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Lovely La Pineda holidays 2019 / 2020
A seaside resort famed for its sun-drenched Mediterranean climate, La Pineda offers powdery golden sands and a bevvy of family-friendly attractions. Nestled along the Costa Dorada just an hour's drive south of Barcelona, this laid-back beach town is conveniently located near the Port Aventura theme park. If you're in search of a relaxed holiday in 2019 / 2020, La Pineda offers an abundance of award-winning beaches to spend your time on.
Lively Salou is located nearby, with its buzzing nightlife and cultural attractions. Within La Pineda, you'll find a concentration of tapas bars, restaurants and friendly pubs, as well as plenty of shops and water sports facilities. Stay in La Pineda to soak up its mellow atmosphere on unspoilt beaches, or explore the Costa Dorada region at your leisure. The landscape's rustic castles, sprawling vineyards and lush olive groves also include sleepy medieval settlements and farmers' markets. And with all the attractions of glamorous Barcelona within easy reach, you'll find everything needed for an unforgettable Spanish getaway.
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La Pineda is most famous for its beaches, with their clear waters and golden sands. You can visit the water sports centres here to delve beneath the Mediterranean on a scuba diving or snorkelling excursion, or get your heart pumping with an action-packed day of windsurfing. Go horseback riding on the beach or visit one of the area's golf courses to practice your swing. Ancient monasteries like Scala Dei are within easy reach, while Tarragona offers a walkable city centre with international brand names and chic boutiques.
There's an abundance of historic villages located within easy reach of La Pineda, including Cambrils. This is a must-visit destination for history buffs with its well-preserved fortresses and castle. La Pineda holidays are particularly popular with families due to the close proximity of two major theme parks. The Aquapolis water park is located within the town offering high-octane water slides and artificial waves to navigate. For rollercoasters and themed rides for all ages, visit Port Aventura theme park.
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Dining is a true pleasure of La Pineda holidays, with the town's concentration of bars and restaurants situated along the waterfront promenade. From intimate tapas bars to family-friendly pizzerias, there's something for everyone here. The nightclub Pacha La Pineda houses a stylish waterfront restaurant with unencumbered sea views and a seafood-based Spanish menu. The restaurant sits over two floors, with padded loungers and a modern cocktail bar.
Although there are plentiful international restaurants serving everything from Italian to Mexican cuisine in La Pineda, the traditional Spanish cuisine shouldn't be missed. The Costa Dorada region's abundant sunshine means the fresh produce is heavenly, with juicy tomatoes, plump olives and complex local wine. This elevates something as basic as grilled bread with tomatoes and olive oil to the next level of deliciousness. Seafood comes fresh out of the Mediterranean and is cooked simply to showcase its natural flavours. If you enjoy a glass of sparkling cava, take a day trip out into the nearby Penedes wine region to taste this elixir at the source.
La Pineda holidays are a top choice for families, due not only to the Blue Flag beaches on offer here but also the selection of holiday parks. Aquapolis is located right in the heart of La Pineda with its water slides, swimming pools and hydrotherapy treatments. Children will love watching the daily sea lion and dolphin shows before heading back to the beaches to swim or build sand castles.
Port Aventura in nearby Salou is one of the biggest theme parks not only in Spain, but in all of Europe. It's separated into six exciting areas, each with regional themes including China, Polynesia, Mexico, the Far West, the Mediterranean and Sesamo Aventura. All areas of this sprawling theme park feature rides and attractions suitable for different ages, making this a fun day out for the entire family. Port Aventura also includes an additional water park of its own. Additional kid-friendly attractions in the area include UNESCO World Heritage sites like the Roman ruins in Tarragona or Lleida's impressive castle.
Action & Adventure
In addition to the Aquapolis water park and Port Aventura's heart-pounding thrill rides, there are plenty of outdoor attractions for adventure seekers. Spend your La Pineda holidays trying out all the water sports in the area, from kayaking to scuba diving. The coast off La Pineda is famed for its wind conditions, making it popular with windsurfers and surfers.
Go bird watching in the nearby Parc Natural del Delta or take a day trip to the limestone interior of the Sierra de Prades for unbeatable rock climbing. Boat tours depart from Cambrils to destinations across the Costa Dorada, whether you wish to travel by sailboat or catamaran. There are a number of golf courses in close proximity to La Pineda, including the Port Aventura Golf Course. This includes crazy golf courses for children as well as more challenging layouts for golf enthusiasts. Navigate lush fairways and tricky sand or water traps with the sea views in the distance. From swimming to hiking, holidays are never dull in La Pineda.
The primary allure of La Pineda is its pristine series of beaches, offering an unbroken 3km stretch of luscious golden sand. The beaches have been awarded a Blue Flag status for cleanliness, with the soft sand and gentle incline making La Pineda safe for all ages. There's a water sports centre with windsurfing equipment, jet skis, pedalos and sea kayaks for hire, and you can also rent umbrellas or sun loungers here to stake out your spot on the sand.
The main beach, Playa La Pineda, is marked by its beach bars, sun shades and volleyball courts. Stroll along the adjoining esplanade to visit waterside restaurants and bars or venture onto the sand to relax. If you're in search of a bit of privacy during your La Pineda holidays, the northern end of the beach tends to be quieter. To the south of the town, you'll find Playa del Raco, marked by a rock breakwater. This part of the beach is ideal for smaller children with its rock-free seabed and shallow, warm water.
La Pineda may be small but when the sun goes down this beach resort knows how to turn up the heat. The area surrounding the Playa del Raco is a hotbed of activity in the evenings, with the Pineda-Drink area offering a multitude of bars, terraces and pubs to choose from. Locals and tourists alike start their evening here with a cool drink on the terrace before heading to the nightclubs well after midnight. Relax in a beachside "chiringuito" or find an intimate indoor tapas bar to cosy up with a glass of wine and live music.
The main nightclub on offer here is Pacha La Pineda, mere steps from the sandy beach. It's the largest in the Costa Dorada region, with multiple dance floors and internationally renowned DJs pumping up the volume. While other beach bars are quite laid back, you'll be expected to dress to impress here. For additional nightlife options, neighbouring Salou is well-known for its late night bars, restaurants, and discos spilling out onto the beach.
Find your own little piece of seaside paradise on your next holidays in La Pineda. With sweeping sea views, secluded coves and upscale resorts, there's plenty of romance on offer here. Spend your days soaking up the sun poolside or on the beach of your choice in La Pineda. You're spoiled for choice in terms of couple-friendly restaurants, intimate tapas bars and nightclubs where you can dance and enjoy live entertainment until sunrise.
Are you in search of romantic adventures? Take a boat trip out onto the dazzling waves or go snorkelling to view the colourful marine life below. You can explore the Costa Dorada's abundant charms with La Pineda as your base. You'll discover castles lost in time at locations like Tamarit, where the castle looms over a quiet beach surrounded by fragrant pine trees. Visit neighbouring Salou, with its illuminated fountains and gourmet restaurants, or go cava tasting in the Penedes countryside.
You can experience authentic Spanish culture during your holidays in La Pineda. The village hosts many vibrant fiestas and special events throughout the year, including the dancing and musical performances of the Fiesta de Sant Jaume in July. The beach comes alive during the holiday season in December, when artists from around the world craft massive sand sculptures on the beach.
Take a day trip to nearby Tarragona to view Roman architecture, including stately fountains and monuments. This UNESCO World Heritage site offers the chance to see well-preserved ruins in the context of a modern city. And naturally, all of the cultural attractions of Barcelona are just an hour away, from the Picasso Museum to Gaudi's Sagrada Familia.
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A project led by OnlineUniversities highlights recent findings from several research originations pertaining to the perceived positive and negative neurological effects of Video Games on the human Brain.
Certain shooters, for example, reinforce cellular connections, strengthen synapses, and improve the premotor and parietal cortex — which basically translates to an improvement of hand/eye coordination and response time in space shooter games like the Gradius series .
Prefrontal cortex improvement (logical thinking and complex decision making) is improved by games like Othello and Tetris. While nearly all games increase dopamine levels which is involved with learning and feelings of reward and fulfilment.
In addition, video games can increase way-finding skills, the ability to reason and solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge and strengthen teamwork and develop collaboration skills.
However, first person shooter and other 'gun' related action games showed less activity in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala — which researchers suspect could have several outcomes, helping to give the player the ability to think in the midst of a small crisis more logically by suppressing their emotional responses to cope with their violent actions.
Sadly, extremely violent contents in games seem to increase aggressive responses and increase active suppression of emotional responses. While extreme long-term playing can lead to obesity, attention problems, anxiety and poor school performance.
Gaming is a wonderful passion that I, and Apotheosis Studios, powerfully supports, however, like nearly all things in life, playing video games must be done in healthy moderation with an understanding and respect of its possible consequences when perused (and designed) inappropriately.
Although OnlineUniversity are not the first to publish a report such as this, they have transferred the research data onto a handy infographic, highlighting the positive and negative effects of gaming with the help of colorful visuals. Click Here for for the full infographic overview.

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which is better? Croatia or bosnia/herzegovina?
I am planning a trip in the fall and in reading the information, there are many things to see and do? We will be going probably for about 8-10 days. We are interested in the culture, historic sites, nature and going to some small untouristy towns. Also is Zagreb worth the visit? Which large city would you recommend?
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Better for what? I'm sure people in each country think theirs is better!
Croatia is by far the more visited country and has been historically. There's miles of coastline, dotted with historic towns dating from the Venetian era (or before). The bigger coastal cities, especially Dubrovnik, are quite popular during the warm seasons, but if you're traveling in fall, you should be able to find some place that's quiet. Inland locations are more off the beaten track. A good guidebook can help you see what interests you here.
Bosnia-Hercegovina is much less touristed and in general a much more rural and mountainous country. Mostar is very popular with Dubrovnik day trippers, but Sarajevo is just starting to get the trickles of tourists: I personally loved the city but do know if you would. There are a lot of untouristed towns, though distances can mean they are not quick to get from one to another. From my brief visit, there is a lot of natural beauty in Bosnia-Herc. but sometimes industrial blight would be there too.
What the others said. More to see and do in Croatia. But it's much bigger.
I would include a visit to one or more islands. Croatia has almost 2000 islands, the most touristed of which are Hvar and -- well behind -- Korcula. But there are many more, not all inhabited. Here's one primer: http://www.roughguides.com/article/t...sland-getaways.
They are right next to each other, so you can see some of both.
Click on my name - I've written several trip reports about visiting Sarajevo, Mostar, and driving in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
I've also spent quite a bit of time in Dubrovnik and around that area, and the Dalmatian coast, but not written about that.
Also seek out the trip reports by vttraveler.
Where are you flying in/out from? If it's the same airport then that will limit your options.
Will you be renting a car and driving? If not, then that will also limit where you go.
With 8-10 days you could do a loop from Dubrovnik - Mostar - Sarajevo - Travnik - Split - Dubrovnik, and also include a trip to Kotor and Budva in Montenegro, but that all depends on your flight plans and whether you will be using public transport.
We need more information from you before we can really help more.
I like the loop suggested by julia_t in the last post. She and I share a real love for Sarajevo. My husband and I have also really enjoyed the parts of Croatia we have seen.
Even if you don't spend a lot of time in Bosnia & Herzegovina I would recommend going to Mostar from the Croatian coast and staying there overnight.
What is the likely weather for early October? Might there be some hot weather, as well as cool nights? Or not likely to be that warm by October?
Thanks - this has been a good help.
Also, what kind of footwear for evenings? Do younger women wear nice sandals? Any thoughts? Will it be nice to enjoy walking along the beaches in early October? California weather?
Early Oct. On the coast could be very nice, but I would not rule out some rain
..in Bosnia...colder and often rainy.
I would not worry about footwear....neither place is Paris.
California weather is a perfect description of early October on the coast. It could rain, but we didn't have any for two weeks.
Sandals are almost universal, day and night.
Beaches where we were are not good for strolling because the shoreline is very rocky, with small patches of sand or gravel (shingle) separated by outcroppings of rock. Many places the only swimming is by diving off the rocks. However, many towns (Hvar, Opatija, Zadar) have walkways and or trails along the water front.
Thank you! Great to know about the shoe issue!
Hey there, last year i went in Croatia, a friend of mine suggested me to spend my vacations over Croatia, firstly i couldn't believe that Croatia is a perfect place to spend vacations but there was just awesome. I planned to stay just a week but i continued for two more weeks.
There are a lot of places that are worth to visit, i was in Zagreb too it was a great adventure, i was in Dubrovnik, Split, Krka too. I did a research over Croatia best places to visit : http://www.mawista.com/blog/en/top-1...it-in-croatia/
But it's your decision, i think it's a worth place to visit!
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5 Easy Ways to use Music as a Mindfulness and Meditation Tool for Kids/
Music can be a powerful, practical tool to bring mindfulness and meditation into our lives as well as our children's lives. Here we present five easy ways to use music as a tool for mindfulness and meditation with the children in your lives, be it at home or in the classroom. Read our recent more general posts on music for meditation and mindfulness here and here for more tips and information on the links between these two calming, positive practices!
1. As a tool to calm children
In our ebook (find it here), music is used as a tool to calm children in preparation for a better night's sleep. In the same way, music can be used anytime as a tool for calming children down, to a place where it is easier to be peaceful and more focused on the present moment in much the same way meditation is used. In the article above you'll find suggestions for some pieces, you might like to try.
2. As a tool to help concentration
By bringing our minds to a calm, peaceful place we can help children become better at focusing on the task at hand. During our workshops music is always used as a part of that process, using finger plays with younger children and action, interactive songs with older ones. If you're in the classroom use action songs to re-focus after the often highs experienced during lunch break or if you're at home, try them before homework time. The very act of putting together words and actions in song requires being fully in the present moment and re-grounds us for better concentration. We like this link here for some ideas on finger plays and action rhymes for young children and you'll find some good examples to use with older kids here
Remember any song can be an action song – just add some arm movements. Get the kids to make them up if you're not feeling too creative or just because kids have brilliant ideas!
3. As a tool for kids to feel their emotions
Just like meditation and sitting quietly are important ways for each of us to connect with our inner selves, listening to emotive music is a tool you can use with your children to help them connect with themselves. Our recent blogs, and last week's about Letting Go talk about why this is so important for emotional well-being and mental health and its early establishment in children is a gift for ongoing healthy lives. After some quiet, deep breathing to bring focus to the moment, try any of these songs that may help children find quiet space within themselves for self-reflection
4. As a tool to use with dance for self-release and self-love
Music is an inspiration and accompaniment for free dance which itself is a cathartic tool to release deep emotions and to focus on the present moment in much the same way as meditation. Children love to move – it is almost a pre-requite of childhood so use music to help establish dance as a tool for self-expression, self-love and self-release. Any of the above pieces (in tool 3) can be used for moving in free dance. We need to establish as adults that there are no rules for free dance and self-expression, it is all good! It releases the soul and acknowledges an acceptance of ourselves and others in a most profound and healing way and without judgment we can be fully ourselves in the present moment.
5. As a tool to write about our feelings and thoughts.
Journaling is long held method for connecting with the present moment. You can use emotive music pieces to encourage children to focus inwardly in a similar way to meditation used before writing. A little quiet listening to music before writing about feelings is a great way to focus. You can use fstimulus statements like, 'When I listen to this music I feel….." or "When I listen to this music it helps me remember ….." Very young children can draw instead of writing with similar results. Again the emotive music in Tool 3 could be used but experiment and try different styles and pieces – most likely different emotions and situations will be evoked.
'In the ancient cultures of India, Egypt, and Greece, music played a therapeutic role in the lives of people. It was created and performed with the intention of bringing about well-being and health. By the Middle Ages, the idea of music as entertainment took over. But down through the centuries, many industrious, stubborn and creative souls have kept alive the use of sound and music as medicine for the body, mind, and spirit.' Jeffrey Thompson
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Blackened, smoking rubble is all that remains of The Wave Hotel in Clarenville this morning.
Local volunteer firefighters packed up their gear around 7:30 a.m. this morning, Feb. 3, after spending 10 hours of battling the blaze on a cold winter night.
Cory Feltham, Fire Chief of the Clarenville Volunteer Fire Department told The Packet this morning, they got the call around 10 p.m. on Saturday night.
When they arrived on the scene, the occupants of the 48-room hotel were already evacuated from the building.
"When we showed up on the scene, there was black smoke coming up through the roof and flames 15 to 20 feet in the air," said Feltham. "It seemed like it (the fire) was in the attic."
Feltham says the firefighters battled the flames through the night, dealing with sub-zero temperatures that created extra challenges for the firefighters.
The Wave Hotel is located on Blackmore Avenue, near the Eastlink Event Centre (EEC) and several other businesses.
The Clarenville High School and Middle School complex are also nearby.
Aftermath of The Wave Hotel fire in Clarenville. So sad. @VOCMNEWS @CBCNL @NTVNewsNL @StJohnsTelegram pic.twitter.com/Yw69s35gGz— Karen McCarthy (@karenpowermcc) February 3, 2019
Mayor Frazer Russell was also at the scene last night.
He says the fire department was "extremely lucky that there was very little wind last night" and nearby buildings were not threatened.
The Mayor added this is a great loss for the town, given that the building also contained the only swimming pool for the area and a fully-equipped gym, both of which were very popular for the public of Clarenville and area.
"It's a tremendous loss for the town. And I certainly want to praise our local volunteer fire department," Russell told the Packet.
"But there wasn't much they could do once that fire got going," he said. "Our fire department did what was possible."
Hotel owner Alex Balsom could not be reached for comment, but Russell said the loss is obviously disheartening for the business owner, who had just added additional rooms to the hotel in the past year.
"He put hours of work into it and I guess the hope is that he can rebuild," said Russell. "My fondest wish is that he can be in a rebuild situation as soon as it is possible; and hopefully this is just a temporary loss."
RCMP fire investigators are at the scene today. The police have not issued any information about the fire, or the cause of the blaze.
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2007 (Part I and Part II): Toward a Critical Analysis of Economic Inequality (SUNY Buffalo, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy) (Hosted by Athena Mutua & Martha McCluskey)
Program 2007
2010: Rethinking Economics and Law after the Great Recession (SUNY Buffalo, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy) (Hosted by Angela Harris, Athena Mutua & Martha McCluskey)
Call for Papers 2010
Program 2010
2011: Criminalization of Economic Inequality (American University, Washington College of Law) (Hosted by Ezra Rosser)
Call for Papers
Program 2011
2012: From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream (Univ. of Wisc. Madison) (Hosted by Tonya Brito)
Call for Papers 2012
Program 2012
2013: Stuck in Forward: Debt, Austerity and the Possibilities of the Political (Southwestern Law School) (Hosted by Danielle Kie Hart)
Program 2013
2014: Poverty, Precarity and Work: Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent Crisis (UC Davis Law King Hall) (Hosted by Angela Harris & Lisa Pruitt)
Call for Papers
Program 2014
2015: Emerging Coalitions: Challenging the Structures of Inequality (University of Tennessee Law) (Hosted by Wendy Bach and Lucy Jewel)
Call for Papers 2015
Program 2015
2016: The New Corporatocracy and Election 2016 (Loyola University Chicago School of Law) (Hosted by Steven A. Ramirez)
Call for Papers 2016
2017: ClassCrits X: Mobilizing for Resistance, Solidarity & Justice (Tulane University, New Orleans) (hosted by Saru Matambanadzo)
Call for Papers 2017
Program 2017
2018: ClassCrits XI: Rising Together for Economic Hope, Power & Justice (West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown) (Hosted by Matthew Titolo)
Call for Papers 2018
Program 2018
ClassCrits XII: Facing Our Challenges: Rescuing Democracy, Ensuring Wellbeing..Conference - 11/15/2019


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Courses at the Radiology Leadership Institute help you develop and flourish as a leader.
The ACR Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) is taking professional education to new heights through an innovative taxonomy and a well-defined body of knowledge, which will shape the way the RLI's leadership certification courses are taught.
These new tools will enable the RLI to customize educational offerings to coincide with individual professional leadership goals and strengths.
"Reasonably, circumscribing an essential set of skills and abilities begins with defining and securing a core area of study," explains Alexander M. Norbash, M.D., MHCM, FACR, chair of radiology at the Boston School of Medicine, assistant dean for diversity at Boston University, and a member of the RLI Board. "As such, the RLI has defined a comprehensive set of core areas of study for those seeking to serve in leadership positions." The curriculum includes these foundational topics, which make up the RLI Common Body of Knowledge™:
• Practice management
• Professional development
• Finance and economics
• Legal and regulatory issues
• Strategic planning
• Service, quality, and safety
• Ethics and professionalism
"Such core areas of study are valid for individuals seeking introductory exposure to leadership such as the RLI Certification of Leadership Proficiency™. They're also important for individuals who envision leadership as a major component of their professional contributions, such as those who will seek the RLI Certificate of Advanced Leadership Proficiency," Norbash continues. "The leadership-training process accurately includes the total sum of its parts and is most successful when all of the essential components are included."
For more information about the RLI, including videos that demonstrate the immediate need for radiology leadership, visit www.radiologyleaders.com. You can also stay informed on RLI events by signing up on the website to receive e-mail updates. The institute's first class is expected to begin summer 2012.
By Brett Hansen


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|Gasification of Municipal Solid Waste for Large-Scale Electricity/Heat
Thermal gasification of municipal solid waste (MSW) is a chemical process that generates a gaseous, fuel-rich product. This product can then be combusted in a boiler, producing steam for power generation. Just as with combustion of MSW, thermal MSW gasification does not necessarily compete with recycling programmes, but should be considered complementary in any generically constructed MSW plan.
|Geothermal Electricity Production
Inside the Earth's crust there are several reservoirs with hot water which can be used for heating buildings and/or production of electricity. The process causes relatively little CO2 emissions (from the steam), which could potentially be reinjected in the earth's crust through carbon capture and storage. Contrary to conventional geothermal power plants, present generation plants re-inject the condensated steam or hot water into the underground acquifer so that the reservoir capacity could remain intact.
|Grazing land management
Agricultural ecosystems hold large carbon reserves (IPCC, 2001a), mostly in soil organic matter.Historically, these systems have lost more than 50 Pg Carbon, but some of this carbon lost can be recovered through improved management, thereby withdrawing atmospheric CO2 (Paustian et al., 1998; Lal, 1999, 2004a).
|Greening the built environment
Greening the built environment is one of the most feasible and cost effective mitigation options for building sectors in rural and low density urban areas. Simple techniques, such as providing a garden and a pond, can be found in traditional houses in many countries. Taking a traditional house setting in Vietnam for example, plants in the garden provide vegetables and fruit, absorb carbon dioxide, offer shade and cool the ambient temperature.


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Robot Hall of Fame Update/
It's amazing what a little publicity can do. After we reported on Mega Man's nomination to be inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame, the story was picked up by Protodude's Rockman Corner, Capcom*Unity, and more, and in the process, it would seem that the Blue Bomber has garnered quite a bit of support.
Whereas he was seen before holding only two percent of the vote, Mega Man has now skyrocketed to the #2 spot, still behind Futurama's Bender Bending Rodriguez, but holding 24 percent of the vote to Bender's 35. In doing so, Mega Man has surpassed Data, Wall-E, GIR, and even the mighty leader of the heroic Autobots, Optimus Prime.
Will Mega Man overcome? Will he triumph and take over the top spot? And if he does, will he acquire a severe drinking problem? We'll keep you informed.


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Up early again to work on a Sunday. And the Saturday that was yesterday. And the entire week prior. And last Sunday.
Everyone I work with and for puts in 10- to 12-hour days 7 days a week. Because that's what it takes these days. Maintaining the infrastructure of our lives has become untenable for so many IF at the same time we want to live in balance with our nature. No matter the consequences, I do not care to continue the insanity.
My 2015 intentions:
1) Meditate.
2) Wednesdays off to be at food bank garden work parties.
3) Knit for my fledgling business and Etsy page setup: Conscious Knits.
4) Explore Habitat for Humanity housing, low-income HUD apartments and keep praying to manifest something I have never seen – a 2 bdr rental cottage in the woods with no prior cat/dog.
5) Cut hours in half each day that I listen to medical traumas (medical transcription).
6) Walk each day outdoors and live more of the freedom walking provides me.
7) Learn about vulnerability, letting go, living with state aid or whatever is required to put self-care first and stop the intense pressure to provide.
8) Remember my FILTER LIST.
I am walking.
I am serving others.
I am creating.
I am outdoors.
I am traveling.
I am now and forever a magnet for all the good and abundance that is mine by divine right.


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Certificate courses are becoming valuable to big companies now a days. The reason is simple: certificate courses allow a student to learn about a specific subject quickly which meets the need of the employers.
Now the question is: What does certificate levels actually mean? Moreover what is the difference between conventional certificate courses and the certificate of registration courses provided by reet? We will try to investigate this differences in this post.
Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) are the authority who administers the education system on behalf of Australian government. According to AQF the overall education system is divided into ten level from which Level 1 to 4 is defined as certificate. Let's have a look at each level to get better understanding about what "certificate levels" means in Australia.
Level 1:
After graduating from level one, students should have fundamental knowledge of everyday life. They can involve in the community and will be ready for the next level. Time duration is 1 to 6 months in level one.
Level 2:
After achieving level two certificate, students can will have specific knowledge about a subject and can perform routine tasks. Maximum time to complete level two is 6 months.
Level 3:
Students who complete level three are expected to have cognitive, technical and communication skills in a particular subject. Graduates will be able to handle complex situation. Course duration is 4 months to 1 year.
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Graduates from this level can work in a complex and structured environment. They can identify and report problems independently.
There are 43 Universities and 64 technical Institute called TAFE in all over Australia who provide a wide range of certificate courses. Now that we have a general understanding about certificate courses provided by typical Australian institutes, let's discuss about certificate course of registration that is provided at reet.
Reet is a well-known education provider for compulsory professional development (CPD) program across Sydney NSW. CPD courses are designed to increase the knowledge, skills and professionalism of people who are already working in the real estate industry. The aim of the courses provided by reet is to increase consumer protection and promote consumer confidence in the real estate industry. Reet is a registered education provider approved by ASQA.
Certificate of Registration course is a 3 day short course which covers 4 compulsory subject defined by the office of fair trading. This course is mandatory for people who wish to work in real estate agencies. After successfully attending the course a student is issued a statement of attainment. When an applicant submit this statement of attainment with other required document to OFT, they issue a certificate of registration as a recognition of real estate sales person.
Certification of registration course is equivalent with certificate level four defined by AQF. Hopefully, at this point the relationship between certificate level courses and certificate of registration course is clear to the future real estate agents.
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Sparked by the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a new National Institute for Civil Discourse has been established in Arizona by local leaders interested in repairing the corrosive nature of public debate in America.
As honorary chairmen, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton will oversee the institute, which named as its first priority to create a document of "best practices" for political discourse.
Former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor and former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) will serve as honorary co-chairmen. Board members will include former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright; Kenneth M. Duberstein, chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan; Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren; Trey Grayson, director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics; and former representative Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.).
The institute is housed in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, and can be reached at their website — nicd.arizona.edu.
(READ two articles from the Washington Post or today's edition of CS Monitor)


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I'm not surprised but I am disturbed. Although I must admit I haven't eaten McDonald's in years, I am disgusted with the findings of this experiment.
A little over 2 years ago (March 27, 2009), I put a McDonald's hamburger in one jar:
and a small McDonald's fries in another jar:
These photos were taken last week. Notice, the lack of mold. The bread is pretty much intact when it should be a soupy mess by now. The meat patty is holding up too. Pretty frightening!
Then last year, I put a few fries bought from a concession stand at the Bronx Zoo in a separate jar. I wanted to see if the lack of mold on the McDonald's items had anything to do with the fact that very little air was getting in the jars. All three jars have been closed tightly for most of the time while sitting on my window sill. The fries from the zoo have looked this way since Day 4 or 5. Check out the furry moldy stuff:
Food should decompose and if it doesn't, it's not good for the body or mind. No wonder many people suffer from heartburn, digestive disorders, constipation, depression, insomnia, uterine fibroids, fatigue, and so on. I suspect that most fast food and chain restaurants are using far too many additives and preservatives which have proven to be harmful. Have you ever smelled fresh bread baking at McDonald's? Remember when you dropped McDonald's fries on the car floor and they would still be there months later?
If times are tough and you believe you can only afford fast food, my response is: pay now or pay later. I'll explain next blog post. It may mean cooking more but it's still possible to buy ingredients for a pasta or stir fry dish for less than $12 and feed a family of four.
Please share this with your friends and family — especially those who can't seem to say NO to fast food. Thanks!
This week, I'll purchase a salad from McDonald's. Hhhmmm, will their lettuce wilt away as it should?
I'm not surprised but I am disturbed. Although I must admit I haven't eaten McDonald's in years, I am disgusted with the findings of this experiment.
that is very scary!
Wow, 5 days compared to 2 years? Powerful experiment KalaLea.
Any other test? but this is amazing thanks


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How to Delete a File or Folder on Your Laptop
If you don't need a file or folder anymore, you can clear up clutter on your laptop by deleting it. Remember, keeping your files organized and deleting unused or unnecessary files or folders will keep your laptop working at its best.
Locate the file or folder by using File Explorer. (Click the File Explorer icon on the Desktop, and then browse or search to locate the file you want to delete.)
In File Explorer, right-click the file or folder that you want to delete and then choose Delete from the shortcut menu. (Or you can simply click the file to select it and then press the Delete key.)
When you delete a file or folder in Windows, it's not really gone. It's removed to the Recycle Bin. Windows periodically purges older files from this folder, but you might still be able to retrieve recently deleted files and folders from it.
To try to restore a deleted file or folder, double-click the Recycle Bin icon on the Desktop. Right-click the file or folder and choose Restore. Windows restores the file to wherever it was when you deleted it.


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Tubular Skylight Kit
"For about the cost of a nice light fixture, this can bring the soft light of the sun into virtually any space in your home. Installed on any roof surface in under two hours, you will quickly realize the cost benefits of a tubular skylight over incondescent and even traditional skylights.
In addition to the free daytime operating cost, Natural Light tubular skylights do not contribute to heat loss or gain, unlike standard framed-in skylights."
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- Durable
- Repels water well
- Adjustable
- Light weight and wraps up tightly for easy portability
- iPhone-compatible
- Supports voiceover on the iPod Shuffle
- Consumer testers found them uncomfortable to wear
Three big selling points of iLuv's ieP515 headphones: They're durable, iPhone-compatible, and have an iPod Shuffle voiceover feature. Unfortunately, this pair falls short otherwise. Besides offering a mediocre sound, the headphones are uncomfortable to wear and don't stay in place during use, according to consumer testers. i-luv.com.
Type: in-ear
Colors: Black, white, and red
Manufacturer's Warranty: One year
Reviewed: July 2011
Price When Reviewed: $50.00


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"Invaluable delivers an important component of Sotheby's online sales strategy," says Sotheby's operations and chief transformation officer.
Collaboration will help private sellers find the real value of their items online and consign with auction houses that will deliver best sale result
Big Data & New Technology, Cultivating Next Generation Collectors and the Expanding Role of Women during the #MeToo movement among the topics at Global Auction House Summit
Figures illustrate increased bidder and buyer confidence in online auctions, critical to growing next generation of digitally savvy art collectors, CEO says.
While the information in the above press releases was accurate at the time of distribution on the dates listed, information regarding the matters discussed in the releases may change over time. The information contained within archived press releases should not be considered current and may no longer be accurate, and Invaluable assumes no obligation to update such information.


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Isn't it time we had an honest conversation about landing data?
Landing data - the measurement of the period between termination and securing a new job – is critical information in determining the length of a career transition program and the features that should be included in that program.
And yet, in recent years, landing data has become so much more than that. For many organizations, it has become the central focus for procurement. Career Transition firms have responded by making landing data claims the central focus of their marketing and sales efforts.
The result was pretty predictable: Both established firms and newcomers are now embroiled in a race to the bottom, trying to outbid each other on how little time it takes to find someone a new job.
However, the length of time it takes to find someone a new job is only one of many metrics to assess the overall value of a career transition program. And in some instances, it is not the most important metric.
The good, the bad, and the ugly truth of landing data
There are two fundamental truths about landing data.
First, Career Transition is absolutely effective in shortening the time it takes for someone to find a job. Long-term data is clear on this point: Individuals who are thrown out into the job market on their own without support will take longer – often months longer – to find their next job. Career transition helps individuals deal with the shock of losing a job, and focus on the best practices that will help them find their next opportunity.
However, there is a second fundamental truth: Although Landing Data is used by many firms to describe the effectiveness of their programs, not all landing data is created equal. In fact, in many instances it is nearly impossible to collect clean, reliable data.
One of the biggest blind spots in landing data is created by the trend towards shorter transition programs. The shorter the program, the higher the number of candidates that are unable to find a job. Many career transition firms leave these unsuccessful candidates out when they calculate "average" time to landing. This flaw is exacerbated by the fact that once the program is over, neither the career transition firm nor the employer is able to track the candidates to find out how long it actually took for them to find another job.
In other instances, candidates that do find new jobs are reluctant to share this information with either their former employer or the career transition firm. This can be a reflection of the estrangement that occurs between an individual employee and the organization that let them go; in other instances, it may be to avoid severance claw back provisions that kick in once someone has secured a new position.
When considering landing data to assess the effectiveness of a career transition firm, be sure to ask what data is included in the numbers, and what is left out. This will help you spot over-inflated promises.
Landing Time: What variables determine the length of time it takes to find someone a job?
When someone tells you that "on average" they can find someone a new job in eight weeks, what does that really mean?
Experienced career transition providers will tell you that landing time depends on a number of variables.
- Level of employee affected: The more senior the individual, the longer the landing time. This is due to a number of factors including fewer jobs at the more senior level. However, it's also a reflection of the fact that more senior-level employees have the financial means to be pickier about their next gig. They simply do not need to seize upon the first job opportunity that comes along.
- Industry: Employment levels and opportunities fluctuate wildly between industries and even sectors within those industries. Based on current market conditions, someone in the financial services industry will have a better shot at finding another job than someone working in the petroleum industry. It is simply impossible to express a global average time to landing without taking into account the current state of an industry.
- Job function: It may seem overly obvious, but the exact job function held by an employee in transition is important for determining landing time. Highly specialized, technical jobs could be hard to come by; while someone with a broad range of skills and job experience could be easy to place. By the same token, depending on marketplace conditions and timing, someone in a highly-specialized role could land quickly. Function and timing have a dramatic impact on landing time.
- Desired next role: It is typically easier to find a job in one's own industry and function than to make a career change. Transition is often a time when individuals decide to try something new and that invariably impacts their time to land. Also, alternative paths like independent consulting, retirement, or going back to school are often harder to track as they don't result in a specific job.
- Geographic location: If someone is laid off in a geographic market that has been hard hit by economic conditions, it will obviously take longer to find a new job. Particularly if staying in that same location is a priority. Average landing times do a poor job of reflecting geographic constraints.
- Candidate skill set and reputation: All candidates are not created equal and in today's economy, downsizing and other events that trigger transition happen regardless of individuals' experience, personal network, and reputation. And yet we know that higher skilled, better networked individuals with a great reputation land quicker.
All these variables impact landing time and as such, "average landing time" stats need to be interpreted with care.
Moving Beyond Landing Data – The Qualitative Value of Career Transition Support
Career transition, when done properly, provides an organization with value on multiple fronts.
Employees in transition who are treated fairly and given all the support and tools they need to find other jobs often speak well of their former employers. This ensures that existing talent, and talent that has yet to be recruited, only hear good things about the way an organization treats its people. Career transition services can ensure that an organization's brand is protected.
Effective career transition can also ensure that remaining employees can function without fear or anxiety. CT that is designed around the specific variables at play – level, function, location, career goals, and industry –will provide great comfort to those who are left to continue doing the good work of the organization.
However, the opposite is also true. Failing to provide CT support, or providing a one-size-fits-all program focused on promises of an extremely short landing time, will leave many candidates unhappy. And that has the potential to inflict profound damage on an employer's brand.
In Conclusion
The hard reality in the career transition world is that basic landing data is not always as meaningful as some firms would have you believe.
Landing data is an important metric of the career transition industry. It can help guide the type and length of program needed for any specific group of employees.
However, if landing data is over-hyped and over-leveraged as a deliverable, it will only serve to point organizations in the wrong direction and, ultimately, waste their valuable resources.


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How to build trust in your website
What do the BBC, Techradar and KPMG have in common? They all have informative sites that people know they can trust. These sites consistently provide content that people know will be accurate, up to date and (largely) unbiased. But it takes a long time and sometimes a lot of money to try and be recognised by Google as trustworthy. In this guide we will go through some of the actions you can use to enhance your website's trustworthiness for people visiting your site.
As nobody wants to spend any time on a poorly built site with badly written content, Google is continually evolving its approach in order to provide the highest quality content in the search engine results. One objective of the huge, complex algorithms deployed by Google is to assess which sites can be regarded as the most authoritative. Google is on record as saying that hundreds of signals are taken into consideration when they are making these assessments, and that it regularly recrawls sites to take into account all the adjustments that you make to improve your site.
Search Engine Land has identified trust as an off-page SEO factor, but there are a variety of on-page solutions that you can implement to improve your trust, mainly through better web design and developing engaging content that educates and improves the user experience for people visiting the site.
Let's take a look at a number of these factors in more detail, exploring how they can improve the effectiveness of your site and drive better customer engagement and ultimately, generate leads and sales.
Building a website's authority is more than just waiting for people to link to your site. And while it may have been iterated a thousand times over in the SEO world, generating high-quality original content is by far one of the best ways to not only build your site's authority, but also establish it as a leader in your industry. By providing content that is better than your competitors' and works to educate and inform your audiences, you can ensure that your site is ranked higher in search results. It isn't easy however; you have to invest the time and resource to develop good content that has your customer firmly in mind.
'How to' guides are great opportunities to prove yourself an expert in your field. The best guides go into granular detail, with examples that go into depth on the relevant topic. There is an undeniable link between building trust, establishing authority and displaying knowledge in your industry. By consistently providing insightful and useful content, you will ensure a steady stream of traffic and sales.
Engagement can be measured by how long someone spends on your site or what your bounce rate is. One way to improve your engagement is by boosting your social proof. There is a lot more to social than just Twitter and Facebook – as the Conversation Prism highlights. Social proof is a combination of ensuring that you are on the right platform for your audience, frequently producing relevant content, and receiving engagement for that content. Including a feed on your website that shows your current social posts or the amount of followers you have can give your website further credibility.
Naturally, if you are building longer, better quality content you should expect engagement on your site to be positively affected.
The age of your domain is also important. Typically, a business that has been around for longer can be considered more reliable. It gives an indication that they're good at their work and have a strong customer base. However, people have exploited this by selling established domains to businesses that wanted to artificially raise their own profile. This was somewhat abused in previous years and has been clamped down on by Google. It's definitely not a recommended tactic.
However, with a new website there are multiple ways in which you can show your credibility Testimonials and case studies are an effective way to sell your key messages and track record of delivering to your customers' needs. A customer who provides an independent review of your business has much more credibility and - provided it's a positive review - shows that you can be trusted.
Within a B2C environment, having a feature like Review Pro can be a powerful signal to potential customers. It combines all online reviews and satisfaction surveys to present a global average star rating that your service has received. After all, independent reviews make sense - one of the reasons sites like eBay and Amazon have become go-to places for online purchases have been the feedback that buyers and sellers receive from engaging in transactions.
For B2B, listing the clients you work with is another way for a business to quickly showcase a proven track record of high-quality work that doesn't need all the detail of case studies. Having a few established clients can go a long way to helping you secure further work, as it can show your range of experience.
Identifying the writer of a blog post can be a good way to reiterate the authenticity of your work – having real people contributing to your site helps reinforce that you are a genuine business.
Simply putting a face to a website or blog can be a powerful tool in humanising your business, driving greater transparency. . Not only does it create a sense of accountability but it will also allow your employees to increase their own profile and reputation in their industry.
Invest in taking high-quality images of your employees and images of your workplace. Images of real people and places naturally helps create a sense of your business culture and can be a building block for your brand. Another technique would be to avoid stock photos as these can create a fake/phoney feel to a website that leaves a generic, forgettable experience.
A strong 'about us' page helps create an identity for the business and gives you space to delve into the company's ethos. It's the ideal place to detail your corporate social responsibility and green credentials, and reassure potential clients and customers that you're integrated within the local community.
Google confirmed in 2014 that moving from HTTP to HTTPS gives your site a small ranking boost. Although HTTPS carries less weight as a ranking factor, there's still no reason not to have a secure site. While a HTTPS site is a surefire way of increasing trust in your site, you should also make sure your site is BSI certified and offers secure payment options.
Using the Google Display Network should allow you to target your audience on the most relevant sites without going overboard. Having a heavy amount of ads above-the-fold is an indication to Google that your site is low quality. It is typically used by spammy sites that aim to move you from their page to another.
So, while it's tempting to try and play the system, if you break Google's trust and their principles of their search engine optimization guide – you're in trouble. Follow the steps outlined above and you should have optimised your website for trust in search results.
Are there any other steps you would take to build trust in your site?
By Katie McKelvie, SEO Executive


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Left Handed Roubo Workbench
Built in the winter of 2012-2013. I needed to replace my old "weekend workbench" badly, and I built myself a Roubo from Douglas fir and ash. I detailed the build in this five part blog series at lumberjocks.com called "YAR! Yet Another Roubo" if you want to see scads of in progress photos.
This bench is amazing, and I spend less time trying to figure out how to hold work down and more time working on the projects. Not to mention it is just beautiful, and I think a shop should be as nice and inspirational as possible. It is 24" deep x 7'2" wide, and about 33" tall. I am a southpaw, so you may notice that the vise setup is ideal for lefties.
Total time was about 4 to 5 full weekends. Lumber cost about $300 (the ash came from one 8/4×9" x 6' slab for about $60), and the hardware was about $100 (two vise screws from Lee Valley, a pair of holdfasts, and some Spax lag bolts for the end caps), and a piece of leather for $12.


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Having started a new company you will need to consider operating payroll and accounting. Most company directors will draw some form of salary through a PAYE scheme and extract additional funds via dividend payment. There are many online services offering PAYE services for just a few pounds per month.
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1. Before adding one or more of our lab calendars, please sign out of any personal google account. Otherwise, the booking calendars will be associated with your personal calendars, and you will not be able to add your bookings.
2. Select the calendar you need access to in the calendar list: http://www.humlab.lu.se/en/facilities/booking-calendars/
3. Then use the instructions given in the figure below. When prompted for your login details, use the humlab booking account created for you.
4. Sign in to your humlab booking account (https://myaccount.google.com). When working in google calendar, make sure that you select the correct calendar in the event drop-down menu when adding new bookings.
5. Please use this link for general info on how to use google calendars: https://support.google.com/calendar/


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[36] viXra:1608.0364 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-27 03:19:35
Authors: Ramesh Chandra Bagadi
Comments: 1 Page.
TRL Lustre Is The Light's Cumulative Consecutive Higher Orders Orthogonal Primality Overgrowth (All Inclusive) Of It's Own Primality.
Category: General Mathematics
[35] viXra:1608.0348 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-25 08:09:08
Authors: Edgar Valdebenito
Comments: 14 Pages.
In this note we give some formulas for Catalan's constant G=0.915965594177...
Category: General Mathematics
[34] viXra:1608.0347 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-25 08:14:20
Authors: Edgar Valdebenito
Comments: 13 Pages.
In this note we give some formulas related with: pi constant pi=3.1415...,Catalan's constant G=0.9159...,Euler's constant gamma=0.5772...
Category: General Mathematics
[33] viXra:1608.0296 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 01:36:28
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 33 Pages.
This chapter may look like a glossary of the fusion rules and we also introduce new ones presenting their formulas and examples: Conjunc
tive, Disjunctive, Exclusive Disjunctive, Mixed Conjunctive-Disjunctive rules, Conditional rule, Dempster's, Yager's, Smets' TBM rule, Dubois-Prade's, Dezert-Smarandache classical and hybrid rules, Murphy's average rule, Inagaki-Lefevre-Colot-Vannoorenberghe Unified Combination rules [and, as particular cases:
Iganaki's parameterized rule, Weighted Average Operator, minC (M. Daniel), and newly Proportional Conflict Redistribution rules (Smarandache-Dezert) among which PCR5 is the most exact way of redistribution of the conflicting mass to non-empty sets following the path of the conjunctive rule], Zhang's Center Combination rule, Consensus Operator (Jøsang), Cautious Rule (Smets), -junctions rules (Smets), etc. and three new T -norm & T -conorm rules adjusted from fuzzy and neutrosophic sets to information fusion (Tchamova-Smarandache). Introducing the degree of union and degree of inclusion with respect
to the cardinal of sets not with the fuzzy set point of view, besides that of intersection,
many fusion rules can be improved.
Category: General Mathematics
[32] viXra:1608.0294 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 01:38:48
Authors: Florentin Smarandache, Jean Dezert
Comments: 18 Pages.
This chapter introduces the notion of qualitative belief assignment to model beliefs of human experts expressed in natural language (with linguistic labels).We show how qualitative beliefs can be efficiently combined using an extension of Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) of plausible and paradoxical quantitative reasoning to qualitative reasoning. We propose a new arithmetic on linguistic labels which allows a direct extension of classical or hybrid DSm fusion rules. An approximate qualitative PCR5 rule is also proposed jointly with a Qualitative Average Operator. We also show how crisp or interval mappings can be used to deal indirectly with linguistic labels. A very simple example is provided to illustrate our qualitative fusion rules.
Category: General Mathematics
[31] viXra:1608.0292 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 01:45:02
Authors: J. Dezert, A. Tchamova, P. Konstantinova, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 21 Pages.
We analyze the behavior of several combinational rules for temporal/sequential attribute data fusion for target type estimation. Our comparative analysis is based on: Dempster's fusion rule, Proportional Conflict Redistribution rule no.
5 (PCR5), Symmetric Adaptive Combination (SAC) rule and a new fusion rule, based on fuzzy T-conorm and T-norm operators (TCN).
Category: General Mathematics
[30] viXra:1608.0290 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 01:49:56
Authors: Xinhan Huang, Xinde Li, Min Wang
Comments: 22 Pages.
Characteristics of uncertainty and imprecision, even imperfection is presented from knowledge acquisition in map reconstruction of autonomous mobile robots. Especially in the course of building grid map using sonar, this characteristic
of uncertainty is especially servere.
Category: General Mathematics
[29] viXra:1608.0289 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 01:51:11
Authors: Arnaud Martin, Christophe Osswald
Comments: 21 Pages.
In this chapter, we present and discuss a new generalized proportional conflict redistribution rule. The Dezert-Smarandache extension of the Dempster- Shafer theory has relaunched the studies on the combination rules especially for the management of the conflict. Many combination rules have been proposed in the last few years. We study here different combination rules and compare them in terms
of decision on didactic example and on generated data. Indeed, in real applications,
we need a reliable decision and it is the final results that matter. This chapter shows that a fine proportional conflict redistribution rule must be preferred for the combination in the belief function theory.
Category: General Mathematics
[28] viXra:1608.0288 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 01:55:36
Authors: A. A. K. Majumdar
Comments: 3 Pages.
This paper gives an alternative approach to ¯nd the determinant of the right circular matrix with geometric sequence, using the known results of the circulant matrix.Keywords circulant matrix, right circulant matrix with geometric sequence.
Category: General Mathematics
[27] viXra:1608.0287 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 01:57:02
Authors: Samuel Corgne, Laurence Hubert-Moy, Gregoire Mercier, Jean Dezert
Comments: 13 Pages.
This chapter presents an environmental application of DSmT for the land cover prediction. The spatial prediction of land cover at the field scale in winter is useful to reduce the bare soils in agricultural intensive regions.
Category: General Mathematics
[26] viXra:1608.0286 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 01:58:54
Authors: Milan Daniel
Comments: 25 Pages.
Dempster's rule, non-normalized conjunctive rule, Yager's rule and Dubois-Prade's rule for belief functions combination are generalized to be applicable to hyper-power sets according to the DSm theory. A comparison of the rules with
DSm rule of combination is presented. A series of examples is included.
Category: General Mathematics
[25] viXra:1608.0283 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 02:02:21
Authors: Andrew Schumann
Comments: 23 Pages.
The Dezert-Smarandache theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning is based on the premise that some elements i of a frame have a non-empty
Category: General Mathematics
[24] viXra:1608.0282 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 02:03:23
Authors: Albena Tchamova, Tzvetan Semerdjiev, Jean Dezert
Comments: 12 Pages.
This chapter presents an approach for target behavior tendency estimation (Receding, Approaching). It is developed on the principles of Dezert-Smarandache theory (DSmT) of plausible and paradoxical reasoning applied to conventional
sonar amplitude measurements, which serve as an evidence for corresponding decision-making procedures.
Category: General Mathematics
[23] viXra:1608.0280 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 02:06:16
Authors: Denis de Brucq
Comments: 20 Pages.
This chapter presents new important links between the most important theories developed in literature for managing uncertainties (i.e. probability, fuzzy sets and evidence theories).
Category: General Mathematics
[22] viXra:1608.0277 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 02:10:34
Authors: J. Dezert, A. Tchamova, T. Semerdjiev, P. Konstantinova
Comments: 18 Pages.
The objective of this chapter is to present and compare different fusion rules which can be used for Generalized Data Association (GDA) for multitarget tracking (MTT) in clutter.
Category: General Mathematics
[21] viXra:1608.0274 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-24 02:14:26
Authors: A. A. K. Majumdar
Comments: 8 Pages.
Two types of the Smarandache LCM ratio functions have been introduced by Murthy. Recently, the second type of the Smarandache LCM ratio function has been considered by Khainar, Vyawahare and Salunke. This paper establishes the relationships
between these two forms of the Smarandache LCM ratio functions, and derives some reduction
formulas and interesting properties in connection with these functions.
Category: General Mathematics
[20] viXra:1608.0265 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:07:10
Authors: Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache, Mohammad Khoshnevisan
Comments: 18 Pages.
This chapter presents several classes of fusion problems which cannot be directly approached by the classical mathematical theory of evidence, also known as Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST), either because Shafer's model for the frame of
discernment is impossible to obtain, or just because Dempster's rule of combination fails to provide coherent results (or no result at all). We present and discuss the potentiality of the DSmT combined with its classical (or hybrid) rule of combination to attack these infinite classes of fusion problems.
Category: General Mathematics
[19] viXra:1608.0264 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:08:39
Authors: Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 20 Pages.
In this chapter one studies, within the DSmT framework, the case when the sources of information provide imprecise belief functions/masses, and we generalize
the DSm rules of combination (classic or hybrid rules) from scalar fusion to sub-unitary interval fusion and, more generally, to any set of sub-unitary interval fusion. This work generalizes previous works available in literature which appear limited to IBS (Interval-valued Belief Structures) in the Transferable Belief Model framework. Numerical didactic examples of these new DSm fusion rules for dealing with imprecise information are also presented.
Category: General Mathematics
[18] viXra:1608.0263 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:09:58
Authors: Ion P ATRASCU, Florentin SMARANDACHE
Comments: 4 Pages.
In this paper, the notion of Apollonius circle of rank k is introduced and a number of results related to the classical Apollonius circles are generalized.
Category: General Mathematics
[17] viXra:1608.0262 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:12:13
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 4 Pages.
This short paper presents mathematical rebuses.
Category: General Mathematics
[16] viXra:1608.0261 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:14:00
Authors: Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache, Albena Tchamova
Comments: 13 Pages.
Modern multitarget-multisensor tracking systems involve the development of reliable methods for the data association and the fusion of multiple sensor information, and more specifically the partitioning of observations into tracks. This
chapter discusses and compares the application of Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) and the Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) methods to the fusion of multiple sensor attributes for target identification purpose. We focus our attention on the paradoxical Blackman's association problem and propose several approaches to outperform Blackman's solution. We clarify some preconceived ideas about the use of degree of
conflict between sources as potential criterion for partitioning evidences.
Category: General Mathematics
[15] viXra:1608.0259 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:17:08
Authors: Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 13 Pages.
In this chapter, we examine several issues for ordering or partially ordering elements of hyper-power sets involved in the DSmT. We will show the benefit of some of these issues to obtain a nice and interesting structure of matrix representation
of belief functions.
Category: General Mathematics
[14] viXra:1608.0258 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:18:43
Authors: Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 34 Pages.
This chapter presents a general overview and foundations of the DSmT, i.e. the recent theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning developed by the authors, specially for the static or dynamic fusion of information arising from several independent but potentially highly conflicting, uncertain and imprecise sources of
evidence. We introduce and justify here the basis of the DSmT framework with respect to the Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST), a mathematical theory of evidence developed in 1976 by Glenn Shafer. We present the DSm combination rules and provide some simple illustrative examples and comparisons with other main rules of
combination available in the literature for the combination of information for simple
fusion problems. Detailed presentations on recent advances and applications of DSmT are presented in the next chapters of this book.
Category: General Mathematics
[13] viXra:1608.0257 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:19:57
Authors: Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 13 Pages.
The development of DSmT is based on the notion of Dedekind's lattice, called also hyper-power set in the DSmT framework, on which is defined the general basic belief assignments to be combined. In this chapter, we explain the structure of the hyper-power set, give some examples of hyper-power sets and show how they can be generated from isotone Boolean functions. We also show the interest to work with the hyper-power set rather than the power set of the refined frame of discernment in
terms of complexity.
Category: General Mathematics
[12] viXra:1608.0249 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:03:04
Authors: Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache, Milan Daniel
Comments: 12 Pages.
This chapter introduces a generalized pignistic transformation (GPT)developed in the DSmT framework as a tool for decision-making at the pignistic level. The GPT allows to construct quite easily a subjective probability measure
from any generalized basic belief assignment provided by any corpus of evidence. We focus our presentation on the 3D case and we provide the full result obtained by the proposed GPT and its validation drawn from the probability theory.
Category: General Mathematics
[11] viXra:1608.0248 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-23 04:05:22
Authors: Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 44 Pages.
This chapter presents a general method for combining uncertain and paradoxical (i.e. highly conflicting) sources of evidence for a wide class of fusion problems. From the foundations of the DSmT we show how the DSm rule of combination can be extended to take into account all possible integrity constraints (if any) of the problem under consideration due to the true nature of elements/concepts
involved into it. We show how Shafer's model can be considered as a specific hybrid DSm model and can be easily handled by the DSmT and one presents here a new efficient alternative to Dempster's rule of combination, following steps of previous researchers towards this quest. Several simple didactic examples are also provided to show the efficiency and the generality of the approach proposed in this work.
Category: General Mathematics
[10] viXra:1608.0196 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-19 04:32:18
Authors: Victor VLADAREANU, Ovidiu-Ilie SANDRU, Mihnea Alexandru MOISESCU, Florentin SMARANDACHE, Hongnian YU
Comments: 6 Pages.
The paper presents an application of Extenics Engineering principles to a two-dimensional robotic workspace. This provides the mathematical basis and considerations for obtaining the trajectory tracking reference in robotic applications. A brief history and overview of the relevant theoretical concepts is provided.
Category: General Mathematics
[9] viXra:1608.0194 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-19 04:42:48
Authors: Mumtaz Ali, Florentin Smarandache, Jian-qiang Wang
Comments: 8 Pages.
Fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets can't
handle imprecise, indeterminate, inconsistent, and incomplete information. Neutrosophic sets play an important role to overcome this difficulty. A neutrosophic set has a truth membership function, indeterminate membership function, and a falsehood membership functions that can handle all types of ambiguous information. New type of union and intersection has been proposed in this paper.
Category: General Mathematics
[8] viXra:1608.0193 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-19 04:45:46
Authors: Young Bae Jun, Florentin Smarandache, Chang Su Kim
Comments: 3 Pages.
R-unions and R-intersections of T-external (Iexternal,F-external) neutrosophic cubic sets are considered.Examples to show that the R-intersection and R-union of Texternal
(I-external, F-external) neutrosophic cubic sets may not be a T-external (I-external, F-external) neutrosophic cubic setare provided. Conditions for the R-union and R-intersection of T-external (I-external, F-external) neutrosophic cubic sets to be a T-external (I-external, F-external) neutrosophic cubic set are discussed.
Category: General Mathematics
[7] viXra:1608.0192 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-19 04:47:23
Authors: Said Broumi, Mohamed Talea, Florentin Smarandache, Assia Bakali
Comments: 8 Pages.
The single valued neutrosophic graph is a new
version of graph theory presented recently as a generalization of fuzzy graph and intuitionistic fuzzy graph. The single valued
neutrosophic graph (SVN-graph) is used when the relation between nodes (or vertices) in problems are indeterminate. In this paper, we examine the properties of various types of degrees, order and size of single valued neutrosophic graphs and a new definition for regular single valued neutrosophic graph is given.
Category: General Mathematics
[6] viXra:1608.0191 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-19 04:48:59
Authors: Irfan Deli, Yusuf Subas, Florentin Smarandache, Mumtaz Ali
Comments: 8 Pages.
Interval valued bipolar fuzzy weighted
neutrosophic set(IVBFWN-set) is a new generalization of fuzzy set, bipolar fuzzy set, neutrosophic set and bipolar neutrosophic set so that it can handle uncertain information more flexibly in the process of decision making.
Category: General Mathematics
[5] viXra:1608.0190 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-19 04:50:30
Authors: Mirela Teodorescu, Daniela Gîfu, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 8 Pages.
This study introduces the concept of uncertainty analysis of Neutrosophic Theory in the sphere of Maintenance Operating System
(MOS). The aim of this study is to underline the importance of uncertainties solving in Maintenance Operating System. In maintenance
process appear ambiguous states that can't be assimilated neither true, nor false, meaning that the threshold state is a neutral one, being defined as fault in most of cases. In this regard, this uncertaintymaking decision
process can be associated as functioning according to rules of Neutrosophy, and can be evaluated using elements of Neutrosophic
Structures, Pareto Charts, maintenance metrics. Identification of uncertainties and study of their impact on maintenance, making the right
decision, is the main focus of this paper.
Category: General Mathematics
[4] viXra:1608.0189 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-19 04:52:32
Authors: Azeddine Elhassouny, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 7 Pages.
In this paper, (1) one simplified the standard
TOPSIS to new Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) called Simplified-TOPSIS. Simplified-TOPSIS gives the same results and simplifies the calculation of the classical TOPSIS. An
example is presented distinctions between Simplified-TOPSIS and classical TOPSIS are underlined. (2) extend the new Simplified-TOPSIS method to Neutrosophic-simplified-TOPSIS
using single valued Neutrosophic information. An example showing the interest of Neutrosophic-simplified-TOPSIS to manipulate the uncertainty linked to information presented in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making.
Category: General Mathematics
[3] viXra:1608.0042 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-04 10:59:34
Authors: Mohsen Soori, Behrooz Arezoo, Mohsen Habibi
Comments: 11 pages, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 138(8), 081005, 2016
Virtual manufacturing systems carry out the simulation of manufacturing processes in digital environment in order to increase accuracy as well as productivity in part production. There are different error sources in machine tools, such as tool deflection, geometrical deviations of moving axis, and thermal distortions of machine tool structures. The errors due to tool deflection are caused by cutting forces and have direct effects on dimensional accuracy, surface roughness of the parts, and efficient life of the cutting tool, holder, and spindle. This paper presents an application of virtual machining systems in order to improve the accuracy and productivity of part manufacturing by monitoring and minimizing the tool deflection error. The tool deflection error along machining paths is monitored to present a useful methodology in controlling the produced parts with regard to desired tolerances. Suitable tool and spindle can also be selected due to the ability of error monitoring. In order to minimize the error, optimization technique based on genetic algorithms is used to determine optimized machining parameters. Free-form profile of virtual and real machined parts with tool deflection error is compared in order to validate reliability as well as accuracy of the software.
Category: General Mathematics
[2] viXra:1608.0010 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-02 08:58:48
Authors: Edgar Valdebenito
Comments: 4 Pages.
In this note we give some formulas for Catalan's constant: G=0.915965594177...
Category: General Mathematics
[1] viXra:1608.0009 [pdf] submitted on 2016-08-02 09:02:04
Authors: Edgar Valdebenito
Comments: 5 Pages.
In this note we show some identities with hyperbolic functions
Category: General Mathematics


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Police blotter - March 26, 2008
Fraud suspected
The York County Sheriff's Office is investigating a complaint from officials at a bank in Lancaster County, who accused a Fort Mill township resident of depositing more than $3,000 in bogus checks between Oct. 3, 2007, and Nov. 7, 2007. Officials at the bank in Lancaster said the suspect would deposit the checks as cash and then withdraw cash from another bank Fort Mill.
No arrest has been been made, but the investigation in continuing, according to a report.
Fast food holdup
A woman waiting at the drive through window of a Hwy. 160 fast food restaurant was robbed around 8:30 p.m. last Tuesday, according to as sheriff's office report.
A man described as approximately 20 years old, black and wearing a hooded sweatshirt, faded dark jeans, white shoes and a blue bandana grabbed a $20 bill from the driver's hand, and tried to steal her purse and open her door after approaching from behind her 2006 Kia Sedona with a gun. He fled on foot. A sheriff's office canine unit tracked him to the parking lot of a nearby drug store on Pleasant Road before losing the scent. Officers were able to lift finger prints from the victim's car, the report stated.
A burglar abandoned most of the haul after using a cement pedestal to smash a bedroom window at a house on Pleasant Road last Friday, according to a sheriff's office report.
The break-in was reported around 9:30 a.m. Stolen from the home was a 26-inch Sony Bravia TV ($1,265) and a jewelry box. Officers found both in woods near the home, though some jewelry was missing from the box. The break-in caused an estimated $700 damage, the report stated.
Cars stolen
Sheriff's deputies recovered a stolen silver 2008 Volvo S60 ($35,000), from a gas station parking lot on Carowinds Boulevard where it had been abandoned sometime before 10 p.m. last Tuesday, according to a report. Six days later, according to another report, a 2002 Mazda Tribute was stolen from a lot at Carowinds while its owner was in the park from 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday. Along with the car, the thief tool a $600 camera, iPod, another MP3 player, school books and a purse.
Grates, TV stolen
Six storm drain grates were stolen from a construction site at White Springs and Pleasant roads between 4 p.m. Monday, March 17, and 8:46 the next morning, according to a sheriff's office report.
Also during that time someone took a back hoe on the site for a joy ride causing $7,500 damage to concrete curbs, however the back hoe was returned to it's original position following the damage, the report stated. Also last Monday night, someone stole a 42-inch flat screen Samsung TV worth $4,000 from the back porch of a Gold Hill Road restaurant, according to another report.
-- By Erin Scott
Police reports of all felonies and any major misdemeanors are compiled weekly from local law enforcement agency records. Charges do not necessarily result in a conviction, and people who are arrested are innocent until proven guilty.


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