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Testing the criteria for stable mass transfer in cataclysmic variables
journal contributionposted on 2023-06-07, 19:24 authored by Robert Connon Smith, Dave Vande Putte
About 2% of the CVs in the Ritter & Kolb catalogue have mass estimates for their components that suggest that they are undergoing unstable mass transfer, contrary to the canonical model of the evolution of CVs. We have previously revised the mass values for three of them, and found them to be stable. We review the observations for the other nine and find that two of them are in fact probably stable even with their published mass estimates. The remaining seven objects either have poorly determined properties or lie firmly in the unstable region, or both, and should be re-observed.
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Definitions for MT
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
 1. megaton.
 Category: Weights and Measures
 2. metric ton.
 3. Montana.
 Category: Geography (places)
 4. Mountain time.
 1. mitochondrion; mitochondrial.
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or mt.
 1. mount:
 Mt. Rainier.
 Category: Geography (terms)
 2. mountain.
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Princeton's WordNet
 1. meitnerium, Mt, element 109, atomic number 109(noun)
 a radioactive transuranic element
 2. metric ton, MT, tonne, t(noun)
 a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms
 3. Montana, Treasure State, MT(noun)
 a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border
 4. machine translation, MT(noun)
 the use of computers to translate from one language to another
 1. mt(Adjective)
 mitochondrion or mitochondria
 Mt Everest
 2. mt(Adjective)
 Mt Everest
 3. mt(Adjective)
 Mount (in the names of mountains)
 Mt Everest
 4. mt(Adjective)
 Mount (in the names of cities)
 Mt Airy
 1. mt
 .mt is the Internet country code top-level domain for Malta. It is sometimes used for Montana related websites.
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Mount (used with names)
Mt Everest.
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The mean BMI in patients free of diabetes was reported as 28.2. The investigatorconducting the study hypothesizes that the BMI in patients free of diabetes ishigher. Based on the data given below is there evidence that the BMI is significantlyhigher that 28.2? Use a 5% level of significance. 25 27 31 33 26 28 38 41 24 32 3540Critical t value: (2 points)Computed t = (2 points)Based oncomparing the critical t value to the computed t value which of the following is(are) true?a. There is statistically significant evidence at alpha=0.05 to show the BMI issignificantly higher than 28.2. b. There is not statistically significant evidence at alpha=0.05 to show the BMI is significantly higher that 28.2. c. There are not enoughdata points to reach a conclusion.d. b and c.

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* The unique collaboration will allow students to transmit commands to, and access data from a satellite operating in space
WhiteHat Jr, a leading EdTech company known for delivering 1:1 live online classes in Coding & Math, has entered into a multi-year partnership with EnduroSat, a leading space company. The contract entails a satellite launch in December 2021, which will have a payload dedicated to WhiteHat Jr, that provides its students with exciting learning opportunities related to space. In addition, WhiteHat Jr students will also have access to another Satellite on a trial basis scheduled for launch in June 2021. Both satellites will leverage SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare.
The unique collaboration between WhiteHat Jr and EnduroSat will create fascinating applied science opportunities for students who will be able to send commands to, and access data from a satellite operating in space. From analyzing sensor data (there are 30+ sensors onboard each satellite, including infrared, temperature, sun sensor, gyroscope, etc.) to controlling cameras (taking pictures of various space objects), to relaying messages to and fro, the applied science opportunities that students would get are endless. Moreover, students would be able to participate in different ways of orchestrating space data on WhiteHat Jr's payload computer (a Raspberry Pi 4 with a direct link to the main onboard computer). All of these learning experiences would be seamlessly integrated with WhiteHat Jr's curriculum and would follow a gamified content aimed to ensure maximum student engagement.
"We have always believed in the power of creation through exploration. This partnership is a testament to our mission of enabling kids to think beyond the obvious and aim for the stars, quite literally, Mr. Karan Bajaj, Founder & CEO at WhiteHat Jr. "We are absolutely thrilled to offer this unique learning opportunity to our students, and are in the process of involving multiple strategic and corporate partners to popularize it globally,".
"We are really excited to partner with WhiteHat Jr. This marks the first mission where a partner is fully dedicated to advancing the education of children from an early age. EnduroSat has long advocated for space education to be democratized and made available to everyone through our own Spaceport Academy," said Mr. Raycho Raychev, Founder and CEO at EnduroSat. "We hope that the mission will inspire a new generation of space enthusiasts and are excited at the prospect of sharing it with thousands of kids," said Mr. Raycho Raychev, Founder and CEO at EnduroSat.
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WhiteHat Jr has been launched with the singular mission of enabling kids to become creators versus consumers of technology. The company has been able to channel students' natural creativity through an engaging curriculum and personalized live 1:1 teacher attention. WhiteHat Jr. currently has more than 175,000+ students from around the world. The company's 11,000 strong women-only teacher workforce conducts 40,000+ 1:1 LIVE Coding and Math online classes every day on its proprietary platform.
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Tab
Since: BlackBerry 10.0.0
#include <bb/cascades/Tab>
A tab that can be added to a TabbedPane.
The Tab objects in the TabbedPane are added to the Action bar, which is a horizontal bar displayed at the bottom of the screen. By pressing the tabs on the Action bar the user can switch the content that is currently being displayed on the screen. The Tab objects take an AbstractPane as their content. If the content is not 0, it will be displayed in the TabbedPane when the corresponding tab is selected.
Even though a Tab takes AbstractPane as its content, not all classes deriving from AbstractPane are valid as the content. The valid classes are Page and NavigationPane.
QML example:
 TabbedPane {
 Tab {
 title : "tab1"
 description : "This is only shown in the side bar"
 imageSource : "tab.png"
 Page {}
 }
 }
C++ example:
 TabbedPane* tabbedPane = TabbedPane::create();
 Page* page = Page::create();
 Tab* tab = Tab::create()
 .title("tab1")
 .description("This is only shown in the side bar")
 .image(Image("tab.png"));
 tab->setContent(page);
 tabbedPane->add(tab);
As of 10.3, the default behavior for tab images is to adopt the colors of the current theme. To allow your images to adapt to changes in the theme, the image asset should be a grayscale image (preferably white) with the alpha channel set. You can turn off this behavior by using the type "normal" in the image's .amd file.
These images show the behavior of actionitem icon colorization. -The "Dashboard" tab is using the white default icon and adopts to theme, but the tab is selected and therefore colored with the system primary color (blue) -The "Controls" tab is using the white default icon and adopts to theme. -The "More controls" tab is using a colored icon where the .amd type property is set to normal and left uncolorized by the system.
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Image (Image colorization)
Overview
QML properties
content: bb::cascades::AbstractPane
description: QString
newContentAvailable: bool
unreadContentCount: int
accessibility: bb::cascades::AbstractA11yObject [read-only]Inherited
attachedObjects: QDeclarativeListProperty< QObject > [read-only]Inherited
backgroundColor: bb::cascades::Color | bb::cascades::ColorPaintInherited
shortcuts: QDeclarativeListProperty [read-only]Inherited
builtInShortcutsEnabled: boolInherited
defaultAction: boolInherited
enabled: boolInherited
image: bb::cascades::ImageInherited
imageSource: QUrlInherited
objectName: QStringInherited
parent: QObject [read-only]Inherited
title: QStringInherited
ui: bb::cascades::UIConfig [read-only]Inherited
Public Functions Index
Tab (TabbedPane *parent=0)
virtual ~Tab ()
bb::cascades::AbstractPane *content () const
QStringdescription () const
boolisNewContentAvailable () const
Q_SLOT voidresetContent ()
Q_SLOT voidresetDescription ()
Q_SLOT voidresetNewContentAvailable ()
Q_SLOT voidresetUnreadContentCount ()
Q_SLOT voidsetContent (bb::cascades::AbstractPane *content)
Q_SLOT voidsetDescription (const QString &description)
Q_SLOT voidsetNewContentAvailable (bool isNewContentAvailable)
Q_SLOT voidsetUnreadContentCount (int unreadContentCount)
intunreadContentCount () const
bb::cascades::AbstractA11yObject *accessibility () const Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE voidaddShortcut (bb::cascades::AbstractShortcut *shortcut)Inherited
QVariantbackgroundColor () const Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE boolbuiltInShortcutsEnabled () const Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE voiddisableAllShortcuts ()Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE voidenableAllShortcuts ()Inherited
virtual boolevent (QEvent *event)Inherited
bb::cascades::Imageimage () const Inherited
QUrlimageSource () const Inherited
boolisDefaultAction () const Inherited
boolisEnabled () const Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE voidremoveAllShortcuts ()Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE boolremoveShortcut (bb::cascades::AbstractShortcut *shortcut)Inherited
Q_SLOT voidresetBackgroundColor ()Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE voidresetBuiltInShortcutsEnabled ()Inherited
Q_SLOT voidresetDefaultAction ()Inherited
Q_SLOT voidresetEnabled ()Inherited
Q_SLOT voidresetImage ()Inherited
Q_SLOT voidresetImageSource ()Inherited
Q_SLOT voidresetTitle ()Inherited
Q_SLOT voidsetBackgroundColor (const ColorPaint &backgroundColor)Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE voidsetBuiltInShortcutEnabled (bb::cascades::SystemShortcuts::Type type, bool enabled)Inherited
Q_SLOT voidsetBuiltInShortcutsEnabled (bool enabled)Inherited
Q_SLOT voidsetDefaultAction (bool defaultAction)Inherited
Q_SLOT voidsetEnabled (bool enabled)Inherited
Q_SLOT voidsetImage (const bb::cascades::Image &image)Inherited
Q_SLOT voidsetImageSource (const QUrl &source)Inherited
voidsetObjectName (const QString &name)Inherited
Q_SLOT voidsetTitle (const QString &title)Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE bb::cascades::AbstractShortcut *shortcutAt (int index) const Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE intshortcutCount () const Inherited
const QStringtitle () const Inherited
virtual Q_INVOKABLE QStringtoDebugString () const Inherited
Q_INVOKABLE bb::cascades::UIConfig *ui () const Inherited
Static Public Functions Index
Buildercreate ()
Protected Functions Index
Only has inherited protected functions
BaseObject (QObject *parent=0)Inherited
virtual voidconnectNotify (const char *signal)Inherited
virtual voiddisconnectNotify (const char *signal)Inherited
Signals Index
voidcontentChanged (bb::cascades::AbstractPane *content)
voiddescriptionChanged (QString description)
voidnewContentAvailableChanged (bool isNewContentAvailable)
voidunreadContentCountChanged (int unreadContentCount)
voidbackgroundColorChanged (const ColorPaint &backgroundColor)Inherited
voidbuiltInShortcutsEnabledChanged (bool builtInShortcutsEnabled)Inherited
voidcreationCompleted ()Inherited
voiddefaultActionChanged (bool defaultAction)Inherited
voidenabledChanged (bool enabled)Inherited
voidimageChanged (const bb::cascades::Image &image)Inherited
voidimageSourceChanged (const QUrl &imageSource)Inherited
voidobjectNameChanged (const QString &objectName)Inherited
voidtitleChanged (const QString &title)Inherited
voidtriggered ()Inherited
Properties
bb::cascades::AbstractPane content
The content to show when the tab is activated.
Since:
BlackBerry 10.0.0
QString description
The description text to be displayed for tabs placed in the side bar of a TabbedPane.
The description text displayed for tabs placed in the side bar. The description is not shown for tabs placed on the Action bar. The default value is QString::Null, indicating that no description is set.
Since:
BlackBerry 10.0.0
bool newContentAvailable
A visual notification to show on the tab if there is new content.
The default value is false, indicating that there is no new content.
Since:
BlackBerry 10.0.0
int unreadContentCount
The unread content count to show on


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3D Laser Scanning (3DLS) Overview
ARGO NAVIS MARINE CONSULTING & ENGINEERING LTD. can offer 3D laser scanning services which may be very helpful for the retrofitting of equipment like Ballast Water Treatment Systems, for modification works and for installation of energy efficient equipment on vessel's hull.3D laser scanning is an advantageous tool which:
- Provides an accurate and efficient solution for fitting BWTS on board.
- Provides 3D representation of the "as built" arrangement on board, through the point cloud, which is the processed scan result.
- Is a fast process which does not disturb vessel's normal operation.
- Eliminates the risks associated with manual measurement.
- With the use of scan results, production drawings and materials lists can be developed followed by retrofit specification and eventual prefabrication.
- Different options can be compared in case the owner has shortlisted more than one candidate BWT system.
- It is possible to see how the system will fit before any further actions taken.
For the retrofitting of energy efficient equipment which improves vessel's performance, it is possible that hull surfaces are created in various formats and consequently lines plan drawing from the generated point cloud after scanning of ship's hull, absolutely necessary for the design of tailor-made fittings.

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There are few hills or mountains that have been connected by railway lines. Some of the important features of these mountain railways are the following.
Gradients The gradients of mountain tracks are very steep. Normally tracks with gradients of 3% or more are considered mountain tracks.
Gauge Normally narrow gauges with gauge widths of 762 mm or 610 mm are adopted for mountain railways.
Curvature The curvature of mountain tracks is very sharp. Curvatures of up to 40° are normally adopted.
Alignment Mountain alignment is quite zigzag and not straight in order to gain heights easily. The type of alignments normally followed are zigzag, switch-back, and spiral.
Purpose Mountain railways have mostly been constructed for tourist traffic. In some cases, they may be constructed for exploiting hinterland or new areas.
Cost considerations The cost of construction of mountain railways is quite high because of the need for a large number of bridges and heavy earthwork. The cost, however, gets considerably reduced by adopting a smaller gauge, narrow gauge (0.762 m or 0.61 m), and then it is possible to have very steep gradients and sharp curvature.
Some of the important mountain railways existing in India today are: (i) Kalka-Shimla Railway, (ii) Nilgiri Mountain Railway, (iii) Matheran Light Railway,
(iv) Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, (v) The Kangra Valley Railway, and (vi) Haldwani-Kathgodam Railway.


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One of the most important terms used in Income Tax, 1961 is Cost Inflation Index (CII). Understanding this term is very crucial for the correct computation of Long Term Capital Gains under Income Tax Act.
What is Cost Inflation Index?
Cost Inflation Index (CII) is a measure of inflation which is used in Income Tax Act, 1961 to compute long term capital gains on sale of capital assets. It comes under Section 48 of the Income Tax Act and is a quantifiable measure used to implement the concept of Indexation.
Cost Inflation Index from Financial Year 1981-82 to Financial Year 2016-17 is given below
|FINANCIAL YEAR||COST INFLATION INDEX|
Concept of Indexation
The value of rupee today is not same as it was some years back. The prices of commodities keeps on increasing due to a factor called Inflation. Hence the concept of Indexation is introduced in the Income Tax act to take into account, the effect of inflation while computing long term capital gain.
"Indexation helps us to counter the erosion in the value of the asset over a period of time. Using the inflation index, one needs to increase the purchase price of the asset so that it reflects inflation-adjusted true price in the year in which it is sold."
How is Cost Inflation Index Used to calculate Long Term Capital Gains?
Cost inflation Index is reported in terms of Financial Year not in terms of Assessment Year. In India, the Financial Year starts from 1st April and ends on 31st March of the following year. To understand how CII is used, one should have a basic understanding of the following terms:-
- Capital Assets: A capital asset is defined as property of any kind held by an assessee, whether connected with their business or profession or not. It includes assets which can be held by a person for example Mutual Funds, Shares, Real Estate, Gold, Fixed returns Instruments such as Fixed Deposit, etc.
- Long Term and Short Term capital assets: Assets are classified as Long Term or Short Term with reference to the period of holding of the assets till it is transferred. The classification is made on the following basis.
|Nature of Asset||Short Term Capital Asset||Long Term Capital Asset|
|(i) Shares in a company or any other security listed in a recognized stock exchange in India or equity oriented mutual fund||Held for not more than 12 months.||Held for more than 12 months.|
|(ii) Assets other than assets mentioned in (i) above.||Held for not more than 36 months.||Held for more than 36 months.|
How does CII helps in computing capital gain/loss?
As the original cost of acquisition is historical, the concept of Indexation allows the tax payer to take into account the effect of inflation and consequently, a lower amount of capital gains gets to be taxed. In indexation and capital gain parlance, the purchase price is called Indexed cost of Acquisition. Following is the formula of Indexed Cost of Acquisition.
Indexed Cost of Acquisition = (Actual cost of purchase) * (CII of Year of Sale) / (CII of Year of Purchase).
This can be explained with the help of following example:
Suppose a property is purchased in financial year (FY) 1995-96 for Rs 20 lacs. It is sold in financial year 2016 -17 for Rs 100 lacs.
Then, the gain would be = Rs 100 lacs – 20 lacs = Rs 80 lacs.
But if CII is considered then we need to calculate cost of 20 lacs of 1995-96 in the year 2011-2012.
From the table Inflation index in year 1995-96 is 281 and year 2011-2012 is 1125.
So, Indexed cost of Rs 20 lacs in the year 2011-2012 is = 20 * (1125/281) = 80.07
Hence, Long term capital gain = 100 – 80.07 = 19.93 lacs instead of Rs 80 lacs.
However, Indexation cannot be used for all asset classes. The benefit of Indexation cannot be used for Fixed returns Investments such as Fixed Deposit, Bonds, Debentures, NSC, etc.


The Surprising History of Hanafuda
When asked about some of the most popular card games in history, very few people would think to say Hanafuda. But the Japanese classic card game that paved the way for Mario, Pokémon, and Zelda is actually an artefact of modern history. Card games in Japan enjoyed similar levels of popularity to modern-day anime. Throughout time, card games have inspired and led to bigger and better things, have been repurposed for a new audience, and have found a new niche with increasing technology. But what exactly is Hanafuda and how can we give it credit for changing the way we interact with games?
Hanafuda's colorful designs formed the basis of a variety of different games
Hanafuda's colorful designs formed the basis of a variety of different games
How Did Hanafuda Begin?
Hanafuda – or flower cards in Japanese – are a deck of playing cards that can be used for a variety of games. Card games were brought to Japan with the French missionary Francis Xavier in 1549, leading to an upsurge in their popularity. Subsequently, foreign card games were banned in 1633. Despite this, the trend still remained popular.
As playing card games themselves were not banned, this led to the creation of a deck of cards that could flaunt the rules and get around the prohibition. A deck featuring Chinese warriors, armour and weaponry was invented, but the 75-card strong pack became too cumbersome for many to try to learn the rules. Still, every time a pack became popular, the government banned it and a completely new set of cards was created.
It was mainly the numbered cards that were banned, so packs were created that assigned certain numeric values to combinations of images. This continued from the 1700s onwards until the government realised it was fighting a losing battle and people would always find a way to play cards. So, Hanafuda was invented to combine the numbered playing cards with traditional Japanese designs and gameplay.
The games continued for several decades longer, but eventually lost some of the popularity that they had enjoyed when playing had been seen as taboo. The excitement of thwarting those killjoys who tried to temper their card games was probably as much an incentive to creating a new game that could be played. But eventually, one company decided to form and take advantage of the trend of such card games: Nintendo.
Success on the Cards for Nintendo
Nintendo, to the amazement of many people today, was formed in 1889. The exciting thing about Hanafuda is that, as there are no numbers on the cards, they can be used for a variety of games. Nintendo creator Fusajiro Yamauchi understood this and helped card games become popular in Japan again by printing the designs onto Mulberry tree bark. Most people don't know this about Nintendo and instead would think only of Pokémon, Mario, and Zelda.
In fact, the success from the early Hanafuda boom meant that Nintendo owns two of the ten most profitable franchises of all time (Pokémon taking the top spot worth around $92 billion and Mario at ninth worth $36 billion). Nintendo has successfully used its business savvy to tap into what audiences are wanting to engage with at every stage of their development.
One of the most striking characteristics of Nintendo's business model can be seen through the development of the Pokémon franchise. The games – launched in 1995 – have spanned more than 10 different consoles across 14 years. Fans have updated their consoles in order to maintain their connection to the franchise, turning into loyal customers who spend their money with the company.
Mario is much the same, and to a lesser extent so is Zelda. The fact that these franchises are able to command such loyalty as they grow and provide critical and commercially successful games is testament to Nintendo's successful business model. The games move with the technology available and help pioneer new technologies going forward. Pokémon Go was the first example of using AR tech on such a large scale in mobile gaming. Other franchises are following suit – such as Harry Potter, The Walking Dead, and Stranger Things.
Nintendo remains popular with its latest console, the Switch
Nintendo remains popular with its latest console, the Switch
Hanafuda's Lasting Legacy
Once we're aware of Hanafuda and its exciting history, we can begin to see a likely connection with the games we're more familiar with today. Take blackjack, for example. While blackjack does use numbered cards, it uses them to create additional meaning in the quest to achieve a value of 21 that surpasses that of your opponents and the dealer - not forgetting the specific (and adaptable) roles of the face cards.
As we've seen, Hanafuda was invented as a way of playing similar games during a time when they were banned. Blackjack, an American version of the game first notarised by Cervantes in a short story about characters who played veintiuna (twenty-one in Spanish), was invented back in the early 1600s. It's therefore likely that it was played before then, allowing us to surmise it featured somewhere in the Hanafuda story. The tradition – and most of the gameplay – has remained the same ever since.
The advent of digital technology not only helped blackjack continue to thrive but changed the way we look at it. The classic tabletop card game was reimagined with the dawn of online casino. The game translated well online and enjoyed many variants, some making it more difficult for the player, others requiring more strategic thinking in order to beat opponents. We can see from the list of 888 casino games that there are many other variants and that they take a reliance on technology to the next level, incorporating live-streamed gameplay into blackjack.
Live blackjack involves a dealer that you can see dealing live, while you are able to respond to the cards you are dealt. This gives an added element to the gameplay and shows just how live technology can benefit online casino games. By incorporating a classic that has been played for hundreds of years with brand new technology, the fusion can create a gaming experience that keeps players coming back for more.
Hanafuda might not be played as much now, but its legacy will remain important. Not only did Hanafuda gift us with Nintendo and everything that spawned from that, but it showed us the power of simple designs and games that can be played. Our love of playing games supersedes all and we will find a way to circumvent barriers in our way.
Gaming might be done less on tabletops now and more online, but that only adds to the legacy of such longstanding gaming traditions as Hanafuda and blackjack. No doubt the games will continue to prosper in the future.
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Percentage Of Completion Method
Definition of 'Percentage Of Completion Method'
An accounting method in which the revenues and expenses of long-term contracts are recognized yearly as a percentage of the work completed during that year. This is the opposite of the completed contract method, which allows taxpayers to defer the reporting of any income and expenses until a long-term project is completed. The percentage of completion method of accounting is commonly used in construction projects.
Investopedia explains 'Percentage Of Completion Method'
The percentage of completion method of accounting requires the reporting of revenues and expenses on a yearly basis, as determined by the percentage of the contract that has been fulfilled. The current income and expenses are compared with the total estimated costs to determine the tax liability for the year. For example, a project that is 30% complete in year one and 45% complete in year two would only have the incremental 15% of revenue recognized in the second year.
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Definition of yearn :
1. To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
2. To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
3. To curdle, as milk.
4. To pain; to grieve; to vex.
droop, hanker after, fade, have a yen for, be passionate, ache, sympathize, feel, smart, be ardent, fret, aspire to, be eager for, be fervent, try, mourn, be desirous of, pant, yen, languish, pity, hurt, wish for, pine away, waste, suffer, thirst for, chafe, long for, compassionate, commiserate, grieve, hone, hunger for
desire (part of speech: verb)
hope (part of speech: verb)
envy (part of speech: verb)
- And of those who have ceased to submit themselves to the Bible, the larger number are still infected with its nonnatural spirit; having renounced one set of irrational marvels, they yearn more or less consciously for another to replace it.
- By this creative power they shall come to understand how I, their heavenly Father, love them, and yearn over them, and by their dependence as children upon their parents they shall learn to depend upon and trust me. - "Almost A Man", Mary Wood-Allen.
- I never yearned for a soul as I yearn for hers! - "Susanna and Sue", Kate Douglas Wiggin.

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The Zend Framework blog has a new tutorial posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney covering error handling techniques in Expressive with a few examples making use of some custom middleware and logic.
One of the big improvements in Expressive 2 is how error handling is approached. While the error handling documentation covers the feature in detail, more examples are never a bad thing!
In their example they're creating an API resource that returns a list of book details (ones the user has read). The goal is to use the existing error handling for everything except the custom exceptions they want to throw but keep with the JSON handling throughout. First the middleware to handling the API request is shown, complete with sorting and pagination. Then come the custom exception examples for invalid requests and server issues. These exceptions are then put into the Problem Details format with the help of another middleware. This then all tied together with the nested middleware handling Expressive provides and an example of the end result is included.


Can Malware (Spectre, Meltdown) Spy After Reboot?
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In regard to last week's article on the Spectre and Meltdown CPU exploits, which affects 100% of all computers made since 1995, user'rep' had the following question to ask:
" Dear Dennis,
[Being that this is a hardware exploit], am I right in thinking that any passwords, etc, which are stored in the CPU's memory are lost when the computer is shut down? If so, could I simply shut off the computer and reload it every time I want to use Internet banking and would that keep me safe from these exploits? "
My response:
I posted my original response in the comments section of Friday's article, but I believe this is an important question which should have its own post.
The quick and short answer is that a virus / malware / exploit does not live in the computer's memory all of the time - it is stored on the hard drive and then reloaded every time the computer is turned on. So, shutting off your computer (should you be infected) will not do anything - the virus / malware / exploit will become active again once the operating system is loaded. This is true every time you turn your computer on UNTIL the virus / malware / exploit has been removed and the system is patched. That said, some exploits are incredibly stealthy and may run undetected for months or even years.
'Rep' wrote in again in the comments section, asking another question:
" I assumed the system was not infected - however, am I correct in thinking that the passwords, etc, which are stored in the CPU's memory (when I log in to my bank) are lost when the computer is powered down - as is the case with RAM memory? "
My response:
Yes and no. The CPU does not have memory, except what is used for caching. The CPU is the brain of the computer, while RAM (random access memory, also known as "primary storage") - utilizes data that is loaded off of the hard drive (secondary storage). The CPU processes data stored in RAM.
Yes it is true that RAM is volatile and is wiped clean when the system is turned off. That said, if you have "fast boot" enabled on the system, whatever you had in RAM previously gets stored onto the hard drive during a shut down. The data is then reloaded back into RAM during boot up - as if the system was never shut off in the first place. So technically speaking here, the contents of RAM are not lost.
In either case, the fact that RAM is wiped clean or is not wiped clean during a shutdown is a moot point in regards to the Meltdown and Spectre - and any other exploit for that matter - because it has nothing to do with the way exploits work.
If you are infected with a virus / malware / exploit - whether you know you're infected or not - whatever you do on the computer can be recorded and sent back to cyber criminals. So in this case it does not matter if you shut off the computer and turn it on again to reset your primary memory (RAM). So in this case, whatever you do while you're banking - entering in your password, looking at account numbers, etc, can be recorded.
The exploits in this case are hardware-based on the CPU and enabled with malware / viruses (software) which are (presumably) downloaded from the Internet; the malware is then stored on the hard drive, which gets reloaded every time your operating system / PC is turned on. So as you can see, it does not matter if the system is shut down and memory is wiped because the system will reload the exploit the next boot until it has been removed and your system is patched.
I hope that helps.
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I must say I didn't know about the fast boot thing. Now I'm just wondering how these two new hardware exploits could get installed onto a Linux system, which is supposed to be less vulnerable to viruses and malware than Windows.
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As the original article states, any device with a CPU created after 1995 is susceptible, including: Mac OS, Linux, Windows, Tablets, Smartphones, etc! No electronic device with a CPU is immune which also means no operating system is immune until patched.
LouisianaJoe's picture
Is there any verified use of this exploit? Sometimes possible and probable are not the same thing.
Dennis Faas's picture
The exploit has been proof of concept in test labs, though Intel claims (as of January 8, 2018 at CES) that there are "no known exploits" in the wild.
However, being able to prove that no exploits are in the wild would be next to impossible considering this type of exploit is ultra stealthy because it operates at the hardware level and would go undetected. Furthermore, antivirus and antimalware cannot detect this exploit (because it operates at the hardware level and is a design flaw of the CPU).
Patches are still being developed by Intel and AMD; Intel claims to have a patch to fix "90%" of all Intel CPUs that were made in the last five years, with the rest of the chips (dating back to 1995) by the end of the month.
Of course this does not automatically mean all CPUs (AMD, ARM, etc) will also be patched but I'm sure whatever fix becomes available will be shared with the community.
rep's picture
Perhaps nowadays the only really safe way to log into your bank account is not to use your hard disk at all and instead to temporarily boot up from a (verified) Linux live CD!


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The growing number of jurisdictions to ban gay conversion therapy gets closer to home.
Queensland has outlawed the practice of gay conversion therapy, becoming the first state in Australia to do so.
Those attempting to perform the dangerous practice could now face up to 18 months in jail for attempting to change or suppress a person's sexual orientation by using tools such as aversion therapy, hypnotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Queensland's Health Minister Steven Miles told the state parliament that conversion therapy was a "highly destructive and unethical" practice, adding "the risks are even greater" for LGBTQI+ young people.
"Being LGBTIQ is not an affliction or disease that requires medical treatment," Mr Miles said.
"No treatment or practice can change a person's sexual attraction or experience of gender."
The government-sponsored bill passed the state parliament just months before Queensland is set to go to the polls.
Two other Australian jurisdictions – Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) – have committed to banning conversion therapy and are expected to do so by the end of the year.
As it stands in New Zealand, a ban on the practice is reliant on Labour List MP Marja Lubeck's Prohibition of Conversion Therapy Bill being pulled from the private member's ballot.
Several countries worldwide have now partially or fully banned gay conversion therapy, including Malta, Brazil and Germany.


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Year 11 Curriculum
In Year 11, students enrol in five Stage 1 subjects each semester. Students must study English for both semesters and Mathematics for a minimum of one semester. Each semester length subject contributes 10 credits towards the NT Certificate of Education and Training (NTCET). To proceed to Year 12, students must have at least 100 credits and should have met the minimum requirement for Mathematics and English.


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Secchi Disk Depth
One of the most commonly used measurements for water clarity is the Secchi disk depth (pronounced she SEHK-ki). The Secchi disk is a simple and inexpensive device used by both citizens and scientists for measuring water clarity.
The device generally consists of a 20-centimeter (8-inch) disk made of wood or plastic. Some are painted with alternating black and white quadrants, or they can be solid white. A non-stretching piece of rope or light chain is attached through the center; the rope is marked in increments of feet or meters. A small weight is attached beneath the disk so that it will sink quickly and the line will remain taught while measurements are being made.
The disk is lowered below the surface until it just disappears from view; that depth is referred to as the Secchi disk depth.


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In a data warehousing scenario, it's not rare to replicate data of a source table to multiple destination tables, sometimes it's even required to distribute data of a source table to two or more tables depending on some condition. For example splitting data based on location. So how we can achieve this with SSIS?
SSIS provides several built-in transformation tasks to achieve these kinds of goals and in this tip I am going to discuss two of them:
Multicast Transformation and
Conditional Split Transformation and how they differ from each other.
Sometimes it's required to have multiple logical copies of source data of a single source table either for applying different transformation logic on each set or having each dataset for separate consumers, Multicast transformation helps to do this.
In nutshell, a Multicast transformation is used to create/distribute exact copies of the source dataset to one or more destination datasets. In this example I am going to distribute data from [HumanResources].[Employee] table to [HumanResources].[Employee1] and [HumanResources].[Employee2] tables, please note that the multicast transformation distributes the whole set of data to all outputs, it means if the [HumanResources].[Employee] table has 290 records then both [HumanResources].[Employee1] and [HumanResources].[Employee2] tables will have 290 records each as well.
Before creating the package, lets create some work tables which we will be using in this demonstration. These commands will just create empty tables based on the [HumanResources].[Employee] table structure in the AdventureWorks database.
-- Script #1 - Create work tables for demonstration
SELECT * INTO [HumanResources].[Employee1] FROM [HumanResources].[Employee]
SELECT * INTO [HumanResources].[Employee2] FROM [HumanResources].[Employee]
SELECT * INTO [HumanResources].[MaleEmployee] FROM [HumanResources].[Employee]
SELECT * INTO [HumanResources].[FemaleEmployee] FROM [HumanResources].[Employee]
Launch SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio and create a new project.
Let's start with a "Data Flow Task". Double click on it to open the Dataflow Pane and then drag an OLE DB Source on the working area and configure as shown below.
Then drag a Multicast Transformation and OLE DB Destination from the Toolbox as shown below and connect the tasks using the green arrow of OLE DB Source to the Multicast and then from the Multicast to the OLE DB Destination as shown below. Next right click on the OLE DB Destination and specify the destination connection manager and destination table as shown below. Please check the "Keep Identity" property on the OLE DB Destination editor to preserve the identity value coming from the source table we are using in this example.
Next drag another OLE DB Destination from the Toolbox, drag another green arrow from the Multicast to the new OLE DB Destination as shown below. Next right click on the second OLE DB Destination and specify the destination connection manager and destination table. Please check the "Keep Identity" property for this one as well.
Once you are done with all these configuration, just hit F5 or click on the Play icon on the IDE, then you can see the execution of the package.
Please note the below image, from the source there are 290 records and both destination tables have 290 records written as well as they should.
Multicast transformation was introduced in SSIS 2005 and further enhanced and optimized in SSIS 2008 to use multithreading while writing data to multiple destination refer to this article.
Conditional Split Transformation
Conditional Split Transformation is used to categorize the incoming source data into multiple categories as per defined conditions. What I mean here is, very much like the SWITCH CASE statement of any programming language, the conditional split transformation tests each incoming row on those defined conditions and wherever it matches with any of them it directs the row to that destination.
For example, consider you have a customer table, you want data of this table to be categorized on the basis of Age into Juniors, Adults and Seniors, another example, which I will be demonstrating in this tip, is if you have an employee table and you want data to be divided into Male and Female based on the value in the Gender column.
Conditional split also provides a default output in the case that the incoming row does not match any of the defined conditions, the row goes to the default output. This default output is normally used to move erroneous rows to a separate table.
Let's create another package and drag a Data Flow Task. Double click on it to open the Data Flow pane, now drag an OLE DB Source on the working area and configure it like this.
Then drag a Conditional Split Transformation from the Toolbox, drag the tiny green arrow of the OLE DB Source to the Conditional Split Transformation and configure it like this.
Next drag an OLE DB Destination and then drag the tiny green arrow from the Conditional Split Transformation to the OLE DB Destination. At this point it will ask you the condition to use which you just setup in the previous step. For the first one I selected "Case Female" and then I setup my OLE DB Destination as shown below. Once you are done with this OLE DB Destination configuration for Female, you need to repeat the same process for another OLE DB Destination configuration for Male.
After this has been setup you can execute the package and it should look like the below image. As you can see out of the 290 source records 84 are related to female and moved to the FemaleEmployee table and 206 records are related to male and hence moved to the MaleEmployee table.
So finally, the basic difference between Multicast Transformation and Conditional Split transformation is that Multicast Transformation generates exact copies of the source data, it means each recipient will have same number of records as the source whereas the Conditional Split Transformation divides the source data on the basis of defined conditions and if no rows match with this defined conditions those rows are put on default output.
Once you are done with these practical exercises, you can dropped all the objects which we created for these demonstration with this cleanup code provided below:
-- Script #2 - Cleanup script for work tables we created
IF OBJECT_ID('AdventureWorks.HumanResources.Employee1') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE [HumanResources].[Employee1]
IF OBJECT_ID('AdventureWorks.HumanResources.Employee2') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE [HumanResources].[Employee2]
IF OBJECT_ID('AdventureWorks.HumanResources.MaleEmployee') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE [HumanResources].[MaleEmployee]
IF OBJECT_ID('AdventureWorks.HumanResources.FemaleEmployee') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE [HumanResources].[FemaleEmployee]


text: The Nameless School & Cemetery Park is a small neighborhood park managed by a non-profit community group. Nameless, a former community located near modern-day Lago Vista, was settled in the 1860s. Eventually, the residents petitioned for a post office; after several applications with name suggestions were rejected, the locals decided to name their community Nameless. The post office opened in 1880 but was discontinued in 1890 due to a lack of growth in population. The buildings of the town were torn down or fell into disrepair over the years. The Nameless school house, a one-room building built in 1909, is the only structure from Nameless that exists today.


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Here at Hagley, we love inventions, big and small. So today, we turn our attention to the humble zipper, first patented on this date, April 29th, in 1913.
The first attempt to construct a modern zipper was made by Elias Howe, best known as the inventor of the modern lockstitch sewing machine. In 1851, Howe received a patent for what he called an "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure". This forerunner to the zipper resembled an elaborate drawstring mechanism, and Howe never made any serious attempts to market it.
In 1893, however, a very similar device debuted at the Chicago World's Fair. Whitcomb Judson's patented "Clasp Locker" introduced hook and eye technology to a modified version of Howe's design, and was sold through Judson's Universal Fastener Company, to middling levels of success.
In 1906, Judson's company hired Gideon Sundback, a Swedish-American electrical engineer who would go on to improve Judson's design to create the "Separable Fastener". It was this design that we would recognize today as a traditional zipper, and which Sundback and the company patented in 1913.
It would take another 10 years and yet another company, however, to introduce the word "zipper" to the commercial public. That achievement went to the B.F. Goodrich company, who popularized its use, and even briefly copyrighted the name, in its marketing of boots and pouches featuring zipper technology, as seen here in this cover of a 1927 catalog for its line of Zipper boots.
The Goodrich Zipper Color Harmony Guide is part of Hagley Library's collection of trade catalogs and pamphlets. To save yourself the embarrassment of not having "well-groomed feet", you can go take a look at it online now in our Digital Archive - just click here!


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I've inherited a database that wasn't designed exactly optimally, and I need to manipulate some data. Let me give a more common analogy of the kind of thing I have to do:
Let's say we have a
Student table, a
StudentClass table keeping record of all the classes he attended, and a
StudentTeacher table that stores all the teachers who taught this student. Yes, I know it's a dumb design and it would make more sense to store the teacher on the Class table - but that's what we're working with.
I now want to clean up the data, and I want to find all the places where a student has a teacher but no classes, or a class but no teachers. SQL thus:
select * from StudentClass sc full outer join StudentTeacher st on st.StudentID = sc.StudentID where st.id is null or sc.id is null
How do you do that in Linq?


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Buenaventura, Colombia's main Pacific port, is a strategic city. Most of the Andean country's exports and imports pass through it. The port upgrade is a benchmark for progress, competitiveness and sustainability in the entire region.
Via the SBCC joint venture, Soletanche Bachy Cimas, Soletanche Bachy International (the Group's Major Projects division) and Conconcreto took part in the project.
Substantial technical capabilities went into designing and building the container terminal (SPIA), the bulk carrier terminal (Boscoal) and the associated reclaimed areas. Several innovations improved the efficiency and quality of the onshore and offshore works, optimised costs and accelerated the construction process. The project worked closely with the local population. Virtually the entire team was Colombian.
On 2 December 2016, Boscoal received its first cargo ship carrying maize that had been loaded at the Louis Dreyfus terminal in the port of Bahia Blanca, Argentina – which Soletanche Bachy handed over five years ago.
- Manufacture and installation of prefabricated elements (beams and pre-slabs) on 544 piles.
- Offshore construction of a sheet pile wall (13,230.5 m2) to contain and extend the peninsula. This activity was carried out in four different areas, using two types of sheet piles (AZ28 and AZ36) with lengths ranging from 9.10 m to 17 m, depending on soil type.
- A total of 693 sheet piles were installed, confining 970 lm. This activity was important because a sheet pile curtain had been installed in the arrival area of the quay jetty, which was then filled and compacted to form the platform receiving the quay footbridge.
This project mobilized the port and maritime works expertise from Soletanche Bachy, which is available under the ForSHORE brand, which offers solutions for the main steps of port projects : Financing, Design and resilience, Construction, Asset management.


Migratory locust
Locusta migratoria
The migratory locust is polyphenic. It transitions between two main phenotypes in response to population density; the solitary phase and the gregarious phase. Pigmentation and size of the migratory locust vary according to its phase (gregarious or solitary form) and its age. Gregarious larvae have a yellow to orange covering with black spots; solitary larvae are green or brown. The gregarious adult is brownish with yellow, the latter colour becoming more intense and extensive on maturation. The solitary adult is brown with varying extent of green colour depending on the colour of the vegetation. Gregarious adults vary in size between 40 and 60 mm according to the sex; they are smaller than the solitary adults.


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In this post, we look at the functions of the kinship system in Nigeria culture. Kinship is a social relationship that defines who we are and where we are from. Kinship, being a cultural artifact can actually shape the way people do things, the way peoeple think, the way people believe things. In fact, I believe, since it is something created by man in reference to one's culture and history, is more or less, cultural heritage of a people.
Functions Of Kinship System In Nigeria Culture:
So many functions have been seen carried out within the kinship system in Nigeria. Since kinship is owned by almost every society, some of its functions, as I will be discussing in this article will seems familiar, while others will not, nonetheless, we are going to look at quite a number of the functions of kinship system in Nigeria in this article, and here are there;
* Kinship Defines Acceptable Role Of Engagement:
In every society, there is acceptable role of engagement, and such role of engagement is made possible by kinship. Besides this however, there is also role of relationship between and among members of a family. You look at the parents – children relationship, relationship between father and son, relationship between father and daughter, relationship between mother and daughter, relationship between mother and son, and so on and so forth. So it is kinship that bring about proper way of relating with one another within a family. Apart from defining proper role relationship within a family, kinship also guides or provides guidelines for persons to interact among themselves and/or between themselves.
* Kinship Determines Relationship Lines:
Relationship line in every family, I think is necessary, and this is the function of kinship system in Nigeria, where family line relationship is determined accordingly. In a family, a relationship could be a distance one or a close relationship, depending on the family in question. Therefore, the kinship system in Nigeria can work in a way that can determined what relationship family relationship lines are.
* Kinship Decides Who To And Who Not To Marry:
This is another function of kinship system in Nigeria, it draws a path and guide you on how to go through the path. For instance, it is the kinship that will determine who you should marry and who you should not marry, where to marry and where you should not marry. Once there is order that you cannot marry there, and that, relationship there, maritally is taboo, you have no choice. So it is the kinship system that decides.
* Kinship Influences Religious Practices:
Kinship in a sense, do influenced people's religious practices. What is expected from every member of a religious sect for example, is defined by kinship system, including the determination of the rights of the people, and obligations of these people, who belonged to, or indulged in religious practices and that of sacraments, which actually begins from the point, where someone is born and through a point where this person is deat
* Kinship Maintains Relationships:
Another function of the kinship system in Nigeria is to ensure that there is maintenance of solidarity of relationships. Such solidarity of relationship is mostly enjoyed among members of the family, the father, the mother, children and any other member of the family
* Determines Obligations And The Rights Of Family:
Kinship system in Nigeria also determined the obligations, the rights of the family. This is can be seen in tribal and rural societies. Kinship relation also determined the obligations and the rights of political power, the rights of marriage, as well as determined the obligations and the rights of system production, and this happened within a family.
* Kinship Regulates Beheviour Of Kin:
Kinship system in Nigeria functions in a number of ways, particularly, in tribal societies, when used in different ways. One of the functions of the kin system, when used in different ways is that, it will regulatates behaviours of different kin. So through the many usages of the kinship, there is that possibility of regulating the behaviour of every kin.
* Kinship Helps In Designating Kin Of Various Types:
Kinship is known for helping in the process of classification of different types of kin_and this happened as the result of some terms within the kinship system, and through such terms, the designation and the description of different types of kin is made possible.
* Kinship Creates Groupings Of Kin:
Another function of the kinship system in Nigeria is that, by the virtue of different ways of using kinship, groupings of kin can be created. Therefore, the creation of special groupings of kin happened through the usage of kinship.
* Kinship Governs Role Relationship:
In kinship, there are some rules, and these kinship rules have a way of affecting or mpacting on the role of relationships within the family. Among various kins, there would be this rule of kinship that will governs the relationship role, as related to the family.
* Kinship Regulates Social Life:
There are so many functions of the kinship system in Nigeria, and one of such functions is that of acting as the social life regulator. Social life is regulated in almost every society, and what made it possible for social life regulations is kinship system.
* Kinship Influences Production System:
System of production can be influenced through kinship system. Apart from influencing production system, kinship system goes as far as influencing other aspects of kinship within the family, such aspects of kinship include, land ownership within the family, as well as the concept of wealth and their various usages.
Kinship has several importance in a social structure. Kinship decides who you can marry and who you cannot marry, possibly, where marital relationships are taboo. It also determines rights and obligations of every member in every religious practices within the society from when someone is born and up to the point he is dead. The important of kinship system in Nigeria cannot be underestimated, and the important of kinship system can be seen within the family functions and at the event of marriage. It is also good to note the kinship system haa a way of determining family line.
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Purpose
TUCKER analysis for n-way arrays.
Synopsis
model = tucker(x,ncomp,initval,options) %tucker model
pred = tucker(x,model) %application
tucker(model) % provides a table of variances per component.
Description
TUCKER decomposes an array of order K (where K ≥ 3) into the summation over the outer product of K vectors. As opposed to PARAFAC every combination of factors in each mode are included (subspaces). Missing values must be NaN or Inf.
Inputs
 - x = the multi-way array to be decomposed and
 - ncomp = the number of components to estimate, or
 - model = a TUCKER model structure.
Note that when specifying (ncomp), it must be a vector with K elements specifying the number of components for each mode.
Optional Inputs
 - initval = if initval is the loadings from a previous TUCKER model are then these are used as the initial starting values to estimate a final model,
if initval is a TUCKER model structure then mode 1 loadings (scores) are estimated from x and the loadings in the other modes (see output pred),
 - options = discussed below.
Outputs
 - model = a structure array with the following fields:
 - modeltype: 'TUCKER',
 - datasource: structure array with information about input data,
 - date: date of creation,
 - time: time of creation,
 - info: additional model information,
 - loads: 1 by K+1 cell array with model loadings for each mode/dimension,
 - pred: cell array with model predictions for each input data block,
 - tsqs: cell array with T2 values for each mode,
 - ssqresiduals: cell array with sum of squares residuals for each mode,
 - description: cell array with text description of model, and
 - detail: sub-structure with additional model details and results.
 - pred = is a structure array, similar to model, that contains prediction results for new data fit to the TUCKER model.
Options
options = a structure array with the following fields:
 - display: [ {'on'} | 'off' ], governs level of display,
 - plots: [ {'final'} | 'all' | 'none' ], governs level of plotting,
 - waitbar: [ {'on'} | 'off' ], governs use of waitbar while calculating,
 - weights: [], used for fitting a weighted loss function (discussed below),
 - stopcrit: [1e-6 1e-6 10000 3600] defines the stopping criteria as [(relative tolerance) (absolute tolerance) (maximum number of iterations) (maximum time in seconds)],
 - init: [ 0 ], defines how parameters are initialized (see PARAFAC),
 - line: [ 0 | {1}] defines whether to use the line search {default uses it},
 - algo: this option is not yet active,
 - blockdetails: 'standard'
 - missdat: this option is not yet active,
 - samplemode: [1], defines which mode should be considered the sample or object mode and
 - constraints: {kx1 cell}, defines constraints on parameters (see below). The first three cells define constraints on loadings whereas the last cell defines constraints on the core.
CONSTRAINTS
The options field constraints is used to employ constraints on the parameters. It is a cell array with number of elements equal to the number of modes of the input data X. Each cell contains a structure array with the following fields:
 - nonnegativity: [ {0} | 1 ], a 1 imposes non-negativity.
 - unimodality: [ {0} | 1 ], a 1 imposes unimodality (1 local maxima).
 - orthogonal: [ {0} | 1 ], constrain factors in this mode to be orthogonal.
 - orthonormal: [ {0} | 1 ], constrain factors in this mode to be orthonormal.
 - exponential: [ {0} | 1 ], a 1 fits an exponential function to the factors in this mode.
smoothness.weight: [0 to 1], imposes smoothness using B-splines, values near 1 impose high smoothness and values close to 0, impose less smoothness.
 - fixed.position: [ ], a matrix containing 1's and 0's of the same size as the corresponding loading matrix, with a 1 indicating where parameters are fixed.
 - fixed.value: [ ], a vector containing the fixed values. Thus, if B is the loading matrix, then we seek B(find(fixed.position)) = fixed.value. Therefore, fixed.value must be a matrix of the same size as the loadings matrix and with the corresponding elements to be fixed at their appropriate values. All other elements of fixed.value are disregarded.
 - fixed.weight: [ ], a scalar (0 ? fixed.weight ? 1) indicating how strongly the fixed.value is imposed. A value of 0 (zero) does not impose the constraint at all, whereas a value of 1 (one) fixes the constraint.
 - ridge.weight: [ ], a scalar value between 0 and 1 that introduces a ridging in the update of the loading matrix. It is a penalty on the size of the esimated loadings. The closer to 1, the higher the ridge. Ridging is useful when a problem is difficult to fit.
 - equality.G: [ ], matrix with N columns, where N is the number of factors, used with equality.H. If A is the loadings for this mode then the constraint is imposed such that GAT = H. For example, if G is a row vector of ones and H is a vector of ones (1's), this would impose closure.
 - equality.H: [ ], matrix of size consistent with the constriant imposed by equality.G.
 - equality.weight: [ ], a scalar (0 ? equality.weight ? 1) indicating how strongly the equality.H and equality.G is imposed. A value of 0 (zero) does not impose the constraint at all, whereas a value of 1 (one) fixes the constraint.
 - leftprod: [0], If the loading matrix, B is of size JxR, the leftprod is a matrx G of size JxM. The loading B is then constrained to be of the form B = GH, where only H is updated. For example, G may be a certain JxJ subspace, if the loadings are to be within a certain subspace.
 - rightprod: [0], If the loading matrix, B is of size JxR, the rightprod is a matrx G of size MxR. The loading B is then constrained to be of the form B = HG, where only H is updated. For example, if rightprod is [1 1 0;0 0 1], then the first two components in B are forced to be the same.
 - iterate_to_conv: [0], Usually the constraints are imposed within an iterative algorithm. Some of the constraints use iterative algorithms themselves. Setting iterate_to_conv to one, will force the iterative constraint algorithms to continue until convergence.
 - timeaxis: [], This field (if supplied) is used as the time axis when fitting loadings to a function (e.g. see exponential). Therefore, it must have the same number of elements as one of the loading vectors for this mode.
 - description: [1x1592 char],
If the constraint in a mode is set as fixed, then the loadings of that mode will not be updated, hence the initial loadings stay fixed.
See Also
conload, corcondia, coreanal, corecalc, datahat, gram, mpca, outerm, parafac, parafac2, tld, unfoldm


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The Opthalmologic Panel will provide a strong foundation for recognizing and understanding the clinically relevant genetic polymorphisms that impact the recovery of brain injured individuals and the likelihood of future eye conditions. The panel will provide a systematic and easy-to-implement clinical protocol for personalized, precision guided nutritional supplementation that will improve the efficacy of therapeutics and maximize the recovery of each individual patient according to their unique needs.
3 Goals For This Panel:
- Provide a review of the science of Nutrigenomic testing, its' place in a Neuro-Optometric practice and review the biochemistry related to the polymorphic alterations that can affect recovery potential
- Provide a foundational protocol for maximizing recovery of TBI through precision guided nutritional supplementation
- Review methods and timing of precision guided nutritional supplementation


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Questions: Is it possible to see farts?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: A few years ago, a viral video purported to show farts captured on infrared security cameras in China. This turned out to be a hoax. But do farts leave a visible trace?
Farts are made up of many gasses, most of which are simply the constituents of air that has been swallowed and expelled. Since the air contains water vapor, this will be expelled along with the rest, and it is of course possible to see water vapor on cold days. The cloud that appears when people exhale is a result of water molecules leaving the warm environment of the body and condensing upon entry into the cold air.
If water vapor is present in farts, then they should similarly be visible on cold days. Whether this is empirically observed is difficult to say, as we were unable to find any relevant scientific literature, and the internet is uncharacteristically silent on the topic. The few videos that purport to capture farts on cold days all struck as suspect.
Before we set out to answer the question definitively, we turned to our database of farts to find out whether farts actually contain water vapor. The figure below depicts the concentration of fart smell (VOCs) at different depths relative to an example fart.
Longtime readers of this blog will recall that our experimental protocol required subjects to remain seated upon the collection device for a period of time after the release of each fart, in order to ensure proper measurement of the relevant variables. Thus in the example we see that the smell near the top of the tube (1.0", blue line) declines steadily over time. At the same time, the VOC concentration increases near the bottom of the collection tube (7.0", yellow line). This is due to the velocity of the fart and the fact that hydrogen sulfide is denser than air.
In contrast, the humidity within the tube increases over time:
In particular, the humidity accumulates steadily near the top of the tube, while there is relatively little change close to the bottom. This is consistent with the fact that water vapor rises, as it is less dense than air.
These large increases in humidity indicate that farts contain a substantial amount of water vapor, which should in principle be visible when the air is cold enough. To be more precise about this, we need to determine the temperature at which condensation occurs – this is when the air can no longer hold the water vapor present in farts, or equivalently when the relative humidity reaches 100%. The temperature required for a given concentration of water to reach 100% relative humidity is called the dew point.
A handy way to calculate the dew point is with the simple approximation:
Here T is the ambient temperature, and RH is relative humidity. If we take the values of T and RH during the 10-second period following an average fart, we obtain the following estimates of the dew point at different distances from the subject:
These results suggest that a fart should be visible at a distance of a few inches from the source, when the temperature is about 8 deg. Celsius (about 46 deg. Fahrenheit), which is in fact similar to the conditions under which exhaled breath becomes visible. Nevertheless, our attempts to detect farts by eye have thus far been unsuccessful, even when the air temperature is cold. In this regard, visible farts are like the Higgs boson, predicted by theory but experimentally elusive. To be continued.


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Two Faces or One? Our visual system constantly imposes three-dimensional characteristics onto two-dimensional images. While our interpretations of these images are usually correct in ambiguous situations with more than one possible image our brain may not see all of the possibilities. In such situations there are many factors simultaneously influencing our vision. Below are a few pictures that will help demonstrate this point.
Image #1 Man playing horn or woman shillouette?
Hint: Woman s right eye is the black speck in front of the horn handle.
Image #2 Two faces or one?
Hint: Two faces side profile and one face front view.
Image #3 A face of a native american or is it an eskimo?
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Active Lane Management (ALM) settings in Jeep Grand Cherokee
The Jeep Grand Cherokee is equipped with advanced safety features designed to enhance driver assistance and provide a safer driving experience. One of these features is the Active Lane Management (ALM) system.
The ALM system utilizes a forward-facing camera and Blind Spot Monitoring (BSM) sensors to detect lane markings, road edges, and nearby vehicles. By monitoring the vehicle's position within the lane and detecting potential lane departures, the ALM system provides visual, haptic, and steering assist warnings to help the driver stay within the lane boundaries.
Understanding Active Lane Management Settings:
To access and adjust the Active Lane Management settings in the Jeep Grand Cherokee, follow these steps:
 1. On the center screen, tap on "Vehicle" on the bottom category bar.
 2. Select "Settings" on the top right corner.
 3. From the left menu, choose "Safety & Driving Assistance."
 4. Open the "Active Lane Management" option.
Within the Active Lane Management menu, you will find several adjustable settings related to the ALM system:
Lane Management:
This setting determines how the system alerts the driver when a lane departure is detected.
Available options include:
"Vibration Only": The system provides a vibration warning.
"Steering Assist Only": The system applies steering assistance to guide the vehicle back into the lane.
"Vibration + Steering Assist": The system combines vibration warning and steering assistance.
Lane Warning:
This setting allows you to choose the timing of the lane departure warning.
Available options are:
"Early": The warning is triggered when the vehicle slightly drifts towards the lane boundaries.
"Medium": The warning is triggered when the vehicle approaches the lane boundaries.
"Late": The warning is triggered when the vehicle crosses the lane boundaries.
Vibration Strength:
This setting enables you to adjust the intensity of the vibration warning.
Available options are:
"Low": Gentle vibration feedback.
"Medium": Moderate vibration feedback.
"High": Strong vibration feedback.
Steering Assist Strength:
This setting allows you to adjust the level of steering wheel feedback during a lane departure.
Available options include:
"Low": Gentle steering wheel feedback.
"Medium": Moderate steering wheel feedback.
"High": Strong steering wheel feedback.
How Active Lane Management Operates:
The ALM system operates within specific speed ranges (above 37 mph/60 km/h and below 112 mph/180 km/h) to ensure optimal functionality. When both lane markings are detected and the vehicle approaches or crosses a lane boundary without using the turn signal, and the blind spot zone is clear, the ALM system provides warnings to prompt the driver to remain within the lane boundaries. These warnings can include visual alerts in the instrument cluster, steering assist torque, and/or steering wheel vibration, depending on the configured settings.
If the driver activates the turn signal to indicate a lane change and a vehicle is detected in the adjacent lane, the ALM system provides warnings to guide the vehicle back to the center of the lane. The warnings can be in the form of steering assist and/or steering wheel vibration, helping the driver maintain lane integrity and avoid potential collisions.
It's important to note that the ALM system suppresses visual warnings, steering vibration, and steering assistance when the driver activates the turn signal, the blind spot zone is clear, and a lane change is occurring. Additionally, the driver can manually override the steering assist warning by applying force to the steering wheel at any time.
Enabling or Disabling Active Lane Management:
To turn the ALM system on or off, locate the Active Lane Management button on the switch panel above the Uconnect display. Press the button to activate or deactivate the system.
When turned on, a message will be displayed in the instrument cluster to confirm the system's status. The ALM system retains its previous state (on or off) from the last ignition cycle when the ignition is placed in the ON/RUN position.
Conclusion:
The Active Lane Management system in the Jeep Grand Cherokee is a valuable safety feature designed to help drivers maintain their lane position and avoid potential lane departures. By adjusting the various settings within the ALM system, drivers can personalize the level of warnings and assistance they receive based on their preferences and driving conditions. Understanding and utilizing these settings effectively can contribute to a safer and more confident driving experience in the Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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Planned Giving is simply the term used when you plan ahead of time who receives your assets when you are alive or when you die, and making the decision that charities you love should be included.
A planned gift is designed to provide future support for Sharon Presbyterian Church. A planned gift can either be:
 1. A donation made after one's death
 1. through a direct bequest of money or property in a will
 2. by designating the church as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy
 or retirement plan (e.g. 401k plan)
 1. An immediate gift made outright during one's lifetime to fund church activities using various vehicles such as a:
 1. Funded endowment,
 2. Gift annuity
 3. Charitable remainder trust.
You can use your gift to start something new for the church or to provide secure funding and resources for an existing church activity, ministry or outreach effort that speaks to your heart.
Both types of gifts enable your generosity to make an impact on the mission, ministries and future needs of the church.
Planned Giving can take many forms, many of them simple to execute. Follow The Steps to a Gift to the right to see "Why" you should include the church, "How" you can make a planned gift, "Where" your gift may be directed, and ways you can "Share" your gift with others.
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Blue Hills Nuclear Power Plant
The Blue Hills Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed commercial nuclear power plant 20 miles northeast of Jasper, Texas.Coordinates: 31°9′N 93°42′W / 31.150°N 93.700°W It was proposed in the 1970s by the Gulf States Utilities Company. One 918 MWe pressurized water reactor was ordered in 1973, and an additional 918 MWe reactor was ordered in 1974 from Combustion Engineering. The two unit power plant proposal was canceled in 1978.
- List of books about nuclear issues
- Nuclear power debate
- Nuclear power in the United States
- List of canceled nuclear plants in the United States
- D. F. Cope; H. F. Bauman (November 1977). Expansion Potential for Existing Nuclear Power Station Sites (PDF) (Report). National Technical Information Service. pp. 16–21. ORNL/TM-5927. Retrieved December 2014 – via Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Check date values in:
- Fred A Heddleson (June 1976). Design Data and Safety Features of Commercial Nuclear Power Plants (PDF) (Report). National Safety Information Center. p. 67. ORNL/NSIC-96. Retrieved December 2014 – via Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Check date values in:
- Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report 1997 Archived October 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. pp. 61-62.


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In multiple pregnancy, we recommend one of the following two options to deal with unit of analysis issues:
 1. Add a suffix where 0 is mother; infants are coded 1, 2 and 3 according to birth order in multiple pregnancy or 5 for singleton. A Note that a surviving twin would be coded as 1.
 2. Assign a separate "randomisation number" to the fetuses, e.g., start mothers at 1000 and babies at 5000.
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Source Newsroom: Universite de Montreal
Newswise — Families with a child completing elementary school this year are now preparing their registration for high school, a transition that is often stressful for children. A new program has demonstrated that it is possible to significantly reduce stress in some of these children thanks to a new educational tool designed under the leadership of Sonia Lupien, Director of the Centre for Studies on Human Stress (CSHS) and professor at the University of Montreal.
A study published in February in Neuroscience confirms the benefits of the DeStress for Success Program among youth completing their first year of high school. "In 2000, our team showed that during the transition from elementary to secondary school, many young people produce high levels of stress hormones. Following this discovery, we wanted to test whether an educational program based on our current knowledge of stress would decrease the level of stress hormones and depressive symptoms in teenagers and help facilitate this transition," said Sonia Lupien, lead author of the study.
The DeStress for Success Program was presented to 504 students aged 11 to 13 years from two private schools in the Montreal area. Students from one school were exposed to the program, while those of the other school served as the control group. Before starting the project, cortisol levels (the stress hormone) in saliva and depressive symptoms were measured to determine whether adolescents beginning secondary school with specific depressive symptoms responded differently to the program. Markers were also measured during and after the program as well as three months following participation in the project to validate whether improvement was maintained.
The study showed that adolescents starting secondary school with high levels of anger had, through the program, significantly lowered levels of stress hormones. These adolescents were in fact 2.45 times less likely to suffer from depression compared to the other adolescents. "This study provides the first evidence that a stress education program is effective in reducing stress hormone levels and depressive symptoms among adolescents making the transition to high school," says Pierrich Plusquellec, co-author of the study. The program also helped identify a certain profile of adolescent responding more to the educational tool.
More than a hundred professionals from all regions of Québec have been trained in the DeStress for Success Program. In addition, the program has been adapted to the clientele of the Centre Jeunesse de Montréal – Institut Universitaire. This adaptation has recently won a prestigious award from the Child Welfare League of Canada.
The study is published in the journal Neuroscience under the title The DeStress for Success Program: Effects of a stress education program on cortisol levels and depressive symptomatology in adolescents making the transition to high school: _URL_
Sonia Lupien is Scientific Director of the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal and professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Université de Montréal. She is founder and director of the CSHS, and CIHR Research Chair on Mental Health of Men and Women.
Pierrich Plusquellec is co-director of the CSHS affiliated with the Centre de recherche Fernand Seguin of the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal. He is also Associated Professor at the School of Psychoeducation, Université de Montréal, and FRQ-S Research Fellow in partnership with the Mental Illness Foundation.


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BUY PLUM HEADED PARAKEET PARROTS ONLINE FOR SALE
PLUM-HEADED PARAKEET PARROTS is a species of the parrot family, native to the Indian Subcontinent. This dimorphic species is usually seen living in flocks with the males possessing a redhead, a black stripe on the chin, and a black neck collar. The females, on the other hand, have a characteristic bluish-gray head, and the black collar is replaced with yellow.
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Their pleasant nature makes them tolerant to other birds when housed together in aviaries. However, like other parakeet species, they can become aggressive during breeding seasons. Although these intelligent birds often learn to imitate short whistling tunes, their talking ability is inferior to the larger parrot species. In captivity, they have an initial shyness and timidity, which can be dealt with with good persistent training and regular interaction. Despite being sociable, they do not like to be cuddled by their owners.
The Plum Headed parakeet is mostly similar to the other members of its family. The adults reach an average length of 13 inches (33 centimeters), with a remarkably long tail that grows up to 9 inches (22 centimeters) in length. This is the distinctive trait share by all parakeets. With a moderate wingspan and this long tail, this parrot needs plenty of space. Free flight is encouraged to help them exercise and vent out their energy.


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Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Civil Eng. Department, Univ. of Minnesota
In the present paper, a 3D numerical model has been applied to predict the flow hydrodynamics around power intakes within the Dez dam reservoir. The Dez dam is a 203 m high, double arch concrete dam which is constructed by Italians in 1962. Since then, sedimentation in reservoir
has continued and since the dam does not have bottom outlet, the reservoir bed level is raising by a rate of about 2.5 meter per year. The power intake invert level is in 270 m asl and on the basis of 2007 hydrography results, the reservoir bed level has reached the level of 260 m asl that means the sediment level is just 10 meters below the power tunnel intakes. The applied three dimensional model is a finite volume model, which can model curvilinear and non-orthogonal domains and uses the fully 3D time averaged Navier Stocks equations. For incorporating the effects of turbulent flow in computations, an advanced turbulent model, named k −w model has been applied. The present model results for flow field around power intakes show that for the present conditions (sediment level of 260 m and intakes level of 270 m ) some limited amount of
sediments is entering power tunnels and if no rehabilitation measures is considered, more sediment will enter the power tunnels in the coming years.


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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.
Call us for a complimentary DVD about "Controlling Indoor Condensation"


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likely that an earlier purchase will have a larger tax reducing impact.
Enterprise Investment Scheme:- The EIS scheme is one possible way of helping to reduce the cost of investment. The scheme is designed to encourage the investment in the ordinary shares of unquoted companies. Where a qualifying individual subscribes for shares (remember these must be new shares and not existing shares purchased from another shareholder) then there is a tax reduction on the value of the amount invested. The reduction used to be 20% up to a maximum of £500k. However from April 2011 the % reduction has increased to 30% and from April 2012 the £500k limit will increase to £1m. This means that where an investment of £30,000 is made in a qualifying company a tax reduction of £9,000 will be available, depending on the individual's tax liability before the reduction. This is a very useful incentive and one not to be missed but like all investment decisions, tax efficiency should certainly not be the only consideration.
Children's allowances:- It is a useful one to remember that children (of whatever age) qualify for their own personal allowance. This applies to both income tax and capital gains. However you need to be careful as a child's income that derives from funds supplied by a parent that exceeds £100 in a tax year may be taxed as income of the parent. However this £100 limit applies to each parent. You should also remember that a parent can put up to £3,600 per year into a pension plan for their children and this will still qualify for basic rate tax relief.
Property tax:- A simple one to remember for anyone who has property income; furniture within a residential dwelling cannot be deducted from rental income. Also the normal capital allowances that a trade may receive are also not available. However relief for this expenditure may be obtained either via a 10% wear and tear allowance or on a renewals basis. The renewals basis is where the initial cost of the furniture is not claimable but any replacement furniture is deductable. The wear and tear allowance is a straight forward deduction based on 10% of rents. But remember that rents will need to be adjusted for any costs that the landlord pays which would normally be paid by the tenant e.g. council tax. One not to be forgotten if you wish to minimise tax.
Pension contributions for everyone: – It is an ongoing issue as to what is the correct balance between salary and dividend when a small company owner is considering remuneration. There are a number of things to consider in order to make the right decision. However one consideration that can often be overlooked is that dividends do not count towards relevant earnings for personal pension contributions.
The rules say that a taxpayer may contribute up to 100% of relevant earnings towards a pension. However as dividend income is not part of relevant earnings, this can limit contributions made. Something to consider in making this decision. However also bear in mind that regardless of relevant earnings, £3,600 is always allowed to be contributed to a personal pension.


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San Rafael's Davidson Middle School science building wins North Bay top project award
At the rapidly expanding Davidson Middle School at 280 Woodland Ave., the San Rafael City School District needed new modern, flexible space for its forward-thinking science and math program.
Working with a tight budget and schedule, the project team of Quattrocchi Kwok Architects and Jeff Luchen Construction completed a two-story modular classroom building with 10 integrated science labs, six prep rooms, student and staff rest rooms, an electrical and mechanical room, science courtyard and outdoor classroom spaces.
The project was completed in January 2020, creating a sustainable and efficient Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) building with 14,800 square feet of space.
Flexible indoor and outdoor spaces use the building itself as a teaching mechanism by integrating the exposed structural, mechanical and electrical components to promote student interest in building design and technology used in a modern school building.
Eco-friendly features include abundant and energy-efficient lighting and mechanical systems, fresh air circulation, low-flow plumbing systems and drought-tolerant landscaping.
The team's modular design effectively crafted the building's layout to maximize program areas and stay within budget. Materials were selected with sustainability, durability and cost-effectiveness in mind.
To increase interest, the exterior façade design carefully considered color and made use of two types of window treatments and shading systems.
With SIP restrictions, students were only able to occupy the new building for a few months before virtual learning went into effect, but school officials say this facility will be an asset as the staff looks ahead to make decisions around hybrid and in-person learning. The total project cost was $12 million.


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St. Nikita Monastery in Village Banjani (Манастир Св. Никита, с. Бањани) is located on Skopska Crna Gora near the village Banjani.
The monastery was built in the first decades of the XIVth century with help of the medieval Serb king Milutin (_PHONE_). Also at that time, a chapel in honour of St. John the Baptist (Св. Јован Крстител) has been built on the south side of the church. This chapel was ruined somewhere in the XVI/XVII centurie.
The monastery is built of carved stones, bricks and mortar. It has a cruciform shape in a rectangular space with a dome. The fresco painting inside the monastery is in very good condition. The fresco paintings date back since 1324 and it was painted by the painters Mihail and Evtihij.
The fresco paintings of the monastery St. Nikita Monastery in Village Banjani, due to its rich iconographic repertoire and high artistic value, are considered masterpiece in the medieval art in Macedonia.
Fresco: Expulsion of the merchants from the temple in church St. Nikita, Banjani


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What does "Pochemuchka" mean?
Do you know someone who always has a question to ask? Someone who is always curious about something or the other, no matter what the topic at hand is. If you do, then you know someone who is referred to in Russian as a Pochemuchka (pronounced poh-cheh-moch-kah) – a person who asks too many questions. Curiosity is often a sign of intelligence. But remember, if you ask too many questions, you'll only find more questions, no answers!