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TYLER HOECHLIN- DEREK HALE TEEN WOLF s1

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TYLER HOECHLIN- DEREK HALE TEEN WOLF SEASON 1 Daniel Sharman, Isaac Lahey, Tyler Posey, Scott McCall, Crystal Reed, Allison Argent, Dylan O'Brien, Stiles Sti...

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Apple juice [Wikipedia Article]

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Apple juice is a fruit juice made by the maceration and pressing of apples. The resulting expelled juice may be further treated by enzymatic and centrifugal clarification to remove the starch and pectin, which holds fine particulate in suspension, and then pasteurized for packaging in glass, metal or aseptic processing system containers, or further treated by dehydration processes to a concentrate. Due to the complex and costly equipment required to extract and clarify juice from apples in large volume, apple juice is normally commercially produced. In the United States, unfiltered fresh apple juice is made by smaller operations in areas of high apple production, in the form of unclarified apple cider. Apple juice is one of the most common fruit juices in the world, with world production led by China, Poland, the United States, and Germany. Health effects Vitamin C is sometimes added by fortification, because content is variable, and much of that is lost in processing. Vitamin C also helps to prevent oxidation of the product. Other vitamin concentrations are low, but apple juice does contain various mineral nutrients, including boron, which may promote healthy bones. Apple juice has a significant concentration of natural phenols of low molecular weight (including chlorogenic acid, flavan-3-ols, and flavonols) and procyanidins that may protect from diseases associated with aging due to the antioxidant effects which help reduce the likelihood of developing cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Research suggests that apple juice increases acetylcholine in the brain, possibly resulting in improved memory. Despite having some health benefits, apple juice is high in sugar. It has 28 g carbohydrates (24 g sugars) per 8 ounces. This results in 130 calories per 8 ounces (protein and fat are not significant). Also like most fruit juice, apple juice contains a similar amount of sugar as the raw fruit, but lacks the fiber content. Apple cider While apple juice generally refers to the filtered, pasteurised product of apple pressing, an unfiltered and sometimes unpasteurised product commonly known as apple cider in the United States and parts of Canada may be packaged and sold as apple juice. In the U.S., there is an unclear distinction between filtered apple juice and natural apple cider. In other places such as New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, apple cider is an alcoholic beverage. The alcoholic beverage referred to as cider in these areas is usually referred to as hard cider in the United States. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_juiceCreative Commons image sourced from http://wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_juice_with_3apples.jpg

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Wikipedia Censorship - Lurkers protecting "Whale Evolution" article

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More proof of censorship. Lurkers on Wikipedia deleted a suggestion made in the Talk section in "Whale Evolution" only minutes after posting. http://en.wikip...

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Notes to financial statements [Wikipedia Article]

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Notes to financial statements are additional information added to the end of financial statements. Notes to financial statements help explain specific items in the financial statements as well as provide a more comprehensive assessment of a company's financial condition. Notes to financial statements can include information on debt, going concern criteria, accounts, contingent liabilities or contextual information explaining the financial numbers . The notes clarify individual statement line-items. For example, if a company lists a loss on a fixed asset impairment line in their income statement, notes could corroborate the reason for the impairment by describing how the asset became impaired. Notes are also used to explain the accounting methods used to prepare the statements and they support valuations for how particular accounts have been computed. In consolidated financial statements, all subsidiaries are listed as well as the amount of ownership (controlling interest) that the parent company has in the subsidiaries. Any items within the financial statements that are valuated by estimation are part of the notes if a substantial difference exists between the amount of the estimate previously reported and the actual result. Full disclosure of the effects of the differences between the estimate and actual results should be included. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_to_financial_statementsPublic domain image sourced from http://wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ThreeCoins.svg

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Jimmy Wales: NY Times Should Clarify on iht.com

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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, takes the NY Times to task for not clarifying what is happening to iht.com archive that disappeared with the merger of the...

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n-back [Wikipedia Article]

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The n-back task is a continuous performance task that is commonly used as an assessment in cognitive neuroscience to measure a part of working memory and that has been suggested as a method for increasing fluid intelligence . The tn-back was introduced by Wayne Kirchner in 1958. The task The subject is presented with a sequence of stimuli, and the task consists of indicating when the current stimulus matches the one from n steps earlier in the sequence. The load factor n can be adjusted to make the task more or less difficult. To clarify, the visual n-back test is similar to the classic memory game of "Concentration". However, instead of different items that are in a fixed location on the game board, there is only one item, that appears in different positions on the game board during each turn. 1-N, means that you have to remember the position of the item, ONE turn back. 2-N, means that you have to remember the position of the item TWO turns back, and so on. For example, an auditory three-back test could consist of the experimenter reading the following list of letters to the test subject: The subject is supposed to indicate when the letters marked in bold are read, because those correspond to the letters that were read three steps earlier. The n-back task captures the active part of working memory. When n equals 2 or more, it is not enough to simply keep a representation of recently presented items in mind; the working memory buffer needs also to be updated continuously to keep track of what the current stimulus must be compared to. To accomplish this task, the subjects needs to both maintain and manipulate information in working memory. Dual n-back The dual-task n-back task is a variation that was proposed by Susanne Jaeggi et al. in 2003. In the dual-task paradigm, two independent sequences are presented simultaneously, typically using different modalities of stimuli, such as one auditory and one visual. Applications Assessment The n-back task was developed by Wayne Kirchner for his research into short-term memory; he used it to assess age differences in memory tasks of "rapidly changing information". Construct validity There is some question about the construct validity of the n-back task. While the task has strong face validity and is now in widespread use as a measure of working memory in clinical and experimental settings, there are few studies which explore the convergent validity of the n-back task with other measures of working memory. Those studies have largely revealed weak or modest correlations between individuals' performance on the n-back task and performance on other standard, accepted assessments of working memory. There are two main hypotheses for this weak correlation between the n-back task and other working memory assessments. One proposal is that the n-back task assesses different "sub-components" of working memory than do other assessments. A more critical explanation is that rather than primarily assessing working memory, performance on the n-back task depends on "familiarity- and recognition-based discrimination processes," whereas valid assessments of working memory demand "active recall." Whatever the cause of the performance differences between the n-back and other assessments of working memory, some researchers stress the need for further exploration of the construct validity of the n-back task. Performance on the n-back task seems to be more closely correlated with performance on measures of fluid intelligence than it is with performance on other measures of working memory (which is also correlated with performance on measures of fluid intelligence). In the same vein, training on the n-back task appears to improve performance on subsequent fluid intelligence assessments, especially when the training is at a higher n-value. Treatment A 2008 research paper claimed that practicing a dual n-back task can increase fluid intelligence (Gf), as measured in several different standard tests. This finding received some attention from popular media, including an article in Wired. However, a subsequent criticism of the paper's methodology questioned the experiment's validity and took issue with the lack of uniformity in the tests used to evaluate the control and test groups. For example, the progressive nature of Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) test may have been compromised by modifications of time restrictions (i.e., 10 minutes were allowed to complete a normally 45-minute test). The authors of the original paper later addressed this criticism by citing research indicating that scores in timed administrations of the APM are predictive of scores in untimed administrations. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back

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Romantic poetry - Wiki Article

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Romanticism, a philosophical, literary, artistic and cultural era which began in the mid/late-18th century as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment...

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Higher-order thinking [Wikipedia Article]

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Higher-order thinking, also known as higher order thinking skills , is a concept of Education reform based on learning taxonomies such as Bloom's Taxonomy. The idea is that some types of learning require more cognitive processing than others, but also have more generalized benefits. In Bloom's taxonomy, for example, skills involving analysis, evaluation and synthesis are thought to be of a higher order, requiring different learning and teaching methods, than the learning of facts and concepts. Higher order thinking involves the learning of complex judgmental skills such as critical thinking and problem solving. Higher order thinking is more difficult to learn or teach but also more valuable because such skills are more likely to be usable in novel situations . Education reform There is a notion that students must master the lower level skills before they can engage in higher order thinking. However, the National Research Council objected to this line of reasoning, saying that cognitive research challenges that assumption, and that higher order thinking is important even in elementary school. Including higher order thinking skills in learning outcomes is a very common feature of standards based education reform. Advocates of traditional education object to elevating HOTS above direct instruction of basic skills. Many forms of education reform, such as inquiry-based science, reform mathematics and whole language emphasize HOTS to solve problems and learn, sometimes deliberately omitting direct instruction of traditional methods, facts, or knowledge. HOTS assumes standards based assessments that use open-response items instead of multiple choice questions, and hence require higher order analysis and writing. Critics of standards based assessments point out that this style of testing is even more difficult for students who are behind academically. Indeed, while minorities may lag by 10 to 25 points on standardized percentile rankings, the failure rates of minorities are two to four times the best scoring groups on tests like the WASL. It is debated whether it is correct to raise the importance of teaching process over content. The Texas Republican Party expressed their opposition to the teaching of certain HOTS by including the following item in their 2012 Party Platform: However, the final wording of this item was evidently a 'mistake' according to Republican Party of Texas Communications Director Chris Elam who said, in an interview with talkingpointsmemo.com, that the plank should not have included the phrase 'critical thinking skills' and it was not the intent of the subcommittee to indicate that the RPT was opposed to critical thinking skills". When asked to clarify the meaning of the item he said, "I think the intent is that the Republican Party is opposed to the values clarification method that serves the purpose of challenging students beliefs and undermine parental authority". Standards based testing Standards based tests rely on HOTS for many test items released by U.S. states such as Washington. For example, one fourth grade WASL problem published in 1997 asked how to measure the height of a flagpole, given the sun, shadows, a ruler and a fire hydrant. A standard solution for this problem uses similar triangles, a skill not remembered by most adults, and which does not appear on state mathematics standards until the 10th grade. However, the solution published in the Seattle Post Intelligencer does not even use this method. Mathematics Similarly, textbooks such as Dale Seymour's Investigations omit many standard arithmetic methods, instead relying on students to construct their own ways to compute averages, and perform multiplication and division. Teachers are directed to discourage students who may have been taught how to regroup or take a sum and divide by the number of items to compute an average. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_thinkingPublic domain image sourced from http://wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BloomsCognitiveDomain.svg

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Expedition discovery of Noah's Ark. ***+***

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Chairman of the Ark InSight Foundation Gerrit Aalten: I'm convinced information about the discovery of Noah's Ark will be a big encouragement for mankind's s...

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Tire rotation [Wikipedia Article]

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Tire rotation or rotating tires is the practice of moving automobile wheels and tires from one position on the car, to another, to ensure even tire wear. Tire wear is uneven for any number of reasons. Even tire wear is desirable to maintain consistent performance in the vehicle and to extend the overall life of a set of tires. By design, the weight on the front and rear axles differs which causes uneven wear. With the majority of cars being front-engine cars, the front axle typically bears more of the weight. For rear wheel drive vehicles, the weight distribution between front and back approaches 50:50. Front-wheel drive vehicles also have the differential in front, adding to the weight, with a typical weight distribution of no better than 60:40. This means, all else being equal, the front tires wear out at almost twice the rate of the rear wheels, especially when factoring the additional stress that braking puts on the front tires. Thus, tire rotation needs to occur more frequently for front-wheel drive vehicles. Turning the vehicle will cause uneven tire wear. The outside, front tire is worn disproportionately. Cloverleaf interchanges, and parking ramps turn right in left hand drive (otherwise known as right hand traffic) countries, causing the left front tire to be worn faster than the right front. Furthermore, right turns are tighter than left turns, also causing more tire wear. Conversely the sidewalls on the right tire tends to be bumped and rubbed against the curb while parking the vehicle, causing asymmetric sidewall wear. The symmetric opposite occurs in countries that drive on the left. In addition, mechanical problems in the vehicle may cause uneven tire wear. The wheels need to be aligned with each other and the vehicle. The wheel that is out of alignment will tend to be dragged along by the other wheels, causing uneven wear in that tire. If the alignment is such that the vehicle tends to turn, the driver will correct by steering against the tendency. In effect the vehicle is constantly turning, causing uneven tire wear. Also, if a tire is under or over-inflated, it will wear differently than the other tires on the vehicle. Rotating will not help in this case and the inflation needs to be corrected. Car manufacturers will recommend tire rotation frequency and pattern. Depending on the specifics of the vehicle, tire rotation may be recommended every 8,000 km (5,000 mi). The rotation pattern is typically moving the back wheels to the front, and the front to the back, but crossing them when moving to the back. If the tires are unidirectional, the rotation can only be rotated front to back on the same side of the vehicle to preserve the rotational direction of the tires. Most unidirectional tires can be moved from side to side if they are remounted; tires with asymmetric rims are a rare exception. More complex rotation patterns are required if the vehicle has a full-size spare tire that is part of the rotation, or if there are snow tires. To clarify; the pattern for asymmetrical tires to be rotated, or positioned, is for the tires on the driving axle of two-wheel drive vehicles to remain on the same side of the vehicle as they are moved to the non-driving axle, and for the tires on the non-driving axle to cross over to the opposite side of the vehicle as they are placed onto the driving axle. For all-wheel drive (AWD) vehicles and four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicles, it is recommended that the tires from each axle cross over as the fronts move to the rear and rears to the front. For the 4WD configuration, it is dependent upon how much 4WD driving is actually performed, whether it's controlled via mechanical/computerized devices or in vehicle controls, the recommendation will likely be found in the Owner/Operator manual or can be obtained by speaking to the manufacturer or dealership. Current thinking stresses the desirability of keeping the best tires on the rear wheels of the vehicle, whether it is front, or rear wheel drive. The reason for this is that if the rear wheels lose grip before the front ones, an oversteer condition will occur, which is harder to control than the corresponding understeer which will happen if a front wheel is lost. This is also the case if a tire blows out, so the intuitive belief that the front steering/driving tires need to be the best quality is not the case. A rear tire blowout will cause the vehicle to become very difficult to control, especially at highway speeds. It also greatly increases the risk of rollover due to yawing, a condition where the rear of the vehicle swings out and becomes perpendicular to the direction of travel. Yawing will cause the tire to separate from the rim, the rim can then dig into the pavement, or dirt and grass if the vehicle is no longer on the road, which will trip the vehicle and cause a rollover. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_rotation

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Patent prosecution [Wikipedia Article]

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Patent prosecution describes the interaction between applicants and their representatives, and a patent office with regard to a patent, or an application for a patent. Broadly, patent prosecution can be split into pre-grant prosecution, which involves negotiation with a patent office for the grant of a patent, and post-grant prosecution, which involves issues such as post-grant amendment and opposition. Patent prosecution is distinct from patent litigation, which describes legal action relating to the infringement of patents. The rules and laws governing patent prosecution are often laid out in manuals released by the Patent Offices of various governments, such as the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) in the United States, or the Manual of Patent Office Practice (MOPOP) in Canada. Pre-grant prosecution Preparation of an application To obtain patent rights for an inventor, the practitioner typically first drafts an application by interviewing the inventor to understand the nature of the invention and help clarify its novel features. Practitioners need to ascertain what is already known to people familiar with the general field of the invention—such already-known material is termed the prior art, and to obtain drawings and written notes regarding the features of the invention and the background. During this initial phase, sometimes termed "patent preparation", the practitioner may also seek to determine precisely who contributed to the making of the invention. An incorrect listing of inventors may incurably invalidate any patent that might result from an application. This determination is particularly important in the United States, but may be considered less important in other jurisdictions. The practitioner may also seek to find out whether any publications, offers for sale, or other such public disclosures of the invention were made. Under the laws or regulations of some jurisdictions, public disclosures or offers to sell an invention prior to filing an application for a patent may prevent the issuance of the patent. In the U.S. these laws are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code, §102. After drafting an application for patent, complying with any further rules (such as having the inventor or inventors review the application prior to filing), and obtaining the applicant's permission, the practitioner files the patent application with the patent office. Usually, the practitioner seeks to file the application as soon as possible, because in a majority of jurisdictions including Europe and Japan, if two or more applications on the same subject matter are filed, only the party who filed first will be entitled to a patent under the "first-to-file rule". Until the enactment of the America Invents Act, the United States followed a first-to-invent rule, under which early filing may prevent the use of certain materials from being applied against the patent application as prior art while the patent application is pending before the patent office. However, three consecutive congressional sessions in the United States from 2005-2009 have attempted to change the United States to the first-to-file rule with the Patent Reform Act of 2005, the Patent Reform Act of 2007, and the Patent Reform Act of 2009. Finally, on September 16, 2011, the United States shifted to the first-to-file rule with the enactment of the America Invents Act. Filing an application Most patent applications have at least two components, including a general, written description of the invention and at least one "embodiment" thereof, and a set of "claims," written in a special style that defines exactly what the applicant regards as the particular features of his or her invention. These claims are used to distinguish the invention from the existing prior art, and are compared by the patent office to the prior art before issuing a patent. Patent applications in most jurisdictions also usually include (and may be required to include) a drawing or set of drawings, to facilitate the understanding of the invention. In some jurisdictions, patent models may also be submitted to demonstrate the operation of the invention. In applications involving genetics, samples of genetic material or DNA sequences may be required. Search and examination The search and examination phases constitute the main part of the prosecution of a patent application leading to grant or refusal. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_prosecution

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Nespresso CitiZ Review

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WHERE to BUY Nespresso: Nespresso.com: http://www.aromacup.com/nespressous Amazon.com: http://www.aromacup.com/amazon/nespresso Nespresso CitiZ is one of the...

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Questioned document examination [Wikipedia Article]

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Questioned document examination is the forensic science discipline pertaining to documents that are in dispute in a court of law. The primary purpose of questioned/forensic document examination is to answer questions about a disputed document using a variety of scientific processes and methods. Overview Many QD examinations involve a comparison of the questioned document, or components of the document, to a set of known standards. The most common type of examination involves handwriting wherein the examiner tries to address concerns about potential authorship. A document examiner is often asked to determine if a questioned item originated from the same source as the known item(s), then present their opinion on the matter in court as an expert witness. Other common tasks include determining what has happened to a document, determining when a document was produced, or deciphering information on the document that has been obscured, obliterated or erased. The discipline is known by many names including forensic document examination, document examination, diplomatics, handwriting examination, or sometimes handwriting analysis, although the latter term is not often used as it may be confused with graphology. Likewise a forensic document examiner (FDE) is not to be confused with a graphologist, and vice versa. Many FDEs receive extensive training in all of the different aspects of the discipline. As a result they are competent to address a wide variety of questions about document evidence. However, this "broad specialization" approach has not been universally adopted. In some locales, a clear distinction is made between the terms forensic document examiner and a forensic handwriting expert/examiner. In such cases, the former term refers to examiners who focus on non-handwriting examination types while the latter refers to those trained exclusively to do handwriting examinations. Even in places where the more general meaning is common, such as North America or Australia, there are many individuals who have specialized training only in certain relatively limited areas. As the terminology varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, it is important to clarify the meaning of the title used by any given individual professing to be a "forensic document examiner". Scope of document examination A forensic document examiner is intimately linked to the legal system as a forensic scientist. Forensic science is the application of science to address issues under consideration in the legal system. FDEs examine items (documents) that form part of a case which may or may not come before a court of law. Common criminal charges involved in a document examination case fall into the "white-collar crime" category. These include identity theft, forgery, counterfeiting, fraud, or uttering a forged document. Questioned documents are often important in other contexts simply because documents are used in so many different contexts and for so many different purposes. For example, a person may commit murder and forge a suicide note. This is an example wherein a document is produced directly as a fundamental part of a crime. More often a questioned document is simply the by-product of normal day-to-day business or personal activities. The American Society for Testing and Materials, International (ASTM) publishes standards for many methods and procedures used by FDEs. E30.02 was the ASTM subcomittee for Questioned Documents, and ASTM Standard E444-09 (Standard Guide for Scope of Work of Forensic Document Examiners) indicates there are four components to the work of a forensic document examiner. It states that an examiner "makes scientific examinations, comparisons, and analyses of documents in order to: establish genuineness or nongenuineness, or to expose forgery, or to reveal alterations, additions or deletions, identify or eliminate persons as the source of handwriting, identify or eliminate the source of typewriting or other impression, marks, or relative evidence, and write reports or give testimony, when needed, to aid the users of the examiner's services in understanding the examiner's findings." Some FDEs limit their work to the examination and comparison of handwriting but most inspect and examine the whole document in accordance with this ASTM standard. Types of document examined Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questioned_document_examination

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Quantity surveyor - Wiki Article

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A quantity surveyor is a professional working within the construction industry concerned with construction costs and contracts. The services provided by the ...

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Software development kit - Wiki Article

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A software development kit is typically a set of software development tools that allows for the creation of applications for a certain software package, soft...

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Kapil Sibal - Wiki Article

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Kapil Sibal is a lawyer and an Indian politician. He is currently the Law Minister of India as well as the Minister of Communications and Information Technol...

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How to Edit a Wiki: Part 2

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May need to turn VOLUME down! Brief intro into basic wiki editing. Discusses creating new pages, using History to revert to previous page versions, creating ...

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Specification (technical standard) - Wiki Article

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A specification is an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service. Should a material, product, or service fail to...

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Bifurcation theory [Wikipedia Article]

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Bifurcation theory is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations. Most commonly applied to the mathematical study of dynamical systems, a bifurcation occurs when a small smooth change made to the parameter values of a system causes a sudden 'qualitative' or topological change in its behaviour. Bifurcations occur in both continuous systems , and discrete systems . The name "bifurcation" was first introduced by Henri Poincaré in 1885 in the first paper in mathematics showing such a behavior. Henri Poincaré also later named various types of stationary points and classified them. Bifurcation types It is useful to divide bifurcations into two principal classes: Local bifurcations, which can be analysed entirely through changes in the local stability properties of equilibria, periodic orbits or other invariant sets as parameters cross through critical thresholds; and Global bifurcations, which often occur when larger invariant sets of the system 'collide' with each other, or with equilibria of the system. They cannot be detected purely by a stability analysis of the equilibria (fixed points). Local bifurcations A local bifurcation occurs when a parameter change causes the stability of an equilibrium (or fixed point) to change. In continuous systems, this corresponds to the real part of an eigenvalue of an equilibrium passing through zero. In discrete systems (those described by maps rather than ODEs), this corresponds to a fixed point having a Floquet multiplier with modulus equal to one. In both cases, the equilibrium is non-hyperbolic at the bifurcation point. The topological changes in the phase portrait of the system can be confined to arbitrarily small neighbourhoods of the bifurcating fixed points by moving the bifurcation parameter close to the bifurcation point (hence 'local'). More technically, consider the continuous dynamical system described by the ODE A local bifurcation occurs at if the Jacobian matrix has an eigenvalue with zero real part. If the eigenvalue is equal to zero, the bifurcation is a steady state bifurcation, but if the eigenvalue is non-zero but purely imaginary, this is a Hopf bifurcation. For discrete dynamical systems, consider the system Then a local bifurcation occurs at if the matrix has an eigenvalue with modulus equal to one. If the eigenvalue is equal to one, the bifurcation is either a saddle-node (often called fold bifurcation in maps), transcritical or pitchfork bifurcation. If the eigenvalue is equal to −1, it is a period-doubling (or flip) bifurcation, and otherwise, it is a Hopf bifurcation. Examples of local bifurcations include: Saddle-node (fold) bifurcation Transcritical bifurcation Pitchfork bifurcation Period-doubling (flip) bifurcation Hopf bifurcation Neimark (secondary Hopf) bifurcation Global bifurcations Global bifurcations occur when 'larger' invariant sets, such as periodic orbits, collide with equilibria. This causes changes in the topology of the trajectories in the phase space which cannot be confined to a small neighbourhood, as is the case with local bifurcations. In fact, the changes in topology extend out to an arbitrarily large distance (hence 'global'). Examples of global bifurcations include: Homoclinic bifurcation in which a limit cycle collides with a saddle point. Heteroclinic bifurcation in which a limit cycle collides with two or more saddle points. Infinite-period bifurcation in which a stable node and saddle point simultaneously occur on a limit cycle. Blue sky catastrophe in which a limit cycle collides with a nonhyperbolic cycle. Global bifurcations can also involve more complicated sets such as chaotic attractors (e.g. crises). Codimension of a bifurcation The codimension of a bifurcation is the number of parameters which must be varied for the bifurcation to occur. This corresponds to the codimension of the parameter set for which the bifurcation occurs within the full space of parameters. Saddle-node bifurcations and Hopf bifurcations are the only generic local bifurcations which are really codimension-one (the others all having higher codimension). However, often transcritical and pitchfork bifurcations are also often thought of as codimension-one, because the normal forms can be written with only one parameter. An example of a well-studied codimension-two bifurcation is the Bogdanov--Takens bifurcation. Applications in semiclassical and quantum physics Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_theoryCreative Commons image sourced from http://wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saddlenode.gif

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World War III - Wiki Article

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World War III is a hypothetical successor to World War II. In the wake of World War I, World War II, the commencement of the Cold War and the development, te...

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Request for proposal - Wiki Article

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A request for proposal is a solicitation made, often through a bidding process, by an agency or company interested in procurement of a commodity, service or ...

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Dubbing (filmmaking) - Wiki Article

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Dubbing, also known as re-recording, is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production, in which vocal recording occurs subsequent to the ...

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Alchemy - Wiki Article

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Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose practitioners have, from antiquity, claimed it to be the precursor to profound powers. The defining o...

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Hundreds of thousands evacuated as Typhoon Fitow hits China's east coast

South China Morning Post

07 Oct 2013

Typhoon Fitow barrelled into into China's east coast early Monday, packing winds of more than 200 kilometres an hour as hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated and bullet train services suspended, state media reported. At least one person was killed, China National Radio (CNR) said in an online report ... Zhejiang has so far evacuated more than 574,000 people, while in Fujian 177,000 have been displaced, Xinhua said ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)

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Protesters shout slogans holding banners that reads 'Teachers squad" during a march in support of teachers on strike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

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Teacher protests in Brazil turns violent

Graphic

08 Oct 2013

Share. Twitter. Ghana News Share. View Comments. Demonstrators in Rio took their protest right up to the outside of the Municipal Assembly Protesters demonstrating in support of teachers receiving better pay in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have clashed with police. The centre of Rio was packed with more than 10,000 people marching peacefully ... Source ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)

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A Carabinieri paramilitary police officer, bottom center, gives directions to migrants as they line up to board a ferry boat from the port of Lampedusa, for Sicily, southern Italy, where they will be sent to other temporary camps based on their legal status, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

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EU proposes major migrant rescue mission in Med

BBC News

08 Oct 2013

She will present the plan to EU ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday ... Share this page....(size: 0.6Kb)

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Kurdish members of the FSA are seen on a tank stolen from the Syrian Army in Fafeen village, north of Aleppo province, Syria, Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012.

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Chemical experts begin destroying Syria's chemical arsenal

The Siasat Daily

07 Oct 2013

Damascus, October 07 .. The joint team of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN said here that the process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons programme began Sunday ... The process will continue in the coming days, it added. The international inspectors are monitoring, verifying and reporting on Syria's compliance with international demands to destroy chemical weapon stockpiles ... Recommend Twitter....(size: 2.4Kb)

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In this picture provided Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis greets faithful as he arrives in front of St. Francis' Basilica in Assisi, Italy, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013.

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Che Guevara, Pope Francis and Politics of Revolutionaries

WorldNews.com

07 Oct 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Pope Francis declared the world "does not care about the many people fleeing slavery, hunger, fleeing in search freedom," and asked "how many of them die, as happened yesterday,"(1) in reference to a migrant shipwreck tragedy off the coast of an Italian island, he was bordering on the political aspirations of Che Guevara ... Yet like Pope Francis, Che Guevara was born in Argentina ... 187....(size: 7.5Kb)

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LIVE FREE OR DIE Please give up smoking to let people watch the new Woody ...

The Telegraph India

09 Oct 2013

Please give up smoking to let people watch the new Woody Allen, pleads an exasperated Indian actor to his smoking countryfolk. This non-smoker has been waiting for the release of Blue Jasmine in his local cinema, and now Mr Allen has refused to let the film be vandalized by the Indian government for the sake of nicotine-free wholesomeness ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)

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Cowlishaw: SI scoop? Please! Everybody at UT expects this to be Mack Brown's last season

The Dallas Morning News

09 Oct 2013

Columnist Tim Cowlishaw answered questions in a chat Tuesday. Here are some highlights. Question. Sports Illustrated had a story today that a UT official expects this to be Mack's last season. Do you get that sense from whom you talk to?. Tim Cowlishaw ... Music ... If you do not want to comment with a social network, please consider writing a letter to the editor ... SI scoop? Please! Everybody at UT expects this to be Mack Brown's last season....(size: 5.5Kb)

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Review: James Franco Ambitious Adaptation Of William Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying'

IMDb

09 Oct 2013

Requiring a decent knowledge of the source material (or at least a quick skim of the Wikipedia page) to fully grasp (and full disclosure, I haven't read the book), Franco's film almost plays out as ......(size: 1.0Kb)

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Obama Set To Nominate Janet Yellen To Replace Bernanke As Fed Chief

Forbes

09 Oct 2013

Official picture of Janet Yellen  - http.//www.frbsf.org/federalreserve/people/officers/yellen.html (Photo credit. Wikipedia) ....(size: 0.6Kb)

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Review: James Franco's Ambitious Adaptation Of William Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying'

IMDb

09 Oct 2013

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It's Wrong For Schools To Be Banning Balls And Games At Recess

Forbes

09 Oct 2013

by Arthur L. Caplan & Lee H. Igel. The NYU Sports & Society Program. First they came for phys ed. Then, they came for recess. Now, they are coming for the bats and balls ... They are also banning certain types activities ... (Photo credit. Wikipedia) ....(size: 1.2Kb)

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Politician: We are living in the end times

The Examiner

09 Oct 2013

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann stated that we are living in “God’s end times.” Bachmann’s comments were made during a radio interview; according to an October 8 article in the Inquisitr ... Bachmann, according to Wikipedia, has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2007 ... Email me ... Source....(size: 1.4Kb)

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IN THE MARKETS: Babies can do their bit for shrinking economies

Business Day

09 Oct 2013

My enthusiasm for its position may also have been aided by one of its senior strategists greeting my bulging belly with, "I’m so pleased to see you are doing your bit for the economy!" rather than the usual thinly veiled pity at the costs I am going to have to bear for putting yet another child through school....(size: 4.7Kb)

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OPCW pleased on "constructive beginning" of mission in Syria

Xinhua

09 Oct 2013

• The OPCW stated its satisfaction with the "constructive beginning" of its mission on Tuesday. • Syrian officials commenced destroying certain chemical weapons, destroying or disabling a range of items. • The OPCW will deploy a second team of inspectors to expand the verification and destruction activities. THE HAGUE, Oct ... Last Sunday the first group of experts returned to The Hague after one week in Syria ... Related . ... DAMASCUS, Oct ... Editor....(size: 3.1Kb)

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Brandon Routh

Norway Today

09 Oct 2013

Brandon James Routh is an American actor and former fashion model. He grew up in Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career... Vimeo. Brandon James Routh (born October 9, 1979) is an American actor and former fashion model. He grew up in Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, and subsequently appeared on multiple television series throughout the early 2000s ... Source.Wikipedia ... ....(size: 4.1Kb)

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The Economics of Hemp Makes Extraordinary Sense

The Examiner

09 Oct 2013

When the questions surrounding cannabis legalization come up, the benefits are often related to those who have a special interest such as medicinal needs or a desire for recreational use. Medical necessity is certainly a high on the list of noble causes, and as recreational use goes, marijuana is well-documented to be less harmful than alcohol ... California Gov ... Sen ... Gov ... Disclosure ... http.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement_discretion....(size: 5.5Kb)

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Let’s Build a More Secure Internet

The New York Times

09 Oct 2013

ARLINGTON, Va. — CAN we ever trust the Internet again?. Enlarge This Image. Alex Robbins. Connect With Us on Twitter. For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT ... seems to have built into the very infrastructure of the Internet ... the cables and routers and switches ... Wikipedia is perhaps the best-known example of a product inspired by the movement ... the freedom to audit ... The N.S.A ... ....(size: 7.7Kb)

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Square Enix gets into crowd-funded gaming

Stuff

09 Oct 2013

Square Enix, international conglomerate behind everything from Final Fantasy to Tomb Raider would like to help your best game ideas get some crowd-funding. Oh, and they might let your game star some of their characters. Whoa. Slow down there. Eidos characters. You ain't going to be remaking Final Fantasy VII ... 3) Which Eidos franchises could come back through this? Here's a list of Eidos games past and present pulled from Wikipedia ... ❏ Geon ... ....(size: 7.0Kb)

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150px The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from many different writing systems
Screenshot Screenshot of Wikipedia's multilingual portal.
URL	wikipedia.org
Slogan	The Free Encyclopedia
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia
Registration	Optional (required only for certain tasks such as editing protected pages, creating pages or uploading files)
Available language(s)	275 active editions (285 in total)
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit)
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Launched	January 15, 2001 (2001-01-15) (11 years ago)
Alexa rank	6 (June 2012^[update])^[2]
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Jimmy Wales
Wales in December 2008
Born	Jimmy Donal Wales (1966-08-07) August 7, 1966 (age 45) Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Residence	London, United Kingdom^[1]
Other names	Jimbo
Alma mater	Auburn University University of Alabama Indiana University Bloomington
Occupation	Internet entrepreneur, formerly a Financial trader
Title	President of Wikia, Inc. (2004–present) Chairman of Wikimedia Foundation (June 2003 – October 2006) Chairman Emeritus, Wikimedia Foundation (October 2006–present)
Successor	Florence Devouard
Board member of	Wikimedia Foundation Creative Commons Socialtext Sunlight Foundation (advisory board) MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (advisory board) CiviliNation^[2]
Awards	see below
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Website
www.jimmywales.com

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Name	Wales, Jimmy
Alternative names	Wales, Jimbo
Short description	American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia
Date of birth	August 8, 1966
Place of birth	Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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Kapil Sibal

Kapil Sibal at 2007 World Economic Forum
Minister of Human Resource Development
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 May 2009
Preceded by	Arjun Singh
Minister of Communications and Information Technology
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 November 2010
Preceded by	A. Raja
Minister of Science and Technology
In office 22 May 2004 – 2010
Succeeded by	Pawan Kumar Bansal
Minister of Earth Sciences
In office 22 May 2004 – 2010
Succeeded by	Pawan Kumar Bansal
Member of Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 2004
Constituency	Chandni Chowk
Personal details
Born	(1948-08-08) 8 August 1948 (age 63) Jalandhar, Punjab
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse(s)	Nina Sibal (deceased)(1973-2000) Promila Sibal
Children	2 sons
Residence	New Delhi
Alma mater	University of Delhi (M.A./LL.B.) Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
Profession	Politician, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
Religion	Hindu
Signature	Kapil Sibal's signature
Website	Kapil Sibal
As of 5 June, 2011

Political offices
Preceded by Arjun Singh	Minister of Human Resource Development 2009–present	Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Sibal, Kapil
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	August 8, 1948
Place of birth	Jalandhar, Punjab
Date of death
Place of death

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