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Today was a good day. It started a little rough when Arrine was a super grump head when she woke up, but it soon got better. Here is my day in somewhat point form, for an easier read.
- I told Arrine was the anniversary of Grandma Anne-Marie passing, and that she should wear a red dress because Grandma Anne-Marie loved red. She agreed. Then later when dropping her off at daycare she chose her pink indoor shoes to wear because, "Pink is close to red. And Grandma Anne-Marie loved red."
- My friend Haley and I headed off into the rain on Hwy 2 to Calgary. The plan was shoe shopping at Arnold Churgin. Along the way I asked her if she was excited for the shoes (she had never been before) and she replied, "Oh, I'm not going to get any shoes. I am just along for the ride." And I shockingly replied, "Oh, you are GOING to buy shoes."
- When we stopped in Red Deer for a quick break, we were talking about how neither of us had a good breakfast and Haley said, reaching into her purse, "Well I have a gigantic Fruit & Nut bar!" And I started crying, right in the Tim Hortons and said, "That was my mom's favourite chocolate bar…" And then proceeded to tell her how I used to always bug my mom about her chocolate bar choice, because it really seems so gross.
- We saw a cow on the loose in the ditch and it was wearing a red and blue hat.
- Arnold Churgin was amazing. Haley bought three pairs!! So I had to buy three pairs too, of course. We kept giggling at how our feet felt like they were in clouds and how soft the leather was. And the gentleman helping us schooled Haley on heels, being a girl and her colour palette.
- I had Taco Time for lunch. I am just realizing now that my mom loved Taco Time.
- Then we rushed back to the city and I dropped H off and took Arrine to her haircut.
- Once we got home, I found a beautiful flower that our realtor left on the kitchen counter. It was a single gerbera daisy in a short container…it was orange. So not red…but close! Does anyone remember the flower settings we had at the Anne-Marie Merle Wear Your Red Celebration?? Ummm, yah. Same thing.
- Then Arrine and I had corn on the cob for supper and got some great news that an offer was made on our duplex. So after Arrine was out of the bath, our realtor came back over for us to sign the paperwork. And then I told her I had to tell her the connection to the flower. And I cried. And then she cried a bit and we hugged. And Nick just stood there. But he was part of the moment.
- Once Arrine was in bed, I whipped out my sewing machine for a quick mend. And then painted my nails. And then started to write.
So besides all these fan-frickin-tastic bullet points, I received lovely texts and emails and FB comments and messages. And one of my former teachers told me that she was at a baby shower at my old house in NB today and she was thinking of my mom. And another former teacher messaged me with such kind words as well. Makes my heart happy.
I felt very different on past anniversaries. Darker. I wish I had let her death defining me go YEARS ago. 🙂 Today was a good day, thinking of my mom. Past years my thought process was that I had to do things because my mom did them. But this year, I did things that I love doing, and they are things that my mom did too, because she is a part of me. I shoe shopped. I painted my nails. I did some mending/sewing. I hugged and kissed Arrine extra. And all my tears were good tears.


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How can you tell if in-home tutoring is worth considering, or if it even works?
You might think that this question is rhetorical. After all, it's being written by the founder of a tutoring company. But the question is an important one to ask.
Search for Boston tutoring companies, or tutors in Boston, and you'll get thousands of results. Clearly there are plenty of choices out there.
Before a parent pays out what can amount to thousands of dollars, there needs to be some assurance that the process actually works.
In a recent TedTalk, J im Shelton, who was an Asst. Secretary at the Dept. of Education, talked at length about tutoring. He stated, "student achievement improves dramatically for students who receive one-on-one instruction over traditional classroom instruction".
During his talk, he cited noted Educational Psychologist Benjamin Bloom, who maintained that, "one-to-one tutoring produces a two-standard-deviation improvement over classroom instruction, and if the U.S. school population improved by just one standard deviation, we would be the top-performing nation in the world".
At Evolve, we consisently witness impressive progress by our in-home tutoring students, but why is this the case?
tu·tor – noun [tü-ter]: a person charged with the instruction and guidance of another
That's how Merriam-Webster defines what a tutor is, and I think it's a good starting place. Certainly an important aspect of tutoring is guiding a student who is struggling with something toward a better understanding. This often happens through instruction, demonstration, and practice.
Of course the tutor needs to have a well grounded understanding of the material at hand, because without that no instruction can take place. What I would submit though, is that in order for this teaching to take place, there are more important things that need to be considered.
The most vital element needed for one on one tutoring to be effective is connection.
With in-home one on one tutoring, there is a completely different dynamic at play than in classroom teaching, or group tutoring. You don't have a large room, props, or thirty other students to fall back on or worry about. It's just you and another person, a person who is in the position of needing help with something.
Our experience is that this connection is vital for learning and growth to take place, because without it, kids just look at us as another adult telling them what to do. We certainly don't want that.
Education is not the the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats is credited with this quote, and it is an apt description of what effective tutoring can accomplish. We don't want to be someone who is filling students heads with information, so they can store it in the short term and then regurgitate it on an exam. Instead, we want to help them find that spark inside themselves, and then help them tend that flame.
So, how do you know if in-home tutoring is effective?
- The first step would be to ask the student! Paying attention to whether or not the student likes their tutor is important in figuring out if tutoring is effective.
- The student needs to feel that their tutor genuinely cares, is patient, and is also interested in their growth and well being.
- You want to make sure that there are measurable benefits as well.
- Are grades, skills, habits, and attitudes showing improvement?
- Is the tutor communicateive and open to answering your questions? The answer absolutley needs to be yes.
These are all important things to ascertain. If they are taking place, wonderful, and if they are not, then something needs to be adjusted or changed so the students needs are being met in a productive and measurable way.
We're always interested in feedback, so if you have thoughts on what makes tutoring effective, share them here, or email them to us.

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This is for B/W.
Drapion No item-Adamant Nature
Toxic Spikes (obvious enough)
Ice Fang(coverage for Ground types)
Cross Poison(STAB)
Brick Break(breaks through Reflect and Light Screen, plus Ice and Rock types)
Simisage Occa Berry-Relaxed Nature(unfortunately)
Nasty Plot(stat up, sweep down)
Energy Ball(STAB)
Grasswhistle(as Cilan would say, adds lots of flavor to Simisage)
Focus Blast(coverage on Ice)
Tentacruel No item-Docile Nature
Wring Out(when your HP's low)
Brine(not much, but a useful STAB)
Sludge Bomb(for Grass types)
Swagger(keep em' confused!)
Garchomp Earth Plate-Brave Nature
Dragon Rush(In your face, Brave Nature!stab)
Stone Edge(Ice coverage)
Swords Dance(powering up...)
Earthquake(well why not?)
Camerupt Fire Gem-Naive Nature
Sunny Day(you probably know what's next)
Solarbeam(nifty for Water)
Flamethrower(a STAB plus sun)
Gavantula Zap Plate-Mild Nature
Bug Buzz(STAB)
Sucker Punch(I really don't know why)
Toxic(a real threat to others)
Drapion-Perhaps put whirlwind on him to spread those toxic spikes around to everyone. You could also take advantage of his ability and try to abuse critical hits with moves like Night slash (which gets STAB by the way)
Simisage Fine if you're going to run a special set on him, but his special movepool is kind of shallow. Perhaps run some form of hidden power to cover a few more types.
Tentacruel-I'd suggest replacing sludge with Venoshock. It gets doubled power when the target is poisoned (that works great with toxic spikes. Throw in some STAB, and you can do some heavy damage)
garchomp- I'd suggest replacing dragon rush with Outrage or dragon claw for a bit more reliability. An Item like a life orb or Yache berry can do him good. An elemental fang can also help nicely. He already has high attack, but he still has a good number of things able to outspeed him, so swords dance isn't required. An Item like a life orb or Yache berry can do him good.
camerupt-I'd suggest against a sunny day set for this guy. His weaknesses are too common for him to last long enough to use them. Overheat would make a nice move on him since he will end up having to switch out a lot anyway.
Gavantula-Perhaps have hidden power [water] to cover his fire and rock weakness. Discharge is nice for the paralysis chance, and if you want a bit more power, you can use thunderbolt. Even thunder works great on him thanks to his compound eyes ability. Energy ball is an option if you want a bit more coverage.


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Simple way to send gifts to near and dear ones.
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Selena Gomez may be rumoured to be back together with ex bad boy Justin Bieber, but it hasn't stopped her seducing millions more across the globe.
The star posted a Throwback snap of her modelling some seriously sexy lingerie today - baring all for the camera, including her hottest pose.
Covering up (just) in the black corset-style one-piece, the 21-year-old shows off her tiny waist and boobs to the extreme and styles the whole look up with a patterned shawl.
And yeah, we know, there's really no point it being there at all.
Selena coupled it with a huge necklace and wore her long hair loose - finishing the raunchy look off perfectly.
Oh Biebs, if the rumours are true, you're one lucky man. Their relationship confuddles us no end.
The pair, who were off the last time we heard , have been caught on camera hanging out at a pal's birthday bash recently.
Jelena can be seen stood side-by-side laughing and joking as the as they watch the birthday boy receive his cake.
Earlier this week, the Biebster hinted he has rekindled his relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend again .
We wonder if this snap was a treat for him then?


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Find first set
In software, find first set (ffs) or find first one is a bit operation that, given an unsigned machine word, identifies the least significant index or position of the bit set to one in the word. A nearly equivalent operation is count trailing zeros (ctz) or number of trailing zeros (ntz), which counts the number of zero bits following the least significant one bit. The complementary operation that finds the index or position of the most significant set bit is log base 2, so called because it computes the binary logarithm .[1] This is closely related to count leading zeros (clz) or number of leading zeros (nlz), which counts the number of zero bits preceding the most significant one bit. These four operations also have negated versions:
- find first zero (ffz), which identifies the index of the least significant zero bit;
- count trailing ones, which counts the number of one bits following the least significant zero bit.
- count leading ones, which counts the number of one bits preceding the most significant zero bit;
- The operation that finds the index of the most significant zero bit, which is a rounded version of the binary logarithm.
There are two common variants of find first set, the POSIX definition which starts indexing of bits at 1,[2] herein labelled ffs, and the variant which starts indexing of bits at zero, which is equivalent to ctz and so will be called by that name.
Given the following 32-bit word:
The count trailing zeros operation would return 3, while the count leading zeros operation returns 16. The count leading zeros operation depends on the word size: if this 32-bit word were truncated to a 16-bit word, count leading zeros would return zero. The find first set operation would return 4, indicating the 4th position from the right. The log base 2 is 15.
Similarly, given the following 32-bit word, the bitwise negation of the above word:
The count trailing ones operation would return 3, the count leading ones operation would return 16, and the find first zero operation ffz would return 4.
If the word is zero (no bits set), count leading zeros and count trailing zeros both return the number of bits in the word, while ffs returns zero. Both log base 2 and zero-based implementations of find first set generally return an undefined result for the zero word.
Hardware support[edit]
Many architectures include instructions to rapidly perform find first set and/or related operations, listed below. The most common operation is count leading zeros (clz), likely because all other operations can be implemented efficiently in terms of it (see Properties and relations).
|Word sizes
|Result on zero input
|ARM (ARMv5T architecture and later)
|Count Leading Zeros
|ARM (ARMv8-A architecture)
|Count Leading Zeros
|32, 64
|input size
|Count Leading Zeros
|DEC Alpha
|Count Leading Zeros
|DEC Alpha
|Count Trailing Zeros
|Intel 80386 and later
|Bit Scan Forward
|16, 32, 64
|undefined, sets zero flag
|Intel 80386 and later
|Bit Scan Reverse
|16, 32, 64
|log base 2
|undefined, sets zero flag
|x86 supporting ABM
|Count Leading Zeros
|16, 32, 64
|input size, sets carry flag
|x86 supporting BMI1
|Count Trailing Zeros
|16, 32, 64
|input size, sets carry flag
|Count Leading Zeros
|Count Leading Zeros in Word
|32, 64
|input size
|Count Leading Ones in Word
|32, 64
|input size
|Motorola 68020 and later
|Find First One in Bit Field
|log base 2
|field offset + field width
|Jump if Find First One
|Do not jump
|POWER/PowerPC/Power ISA
|Count Leading Zeros
|32, 64
|input size
|Power ISA 3.0 and later
|Count Trailing Zeros
|32, 64
|input size
|SPARC Oracle Architecture 2011 and later
|lzcnt (synonym: lzd) [15]
|Leading Zero Count
|Find First Set
|input size, sets zero flag
|Vector Count Leading Zeroes
|8, 16, 32, 64
|input size
|Vector Count Trailing Zeroes
|8, 16, 32, 64
|input size
Notes: On some Alpha platforms CTLZ and CTTZ are emulated in software.
Tool and library support[edit]
A number of compiler and library vendors supply compiler intrinsics or library functions to perform find first set and/or related operations, which are frequently implemented in terms of the hardware instructions above:
|Input type(s)
|Result for zero input
|POSIX.1 compliant libc
4.3BSD libc
OS X 10.3 libc[2][19]
|Library function
|Includes glibc.
POSIX does not supply the complementary log base 2 / clz.
|FreeBSD 5.3 libc
OS X 10.4 libc[20]
|Library function
|fls ("find last set") computes (log base 2) + 1.
|FreeBSD 7.1 libc[21]
|Library function
|long long
|Built-in functions
|unsigned int,
unsigned long,
unsigned long long,
|Visual Studio 2005
|Compiler intrinsics
|unsigned long,
unsigned __int64
|Separate return value to indicate zero input
|Visual Studio 2008
|Compiler intrinsic
|unsigned short,
unsigned int,
unsigned __int64
|Relies on x64-only lzcnt instruction
|Input size in bits
|Intel C++ Compiler
|Compiler intrinsics
|32-bit, 64-bit
|Compiles to fewer instructions on the GeForce 400 Series
|8, 16, 32, 64, 256
|LLVM assembly language
|Input size if arg 2
is 0, else undefined
|GHC 7.10 (base 4.8), in
|Library function
FiniteBits b => b
|Haskell programming language
|Input size in bits
Properties and relations[edit]
If bits are labeled starting at 1 (which is the convention used in this article), then count trailing zeros and find first set operations are related by ctz(x) = ffs(x) − 1 (except when the input is zero). If bits are labeled starting at 0, then count trailing zeros and find first set are exactly equivalent operations.
Given w bits per word, the log base 2 is easily computed from the clz and vice versa by lg(x) = w − 1 − clz(x).
As demonstrated in the example above, the find first zero, count leading ones, and count trailing ones operations can be implemented by negating the input and using find first set, count leading zeros, and count trailing zeros. The reverse is also true.
On platforms with an efficient log base 2 operation such as M68000, ctz can be computed by:
- ctz(x) = lg(x & (−x))
where "&" denotes bitwise AND and "−x" denotes the negative of x treating x as a signed integer in two's complement arithmetic. The expression x & (−x) clears all but the least-significant 1 bit, so that the most- and least-significant 1 bit are the same.
On platforms with an efficient count leading zeros operation such as ARM and PowerPC, ffs can be computed by:
- ffs(x) = w − clz(x & (−x)).
Conversely, clz can be computed using ctz by first rounding up to the nearest power of two using shifts and bitwise ORs,[32] as in this 32-bit example (note that this example depends on ctz returning 32 for the zero input):
function clz(x): for each y in {1, 2, 4, 8, 16}: x ← x | (x >> y) return 32 − ctz(x + 1)
On platforms with an efficient Hamming weight (population count) operation such as SPARC's
POPC[33][34] or Blackfin's
ONES,[35] ctz can be computed using the identity:[36][37]
- ctz(x) = pop((x & (−x)) − 1),
ffs can be computed using:[38]
- ffs(x) = pop(x ^ (~(−x)))
where "^" denotes bitwise xor, and clz can be computed by:
function clz(x): for each y in {1, 2, 4, 8, 16}: x ← x | (x >> y) return 32 − pop(x)
The inverse problem (given i, produce an x such that ctz(x)=i) can be computed with a left-shift (1 << i).
Find first set and related operations can be extended to arbitrarily large bit arrays in a straightforward manner by starting at one end and proceeding until a word that is not all-zero (for ffs/ctz/clz) or not all-one (for ffz/clo/cto) is encountered. A tree data structure that recursively uses bitmaps to track which words are nonzero can accelerate this.
Find first set can also be implemented in software. A simple loop implementation:
function ffs (x) if x = 0 return 0 t ← 1 r ← 1 while (x & t) = 0 t ← t << 1 r ← r + 1 return r
where "<<" denotes left-shift. Similar loops can be used to implement all the related operations. On modern architectures this loop is inefficient due to a large number of conditional branches. A lookup table can eliminate most of these:
table[0..2n-1] = ffs(i) for i in 0..2n-1 function ffs_table (x) if x = 0 return 0 r ← 0 loop if (x & (2n-1)) ≠ 0 return r + table[x & (2n-1)] x ← x >> n r ← r + n
The parameter n is fixed (typically 8) and represents a time–space tradeoff. The loop may also be fully unrolled.
Count Trailing Zeros (ctz) counts the number of zero bits succeeding the least significant one bit. For example, the ctz of 0x00000F00 is 8, and the ctz of 0x80000000 is 31.
An algorithm for 32-bit ctz by Leiserson, Prokop, and Randall uses de Bruijn sequences to construct a minimal perfect hash function that eliminates all branches:[39] [40] This algorithm requires a CPU with a 32-bit multiply instruction with a 64-bit result. The 32-bit multiply instruction in the low-cost ARM Cortex-M0 / M0+ / M1 cores have a 32-bit result, though other ARM cores have another multiply instruction with a 64-bit result.[41]
table[0..31] initialized by: for i from 0 to 31: table[ ( 0x077CB531 * ( 1 << i ) ) >> 27 ] ← i function ctz_debruijn (x) return table[((x & (-x)) * 0x077CB531) >> 27]
The expression (x & (-x)) again isolates the least-significant 1 bit. There are then only 32 possible words, which the unsigned multiplication and shift hash to the correct position in the table. (Note: this algorithm does not handle the zero input.) A similar algorithm works for log base 2, but rather than isolate the most-significant bit, it rounds up to the nearest integer of the form 2n−1 using shifts and bitwise ORs:[42]
table[0..31] = {0, 9, 1, 10, 13, 21, 2, 29, 11, 14, 16, 18, 22, 25, 3, 30, 8, 12, 20, 28, 15, 17, 24, 7, 19, 27, 23, 6, 26, 5, 4, 31} function lg_debruijn (x) for each y in {1, 2, 4, 8, 16}: x ← x | (x >> y) return table[(x * 0x07C4ACDD) >> 27]
A binary search implementation which takes a logarithmic number of operations and branches, as in these 32-bit versions:[43][44] This algorithm can be assisted by a table as well, replacing the bottom three "if" statements with a 256 entry lookup table using the final byte as an index.
function ctz (x) if x = 0 return 32 n ← 0 if (x & 0x0000FFFF) = 0: n ← n + 16, x ← x >> 16 if (x & 0x000000FF) = 0: n ← n + 8, x ← x >> 8 if (x & 0x0000000F) = 0: n ← n + 4, x ← x >> 4 if (x & 0x00000003) = 0: n ← n + 2, x ← x >> 2 if (x & 0x00000001) = 0: n ← n + 1 return n
Count Leading Zeros (clz) counts the number of zero bits preceding the most significant one bit. For example, the clz of 0x00000F00 is 20, and the clz of 0x00000001 is 31.
Just as count leading zeros is useful for software floating point implementations, conversely, on platforms that provide hardware conversion of integers to floating point, the exponent field can be extracted and subtracted from a constant to compute the count of leading zeros. Corrections are needed to account for rounding errors.[43][45]
The following C language examples require a header file for the definition of uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t. It is stated here instead of repeating in each code example.
/* uint8_t is a 8-bit unsigned integer, uint16_t is a 16-bit unsigned integer, uint32_t is a 32-bit unsigned integer */
#include <stdint.h> /* exists in C99 compatible C/C++ compilers */
The non-optimized approach examines one bit at a time until a non-zero bit is found, as shown in this C language example, and slowest with an input value of 1 because of the many loops it has to perform to find it.
int clz1( uint32_t x )
int n;
if (x == 0) return 32;
for (n = 0; ((x & 0x80000000) == 0); n++, x <<= 1);
return n;
An evolution of the previous looping approach examines four bits at a time then using a lookup table for the final four bits, which is shown here. A faster looping approach would examine eight bits at a time and increasing to a 256 entry lookup table.
static const uint8_t clz_table_4bit[16] = { 4, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
int clz2( uint32_t x )
int n;
if (x == 0) return 32;
for (n = 0; ((x & 0xF0000000) == 0); n += 4, x <<= 4);
n += (int)clz_table_4bit[x >> (32-4)];
return n;
Faster than the looping method is a binary search implementation which takes a logarithmic number of operations and branches, as in these 32-bit versions:[43][44]
function clz3(x) if x = 0 return 32 n ← 0 if (x & 0xFFFF0000) = 0: n ← n + 16, x ← x << 16 if (x & 0xFF000000) = 0: n ← n + 8, x ← x << 8 if (x & 0xF0000000) = 0: n ← n + 4, x ← x << 4 if (x & 0xC0000000) = 0: n ← n + 2, x ← x << 2 if (x & 0x80000000) = 0: n ← n + 1 return n
The binary search algorithm can be assisted by a table as well, replacing the bottom two "if" statements with a 16 entry lookup table using the final nibble (4-bits) as an index, which is shown here. An alternate approach replaces the bottom three "if" statements with a 256 entry lookup table using the final byte (8-bits) as an index. In both of these methods, the initial check for zero is removed because the final table operation takes care of it.
static const uint8_t clz_table_4bit[16] = { 4, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
int clz4( uint32_t x )
int n;
if ((x & 0xFFFF0000) == 0) {n = 16; x <<= 16;} else {n = 0;}
if ((x & 0xFF000000) == 0) {n += 8; x <<= 8;}
if ((x & 0xF0000000) == 0) {n += 4; x <<= 4;}
n += (int)clz_table_4bit[x >> (32-4)];
return n;
The fastest practical approach to simulate clz uses a precomputed 64KB lookup table, as shown in this C language example.
/* The table MUST be calculated before calling this function */
static uint8_t clz_table_16bit[65536];
int clz5( uint32_t x )
if ((x & 0xFFFF0000) == 0)
return (int)clz_table_16bit[x] + 16;
return (int)clz_table_16bit[x >> 16];
Other than a dedicated assembly instruction that performs the CLZ type operation, the fastest method to compute CLZ is reading a pre-computed value from a lookup table. A 4-bit lookup table, clz_table_4bit[16], is used in above examples. The following are C language examples of CLZ for a 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit input value. The tables must be pre-computed by functions not shown here. An alternate 8-bit approach could pack two results in each table entry thus needing a 128 entry table instead of 256 entry table, because the bit count is 0 to 8 which fits in a 4-bit nibble.
/* Note: Tables MUST be calculated before calling each function or macro that reads from it */
uint8_t clz_table_8bit[256];
int clz8f( uint8_t x )
return (int)clz_table_8bit[x];
#define clz8d(x) (clz_table_8bit[x])
uint8_t clz_table_16bit[65536];
int clz16f( uint16_t x )
return (int)clz_table_16bit[x];
#define clz16d(x) (clz_table_16bit[x])
uint8_t clz_table_32bit[4294967296]; /* conceptual, but 4GB array is not practical */
int clz32f( uint32_t x )
return (int)clz_table_32bit[x];
#define clz32d(x) (clz_table_32bit[x])
The count leading zeros (clz) operation can be used to efficiently implement normalization, which encodes an integer as m × 2e, where m has its most significant bit in a known position (such as the highest position). This can in turn be used to implement Newton-Raphson division, perform integer to floating point conversion in software, and other applications.[43][46]
Count leading zeros (clz) can be used to compute the 32-bit predicate "x = y" (zero if true, one if false) via the identity clz(x − y) >> 5, where ">>" is unsigned right shift.[47] It can be used to perform more sophisticated bit operations like finding the first string of n 1 bits.[48] The expression 1 << (16 − clz(x − 1)/2) is an effective initial guess for computing the square root of a 32-bit integer using Newton's method.[49] CLZ can efficiently implement null suppression, a fast data compression technique that encodes an integer as the number of leading zero bytes together with the nonzero bytes.[50] It can also efficiently generate exponentially distributed integers by taking the clz of uniformly random integers.[43]
The log base 2 can be used to anticipate whether a multiplication will overflow, since .[51]
Count leading zeros and count trailing zeros can be used together to implement Gosper's loop-detection algorithm,[52] which can find the period of a function of finite range using limited resources.[44]
The binary GCD algorithm spends many cycles removing trailing zeros; this can be replaced by a count trailing zeros (ctz) followed by a shift. A similar loop appears in computations of the hailstone sequence.
A bit array can be used to implement a priority queue. In this context, find first set (ffs) is useful in implementing the "pop" or "pull highest priority element" operation efficiently. The Linux kernel real-time scheduler internally uses
sched_find_first_bit() for this purpose.[53]
The count trailing zeros operation gives a simple optimal solution to the Tower of Hanoi problem: the disks are numbered from zero, and at move k, disk number ctz(k) is moved the minimum possible distance to the right (circling back around to the left as needed). It can also generate a Gray code by taking an arbitrary word and flipping bit ctz(k) at step k.[44]
See also[edit]
- Bit Manipulation Instruction Sets for Intel and AMD x86-based processors
- ^ Anderson, Find the log base 2 of an integer with the MSB N set in O(N) operations (the obvious way)
- ^ a b "FFS(3)". Linux Programmer's Manual. The Linux Kernel Archives. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^ "ARM Instruction Reference > ARM general data processing instructions > CLZ". ARM Developer Suite Assembler Guide. ARM. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
- ^ "AVR32 Architecture Document" (PDF). Atmel. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
- ^ a b Alpha Architecture Reference Manual (PDF). Compaq. 2002. pp. 4–32, 4–34.
- ^ a b Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manual. Volume 2A: Intel. pp. 3-92&ndash, 3–97. Order number 325383.
- ^ AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3: General Purpose and System Instructions3 (PDF). AMD. 2011. pp. 204&ndash, 5.
- ^ "AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual, Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions" (PDF). amd.com. AMD. October 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-02.
- ^ Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer's Manual. Volume 3: Intel Itanium Instruction Set. Intel. 2010. pp. 3:38.
- ^ a b MIPS Architecture For Programmers. Volume II-A: The MIPS32 Instruction Set (Revision 3.02 ed.). MIPS Technologies. 2011. pp. 101–102.
- ^ a b MIPS Architecture For Programmers. Volume II-A: The MIPS64 Instruction Set (Revision 3.02 ed.). MIPS Technologies. 2011. pp. 105, 107, 122, 123.
- ^ M68000 Family Programmer's Reference Manual (PDF). Motorola. 1992. pp. 4-43&ndash, 4–45.
- ^ Frey, Brad. PowerPC Architecture Book (Version 2.02 ed.). 3.3.11 Fixed-Point Logical Instructions: IBM. p. 70.
- ^ Power ISA Version 3.0B. 3.3.13 Fixed-Point Logical Instructions, 126.96.36.199 64-bit Fixed-Point Logical Instructions: IBM. pp. 95, 98.
- ^ Oracle SPARC Architecture 2011. Oracle.
- ^ VAX Architecture Reference Manual (PDF). DEC. 1987. pp. 70–71.
- ^ IBM z/Architecture Principles of Operation (PDF) (Eleventh ed.). Chapter 22. Vector Integer Instructions: IBM. March 2015. p. 22-10.
- ^ IBM z/Architecture Principles of Operation (PDF) (Eleventh ed.). Chapter 22. Vector Integer Instructions: IBM. March 2015. p. 22-10.
- ^ "FFS(3)". Mac OS X Developer Library. Apple, Inc. 1994-04-19. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ^ "FFS(3)". Mac OS X Developer Library. Apple. 2004-01-13. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ^ "FFS(3)". FreeBSD Library Functions Manual. The FreeBSD Project. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ^ "Other built-in functions provided by GCC". Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Free Software Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- ^ "GCC 3.4.0 ChangeLog". GCC 3.4.0. Free Software Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- ^ "Clang Language Extensions, chapter Builtin Functions". Clang supports a number of builtin library functions with the same syntax as GCC. The Clang Team. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- ^ "Source code of Clang". LLVM Team, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- ^ "_BitScanForward, _BitScanForward64". Visual Studio 2008: Visual C++: Compiler Intrinsics. Microsoft. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ "_BitScanReverse, _BitScanReverse64". Visual Studio 2008: Visual C++: Compiler Intrinsics. Microsoft. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ "__lzcnt16, __lzcnt, __lzcnt64". Visual Studio 2008: Visual C++: Compiler Intrinsics. Microsoft. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
- ^ Intel C++ Compiler for Linux Intrinsics Reference. Intel. 2006. p. 21.
- ^ NVIDIA CUDA Programming Guide (PDF) (Version 3.0 ed.). NVIDIA. 2010. p. 92.
- ^ "'llvm.ctlz.*' Intrinsic, 'llvm.cttz.*' Intrinsic". LLVM Language Reference Manual. The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ Anderson, Round up to the next highest power of 2.
- ^ SPARC International, Inc. (1992). "A.41: Population Count. Programming Note". The SPARC architecture manual: version 8 (PDF) (Version 8 ed.). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA: Prentice Hall. p. 231. ISBN 0-13-825001-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-18.
- ^ Warren, Jr., Henry S. (2013) [2002]. Hacker's Delight (2 ed.). Addison Wesley - Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 978-0-321-84268-8. 0-321-84268-5.
- ^ Blackfin Instruction Set Reference (Preliminary ed.). Analog Devices. 2001. pp. 8–24. Part Number 82-000410-14.
- ^ Dietz, Henry Gordon. "The Aggregate Magic Algorithms". University of Kentucky.
- ^ Isenberg, Gerd. forward-Index of LS1B by Popcount "BitScanProtected" Check
|url=value (help). Chess Programming Wiki. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
- ^ SPARC International, Inc. (1992). The SPARC architecture manual : version 8 (PDF) (Version 8. ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. p. 231. ISBN 0-13-825001-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-18. A.41: Population Count. Programming Note.
- ^ Leiserson, Charles E.; Prokop, Harald; Randall, Keith H. (1998), Using de Bruijn Sequences to Index a 1 in a Computer Word (PDF)
- ^ Busch, Philip (2009), Computing trailing Zeros HOWTO (PDF)
- ^ Cortex-M0 r0p0 Technical Reference Manual; ARM Holdings.
- ^ Anderson, Find the log base 2 of an N-bit integer in O(lg(N)) operations with multiply and lookup
- ^ a b c d e Warren, Section 5-3: Counting Leading 0's.
- ^ a b c d Warren, Section 5-4: Counting Trailing 0's.
- ^ Anderson, Find the integer log base 2 of an integer with an 64-bit IEEE float.
- ^ Sloss, Andrew N.; Symes, Dominic; Wright, Chris (2004). ARM system developer's guide designing and optimizing system software (1st ed.). San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. pp. 212–213. ISBN 1-55860-874-5.
- ^ Warren, Section 2-11: Comparison Predicates
- ^ Warren, Section 6-2. Find First String of 1-Bits of a Given Length.
- ^ Warren, 11-1: Integer Square Root.
- ^ Schlegel, Benjamin; Rainer Gemulla; Wolfgang Lehner (June 2010). "Fast integer compression using SIMD instructions". Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN 2010): 34–40. doi:10.1145/1869389.1869394.
- ^ Warren, Section 2-12. Overflow Detection.
- ^ Gosper, Bill (1972). "Loop detector". HAKMEM (239): Item 132.
- ^ Aas, Josh (2005). Understanding the Linux 126.96.36.199 CPU Scheduler (PDF). Silicon Graphics, Inc. p. 19.
Further reading[edit]
- Warren Jr., Henry S. (2013). Hacker's Delight (2 ed.). Addison Wesley - Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 978-0-321-84268-8.
- Anderson, Sean Eron. "Bit Twiddling Hacks". Sean Eron Anderson student homepage. Stanford University. Retrieved 3 January 2012. (NB. Lists several efficient public domain C implementations for count trailing zeros and log base 2.)
External links[edit]
- Intel Intrinsics Guide
- Chess Programming Wiki: BitScan: A detailed explanation of a number of implementation methods for ffs (called LS1B) and log base 2 (called MS1B).


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Vi has two modes: insertion mode and command mode. The editor begins in command mode, where the cursor movement and text deletion and pasting occur. Insertion mode begins upon entering an insertion or change command. [ESC] returns the editor to command mode (where you can quit, for example by typing :q!). Most commands execute as soon as you type them except for "colon" commands which execute when you press the ruturn key.
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It might be worse than you think I'm in Edinburgh and alot of the people I know and work with are getting ill with sinus problems.
Most of them when diagnosed by the doctor are told its sinusitis but it seems abit too widespread for it to be a natural infection path.
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everyone i know is having severe sinus congestion (causing complete nasal blockage), and headaches. nothing either over the counter or natural seems to be able to clear it up or stop it at all. this is happening to every single person i know. ALL OF THEM. the people who have this all say that this is completely new and most have never had any of these symptoms before. yet everyone has had it constant for well over a month (some 2-3 months) now without improvement.
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does anyone know if there is some chemical or toxins that have been released in the air or water?? this has been going on for 2-3 months now with every single person i know and meet. what is going on??
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Sorry but this is just kind of funny.
It's winter, people stay inside more because of the cold.
People spread germs to each other...it has been colder than usual so more people are staying inside.
Different viruses come and go, possibly creating the illusion of being sick with the same thing for many weeks.
Come on guys...
Originally posted by MadDogtheHunter
I get nosebleeds every winter...but only because my nasal membranes are so thin that the really low humidity dries them out and they crack open a little. About every other day all winter long. Annoying more than anything.
Originally posted by Seagle
Originally posted by MadDogtheHunter
I get nosebleeds every winter...but only because my nasal membranes are so thin that the really low humidity dries them out and they crack open a little. About every other day all winter long. Annoying more than anything.
This sounds serious. Was the onset of the wintry nosebleeds preceded by a period of regular sniffles, occasional appearance of a white powdery discharge around the nostrils and numbness of the throat? Sounds like a case of CCH (Columbian-Coekis-Habitus).
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Let me close with some of Ms. Silverthorne's important assertions:
Formaldehyde, like water, seeks its own level, rising higher and higher until it floods the lungs of all living breathing life, maintaining a level of .29 ppm, so we never smell it, but die from chronic exposure.
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Is this why our children, who hang out closer to the floor, play outside and sit on the snow and ground more, are experiencing dramatically increasing immune and allergen disorders?
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Anybody checked on Swine Flu ?
BTW Europe seems to be sick as well.
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Me too. I got back from college and was sick since then(1.2 months). Then I took some immune boosters and got better in 3 days. It's been gone since. This is also marked by the sudden elevation of my Asthma, which is now all but nonexistent.
This is not the first time I've observed this in my self. When everyone gets sick, I get the same thing for about a quarter of the time, and then become immune to it forever and in fact, stronger. Seemingly as if whatever's causing it now adds to my strength.edit on 24-1-2011 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)


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Dark Souls fans have more than just a new video game to look forward to this spring. We're pleased to exclusively reveal that Titan Comics has acquired the rights to this moody, brutally difficult Bandai Namco franchise and will be launching a Dark Souls comic book in April, just in time for Dark Souls 3.
The comic is simply titled "Dark Souls" and will offer new stories set within the universe rather than adapting the stories of the games. It'll be written by George Mann (Doctor Who: The 8th Doctor) and drawn by Alan Quah (Godzilla: Awakening).
[Editor's Note: We do not know if the series will be an ongoing or limited series, but we will update this article when we get that information.]
Dark Souls #1 will ship with five different covers, including two game covers, a blank sketch cover and two variant covers by artists Joshua Cassara and Marco Turini. You can check out four of these covers below:
Mann discussed his excitement for this new series in Titan's official press release, saying, "I'm 'dead' excited to be working on this new series (see what I did, there). Dark Souls has a rich, original universe that's just begging to be explored in comics, and I'm honoured to have the opportunity to delve in and tell some new stories within it. I've been a fan of the games for some time, so it's a real thrill to be able to contribute to the mythology of the Hollows and their world."
In other Dark Souls news, last month Bandai Namco confirmed the release date and revealed two different collector's editions for Dark Souls III.
Look for Dark Souls #1 to be released on April 6 and Dark Souls III to follow on April 12.
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Claymation animator, Lee Hardcastle, has created a zombie Christmas music video for indie music artist, Sufjan Stevens. In the video a snowman violently protects the boy who created him from an invading zombie hoarde. The song, "Mr. Frosty Man," will appear on Silver & Gold, Stevens' upcoming Christmas album. MR. FROSTY MAN | YouTube [NSFW]
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December 12, 2013
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When asked to choose between the beach and the mountains it's easy. My answer is always mountains. That's one of the countless reasons I'm drawn to Asheville, N.C. From local art and food to breathtaking scenery and an incredibly friendly environment, Asheville has so much to offer. So when I learned about Humane Alliance through word of mouth and the University of Florida's Shelter Medicine program, I jumped at the opportunity to apply for a two-week externship. When my classmate and I arrived in Asheville, after an eight-hour road trip, we were ready for some great music, fine dining, and surgery time. Little did we know, this experience would far exceed our expectations
I am currently a fourth year student at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in Gainesville, Fla. With a strong interest in small animal private practice, I understand the importance of the animal human bond, and I want to spend my career contributing to this invaluable unity.
Humane Alliance is a high-volume, low-cost spay neuter nonprofit organization established in 1994 to address the devastating euthanasia problem. Since then, Humane Alliance's sterilization procedures and community outreach have grown to benefit not only Western North Carolina, but also the entire nation. Through student training programs, as well as continuing education for current veterinarians, this organization's passion for animal wellbeing is unmistakable. The level of care and attention that the doctors and technicians offer the student externs, while still offering the highest level of care to the animal patients, is impeccable.
Dr. Saxton and Dr. Brestle are truly compassionate veterinarians whose ultimate goal is to offer the externs the best learning experience possible. While I had a decent amount of experience with performing spays and neuters in other shelter environments prior to this externship, I left this short two-weeks feeling incredibly confident in not only my surgical skills, but also my monitoring of neonatal patients, pre-, intra-, and post-operatively. The doctors carefully walked me through each procedure, which differs depending on the species, age, and the reproductive status of each animal. Through repetition and extreme attention to detail, I was able to perform orchiectomies and ovariohysterectomies in the most efficient manner to benefit the patient and minimize anesthesia time. By the end of my time at Humane Alliance, I had completed nearly 50 surgeries and improved my spay time by over half, creating at new personal record of a seven minute cat spay!
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While a great deal of time was spent in surgery, the program also focused on other areas of operating a spay-neuter clinic, with a large emphasis on the community outreach component and its vital importance in educating the public. The Humane Alliance services all of western North Carolina. In order to make this possible, the organization employs a skilled, compassionate transporter to bring animals to Asheville for sterilization each morning and return them the following day, ready for adoption. The transporter travels hours each day to various humane societies throughout the state. To help demonstrate the importance of community outreach, each extern went with the animal transporter to a different location to learn first-hand how the process works, as well as see the beautifully constructed and managed humane societies throughout western North Carolina. While the scenic drive through the mountains is a huge perk to the experience, I was thoroughly impressed with the outstanding structure of the various humane societies and their outstanding adoption rates. The North Carolina community truly cares about providing these animals with a home.
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God has a heart for those in material and spiritual need, and as His church, we desire to reflect His love and care by ministering through financial assistance when it is necessary, responsible, and supportive to do so. We give financially in two ways: 1) First we give financially to many like-minded local support agencies and ministries, and 2) we give individual aid to members and regular attenders who are in a relatively desperate situation concerning life's basic needs (food, shelter, utilities, transportation, clothing, etc.). Financial Assistance gifts are based upon individual situations and the funds available at the time of the request. Due to the large amount of need within our congregation, help to those outside our body is limited to local referrals to organizations and community services. Below is a listing of agencies and organizations that can provide help in a time of need.
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Confusion reigns in Oscar-winning 'Tsotsi'
Based on a 1980 novel by South African playwright Athol Fugard, "Tsotsi" is a confused and improbable redemption song.
Winner of this year's Oscar for best foreign film, it is a character-driven tale of a shantytown gang leader who can only express his feelings through violence and intimidation. He goes by the name Tsotsi, a slang term for "black hooligan."
In the opening scenes, he and his friends rob a man on a subway car, then shove a sharpened bicycle spoke into the victim's heart. It is a pointless act that tells us we have entered a world without mercy.
Later, after shooting a woman point blank while jacking her car, Tsotsi discovers a baby in the back seat. His attempts to care for the baby, with whom he feels an inexplicable identification, leads to his withdrawal from gang life and near-deification by the storyteller.
He almost becomes a Christ figure when, at gunpoint, he commands a crippled beggar to get up and walk. Heavenly music follows the scene, as if to impose transcendence upon what was a very confused and illogical confrontation. Presley Chweneyagae plays Tsotsi with such beatific solemnity that one expects, at any moment, a dove to descend and rest upon his shoulder.
It doesn't quite make the landing. Tsotsi's redemptive turning point is when he directs his violence away from his robbery victims and toward members of his own gang. It is hard to buy Fugard's tale of this devout thug who, in his relationships with people, is always the one holding the gun.
In cutting Fugard's novel to the bone, director/screenwriter Gavin Hood has spared the viewer the dullness of the prose. He also has lost the depth of character offered by the book, substituting a bewildered cipher for Fugard's motherless hoodlum.
One example of Hood's simplistic approach to characterization takes place during a home invasion. The trigger-happy hothead goes for the guns and money, the overweight dunce raids the refrigerator and Tsotsi makes off with the baby formula.
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The Cost of Secrets
Police officer Dan Fallon knows the streets, but he's a rookie at romance, and still very much in the closet. He thinks sexy fitness instructor Isaac is way out of his league, until a dangerous situation breaks the ice between them.
Isaac Weiss has spent years trying to get his life back together after a series of terrible mistakes. The last thing he should be doing is trying to have a relationship with a cop, especially with his past. Too bad he's unable to resist sweet, shy Dan.
It's not long though, before the secrets both men are keeping rise to the surface and threaten to destroy the fragile connection they've forged with one another. Can Dan and Isaac find acceptance or will the cost of secrets be too high?
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Photographer Skyler Spencer comes to Key West for his brother's wedding expecting to take some pictures, act as best man, and maybe spend a little time getting to know his brother's fiancee and her twin sister. Then he learns that not only is the twin a man rather than a woman, but it's a man he's met before–under less than appropriate circumstances.
Casey Baker doesn't expect the guy he once had a memorable encounter in a club bathroom with to turn up as his brother-in-law to be, but he's able to deal with the surprise. Dealing with the strong attraction they feel for each other is a lot more difficult. Casey figures a short, hot fling will take care of that. Too bad he's not good at staying detached, and Skyler's not good at commitment.
When Mother Nature and the past combine to put the wedding in jeopardy, Skyler and Casey have more than just their own confused feelings to deal with. Will the weekend end with two sets of broken hearts?
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Forty-five-year-old college professor Vincent Norton expects to spend the rest of his life alone. After all, he had more than twenty years with the love of his life before losing him to an accident. Then he has a chance encounter with a young man in the hallway of his apartment building, and Vince is shocked and dismayed to find himself suddenly attracted to a man half his age.
Rob Bridges might be only 21, but he knows what he wants—and that's his sexy older neighbor. Once he realizes he wants Vince, Rob sets his mind on catching him. Too bad Vince doesn't seem to agree that age is just a number. Will Vince let himself be caught, or will his indecision ruin their chance at happiness?
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James Hastings is having a bad week. All he wants to do is buy a six-pack and spend an evening moping. Instead, he wins a weeklong trip to Hawaii, thanks to a young man at the liquor store.
Tattoo and piercing artist Travis Barton is surprised when the cute guy he helped out wins a trip and invites him to come along. Still, he's not about to pass up a free trip to Hawaii.
Travis's idea of a no-strings fling goes against James's nature, but it seems like a great way to make the trip even better. Then their hot, uninhibited nights together start to blur into something more, and James starts to imagine Christmas ever after — Travis, with strings attached.
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I play the violin and one time he showed up in the room I was practicing in and started a conversation about what I like to do and if I had a boyfriend.
I really do like him but sometimes it get a little weird. He is a really hot teacher and 29 or 30.
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He is way too old for you, on the far side of 18 and in no position to be courting you since he is your teacher. However, nothing you have described so far is over the mark, strictly speaking.
If he crosses the line by touching you inappropriately or asks provocative questions, report it to your school guidance counselor immediately.
What if I like it though. I'm really confused.
I have a very good woman friend who was molested by a female teacher (she was later caught and indicted) at the age of 14. She has said that it felt good at the time and she welcomed the advances. Now she is in her 40's and has been same-sex oriented for most of her life. She wonders if that would have been true had not imprinted on another woman so early in life. Impossible to say.
One thing is certain, sex, particularly at an early age, is meant to be discovered with someone else who is also blossoming. Not an older person who is developed and taking advantage of your natural curiosity.
The next few years will bring a magnitude of change in your personality. You need to discover that without someone using their mature powers to manipulate you for their gratification.
Moreover, anyone who is in a position of power and authority over another should not be seducing them. It is unethical, unprofessional and actionable under the law.
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More bodies recovered as Japanese volcano spews lethal gas, rocks
SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Tokyo – Efforts to recover bodies from an erupting volcano in central Japan resumed Wednesday, after search teams had been hampered by gas and hot ash shooting into the air.
Police said 12 more bodies were discovered on Mount Ontake, bringing the total number of known victims from the weekend eruption to 48.
Thirty bodies have now been taken down from the mountain, with 25 people identified and confirmed dead so far, according to the Nagano prefectural police.
Ontake unleashed a huge cloud of ash late Saturday morning that billowed down the mountainside and engulfed hikers in its path. Witnesses described hearing a sound like thunder when the eruption began.
Authorities estimated there were 200 to 250 hikers in the area at the time of the eruption. Most of them were reported to have managed to make the long trek down the mountain.
But some people remained trapped in several lodges on Ontake, and others were missing altogether, local authorities said.
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As of Wednesday afternoon, soldiers from Japan's Self Defense Force (SDF) joined hundreds of police and firefighters in the search, officials from the Nagano prefectural office told CNN. Some 11 helicopters were deployed in the mission, they added.
Though some of the victims were still being examined by the local coroner, the cause of death for those officially pronounced dead was recorded as injury from direct hits by volcanic cinders, police said.
The Japan Meteorological Agency — which has raised the Volcanic Alert Level for Ontake from 1 to 3, meaning the public is advised to not approach the volcano — has warned that another large eruption could take place in the next few days.
Mount Ontake, at 10,060 feet (3,067 meters), is the second tallest volcano in Japan after Mount Fuji, and a popular destination for hikers, especially in the fall when richly-colored autumn foliage is on display.
The last major eruption of Ontake, which is about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of Tokyo, took place in 1979, according to the Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian Institute.
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Does anyone know if Tara and Keith are a couple? They were so sweet together on the show!Jen
They're not together. On the reruns this weekend, they said they stayed together for about 2 months after the show and then broke up.
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No they are not..thank God. He was so hot and she was so Not, she was kind of dumb. She has a nice ##### and firm body but her nose had it's own zip code and where are her breast. Sorry to be mean but the truth is sometimes ugly.
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As well as the children's exams, I am also starting a new placement and embarking on the nerve wracking process of job hunting at the moment.
On a day off on Monday I decided the best thing I could do to create some calm and light relief in my week was to embark on some sewing. Inspired by all the beautiful clothes appearing in my Instagram feed for Me Made May (and especially those put up by Liesl and Suse), I cut into my precious piece of Anna Maria Horner's Little Folks voile and made myself another Lisette market dress tunic. I wear both the ones I made earlier in the year constantly; they look so good with trousers and a cardi or a scarf.
The voile is sumptuous - soft, drapey, feminine and luxurious. It is also surprisingly non-sweary to sew with. It feels as though it should slither all over my table, but it doesn't. Pleasingly I also found a length of narrow velvet ribbon which my grandmother had given me, in exactly the right shade of yellow to match the centre of the flowers on the fabric, so I hemmed the top with that.
A happy few hours sewing, and a luxurious-feeling new blue top. I just wish it was easier to find a place in my house to take full length photos of myself (and a clean mirror!).
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A top in blue voile
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Your review: I am an 82 year old retired senior citizen living alone. This was a one time purchase for me. I am a serious classical music collector with 65,000 rare CD's & DVD's in my collection. I just purchased a new condo with a customized wall to wall CD & bookcase installed to house my collection. It is 9' high x 15' wide x 4' deep. The new ladder I purchased from you allows me to easily access any shelf and was the only ladder to do the job I could find on the Internet.
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