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The study was conducted using high-technology eye-tracking headgear and software that measures with precision the point at which a child is looking when learning a task. Researchers used an actor to demonstrate a task on a computer screen.
"We found that the children with autism focused on the demonstrator's action and looked at the demonstrator's face much less often than did typically developing children," said Giacomo Vivanti, a postdoctoral researcher at the M.I.N.D. Institute and the study's lead author. "The typically developing children may be looking at the demonstrator's face to check for information on what to do or how to respond appropriately, information that the children with autism are less inclined to seek. This is an important finding, because children with autism have difficulty learning from others. This might be one key to why that is so," Vivanti said.
Imitation plays an important role in how children learn, as well as in how people interact socially, said M.I.N.D. Institute researcher and senior study author Sally J. Rogers, who has been studying imitation impairment and autism for more than 20 years. "This is a trait we see as early as we can diagnose autism, and it's one of the traits that is present even in mildly impaired adults," Rogers said.
Impaired imitation leads to additional impairments in sharing emotions, pretend play, pragmatic communication and understanding the emotional states of others. For years, scientists thought that children with autism and related disorders had trouble with learning through imitation because they had poor motor skills or because they did not pay attention to the action being performed. The current study rules out these hypotheses.
"We now understand more about how this imitation deficit might be working and, after more study, we may actually be able to address it in a way that helps children with autism develop a more natural set of behaviors," said Rogers, a UC Davis professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
In the current study, which was published online in June and will appear in print in November in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 18 children aged 8 to 15 with high-functioning autism were carefully matched with a group of 13 typically developing children. While wearing special eye-tracking headgear, the children were shown video clips that ranged from seven to 19 seconds in length. After viewing each clip, the children performed the demonstrated action. The results confirm previous research that shows that children with autism have difficulty imitating tasks when compared to normally developing children. It also showed that children with autism paid just as much attention to the action being performed as the other children in the study, ruling out previous hypotheses about poor attention to the task.
"This finding is particularly important," Rogers said. "Now we can rule out this variable. We know these children are looking at the task."
Researchers also found that successful performance of a task by children with autism increases with the amount of time they study it but is not correlated with their basic motor skills, ruling out the possibility that it is a lack of motor ability causing the imitation effect.
Finally, the study showed that both groups of children shifted their attention from the action to the demonstrator's face, but the children with autism did this much less often.
According to Rogers, this finding suggests that imitation is not just about repeating an action, but understanding the reason for the action.
"That information is conveyed in our faces," she explained.
Rogers and Vivanti are continuing to try to understand how this difference in looking at faces affects more complex forms of learning and understanding.
"We are looking at how children look at emotions and intentions that are conveyed in a demonstrator's face and how looking at this information in faces or not looking at them may affect how they understand and imitate the observed actions," Vivanti said.
Based on these studies, Vivanti and Rogers hope to one day develop studies aimed at determining whether or not face-looking is an important part of the imitation process. "It could be that if people with autism could be better at reading emotion they might naturally start to imitate their models the way like other people do," Rogers said. "If it's about how people understand the information in a face, then it gives you a target for intervention."


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mmv - move/copy/append/link multiple files by wildcard patterns
mmv [-m|x|r|c|o|a|l|s] [-h] [-d|p] [-g|t] [-v|n] [--] [from to]
Rename all *.jpeg files in the current directory to *.jpg: mmv '*.jpeg' '#1.jpg' Replace the first occurrence of abc with xyz in all files in the current directory: mmv '*abc*' '#1xyz#2' Rename files ending in .html.en, .html.de, etc. to ending in .en.html, .de.html, etc. in the current directory: mmv '*.html.??' '#1.#2#3.html' Rename music files from <track no.> - <interpreter> - <song title>.ogg to <interpreter> - <track no.> - <song title>.ogg in the current directory: mmv '* - * - *.ogg' '#2 - #1 - #3.ogg'
Mmv moves (or copies, appends, or links, as specified) each source file matching a from pattern to the target name specified by the to pattern. This multiple action is performed safely, i.e. without any unexpected deletion of files due to collisions of target names with existing filenames or with other target names. Furthermore, before doing anything, mmv attempts to detect any errors that would result from the entire set of actions specified and gives the user the choice of either proceeding by avoiding the offending parts or aborting. mmv does support large files (LFS) but it does *NOT* support sparse files (i.e. it explodes them). The Task Options Whether mmv moves, copies, appends, or links is governed by the first set of options given above. If none of these are specified, the task is given by the command name under which mmv was invoked (argv[0]): command name default task mmv -x mcp -c mad -a mln -l The task option choices are: -m : move source file to target name. Both must be on the same device. Will not move directories. If the source file is a symbolic link, moves the link without checking if the link's target from the new directory is different than the old. -x : same as -m, except cross-device moves are done by copying, then deleting source. When copying, sets the permission bits and file modification time of the target file to that of the source file. -r : rename source file or directory to target name. The target name must not include a path: the file remains in the same directory in all cases. This option is the only way of renaming directories under mmv. -c : copy source file to target name. Sets the file modification time and permission bits of the target file to that of the source file, regardless of whether the target file already exists. Chains and cycles (to be explained below) are not allowed. -o : overwrite target name with source file. If target file exists, it is overwritten, keeping its original owner and permission bits. If it does not exist, it is created, with read-write permission bits set according to umask(1), and the execute permission bits copied from the source file. In either case, the file modification time is set to the current time. -a : append contents of source file to target name. Target file modification time is set to the current time. If target file does not exist, it is created with permission bits set as under -o. Unlike all other options, -a allows multiple source files to have the same target name, e.g. "mmv -a \*.c big" will append all ".c" files to "big". Chains and cycles are also allowed, so "mmv -a f f" will double up "f". -l : link target name to source file. Both must be on the same device, and the source must not be a directory. Chains and cycles are not allowed. -s : same as -l, but use symbolic links instead of hard links. For the resulting link to aim back at the source, either the source name must begin with a '/', or the target must reside in either the current or the source directory. If none of these conditions are met, the link is refused. However, source and target can reside on different devices, and the source can be a directory. Only one of these option may be given, and it applies to all matching files. Remaining options need not be given separately, i.e. "mmv -mk" is allowed. Multiple Pattern Pairs / Reading Patterns from STDIN Multiple from -- to pattern pairs may be specified by omitting the pattern pair on the command line, and entering them on the standard input, one pair per line. (If a pattern pair is given on the command line, the standard input is not read.) Thus, mmv a b c d would rename "a" to "b" and "c" to "d". If a file can be matched to several of the given from patterns, the to pattern of the first matching pair is used. Thus, mmv a b a c would give the error message "a -> c : no match" because file "a" (even if it exists) was already matched by the first pattern pair. WARNING: This operation mode does not work if the patterns itself contain spaces. See http://bugs.debian.org/149873 for details. The From Pattern The from pattern is a filename with embedded wildcards: '*', '?', '['...']', and ';'. The first three have their usual sh(1) meanings of, respectively, matching any string of characters, matching any single character, and matching any one of a set of characters. Between the '[' and ']', a range from character 'a' through character 'z' is specified with "a-z". The set of matching characters can be negated by inserting a '^' after the '['. Thus, "[^b-e2-5_]" will match any character but 'b' through 'e', '2' through '5', and '_'. Note that paths are allowed in the patterns, and wildcards may be intermingled with slashes arbitrarily. The ';' wildcard is useful for matching files at any depth in the directory tree. It matches the same as "*/" repeated any number of times, including zero, and can only occur either at the beginning of the pattern or following a '/'. Thus ";*.c" will match all ".c" files in or below the current directory, while "/;*.c" will match them anywhere on the file system. In addition, if the from pattern (or the to pattern) begins with "~/", the '~' is replaced with the home directory name. (Note that the "~user" feature of csh(1) is not implemented.) However, the '~' is not treated as a wildcard, in the sense that it is not assigned a wildcard index (see below). Since matching a directory under a task option other than -r or -s would result in an error, tasks other than -r and -s match directories only against completely explicit from patterns (i.e. not containing wildcards). Under -r and -s, this applies only to "." and "..". Files beginning with '.' are only matched against from patterns that begin with an explicit '.'. However, if -h is specified, they are matched normally. Warning: since the shell normally expands wildcards before passing the command-line arguments to mmv, it is usually necessary to enclose the command-line from and to patterns in quotes. The To Pattern The to pattern is a filename with embedded wildcard indexes, where an index consists of the character '#' followed by a string of digits. When a source file matches a from pattern, a target name for the file is constructed out of the to pattern by replacing the wildcard indexes by the actual characters that matched the referenced wildcards in the source name. Thus, if the from pattern is "abc*.*" and the to pattern is "xyz#2.#1", then "abc.txt" is targeted to "xyztxt.". (The first '*' matched "", and the second matched "txt".) Similarly, for the pattern pair ";*.[clp]" -> "#1#3/#2", "foo1/foo2/prog.c" is targeted to "foo1/foo2/c/prog". Note that there is no '/' following the "#1" in the to pattern, since the string matched by any ';' is always either empty or ends in a '/'. In this case, it matches "foo1/foo2/". To convert the string matched by a wildcard to either lowercase or uppercase before embedding it in the target name, insert 'l' or 'u', respectively, between the '#' and the string of digits. The to pattern, like the from pattern, can begin with a "~/" (see above). This does not necessitate enclosing the to pattern in quotes on the command line since csh(1) expands the '~' in the exact same manner as mmv (or, in the case of sh(1), does not expand it at all). For all task options other than -r, if the target name is a directory, the real target name is formed by appending a '/' followed by the last component of the source file name. For example, "mmv dir1/a dir2" will, if "dir2" is indeed a directory, actually move "dir1/a" to "dir2/a". However, if "dir2/a" already exists and is itself a directory, this is considered an error. To strip any character (e.g. '*', '?', or '#') of its special meaning to mmv, as when the actual replacement name must contain the character '#', precede the special character with a ´\' (and enclose the argument in quotes because of the shell). This also works to terminate a wildcard index when it has to be followed by a digit in the filename, e.g. "a#1\1". Chains and Cycles A chain is a sequence of specified actions where the target name of one action refers to the source file of another action. For example, mmv a b b c specifies the chain "a" -> "b" -> "c". A cycle is a chain where the last target name refers back to the first source file, e.g. "mmv a a". Mmv detects chains and cycles regardless of the order in which their constituent actions are actually given. Where allowed, i.e. in moving, renaming, and appending files, chains and cycles are handled gracefully, by performing them in the proper order. Cycles are broken by first renaming one of the files to a temporary name (or just remembering its original size when doing appends). Collisions and Deletions When any two or more matching files would have to be moved, copied, or linked to the same target filename, mmv detects the condition as an error before performing any actions. Furthermore, mmv checks if any of its actions will result in the destruction of existing files. If the -d (delete) option is specified, all file deletions or overwrites are done silently. Under -p (protect), all deletions or overwrites (except those specified with "(*)" on the standard input, see below) are treated as errors. And if neither option is specified, the user is queried about each deletion or overwrite separately. (A new stream to "/dev/tty" is used for all interactive queries, not the standard input.) Error Handling Whenever any error in the user's action specifications is detected, an error message is given on the standard output, and mmv proceeds to check the rest of the specified actions. Once all errors are detected, mmv queries the user whether he wishes to continue by avoiding the erroneous actions or to abort altogether. This and all other queries may be avoided by specifying either the -g (go) or -t (terminate) option. The former will resolve all difficulties by avoiding the erroneous actions; the latter will abort mmv if any errors are detected. Specifying either of them defaults mmv to -p, unless -d is specified (see above). Thus, -g and -t are most useful when running mmv in the background or in a shell script, when interactive queries are undesirable. Reports Once the actions to be performed are determined, mmv performs them silently, unless either the -v (verbose) or -n (no-execute) option is specified. The former causes mmv to report each performed action on the standard output as a -> b : done. Here, "a" and "b" would be replaced by the source and target names, respectively. If the action deletes the old target, a "(*)" is inserted after the the target name. Also, the "->" symbol is modified when a cycle has to be broken: the '>' is changed to a '^' on the action prior to which the old target is renamed to a temporary, and the '-' is changed to a '=' on the action where the temporary is used. Under -n, none of the actions are performed, but messages like the above are printed on the standard output with the ": done." omitted. The output generated by -n can (after editing, if desired) be fed back to mmv on the standard input (by omitting the from -- to pair on the mmv command line). To facilitate this, mmv ignores lines on the standard input that look like its own error and "done" messages, as well as all lines beginning with white space, and will accept pattern pairs with or without the intervening "->" (or "-^", "=>", or "=^"). Lines with "(*)" after the target pattern have the effect of enabling -d for the files matching this pattern only, so that such deletions are done silently. WARNING: This means that unexpected things may happen if files matched by the patterns contain spaces. See http://bugs.debian.org/149873 for details. When feeding mmv its own output, one must remember to specify again the task option (if any) originally used to generate it. Although mmv attempts to predict all mishaps prior to performing any specified actions, accidents may happen. For example, mmv does not check for adequate free space when copying. Thus, despite all efforts, it is still possible for an action to fail after some others have already been done. To make recovery as easy as possible, mmv reports which actions have already been done and which are still to be performed after such a failure occurs. It then aborts, not attempting to do anything else. Once the user has cleared up the problem, he can feed this report back to mmv on the standard input to have it complete the task. (The user is queried for a file name to dump this report if the standard output has not been redirected.)
Mmv exits with status 1 if it aborts before doing anything, with status 2 if it aborts due to failure after completing some of the actions, and with status 0 otherwise.
mv(1), cp(1), ln(1), umask(1)
Vladimir Lanin email@example.com
If the search pattern is not quoted, the shell expands the wildcards. Mmv then (usually) gives some error message, but can not determine that the lack of quotes is the cause. To avoid difficulties in semantics and error checking, mmv refuses to move or create directories. November 20, 2001 (v1.0lfs) MMV(1)

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US Chess Scoop at the National Chess Congress |
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December 1, 2009 | |
At the 2009 National Chess Congress, the US Chess Scoop interviewed a number of strong players and interesting personalities about the tournament. I got a nasty cold over Thanksgiving weekend and though I was not contagious at the time of these interviews (I love chessplayers too much to do that to them!), my voice was not pretty, so I allowed the players to speak for themselves. This year's Congress was held right in downtown Philadelphia at the Sheraton, which always makes me happy as it shows off my beautiful city. There will be many more exciting tournaments coming to the same venue, including the Liberty Bell Open (January 15-18) and the new Philadelphia Open (March 31-April 4, to replace the Foxwoods Open). Look for Chess Scoop coverage of those events as well. |


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I'm always reading books on writing and storytelling. In fact, I read three this week. One of them was Save the Cat by the late Blake Snyder. This post isn't a review per se of that book, but more some mental ramblings on issues it raised.
First an observation about the nature of "advice" books and the possible career of sceenwriter. Mr. Snyder was (he unfortunately died suddenly recently) a noted screenwriter, having sold over a dozen major spec scripts, at least two for over a million dollars each. He worked on roughly 100 screenplays in some capacity. Yet, only two of these have even been made into movies.
Eeek gads! If this is success as a screenwriter it has to be creatively bankrupt. Unlike novels, screenplays aren't a medium themselves. In fact, I find them boring as shit. They're just a weird but essential initial sketch of a film. Now don't think I consider them unimportant. A production can easily ruin a great script, but it's exceedingly rare to take a bad one and make a good movie out of it. They're certainly the single most important element of any film. Great screenwriters add immeasurably to a film. Look at the different between Empire Strikes Back and Phantom Menace. Personally I think it was Lawrence Kasdan or some other writer who was NOT George Lucas.
In any case, having almost none of your creative work see the light of day has to be depressing. I'm also guessing that in recent years Mr. Snyder made more money selling his books/lectures/advice ABOUT writing screenplays than in actually writing the things. Hehe.
But that was what I intended to write about. Save the Cat is essentially a book about making your story (screenplay) correspond fairly rigidly to the classic Hollywood three act structure. It even goes so far as to break (every) film into roughly a dozen beats and assign exact page numbers in which they should occur. For example: "theme stated" (page 5) or "catalyst" (page 12). All of this can be found on his website.
Now there is some real merit to this structure and it's certainly very useful and entertaining to be able to breakdown movies like this. In fact, if you want a giggle go to this page where you will find a breakdown of the guilty-pleasure comedy The Wedding Crashers. It's highly amusing to see a film this silly (but admittedly funny) stripped down to include a Hegelian thesis/antithesis/synthesis dialectic. And I do admit if you are trying to write and sell high concept comedies in today's marketing executive driven world, this whole formula has to be the way to go.
But I wonder how useful it is to try and fit EVERY story into this exact mould. You could say actually that Save the Cat represents a thesis: yes all movies should follow this fixed structure. The antithesis of course is that interesting ones, the example he uses is Memento, should not. Now Mr. Snyder's conclusion is literally "Fuck Momento!" (actual quote from the book). But I think that Christopher Nolan is laughing to the bank — just not on that film! — he had to remake it using dreams inside of memory loss.
I myself am thinking that a synthesis is in order. A new universe blending both perspectives. The classic structure does encapsulate A LOT of solid lessons about audience expectations for story telling. Perhaps one should use it more as a toolbox or set of guidelines.
This is specifically relevant in my new novel, Untimed. It does to a large extent follow the classic structure (although certain not with such rigid page number demarkations). But there are questions. I have two ideas in the book that could be considered thesis and antithesis, but their advocates are far more muddled than formula would require. Do I restructure and state each in a more obvious way? Likewise, as is typical with me, my ending does not neatly wrap up all questions, villians, and the like. There is climax, but it's messy. I like ambiguity, and I have gone to great length to construct a world order sufficiently complex that not all mystery is to be solved in one book. Doing so leads to the standard Hollywood sequel problem, where the followups are just more of the same but missing the best part: the discovery inherent in beginnings. If you haven't answered all the questions, there is still more to learn.
But a squeaky voice in the back of my head wonders: do I need a more Hollywood ending?
Food for thought.
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The Great Smoky Mountains. Crescent Books, 1986.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, America's Most Popular National Park. W. M. Cline Co., 1966.
Great Smoky Mountains: Your Complete Guide to the Parks: Activities, Dining, Lodging, Trails, History, Maps. 24th ed. American Park Network, 2006.
Great Smoky-Mountains National Park, North Carolina-Tennessee. Curt Teich & Co., 1946.
Guide to the Appalachian Trail in Tennessee and North Carolina Cherokee, Pisgah, and Great Smokies. 3rd ed., 1971.
Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Gatlinburg, the Park Headquarters. 3rd ed. The Gatlinburg News, 1939.
Guide to the National Parks of the United States. National Geographic Society, 2006.
Guide to the National Parks of the United States. 6th ed. National Geographic, 2009.
Highland Annuals. Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier In History and Political Science, Edited by Anonymous. Vol. 15. University of Michigan, 1944.
Junaluska Joy. Junaluska Historical Society, 1982.
The Land of the Sky and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.. Asheville, NC: Great Smoky Mountains Publishing Co., 1929.
Legends of the Cherokees. Trent Publishing Company, 1952.
A Lifetime of Contributions to Myriapodology and the Natural History of Virginia: A Festschrift in honor of Richard L. Hoffman's 80th Birthday. Martinsville, VA: Virginia Museum of Natural History, 2009.
Log Cabins of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Belcher Foundation, 2005.
Mammals of the Great Smoky Mountains: A Checklist for the Mammals of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association, 1995.
Moon Handbooks. North Carolina. Avalon Travel Pub., 2003.
Mountain Mating. Pageant Press, 1954.
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National Parks. Reader's Digest Assocation, 1993.
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Philemon 1-21
1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,[a]
To Philemon our dear friend and co-worker, 2 to Apphia our sister,[b] to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in your house:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philemon's Love and Faith
4 When I remember you[c] in my prayers, I always thank my God 5 because I hear of your love for all the saints and your faith towards the Lord Jesus. 6 I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective when you perceive all the good that we[d] may do for Christ. 7 I have indeed received much joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, my brother.
Paul's Plea for Onesimus
8 For this reason, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do your duty, 9 yet I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love—and I, Paul, do this as an old man, and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus.[e] 10 I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment. 11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful[f] both to you and to me. 12 I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you. 13 I wanted to keep him with me, so that he might be of service to me in your place during my imprisonment for the gospel; 14 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent, in order that your good deed might be voluntary and not something forced. 15 Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for ever, 16 no longer as a slave but as more than a slave, a beloved brother—especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
17 So if you consider me your partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. 18 If he has wronged you in any way, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. 19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand: I will repay it. I say nothing about your owing me even your own self. 20 Yes, brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord! Refresh my heart in Christ. 21 Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
22 One thing more—prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be restored to you.
Final Greetings and Benediction
23 Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,[g] 24 and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow-workers.
25 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.[h]


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Ten years ago if any one had told Lincoln resident, Glenda Hinz, that the nascent industry that she has been working so hard to promote would finally receive its own day or recognition, she probably would not have believed it. Hinz is a virtual assistant, and she along with more than 5,000 other virtual professionals working worldwide will celebrate the third International Virtual Assistants Day (IVAD) on May 16, 2008.
Proposed by the online advocacy group, Alliance for Virtual Businesses (A4VB), IVAD is now officially registered with Chases Calendar of Events, the recognized authority of special days, weeks and months. International VA Day will be held annually on the third Friday of May. The annual celebration of International Virtual Assistants Day coincides with a three-day assembly sponsored by the Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC) running from May 15 – 17, 2008. Virtual Assistants worldwide will display the free International VA Day logo and creed on their websites.
"This day of observance not only allows us to celebrate individual accomplishments, but also affords us the chance to pat the backs of our colleagues," says Hinz, whose company, HINZtime Virtual Assistance, specializes in association management and general administrative support.
Virtual Assistants or VAs are independent entrepreneurs who work remotely and use technology to deliver professional administrative, creative, managerial, technical, business back-office and/or personal support services to busy professionals. Clients only pay for the time actually spent working on projects and often retain a fixed amount of hours per month for service.
Typical services could include everything from general secretarial and word processing services to desktop publishing, website creation and marketing. Projects are often handled over the phone, by fax, e-mail and even instant messaging. Most attractive is the fact that VAs are also responsible for their own taxes, training, healthcare, insurance - overhead costs that make hiring an employee expensive.
Since 1996 more than 5,000 professionals around the world have become VAs. More than 90 percent of them are highly-skilled working mothers who choose to start their own businesses in order to achieve a better work/life balance. According to a study conducted by Brenner Books in conjunction with A4VB in 2004, the United States accounts for the largest number of VAs followed by Canada, Australia and Great Britain.
"This will be a very special day for everyone involved in the VA industry because it will allow us to bring together all VA organizations and their memberships under one umbrella," says Alliance for Virtual Businesses founder Sharon Williams. "VAs are making important contributions to the growth and stability of small businesses everywhere, and the establishment of International VA Day simply acknowledges all of those virtual professionals who work so hard to honor our creed: Dedication, Experience, Expertise and Determination to Succeed (DEEDS)."
About HINZtime: Launched in 1978, HINZtime specializes in association management, transcription, and general administrative support. Visit the website at www.hinztime.com.
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In the latest church sex scandal, a Catholic pastor in Florida has just been stripped of his duties after church officials learned that the reverend had placed a personal ad--complete with a naked photo of himself--on a gay web site.
Francis T. Gera, 64, was removed Thursday (2/20) from his post as pastor of Holy Dormition Byzantine Catholic Church in Ormond Beach, Florida. Gera was relieved of his duties when church brass learned of his posting on the Silverfox Pictures Archive web site, which describes itself as, "your one-stop repository for pictures of older men."
Along with a full-frontal photo of Gera (which TSG has tweaked, above), the personal ad described the preferences of "Poppa Bear": "likes younger, TOP, slim-muscular men, 18-40. he lives in daytona beach, florida and can be reached at [an AOL address that begins with Gera's initials, ftg]." The e-mail address included in the personal ad was the same one at which parishoners would correspond with Gera.
Until his removal this week, Gera had headed Holy Dormition since October 1997. Before that, he was assigned to St. Mary's Church in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Compared to the Roman Catholic rite, the Byzantines represent a small piece of the U.S. Catholic population. While the Byzantine rite recognizes the Pope as the church's leader, the smaller group has a variety of different customs and rules, including one that, in some instances, allows married men to become priests (though, like the Roman Catholic rite, unmarried priests are barred from having sex).
Until Gera was removed from his post, his name was on the home page of Holy Dormition's web site. In addition, he appeared in a photo (seen at left) wearing his clerical garb as he stood next to a painting of the Virgin Mary. That picture, too, has been removed.
This is the second time in less than a year that a Byzantine priest has run into trouble due to his Internet postings. TSG reported last year that Rev. Glenn Michael Davidowich, a 38-year-old pastor from Pennsylvania, maintained a wrestling web site that featured hundreds of gratuitous photos of young men (some under 18) in nothing but clingy Speedos and other revealing clothing.


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10 Housing and Mortgage Trends to Watch for in 2018
The housing picture is likely to improve in 2018:
- Home prices are expected to climb, but not as fast
- More houses could be for sale toward the end of the year, giving home buyers a greater selection to choose from
- Homeowners will have more equity to borrow from
Yet in other ways, 2018 might continue to be challenging, especially for home buyers. Mortgage rates are likely to rise, reducing affordability.
Here are 10 housing and mortgage trends to expect in 2018.
1. Home prices decelerate
Good news for first-time home buyers: Home-price appreciation is expected to cool down in 2018 after a torrid couple of years.
Home prices rose 6.3% in 2016, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. They're on track to exceed 6% in 2017, too. But for next year, the median forecast among six industry and lender groups is for a 4.1% increase in existing home prices nationwide.
Why the slowdown? One factor is home construction. Economists expect the construction of single-family houses to rise sharply in 2018, based on building permit applications. The median estimate has single-family housing starts rising about 8% in 2018, to roughly 912,500 new houses.
2. More homes for sale
Home buyers are struggling to find houses for sale. The shortages are especially acute for the kinds of homes that first-time buyers tend to get. Among the reasons for the tight supply:
- Many baby boomers are content to age in their homes instead of downsizing
- Investors bought millions of homes after the housing bubble burst, and they're making too much money as landlords to sell
- Home builders make more profit from expensive houses than entry-level houses, so that's what they're constructing
But there's some hope for 2018: Realtor.com predicts that the housing supply pinch will begin to ease late in the year.
"It looks like we could get to a point where we're seeing growth in inventory sometime in the fall of 2018," says Danielle Hale, chief economist for Realtor.com.
3. Home sales could rise
Resales of existing homes are expected to rise modestly in 2018. The median estimate is that existing home sales will rise 2.5%, to 5.6 million units.
Meanwhile, sales of new homes are expected to rise a median of 7%, to 653,500 newly built single-family houses.
According to Realtor.com, cities in the South will show the most sales growth in 2018. Hale says she expects 6% existing home sales growth, particularly in markets such as Dallas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Charlotte, North Carolina. She says those places are not as "regulation constrained," they have strong regional economies and developers have plenty of vacant land to build on.
4. Mortgage rates head up
Mortgage rates are expected to rise in 2018. CoreLogic, a data provider for the real estate industry, averaged six forecasts of mortgage rates, arriving at a consensus view that the 30-year fixed will average 4.7% in December 2018. In November 2017, the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.07%.
"Not only are mortgage rates higher, but mortgage rates will be at the highest level since 2011," Nothaft said at the Urban Institute symposium. "So we're looking at an environment, going forward, where this era of cheap mortgage rates will largely be behind us."
Interest rates are notoriously resistant to prediction, though. At the beginning of 2017, most people expected mortgage rates to rise steadily throughout the year. And they did rise — for a few weeks. The average 30-year fixed peaked in mid-March 2017 at 4.58%, according to NerdWallet's daily survey. Then it declined, dipping slightly below 4% a few times in the summer, before moving upward slightly in the fall.
5. Affordability declines
If, as expected, home prices and mortgage rates go up in 2018, homes will be less affordable.
For example, if mortgage rates rise to 4.7% toward the end of 2018, and the median price of existing homes rises by 4.1%, then monthly mortgage payments for a typical house would rise substantially.
But according to an Urban Institute analysis, middle-class families in much of the country still have some financial wiggle room if rates and prices rise in 2018. Most home buyers don't appear to stretch to the limits of affordability, the Urban Institute wrote.
6. More equity, more HELOCs
As home values rise, homeowners gain equity. And banks expect millions of homeowners to borrow against that equity.
About 1.6 million homeowners are predicted to get new home equity lines of credit in 2018, a 16% increase over 2017, according to a recent TransUnion study. The credit bureau says 67% of homeowners have enough equity to get HELOCs, and 80% of those borrowers have high credit scores.
TransUnion forecasts that 10 million homeowners will get HELOCs from 2018 through 2022, double the number of new lines of credit in the five years before that.
7. Security headaches continue
Thieves are stealing down payments from home buyers by combining email hacking with wire fraud. And there's no sign of it slowing.
Complaints of this type of wire fraud skyrocketed by 480% in 2016, according to the 2016 annual report (the latest available) from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center. Lenders and title companies say the problem worsened in 2017, and that they fend off this form of fraud constantly.
The best way to avoid becoming a victim: When you receive emailed instructions for wiring money, call your agent to verify. The email may be a fake, designed to trick you into wiring money into a thief's account.
8. More options for people with credit issues
A few specialty lenders are focusing on nontraditional mortgages. For example, Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions in Atlanta targets the borrower "who has had a life event, so they lost their house or had to file bankruptcy or things got really bad, but they've now got their feet back on the ground and they're ready to buy their next house," says Tom Hutchens, the lender's senior vice president of sales and marketing.
Several lenders offer interest-only mortgages, and even loans with limited income documentation. These mortgages are dubbed "non-QM" because they don't meet Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's plain-vanilla "qualified mortgage" rules. One prominent non-QM lender, Impac Mortgage Holdings, plans to begin securitizing these loans early in 2018.
9. Lenders embracing automation
Mortgage lenders continue to pour money into automating the loan-application process. The best-known example is Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. But Quicken isn't the only lender that embraces automation. Some lenders, such as loanDepot, cook up their own automation in-house, while software providers such as Blend and Roostify help large and small banks to automate applications. Now a few lenders want to use automation to guide borrowers to loan products that best suit them.
10. Tax reform could affect buyers and owners
Lawmakers were still working on tax reform as this article was being written. Preliminary House and Senate versions limited the number of home sellers who would benefit from the home capital gains exclusion, and they treated the mortgage interest tax deduction differently. It's too early to know how a final tax reform bill would affect home buyers and homeowners, but we will keep you posted.
The article 10 Housing and Mortgage Trends to Watch for in 2018 originally appeared on NerdWallet.


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Imagine a world that is completely black. You can't see a thing — unless something happens to move. You can see the rain falling from the sky, the steam coming from your coffee cup, a car passing by on the street.
This was the world that Milena Channing claimed to see, back in 2000, shortly after she was blinded by a stroke at 29 years old. But when she told her doctors about these strange apparitions, they looked at her brain scans (the stroke had destroyed basically her entire primary visual cortex, the receiving station of visual information to the brain), and told her she must be hallucinating.
"You're blind and that's it," Channing remembers them saying to her.
Frustrated and convinced these visions were real, Channing made her way from doctor to doctor until she finally found one who believed her: Dr. Gordon Dutton, an ophthalmologist in Glasgow. He told her he'd once read about such a case — a soldier in World War I who, after a bullet injury to the head, could only see things in motion.
Riddoch's phenomenon, Dutton told her it was called, named for the Scottish neurologist George Riddoch who named it. And then he prescribed her ... a rocking chair!
Here's why: If this is about motion, only being able to see things in motion, she'd be able to see the stationary world, at least a little, if she herself started moving.
It helped. In the weeks and months after her visit (after employing other techniques like shaking her head), Channing began to see the world more vividly. And when she finally visited a team of neuroscientists in Canada (five years after her stroke), they filled in the picture. It turns out that one area of her brain 's cortex — an area reserved specifically for processing motion (visual area MT, for middle temporal area) — had been preserved. So even though information wasn't going through the primary visual cortex, somehow it was still getting out to the part of the brain that can register objects in motion.
Cue the cars. And the rain. And the coffee steam. Channing was truly seeing them.
But here's the catch. Though this compartmentalized nature of vision may have been Channing's blessing, it's also proving to be a quiet curse. Just as there seems to be an area of the brain that processes motion, there is one for faces; and as much as Channing's vision continues to improve, she still can't recognize — even perceive — a face.
Channing says that every now and then, that hard boundary of what she can and can't see frustrates her. "Who does she look like?" Channing wonders, as she gazes straight at her daughter's face.
For an artist's rendition of Milena Channing's world, watch the video above, which also explains a bit more about the modular nature of vision.
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AU Library serves the needs of graduate students. Journal articles; books and media; image, audio and video; research tutorials; and citation guides—anything you need to help you with your writing and research.
Athabasca University's Write Site is designed to assist students with academic writing assignments. Students can use this service to receive feedback about the writing component—organization, mechanics, grammar, and style—of an assignment before they submit it for marking.
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In Canada, students may be able to reduce income taxes payable by claiming tax credits for enrolment in and payment of tuition and academic fees for Athabasca University's credit courses.
Each February, the official Tuition, Education, and Textbook Amounts Certificate (Form T2202) will be available to all eligible students in printable format on myAU portal.
To be eligible for the tuition tax credit, the total of such fees paid to an educational institution in Canada for the year must exceed $100.
The calendar year for which the fees are paid, not the date on which the fees are paid, is used to calculate eligible tuition fees. Tuition fees paid for courses that extend beyond the calendar year-end will be pro-rated on the T2202 according to the period of course delivery pertaining to each calendar year.
For example, if a course has an October 1 start date and a March 31 contract end date, only 50 per cent of the tuition fee representing the October through December period will be reflected in the current year tax credit certificate. The remaining 50 per cent, representing January through March, will be reflected in the following year's T2202.
Students may be eligible for the Tuition, Education, and Textbook Amounts Certificate tax credit for each month of part-time or full-time registration. For income tax purposes, a full-time student at the graduate studies level is defined as a person actively registered in at least .75 credits per month (three credits for every four-month period).
The Tuition, Education, and Textbook Amounts Certificate (form T2202) will reflect the months of enrolment that are eligible to be considered as part time or full time. Further details concerning the Tuition, Education, and Textbook Amounts Certificate may be found in Canada Customs and Revenue Agency's (CCRA) Personal Income Tax Guide or by contacting a CRA district taxation office.
Financial aid is available to part-time and full-time graduate studies students from their local financial aid agency.
To qualify for full-time status at the graduate studies level, students must be registered in a minimum of a 60 per cent course load (.75 credits per month). To qualify for a 100 per cent course load, students must register in a minimum of 12 credits (one credit per month).
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On his most recent Christmas album, Steven Curtis Chapman sings a song about returning to his hometown of Paducah, Kentucky for Christmas. One might expect a song like this one to be sappy nostalgia along the lines of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" or "Tennessee Christmas," but it's not. This is not the song of a child, but the song of a grown man who's walked long enough with God to know that Christ came not just for folks like him but for the whole world. It's the best news in the world. I love this song.
In the video above, you can hear the song in its entirety as well as read the lyrics. I recommend that you do both. If you haven't bought this album since I last wrote about it, I still highly recommend it. You can get it here.


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Turing Complete refers to a machine that, given enough time and memory along with the necessary instructions, can solve any computational problem, no matter how complex. The term is normally used to describe modern programming languages as most of them are Turing Complete (C++, Python, JavaScript, etc.).
Before modern-day computers, Alan Turing hypothesized that there would one day be a machine that could solve any problem. This machine became known as the Turing Machine.
Alan imagined his machine as a long piece of tape with information written on it in the form of binary code (1s and 0s). The machine would also have a read/write head that moves along the tape reading each square, one by one. The code would ask the machine a computational problem, and the tape would be as long as was needed to achieve a solution.
As the head moves along the tape, the machine follows simple instructions that govern how it reacts. It reads the tape, follows the instructions, and perform a certain action to write a new code as it moves along. This new pattern of code is the answer to the problem. Turing's hypothetical machine could answer any computational problem that could be expressed in code (and that had a calculable answer).
A device or programming language is considered to be Turing Complete when it can replicate a Turing Machine by running any program or solving any problem the Turing Machine could run or solve. On the other hand, if a device or programming language is not able to do it, then it is said to be Turing Incomplete.
A simple calculator is an example of a system which is Turing Incomplete since it can only do a few types of calculations. In contrast, a programmable scientific calculator (able to perform all kinds of calculations) can be deemed as a Turing Machine.
While some applications of blockchain technology are Turing Complete, others are Turing Incomplete. This varies according to the scripting technology implemented. For example, the scripting language used in Bitcoin is intentionally designed as Turing Incomplete because it serves its purpose and increased complexity would potentially introduce problems. By keeping it simple, the developers can predict with high accuracy how it is going to react in the finite number of situations in which it is used.
Ethereum, on the other hand, is built as a Turing Complete blockchain. This is important because it needs to understand the agreements which make up smart contracts. By being Turing Complete, Ethereum has the capability to understand and implement any future agreement, even those that have not been thought of yet. In other words, Ethereum's Turing Completeness means that it is able to use its code base to perform virtually any task, as long as it has the correct instructions, enough time and processing power.


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Jazz Times Review of Romare Bearden Revealed
Publication: Jazz Times
Author: Ron Wynn
Date: December 2003
Branford Marsalis' latest session is both a celebration of an incredible artistic genius, Romare Bearden, and a marvelous salute to African-American musical heritage and tradition. It's also another indication that Marsalis was right to desert the corporate wars and go the independent route. This disc's nine cuts have a joyous, emphatic quality that was seldom approached on Marsalis' final Columbia releases. There's nothing clinical in his tone or sound, nor anything rote in his or anyone else's solos. Marsalis' playing reflects the passion and confidence of an improviser thoroughly immersed in each composition.
Several guest stars join the basic quartet of pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts. The CD's freewheeling, updated version of Wynton Marsalis' "J Mood" features the brothers dueling above vivid support from the quartet. The new treatment sounds much richer, and it's more enjoyable than the 1986 original. The Marsalis sibs have another exciting set of exchanges on "Laughin' and Talkin' (With Higg)." Guitarist Doug Wamble adds spice to "I'm Slappin' Seventh Avenue" and contributes a flickering, jaunty solo number, "Autumn Lamp." Harry Connick Jr.'s piano phrasing "Carolina Shout" has the evocative quality and driving force that made his early records so delightful.
Branford Marsalis' soprano sax efforts on Romare Bearden Revealed deserve special mention. "B's Paris Blues" is his tribute to Sidney Bechet, and he designs his solo not only to re-create the period but also to recall Bechet's tone, articulation and style. Indeed, the entire disc not only honors the giants of African-American culture, it spotlights a current jazz master who's now playing better than ever.
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My dress is made of mystery-fiber fabric from the clearance bin of a local fabric store, and I think the whole dress ended up costing me around $10. I sewed much of the dress on the machine, but because it is so sheer, all of the seams are carefully finished by hand on the inside. To create the pattern for my dress, I used the very helpful diagrams and photos of a roller printed dress from the 19th US Regiment of Infantry Women's Dress page. I started out with double poof sleeves like you see in the original gown, but after wearing the dress that way a few times, I cut off the bottom poof because I thought the single puff was a little less fussy looking. The dress closes in the back with a drawstring at the top and a single hook at the waist, and I wear it over over a white bodiced petticoat.
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The next time I wore this dress was to the Breakfast with the Bennetts event at Costume College, so I wanted to go for a more casual "at home" look. I took inspiration from this fashion plate from Modes et Manières du Jour and added a splash of color with a yellow silk turban and a yellow reticule. I made the turban using a similar method to the tutorial I posted last year, and I also sewed some fake curls to the front edge of the hat so that it would be even easier to get dressed early in the morning. I also decided to dye my beloved pair of American Duchess nankeen boots with yellow Rit dye, which was a bit scary, but I really like the results.
I also played around with wearing this dress with an antique black lace shawl, black gloves, and my black bonnet with a lace veil over it to create more of a full-mourning look. I doubt I'll wear it like this to many outings because the veil and shawl are pretty delicate and are prone to getting snagged on things, but it was fun to at least take a nice picture or two.
I do have one additional way that I've worn this dress, but I'll save that for its own post since it is much less orthodox. So, I'll just end this post with a few more pictures and a "to be continued..."


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After hours of work, here is the demo of the Immortal Mod and what to expect:
(Pressing tab while dead doesn't work, you have to press enter and then go back to the menu.)
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For Downscroll players, the caution notes don't show. I recommend playing on Upscroll.
I made the music, modchart, song chart, custom select screen, and the Evman2k Notes.
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Update: Fixed a crash with the Lerp function. The parameters now have a default value if nil.
Update 1.1: Fixed not being able to hit Caution notes
Update 1.2: Goop note poison nerfed
Update 1.3: Caution notes show correctly in upscroll.
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The Immortal Demo week, or Reality Shifter, has been abandoned. Please don't report any bugs in the song as they have already been fixed in the future version of the engine. The week will no longer be updated, I am focused on doing the VS Eteled mod demake. Also, for those saying "can't you just copy & paste," you can't. The inputs system in the current engine is different from the engine Reality Shifter uses.
How cool, how good that the community continues with updates and this is one of my favorites; D
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edit: if you guys didn't know, i have a yt channel where i upload all my remixes (blammed coming out this friday)
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jo560hs, I improved your charter by adding some small things. It now shows what beat/note you have selected, supports my version of PNP, and you can create Ugh notes with the CarsonK charter.
Update 1.0: Fixed Evman2k copy to clipboard
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Hi, this is Heff from the UTOP (Underwatch Team of One Person) and I know that you all have been waiting for another good PNP mod.
This looks like some really good gameplay. But uh, at Underwatch, we decided to throw our hard work away and create a new bob mod!
Jokes aside, here's another funkin' mod DEMO:
The evman2k do many good Mods from PNP,i like so much the mods of him
can someone make /v/-tan (4chan mod) mod songs in pico night funkin' bc the songs are cool
i REALLY want to see /v/-tan mod in pico-8
BRILLIANT!! the truth is that the difficulty is stable, I just wonder if it has an end.
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edit: it is now beatable
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I have been in love with all of these chalkboard walls I have seen over the last couple of years. One of my FAVORITE ones by far is Jennifer's over at The Old Painted Cottage. Anyway, as much as I wanted one I couldn't figure out where we could put one. Because we live in a townhome that has a pretty open floorplan we just have a few huge walls and not a whole lot of smaller ones. Because I couldn't find a wall that would work, I pretty much just gave up on the idea for a while. Then recently I thought it couldn't hurt to try it on the end of our island cabinets. It was the perfect spot for Lillie to be able to reach and draw on. So, we gave it a try! At first we painted the end near the dining room (those are the photos shown in the step by step part) but when you walked through the front door you immediately saw it and it was a bit jarring. After starting at it for a week or so it just kept driving me crazy so I ended up painting back over it and hanging the IKEA rod with the basket and painting the other side with the chalkboard which I like so much better!
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Once she went to bed I added a second coat to "clean it up" a bit.
In the end, though, we ended up painting over it entirely and we painted the other side instead, which I like so much better!
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Applying Data Analytics to Freight Train Delays in Shunting Yards
Time: Mon 2020-11-30 15.00
Subject area: Transport Science, Transport Systems
Doctoral student: Niloofar Minbashi , Transportplanering, Train traffic and logistics
Opponent: Dr C. Tyler Dick, the Railway Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Supervisor: Docent Markus Bohlin, Transportplanering; Tekn.Dr Behzad Kordnejad, Transportplanering; Tekn.Dr Carl-William Palmqvist, Division of Transport and Roads, Department of Technology and Society, Lund University
The European Commission has foreseen a modal share of 30% by 2030 for rail freight transport. To achieve this increase in the modal share, enhanced reliability of rail freight services is required. Optimal functioning of shunting yards is one of the areas that can improve this reliability. Shunting yards are large areas allocated to reassemble freight trains for dispatching to new destinations. Their productivity has a direct impact on the overall performance of a rail freight network. Therefore, analysing and modelling of departure deviations from shunting yards are required to enhance the interactions between shunting yards and the network; this thesis contributes to this gap. Paper I investigates the probability and temporal distribution of departure deviations using a large data set comprising 250,000 departures over seven years from two main shunting yards (Malmö and Hallsberg) in Sweden. The probability distribution of departure deviations is found comparing four main distributions including the exponential, the log-normal, the gamma, and the Weibull according to the maximum likelihood estimates and the results of the Anderson-Darling goodness of fit test. The log-normal and the gamma are shown the best fits for departure deviations: the former on delays, and the latter on early departures. In the temporal delay distribution, the weekly and monthly, but not yearly delayed departures are positively correlated with the network usage. However, for hourly delayed departures, a shunting yard involved with international traffic does not show any correlation between delayed departures and the network usage, whereas a domestic shunting yard shows a significant negative correlation between these two parameters. The findings obtained from this thesis contribute to a better understanding of departure deviations from shunting yards, and can be applied in enhancing the operations and capacity utilization of shunting yards in future models. Papers II and III analyse the relationship between congestion in the arrival yard and departure delays using the same data set as paper I. According to previous research, congestion plays an important role in shunting yard delays. With defining congestion as the number of arriving trains before departure time, paper II analyses this relationship limiting the arrivals and departures between the two shunting yards considering varying time periods before departure,whereas Paper III elaborates the analysis by defining congestion level in a fixed period of time before departure time including all arrivals and departures. Considering the data set used in the analysis, the results show that there is no significant relationship between the congestion in the arrival yard and departure delays of trains. It is possible that congestion may not impact the departure delays of trains, but it may impact the departure delays of wagons due to missed wagon connection or increasing wagon idle time, which can be explored with the availability of wagon connection data. Additionally, future elaboration of congestion definition, covering congestion at the shunting yard level, may lead to further improved analyses.


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Desert Getaway: the Arizona Trail
The town of Superior
It's not just that the heaping plate of tacos I'm eating costs less than $4. Or that a local walked up to our table and offered his services as a hiking guide, free, simply for fun. It's the honest-to-God niceness of everyone in the postage-stamp town of Superior, gateway to the Arizona Trail, which stretches from the state's Mexican border to Utah. This Mayberry-in-the-desert vibe only an hour from Phoenix is just what I need. On my previous trip to Arizona, my car was broken into in But since my check-in at Superior's Copper Mountain Motel—including a long chat with owners Bessie and Merlin, oranges picked from a tree in front of the office, and the offer of a lift to a trailhead—my optimism is back. As small Arizona towns go, Superior's story is a familiar one. A former mining town, it's reinventing itself, as Bisbee and Jerome did some 15 years ago. There's an art gallery on Main Street. A former New York food editor has opened Jade Grill, home of stick-to-your-ribs pork buns and, at there's still some frontier ruggedness about the place. Which, if you ask me, is a good thing.
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The Arizona Trail, designated a National Scenic Trail in 2009, stretches 817 miles and is now just 30 miles from completion. Superior is one of the only spots of civilization along it. While it would take months to hike the trail's entire length (consider it the Southwest's answer to the Appalachian Trail), its creators clearly understand modern life, and broke it into 43 sections. That means you can choose between heading south from Superior on the Alamo Canyon section, or north into the remote and burly Superstition Wilderness. Keep trekking north for weeks, and the trail would take you past cliff dwellings (at Tonto and Walnut Canyon National Monuments), eye-popping history (the Roosevelt Dam), and even the Grand Canyon. Clearly I won't be going to the Grand Canyon today, so I set out toward Picketpost Mountain, my only company hundreds, even thousands, of towering saguaros. While I hike, the profiles shift, looking for a moment like pirates, superheroes, and, as the sky goes pink, straws sticking out of giant margaritas. I feel totally in the wilderness, utterly remote. Except that instead of pitching a tent and eating something out of a can, I know I'll make it back to Superior before Jade Grill runs out of pork ribs. Now that's living.
Plan your weekend
Stay: The 16 rooms at the Copper Mountain Motel (from $58; 520/689-2886) are basic but colorful and clean, and the vintage sign now advertises Wi-Fi.
Pitch a tent: Camping along the Arizona Trail (aztrail.org) is free and requires no permits. Hike south to the merging of White and Walnut Canyons for a site with an artesian well. Trek north, and you can bed down in the orchards at the abandoned Reavis Ranch.
Hike and bike: The Arizona Trail heads north and south out of town. Most backpackers go north into the Superstition Wilderness (no biking), but the best bet for day-hikers and bikers is the Alamo Canyon stretch, near Picketpost Mountain. The trailhead is 4 miles west of town on U.S. 60. A good turnaround point is just south of Picketpost, about 3 miles in. Close to town, the lovely Boyce Thompson Arboretum ($7.50; 37615 U.S. 60; arboretum.ag.arizona.edu) has walking trails too.
Grab a bite: Locals flock to Los Hermanos ($; 835 W. U.S. 60; 520/689-5465) for the best Mexican food in town. Café Piedra Roja ($; 507 W. Main St.; 520/689-0194) has a patio with a cactus garden. Lucy Wing returned from New York to her native Superior to open the delicious Jade Grill Asian BBQ ($; 639 W. U.S. 60; 520/689-2885).


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