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Passing the Chemistry Placement Exam allows you to bypass the chemistry prerequisites for both CHEM-C102 and CHEM-C105. A registration fee of about $30, payable directly at the ALEKS website, gives you 90-day access to ALEKS Chemistry which hosts the exam. You are first presented with an Initial Knowledge Check which covers about 130 fundamental chemistry topics with questions that adapt to the knowledge and abilities of each student. If you score 51% or higher on the Initial Knowledge Check then you have passed the Chemistry Placement Exam and may discontinue use of ALEKS Chemistry. If you score less than 51% on the Initial Knowledge Check then you may take a Retest approximately once every two weeks when you feel you are ready, subject to the 90-day access limit. Regardless of you how perform on the Initial Knowledge Check you may continue within ALEKS Chemistry to review, practice, and learn material from the topics covered on the exam.
As you progress through ALEKS Chemistry, the system reports how many topics you have learned and mastered. Successful practice leads to topics learned. Periodic partial Knowledge Checks are automatically offered after a sufficient number of topics have been learned and cover only those topics recently learned; success promotes those recent topics from a learned status to mastered status. None of this progress is official; these checks are only for you to gauge your ability to pass an upcoming Retest. A Retest is essentially a repeat of the Initial Knowledge Check. Your 90-day subscription to ALEKS Chemistry is divided into many time blocks (usually two-week periods) and you may take one Retest at any time during each time block. Failure to score 51% or higher on a Retest means that you must wait for the next time block for another Retest; however, you may practice freely within ALEKS at any time (except during a Retest or the Initial Knowledge Check). It is okay to skip a Retest and take the next one instead. Once you score 51% or higher on a Retest, then you may discontinue use of ALEKS Chemistry.
One purpose of the Chemistry Placement Exam is to give an accurate measure of your current skills so that you will placed into a course where you will have the best opportunity to be successful. Therefore, while you are taking the Initial Knowledge Check and Retest, it is important that you do not consult with any other source for help (friends, family, internet searches, textbooks, etc.). Use of outside resources may result in you being placed into a course for which you are not prepared. However, another purpose of ALEKS Chemistry is to provide you with a way to refresh your previous knowledge and skills – and even to learn some chemistry on your own. For this endeavor, you are advised to use all resources available to you to best learn and practice as you prepare for your Retest.
Scores for this test are regularly recorded in your One.IU account in the test credits section as SBCHM at the middle and end of each month. Passing scores on an Initial Knowledge Check or Retest must be made one week before classes begin to allow time to process the scores. Scores received after the deadline will allow for registration in the following term.
You will need your IU username and student identification number to identify you as an IU student during this process. For help during this registration process, please contact ALEKS Customer Support by visiting http://support.aleks.com.
Go to https://www.aleks.com and select SIGN UP NOW! under the Registered Users box.
Enter the 10-character Class Code CCX4T-3DULU and select Continue.
Verify your enrollment information (Class = Chemistry Placement Exam, Instructor = Matt Marmorino, Institute = IU South Bend) to make sure you are enrolling in the correct class. If the information is incorrect, check your class code and select Cancel to return to the previous page. If your information is correct, select the Confirm button.
Indicate whether you have used ALEKS Chemistry before and select the Continue button. Most students will select NO. If you are unsure, please select NO. If you have used ALEKS Chemistry before (not ALEKS Math), you will be prompted to enter your existing login and password. You can retrieve your login information by selecting the “I forgot my login information” link.
If this is your first time using ALEKS Chemistry, then you will be asked to complete registration to create an ALEKS account. A confirmation email will be sent to the email you provide when you are done.
Please fill in the page using your full name, IU email address, and IU student identification number to properly identify you as an IU student.
Be sure to record your ALEKS USERNAME and ALEKS PASSWORD. These are NOT the same as your IU username and password.
Finally you must provide an access code to complete registration. You should not already have an ALEKS access code so select No, I need to purchase an access code and select Continue. The price is around $30 for “ALEKS Introduction to Chemistry (90 Days)”. Provide the information requested and complete your order.
Registration is now complete. You may log off and return to ALEKS Chemistry at a later time starting with step (1) in the next section … or continue right now in ALEKS Chemistry starting at step (2) in the next section.
Sign in at https://www.aleks.com using your ALEKS username and ALEKSpassword.
You will be greeted with a few welcoming windows before you are directed to the main menu.
After a few clicks of the mouse on some more tabs you will be directed to the Take the Tools Tutorial. Click GET STARTED and proceed through the tutorial to familiarize yourself with the testing environment.
Once you have passed the tutorial you may take the Initial Knowledge Check. This is your first chance to bypass the prerequisites for both CHEM-C 102 and CHEM-C 105. If you are ready to begin, please click START KNOWLEDGE CHECK. At the end of the Knowledge Check, you’ll be shown a results screen indicating how many topics out of the total number that you have mastered. You must master 51% or more of the topics to pass the Chemistry Placement Exam.
There is no special message to indicate whether you have passed the Chemistry Placement Exam based on the Initial Knowledge Check. If you mastered 51% or more of the topics, then you have passed the Chemistry Placement Exam and may discontinue use of ALEKS Chemistry. If you mastered 50% or fewer of the topics, then you have not passed the Chemistry Placement Exam and you may wish to continue using ALEKS Chemistry to take a Retest later. You will see an image like the one below when you finish the Initial Knowledge Check. Although the favorable message “Nice job, Matt” is displayed in the image below, a score of 28% is not sufficient to pass the exam. This student can use ALEKS Chemistry to review the topics he has not mastered before taking a Retest.
To continue using ALEKS Chemistry to learn and review topics to prepare for a Retest (or just for the sake of learning), please follow the commands that pop up on the screen after the report of the results from your Initial Knowledge Check. Eventually ALEKS Chemistry will take to you the Learn mode. Click on the menu icon (º) at the top left of the screen to reveal a menu. Your screen should now look mostly like the image below except that colored boxes have been added here to highlight certain sections. The small green box is the menu button which shows/hides the vertical menu on the left of the screen.
The two items highlighted in red boxes show the same information: a record of your learning progress. Immediately after the Initial Knowledge Check this data shows that the student scored a 28% on the Chemistry Placement Exam (mastered 37 of 134 topics). Thus the student did not pass and should take a Retest after reviewing and learning more material. Had the student mastered 68 (or higher) of 134 topics then the student would have passed the exam with a score of 51% (or higher). That student would be done. As you learn and practice within the ALEKS system, the number of mastered, learned, and remaining topics in the top-right red box will change, as will your Class Progress in the other red box. These numbers are NOT official once they change from their starting values. However they do serve as an indicator of your knowledge and skill. Once you have mastered 68+ topics (shown in the top-right red box or under Class Progress in the bottom-left red box), then you are ready for a Retest.
Please note that the due date under “Class Progress” in the lower-left red box is meaningless; unfortunately, it cannot be removed from the ALEKS Chemistry website.
The numbered parts of the menu in the screen image are discussed below.
This is where you learn and practice topics that you have not yet “mastered”. There is lots of textbook-like information available here if you get stuck on a question or wish to study material.
You can review mastered topics here.
This is where you access your Retest. You have multiple opportunities for a Retest.
This is where you check your Retest grades. A score of 51% or higher on any Retest means you are done.
This is like a chemistry encyclopedia.


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It pleases me to no end to share this communication released by the Alzheimer’s Association today. This is exactly the kind of exposure we need to drive home the importance of the war we are waging on this disease. Thank you, President Obama, for shining the spotlight on this impending national crisis.
Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries ten times more powerful. Now is not the time to cut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.
The Alzheimer’s Association applauds the President for underscoring the importance of funding for medical research, and specifically research to end the Alzheimer’s epidemic. We must provide Alzheimer’s scientists with the resources they require in time for the huge generation of Baby Boomers who will as much as triple the ranks of the more than five million Americans who have Alzheimer’s today. We must change the trajectory of Alzheimer’s if we are to address one of the most significant underlying cost drivers of Medicare and Medicaid.
Just as with the National Alzheimer’s Plan and the previous financial commitments from the Obama administration, the President’s statement about the importance of Alzheimer’s research in his State of the Union Address is based on recognition of the human and financial impact of Alzheimer’s. It is another important step on this continuing journey which our Association has so much responsibility to lead. It indicates the impact of our public work and our work behind the scenes. It is also a clear signal that your work and the work of our more than 500,000 nationwide advocates to make Alzheimer’s a national priority is making a difference.
Just three weeks ago, the Alzheimer’s Advisory Council, on which I have the honor to serve, unanimously endorsed recommendations to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, as well as to Congress, to update the National Alzheimer’s Plan. These recommendations include benchmarks to achieve the Plan’s goal of preventing and effectively treating this deadly disease by 2025. In keeping with the President’s remarks last night, we call on the President and Congress to take action in the coming days to fully support the critical first steps in implementing this plan – a plan that is a result of bipartisan cooperation by Congress, swift and effective implementation by the Administration, and the input of many Americans with Alzheimer’s, their caregivers and other advocates from across the country.
We must ensure that the National Alzheimer’s Plan is fully funded. We must continue to raise concern about the disease to be commensurate with its impact and to raise awareness of our Association. We must expand the reach of programs so that all who face this disease know that they don’t have to face it alone. And we must ensure that promising research is supported, shared and optimized in our fight with the devastating, debilitating killer that is Alzheimer’s.
I look forward to our next steps together and to our ultimate success at achieving our mission. Thank you for everything you do to make such advances possible.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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"Human pathways for metabolism of primaquine: implications in toxicity " by B. L. Tekwani, B. Avula et al.
Tekwani, B. L.; Avula, B.; Nanayakkara, N. D.; Chaurasiya, N. D.; Fasinu, P. S.; and Herath, H. M., "Human pathways for metabolism of primaquine: implications in toxicity and efficacy of 8- aminoquinoline antimalarials" (2015). Pharmaceutical Sciences. 1797.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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This extension also gives you access to an object API that is currently not documented anywhere. It uses the Svn, SvnWc, SvnWcSchedule and SvnNode classes. So you can't redeclare those names.
Basically you can use all functions documented here by replacing the svn_ prefix with $svn-> object. Same for constants, most can be used directly from the objects.
If you're interested, make sure to check the extension source code to find out more.
I also submitted this as a bug (since its about missing documentation).
Also, you could look at the contents of the current source code (svn-0.5.1/svn.c).
It returns true on success and false on failure.
In general any function should work just like the svn command line version. For instance svn_info can be used against a remote url or a local path and svn_copy can also be used for local or remote operations.
# is NOT a checked out project, but the actual svn repository!
# revision and we have a helper method for that.
There is one important thing to note about this all. You cannot let the handles expire while doing any calls to svn_fs_*. When implementing a helper class, I cached the first and third handle, but not the second one. PHP crashes hard when you do this. Keep references to all handles you get while you're calling the svn_fs_* methods.
"[Editorial note: These constants are defined by the Subversion library itself and may change without notice (although things tend to be quite stable).]"
The subversion developers have a policy not to change stuff like this without changing the major version number, so these should be valid at least until subversion 2.0.0 is released. (more values might be added, but the existing ones won't change).

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


text: The modern Google world has never been as versatile and ever changing as it is today. Like a wild river it can be almost impossible to stay ahead of the current and land those hard to earn and very sought after positions. However there are ways that with a little hard work can pay off huge for Google individual. Google certifications are one of the most available and reliable ways of getting a head of the pack and standing out in today's business world. With a vast database of PDF files covering vast amounts of information sure to provide all the necessary answers that one may need to pass any of their coming tests and exams. Some will find the training guides to be difficult and for that there is always a Google practice test and even a practice exam to make sure that all those Google PDF material over the past few days of studying don't go to waste. Stick with the Best With one of the internet's most extensive online databases, constantly being updated with up to the minute facts and business evolution, one can feel confident confiding in the best training programs around. With elaborate online certifications and a near endless cache of PDF files covering everything in the advanced world of business there will always be something new to learn. A never ending supply of Google practice test guides will allow individuals to make sure they have the right answers when it counts the most. Elite professionals and hard working business giants have painstakingly put together these online Google training programs and can vouch for their ingenuity and the leg up they will give anyone who completes the Google programs. Learn Something New Everyday With the business world changing as rapidly as it does it is essential to stay up to date. Certifying today will help get ahead, but to stay ahead one must keep their pencils sharp and always fine tune their skills. One must make sure to extend into new fields as they develop and maintain certifications in already mastered fields. The world continues to grow and it will be more important than ever to stay ahead of the competition through certification, luckily it's never been easier to do just that. By expanding ones skill sets you are not only opening new doors in the professional world that would otherwise have remained closed forever, but you are changing your lifestyle in ways that will benefit you for years to come. By learning new talents and earning Google certifications individuals in the modern day work force will find a new sense of fulfillment in their lives as well as a new sense of discovery. There will be a new found burning desire to learn new things and better ones self. This sort of confidence and attitude will be noticed by future employers and brand new job opportunities will present themselves. It has never been so important to Google certify and specialize in skills and thankfully with the online training market being what it is there are countless opportunities for individuals to do just that.


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Dong owned Herning Power Station is to deliver district heating to the Danish energy companies ‘Eniig Varme’, ‘Energi Ikast Varme’ and ‘Sunds Vand- og Varmeværk’ until 2033. At the same time, the efficiency of Herning Power Station will be upgraded by installation of a exhaust gas condensing unit making it possible to save 20 percent of the fuels used.
The agreement entails that Herning Power Station establishes a plant utilising the heat in the flue gas, ie a flue gas condensation plant. This will enable Herning Power Station to render even more energy from the wood chips used as the primary fuel source. Doing this, the power station will be capable of delivering the same amount of heat in the Danish municipalities Herning, Ikast and Sunds in 2019 with a fuel consumption which will be approx 20 percent lower than today.
“I’m pleased that Herning Power Station will continue to provide stable, green district heating to our heat customers in Herning, Ikast and Sunds. With the new agreement, we’re making Herning Power Station even more efficient and consequently more climate-friendly,” says Thomas Dalsgaard, Executive Vice President in DONG Energy.
The new heat agreement covers the period 2019-2033. DONG Energy expects to begin building the new flue gas condensation plant in Q4 2017.
Herning Power Station has a capacity of 80MW electricity and 174MJ/s heat. Since 2009, the power station has been able to run solely on biomass – primarily wood chips, supplemented with wood pellets. The power station is able to deliver heat without also having to produce electricity. This may also be relevant in those cases where solar and wind power generate enough power to cover demand.
@This article is published by business.conbio.info 2017-05-08 and based on a pressrelease which has ben edited by Lennart Ljungblom. BcB Business.conbio.info is a leading news site for bioenergy related business, on line since 2014.

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text: The Western New York AEC Technology Group was created to provide a venue to discuss, learn and contribute knowledge about technology used within architecture, engineering and construction. Some specific topics/platforms that have been discussed are BIM, Autodesk Revit, 3D Scanning, rendering, 3D Printing, Newforma, and Mobile Apps. The group is focused in the western New York area including the major metropolitan areas of Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse as wall as the surrounding areas. Each meeting offers a chance to network with other users and learn more about these technologies and how to use it effectively for design, construction and operations. At the Western New York AEC Tech meetings discussions range from business issues to production; allowing experts and those just getting started to learn and contribute in a focused environment. The meetings bring timely, valuable, practical information about these topics with a real world focus. This site is a public meeting place that provides members of the with a shared calendar , discussion forums , member profiles , photo gallery , file storage and more. We encourage you to upload your photos, complete your profile and participate! Our group meetings will be held at different venues across the state so look for a meeting near you. Please RSVP to the next event.

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text: Island C Enterprises, LLC is a privately held, Alaskan-owned company based in Kodiak. Our recent work history includes several unique marine projects from near-shore acoustical NOAA surveys to Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris removal, with funding sources ranging from the National Science Foundation to the North Pacific Research Board. We tailor our services not to tourists, but to teams of professionals who demand accuracy and precision in a challenging environment. We welcome the opportunity to offer our support to your project.

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Pakistani .pk Domain Registration - .pk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Pakistan. As of 2005, second-level registration for the .pk domain became available.. .pk (available to anyone; used by companies, individuals, and organizations in Pakistan).net.pk (for network related businesses and Internet service providers).edu.pk (for educational institutes).org.pk (for non-profit organizations).fam.pk (for indviduals).biz.pk (for general business use).web.pk (originally for websites).gov.pk (Government of Pakistan).gob.pk (Domains for the Government of Balochistan).gok.pk (Domains for the Government of Azad Kashmir).gon.pk (Domains for the Government of NWFP).gop.pk (Domains for the Government of Punjab).gos.pk (Domains for the Government of Sindh)..
Important: When entering your search string don't write "www" or the Pakistani domain type, ie. "pk". Therefore to search "www.bb-online.pk" enter "bb-online" and nothing else.
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IANA the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned the domain pk to Pakistan. IANA is a department of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN is a non-profit private American corporation, responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces of the Internet. IANA is broadly responsible for the allocation of globally unique names and numbers that are used in Internet protocol.
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Domains are often reserved for future use and as such can cause false positives when searching for a domain. For example the domain may appear to be free and not in use, but in reality the domain name is reserved. The Pakistani registry along with many other registry does this from time to time. If you request a reserved name we will not be able to register it for you but will refund your application fee in full.
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text: In October, the Chief Ombudsman addressed the Blind Citizens’ Annual Conference. He opened by acknowledging the mana of Blind Citizens NZ as the longest serving disability consumer organisation in Aotearoa. He then gave an overview of the Office’s work, detailing the role the Office plays as a member of the Independent Monitoring Mechanism in its role in monitoring the implementation of the Disability Convention. He followed this with an explanation of the work the Office undertakes in the area of disability.

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Botswana’s economy will grow by nearly double in 2017 compared to the previous year, as Africa’s largest exporter of diamonds shakes off a slump in global commodity prices and electricity shortages.
Botswana’s Finance Minister, Kenneth Matambo said in the budget speech in parliament on Monday that the economy would grow by an estimated 4.2% in 2017 compared with 2.9% growth in 2016.
However, the minister said the budget deficit would widen to 1.43% of GDP from 0.7 previously, as the government spent more on electricity and water infrastructure following a severe drought in the region.
He further said revenues for the 2017/18 financial year were estimated at 57.2 billion pula ($5.5 billion), with customs collections accounting for 29.8% of revenues, followed by minerals at 28.6%.
Matambo warned that slow recovery in the global economy and low commodity prices posed risks to the growth forecast. An analyst at First National Bank Botswana, Moatlhodi Sebabole, said the investments in water and energy infrastructure were a positive step.
“The rise in expenditure is enough to support the growth projections but the key will be the implementation of these projects,” Sebabole said.
Landlocked Botswana has, however, struggled with weaker growth in recent times as mineral sales slowed, while electricity shortages have hurt mining.

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The aim of this study is to find the relationship between different personality traits with organizational commitment which may be defined as an consistent intensity of feeling responsibilities or ownership to achieve the organizational goals.
This project will encompass the five personality traitsmodel. The purpose of the study is to see how all thevaryingpersonality traits have impact on employees commitment .http://qundeel.com/This can further be helpful in selection of personnel , their performance assessment and career choices. This will further help us where X management and Y management are needed . (Hogan 1992).Crux is to utilize the human resources to the maximum extent in proper direction.
Four types of personalities mentioned earlier portray different types of characters such personal characters include demographic as well as other disposition variables. Researches have shown that personality types differs according to predisposition of one or more components of organizational commitment also degree of organizational commitment strongly depends upon type of personality an idealistic person may perform their duties differently than a guardian personality. Usually affective commitment leads to employee satisfaction and desired behavior by employees. Personalities change according to age of employees keeping this view in mind organization commitment and personalities are tend to change with time.
Neuroticism:These people can be easily un-nerved,so distraction / mood variationis akey word for them. They need positive feed backs and strokes for performance. They can easily bedepress,angry, mentally insecure, embarrassed with negative world out-look.( Watson, D, et all ,1984).


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The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation held its 148th meeting on 29 and 30 June 2016 in Munich, with Jesper Kongstad (DK) in the chair.
The meeting started as usual with the Council chairman's activities report, immediately followed by an oral report from the President of the European Patent Office about recent developments at the Office. The Council welcomed the results achieved in several areas, but once again expressed concern about the continuing stalemate on the social front. It therefore reiterated its wish for an in-depth discussion on the social situation at the Office.
The Council then had an exchange of views on a disciplinary case involving a Council appointee and mandated its chairman to draw up a proposal to be submitted at its next meeting.
A major topic on the agenda was the structural reform of the boards of appeal. The Council approved a comprehensive proposal submitted by the President and drawn up in close co-operation with the Council's Board 28. The reform aims at increasing the boards' organisational and managerial autonomy and their efficiency, and can be implemented without having to revise the European Patent Convention.
Damien Marquis (FR) was reappointed as a technically qualified member of the boards with effect from 1 October 2016.
Konstantinos Poalas (GR) was reappointed as a technically qualified member of the boards with effect from 1 October 2016.
Daniele Semino (IT) was appointed as chairman of a technical board (chemistry) and as a technically qualified member of the Enlarged Board, with effect from 1 July 2016.
The Council then appointed Thomas Groffmann as Administrator of the Reserve Funds for Pensions and Social Security (RFPSS), on a renewable five-year contract. It also appointed Anthony Valentin (FR) as alternate member representing the Council on the RFPSS Supervisory Board.
Sandris Laganovskis, head of the Latvian delegation, was elected deputy chairman of the Technical and Operational Support Committee for a three-year term taking immediate effect.
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After Sima Zhao took over matters of the state following Sima Shi’s death, Xun Xu seemingly became one of Sima Zhao’s military advisers along with Zhong Hui.  It’s unclear what battles he followed Sima Zhao to, but if are to look at the time between 255 and 263, Zhuge Dan’s Rebellion certainly falls into that time frame.
Xun Xu basically says that assassinations are cowardly, and it would be wise to deal with the threat head on, rather than with cloak and dagger means. Sima Zhao agreed with this and decided not to go through with it.
Sima Zhao named Zhong Hui General who Guards the West and put 100,000 soldiers at his back.  Over the years many people had spoken out about giving Zhong Hui too much power. Now was Xun Xu’s time to do the same. He warned that by sending Zhong Hui off, rebellion was imminent. More-so Sima Zhao did not trust Deng AI entirely either, so Xun Xu’s solution was to send the Minister of Justice, Wei Guan, as the Inspector of the Army to keep everyone in line.  It is important to remember, Zhong Hui and Xun Xu were related. At this time, Sima Zhao kept Xun Xu very close because of this very relationship.
The main opponents of this faction were Ren Kai, nephew of Cao Rui, and Yu Chun. The Jin court turned into a power struggle to see which faction would overcome the other. Jia Chong initially had Sima Yan make Ren Kai the lesser tutor to the Crown Prince, Sima Zhong, which would restrict his powers. However Sima Yan allowed him to remain involved in court affairs.  There was one possibility for each faction to overcome the other though: Tufa Shujineng.
Sima Yan was intent on marrying Sima Zhong to Lady Wei, daughter of Wei Guan.  However Jia Chong’s wife, Guo Huai (NOT THAT ONE!!!!), was able to actually bribe Empress Yang. She spoke with Sima Yan, and Sima Yan gave a 5 point speech.  These are apparently very popular in Three Kingdoms literature.
Yang Hu eventually sent a petition to the court, stating that Wu was weakened and after constant victories the Jin army was at an all time high. However the court disagreed, particularly Jia Chong’s faction with Xun Xu being very vocal about his opinion on the campaign.  The campaign did not go through at this time despite Sima Yan truly desiring it himself.
Sima Zhong, the crown prince and heir to Sima Yan and to Jin, suffered from some kind of mental disability. Being a partisan of the Jia clan, Xun Xu was close with Princess Jia Nanfeng, and the two of them worked together in order to hide Sima Zhong’s disability from his father. Often going so far as to forge letters from him to show that Zhong’s education was coming along very well.  Xun Xu was a key figure in the rise of the Jia clan in power, and he eventually became the Director of the Secretariat, and often advised who would be the best person for the Three Excellencies.  He eventually passed away in 289 and was appointed as posthumous Minister of the Masses, the very same post his great grandfather Xun Shuang held.  It is very fitting that Zhong Yao once compared the two and Xun Xu would eventually hold the very same post as his great grandfather, even if it was in death.
While Xun Xu was not an ideal person, he was certainly a genius. His ability was respected, but his conduct was not. He created a school in which people can learn calligraphy in the style of his grandfather, Zhong Yao. He had an incredible ear for music, and during the early years of the Jin Dynasty he even had a hand in the way it was composed. Much like Jia Chong, he was a petty but extremely loyal man of the state. From being the first person to openly grieve for Cao Shuang, rising all the way to one of Jin’s most prominent ministers; Xun Xu was a man of many talents. While his fore-bearers would not be proud of his conduct, his ability may make them smile. Jin was far better off with Xun Xu around.
 Empire Divided "Ranks of Wei" chart states that Zhong Yu held the position during this time span, and since he passed away in 263 he would have died in office.
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I know game talk is irrelevant on this sub-forum, but thank you for doing these translations of some of the figures we have fewer details on. After reading through Xun Xu and Zhong Yu's bios, I cracked open XIII and gave them both improvements; Xun Xu in particular got a decent enhancement out of it.

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The summertime heat brings on the tomatoes, zucchini, chillis, aubergines and sweet basil. They love this hot weather, as long as they get the water that they need. This means I have to start making passata sauce. We are now harvesting more than we can eat each day. This is just the start. At the moment we have to harvest the tomatoes each day in the small numbers that are ripening. It has taken a week to build up sufficient quantity to fill the boiler. This is the first batch of passata. Soon it will build up to 2 batches a week. I will continue to make this sort of tomato sauce right through the summer and into the autumn.
Tonight I’m making a small batch to start with for our dinner, so I’m including a lot of zucchinis and aubergines as well. This will be a sort of variation on the ratatouille theme. All these vegetables grow together, they ripen together and they taste so good together.
I bring it all to the boil and simmer it for a few minutes, just enough to soften the zucchinis and egg plant chunks, then scoop out a bowl full each for dinner. It’s summer on a plate!
After dinner, I add in all of the other chopped tomatoes and cook it down into a sauce. After it cools I put it all through the mouli sieve to remove all the seeds and skins, then reheat and seal in pre-heated jars to keep for the winter.
The other thing that I like to do in this summer heat is to make porcelain from my collected stones. They are so hard that I need to put them through the rock crusher first thing to reduce them down to grit, then I can sieve the grit and re-process the larger pieces to get it all to pass through a 3 mm screen, then into the ball mill to be reduced to ultra fine grade.
From this I can make glazes and/or more throwing body, as required.
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so do you prefer the black version to the white one? I have the black Nexus 5 and wish I had got the white one. I really like the back of the black Nexus 5, is the white version even close to the premium feel or is it a cheap feel like the S4?


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I've been working a lot lately with by-reference architectures that still cooperate completely with LabVIEW's implementation of OOP and polymorphism. I've also recently taken an interest in trying to speed up development with secondary providers (similar to GOOP) to enable automatic creation of accessor VIs hidden behind the DVR, automatic creation of the private data type and constructor/destructor, etc. within the project window. I'm generally not a fan of the extra stuff that goop adds in to classes, I'd prefer to keep the source code looking as close to a normal class as possible.
That said, I've started on my first ever XNode and it's a cross between an unbundle by name node and the -> operator in C. It functions just like a normal UBN, however it was also pull items out of DVRs. Having to plop down a UBN to pull out the reference from the class, an in place node to dereference, and then another UBN to pull the data out gets tiresome after about the 100th property VI gets written.
Anyone interested in something like this? Following this will be a match to the Bundle by Name node that serves the same purpose except to write the items.
Property nodes already do this? Granted it requires implementing the property, but I'm generally not a fan of pulling data from class wires via the cluster primitives as it makes it hard to track where data is consumed.
The key here is working with the DVRs and to speed up the boiler plate effort of multiple unbundle by names and an in place structure.
Oh right. I jumped to objects by analogy to the c languages, completely forgetting the hard boundary between clusters and objects in LV.
Well the nice thing about his is that you dont have to copy the entire data structure, just the portions you care about. Note that he unbundles inside the IPE structure. For known names that you want to support (like always unbundle the thing called "waveform") the VIM would work, but its not arbitrary like the xnode could be.
It only works with DVRs of clusters, and it looks like yours works with DVRs in general. Check out LV-Signals if you get a chance, the original use was to use it with LV-Create-Signals.xnode, which creates a DVR and a value change event for each element in the cluster.
It has similar functionality to the LAVA Scripting Library: https://lavag.org/files/file/54-scripting-tools/ , but with a heavy emphasis on ease of use for code generation. The package has a dozen or so examples which likely cover everything you need for your XNode.
So cool, I would definitely use an XNode that does this. Yes the VIM could work with the issues already mentioned, with copying the whole cluster in memory just to grab one element. Props for the idea, and DTaylor's suggestion.
So we'll effectively call this the first time I've heard of VI Macros. Is there some list somewhere of all the neat tricks NI is hiding from us?
Oh sorry it was renamed Maleable VI, official feature in 2017 but was implemented as a custom XNode shipped with LabVIEW since around 8.2.
VI Macro discussion before 2017 made VIMs official.
It has some shared functionality with XNodes (type propagation for inputs and outputs) but other custom things like right click, adding removing terminals, and changing node size and icon at edit time can only be done as an XNode, not a VIM.
Thanks to @smithd and @DTaylor for pushing me back to a property I had missed, I can now type inspect classes! Now that I know that what I was trying to accomplish is possible it's time for some code cleanup and implementation of the scripting. Wish me luck.
I use a lot of reference applications for things like buffers, etc. where pulling out everything everytime would become prohibitive. (As others have stated about my unbundle being inside the IPE). Perhaps the compiler would see the other items aren't pulled out and not copy everything, but if it copied my two gigs of full rate 50khz data when all I wanted was the current data size: boom. Memory fault.
Ultimately this XNode is going to become part of a palette of functionality that aids in development of by-reference designs that go beyond just type matching and maybe even someday others start using these and I never have to inherit code where a class instance stores state data in a FG, especially when that FG isn't part of the class. Preview of other coming attractions: Generics in LabVIEW. (With type restrictions!) All of these features will build on what I learn getting this "simple" introduction to XNodes working.
FYI, I just ran a quick experiment (see code below). Watching profiler and task manager, it appears the compiler is smart enough not to copy the string.
Was debugging enabled on the VI when it was ran? I assume probing the cluster wire would force the string to be copied into another memory location. Anyway that does sound good since one VIM that takes a few minutes to write could perform some of the same functionality as the XNode. Still would require an unbundle by name, but a Read-Only DVR function could be pretty useful. I think I made one during the 2017 beta replacing the icon now that I think about it.
It works with debug on too. If I try and probe, I see a memory increase and UI slowness.
To force labview to do an allocation, I had to go so far as to pull the data out of the DVR and manipulate it and use the manipulated data (I used the same byte array replace index + split string) . They really did a solid job with the optimization here.


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Over 20 years ago, I was a brand-new music performance major. This is a story about that first year of college that I’ve told many times to my own college students.
I arrived at college with the confidence granted me by a freshly-minted high school diploma and a track record of first-chair saxophone school band placements. I eagerly auditioned for the university concert bands and jazz bands, and was gutted to find myself placed not only in the lowest groups (the #3 band in both cases), but doubling up parts with other players. Devastatingly, a fellow freshman saxophonist landed spots in both the #1 groups.
It was one of the best things that could have happened to me. I hit the practice rooms hard, gradually worked my way up, and in my senior year finally got spots in both top bands. By that time I had gotten serious about woodwind doubling, and earned a fun and important spot in the top concert band outside the saxophone section. And I got the lead alto chair in the top jazz band (and couldn’t help but enjoy a little that the classmate I had envied so much was sitting second).
Had I gotten the seats I wanted right away, maybe I would have coasted through college. And it’s possible I never would have developed an interest woodwind doubling, which now is central to the career that I enjoy so much. Looking back now, having those particular chairs in those particular semesters seems very unimportant, but my growth during those years laid the groundwork for two graduate degrees and a life in playing and teaching music.
Whatever your current stage in your musical development, there are bigger and better things to come. How you measure up to others matters much less than what you’re doing to get to your own next level.
As a new undergraduate music student I was often frustrated by my teachers’ attempts to get me to “interpret” music.
I would play something, and my teacher would stop me and ask me to play it louder. I would play again, but this time it was too loud, too slow, too fast, too staccato, not staccato enough.
I didn’t understand yet the purpose or the process behind musical interpretation. My teachers seemed to have excruciatingly specific ideas about how each and every note of the piece should sound. I couldn’t wrap my head around how they were making these seemingly arbitrary decisions, or how they expected me to guess correctly what they were thinking.
To be fair to my excellent teachers, there’s a strong chance that the problem was on my end, not theirs. But here’s what I wish I would have understood at that point.
When faced with a foreign language, one might rely on an interpreter to explain what is being said.
When dealing with some raw data, a researcher might interpret the data to show how some pages of numbers, which don’t make sense without context, support a hypothesis.
When performing a musical work, a performer interprets the piece to help the audience understand what’s happening.
Where does one phrase end and the next begin?
Are there melodies, textures, or other ideas that repeat in important ways throughout the piece?
What moods, characters, etc. does the music portray?
You might spend months getting to know the piece, but your audience might be hearing it for the first time. You need to point out the important things to them, so they hear the story, not just a bunch of notes.
When you speak, you offer a variety of clues about how to break up what you are saying into comprehensible chunks. You probably do it without thinking much about it, but it involves things like the pitch, volume, and speed of your voice. To interpret music, you use similar tools: you might demonstrate that a musical phrase is ending by slowing down a tiny bit and bringing the volume down. Or you might help the audience hear what you believe is a warlike quality in a certain passage by using bombastic accents and a strict, military-inspired tempo.
All of this requires you to have opinions about the music. Two tour guides might give different tours of the same place, because they have different opinions about what is interesting or important—they are each interpreting. You might personally enjoy one tour more than the other, but it doesn’t mean either is wrong.
Your interpretation of the music should be based on synthesizing lots of factors. One of the most crucial ones is hints from the composer, so pay close attention to any markings or words the composer uses. (Sometimes they are in a foreign language—it is your job to find out what they mean.) Your interpretation might also be informed by tradition: maybe there is some broad consensus among performers of the piece that it should be played a certain way. That doesn’t mean 100% that you have to go along, but it’s something you should think seriously about. If you are collaborating on the performance with other musicians, you’ll need to work out some agreement with them about various aspects of interpretation.
If you think all of this sounds difficult or complicated, you aren’t wrong. But if you understand what musical interpretation is and why it’s important, you can start to absorb your teachers’ interpretive ideas in a more meaningful way. You can listen to recordings of great performers and steal their interpretive ideas (this is allowed, and even encouraged!). And you can start to use what you have been learning in your music theory and music history classes as fuel for your own interpretive decisions.
As a brand-new freshman music major I was content with my performance if I played the right notes at the right times. That’s important, but it falls pretty far short of the satisfaction and achievement of a meaningful musical interpretation. Keep at it!
One of my favorite things about being a performing musician is moving in and out of different styles. Recently I’ve performed as a classical, jazz, rock, and blues musician. I’ve been thinking a little about the skills that I associate with each, especially skills that have expanded my musicianship and carried over into playing other styles. It’s too many to name, but here are a few. Feel free to chime in in the comments section with your own insights.
I have college degrees in (essentially) classical music performance. From playing solo repertoire, chamber music, and orchestral music, I’ve had to pursue a disciplined, precise approach to my instruments. I’ve had to try to blend seamlessly into a variety of instrumental textures. I’ve had to try to give every note delicacy and beauty, even when the music is trying to communicate something that isn’t delicate and beautiful. Other aspects of my classical music education involved informing my performance by studying centuries of tradition and history and methods of musical analysis.
I’ve also done a lot of study of jazz. From big band section playing, I’ve had to try to make every note crisp and energized, even in the sweetest of ballads. I’ve had to try to blend into sections that take a wide variety of approaches to style—much wider than I’ve encountered in classical music. I’ve learned to use purposeful imprecision (in a way) by, say, playing a little behind the beat, or being a little more flexible with pitch. I’ve learned to really, really use my ears, transcribing notes and chords and rhythms but also nuances of style. (For jazz players, “transcribing” doesn’t always mean writing something down; it’s copying some or all of a performance from a recording.) And of course there’s improvisation, an art unto itself that many classically-trained musicians never delve into. From that I’ve gained a much deeper, more practical, more useable understanding of harmony. I’ve also gained confidence to play something that isn’t on a page in front of me, and a sense that I can make things work musically even when I’m not sure what will happen next.
It’s not uncommon on a rock or blues gig to play songs that I don’t know and have never heard before, with no fakebook and nobody to tell me what the chord changes are. On some blues gigs, I’ve had to watch the bass player’s fingers to try to anticipate even which key the song is going to be in. That kind of unstructuredness can be terrifying to my classically-trained side, and even my jazz-playing side, which is used to improvising within fairly well-established frameworks. But it’s also freeing and thrilling to play for several hours with no music stand and no agreed-upon set list. Sometimes it means reaching way back into my memory to try to roughly reproduce a rock horn section riff I’ve heard once or twice on a recording, but often it means having to create my part from nothing. The protocols often aren’t as strict as they are in jazz, and I’ve had to learn, for example, that just because I played a fill after the blues singer’s first phrase doesn’t mean the guitarist is going to leave me any space after the next one. And, of course, formal education in rock or blues aren’t nearly as widespread or formalized (yet?) as jazz education or especially classical training, so these are lessons learned on stage.
Every new gig is an adventure. See what you can learn in the concert hall to apply later in a smoky club, or vice versa.
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Were there any breakthroughs? New accomplishments? Higher levels of performance than previously achieved? If so, what contributed to these successes?
Was there any backsliding? Things going worse than in previous performances? Why?
How was your mental state before and during the performance? Did it have an effect on how you sounded? What aspects of that can you control?
How was your physical condition before and during the performance? (Tired? Hungry? Sore?) Did it have an effect on how you sounded? What aspects of that can you control?
How was your preparation? Is there anything you would do to prepare differently or better next time?
What feedback, spoken or otherwise, did you get from your audience? Should, or does, that color your evaluation of your success?
Is there a difference between your objective evaluation of the performance and how you really feel about it? Why? Is this significant/important?
Is there a recording? Were there any surprises when you listened to it?
What do you hope to build upon, improve, or otherwise change for your next performance?
Some post-performance reflection on both positives and negatives can be valuable for setting new goals and preparing for the next one.


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Written by Andrew Calver on February 24, 2016 . Posted in Promotional Products.
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With all of these benefits, you owe it to yourself and your business to talk to a promotional products specialist and see what they can offer to you. Call Calver today to see how we can make a difference for your next promotional products campaign.


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One of the favorite harassment tactics of the Left is a variation on an illegal labor-union tactic known as a secondary boycott — “a boycott of an employer with which a union does not have a dispute that is intended to induce the employer to cease doing business with another employer with which the union does have a dispute.” This tactic is outlawed under the National Labor Relations Act, but the Left uses it habitually in its efforts to silence opposition. An obvious contemporary example is the so-called “BDS” (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement against Israel, which promotes protests against any person or organization that is associated with support for Israel, however indirectly. Tales of BDS harassment against Jewish students on American university campuses are an alarming testimony to how the “secondary boycott” principle makes targets of innocent people. A protest movement against the policies of the Israeli government ends up promoting hatred of American Jews who bear no responsibility for those policies. Hate must have a focus, a demonized human face as a symbol of the scapegoated enemy, and the soi-disant “progressive” Left is always seeking such targets.
If you’ve ever seen an enraged anarchist mob at close range — as I did when the “Occupy” scum tried to storm the 2011 Tea Party Summit — you realize how dangerously destructive these people can be. “Occupy” organizers had targeted that event because the hated Koch brothers were believed to be in attendance. A handful of innocent people, including journalists who were just there to cover the event, found ourselves trapped in the middle of a chanting mob trying to break down the doors while police inside held them back. What had we done (or what had the cops done) to deserve being caught up in this madness? The safety of the Koch brothers was not seriously imperiled, but the relentless demonization of them by left-wing propagandists had incited these protesters to a frenzy of hatred that was frightful to witness.
There’s a disturbing new beat of journalism emerging: technology reporters using their time and resources to expose the identities of those who choose to use the Internet anonymously. . . .
Huffington Post published an article [May 31] naming a prolific Twitter user who goes by the handle @AmyMek. They couldn’t hide the glee they took in exposing her, which smells more like score-settling than journalism, with the subheadline reading: “@AmyMek anonymously spread hate online for years. She can’t hide anymore.” . . .
There is any number of reasons why someone may choose to write anonymously, and while one could argue @AmyMek chose to turn herself into a public figure, it’s a frightening precedent.
Where Huffington Post absolutely crossed the line, however, was publishing the names of her family members who had no involvement in her online life or activism. This doxxing of her family led to their being forced to repudiate her or risk their businesses to the online mob . . .
It’s not just Huffington Post doxxing the family members of those they don’t like. Before she failed up, er, moved on to The Atlantic, Taylor Lorenz decided to expose the identities of conservative Pamela Geller’s daughters, who had (past tense) a successful Instagram-based career.
You see the purpose here is like the “secondary boycott.” It is no longer enough for the biased media to smear conservatives by labeling them “racists,” “homophobes,” etc. Now the Left wants to identify their family members, to subject their relatives to terroristic intimidation, thus to socially isolate the targeted enemy. Remember that this is being done by professional journalists employed at publications like Huffington Post and The Atlantic, and keep this in mind the next time you see a liberal complain about “harassment” from their critics. Three years ago, Kurt Schlichter warned, “Liberals May Regret Their New Rules,” and those who don’t regret the new rules yet perhaps soon will.


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Resolution: Fourth Quarter Payment to the Partnership for Economic Development (verbally approved in December, needs quorum vote).
Resolution: Approval of Sullivan Property Acquisitions I, LLC, (Apollo) project.
Resolution: Authorizing Easement to NYSEG to Provide Site Lighting at Arthur Glick Truck Sales.


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e (also known as e: The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers) is the debut novel from former copywriter Matt Beaumont. Published in 2000, it’s distinctive for constructing its narrative solely through the emails sent between employees at the (fictional) top advertising agency Miller Shanks in London.
It’s basically a savage indictment of the corporate world and human weaknesses; the staff bicker, fight, procrastinate, and cause issues which delay projects and cause complete mayhem during the build-up to a sales pitch for Coca-Cola. Simply put, the book’s hilarious. By jove!
We’ll reiterate – all you’re going to read here are emails. The novel’s constructed cleverly and the narrative builds based on the different writing styles, and characteristics, of Miller Shank’s employees. Most of whom, incidentally, you’ll come to enjoy mocking for their abject stupidity and narcissism.
What powers the book along is the diverse range of individuals you meet. We have the likes of the big boss David Crutton. He’s foul-mouthed, lecherous, and borderline incompetent. He’s also disturbingly inept with computers.
Then we have Simon Horne (an unbelievably pretentious Creative Director), Horne’s moronic and high maintenance PA Susi Judge-Davis, blokey blokes Liam O’Keefe and Topowlski, and the creative hippy Pinky.
In the book, Miller Shanks is eager to win the pitch for Coca-Cola with a daring idea made by the aging (and hopelessly out of touch with reality) Horne.
In the meantime, CEO Crutton is inadvertently copying Miller Shank’s Finnish CEO Pertti van Helden into all of his emails. The latter believes this to be a bonding exercise and responds with great cheer and profundity, outraging Crutton and leading to endless fits of profanity.
With all this in mind, the novel’s essentially a catalogue of disasters and bizarre triumphs. The advertising world is hectic, weird, and not particularly wonderful; bad pitches can win major campaigns, and brilliant ideas are often squandered.
What Beaumont does is showcase this in a highly entertaining, frequently hilarious tome which makes for fantastic light reading. Groovy!
The online revolution has created an influx of jobs in the form of online marketing. This has been highly useful for younger generations who have come out of university to find obtaining work almost impossible.
Mr. Wapojif, who first read the novel back in 2000, figured he could one day end up in advertising as well… instead he’s the editor of Professional Moron. Bwahahahaah!
Beaumont’s novel hacked wildly at the relatively new concept of emails. Back in 2000, emails were pretty radical and everyone was getting used to this new computer technology and ditching the pen and pencil.
Of course, now we all have social media and smartphones, and emails are potentially facing a decline. Should we lose emails, may e stand as a reminder to how fun they can be.
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Great review, happy new year!
Groovy, thanking you. Happy New Year!

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Valentine’s Day has become one of my favorite holidays recently. It’s hard to hate a holiday that’s all about love! This year I’ve been having a lot of fun decorating and doing crafts around the holiday.
DIY Paper Crowns – A NYE Must!
New Years Eve is my second most favorite holiday. For years I worked so hard to set up the perfect new year’s eve. Sparkly dresses, champagne cocktails, lots of glitter . . . but there was always something missing.
Until 2010. In 2010 on December 31st, I ‘officially’ met my the man of my dreams. He would say that day led us on our journey to fall in love. I , of course, would say we fell in love that very day. . .
Since then our New Years Eve’s have been a little different. Sometimes there’s still sparkly dresses, sometimes we’re just in jeans, and this year we’ll be in our pj’s.
But one thing is still the same from those days before I met my handsome husband . . . I always wear a crown.


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Guwahati all set to host 3rd Guwahati International Music Festival on Feb 8!
Jisshu SenGupta looks like a royal king as Maharaja Gangadhar Rao in Manikarnika !
Releasing the first look poster of Tabrez Noorani’s ‘Love Sonia’, the film is going to open at *The Bagri London Indian Film Festival 2018* today, 21st June @ 6.15 pm (London Time) at Cineworld Leicester Square, London.

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