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Culture is the way in which people live and
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The musical arts of Sunda, which is an expression of the emotions of Sundanese culture, include some of the most beautiful sounds in the world. Degung consisting of Sundanese orchestra called gamelan and tembang sunda Cianjuran consisting of kacapi (lying zithers like the Japanese koto) with either suling (bamboo flute) or rebab (two stringed violin) or vocal accompaniment, provide moments of rare musical beauty.
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Indirect development often involves a major change in body plan. The larva of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, has bilateral symmetry, and the adult has 5-fold radial symmetry. As the echinopluteus larva approaches metamorphosis clues to the body-axis shift start to appear. The first image shows a lateral view of the larva. The two vertical white lines are calcareous rods that support the arms of the larva. They appear to glow because I used polarized light microscopy. Forming around each rod is a honeycomb-like structure which will become one of the genital plates in the adult. After metamorphosis, these plates are located on the aboral side of the adult (the side opposite the mouth) and surround the mouth. They are called genital plates because the gonads (testes or ovaries) open to the outside via little holes (called gonopores) in these plates. The endoskeleton of adult urchin, called the test, is made up of many such closely fitted calcareous plates.
The second picture is a close-up aboral view of the test of an adult urchin. Surrounding the large hole in the center (the anus) are the apical plates. You can also see five smaller openings, the gonopores, in the genital plates. Starting at 12 o'clock is the genital plate 2 or G2. This much larger plate perforated by a large number of small pores is called the madreporite; it connects the water-vascular system of the urchin to the outside. Clockwise from G2 are the other four genital plates in the following order: G3, G4, G5, and finally G1. I think the left and right genital plates on the larval image above correspond to G5 and G3 respectively (Emlet, 1985).
Emlet, R. B. 1985. Crystal Axes in Recent and Fossil Adult Echinoids Indicate Trophic Mode in Larval Development. Science 230: 937-940.


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"Grandpa Clayton said heartily, "Why, that's excellent for a start. This is your first one, isn't it?"
"Yes," Andy said uncomfortably. "I meant him to be a man, but he turned out like this."
"Well, that's all right," Grandpa Clayton said. "it takes all sorts of people to make a world, and I expect it's the same with robots."
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What does a semantic client "know"?In the first post of this series, I raised the question "What does it actually mean to say that we can 'learn' something using RDF?" This is a rather vague question for two reasons: what did I mean by "learn" and what did I mean by "RDF"? In this post I want to flesh out this question.
Last October I forced myself to read the RDF Semantics document *. It was somewhat painful, but much of what I found written in technical language supported the ideas about RDF that I'd absorbed through osmosis over the past several years. Section 6 very succinctly addresses the question of what a semantic client can know:
Given a set of RDF graphs, there are various ways in which one can 'add' information to it. Any of the graphs may have some triples added to it; the set of graphs may be extended by extra graphs; or the vocabulary of the graph may be interpreted relative to a stronger notion of vocabulary entailment, i.e. with a larger set of semantic conditions understood to be imposed on the interpretations. All of these can be thought of as an addition of information, and may make more entailments hold than held before the change. All of these additions are monotonic, in the sense that entailments which hold before the addition of information, also hold after it.In the previous post, I noted that the basic "fact" unit in RDF is a triple. A graph is a set of triples, so a graph essentially represents a set of known facts. So the technical answer to the question "what does a semantic client know?" is: "the triples that comprise the graph it has assembled". This is a little anticlimactic if we were hoping that sentience was somehow going to arise spontaneously in our "intelligent agent", but I'm afraid that is about all that there is. If we accept that the RDF graph assembled by a client is what it "knows", then Section 6 answers the question "how does a semantic client learn?" If learning is the acquisition of knowledge, then "learning" for a semantic client is the addition of triples to its graph.
"Learning" by the addition of triples
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The most straightforward way for a semantic client to "learn" is to simply add triples to those already present in its graph. There are a number of ways this could happen. The human managing the client might feed triples directly into it from an in-house institutional database. A graph might be loaded in bulk from another data provider. Or the client might "follow its nose" and discover triples on its own by traversing the Semantic Web as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee. In the Linked Data model, resources are identified by HTTP URIs which can be dereferenced to acquire an RDF document describing the resource.
"Learning through Discovery" is an exciting prospect for our precocious intelligent agent, and it would be tempting to turn it loose on the Internet to collect as many triples as possible. However, there is also a dark side to this kind of learning. RDF assumes that "Anyone can say Anything about Anything". In the language of the RDF Concepts document:
To facilitate operation at Internet scale, RDF is an open-world framework that allows anyone to make statements about any resource.
In general, it is not assumed that complete information about any resource is available. RDF does not prevent anyone from making assertions that are nonsensical or inconsistent with other statements, or the world as people see it. Designers of applications that use RDF should be aware of this and may design their applications to tolerate incomplete or inconsistent sources of information.So it is possible that our client will discover triples that are correct and useful (awesome!). However, it is also possible that it will discover triples that are incorrect due to carelessness, ignorance, or outright nefariousness. Another possibility that should be considered is that the client will encounter triples that are correct, but useless (a possibility that I'd like to explore further in a future post). One would like to believe that "bad triples" wouldn't be introduced into the Semantic Web out of malice, but given the existence of computer viruses and spam, it would probably be naive to think that. The likelihood that our client may discover "bad" triples introduces a social dimension to the problem of how it "learns": how do we program the client to know which data sources to trust?
"Learning" through entailment rules
The quote from Section 6 of the RDF Semantics document describes the following way of adding information to an RDF graph: "...the vocabulary of the graph may be interpreted relative to a stronger notion of vocabulary entailment, i.e. with a larger set of semantic conditions understood to be imposed on the interpretations." For example generic RDF can be extended by the rdfs-interpretation which satisfies additional semantic conditions, such as:
If <x,y> is in IEXT(I(rdfs:range)) and <u,v> is in IEXT(x) then v is in ICEXT(y)
The semantic conditions then establish various entailment rules. The OWL 2 Primer defines entailment as follows: "a set of statements A entails a statement a if in any state of affairs wherein all statements from A are true, also a is true."
If you are finding your head spinning by now point, an illustration may help. The semantic condition above leads to the following entailment rule:
Rule rdfs3:
If graph E contains {aaa rdfs:range XXX. uuu aaa vvv.} then add {vvv rdf:type XXX.}
A client that is programmed to extend RDF to the rdfs-interpretation can use this rule to generate an inferred triple that has never been explicitly stated.
Happy example!!!
My busybody semantic client has surfed the Semantic Web and discovered the FOAF vocabulary. My imaginary programming prowess has enabled the client to sort through the RDFa there and "learn" (add to its graph) the triple:
foaf:depiction rdfs:range foaf:Image.
(Turtle serialization, with foaf: and rdfs: representing their conventional namespaces). After some additional surfing, my client also discovers the following triple:
foaf:depiction <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_Age_19.jpg>.
it can use Rule rdfs3 to infer that the two triples it has discovered entail a third triple:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_Age_19.jpg> rdf:type foaf:Image.
My semantic client is so smart! It has "learned" (i.e. added a triple to its graph=added information=learned) that the resource identified by the IRI
is an image!!! This is just what I was hoping for and I am beginning to feel like I'm on the way to creating an "intelligent agent".
Sad example :-( :-( :-(
Flushed with enthusiasm and its first victory, my client discovers the following triple:
foaf:depiction <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Moby-Dick>.
I'm a bit unsure about this one. I know that the subject IRI identifies the scientific name for sperm whale. I also know that the object IRI identifies the book Moby Dick. The triple seems reasonable because the book Moby Dick does depict a sperm whale (sort of). So I let my client have a go at learning again. It applies entailment Rule rdfs3 and infers this triple:
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Moby-Dick> rdf:type foaf:Image.
I am no longer feeling so good about how things are going with my intelligent agent. It has just "learned" that the book Moby Dick is an image. What has gone wrong?
What went wrong in the sad example?
The short answer to this question is: Nothing. My semantic client has made no mistakes - it correctly inferred a triple that was entailed once I accepted the RDFS interpretation of RDF. It now "knows" that the book Moby Dick is an image.
One could claim that the problem was with the triple:
foaf:depiction <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Moby-Dick>.
However, in RDF Anyone can say Anything about Anything. It is possible that the creator of that triple was careless and did not realize that use of foaf:depiction entailed that the object of the triple was an image. However, it is also possible that the creator of that triple DID understand the implications of using foaf:depiction and intended to extend the concept of "image" to include things that could be figuratively considered "images" (like books). Without knowing more about the provider of the triple and what the provider understood the FOAF vocabulary to mean, we cannot know if the usage was intentional or a mistake. As in the case of "learning through addition of triples", the dimension of trust is important here as well. We must be able to trust that the providers of triples we ingest are both honest in the information they expose and competent to use vocabulary terms in a manner consistent with their intended meaning.
Horrifying example
If we wanted to create the most powerful "intelligent agent" possible, then we might consider allowing our client to conduct reasoning based on the strongest possible vocabulary entailments. Returning one more time to Section 6 of the RDF Symantics document, this would result in a larger set of semantic conditions understood to be imposed on the interpretations, which can be thought of as an addition of information. Our client can "learn even more". The Web Ontology Language (OWL) provides terms loaded with powerful semantics (owl-interpretation) that can allow clients to infer triples in many useful ways. However, whenever an interpretation has stronger entailment, there are also more ways to create inconsistencies and unintended consequences.
If you have gotten this far in the post, let me suggest some reading that was very helpful to my thinking these issues and which was sometimes entertaining (if you have a warped sense of entertainment, as I do):
Aidan Hogan, Andreas Harth and Axel Polleres. Scalable Authoritative OWL Reasoning for the Web. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, 5(2), pages 49-90, April-June 2009. http://www.deri.ie/fileadmin/documents/DERI-TR-2009-04-21.pdf
Hogan et al. (2009) provide an interesting example of four triples containing terms from the RDFS and OWL vocabularies:
rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:Resource.
rdfs:subclassOf rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subPropertyOf.
rdf:type rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subClassOf.
rdfs:subClassOf rdf:type owl:SymmetricProperty.
If we allow our client to ingest these triples and then conduct naive reasoning based on rdfs- and owl-interpretations of RDF, the client will infer every possible combination of every unique IRI in its graph. A relatively small graph containing a thousand triples would result in the client inferring 1.6x10^8 meaningless triples. These four triples would effectively serve as a loaded bomb for a client that had no discretion about the source of its triples and the kinds of reasoning it conducted.
Hogan et al. (2009) also discusses the idea of "ontology hijacking" where statements are made about classes or properties in such a way that reasoning on those classes or properties is affected in a harmful or inflationary way. In their SAOR reasoner, they introduced sets of rules that determined the types of reasoning that their client would be allowed to conduct and the types of triples on which the reasoning could be conducted.
In this section, I am not saying that it is bad to use interpretations with stronger entailment. Rather, I hope I made the point that the programmer of a client must make careful decisions about the conditions under which the client would be allowed to generate entailed triples and incorporate them with other "facts" that they "know" (i.e. into their graph).
"RDF" can be interpreted under different vocabulary interpretations, ranging from fewer semantic conditions and weaker entailment, to more semantic conditions and stronger entailment. Information can be gained by a client if it ingests more triples, or if it conducts inferencing based on stronger entailment.
- Entailment rules do NOT enforce conditions.
- Entailment rules imply that other unstated triples exist.
- Inferred triples are true to the extent that the statements which entail them are also true. This introduces a requirement for an element of trust.
- A client is not required to apply all possible entailment rules.
- A client is not required to to apply rules to any particular set of triples.
* In February, the RDF 1.1 Semantics document superseded the RDF (1.0) Semantics document. It broadens the earlier document in a number of ways such as supporting IRIs and clarifying the types of literals, but otherwise most of what is stated in the 1.0 document remains true.


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Drawing of a temple column. 'Elevation of the Pillars in the Pagoda of [ ] near Honnelly July 1800
Artist: Anonymous
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Date: 1800
Pen and ink drawing, dated July 1800, of the elevation of a column in a temple near Honali in Karnataka, taken from an Album of 56 sheets of drawings (60 folios) mainly of miscellaneous architecture and sculpture in the Deccan and S. India, dated 1793-1806.
This drawing depicts a multi-angled pillar, a type which is often referred to as "lathe-turned" typical of Chalukya-Hoysala architecture. It has been suggested that this kind of pillars were produced with the help of a lathe. They are generally made of clorithic schist, a very soft kind of stone.
Colin Mackenzie (1754-1821) was the first Surveyor General of India. Originally from Scotland, he came to India in 1782 as a member of the Madras Engineers. He took part in numerous map surveys, mainly in Southern India, before he was appointed to the post of Surveyor General in 1815. During his surveys in South India he collected and recorded innumerable details concerning every aspect of South Indian history, language, life and religion, resulting in possibly as many as 2,000 drawings and over 8,000 copies of inscriptions.


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Ok, this seems to be too much information for most people apparently, but if brushing your teeth, a vital part of your healthcare, makes you gag or vomit its a serious issue.
So, this photo freaked everyone out because when I updated my bathroom, I added a toothbrush and toothpaste holder to my shower. My son brushed his teeth for years in the shower and I thought it strange, until I reached my stopping point at puking or gagging each morning when I brushed my teeth.
I could brush my teeth numerous other times during the day, but that first one in the morning was bad! Ugh!
Is it unhygienic? You leave your toothbrush by the sink where you wash your hands every time you use the restroom. In the shower, I'm the cleanest I am any time of day.
One of the most uncomfortable feelings you can experience is involuntary gagging. Unchecked, it can leave your throat raw and sore, and give you a painful case of laryngitis. Your voice may actually change from the acidity of the stomach acids.
The first thing you absolutely have to do is…
Relax. The gag reflex is triggered by a combination of psychology and physiology. For some people, the psychological aspect will play a larger role. Maybe you've had a traumatizing experience at a doctor or dentist's office in the past, or in general, you have a fear of losing control.
Sometimes stimulating the area with your toothbrush can desensitize the gag reflex. 1/3rd of the population have no gag reflex and roughly 1/8th have an over active reflex
Tips at the dentist:
Music-ear buds drown out the drill sound and help you focus
Legs elevated- keeps the blood flow to your brain. Also keeps you from becoming shocky during long procedures.
Sun glasses-prevents the glare from the lights above.
Blanket-my must have!! As well as nitrous oxide. It's comforting and also prevents shock or chill.
Last but not least, get the nitrous oxide. It costs more but if you have the issues I have, it's worth every penny.
Use a private dentist, not a chain group, and tell them your issues. A good dentist and hygienist will appreciate your candidness.
Think! Live! Love!
I should refer here to a blog posted July 6, that said I wouldn't promote anyone but my dentist rocks! Dr. Verni Waldron of Waldron Family Dentistry. Here's to 18 years of friendship.
** footnote: I also have a toothbrush in a holder by my sink for the rest of day!


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If you remember from WAY back around Christmas time last year I put together a HUGE gift guide that included a mention of RawSpiceBar's subscription services. Well, the awesome folks there reached out to me about working with them again this holiday season and send me the Octoberfest Flavor Kit to have some fun with. I knew more or less right away that I wanted to incorporate the schnitzel spice mix and the horseradish and mustard mix into a wonderful savory German dinner (look for THAT post this weekend), but it took me a little bit longer to decide what I wanted to do with the caraway, fennel and anise bread mix; then talking with JP (who is the real genius on this one) it dawned on me that I had been meaning to experiment with making a pumpkin beer bread recipe that I ran across on Gimme Some Oven and utilizing Blue Moon's Chai Spiced Ale — we picked up the beer in a fall variety pack, but didn't find it pleasing to us to drink.
So enter the Octoberfest Flavor Kit — I knew from tasting the beer previously that the caraway, fennel and anise bread mix would be a perfect match in a pumpkin bread, so while we waited for dinner to cook tonight we got moving!
I'll make some notes here and there, but overall I followed the recipe from Gimme Some Oven linked above. The obvious differences being I substituted the pumpkin pie spices for the favor mix from RawSpiceBar and we used a chai beer. And now for the pictorial portion of this post
JP and I tried the bread after it cooled enough to slice. OH MY GOODNESS — if it weren't after 8pm and I hadn't eaten dinner and dessert already for the night I would have probably inhaled most of this in one go. The flavor kit gave the bread a most wonderful licorice note that is wonderful with the pumpkin.
I can't wait to use the rest of the Octoberfest Flavor Kit this weekend — and I totally know what I'm packing for breakfast tomorrow. Add a touch of honey butter and I'm going to be in heaven with a cup of tea.
Disclaimer: This is a collaborative post. The mentioned company did send me freebies, but all of the opinions and impressions are my own. I only agree to work with companies whose products I would use for myself and my family. Keep it awesome internet!


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Update OWASP Broken Web Applications Project v-1.0
– Added new application: WIVET (http://code.google.com/p/wivet/)
– Updated WAVSEP, Mutillidae, Vicnum
– Created new category for "Applications for Testing Tools", containing
OWASP ZAP WAVE, WIVET, and WAVSEP
– Major update to User Guide at http://code.google.com/p/owaspbwa/wiki/UserGuide.
Removed some other project Wiki pages that were incorporated into User Guide.
– More improvements to index.html
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Broken Web Applications Project, a collection of vulnerable web applications that is distributed on a Virtual Machine in VMware format compatible with their no-cost VMware Player and VMware Server products (along with their commercial products).
The Broken Web Applications Project (BWA) is an effort to provide a wealth of applications with known vulnerabilities for those interested in:
- learning about web application security
- testing manual assessment techniques
- testing automated tools
- testing source code analysis tools
- observing web attacks
- testing WAFs and similar code technologies
The VM requires no installation. Simply extract the files from the archive and then start the VM in a VMware product. Once the machine is booted, you can access it via the console, SSH, or Samba using username=root and password=owaspbwa.
Note – The VM is entirely command line driven. X-Windows or other GUI systems have not been installed.
If you would like to access your VM from links off this site, the one configuration change you may need to make is to add an entry to your hosts file pointing to the name owaspbwa to the IP address of your VM. It is recommended that you do this so that you can follow links on this web site to pages on your local OWASPBWA VM.
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Christella Antoni
The BLA is delighted to welcome Christella Antoni as the new RCSLT Representative to the BLA Council.
Christella qualified in 1995 from the National Hospital's College of Speech Sciences (UCL). After an initial career background in general adult speech therapy, including dysphagia and dysphasia, she began to specialize in the field of voice and stammering. Her clinical work is currently divided between her specialist post within the ENT dept at Charing Cross Hospital ( Imperial College NHS Trust) and her private practice in Marylebone
Christella works with a wide variety of voice disordered patients including those with vocal pathology and post ENT surgery patients. Additional specialisms include restoration of singing voice for both classical and modern singing, spoken and singing voice development and voice modification for transgender individuals.
Her recent publications include Principals of Speech & Language Therapy in Practical Laryngology (2015) ed's. Declan Costello & Guri Sandhu. Taylor Francis Publishing.


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I wanted to make a fun necklace with scrap fabric, a bunch of beads I had laying around, alongside with some beads I made out of cornstarch awhile back.
Choose a piece of fabric as long as you'd like your necklace. Keep in mind you will be tying a bow to fasten it. I used the lining to an old skirt.
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- Research
- Open Access
Structural ambiguity of the Chinese version of the hospital anxiety and depression scale in patients with coronary heart disease
- Wenru Wang1,
- Violeta Lopez2,
- David Thompson3 and
- Colin R Martin4Email author
© Wang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2006
- Received: 25 November 2005
- Accepted: 26 January 2006
- Published: 26 January 2006
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a widely used screening tool designed as a case detector for clinically relevant anxiety and depression. Recent studies of the HADS in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in European countries suggest it comprises three, rather than two, underlying sub-scale dimensions. The factor structure of the Chinese version of the HADS was evaluated in patients with CHD in mainland China.
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted on self-report HADS forms from 154 Chinese CHD patients.
Little difference was observed in model fit between best performing three-factor and two-factor models.
The current observations are inconsistent with recent studies highlighting a dominant underlying tri-dimensional structure to the HADS in CHD patients. The Chinese version of the HADS may perform differently to European language versions of the instrument in patients with CHD.
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Confirmatory Factor Analysis
- Exploratory Factor Analysis
- Chinese Version
- Coronary Heart Disease Patient
In China, economic transition, urbanization, industrialization and an aging population have quickly increased the incidence and prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the past decades [1]. CHD has been ranked among the top three causes of death in China [2]. Anxiety and depression are common psychological problems associated with a diagnosis of CHD [3–5]. Importantly, depression and anxiety have been linked with the morbidity and mortality of CHD [6]. Therefore, valid and reliable screening for clinically significant anxiety and/or depression is paramount in this clinical group.
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [7] is a widely used, self-administered questionnaire specifically developed to detect anxiety and depression states in hospital and medical out-patient clinic settings. It is composed of two 7-item scales, one for anxiety and one for depression.
The original English version has been translated into and validated in many languages, including Chinese [8–12]. The Chinese version of HADS is a popular instrument for assessing psychological distress in clinical studies in China [5, 12–14]. A number of studies have validated the Chinese version of this questionnaire both in Hong Kong (HK) and China [8, 12, 15]. Leung and colleagues [8] evaluated the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of HADS in 100 medical students. The results indicated factorial inconsistency with the English language version with a three-factor solution emerging. Despite this anomaly, the authors concluded the instrument was a valid Chinese translation. A more recent study of the Chinese version of the HADS [12] across a broad clinical range of in-patients again found three underlying factors to the instrument. These were interpreted as depression and two distinct factors of psychic anxiety and psychomotor agitation [12]. However, the utility of the instrument is based on the theoretical assumption of an underlying bi-dimensional (anxiety and depression) factor structure. Moreover, a underlying tri-dimensional structure of the HADS may have significant implications for both scoring and case detection accuracy [16, 17].
A recent review [16] of the HADS has suggested that the instrument may in reality have an underlying tri-dimensional factor structure in CHD patients and other clinical groups. Recent investigations of the psychometric properties of the HADS in CHD patients support the notion that the instrument essentially comprises three, rather than two sub-scales [18–20]. One study [20] of Cantonese-speaking Chinese CHD patients in Hong Kong has also furnished compelling evidence for the tri-dimensionality of the HADS. Hong Kong Chinese invariably speak Cantonese whereas in the Xi'an province of China Mandarin is spoken. Due to the pictorial nature of Chinese writing, both Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking Chinese would be able to read the Chinese version of the HADS.
In Europe, the HADS has been applied extensively in the studies of patients with CHD as an index of both outcome and the effect of therapeutic intervention [21–23]. There have also been reports that the Chinese version of HADS may have some utility as a screening and assessment tool in patients with CHD [5]. However, the factorial structure of the Chinese version of the HADS has not been established in this clinical group with consequent implications for screening and case detection utility and accuracy [16]. The present study was designed to examine the underlying factor structure of the Chinese version of the HADS in a mainland Mandarin-speaking population of patients admitted to hospital with CHD.
The study used a cross-sectional design. To address the research question confirmatory factor analysis methods were used on a pooled HADS data set from mainland Mandarin-speaking patients admitted to hospital with CHD.
Statistical analysis
Characteristics of each factor model tested
Number of factors
Clinical population
Factor extraction method #
Zigmond and Snaith (1983)
No factor analysis
Moorey et al. (1991)
Dunbar et al. (2000)
Friedman et al. (2001)*
Razavi et al. (1990)
Caci et al. (2003)**
Zigmond and Snaith (1983)
Moorey et al. (1991)
Dunbar et al. (2000)
Friedman et al. (2001)*
Razavi et al. (1990)
All items
Caci et al. (2003)**
The first author administered the Chinese version of HADS to patients for self-completion. Demographic data and medical history were also obtained from patients and medical charts.
One hundred and sixty patients with CHD were initially enrolled into the study of which 154 completed the questionnaires. The patients ranged in age from 38 to 86 years with a mean age of 60 years (SD = 10.37). One hundred and twenty (77.9%) patients were males. In terms of the clinical data, over two thirds of subjects were angina patients. The study was conducted in the general cardiovascular wards of two large university-based teaching hospitals in Xi'an City of China. Inclusion criteria were diagnoses of angina pectoris or myocardial infarction, no known psychiatric problems, and could understand Chinese. The study was conducted over a four-month period. The clinical ethical committee of the two university affiliated hospitals in Xi'an approved the study. Informed consent was obtained from all patients prior to commencement of the study.
Factor structure of the HADS determined by testing the fit of models derived from factor analysis. All χ2 analyses were statistically significant at p < 0.01 (χ2 degrees of freedom in parentheses).
WLSMVχ 2
Zigmond and Snaith (1983)
65.61 (33)
Moorey et al. (1991)
57.79 (32)
Caci et al. (2003) model 1
71.04 (32)
Caci et al. (2003) model 2#
73.92 (29)
Dunbar et al. (2000)
60.19 (33)
Friedman et al. (2001)
62.99 (32)
Razavi et al. (1990)
137.54 (30)
The finding of high proportions of Chinese CHD patients screening positive with anxiety and depression using the HADS is consistent with previous studies conducted in China or in western countries [3, 5, 34, 35]
The CFA findings are in many respects, rather surprising. It has been suggested that the bi-dimensional underlying factor structure of the HADS observed in many early psychometric evaluations of this instrument is an artifact of the factor extraction method (exploratory factor analysis) and that the instrument is indeed tri-dimensional, a perspective supportive by more recent studies using CFA [16]. In studies of the HADS in patients with CHD using CFA, a clear advantage of three-factor models over two-factor models is consistently observed [18–20]. In the current study the best performing three-factor and two-factor models were equivalent in terms of model fit indices and offered a good fit to the data. It is interesting however to reflect that the best-performing two-factor model of Moorey et al. [25], represents a modification of the original model proposed by the instrument developers [7], suggesting that even in the context of a two-factor model, the traditional HADS scoring system may not be optimal. The best-performing three-factor model of Dunbar et al. [17] is an important observation because it represents a good performing model based on a cogent theoretical model of anxiety and depression. The observation of a well-fitting theoretical model when applied to clinical data is deemed to be a good test of the model.
Given the observation that tri-dimensional models offered a similar fit to the data as bi-dimensional models, the issue of scoring the instrument as a tri-dimensional instrument is worthy of discussion. It has been previously suggested that the HADS could be scored as a three sub-scale instrument [17]. However, such tri-dimensional scoring approaches that have been proposed are complex and time-consuming for busy practitioners to use routinely since they require factor scores to be regressed to calculate sub-scale scores [17]. A key operational rubric of the HADS is that it is a quickly administered and easily scored measure, therefore implementation of a complicated scoring system would be highly undesirable. Moreover, the extensive use of the HADS in clinical research over the last 20 years has led to the dissemination of several hundred publications reporting the HADS sub-scale means for a broad range of clinical groups. Adopting a tri-dimensional scoring approach would essentially remove this valuable reference data for comparative purposes in new research. Finally, the principle finding of the current study of no clear advantage of tri-dimensional models over bi-dimensional models would suggest that consideration of tri-dimensional scoring approaches is at the very best, highly premature.
The finding of virtually identical fit characteristics of the best performing two and three-factor models also raises the issue of conclusively defining the underlying factor structure of the HADS. The HADS clearly cannot be both bi-dimensional and tri-dimensional within the same data set and further clarification of the structure of the instrument is desirable since this may provide additional evidence not only on the limitations of the HADS, but also the development, enhancement and possible future revision of this widely used measure. The current study was limited by sample size and this may be an important factor in clarifying the relative performance of the competing models tested. It is worthy of note that a number of studies that have utilised factor analysis with large sample sizes have found a clear advantage in model fit of tri-dimensional models over the traditional anxiety/depression bi-dimensional model of the HADS [17, 18, 26]. Large sample sizes are generally desirable in confirmatory factor analysis and the conservative sample size of the current study may have contributed to the absence of differences in model fit between the best-fit two and three-factor models. Further research is necessary to address this particular issue conclusively.
Previous findings of the factor structure of the Chinese version of the HADS in Cantonese-speaking Chinese CHD patients in Hong Kong indicates clear and consistent superiority of three-factor models in fits to data [20]. One possibility that may account for the ambiguous factorial conclusions in the current investigation concerns the issue of translation. Translating English language instruments to Chinese language versions can be problematic in terms of establishing cultural and semantic equivalence [36, 37].
The original validation of the Chinese version of the HADS [8] identified potential issues of case detection accuracy with the instrument. It is conceivable that problems of case detection accuracy may be artifactual of the original translation process, which may also explain inconsistencies between the underlying factor structure of the instrument between Mandarin-speaking Chinese CHD patients in the current study and those reported in Cantonese-speaking Chinese CHD patients.
It should be acknowledged that the current study had a number of limitations, in particular, the modest sample size and the absence of a comparison to a 'gold standard' such as a structured clinical interview to assess for anxiety and depressive disorder. Further research addressing these limitations is recommended.
All the authors would like to thanks the patients who took part in the study for their assistance. The authors are also grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments on a previous version of this manuscript. CM would also like to thank his esteemed colleague Dr Hervé Caci, for invaluable discussion and debate on the issues of factor analysis in clinical research.
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Hello all...so much has happened the past few months it's been pretty crazy! As some of you might know I ended up at the hospital with Anemia but I found out there were other things wrong with me to I'm not gonna go into it that much right now but I'm fine and I'm still recovering after the first hospitalization I ended up in the E.R. again and this time they admitted me for 5 days! We did all the testing and I'm now on some medication but other than that I'm fine I feel better and hopefully I'll get back online soon! I been dying to make a kit for you all for a long long time now and I came up with an EMO themed kit lol I guess it's fitting since I been emotional lately to! It's not much but I been working on it since before I got sick I hope you like it I actually made it to match a gorgeous tube by Katharine called Emo Girl! I hope you all like it and now that I have some free time I'll be making more kits soon!!
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I was a rummager as a child, a silent little ghost who slipped in and out of rooms in the pursuit of books like a breeze under a door. I had a few friends, but time spent in each other's company outside school hours was infrequent and I spent a lot of time living in my imagination. I was best friends with Katy Carr, Sally J. Freedman, Anne of Green Gables, Jo March and Scout Finch, hanging around with these fictional girls and trying to incorporate parts of their personalities into my own. I wanted Anne Shirley's gumption, though much like the lovable redhead herself, I was hard pushed to explain exactly what that was. I wanted the courage of Jo March, always pushing the boundaries of what a girl could do and still be accepted by her peers. Like Katy Carr, I wanted to become wise and kind and loving, the heart of a busy household and beloved by all. And I wanted Scout Finch's father.
My guess is that I've read "To Kill A Mockingbird" at least 20 times. I first read it when I was far too young to understand it, curled on my uncle's bed around the book I'd hunted down in my mum's wardrobe or my aunty's chest of drawers or my grandad's work bag in my uncontrollable need to read something, anything. I can narrow my age down to maybe 7 or 8, given that my mum and I were living with my grandparents, both of whom were still alive, and that I'm pretty sure our Rach hadn't been born yet. Too young, anyway, to fully comprehend things like rape and racism and the mentality of people living in small Alabama towns which had nothing to fear but fear itself. But something about that book spoke to me then, telling me to persevere and to keep coming back until it all made sense.
It would be easy to say that the character of Atticus Finch appealed to a young girl without a father and offered a literary relationship which was missing in my real life, but I don't think that's strictly accurate. I did, after all, have the most amazing grandfather a child would ever need, a man who made sure every day of his life that I never for a second felt the absence of a father figure. I think it's more truthful to say that in Atticus, I saw reflected the only man I ever called "Dad," a docker with ginger eyebrows and room in his heart for his 5 children and all the grandchildren they could produce. Atticus was a lawyer and my grandad had had to curtail his education to contribute to his family, but despite the scholarship my grandad never got to take, he shared with Atticus Finch a wisdom and integrity that cannot be taught in schools or universities.
As I got a bit older and started pulling away from family in the turbulence of puberty, To Kill A Mockingbird and Atticus were stabilisers, able to pull me out of the maelstrom of my hormones to a more innocent, less terrifying time. I gained a deeper understanding of the book and its motifs even as my own body made me a stranger to myself, a young girl with the curves of a woman and a mind caught between childhood and a future which was at once alien and appealing. It would pull me back to my roots even as my terrible attitude pushed me away from the people who loved me, reminding me of what I had waiting for me once I was through this driving blizzard of emotion and mood swings and overwhelming, inexplicable anger.
The blizzard was still raging, harder than ever, when I lost him aged 13. I'd been so caught up in my own problems, moving to a tiny town in the wilds of Scotland, 8 hours and a world away from my life in England, that I didn't even know he was sick. He hadn't been well for a long time, diabetes taking part of his foot and the loss of my nanny two years before taking his fighter's spirit, but I don't think anyone knew how bad things were until they were very bad indeed. Too bad.
For a few years after he died, I refused to speak about him. While my head knew that this was a betrayal of his love, to hide away the feelings and not open myself and them to scrutiny was the only way I could deal with the loss of my biggest supporter, my strength and the man who taught me how wonderful fathers can be. Keeping him locked away hurt, but not as much as acknowledging that he wasn't coming back.
Throughout this painful period, I had my book. Wandering through its pages, I could enjoy again the relationship between a father and his little girl without having to accept that for me, things had changed. I clung to Atticus as a baby clings to a finger, desperately avoiding letting go without quite knowing why. Of course, I read other books - hundreds, possibly thousands of them - in this period, but it was Mockingbird to which I always returned, allowing its now familiar pages to soothe and calm. When the world came too close, I retreated between its covers and hid until I felt ready to emerge, rested and fortified with the same strength I used to draw from my grandad's arms.
Now I'm 31. To Kill A Mockingbird and I have been together for over 20 years, yet I frequently find myself without a copy of my own. On discovering that a friend or acquaintance hasn't been introduced to the beauty of this book, written through the eyes of a child and deceptively simple, I feel compelled to press my copy upon them, hoping that they'll find in it something of what I did. Of course, people don't. The readers amongst them have their own best friend books, the books to which they return when feathers are ruffled and weeks have been long and life just feels like it's too much. But, given that I never seem to get a copy back, I have to assume that they do find something in its pages that speaks to them as it did to me, and I don't mind buying it yet again.


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Sleep, Sleep, Part 2 HOH and MORE Sleep
The houseguests were given a wakeup call at 9:45 am. They discuss their bruises from the HOH competition and wonder if part 2 will be played today.
After showering and eating at 11:46 am Liz and Vanessa crawl backed into bed. Steve spent the time trying to study days things happen, order of things etc.
An hour later Liz got up, took her meds, cleaned the fridge and filed her nails. She made herself a grilled cheese and some tomato soup. Vanessa got up for about 30 minutes, she complained about her body hurting and how bruised it was then went back to bed,
2:08 pm The houseguests sit in the purple room and chit chat. Vanessa told them again and again how she hit the wall and how sore she was. (Actually all of them hit the wall she just believes she it harder than everyone.).
By 3:47 pm The girls were sleeping again and Steve was playing with candy and studying.
Steve cleaned the mirrors!
5:00 pm Vanessa went into the DR and talked to a DR and got some muscle relaxers she was excited about the pills.
5:58 pm The houseguests could finally get in the storage room and they find it stalked with food.
The houseguests have some conversations, Vanessa told one about her grandmother who jumped out a train window to escape going to a Nazi concentration camp. She told them how she has visited the camps and what it was like. They talked about how the finale goes and Steve said he thought James would get America's favorite player.
Finally at 7:50 pm The feeds go to Jeff highlights and the second part of the HOH competition is under way.
When the feeds return at 11:11 pm we immediately see Steve has won the second part of the HOH competition. Steve said it was a mental competition with a physical component. It was some kind of crossword puzzle. Vanessa hugs Steve and said I told you, it is a done deal now. She is convincing Steve to take her if he wins the final HOH. She said she is taking him and she plans on telling Liz that too. Steve was very excited. He said it is up to jury now. All were summoned to go to the HOH room. They were locked down for like 35 minutes, Steve and Liz talked about Disney and rides while Vanessa slept.
Once out Liz started cooking. Steve by himself talked to the camera and said Vanessa is on to him and he better watch out.
Liz got upset and started crying because she lost the second part of the HOH. She apologized to her father (who loves crossword puzzles) and to Julia.
All were in bed at 2:40 am
That is it folks…. Nothing left until part 3 of HOH on finale night. Who will win the final HOH? Who will the jury vote for? How much more will Vanessa cry? Liz cry? Will Vanessa just sleep these last few days away? Who knows? Signing off till next year gerbils move in! Thanks updaters!
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|Big Brother 18 House of Mirrors: Revolution
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|Big Brother 18 "To Vic"
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Errollyn Wallen is an internationally renowned composer, librettist and singer-‐songwriter. Her prolific output includes sixteen and a half operas to date and her music has won numerous awards including the Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music, a FIPA d'Or and a British Composer Award. Among her many notable commissions is her Concerto for Percussion commissioned by the BBC to mark the first time that percussion was included as a category in Young Musician of the Year competition. She was specially commissioned to write two large scale works for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games for London 2012 which was broadcast to a billion people around the world. Errollyn founded her own Orchestra X who recently recorded and released a new orchestral album, PHOTOGRAPHY, on the NMC label which was voted Top Ten Classical Albums of 2016 by USA's National Public Radio. In July 2017 Orchestra X performed her Mighty River which was featured in PRSF's New Music Biennial at Hull City of Culture 2017 and London's Southbank Centre. Her new anthology of songs for children — MAP, was commissioned by Snape Maltings and will be premiered in May. Her opera ANON (commissioned by WNO) is currently touring the States and several new operas, including one to a libretto by David Pountney are in progress. Errollyn Wallen's music has the distinguishing honour of travelling 7.84 million kilometres in space, completing 186 orbits around the Earth on NASA's STS115 mission. Errollyn Wallen was awarded the MBE in 2007 for services to music and in 2015 was inaugurated Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, in recognition of her distinguished contribution to scholarship in the field of British contemporary music and her exceptional achievements as a composer. She received an Honorary Doctorate from York St. John's University in November 2017.
Song Credits
Music by Errollyn Wallen
Words by Errollyn Wallen
Performance Track
Performed by the specially commissioned Hull Music Hub Massed Choir, featuring singers from the City of Hull Junior Choir, Hull Choral Union Junior Chorus, Kelvin Hall School, Wold Academy and, by special invitation, the Hymers College Year 6 Choir.
Directed by Charles MacDougall
Accompanied by Errollyn Wallen
Recorded by Mike Challis
Piano Backing Track - Coming Soon!
Performed by Errollyn Wallen
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Things That Belong In A Uterus
Episode 37 | Advice Line: Sex-Positive Christians, Condom Problems, Praying Away The Gay
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Listener questions and comments on erectile dysfunction directly related to condoms, Christians doing their best to be sex-positive, and the "ex-gay" movement (which produces Shara's first rant on the show).
Shara and I also talk about some upcoming audio erotica that we're doing for Ravenous Romance, the re-release of Episode 36 with Shara doing the female dialogue, and the show's first birthday. Also, Shara gets her birthday spankings on the air
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The post that inspired Questioner's comment: Christian Blogger Claims 70% of Women Don't Deserve Orgasms.
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Christian Blogger Claims 70% of Women Don't Deserve Orgasms
UPDATE: They made pretty quick work of deleting my comment (below) along with several others that didn't tow the line. I thought I was actually pretty polite, and so were the other comments that got deleted. Oh well, a few people found this site through that article, and I guess a flicker of light is better than none at all.
No, that's not exactly what she said, but it's what this article boils down to. Presented as an exhibit for the prosecution, since once in a while the Sexual Dark Age raises its hand. Here are a few snippets, but please feel free to read the whole article over at Christianity Today, entitled "The Cult of the Orgasm." If there's a cult, now I'm pissed. I was not notified, and thus never given the opportunity to run for cult leader.
How should Christian women respond to the vibrator trend and its broader message of sexual empowerment?
…First, a few observations. A vibrator is a replacement — a simulator, if you will. It's not a man, but it's meant to resemble one. It's straightforward, makes no demands, produces fairly consistent results. And it doesn't smell, make rude noises, or wince when you cry. But neither can it hold you, stroke your hair, or make you coffee…
I believe the Japanese are working on one that does all that and mows the lawn too, actually.
…But not only is masturbation inherently focused on the needs of the self, it also involves trying to provide for those needs by oneself, instead of trusting God to know best whether the sexual intimacies of marriage are truly needed or best at the present stage…
If you really believe, how 'bout you fluff the muffin yourself and let him worry about shit like climate change, starvation and homelessness in supposedly civilized nations.
…Since masturbation without fantasy is rare if not impossible, the reasoning goes, it will always involve something clearly condemned by Jesus. Ergo, masturbation is sin…
I'm only kinda mocking here. For those who didn't grow up with it, this article effectively embodies what fat old men have been selling to Christians for over a thousand years now. That's the really scary part: she's dead serious, and millions of pour souls agree with her. Every time I read something like this I feel like Rod Serling's looking over my shoulder.
I, predictably, couldn't resist commenting as follows:
It's always sad to see a woman perpetuating religious misogyny. Physically AND psychologically masturbation is actually an extremely healthy activity. A lack of masturbation has been shown to significantly increase a man's risk of prostate cancer, and since so many women passively accept lousy sex from their men (70% fake orgasms) you're suggesting that 70% of women go without orgasms completely.
If this is what your god wants, tell me this…why did he give you a clitoris? It's the only part of the human body (male or female) out of thousands whose sole purpose is sexual pleasure. It's not normally stimulated through intercourse. Why do you have it at all? Was it a mistake?
The truth is that masturbation is healthy for the body, mind and spirit, and people who masturbate regularly are happier and healthier than those who don't.
Please feel free to check out Episode 7 of my podcast, Ending the Sexual Dark Age, entitled (quite accurately) "Masturbation Is Good For You"
So, what do you guys think?
Paganism/Wicca and BDSM Ethics
I just read an interesting article over at Eden Cafe about the Wiccan Rede and BDSM. It's always seemed blatantly obvious that BDSM falls well within the scope of "An it harm none, do what thou will," so I was a little taken aback that there would even be a question. Maybe that's just because I've known more than my fair share of freaky Wiccans. It seems, however, that Wicca is officially a part of Big Religion for at least some number of the faithful.
Now this is a spot of contention for some of the non-kink friendly Wiccans I know. They do not believe that you can abide by this notion and practice BDSM.
I think any Wiccan who believes BDSM violates the rede because of their personal definition of "harm" is falling into the same destructive mindset as Christians who vilify homosexuals because of their bible. And, frankly, I expect more from Wiccans. I remember a time not so long ago when Wicca was about shrugging off the oppressive bullshit so ingrained in Big Religion. This is one of the unfortunate side effects of a "belief system" becoming a "religion" in the first place.
Once it's a religion some people are going to start rules-lawyering instead of focusing on the spirit of the rules, and at that point you immediately start burying yourself in your own bullshit. It's not about the words, it's about the intent.
The elegant simplicity of the Wiccan Rede should prevent it from being misinterpreted. It genuinely saddens me to see the central tenet of the most sexually accepting religion in the modern world turned into a tool of sexual discrimination by any number of people. I suppose it was only a matter of time.
Episode 5 | The Shame Game
This episode examines shame as it pollutes modern sexuality, primarily in relation to the efforts of the Religion Industrial Complex. Fair warning, this is an extremely critical look at the institution of religion that some listeners have described as a rant.


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This Krispy Kreme doughnut cake won self-taught baker Rob Firth a gold award in one of the country's biggest shows.
The 28-year-old from Ossett entered the creation into the Cake International show in Birmingham.
And judges were so impressed with his skills that they gave him the gold honour in the 'novel design' category.
He said: "I first started baking around five years ago and entered the show for the first time in 2014.
"People ask why I did a Krispy Kreme cake this time...it's just as simple as I love doughnuts.
"I wasn't expecting a gold award.
"As a baker you see your imperfections so I was really chuffed to bits."
It was a double celebration for Mr Firth's family as his girlfriend's daughter Willow Gledhill also won a silver award in the competition with her Finding Nemo's Dory themed cake.
Mr Firth, who used to work for Dobson's making boiled sweets, has now been inspired to set up his own cake shop 'Cake Castle' in Town End, Ossett.
He hopes to open the store within the next week.


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VERMILLION, S.D. -- Campus visits have been selected for the four finalists chosen for The University of South Dakota's permanent provost and vice president for academic affairs position. Matthew C. Moen, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, is currently serving as acting provost and vice president for academic affairs.
The 14-member search committee for USD's next provost and vice president of academic affairs, which includes two students as well as representatives of all of The University of South Dakota's schools and colleges, invites all members of the campus community to meet the finalists during their visits to campus.
Public forums have been scheduled at these times:
- Wednesday, March 26, Charles Staben, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Neuharth Media Center
- Monday, March 31, Barbara Schirmer, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Neuharth Media Center
- Wednesday, April 2, Donald Nieman, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., National Music Museum
- Friday, April 4, John Ryder, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Neuharth Media Center
All four candidates have been asked to speak about the mission and vision of USD. Their comments will be followed by a question and answer session. Following the conclusion of each forum, the audience will be invited to provide candidate feedback.
Information and updates regarding the search as well as additional information about the candidates and the campus visit schedule is available at www.usd.edu/acadaffairs/ProvostSearch.cfm.


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Over Christmas break I stumbled upon some classes listed on the Sparkfun website. Two of them happened to be scheduled over a three day weekend early in January. At approximately 16 hours, the drive from Edwardsville, IL to Boulder, CO couldn't be much longer and still be truthfully be described as a "day trip." But when else would I have a chance to learn about microcontrollers and programming in a classroom environment? I decided to make the journey and give the classes a try.
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MCU Programming with the NerdKit
The USB NerdKit is an introduction to microcontrollers package offered by NerdKits.com. Rather than being an integrated development platform like the TI Launchpad or the Arduino, the NerdKit is composed of modular components and is designed to teach newcomers the fundamentals of embedded systems. In other words, it's a perfect place to start learning about MCU programming.