text: You can explore Albert Einstein's digital brain with a new app, but you can learn more about the man's mind in a new volume of collected papers released today. The papers bring Einstein's thoughts and writings between 1922 and '23 to the public for the first time. Consisting of more than 100 letters and 36 research documents, lectures, discussions, and reports, the papers show Einstein struggling with fame, attempting to speak Hebrew in British Palestine, and almost completely forgetting to mention that he received the Nobel Prize. "It is a very busy time in Einstein's life, he's travelling a lot," said historian Diana Kormos-Buchwald of Caltech, who works with the Einstein Papers Project. The scientist is away from his home in Berlin for seven months out of the total 15 covered in the new volume, which includes a poetic travel diary covering his visit to Japan, Palestine, and Spain. The documents also include Einstein wrestling with important scientific concepts, such as the quantum mechanical revolution that was happening at the time, and his own work on Special and General Relativity. His fame as a scientist growing, Einstein tried to promote pacifism and intellectual ideals. But he also struggles with the fact that "the wider public, and politics, have long since taken control of my theory, and my person, and have tried somehow to adapt both to their own purposes." Wired was able to take a special sneak peek at the 44-page intro to the volume, which is available for purchase from Princeton University Press. Here, we take a look at some of the highlights from the new documents. The full volume will be digitized for the web and available in a year at the Einstein Archive Online, though you can browse other selected documents such as Einstein's 1930s U.S. travel diary. Paris Visit In a highly anticipated visit, Einstein travels to Paris to deliver a popular lecture series on Special and General Relativity at the College de France in early April of 1922. Though the trip and the lectures were extremely successful, Einstein's documents reveal that it was also a period of high anxiety. It was only a few years since World War I had ended and formal relations had not yet been reestablished between Germany and France. Einstein feared that he would be seen as a representative of Germany, writing that "my visit to Paris would have more adverse than favorable consequences" and might even be construed as "an act of betrayal." He also knew there could be demonstrations — similar to ones he had earlier witnessed in his home country — regarding his being a pacifist, an internationalist, and a Jew. "Einstein was keenly aware that he is a controversial person not only at home but also abroad," said Kormos-Buchwald. Besides his political ideals, Einstein's scientific theories were still in their infancy. His work on Special Relativity had been first published in 1905 and his paper on General Relativity was only six years old at this time. During his lectures, at least one person criticized the theories as lacking in common sense and being contrary to all known scientific concepts of time and space. Einstein's French colleagues immediately spoke up to defend the theories but incidents such as this are a reminder that Einstein's ideas took a long time to be understood and accepted. Image: Einstein in 1921, during a lecture in Vienna. WikimediaDeath of a Friend On June 24, 1922, right-wing extremists assassinated Germany's foreign minister, Walther Rathenau. The event shocked Einstein deeply and marked an important event in his life. Rathenau had been a good friend of Einstein, who had urged him to visit Paris despite his doubts. In a letter of condolence to Rathenau's mother, Einstein wrote that Rathenau had been "not just as a man of great understanding and ability to lead, but also as one of the great Jewish figures to offer up their lives to the ethical ideal of reconciliation among peoples." Einstein was notified that he, too, was on a list of possible targets by ultra-nationalists. Friends warned him that he should stay quiet and out of the public eye. In the fearful wake of the assassination, Einstein informed Marie Curie-Sklodowska that he would be resigning from the Prussian Academy of Sciences and told Max von Laue that "officially" he was already away from Berlin, though he was physically still there. During the summer, Einstein went into a sort of hiding, living with his sons in a cottage outside Berlin. Like many academicians, he contemplated leaving his university post for a career in industrial consulting. He wrote to a friend who owns an electrical company that he was considering buying a house in Kiel, a small town away from Berlin, and coming to work in his factory. But upon "calm reflection" Einstein decides that there wouldn't be much for him at the factory and reverses his decision to pull out of public life. Image: Walther Rathenau in 1921. WikimediaEinstein in the East The bulk of the documents in this period pertain to Einstein's five-and-a-half-month trip to the Far East, Palestine, and Spain. The international journey was mostly paid for by the Japanese, who invited Einstein to deliver a scientific lecture series in Tokyo, and six popular lectures in several other cities. During the trip, Einstein kept a travel diary, which is being published for the first time. Intended as a travelogue for his stepdaughters, Einstein wrote daily in the diary and occasionally accompanied his text with drawings of volcanoes, boats, and fish. "It is a candid account of what he sees and how he feels on this trip," said historian Diana Kormos-Buchwald. "He enjoyed the long periods of quiet and contemplation." Einstein's kindness and care for the plight of others shows through in his writings. After taking a rickshaw in Colombo, he described being "very much ashamed of myself for being a part of such despicable treatment of human beings but couldn't change anything." But even as a persecuted Jew, his European racial ideas make a mark in the journal. The Chinese he described as an "industrious, dirty, numbed people" and that "it would be a pity if these Chinese were to push out all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably boring." His time in Japan seems to have been much more enjoyable, as his arrival was greeted by an enormous crowd shouting "Einstein! Einstein!" and "Banzai." Einstein deeply appreciated Japan — he loved their gardens and the aesthetics of Japanese architecture. He described the Japanese as "similar to Italians in temperament, but even more refined, still entirely steeped in their artistic tradition, not nervous, full of humor." Image: Einstein drinking sake in Japan. Courtesy of the Estate of Kenji SugimotoThe Nobel Prize Before leaving for the Far East, Einstein received several letters asking him to reconsider his travel plans since there would soon be "news from Stockholm," said historian Diana Kormos-Buchwald. This news could only mean one thing – Einstein was to receive the Nobel Prize in physics. Einstein decided to go to Japan anyway, skipping his chance to be at the Nobel ceremony, and was informed while traveling that he had been awarded the Nobel for 1921. Interestingly, he failed to note in his diary that he had been given this highest of honors. The award ceremony proceeded without him but Einstein still received the large monetary prize that came with the Nobel. He got 32,653.76 US dollars, which at the time was roughly equivalent to forty-nine annual combined Berlin salaries. Einstein gave part of the money to his first wife and his two boys from his first marriage. This had been stipulated in a special clause in their divorce agreement. At the same ceremony that Einstein did not attend, the famous physicist Niels Bohr was given the Nobel Prize in physics for 1922 (the Nobel committee had not awarded the prize for two years because of instability following WWI). While Einstein is known for having struggled with the quantum mechanics that Bohr helped develop, and the two famously fought throughout the 1920s, his letters to Bohr reveal a completely different side. "What we see in this volume is how admiring Einstein was of Bohr and vice-versa," said Buchwald. In one document, Einstein wrote that he considered Bohr "the greatest contemporary genius in physics." For his part, Bohr expressed fear that he would be given the Nobel Prize before Einstein, a turn of events that he considered simply unacceptable. Bohr was also upset that he would be at the ceremony while Einstein would not, to which Einstein replied that he was proud that they could both get the prize at the same time. Image: Einstein and Bohr, kicking it. WikimediaThe Scientist in the Holy Land On his way back from the Far East, Einstein made a special visit to Palestine, then under protection of the British. Einstein was a cultural Zionist as of 1918 onwards and was committed to the idea of there being Jewish institutions of higher learning in the Holy Land. Einstein stopped in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, and several kibbutzim during his Palestinian visit. He gave the inaugural lecture at the Hebrew University's future site on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. He even tried his hand at speaking in Hebrew, though the pronunciation was difficult and he expressed regret at not being able to lecture in "the language of his people." He visited the Western Wall and wrote a famous line about the ultra-orthodox Jews, his "dull ethnic brethren with their faces to the wall bend their bodies to and fro in a swaying motion. Pitiful sight of people with a past but without a present." In Tel Aviv, Einstein attended a reception at City Hall, where he was welcomed by Mayor Meir Dizengoff and named the first honorary citizen of the city. According to the press, the streets were lined with throngs of people eager to see the famous scientist. Image: Einstein with leaders of the World Zionist Organization in New York in 1921. WikimediaTravels' End Einstein ended his long trip with a visit to Spain. There he was greeted by the Spanish royal family and given honorary degrees. He returned to Berlin after to be reunited with his wife and children. Though this period in Einstein's life was full of momentous events and travels, it also marked a difficult period and perhaps foreshadowed the fact that he would never find peace in Germany. "He continues to feel that he needs to be active, to put his shoulder to initiatives that he thinks are worthwhile," said historian Diana Kormos-Buchwald. "But at the same time he will be attacked if he is too outspoken." Because of the growing antisemitism, Einstein would never be a spokesman for his German colleagues, and he will never head a major organization in his home country. A bit more than 10 years after these writings, Einstein will come to America and decide not to go back to the Nazi regime he left. But he will continue to work on his scientific research and push for global peace. Image: Einstein and his wife Elsa during their travels. Courtesy of the Estate of Kenji Sugimoto


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konsekvenser af at harmonisere selskabslovgivningen i EuropaBennedsen, Morten; Dam, Thea; Herby, Jonas; Nielsen, Kasper (, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7651
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Tilfældet MatasBlomgren-Hansen, Niels (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: According to the Competition Act, a merger that impedes eective competition signi cantly, in particular by creating or strengthening a dominant postition, shall be prohibited. To decide whether this is the case the authorities need a quanti able model of the relationship between the variables that are directly aected by the merger and some measure of competition. In this paper we set up and calibrate a simple model of the interaction of the retail and the wholesale markets for high-end cosmetics in Denmark based on the Matas case. The model predicts that the acquisition of Matas - comprising roughly half of the market for high end cosmetics - may have a significant on retail prices and that the authorities had good reasons for making its approval conditioned on the removal of a number of contract-based barriers to entry. Analytically the main results are: (1) In a linear model with constant marginal costs the optimal wholesale prices are unexpected by the structure in the retail sector. (2) The ect on of buyer-power induced quantity dioscounts depends on the speci c design of the scheme: A relative discount on the list price the independent shops are charged increases the average retail price; A xed reduction relative to the pre-merger price reduces the average retail price). (3) Buyer-power induced retail price maintenance (RPM) increases the average retail price. RPM increases the competitiveness and pro ts of the merged shops if producers keep whole-sale prices unchanged. If, however, the producers adjust their wholesale prices, then RMP hurts merged and independent shops alike and benefits only the producers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7516
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befolkning, arbejdsstyrke, beskæftigelse, erhvervLund, Lars (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7530
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priser og realindkomstLund, Lars (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Real income on Bornholm is described by comparing the region with the capital area and the country. Region specific prices are constructed for housing expenditure and for services. Weights for these parts of household budgets and the residual are found from panel surveys of household consumption. Relative prices of the consumption bundle for each year in the period 1987 to 1996 are found for both those who own there dwelling and those who rent it. Median incomes for entrepreneurs, employees and workers are constructed. Combining data on incomes and on relative prices gives estimates of real incomes. The result is that households of employed persons are relatively rich on Bornholm during the period. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7609
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Lund, Lars (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7545
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arbejdsmarkedet på Bornholm 1987 til 1996Lund, Lars (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7580
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Lund, Lars (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A new local government structure is announced for Greenland from 2009. If the reform is carried through, Nanortalik the most southerly town will come together with Qaqortoq, then the new centre, and Narsaq. A suggestion by the mayor of Nanortalik about the number of civil servants that should move to the centre is the basis for calculating the potential loss of gross income (wages and profits) in the first years of the reform. With the civil servants follow some adults and children. On top of the direct loss of income come derived losses determined by a multiplier process. The size of the multiplier is estimated to be around 1,25. This is based on assumptions about income levels, expenditure patterns, and local income parts of sales. Full implementation of the reform could mean a loss of 5 plus percent of gross income. If other probable losses (e.g. fewer elected members of the local authority) are added in, the loss could rise to more than 7 percent. Tax rates are assumed not to be lowered by the departure of civil servants to the centre. To the contrary an increase in the tax rate for Nanortalik is envisaged as this small town in these years enjoys an advantage from taxing local people and foreign skilled workers operating a nearby gold mine. It is stressed that the paper doesn't evaluate the proposal for a reform, neither for the South of Greenland nor for Greenland as a whole. It is about possible very short term local effects URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7521
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Labour Market Implications of a Compressed Wage Structure when Education and Training are EndogenousMalchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Skaksen, Jan Rose (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We consider the economic implications of a compressed wage structure which is exogenously determined by institutions. An important feature of our analysis is that human capital is endogenous and can be achieved either as formal education or as informal training within firms after entering the labour market. While institutional wage compression decreases the incentives of individuals to become educated, it increases the incentives of firms to invest in training. As a result, the net effects of wage compression on the aggregate human capital level and GDP are ambiguous. Moreover, with wage compression, a skillbiased technological change may cause wage inequality to decrease. Keywords: Wage compression, training, education, inequality, institutions, skill-biased technological change. JEL: I21, J31, J5, O33. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7574
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Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present. Welfare tends to be most negatively affected by discrimination among highproductivity workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8520
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Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in the other sector and the effect on labour market performance therefore depends on whether discrimination is present in only one sector or in both sectors. Discrimination may induce workers to train more or less than natives after having lost their skills, dependent upon which sector there is discrimination. Net output tends to the be most negatively affected by discrimination among high-skilled workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9157
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Filges, Trine; Kennes, John; Larsen, Birthe; Tranæs, Torben (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper studies labour market policy in a society where differently gifted individuals can invest in training to further increase their labour market productivity and where the government seeks both effiency and equity. Frictions in the matching process create unemployment and differently skilled workers face different unemployment risks. We show that in such an environment, training programmes that are targeted to the unemployed complement passive transfers (UI benefits), unlike a general training subsidy. Combining passive subsidies with a training subsidy conditioned on the individual being unemployed (for a while) - the typical Active Labour Market Programme - implies a favorable trade-off between equity and efficiency which encourages high spending on training. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7511
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the effect of the vote of confidence procedureBennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7616
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Delegation and Influence Under Alternative Political StructuresBennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper studies how interest group lobbying of the bureaucracy affects policy outcomes and how it changes the legislature's willingness to delegate decision-making authority to the bureaucracy. We extend the standard model of delegation to account for interest group influence during the implementation stage of policy and apply it to different institutional structures of government. The paper addresses the following questions: First, how does the decision to delegate change when the bureaucratic agent is subject to external influence? What cost does this influence impose on the legislative principal? Finally, how susceptible are policy choices to bureaucratic lobbying under different government structures? In answering these questions, the paper seeks to provide a comparative theory of lobbying and to explain the different patterns of interest group activity across political systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7561
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Bennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7621
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Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn; Steingrimsdottir, Herdis (Frederiksberg, 2019)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Childhood disability is a major health shock that affects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on parents' career trajectories, their balance sheets, and major life decisions using detailed register data from Denmark. To identify the causal effect of childhood disability we use an event study approach, where we control for a rich set of pre-birth variables and focus on conditions that have no or weak associations with socioeconomic determinants. We find that having a child with a disability has strong negative impact on mothers' earnings. The effect is persistent and the wage penalty appears to grow over time. Fathers' earnings are also affected but the impact is notably smaller. We find that both parents are less likely to be employed in the long run and are less likely to ascend to top executive positions. The long-term structure of the household is also affected as subsequent fertility is lower and partnership dissolution is more common. Finally, despite this financial shock, long term net worth of families is not affected or may be positively affected, potentially due to help from government transfers and lower cost associated with having fewer other children, or due to a stronger savings motive for the long term care of the disabled child. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9745
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Labour Market, Health Care and Prescription DrugsHøjbjerg Jacobsen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper uses a register dataset for the entire Danish population to examine the effect of early motherhood on labour market measures, health care measures and family measures for the mothers and their offspring. The dataset is divided into three groups according to the age of the woman at the time of her first child delivery. Using standard cross-sectional econometric techniques the results show that very young mothers (aged 16-21) have significantly lower employment rates, higher propensity to receive welfare benefits and a lower wage income. Children of very young mothers have a higher family replacement rate, more services received from General Practitioners and a higher propensity to receive ADHD-medications. The majority of the effects reported are also significantly greater for mothers who were aged 22-25 at the birth of their first child compared to older mothers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8377
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problems, policies and prospectsAndersen, Torben M.; Hougaard Jensen, Svend E.; Risager, Ole (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Over the last 25 years the Danish economy has had difficulties in growing as fast as other EU countries and the United States. While the average growth difference is small, it signals that if this trend persists into the next century, Denmark will not be able to maintain its high position in the world income hierarchy. Moreover, during these years, the number of individuals living on transfer incomes have increased dramatically. Although we interpret both tendencies as signals of structural weaknesses, we are also aware that these developments may reflect that other goals in economic policy have been pursued, such as protecting the environment and/or achieving certain redistributive objectives. This paper analyzes this and other broad policy issues of importance for Denmark. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7612
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en detaljeret oversigtMøllgaard, H. Peter (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7520
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Møllgaard, Peter; Overgaard, Per Baltzer (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7567
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A Tax Optimality IndexRaimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Woodland, Alan D. (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper introduces an index of tax optimality that measures the distance of some current tax structure from the optimal tax structure in the presence of public goods. In doing so, we derive a [0, 1] number that reveals immediately how far the current tax configuration is from the optimal one and, thereby, the degree of efficiency of a tax system. We call this number the Tax Optimality Index. We show how the basic method can be altered in order to derive a revenue equivalent uniform tax, which measures the size of the public sector. A numerical example is used to illustrate the method developed. JEL Code: H21, H41. Keywords: Tax optimality index, excess burden, distance function. Authors Affiliations: Raimondos-Møller: Copenhagen Business School, CEPR, CESifo, and EPRU. Woodland: University of Sydney. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7534
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While the Calgary Flames' desire for another arena is certainly nothing new, Brian Burke put his signature snarly spin on the subject Thursday at the Calgary Chamber breakfast.
"An update on our new home? You know what? We need a new building. Obviously, everyone knows that," said Burke, president of hockey operations for the Flames, responding to a question from the audience. "We have the finest state-of-the-art 1988 building in the (National Hockey League)."
The Scotiabank Saddledome, headquarters to the Flames, was built in 1983.
The rink seats 19,289.
"You know what's embarrassing?" said Burke. "There is one building worse than ours. Has anyone been there? Islanders (who play out of dilapidated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum). So we don't actually have the worst building in the National Hockey League. But we have a state-of-the-art 1988 building."
Acknowledging that the process involves issues well above his pay grade — "That's (Flames' CEO and president) Ken King stuff" — Burke is never far from an opinion.
And he happily continued to share his.
"A building has . . . to generate NHL economics, which our building does not," said Burke. "Lower bowl in a new arena — in the new generation of arenas — is 9,000 seats, minimum. Ours is what — 6,000? So we're not generating the revenue that an NHL building does. The sightlines aren't as good. They've got better suites in the new buildings, better amenities for our season-ticket holders and our fans.
"And, more importantly, the investment in a building and what it brings to a downtown core in terms of entertainment . . . a lot of bands don't come and play the Saddledome because the building is antiquated. The weight load that the roof will bear is tiny, so a lot of big stage acts don't come here.
"So it's not just what a hockey team gets . . . it's what it does to a downtown core. We need a new building in Calgary."
Which is what's happening right now in Edmonton.
The Oilers' downtown digs — Rogers Place — has been under construction for three months. The facility will be ready for the fall of 2016.
The cost, all-in, is $606 million. And that includes the price of the NHL's largest high-definition video screen.
"This project here is going to raise the bar," Dan Vaillant of ICON Venue Group, the project manager, told the Edmonton Journal earlier this week. "It's going to be the building that the next NHL team is going to look to and try to better."
The Flames would dearly love to be that next team.
Burke was asked Thursday morning about support for the project. Is the community prepared for that?
"I'm not worried," he said. "I'm not sure politically where things lie because I'm new here, but, in my mind, it has to happen. And it's going to happen. I think it makes sense on every front. You don't have to be a hockey fan to want a new building in Calgary.
"There's absolutely no reason why we should watch a new building going up in Edmonton and we've got to play in a 1988 building here."


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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast is an imaging test. It uses strong magnets and radio waves to make pictures of the inside of the breast. It also makes images of the tissues that surround the breast. Breast MRI is used to check for problems, such as a leaking breast implant or a lump or growth. It can also be used to help find breast cancer. It can help with diagnosis and management. Most MRI tests take 30 to 60 minutes. Depending on the type of MRI you are having, the test may take longer. Give yourself extra time to check in.
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I hope all of my American readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! The day after Thanksgiving is "Black Friday", the unofficial starting data for shopping for upcoming holiday presents and decorations. The Monday after that is now often referred to as "Cyber Monday", where many people purchase items on-line.
I thought this would be good time to promote my book series, Inside System Storage, Volumes I through V. These are available direct from my publisher, [Lulu], or from other on-line retailers.
The old adage "Never judge a book by its cover" often leads technical authors to select bland cover designs. I designed the cover art for the series to have a consistent look, but be unique enough to know each book is different. They all have a beige background with black text, three or four graphics representing the various storage themes du jour, and a color stripe spread diagonally across the spine.
Several readers have asked if there was any rhyme or reason for the color of each spine. One guessed it was based on the [electronic color code] used on resistors to mark their value. When I was getting my college degree in Electrical Engineering, the mnemonic "Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Venture Goes West" helped us remember the sequence: Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey and White.
I can assure everyone I was not that clever. Here, instead, is the story behind each color chosen:
Volume I: Green
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However, as the owners dropped out, one to start a family, another to take care of her father after her mother passed away, I started 2009 as the majority owner. The economic recession took its toll. Members were not spending as much of their disposable income of fun and entertainment. We restructured the company, revamped the website, and adopted Purple as our official color. Our event coordinators all wore purple shirts, and carried purple clipboards. Despite this major transformation, I just did not have time to run this company while still working full-time at IBM, so I sold it at year end.
Volume IV: Blue
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If you were having trouble getting ideas for gifts this holiday season, hopefully, this post gave you five new ideas for your friends, family, coworkers and clients! They are all available in hardcover, paperback, and eBook (PDF) for viewing on desktops, laptops, tablets or smartphones.
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Like many African countries, most people in Angola hardly earn $2 a day. The government of Angola took a step in trying to develop the country such that it could match other countries in the world. This time it selected developing apartments in Kalimba, about 30km outside Luanda, the capital.
The government hired a Chinese company, China International Trust and Investment Corporation to do the job and it paid back by giving it the country's natural resource, oil.
The Chinese company did the job pretty well and built 750 8-storey apartments where each apartment would go for 75000 Euros a price that cannot be afforded by locals even in 20 years.
Blogger Francois-Xavier thinks the government had to use oil to develop local industries, which would provide employment for citizens:
Or how the exploitation of Africa's natural resource benefits only banks and multinationals! Its quite a shame for an African government to go for such a move. Oil and natural resources revenues must be used to develop heavy industry, the main engine of any economy and which is sorely lacking in Africa. This will allow access to employment and a fair redistribution of wealth and thus increase the purchasing power of brave Africans. Africans are not needy for luxury. That's a sheer lie that is being publicized by western corporatist media working with the tiny yet heavily corrupted African elite.
Talking about the price of the apartment, he says:
That will take 20+ years to a man that has a wife and 4 children to pay up. A crazy one will ask:"Why does he have 4 children?" and I will answer him "Go to h***". Do not drag Africa in your crisis spiral.
This is Africa tries to explain why there are ghost towns in China and Angola:
It would be easy to condense the real reason for this craziness into one word, namely: "Communism!" – or maybe four words: "Communism and Marxism-Leninism" – considering that the one-and-only ruling party in the People's Republic of China is officially committed to these socio-political ideologies, but my gut-feeling tells me there's more to this weird phenomenon of building cities well in advance than meets the eye.
History has proven that in almost every single country in the world where revolutionary socialist movements have taken root, and more so when the people are ruled by a one party state, that there is always a massive misallocation (legalized theft) of capital by the ruling government.
So what are these 'Masters of Darkness' planning now with the numerous, largely uninhabited, structures that are popping up in strange remote places, mainly in countries controlled by communist forces? These new cities with their tarred roads, patches of green lawn, and neat rows of apartment blocks surely cannot be for the benefit of the working classes, as the cost of purchasing an apartment in any one of these new developments is well out of reach for the average working-class family. The communist manifesto that claims, "…we represent the interests of the working classes," is thus complete and utter bullshit!
UChinaTravel blog writes:
It is believed to be one of the largest new building projects on the entire African continent.
However, the reason this story received so much attention is the fact that the new development has been portrayed as a "Ghost Town," as almost all 12,355 acres of the property are seemingly vacant. Nearly an entire year since the first round of 2,800 properties hit the market, only 220 have been sold.
Fauna posts translated Chinese comments from Chinese netizens on chinaSMACK website. Below is a sample of the comments:
Those bunch of stupid losers have hyped/speculated the housing market all the way to Africa?
[Head of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences's Africa Research Office] He Wenping says, "This a construction project that benefits everyone, as well as the foundation for African economic growth". == Sounds familiar!
Domestically [the country] keeps trying to tax us and raise the retirement age while squandering money abroad!!! China, I'm proud of you, I feel such pride!!!
The residential area is meant to help improve the people's livelihoods —— Whether that's the case there I don't know, but over here its used to exploit us [with usury]!
A bunch of unscrupulous businessmen who after cheating people out of their money in China have now gone to Africa to lose face for Chinese people.
However, one netizens disputes the use of the term "ghost town":
BBC, this time you really have got it wrong, a "ghost town" according to China is a neighborhood where not a single person lives, and this new residential district in Angola no matter what still has a few people living there, so how can you guys say it is a "ghost town"????
Will the Angolan people be able to access these apartments that were constructed using the country's money and natural resources?
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Dr. Reginald Wells, Chief Human Capital Officer at SSA, on how to motivate employees during hard times.
These are turbulent times. We face a plethora of challenges--budget cuts, shrinking workforces, pay freezes, increasing workloads, negative rhetoric about federal employees, their work ethic and their value to the public. Without proper attention to our employees' morale, we will be hard-pressed to weather the turbulence successfully.
From my perspective, it all begins at the top. Leadership must set the tone by communicating service expectations and offering transparency about the nature of problems affecting the agency and its workforce. At the Social Security Administration (SSA), agency leadership has been extremely attentive to the information needs of employees. The messages we convey give as much insight as possible--offering encouragement to all those who are working hard to fulfill the mission.
While communication strategies need not be elaborate, it is sometimes necessary to go beyond typical methods. For example, I recently initiated monthly brown bag luncheons, allowing employees to come together in an intimate setting to discuss issues important to them with my deputy and me. The feedback was extraordinary and those who attended expressed tremendous gratitude for our sensitivity to their concerns and our willingness to be as accessible as possible. When public servants have any doubt about the relevance of their role or the importance of their work on behalf of the American public, they have only to return to the source of their decision to become public servants.
It means remembering that they became public servants because they wanted to make life better for people and, in the case of the SSA, to ensure that people receive their retirement benefits or desperately needed disability or survivor benefits. That is often more than enough motivation to reenergize and strengthen their engagement and commitment. Understanding the importance of the particular role you play in a noble cause is always a transforming and validating experience.
Dr. Reginald Wells, Deputy Commissioner for Human Resources and the Chief Human Capital Officer at the Social Security Administration (SSA), was a panelist for the discussion on "Breakthrough Practices for Increasing Employee Motivation" at Excellence in Government Live on Sept. 6, 2012.
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Top 20 albums of 1984: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 3
02. Ride The Lightning
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James Hetfield - guitars, vocals
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Lars Ulrich - drums
Cliff Burton - bass
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Produced by Metallica.
Assisted by Flemming Rasmussen and Mark Whitaker.
Engineered by Flemming Rasmussen.
Recorded and mixed at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark, during spring 1984.
Mastered at Masterdisk by Bob Ludwig.
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|With this album Metallica confirm their total control on Thrash Metal and their consolidation like an international band. In this album the band members were fully adapted to each other and make a more mature and considerably better musical album. The lyrics of this album are also better than in the last one, they do not speak now about headbanging, blood, and those things, in "Ride The Lightning" they speak about personal problems like in 'Fade To Black' . Other tracks are inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the movie 'The Ten Commandments' like 'Creeping Death'.
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Ride the Lightning was nothing less than a nuclear bomb dropped in American metal laps. We'd heard Judas Priest and Sabbath, but nothing could have prepared anyone for what was coming full force out of San Francisco in '84. Since Kill 'em All had limited success in the underground, most people still hadn't heard of the Bay area thrashers who were busy forging a new metal scene stateside. With the launch of Ride the Lightning and heavy touring, Metallica were set to take stage as one of the more brutal premier metal acts.
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Strongly influenced by Hip-Hop and Dancehall, VocalTeknix, constantly tries to bring new sounds to his work, easily mixing still unknown genres in France or styles reminding his Cape Verdeans origins. When he is asked to talk about his profession, here's what he tells us: « my goal is that my audience have fun and according to me, to have fun, you have to go through mixing genres. Don't stick to only one particular style, I love mixing urban sounds such as Hip-Hop, R&B or even caribbean rhythms like dancehall or Afro pop. I'm fascinated by the English culture, their musical avant-gardism impresses me and I also like mixing more electro sounds like funky house, dubstep or even trap music.
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WAY, estates. A passage, street or road. A right of way is a privilege which
an individual or a particular description of persons, such as the
inhabitants of a particular place, or the owners or occupiers of such place
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2. It is an incorporeal hereditament of a real nature, a mere easement, entirely different from public or private roads.
3. A right of way may arise, 1. By prescription and immemorial usage. 2 McCord, 447 5 Har. & John. 474; Co. Litt. 113, b; Br. Chem. 2; 1 Roll. Ab. 936. 2. By grant. 3 Lev. 305; 1 Ld. Raym. 75; 17 Mass. 416; Crabb on R. P. Sec. 366. 3. By reservation 4. By custom. 5. By acts of the legislature. 6. From necessity, when a man's ground is enclosed and completely blocked up, so that he cannot, without passing over his neighbor's land, reach the public road. For example, should A grant a piece of land to B, surrounded by land belonging to A; a right of way over A's land passes of necessity to B, otherwise he could not derive any benefit from the acquisition. Vide 3 Rawle, 495; 2 Fairf. R. 1,56; 2 Mass. 203; 2 McCord, 448; 3 McCord, 139; 2 Pick. 577; 14 Mass. 56; 2 Hill, S. C. R. 641; and Necessity. The way is to be taken where it will be least injurious to the owner. 4 Kent, Com. 338. 4. Lord Coke, adopting the civil law, says there are three kinds of ways. 1. A foot-way, called iter. 2. A foot-way and horse-way, called adus. 3. A cart- way, which contains the other two, called via. Co. Lit. 56, a; Pothier, Pandectae, lib. 8, t. 3, Sec. 1; Dig. 8, 3; 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 177. Vide Yelv. 142, n; Id. 164; Woodf. Landl. & Ten. 544; 4 Kent, Com. 337; Ayl. Pand. 307; Cruise's Dig. tit. 24; 1 Taunt. R. 279; R. & M. 151; 1 Bail. R. 58; 2 Hill. Abr. c. 6; Crabb on Real Prop. Sec. 360 to 397; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; Easement; Servitude.


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TORONTO - The Ontario Securities Commission has dismissed allegations of insider trading and tipping against Jowdat Waheed and Bruce Walter, key figures in a company that waged a 2011 bidding war for Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.
Nunavut Iron Ore Acquisition, which Walter and Waheed headed, later joined forces with their rival — multinational steel giant ArcelorMittal — to buy Baffinland in partnership for about $590 million.
A panel of three OSC commissioners, which held hearings earlier this year, ruled that the evidence didn't support the allegations of tipping and insider trading that were filed against the two men in early 2012.
The panel said there was no dispute that Waheed had received, while working as a consultant for Baffinland, some information about its negotiations with ArcelorMittal but the question was whether the non-public information was significant — or material — when Nunavut made its initial investments in Baffinland on Sept. 9, 2010, a few months after his consultant contracted expired.
The panel decided that Waheed — who was on contract to Bafflinland from Feb. 18, 2010, until about June 15, 2010, — wasn't in a special relationship with the junior mining company and didn't have knowledge of material facts about the ArcelorMittal negotiations at the relevant times.
Walter, who was semi-retired when he was approached by Waheed in July 2010, had been a managing director at BMO Nesbitt Burns from 1999 to 2001. In the 1980s, he had been a lawyer at a predecessor of Toronto firm Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg, which advised the two men and Nunavut Acquisition during its initial takeover bid for Baffinland.
The panel decided that Walter — who had been friends with Waheed since the 1980s and helped him form Nunavut Iron Ore — didn't receive and trade on insider information because the case against Waheed hadn't been proved.
An allegation of acting contrary to the public interest, which is sometimes used by the OSC when there hasn't been a specific breach of the Ontario Securities Act, was also dismissed for several reasons.
The panel agreed with the respondents, as defendants are called in OSC proceedings, that the act doesn't "prohibit trading on the basis of non-material confidential information or rumours, speculation and suppositions."
"Having found that the respondents did not have knowledge of material facts relating to the negotiations between Baffinland and ArcelorMittal . . . we do not find it appropriate in the circumstances to find that their conduct in this respect was contrary to the public interest."
In addition, it said that any breach of Waheed's responsibility to Baffinland — who was given access to confidential information while a consultant — was a private rather than a matter of public interest.
"Given that the Baffinland board chose not to exercise Baffinland's contractual and other remedies after careful deliberation and with the benefit of legal advice, it should not, in our view, now fall to the commission to deal with matters that should be properly left to the courts."
It also found that, contrary to the allegation that the two men had an unfair advantage over other investors because of Waheed's knowledge, "no evidence of any harm suffered by investors or harm to the capital markets was provided."
Tom Atkinson, the OSC's enforcement director, said in a statement Wednesday after the ruling was made public that the regulator has a duty to investigate suspected illegal insider trading schemes and will continue to pursue cases when the evidence is compelling and when important matters of regulatory policy are involved.
"This matter was investigated and presented in a thorough and professional manner and I commend staff for their dedication throughout the process," Atkinson said in an email in response to requests for comment.
Kent Thomson, a Davies, Ward lawyer who represented Walter in the OSC proceedings, said in an interview Wednesday that his client was pleased the OSC panel had rejected "each of those allegations and, of course, dismissed the case in its entirety."
"Our basic submission was there was no substance whatsoever to the allegations of insider trading made against either Mr. Waheed or Mr. Walter, and that there was no basis whatsoever for the commission to exercise its public interest jurisdiction against either of them and the commission accepted that submission."
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* Set a budget. Before you do anything else, set a budget for food, drinks, decorations and other party-related costs. To avoid buying more than you need, confirm your guest list. If you don't want guests to spend a lot on gifts, write a suggested spending limit on your invitations.
* Find affordable gifts. Retailers like Dollar General offer many gift choices for both children and adults. Many children's toys are priced under $10, and birthday cards are always two for $1. Grown-ups love getting personalized gifts, like framed pictures. You might also want to consider purchasing an item that will brighten up the birthday boy or girl's home or office. Decorative clocks, lamps and other home furnishings are useful as well as aesthetically pleasing.
* Give back to the community. Announce plans to donate gifts to a good cause, and you'll relieve your guests of the pressure and money that can go into choosing the perfect gift. Ask guests to bring cans for a donation to your local food pantry. For a child's party, have guests bring a children's book or stuffed animal that can be donated to a local children's hospital.
* Let them eat cake. Saving room for dessert is never more important than when you're at a birthday party. Stock up on an assortment of options, including cake mixes, pie crusts, fruit fillings, ice cream, cake decorations and more at a discounter such as Dollar General. That way, you're prepared to create the perfect dessert (or two).
* Leave guests with a favor. Thank your guests for coming by surprising them with a little something to take home. Start with plastic fold-top sandwich bags, and fill them with simple goodies such as mini candy bars or homemade cookies. For kids, pencils, stickers or animal crackers are popular and inexpensive favorites. Tie up each bag with colorful ribbons.


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Traveling is like dreaming: the difference is that not all wake up, remember
something, while everyone keeps warm memory of the goal from which it is returned.
Edgar Allan Poe
In the historic center, just two steps from the Cathedral of Orvieto, in a magical and special, made even more impressive from the alleys of the old historic center and its ancient paved streets, is located the Bed and Breakfasts Sant'Angelo 42. A three-storey old building, whose facade, with a golden color of the tuff, give something magical and unforgettable.
The ideal place to experience the charm of Orvieto, among its historical places of interest: the San Patrizio's well, the Moro Tower, the many churches located throughout the city and the famous Cathedral that welcomes you within walking distance from the Bed and Breakfast.
Located in a quiet and peaceful area, the Bed and Breakfast Sant'Angelo 42 has three rooms that reflect the romance that Orvieto is known, a large Breakfast room where you can enjoy the delights of the area (our cakes and tarts and the groundmother's marmalade) and a beautiful living room where you can comfortably relax, immersed in reading a good book or enjoying a hot tea.
Whether you're staying in Orvieto for business or pleasure, for a short or long stays, the Bed and Breakfasts Sant'Angelo 42 is the ideal choice. If you want to stay in a Bed and Breakfast in Orvieto, just two steps from the Cathedral and from the sights that the old town offers, in a warm, comfortable, with great care and attention to the costumer, in a relaxed atmosphere that makes you feel at home…
…so the Bed and Breakfasts Sant'Angelo 42 is the perfect residence for you!


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A McKinney brewing company is using new, environmentally friendly technology to draft its signature beverage.
Franconia Brewing Co. has installed a micropower-generation system that provides all of the brewery's power from the property.
"The plan for us is definitely to get off the grid," owner Dennis Wehrmann said.
The latest news from around North Texas.
The system uses a variety of renewable energy sources, from solar panels on the roof of the brewery's carport, to natural gas and even waste from vegetable oil.
"You're not just working with one energy source like solar or just wind -- you can put different energy sources into one," Wehrmann said.
It is the first commercial installation of the technology, which was developed by fellow McKinney company Perfectly Green Corp.
"This is the first deployment of a new technology," CEO Eric Barger said.
He said the use of a variety of energy sources to complement each other takes away one of the biggest complaints about renewable energy: inconsistency.
"A solar PV panel is a lovely technology, however, a cloud may come over or the sun might set," he said. "What this will do is provide a consistent power by making up that energy that the cloud just took away."
The system even offers potential to pump power back into the larger grid itself.
Perfectly Green has several contracts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including other businesses in McKinney that have signed on to create a similar self-sustaining system.
Wehrmann said that while his small business was already energy-efficient, he has always prioritized finding new ways to use alternative energy sources.
"It's something that, if the technology is there, everyone should do it," he said.


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Daniel Bauer
Daniel Bauer creates contemporary photo-art. Without limits, he encourages women to explore their sensuality by means of artistic nude photography. In his intense, sexy and emotional fine art photographs the artist shows the female beauty of the authentic, self confident and modern woman. "His art photos do not make women more beautiful, but point out what is beautiful about them."


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PR2 Pet Project at GWU
Photo credit: Jessica McConnell Burt/The George Washington University
First there was P.O.O.P. S.C.O.O.P. (Perception Of Offensive Products and Sensorized Control Of Object Pickup) from the folks at Penn's GRASP Lab, and now this. The team at George Washington University have been working on even more tools to improve the clearly vital robo-canine relationship.
We last wrote about PR2 owner GWU Prof. Evan Drumwright shortly after his robot was delivered to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
According to a recent article in George Washington Today, Prof. Drumwright and his team have also been sniffing around robot applications for canines. We encourage you to read New Robot, Old Tricks.
In a course entitled "Autonomous Robotics," Prof. Drumwright worked with students to develop occupational capabilities in the PR2; many of which were pet-related.
GWU senior Sam Zapolsky worked on teaching the PR2 how to walk a dog. Another student, James Taylor worked on a program that would enable the PR2 to play fetch with a dog. Ph.D. student Roxana Leontie created a program that would allow the PR2 to deliver food to a pet.
This in-depth article is well worth reading; not just for the novelty of robots and pets, but also for a deeper understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of personal robotics research and the process by which researchers today are building the robot capabilities of tomorrow.
Congratulations to Prof. Drumwright and his students. You can read the full article here.


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As I've mentioned a few times on Twitter already, I've been working on refining the formula used to calculate the Theck-Meloree Index. The current version certainly works, or at least, gives me the numerical effects that I initially wanted. But in the 6+ months since we defined the metric, we've learned a lot more about the quirks involved with having a raw exponential metric. Several of which are more rooted in psychology than mathematics!
(If you're keeping score, that's Wrathblood – 1, Theck – 0)
In any event, after a bit of playing with the possibilities I've finally decided how I want to modify the formula. It's all but finished, in fact. The only thing left to do is fine-tune some constants, which I think I've done sufficiently well already. But the only good way to test that is to generate a lot of data and see if it's working the way I want it to.
Which normally would be fine, but there are a few issues with doing that myself.
- It takes a long time to generate the amount of data I'm looking for. Think several hundred simulations, each with 25k iterations, and calculating 10 scale factors.
- I want to test it on a variety of gear sets. Again, it takes a lot of time to put together gear sets, and I don't really want to troll the armory looking for random players to import.
- I want to test it on all five tanking classes (or at least, the ones that SimC supports). Again, short of trolling the armory, it would be a formidable task to find an appropriate number of players to get a proper sample. And would take a long time.
- I want to test it against multiple different TMI bosses… so multiply all of those time investments by a factor of four or five.
I'm busy enough as it is with all sorts of other projects (*cough* and Diablo III), not to mention my job, that it's not feasible for me to generate all of this data myself. Unless you want to wait for the new TMI definition until December. Of 2017.
I could just release the new metric into the wild, of course. I'm pretty sure it's functioning properly, after all. But I'd much rather be able to do some rigorous testing of it in case there are weird problems that I didn't anticipate.
This is where you come in. Instead of running several hundred simulations myself, I'm asking each of you to run a simulation or two for me. Basically, you could consider this the public beta test of TMI 2.0.
How To Contribute Data
I've coded the new TMI definition into Simulationcraft, and it's available as an option in version 547-2. By default, it will calculate stat weights using the old formula. However, you can enable the new formula with the argument new_tmi=1.
You can do this by adding that line to the Simulate tab as shown in the screenshot below:
The results page will then report TMI as calculated using the new formula.
If every reader of the blog runs their own character through the sim, I will have a veritable sea of data to swim through (as in, many thousands of simulations). I'm not that optimistic about a 100% reader-to-data-submission conversion rate, so if you can run your character several times with different options (i.e. against different TMI bosses), that's even better.
Here are the basic guidelines that I'm looking for in submissions:
- 25000 iterations
- Standard Patchwerk fight (these should all be SimC defaults)
- Length: 450
- Vary Length: 20%
- Style: Patchwerk
- Level: Raid Boss
- Target Race: humanoid
- Num Enemies: 1
- Challenge Mode: Disabled
- Standard Player settings (again, defaults)
- World Lag: Low
- Player Skill: Elite
- Scale Factors (make sure you choose to scale over "tmi")
- Strength or Agility (depending on your class)
- Stamina
- Expertise
- Hit
- Crit
- Haste
- Mastery
- Armor
- Dodge
- Parry
All of these options can be found on either the Options->Globals tab or the Options->Scaling tab. First, a quick look at the Globals tab:
You can see that I have all of the settings at default here. The only two I want you to play with are the TMI Standard Boss and the TMI Window.
For the TMI Boss, pick one (or more) ilvl-appropriate bosses. For example, if you're in heroic T16 gear, then you shouldn't bother simming against the T15 bosses at all, and probably not against T16N10. Stick to T16H bosses or the 17Q boss. Please do not use "custom" – that will pit you against Fluffy Pillow, who is not so fluffy anymore now that he learned how to perform melee and spell nukes.
For TMI Window, the standard is six seconds. Feel free to leave it at that if you're getting reasonable results. If you get really weird-looking stat weights or your TMI is below, say, 1000, consider dropping this a little, maybe to four seconds. Please submit the wonky stat weight data anyway, because that's also useful to me, but then submit the (hopefully) normal-looking data you get using the lower TMI window.
On to the Scaling tab:
As you can see, I've checked all of the stats I'm interested in. If you're a druid or monk tank, please check the Agility box too (in that case you can skip Strength if you want to). Above all though, make sure you've chosen to scale over "tmi." I can't stress this enough, because if you scale over DPS you'll get scale factors that are useless to me, and it will just mean I have to spend time filtering the data to eliminate those useless data points.
Once you've completed the simulation, you can enter the data in the form below. Please also attach the html results (which you can get by using the "Save" button at the bottom right of the results pane in SimC) using the "Upload" button at the bottom of the form. I'm requesting the html so that I can sanity-check the data and figure out what's happening with outliers, so you can't submit data without first attaching that file.
There's no limit to how many times you can submit data, so you can run several different characters through the simulation if you want to. In fact, that's encouraged, because data from undergeared alts is just as valuable to me (if not more) as data from overgeared mains. And of course, you can run a character against several different TMI bosses and submit each result separately.
Just don't keep re-submitting a single simulation result multiple times, because each submission after the first would be useless for obvious reasons.
If the embedded form below isn't working for you for some reason, you can also access it directly via this link: http://goo.gl/SY36xu. Note that you'll have to reload the page (or open the link in another new tab) in order to use the submission form again.
Thanks in advance for your help! Depending on how quickly the data comes rolling in, I may be able to have this all wrapped up as early as next week.
As soon as that's done, I'll be making a much longer post detailing what changes I've made, why I've made them, and how the new formula works, including simulated data that I used to develop the metric and actual data from this exercise.


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Julia Ross
Dean, College of Engineering and Information Technology
Constellation Professor of Information Technology and Engineering
Contact Information
Information Technology and Engineering (ITE), Room 217D
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering – Rice University, 1995
B.S. Chemical Engineering – Purdue University, 1990
Research Interests
Microbial Adhesion and Biofilm Formation. My research interests involve the application of chemical engineering principles to solve questions concerning the molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion processes. The ultimate goal is to identify and understand molecular mechanisms involved in cell adhesion in order to manipulate either cells or surfaces to increase or prevent adhesion as desired.
Bacterial adherence to host tissues is the crucial first step in the development of many bacterial infections. The adhesion of bacteria is predominantly dependent on specific interactions between cell surface receptors and ligands in the host tissue.Staphylococcus aureus is involved in many infections of the cardiovascular system (e.g. vascular graft infection, endocarditis). The heavy use of antibiotics in treating S. aureus infections has led to a rapid rise in antibiotic resistance. Therefore, novel strategies to combat staphylococcal infections are becoming increasingly important. Because staphylococcal adherence often occurs under shear conditions in the cardiovascular system, the molecular surface characteristics of the bacteria and tissue (or biomaterial) will govern the probability of an adhesive interaction, while the local hemodynamics will determine the kinetics of the process.
S. aureus pathogenesis begins with adhesion, which can eventually lead to tissue colonization, biofilm formation and metastatic seeding through the bloodstream to other sites. Once a biofilm has developed, the ability of the host's immune system to combat the infection is greatly reduced and antibiotic treatment becomes dramatically less effective. Chronic infection is often the result. While it is commonly known that bacteria growing as a biofilm are phenotypically different than planktonic cells, a fundamental and comprehensive understanding of how the phenotypes differ in staphylococci is lacking.
The broad objective of our research is to comprehensively characterize the molecular interactions between S. aureus and tissue/blood components as a function of the dynamic shear environment in order to provide a rational basis for the development of novel treatments to combat cardiovascular staphylococcal infections. In addition, we seek to characterize the structure, growth and maturation of S. aureus biofilms as well as the phenotypic similarities and differences between staphylococci grown as biofilm versus planktonic cells. Elucidation of these phenotypic differences may ultimately lead to the design of novel therapeutic strategies for staphylococcal biofilm prevention and control. A long-term goal of our work is to investigate the interrelationship between thrombogenesis (blood clot formation) and cardiovascular infection mechanisms.
Engineering Education. The need to recruit more students into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields in the U.S. is urgent. Although increased employment opportunities for engineering careers are forecast for the future, national enrollment in engineering disciplines has been declining. These diverging trends are likely to create a shortfall of trained engineers in the U.S. in the near future. In order to alter current enrollment trends, more students must be attracted to STEM careers and be prepared to pursue engineering study at the college level.
To meet these challenges, we are developing and implementing The INSPIRES Curriculum (INcreasing Student Participation, Interest and Recruitment in Engineering and Science). The INSPIRES Curriculum is comprised of five standards-based modular units for grades 9-12 that focus on integrating all areas of STEM. Our approach uses real-world engineering design challenges and inquiry-based learning strategies to engage students, increase technology literacy, and develop key skills foundational for success in STEM disciplines. Research questions focus on identifying strategies and curriculum features that best promote student learning of integrated STEM content. Professional development for high school teachers is a key element of our work.
Selected Publications
Acosta, M, Velasquez, M, Williams, K, Ross, JM, and Leach, J. Fluorescent silica particles for measuring oxygen levels in three-dimensional cellular structures. Submitted.
Ross, JM, and Bayles TM. Lessons Learned during Teacher Professional Development Pilot Program – Impact on Curriculum Teacher's Guide Development & Future Professional Development Institute. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Annual Conference, 2011.
Au, N, Ross, JM, and Bayles, TM. Engineering energy solutions for the INSPIRES curriculum. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2009.
Johnson, MA, and Ross, JM. Staphylococcal presence alters thrombus formation under physiological shear conditions in whole blood studies. Ann Biomed Eng, 36:349-55, 2008. [PMID: 18197476]
Monterestelli, T, Bayles, TM, and Ross, JM. High school outreach program: attracting young ladies with 'Engineering in Health Care'. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2008.
Au, N, Bayles, TM, and Ross, JM. Exposing chemical engineering students to real world problems: health care and renewable energy systems Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2008.
George, NPE, Konstantopoulos, K, and Ross, JM. Differential kinetics and molecular recognition mechanisms involved in early versus late growth phase S. aureus cell binding to platelets under physiological shear conditions. J Infect Dis, 196:639-46, 2007. [PMID: 17624852]
Ymele-Leki, P, and Ross, JM. Erosion from Staphylococcus aureus biofilms grown under physiologically relevant fluid shear yields bacterial cells with reduced avidity to collagen. Appl Env Microbiol, 73:1834-41, 2007. [PMID: 17277217]
George, NPE, Shin, PK, Wei, Q, Konstantopoulos, K, and Ross, JM. Staphylococcus aureus adhesion via Spa, ClfA and SdrCDE to immobilized platelets demonstrates shear dependent behavior. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, 26:2394-2400, 2006. [PMID: 16857949]
Shin, PK, Pawar, P, Konstantopoulos, K, and Ross, JM. Characteristics of a new Staphylococcus aureus-RBC adhesion mechanism independent of fibrinogen and immunoglobulin G under hydrodynamic shear conditions. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 289:C727-34, 2005. [PMID: 15888554]
Nandakumar, R, Madayiputhiya, N, Marten, MR, and Ross, JM. Proteome analysis of cell wall associated proteins from Staphylococcus aureus: Lysis and sample preparation protocols. J Proteome Res, 4:250-7, 2005. [PMID: 15822900]


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Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes
by Amy Alexandra Wilson
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Modeled after the popular teaching technique of book talks, write talks are brief motivational talks designed to engage students in writing. Teachers can invite adults from their communities into their classrooms to give write talks, thereby conveying to students that real people go through different writing processes to write real texts for real audiences.
Wilson, A. (2008, March). Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes. The Reading Teacher, 61(6), 485487. doi: 10.1598/RT.61.6.5
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Write-Talks: Students Discovering Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.


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Originally Posted by woops
if there is one crime in the world going unpunished it's those stickam girls and their dogs, it has got to stop! really this is silly, the entire internet population below the age of 30 would be in jail if this sort of thing was enforced.
I think tigers are hot, but then again, me and E.T. were more than just co-stars, so my standards are probably low.
more creepy than embarrassing: Woman who'd been secretly living in NYC apartment captured on hidden camera
Seems to be a new case, but the police said it happens somewhat regularly.
There's no way that's not fake.
^^ boing boing people think so too..
,It is famous for its budget offers and rock-bottom prices but when the Lidl supermarket chain received several batches of high-grade cocaine at its Spanish stores last weekend it decided that that was one product which would not be making it on to the shelves.
Instead the budget supermarket group called in the police to solve the mystery of how a dozen of its stores had each received hundreds of thousands of euros worth of neatly wrapped cocaine mixed in with their fresh bananas.
The drugs were discovered at the bottom of banana boxes that went to stores in Madrid, Plasencia and the town of Cáceres. The bananas, which had been imported by sea from Ecuador, arrived at the Mercamadrid wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Madrid last week. There they were snapped up by buyers from Lidl and the Alcampo supermarket group.
It was not until a Lidl employee at a Madrid supermarket got ready to stack the bananas on the store's shelves that the curious packages lying under the bunches were discovered.
Similar cargoes of cocaine were later found at a dozen Lidl supermarkets, with more than 100kg (220lb) of the drug being discovered overall. The hunt for further batches was continuing yesterday. Police said the traffickers had somehow failed to pick up their cocaine, which had a street value of about 4.5m (£4.02m).
"They must have been afraid that we were on to them," Eloy Quiros, head of the Spanish police's organised crime unit, said today. He added that police were liaising with their Ecuadorean counterparts to find out exactly where the bananas had been packed.
In some cases the bananas had been peeled, with only the skin left behind, presumably so that the cocaine would not increase the weight of each 15kg box.
A Lidl spokesman said that the cocaine had not contaminated the bananas but that the fruit had, in any case, not been put on sale.
Police said Lidl had nothing to do with the smuggling operation and thanked the supermarket chain for its help in tracking down the cargo.
the benny hill theme makes any car chase hilarious. the driver has some good moves, the best being when he stops to get out and give the cops the finger before tearing off again.
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In these difficult winter times, spare a thought for the criminals:
Snow helps police catch suspects
Dunno if this has been posted before but someone is definitely going to be embarrassed


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Scuffling lineup seeks consistent production
DETROIT -- During a rout on Friday, the Angels scored 11 runs and notched 10 extra-base hits. During back-to-back losses on Saturday and Sunday, they combined for three runs on 11 hits.
Inconsistency like that is to be expected from a lineup that will be without its two corner outfielders, leadoff hitter Kole Calhoun and cleanup hitter Josh Hamilton, until at least mid-May. But the issue is compounded with newcomers David Freese and Raul Ibanez batting a combined .145.
Freese went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts on Sunday, lowering his slash line to .143/.197/.196, and Ibanez struck out against Joe Nathan while pinch-hitting for Freese with the tying run on first and two outs in the ninth, lowering his slash line to .148/.212/.311.
"I think they're going to give us what they can give us -- doesn't necessarily have to be power, but in the production," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "There's some guys that just aren't on track right now."
If right, Ibanez and Freese would both make up the middle of the lineup along with Albert Pujols.
Because they're not, non-roster invitee Ian Stewart batted fourth on Sunday and the left-handed-hitting Ibanez sat against an opposing starter -- Rick Porcello -- who has struggled against lefties his entire career.
Scioscia went into the season realistically hopeful of having a stable lineup throughout the year, but has used five different batting orders in the last five games. And until Calhoun (sprained right ankle) and Hamilton (left thumb surgery) return, he'll have to continue to mix and match.
"If you look at Raul, you look at David Freese, you look at some guys that are off to a little bit of a slower start, Erick [Aybar] -- these guys are much better hitters," Scioscia said. "I think that's going to come around. We need that depth.
"Obviously we can't create the depth and the power missing those two guys, but we should be able to get enough good groupings to where we're doing what we need to do on the offensive end."


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