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By this time, I pretty much know how to read the mood of my client in her voice and in her emails. Don't ask me how I can sense her mood in her emails, I just can. So when I checked my email account and saw an email from her about the post. I got anxious butterflies in my stomach. I knew something was wrong.
It turned out that there was no image on the post. Wait, let me clarify that. There was no image on the home page of the blog but there was an image on the blog post itself. To resolve the situation, I went into the edit post section and added a custom field for the image. "That would take care of that problem…"
To be sure, I checked the home page of the site and still saw glaring "IMAGE PENDING" sign. Huh? What's the heck is wrong with this? I added another custom field for image and updated the post. Then I checked the home page. IMAGE PENDING.
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Hot-linking is a term used on the Internet. Hot-linking is when someone uses a link to an image that is saved on another website instead of saving a copy of the image on the website that the picture will be shown on. For example, instead of saving picture.gif and loading it on to their own website, the person uses a link to the picture as http://website.com/picture.gif. Hot-linking uses the bandwidth of the person who owns the website where the picture is stored. This costs that person money.
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This section describes advanced concepts and trade-offs you might want to consider as you configure and test solvers and other simulation settings for your Simscape™ model. For a summary of recommended settings, see Making Optimal Solver Choices for Physical Simulation. For background information, consult How Simscape Models Represent Physical Systems and How Simscape Simulation Works.
Variable-step solvers are the usual choice for design, prototyping, and exploratory simulation, and to precisely locate events during simulation. They are not useful for real-time simulation and can be costly if there are many events.
A variable-step solver automatically adjusts its step size as it moves forward in time to adapt to how well it controls solution error. You control the accuracy and speed of the variable-step solution by adjusting the solver tolerance. With many variable-step solvers, you can also limit the minimum and maximum time step size.
Fixed-step solvers are recommended or required if you want to make performance comparisons across platforms and operating systems, to generate a code version of your model, and to bound or fix simulation cost. A typical application is real-time simulation. For more information, see Code Generation and Real-Time Simulation.
With a fixed-step solver, you specify the time step size to control the accuracy and speed of your simulation. Fixed-step solvers do not adapt to improve accuracy or to locate events. These limitations can lead to significant simulation inaccuracies.
The degree of stiffness and the presence of algebraic constraints in your model influence the choice between an explicit or implicit solver. Explicit and implicit solvers use different numerical methods to simulate a system.
If the system is a nonstiff ODE system, choose an explicit solver. Explicit solvers require less computational effort than implicit solvers, if other simulation characteristics are fixed.
To find a solution for each time step, an explicit solver uses a formula based on the local gradient of the ODE system.
If the system is stiff, use an implicit solver. Though an explicit solver may require less computational effort, for stiff problems an implicit solver is more accurate and often essential to obtain a solution. Implicit solvers require per-step iterations within the simulated time steps. With some implicit solvers, you can limit or fix these iterations.
An implicit solver starts with the solution at the current step and iteratively solves for the solution at the next time step with an algebraic solver. An implicit algorithm does more work per simulation step, but can take fewer, larger steps.
If the system contains DAEs, even if it is not stiff, use an implicit solver. Such solvers are designed to simultaneously solve algebraic constraints and integrate differential equations.
When you simulate a system with more than one state, the solver manipulates the mathematical system with matrices. For a large number of states, sparse linear algebra methods applied to large matrices can make the simulation more efficient.
Events, in most cases, occur between simulated time steps.
Fixed-step solvers detect events after "stepping over" them, but cannot adaptively locate events in time. This can lead to large inaccuracies or failure to converge on a solution.
Variable-step solvers can both detect events and estimate the instants when they occur by adapting the timing and length of the time steps.
Tip To estimate the timing of events or rapid changes in your simulation, use a variable-step solver.
If your simulation has to frequently adapt to events or rapid changes by changing its step size, much or all of the advantage of implicit solvers over explicit solvers is lost.
In certain cases, such as real-time simulation, you need to simulate with an execution time that is not only bounded, but practically fixed to a predictable value. Fixing execution time can also improve performance when simulating frequent events.
The real-time cost of a variable-step simulation is potentially unlimited. The solver can take an indefinite amount of real time to solve a system over a finite simulated time, because the number and size of the time steps are adapted to the system. You can configure a fixed-step solver to take a bounded amount of real time to complete a simulation, although the exact amount of real time might still be difficult to predict before simulation. Even a fixed-step solver can take multiple iterations to find a solution at each time step. Such iterations are variable and not generally limited in number; the solver iterates as much as it needs to.
Fixing execution time implies fixed-cost simulation, which both fixes the time step and limits the number of per-step iterations. Fixed-cost simulation prevents execution overruns, when the execution time is longer than the simulation sample time. A bounded execution time without a known fixed cost might still cause some steps to overrun the sample time.
The actual amount of computational effort required by a solver is based on a number of other factors as well, including model complexity and computer processor. For more information, see Real-Time Simulation.
You can use different solvers on different parts of the system. For example, you might want to use implicit solvers on stiff parts of a system and explicit solvers everywhere else. Such local solvers make the simulation more efficient and reduce computational cost.
Such multisolver simulations must coordinate the separate sequences of time steps of each solver and each subsystem so that the various solvers can pass simulation updates to one another on some or all of the shared time steps.
For the key simulation concepts to consider before making these choices, see Important Concepts and Choices in Physical Simulation.
For a typical Simscape model, MathWorks recommends the Simulink® variable-step solvers ode15s and ode23t. Of these two global solvers:
The ode15s solver is more stable, but tends to damp out oscillations.
The ode23t solver captures oscillations better but is less stable.
With Simscape models, these solvers solve the differential and algebraic parts of the physical model simultaneously, making the simulation more accurate and efficient.
In a Simscape model, MathWorks recommends that you implement fixed-step solvers by continuing to use a global variable-step solver and switching the physical networks within your model to local fixed-step solvers through each network Solver Configuration block. The local solver choices are Backward Euler and Trapezoidal Rule. Of these two local solvers:
The Backward Euler tends to damp out oscillations, but is more stable, especially if you increase the time step.
The Trapezoidal Rule solver captures oscillations better but is less stable.
Regardless of which local solver you choose, the Backward Euler method is always applied:
Right at the start of simulation.
Right after an instantaneous change, when the corresponding block undergoes an internal discrete change. Such changes include clutches locking and unlocking, valve actuators opening and closing, and the switching of the Asynchronous Sample & Hold block.
Switching to Discrete States and Solvers.
If you switch a physical network to a local solver, the global solver treats that network as having discrete states.
If other physical networks in your model are not using local solvers, or if the non-Simscape parts of your model have continuous states, then you must use a continuous global solver.
If all physical networks in your model use local solvers, and any non-Simscape parts of your model have only discrete states, then the global solver effectively sees only discrete states. In that case, MathWorks recommends a discrete, fixed-step global solver. If you are attempting a fixed-cost simulation with discrete states, you must use a discrete, fixed-step global solver.
For Maximum Accuracy with Fixed-Step Simulation. If solution accuracy is your single overriding requirement, use the global Simulink fixed-step solver ode14x, without local solvers. This implicit solver is the best global fixed-step choice for physical systems. While it is more accurate than the Simscape local solvers for most models, ode14x can be computationally more intensive and slower when you use it by itself than it is when you use it in combination with local solvers.
In this solver, you must limit the number of global implicit iterations per time step. Control these iterations with the Number Newton's iterations parameter in the Solver pane of the Configuration Parameters dialog box.
Many Simscape models need to iterate multiple times within one time step to find a solution. If you want to fix the cost of simulation per time step, you must limit the number of these iterations, regardless of whether you are using a local solver, or a global solver like ode14x. For more information, see Unbounded, Bounded, and Fixed-Cost Simulation and Real-Time Simulation.
To limit the iterations, open the Solver Configuration block of each physical network. Select Use fixed-cost runtime consistency iterations and set limits for the number of nonlinear and mode iterations per time step.
Tip Fixed-cost simulation with variable-step solvers is not possible in most simulations. Attempt fixed-cost simulation with a fixed-step solver only and avoid using fixed-cost iterations with variable-step solvers.
Consider the basic trade-off of speed versus accuracy and stability. A larger time step or tolerance results in faster simulation, but also less accurate and less stable simulation. If a system undergoes sudden or rapid changes, larger tolerance or step size can cause major errors. Consider tightening the tolerance or step size if your simulation:
Is not accurate enough or looks unphysical.
Exhibits discontinuities in state values.
Reaches the minimum step size allowed without converging, usually a sign that one or more events or rapid changes occur within a time step.
Any one or all of these steps increase accuracy, but make the simulation run more slowly.
For Local Solvers. Models with friction or hard stops are particularly difficult for local solvers, and may not work or may require a very small time step.
With the Trapezoidal Rule solver, oscillatory "ringing" can become more of a problem as the time step is increased. For a larger time step in a local solver, consider switching to Backward Euler.
For ODE Systems. In certain cases, your model reduces to an ODE system, with no dependent algebraic variables. (See How Simscape Models Represent Physical Systems.) If so, you can use any global Simulink solver, with no special physical modeling considerations. An explicit solver is often the best choice in such situations.
Through careful analysis, you can sometimes determine if your model is represented by an ODE system.
If you create a Simscape model from a mathematical representation using the Simscape language, you can determine directly if the resulting system is ODE.
For Large Systems. Depending on the number of system states, you can simulate more efficiently if you switch the value of the Linear Algebra setting in the Solver Configuration block.
For smaller systems,
Full provides faster
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Sparse is typically
In this example, a Simscape model contains three physical networks.
Two networks (numbers 1 and 3) use local solvers, making these two networks appear to the global solver as if they had discrete states. Internally, these networks still have continuous states. These networks are moderately and highly stiff, respectively.
One of these networks (number 1) uses the Backward Euler (BE) local solver. The other (number 3) uses the Trapezoidal Rule (TR) local solver.
The remaining network (number 2) uses the global Simulink solver. Its states appear to the model as continuous. This network is not stiff and is pure ODE. Use an explicit global solver.
Because at least one network appears to the model as continuous, you must use a continuous solver. However, if you remove network 2, and if the model contains no continuous Simulink states, Simulink automatically switches to a discrete global solver.


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Donor Recognition
Donor Societies
On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 into law, extending the provision until December 31, 2013.
What is an IRA charitable rollover?
The law uses the term "qualified charitable distribution" to describe an IRA charitable rollover. A
qualified charitable distribution is money that individuals who are 70½ or older may direct from their traditional IRA to eligible charitable organizations. The provision has a cap of $100,000 for charitable distributions from individual IRAs each year. Individuals may exclude the amount distributed directly to an eligible charity from their gross income.
What is the new expiration date of this provision?
This provision is still time-limited. It applies only to qualified charitable distributions made before
January 1, 2014.
Can donors still take advantage of the IRA charitable rollover for 2012?
Yes. Although the most recent extension was enacted on January 2, 2013, it was retroactive, dating back to January 1, 2012. The extension allows individuals who received an IRA distribution in December 2012 to elect to count that distribution (or a portion thereof) as a 2012 IRA charitable rollover if the individual transfers the amount in cash before February 1, 2013, to an eligible charity. Additionally, the extension allows donors to make distributions directly to eligible charities before February 1, 2013, and elect to have such distributions treated as qualified charitable distributions in 2012. Recognizing that the extension of the IRA charitable rollover provision occurred in 2013, this change may be a benefit to donors who would like to take advantage of the rollover in both 2012 and 2013.
We recommend that you contact your IRA Custodian and your financial advisor for more information regarding your specific details on this tax wise way to make charitable gifts. Distributions to the Wayne State Foundation must come directly from your IRA Custodian.
For more information, please feel free to contact:
Kevin Armstrong
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Road to the future
Here are the bright ideas already submitted to our competition
When Cars Dive Instead of Drive
An entirely new,and also spicier, avenue of travel is unraveled with the ability to traverse underwater territories. A useful trait, considering rising sea levels and perhaps, Google Earth's suggestion of intercontinental travel by crossing oceans will seem viable. Someday,my car and I'll take a spin down to Davy Jones' Locker.
By: Reuben Parama Iswara, on 14:46 20 November 2012Report this entry
self driving car
Cars will be equipped with the 'autodrive' self-driving technology, a combination of ultra-precise GPS, proximity sensors and software. You will just have to specify where you want to go and your car will take you there, promptly (best route, optimized in real time), and safely (no more accidents because of poor driving, tiredness, excessive speed). And that's great because it means you can drink and not drive! ;)
By: Philippe Marc, on 14:46 20 November 2012Report this entry
Driver-less Cars
Using GPS technology,cars will incorporate autopilot computers. Punch in the postcode and select address from a drop-down, the car will automatically take you there. Speed and distance sensors filter vehicle into traffic and match speed. No accidents, no delays, no driver input. Paasengers just sit back & relax
By: William Barnett, on 14:41 20 November 2012Report this entry
the car of future
electro-mobile car,without any emission is the breakthrough in decision of the problem of global warming.fully-electric concept car allows to work vehicle on pure electricity.without any doubts this green technology in car industry is the best inovation which makes ours life safer.
By: emil mochoev, on 14:34 20 November 2012Report this entry
future self-driven cars
The future self-driven cars will receive minimum voice or touch-screen commands from their owners as robot do. They would then use stored maps and other online accessories to drive to required destinations under the most optimum drives set for the available road,weather and other conditions.
By: Victor Mahachi, on 14:33 20 November 2012Report this entry
AI and sensor driven cars
An improved active cruise controls with an AI system that can predict traffic movements using algorithms paired with GPS, we can have driverless cars which offer safer journeys, eliminating human judgement error, lowering accident rates. However, to maintain the joy in driving, an option to drive manually should be available.
By: Shi Wei Looi, on 14:28 20 November 2012Report this entry
Inflatable Driver
Like an inflatable auto-pilot in airplane, an inflatable driver would be handy to use in the car. Can be used in times of need (to avoid drink driving, to avoid driving when tired etc) or simply when you need a hand!
By: Emma Mosley, on 14:16 20 November 2012Report this entry
The next 30 years
For the car to even survive it needs to become economically and ecologically friendly & end it's dependence and homage to petrol-chemicals. Hydrogen power, solving the storage problems, and designed to be truly re-cycled not down-cycled then we might have something
By: Gordon Elcock, on 14:12 20 November 2012Report this entry
Outside the Box
Unavoidably associated with motoring is an increasingly complex and expensive high quality public infrastructure. The most valuable vehicle innovation would be an integrated suspension and drive system able to cope with many rough and uneven surfaces and yet give a ride and performance no worse than present best practice.
By: Philip Minchom, on 14:01 20 November 2012Report this entry
Tiny electric car for cities only
As cities adopt 20 mph limits, electric city-only cars become viable. Basic 2-person, bolt-on stretch to 4. Peak 4 kW (400 kg, 10 m/s, 1/10 hill), max 20 mph, uses conventional batteries. Crumple zone unnecessary, 2 m long, tiny parking bays. Think 4-wheeled weatherproofed electric bike. Needs new law though.
By: Andrew Keir, on 13:58 20 November 2012Report this entry
Connectivity and windshield HUD
30 years from now cars will be connected, and they will share information over internet or directly. Information will be used to calculate optimal routes, by avoiding jams, car crashes and similar. Information will be neatly displayed on the windshield HUD display (maps, navigation with direction arrows, speed, etc.).
By: Nikola Milenković, on 13:55 20 November 2012Report this entry
Road to the future
auto distancing between cars coupled with auto speed control, all due to traffic density.
By: David Pithie, on 13:53 20 November 2012Report this entry
Continuous MOT
As cars become more interconnected, more reliant on each other, fault tolerance goes to zero. Software updates and regular maintenance are obligatory to keep the car ecosystem working safely, so when (imminent) problems are detected the autonomous car parks itself, with a replacement model dispatched simultaneously from the dealership.
By: John Fitzgerald, on 13:49 20 November 2012Report this entry
Schrodinger's Cat's Eyes
Transponders added to "cat's eyes" and street lighting form a transport data network. The fixed transponders have calibrated locations, so vehicle trajectories are easily triangulated and shared through the network of nearest neighbours to inform automated systems on nearby vehicles. Collision avoidance and auto drive systems are cheap and reliable.
By: Patrick McQuillin, on 13:40 20 November 2012Report this entry
'lego' composite car
One to six person composite car composed of single person car units. Steerable, wheeled lego block equivalent units that can be joined to each other for travel - side-by-side or behind each other. Wheel arrangement and steering of single unit and combined units will be THE innovation.
By: Beate Woermann, on 13:39 20 November 2012Report this entry


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City of New York Department of Transportation, September, 2009, New York City Truck Routes:, New York City Department of Transportation, New York City.
Online Links:
This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
The map projection used is Lambert Conformal Conic.
Planar coordinates are encoded using coordinate pair
Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 0.000000
Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 0.000000
Planar coordinates are specified in survey feet
The horizontal datum used is North American Datum of 1983.
The ellipsoid used is Geodetic Reference System 80.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.000000.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257222.
NonPedestrian Code.
Traffic Direction. Code indicating the flow of traffic relative to the street segment's address range.
New York City Department of Transportation, New York City Department of City Planning
New York City Department of Transportation
Office of Freight Mobility
55 Water Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10041
212.839.6670 (voice)
The New York City Truck Routes GIS file is meant to provide a geographic dataset of truck routes for use by truck drivers, trucking companies, GPS companies, mapping companies and the general public. The LION file has been maintained as a major component of the Department of City Planning's Geosupport System.
Data sources used in this process:
The LION file is spatially aligned with NYCMap aerial photography.
A node occurs where ever two or more line segments cross regardless of whether a physical intersection occurs at that point. Duplicate lines may appear where lines are associated with non-addressable place names such as Grand Army Plaza or where alternate street names exist.
New York City Department of Transportation
55 Water St
New York, NY 10041
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Giving away a Kenmore Intuition 31810 Vacuum Cleaner (value $349.00)
Ikea Cookbook
Ikea has just launched a cookbook – innovative photography! See more at Today and Tomorrow
Giveaway: Perfect Table Settings
Perfect Table Settings book by Denise Vivaldo. The book that was sent to me has a different cover design, but is the same book. Here's a sample page from the book – I think this would be perfect for Christmas dinner, I'd put an ornament as a party favor for the guests instead of the . . .
Giveaway: The New American Cooking
The New American Cooking cookbook by Joan Nathan
From Publisher's Weekly:
What makes a particular dish or technique uniquely American? Nathan, perhaps best known for Jewish Cooking in America, and the author of seven additional cookbooks, eschews the notion that agribusiness and fast food have commandeered the American palate. Rather, she says . . .
Giveaway: Complete Book of Knife Skills Book
The definitive book on knife skills from the knife manufacturer recognized worldwide as the symbol of the best quality and function. Every home chef needs a knife skills book. Cooks who know how to choose a knife, how to maintain it and how to use it properly work more safely, more . . .
Popcorn Soap
Real soap shaped like popcorn! Handmade, using all-natural materials, smells like vanilla (who wants to smell like buttered popcorn?!) and tastes like soap. $4.95 at Vat19
Tandoori Turkey
Tandoori Turkey recipe on New Asian Cuisine from Chef Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez, Executive Pastry Chef, Print Restaurant
Squash Recipes
A collection of my favorite squash recipes! On Steamy Kitchen on TLC.
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
' I know people are very passionate about how they like their mashed potatoes – there's the soft, smooth 'n creamy camp and then there's the hearty, full textured camp. Me? I like 'em full flavored, skin-on and with roasted garlic. But I think most people will agree that a meal with roasted chicken or turkey is incomplete without the …
Potato Skin Sandwich
A potato skin sandwich!!! I MUST HAVE!!!! Over at Midtown Lunch blog.
Dieter's Tartine
Dieter's Tartine recipe from Dorie Greenspan's book Around My French Table


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Driving Safety Equipment Guide - Dressed For Success
Consider The Proper Safety Gear For Your Next Performance Driving Event
Driving Suits
Important things to remember about driving suits (as well as all safety equipment) are to purchase the proper equipment for the rules you will be racing under and to make sure the product fits you properly. For instance, if you race at a strict NHRA-based dragstrip and your Mustang has a blower on it, technically you should be wearing at least a single-layer racing jacket. If you're more of a corner-carver and plan to run at an SCCA event, then you'll need a two-layer suit as a minimum (most drag racing venues have a single-layer minimum).
As a general rule of thumb, most drag racers wear a separate jacket and pants due to the long down time between runs. The separate configuration allows quick removal of the jacket between runs, while performing maintenance, or just sitting in the trailer waiting to be called to your lanes. When it comes to road racing, a one-piece jumpsuit-style suit is more popular because you're usually in the car longer (say, a 20- or 30-minute sprint).
Every company has different sew patterns for its suits, so one company's suit might fit and another company's suit in the same size might not. As much as the world is a mail-order environment these days, it's best to visit a dealer in your area or buy from a traveling dealer often found at events so you can try the suits on before buying.
A two-piece jacket and pants setup allows mixing and matching of sizes for the best fit if you have a specific build issue (e.g., short legs with a stocky torso). You should also wear the racing pants higher than you would normally wear a pair of your favorite jeans. The jacket should overlap the pants at least 5 inches for fire protection.
Remember what we said earlier-don't be cheap when it comes to your safety. Buy the best you can afford, preferably multi-layer with superior flame-retardant properties.
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A good helmet will not only protect your head from the impact of a crash, but will also fit properly and protect your face and scalp from fire. We know that most people will not go out and buy a driving suit, gloves, shoes, and more to go to the dragstrip twice a year, but you should at the very least purchase a properly rated helmet that fits you correctly. An SA-2005-rated helmet is the best safety equipment you can buy, and frankly, should be your first safety equipment purchase.
There are a few different helmet types, and you need to know what the proper helmet is for your use. The most basic of helmets is an open-faced design. You can get an open-faced helmet in SA-2005 rating, but the open-face design should only be used in a completely enclosed cockpit (production car with the windows up).
You must use a full-face helmet if you have a race-prepared car without side glass, your sanctioning body requires you run with your windows down, or you have a roadster/convertible. Full-face helmets are available in several styles with many options (tear-offs for dirt use, tinted visors for daytime racing, and so on), and are available in SA-2005 and M-2005 ratings.


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Cypress, TX (PRWEB) February 25, 2013
God's Magnificent Beanfield, by Don Bowlin, is the story of a unique farm family that experiences an incredible miracle and carries out God's plan.
An inspirational, powerful story, the novel shares how the Kelly family overcomes life-threatening obstacles, while protecting and presenting God's wondrous gift to the world.
A thunderstorm and the following half-rainbow uniquely point to a location on the Kelly farm, leading to a fantastic find linked to the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Israel many years before.
Bowlin hopes the book will affect people's focus on God's ever-present power and love, motivating them to become involved with people and serve the Lord.
"I wrote the book because I felt strongly that God's power and love should be experienced from a historical viewpoint," says Bowlin. "His power and love are just as profound in the United States as in other locations around the world."
God's Magnificent Beanfield aims to reveal how the love of God is the defining element in revealing His power.


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If risks are not monitored and managed appropriately, the potential for harm can be severe. Alegra Safety can help ensure the ongoing sustainability of your business by applying internationally and /or nationally recognised tools to analyse, assess and evaluate the potential impacts to your business.
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Collecting Solar System Data Stories for Project SPECTRA: A Spectroscopic Exploration of the Planets
We are expanding our existing set of middle and high school spectroscopy lessons, Project SPECTRA, to include a full suite of data-rich solar system exploration activities using spectral data from NASA planetary spacecraft. Project SPECTRA takes an integrated science and engineering approach to spectroscopy with foundation modules exploring patterns in nature and patterns in light as well as a hands-on spectrograph build. We have field-tested these foundation modules along with a Saturn/Titan data exploration which invites students to investigate the composition of Saturn's rings and the moon Titan using data from the Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph. We are seeking solar system data stories that will allow us create complete spectroscopy-based tour of the planets in the model of the existing Cassini activity.
The plague of too much data? Challenges and opportunities for using virtual observatories in the classroom
Virtual observatories (VOs) and other distributed data systems offer opportunities to bring large amounts of authentic data, both real-time and historical, into the classroom. For non-scientists, finding their way through the data in a VO can be challenging and trying to put the data into an educational context can be show-stopping. We explore strategies used successfully by VOs to bring data to teachers. In addition, we develop guidelines and suggestions for educational professionals involved in teacher professional development to incorporate VOs into their training workshops.
MY NASA DATA: Making Earth Science Data Accessible to the K-12 Community
In 2004, the Mentoring and inquirY using NASA Data on Atmospheric and Earth science for Teachers and Amateurs (MY NASA DATA) project began. The goal of this project is to enable K-12 and citizen science communities to make use of the large volume of Earth System Science data that NASA has collected and archived. One major outcome is to allow students to select a problem of real-life importance, and to explore it using high quality data sources without spending months looking for and then learning how to use a dataset. The key element of the MY NASA DATA project is the implementation of a Live Access Server (LAS). The LAS is an open source software tool, developed by NOAA, that provides access to a variety of data sources through a single, fairly simple, point- and- click interface. This tool truly enables use of the available data - more than 100 parameters are offered so far - in an inquiry-based educational setting. It readily gives students the opportunity to browse images for times and places they define, and also provides direct access to the underlying data values - a key feature of this educational effort. The team quickly discovered, however, that even a simple and fairly intuitive tool is not enough to make most teachers comfortable with data exploration. User feedback has led us to create a friendly LAS Introduction page, which uses the analogy of a restaurant to explain to our audience the basic concept of an LAS. In addition, we have created a "Time Coverage at a Glance" chart to show what data are available when. This keeps our audience from being too confused by the patchwork of data availability caused by the start and end of individual missions. Finally, we have found it necessary to develop a substantial amount of age appropriate documentation, including topical pages and a science glossary, to help our audience understand the parameters they are exploring and how these parameters fit into the larger picture of Earth System Science. MY NASA DATA intends to create a community of data explorers. A MY NASA DATA e-mentor network provides opportunities for educators, students, and citizens to engage in dialog about the questions they encounter. The website hosts a collection of data-based lesson plans that have been written by teachers for use in their own classrooms. A new portion of the website, launched this summer, invites submission of student research projects that use our resources. Finally, we are continually seeking additional Earth System Science datasets that can be offered to our audience through the MY NASA DATA LAS interface.
Demystifying Scientific Data '┐Į Using Earth Science to Teach the Scientific Method
The collection of large quantities of data and their subsequent analyses are important components of any scientific process, particularly at research institutes such as MIT's Haystack Observatory, where the collection and analyses of data is crucial to research efforts. Likewise, a recent study on science education concluded that students should be introduced to analyzing evidence and hypotheses, to critical thinking - including appropriate skepticism, to quantitative reasoning and the ability to make reasonable estimates, and to the role of uncertainty and error in science. In order to achieve this goal with grades 9-12 students and their instructors, we developed lesson plans and activities based on atmospheric science and geodetic research at Haystack Observatory. From the complex steps of experimental design, measurement, and data analysis, students and teachers will gain insight into the scientific research processes as they exist today. The use of these space weather and geodesy activities in classrooms will be discussed. Space Weather: After decades of data collection with multiple variables, space weather is about as complex an area of investigation as possible. Far from the passive relationship between the Sun and Earth often taught in the early grades, or the beautiful auroras discussed in high school, there are complex and powerful interactions between the Sun and Earth. In spite of these complexities, high school students can learn about space weather and the repercussions on our communication and power technologies. Starting from lessons on the basic method of observing space weather with incoherent scatter radar, and progressing to the use of simplified data sets, students will discover how space weather affects Earth over solar cycles and how severe solar activity is measured and affects the Earth over shorter time spans. They will see that even from complex, seemingly ambiguous data with many variables and unknowns, scientists can gain valuable insights into complicated processes. Geodesy: Students learn about tectonic plate theory in middle school to explain continental drift, but have no idea about how it is determined. By learning about the process, students become more familiar with measurement, uncertainty, and error. Students who analyze continental drift using observations from very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) will discover the current limits of scientific measurement (approximately one part in a billion) and see how even these data may contain unmodeled effects. In both projects the process of understanding data will give the students a better picture of how science works. These lessons and activities were created under the Research Experiences for Teachers program of the National Science Foundation.
Using NASA Data on Science on a Sphere: Placing Earth and Planetary Science Data in an Authentic Context
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has recently installed Science on a Sphere (SOS) at the Visitor Center. This exhibit entails a 9-foot suspended globe with four projectors that project three- dimensional data onto the surface of a planetary body. We have embraced the exhibit as a unique opportunity to project high- resolution NASA data for educational purposes. One of the challenges in using planetary data is the inability to represent the data in an authentic manner. Science on a Sphere has circumvented this dilemma by enabling three-dimensional data to be projected in the proper spherical configuration. Data have been adapted and used from current and old missions including Aura, Cassini, SOHO, and Voyager. These data are used to supplement current education and public outreach efforts for the Aura, MESSENGER, and New Horizons missions. Aura mission scientists have developed an educational air quality program that uses high resolution NO2, ozone, SO2, and aerosol data. These data are used in conjunction with GLOBE atmosphere and Hands on the Land ozone bio-monitoring garden protocols to provide students and educators with a rich educational experience. Those who experience the program are able to see Aura data on a global scale, and when coupled with the GLOBE protocols, are able to relate to those data on a local scale. Coupling data on SOS with local data collection techniques provides an educational experience that neither could accomplish alone. Planetary images from Cassini and Voyager have been adapted for SOS, and are used to supplement the educational package Exploring Ice in the Solar System, developed by Carnegie Institute of Washington for MESSENGER and the NASA Astrobiology Institute. These examples of adaptations of planetary data for SOS are just two of many possible educational applications. In the coming year, the Aura education and public outreach team will be developing a movie for SOS using Aura data which will be distributed to each of the nine education centers that currently use the format.
Report of a Pre-Service Education Planetary Geology course using NASA Planetary Data
A pre-service education course in Planetary Geology was conducted at California State University-Fresno in collaboration with the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA planetary data and visualization materials supplemented traditional lectures. Participants (N=30) evaluated the content and applicability of using Planetary Data in Education. Two survey instruments were used and qualitative data was correlated. Written comments of teachers were captured and categorized. http://www.csufresno.edu/smec/events/earthscience1.html
MARS Valley Networks Project: Martian Valley Network Analysis Run-off or Sapping? - A WebGIS approach
We report the progress made in a two-year NASA funded EPO project, which takes advantage of the latest WebGIS technology to bring real NASA data to high school classrooms. The only requirement for the WebGIS is an Internet connection and a standard web browser allowing the widest possible accessibility. The overall goal of the project is to enhance the students' interest in science and to directly engage them in the actual process of conducting scientific research with a real scientific research question and real scientific datasets. The students will be exposed to the full process of conducting real scientific investigation: collecting evidence, analyzing data, formulating alternative hypotheses, and communicating and debating with their peers about their findings. Such opportunities are rarely available in the middle through high school level. We have set up the WebGIS (http://marsproject.niu.edu) and have completed the student and teacher tutorials. The standard-based student modules are being finalized and tested by two Master teachers this semester. A training workshop for teachers will be held Spring 2007. Approximately twenty classrooms will be participating fully by the 2007-08 school year.
A controlled experiment to evaluate the impact of summer research experiences on attitudes towards science in high school aged students
United States funding agencies increasingly are supporting activities designed to increase the enrollment of United States high school students in science, math, or engineering careers. However, in many cases, the likely outcomes of educational activities are unknown. A common approach within the physical and natural sciences is to provide high school aged students with a summer research experience, with the expectation that such experiences will increase student interest in science, possibly as a career choice. With funding support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration New Investigator Grant program, we conducted a controlled experiment to test this assumption. In collaboration with Mountain Crest High School in Logan, UT, we recruited 40 students currently enrolled in science courses, assessed attitudes towards science (with informed consent), and randomly assigned 20 students to a control group and 20 students to an experimental group. Students in the experimental group were paired with faculty and graduate students in a wide range of field and laboratory research groups in natural resources and biology. Students were employed in at least two different research groups for an average of 30-40 hours per week for eight weeks in the summer of 2006. Following the completion of the summer work experience, we again assessed attitudes towards science in both groups and gathered additional information from the experimental group on satisfaction with the work experience and reasons for participating. Results are presented and discussed.


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Thursday, November 08, 2012
You may love it, you may hate it, but which ever way you look at it, CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!!
To welcome in the festive season, we've created these tea towels - you can use them to dry your Christmas dishes, or with a bit of simple sewing you can make them into a Christmas stocking!!! You can even save up all the remnants to re-make into a TINY tea towel if you like....
They are hand-printed in our studio by Error Solutions and the brilliant Barbarabearo has done a step-by-step guide of making the stocking. But you have to be quick, you only have 46 days left to make them!
Available to buy in Ryantown or Etsy
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CRESTVIEW — The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating a Wednesday night fire that destroyed a church on Eighth Avenue.
Firefighters were called to Full Gospel Tabernacle Church at 7:05 p.m. after reports of smoke coming from the south and west sides of the building were called in. The fire strengthened after they arrived and put them on the defensive.
"They made entry, but the fire got stronger," Jon Riedel, battalion chief for the Crestview Fire Department, said Thursday. "Crews have been there all night."
Firefighters from North Okaloosa, Holt, Eglin Air Force Base, Dorcas and Baker helped keep the fire contained to the church building. Riedel said no other structures were threatened.
Crews fought the blaze until 1 a.m. Thursday. A new shift went to the scene at 7 a.m. to check for hot spots and hazardous areas.
The building was destroyed. Damage was estimated at $400,000.
No one was injured.
The Rev. E. H. Haddock, chairman of the Living Word of Faith Fellowship that oversees Full Gospel Tabernacle, said church officials are not certain what they will do, but the congregation of about 50 will have a place to worship Sunday morning.
"They're working with another church so they will have somewhere to be," Haddock said.
He said he was shocked when he heard the church that had been open for 32 years was gone.
"I just couldn't hardly believe it," he said. "Right now I don't know if we're going to rebuild or not. I can say that it's a loss to the congregation."


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In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the way language handles grammatical relations and relational categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, case. In covert inflection, such categories are not overtly expressed. Overt inflection typically distinguishes lexical items (such as lexemes) from functional ones (such as affixes, clitics, particles and morphemes in general) and has functional items acting as markers on lexical ones. Lexical items that do not respond to overt inflection are typically invariant. Constraining cross-referencing inflection at the sentence level is known as concord or agreement.
In English many nouns are inflected for number with the inflectional plural affix -s (as in "dog" → "dog-s"), and most English verbs are inflected for tense with the inflectional past tense affix -ed (as in "call" → "call-ed").
English also inflects verbs by affixation to mark the third person singular in the present tense (with -s), and the present participle (with -ing). English short adjectives are inflected to mark comparative and superlative forms (with -er and -est respectively).
In addition, English also shows inflection by ablaut (mostly in verbs) and umlaut (mostly in nouns), as well as the odd long-short vowel alternation. For example:
In the past, writers sometimes gave words such as doctor, Negro, dictator, professor, and orator Latin inflections to mark them as feminine, thus forming doctress, Negress, dictatrix, professress, and oratress. These inflected forms were never frequently used, although many English users continue to use Latin endings today in somewhat more common constructions such as actress, waitress, executrix, and dominatrix.
German, which is closely related to English, employs many of these inflectional devices, but the umlaut and ablaut are widespread, while in English they are generally considered as exceptions.
Two traditional grammatical terms refer to inflections of specific word classes:
Inflecting a nominal word is known as declining it, while inflecting a verb is called conjugating it. An organized list of the inflected forms of a given lexeme is also called its inflection, declension, or conjugation, as the case may be.
Below is an example of the declension of the English pronoun I, which is inflected for case and number.
The pronoun who is also inflected in conservative English, though only according to case. One can say that its declension is defective, in the sense that it lacks a reflexive form.
|singular & plural
The following table shows the conjugation of the verb to arrive in the indicative mood. It is inflected for person, number, and tense by suffixation.
|he, she, it
The non-finite forms arrive (bare infinitive), arrived (past participle) and arriving (gerund/present participle), although not inflected for person or number, can also be regarded as part of the conjugation of the verb to arrive. Compound verb forms like I have arrived, I had arrived, or I will arrive can be included also in the conjugation of this verb for didactical purposes, but are not conjugations of arrive in the strictest morphological sense. Rather, they should be analysed as complex verb phrases with the structure
A class of words with similar inflection rules is called an inflectional paradigm. Nominal inflectional paradigms are also called declensions, and verbal inflectional paradigms are called conjugations. For example, in Old English nouns could be divided into two major declensions, the strong and the weak, inflected as is shown below:
|gender and number
|Strong Noun Declension
|engel 'angel'
|scip 'ship'
|sorg 'sorrow'
|Weak Noun Declension
|nama 'name'
|ēage 'eye'
|tunge 'tongue'
These two terms, however, seem to be biased toward well-known dependent-marking languages (such as the Indo-European languages, or Japanese). In dependent-marking languages, nouns in adpositional phrases can carry inflectional morphemes. (Adpositions include prepositions and postpositions.) In head-marking languages, the adpositions can carry the inflection in adpositional phrases. This means that these languages will have inflected adpositions. In Western Apache (San Carlos dialect), the postposition -ká' 'on' is inflected for person and number with prefixes.
|'on me'
|'on us two'
|'on us'
|'on you'
|'on you two'
|'on you all'
|'on him'
|'on them'
Traditional grammars have specific terms for inflections of nouns and verbs, but not for those of adpositions.
Inflection is the process of adding inflectional morphemes (atomic meaning units) to a word, which may indicate grammatical information (for example, case, number, person, gender or word class, mood, tense, or aspect). Compare with derivational morphemes, which create a new word from an existing word, sometimes by simply changing grammatical category (for example, changing a noun to a verb).
Words generally do not appear in dictionaries with inflectional morphemes. But they often do appear with derivational morphemes. For instance, English dictionaries list readable and readability, words with derivational suffixes, along with their root read. However, no traditional English dictionary will list book as one entry and books as a separate entry nor will they list jump and jumped as two different entries.
In some languages, inflected words do not appear in a fundamental form (the root morpheme) except in dictionaries and grammars.
Languages that add inflectional morphemes to words are sometimes called inflectional languages. Morphemes may be added in several different ways:
Affixing includes prefixing (adding before the base), and suffixing (adding after the base), as well as the much less common infixing (inside) and circumfixing (a combination of prefix and suffix).
Inflection is most typically realized by adding an inflectional morpheme (that is, affixation) to the base form (either the root or a stem).
Inflection is sometimes confused with synthesis in languages. The two terms are related but not the same. Languages are broadly classified morphologically into analytic and synthetic categories, or more realistically along a continuum between the two extremes. Analytic languages isolate meaning into individual words, whereas synthetic languages create words not found in the dictionary by fusing or agglutinating morphemes, sometimes to the extent of having a whole sentence's worth of meaning in a single word. Inflected languages by definition fall into the synthetic category, though not all synthetic languages need be inflected.
All Indo-European languages, such as Albanian, English, German, Russian, Persian (Fârsi), Italian, Spanish, French, Sanskrit, and Hindi are inflected to a greater or lesser extent. In general, older Indo-European languages such as Latin, Irish, Slavic, Latvian, Lithuanian, and more prominently Greek and Sanskrit in all their historical forms, are extensively inflected. Deflexion caused newer languages such as English and French to lose much of their historical inflection. Afrikaans, an extremely young language, is almost completely uninflected and borders on being analytic. Some branches of Indo-European (for example, the Slavic languages, the Celtic languages, and the Romance languages) have generally retained more inflection than others (such as many Germanic languages, with the notable exception of Icelandic).
Old English was a moderately inflected language, using an extensive case system similar to that of modern Icelandic or German. Middle and Modern English lost progressively more of the Old English inflectional system. Modern English is considered a weakly inflected language, since its nouns have only vestiges of inflection (plurals, the pronouns), and its regular verbs have only four forms: an inflected form for the past indicative and subjunctive (looked), an inflected form for the third-person-singular present indicative (looks), an inflected form for the present participle (looking), and an uninflected form for everything else (look). While the English possessive indicator 's (as in "Jane's book") is a remnant of the Old English genitive case suffix, it is now not a suffix but a clitic. See also Declension in English.
Old Norse was inflected, but modern Swedish, Norwegian and Danish have, like English, lost almost all inflection. Icelandic preserves almost all of the inflections of Old Norse and has added its own. Modern German remains moderately inflected, retaining four noun cases, although the genitive had already began falling into disuse in all but formal writing in Early New High German, inspiring the title of the 2004 bestseller Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod ("the dative is the death of the genitive", using the dative where archaic or formal writing would use the genitive). The case system of Dutch, simpler than German's, is also becoming more simplified in common usage. Afrikaans, recognized as a distinct language in its own right rather than a Dutch dialect only in the early 20th century, has lost almost all inflection.
The Romance languages, such as Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Romanian, have more inflection than English, especially in verb conjugation. A single morpheme usually carries information about person, number, tense, aspect and mood, and the verb paradigm may be quite complex. Adjectives, nouns and articles are considerably less inflected, but they still have different forms according to number and grammatical gender.
Latin was even more inflected; nouns and adjectives had different forms according to their grammatical case (with several patterns of declension, and three genders instead of the two found in most Romance tongues), and there were synthetic perfective and passive voice verb forms.
The Baltic languages (presented nowadays by Lithuanian and Latvian) are moderately inflected retaining a number of archaic Indo-European features in their grammar. Nouns and adjectives are declined in seven cases. Some grammars define more cases based on two priciples:
Modern Baltic languages have also retained the old dual number. However, it is nowadays considered obsolete and included in grammar books as a reference and not as compulsory learning material. For instance, in standard Lithuanian it is normal to say "dvi varnos (pl.) - two crows" instead of "dvi varni (du.)".
Adjectives, pronouns, and numerals are declined for number, gender, and case to agree with the noun they modify/substitute. With a set of special pronominal forms, as well as four degrees of comparison, Lithuanian adjectives, for example, have the total of 147 synthetic forms.
Baltic verbs are inflected for tense, mood, aspect, and voice. They also agree with the subject in person and number (not in all forms in modern Latvian). They also demonstrate moderate fusion and high irregularity with the old morpheme seams dimmed by further evolution.
The Slavic languages, including Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Slovenian among others, all make use of a high degree of inflection, typically having six or seven cases and three genders (however, the case system has disappeared almost completely in modern Bulgarian and Macedonian, except for the vocative).
Declensional endings depend on case (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, instrumental, vocative), number (singular or plural), gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and animacy (animate vs inanimate). Unusual in other language families, declension in most Slavic languages also depends on whether the word is a noun or an adjective. Slovenian uses a rare third number, (in addition to singular and plural numbers) known as duality. In addition, in some Slavic languages, such as Polish, word stems are frequently modified by the addition or absence of endings, resulting in consonant and vowel alternation.
The following table is an example of present-tense case applications in Arabic:
|Possessive Suffix
|Verb Affixes
|Possess. Suffix
|Verb Affixes
|Possess. Suffix
|Verb Affixes
|أنا /anā/
|ــي /—ī/
|أ /a—/
|نحن /naḥnu/
|ــنا /—nā/
|نــ /n—/
|you (masc.)
|أنتَ /anta/
|ــكَ /—ka/
|تــــــ /t—/
|أنتم /antum/
|ــكم /—kum/
|تــــــــــــون /t—ūn/
|أنتما /antumā/
|ــكما /—kumā/
|تــــــــــــان /t—ān/
|you (fem.)
|أنتِ /anti/
|ــكِ /—ka/
|تــــــــــــين /t—īna/
|أنتنّ /antunna/
|ــكنّ /—kunna/
|تــــــــــــنّ /t—nna/
|هو /huwa/
|ــه /—hu/
|يــ /y—/
|هم /hum/
|ــهم /—hum/
|يـــــــــــــون /y—ūn/
|هما /humā/
|ــهما /—humā/
|يــــــــــــان /y—ān/
|هي /hiya/
|ــها /—ha/
|تــ /t—/
|هنّ /hunna/
|ــهنّ /—hunna/
|تــــــــــــنّ /t—nna/
Arabic regional dialects (e.g. Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic), used for everyday communication, tend to have less inflection than the more formal Literary Arabic. For example, in Jordanian Arabic, the second- and third-person feminine plurals (أنتنّ /antunna/ and هنّ /hunna/) and their respective unique conjugations are lost and replaced by the masculine (أنتم /antum/ and هم /hum/).
The Uralic languages (comprising Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic) are agglutinative, following from the agglutination in Proto-Uralic. The largest languages are Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian, all European Union official languages. Uralic inflection is, or is developed from, affixing. Grammatical markers directly added to the word perform the same function as prepositions in English. Almost all words are inflected according to their roles in the sentence: verbs, nouns, pronouns, numerals, adjectives, and some particles.
Hungarian and Finnish, in particular, often simply concatenate suffixes. For example, Finnish talossanikinko "in my house, too?" consists of talo-ssa-ni-kin-ko. However, in the Finnic languages (Finnish, Estonian, Sami), there are processes which affect the root, particularly consonant gradation. The original suffixes may disappear (and appear only by liaison), leaving behind the modification of the root. This process is extensively developed in Estonian and Sami, and makes them also inflected, not only agglutinating languages. The Estonian accusative case, for example, is expressed by a modified root: maja →majja (historical form *majam).
Basque, a language isolate, is an extremely inflected language, heavily inflecting both nouns and verbs. A Basque noun is inflected in 17 different ways for case, multiplied by 4 ways for its definiteness and number. These first 68 forms are further modified based on other parts of the sentence, which in turn are inflected for the noun again. It is estimated that at two levels of recursion, a Basque noun may have 458,683 inflected forms. Verb forms are similarly complex, agreeing with the subject, the direct object and several other arguments.
Some of the major Eastern Asian languages (such as the various Chinese languages, Vietnamese, and Thai) are not overtly inflected, or show very little overt inflection (though they used to show more), so they are considered analytic languages (also known as isolating languages).
Japanese shows a high degree of overt inflection on verbs, less so on adjectives, and very little on nouns, but it is always strictly agglutinative and extremely regular. Formally, every noun phrase must be marked for case, but this is done by invariable particles (clitic postpositions). (Many grammarians consider Japanese particles to be separate words, and therefore not an inflection, while others consider agglutination a type of overt inflection, and therefore consider Japanese nouns as overtly inflected.)
The Chinese family of languages, in general, does not possess overt inflectional morphology. Chinese words generally comprise of one or two syllables, each of which corresponds to a written character and individual morpheme. Since most morphemes are monosyllabic in the Chinese languages, Chinese is quite resistant to inflectional changes; instead, Chinese uses lexical means for achieving covert inflectional tranparency. While European languages use more often overt inflection to mark a word's function in a sentence, the Chinese languages use to a larger extent word order as a grammatical marking system. Whereas in English the first-person singular nominative "I" changes to "me" when used in the accusative - that is, when "I" is the object of a verb - Chinese simply uses word order to mark such a distinction. An example from Mandarin: 我给了他一本书 (wǒ gěile tā yī běn shū) 'I gave him a book'. Here 我 (wǒ) means 'I' and 他 (tā) means 'him'. However, 'He gave me a book' would be: 他给了我一本书 (tā gěile wǒ yī běn shū). 我 (Wǒ) and 他 (Tā) simply change places in the sentence to indicate that their case has switched: there is no overt inflection in the form of the words. In classical Chinese, pronouns were overtly inflected as to case. However, these overt case forms are no longer used; most of the alternative pronouns are considered archaic in modern Mandarin Chinese. Classically, 我 (wǒ) was used solely as the first person accusative. 吾 (Wú) was generally used as the first person nominative.
Auxiliary languages, such as Esperanto, Ido, and Interlingua have comparatively simple inflectional systems.
In Esperanto, nouns and adjectives are inflected for case (nominative, accusative) and number (singular, plural), according to a simple paradigm without irregularities. Verbs are not inflected for person or number, but they are inflected for tense (past, present, future) and mood (indicative, infinitive, conditional, jussive). They also form active and passive participles, which may be past, present or future. All verbs are regular. (See main article on Esperanto grammar.)
Ido has a different form for each verbal tense (past, present, future, volitive and imperative) plus an infinitive, and both a present and past participle. There are though no inflections for person or number and all verbs are regular.
Nouns are marked for number (singular and plural), and the accusative case may be shown in certain situations, typically when the direct object of a sentence precedes its verb. On the other hand, adjectives are unmarked for gender, number or case (unless they stand on their own, without a noun, in which case they take on the same desinences as the missing noun would have taken). The definite article "la" ("the") remains unaltered regardless of gender or case, and also of number, except when there is no other word to show plurality. Pronouns are identical in all cases, though exceptionally the accusative case may be marked, as for nouns.
Interlingua, in contrast with the Romance languages, has no irregular verb conjugations, and its verb forms are the same for all persons and numbers. It does, however, have compound verb tenses similar to those in the Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages: ille ha vivite, "he has lived"; illa habeva vivite, "she had lived". Nouns are inflected by number, taking a plural -s, but rarely by gender: only when referring to a male or female being. Interlingua has no noun-adjective agreement by gender, number, or case. As a result, adjectives ordinarily have no inflections. They may take the plural form if they are being used in place of a noun: le povres, "the poor".


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