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Mouse cursors let you simulate mouse movements in your Articulate Storyline courses. They're great for software training and simulations.
Choose from a gallery of cursor styles. Add sounds and visual effects. Control the path, timing, and speed of mouse movements. You're in command.
- Adding Mouse Cursors
- Changing Cursor Styles
- Adding Mouse-Clicking Sounds
- Adding Visual Click Effects
- Changing the Path of Mouse Movements
- Changing the Timing and Speed of Mouse Movements
There are two ways to add mouse cursors to a project.
- Storyline automatically adds mouse cursors to screen recordings when you insert them as step-by-step slides. You can adjust mouse cursor styles, effects, paths, timings, and speeds. (See the following sections for details.)
- You can also add mouse cursors manually, just where you need them.
To add a mouse cursor manually, go to the Insert tab on the ribbon, click Mouse, and choose a cursor style. It'll automatically appear on your slide.
Tip: Only one mouse cursor can be added to each slide, and it must be added to the base layer of the slide. Mouse cursors aren't supported on layers or slide masters.
To change the style of a cursor, select the mouse object on the slide, go to the Format tab on the ribbon, and choose a different style from the Cursors gallery.
Want to use your own cursor image? Just click Browse for Cursors at the bottom of the Cursors gallery, then select a file on your computer with a *.cur or *.ani extension.
When the mouse reaches the end of its path, it can play a single-click or double-click sound, or you can omit the clicking sound altogether.
Select the mouse object on the slide, go to the Format tab on the ribbon, and click None, Single, or Double.
To show an animated click effect at the end of a mouse movement, go to the Format tab on the ribbon and mark the box to Show Click Effects. Uncheck it if you don't want to simulate a mouse click.
Choose the direction of the mouse movement and whether its path is curved or straight.
- Select the mouse object on the slide. When a mouse object is selected, you'll see its path represented by a black line.
- Go to the Format tab on the ribbon and mark the Straight Pointer Path box to make the mouse move in a straight line. Uncheck it to move the mouse in a curved line.
- To set the direction of a mouse cursor's motion, use the Enter From selector to choose an entrance point.
Tip: If the Enter From selector is grayed-out, it's because the direction of the mouse movement is already determined by the previous slide. When you have consecutive slides with mouse cursors, the end point of the first will be the beginning point of the next.
A mouse cursor is visible for the entire duration of a slide. However, you can change when its movement starts and ends. You can also make it slow down before the end of its path.
- Select the mouse object in the timeline.
- Drag its left edge along the timeline to adjust when its movement begins. Drag its right edge along the timeline to adjust when its movement ends.
- Unlike other Storyline objects, the beginning and ending of a cursor's movement is controlled by the timeline, not the appearance and disappearance of the cursor itself.
- By adjusting the timing of a cursor's movement, you're also controlling its speed. A shorter duration results in a faster motion, and a longer duration results in a slower motion.
- If you want the mouse movement to slow down just before the end of its path, go to the Format tab on the ribbon and mark the box to Reduce Speed Before Click.


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This seminar provides students with a deep understanding of the intellectual history of public administration in the United States. It analyzes the development of public administrative thought by assessing the substance, impact, and historical context of many of the classic works in the field. The seminar helps students to become productive researchers and teachers in public administration by giving them a broad understanding of the field's scope, theoretical approaches, and development.
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What are the requirements for access by military recruiters to high school students?
Local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) are generally required to give military recruiters the same access to secondary school students as they provide to postsecondary institutions or to prospective employers. LEAs are also generally required to provide students' names, addresses, and telephone listings to military recruiters, when requested.
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Born August 10, 1957 (1957-08-10) (age 63)
Known for Author of memory-related books
Dominic O'Brien (10 August 1957) is a British mnemonist and an author of memory-related books. He is the eight time World Memory Champion and works as a trainer for Peak Performance Training.
He began developing his mnemonic techniques in 1987 when he saw Creighton Carvello memorise a pack of 52 playing cards in less than three minutes on the BBC television programme Record Breakers. To memorise numbers, O'Brien developed the mnemonic Dominic system, which is similar to the Major System. He has written books about memorisation techniques such as How to Develop a Perfect Memory, Quantum Memory Power, Learn to Remember, How to Pass Exams, The Winning Hand, and The Amazing Memory Box.
He gives lectures, and has been seen on television programmes such as The Human Body.
Dominic O'Brien had an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for his 1 May 2002 feat of committing to memory a random sequence of 2808 playing cards (54 packs) after looking at each card only once. He was able to correctly recite their order, making only eight errors, four of which he immediately corrected when told he was wrong.
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Our Sun, Our Earth and Our Hanuman! The mystery?
Namaskar! This is Muthu Kumaar Narayanan from just_ambi_things making my very first blog for Daddyoda. just_ambi_things is my artist account in Instagram and Twitter in which I write poems and puns (Thamizh and English) and also have a plan to do something with my mic in future 😉
As a reader, I've encountered a variety of books and blogs. My favorite categories have always been personal finance & investment, yoga & spirituality, Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism) & the science behind it, etc. It's my pleasure to decode Sanskrit shlokas and find meaning for them. Our ancestors were too brilliant and no words could serve their intelligence.
Today, I am writing about the distance between the Earth and the Sun. What's interesting about it? We can Google it right? Wait dude! You are having modern technologies today to find it. But, is it not interesting if I say that our ancestors predicted it way back? Stay tuned!
One such amusing discovery is attributed to Hanuman Chalisa in which the distance between the Earth and the Sun was mentioned. Basically, Hanuman Chalisa consists of 40 verses praising Lord Hanuman written by Goswami Tulsidas, a Saint and a Poet. Thus the name "Chalisa" as Chalis means 40 in Hindi. It was written during the 15th century AD, if I am not wrong.
Here's the 18th verse of Hanuman Chalisa:
Yuga Sahasra Yojana Para Bhaanuu |
Liilyo Taahi Madhura Phala Jaanuu ||
It means "You flew towards the sun who is thousands of years of Yojanas away, thinking of him as a sweet fruit".
Look at the first line carefully. Let's get the meaning for it.
Yuga means year;
Sahasra is thousand;
Yojana is distance of about 8 miles approximately;
Para refers to the word "away"; The Sun is referred to as Bhaanuu.
If you want to learn the meaning of the second line, here are the keywords:
All the measurements are in the first line. As I've mentioned earlier, yuga means a year. But it is not to be construed as one year. In Hinduism, we have read about years for humans and Gods. Say, one year for God amounts to "x" number of years for humans. It's a big topic, so I'm keeping it away as of now. One yuga amounts to 12000 years here. Sahasra refers to 1000 or 1000 times. As said, yojana is a distance of 8 miles approximately.
Here's the computation:
When you multiply all these 3 numbers, that is 12000*1000*8, you get 96 million miles. When you convert that to Kilometers, you get 153.6 Million KMs (1 mile = 1.6 KM approx).
The Google result shows 152 million KMs approx! Isn't that amazing? It is a too-close call even without any modern technologies!
But wait! Though it's understood as a minor error, there may be 3 reasons attached to it as follows:
1. Conversion difference between miles and KMs.
2. There's no standard or fixed measure for Yojana. Though it's understood as 8 miles, it's also referred to distance of 8 to 15 kilometers. There are also references citing different metrics. Once again, there are some conversion issues.
3. This is purely out of my thoughts and I don't have any idea about it. But it can also be the reason. I think there will be some planetary movements as far as the arrangement factors are concerned. So, there can be a little displacement of the Earth and Sun today in comparison to the period during which Hanuman Chalisa or the original reference (if so) was written.
Well, I guess you are happy with what I've written. Hope I've kindled a sense of inquisitiveness in your minds about the ancient science of Bharat. This is Muthu Kumaar Narayanan signing off! Happy reading!
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Thomas Doyle:
Marine Biologist
Your name?
Thomas Doyle
Your job title?
Marine Biologist
Describe your job and what are your main tasks / responsibilities as a Marine Biologist?
In general, I spend 35% of my time lecturing to undergraduate students, 35% doing research and then the remaining 30% on administration and other university activities including outreach. I teach a range of undergraduate courses (marine zoology, community ecology, introduction to invertebrates). My research expertise is in biotelemetry (animal tracking) and jellyfish ecology.
How do you use mathematics within your job?
I use mathematics all the time, especially for my research. Mathematics is actually at the heart of most of science. For example, as a scientist, I make observations from which I might formulate a hypothesis. However, to test this hypothesis I need to come up with a prediction (based on my hypothesis) that I can test. I then go out and collect data to test my prediction. Then using mathematics (or more specifically 'statistics') I can accept or reject my hypothesis. (Note: generally you develop a 'null hypothesis' as it's impossible to prove a hypothesis is true.)
What type of mathematics do you use to solve problems?
Mostly I use statistics.
Definitely statistics.
What is your education to date?
In terms of sciences subjects, I did biology and physics for my leaving certificate. I then trained (and worked) as an electrician before going back to college to get a Certificate in Sciences at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (1999). After that I transferred to National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) to do a BSc in Zoology (competed in 2002). Once I graduated I travelled and worked abroad for a year and then began a PhD on the behaviour and ecology of leatherback sea turtles in Irish waters in 2003. I am now a lecturer in zoology at NUIG.
What advice would you give to someone considering your job?
I would follow the advice that someone once gave to me… find a subject that you love doing and stay true to it. Don't worry about where the jobs are, if you really enjoy a subject you will get really good at it and then a job with find you.
Doing fieldwork is one of the highlights for sure. It's great to be out on a boat or on a rocky shore studying animals. Challenges? Trying to inspire 120 students on a Monday morning about the joys of parasites.


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- Also, if the musician suddenly does not play anything on beat 1, that would also be syncopation. Playing a note ever-so-slightly before or after a beat is another form of syncopation because this produces an unexpected accent. — "Syncopation - Definition",
- Syncopation. In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak but also powerful beats in a meter (pulse) In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some. — "Syncopation",
- Syncopation definition, a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats. See more. — "Syncopation | Define Syncopation at ",
- Syncopations can happen anywhere: in the melody, the bass line, the rhythm section, the chordal accompaniment. Ragtime, for example, would hardly be ragtime without the jaunty syncopations in the melody set against the steady unsyncopated bass. — "Syncopation",
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- More simply, syncopation is a general term for a disturbance or interruption of the Syncopation is used in many musical styles, and is fundamental in black-influenced styles. — "Syncopation - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia",
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- Syncopation ( pronounced SINK-o-PAY-shun) is hearing the beat when you don't expect to. When notes begin before or after a strong beat, you have syncopation. Listen to this rhythm in Example 1. The notes fall on the beats. This is not syncopation. Now listen to Example 2. — "Syncopation", empire.k12.ca.us
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- In music the word syncopation has a very specific meaning. Actually, the main syncopation in cha-cha happens on beat two (usually the first part of a rock step), I'll explain why shortly. — "Syncopation in dance and music",
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- For other uses of the same name, see Syncopation (disambiguation). In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak but also powerful beats in a meter (pulse). — "Syncopation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia",
- Syncopation is a musical process that involves adding an unexpected element to the basic beat of a musical composition. At times, the syncopation adds more beats, while at other times it delays or changes the sense of a particular beat in the line of rhythm. — "What Is Syncopation?",
- Dynamic Syncopation music profile on Yahoo! Music. Find lyrics, free streaming MP3s, music videos and photos of Dynamic Syncopation on Yahoo! Music. — "Dynamic Syncopation on Yahoo! Music",
- Syncopation Makes It Move. Introduction. Syncopation is the wonderful effect which is created when notes which are supposed to fall in a certain place surprise the ear and fall somewhere else. When the accent falls off the beat, or if there is silence on the beat, then syncopation occurs. — "Music Concepts Online: Syncopation Lecture", neiu.edu
- Syncopation. Syncopation is a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm. Syncopation shifts this emphasis, or, to put it another way, it places the accent on the wrong syllable. — "Syncopation: Excerpts from The NPR Classical Music Companion", kennedy-
- syncopation in a folk context, check out the examples below. In this example, there is a syncopated melody over a simple quarter-note bass part, which. — "Syncopation",
- Syncopation is used in many musical styles, including classical music, but it is fundamental in such styles as reggae, ragtime, rap, jump blues, jazz and often in dubstep. In the form of a back beat, syncopation is used in virtually all contemporary popular music. — "Syncopation - New World Encyclopedia",
- The Elite Syncopation quintet has been touring the United States from coast to coast for over a decade, Elite Syncopation tours nationally, giving dozens of concerts a year, both locally in Connecticut and throughout the rest of the country. Click here for booking information. — "Elite Syncopation: Who We Are",
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The platform/terrace knob was common before the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE). To increase literacy the mainland Chinese have, since the 1950s, used "simplified" characters. As a result one simplified character may be used for more than one traditional Chinese character, leading to confusion. One modern mainland Chinese author translates this knob shape as a "table knob" because the traditional character 檯, pronounced "tai," means table or desk. The traditional character 臺, also pronounced "tai"—and the one that should be used for this knob (as can be seen by the shape), means a platform or terrace. Both use the the simplified character 台 pronounced "tai." Since the two words are pronounced the same and differ only in the addition of the "wood" radical for the word "table" I suppose it is easy to see why they chose the same simplified character for both. In spoken context they would probably not be confused.
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Aircraft Foreign Repair Station (FRS)
The Panama's Civil Aviation regulation provide the legal framework for aircraft foreign repairs station (FRS) in Panama.
Book XVIII as amended by CAA Board of Directors Resolution No. 13 of March 16, 2018 states the list of the technical requirements that must be met by an FRS, which includes topics such as the maintenance facilities, preventive maintenance service, repair and alteration of aircraft, aircraft structures, aircraft engines, propellers, instruments, computer systems, radios , accessories, systems and components and the performance of specialized services.
It is quite important to inform that the term aircraft repair station concurs with the certificate issued by the United States FAA under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) Part 145 and is engaged in the maintenance, inspection, and alteration of aircraft and aircraft products.
CAA Registration Process
- An initial approach meeting must be coordinated between the FRS lawyer in Panama, the Panamanian customer requiring the assistance of an FRS and the CAA inspectors in order to assess the need for requiring the assistance of the FRS in accordance to the Panamanian customer list of equipment's and the FRS expertise.
- Once the initial assessment of CAA is completed and the specific needs of the Panamanian client are identified, then the FRS must start gathering the relevant information of its facility including all the regulating licenses and manuals such as the Air Agency Certificate, Operations Specifications, CAA evaluation forms among others.
- Upon the presentation of documents before the CAA, a formal inspection request shall be coordinated for CAA inspectors to perform an extensive audit of FRS facilities with the intention of verifying that all the declarations stated on the documentation concur with the facilities conditions of the FRS.
- Once the inspection is completed, the CAA inspectors will provide an immediate report of topics that should be clarified, amend or changed.
- The final stage of the process will be the issuance by CAA of an administrative resolution authorizing the registration of the Aircraft Foreign Repair Station as well as the certificate of operation.
Highlights of the Process
- The process of FRS licensing can be processed remotely with the assistance of our law firm giving as a result an expedite cost effective process.
- The FRS registration process is acknowledged as very fast in comparison to other jurisdictions.
- The cost of inspection and licensing shall be covered by the FRS.
- The approval of the FRS license will be specifically to the aircraft, aircraft structures, aircraft engines, propellers, instruments, computer systems, radios, accessories that the Panamanian customer has demanded as their specific needs of assistance from the FRS. Nevertheless, the license can be subject to changes and improvement upon the needs of the Panamanian customer.
- The FRS license is granted for 24 months.
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Encounters and Adventures: The 5 Benefits of Bringing Friends and Meeting New Ones
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Going on the road alone can somewhat be lonely and scary. Imagine yourself wandering around in one country's outback or in the middle of a busy city somewhere far away without anyone to turn to, to ask for help from, and to depend on.
Isn't it scary? It is, especially when you're new in one city without having even a bit of knowledge how things works and how people interact at that particular place. Possibilities such as accidents, confusions, and losing one's way have then become quite possible.
However, bringing a friend or going alone is an adventure in itself. It is when you learn how to be independent, as well as to make new friends along the way.
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So, make up your mind! Bring a friend or find a friend works in different ways, but with similar goals in mind. Here are some benefits that will definitely convince you to bring your closest friend on your next trip:
1. Having someone along is more fun.
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There's nothing lonelier than being alone while you're eating the best meal you can get in a place or while looking at a beautiful landscape. It's kind of sad to just be alone doing things when you can always bring someone to share everything with –your thoughts, ideas, stories, chitchats, and feelings.
However, if you're the type of person who can appreciate more of solitude and quiet, then it's fine. People are different in their preferences of how they want to go on an adventure.
On the other hand, if you're someone who needs another person to relate to once in a while, then it's better to bring someone along. Then, you'll have someone to do things with and to go to places with.
2. Bringing someone along is safer.
Having a companion to go with you, particularly to places of uncertain safety and great distance from civilization (such as mountains and wilderness), is much safer.
With precautions, it would have been safe to go alone. But, with a companion, there's always that thin blanket of assurance that when something goes wrong, there would be two minds to think of the better solution rather than one.
3. New encounters create good friendship.
If bringing someone along is not possible due to certain circumstances and reasons, then going alone is okay. You can always meet new people along the way, mostly through unexpected situations.
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It is in these unexpected situations that several people gain irreplaceable friends and loved ones. To most people, this thought would seem too romantic and imaginative, but it does happen to some people somewhere in this wide world.
Just keep an open mind and be yourself. You'll surely meet someone who shares the same ideals and thoughts.
4. Meeting people will facilitate learning.
Friendships aren't the only ones built when meeting new people. There is also the build-up of new knowledge, which can help us in one way or another at least once in this lifetime.
It is in meeting various people where you see more of life in a world-wide mindset, which in turn somehow gives you an idea to the general cycle of real life. Having a glimpse of life in a different perspective will definitely change you, in either personal or non-personal level.
Seeing new things also contribute to our values as a human being. Thus, it won't be surprising that there is a sort of change within after meeting and interacting with people from different places and from the different walks of life.
5. New friendship creates unexpected opportunities.
At times, new friends create new opportunities for you, may it be a simple visit to one's place or getting something you desire. It's not really something like you making use of them, but sometimes an act of goodwill on their part.
Several people deem it polite and good to invite someone to their places and offer them something to eat, perhaps. Other times, random people have this desire to help out strangers for no specific reason, other than simply helping.
There are a variety of people out there, who are different from each other. Just be optimistic, friendly, and respectfully in every chance and every person you meet.
Bringing someone along or meeting someone along the way definitely holds something of importance tin considering travel as a whole. After all, it is more fun and filling to have someone you can share everything with – may it be burden or fun.
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Purpose: To retrospectively determine the magnetic resonance (MR) and MR spectroscopic imaging features of high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) in patients with prostate cancer. Materials and Methods: Approval of the committee on human research was obtained, with a waiver of consent for this HIPAA-compliant study. Endorectal MR imaging and MR spectroscopic imaging were performed in 48 men (mean age, 59 years; range, 47-75 years) prior to radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer. T2-weighted signal intensity and metabolic ratios of peripheral zone HGPIN foci of 6 mm or greater in diameter were recorded by two readers with knowledge of step-section histopathologic findings using areas of confirmed normal and cancerous peripheral zone tissue for comparison. A random effects statistical model was used to compare metabolic ratios from normal, HGPIN, and cancer voxels. Results: A total of 123 peripheral zone HGPIN foci with a mean diameter of 3 mm (range, 1-28 mm) were identified in 37 (77%) patients, but only 20 foci in 14 patients had a diameter of 6 mm or greater. Six foci were excluded, yielding 14 large HGPIN lesions from 11 patients in the final statistical analysis. The larger HGPIN foci were not associated with any focal reduction in T2-weighted signal intensity but demonstrated metabolic findings intermediate between normal and cancerous tissue; the mean ratios of choline (Cho) to creatine (Cr) for normal, HGPIN, and cancer were 0.92, 1.75, and 1.99, respectively, (P <.01), and the corresponding ratios of Cho plus Cr to citrate were 0.34, 0.50, and 0.78 (P <.01). Conclusion: HGPIN is metabolically intermediate between normal peripheral zone tissue and prostate cancer at MR spectroscopic imaging but does not manifest any MR imaging abnormality and is rarely of sufficient size to cause substantial error in evaluation of peripheral zone tumor extent in patients with prostate cancer.
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C) \varphi_i^{H^{[a]}}: \varphi_e \cong C_{< a}\]
where \(H\) denotes a jump hierarchy on \(C\). Note that it mus not be the case that \(\mathbf d\) computes a jump hierarchy, after all it only computes all hyperarithmetic sets, but it does not necessarily do this uniformly. However, creating a jump hierarchy in this case is \(\Sigma^0_3\) (see Montalbán [3] for more on jump hierarchies). Checking whether \(\varphi^{H^{[a]}}_i\) is an isomorphism is \(\Pi^0_2\). So \(\mathbf d^{(3)}\geq deg(O)=deg(\mathcal O)\).

We have seen, that if we restrict our degrees to degrees that compute \(HYP\) and a copy of \(\omega_1^{\mathrm{CK}}\) then we can not be far below Kleene's O. What if we can not compute \(\omega_1^{\mathrm{CK}}\)? It turns out we can be quite far away in that case.

Theorem 2. There is a degree \(\mathbf d>HYP\) that is hyperarithmetically low, i.e., \(\omega_1^{\mathbf d}=\omega_1^{\mathrm{CK}}\).

Proof sketch. Consider the set
 \[X=\left\{ (e,H) : \begin{aligned}\varphi_e \text{ is a linear order,}\\ H \text{ is a jump hierarchy on }\varphi_e,\\ \text{ and } \varphi_e\text{ does not have hyperarithmetic descending sequences}\end{aligned}\right\}\]
This set is \(\Sigma^1_1\) so by the Gandy basis theorem it must contain a set \(Y=(e_0,H_0)\) such that \(\omega_1^{Y}=\omega_1^{\mathrm{CK}}\). Thus there is no \(\alpha\) such that \(Y^{(\alpha)}\equiv_T \mathcal O\). See Montalbán [3] for more on Gandy's basis theorem and jump hierarchies in this context.

Thanks to Antonio Montalbán and Ted Slaman for showing me this.

[1] Jockusch Jr, Carl G., and Stephen G. Simpson. 1976. "A Degree-Theoretic Definition of the Ramified Analytical Hierarchy." Annals of Mathematical Logic 10 (1): 1–32.

[2] Ash, Christopher J., and Julia F. Knight. 1990. "Pairs of Recursive Structures." Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 46 (3): 211–34.

[3] Montalbán, Antonio. 2021. Computable Structure Theory: Beyond the Arithmetic. draft. _URL_ _EMAIL_ \(HYP\) be the set of hyperarithmetic degrees, i.e. \(HYP=\{ \mathbf d:\exists (\alpha<\omega_1^{\mathrm{CK}}) \mathbf d< \mathbf 0^{(\alpha)}\}.\) Jockusch and Simpson [1] showed that there is a degree \(\mathbf d\) that is minimal over \(HYP\) (i.e., if \(\mathbf c<\mathbf d\), then \(\mathbf c\in HYP\)) and such that \(\mathbf d^{(3)}=deg(\mathcal O)\) where \(\mathcal O\) is Kleene's \(\mathcal O\), or, up to m-equivalence, the set of indices of computable well-orderings.Positive enumerable functors2021-02-09T00:00:00+00:002021-02-09T00:00:00+00:00https://drossegger.github.io/news/positiveenumerablefunctors
We just submitted a new article titled "Positive enumerable functors" and you can find the preprint here or on <a href="_URL_ This article is joint work with Barbara Csima and Daniel Yu who proved most of the results presented there in an undergraduate research project he did with Barbara and me over the summer.

We investigate different effectivizations of functors using Turing operators and enumeration operators and compare these notions. The most promising of these notions are positive enumerable functors. A positive enumerable functors from \(\mathcal A\) to \(\mathcal B\) consists of two enumeration operators \(\Psi\) and \(\Psi_*\) such that when given an enumeration of the positive diagram \(P(\hat{\mathcal A})\) of a structure isomorphic to \(\hat{\mathcal A}\cong \mathcal A\), \(\Phi\) enumerates the positive diagram of \(F(\hat{\mathcal A})\). The operator \(\Phi_*\) will take care of the isomorphisms by enumerating the graph of \(F(f:\hat{\mathcal A}\to\tilde{\mathcal A})\) given \(P(\hat{\mathcal A})\oplus Graph(f)\oplus P(\tilde{\mathcal A})\).

We show that if \(\mathcal A\) is positive enumerable bi-transformable to \(\mathcal B\) (if there are positve enumerable functors \(F:\mathcal A\to\mathcal B\) and \(G:\mathcal B\to \mathcal A\) such that \(F\) and \(G\) are "enumerable pseudo-inverses") then \(\mathcal A\) and \(\mathcal B\) have the same enumeration degree spectrum and that positive enumerable functors are independent from the already established enumerable and computable functors.

We submitted the article to a conference and hope to expand it in the future, adding more preservation results and investigating syntactic equivalences.
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My newest preprint <a href="_URL_ spectra of analytic complete equivalence relations just appeared on arXiv.

This article investigates the bi-embeddability and elementary bi-embeddability relation on countable structures both from the viewpoint of descriptive set theory and computable structure theory. Two structures are bi-embeddable if either is isomorphic to an substructure of the other. They are elementary bi-embeddable if either is isomorphic to a elementary substructure of the other.

Our main results are the following.

Theorem 1. The elementary bi-embeddability relation on graphs is a \(\pmb \Sigma^1_1\) complete equivalence relation under Borel reducibility.

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are not eaten if they are undercooked. They are not eaten when they are old. They are not eaten by children. They are not eaten until they are cooked. They cannot be eaten if they are dead.
What types of crabs are edible?
There are many different types of crabs available for eating. Most people prefer to eat blue crabs because they are easy to catch and delicious. Blue crabs are found along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Florida. They are usually sold live and cooked. They are harvested during the fall and winter months.
What kind of crabs are not edible?
Christmas Island land crabs are native to the island of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Land crabs are known for being aggressive and territorial. They are very hardy animals and can survive in extreme conditions. They are scavengers and feed on dead animals and plants. They are omnivorous and eat insects, algae, sea grasses, seaweed, and even other crabs. Land crabs are hunted for their meat and shells. They are caught using traps and nets. Their meat is used in soups and stews. It is also used in crab cakes.
What crabs are not edible?
Crabs are a type of crustacean found in the ocean. Crabs are usually eaten alive but sometimes they are cooked. Most people eat crab legs because they are delicious. However, there are certain types of crabs that are not edible. These are called blue crabs. Blue crabs are very popular in the United States. They are harvested from Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, and North Carolina. In order to harvest these crabs, fishermen cut off their claws and throw them back into the bay. This process kills the crabs instantly. Blue crabs are sold live or frozen. Frozen blue crabs are available year round while live blue crabs are only available during the summer months.


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Show Length: 25 Minutes.
For Ages: Grades: 2 – Adult.
Earth's Wild Ride is a fast paced movie that immerses audiences in a 3-D tour of Earth's history and natural wonders. Set on the surface of the Moon in the year 2081, the movie opens with a grandfather and his grandchildren gazing into space on the evening of an Earth eclipse. As they watch the shadow of the Moon move across the Earth, the grandfather tells stories of crashing asteroids, erupting volcanoes, roaring dinosaurs, and electrifying lighting in a booming thunderstorm. While learning about eclipses, the ice age, Earth's water cycle and differences between the Earth and Moon, the audience is taken on a roller-coaster like ride through canyons of raging rivers and hot flowing lava.


four decimal digit day count system is derived from the truncation of the three most significant numbers of the present seven decimal digits of Julian Day Number (JDN), thus the name the Truncated Julian Day (TJD). TJD is arbitrar:ly chosen to begin from 0 at midnight May 24, 1969, (sic) and ends 9999 at midnight October 9, 1995 after which it recycles to zero. The repetition period is 27.4 years. A conversion table from TJD to calendar data in year, month, and day is given in Table II. The four decimal digits of a TJD number are represented by a 14-bit binary number.
By this definition, TJD is always a truncation of the Julian Day, and is never more than four digits, or 9999. Since it is a binary field represented by 14 bits, it could not physically exceed 16383. Furthermore, this is an integer value. The time of day is not represented as a decimal fraction, but by a count of seconds of the day from midnight, as well as optional milliseconds, microseconds and nanoseconds.
But that's not the whole story. A modified time code called PB-5J was later defined with 16 bits for TJD, which allows for integers up to 65535, corresponding to dates up to October 28, 2147. TJD values greater than 9999 can be found for the year 1995 and after, and a NASA web site converts to and from TJD for any positive value.
So there actually are two different definitions of Truncated Julian Day, one in PB-5 and the other in PB-5J, and it appears to me that the latter superseded the former.
TJD 56153/76300
Mars Time
At August 6, 2012, 05:14:39 UTC SCET (MJD 56145.21850) the Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater on Mars. (SCET stands for Spacecraft Event Time, since it took until about 14 minutes later for the data transmission to reach earth.) In Mars time that was 05:50:16 AMT (MSD 49269.24), about 15:00 local time. AMT is Airy Mean Time, also known as Coordinated Mars Time (MTC), because it is the Local Mean Solar Time at Airy Crater, which marks zero longitude on Mars. MSD is Mars Sol Date, and like Modified Julian Dates it is a count of Martian days, which are called "sols", but from December 29, 1873 (MJD 5521.5).
Another sol count is started whenever a craft lands on Mars, so that was on Sol 0 for Curiosity. There is currently one other craft active on Mars, Opportunity, which was on Sol 3034. Opportunity is near the Martian Prime Meridian, one hour behind AMT, but Curiosity is on the other side of the planet, 9 hours, 9 minutes and 40 seconds ahead of AMT.
Note that sols are longer than earth days by nearly 40 earth minutes but are divided into 24 Martian hours, so each hour, minute and second is 2.7% longer than those on earth. Thus, the mission operators start their shifts 40 minutes later each day. To keep track, they use a Java program call Mars24, which you can download from NASA. By default it displays AMT and LMST for Curiosity and Opportunity, as well as MJD and MSD with two digits of decimal time. You can also find more information at Wikipedia.
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Objective: Players attempt to do a water limbo under a stream of water
Players: 4 or more
Materials: garden hose attached to a water faucet, spray nozzle, broom handle, masking tape, towels
Rules: Hook up the garden hose to the spray nozzle and set it either to full or jet. Turn water tap on and adjust water pressure so that a comfortable stream forms that goes about 6 feet in distance. Take the broom handle and mark with tape every 6 inches or 1 foot. This will be your limbo marker. When all is set, hold the broom handle up vertically and hold the nozzle at the highest mark on your broom and start spraying the water. Use the locking lever on the nozzle to make it easier on your hand. Players then one at a time will attempt to go under to water stream walking forward but bending backwards if necesary in order not to hit the water. If every player made it through the first height successfully lower the stream to the next mark. If a player gets hit by the water, they will be given one more chance. If they get hit by the water again, they are out. Continue playing and lowering the stream each time until only one player remains. That player is the winner. Have that player attempt to go as low as they can. This ways everyone gets wet!


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What Aristotle called "the arrangement of the incidents," the plot of a work depends upon how its episodes are presented. A work of IF may have only one possible plot, as in Photopia. It may have several plots, as in Losing Your Grip. Most cave-crawl adventures have multiple plots because they have puzzles that can be solved in a different order each time. Although a work like the usual play or novel can be said to have a plot, a work of IF has one or more potential plots that are only realized during an interaction.
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What are the main differences between hyper-converged and converged infrastructures?
The main difference is that hyper-converged infrastructures are defined by software and completely transparent. In this type of infrastructure, components cannot be separated in the same way as in the converged ones, but they are more flexible and customizable.
The flexibility of hyper-converged infrastructures makes them more scalable and cost-effective, because you can add, for example, more storage blocks as needed. In the converged ones, this option isn't possible, since it is necessary to add whole packages, what makes them more expensive.
The initial costs of both technologies may seem high, but in the long term they are cheaper, because you only have to update them once.
Storage is another of the differences, since in the case of the convergent, it is directly connected to the physical server.
Hyper-converged infrastructures feature a storage controller that runs on all nodes of a cluster to improve the scalability and resilience. The storage logic controller is a piece of software that is attached to each virtual machine at hypervisor level, and software-defined storage leads all local storage through the cluster and configures it as a single storage pool. This allows to keep data that require fast response time locally and those used less frequently are stored on servers with more space.
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Serbia: EU bank drops Belgrade incinerator, citing impact on recycling: EBRD and other banks press on, News
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has refrained from financing the planned Vinča municipal waste incinerator in Belgrade, Serbia, according to a letter sent to the Ne Davimo Beograd initiative that campaigns against the project.
The EIB said that both its appraisal and an opinion from the European Commission on the project found that the incinerator would prevent Serbia from achieving its environmental targets on recycling and the circular economy as part of the EU accession process.
In contrast, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Austrian Development Bank (OeEB) have recently signed loans for the project .
Ne Davimo Beograd and Bankwatch have recently filed an official complaint to the EBRD about the Vinca project. The groups claim that the bank breached its own policies by failing to avoid negative environmental impacts from the project. This could have been achieved by supporting more sustainable practices like waste prevention, re-use, composting and recycling, which are at an extremely low level in Belgrade.
The complaint also highlights the fact that incinerators tend to crowd out waste prevention and recycling measures due to lengthy contracts that require city authorities to deliver consistent amounts of waste. In the groups' view, the EBRD did not adequately respond to the concerns raised on this issue.
Pippa Gallop from CEE Bankwatch Network said, "The EBRD and IFC have persistently claimed that the incinerator would not affect recycling, without providing any evidence. Now the EIB and Commission say the opposite. The EBRD and IFC have a lot of explaining to do."
Aleksa Petković from Ne Davimo Beograd said, "We welcome the EIB and the Commission's recognition that Belgrade should not be prioritising incineration. We are already suffering from low recycling levels and dire air quality. The last thing we need is another source of pollution and another diversion from setting up a functional recycling system. The EBRD, IFC and OeEB need to withdraw from this project while they still can."
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Computer scientists at the University of Glasgow are helping to develop an internet search engine that uses sensors located in the physical world to provide answers to search queries.
By collating data from sensors such as cameras and microphones, and cross-referencing it with results from social networks such as Twitter, users will be able to receive detailed responses to questions such as 'What part of the city hosts live music events that my friends have been to recently?' and 'How busy is the city centre?'
The European-funded project, known as SMART (Search engine for MultimediA Environment geneRated content), will be built on an open-source search engine technology known as Terrier that the university has been developing since 2004.
Partners include Atos, Athens Information Technology, IBM's Haifa Research Lab, Imperial College London, City of Santander, PRISA Digital, Telesto and Consorzio S3 Log.
"SMART builds upon the existing concept of'smart cities', physical spaces which are covered in an array of intelligent sensors which communicate with each other and can be searched for information," said Dr Iadh Ounis, of the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science.
"The search results sourced from these smart cities can be reused across multiple applications, making the system more effective."
The team from Glasgow University hopes the SMART project will be ready for testing in a real city by 2014.
The news comes as the UK government launches a competition to encourage local authorities to turn their cities into "smart cities" by integrating transport, communications and other city infrastructure, for the chance to win £24 million of government investment.
The Future Cities Demonstrator programme, run by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), aims to kickstart the market for integrated city systems, which is estimated to be worth £200 billion a year by 2030.


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Italians discover pasta shaped radio waves
Fusilli provides an infinate number of channels
Italian boffins have solved the problem of radio congestion by twisting radio waves into the shape of fusilli pasta.
They have demonstrated the technology, which means that you can have an infinite number of channels broadcast and received in real-life conditions across the waters of Venice. According to the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society's New Journal of Physics which we get for the cross the quark competition, lead author Dr Fabrizio Tamburini from the University of Padova, Italy devised a solution to this by manipulating waves so that they can hold more than one channel of information.
Apparently a wave can twist about its axis a certain number of times in either a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction, meaning there are several configurations that it can adopt. A phase twist looks like a fusillli-pasta-shaped beam, only there are a limited number of sauces that can go on it. Each of these twisted beams can be independently generated, propagated and detected even in the very same frequency band, behaving as independent communication channels," Tamburini continued.


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Abstract: Addressing inequity and working toward environmental justice is essential to a successful environmental movement. Currently, there are significant disparities in the representation, content, and processes for implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the environmental field across the Salish Sea and the Pacific Northwest Coast. Although professionals in this field are aware and concerned about issues related to DEI, there is an overall lack of understanding for how to integrate these concepts into the environmental workforce. Addressing inequity and working toward environmental justice is essential to a successful environmental movement. We believe that by creating and fostering a Salish Sea DEI Community of Practice (CoP), we can begin to build this critical foundation together.


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1998 Volume 21 Issue 6 Pages 588-593
The metabolic fate of saikosaponin b1 (1) was investigated using conventional, germ-free and Eubacterium sp. A-44-infected gnotobiote rats. After the oral administration of 1 to germ-free rats at a dose of 50mg/kg, no metabolite was detected in the plasma, the cecal contents or the cumulative feces through the experiment. On the other hand, when 1 was orally given to the Eubacterium sp. A-44-infected gnotobiote rats, considerable amounts of its metabolites, prosaikogenin A (2) and saikogenin A (3), were detected in the rat plasma with the respective AUC0-10h values of 17 424 and 22 260pmol·min/ml, similar to the case of its oral administration to conventional rats (AUC0-10h values of 9 936 and 12 414pmol·min/ml for 2 and 3, respectively). Furthermore, significant amounts of both metabolites were detected in the cecal contents and the cumulative feces of the gnotobiote and conventional rats, but not in those of the germ-free rats, within 10h after the administration.Fecal and cecal activities of hydrolyzing 1 and 2 were found in the gnotobiote and conventional rats, though there were no detectable activities in the germ-free rats. Accordingly, both hydrolyzing activities in the intestinal bacteria, such as Eubacterium sp. A-44, are essential for the appearance of 2 and 3 in the rat plasma and cumulative feces, since orally administered 1 was poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract.


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What Happens If an Oil Tank Is Empty?
What happens if your heating oil tank runs out of oil? Is it dangerous for an oil tank to be empty or just inconvenient? The answer is both. There are several issues you can run into when you let your oil supply run out. The results of an empty oil tank include:
Frequently Asked Oil Tank Questions
Now that we have covered the basics, let's look at some common questions homeowners have about their oil storage tanks.
Inhaling fumes from heating oil can cause some problems in the short-term, such as nausea, dizziness and headaches. Heating oil is NOT toxic enough to kill someone who breathes in the fumes. That said, long-term exposure to oil fumes can lead to some serious health problems such as kidney and liver damage.
When it comes to home heating oil, explosions are not an issue. These types of oil tanks are very safe. In fact, heating oil will not even burn if you were to try to light it on fire. The oil must be heated and turned to vapor before it becomes flammable.
The answer to this question depends on how much demand your household places on heating oil. To provide a reference point, the average American household that uses heating oil as their primary space-heating fuel goes through around 500 gallons of heating oil from the beginning of October to the end of March. If your household is similar to the average, then you can expect 100 gallons of oil to last less than a month during the cold months.
The answer to this question depends on how much oil you are using. You do not want to let your oil get too low, so you need to check regularly when you are going through a lot of oil to see when it is time to add more oil. In the Northeast, you may go through around five gallons of oil per day during the winter. If you are not using it up, the oil sitting in your tank should last around 18 to 24 months, as long as it contains additives.
Your furnace should be equipped with a mechanism that shuts off the oil burner when there is no oil coming in. So, as long as your furnace is functioning correctly, it should not be permanently damaged by running out of oil.
In some cases, yes. Running out of oil means the water and sediment in the bottom of the tank can get sucked into lines, causing clogs. Water and sediment can also damage your HVAC equipment itself.
Yes, you can rely on diesel fuel if you start to get low on heating oil and cannot get a refill soon enough. While diesel fuel oil is a good solution in a pinch, you're better off to request an emergency oil delivery or schedule your deliveries to come more frequently in the future.
The less fuel that is in your tank, the more room there is for condensation during the heat of the summer months. When this moisture forms, it settles to the bottom of your tank and causes the bottom of your tank to rust. Over time, this will cause the metal to deteriorate, posing a potential threat of leaking oil.
Can Condensation in an Oil Tank Damage Heating Equipment?
When the inside of your heating oil tank begins to rust, it creates a rust sediment that gets mixed in with your heating oil. When you turn your heat on in the fall, this sediment gets pulled into your heating equipment and can cause serious problems for your equipment, including:

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 - Erratic or unpredictable operation of your heating system
 - Blocking and erosion of burner tips and mechanical parts
 - Loss of heat release

By their nature, oil tanks allow a collection of water, sediment and sludge to build in a tank over its lifespan. If your tank is properly maintained, you can reduce the amount of water, sediment and sludge to extend the life of your oil tank and heating equipment.
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Definition of Mutuel
1. a system of betting on races [n -S]
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutuel
Literary usage of Mutuel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evolution of Credit and Banks in France from the Founding of the Bank of by André Liesse (1909)
"The characteristic of the Credit Agricole mutuel is to give a mutual basis to credit; to offer as security to the lender the joint responsibility of a..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... France the Credit Agricole mutuel represents a development of the Raiffeisen idea. Small local societies had been doing business with moderate success,..."
3. Rural Credits, Land and Cooperative by Myron Timothy Herrick, R. Ingalls (1914)
"Long-term Loans to Associations through Credit Agricole mutuel.—Long-term Loans to Individuals.—Two Methods of Amortization. MUCH private property was..."
4. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1901)
"And if the simple fact that betting with bookmakers takes custom away from the guichets of the Pari mutuel were a sufficient objection to it,..."
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Why Would You Ever Pass a Container By Value?
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An important part of teaching is figuring out how to avoid drowning students in detail. Most people who have tried to learn something new and complicated, such as a programming language, have had the experience of looking at a textbook, or listening to a lecture, and encountering a flood of options or features without a clue as to which ones are important, or which ones to use when, or even how they relate to each other. One way to avoid imposing such experiences on students is to give them an intellectual framework that lets the students relate parts of what they are learning to other parts.
For example, suppose we write a C++ expression that calls a function:
Obviously, this expression calls a function f and passes an argument x to it. Moreover, if f is defined as
 void f(T y) { /* … */ }
then we can say that the call f(x) passes the argument x to the parameter y, and that doing so involves the same actions as if we had written
 T y = x;
This explanation encourages students to relate what happens when we call a function to what happens when we use a value to initialize a variable. However, although this relation may simplify learning, it complicates teaching. Consider two fundamental features of C++: functions and references. Which shall we teach first?
If we teach references first, there is the problem of coming up with interesting example programs that use references but completely avoid user-defined functions. This is hard to do because the most common use of references is as function parameters — so it's probably easier to teach functions first.
However, if we teach functions before we teach references, then every function we write must accept its arguments by value — references not yet being available as an alternative. That is, every function call must copy the function's arguments to its parameters. There is no problem justifying such behavior if those arguments are small values, such as integers; but if our first example of passing a container to a function copies the entire container, we are encouraging students to write code that does needless work.
In Accelerated C++, Barbara and I came up with the idea of having the first such function compute the median of its argument. The most straightforward way to compute the median of a container is to sort the container — which changes its original value — and then to locate the element or elements in the middle. As a result, we were able to finesse the pedagogical problem of passing a container to a function by having that function compute the median, changing the value of its parameter in the process.
The picture changes when we expand the picture to include C++11 move operations. Now, when we write
 T y = x;
the effect is to copy or move x to y depending on whether x is an lvalue. Similarly, when we call f(x), the effect is to copy or move x to f's parameter y depending on whether x is an lvalue. This dependency not only changes how we explain what is going on, but also changes the circumstances under which such functions do needless work.
In the presence of move operations, I think it might be better to explain functions with string parameters before we explain functions with vector parameters. Not only are strings probably more common than vectors, but string rvalues are surely more common than vector rvalues. For example:
 bool is_palindrome(string s) { /* Details left to the reader */ }
Suppose we call is_palindrome("radar"). Then what really happens under the hood is that the string literal "radar" has type const char*, which is different from the type of is_palindrome's parameter. Accordingly, "radar" is used to construct a temporary of type string. That temporary is an rvalue, so it is moved, not copied, to the parameter s of is_palindrome. An analogous phenomenon happens when we pass the result of a nontrivial expression to such a function. As a result, we have a fairly wide range of examples from which to choose without having to write code that does needless work. Moreover, we have plenty of opportunities to return to these examples for more detailed study later.
In short, the question posed in this article's title has at least two answers:
 1. When you know that the function is going to change the value of its parameter; or
 2. When you're confident that most of the time, you'll be passing a container rvalue.
I'll continue this discussion next week by showing why the "needless effort" in some of these functions is worth making a fuss to avoid. In particular, I'd like to explain the apparent contradiction between wanting to avoid needless effort and my long-held belief that computers should be working for people, not the other way around.
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On-site sanitation systems such as pit latrines are extensively used around the world, while there is a growing number of evidence documenting the impact of pit latrines on groundwater quality that may affect human health. Hence, this paper summarizes the various safe-sanitation technologies by broadly categorizing them into fecal pathogen disinfection methods (anaerobic digestion, chemical disinfection, biological additives, solar pasteurization and vermicomposting) and capturing methods (pit lining and permeable reactive barriers, the latter of which simultaneously capture and sanitize fecal sludge in pit latrines). While some of the reviewed technologies have been widely practiced for mitigating microbial contamination of the groundwater, others are still in the early stage of commercialization and field validation. Though there are challenges to the selection and adoption of the most appropriate technology, this paper discusses the readiness of each technology as a stand-alone fecal sludge management solution.
Pit latrines impact groundwater quality that may affect human health.
Treatment techniques are discussed to capture low-cost pathogens in pit latrines.
Pit liners such as peat, clay, hydrophobic membranes and permeable reactive barriers help capture pathogens.
When compared with other methods, the chemical disinfection method with chlorine, lime, Ikati and Soda ranked best with the highest score.


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Environmental objectives and abatement measures for a healthy Bago River, A contribution to the Bago River Sub-basin Management Plan
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This report is a deliverable of the project, IWRM, Institutional Building and Training, a collaborative effort by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). An important aim of this project is to pilot test the river basin management approach in Myanmar, and the Bago River Sub-basin has been selected as a pilot case study area. This report presents an important input to a coordinated Sub-basin Management Plan by presenting environmental objectives and abatement measures as discussed in the Bago River Sub-basin Area Committee and in the Bago River Sub-basin Area Non-governmental stakeholder Group. In Chapter 2 we provide a brief description of international environmental policy objectives; in Chapter 3 , the Bago River Sub-basin is described with regard to the bio-geographic and socio-economic context and the main stakeholder groups are presented; in Chapter 4, Myanmar and Bago Sub-basin level environmental objectives and pressures are addressed; Chapter 5 presents current abatement measures in Bago Sub-basin for meeting environmental aims, and the last Chapter 6 presents the process of prioritizing among suggested measures.
Project manager: Ingrid Nesheim


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Our Kindergym program involves participation by you and your child in a fun, safe environment with qualified coaches.
The 45 minute program teaches children aged 18 months to 5 years, movement skills and develops overall coordination. Kids will enjoy free play as well as structured activities making learning fun.
- Creatively explore and practise skills safely, building self-confidence and self-esteem.
- Positive experiences influencing a child's outlook on physical activity for life.
- Child and parent/carer interact in a fun environment.
- Activities are safe, stimulating and challenging.
- Parent/Carer involvement reinforces the healthy lifestyle message.
- Free Play – children have the opportunity to explore and interact at their own pace.
- Group Activities – music is used to encourage movement and rhythm in combination with hand held apparatus.
- Circuit Activities – incorporate climbing, balancing, swinging, rolling and jumping.
We are endorsed by Gymnastics Australia as a Kindergym Australia Provider.


text: Truso, situated on Lake Drużno, was an Old Prussian ( Pomesanian) town near the Baltic Sea just east of the Vistula River. It was one of the trading posts on the Amber Road, and is thought to be the antecedent of the city of Elbląg (Elbing). In the words of Marija Gimbutas, "the name of the town is the earliest known historically in the Baltic Sea area". The main export goods of Truso were amber, furs, and slaves, while blacksmithing and amber working were the major industries. The beginnings of the town can be dated back to approximately the end of the 8th century, while in the second half of the 10th century, the town declined and was eclipsed as a trade center by nearby Gdańsk.


RE: The Catcher in the Rye help with homework Chapter 14
Chapter 14
 1. Is Holden religious? Supply proof for your answer.
 2. On page 103, Holden says, "I thought I was dying." In Chapter 1 Holden says, "…I felt like I was sort of disappearing." Find two statements he makes in this chapter to indicate his mental state.
 3. After Sunny leaves, what does Holden think about?
 4. Why does Sunny come back to Holden's room?
 5. Back at Wooten, what had Holden often discussed with his friend Arthur Childs?
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Why does Sunny come back to Holden's room?
Holden gets into bed and thinks about religion and Jesus. He considers himself an atheist. He hears a knock on his door and opens it, still wearing his pajamas. Maurice and the prostitute, Sunny, come into his room and demand five dollars. Holden refuses to give it to them, even when Maurice threatens him. Sunny takes Holden's wallet and pulls out five dollars. He begins to cry and calls them thieves. Maurice snaps him in the privates, punches him in the gut, and leaves him crumpled on the floor. Holden pretends he's been shot and fantasizes his revenge.
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The Division focuses on preventive measures for curbing child labour, and trafficking as well as facilitate different rescue operations. The Division is also responsible for tracking of rescued children, their compensation, and the rehabilitative mechanisms. To read the complete mandate of the Division, kindly click here.
Projects and Initiatives
Some of the most prominent projects/initiatives undertaken during Financial Year 2020-21 are mentioned:
1. Rescue of children from Child Labour
The non-wavering commitment of the Commission to eliminate child labour resulted in rescue of 331 children in the year 2020-21 in comparison to a total of 202 children being rescued in the preceding 3 years. Belonging to different age groups, the youngest of the rescued children was 10 years old and were rescued with the help of Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Delhi Police, Labour Department, ChildLine and Child Welfare Committee (CWC) from different places such as factories, bakery units, kharat machine units and auto center units, as well as residential colonies where the children were working as domestic servants.
2. Rehabilitation of the rescued child labourers
Rescuing children from hazardous employment situations acts as an immediate relief for them but does not guarantee their long-term safety and the chances of them falling back into the clutches of labour remains. Therefore, the Commission ensures end-to-end rehabilitation of the rescued children in the following manner:
- a. Restoration: restoring a child with their parents and family is a critical first step as it gives the child an environment of care and love. The Commission has ensured the restoration of 90% of the rescued children, and is in the process of restoring everyone at the earliest.
- b. Backwages: Compensation for the rescued children under the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 and Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 has been a consistent challenge, with only 50% of the rescued children having received their back wages.. While CWCs have been doing their job in ensuring that the backwages are retrieved and deposited in the child's account, the interdepartmental coordination has led to consistent bottlenecks. The Commission is apprised of such cases and the concerned officers from the Revenue and Labour department are taken in loop to speed up the process of retrieval.
- c. Enrolment in Schools: By enquiring about the rescued children's enrolment in schools and their families' involvement in different government schemes that might help them with some income, food and other basic necessities ensure that the families children are not pushed into labour. DCPCR has put in efforts to identify the possibility of linking such families to relevant social schemes. 30% of the children rescued from Delhi are not yet enrolled in any education institution, thus the process to counsel them and get them enrolled in the vocational course has been initiated.
3. Stakeholder Investment
The challenge of child labour can only be tackled if there is investment within the system (like Labour department, Revenue department etc) along with the citizens, both adults and children. To sensitize children from the privileged backgrounds about the hardships faced by children who are forced into labour and to encourage them to have conversations about the same within their families, a painting competition was organized with the Private School Association for the same which had some amazing paintings depicting deep insights from the children regarding the cause. The best works were also awarded.
Multiple NGOs were also encouraged to sign a pledge to report any instance of child labour that would come to their notice and also committing that no member in the organization would engage in it at individual level. Similarly, the Chairpersons of the Mandi Associations across Delhi also pledged the same and made visits to ensure that their mandis were child labour free.
4. Intervention to prepare an SoP for child labour rescue operations and common performa for inter-departmental co-ordination
The process of planning and executing rescue operations needs coordination and liaisoning between various departments and stakeholders. Without comprehensive SoP that defines the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder, there can be breakdowns in the process. The Commission is in the process of preparing a standard operating procedure including a standard format /performa to gather information of the reduced child and offending employers that will better enable inter-departmental coordination and tracking of children till they are rehabilitated.
5. Tracking District Task Force Meeting:
The Commission, in its efforts to plan for preventive strategies for child labour, identified District Task Force meetings as one of the leverages. Being mandated to be held monthly under the CLPRA Amendment Rules, 2017, the Commission started to monitor these meetings and advised the DMs to use these meetings to discuss and plan preventive and proactive interventions along with planning of rescue operations. 12 meetings across 5 districts in the last 6 months have already been conducted despite the challenges of the pandemic.
The Commission is also working with Revenue department to ensure that these meetings include identification of the vulnerable areas, act on pending information of trafficking/child labour, examine the rehabilitation efforts, review processes, and plan forward. The Revenue department and the Labour department are also made aware of Rule 2(b)(2) of the CLPRA Amendment Rules, 2017 which says that information of children who were absent in schools for consecutively 30 days is shared with the nodal officer and efforts be made to track those children.


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Compressed Manifold Modes for Mesh Processing
MetainformationenComputer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Symposium on Geometry Processing SGP), vol. 33, no. 5. 2014
This paper introduces compressed eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on 3D manifold surfaces. They constitute a novel functional basis, called the compressed manifold basis, where each function has local support. We derive an algorithm, based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), to compute this basis on a given triangulated mesh. We show that compressed manifold modes identify key shape features, yielding an intuitive understanding of the basis for a human observer, where a shape can be processed as a collection of parts. We evaluate compressed manifold modes for potential applications in in shape matching and mesh abstraction. Our results show that this basis has distinct advantages over existing alternatives, indicating high potential for a wide range of use-cases in mesh processing.


How do you train your dog to play dead?
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To train your dog to play dead, start with a down position, get her to roll onto her back, and reward her for the correct behavior. Repeat the training daily for a minimum of 10 days. Training takes 10 minutes per session and requires treats or a clicker.
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 1. Prepare your dog
 Play with your dog or take her for a walk so that she's relaxed. This also allows her to burn off excess energy.
 2. Put your dog in a down position
 Your dog should already be trained to lie down on command. Once she's down, kneel in front of her with a treat in your hand.
 3. Give the command
 A common verbal command for playing dead is "bang." This can be accompanied by a gesture mimicking a gun.
 4. Roll your dog
 Start with the treat near the dog's shoulder. Give the verbal command, and move the treat over your dog's head to the other shoulder. Simultaneously push her shoulder gently so that she lies on her side. Roll her onto her back so that her belly is exposed.
 5. Reward your dog
 Rub your dog's belly and say, "Good dog." If using treats as a reward, give her the cookie now. You can also train your dog using the clicker method.
 6. Repeat the training
 Repeat the steps several times for each session. Maintain consistency with the verbal command and the hand gesture if you choose to use it. If your dog gets frustrated, abbreviate the training, and return to it the following day.
 7. Wean off the reward
 Gradually stop touching your dog to induce her to roll over. Eventually replace the treats with verbal affirmations.
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Webhooks
This article explains how to configure and use Syskit Point's webhooks.
Webhooks are push notifications sent by Syskit Point in the form of HTTP requests to a registered webhook endpoint when an event occurs.
To successfully enable webhooks in Syskit Point, you need to perform the following steps:
 - Register endpoint to which Syskit Point will send notifications.
 - Obtain the signature key and secure your endpoint.
 - It is recommended for your webhook handler to verify that the webhook requests are generated by Syskit Point.
Note that you must set up an HTTP endpoint function that can accept webhook requests with a POST method.
Registering a Webhook Endpoint with Syskit Point API
Please note! The application used to access the webhooks endpoint needs to have the Point.Admin app role.
To register a webhook endpoint via the Syskit Point API, you need to use the following POST request:
POST {{baseURL}}/v1.0/webhooks/endpoints
Headers
NameValue
Content-Type
application/json
Authorization
Bearer <token>
Body
NameTypeDescription
endpoint
string
Webhook endpoint URL
types
array
Types of notifications
{
 "endpoint": "_URL_
 "types": [
 "*"
 ]
}
You can subscribe to all event types using the * symbol, as shown in the example.
Types
Syskit Point can send the following types of events:
TypeDescription
ProvisioningStarted
Triggered when the Provisioning process starts
ProvisioningCompleted
Triggered when the Provisioning process completes.
ProvisioningFailed
Triggered when the Provisioning process fails.
Below, you can find examples for all types:
{
 "ProvisioningStarted":
 {
 name = "name",
 type = "teams",
 requestedOn = "datetime",
 requesterId = "guid"
 }
}
Response
Successful registration of the webhook endpoint results in response status 200.
{
 Null
}
Webhook Events
Syskit Point sends a POST request to the registered webhook endpoint URL. The event object has the following body structure:
{
 "type": "type",
 "content": {serializedContent},
 "meta": {
 "timeStamp": "timestamp",
 "idempotencyKey": "key"
 }
}
Each webhook event also sends two headers:
 - Signature: Contains the message signature created using the hashing algorithm provided in the Algorithm header using a signature key.
 - Algorithm: The hashing algorithm used to create the message signature.
Signature Validation
To verify the notification was sent by Syskit Point:
 - Get the signature key via Syskit Point API
 - Create a signature using the key to compare with the signature in the received event object
To get the signature key, send the following GET request.
GET {{baseURL}}/v1.0/options
Response
Successful request results in response status 200 and provides the Signature Authentication Key.
{
 "webhooksSignatureAuthenticationKey": "158b08cc-6a06-49f2-a724-2bc514fdcf1e"
}
Create Signature
Below is the code example you can use to create the signature, which can then be compared with the one received in the event object to verify it was sent from Syskit Point.
private static string generateSignature(string content, string authKey)
{
 var keyBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(authKey);
 var payloadBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(content);
 using var hmac = new HMACSHA256(keyBytes);
 var hashBytes = hmac.ComputeHash(payloadBytes);
 return Convert.ToBase64String(hashBytes);
}
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the truth in 100 words
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"The truth will set you free, but not until it's finished with you." David Foster Wallace
Have choices you made in the past led to consequences that are still working themselves out?
When you look back on those turning points, have you felt that the truth was right there but you missed it? Or that you persuaded yourself not to believe it?
Regret can can be a motivator for change, and can facilitate our journey to truth.
Writing helps.
writing prompt: in 100 words, write a story in which the main character makes a choice with regrettable consequences before believing what has always been true.


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Johan Svendsens lost or unfinished symphony. Elaborating sketches for performance
- Side: 33-73
- Publisert på Idunn: 2011-11-03
Johan Svendsen (1840–1911) was probably the most important contributor to a symphonic tradition in Norway in the second half of the 19th century. His works, including two notable symphonies, were performed regularly during his lifetime. Several sources have claimed that Svendsen worked on a third symphony, but it may seem that he was un-able to complete the work as his compositional activity waned in the 1880s. However, a famous anecdote would have it that his wife, in a fit of jealousy, burned the completed manuscript.
In 2007, conductor Bjarte Engeset identified sketches for a cyclic symphonic work by Svendsen. I have elaborated and arranged parts of the material for a celebratory concert marking the centenary of Svendsens death.
A performable version, so to speak, of the sketches, to my mind throws new light not only on an unfinished or lost symphony but may also be a valuable contribution to understanding Svendsens artistic development, as this material demonstrates a more dramatic musical language than most of his earlier works.Keywords: Johan Svendsen, Third Symphony, reconstruction


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This project is a Prototype model of "Oil water Pipeline Crawler for inside Cleaner". This Model presents a mechanism to traverse a Machine inside a pipe with forwarding and backward motion and should also do vertical climbing in the pipe.
This project deals with a design and motion planning algorithm of a caterpillar-based pipeline Machine that can be used for cleaner of 8-inch pipelines in an indoor pipeline environment. The Machine system consists of a Machine body, a control system. The Machine system uses a differential drive to steer the Machine and spring-loaded four-bar mechanisms to assure that the Machine expands to have a grip on the pipe walls. Unique features of this Machine are the caterpillar wheel; the four-bar mechanism supports the well grip of the wall, a simple and easy user interface.
Key Words: Design and implementation of pipe cleaner robot, Four Bar link mechanism, Suspension Mechanism etc.
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- Tricks of the Trade: Debt and Imposed Sovereignty in Southernmost Kham in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries
- Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 5, Number 2, November 2016
- pp. 378-407
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Southernmost Kham, which borders Burma and Yunnan Province, remained at the juncture of several mutually competing political centers until the first half of the twentieth century. On the fringes of Tibetan, Naxi, and Chinese expansion and increasing political control, several Tibeto-Burman–speaking groups such as the Drung and Nung gradually became integrated into their neighbors' polities. Their political dependency often arose from trading with and accepting loans from commercial agents and from the intermediaries of local rulers, Naxi and Tibetans alike. This article addresses this practice of providing credit, which was developed at the expense of impoverished groups who were often obliged to accept the terms of the transaction. The author particularly emphasizes the connections between this system of debt dependency, the relationship between creditors and debtors that has to be considered in terms of exchange and reciprocity, and the question of political legitimacy. Within this broader context of regional interethnic relations, the article provides a detailed analysis of the concrete terms of the political relationship that existed between Drung communities and Tibetan chiefs of Tsawarong, which contributes to an understanding of the workings of this relationship and its economic, territorial, and even ritual components.