Batek: Traditional Tattoos Batek: Traditional Tattoos and Identities in Contemporary Kalinga, North Luzon Philippines Analyn Ikin V. Salvador-Amores ABSTRACT In the early 16th century, traditional tattooing is widespread in the Philippines, but very little is known or written about the practice. Sources for the study of traditional tattoos in Northern Luzon are very inadequate and merely make vague statements on the function and symbolic meaning of tattoos, as well as the relationship between
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This set of photographs was shot in collaboration with my friend Rachel Wong for her portfolio interview at UAL. It is one of my three initial ideas for the Human Condition project – dystopia. Both the garment and the headpiece are hand made by me using various materials including yarns, pom poms, fabrics and cotton. The hat is based on a simple black cap, which I bought at a vintage market; I then painted it over with a thick layer of white acrylic and decorated it with some pompoms to create the
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A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Sixth Edition Lab Manual Mark G. Sobell Upper Saddle River, NJ • Boston • Indianapolis • San Francisco New York • Toronto • Montreal • London • Munich • Paris • Madrid Capetown • Sydney • Tokyo • Singapore • Mexico City Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and the publisher was aware of a trademark claim
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Auditing Standards and Practices Council Philippine Auditing Practice Statement 1009 COMPUTER-ASSISTED AUDIT TECHNIQUES PAPS 1009 PHILIPPINE AUDITING PRACTICE STATEMENT 1009 COMPUTER-ASSISTED AUDIT TECHNIQUES CONTENTS Paragraphs Introduction Description of Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs) Considerations in the Use of CAATs Using CAATs Using CAATs in Small Entity IT Environments Effective Date Acknowledgment 1-3 4-6 7-16 17-25 26 27 28-29 The Auditing Standards and Practices Council
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hypervisors (virtual machine manager). A virtual machine (VM) is a simulation of a machine that is usually different from the target or host workstation using a Virtual Player; which provides the means of running the virtual environment. Virtual machines emulate the computer architecture and functions of a real world computer. Virtual machines are separated into two major classifications, based on their use and degree of correspondence to any real machine: * A system virtual machine provides a complete
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An Ethics of Reading At the age of nine, Edith Wharton fell ill with typhoid. The local doctor told her parents nothing could be done and that their daughter would soon die. Only the ministrations of another physician, who happened to be passing through town and was prevailed upon to examine the girl, saved her life. Her fever fell, and the young Wharton began to recover. During her convalescence, she read voraciously. One of the books she was given contained a “super-natural” tale — a story
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1. (1)Process is a run activity on the set of data in the computer program. It is a basic unit for system to allocate and schedule and the foundation of operation system architecture. (2)Process is a data structure to represent the inherent laws of dynamic system clearly and manage and schedule the run of program efficiently in the main memory of computer system. 2. (1)Thread is the minimum unit to operate and schedule in the operation system and it is the actual execution unit in the process
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Chris Loveless HMT 420 Dr. Brown 09/22/14 Current Trends in the Casino Industry Twenty years ago, casino’s used things like restaurants, rooms, spas and entertainment as amenities that would drive the customer to the casino floor, where the “house edge” would kick in and the casinos would make their money. Yes, there was a small revenue stream coming out of the non-gaming amenities, but it was barely enough to get noticed, particularly when stacked up against the huge revenues
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Personalization strategy of a Laundry and Homecare FMCG (a) Personalization – LHC industry fit Personalization has become a very significant trend and many brands are successfully leveraging it for improving their position in the market. Research indicates that personalization increases customers’ satisfaction with the brand, brand loyalty and consequently sales (Bain & Company 2016). Within the Laundry and Home Care department at Henkel, detergents are best suited for personalization. Detergent
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(a) Compute the Entropy for the overall collection of training examples. Answer: Entropy(t)= -∑ p( j | t)log p( j | t) =-[1020log21020+1020log21020] =1 (b) Compute the Entropy for the Movie ID attribute. Answer: The movie id is unique to each movie. The Entropy for each Movie ID value is 0, hence the entropy for the Movie ID attribute is 0. (c) Compute the Entropy for the Format attribute. Answer: It has two types: DVD and Online. Entropy can be calculated in the following
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