eligible for assistance?
The Scheme addresses revenue costs only and eligible costs are subject to a threshold which is set individually for each local authority and takes account of an assumed amount contained within each local authority's budget. Payment of a grant is made in full in respect of total eligible expenditure, after deduction of the threshold.
Costs which are considered to be insurable are not considered eligible under the Scheme but an element for insurance excess is considered eligible.
4. When was the Bellwin scheme last reviewed?
A review of the Bellwin Scheme was undertaken in 2005. A summary of the responses that were received and the Executive response to the consultation exercise can be found by following the links below.
Scottish Executive response to Bellwin consultation exercise
Summary of Bellwin consultation responses
You can also review the press release announcing the proposed changes to the Bellwin Scheme
5. Where can I find the updated documents?
The link to the full revised guidance note which contains the relevant updated information for making a claim and the claim forms, and the current Bellwin Thresholds.


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Grammar essential #113 Past Progressive
What is it?
It is used when action was happening in
Just like present progressive has a
formula, past progressive does too.
The rules for past progressive are the
same as present progressive.
Formula: estar (imperfect tense) + present
participle. Past progressive
– Estar (imperfect tense) + present participle Estar in the imperfect tense.
– She was cleaning.
To clean = limpiar
Estar (imperfect tense) + present participle
Ella estaba limpiando. If you have forgotten how to form the
present participles, please refer back to
grammar concepts 39, 40, 41, and 42.
grammar Past progressive
Remember when adding direct objects,
indirect objects, and reflexive pronouns,
you add them to the end of the present
participle and add an accent on the a of
-ando and the e of -iendo or -yendo.
ndo Past Progressive
How do you use past progressive with
How would you conjugate ducharse in the
tú of the past progressive?
Remember it is the same as adding an
object as far as the addition of an object.
The difference is that you have to make
the reflexive pronoun agree.
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Project DescriptionFROM THE PROJECT TEAM:
SEArch (Space Exploration Architecture) and Clouds AO (Clouds Architecture Office), an architecture and space research collective, were awarded the $25,000 top prize Sunday, September 27th in the NASA and America Makes sponsored competition 3D Printed Habitat Challenge for Mars. The competition asked teams to design a habitat for four crew members while highlighting 3D printing techniques and using material indigenous to Mars. Recognizing that water is the building block to life, the team used a 'follow the water' approach to conceptualize, site and construct their design. ICE HOUSE was born from the imperative to bring light and a connection to the outdoors into the vocabulary of Martian architecture. The winning proposal stood out as one of the few entries not to bury the habitat beneath regolith, instead mining the anticipated abundance of subsurface ice in the northern regions to create a thin vertical ice shell capable of protecting the interior habitat from radiation while celebrating life above ground.
ICE HOUSE was one of 30 designs to advance to the third round finals from an original 162, ultimately taking home first place ahead of entries from the European Space Agency and international firm Foster + Partners. A 3D printed scaled model of the design was presented to the public at the Maker's Faire September 26th and 27th. Throughout the challenge, the team also experimented with 3D ice prototyping, redefining traditional methods of 3D printing by instead relying on the physics of phase transition between solid and vapor states. Some of the results of this research and experimentation may be found at _URL_.
The SEArch / Clouds AO team, with ties to Pratt Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Princeton University, and Parsons School of Design, is comprised of eight noted designers including: Christina Ciardullo, Kelsey Lents, Jeffrey Montes, Michael Morris (project team leader) and Melodie Yashar of SEArch, and Ostap Rudakevych, Masayuki Sono, and Yuko Sono of Clouds AO. Consulting on the project are fourteen leading space related subject matter experts (SME's) comprised of scientists, astrophysicists, geologists, structural and 3D printing engineers.
SEArch's collaboration builds upon a ten-year portfolio combining teaching and practice through academic space projects and research at Columbia University and Pratt institute in association with the Human Factors division at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC). SEArch's collective work has made multiple presentations to international space and architectural symposiums and design programs Including: NASA's JSC Constellation Program (Ciardullo, Lents), participation on the 2015 Caltech Challenge winning design (Montes), and the 2016 X-HAB Innovation Challenge award for Human Centered: Designs for a Mars Transit Habitat at Pratt Institute (Morris), which evolved from his 2014 participation as an SME in the Net Habitable Volume Consensus Session for a Mars transit habitat for NASA in 2014.
Clouds AO has produced a number of built and speculative projects distilled from research and analysis that explores the intersection between conceptual and experiential approaches to the built environment. Their work includes the publication of 'Third Sphere,' an article describing a suspended city based on the principle of the space elevator (Kerb Journal, 2012) and 'Comet Runner' which envisioned harnessing a comet for interplanetary exploration (Dezeen, 2015). In 2014, they were nominated for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize, and in 2015 Clouds AO received the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter Honor Award.


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Andrew Bak wrote:Why 16 games? Why not 10, or 30? Is this an arbitrary choice or is there some underlying mathematical reason behind it?
30 was chosen because there is a 95% confidence in the grade being correct. Further explanation can be found here: _URL_
10 is another confidence interval, but I can't remember off-hand exactly what it is. It was reduced to 9 because there was enough demand for it to be reduced to 9. The various grading categories correspond with other confidence intervals, but I can't remember what they are.
The maths behind this is sound in theory: Because you calculate a grade by adding stuff up and dividing it by a number, i.e. you find the mean, the more games you play, the more accurate your grade is.
If I have 900 points over 9 games, I have a grade of 900/9 = 100. If I then beat a 100 in the last game in the period, my grade goes up to 1050/10 = 105
If I have 9000 points over 90 games, I have a grade of 9000/90 = 100. If I then beat a 100 in the last game in the period, my grade goes up to 9150/91 = 101, assuming you round up to the nearest whole number.
The result of one game makes less difference to your grade, so the figure of 100 (or 101) is far more accurate, so you can say statistically that you have more confidence in its accuracy.


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Let $A$ be a finite, Abelian, additive group. Let $A^{*} = Hom(A, \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z})$ denote the group of homomorphisms $f$ from $A$ to $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$. Take for granted that $A^{*}$ is an Abelian group (I have already proved this). Prove that $A$ is isomorphic to $A^{*}$ if $A$ is cyclic.
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What's the group operation on $A^*$? $(f \cdot g)(a) = f(a) \cdot g(a)$? – Clive Newstead Oct 30 '12 at 18:30
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MONDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Children who regularly attend daycare are more likely to be overweight than those who stay at home with a parent, but the reasons for this difference are unknown, according to a new study.
Canadian researchers looked at more than 1,600 families in Quebec with children born in 1997 or 1998. Mothers were interviewed about the care of their children at one and a half, two and a half, three and a half and four years of age.
"We found that children whose primary-care arrangement between one and a half and four years was in a daycare center or with an extended family member were around 50 percent more likely to be overweight or obese between the ages of 4 and 10 years compared to those cared for at home by their parents," study leader Dr. Marie-Claude Geoffroy said in a University of Montreal news release.
"This difference cannot be explained by known risk factors such as socioeconomic status of the parents, breastfeeding, body-mass index of the mother or employment status of the mother," she added. The study also uncovered only an association between daycare attendance and overweight, not a cause-and-effect relationship.
The study was published this month in the Journal of Pediatrics.
Diet and physical activity levels are among the areas that need to be examined in order to determine why children who go to daycare are more likely to gain weight, noted study co-director Dr. Sylvana Cote.
"Parents don't have to worry; however, I suggest to parents they ensure their children eat well and get enough physical activity, whether at home or at daycare," she said in the news release.
The researchers said daycare has the potential to reduce weight problems in children, through methods such as encouraging physical activity and healthy eating.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explains how to keep children at a healthy weight.
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Probation, Trial Service, and Layoff Trial Periods
Probation, trial service, and layoff trial periods are intended to give a supervisor and staff member an opportunity to assess whether a new employment relationship is a good match for all parties. The duration covered by each evaluation period varies according to the type of period and the affected employee's classification. An overview of each of these periods is available on the central HR Web site.
The supervisor's ability to end an unsuccessful hire is less restricted during the evaluation period than after the evaluation period has ended. A supervisor or employee who determines that there is not a good employment match during an evaluation period should contact the College of Engineering Human Resources Team as soon as possible during the covered period.
The decision to end an appointment during an evaluation period may require action by College and University Human Resources staff, and by the Dean, who is the Appointing Authority for the College of Engineering; Supervisors should contact the College of Engineering Human Resources Team prior to taking any employment action.
In general terms, ending an appointment during an evaluation period involves the following steps. Supervisors are recommended to contact the CoE Human Resources team to discuss their specific situation. This process can occur at any time, but must be completed prior to the end of the evaluation period.
- At the beginning of an evaluation period, the supervisor conducts formal and informal training sessions with the new employee and monitors the employee's performance. During this period, the supervisor should be prepared to give informal feedback to the employee as necessary, clarifying performance expectations and addressing any performance concerns.
- If the supervisor has continuing performance concerns, s/he should alert the College of Engineering Human Resources Administrator and prepare to meet with the employee to address these concerns.
- At this meeting (referred to here as an "informal counseling session"), the supervisor will present the employee with a memo outlining performance concerns and stating performance expectations. This meeting is intended to help the employee understand the supervisor's concerns, allow the employee and supervisor an opportunity to strategize ways to work collaboratively to better match employee performance to supervisor expectations, and to alert the employee that s/he may not successfully complete the evaluation period. Thus, the informal counseling session and memo should include these features:
- The informal counseling session should:
- allow time for both parties to communicate their perspectives, and
- include time for discussing resources (e.g., increased communication, classes, informal training) and other strategies to better match the employee's performance to the supervisor's expectations
- The memo should:
- cite specific examples (including dates, descriptions of errors, behaviors or other problems),
- cite specific performance expectations related to the above examples, and
- include a statement such as, "It is my desire to work with you to help you be successful in your job; however, if concerns regarding your performance continue, you may not successfully complete your evaluation period."


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- Date established：2006
- Country：Asia - Taiwan
- Type of Organization：Independent Association
- Disciplines and Media：Land Art,Visual Art,Installation,Sculpture
- Contact information：
- Name of residency：Guandu Nature Park: Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival
- Address：55, Guandu Road, Taipei City, 11261 Taiwan
Located at the junction of Danshui and Jilong River, Guandu Nature Park is a nature reserve area consists of an integrated wetland environment of swamps and ponds. It is a great inhabitation for a rich variety of organisms, as well as an important relay stop for migratory birds. Therefore, it has been recognized by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area. The park, authorized by Taipei City Government, is currently managed by the Wild Bird Society of Taipei (WBST),which devotes care to wetland and wild bird conservation.
Guandu Nature Park has been holding Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival since 2006. Over the past 9 years, 53 artists from 24 countries around the world have accomplished collectively 62 pieces of artworks in Taipei, Taiwan. These reputable artists skillfully integrated their experience in life into their artworks. They also incorporated their personal appreciation for the environment and culture into their artworks and shared their concerns for environmental conservation and love for planet earth with the public. "Caring for our planet through art" is what we intend to convey via the festival, and these artists have accomplished just that.
1. Artists are limited to using natural or recycled materials so as to ensure no compromise is made to the environment in the process of art creation. Even after the event is over, the artworks will be recycled or eventually decompose and return to nature.
2. Each artist will have 1-5 volunteers per day to assist the process of material collecting and installation.
3. Since Guandu Nature Park is a conservation area, artists need to follow all the environmental protection regulations.
- Duration of residencies：
About 20 days
- Number of artists resident at one time：
- Grants available：
Travel Expense,Living Expense,Materieal Fee,Free Working Space,Free Living Space,Meal during working days
- Expenses paid by artist：
Dinner, personal expenses
Open call (May to July)
- Selection procedure：
By curator with approval of a jury panel
- Expectation from the artists：
1. Artists should finish a site-specific outdoor sculpture installation in Guandu Nature Park or other display locations during the installation period. The artwork shall be exhibited for at least 3 months or more.
2. Artists should be interested in the relationship between nature, human culture, and environment. They should also have some experiences in working with local residents, volunteers, or junior high school students. While working on their artworks, the artists should be able to spark interest of the general public to participate in the process of such artistic creation.
3. The selected artists are required to have basic English communication skills and the ability to mingle with other artists, local residents, school teachers and students.
4. Artists should participate in the related cultural activities planned by the organizers (e.g. symposium, press conference, guide, opening)
- Presentation of artists' work：
Exhibition, talks, on-site guide
- Working Language：
A shared lounge for artists and volunteers at Guandu Nature Park during creating period ( with snacks and drinks)
- Number of studios：
Pop-up tent at working area
- Size of studios / Type of Sudios ：
N.A / N.A
Private Room,Hotel accommodation with breakfast, individual room for each artist
- Companions allowed：
Yes. Arranged on individual basis with companions paying their own expenses.
- Nearest international airport：
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)
- Nearest local airport：
Taipei Songshan Airport (TSA)
- Nearest train station：
Taipei Main Station, MRT KuanDu Station
- By Car：
From Downtown Taipei:
There is no left turn from Dadu Rd to Guandu Rd. Please make an U-turn under Dadu Bridge, then turn right onto Guandu Rd to reach the Park.
Please exit Dadu Bridge towards Taipei, then turn right onto Guandu Rd to reach the Park. Be careful of the traffic on the right side of Dadu Bridge as you exit.
- Images Resource：Guandu Nature Park


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The original borders of Franklin Township were established in 1819 from land situated between Canton and Towanda townships. Land in the western part of the town was given over to form Granville Township in 1831 along with Burlington and Canton townships. In 1835 land was given to form LeRoy Township along with Canton Township. In 1853 Overton was created and Franklin contributed with land south of Schrader Creek. In 1866 the border with Burlington Township was re-drawn though that change would not be reflected in this map.
The southern part of Franklin Township was originally established as Barclay Township in 1867 when the area supported a large mining concern. In time, however, the mines fell into decline and Barclay was incorporated into Franklin.
The (Indian) Sheshequin Path leads through the most densely populated part of Franklin Township, indicating the early settlers, and those that followed, used the Indian paths. The Sheshequin Path leads from the present-day Canton area to Tioga Point, a major Indian stronghold and trading area.
When settlers first entered the area the land was covered with pine, hemlock, oak, and maple trees. The Indians used the area for hunting but there were no permanent Indian settlements in the valley or nearby mountains.
In 1858 Franklin Township had two school houses (near the center of the populated portion of the town), eight saw mills, a store in Barclay and two coal mines. Two communities, or concentrations of people, were evident in 1858: Franklindale and West Franklin. Only Franklindale had a Post Office.
No churches or cemeteries were found within the township. This may mean services were held at homes or that the surveyors did not include them.
|Gore, W. E.||Rubart*, W.|
|Allen, D.||Green, D.||Shrader, S.|
|Allen, D.||Hinman, S. S.||Shephard, S. W.|
|Anderson, D.||Johnson, J. L.||Shute, *|
|Anderson, F.||Kaliff, D.||Sickler, G.|
|Anderson, R.||Kirkendall, J.||Smiley, D.|
|Andrews, L., Jr.||Langd**, B.||Smiley, S.|
|Andrews, L., Sr.||Lantz, J.||Smiley, T. T.|
|Annibal, S.||Lantz, W.||Smith, H.|
|Bacon, B.||Lattimer, S.||Spalding, J. P.|
|Baldwin, B.||Lyon, W.||Spalding, K.|
|Baldwin, B.||Martin, *||Stephens, C. W.|
|Barrey, W.||Martin, J. M.||Varney, C.|
|Blake, B.||McDonal, J.||Varney, J.|
|Brown, B.||McKee, J.||Webber, S.|
|Brukerbocker, J.||Montayne, B. D.||White, C.|
|Burnham, *||Montayne, E. D.||White, L.|
|Burnham, Mrs.||Morse, B.||White, R.|
|Burroughs, H.||Morse, F.||Wilcox, G.|
|Cokely, D.||Murphy, A.||Williams, W.|
|Cole, J.||North***, W.|
|Cole, J.||Peppers, D.|
|Conklin, H.||Powell, E. B.|
|Crayton, W.||Pratt, J.|
|Crayton, W. H.||Ridgeway, B.|
|Dodge, C. W.||Ridgeway, J. C.|
|Fact, Sa**||Rockwell, H.|
|Fairbanks, C.||Rockwell, J.|
|Fairchild, H.||Rockwell, J.|
|French, W. B.||Rockwell, J.|
|Gay, G.||Rockwell, W.|
|Rockwell, W. A.|
|Gilbert, W.||Roox, J.||
Several names could not be read in the Franklindale area, in the eastern portion of the township, due to fading and other markings on the map.
Kaliff Saw Mill was located near the family of the same name.