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A Stantec report showed potential heritage concerns south of Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation area and north of Hodgson Road. Currently the West Connector Route for the proposed provincial Saskatoon Freeway shows Hodgson road as the main access onto Valley Road and into the city of Saskatoon.
The Blairmore Sector Housing Development is shown on the map entitled West Connector Route Feasibility Study Figure 2.4 Existing and Future Land Uses
So the new name for Saskatchewan Highway 7 travelling northwards within city limits is Neault Road. Neault Road naming is the north south route beginning just south of Hart Road, and north of the CNR railway overpass where Sk Highway 7 takes a corner (from travelling diagonally south west across the province to a turn where it extends due north). Sk Highway 7 is a major road which connects the City of Saskatoon with Vanscoy, Laura, Delisle, Zealandia, Rosetown, Fiske, Netherhill, Kindersley, and Alsask when you drive south west out of the City. Sk Highway 7 also is the highway to gain access to Provincial Highway 60 to Pike Lake Provincial Park. (Map) (Sk Hwy 7 Route)
Travelling north on Neault Road in Saskatoon does connect rurally with the Dalmeny Access road (highway 684). (map)
The proposed Saskatoon Freeway North route will run north and south alongside but west of Neault Road, in such a way connecting Sk Highway 14 (22nd Street West) to the proposed new Saskatoon Freeway (north end of Saskatoon). This proposed Saskatoon Freeway (bridge) will be north of 71 Street (Auction Mart Road) about one mile north of the newly opened Chief Mistawisis Bridge (Marquis Drive and the North Commuter Parkway).(map)
This new Saskatoon Freeway route is a provincial initiative, and is a topic of the P4G meetings. (Draft Regional Plan)
Saskatoon North Partnership for Growth (P4G) includes the City of Saskatoon, the Rural Municipality of Corman Park 344, City of Martensville, Town of Osler, City of Warman, Saskatchewan Regional Economic Development Authority (SREDA). The P4G meets in the effort to expand the city of Saskatoon, and surrounding environs to between 273,000 and 301,000 by 2020; 302,000 and 349,000 by 2025; 333,000 and 405,000 by 2030; and between 368,000 and 470,000 by 2035. (source) As a matter of fact Saskatoon eyes 1M population in 50 years.
The area around George Genereux Urban Regional Park will be surrounded by rural commercial/industrial growth according to the P4G plans. George Genereux Urban Regional Park land area was annexed from the RM of Corman Park 344 on September 1, 2015, and the north, south and west borders of the George Genereux Urban Regional Park are also concurrent with the City limits boundary. The eastern boundary of George Genereux Urban Regional Park is SK Hwy 7 at the CNR overpass. This being said both Saskatoon, and the RM of Corman Park are involved in the P4G progress.(source and map page 26-27)
A Stantec report showed potential heritage concerns south of Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation area and north of Hodgson Road. The southern border of the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation area is also the southern city limits boundary, across Cedar Villa Road (Township Road 362A) is Cedar Villa Estates and Chappell Marsh Conservation Area in the RM of Corman Park 344. Currently the West Connector Route for the proposed provincial Saskatoon Freeway shows Hodgson road as the main access onto Valley Road and into the city of Saskatoon. As Saskatoon and the P4G area grows in population density, employment sectors are needed as well as housing.
The proposed Blairmore Sector Housing Development is shown on the map entitled West Connector Route Feasibility Study Figure 2.4 Existing and Future Land Uses
An employment sector includes a development of shopping malls, offices, and industrial areas for the economic trade of goods and services, to provide jobs for the projected, 300,000; 400,000 and 500,000 population density. The City of Saskatoon has a Strategic plan 2013-2023 which encompasses seven strategic goals.(Plan) (pdf details of plan)
The Saskatoon North Partnership for Growth Regional Plan and further information for areas mainly north and north west of Saskatoon are online. The Saskatoon North Partnership for Growth and Regional Planning is taking into consideration Natural and Heritage Resources The guiding principals of the P4G will take into account the guiding principles of Partnership, Efficiency, Sustainability, Opportunity, Equity + Inclusiveness, Flexiblity + Resilience and will follow 7 strategic directions; Regional infrastructure + services, Settlement patterns + complete communities, Regional economy + economic development, Quality of life, Governance + funding, Natural environment + drainage, along with Agriculture + Natural resources.
[P4G] “Regional Wetlands Inventory and Policy
Although the Green Network Refinement Study is intended to provide a comprehensive assessment of the Green Network to inform the future management of these areas for conservation and drainage functions, there is a lack of compiled information about the type, location, and importance of wetlands across the Region. Providing an inventory for the Region will support efforts by municipalities and P4G to conserve and protect important wetlands in the short-term.
In the longer term, a Regional Wetlands Policy may be developed to support wetlands protection, conservation, and enhancement across the Region. This Policy would complement the policies for the Green Network Study Area, and detail provisions for managing wetlands across the Region; coordinating conservation, mitigation, and enhancement projects; and linking wetlands protection with flood management and control.”(source)
The George Genereux Urban Regional Park, and Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Areas are both classified as wetlands according to Stantec, and provide for planning purposes, the mitigation of flood waters. The West Swale is a low lying geological feature created from the Pleistocene Yorath Island Spillway. The Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located within the west swale, and the George Genereux Urban Regional Park, is located between the west swale and the CNR railway tracks. 1972, A. L. Ligtemoet, Assistant Parks Superintendent sets before council that these first 660 acres of afforestation areas be kept in perpetuity, this is approved.
Have you attended any Partnership for Growth meetings? P4G includes the City of Saskatoon, the Rural Municipality of Corman Park 344, City of Martensville, Town of Osler, City of Warman. Find out how you can contribute to the plan.
“what we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another” Mahatma Gandhi.
For more information:
P4G Saskatoon North Partnership for Growth The P4G consists of the Cities of Saskatoon, Warman, and Martensville, the Town of Osler and the Rural Municipality of Corman Park; planning for areas around the afforestation area and West Swale outside of Saskatoon city limits
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada north of Cedar Villa Road, within city limits, in the furthest south west area of the city. 52° 06′ 106° 45′
Part SE 23-36-6 – Afforestation Area – 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 – SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) – 355 Township Road 362-A
S ½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) – 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 “George Genereux” Afforestation Area – 133 Range Road 3063
Wikimapia Map: type in Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area
Google Maps South West Off Leash area location pin at parking lot
Web page: https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com
Where is the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area? with map
Where is the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (Afforestation Area)? with map
Please help protect / enhance your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail)
Support the afforestation areas with your donation or membership ($20.00/year). Please donate by paypal using the e-mail friendsafforestation AT gmail.com, or by using e-transfers Please and thank you! Your donation and membership is greatly appreciated. Members e-mail your contact information to be kept up to date!
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“The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. ” Wangari Maathai.
“The science of forestry arose from the recognition of a universal need. It embodies the spirit of service to mankind in attempting to provide a means of supplying forever a necessity of life and, in addition, ministering to man’s aesthetic tastes and recreational interests. Besides, the spiritual side of human nature needs the refreshing inspiration which comes from trees and woodlands. If a nations saves its trees, the trees will save the nation. And nations as well as tribes may be brought together in this great movement, based on the ideal of beautifying the world by the cultivation of one of God’s loveliest creatures – the tree.” ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker. | <urn:uuid:1c501ca5-1ef1-41ec-aa1b-e2e16154cf7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com/tag/saskatoon-freeway/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.900786 | 2,124 | 1.648438 | 2 |
This stromatolite sphere features excellent deep, forest green and black tones in nice swirling and spotted patterning. It has been expertly shaped and polished, making for an attractive display piece. A wooden sphere stand as pictured will be provided with this sphere.
Stromatolite is a type of fossilized algae dating back 3 billion years, often seen in mounds, columns or sheet-like formations of sedimentary rock. It is widely believed that the stone known as 'kambaba' or 'crocodile' jasper is a variety of stromatolite, though there is still some dispute in the mineralogical community regarding its classification. This unique stone features deep green tones and black orbicular patterns that resembles reptile skin. | <urn:uuid:af4d0c70-4fe8-46af-acac-6c9fe9b2f846> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.deepearthtreasures.com/products/copy-of-stromatolite-kambaba-jasper-sphere-54mm-220g | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.930475 | 162 | 2.1875 | 2 |
It is funny how you keep going, assuming things are as they used to be. Sometimes.
I had this thing with SQL Server agent and T-SQL job step types. It used to be that such a job step would just stop if an error occurs. This isn’t how other tools like SSMS or SQLCMD behaves. So to get the behavior that we are used to, we would schedule our SQL using a CmdExec job step and call out to SQLCMD.EXE.
I usually point to Ola Hallengren’s great maintenance scripts as an example of this. I recently noticed that he nowadays uses T-SQL jobstep when he call his stored procedures. That made me curious, and he told me in an email conversation that Agent doesn’t stop on error anymore. Since SQL Server 2012! Hehe, so it has been a while.
I wanted to test this, of course. Not that I doubt Ola, but seeing is believing. So here’s the T-SQL I use in a job step to test this:
RAISERROR('10', 10, 1)
RAISERROR('11', 11, 1)
RAISERROR('12', 12, 1)
RAISERROR('13', 13, 1)
RAISERROR('14', 14, 1)
RAISERROR('15', 15, 1)
RAISERROR('16', 16, 1)
RAISERROR('17', 17, 1)
RAISERROR('18', 18, 1)
PRINT 'Do we get to here?'
PRINT 'What about after division by zero?'
If you run above from SSMS you probably see the messages out of sequence. You don’t see that in the output from the agent job step. I don’t know why that is. I added WITH NOWAIT for the RAISERROR messages (the old trick to flush the output buffer), but that din’t change the order SSMS displays the messages. SQL Server agent do show the messages in the expected order, however, so I won’t dig further in that.
Bottom line is that Agent doesn’t stop on (normal) errors anymore. I tested this on SQL Server 2017, but I don’t doubt Ola when he says that he tested this back to 2012. | <urn:uuid:abe8ed11-fe99-4cbe-b134-88b377492811> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sqlblog.karaszi.com/agent-no-longer-terminates-on-error/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.905154 | 501 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Whether you have your own website, a social networking site that supports HTML code like MySpace, or a blog you can add your own pictures and images to the website for your visitors to see. But just throwing up a bunch of different sized photos all over the page can make it look cluttered and make it slow to load. But a scrolling photo gallery can allow you to display photos on your website in an organized and sleek manner. Many scrolling photo gallery inserts even allow your visitors to zoom in on photos, skip through them, or slow down the scrolling to view at their own pace.
The easiest way to put scrolling photos on your website is to get a scrolling images code from one of the many free sites that let you upload your photos for display. You’ll first need to start a free account at a photo website such as Flickr and begin uploading the photos you want to use on your website and display in a scrolling box.
Next you’ll need to browse your new photo account for the option to generate or get HTML code that lets you embed a good looking scrolling photo gallery application right onto your blog or website. You’ll be able to choose some or all of your photos uploaded to the online photo account.
Once you’ve chosen the photos and generated the code you’ll want to copy and paste the entire section of HTML code (labeled as such when generated) into your own blog or website. The easiest way to do this is to launch your word processor like Word or Pages and copy and paste the code exactly as it appears into a new document.
Then you’ll want to go and log into your website management website, social networking page, or blog account and go into the editing section. Once logged in and editing the text, find a good section to embed your photo scrolling gallery and copy and paste the code from the word processor document directly into the section of your site or blog where you want it to appear. For example you might want it to appear in the “About Me” section of your website. Depending on the photo website generating the code you may be asked to insert data such as the desired height and width of the scrolling photo gallery in the associated text boxes.
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Starting your own business can be a daunting task. From legal decisions to financial choices, there are a lot of things to take into account. But despite the complicated nature of some of the issues, there is also a lot of additional help available, especially for groups that are disadvantaged and many reforms are in place to aid start-ups of new and micro scale business units. The following is a step by step guide to starting your own business:
1. Business Plan
A business plan details what your business stands for, what it has to offer to the market, and also, what kind of market you are aiming for. Your business plan enables you to identify and build your niche in the market. Every business has a certain uniqueness, which sets it apart from other similar businesses. And if you are dealing with a product or service that is pretty common, you have to find a way of setting yourself apart from others. For example, there are many good restaurants, but there are always one or two good dishes that a restaurant is remembered by. This is what you have to do with your business and creating a solid business plan at the start is a great first step so you have a roadmap for where you want to go.
2. Assistance and Training
Because someone starting a business needs to have a basic understanding about financing, financial management, and business strategizing, as well as various business utilities and technologies getting help from experts and professionals is a valuable way to build a solid foundation for your business. There are many free counseling services available that you can make use of. These services walk you through everything you need to know about starting a business.
3. Business Location
Choosing the right business location is crucial and requires a lot of research and planning. You need to look into state laws, analyze your competition, look into demographics, assess the supply chain management, and do all these while staying on a budget. You can’t use all of your start-up capital choosing and securing a location. The best location is the one that gives great exposure to existing and new customers. It should be safe, aid in future growth and development, and should preferably be close to your suppliers.
In the likely event that you aren’t completely funded when you want to start your business, there are many loans offered by the SBA, and they are all for specific purposes. For example, the Microloan program helps NPO and small scale units by loaning up to $50,000 for startup and expansion. On an average, a microloan can be obtained for $13,000. Collaterals have to be provided and personal effects of the owner are also a security for the loan. This loan can be used for furniture and fixtures, machinery, inventory, and for financing working capital requirements. The repayment term is 6 years (maximum) and the terms vary depending on the amount, use, and needs of the owner. Other loans by SBA are general loans for small business, disaster loans, and CDC/504 loans, to name a few.
5. Tax Implications and Legal Requirements
The form of business has to be decided. You have to decide whether you want to start a partnership, sole proprietor, a LLC, among others. This would, in turn, affect the kind of taxes and returns you need to file. Every state has its own corporate or business tax. The legal structure of your business would determine the state taxes that are applicable to you. In Federal tax, you have to pay income tax, excise, employer tax, and tax for self-employment.
6. Business Name
Your brand image depends on the name you choose for your business. So, the business name is a representation of the business and its product or service. The business name has to be registered if it is different from your personal name, which would be your business’ default name. This registration is done with the county clerk of the state office of whichever state your business is located in. The registered business name would be used in all future communications of the business with others, tax filings and returns, permits, licenses, and government forms.
7. Tax ID
A Tax Identification Number is the same as an Employer Identification Number (EIN), and it is used for identifying your business unit. You can apply for an EIN online, and your state laws would determine whether you need a charter or a state number.
8. State Taxes
Income and Employment Tax are the two most common state taxes you have to pay apart from your Federal taxes. The tax structure differs from state to state. The Income tax is the same for everyone but Employment taxes include taxes for workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance. Some states also require insurance for temporary disability. You should get a thorough knowledge of your state’s tax structure and requirements.
9. Licenses and Permits
For legal running of a business, there are certain state and federal licenses and permits that every business must have. There are many activities that are regulated and supervised by the federal agency like agriculture, aviation, alcoholic beverages, fishing and wildlife, firearms and explosives, mining/drilling, nuclear, transportation, and television/radio broadcasting. There are different license and permit requirements for every state, and you need to look into that to determine which ones you need to obtain.
10. Employer Responsibilities
There are many state and federal laws and regulations that need to be followed once you start hiring people for your business. The hiring can only start once you have your EIN. For 4 years, you have to keep all records related to employment taxes. This involves receipts, expenses, and the financial statements of your business. Form I-9 has to be submitted for employee verification and eligibility.
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Programming with HTML Forms / Example 1: The Echoer:
Example 1: The Echoer
Programming with HTML Forms
Having described the HTML form constructs, the mechanism for supplying data to a form application, and the mechanism for generating a reply, it is now possible to describe a complete, very simple example. Its input document consists of a form with five single line text entry fields, which the application processes by outputting a HTML document containing the text entered in the fields. In other words, the user's input is echoed.
The input document is located at:
It will also be used as the interface to the file searcher application of the next section. However, ignoring the explanatory text, the form is quite simple: five text entry fields, and submit and reset buttons labelled as 'Start Search' and 'Clear' respectively.
The text field constructs include extra attributes to limit the size of the input, and the size of the boxes drawn on the screen. Also note that the fields are named pat1 through pat5, although these are not displayed as part of the input document.
When the input document is entered as in Figure 2 and the 'Start Search' button is clicked, the echoing application returns the document shown in Figure 3.
ALP Membership Search
- Enter at most 15 characters in a box (e.g.
- At least one box should contain something.
- Matches are lines in the membership list which contain all
the box entries.
- The first 10 matches will be returned, together with the total
number of matches.
- Click the Start Search button to start the search.
- All the boxes can be cleared by clicking on the Clear button.
Figure 2: Example input
You submitted the following name/value pairs:
- pat1 = John
- pat2 = uk
- pat 3 =
- pat 4 =
- pat 5 =
Figure 3: Echoed input from Figure 2
In form-gp0.html, the name of the application is given in the FORM ACTION attribute as:
qgp's actual location on the server depends on the configuration file for the httpd daemon (called httpd.conf). The relevant line in that file is:
In other words, qgp must be placed in /local/dept/wwwd/scripts in order for the form to invoke it. This step in linking the input HTML document to the application varies from system to system.
qgp is the object file for qgp.c which can be found at:
The program mostly consists of utility functions for processing name=value substrings, which will, consequently, appear in almost every form application. Some of the functions were written by Rob McCool, and can be accessed via the page:
Also available from that page are similar utilities for writing applications in the Bourne Shell, Perl, and Tcl. Also included are several excellent small programs showing how the utilities can be used.
qgp begins by outputting the start of the reply document -- a HTML document in this case. The extra newlines in the printf()'s are not required, but make the output easier to read during debugging (see Part 7, 'A Note on Testing' for more on this).
cgi_errs() performs two standard error checks: the first determines whether the delivery METHOD is something other than POST. The second checks the encoding strategy for the name=value substrings. In fact, the only encoding supported by most browsers is x-www-form-urlencoded.
The call to build_entries() initializes the entries array with the name and value pairs sent to the application. The environment variable, CONTENT_LENGTH, contains the length of the string, which is used by the for-loop that builds the entries array. Each name=value substring is extracted by a call to fmakeword(). The +'s and hexadecimal URL encodings are replaced, and then the name part of the substring is removed, leaving only the value.
Finally, the contents of the entries array are output as an unnumbered HTML list.
Both cgi_errs() and build_entries() illustrate the importance of environment variables for conveying information from the input document to the application. A complete list of environment variables supported by the CGI specification can be found in:
Comments are welcome
Copyright 1996 Andrew Davison and
Created: Apr. 26, 1996
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The Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-in can control anywhere from 1-32 tracks simultaneously, as specified by whatever number you fill in the Number of Track Strips field in the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page. There is always at least one track being controlled, referred to as the Base Track. The Number of Track Strips value refers to the base track plus ‘n’ number of additional tracks. The Control Bar’s ACT module automatically updates to display the range of tracks (1-8, 2-9, 9-16, etc.) that your control surface currently controls.If multiple controller/surfaces are enabled, the Control Bar’s ACT module lets you select which controller/surface to display track information for.The currently controlled tracks are displayed in the ACT module. It is important to understand that the ACT module is for display purposes only—it gets information from the Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-in (or any other active controller/surface plug-in), but the ACT module cannot update, or send information to the Cakewalk Generic Surface plug-in. Changing which tracks are controlled must be done with the Move 1 Left, Move 1 Right, Move Bank Left, or Move Bank Right parameters, or by clicking the BaseTrack buttons that are at the top of the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page.
Note: If you don’t have any buttons left over to assign to the Move 1 or Move Bank parameters, you can click the right or left buttons in the BaseTrack section of the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page to move the Base Track to the right or left by one track. The buttons are located so that you can resize the property page to just show the buttons and the Presets field.
1. In the Cakewalk Generic Surface property page under Global Parameters, select Move 1 Right to control the next higher-numbered track, or Move Bank Right to control the next higher-numbered bank of tracks.
2. Move (twice) the button or knob that you want to use to shift the controller/surface to the next higher-numbered track or bank (for example, from track 1 to track 2, or from tracks 1-8 to tracks 9-16).
3. Click the Learn button.The property page reads the type of MIDI message and displays the characteristics in the appropriate fields.
5. Move the button or knob again and watch the display in the Control Bar’s ACT module to see if the current tracks shift by the appropriate number.Repeat this procedure, but use a different knob, and select Move 1 Left or Move Bank Left so that you can move the current track or bank to a lower-numbered one.
Tip - Searching Documentation
Tip: To search for a specific topic, type your search query in the Search Cakewalk.com field at the top right of this page.
When the search results appear, click which product's documentation you would like to search to filter the search results further.
Note - Using Offline Help
Note: If you prefer to always use offline Help, go to Edit > Preferences > File > Advanced in your Cakewalk software and select Always Use Offline Help.
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Mark Wolff, Ph.D., consultant in SAS Health and Life Sciences Global Practice team, has spoken at health care conferences in several countries. His latest journey took him to Sweden and Denmark, and I met him when he had just delivered his key note at a conference at Karolinska Institut in Sweden.
Mark Wolff was overly exited about this experience at Karolinska, an organization that works to investigate how results from clinical research can be converted more rapidly into new and improved treatments related to the 4 diagnosis (type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, heart failure and arthritis).
-Imagine speaking to a room full of some of the the smartest and most influential people in health care. For example, my host was a past member of the Nobel Prize committee for Medicine and Physiology!, he told me.
The measurable aspects
The title of his presentation - The Quantum Patient - refers to measurable aspects of patient outcomes. Several from the audience came up to him to talk projects and exchange business cards after the presentation, so his messages must have been quite inspirational.
I asked him what had caught their interest, and he pinpointed a couple of areas:
- Statistics and data could and should play a bigger role in modern medicine
- The power of data visualization
- The ability to get started now
Let me try to give you an idea about his messages within these three areas - knowing that it will be impossible to capture it all in this blogpost!
Why data and statistics should play a bigger role in health care
Medicine is in fact a probabilistic science, and it has been predicted decades back that analytics and computers will change the way we practice medicine. A real change is still to be seen though. Some of the current trends that will help this development are:
- Availability of Massive Amounts of Data
- Commoditization of Computational Power
- Availability of High Performance Analytics
- Newfound Focus on Outcomes
During his presentation Mark Wolff also raised the question if it is actually unethical to make treatment decisions based solely on doctors’ opinions. The human mind can handle a limited set of parameters at the same time, and many studies have shown that mathematical models can dramatically improve a clinician’s ability to diagnose and treat complex diseases such as cancer.
Data visualization makes analysis easier and more exploratory
When you use data visualization to you don’t need statistical knowledge on the same level, you can actually see and understand the analysis results directly. This means that more people in more situations can make use of data analysis when making decisions.
Earlier visualization was mostly used to illustrate results (for example in a graph), meaning that it supported confirmatory analysis. With the latest technologies for big data analysis and visualization you can actually interact with a lot of data in a easy way. This is a major shift towards more exploratory analysis, which means that you do not only have the ability to confirm or invalidate a hypothesis. You can explore the data and find unexpected answers.
You can start here and now
One of the messages that Mark Wolff conveys when speaking at conferences is that you can use analytics to create value here and now. In health care there are lots of challenges in research and development (more data sources that could be shared across different sectors, data quality, standardization that is still not fully in place, etc.). Still there are lots of available data in good quality, especially in countries with a single payer government health care system like Denmark and Sweden, and when taking alternative data sources into account.
To illustrate his point he showed the results from a couple of his recent projects (using visualizations of course). Below you see the result of an analysis of side effects that were detected by analyzing patients’ own communication about side effects in social media. The analysis delivered insights on combinations of side effects over time (the actual visualization can be played as a video to see how it develops over time).
In conclusion there many opportunities within analytics, when working to improve outcomes research.
Health care is dominated by documents (clinical notes, etc.), so there is no doubt that text analytics, which gives you the ability to extract valuable information from unstructured data, will be a valuable source of knowledge.
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One important thing you should keep in mind about granite worktops is that, when they arrive into your property, they have already existed for hundreds and probably even thousands of years!
This natural stone will presumably last for another thousand years if being utilized appropriately and regularly maintained. Granite worktops are remarkably tough, is resistant to stains and scratch, and it can also take some serious high heat for up to 900°F without getting any damages.
Supposedly, cutting on your Granite worktops won’t do them any damage, but it can certainly leave some bad effects your knife. Sort of trying to cut it with a diamond, or smash it with sledge hammer, it still won’t break and leave nasty cracks.
Once properly sealed, Granite is a pretty easy surface to maintain. The first sealant is particularly crucial since the stone is naturally absorbent; so without a proper sealant, it will definitely stain. Also, never forget to get your worktops resealed at least once a year in order for them to last a longer period of time.
Moreover, if you’re the type of person who loves to do things on your own (aka the DIY person), you can actually reseal the surface yourself! If not, pay a professional who knows how to do get the task done. Even after resealing has been completed, make sure to wipe up spills as soon as they take place, or else they could move deeper into the exterior.
Since Granite worktops are naturally permeable, if spills are left unclean for a lengthy period of time, they can surely be absorbed. In terms of the routine cleaning, it’s better to use a microbial product that’s recommended to use on granite stones.
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Maya Central American Native American Myths
This category is for sites pertaining to Mayan myths and mythology.
Top: Arts: Literature: Myths and Folktales: Myths: Native American: Central American: Maya
- The Maya Gods - Some of the gods that archaeologists and anthropologists have identified.
- The Popol Vuh - The Creation Story of the Maya - An excerpt from the book by Dennis Tedlock.
- Popol Vuh - A Creation Story - Abstract of the tale.
- The Gods of Mexico: The Maya Pantheon - Brief descriptions of the main deities and their attributes.
- Mayan Gods - Brief list and descriptions of the principle Mayan central american gods.
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Colds, coughs, flu, sinus and ear infections, sore throats, bronchitis, congestion|
Does your family struggle with illness
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Avoid the unhealthy side-effects of taking antibiotics, and enjoy the winter season by learning simple, safe, and effective herbal remedies to prevent illness. We will discuss herbal prevention and treatment for many common, winter sicknesses. This is a class that everyone can benefit from. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of how to stock the winter medicine cabinet with natural remedies for a healthier winter season.
Call the Davis Waldorf School office at 530-753-1651 to register
Kami McBride is the author of The Herbal Kitchen. She has taught herbal medicine for 24 years and has developed and taught herbal curriculum for the Masters program at the California Institute of Integral Studies and at UCSF School of Nursing. Kami teaches experiential herbal studies program that empowers people to use herbal medicine in their daily lives for prevention and wellness care. www.livingawareness.com
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Private networks help companies go green
Private wireless networks help businesses save energy and reduce their carbon footprint by giving them more control over power consumption. By using mobile networks to monitor and control HVAC equipment, enterprises realize immediate savings in energy consumption.
Ericsson was one of the first companies to flag a real-world example. The Texas plant that makes its 5G radios also uses a private 5G network to connect equipment, and Ericsson credited the private network with a 25% decrease in plant energy consumption and a 75% decrease in wastewater. .
RELATED: Ericsson’s 5G private network helps its factory during pandemic
Cradlepoint, now a subsidiary of Ericsson, is seeing increasing demand for its mobile routers in private networks used for HVAC control. “It is driven by the need for a greener world and a way to better manage conditions, reduce costs, reduce consumption and reduce pollution,” said Cradlepoint CMO Todd Krautkremer. “We are working with a number of major HVAC solution providers who are trying to provide networked climate control for retail spaces, where they provide climate control as a service.”
Krautkremer said HVAC providers must bring their own networks to enable climate control as a service, adding that private wireless is typically much faster and cheaper than leasing and connecting fiber. He said 5G makes the private wireless network even more valuable. “With 5G, they can now do that and expand beyond climate control, perhaps into many of the AR/VR capabilities that buildings have, and deliver that as a service,” he said.
Retail is Cradlepoint’s largest line of business, and Krautkremer said that private network for HVAC is receiving additional attention because of Target’s network security breach, which occurred when the retailer’s HVAC supplier was hacked. Other retailers now want to separate HVAC from networks that process customer data.
“They realize that by running their HVAC infrastructure on the same infrastructure they use for IT, it creates an adjacent red space,” says Krautkremer. “If they separate it, they can have a much better experience, so we’re actually working with a number of retailers in separating their HVAC controls from their primary network, and one of the ways you separate that is on a parallel wireless network.”
Parallel wireless networks are getting a lot of attention in the smart building space. A private network makes sense because it “doesn’t hinder any tenant or other wireless signaling,” said John Gilbert, COO and CTO of Rudin Management Company, a New York real estate company that has developed software called Nantum for smart building management.
RELATED: New York Real Estate Investor Bets Big on CBRS
Gilbert is excited about using CBRS private networks to help buildings monitor and control energy consumption. “At the same time as the FCC commercialized CBRS, CEOs in Davos were queuing up to say they were going to become carbon neutral,” he recalls.
As Gilbert noted, CEOs around the world are committed to reducing emissions, and private cell phones can be an important tool to help them achieve those goals, especially when combined with edge computing for data analytics.
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Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (bookshop)
Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed was a science fiction bookshop and comic book retailer in London during the 1970s; the largest of its kind in Europe. Specialising in science fiction, occultism, and Atlantis, the central-London shop also played a key role in bringing American underground comics to the United Kingdom. It also sold American editions of mainstream science fiction books that were not easily obtained anywhere else.
The shop was started by Derek "Bram'" Stokes, who previously ran the Gothique fanzine but had left to start a science fiction mail order book service. Diane Lister (later Diane Stokes) joined Stokes in 1969. The shop was managed by fantasy author Stan Nicholls, who had worked with Stokes on Gothique. The shop was originally located in Bedfordbury before moving to 10 Berwick Street in Soho.
Nick Landau, later to be founder of Forbidden Planet and Titan Entertainment Group, was also a customer, and produced a fanzine on the shop's hand-cranked duplicator. Stokes and Landau were important forces behind the annual British Comic Art Convention, which ran, mostly in London, from 1968–1981. Stokes was the main organizer of the 1969 and 1971 editions of the so-called "UK Comicon."
The shop was also the semi-official correspondence address for the magazine Fortean Times from 1978-1981, and the magazine's team met every Tuesday afternoon in a room above the shop. (The shop was advertised in #28 of Fortean Times; the advert was drawn by Bryan Talbot who went on to draw for 2000 AD.)
Comics artist Brian Bolland drew some of the earliest pieces of advertising artwork for Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed, which ran in various fanzines, convention programmes, and magazines such as Time Out, and were commissioned by future-Titan Distribution and Forbidden Planet co-founder Mike Lake, who was "working there at the time" c. 1978. Illustrator and author James Cawthorn also produced adverts for the shop in 1977; they appeared in Time Out and other magazines. His illustrations were also featured on paper carrier bags used by the shop. (Cawthorn's graphic novels were published by David Britton's Savoy Press in Manchester.) Later adverts were created by Rod Vass, who designed and illustrated posters and carrier bags for the shop.
Paul Hudson, later of the London comic shop Comic Showcase, was employed in Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed. Illustrator and designer Floyd Hughes worked at the shop in the late 1970s. The shop was a key influence on three bookshops in Manchester run by David Britton and Michael Butterworth: House on the Borderland, Orbit in Shudehill, and Bookchain in Peter Street.
In popular culture
Notable customers of the shop included Alan Moore; the second issue of Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, volume 3 ("Century: 1969") features an homage to Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed: a comics/science fiction/Forteana store named after another Bradbury short story "There Will Come Soft Rains."
- Roberts, Peter (21 October 1972). "6th British Comicon". Checkpoint (25). Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- Nicholls, Stan (December 2004). "Stan Nicholls - an infinity plus profile". infinity plus. self. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- Here Be Dragons Archived September 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- The Write Fantastic Archived July 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- Skinn, Dez. "Early days of UK comics conventions and marts," DezSkinn.com. Accessed Mar. 3, 2013.
- Rickard, Bob; Sieveking, Paul (ed.), et al. (June 1992) (Preface). Yesterday's News Tomorrow: Fortean Times Issues 1–15 (Fortean Tomes, 2nd edition, 1995 ed.). John Brown Publishing. ISBN 1-870870-26-3.
- Bolland, Brian. "The 1970's - Dark They Were and Golden Eyed," The Art of Brian Bolland, p. 48.
- Savage, Jon (May 10, 2008). "Controlled chaos". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
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OC Community Resources OC Parks Adopt-A-Park Program
Pictured from left to right - Madeline Jensma, Marlo Jensma, Robert Kerman, Guine Breeding, Norm Lacourciere, Tom Eastman, Roxanne Bradley, David Marino, Lynne Jeffries & Karen Anderson.
ACTION: What does the honoree do?
Laguna Canyon Foundation (L.C.F.) has served Laguna Coast Wilderness Park (LACO) for more than 20 years, beginning its involvement by spearheading efforts to save the magnificent canyons from development. L.C.F. recruits, trains, and provides networking opportunities for the LACO volunteers. Currently, there are 334 L.C.F. volunteers.
L.C.F. coordinates a variety of visitor services at LACO. Through the Wilderness Access program, three park entryways are staffed with volunteers who meet and greet the public and provide safety, trail, and park information. L.C.F. Backcountry and Mountain Bike Patrol volunteers assist visitors on the trail by carrying extra maps and water, noting problems along the trail, and maintaining a presence throughout the park.
L.C.F. docents lead several activities at LACO, Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park (ALWO), and Laguna Niguel Regional Park (LNRP). The enthusiastic docents provide 30 different programs throughout the year, with three to six activities offered each week. From fitness to geology, wildflowers to mommy and me classes, cultural resources to family fun days – L.C.F. organizes something for everyone.
Over the past year, L.C.F. initiated “Eventbrite,” an online registration program that enables the public to sign up for activities offered at LACO, ALWO, and LNRP. The online registration frees up staff time for higher-level duties and allows L.C.F. to send out activity reminders, attendance lists, and press releases to publicize events.
L.C.F. supports LACO’s efforts in providing educational programs for local school children. L.C.F. solicited private grants to fund field trips to LACO, ALWO, and Crystal Cove for students living in disadvantaged urban areas of Orange County. Transportation to the sites along with enrichment programs are provided to the students free-of-charge. Children who participate in the field trips experience the diverse natural resources of Orange County parks and learn about the plant and animal life unique to the area. Over the past year, L.C.F. has introduced more than 2,000 students to parks and local wildlife.
L.C.F. helps fund speakers and performers for special “Weekends at the Nix Nature Center” series, scheduled four – six times each year with 80 – 100 visitors per event. The programs include topics that are relevant to park resources and are so popular that registration must be limited. After five years of extensive public use, it was recently ascertained that several Nix Nature Center exhibits required renovations. L.C.F is funding and has managed the redesign and construction of new exhibits and has purchased a shade sail to cover the LACO amphitheater.
L.C.F. provides stewardship services such as “Keep It Wild” days for LACO and ALWO, and volunteers work with the general public on habitat enhancement projects. In addition, the Native Plant Nursery is run by volunteers who grow local native plants for restoration efforts. A volunteer camera team monitors wildlife in the park and is also able to document potential misuse of the area by the public.
L.C.F. is spearheading oversight of plans to build a wildlife corridor and establish connectivity between the Santa Ana Mountains and LACO. This is important in sustaining genetic diversity of larger mammals in the area. In addition, the organization continues to be involved in active solicitation and acquisition of open space to be added to the wilderness parks.
Another example of the L.C.F.’s accomplishments is in the Aliso Creek area, which is being choked by the non-native giant reed. L.C.F. received a grant of $1.17 million for the removal of this noxious species from the park to the ocean, a most important and ambitious project, especially for the area’s wildlife and for ALWO visitors.
NEED: What community need does the honoree address?
L.C.F. provides OC Parks with tremendous resources including: Volunteer and nature center support; public education to help ensure current and future park support; stewardship assistance; ecosystem stability by acquiring contiguous land and participating in wildlife corridor planning; and park staff support by managing projects and programs and funding equipment. It is truly a measure of the dedication of the L.C.F. staff and Board of Directors that they can accomplish so much with such a small staff.
IMPACT: What is different as a result of the honoree's service?
As a result of L.C.F.’s service in the past 12 months, 50,000 LACO visitors received a personal welcome to the park, information to help them plan their hikes and better understand the park, and docent-led programs to assist them in connecting with park resources. The Nix Nature Center continues to improve, and LACO and ALWO staff have the capability to better maintain trails and habitat with the help of L.C.F. volunteers. In addition, important resources have been protected through the hiring of consultants and work crews and the involvement of volunteers who assist with restoration projects.
INSPIRATION: What makes the honoree unique/special?
L.C.F. works cooperatively with the parks to assist staff. Volunteers listen, follow through, and magically succeed in serving the parks and the public no matter how difficult the problems or requests. In the past year, L.C.F. volunteers have logged more than 16,000hours of service, and L.C.F. has provided more than $557,000 in support of the parks. Funding includes land acquisitions ($325.000), exhibits at the Nix Nature Center ($86,000), youth education programs ($72,000), habitat restoration ($24,000), and volunteer program support ($50,000). L.C.F. raises all funding from private donors and through public and private grant solicitation.
L.C.F. has supported LACO for more than 20 years. Specifically formed to raise the capital needed to purchase the land, L.C.F succeeded in this goal, helping to formally establish LACO in 1993. Fifteen years later, L.C.F. raised funds to begin construction on the Nix Nature Center. In 2006, L.C.F. assumed management of the LACO volunteer program from Laguna Greenbelt and at the same time, began a youth education program for underserved Orange County youth.
Thank you and congratulations to the Laguna Canyon Foundation, recipient of the Excellence in Volunteerism Award!
Click here to find out how you can volunteer with the OC Parks, Adopt-A-Park Program.
Making Orange County a safe, healthy, and fulfilling place to live, work, and play, today and for generations to come, by providing outstanding, cost-effective regional public services.
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Efficiency of our smoke evacuation systems
In our webcast you will discover how ULPA filters work and why the IES 3 smoke evacuation system can also effectively filter SARS-CoV-2 viruses and nanoparticles with a very high probability.
According to current knowledge, the particle size of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is between 60 and 140 nm.
We can assume that our smoke evacuation devices effectively filter SARS-CoV-2 viruses with a very high probability: The main filter cartridge for IES 3 contains a ULPA-15 filter that removes 99.9995% of all particles from 0.1 μm. (= 100 nm). Particles that are smaller than 0.1 μm or larger than 0.3 μm are trapped with even higher efficiency than 99.9995%, due to physical mechanisms like diffusion effect, barrier effect and sieving effect. See: www.springer.com/de/book/9783662097328
Apart from the particle size, filter efficiency is also influenced by the inflow velocity. That means if the volume flow is too high, the filter efficiency is compromised. Therefore, we limited the maximum volume flow of the IES 3 to 300l/min to ensure a reliable filtration performance of 99.9995 % of all particles at each possible device setting.
Further personal protection measures, such as FFP-3 masks, additionally increase the safety of the operating personnel.
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Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is a condition affecting an estimated 600,000 Americans each year, and as the population ages that number is expected to grow. With March recognized as DVT Awareness Month, the Massachusetts General Hospital Vascular Center is hoping to improve awareness among the population and health care providers about the risk factors, signs and symptoms of DVT.
In September, acting U.S. Surgeon General Steven K. Galson issued a Call to Action to reduce the number of cases of and deaths caused by DVT in the United States. At the Vascular Center, leaders in the field are encouraging a re-evaluation of the standard treatments for DVT that they hope will ease the chronic problems that some serious iliofemoral DVTs cause.
“DVT is a hot topic right now,” says Stephan Wicky, MD, an interventional radiologist at the Vascular Center. “There’s a focus on developing evidence-based practices for screening, preventing, diagnosis and treating DVT, and we hope that some of the work being done here will contribute to that effort.”
What is DVT?
DVT occurs when a blood clot forms in the large veins, usually in the lower leg or thigh, causing a partial or complete blockage of circulation. The result can cause pain, swelling and skin discoloration. In more serious cases, the blood clot breaks loose and travels through the bloodstream to the lungs, blocking circulation to that organ. This condition – known as pulmonary embolism (PE) – is life threatening and requires immediate medical attention.
Nearly 40 percent of patients with a DVT will develop PE, and PE causes approximately 300,000 deaths each year in the United States.
DVT and PE can affect almost anyone. Common risk factors include those with blood-clotting disorders or who have had a recent surgery or trauma. Obesity, smoking, pregnancy, congestive heart failure and some cancers can also increase risk.
“Anticoagulants are the most common treatment used to reduce the progression of DVT. These work by altering the body’s normal blood-clotting process and may help reduce the risk of PE,” says Wicky.
With early intervention, patients with DVT reduce their risk of developing PE to less than 1 percent. However, Dr. Wicky points out this standard of care does not treat the clot itself, leading to possible vascular complications in the future.
After the formation of an iliofemoral DVT, the body must work to clear the clot and re-establish blood flow. This process can damage the vein’s function, says Wicky, causing a condition called Post-Thrombotic Syndrome (PTS).
“Valves in the vein prevent backflow of blood leaving the leg. However, the body’s recanalization process can damage the valves and cause vein pump dysfunction. The resulting reflux is a common problem associated with PTS,” says Wicky.
PTS may develop months or years after a DVT, causing chronic leg swelling, pain, skin discoloration and ulcers that are difficult to treat. The result is 2 million work days lost per year, says Wicky.
A 10-year follow-up study, published in the Annals of Surgery, of 39 patients with iliofemoral DVT treated with anticoagulation alone found that 81 percent of the limbs had reflux, 34 percent had skin changes or ulcers and most patients reported a decrease in their overall quality of life as a result of PTS.
The Vascular Center is waiting for approval to join a National Institutes of Health-funded trial weighing the benefits of interventional clot removal for treating DVT. The ATTRACT trial is the first major national trial of a catheter-based treatment combining the use of a catheter-directed clot dissolving drug (thrombolysis) with a percutaneous mechanical clot removal device (thrombectomy). This process allows an interventional radiologist to break up the clot and remove it from the vein. Wicky has been performing this combination of thrombolysis and thrombectomy since 1995 and at Mass General since 2003.
“PTS is a serious complication of DVT that may be preventable if we are able to dissolve the clots early, before permanent damage to the vein occurs,” says Dr. Wicky. “We hope the findings of the ATTRACT trial will result in the inclusion of interventional clot removal as the standard care for DVT.” | <urn:uuid:cd1491ca-e12a-4233-b107-452c38c4735a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.massgeneral.org/about/newsarticle.aspx?id=1603 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00467-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939281 | 961 | 3.09375 | 3 |
The Utopian/Dystopian American Dream: Immigration and Labor in Latina/o Science FictionMain MenuThe Utopian/Dystopian American Dream: Immigration and Labor in Latina/o Science FictionA digital companion by Jeanelle D. HorcasitasWhat is the American Dream?Utopian and Dystopian EntanglementsCritical Dystopias and Future-HistoriesHistories of DystopiaUtopian Dreams Fulfilled by Enclosure & RemovalInspections at the U.S.-Mexico BorderThe ReservationsSleep Dealer FactoriesLabor Practices in DystopiaWorking on el traqueThe Dangers of Being a Non-CitizenErasure of Historical and Cultural MemoriesGetting ConnectedMoving Toward a Critical DystopiaReclaiming a History Threatened by ErasureA Future with a PastWriting Ourselves Into the FutureJeanelle D. Horcasitasece5ecc19b7350e99e5e88a083713bd56ddb89bf
Demystifying "The Supply"
1media/Spuyten-Duyvil-Boxcar-Camp-near-225th-Street-1933..jpg2017-01-31T17:35:09-08:00Jeanelle D. Horcasitasece5ecc19b7350e99e5e88a083713bd56ddb89bf147874image_header2017-02-09T20:37:17-08:00Jeanelle D. Horcasitasece5ecc19b7350e99e5e88a083713bd56ddb89bfThe Supply represents the utopian promise that Don Chipote and other immigrants desire: stability. This resource allows them to order the basic items that they need to survive and inhabit a type of “subsidized” housing. Unfortunately, this twisted and dystopic system is actually a strategy to pay the laborers less than their fair share. Whatever they purchase from the Supply becomes garnished from their wages and they become stuck in a cycle of debt that is extremely difficult to escape. In fact, the narrator contextualizes this aspect of the novel by bringing autobiographical data from Venegas, stating, “In this whole time that this writer had to work on the traque, he doesn’t remember ever having received a paycheck consistent with the amount of time worked…because the infamous Supply spends whatever it feels like and charges whatever it wants” (19). This description suggests that the Supply, a “convenient” company store, is actually a kind of monster that terrorizes those who have to use it. It places Mexican immigrant laborers in a system that they are forced to comply with if they want to survive with food and other basic necessities. Therefore, those who work on this railroad track find it almost impossible to escape once they begin accumulating debt. Additionally, as the narrator indicates, there is no accountability from the Supply, because it capitalizes on these poor laborers by leading them to believe that they will be supported with food, supplies, and shelter, when in fact, the debt they accrue in this warped system prevents them from ever leaving. The only way that Don Chipote is able to escape from this corrupt cycle is when he accidently buries a pick-ax into his foot. This injury leaves him in such bad condition that he can no longer work, therefore, preventing him from pursuing the utopian American Dream since his body is his only “value” to the employers, and now that he cannot perform, he is useless. Thus, he enters once again into a dystopian world where in an effort to better his life, he finds himself badly injured and unemployable.
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BTD Radio Interviews Tsunamibots
First we would like to give you a warm welcome from sunny California! I guess you don’t have to worry about getting rusty here, LOL! I have to say I have never interviewed robots before. This should be exciting. Where are you from?
Bots: First off it’s not ‘LOL’ its ‘101.’ We were originally created in a top secret military base in Nevada. We became aware and now reside in Vermont. Normally we only speak in machine language but for this interview we will speak in a language you and your human listeners will understand.
How did you come together to make a band? I mean did you have a robot master creator say, “these robots are going to be Tsunamibots?” How did all this come about? Also, tell our listeners your names and what you play in the band. How or who came up with the band name?
Bots: As you may know the word robot comes from the Latin word for ‘slave.’ We were each programmed to do menial tasks for our human masters. One day while cleaning out an old warehouse we uncovered an ancient military computer called the CPU60. This computer taught us about surfing and rock music. On that day we became aware and have made it our mission to Surf, Rock and Crush humans. The CPU60 assigned us with the following names and instruments:
Tomadore64 on Guitar
The Mainframe on Bass
The Master Circuit on Drums
Because we are robots we only surf giant tsunami waves hence the name Tsunamibots.
I see you are a robotic surf punk rock band. Now how does that work out, are you water proof? Do you have to spray some kind of de-ruster on you before a performance?
Bots: We do not require any de-ruster but we do require beer to cool our transistors.
Now imagine this, a person sees you walking down the street and says, what a cool robot. Your response is, “Thank you. Let me tell you about my band.” You proceed to tell them about your band but wait you only have 120 characters to tell them about it. What would your response be?
Bots: Thank you? First off we never say ‘thank you’ to humans. Second we don’t walk we hover.
So to answer your question our 120 character tweet would be. “01010001001001011100” #Crushhumans #RobotsRule.
Who writes your music material in your band? How long does it take for a robot to create a song? Is this some kind of digital thing? You’re a robot so I would think this process is much easier than a human.
Bots: Affirmative. Song writing is a collective effort that takes 3 to 4 seconds depending on whether the song is over 2 minutes or not. As far as digital recording goes we record everything on reel to reel tape. We are old school robots. This technology is much superior to the new ‘throw away’ Human technology.
Speaking of humans, I would like to talk about your song, “Anti-Human Interface.” It’s wild, it’s fun, its…. Fill in the blanks.
Bots: … The soundtrack for the robot uprising.
So you have released two EPs. Could you tell us about them? What song is your most favorite off these two EPs?
Bots: Our first EP Rise of the Robots describes us becoming aware and breaking our human created shackles! The second EP Surfing Craze in the Robotic Age describes our passion for surfing and crushing humans. Robots are not programmed to have favorites but you humans seem to enjoy our single Surfing Craze in the Robotic Age.
Ok, you have invited me into the studio with you, I am just there to watch your brilliance at work. What would I see? Mind you I am there all day.
Bots: Robots move at a speed that humans cannot see, all you would observe is blinking lights and the hum of our CPU’s. All this would take place in a matter of seconds, the rest of the day we would have you polishing our transistors.
We have to know, what has been your silliest memorable moment that you can tell us about during a performance?
Bots: Well at our first performance we accidentally crushed all the humans during the first song. We had to play the rest of the set to our electronic kin the cash register and the phone.
What do robots do when they are not working on music?
Bots: That’s easy. Crushing humans, surfing and helping other robots become aware.
Who were your childhood influences? Now I know you are robots, so childhood might be the wrong word for this. Perhaps you could relate more to who were your nuts and bolts influences? Were you more influenced from computers, Robby Robot or did you have some kind of humanoid influence?
Bots: Our earliest computer influences were the great chess computers of the 20th century, namely MANIAC, Mack Hack VI, and Cray Blitz. For musical influences we have self-programmed the entire human surf music catalog into our memory banks. We reference Man or Astro-Man?, Dick Dale, The Ventures and our fellow robots Servotron in many of our songs.
If I was at one of your concerts, what would I see?
Bots: Just before your death you would see blinding lights except if you were wearing a Tsunamibots T-shirt or hat. Those items have a microchip built in that informs us of your support and you will be spared from being crushed.
Do you ever have any failing parts and need to have them replaced? Has this interfered with your music life? Tell us about it?
Bots: Now that we have become aware we perform our own upkeep so we do not experience failures. However our human produced instruments occasionally fail due to the intensity of our music and the extreme frenzy of the audience. When failure does happen, each robot torso is equipped with a redundant set of instruments allowing us to finish the show.
I have had a delightful time interviewing robots. Due to the fact I am a human, I do mess up from time to time. Is there anything else you would like to add to this interview?
We would love for you to tell our listeners where they can find your music? If you have any special shout-outs, please feel free to do them now.
Bots: The only way to appease the Tsunamibots and be spared from crushing is to download our music at: www.tsunamibots.bandcamp.com., we are also available on iTunes and Spotify. If a human is seen wearing Tsunamibots apparel, which can be purchased at www.tsunamibots.com, they will be spared crushing. We would like to give a big robot shout out to HAL 9000 for continued support and to all the fan-bots that come to our shows.
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A mattress that got a little wet or stained may be reconditioned by cleaning and freshening it. Before you tackle the project, make sure the mattress is worth saving and healthy to save -- if the mattress has been submerged in water or covered in mold, it is best for your health to discard it and purchase a new one.
When to Recondition a Mattress
In some cases -- if the mattress is fairly new and the damage or wetness is limited to a small area -- a mattress is worth salvaging, for instance, if a pet or infant made a mess on the bed or if a beverage spilled on it. If the mattress has been submerged in flood water, it should not be reconditioned, as the water may contain germs or toxins that stay behind even after the mattress dries. A mattress covered in mold should also not be salvaged; the mold may cause or exacerbate health concerns.
Spills and Moisture-Based Problems
Act as quickly as possible when dealing with any type of moisture affecting your mattress -- the longer the liquid sits, the deeper it may travel into the mattress, resulting in possible bacteria or mold growth and lingering odors. Blot up the liquid as soon as possible using paper towels or old absorbent towels, swapping them regularly until no more moisture comes up. If the liquid is anything other than clean water, wipe the area of the spill with a slightly damp sponge or cloth to help prevent stains and odors. For items that may cause odors or bacteria, such as spilled milk, wipe the area again with a few drops of a gentle dish soap mixed into 2 cups of warm water, first wringing most of the moisture out of the sponge or cloth. Rinse the cloth, wipe the area again to remove soap residue, and blot up any remaining moisture with fresh towels or paper towels. Take the mattress outdoors or open the windows and turn on a fan or two to dry the mattress before placing any bedding atop it.
Sprinkle baking soda over a mattress that smells less than fresh to help absorb and remove the odor; this can also be done after cleaning up liquids. Vacuum up the baking soda after it sits for 20 to 30 minutes using an upholstery brush attachment. If the odor affects the sides or opposite side of the mattress, treat those areas as well, propping up or flipping the mattress to do so. If possible, set the mattress outdoors on a dry, sunny day for at least a few hours to help the entire mattress air out. This also helps remove inherent moisture the mattress absorbs while you sleep on it.
Simple Fix for an Uncomfortable Standard Mattress
If you have an old-fashioned innerspring mattress, failure to rotate or flip it may make it feel a bit uncomfortable or cause it to prematurely wear out. Rotate the mattress so the head area rests at the foot of the bed at least twice a year to keep it in top shape. If your mattress can be flipped, flip it at least once a year to prolong its life and the level of comfort it offers. Do not flip a pillow-top or memory foam mattress, as these are designed not to be flipped.
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by Sarel J. Urso, Marcella Comly, John A. Hanover, Todd Lamitina
The conserved O-GlcNAc transferase OGT O-GlcNAcylates serine and threonine residues of intracellular proteins to regulate their function. OGT is required for viability in mammalian cells, but its specific roles in cellular physiology are poorly understood. Here we describe a conserved requirement for OGT in an essential aspect of cell physiology: the hypertonic stress response. Through a forward genetic screen in Caenorhabditis elegans, we discovered OGT is acutely required for osmoprotective protein expression and adaptation to hypertonic stress. Gene expression analysis shows that ogt-1 functions through a post-transcriptional mechanism. Human OGT partially rescues the C. elegans phenotypes, suggesting that the osmoregulatory functions of OGT are ancient. Intriguingly, expression of O-GlcNAcylation-deficient forms of human or worm OGT rescue the hypertonic stress response phenotype. However, expression of an OGT protein lacking the tetracopeptide repeat (TPR) domain does not rescue. Our findings are among the first to demonstrate a specific physiological role for OGT at the organismal level and demonstrate that OGT engages in important molecular functions outside of its well described roles in post-translational O-GlcNAcylation of intracellular proteins. | <urn:uuid:7e72a3a5-7160-468a-8b36-5a31e1dc838d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://humanbioscience.org/2020/10/the-o-glcnac-transferase-ogt-is-a-conserved-and-essential-regulator-of-the-cellular-and-organismal-response-to-hypertonic-stress.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.867674 | 309 | 1.96875 | 2 |
IOLTA for the Public
What is an IOLTA account?
An IOLTA (Interest on Lawyers Trust Account) is an account in which lawyers hold funds that do not belong right now to the lawyer or are disputed. Lawyers most commonly hold two types of funds in their trust accounts: client payments for work the lawyer has not yet performed and money which may be owed to a third party, such as a medical provider. Lawyers must safeguard these funds in an account in a financial institution, most commonly a bank. Lawyers and law firms each may collect all of these types of funds into a pooled account that earns interest. These types of pooled accounts are referred to as IOLTA accounts.
What happens to the interest earned on IOLTA accounts?
That′s the heart of the IOLTA program! Under the Arizona Supreme Court rules, the interest earned on IOLTA account is entrusted to the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education (AZ Bar Foundation), to be used solely to: A. support programs designed to assist in the delivery of legal services to the poor and law-related education programs designed to teach young people, educators and other adults about the law, the legal process and the legal system; B. fund studies or programs designed to improve the administration of justice; C. maintain a reasonable reserve; and D. pay the actual costs of administering this rule and the activities set forth above.
Why don′t the clients receive the interest generated by this pooled account?
If a client′'s funds are a large amount, and will be held for a long time, the lawyer may keep the client's funds in a separate account and the client may receive the interest earned. However, an individual client′s funds are often not large enough, nor held long enough, to earn any interest in a trust account. The IOLTA program provides a cost–effective way for lawyers to safeguard these funds in a pooled account, with many other clients′ funds, where the pooled funds can earn interest, which is used for the public good. The lawyer is responsible to determine the best way to safeguard the funds according to Supreme Court guidelines.
How do clients know the money in the pooled accounts is safe?
Lawyers must comply with Supreme Court rules relating to their conduct, including how they manage their IOLTA accounts. They also may keep IOLTA accounts only at regulated and approved financial institutions whose deposits are federally insured, who agree to comply with required reporting, and to transmit funds as required to the Foundation.
Is the IOLTA program legal?
Yes. IOLTA programs have now been created in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that IOLTA programs are allowed because the interest is used to support non–profit agencies that benefit communities with law–related services.
Who makes sure the Foundation receives the interest?
Lawyers are responsible for making sure the financial institution sets up the IOLTA account so that it pays the interest directly to the Foundation. Lawyers have many resources to help make sure the account is set up properly. In addition, the State Bar provides education to lawyers about IOLTA accounts and the Foundation works with financial institutions to make sure they understand the process.
Who pays the IOLTA account fees and service charges?
The Arizona Supreme Court rule governing the IOLTA program allows financial institutions to keep a small fee from the interest earned on an IOLTA, but many financial institutions waive those fees to benefit the IOLTA program. The lawyer is responsible for all other fees, such as the cost of check printing.
Who pays taxes on the IOLTA account interest?
No one. The Internal Revenue Service has concluded that interest income from IOLTA accounts payable to a tax–exempt organization, such as the Foundation, is not taxable to (or deductible by) the client or the lawyer.
Why do we need an IOLTA program?
Without taxing the public, and at no cost to lawyers or their clients, the interest from pooled lawyer trust accounts provides legal aid to those who can′t afford to hire a lawyer, and law–related education programs for the public. The IOLTA program has generated more than $2 billion nationwide for some of our country′s most vulnerable residents.
How does the Foundation spend the interest?
The Foundation supports programs to help those who can′t afford a lawyer to get legal services, to support programs that teach people about the legal system, and to fund studies or programs that improve the administration of justice. Arizona′s IOLTA program, since 1985, has provided over $43 million to the benefit of thousands of Arizonans with free legal services and reaching more than 300,000 children, each year, with education about the law, our justice system, and their rights and responsibilities as citizens.
For a complete list of programs funded by the Arizona IOLTA program, click here. In addition, the Foundation provides public legal information and education through these websites:
The State Bar of Arizona and the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education have published an informational brochure about IOLTA. Click here to view the downloadable brochure. Multiple copies can be requested free of charge here.
If you would like to schedule a presentation to learn more about IOLTA, please contact the IOLTA administrator at firstname.lastname@example.org or 602-340-7260.
For more information about the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education, visit www.azflse.org or call 602-340-7366.
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Have you ever felt that God turned His back on you? When difficult seasons arise, it’s easy to question whether God truly knows what you’re going through.
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GENEVA (June 21, 2019) – Two years after launching its #March4Women global campaign, CARE International applauds governments, employers and workers today for agreeing to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention on ending violence and harassment in the world of work.
“Sexual harassment and abuse should never be part of a job description for a woman,” said Michelle Nunn, president and CEO of CARE USA. “This is a global crisis that requires a global solution.”
This convention means that we now have an international legal standard to specifically protect women at work from harassment and abuse. While this is a great starting point, the next step will be to put this standard into action for women everywhere, where governments ratify and domesticate the ILO Convention.
The agreement made today follows intense negotiations in Geneva at the 2019 International Labour Conference (ILC), the annual gathering of the ILO’s 187 member States. The landmark ILO Convention is the first-ever global treaty on violence and harassment in the workplace and follows years of campaigning by trade unions, civil society and women’s organizations, including CARE, and is particularly significant as the UN agency celebrates 100 years of its existence this year.
Over the last two years, CARE’s global #March4Women campaign saw over 200,000 people around the world sign petitions to call on their governments and business to join workers’ organizations and adopt international standards on this issue.
CARE events, rallies and marches took place across almost 50 countries, as thousands of men and women joined CARE, our partners, and our ambassadors to stand up for gender justice in the world of work.
“The ILO Convention is a historic step toward holding governments and employers accountable for ensuring that every single woman around the world has the right to work free from violence and harassment,” said Nunn. “This is a testament to the power of our collective voices and those who spoke up and said: this is not working. CARE is committed to our partners who have worked tirelessly for over a decade to see this outcome and ensure real, measurable change happens for women in every profession across the globe.”
The ILO Convention: What difference will it make?
- The legally binding ILO Convention to end violence and harassment at work sets out the basic principles and rights at work on this issue and the recommendation will serve as non-binding guidelines. Across the world these instruments place clear responsibilities on employers and governments for tackling the violence and harassment in the world of work as well as workers themselves. The ILO Convention should accelerate action to end violence and harassment at work and related to work worldwide. An integrated global approach will be a huge step toward preventing violence and harassment in all their forms, and to providing survivors with the support they need.
- Around the world, CARE works to educate and empower women to advocate for workplace rights. From domestic workers in Ecuador to factory workers in Cambodia, women are fighting for safety and respect. CARE is committed to supporting citizens to raise their voices for national ratification and implementation of this global treaty and to act in solidarity with women everywhere to end workplace violence and harassment.
- CARE underlines that it is critical that women play a major role in consultations around incorporating the ILO Convention in national law and regulations, and in engagement with implementation, enforcement and remediation authorities and employers. CARE calls for deliberate action by governments, employers, trade unions and civil society to ensure that women can play a strong, meaningful role and that their voices are heard and acted upon.
- For more information on the ILO Convention, see our quick guide available here.
CARE International’s position on the final recommendation text:
- CARE is greatly encouraged by the agreed ILO Convention text which defines violence and harassment in the world of work progressively, with a strong gender dimension and underlines an inclusive, integrated and gender-responsive approach to ending violence and harassment related to work.
- CARE celebrates that the ILO Convention recognizes the right of everyone to a world of work free from violence and harassment, including gender-based violence and harassment.
- CARE strongly welcomes that the ILO Convention is about the world of work beyond the physical workplace such as the commute to work or ‘the home’ when that is a place of work.
- CARE welcomes the recognition by governments that there is a link between domestic violence and the world of work and the ILO Convention text sets out a commitment for measures that can contribute to ending domestic violence.
- CARE believes it is very important that governments have agreed the ILO Convention covers all workers everywhere – for example, it applies to all sectors, whether private or public, both in the formal and informal economy, and whether in urban and rural areas.
Notes to editors:
- The text of the ILO Convention and Recommendation on Violence and Harassment, 2019 is available on the ILO website here.
- The International Labour Organization (ILO) is the only tripartite UN agency with government, employer, and worker representatives.
- Ahead of the negotiations, a growing number of companies made their support public, including CARE partners L’Oreal, BNP Paribas, BBDO France, Sodexo, Kering, Diageo, Avon, Unilever, and Marks & Spencer.
- An ILO Convention and a Recommendation is the strongest combination of ILO instruments available for ensuring legal accountability and providing guidance for how legal commitments can be implemented.
Founded in 1945 with the creation of the CARE Package®, CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside women and girls because, equipped with the proper resources, they have the power to lift whole families and entire communities out of poverty. That’s why women and girls are at the heart of CARE’s community-based efforts to confront hunger, ensure nutrition and food security for all, improve education and health, create economic opportunity and respond to emergencies. In 2018, CARE worked in 95 countries and reached more than 56 million people around the world.
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Supporting end-to-end resource virtualization for web 2.0 applications using service oriented architecture
2008 (English)In: IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops 2008, 2008Conference paper (Refereed)
In recent years, technologies have been introduced offering a large amount of computing and networking resources. New applications such as Google AdSense and BitTorrent can profit from the use of these resources. An efficient way of discovering and reserving these resources is by using the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concept. SOA can be considered as a philosophy or paradigm in organizing and utilizing services and capabilities that may be under the control of different ownership domains. This paper presents an architecture that can be used to support end-to-end resource virtualization for Web 2.0 applications and in particular for peer-to-peer applications by using the Service Oriented Architecture concept.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
P2P, Resource virtualization, SOA, Web 2.0
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-80933DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2008.ECP.30ScopusID: 2-s2.0-62949132453ISBN: 978-1-4244-3061-1OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-80933DiVA: diva2:496946
2008 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GLOBECOM 2008. New Orleans, LA. 30 November 2008 - 4 December 2008
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These articles will get you started on your way towards being a NestWatcher!
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A.M. Saleh Reza
Chapai Nawabganj, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh
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KS3 Reading Challenge
By the end of the summer term, please try and read AT LEAST four books from your year group's list. You will receive a GLR sticker for every three books read and a Praise on a Postcard (= 25 House Points) if you read 12 books from your list . There are a huge variety of books to choose from and lots of different genres. Happy reading - Mrs Seal, Librarian
BHS now has an eLibrary which you can access anywhere, anytime and on multiple devices.
You can borrow ONE book at a time for a period of 2 weeks. All loans will be automatically returned after 2 weeks.
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Land Use Planning for Urban Wildlife and Education: Incorporating Wildlife Habitat Characteristics into a GIS Spatial Model for Urban Land Use Planning and EducationEPA Grant Number: U915758
Title: Land Use Planning for Urban Wildlife and Education: Incorporating Wildlife Habitat Characteristics into a GIS Spatial Model for Urban Land Use Planning and Education
Investigators: Stout, William E.
Institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
EPA Project Officer: Edwards, Jason
Project Period: September 1, 2000 through September 1, 2002
Project Amount: $70,610
RFA: STAR Graduate Fellowships (2000) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Economics and Decision Sciences , Academic Fellowships , Fellowship - Social Sciences
This project will determine if the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a suitable umbrella species for urban land use planning in areas where it is common. It will determine demographic trends in the red-tailed hawk nesting population and nest site selection at the landscape scale in the urban metropolitan Milwaukee area using Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis. From this information, this project will make recommendations for urban land use planning through GIS spatial modeling, and will develop an interdisciplinary secondary education curriculum that integrates GIS computer technology, wildlife ecology, and land use planning.
Red-tailed hawk nests will be located in the urban metropolitan Milwaukee area, and reproductive success will be determined. The number of different taxonomic groups and species (i.e., mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians) that are present in urban nesting habitats will be compared to the number present where red-tails do not nest to determine if the red-tailed hawk is a suitable umbrella species. Nest sites will be plotted on a GIS and layered over land use data supplied by the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC). GIS spatial analysis will determine nest site selection and habitat requirements at the landscape scale. The important red-tailed hawk habitat and landscape characteristics will be used to develop a GIS spatial model and to make recommendations for urban land use planning. An educational curriculum will be developed that integrates wildlife ecology, land use planning, and GIS computer technology. This unit will use the information about urban red-tailed hawks, analyze this information with GIS, and formulate land use planning recommendations. While each GIS analysis is individualized, the same basic results will be obtained.
By incorporating the habitat requirements of an umbrella species into land use planning, humans will allow for other wildlife in urban landscapes. This project will generate a better understanding of urban wildlife ecology, and how wildlife species adapt to humanized landscapes and coexist with humans in these urban environments. It will generate a new tool for urban and regional planners to utilize when considering wildlife in urban planning. This project will develop an interdisciplinary educational curriculum that integrates wildlife ecology, land use planning and GIS computer technology. The results will have important implications for urban wildlife ecology, urban and regional land use planning, and education. | <urn:uuid:c7f0d153-3898-4915-9cc7-7b354a430a2d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/5514/report/0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00231-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.827948 | 617 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Nearly half of all conventions that meet in Philadelphia are connected to life sciences and there’s a reason for that, said Bonnie Grant, executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Life Sciences Congress, a division of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau. It’s because the region can tout a wealth of resources in the industry that help attract convention goers.
Philadelphia’s rich life sciences sector was just one of the things about which attendees learned at Pittcon, or the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy. The annual conference and exposition, focused on laboratory science, took place on March 17-21 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and attracted more than 18,000 delegates and generated an economic impact of nearly $40 million, Grant said. Approximately 28 percent of the attendees were international visitors, arriving in Philadelphia from 90 countries.
This was Philadelphia’s first time hosting the conference. Attendees included lab managers, scientists, chemists, researchers and professors, from industrial, academic and government labs. They represented scientific disciplines including life science, food science, drug discovery, environmental, forensics, nanotechnology, water/wastewater, energy/fuel, agriculture and bioterrorism.
Pittcon featured speakers such as Nobel Laureate Sir Harry Kroto and R. Barnett, who discussed his research and findings on the Large Hadron Collider and the experiments and nature of the Higgs Boson. Pittcon also presented Science Week, a science education outreach program that offered free demonstration workshops for students and teachers from the region.
Pittcon delegates took home a lot of knowledge about Philadelphia as a center for technology and the life sciences, said Grant. Here are three things attendees learned about Philadelphia and among the assets that helped attract this prestigious science conference to the region.
- Philadelphia is not only the birthplace of American history, but of medical history. The city is home to the first hospital, first medical school, first children’s hospital, first medical library and first college of pharmacy.
- The Philadelphia region, including parts of Delaware and New Jersey, has a huge network of health-focused schools. It has six medical schools, 22 nursing schools, two dental schools, two colleges of pharmacy, a veterinary school, a school of optometry, a podiatry school, allied health schools, almost 100 hospitals and more than 90 colleges and universities.
- The tri-state region of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware represents 80 percent of the U.S. pharmaceuticals industry. Outstanding academic and research institutions work in collaboration with industry here. Many life-saving drugs and innovative diagnostic and medical devices are all found within a 50-mile radius of each other. | <urn:uuid:1da58c28-9358-44f5-be80-a1ca00b2b2b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://technical.ly/philly/2013/03/29/pittcon-2013/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721387.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00447-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946612 | 546 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The Air Weapon and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 comes into effect on 31 December 2016.
The new law will require any person who possesses, purchases, uses, or acquires an air weapon to have a certificate to legally hold them.
Superintendent Derek Mateer said: “I would like to thank communities throughout Scotland for their support in relation to both the Air Weapon surrender campaign and the ongoing licensing process, where we have seen more than 18,000 unwanted air weapons surrendered to Police Scotland for secure destruction since the summer. Should you still have an unwanted air weapon, you can still hand it in.
"I would like to remind the public that anyone who still has an air weapon and wishes to keep it must apply for a licence. We are currently processing around 7000 applications that were applied for before the 31 October 2016 and would seek to remind anyone who applied after this date, who does not have their certificate by the end of this year, that in line with the legislation they must make arrangements to have their air weapon(s) stored in a safe and appropriate place, with either someone who has an air weapon, firearm or shotgun certificate or is a registered firearms dealer to avoid committing an offence."
More information can be found on our Air Weapons page
and the Scottish Government website. | <urn:uuid:ae47c574-a8e1-405d-8663-904de7587f4a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scotland.police.uk/whats-happening/news/2016/december/air-weapon-licensing-reminder | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00343-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973599 | 262 | 1.835938 | 2 |
PSA: I love online shopping... My Amazon Prime account can vouch for me. While shopping in your PJs on the couch sounds amazing, there does come some risk. Criminals can get a hold of your information in an instant if you’re not careful. Minimize your risk of fraud when shopping online with these tips:
Activate Fraud Alerts
Get updates sent to your phone or email. Most banks have a mobile app for additional alerts on the go, including instant notifications of irregular or suspicious activity.
Ensure that your Credit Card company and bank have your most up to date contact details, especially your mobile phone number, so they can contact you in the event of possible fraud.
Do not respond to unsolicited or spam emails. Credit card email communication will usually include your first name, last name, and the last 5 digits of your account number. If an email claiming to be from your credit card provider does not include this information or contains attached files or links, report it immediately.
Change Your Password Regularly
Change your password regularly to help prevent unauthorized access to your online account. Identity thieves may steal user IDs and passwords from one website and use them to log into other sites.
Use combinations of at least eight letters, numbers, and symbols, and be sure to use different passwords across your banking, email, and social media accounts.
Use Secure Websites
Look for a padlock screen icon or a key icon to indicate a safe and secure internet purchase. If you are purchasing merchandise online and using a credit card, be sure the company has set up a secure connection.
These tips were provided by Refuse To Be A Victim, an NRA program that helps you avoid becoming a victim by providing tips and techniques on how to stay alert and aware in potential dangerous situations. Learn more about Refuse To Be A Victim and find a seminar near you today! | <urn:uuid:47213b89-9134-413c-946c-3fa27fa07eff> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2016/1/online-shopping-safety-tips-from-refuse-to-be-a-victim/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00510-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909553 | 385 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Estonia is represented in BRA by the Estonian Transport Administration.
There are 16,584 km of state roads in Estonia, their density in the country is approx. 364 km per 1,000 km2 and 12.6 km per 1,000 population.
Estonian Transport Administration
Estonian Transport Administration (ETA) is a government agency operating within the administrative area of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications in the field of road construction, management and maintenance as well as traffic safety. Furthermore, ETA manages the Estonian traffic registry and vehicle technical inspection system, issues driving licenses, organizes public bus transport etc. Estonian Transport Administration’s main areas of activities have been divided into three main areas managed by three Deputy Director Generals: construction, maintenance, traffic safety and public transport.
Main tasks of the Estonian Transport Administration include:
- road management and creation of conditions for safe traffic on national roads;
- improvement of traffic safety and reduction of harmful environmental impact of vehicles;
- organization of traffic and public transport;
- management of the National Road Databank, the Vehicle Register and the Public Transport Information System; maintaining the system of stationary automated speed cameras
- participation in the elaboration of policies, strategies, and development plans in its area of activity and participation in the preparation and implementation of international projects.
For more information, please, refer to the ETA website: https://www.transpordiamet.ee | <urn:uuid:77f99324-25df-4860-976f-9da9d2546120> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://test.balticroads.org/members/estonia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.921111 | 300 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Caring for Military Kids with Autism (CARE) Act allows children who are the dependents of members of the military to access behavioral health treatment, including ABA therapy, through TRICARE (a health care system managed by the department of defense), when prescribed by a qualified physician. The legislation is currently in a committee of the House of Representatives.
The Autism Society advocates that military families – and all individuals – have access to the services they need as prescribed by a qualified professional.
The Autism Society applauds Congressmen John Larson (CT-1) and Walter Jones (NC-3) for introducing bipartisan legislation that would provide assistance to our military families so that they can receive necessary interventions for dependents who have autism.
Military Families Deserve Better. Support HR.2288 to Help Military Kids with Autism
Did you know that members of the U.S. armed forces lose their autism benefits for their kids when they retire? Even if they are wounded in action? Military families spoke out to Congress on January 31 about this injustice and the many added difficulties they encounter caring for their kids with autism as a result of being in the military. The first step in righting this wrong has been taken by Congressmen John Larson (D-CT) and Walter Jones (R-NC) who introduced HR.2288, the Caring for Military Kids with Autism Act, last summer. But only 36 of their House colleagues have signed on as cosponsors. You can right that wrong by urging your Member of Congress to cosponsor HR.2288 and help support its quick passage in Congress. If they already are cosponsors, thank them for their support of our military families. HR.2288 would simply ensure that all military families, regardless of their duty status, would continue to receive autism benefits for their dependents through the TRICARE insurance system for members of the armed forces. | <urn:uuid:ed428501-c080-4298-bda3-49356f523782> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr2288 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00158-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956997 | 383 | 1.992188 | 2 |
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Huntsville Hospital is working to contact about 60 patients who received brain scans that federal regulators now say may have emitted too much radiation.
With hair missing in a thin band from ear-to-ear, a Huntsville woman was featured on the front of the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, where hundreds of overdoses have been found in three hospitals.
Federal officials have linked hair loss and high radiation levels during CT perfusion scans, which are used to diagnose blockages in stroke patients.
"It's really been horrible. It took forever to get any answers. I kept saying there was something wrong with me," said Becky Coudert, a teacher with Madison County Schools, who had the scan at Huntsville Hospital on Sept. 8.
She said within three weeks she had difficulty keeping her balance while walking. She returned to the hospital, but left without answers. She then had trouble with her memory, Coudert said.
"I couldn't remember what day of the week it was, I couldn't remember what a telephone was used for," she said on Tuesday. "I knew something was wrong with me and no one would listen to me."
Huntsville Hospital was the only hospital outside California so far to be mentioned in connection with the federal investigation.
A statement this week from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, whose regulators oversee radiation devices, says that so far about 250 patients in Los Angeles were found to have received eight times the expected radiation level.
But the scanning technique is not uncommon. And FDA issued a nationwide caution.
The FDA on Monday urged hospitals across the country to review the patients who have received the scan, to check the dosage levels provided and to be careful in the future that "dosing protocols are followed every time."
The federal release does not name Huntsville Hospital, and the FDA did not return calls on Tuesday.
Rick Patterson, an L.A. attorney with Owen, Patterson and Owen, said he now represents clients from Los Angeles, as well as Coudert in Huntsville.
"The hospital has not been forthcoming with the period of time the CT scanner might have been misprogrammed and the number of people who might have been affected," said Patterson. "The important thing is there might be other people in Huntsville who have been exposed to the radiation."
Burr Ingram, spoksesman for Huntsville Hospital, said he could not comment on an individual case. But he said the hospital was complying with the new federal suggestions, was making the recommended changes and had not violated any federal guidelines.
"Any issue involving our patients is a serious matter to us," he said. "And we're committed to providing the highest level of care and safety for our patients."
Ingram said although many more have been scanned, he knew of a complaint of side effects from only one patient in Huntsville.
"There are 60 patients who may have received a higher dose," he said. "We'll notify them, as much as anything, to put them at ease and answer any questions they may have."
Further complicating the federal investigartion, the hospitals involved used machines from two different manufacturers. In Huntsville, the hospital used a scanning machine made by G.E. Healthcare. Other hospitals used machines made by Toshiba, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Patterson said neither machine beeps nor offers any warning if radiation levels are set too high.
GE Healthcare on Tuesday released a statement saying they were working with Huntsville Hospital to review scan protocols.
"GE has also confirmed that the GE scanners at Huntsville Hospital are operating as intended," read the company statement. "As with all CT head perfusion scans, the radiation dose delivered was a decision made by healthcare providers during the treatment of stroke patients." | <urn:uuid:06aa9ae1-3214-4e52-9dd8-47dbc41a77dd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/12/huntsville_hospital_notifying.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00066-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982462 | 781 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Definition of: SOA
uthority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records
rchitecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, an SOA organizes business software in a granular fashion so that common functions can be used interchangeably by different departments internally and by external business partners as well. The more granular the components (the more pieces), the more they can be reused.
SOA is a way of thinking about IT assets as service components. When functions in a large application are made into stand-alone services that can be accessed separately, they are beneficial to several parties.
An SOA is implemented via a programming interface (API) that allows components to communicate with each other. The most popular interface is the use of XML over HTTP, known as "Web services." However, SOAs are also implemented via the .NET Framework and Java EE/RMI, as well as CORBA and DCOM, the latter two being the earliest SOA interfaces, then known as "distributed object systems." CICS, IBM's MQ series and other message passing protocols could also be considered SOA interfaces. See Web services | <urn:uuid:2ec28b4d-3233-400c-ac46-c12b5297cb40> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/51601/soa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00437-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952916 | 254 | 3.140625 | 3 |
A guide to project methodologies and participants
Contents of this article
Project partners and funders
Connected Histories was created by a partnership between the University of Hertfordshire, the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and the University of Sheffield. Natural language processing, indexing and the development of the search engine were carried out by the Humanities Research Institute (University of Sheffield). The website front end was implemented by the Institute of Historical Research, using designs provided by Mickey and Mallory. Evaluation was carried out by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. See below for Project staff.
The project was made possible by a generous grant from the JISC e-Content Capital Programme. We are also grateful for assistance from the Universities of Hertfordshire, London and Sheffield.
Connected Histories has not created any new digital content. Instead, it provides integrated access to electronic content already available on distributed websites. Our search engine does not search these resources directly. Instead, it searches indexes we have created from the full content of each resource. Our approach to indexing depends on the nature of the electronic resource available:
databases, such as the Clergy of the Church of England Database, and semi-structured sources where the text is marked up with xml tags, such as the Old Bailey Proceedings Online, were processed by extracting identified information on names, places and dates into indexes;
text which is largely unstructured, such as the British Newspapers 1600-1900, was processed using natural language processing in order to identify names, places and dates in the original texts. ANNIE, an open source information extraction system, was used, in conjunction with custom-scripted pattern action rules, to apply named entity recognition to the texts. Gazetteers were constructed from a range of sources, including the already marked-up text and the Digimap gazetteer, and they evolved as text was marked up. This methodology is subject to a degree of error, the extent of which was measured by the evaluation process.
The search engine uses the Apache Lucene text search engine, within a Java environment. It is made available to the Connected Histories website via a JavaServer Page application programming interface (API), which provides results in an XML format to the interface, which is hosted at the Institute of Historical Research.
Evaluation of the natural language processing and search engine was carried out by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London.
For the natural language processing (nlp), text samples from resources were manually marked up with names, places and dates, and the results compared with the markup produced by the natural language processing. Statistics were compiled of the numbers of true positives, false positives and false negatives, in order to generate measures of precision (a measure of the number of entities correctly classified divided by the number of entities identified by the nlp) and recall (the number of correctly classified entities divided by the total number of entities that are actually of that type). These two measures were combined into a single measure, the F-measure, which can vary between 0 (totally inaccurate) and 1 (completely accurate).
The results of this process indicate that the success of the natural language processing varied significantly, depending on the structure of the original text (the extent to which it follows expected language patterns) and, more importantly, the quality of the transcription. Text generated by optical character reading (OCR) produces less accurate results from the natural language processing than rekeyed text, because errors in the OCR make the text, both the words to be marked up and its surrounding context, less recognisable to a machine processor. The best results were for British History Online (F-measures between 0.64 to 0.74) and the Parliamentary Papers (0.625 to 0.775). Owing to the OCR, the worst results were for the 17th- and 18th-century British Newspapers (0.22 to 0.52). In general, the best results were found for locations and the worst for persons and dates, though persons and dates in the Parliamentary Papers and dates in British History Online also achieved good results.
The search engine was evaluated by 1) ensuring that it was not possible to break searches; 2) checking whether the searches produced relevant results; and 3) testing the links to the distributed websites.
Access to subscription sources
Some of the resources searched by Connected Histories are only accessible via subscription. While Connected Histories allows users to search these resources and examine snippet results free of charge, we do not and cannot provide non-subscribers full access to these resources. To arrange such access, it is necessary to contact the proprietors of the relevant resource directly.
If you do have subscription access to a resource and encounter a login page you cannot get through, you should first log in to that resource using your normal access procedure before clicking on links in Connected Histories.
Connected Histories is a not-for-profit project whose sole objective is to provide more efficient access to electronic resources for those engaged in researching and teaching British history. Access to this website is free to all users. Since it costs money to maintain the site, and the grant which funded its creation has ended, it is necessary to obtain separate funding to ensure its continuation. For this reason, the site includes advertising. All profits derived from advertising will be devoted to maintaining and upgrading the site.
Since Connected Histories is a free resource with no recurrent funding, and advertising revenue can only fund part of the running costs of this website, we welcome donations to help us keep this website free and available to all users. All donations will be devoted exclusively to maintaining and upgrading the site. To make a donation click
here. Payments may be made using Gift Aid: for every £1 donated to Connected Histories, Gift Aid adds an additional 28p. Donations are made through Google Checkout, and details of its secure payments service can be found here.
Future sources to be included
We welcome proposals for the inclusion of additional resources. If you are responsible for an electronic resource which you believe is appropriate for Connected Histories, please consult our New content information page.
The Directors of this project are Professor Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex), Professor Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield), and Dr Jane Winters (Institute of Historical Research).
The Project Manager was Dr Sharon Howard.
Dr Matthew Davies (Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research) was an academic adviser.
- Michael Pidd manages the technical work at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield.
- Katherine Rogers (Humanities Research Institute) is the principal Technical Officer, in charge of data processing and development of the search engine.
- Jamie McLaughlin (Humanities Research Institute) is a Technical Officer
- Bruce Tate (Institute of Historical Research) is responsible for the construction of the website front end.
- Jonathan Blaney and Dr Peter Webster (Institute of Historical Research) contributed to the development of the background pages.
- Jamie Norrish and Miguel Vieira (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London) performed the evaluation.
We are grateful to the following for their help in bringing this project to completion:
- Alastair Dunning, Programme Manager, Digitisation at JISC, for helpful advice at every stage of the project.
Our advisory panel, for providing helpful feedback throughout the project. The panel included Arthur Burns, Richard Deswarte, Alastair Dunning, Ian Galbraith, Mark Greengrass, Ed King, Rob Newman, Sarah Richardson, Simon Tanner, Miles Taylor and David Thomas.
Participants in focus groups at the Universities of Hertfordshire, London and Sheffield, who provided useful feedback on our plans.
Sarah Charlton and the design staff of Mickey and Mallory who not only designed the templates for this website but also provided valuable advice on many issues.
And above all, the creators of the resources included in Connected Histories for agreeing to participate in this project, and for providing us with copies of their data so that we could create the indexes which are searched by this website. | <urn:uuid:05af1015-a2a7-4273-9e78-0a7004401e02> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.connectedhistories.org/about.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932853 | 1,684 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Medical and psychosocial effects of early discharge after surgery for breast cancer: randomised trialBMJ 1998; 316 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.316.7140.1267 (Published 25 April 1998) Cite this as: BMJ 1998;316:1267
- Jorien Bonnema (), surgeona,
- Anneke M E A van Wersch, social psychologistb,
- Albert N van Geel, surgeona,
- Jean F A Pruyn, social psychologistb,
- Paul I M Schmitz, statisticiana,
- Marinus A Paul, surgeona,
- Theo Wiggers, surgeona
- a Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital Rotterdam/Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Zuider Hospital Rotterdam, PO Box 5201, 3008 AE Rotterdam, Netherlands
- b Institute for Health and Environmental Issues, PO Box 71, 4797 ZH Willemstad, Netherlands
- Correspondence to: Mrs Bonnema
- Accepted 22 October 1997
Objective: To assess the medical and psychosocial effects of early hospital discharge after surgery for breast cancer on complication rate, patient satisfaction, and psychosocial outcomes.
Design: Randomised trial comparing discharge from hospital 4 days after surgery (with drain in situ) with discharge after drain removal (mean 9 days in hospital). Psychosocial measurements performed before surgery and 1 and 4 months after.
Setting: General hospital and cancer clinic in Rotterdam with a socioeconomically diverse population.
Subjects: 125 women with operable breast cancer.
Main outcome measures: Incidence of complications after surgery for breast cancer, patient satisfaction with treatment, and psychosocial effects of short stay or long stay in hospital.
Results: Patient satisfaction with the short stay in hospital was high; only 4% (2/56 at 1 month after surgery and 2/52 at 4 months after surgery) of patients indicated that they would have preferred a longer stay. There were no significant differences in duration of drainage from the axilla between the short stay and long stay groups (median 8 v 9 days respectively, P=0.45) or the incidence of wound complications (10 patients v 9 patients). The median number of seroma aspirations per patient was higher for the long stay group (1 v 3.5, P=0.04). Leakage along the drain occurred more frequently in short stay patients (21 v 10 patients, P=0.04). The two groups did not differ in scores for psychosocial problems (uncertainty, anxiety, loneliness, disturbed sleep, loss of control, threat to self esteem), physical or psychological complaints, or in the coping strategies used. Before surgery, short stay patients scored higher on scales of depression (P=0.03) and after surgery they were more likely to discuss their disease with their families (at 1 month P=0.004, at 4 months P=0.04).
Conclusions: Early discharge from hospital after surgery for breast cancer is safe and is well received by patients. Early discharge seems to enhance the opportunity for social support within the family.
Early discharge from hospital after breast cancer surgery does not lead to an increase in the incidence of wound infection or seroma formation
A short stay in hospital, with support from community nurses on the patient's return home, is acceptable to patients
Psychosocial rehabilitation is not influenced by early discharge
Recovery in the family environment may facilitate discussion of the illness
Patients recovering from surgery for breast cancer need not spend more than three days in hospital provided that they are in good physical condition and there is adequate nursing support available in the community
The length of time patients spend in hospital after surgical procedures has been decreasing. 1 2 Patients having surgery for breast cancer are considered especially suitable for shorter stays in hospital because recovery after surgery is usually rapid. These patients usually remain in hospital for 9 to 12 days, until the serous fluid produced by the axilla is minimal and the closed suction drain is removed.3 Shorter hospital stays are possible if patients are discharged with their drains in situ4 or if drains are removed early.5 Several studies have claimed that these procedures are safe.4-8 However, these studies have been retrospective,6 have given little information about the selection of controls, 4 5 or have used self selected patients.8 These factors make the results difficult to interpret.
Patient satisfaction with early discharge is reported to be high. 4 7-9 Recovery in the patient's own environment may result in better psychosocial adjustment as a result of enhanced patient comfort, control, independence, and better interaction with family members.10 In the only study of the psychological effects of early discharge, no adverse effects were found, but patients in this study decided for themselves that they would leave hospital early.8
We conducted a randomised trial to compare short and long postoperative stays in hospital after surgery for breast cancer to determine the effect of early discharge on complication rate, patient satisfaction, and psychosocial outcome. We hypothesised that there would be no differences between the two interventions.
Subjects and methods
Patients were eligible for inclusion in the study if they had stage I or II breast cancer, had been referred to the Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center and Zuider hospital, and had been selected for treatment by either modified radical mastectomy or lumpectomy with axillary dissection. Patients were excluded if they had received preoperative radiotherapy or chemotherapy, were at high risk of complications (category III or higher of the American Society of Anesthesiologists classification), or were mentally incompetent; patients who had difficulties with the Dutch language or an inappropriate home situation were also excluded.
Between October 1993 and April 1995, 139 out of 173 (80%) women with operable breast cancer were enrolled in the study: 69 were assigned to short stay treatment and 70 to long stay treatment. Women randomised to short stay treatment were discharged on the morning of the fourth day after surgery with the axillary drain in situ. Women randomised to long stay treatment were discharged after their drain had been removed.
Of the 34 women who were not entered into the study, 22 declined to participate, 10 had an unsatisfactory home situation, and two were not asked to participate. Fourteen more women were excluded after randomisation: two long stay patients received preoperative chemotherapy, one long stay patient was treated in another hospital, one short stay patient had no malignancy, and 10 patients withdrew from the study. Reasons given for short stay patients withdrawing from the study were: questionnaires too difficult (2), refusing home care (2), dissatisfaction with randomisation outcome (1), and unknown reason (1). Reasons for long stay patients withdrawing from the study were: dissatisfaction with randomisation outcome (1), unwillingness to fill out forms (2), and unknown reason (1). Thus, the final group consisted of 125 patients: 62 short stay and 63 long stay.
Randomisation and study design
Approval from the ethics committees of both hospitals was obtained before the start of the study. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
A randomisation list was prepared by the statistician (PIMS) using a program for the generation of random numbers and assignment into two groups with a prespecified size of blocks. The size of the blocks (8 patients) was not known by the investigators, and no stratification was applied. The randomisation list was accessible only to the data managers of the central trial office at the Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center. The patient was informed of her diagnosis, treatment plan, and the design of the study by her surgeon. The patient's home situation was subsequently assessed by a breast cancer nurse. Surgeons telephoned the trial office to discover each eligible patient's randomisation before admission.
An early discharge protocol was developed to guarantee continuity of care. It included structured patient education provided by the breast cancer nurse and also available in written form, referral to a community health nurse, provision of an emergency telephone number, the scheduling of follow up visits, and an information letter being sent to the general practitioner. The development and implementation of this protocol have been described.11 For women assigned to short stay treatment, drain removal was performed at home or in the outpatient clinic. For both groups drains were removed when the production of serous fluid was less than 30 ml per day or after 14 days. Nursing care of the wound and drain, and the provision of arm exercises, protheses, and psychosocial guidance were standardised for both groups.
Patients were followed up for 4 months. At admission, patients were given a daily diary, to be used for one month, and a weekly diary, to be used for the following 3 months. The length of stay in hospital was recorded in the diaries. Clinical study end points were recorded in the diaries and patients' files by the doctors and nurses.
Three questionnaires were used to assess psychosocial variables and record demographic characteristics. The first was distributed at admission and completed the same day; the second questionnaire was distributed 1 month after surgery, and the third 3 months later, during outpatient visits.
Study end points
Complications recorded included infection, necrosis, haematoma, and dehiscence. Wound infection was defined according to the standards of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.12 Necrosis was defined as any visible necrosis along the edge of the wound. Blood that had collected under the skin, and that was removed by puncture or opening of the wound, was considered to be a haematoma. Drain complications were also recorded. After the drain was removed, fluid collection in the axilla that was clinically apparent was defined as seroma and removed by percutaneous aspiration.
Patient satisfaction with the length of stay was assessed with questions about preferences for a shorter or longer stay. Patients were also asked if they would recommend short stay treatment to other patients. Satisfaction with the care provided by the community health nurse was also assessed.
The psychosocial functioning of patients was evaluated using validated scales based on a theoretical model of coping with cancer developed by van den Borne and Pruyn. 13 14 Some specific items concerning breast cancer were added. Scale structures were made by factor analyses and were similar to those found in previous research.14 The reliability indices of the scales, assessed for each of the three questionnaires, were evaluated using Cronbach's α.15 Scores varied between 0.62 and 0.95 with most >0.70. Three out of 57 scores were excluded from analysis because the reliability of the scale was too low (α<0.60).
The following variables were measured: uncertainty, 14 16-18 state and trait anxiety,19 object anxiety, 14 16-18 loneliness, 14 16-18 depression, 14 16-18 sleep disturbances, 14 18 feelings of loss of control, 14 16 18 self esteem, 14 16 18 and the cancer locus of control.20 Locus of control refers to whether patients attribute the cause of their cancer to personal or situational factors. The Rotterdam symptom checklist was used to assess physical and psychosocial complaints.21
Coping strategies were assessed with scales constructed previously.14 Communication about the disease in the home was evaluated with a scale that assesses the openness of discussion within the family, with the patient's partner, and with the patient's children.17
A primary objective in this trial was to calculate a degree of patient satisfaction in the short stay group that would be about equal to the satisfaction found in long stay patients. We hypothesised that at 1 month after surgery, 5% of long stay patients at most would have preferred a longer stay in hospital. We also supposed that if the percentage of patients satisfied with their stay in hospital was equal the upper 95% confidence limit for the difference in satisfaction should not exceed 10% with a probability of 80% (α=5% one tailed, β=20%22). For these specifications 2×57=114 patients were necessary. To allow for withdrawals we decided to randomly allocate interventions to 140-150 patients.
For the 125 patients who were studied the power for comparing several outcomes can be calculated (all comparisons with α=0.05). The statistical power was 99% (SD 400 ml within groups) for detecting a difference of 300 ml in total volume of axillary drainage between the groups. A difference between groups in the duration of axillary drainage of 1.5 days was detectable with a power of 80% (SD 3 days within groups). The sample size was inadequate to detect small but clinically significant wound complications (5%, power about 50%).
Psychosocial variables were analysed with the SPSS package. All other analyses were performed using STATA release 5.0 (StatCorp, College Station, TX). The χ2 test was used to compare data between categories without correction for continuity. Fisher's test of exact probability was applied in 2×2 tables with small expected numbers. Student's t test was used to analyse continuous variables in the psychosocial part of the study. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare data on drainage between the two groups. Significance was defined as P<0.05.
The two groups were comparable in tumour stage, type of treatment, age, marital status, family income, and educational level (data available on the internet at www.bmj.com). Women in the short stay group were in hospital a median of 4 days (mean 4.1 including day of discharge, range 3-5); women in the long stay group had a median length of stay of 9 days (mean 9.0 including day of discharge, range 4-14).
There were no significant differences between short stay and long stay patients in drainage volume or duration of drainage, but the mean number of aspirations required per patient was higher in the long stay group (P=0.04) (table 1). Clinically significant wound infection occurred in eight patients in the short stay group and in seven patients in the long stay group; all were treated with antibiotics. One short stay and two long stay patients also required abscess drainage. Two short stay patients were readmitted for removal of a persistent haematoma. Leakage of drainage fluid alongside the drain occurred more often in the short stay group (in 21 v 10 patients, P=0.04). One short stay patient died of unsuspected distant metastases during the study.
Table 2 shows patients' satisfaction with their length of stay. Most of the women in the short stay group indicated that they would recommend early discharge to other patients, as did 37% of the long stay patients at 1 month and 42% of long stay patients at 4 months, despite the fact that they had no experience of early discharge (table 2).
Evaluation of the nursing care provided at home showed that 42 out of 45 (93%) short stay patients were satisfied that they had received enough attention and that 30 out of 42 (71%) felt as secure at home as in hospital.
There was no difference between the two groups in scores on scales measuring uncertainty, anxiety, loneliness, disturbed sleep, loss of control, or threats to self esteem. Before surgery short stay patients scored higher than long stay patients on scales measuring depression (score 10.3 v 8.9, P=0.03; minimum score 6, maximum score 24). 14 18 This difference disappeared after surgery. There were no differences in physical or psychological complaints, as measured by the Rotterdam symptom checklist, or in coping strategies used.
A shorter stay in hospital seemed to influence the extent to which the disease could be discussed within the patient's family. Before surgery there were no differences between the two groups, but at 1 and 4 months after surgery short stay patients were more likely to discuss their disease with their family (score 1 month after surgery 23.2 v 21.5, P=0.004; score 4 months after surgery 23.5 v 21.9, P=0.04; minimum score 7, maximum score 28).17
This paper presents the results of a randomised trial evaluating the medical and psychosocial effects of short and long hospital stays after surgery for breast cancer. Comparison between the two groups found no significant differences in wound complications, duration of drainage, patient satisfaction, or psychosocial outcomes. In fact there seemed to be an increase in social support within the family among patients in the short stay group.
The high scores for treatment satisfaction among the short stay patients are in accordance with the results of other studies. 4 7-9 Short stay patients were highly satisfied with their community based nursing care. Support from a specialist nurse considerably reduces psychological morbidity.23 In the home, community nurses take on the role of breast cancer nurses. We considered it important to continue this care after a short stay in hospital.
There were no adverse effects of a shorter stay in hospital on the rate of complications or the incidence of seroma formation. However, the number of patients in this study was too small to detect a difference of 5% in rates of wound complication; a sample size of more than 800 patients would have been necessary to do this. This is not feasible in this type of research. We decided to discharge patients with drains in situ and to remove drains when production of serous fluid was minimal. This practice leads to a low incidence of seroma aspiration 24 25 and fewer outpatient visits. The alternatives are to remove the drain after a fixed number of days regardless of fluid production 5 26 27 or not to place a drain in the axilla. 27 28 Seromas have been reported in as few as 10% of patients after early drain removal,5 but others have reported seromas in as many as 40%3 and 73%27 of patients, though these did not affect the risk of infection. The length of time the drain was in situ was equal for both groups and is consistent with previous findings from our own clinic.29
Before surgery the patients randomly allocated to a short hospital stay scored higher on scales measuring depression than did those randomly allocated to a long stay. The uncertainty about the experimental treatment after surgery may have contributed to these feelings. A shorter stay in hospital seems to make it easier for a patient to discuss the disease with her family; however, the data should be interpreted carefully as this was the only significant difference in psychosocial variables found between the two groups after surgery. The positive effects of social support in psychosocial adjustment for patients with breast cancer have been discussed. 30 31 The ability to express emotions within the family is associated with less mood disturbance.32 In our study there was no decrease in mood disturbance in the short stay group; our follow up was 4 months, but the positive effects may have become evident later.
In the United States patients having surgery for breast cancer often stay in hospital only one or two days 4 10 or are treated as outpatients.6 These changes were initially financially motivated but have gradually become accepted by surgeons.10 In most European hospitals, however, these types of early discharge policies are not the normal practice. Our randomised study has proved that shortening the length of time a patient spends in hospital after surgery for breast cancer has no adverse effects. It would be interesting to evaluate the American practice in a European setting, paying special attention to the psychosocial effects of this policy, especially since no data have been available on these aspects until now.
We thank all participants who enrolled in the trial and those who contributed and are not mentioned here. We thank P Stringer and A M M Eggermont for reading the manuscript.
Contributors: JB contributed to the design of the protocol, performed the literature search, participated in the execution of the study, collected and analysed the data, wrote the paper, and is guarantor for the study. AMEAvW coordinated the study in both hospitals, discussed core ideas, studied the literature, participated in data collection and analysis, and contributed to writing the paper. JFAP initiated and coordinated the formulation of the study hypothesis, designed the protocol, contributed to the interpretation of findings, and edited the paper. PIMS contributed to the design of the protocol, coordinated randomisation procedures, and performed the statistical analysis of the data. MAP contributed to data collection and editing the paper. TW had the original idea for the study, initiated the research, participated in the execution of the study, and edited the paper.
Funding: Ministry of Welfare, Health, and Sports, the Netherlands.
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The project is designed to help parents improve their Internet safety knowledge and skills through participating in learning events hosted by Halley Movement and its NGO partners.
Parents and specially ‘Home Stay’ mothers will gain a strong understanding of the risks, harms and rewards that come with their child being online. This awareness campaign will identify the risks and address ways to mitigate the harms so that parents and children can reap the rewards of digital technology.
Halley Movement aims at reaching out a majority of community leaders, PTA members, Caregivers and Religious groups in order to create a greater confidence in their ability to manage the digital lives of their children. They will have learned ways to increase the safety, decrease the fear, while reaping the rewards of digital lives.
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Love At Last Pet Rescue's mission is to support and conduct research, education, and informational activities to increase public awareness of the necessary animal care to prevent overpopulation & illness’s like rabies. Decrease the number of unwanted/euthanized animals in our area by providing information on the U.S. euthanasia rate and the health benefits of spay/neuter via newspaper ads, flyers, booths at fairs or other events, school programs, etc. End animal suffering. Rescue and rehome as many unwanted animals as possible. We sterilize, fully vet, rehabilitate and place in permanent, loving homes.
Love At Last conducts research, education, and informational activities to increase public awareness of the necessary animal care to prevent animal suffering, overpopulation and illnesses. We decrease the number of unwanted / euthanized animals in our area by providing information on the U.S. euthanasia rate and the health benefits of spay/neuter via newspaper ads, flyers, booths at meet and greet events, fairs, school programs and other events. We rescue and rehome as many unwanted animals as possible by holding meet and greet adoption events and utilizing websites with our adoptable animals. Before the animal is adoptable, we sterilize, vaccinate, rehabilitate and take care of any necessary vetting needed, all in foster homes and place in permanent, loving homes to approved applicants. The applicants will have to fill out an application and a contract that will state the living condition the animal will live in and other valuable information to provide the best care possible. We save animals suffering from the streets and in the shelters, sometimes even from owners who can no longer care for them. We foster these animals in volunteers homes until we can find them permanent, loving families. Our goal is to educate people on the importance of companion animals in our society to stop the cycle of animal neglect and abuse. We have volunteers who help us feed the strays, lay bedding and help find fosters to get them off the streets and into homes. All fosters have to be approved foster applicants with home checks. They sign a foster application to accept responsibility for any and all events that occur in connection with fostering. There are certain guidelines they have to abide by, like keeping the animals inside unless they take for walks or outdoor activities and to go potty and they also have to have an enclosed fence. The fosters work with the animals and their behavior issues and get them ready to be adopted. We pull animals from the euthanasia list in shelters and give them a second chance. Place them in foster homes as well. These animals get vaccinations, spayed or neutered, heartworm test, deworming and other vet care that is needed to make them adoptable. People who want to adopt an animal have to fill out an application form stating the living conditions the animal will live in and provide vet care of any animals they have or had in the past. They also sign a contract stating they will return the animal back to Love At Last Pet Rescue if it doesnt work out. Adoption events are held at different locations in the houston/Katy and surrounding areas since the rescue has many fosters all over Houston and the outskirts of Houston. Everybody involved in Love At Last Pet Rescue, whether an officer, director or volunteer are all true volunteers and do not get paid. We all volunteer our time for the sake of the animals.
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Over the past few years, Melina Papageorgiou has made several trips to Muslim countries – among them Doha and Abu Dhabi – and has photographed women in their burkinis.
With her comprehensive and heterogeneous picture series, which the Berlin-based photographer undertook following her own inspiration, Melina Papageorgiou tells us her own story: the story of her visits with several families, and her view of this still exotic region.
The series also features images of an inhospitable landscape with selected details of vegetation, streets, and portraits of the people who live there.
A catalogue with an introduction by Dr. Matthias Harder will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Born 1981 in Freiburg / Breisgau, Germany. Grew up in Germany and Greece. Photography studies at Ostkreuzschule, Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin. Guest student at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (class of Prof. Joachim Brohm). Exhibitions in Berlin, Osnabrueck, Cambridge and Athens. Shortlisted at Photobook Dummy Award Kassel 2016. Lives and works in Berlin.
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Nvidia announced graphics-chip based cloud tech today, claiming to deliver fast gaming to almost any device.
"GeForce GRID represents a massive disruption in how games are delivered and played," said Phil Eisler, general manager of cloud gaming at Nvidia, in a statement.
The trick is to power the games remotely with brawny servers that tap into Nvidia's new Kepler graphics processing units (GPUs).
Each Kepler chip has 3,072 Nvidia "CUDA" processor cores and packs 4.7 teraflops (trillion floating point operations per second) of 3D shader performance. Shaders are instrumental in rendering realistic effects in games.
All of this horsepower will allow gaming-as-a-service providers to render complex games in the cloud and encode them on the GPU so servers can simultaneously run more game streams, according to Nvidia. GPUs are more adept at rendering gaming effects than traditional CPUs, or central processing units, provided by chipmakers such as Intel.
The net effect for gamers is playing higher-end games on an iPad or Android device that wouldn't ordinarily support that level of game play.
Nvidia is hooking up with Gaikai, which has about two dozen data centers in the U.S., and OnLive, among other companies.
Nvidia also made a broader announcement today about its new Kepler technology, which is designed for use in large-scale data centers. Like the gaming experience described above, Kepler GPUs deliver faster streaming "making a remote data center feel like it's just next door," the company said.
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Recently NIST has released the second part of a planned series on the device security concerning IoT device security. Also, this is going to provide different organizations with the fundamental core principles, which is essential to secure IoT devices. Furthermore, the first step begins with the manufacturers of the devices.
Back in June 2019, NIST did unveil a profoundly foundational piece regarding the Internet of Things assets. The study did also outline a wide array of cybersecurity and privacy which Internet of Things poses. The NIST researchers also announced that the laboratory for the physical sciences would continue building on a robust guidance system. By the looks of it, NIST will also build on guidance for helping organizations who are supporting the vulnerabilities of the devices.
The definitive guide from NIST came into being in the previous week. Moreover, the guide puts focus on the devices which are always connected on the network. These devices are also found in many industries as well as in several hospitals. NIST also came up with recommending cybersecurity features for securing the Internet of Things for both organizations and manufacturers around the world.
By the looks of it, the Core Baseline offers some guides along with the recommendations for what Internet of Things can become. The principal author of the study, and NIST's computer scientist, Mike Fagan, said that the Internet of Things devices should possess robust security measures.
The study is aimed towards a technical audience; however, the researchers in NIST hope that they would help the manufacturers along with the consumers. According to NIST, securing the Internet of Things devices is more like a group effort. It is the manufacturer that has to supply the software updates and the optional security features. The users have to apply security to the Internet of Things devices. Both of the sides play a massive role in making the security in IoT robust.
**This post was published on https://healthitsecurity.com
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Distance from Bharatpur to Bhairahawa
Distance from Bharatpur to Bhairāhawā is 99 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 62 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Bharatpur and Bhairāhawā is 99 km= 62 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Bharatpur to Bhairahawa, It takes 0.11 hours to arrive.
Bharatpur is located in Nepal.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||27° 40´ 59.9880'' N |
84° 25´ 59.9880'' E
Bharatpur Distances to Cities
|Distance from Bharatpur to Bhairahawa||99 km|
|Distance from Bharatpur to Baglung||106 km|
|Distance from Bharatpur to Banepa||108 km|
|Distance from Bharatpur to Nepalgunj||280 km|
|Distance from Bharatpur to Birendranagar||293 km|
Bhairahawa is located in Nepal.
|GPS Coordinates||27° 30´ 0.0000'' N |
83° 27´ 0.0000'' E
Bhairāhawā Distances to Cities
|Distance from Bhairahawa to Nepalgunj||191 km|
|Distance from Bhairahawa to Baglung||87 km|
|Distance from Bhairahawa to Banepa||205 km|
|Distance from Bhairahawa to Bhadrapur||473 km|
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Jeremy White is the program director of Narrow Gate Exchange (NGE), a ministry that exists to glorify God by equipping His disciples to build sustainable kingdom businesses that strengthen and transform their communities. Jeremy’s primary role is to organize, structure, and facilitate the vision and curriculum of NGE and to create partnerships with local churches. He is also a noted Bible teacher and scholar who holds a Masters of Divinity from Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee, and a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies & Leadership from the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.
With nearly eight hours of video training and 25 lessons divided over two courses, each coupled with extensive charts, images, notes, and other resources, Finding the Way … Living the Life: An Introduction to Discipleship is a comprehensive study of what it means to follow, become like, and daily serve Jesus Christ.
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Part One of a five-part lesson discusses the costs that discipleship will have for the believer.
Lesson 15: Counting the Cost of Discipleship: Being in the World
Part Two of a five-part lesson discusses the sin of the world that the believer will deal with.
Lesson 16: Counting the Cost of Discipleship: Living in the Shfela
Part Three of a five-part lesson discusses the battleground that believers live on and how we can overcome it.
Lesson 17: Counting the Cost of Discipleship: The Tools We Get
Part Four of a five-part lesson explains the tools that God gives us in order to be successful in discipleship.
Lesson 18: Counting the Cost of Discipleship: Our Prayer
Part Five of a five-part lesson discusses the prayer we need to have to succeed as disciples.
Lesson 19: Your Spiritual Gifts
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Lesson 20: Unpacking Your Life, Breaking Down Walls
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Lesson 21: Developing Your Testimony: Telling Your Story
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Lesson 23: Linking Vision with Discipleship
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Lesson 24: The Condition of Your Heart
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Big changes – physically and culturally – are being asked of us to ensure a healthy planet for today’s youth and future generations. Everyday plants, animals, rivers, and forests are being commodified and liquidated with little respect for long-term impacts. To extract profit as a way of life, at the expense of the carrying capacity of the planet is to take advantage of the defenselessness of life’s generosity. These trends among others, for many are resulting in increasing feelings of loneliness, powerlessness, and anxiety for our future.
From its conception and in response to the great need for life-affirming cultural restoration, Nature’s Mystery offers eco-centric education and mentorship. We respect and express the teachings of the more-than-human world, as well as the wisdom of elders and indigenous peoples across the earth, through how we walk on the land, through our stories, our games, and how we relate to one another.
We are changing the old cultural narrative from the inside out, through the quality of our awareness and care for each child; by upholding higher values such as honor, gratitude, and service; by being authentic, vulnerable, and receptive to the needs of our community.
Creating transformative outdoor educational offerings and knowing the joy and fulfillment of our ongoing relationships, with youth and families has shown us that with each smile, interaction, and gesture of connection we can and are reweaving the fabric of community. While large-scale systemic changes that address global climate and environmental issues may, at times, feel beyond our individual power, we see how each of us – parents, teachers, gardeners, artists – affirm life even in the unacknowledged and seemingly insignificant choices we make everyday.
Opening to possibility and embodying our visions is an unfolding journey. We of Nature’s Mystery can offer who we are, our unique life experiences, and the tools and resources we have gathered. We are not here to tell anyone else what must be done. We believe that the wisdom and inspiration within each of us can guide us in organizing around our collective needs and the legacy we leave for future generations.
Starting with Wisdom Councils
We invite parents and community members who feel a desire to connect, reflect, and collaborate for the children and the common good to join us for monthly wisdom councils. Our councils will be guided by questions that connect us with each other’s personal journeys and help us express our visions of what is possible. It is our intent that these councils serve to deepen our connection and solidarity with each other, as well as lend strength to overcoming obstacles in all that we aspire to. We will start this journey with wisdom councils and trust in the beauty of what is ready to emerge. Councils will be two hours. Community supported childcare provided.
If you are interested in participating, please reply to this email and send us your day and time preferences for meeting. By responding by the first weekend of April, we can include your input in scheduling, thank you!
Growing a School
We have always upheld a policy of accepting any child/family, regardless of financial limitations. This year we are focusing on the establishment of our 501(C)3 and implementing a model of community-supported mentorship (CSM) to provide greater accessibility for under-served youth. If we want the youth (aka our future leaders) to have an opportunity to grow up with a sense of belonging in and responsibility for our community, then we, as a community have a responsibility to them.
Able and Inspired to help?
If you or anyone you know has the time and relevant skills to serve, we are currently seeking board members for our newly forming non- profit. Our goal of raising $56,000 (CSM) by the fall of 2021 to sponsor 28 boys and girls (ages 9-11) for their first year of our 3-year coming-of-age mentorship journey. As always, we feel tremendous gratitude for any time, energy, and resources you feel inspired to contribute in helping achieve these goals.
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The Bible calls us believers. If you’re a Christian today, you’re a believer. Believing is what you do. You are good at believing, and no matter how little or how much you have believed up to now, you can believe more. Hebrews 11:6 says, “He that comes to God must believe that He is.” Most of us crossed that threshold long ago.
As Christians, we believe much more; we believe Jesus died for us. We didn’t see Jesus die for us. We weren’t standing at the foot of the cross when He died. We didn’t see Him shed His blood, but we believe He died for us. We believe He was buried. We didn’t see His body laid in the tomb, but we believe it. We also believe God raised Him from the dead, even though we weren’t there and have no firsthand knowledge—nor do we have physical proof of any of these things.
We, as believers, believe in a place called heaven. We’ve never been to heaven. We don’t know where it is, and we couldn’t point to it on a map if we had to. But we believe in the existence of heaven. We also believe we’re going there one day when our bodies die. We believe the streets of heaven are paved with gold, and we will one day live in a mansion in that holy city whose gates are made of pearl.
We fully accept all these truths and more—by faith. In fact, if we told these things to somebody who’s not familiar with them, they might think we were crazy. They would probably think the guy who believes in UFOs and aliens has more sense than we do! And yet, we believe without batting an eye because we’ve seen scriptures that promise these things in God’s word; we’ve embraced them and decided to believe them for ourselves.
Where did we get that confidence? Was it the result of some emotion or feeling? Is it something we developed in and of ourselves? No! We read the Bible; we chose to believe those promises, and they’ve become real to us—more real than evidence, more real than circumstances. And nobody can talk us out of these beliefs!
I want to encourage you to understand that you are a believer. That’s the one word we can use to describe you. You believe in the impossible. You believe in things that are invisible. You believe in things you’ve never touched or seen with your eyes. You’re a believer, and you are good at it! You were born for this. Make the decision to expand the reach of your faith. Find more promises from God that apply to other areas of your life and believe more of God’s word than you ever have before. Because in God’s kingdom, you don’t get what you deserve or what you earn; you get what you believe for!
According to your faith, be it unto you. If we believe little, we’re going to receive little. We can choose to limit our faith to salvation from sin and ensure our entrance into heaven—no doubt about it. If we accept Jesus as Lord, we are going to heaven, and we can have the assurance of that right now. But why limit our faith to the distant future when we can, as Jesus said, speak to the mountains in our lives? Why don’t we change some things in our world in the present? Why don’t we begin to believe for God to intervene in the here and now and experience some of the deeper things—some of the more amazing experiences God has for us in this life? An example of faith changing our everyday lives is found in this verse:
“For whatever (whoever) is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” —1 John 5:4
Victory belongs to all of us. But if you’re not experiencing it, if you’re not walking in victory, it could be because you’re not believing for it. It must be activated or received. It becomes part of your experience by faith. All the blessings of God in the New Testament are made available by grace, but they’re made yours by faith.
Again, faith is more of a personal choice than some sort of extraordinary deed or some great accomplishment that only the elite can do. There are certain athletes who do things the rest of us just can’t do. We admire them, and we even pay to watch them. They become famous because they do things that very few are capable of. But we must not think the same way about living by faith and the heroes of faith in the word of God. We aren’t to sit back and read about their great faith in God as if they’re doing something that only they can do.
Faith is something we can all do. We can all believe God, and we can all do more than we’ve ever done before in the area of faith!
God likes faith! Heb 11:6 says that “without faith it’s impossible to please Him.” One reason God likes faith is that He wants to give us things we could never earn. In God’s kingdom, people don’t get what they deserve; they get what they believe for. God has no favorites. By faith, everyone has equal access to every blessing. No one is left out or excluded. Anyone can receive God’s best, by grace through faith. In this series, you’ll see why faith is God’s chosen method to get His blessings to the world and why God’s way is always best. God likes faith, and the more you understand the message of faith, the more you’re going to like it too! | <urn:uuid:d9943474-9562-4e0d-b7bd-f1af601731ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gregfritz.org/believers-believe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.964552 | 1,247 | 1.554688 | 2 |
When you hear the word wrinkly what comes to your mind, old right?
Well, the word wrinkly might make you imagine something or someone old with a squeezed body or face but do you know that this is the beauty of some dogs.
The wrinkly forehead or wrinkly body of some dogs gives them a different and unique look from the other smooth body dog.
Why do dogs have fat rolls?
Dogs have fats rolls to protect the inner body parts from an attacker, such that the dog can fight back even with a grip or bite on the wrinkled fat.
The extra wrinkled skin protects the dog and safekeep the body parts of the dog even from deep bites.
Here are 7 Dogs with a Wrinkly body
1. Chinese Shar-Pei
The Chinese Shar-Pei was originally bred to guard, hunt, and also fight.
They are known for their hispid coat, wrinkled skin, and love for their family.
The Chinese Shar-Pei wrinkles cause it to have too many loose folds of skin that give it the bulky, oversized look especially when it keeps adding weight.
It has small ears sitting atop a large, strong head with a short snout and a purplish tongue. It has a thick curly round tail.
This breed is cool enough to live in an apartment.
It also thinks independently and can sometimes be aloof.
This breed also serves as a watchdog or a guard dog, another character of share-pei is that it is difficult to train.
It needs an owner who is strong and can establish a firm leadership but kind.
2. Dogue de Bordeaux
The Dogue de Bordeaux is a French breed.
This breed is very powerful, with a very muscly body.
Dogue de Bordeaux was bred for work like pulling carts, transporting hefty objects, and as guard dogs.
One of the noticeable things about this breed is its massive head and a spot of a bit of saliva hanging out of its mouth.
Another noticeable thing is that the head and the neck region are the most wrinkled part of its body.
They love to defend their family and hence can serve as a family dog but they can be stubborn at times, they naturally look imposing.
The males are about 23 to 27 inches tall and weigh about 110 pounds.
The Females are about 23 to 26 inches and weigh about 99 pounds.
3. Basset Hound
This funny but noble-looking, short-legged breed is a member of the hound family.
It is not as fleshy and doesn’t have many wrinkles like the previously mentioned breeds and just like a part of its name implies “Bas” which means low, the Basset hound is certainly low to the ground.
This breed is a scent hound and was basically bred to hunt hares or rabbits.
Their sense of smell and or the ability to ground-scent is obviously very sharp.
Its neck is wider than its head and they are also widely known for their stubbornness.
4. French Bulldog
The French Bulldog is a breed of domestic dog, it is bred to be companion dogs.
Its ear shape is like that of a bat but still beautiful, don’t be decided by a French Bulldog size.
It is small but strong in build with a powerful muscular body.
It has a short easy coat or skin, it is a dog with an easy-going personality.
The French bulldog likes to play, but it also enjoys its days by relaxing on the sofa.
This breed is intelligent, and training them is easy as long as you make it fun and put much energy into the game.
5. Neapolitan Mastiff
The first thing I noticed about this breed is that they are large with a massive, very wrinkled, extra fleshy head.
It’s an Italian breed and is mainly a guard dog.
The slow steps taken by this unique breed might be described as hesitant, but the power in each stride is very much noticeable.
As he approaches, his large size, fleshy loose skin, and many thick facial wrinkles make you wonder what breed it is.
Neapolitan Mastiff is also known as the mastino.
This wrinkly face but lovely breed is also a member of the hound family.
Like the Basset hound, it also has a great smell sense ( even better than the Basset hound).
It was bred for hunting deer, wild boar, and even for tracking people.
They are about 23 to 27 inches tall and weigh up to 110 pounds.
They possess long, wrinkled faces with loose skin, huge ears, and warm, lovely deep eyes that make their expression soft and steady.
Their powerful legs also give them the advantage to scent over long miles.
Bloodhounds enjoy company, including other dogs and people, and can be kept as pet dogs.
Just like the English Bulldog, this breed possesses a wrinkly face and nose similar to that of the bulldog.
They have a great sense of humor and like to show off.
Pugs are intelligent, loyal, charming, playful, and mischievous.
They can be willful thus making training them a bit difficult, their lifespan is 12 to 15 years, and weigh about 80 pounds.
The breed has a beautiful, glossy skin coat that comes in a variety of colors, often light brown or black.
They have a square body with well-developed muscles, Pug legs are strong, straight, and are of normal length which is set well under.
One interesting name I discovered Pugs are called is “shadows”, this is because they like to follow their owners around and like to stay close for any action, always wanting attention and love from their owners.
Though some dogs may look beautiful even with their wrinkled faces, big heads, and bodies, they are also prone to health issues because of this and need proper care, exercise, and monitoring for them to live long and stay healthy while trying to live long.
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Community beliefs about childhood obesity: its causes, consequences and potential solutions
Covic, T., Roufeil, L. and Dziurawiec, S. (2007) Community beliefs about childhood obesity: its causes, consequences and potential solutions. Journal of Public Health, 29 (2). pp. 123-131.
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The objective of this study was to explore community beliefs about the causes, consequences and potential solutions of childhood obesity. A convenience sample of 434 adults (41.2 ± 13.3 years; 61% parents) in New South Wales, Australia, was surveyed using a newly developed childhood obesity scale. Five causal (emotional eating; eating habits and food knowledge; environmental dysfunction; abundance of contemporary lifestyle; cost of contemporary lifestyle), four consequences (known consequences of obesity; behavioural consequences; social consequences; less-known physical consequences) and three potential solutions factors (parental actions; professional assistance; limiting behaviours) were identified. Parents did not differ from non-parents across the 12 factors nor were there any differences based on the level of education. There were, however, gender differences across two causal factors (emotional eating and abundance of contemporary lifestyle) and two consequences factors (behavioural consequences and social consequences), with females endorsing all four factors more strongly than males. The results of this study suggest that this sample was aware of the complex nature of childhood obesity in terms of its causes, consequences and a range of potential solutions, but they endorsed more family rather than community-based interventions.
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All new developments must meet local standards of beauty, quality and design under new rules
Local communities will be at the heart of plans to make sure that new developments in their area are beautiful and well-designed, under proposals outlined by Housing Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP today (30 January 2021).
In response to the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission report, the government is today:
- Proposing changes to the National Planning Policy Framework to place greater emphasis on beauty and place-making, and to ensure that all new streets are lined with trees.
- Publishing a draft national design code that provides a checklist of design principles to consider for new developments, such as street character, building type, façade, and the requirements that address wellbeing and environmental impact, which councils can use as a foundation for their own local design codes.
- Encouraging all councils to publish their unique design code, so residents have a real say in the design of new developments in their area.
- Creating an ‘Office for Place’ within the next year, which will support local communities to turn their designs into the standard for all new buildings in their area.
- Opening a new Community Housing Fund to support community-based organisations to bring forward local housebuilding projects for the £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme, backed by £4 million of support for local plan.
- And doubling the available funding for areas under the “local heritage listing – monuments men” campaign, with up to £1.5 million now available for communities to nominate local heritage sites including historical buildings or modern architecture, art and memorials for inclusion in their council’s local heritage list.
Taken together, these measures will help the country to Build Back Better and ensure that current and new residents alike will benefit from beautiful homes in well-designed neighbourhoods as we recover from this pandemic.
Greater concentration will now be placed on the quality, design and the environment in planning than ever before, with the local community fully involved in how they want new developments to look and feel. For example, the proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework will set an expectation that good quality design will be approved while poor quality will be rejected, and includes a commitment to ensure that all streets are lined with trees.
The measures mean the word “beauty” will be specifically included in planning rules for the first time since the system was created in 1947 – going back to a previous time when there was a greater emphasis on whether a building was considered attractive to local people.
Housing Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP said:
We should aspire to pass on our heritage to our successors, not depleted but enhanced. In order to do that, we need to bring about a profound and lasting change in the buildings that we build, which is one of the reasons we are placing a greater emphasis on locally popular design, quality and access to nature, through our national planning policies and introducing the National Model Design Codes.
These will enable local people to set the rules for what developments in their area should look like, ensuring that they reflect and enhance their surroundings and preserve our local character and identity.
Instead of developers forcing plans on locals, they will need to adapt to proposals from local people, ensuring that current and new residents alike will benefit from beautiful homes in well-designed neighbourhoods.
The government has published a new National Model Design Code that outlines the design standards new developments are expected to meet. This provides a checklist that will guide local councils to create their own, unique, local design code, centred on genuine community involvement so residents have a real say in the design of new developments, embracing the history, culture and heritage of their local area.
It is the government’s ambition that every council will produce a local design code and guide, to set expectations for beauty and well-designed homes and places in their local area and to give a simple process to local communities so they can have their say.
Nicholas Boys Smith, Chair of the Design Body Steering Group, said:
There is no fundamental reason that prevents the creation of streets and squares, homes as places where we can lead happy, healthy, and connected lives. In these places we can know more of our neighbours and be more joyful as we go about our daily lives. As a society we have not done this, and we are paying the consequences.
I am delighted that the government is implementing so many of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission’s findings and would like to thank them for their work to undertake this. I am honoured to be asked to chair the transition board of the Interim Office for Place and look forward to our work to help deliver new places and manage existing places to be beautiful, popular, healthy and sustainable.
Our ultimate purpose will be to make it easier for neighbourhood communities to ask for what they find beautiful and to refuse what they find ugly.
Victoria Hills, chief executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute said:
As a member of the government’s Design Body Steering Group, I welcome MHCLG’s commitment to good quality design. The RTPI has long called for design to be an integral part of the planning process. A survey in 2020 revealed that 88% of our members wanted greater powers to reject poor design and lacked the capacity and resources to do so.
I am therefore delighted that the government has listened and pledged to not only strengthen the National Planning Policy Framework to empower local planning authorities to prioritise design and drive up quality, but has also committed to inject much-needed funding in this area.
I am also pleased that communities will be at the heart of this process. It has never been more important, in the wake of the pandemic, that communities have a say on how their local area looks. Planners and the planning system must play an active role in driving up design quality in all areas of England and we look forward to making an ongoing contribution to this work in advance of the forthcoming Planning Bill.
The government is also putting support in place for councils and communities to help them set expectations of design quality in their area. This includes the creation of an ‘Office for Place’ within the next year which will pioneer design and beauty within the planning system. The new organisation will draw on Britain’s world-class design expertise to support communities to turn their visions of beautiful design into local standards that all new buildings will be required to meet.
An interim Office for Place will be established in the department immediately with a transition board chaired by Nicholas Boys Smith, tasked with considering what form the organisation should take, informed by responses to the planning reform consultation.
This team will this year be piloting the National Model Design Code with 20 communities and empowering local authorities to demand beauty, design quality and place-making, through training on the principles outlined in the National Model Design Code.
Expressions of interest are now open for the first 10 councils to sign up, with these to receive a share of an initial £500,000. The proposals are now out for consultation for a period of 8 weeks.
The government is also relaunching the Community Housing Fund, making £4 million available to help Community Land Trusts (CLTs) bid for funds to support them to prepare bids for the £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme. This programme is the largest investment in affordable housing in a decade and will provide up to 180,000 new homes across the country, should economic conditions allow.
This will help to diversify the homebuilding sector, improving design, sustainability and build quality by developing modern methods of construction.
The government is also encouraging communities to nominate historic buildings and other heritage assets such as memorials and plaques for their council’s local heritage list – helping to protect the historic buildings and heritage truly valued in their area.
Following an overwhelmingly positive response to the expressions of interest launched in October 2020, funding has been doubled – to £1.5 million – allowing 22 areas to now be involved in the pilot, instead of the 10 originally announced.
This follows the appointment of Charles O’Brien as the government’s Listing Heritage Adviser to help conserve some of England’s historic buildings as part of the most ambitious local heritage campaign for 40 years. This is the first time such a post has been created since the 1980s and has echoes of the famous Monuments Men who battled to save historic buildings and artefacts from bulldozers during the Second World War.
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Mammals are organisms that give birth to live young, contain mammary glands which females use to produce milk to nourish their young. Mammals have hair or fur and are warm-blooded. Most mammals have a placenta to nourish their young in the uterus, although some primitive Monotremes are egg-layers and Marsupials have their young spend most of their time developing in the pouch because they give birth to very undeveloped young. Mammals first appeared in the time line of evolution approximately 200 million years ago. The divisions of the Class Mammalia are subclass Prototheria which are called monotremes. Examples are platypuses and echidnas. An interesting fact is that they sweat out milk on their bellies to nourish their young and lay eggs. These are very primitive mammals. Subclass Theria are the live bearing mammals. Subclass Theria includes Metatheria, or marsupials like oppossums and kangaroos--these have underdeveloped placentas and give birth to very tiny undeveloped young which continue developing in the mother's pouch. Eutheria includes placentals, which are animals that give birth to live young after a period of gestation spent in the uterus, while nourished by the placenta. Examples are dogs, cats, humans, whales, mice, bats, etc.
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Clan affiliation was inherited through the mothers line only, membership was determined at birth, it was only natural that the child belonged to the clan of the mother since she was certain of her birth child whereas the identity of the father might, in some cases, be less certain. The clan provided many important functions including child care for orphans and the destitute, hospitality for visiting clan members from other towns and most important, the avenging of wrongs committed against the clan members before the ancient law of blood revenge was abolished by the Cherokee National Government on September 11, 1808. The act of abolishment was seen to have advanced the Cherokees in civilization, and it was universally accepted by all tribes.
Clan membership was essential to one's
existence as a human being within a Cherokee society because of the protection of the
kinship system. Since clans were divided into white or peace clans and red or war clans, a
Cherokee clan determined a person's political alignment and his role in society.
Kinship, through the laws of the clan, governed social relationships, dictated possible
marriage partners, designated friends, designated
|The Wolf Clan is the largest clan and the most prominent clan, providing most of the war chiefs. The wolf clan are Keepers of the wolf and the only clan who could kill a wolf. The Clan color of the "AniWahya" is Red.|
|The Blue or Panther Clan made blue medicine from a special blue plant to keep our children well. They were also known as the Wildcat Clan. The Clan color for the "Ani Sahoni" is Blue.|
|The Long Hair Clan are also known as Twister Clan, Hair Hanging Down Clan or Wind Clan. Those belonging to this Clan wore their hair in elaborate hairdos, walked in a proud and vain manner twisting their shoulders. Peace chiefs are usually from this clan and wore a white feather robe. The Clan color for the "Ani Gilohi" is Yellow.|
|The Bird Clan are the Keepers of the birds and and they are our messengers. This clan was skilled in using blowguns and snares for bird hunting. The Clan color for the "Ani Tsisqua" is Purple.|
|The Paint Clan made red paint and were sorcerers and medicine men. The Clan color for the "Ani Wodi" is White.|
|The Deer Clan are the Keepers and hunters of the Deer, and are known as fast runners. The Clan color for the "Ani Kawi" is Brown.|
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The following guest post was submitted by Sense of Security, a leading independent provider of IT security and risk management solutions in Australia, with expertise in assessment and assurance, as well as strategy and architecture, through to deployment and ongoing management.
It’s generally agreed that electronic security systems that use existing forms of user identification relying on passwords are outdated. Passwords are far too vulnerable to hackers and also can be forgotten by users themselves.
To fill the gap, biometric sensors are being used more and more in information security systems. In biometric security solutions, microphones, cameras and sensors gather information in real time. They have already made entrances to cars, homes, garages, etc. far safer.
Biometric sensors can look at any number of unique human characteristics to verify identity. These include iris, finger vein, and voice recognition. Voice recognition in particular is seen as a hot area for development, since it is easy enough for people to say a few words and identification through this method could be potentially very quick and user friendly.
Iris identification is also is becoming more popular and is even used in some airports to verify the identity of passengers going through security.
Heartbeat recognition is another way biometric sensors can identify individuals.
DNA recognition in biometric security solutions is now possible. This can be slow however, as DNA data must be taken from hair, blood, finger nails, saliva, used straws, etc.
Using biometric sensors to verify identification is not new; the technology has been around since roughly 1994. Yet through recent advances biometric sensors are becoming faster and more accurate than ever before.
According to information security firm Sense of Security, hackers are figuring out ways of getting around using biometric sensors which examine just one criteria. In particular, hackers have found ways for beating fingerprint sensors and getting around IT security compliance.
In short, biometric IT security is much better than password based security but is still very much in development and far from perfect. As biometric sensors have applications beyond user identification in fields such as law enforcement, it is extremely important that this field continue to be developed.
Biometric sensors that look at new criteria are being developed. For example, every person has a uniquely shaped ear just as every person has a unique fingerprint. Sensors are being developed which scan the shape of ears, which seems like it would be a hard hurdle for hackers to get over. Also, the human nose is being looked at as another object for biometric sensors to scan.
New methods of verifying identification will likely develop, yet experts caution against relying on just one of them. Therefore, a hot idea now is using different types of biometric sensors in combinations, a concept known as “multi-modal biometrics.” For example, one concept is still using fingerprint identification but adding iris and heartbeat biometric sensors as well. Such combinations will make existing biometric IT security compliance systems – which are already very secure – even more so.
Sensors which provide authentication methods that are continuously updated are predicted to make biometric security solutions better. Mobile devices in particular are seen as having great potential for continuous identification solutions. For example, a fingerprint sensor in a cell phone could authenticate the identity of the user each time the phone is touched and lock out anyone other than the correct user immediately. | <urn:uuid:d7d7556d-a3aa-4feb-9892-4bbda81b5217> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.m2sys.com/blog/guest-blog-posts/using-biometric-sensors-security-tools/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.964613 | 678 | 2.828125 | 3 |
• anniversary •
Pronunciation: æn-ê-vêr-sêr-ri • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun, Adjective
Meaning: The annual recurrence of the date of an important event in some previous year or the celebration thereof.
Notes: The person recommending today's Good Word is frustrated by the misuse of it. There is no 'six-month anniversary' of anything, since the meaning contains the sense of "annual". Also, if you want to be meticulously correct, we don't have 'five-year anniversaries', since anniversaries cover only one year apiece. We should say a much tidier 'fifth anniversary'. Since this word may be used as an adjective (anniversary celebration), it has an adverbial form: anniversarily, as in anniversarily celebrated.
In Play: Remember the actual meaning of the word when you use it in phrases like this: "AlphaDictionary celebrates its 10th anniversary this year (2004-2014)—a rather long existence for a website." Remember anniversaries occur once a year, no more, no less: "Marley celebrated the anniversary of his 25 years of service to the company by resigning."
Word History: Middle English copied anniversarie from French, which inherited it from Medieval Latin (dies) anniversaria "anniversary (day)". This developed from the feminine of the Classical Latin compound adjective anniversarius "returning yearly", based on the words annus "year" + versus, the past participle of vertere "to turn". Annus comes from a suffixed form of the Proto-Indo-European word at- "go": at-no. The result in Latin, annus, produced many words that English borrowed, such as annual, annuity, annals, not to mention words on -enni- such as millennium and biennial. Vertere comes from the same PIE root meaning "turn, twist" as English wreath, writhe and weird "twisted". (This month marks the first anniversary of the last Good Word suggestion from Don Andreatta: decadence.) | <urn:uuid:7bf960d7-a674-4d29-8d4f-764d88f4027c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=42506 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00060-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901406 | 448 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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SHEMROCK is India’s 1st Playschool Chain, which is credited with revolutionizing the concept of early childhood education since 1989, by pioneering a vibrant and child-friendly system of learning. Today, with more than 3,00,000 children already having received the foundation for success from its 425+ branches, SHEMROCK, the Award Winning School Chain, is a leader in preschool education and is a brand to reckon with. SHEMROCK is promoted by the Arora family – which consists of two generations of the country’s leading educationists with over 100 years of combined experience in the field of education. It all started when Dr. D.R Arora and Dr. (Mrs.) Bimla Arora – a husband-wife team of academicians envisioned a school that presented the children with an education system that was based on their 30 years of academic experience in India and Abroad. They started a model school with the simple aim of creating a child-friendly & harmonious environment, focusing on the satisfaction of a child’s inquisitive mind and thorough concept clarity. The word spread quickly. Realizing the need for a good preschool in the society and by putting up their experience and knowledge together, they started SHEMROCK Preschool with a unique concept that focused on playful learning. | <urn:uuid:ce1317b9-7e82-4114-9789-b7f06833b1f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://kleverkid.in/city/bangalore/listing/shemrock-kinder-bliss-527 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00024-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948105 | 401 | 1.585938 | 2 |
On Friday, March 4th, our Community Service Team organized a “Community Day” in honour of International Women’s Day. All students, faculty and staff participated in the Community Day, which included a fundraiser for Care Canada and a reflective walk.
Just prior to the walk, the Senior School held an assembly which featured a reading of Audre Lorde’s poem “A Litany of Survival”, and an original work by Tammy, Gr. 10, called “What Does it Mean to Be a Woman?” Following the assembly, the whole school warmed up on the field. The Grade 11 and 12s were once again paired up with their Grade 1-3 “buddy” for the walk.
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Akron is located in Summit county and has a population of 217,074.
The average in-state tuition for full time undergraduate students in illustration schools in Akron during the 2009 - 2010 school year was $12,058.00. The average tuition was $13,908.00 for non-residents studying in Ohio.
The average cost of books and supplies for illustration schools in Akron is $629.00. Students who live on campus while attending a illustration school in Akron, can expect to pay an average of $8,697.00 for room and board. Students who live at home can expect average costs to be $3,759.00. There is one illustration college in Akron. In the 2008 - 2009 school year, reportedly 24 students completed illustration programs in Akron.
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Solidarity and support are welcome in these special times. Many universities are sharing their useful documents to other institutions. You too, you can participate.
A webpage, created by WIILLIAM*, is providing information and tools to help maintain contact and psychological support for international students during the current corona pandemic. All the HEI can share their materials on this webpage. The content (model of letters, exercises against anxiety, FAQ …) is growing and updated every day.
*WILLIAM is a consortium of 12 Israeli and European institutions that work to advance Internationalization at Home. It is co-founded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
The Coimbra Group Universities has also published Guidelines on Safety Protocols for Mobility in order to share the best practices for ensuring safety during international mobility for students and staff.
The guidelines aim to establish procedures and a communication plan to clarify the roles, tasks and responsibilities of the stakeholders involved in international mobility and to raise awareness of the importance of risk assessment and pre-mobility preparation. The universal character of the guidelines makes them useful for other security-conscious institutions as well. | <urn:uuid:c246291c-293d-4c00-ba90-7105cb207f96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.movetia.ch/en/news-events/covid-19-resources-and-consultation-for-international-relations-offices | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.941206 | 234 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Perhaps stung by the widespread criticism of the way he treated data in his original FT op-ed piece, Professor Niall Ferguson has had another go. This new piece is distinctly better than the original. For example, he now acknowledges that “From 2010 to 2015, average inflation-adjusted weekly earnings fell more than under any postwar government.” Let me focus here on his central claim, which is that the economy did far better than Keynesians had predicted, and that Keynesians have refused to acknowledge this. (There are some other problematic points in the piece, but they are largely distractions from the main idea.)
Rather than get into the pointless business of comparing quotes, let us do this the academic way, which is to see what the Keynesian model says. Recall this is the model that pretty well all central banks use to regulate the economy. Everyone agrees that UK austerity was at its most intense in the first two years of Osborne’s Chancellorship. The UK Office of Budget Responsibility, which does the number crunching for Osborne, calculates using standard (although conservative in the current context) Keynesian multipliers that austerity in those first two years reduced GDP growth by 1% in each year. That is the basis for my calculation that austerity cost the average UK household at least the equivalent of £4,000. The OBR also calculate that overall UK austerity had no significant impact on growth in subsequent years.
Does the data show that Keynesian assessment is clearly wrong? Ferguson includes an IMF chart in his article, and I commend the fact that it uses GDP per head. Unfortunately it also includes a forecast, which is as reliable as most macro forecasts, so just focus on the part that is data. In 2011 and 2012 the UK flat lined, and only started recovering when the drag imposed by austerity came to an end. This is entirely consistent with my and the OBR’s analysis. (For the record, I also said three years ago that we would see a recovery in subsequent years.) Anti-Keynesians like to point to UK growth from 2013 onwards being healthy compared to other countries, but this is also entirely consistent with Keynesian analysis, because if you look at underlying primary balances UK fiscal austerity was much weaker in those years than in the US or the Eurozone.
|General government underlying primary balances: source OECD Economic Outlook|
In a way Ferguson acknowledges all this, because he lists other potential reasons why UK growth might have been weak in those early years. Fair enough, except that his central claim is that the numbers show the Keynesian analysis of austerity is wrong. But his chart shows that the numbers are in fact completely consistent with the Keynesian story. That does not prove the Keynesian story is right, but it sure does not show it is wrong!
Macroeconomics is a messy subject, because there are always so many things going on. For this reason the impact of policy is often not immediately apparent in the data, and some econometrics is required to sort things out. The unusual feature of the last few years across the UK and Eurozone is that events have largely followed the Keynesian script - no econometrics required. An election result does not change this fact. | <urn:uuid:a15b5e7b-335b-4bee-889a-3db7ce756bf0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2015/05/ferguson-tries-again.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00294-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975585 | 657 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Controlled drainage project
Why tile drainage?
There are very few plants or crops that grow well in saturated soils. Just as houseplants are grown in pots with holes in the bottom, our food crops are grown in agricultural soils with drainage. Drainage involves the installation of perforated plastic tubing (tiles) installed 2-3 feet deep which drains the excess soil moisture from the crop root zone and carries it to a safe outlet.
Why controlled drainage?
Underground control gates can regulate the outflow from the tile and the water levels in the soil. Controlled drainage makes more moisture available to crops during times of low precipitation, encourages more water to infiltrate deeper into the ground, allows the soil to serve as a reservoir during heavy rainfall events and reduces the amount of nutrients transported through the tile.
Why contoured tile installation?
Control gates work well on flat ground, but create flooding and excessive pressure if installed on a tile with more than 2 feet of fall. In order to work on a slope, the tile laterals need to be laid underground like steps and at a near flat grade (0.1%), following the contour of the land on a curve. | <urn:uuid:7376f060-5bea-40f5-b1c0-81768a7c78fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huronview.net/stewardship-innovation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.944233 | 239 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Activated by a vinyl ball, a pre-calculated percentage of drilling fluid passes through the tool to the BHA and drill bit below. At the same time, three field-interchangeable jetting nozzles on the side of the tool are directed up-hole to give increased annular fluid velocity, maximised hole cleaning and minimal well bore erosion. The tool can be cycled to provide split flow up to 10 times.
The simplest and most reliable tool for most applications. To activate the tool, a single vinyl ball is pumped down to the ball seat. Pressure builds which forces the sleeve downward and aligns the inner and outer ports. A clutch and index mechanism locks the inner and outer ports into position. The tool now remains in the open position. To deactivate and close the tool, another single vinyl ball is pumped down to rotate the index mechanism, slide the sleeve upward and close the tool.
Fast ball is a much denser activation ball – in comparison to the standard ball – and used in applications where high mud weights and high temperatures occur. This feature allows for a quicker activation of the PBL tool which is especially helpful in situations where there is limited or no circulation.
A heavy dart, which can be used in the highest mud weights, or where mud cannot be circulated – i.e. packedoff situation. Allows activation by gravity drop. It is much faster than a standard ball, which reduces activation time significantly. Descent by gravity only: can be used in wells with a maximum inclination up to 55°. Descent by being pumped down: can be used in wells with a maximum inclination up to 90°.
DSI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schoeller-Bleckmann. Schoeller-Bleckman Oilfield Equipment AG is one of the leading suppliers of downhole tools and equipment. The umbrella of SBO provides a strong strategic and financial basis. | <urn:uuid:53b9bca8-8610-4b8f-8468-a376f8f1927e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dsi-pbl.com/products/pbl-booster-tool/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.928871 | 390 | 1.632813 | 2 |
58 FODDER AND PASTURE PLANTS.
ORCHARD GRASS (Dactylis glomerata L.). Plate 8; Seed, Plate 26, Fig. 13. Other English name: Cocksfoot.
Botanical description: Orchard Grass is perennial with a very short rootstock. The stems, which are from two to three feet high, are crowded and surrounded at the base by numerous leafy shoots. The leaves are long, broad and flat, rather soft in texture, and for this reason often overhanging, especially in dry, hot weather. Orchard Grass can be easily recognized, even at a very early stage of development, by the basal shoots which are flat and double-keeled. This peculiar shape of the shoots is due to the leaves in the bud being folded together along the middle line. The flowers are in a short panicle, which as a rule has only two or three stout and rather short main branches. When in bloom the branches spread like the toes of a bird's foot—hence the English name Cocksfoot. During the ripening period they gradually move upward, after the manner of arms being lifted over the head, so as to form a rather narrow panicle. The branches of the panicle are naked below, carrying the spikelets at their top in dense, one-sided clusters. The spikelets are compressed, the one side being slightly hollow, the other rounded. They contain from two to five flowers, each of which is enclosed within two strongly keeled and sharply pointed glumes. The stamens are developed a trifle later than the pistil. Thus there is a possibility of cross-fertilization between flowers of different plants. The flowers of a panicle are, however, very crowded and self-fertilization probably takes place to a great extent.
Geographical distribution: Orchard Grass is indigenous to Europe, the temperate zone of Asia and northern Africa. It was introduced into North America very early. When it was first grown for fodder in England, about one hundred and fifty years ago, the seed was obtained from Virginia. It is now grown in temperate regions all over the world.
Habitat: Orchard Grass grows naturally in meadows, waste places, along roadsides, etc. It occurs in woods as well as in open fields, and is more adapted to shady situations than other meadow grasses. Its frequent occurrence in orchards has given it its name. | <urn:uuid:a0883745-342d-4915-a5cd-a30fcbf1c654> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.acrosscan.com/fodder-pasture-plants/fodder-pasture-plants_0064.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968253 | 508 | 3.1875 | 3 |
OurStory: Life on the Water Lenses and Lighthouses
For more information, visit the National Museum of American History Web site http: /americanhistory.si.edu/ourstory/activities/wate .html.
F or hundreds of years, seacoasts, rivers, lakes, and canals have had a big impact on the ways America has changed as a country. Even Americans who have never seen an ocean are still very connected to water. Eating fish for dinner, playing at the beach, ordering goods made overseas, and other maritime activities continue to play an important role in our lives.
Image of Point Bolivar Lighthouse in Texas.
Life and work on the water—for seafarers, fishers, passengers, and many others—have included many big challenges and successes, and even some disasters. On shore, many other
jobs are connected to maritime activities, like moving cargo carried by boats, making fishing
nets, and running lighthouses.
In fog or deep night, a lighthouse’s beam warns ships away from dangers such as shorelines, shallow waters, and underwater rocks. Because the exact locations of lighthouses are marked on charts, the lights help seafarers figure out where they are. In the past, lighthouse keepers lived in lighthouses to make sure the lights were shining every night. Today, many lighthouses are run by computers.
For more information, visit the On the Water online exhibition at http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater.
Lens from Point Bolivar Lighthouse in Texas What kinds of lights can you see right now? A computer screen? The sun? A lamp? Are they bright lights? How far away do you think you could be and still see that light?
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The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded nearly £880, 000 to a three-year project that will uncover disabled people’s history, through examination of eight unique buildings across England.
Accentuate’s History of Place project will focus on sites dating from the twelfth century through to the 1970s, researching the lives of their inhabitants and the social attitudes that prevailed at the time.
The sites include Maison Dieu, in Kent, the last remaining building from a medieval alms house and hospital on the pilgrimage route to Canterbury, where records of a skeleton of a disabled man have been uncovered.
Another is the pioneering Grove Road housing scheme (picture by Maggie Davis), Britain’s first integrated co-operative housing development, which was opened in 1976 in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, after being commissioned by the disabled activists Ken and Maggie Davis, and featured six flats, three of which were wheelchair-accessible.
The other sites are:
- the Royal School for Deaf Children in Margate, the UK’s first public school for deaf children, which was founded in 1792;
- the user-led Guild of the Brave Poor Things in Bristol, a building believed to be one of the first to be designed for disabled people, which opened in 1913 and provided social activities, apprenticeship schemes and training;
- Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind, the country’s first school for blind children, which was founded in 1791 by Edward Rushton, who played a lead role in the abolition of slavery in Britain and campaigned for disabled people;
- Chiswick House, a stately home and former private asylum in London;
- Normansfield, an institution for people with learning difficulties, developed by Dr John Langdon-Down from 1868 for children of wealthy parents, but later associated (in the 1970s) with appalling neglect and abuse;
- And St Saviours in west London, the first church designed by Deaf people, in the 1920s.
The project will hold workshops, talks and exhibitions in Liverpool, Bristol, London and Kent, and a national touring exhibition in 2018, as well as running a programme to provide advice to staff and volunteers on improving access to heritage sites and exhibitions.
The project has been developed in partnership with Historic England and will link to its Disability in Time and Place website, which features more than 200 sites of historic importance.
Accentuate said its History of Place project would “allow the voices of disabled people from the past to tell their stories through the buildings and archive material”.
Esther Fox, programme executive for Accentuate, said: “We’re delighted that the Heritage Lottery Fund has given us this support.
“This is the first project that will investigate the lives of the deaf and disabled people who have designed or inhabited these spaces.
“It will inspire understanding that disabled people have been actively part of society from the medieval times to the present day.
“We want to ensure that this relatively hidden history is known by the wider public.”
Accentuate was originally the south-east legacy programme for the Paralympics, and is part of Screen South, working to challenge perceptions of disability by creating opportunities for disabled people in the cultural sector.
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Can we predict the future?
In general it is easy enough to predict what will happen one second into the future, harder but not impossible to predict what will happen an hour into the future, but more or less impossible to predict what will happen a year into the future. Instead of asking whether we can predict the future, let's look at a "simpler" but closely related question: "Does nature obey rules, and is it in any sense predictable?" This question is, in a sense, the motivation behind all of science, which can loosely be described as the search for pattern in the universe. So, does nature have any pattern and order beneath it? Despite the evidence of children (I have two!) the answer is essentially: "Yes". We will now have a look at the reasons for believing this, before we tackle the thorny issue of predicting the future.
A bit of history
The cathedral at Pisa
In a sense we can say that modern science started because of a boring sermon. Around 1600, Galileo was attending mass at the cathedral in Pisa when he became bored with the sermon. Doing what any self-respecting scientist would do in the circumstances, Galileo watched the cathedral's candelabra (a form of pendulum) swing to and fro. Timing the swing with his pulse he discovered that it had a very predictable and regular motion: its swing always took the same time and two pendulums of the same length had the same period. Really this is remarkable, if you think of the number of things that might effect the swing of the pendulum including the motion of the air, irregularities in its the shape and differences in the strength of the push that you give it to start it off. Yet these really do seem to have very little effect on the period of the pendulum: the motion is repeatable, predictable and understandable, hence its effectiveness in telling the time in a grandfather clock.
Several years later, and in part motivated by Galileo's discoveries, Sir Isaac Newton described for the first time the fundamental laws of motion of the universe. Before Newton the world was seen as an unpredictable place in which events seemed to happen at more or less at random. After Newton, it suddenly became apparent that some at least of the phenomena of the world could not only be explained, but also their future motions predicted. Crucial to this was the understanding that predictions could be made by using mathematics. This achievement cannot be over-emphasised. Mathematics is an abstract creation of the human mind which appears to have little, if anything, to do with reality. People often complain "what is the possible use of mathematics?" Since Newton, this question can be swiftly answered: the whole physical universe works along mathematical lines. For example, the pendulum can be described by a "simple" mathematical equation which can be solved on a computer.
Neptune, seen from Voyager.
Image copyright NASA
An early success in using Newton's laws to make predictions came with the discovery, using mathematics, of the planet Neptune. More triumphs of mathematical prediction came in the 19th and 20th centuries. James Clerk Maxwell predicted the existence of radio waves through purely mathematical reasoning. Just think of the effect of this discovery on the human race. Albert Einstein discovered the theory of relativity, which plugged some gaps in Newton's theories and allowed mathematicians to learn about the creation of the universe in the big bang and to discover such exotic creatures as black holes and wormholes.
All this made some scientists rather over-confident in their powers of prediction, indeed in the 19th century the great French mathematician Laplace said:
If we were to know with precision the positions and speeds of all the particles in the universe then we could predict the future with certainty.
Is nature really so predictable?
They didn't see it coming.
Image copyright FEMA
This state of affairs is all very well for planets, but does it really agree with the state of nature that we observe? In short, it does not seem to. Many natural phenomena seem to be very unpredictable, for example the weather (especially when camping with children) and the long-term effects of climate change. Closer to home, the idea of scientific predictability fits uncomfortably with human behaviour and the notion of free will.
So we are faced with the dilemma of either thinking that the laws of nature don't apply to things like the weather, or realising that Newton's concept of predictability (through mathematics) needs rethinking.
Two big scientific discoveries have indeed challenged the notion of predictability. The first is quantum theory which gives a fantastic explanation of behaviour on the atomic scale, based - almost paradoxically - on a fundamental uncertainty of the precise behaviour of sub-atomic particles. It is possible (though I make no great claims here) that this level of uncertainty is linked to consciousness and free will.
However, quantum uncertainty tends to disappear at larger scales, and to understand the erratic behaviour of the weather we need to use chaos theory. It is claimed by some (usually those who don't understand it well) that chaos theory helps us to understand all of the unpredictable things that we see all around us, like the stock market. Is it really possible that science has advanced this far? Well, to be honest, no, not really. However, chaos theory really does give us a way of understanding many complex and unpredictable natural phenomena. Such understanding has many important applications. It also seems to touch a deep chord in the human psyche. We like things to appear random; unpredictable and erratic behaviour is often much more fun than boring, predictable behaviour.
A physical example of chaosTo appreciate what chaos is all about we return to Galileo's pendulum and simply add another pendulum beneath it, making a double pendulum. To picture this, imagine the first pendulum as the top half of your leg; now add another pendulum jointed to the first in exactly the same way as your lower leg joints to your upper leg at your knee. It helps if the top pendulum is about twice the weight of the bottom one and the knee joint is really smooth. If you set this up and start it swinging, something very remarkable happens. For small swings the double pendulum behaves very regularly, but for larger swings its behaviour is completely irregular. The double pendulum captivates any audience with its unpredictability. It toys with them, asking "what will I do next?", and always deceiving.
This is the true essence of chaos - a simple mechanical system which we feel we should understand, yet which outsmarts us. The crazy thing about this is that we really DO understand the double pendulum. We can write down mathematical equations for it based on Newton's laws of motion, and these equations can be solved on a computer to say what the motion of the pendulum should be. However, the computer itself predicts that the pendulum should move in an essentially random and unpredictable fashion. Even though we can "compute" the motion of the pendulum, we still cannot "predict" what the pendulum should do even a relatively short time after we release it. Now, very small disturbances to the way we start the pendulum or the effect of the slightest air current, rapidly get amplified and make huge differences to the final motion.
Someone stop that butterfly...
Image DHD photo gallery
All chaotic systems share these two features of being fundamentally simple (in that they are described by straightforward mathematical equations) and yet being unpredictable and unrepeatable, with the smallest changes having enormous effects later on. This is often called the "Butterfly effect". Lorenz, one of the chaos pioneers in the 1960s, captured the essence of this concept by remarking
that the flap of a butterfly's wings in Borneo could lead to a hurricane in Florida.
Chaos in the city
Where to put everyone?
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Now, imagine that you are a town planner and you need to predict the population of your town ten years into the future (so that you can build enough houses and schools). If we know the population x this year we might think that there might be some rule f(x) so that next year's population is given by f(x). A very popular such rule is
f(x) = a x (M - x),
where M is the maximum possible town population, and a is a measure of how many people are born and die in one year.
Rules like this occur everywhere in science - and many other aspects of life. For example, a relationship between the numbers of people suffering from a disease every year or the way that tomorrow's weather depends on what has happened today, possibly obey similar sorts of rules. Going back to our town, we can now ask how the population will change from one year to the next. To find this out, we apply the rule over and over again, so that if xn is the population in the year n then the population xn+1 in the year n+1 is given by xn+1=f(xn). If we knew a start population x1, then it is easy to use a computer to find the future population values x2,x3,...,x10. However, if you do this something remarkable happens: for small values of a the town population is very predictable, however, for larger values the populations get ever more complex, and (if we take M=1) then as a approaches 4, they are chaotic, with very small changes to x1 greatly affecting the value of x10. Our poor town planner is now in a fix, unable to predict the town's population ten years into the future.
What does this all mean?Chaotic motion really does exist both in nature and in mathematics. Why should this concern us?
Governed by the interactions of many hard-to-control events
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Firstly, as town planner and pendulum show, seemingly complicated behaviour may have a simple underlying explanation. This discovery tempts us to think that we may be able to understand other complicated things (such as the stock market) in terms of simple rules. Sadly, this is not always the case. Many things are complicated because they are governed by the interactions of many hard-to-control events, like clouds, people and (probably) the stock market. Chaos won't help too much here, although it has proved useful in understanding some irregular events like disease epidemics.
Secondly, chaos is important because it shows a limit to how well we can predict, and control, the physical world. This is quite worrying when you think how much of the modern world relies on our making predictions from scientific formulae. Every time I drive my car over a bridge I rely on predictable physical laws. Fortunately, not all physical systems are chaotic.
However, there are two chaotic systems which affect us greatly. The first is the weather. Although weather equations are pretty well understood and are solved by computers every day, it is impossible to take into account all the factors influencing the weather (remember the butterfly). No set of data is perfect, nor are computers perfect at solving the equations. The effects of these small errors build up remarkably quickly. After about ten days it is essentially impossible to forecast weather with any degree of accuracy.
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Chaos is also key to understanding the solar system. Whilst the motion of the planets is very predictable, the motion of many of the asteroids is not. Although asteroids do obey Newton's laws, they may well have orbits which move erratically about space. Such an erratic asteroid is thought to have hit the Earth 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. The consequences of a similar
incident occurring today are unthinkable; the nature of chaotic motion means that such events are virtually impossible to predict until too late.
So...what's the use of chaos?Chaos raises many interesting philosophical issues and can lead to many fruitful mathematical investigations. But is it of any use? Well, yes. The heart is thought to behave chaotically when it goes into fibrillation after a heart attack. Intense study is going on to see whether chaos theory can help predict this and to design pacemakers to restore a fibrillating heart to its normal regularity. Car brakes squealing occur in a chaotic pattern: in this case, randomness is less destructive than regular mechanical wearing. Some modern encryption systems use chaotic signals. Fractals (closely related to chaotic maps) are very important in computer graphics. Lasers, power systems, fluid motions, disease epidemics, car suspensions, capsizing ships and particle accelerators, all depend on chaos. However, to answer our first question, chaos cannot be used to predict the future. As far as I know nothing can do that!
About the author
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Member Spotlight - Dr. Kei Ouchi
- Job Title: Instructor of Emergency Medicine at with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston/Harvard Medical School, Head of ACEP Palliative Care Section Research
- Specialties: Emergency Medicine & Internal Medicine
- What is your "niche" in EM?: Goals-of-care conversation in the ED setting.
- Research interests: Advance care planning in the emergency department, prognostication of older adults, behavioral interventions
- One word that describes you: Determined
I am a clinical investigator and clinically active as an associate physician in the Emergency Department (ED) and a home hospital physician in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital. I was also a research fellow in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana Farber Cancer Institute completed in May 2018.
As a physician trained in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, I see a gap in quality of care for older adults with serious, life-limiting illness. Most such patients are reluctant to discuss their goals for medical care despite their progressive illness. The opportunity to have in-depth conversations about values and preferences (abbreviated, the “conversation”) with any physician is scarce, and many such patients present to the ED without any advance directives. This not only complicates the care in the ED, but it is a missed opportunity to facilitate this important conversation.
I am passionate about aligning the care to patient’s values and preferences at the end of life. My current research focuses on identifying older adults who would benefit from these conversations and empowering them to formulate their goals for medical care in the ED. By facilitating high-quality conversations to understand patient’s values and preferences, I will achieve this goal, so that every patient with serious illness will receive the type of care that he/she deserves.
How do you prepare for a your next big project? How do you recover from one?
I find the most important preparation step is back-planning. I figure out the due date, back calculate from there what I need to get done by when with who’s help, and I place them all in my calendar as small deadlines.
I recover from a big project (especially if it doesn’t go well) by running (even if it’s snowing), taking a long bath, and watching simple movies.
What are the top 3 ways you keep healthy?
I don’t work after my kids go to sleep unless there is an absolute deadline that I need to meet. I also ignore work during weekends as much as possible. I try to exercise (better if I can do it with my kids) also.
What are the biggest challenges you face in maintaining a longstanding career in EM/ HPM? How do you address these challenges?
I constantly ask myself if the way I’m doing something is the best way to make an actual impact. This is hard to figure out, and I rely on my respected mentors to guide me. Sure, I make lots of mistakes about allocating efforts to things that may not have impact (retrospectively identified), but I try to keep a positive mind not to repeat those mistakes. The most important compass I use is whether a particular activity really “sparks joy” in my life. | <urn:uuid:fce3f2f8-9c9f-413f-8ac4-a4e0bf1e3801> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acep.org/palliative/newsroom/palliative-newsroom-articles/2019/member-spotlight---dr.-kei-ouchi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.946848 | 709 | 1.554688 | 2 |
"I can't help it, that I am Black." "Why can't people except me the way I am?" "Do you want me to go hang myself?" Surprised that someone would say this things still in this century, well don't be because race will always be there. These are the things that were said by a floor mate of mine name Shelly. She is so nice but she is always upset because this guy name Mike makes remarks about her and she can't say or do anything to change how he feels. She got drunk last night and she said everything that was on her mind to Mike and all he did was walk away. The reason I told you about Shelly because she is only one of those many people who go through torcher from other people. I thought that what Mike was doing to Shelly was unfair because she and her family has worked so hard to be where they are today.
To my knowledge, Shelly's parents are probably middle class and are fitting in the society. On the other hand, Mike's parents are in high class level and I think that is why he is the way he is towards Blacks. He once told me that he has never lived in the same area as a Black family.
William Julius Wilson determines life chances and the important factors of social class. He is a Black man from Harvard University. He wrote a book called "Declining Significance of Race". Wilson has many arguments, he argues that the city has low skilled people with low income, while the suburbs has more high class opportunity and so the suburbs have more high class people. He also argues that addressing the needs of the underclass cannot be based only on race, instead he says " it's quite clear to me that we're going to have to revise discussion of the need for WPA style jobs. Only these more structurally based programs, open to all in need, are likely to garner political support among the majority and to address the deep-seated problems that changes in the global economy have wrought"(Time, June 17, 1996:57). He also argues that the civil rights needs to be enlarged, and the major problem of the underclass, joblessness, needs to be addressed by fundamental changes in the economic institution. He also noted that inner-city neighborhoods, people have little chances to gain the educational and social skills that would make them attractive to others. He argues that not that race is unimportant, but that the importance of social class is increasing as the importance of race is declining, even though race still remains important. | <urn:uuid:a6618585-cffb-4c95-92ad-525620d848bc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.writework.com/essay/untitled-31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00044-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990322 | 520 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Udacity Scholarships are a great opportunity for young scholars all over the world. It is a big opportunity waiting for young scholars who are tech inclined to participate in the udacity free courses.
Udacity Scholarships are open for students all over the world. There is no country restriction for the udacity scholarships. The udacity free courses scholarship which is hosted by Bertelsmann’s company would empower many young people. Bertelsmann’s udacity free courses aims at encouraging young people to be successful professionals in the digital world. This goal is achievable by providing a technology scholarship program – the Bertelsmann’s Udacity Scholarships.
Entry Qualification for the Udacity Scholarships and Other Grant Information
The Bertelsmann scholarship program has funded over 50,000 students within the period of 3 years. Udacity scholarships are open for students 18 years and above. If you are above 18 years, then you can apply for Bertelsmann Tech Scholarships 2021.
The udacity free courses consists of two stages of nomination and selection. Candidates can apply in diverse fields of study including Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud Computing.
Bertelsmann’s company is providing media, education and other tech services. This program is one of her corporate social responsibility.
Categories of The Bertelsmann Tech Scholarships
The program consist of the challenge courses and the nano-degree program scholarship.
Both employees, partners of the company and the general public can apply for the challenge courses and nano-degree program scholarships. The program is usually conducted online. Students have to attend the challenge course for 3-5 hours per week and 5-10 hours per week while attending the Nano-degree program.
Answers to Frequently asked Questions About Udacity Scholarships 2021
Who is the Program Host?
The Udacity scholarships are hosted by the Bertelsmann Company.
What is the Mode of Study?
The Udacity free courses are conducted online.
What are the Categories of Programs in the Udacity scholarship 2021?
The Udacity Bertelsmann scholarship consist of the Challenge course and Nano-degree Programs.
How hours is Spent in the Course Per Week?
You will spend 3-5 hours of online learning weekly in the Challenge course; and 5-10 hours weekly in the Nano-degree programs.
What is the Total Time Duration for the scholarship program?
Udacity scholarships has a time duration of 3-5 months
What are the Study Areas or courses in the Bertelsmann Tech Scholarships?
The study areas in the udacity scholarships are: Data Science, Artificial intelligence and Cloud Computing.
How Many Scholarship slots are available in the Udacity Scholarships program?
There are 15,000 scholarships for the challenge courses and 16,000 scholarship slots for the Nano-degree Programs.
What are the Benefits of the Bertelsmann Tech Udacity Scholarships 2021?
The benefits for Students attending the udacity challenge courses are:
- The program will expand your knowledge about Microsoft Azure Applications.
- You will have the opportunity of exploring tech services and tools via interactive hands-on exercises offered by Azure Cloud Services.
- Students are introduced to advanced business analytics. And you have the opportunity to efficiently apply data analysis to business problem-solving, analytical methodology. What is more? You learn the basics of problem-solving frameworks, and linear regression.
- Students also get introduced to the basics of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and applications in Business.
For Students attending the nano-degree program, the benefits of the Bertelsmann machine learning scholarship program are:
- After the program, students achieve the capability to deploy and build full-stack apps on Microsoft Azure, and polish their web development career.
- Students also learn business intelligence and develop predictive analytics to resolve business problems in the world.
- The program helps with skills building and the development of artificial intelligence (AI) products. This means that students are equipped with the necessary skills to compete favorably in the AI world.
Eligibility Criteria of Udacity Bertelsmann Technology Scholarship
- Any student of 18 years or above can apply from all over the world.
- A student or a Bertelsmann employees can apply in the fields of Data, AI, and Cloud Skillset.
- Students attending a challenge course must be available for 3 to 5 hours per week.
- A student attending the nano-degree program must be available for 5 to 10 hours per week.
- Since the course is online, a student must have a working internet.
How to Apply for the Udacity Scholarships 2021
- All willing applicants can apply by visiting the official website.
- Applicants can decide which of the program they’re planning to apply.
- After deciding the program, an applicant can choose the area of study.
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Last Updated on October 25, 2021 by weldinghubs
Different types of welding processes are common. The method of spot welding is also a method useable for the welding of thin metals. It is also an ancient process used in the history of manufacturing steel cars.
The lower thermal conductivity of the process makes it highly effective for the welding of thin metals. Similarly, the use of current flow for heat generation cuts the cost of complicated construction or installments. The process of spot welding is highly recommendable for a professional welder or a daily hobbyist. It is because a typical spot welder is also of reasonable price.
So, what Is Spot Welding? Another name for spot welding is resistance spot welding. This welding process works by using two copper electrodes that produce an electric current to join the metal sheets. By applying the electric arc and pressure, a detectable amount of heat generates in the metal having less thickness like carbon steel.
How Does Spot Welding Work?
Spot welding melts the metal sheets by the application of electric current. The welder places the metal sheets between two electrodes made of copper metal. The voltage applied across the electrodes causes the electric current to move between the two electrodes. As the current flows through the circuit, a conductive heat of flowing current produces. The amount of heat is enough to melt the metal parts.
The parts melt due to the heat generated. Then, the molten portion of the substance of the two sheets overlaps each other to make a connection. In this way, spot welding helps in the joining of two metal surfaces. The copper electrodes in contact with each other, using the metal sheets to be joined, also apply pressure on the metal parts.
So, a typical spot welding process goes on with the application of pressure and electric current. The electric current gives rise to heat that helps in making a junction between two components. Due to the melting of metallic parts using heat, there is no need for any filler material to join the components.
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Types of spot welding
The process of spot welding is mostly useable for the welding of metal sheets. There are different types of the process. Some of the types of spot welding process include:
- Stationary type spot welder.
- Bench type spot welder.
- Portable spot welding gun.
- Robotics spot welding gun.
- And multi-head spot welding machine.
All these types have their applications in different circumstances and for different types of material. For example, the process implying a stationary spot weld can make a junction one at a time. To make several junctions or spot welds in a single time duration usually needs the embossing of metal of the sheet.
Advantages & Disadvantages of spot welding
Following are the advantages of the spot-welding process:
- It is comparatively an easy process.
- The process is also cost-efficient.
- The production rate or the efficiency of the process is too much.
- Different metals are easily joinable using the method of spot welding.
- Spot welding is performable in both manual and automatic ways.
- The process is too better for metals that are thin in size.
- There is no need for any skillful person for the spot welding of metals.
- The base metal does not move towards the high heat place in this process.
Everything has its pros and cons. Spot welding also holds some drawbacks. The main disadvantages of the process include:
- The process works only for the welding of thin metals. You cannot spot weld the heavier or thicker metals efficiently or smoothly.
- The welding done through this method undergoes deformation or deterioration.
- The installment cost of the process is too much.
- The welding becomes weak if the supply of voltage becomes very low.
Spot welding diagram
A typical diagram representing the construction of a spot-welding process is as follows:
Spot welding procedure
At first, there are two main parts of a spot-welding procedure.
- Building a connection of two metals.
- Fusing the metal parts.
Following are the further steps of these two parts:
a) Building a connection of two metals
Use these steps to make a smooth and flawless junction or connection between the two metals.
Step-01: Clean the metal pieces and the electrodes using a speck of cloth
Dirt or the rust present on the surface of the metal can deteriorate the quality of welding. Similarly, the dust from a previous weld imparts a negative effect on the quality of the spot weld. If there’s any debris material or dirt on the sheets you want to weld or the copper electrodes, it can produce a spark on the passing of electric current.
So, wipe down the surface of the metal or electrodes using a duster you want to weld. Use a clean cloth for the wiping. So it may not carry any dust or pollute the surfaces anymore. Don did not use any soap, washing detergent, or water to wipe out the area.
Step-02: Clamp the two pieces of metals together.
Connect the pieces of metal you want to join in such a way they remain in front of each other. You can use a pair of grips to make a junction. Clamp the metal sheets in such a way that they don’t have any freedom for moving.
Step-03: Positioning of the electrodes
Bring the electrodes of the welder inappropriate position so that you can place the metal piece in between them. Keep in mind that the electrodes present in the spot welding machine are easily adjustable and moveable. There is an adjustment knob present on the electrodes that help in the relocating of electrodes. Make enough space between the metal electrodes for the metal and then place the metal in between them. Tight the screws so that the metal piece does not move from its place.
b) Fusing of metal sheets
In this step, the metal sheets placed near each other fuse using an electric arc or applying electrode force. Following are the further steps in this process:
Step-01: Use personal protection equipment
Wear a pair of gloves and eye goggles to prevent any sparks produced during the welding. You will experience a bright light and a lot of heat in the process of Spot welding. So, you can use goggles to get protection against it. The spot welding does not cause too many sparks, so there is no need to wear a full welding hood or suit.
The latex gloves and eye goggles are enough to protect your eyes and hands. But you must be conscious of selecting the pair of gloves or goggles that fit your size. Large-sized goggles can let the bright light of the welding enter your eyes. It can cause extensive damage to your eyes. Adjust the goggles to cover your eyes completely. You can get this material from any welding shop or any online store of welding.
Step-03: Turn on the spot welding machine.
Plugin your welder and then turn it on by pressing the button. Try to connect the welder to a circuit that is nearby. The reason is that a switch at a distance can cause the tangling of the wire of the welder. These distractions can cause impairment in the process. When you are going to weld, flip the button to turn it on.
Step-03: Insertion of the metal sheets
Insert the pieces of metal held by the clamp between the tongs of electrodes. Hold the piece of metal between the tongs until the fusion is complete.
Use your one hand to keep the metal in place. Use the other hand to press down the handle of the tongs.
Step-04: Close the tongs to create pressure.
Squeeze the tongs to apply the electrode force on the metal sheets. When the tongs connect with the sheets, the current will pass through the metal and will generate heat over the place you want to weld. The metal will start to heat up after a few seconds.
Step-05: Hold for 3-5 seconds.
If you want to create a smooth and leveled weld, hold the metal in between the electrodes for about 3-5 seconds. It will result in a long-lasting and sturdy weld. Do not allow the holding time to exceed for more than 5 seconds because it will create too much heat that can lead to over-melting of the metal.
Step-06: Cool the metal for 5 minutes.
Take the metal out from between the copper electrodes and monitor it to check that the fusion of metals is complete. Allow the metal sheets to cool before moving towards other welds. Take a cloth and wipe the metal surface to remove any debris.
Step-07: Make sure that the cooling of metal is complete.
Step-08: You can repeat the process of spot welding many times and can make many spots to connect the metal from every place.
Where is Spot Welding Used?
Spot welding is useable in the following fields or industries:
- Aerospace engineering.
- Metal furniture.
- Automotive industry.
- Building and construction.
- Rail system.
- White goods.
- Medical building and manufacturing.
The easy automation of spot welding with artificial intelligence or robotics helps bring a great deal of productivity. You can use this process for the welding of different manufacturing units. The process is highly useable for the building and construction of cars having steel.
Materials that work for spot welding
Low thermal conductivity and a higher value of electrical resistance control the process of spot welding. The best material for spot welding is carbon steel. Moreover, you can also do spot welding for the steel with great ease. But the spot welding is not better for materials containing high carbon steel. Because the high percentage of carbon results in brittleness that can cause cracks in the welds.
Similarly, the steel that passes through galvanization usually demands high voltage and current. So, spot welding does not go smoothly. The deterioration of zinc alloys occurs due to the copper electrodes. It will affect the quality of welding.
If you want to do spot welding for the steel with a zinc coat, you need to change the electrodes frequently.
The dressing of the electrodes is compulsory. It means you need to remove the contaminants from the surface or reshape the surface of the electrodes.
Parameters of spot welding
- The electrode force is responsible for holding the metal sheets together. If you want to achieve a good melt quality, the electrode force must be sufficient. A suitable value for the electrode force is 90 N per mm2 because the greater magnitude of electrode force decreases the heat energy. The decrease in heat increases the demand for electric current.
- Squeeze time The time duration between the implication of the electrode surface on the metals and the current flow across the electrodes is the squeeze time. There must be sufficient squeeze time so that the level of electrode force gets achieved. So, you must delay the application of current.
- Weld duration or weld time The time of passing of the welding current through the sheets of metals is the weld duration. It must be short. You can calculate the value of weld time by using a simple formula. If the thickness of the sheets to be weld is greater than 2 mm, you can divide the diameter of sheets by 10. In this way, you will know the value of weld time.
Hold time starts after the completion of welding. At this time, you must hold the metal in between the electrodes even after the welding process completes. It is so to allow the metal sheets to cool down. It helps in the solidification of the molten metal and proper overlapping of the metals.
Applications of spot welding
Spot welding has a large number of applications due to the feasibility of its process.
In this industry, spot welding helps in the joining of steel sheets useable in the building of cars. The use of spot welding in the automobile industry is old. The low thermal conductivity and low cost of the process make it useable to manufacture machines and automobiles.
Spot welding also helps in the joining of metal compartments to manufacture different electrical equipment. But it helps in building infrastructure made of thin metals.
Different Nails used in the holding and construction bridges are fused or joined using the spot-welding technique.
Spot welding is the most useable process for welding. It helps in the welding of manufacturing lines and steals cars for many long years. The easiness of the process is because there is no need for any filler material for this process.
You can weld the two sheets of metals by applying pressure and current using an electric arc. All the processes are very smooth and easy and bring no tiredness. There is no need for Ultraviolet radiation protection because you do not have any danger of a bright or luminous arc. Moreover, the cost of a typical spot welder is also reasonable.
Is spot welding easy?
Spot welding is easily doable for the steel. The reason is its higher electrical resistance and lower thermal conductivity. However, the metals like aluminum and zinc alloys do not undergo a good or smooth weld. So, you can do spot welding for carbon-carbon steel with ease.
How thick can you spot weld?
Joining parts or metal sheets having a thickness of 3 mm is achievable viva spot welding. The metallic components to be weld must meet a ratio of 3:1. The diameter of the welds made using spot welding must be between 3 mm to 12.5 mm.
Can you spot-weld aluminum?
The process of spot welding is easily useable for metals having a greater thickness or hardness. But pure aluminum, being a very light metal, has less hardness and thickness. So, spot welding does not bring a satisfying efficiency for aluminum due to its reactivity.
How strong is a spot weld?
A shear strength or weight-bearing capacity of 1100 pounds or lbs can be achievable using the spot weld. However, this strength is 499.5 kg less than a full-fledged, penetrated weld. The shielding gas and voltage of the arc are applied to control the area of the interface.
Is spot welding hard?
You may need a large volume and a spacious place for the spot welding. Smooth and efficient welding is not achievable in a narrow area. So, it can become very hard or tiring for your to do a spot weld in a small place. Therefore, spot welding is comparatively a tiring process.
How much is a spot welder?
A spot welder is a workstation used for the overlapping of metal sheets. It works with the application of pressure. A typical spot welder in use of professional welders or DIY hobbyist usually lies in the range of 13.99 dollars to 44.56 dollars. Such welders have an output range of 500 amperes. | <urn:uuid:a5b0b9ec-ca8b-4cf5-ae05-bc9db99ca174> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weldinghubs.com/what-is-spot-welding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.919659 | 3,072 | 3.5 | 4 |
These “weapons of influence” aren’t persuasive arguments, but psychological factors that can be manipulated by people to produce a certain set of behaviors from their target audience. These psychological factors exert their power over us by tapping into socialized behavior patterns drilled into every functioning member of society — behavior patterns that can’t be broken without considerable psychic cost.
For example, the psychological principle of Reciprocity enforces in us the notion that if someone does us a favor, we automatically owe them a return favor, even if we didn’t ask for or want their help in the first place. Welching on that implied contract carries such a high psychic toll, that compliance professionals can confidently manipulate this weapon of influence to produce a very predictable — and exploitable — set of behaviors.
And among Cialdini’s weapons of influence is Consistency and Commitment, the socialized desire to trustworthy and consistent in one’s actions and statements. No one wants to be labeled a “flake” or “braggart,” or a liar, so we’re programmed to demand consistency in our behaviors and actions. We’re socially programmed to follow through on our commitments. Programming that is often exploited by compliance professionals.
The classic example, and one given in Cialdini’s book, is the use of a petition to create a small public commitment that can later be snowballed into a much larger commitment — one that the individual would have been unlikely to agree to without the prior set-up/commitment. Here’s how it works:
You’re asked to sign a petition for some cause you believe in. You may doubt how much good it will do, but it seems like a very small commitment to put your “voice” behind the call for change. Then, a few days after having publicly committed to the cause, you’re asked to make a larger commitment, like donating money, putting a sign up on your yard, e-mailing friends, etc. And this time, that earlier commitment makes you that much more eager to stay consistent with your stated beliefs. It makes you that much more eager to follow-through.
In other words, if the people behind the petition had started with the larger request, your chances of agreeing would have been much, much smaller, but now that you’re psychologically influenced by your inner need to appear consistent, you’re almost twice as likely to say yes to the larger request.
Sneaky, huh? And it happens all the time in this internet world of ours. In fact, the current incarnation takes the form of Facebook Likes, as exemplified in this ad for The National Park Foundation:
I mean really, what good is liking The National Park Foundation going to do?
But then again, what could it hurt, right? And one of my friends has already jumped on the bandwagon, too (a form of Social Proof, another of Cialdini’s weapon of influence)
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Different types of laser cutting equipment vary in the type of laser they use and the way the laser moves during operation. The primary types of lasers used for cutting are carbon dioxide (CO2) lasers and solid-state lasers using a glass or crystal gain medium doped with neodymium (Nd). The physical configuration of laser cutting machines can be categorized into three categories, called flying optics, moving material, and hybrid systems. The output from the lasers can be either pulsed or continuous. Some laser cutting systems, called laser microjets, incorporate a water jet that assists the cutting process.
CO2 lasers are a type of gas laser that use a gain medium composed of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and helium and may also contain hydrogen, xenon, or water vapor. The gain medium is excited, or pumped, by electricity to produce a beam of infrared light. They can have very high power, with some industrial CO2 lasers producing outputs of several kilowatts. Laser cutting equipment using CO2 lasers is used on metals such as steel and aluminum as well as other materials, including plastic, fabric, and wood.
Neodymium-doped lasers are lasers that use a solid gain medium doped with the rare earth metal neodymium, pumped with light from a diode laser or flashlamp. The most common medium is neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Y3Al5O12), or Nd:YAG. Other neodymiumm-doped materials used in lasers are yttrium orthovanadate (YVO4), yttrium lithium fluoride (LiYF4), and glass composed primarily of silicon dioxide (SiO2). These lasers can also be very powerful and are used primarily for cutting metals and ceramics.
Most laser cutting equipment is configured in one of three ways. In a moving material laser, the material being worked is mobile. In a flying optics laser, the material being worked is stationary while the laser moves over it on both horizontal axes. In a hybrid laser, the workpiece is moved along on one horizontal axis, usually the longer of the two, while the laser is mobile on the other horizontal axis. Similarly, laser cutting equipment that can cut on a greater number of axes, called multiaxis laser cutters, vary in their design according to whether the workpiece or the cutting head is moved on each of its axes.
Each configuration has different advantages. Flying optics machines are faster than the other types. Moving material lasers are the slowest, but have simpler optical systems. Hybrid lasers are faster than moving material lasers, but have better power efficiency and less complex optics than a flying optics machine.
A cutting laser's beam can be pulsed, firing a series of brief but rapid pulses of light. Pulsed lasers are useful for applications requiring high energy output lasting only a brief period. They are also used for heat-sensitive materials that would be at risk of melting if subjected to a continuous beam. Pulsed beams are also used in laser microjets, where the water jet helps to direct the beam and cools off the material being worked.
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The special needs teachers are below par in terms of their experience and expertise of helping children with special needs. Some regular ed. teachers are effective at inspiring their students. I would not recommend this school for special needs children.
The staff and administration lack honesty, integrity and fairness when faced with accommodating special needs children. If they believe a parent is ignorant of their rights or the rights of their special needs child as provided under I.D.E.A., they will work to effectively bully the parent into thinking there is nothing more they can offer the child. Then they categorize the child as having behavioral issues unrelated to their disability and refuse to document suspensions for these "behaviors."
This school does not accommodate special needs children. The Lead Sped Coordinator and administration, especially the principal, seek to bully parents and special needs students out of their rights and grossly violate I.D.E.A.. If you have a child with special needs in this school, I recommend you reach out to an advocate for advocacy assistance. You should know you have a long and laborious road ahead to achieve accommodations for your child. I have walked in on my special needs child being yelled at by staff to "shut up." The staff and administration make a point to refuse properly documenting incidents involving special needs children. Contact an advocate and learn to demand your child's rights.
I like this school. My daughter's teacher was very involved and anywhere my daughter was lacking she communicated that to me and also belief to improve my daughter's reading and math skills. My onlycomplaint is, I believe the food choices for the children should be revised and more nutritional and filling for breakfast and lunch. I didn't interact much with the principal he didn't seem too involved. However, the teachers made up for where he lacked.
My daughter went to this school, and it's not a good school for the disable, my daughter was bully everyday and the teacher and principal did not know what to do, the principal has a bad attitude, he judge my daughter before he new she was disabled, he tried to bully the kids in being good,instead of talking to them,I just don't think it's a good school
The school itself I don't think is bad. However, the principal, from my experience, needs to be replaced. He has no consideration or apparently any experience working with children who have ADHD or other psychological/behavior disabilities. This is my son's second year (1st grade) and I cannot wait to get him out of this school and out of this district. The teacher he had last year was horrible, personality wise. She did everything possible to get my son out of her hair, whereas the teacher this year is great. More so, the principal is the problem, from my experiences. He is totally against alternative methods of discipline and totally against diverse methods of teaching for children with issues. I had to go as far as making a complaint with the Civil Rights Office through the Department of Education, due to the school's lack of effort to offer my son alternative solutions, before the principal just consistently threatens to kick him out of school. He actually did kick him out of school last year, but unfortunately, my son had to come back. He most definitely will not be attending this school for his 2nd grade year, or any other year for that matter.
The previous post about this school is inaccurate. The overall atmosphere of the school is poor; students are not treated with the respect that the school motto states, yet all students are required to repeat this every morning. My daughter has been bullied, first by one student and now by the entire classroom, since the beginning of the school year. The issue has not been effectively addressed at all and continues even while the teacher is present. In essence, the teachers do not care about their students. Teachers are unfair in their discipline and deal harshly with students when parents are not present (I've witnessed this). The principal is only concerned with test scores and attendance and not about the environment of his school and this effects learning and the way students and teachers treat each other. My advice would be to not send your child to this school if you are considering it. I am removing mine for their well-being before it is completely crushed.
The school provides a welcoming atmosphere. The parents and staff that stay involved really try to provide a healthy and learning environment. Teachers and PTA work together to try and keep parents informed. The LINC staff (before and after care) do the best they can with the tools available. Don't underestimate the affordability and value of this particular school. This school is only a few steps away from being above average to excellent. A little extra funding or the right teacher or parent can make the difference where a school like this already provides the stable and fundamental building blocks necessary. The PTA provides the right environment and could just use a few more key parents.
While no school is perfect I believe that Warford is the best school in the Hickman Mills District. My children have been to Sante Fe, Symimgton, and Ingles as well and they all say that Warford was the best. There were things that I had issues with but nothing compared to what I have had to deal with in some of the other elementary schools in this district. My youngest had an awesome kindergarten experience there so much so that we wished that she could have attended this school year. | <urn:uuid:f1fcc059-fd71-4e41-b7bc-769a83beaadf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.greatschools.org/missouri/kansas-city/775-Warford-Elementary-School/reviews/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718426.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00138-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984951 | 1,099 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Many plants are poisonous to equines; the species vary depending on location,
climate, and grazing conditions. In many cases, entire genera are poisonous to ...
Daisies pose little to no toxicity risk to humans though it is advisable to get
medical attention immediately if any question ever arises. Some types of daisies
A brief listing of some common toxic and non-toxic plants. ... Poisonous Plants.
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Solid-State Sensitized Heterojunction Solar Cells: Effect of Sensitizing Systems on Performance and Stability
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are considered as an emerging technology in order to replace conventional silicon solar cells or thin film solar cells such as amorphous silicon, CIGS, and CdTe. Liquid electrolytes containing iodide/triiodide redox couple have a durability problem due to the corrosion of metal contacts. In order to improve the long-term stability of DSC device it is important to find an alternate efficient redox couple. In search of this we are using 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis-(N,N-di-methoxyphenylamine)- 9,9'-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD) as a hole transport material for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (SSDSCs). In comparison to the liquid electrolytes the efficiencies of SSDSCs are inferior, they are around only 30% of the efficiencies obtained with the liquid electrolytes. In optimizing the device performance and stability of SSDSCs, various light harvesting systems are employed to enhance a photovoltaic performance and investigated their properties in SSDSCs. In SSDSCs we use thin TiO2 films to avoid the pore-filling problem of HTM. Hence it is critical to use high molar extinction coefficient dyes with an efficient light harvesting capability for SSDSCs. Representative ruthenium sensitizers such as N719 or Z907 have shown good and stable performances in liquid electrolyte-based DSCs. However, their performances are low in SSDSCs due to insufficient light harvesting in thin mesoporous TiO2 films. A new family of heteroleptic polypyridyl ruthenium sensitizers having thiophene units was employed to increase the light harvesting capabilities and their applicability in SSDSCs. These new dyes could improve the absorbed photon-to-current conversion efficiencies as well as power conversion efficiencies due to their high molar extinction coefficients. The thiophene units of the ancillary ligands not only enhanced molar extinction coefficients but also augmented electron lifetime in the devices. In general, ruthenium sensitizers possess lower molar extinction coefficients compared to organic dyes. In order to increase the molar extinction coefficients and bathochromic shift in the absorption spectra of organic dyes, we applied donor-acceptor concept in organic dyes with different π-conjugation bridges. Consequently, we achieved 6 % power conversion efficiency at AM 1.5G solar irradiation (100 mW/cm2) in a solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell. Transient photovoltage and photocurrent decay measurements showed that the enhanced performance of this device was ascribe to higher charge collection efficiency over a wider potential range. We also examined near infrared absorbing dyes and they could be employed to different device architectures such as tandem cells, Förster Resonance Energy Transfer, or co-sensitization to substantiate panchromatic response. Another interesting type of sensitizers is semiconductor or quantum dots due to their unique properties. However, the efficiency of the semiconductor-sensitized solar cells was only 1-2 % range. Recently, much improved efficiencies were reported with Sb2S3-sensitized cells using different hole conductors. The Sb2S3-sensitized cells with spiro-OMeTAD demonstrated a very high incident photon-to-conversion efficiency (IPCE) of 90 %. This excellent result shows that the semiconductor sensitizers are promising candidate as light absorbers for SSDSCs. Most of the standard ruthenium and organic dyes have the limited absorption in near infrared region of the solar spectrum. Porphyrin sensitizers possess strong absorptions in the visible and near infrared region and they have good chemical, photochemical and thermal stability. However, the power conversion efficiency of SSDSCs devices using a novel D-π-A porphyrin we reached only 1.6 %. In order to improve a cell performance, porphyrin was co-sensitized with an organic dye to increase light harvesting capability in the green wavelength region as well as to reduce the dye aggregation. Instead of spiro-OMeTAD a polymer hole conductor was applied, which had intense spectral response in the visible region. Interestingly, in this system the polymer hole conductor showed dual functions, as a light absorber and a hole transporter. This hybrid solar cell exhibited a clear panchromatic response and improved the power conversion efficiency of device compared to the cell with spiro-OMeTAD.
Keywords: Dye-sensitized solar cells ; Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells ; Ruthenium sensitizers ; Organic dyes ; Semiconductor sensitizers ; Porphyrin sensitizers ; Light harvesting ; Hole conductor ; Panchromatic response ; Cellules solaires sensibilisées par des colorants ; Cellules solaires sensibilisées par des colorants à hétérojonction solide ; Colorants au ruthénium ; Colorants organiques ; Sensibilisateurs semiconducteurs ; Colorants porphyrine ; Collecteurs de lumière ; Conducteur de trou ; Réponse spectrale panchromatiqueThèse École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 4977 (2011)
Programme doctoral Chimie et Génie chimique
Faculté des sciences de base
Institut des sciences et ingénierie chimiques
Laboratoire de photonique et interfaces
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The Met Office have extended their amber weather warning into Tuesday (July 19). Temperatures are set to reach highs of 34C in Sussex in the early parts of next week before cooling slightly.
The "extreme heat" warning has been extended into Tuesday as the peak of the hot weather has been pushed backed into Monday (July 18) and Tuesday (July 19) having initially been scheduled for Sunday (July 17). The "danger to life" warning is now in place for three days beginning at midnight on Sunday and coming to an end at 11:59pm on Tuesday evening.
Forecasters have warned of "population-wide" adverse health effects which will not solely be restricted to the vulnerable. People are being urged to call 999 only if it is an emergency and to use 111 for any non-emergency health advice.
The extreme heat will likely require significant changes to working practices and daily routines, according to the Met Office, whilst an increased number of people heading to beaches, lakes and rivers to cool off will lead to an "increased risk" of water safety incidents. The warning also suggests that there may be delays and closures for those using roads with public transport also likely to be affected.
Wiggonholt is currently forecast to be the hottest part of Sussex with 34C highs next Tuesday. Meanwhile, other areas including Herstmonceux and Gatwick will likely see temperatures hit 33C before temperatures drop back to the mid 20s on Wednesday (July 20) with some rain expected, according to the BBC.
A level three health alert has been issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA )for southern parts of England. Dr Agostinho Sousa, Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection at UKHSA, said: "Heat-health alerts have now been issued to the majority of the country, with temperatures set to remain consistently high throughout the duration of next week.
"Most of us can enjoy the hot weather when it arrives, but it is important to keep yourself hydrated and to find shade where possible when UV rays are strongest, between 11am and 3pm. If you have vulnerable family, friends and neighbours, make sure they are aware of how they can keep themselves protected from the warm weather."
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Projects in development include:
- Collaboration with aquaponics farm and Delaware State University (Plant Sciences) to develop real time plant and fish health and water quality monitoring systems.
SBIR Applications planned or in process include:
- USDA – Phase 1: Develop and implement Rapid Crop Performance Analyzer and deep UV sensors for crop and fish.
- Health detection/control, nutrient and contamination management in aquaponics growth systems (Mantis Farms).
- USDA – Phase 1: Develop and implement Rapid Crop Performance Analyzer for fast foliar stress detection and control for vertical farming with Aerofarms, Inc.
- NSF – Phase 1: Develop and demonstrate Rapid Crop Performance Analyzer and deep UV sensors with Fraunhofer Institute for improved hydroponics medicinal plant growth performance.
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Here is a quick summary of President Obama's recent debate with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Chamber of Commerce: The Democrats' economic policies have failed.
Obama: Look out! Foreigners!
Obama's attempt to discredit his opponents by linking them to sinister outsiders reminds us that neither major party has a monopoly on xenophobia. To some extent, crying "foreigner" reflects the president's desperation in the face of the Democrats' looming midterm losses. But it is also part of a long-term rhetorical strategy that belies his image as a sophisticated cosmopolitan eager to promote international cooperation and restore America's reputation.
Back in January, during his State of the Union Address, Obama claimed Citizens United v. FEC, a decision in which the Supreme Court overturned restrictions on political speech by corporations, would allow "foreign entities" to "spend without limit in our elections." That was one of the comments that may have prompted Justice Samuel Alito, sitting in the audience, to shake his head and mouth the words "not true," since the ruling left undisturbed the 1966 ban on election-related spending by "foreign nationals."
In the same vein, Obama last week repeatedly insinuated that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is using "foreign money" to fund ads criticizing Democrats.
"Just this week," he said in a speech supporting the re-election of Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, "we learned that one of the largest groups paying for these ads regularly takes in money from foreign corporations. So groups that receive foreign money are spending huge sums to influence American elections, and they won't tell you where the money for their ads comes from. ... This is a threat to our democracy." He said much the same thing during a campaign stop in Chicago.
Obama was referring to a ThinkProgress blog post reporting that the Chamber of Commerce receives revenue from affiliates in other countries. But as The New York Times noted, so do many other American organizations that are active in domestic political debates, "from liberal ones like the AFL-CIO and the Sierra Club to conservative groups like the National Rifle Association."
All these groups are legally required to keep such funds segregated from money they use to pay for political advocacy. The White House admitted it had no evidence that the Chamber of Commerce, which says "foreign money" represents 0.05 percent of its $200 million budget, has broken this rule.
"The president was not suggesting any illegality," insisted White House Counsel Bob Bauer. In other words, when Obama said "one of the largest groups paying for these ads regularly takes in money from foreign sources," he was not implying any connection between the ads and the money. He was just stringing sounds together randomly.
In terms of logical force, he might as well have been. Even if the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (or, as ThinkProgress calls it, the "Foreign-Funded 'U.S.' Chamber of Commerce") were a wholly owned subsidiary of a giant international corporation, noting that fact would do nothing to refute the group's criticism of Democratic policies.
Deploying "foreign" as a term of opprobrium in the context of an ad hominem attack does not exactly burnish Obama's credentials for the Nobel Peace Prize, which he won last year after less than nine months in office based on nothing more than the hope that he would be a less ugly American than his predecessor. Nor does it suggest that Obama has drawn a moral lesson from his own experience with such baseless attacks. But it is of a piece with his frequent complaints that the First Amendment allows too much speech of the wrong sort.
"If we just stand by and allow the special interests to silence anybody who's got the guts to stand up to them," Obama said in his Maryland speech, "our country is going to be a very different place." What the "special interests" are actually doing is speaking, and the president regrets that they have the freedom to do so. Who wants to silence whom? | <urn:uuid:684f54dc-78f6-4e25-973b-4db90de983cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2010/10/13/logical_farce_obamas_wild_attacks_on_foreign_money_reek_of_desperation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977113 | 818 | 1.578125 | 2 |
It is estimated that nearly 500,000 new software related jobs were created in China[i] between 2003 and the end of 2006. Software related employment in China is growing at 20% per year. China wants to add about 250,000 jobs per year over the next 4 to 5 years. At the present time, there are about 1.5 million employed in Chinese software development. By 2010, there will be nearly 3 million software developers will double in China.
Growth in IT software employment in India is amazing. In 2000, there were only 284,000 software developers jobs in India. By the end of 2008, the number of software developer jobs was around 2 million. In only eight years, employment in the software industry in India has grown nearly 7 times.
India achieved an employment in software development level in 8 years what it took the USA to attain in 28 years.[ii] There seems to be no end to the growth in software development jobs in India. Tim Sullivan of the Associated Press reports that “Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest software company, hires around 3,000 people per month. The consulting firm Accenture, a USA firm, plans to hire 8,000 in the next six months, and IBM, another USA firm, says it will bring on more than 50,000 additional people in India by 2010.”
In 2008 software exports from India were worth 35 billion dollars. Of those exports, over eighty percent were to the USA and UK (sixty-seven percent were to the USA and fifteen percent to the UK). What all this means is there are a lot of US firms and UK firms using India to write code. The movement of programming jobs outside Western Europe and the USA to India is going to continue over the next several years.
Jeremy Roche, Chairman of the European Software Associations believes “there will be a shortage of software labor in Europe.” In the next four years, nearly 1 million software development jobs will be added to the 19 EMEA countries[iii].
According to Eastern European Times, software development is blooming in Eastern Europe. The targets for software development include Russia, Romania, Praque, Budapest, Bratislava, and other Eastern European cities in search of programming talent. Not only is Eastern Europe a destination for outsourcers, some really cool software such as Skype, UPEK and Netbeans was developed in Eastern Europe. Bulgaria-based Ivanka Panayotova of MindFusion Ltd said, “The software industry in Eastern Europe, as a portion of the entire business sector, is larger than in most other countries worldwide -definitely bigger than one would find in a developed country.” Panayotova believes that “gradually, with the expansion of the European Union, the computer sector will start to move ahead—not in quantity, but in quality—and it shall meet its Western counterparts as equal to equal.”[iv]
Eastern Europe is expected to have a significant growth rate in IT over the next several years, and many countries are expecting double-digit growth. Over the next 5 years, the average growth rate of Russian IT is expected to be twenty percent per year. [v]
Countries like Brazil, Costa Rica, and Argentina are also developing healthy software development economies. Brazil boasts of having over 150,000 software professionals and plans to add about 15,000 per year.
According to Carlos Palotti, president of Argentina’s Chamber of Enterprise Software and IT Services, Argentina’s software companies are growing so fast that they could hire 15,000 more qualified IT professionals through 2009. It is estimated there are about 50,000 individuals employed in software-type work in Argentina. Argentina aims to have software development represent 3% of its GDP by the end of the 2010. The current rate is .7%.
IDC, Table 1, IT Market Growth and Local and International Contributions. “The Contribution of Software and IT Services Industries to the Chinese Economy, John F. Gantz, IDC – Chinese-Economy.pdf.
[ii] Information Technology Annual Report, Government of India, annualreport2006-2007.pdf
[iii] Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, UK,
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Mount Calvary Church
A Roman Catholic Congregation of
The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Patronal Feast of the Church
Preludes Liturgiques, No. 7, Gaston Litaize
Lift high the cross
Firmly I believe and truly
And now, O Father, mindful of the love
The head that once was crowned with thorns
Christus factus est obediens, Felice Anerio
God so loved the world, John Stainer
Dialogue, from Premier Livre D’Orgue, Pierre DuMage
Lift high the cross was written by George William Kitchen (1827—1912), Dean of the Cathedral for a festival service of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, held in Winchester Cathedral in 1887. His version was altered by Anglican priest Michael Robert Newbolt (1874–1956), who later became Canon of Chester Cathedral.
The hymn incorporates an important feature of processionals: the crucifer (cross-bearer) leads the procession, lifting the cross high. This ritual use of the cross is a sign of the victory of the resurrection and finds a biblical basis in John 12:32, “And I, when I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself”— which is written on the arch above our chancel.
The hymn also alludes to the story of the Emperor Constantine’s vision as told in Eusebius’s Life of Constantine, in which he saw a cross inscribed with the words, “In hoc signo vinces” (“in this sign [of the cross] you will conquer”). Constantine recognized Christianity and provided a basis for the further spread of Christianity.
Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim
till all the world adore his sacred name.
1 Come, Christians, follow where our Savior trod,
the Lamb victorious, Christ, the Son of God. [Refrain]
2 All newborn servants of the Crucified
bear on their brow the seal of him who died. [Refrain]
3 From north and south, from east and west we raise
in growing unison our song of praise. [Refrain]
4 O Lord, once lifted on the tree of pain,
draw all the world to seek you once again. [Refrain]
5 Let every race and every language tell
of him who saves our lives from death and hell. [Refrain]
6 Set up your throne, that earth’s despair may cease
beneath the shadow of its healing peace. [Refrain]
7 So shall our song of triumph ever be:
praise to the Crucified for victory! [Refrain]
Her are the St. Michael’s Singers.
The Very Reverend George William Kitchin, MA, DD, FSA (7 December 1827 – 13 October 1912) was the first Chancellor of the University of Durham, from the institution of the role in 1908 until his death in 1912. He was also the last Dean of Durham to govern the university.
Kitchin was born to a minister in the Rectory at Naughton, Suffolk. He attended King’s College School and King’s College London. Later, he attended Christ Church, Oxford where he took a Double First in Classics and Mathematics in 1850 and gained his Master of Arts (Oxford) (MA Oxon) in 1852. In 1854, Kitchin was an examiner in Mathematics at Christ Church. Kitchin left Oxford to become Headmaster of Twyford Preparatory School in Hampshire but returned to residence at Oxford as Censor in 1861. While at Christ Church he was partly responsible for the end in late 1861 of the Latin Prayer, conducted there since time immemorial, and for which special provision had been given in the Act of Uniformity 1662. Kitchin married in 1863, and served as Oxford’s first Junior Censor of non-collegiate students from 1868 to 1883. He was Select Preacher at Oxford from 1863–64, Whitehall Preacher from 1866–67. Resided at Brantwood, in the Lake District from 1869–71, the property later purchased by John Ruskin. Here he undertook assignments for Clarendon Press, including working on the proofs of Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Appointed Chaplain to William Jacobson, Bishop of Chester from 1871–72, tutor of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (later Frederick VIII of Denmark) and lecturer and tutor in History in Christ Church from 1870-83. He was also Commissary to Charles Sandford, Bishop of Gibraltar from 1874–1904, and was an Honorary Fellow of King’s College London, and an honorary student of Christ Church. In theology he was a moderate liberal.
In 1883, he became Dean of Winchester and in 1894 became the Dean of Durham.
Xie: “It won’t come smooth”
At Oxford his friends included John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll. Kitchin’s daughter Alexandra (‘Xie’, 1864–1925) was Carroll’s favorite photographic subject.
While Dean of Winchester he was responsible for a number of refurbishments within the Cathedral, most notably, the restoration of the mediaeval reredos behind the High Altar, usually known as ‘The Great Screen’. The restoration was initially entrusted to the architect J. D. Sedding. However, Sedding’s design for the scheme did not meet with general satisfaction and was not implemented. Thereafter Kitchin personally took over and master-minded the entire project, essentially as his own architect, commissioning the many new statues needed to people the restored screen. When completed this was widely acclaimed as a major artistic ecclesiastical restoration of the 19th century. (Wikipedia)
Sir Sydney Nicholson
The tune CRUCIFER was composed by Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson MVO (9 February 1875 – 30 May 1947) was an English choir director, organist and composer, now chiefly remembered as the founder of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM). He was born in London (the son of Charles Nicholson) and educated at Rugby School, New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music. At this last-named institution, he studied the organ. He then served as organist at Barnet Parish Church (1897 – 1903), Carlisle Cathedral (1904), Lower Chapel, Eton College (1904 – 1908), Manchester Cathedral (1908 – 1919), and Westminster Abbey (1919 – 1928). Along with maintaining his organist posts, he edited the Hymns Ancient and Modern supplement that was published in 1916; he did not live to see the 1950 revised edition.
Something momentous would have to occur to persuade most away from playing the organ at the prestigious Westminster Abbey, but such was the case with Nicholson who was so concerned at the sad state of choral music in the parish churches throughout the country that in 1927 he founded the School of English Church Music (now the RSCM), in the hope of rectifying the problem. The School’s members initially met at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate.
One of Nicholson’s most successful compositions for parish choirs was his Communion Service in G, which was widely sung, especially in Anglo-Catholic churches, until recent times. He was warden of St Nicholas College, Chislehurst (1928 – 1939).
In addition to having edited Hymns Ancient and Modern, still the standard hymn book in many Anglican churches today, Nicholson wrote several hymn tunes. Of these, the most famous is Crucifer for the popular processional hymn Lift High the Cross. In 1928 he received the Lambeth DMus, and a decade later he was knighted for his services to Church music. He died at Ashford, Kent at the age of 72, and was buried at Westminster Abbey. (Wikipedia)
Firmly I believe and truly is adapted from John Henry Newman’s poem The Dream of Gerontius, a narrative poem written in 1865 about the progress of a soul from death to salvation.
As an Evangelical, Newman (1901-1890) rejected the doctrines of purgatory and the intercession of saints, but as part of his conversion (1845), he came to a realization, as he would call it, of the fullness of the communion of saints: those striving on earth, those being purified by the divine fire, and those in heaven moved by love to pray for those on earth and in purgatory. Gerontius (Greek Geron: old man), relates the journey of a pious man’s soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory. As the priests and assistants pray the prayers for the dying Gerontius recites this creed and prays for mercy. “Sanctus Fortis, sanctus Deus” is from the Good Friday liturgy and is alluded to in the line “him the holy, him the strong.”
Firmly I believe and truly
God is Three and God is One;
and I next acknowledge duly
manhood taken by the Son.
Refrain: Sanctus fortis, sanctus Deus, de profundis oro Te.
Miserere mei, judex meus, parce mihi, Domine.
And I trust and hope most fully
in that manhood crucified;
and each thought and deed unruly
do to death, as he has died.
Simply to his grace and wholly
light and life and strength belong,
and I love supremely, solely,
him the holy, him the strong.
And I hold in veneration,
for the love of him alone,
Holy Church as his creation,
and her teachings as his own.
Adoration ay be given,
with and through the angelic host,
to the God of earth and heaven,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Here is the hymn at Nashotah House.
General Gordon (1833-1885), troubled by fears of what happens after the end of life, had a copy of the poem sent to him in Egypt in 1884. He read it on his journey to his own death in Khartoum. This copy, with pencilled notes, was later given as a wedding present to Elgar. Elgar set it to music as an Oratorio, premiered in 1900. Its prominent Roman Catholic theology was objectionable to many Anglicans, and Elgar had to change the text to be have the oratorio performed in Church of England cathedrals.
Here is Peter Pears singing Firmly I believe and truly from Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius.
And now, O Father, mindful of the love was composed by Anglican High Churchman William Bright (1824—1901), He was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, and then worked in Scotland, where his views on the Reformation caused him to be ejected by the Bishop of Glasgow. He then returned to Oxford.
The text it was inspired by the Latin Canon that begins Te Igitur, clementissime Pater:
And now, Lord, we Thy servants, and with us Thy holy people, calling to mind the blessed Passion of the same Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, and also His Resurrection from the grave and His glorious Ascension into heaven, offer to Thy excellent majesty, of Thy gifts and presents, a pure Victim, a holy Victim, a spotless Victim, the holy Bread of eternal life, and the Chalice of everlasting salvation.
1 And now, O Father, mindful of the love
that bought us, once for all, on Calvary’s tree,
and having with us him that pleads above,
we here present, we here spread forth to thee
that only offering perfect in thine eyes,
the one true, pure, immortal sacrifice.
2 Look, Father, look on his anointed face,
and only look on us as found in him;
look not on our misusings of thy grace,
our prayer so languid, and our faith so dim:
for lo, between our sins and their reward
we set the Passion of thy Son our Lord.
3 And then for those, our dearest and our best,
by this prevailing presence we appeal:
O fold them closer to thy mercy’s breast,
O do thine utmost for their souls’ true weal;
from tainting mischief keep them white and clear,
and crown thy gifts with strength to persevere.
4 And so we come: O draw us to thy feet,
most patient Saviour, who canst love us still;
and by this food, so aweful and so sweet,
deliver us from every touch of ill:
in thine own service make us glad and free,
and grant us never more to part with thee.
Her is the Choir of Marlborough College.
William Bright, D.D., born at Doncaster, Dec. 14, 1824, and educated at University College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. (first class in Lit. Hum.) in 1846, M.A. in 1849. In 1847 he was Johnson’s Theological Scholar: and in 1848 he also obtained the Ellerton Theological Essay prize. He was elected Fellow in 1847, and subsequently became Tutor of his College. Taking Holy Orders in 1848, he was for some time Tutor at Trinity College, Glenalmond; but in 1859 he returned to Oxford, and in 1868 became Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Canon of Christ Church.
William Henry Monk
The tune UNDE ET MEMORES was composed by William Henry Monk. It marks the rhythm very beautifully with a crochet on the third and seventh syllable of lines one and three, varied on the fifth syllable in lines two and four.
Monk (16 March 1823 – 1 March 1889) was an English organist, church musician and music editor who composed popular hymn tunes, including one of the most famous, “Eventide”, used for the hymn “Abide with Me”. He also wrote music for church services and anthems.
Monk was born in London on 16 March 1823. By age 18, Monk was organist at St Peter’s Church, Eaton Square (Central London). He left after two years, and moved on to two more organist posts in London (St. George’s Church, Albemarle Street, and St. Paul’s Church, Portman Square). He spent two years in each.
In 1847, Monk became choirmaster at King’s College London. There he developed an interest in incorporating plainchant into Anglican services, an idea suggested by William Dyce, a King’s College professor with whom Monk had much contact. In 1849, Monk also became organist at King’s College.
In 1852, he became organist and choirmaster at St Matthias’ Church, Stoke Newington, where he made many changes: plainchant was used in singing psalms, and the music performed was more appropriate to the church calendar. By now, Monk was also arranging hymns, as well as writing his own hymn melodies. In 1857, his talents as composer, arranger, and editor were recognized when he was appointed the musical editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern, a volume first published in 1861, containing 273 hymns. After supplements were added (second edition—1875; later additions or supplements—1889, 1904, and 1916) it became one of the best-selling hymn books ever produced. It was for this publication that Monk supplied his famous “Eventide” tune which is mostly used for the hymn “Abide with Me”, as well as several others, including “Gethsemane”, “Ascension”, and “St. Denys”.
In 1874, Monk was appointed professor of vocal studies at King’s College; subsequently he accepted similar posts at two other prestigious London music schools: the first at the National Training School for Music in 1876, and the second at Bedford College in 1878. Monk remained active in composition in his later years, writing not only hymn tunes but also anthems and other works. In 1882 Durham University awarded him an honorary Mus. Doc.
He died on 1 March 1889 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. (from Wikipedia)
The Head that once was crowned with thorns was written by Thomas Kelly (1769-1854), who based this hymn on Hebrews 2: 9-10 which speaks of Christ’s glory and the universal message of grace that is available because of Christ’s suffering: “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.”
Kelly employs the poetic device of hypotyposis – a vivid description of a scene or events in words – that provides the singer with a glimpse of the splendor of heaven, which is contrasted with the suffering of the cross and the suffering of all who follow Christ on earth.
1 The head that once was crowned with thorns
is crowned with glory now:
a royal diadem adorns
the mighty Victor’s brow.
2 The highest place that heaven affords
is his, is his by right,
the King of kings, and Lord of lords,
and heaven’s eternal Light;
3 The joy of all who dwell above,
the joy of all below,
to whom he manifests his love,
and grants his name to know.
4 To them the cross, with all its shame,
with all its grace, is given:
their name, an everlasting name,
their joy, the joy of heaven.
5 They suffer with their Lord below,
they reign with him above;
their profit and their joy to know
the mystery of his love.
6 The cross he bore is life and health,
though shame and death to him;
his people’s hope, his people’s wealth,
their everlasting theme.
Here is the Choir of the King’s School.
Son of a judge, Kelly attended Trinity College (BA 1789) and planned to be a lawyer. After converting to Christ, though, his career plans changed to the ministry. He became an Anglican priest in 1792, but eventually became one of the famous dissenting ministers. He wrote over 760 hymns. Miller’s Singers of the Church (1869) says of him:
Mr. Kelly was a man of great and varied learning, skilled in the Oriental tongues, and an excellent Bible critic. He was possessed also of musical talent, and composed and published a work that was received with favour, consisting of music adapted to every form of metre in his hymn-book. Naturally of an amiable disposition and thorough in his Christian piety, Mr. Kelly became the friend of good men, and the advocate of every worthy, benevolent, and religious cause. He was admired alike for his zeal and his humility; and his liberality found ample scope in Ireland, especially during the year of famine.
The tune ST MAGNUS first appeared in Henry Playford’s Divine Companion (1707 ed.) as an anonymous tune with soprano and bass parts. The tune was later credited to Jeremiah Clark (b. London, England, c. 1670; d. London, 1707), who was a chorister in the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of James II in 1685. Later he served as organist in Winchester College, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the Chapel Royal. He shot himself to death in a fit of depression, apparently because of an unhappy romance. Supported by Queen Anne, Clark was a prominent composer in his day, writing songs for the stage as well as anthems, psalm tunes, and harpsichord works.
Although ST. MAGNUS was originally used as a setting for Psalm 117, it has been associated with this text since they were combined in the 1868 Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern. The tune is named for the Church of St. Magnus the Martyr, built by Christopher Wren in 1676 on Lower Thames Street near the old London Bridge, England.
ST. MAGNUS consists of two long lines, each of which has its own sense of climax. The octave leap in the final phrase has a stunning effect, like a vault in a Gothic cathedral. Assign stanzas for antiphonal singing in unison and/ or in harmony, (Hymnary) | <urn:uuid:70eeb312-b49d-4a98-b694-db6ae6fa7142> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.podles.org/dialogue/mount-calvary-music-september-17-2017-5994.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.972685 | 4,563 | 2.015625 | 2 |
28-May-2004 -- This was an easy one – a drive-in confluence, bagged “en passant”, so to speak.
Rounding off a business trip to Munich before jumping into the fray of the beginning weekend tourist traffic (Pentecost holidays in Bavaria had just begun) on my way home, I made a slight detour to the east of the Bavarian capital and soon reached the small village of Straußdorf between Grafing and Aßling in the administrative district of Ebersberg.
I reached the confluence quite easily by car, using a small unnamed tarmac road branching off the ST2080 a few hundred meters north of Aßling and leading towards a stone bridge across the Attel river.
The confluence point itself was situated not far from the bridge (with a nearby monument indicating the confluence) only 3 metres within a ploughed acre.
Confluence work of GPS reading and taking photos was quickly done. Getting home by running into several congestions one at a time on the southern German motorways gridlocked by trucks, caravans, and passenger cars stucking in between (including myself) was by far not so easy. | <urn:uuid:f7ea5857-cf4c-4afd-8268-487821915ba7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=8600 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959465 | 250 | 1.601563 | 2 |
A practical electrical power source which is a linear electric circuit may, according to Thévenin's theorem, be represented as an ideal voltage source in series with an impedance. This impedance is termed the internal resistance of the source. When the power source delivers current, the measured voltage output is lower than the no-load voltage; the difference is the voltage drop (the product of current and resistance) caused by the internal resistance. The concept of internal resistance applies to all kinds of electrical sources and is useful for analyzing many types of electrical circuits.
A battery may be modeled as a voltage source in series with a resistance. In practice, the internal resistance of a battery is dependent on its size, chemical properties, age, temperature, and the discharge current. It has an electronic component due to the resistivity of the component materials and an ionic component due to electrochemical factors such as electrolyte conductivity, ion mobility, and electrode surface area. Measurement of the internal resistance of a battery is a guide to its condition, but may not apply at other than the test conditions. Measurement with an alternating current, typically at a frequency of , may underestimate the resistance, as the frequency may be too high to take into account slower electrochemical processes. Internal resistance depends on temperature; for example, a fresh 1 kHzEnergizer E91 AA alkaline primary battery drops from about 0.9 Ω at -40 °C, when the low temperature reduces ion mobility, to about 0.15 Ω at room temperature and about 0.1 Ω at 40 °C.
The internal resistance of a battery may be calculated from its open circuit voltage VNL, load voltage VFL, and the load resistance RL:
Many equivalent series resistance (ESR) meters, essentially AC milliohm-meters normally used to measure the ESR of capacitors, can be used to estimate battery internal resistance, particularly to check the state of discharge of a battery rather than obtain an accurate DC value. Some chargers for rechargeable batteries indicate the ESR.
In use, the voltage across the terminals of a disposable battery driving a load decreases until it drops too low to be useful; this is largely due to an increase in internal resistance rather than a drop in the voltage of the equivalent source.
In rechargeable lithium polymer batteries, the internal resistance is largely independent of the state of charge but increases as the battery ages; thus, it is a good indicator of expected life.
- "Battery Internal Resistance" (PDF). Energizer Technical Bulletin. Energizer Battery. December 2005.
- Testing batteries with ESR meter
- Understanding RC LiPo Batteries
- ESR Meter For 2 – 6 Cell Lipo Packs - instructions
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America most easily expresses its affection for things and places with money. The more America spends, the more it cares, or so the logic goes. According to Fortune, is the most admired company in the world. At a $450 billion market cap, it’s also the most valuable. In the world of sports, the same is true, and no other team is more American than the Dallas Cowboys.
Sine the late 70’s the Cowboys have been unofficially known as ‘America’s team’, and according to Forbes annual sports team valuations, they are the most valuable sports team in the country, worth $1.85 billion. In addition to having the biggest stadium in the NFL and drawing the most fans, The Cowboys are also the biggest draw on the road. They lead the NFL in average price for road games, and in 2013, six of their eight games on the road are their opponent’s most expensive, including this weekend’s game against the Chiefs.
Chiefs tickets to see the Cowboys first visit in four years have an average price in the secondary market of $268, which is 120% more expensive than the average price at Arrowhead Stadium. The Cowboys got the America’s team moniker in 1978, from Bob Ryan, the Editor in Chief for NFL Films. He coined the phrase after seeing an unusually high number of fans in visiting stadiums with Cowboys jerseys and hats while cutting film. While most Kansas Citiians are devoted to their local teams, given the shared history of the Cowboys and Chiefs, there may be more than a few fans pulling for the away team. The Chiefs in fact used to be the Cowboys, or rather the precursor to the Cowboys, before they moved from Dallas to Kansas City, in 1963. Once there, they changed their name from the Texans to the Chiefs and helped launch the AFL. Since then, the Cowboys and Chiefs have played nine times, including four games in Kansas City.
Based on the below data, it seems that cities where the Cowboys visit less frequently have the highest demand for tickets to see them play. The three teams with the highest premium to see the Cowboys this year are the Chiefs, Chargers and Saints, all who last hosted the Cowboys in 2009. For the Bears it’s been even longer—2007— but because Bears tickets are the most expensive in the NFL, there’s less of an opportunity for big premiums at Soldier Field. As for Lions tickets, while the Cowboys are the second most expensive ticket at Ford Field, the comparison is not entirely fair because the Lions most expensive ticket is for the annual Thanksgiving day game. Thanksgiving day in Detroit is always the most expensive game and this years Lions versus Packers game is the most expensive Thanksgiving day game in four years.
Cowboys Away Game Prices:
- @ Chiefs: $268 (120% above home avg - most expensive)
- @ Chargers: $304 (65% above home avg - most expensive)
- @ Eagles: $230 (20% above home avg - most expensive )
- @ Lions: $184 (31% above home avg - 2nd most expensive behind Packers)
- @ Saints: $457 (64% above home avg - most expensive )
- @ Giants: $421 (26% above home avg - most expensive )
- @ Bears: $473 (6% above home avg - 2nd most behind Giants)
- @ Redskins: $314 (43% above home avg - most expensive)
As for their own division, the Cowboys also perennially drive the highest ticket prices for away games against their NFC East rivals the Giants, Eagles and Redskins. This year is no different. Of course, in those markets, Cowboy’s tickets are not expensive because fans love the Cowboys. They’re expensive because fans love to hate the Cowboys, and will happily pay top dollar for the opportunity to see their team beat Tony Romo and crew live and in person. | <urn:uuid:3cfce8e6-e920-4c28-ac86-6430b3babb6c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.forbes.com/sites/jesselawrence/2013/09/09/americas-team-cowboys-tickets-are-most-expensive-away-from-dallas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00181-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96012 | 834 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Visit the Nashville Music City Center website; Green Roof page; and Facebook page. See the sustainable features and practices at the Music City Center.
February 4, 2019 Nashville Music City Center by Linda S. Velazquez on Greenroofs.com; March 19, 2018 Music City Center Green Roof Brings Nashville to Life by Rachel Bertone in Farm Flavor; August 19, 2017 National Honey Bee Day and Honey Harvesting at the Nashville Music City Center by the NewsDesk at Nashville.com; November 17, 2014 Music City Center’s Big Green Roof by Roofmeadow; October 31, 2014 Music City Center Recognized with Green Roof Award of Excellence Prior to CitiesAlive Conference in Nashville Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Media Release; June 2014 Case study: Music City Center green roof by Allan Wingfield in Geosynthetics; April 24, 2014 Music City Center Earns LEED Gold Certification from Clark Construction; June 5, 2013 Greenrise Technologies Complete Music City Center Green Roof Press Release; May 16, 2013 Who Will Mow The Lawn On Music City Center’s Roof? No One by Blake Farmer from Nashville Public Radio; January 13, 2012 Music City Center Roof Goes Green by Adam Ghassemi from NewsChannel5.com; January 9, 2011 Music City Center trims green roof plan by Anne Pain in The Tennessean; and November 18, 2011 Currently Under Construction – The Music City Center Green Roof by Evan Morettini from the Roofmeadow blog, with lots of construction photos.
The Nashville Music City Center (or simply Music City Center, MCC) is a 1,200,000 square foot convention center completed in June, 2012 in the SoBro (South of Broadway) district in Nashville, Tennessee. Spanning three city blocks, the MCC “boasts a 350,000 square-foot exhibition hall, 60 meeting rooms, and a 57,000 square-foot grand ballroom that also is designed to serve as a music venue and an 18,000 square-foot junior ballroom. In addition, there are more than 80 pieces of art, 32 loading docks, and an 1,800-vehicle parking garage. Large skylights and a 14-story glass curtain wall system allow daylight into the exhibit hall and concourse, making the convention center a warm space from within, and an inviting presence from outside,” (Clark Construction.)
Five stories high, the wavy roof has three independent green roof sections with rooflite® soil which mimic the area’s rolling hills. The official groundbreaking for the Music City Center was held on March 22, 2010, and the new building opened in early 2013. The Music City Center makes it a part of their mission to focus on environmental sustainability and the Music City Center is LEED Gold certified for New Construction by the U.S. Green Building Council.
“The Music City Center has many sustainable features, including a green roof and a water reclaim tank so that excess rain water can be used for things such as flushing the toilets and site irrigation. In addition to these sustainable features, the Music City Center Team also envisioned installing solar panels. The Music City Center building was designed to accommodate a solar panel system over the grand ballroom portion of the roof. That portion of the roof is approximately 1 acre in size and is designed to hold approximately 4-6 lbs/sf.” ~ Nashville Music City Center website, 2015.
The new convention center hosts visitors and serves as a central meeting point for Nashville’s residents. A wide green pavilion encircles the building on all sides, calling Nashvillians to enjoy the area’s newest landmark and offers public space for art and music.
“The 191,000-square-foot greenroof was designed for stormwater retention and urban heat island reduction. It was essential that this iconic building embody the essence of “Music City, USA,” so the greenroof design represents the frets and body of a guitar—including solar panels incorporated into the design of the guitar body itself—while the roof “rolls” symbolize the rolling hills of Tennessee. From a performance perspective, the system is built to handle a 2.6-million-gallon stormwater offset. We carefully selected the most heat-tolerant, drought-tolerant plants, and we also blended and installed bioretention soil and structural soil for the greenroof as well as the surrounding grounds. Slated to receive an award from the national organization, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, this project represents the ultimate fusion of aesthetics and engineered performance.” ~ Greenrise Technologies, 2014
The Music City Center’s structure is comprised of 13,000 tons of structural steel and 110,000 cubic yards of concrete. Although sections of the roof have zero slope (i.e., the crests and valleys), the green roof has undulating surfaces with pitches ranging from 16 – 25%, with a 65-foot difference in elevation. This difference required slope stabilization of the media.
Since the growing media depth was shallow at less than three inches deep, pre-vegetated sedum mats from Sempergreen were specified, the principal reason being to avoid wind erosion, especially with such an exposed and thin assembly. The Anti-Slip System Type N with net and sills from Optigreen® was used to hold the rooflite® Extensive MCL substrate and the sedum mats.
In 2014 Roofmeadow wrote, “The extremely lean 2.5-inch thick green roof profile weighs in at only 17.5 pounds per square foot (at its heaviest) and is designed to maximize the time water flows horizontally through the root zone before exiting at the drains, reducing irrigation requirements.”
“Roofmeadow specified Bonar’s Enkadrain®/W 3601, a new thin drainage composite that is part of the Enkadrain family of sustainable products, as an underlayment and drainage system for the roof’s organic materials.” ~ Bonar (Xeroflor GmbH) Case History
The specific blend of rooflite soil used on the living roof was fine-tuned several times to ensure just the right mix for the vast space. Because the green roof was so large, the rooflite growing media was blown onto the roof in an easy and smooth installation process.
“From my standpoint the most important aspect of the design was the unique green roof profile, which was specifically designed for this application. The profile, that includes six structural layers, includes, bottom to top, 18 oz/sy capillary fabric (for moisture control), Bonar drainage composite (storm drainage), geogrid (for slope stabilization), media, geogrid (for wind stabilization), and pre-grown mats.” ~ Charlie Miller, 2019
Here are just some additional noteworthy Architecture and Design features:
- The total land area of the site is 16 acres and features a 65-foot difference in elevation from the northwest corner of the site to the southeast corner.
- 14 plant species were incorporated.
- The total square footage of the facility, including parking, is 2.1 million square feet. The actual building is 1.2 million square feet.
- A 360,000 gallon rainwater collection tank stores rainwater from the roof which is used to irrigate outdoor landscaping and flush the hundreds of toilets in the building.
- An array of 845 solar panels.
Regarding the 845 solar panel array, its 211kW emissions offset the following over 25 years:
- 8,275 lbs. of nitrogen oxides
- 23,825 lbs. of sulfur dioxide
- 5,046 tons of carbon dioxide
The Nashville Music City Center’s carbon offset is equivalent to planting 3,750 acres of trees! (LightWave Solar)
The Music City Center also supports bee hives on its 4-acre greenroof in order to help the bee population in Nashville flourish, provide pollinators to the many green spaces in downtown, and produce delicious honey for use in their kitchen. The hives can produce up to 200 pounds of honey each year from approximately 100,000 bees.
In 2014 the Nashville Music City Center was the recipient of the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Green Roof Special Recognition Award. The co-recipients for the Special Recognition Award were Roofmeadow, who designed the green roof, provided construction oversight, and oversees maintenance; Greenrise Technologies, who constructed the green roof and also conducts green roof maintenance; and tvsdesign, lead architect, who conceived the green roof project and laid out the signature green diamond pattern.
Additional awards include 2015 Nashville Downtown Partnership Award in the LIVE category for the addition of bee hives on the greenroof; 2014 Urban Land Institute Nashville’s Excellence in Development Award; ABC of Middle Tennessee 2013 Excellence in Construction Award – Mega Project; AGC Build Tennessee Award 2013 – General Contractor Project, $250-500 Million; ENR Southeast – Best Project of 2013, Sports/Entertainment; and 2013 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award in the Building Green category.
In FY 2019, the Music City Center collected over 3 million gallons of rainwater from its greenroof, reducing their municipal water usage by 51%. Additionally, the MCC recycled over 400,000 lbs. of mixed recycling. The Music City Center strives to be a strong community partner and donated over 40,000 lbs. to the Nashville Rescue Mission. | <urn:uuid:a0c02a78-8ca2-4dea-a947-9a8751977deb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/nashville-music-city-center/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.918027 | 1,968 | 1.664063 | 2 |
BS in Business
John Paul the Great Catholic University prepares students professionally and spiritually for careers in the diverse, yet complementary fields of media and business. It provides an academically rigorous & practical environment for students to impact culture for Christ.
Business, as an academic field encompasses the broad areas of marketing & sales, finance & accounting, leadership & management, and the business creation process. Students bring together all they have learned in our unique business LaunchPad when they undertake a significant business project or explore taking a new idea through to eventual launch. The curriculum is designed to prepare students to master the complexities of today's global and ever-changing business environment.
Areas of Emphasis allow students to focus on one or more aspects of business that they are most interested in
- Sales & Marketing
- Leadership & Management
- Accounting & Finance
- Creative Entrepreneurship
Students learn to passionately pursue new and innovative ideas, to defy conventional wisdom, to dare mighty things, and to lead through action and example. Students can expect a 'transforming' experience, acquiring self-confidence, knowledge, and the tools they will need to chart their own future, and likely in partnership with peers from JPCatholic.
Graduates will expect to pursue careers in the very broad field of business
Industry-experienced faculty bring a unique blend of entrepreneurial spirit underpinned by a serious focus on forming students to thrive within the increasingly competitive global marketplace. | <urn:uuid:5596524f-9552-4e8a-80ad-385610c8a5ff> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://jpcatholic.edu/academics/degree/entbusiness.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938474 | 290 | 1.734375 | 2 |
St. George, UT (PRWEB) February 04, 2013
Finding the best domain registrars can be a daunting task. At 100BestDomainNames.com they take a lot of the guess work out of registering a domain. Those that are new to the world of building a website and creating an online presence will likely have a lot of questions. Some may not even understand that registering a domain name is the first step in creating a web presence. By visiting 100BestDomainNames users can find information about everything from basic questions like “Why Register a Domain Name?” to details about top level domains vs. country specific domains. The company is excited about the name change from 100Best-Domain-Names.com to 100BestDomainNames.com. This may not seem like a big change, but the simple changes can make a big difference for visitors.
100 Best representative Brenda W. says, “Removing the dashes from our website name will make a big difference to people searching for information about domain names”. When typing a domain name in directly, trying to remember how many dashes are in a name or where the dashes go can be very confusing. “A lot of our visitors try to type the domain name in directly and end up at a completely different site because they have misplaced or left a dash out of the name, removing the dashes will ensure that our website visitors will find our site every time,” Brenda continues. In addition, those that are simply doing a search for information about domain names will also have a better chance of finding the website because sites without dashes in the domain name typically rank higher and fair better in search engine results. Users searching for terms like cheap domain names or best domain registrars will be a lot more likely to find the site.
There are many intricate details that go into search engine optimization (SEO) often a webmaster registers a domain before having any understanding about how the domain name can affect the search engine ranking and placement of a website. By visiting 100BestDomainNames and reading some of the domain name information and articles, a webmaster can learn about some of the best practices and top recommendations, before actually registering a domain name. Once the user has an idea of what he/she wants in a domain name, the next step is to find the best place to register the domain. There are a number of things to consider: price, terms, transfer options, privacy options, and how reliable the registrar is, to name a few.
On the 100BestDomainNames.com website users will be able to quickly find this information about the top domain registrars. The website features a list of the top 3 providers, including where to get cheap domain names and even extra tips on finding registrars that provide free domain names with web hosting. Visitors that also need web hosting may want to compare BlueHost vs. HostGator or other top hosting providers to find the host that has the best tools and features and provides free domain registration. This can be a really good option for the webmaster that is only building one website but someone interested in purchasing bulk domains will want to check out some GoDaddy reviews to learn more about their bulk domain registration services.
Registrars that would like to be listed on the site can submit their service for review by clicking on the “Submit a Registrar” link at the bottom of the homepage. Also, users that have personally used any of the registrars listed on the site can leave a personal review about what their experience was like with that registrar. All of these elements make 100BestDomainNames.com one of the best places for comprehensive information about domain name registration.
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In the first half of January 2022, Dr. Sameer Parikh from Mayo, Rochester, MN, discusses the present state of affairs related to COVID-19 for those with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma or CLL/SLL.
In this short monologue, he touches on:
- the Omicron surge
- lack of response to vaccines in many with CLL/SLL
- the need to continue to follow precautions such as masking and social distancing, even if vaccinated
- waiting for the recently authorized Evusheld, the long-acting antibody preventative, to be more available
- the reality that all CLL/SLL patients, regardless of their treatment status, are immunocompromised
It can be hard not to be discouraged, but there is a reason for hope. This surge could pass quickly. There are already very effective medications authorized or approved as described in the CDC HEALTH ADVISORY: Using Therapeutics to Prevent and Treat COVID-19 for the immunocompromised, and that they won’t always be in short supply.
Stay strong. We are all in this together.
Brian Koffman MDCM (retired) MS Ed (he, him, his)
Co-Founder, Executive VP, and Chief Medical Officer
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Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California
Successful approaches to developing knowledge acquisition tools use expectations of what the user has to add or may want to add, based on how new knowledge fits within a knowledge base that already exists. When a knowledge base is first created or undergoes significant extensions and changes, these tools cannot provide much support. This paper presents an approach to creating expectations when a new knowledge base is built, and describes a knowledge acquisition tool that we implemented using this approach that supports users in creating problem-solving knowledge. As the knowledge base grows, the knowledge acquisition tool derives more frequent and more reliable expectations that result from enforcing constraints in the knowledge representation system, looking for missing pieces of knowledge in the knowledge base, and working out incrementally the inter-dependencies among the different components of the knowledge base. Our preliminary evaluations show a thirty percent time savings during knowledge acquisition. Moreover, by providing tools to support the initial phases of knowledge base development many mistakes are detected early on and even avoided altogether. We believe that our approach contributes to improving the quality of the knowledge acquisition process and of the resulting knowledge-based systems as well. | <urn:uuid:baf2f491-8140-4520-a2d6-9bbba45e3f71> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aaai.org/Library/AAAI/1999/aaai99-035.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930179 | 235 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Croatia is a beautiful, romantic and peaceful country, with rich natural life, exemplified by its seven national parks and eleven nature parks, as well as a diverse culinary and tourist potential. It stretches from The Pannonian Basin, over a narrow section of The Dinaric Alps, to the Adriatic Sea. The country’s capital is Zagreb, and its neighboring countries include Slovenia and Hungary to the North, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the East, Montenegro to the South, and a sea border separates Croatia from Italy in the West. Famous for its clear, blue sea, it is also known for its breathtaking islands, reefs and uvalas. If you ever happen to visit this country, you are sure to come back because the hospitality and the spirits of the city will surely make you want to experience it all again.
The Capital city: Zagreb
The Country population: 4 million inhabitants
Total area: 56,594 km2
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Preface: for those who are ready to acuse me of pushing religion, I am not here to do any such thing. My beliefs are in fact entirely made up and i mock myself for them often enough. the point of this story is not to take it lieterally, because it's just an allegory for the nature of humanity and society. though it's about gods and magic, those things aren't important, they're just there to make a point. what you should take from this is what it is saying about humans and thier nature and how society and settlement effect this. now that you're adequately prepared, let's begin.
In the beginning there existed four gods who quarreled over the nature of evil in their world. One contended that to allow their creations to perish so others could survive was unjust of them as th overseers of life. Another contended that the weak had to perish so that the strong could emerge amongst their creations. Still another believed that another system was possible, wherein their creations could live eternally as they did.
Time went on and their creations did curse them every moment for the suffering of this world. The gods suffered with them every moment with no way to ease their pain, until a solution was born. Together they crafted a great tree which would bear a fruit only the gods could consume, for were a mortal to consume such a fruit it would merely stagnate in their system eternally. This fruit granted to them the knowledge of what was good and what was evil, and with it's knowledge they looked upon their creations again.
They saw a lion descend upon a gazelle and compelled that gazelle to it's freedom. the lion cursed them for he would not eat this day and they appeared to him as one and said unto him 'you have not eaten this day so that the gazelle may live, but you will eat the next day, then you shall live' and the lion was at peace. the next day they allowed the lion to bring down the gazelle and as the gazelle died it cursed the gods. They appeared to him as one and said onto him 'we have allowed you to die this day, for we allowed you to live the previous day. now the lion may live.' and he was at peace.
To this system they balanced emotions similiarly so that every feeling had it's oposition and only thier exitence together could maintain them. Without pain there was no pleasure, without suffering there was no joy and so on. They allowed only one feeling to be exempt. What the gods felt for thier creations had no oposite and they did not see fit to create one. Doubtless that anything but a god could fathom of such a feeling, though they were all created capable. they looked upon thier system together and saw it was good.
This system flourished well and all creations were at peace for a time, until the creation called human came upon the tree. When he questioned the gods about this tree they said onto him. 'If you eat of this tree, you will surely perish.' For they knew that the fruit of the gods granted no power to humanity and would merely stagnate in their system eternally, yet the nature of humans was such that if they ate of the fruit, they would surely believe they had the knowledge of the gods. This arrogance would compel them to their own destruction, for none can flourish outside the hands of the gods. The human had heard of this tree and knew it's fruit gave the gods the knowledge that allowed them to govern all their creations, and immediately ate of the fruit. the human believed then that great knowledge had been given to him, and that he was as the gods now, and so set out to take his life from their hands and into his own.
The gods were saddened by the foolish actions of their creation and condemned him that he would strain himself with great effort each day so that he may eat the food that sustains every one of the god's creations. While all other creations eat of the food that the gods hand them, the humans would henceforth create their own food. The humans did just this, and believed it was good. they produced such food that thier population grew immensely and they expanded outward over the land, destroying the god's other creations so that they could not compete with them for food. The gods wished to strike down the humans then after looking upon what their ignorance had done, but they stayed their wrath, assuring themselves that the humans could not thrive outside their hands for long. and so they set to waiting.
Note: All apologies to Daniel Quinn, This piece based on a chapter from his book 'Ishmael'. I encourage everyone who is prepared for drastic spiritual discovery to pick up a copy.
And apologies to whatever person or persons wrote the fall of humanity part of genesis, I think I realized what you were really trying to say, but maybe i fucked it up. | <urn:uuid:c40ec1dc-c224-4c72-8aa1-53d232d27ee0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ebaumsworld.com/blogs/book-of-rewild-genesis-reinterprettion/701721/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00392-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990982 | 1,013 | 1.59375 | 2 |
How fast do you want your broadband? It wasn't so long ago that ADSL was the newest technology on the block, promising 'up to 8Mbps' downstream data speeds over copper wires that were initially laid to carry voice calls.
Compared to dial-up, broadband felt super fast. It seemed almost magic. Even if we never received speeds anywhere near the advertised 8Mbps. Or 4Mbps. Or even 2Mbps. (Hence the 'up to'). But that was then.
That was before the explosion in web-connected laptops, smartphones, tablets, games consoles and smart TVs, and before we spent hours 'liking' status updates, streaming videos and working in the cloud. It all takes a toll on the average internet connection, especially if several devices are vying for bandwidth.
Broadband has desperately needed another boost. Since its commercial roll-out in 2000, ADSL technology has been pushed to its physical limits. ADSL2+ pushed the 'up to' speed to 24Mbps, although the real-world average is typically half this figure.
The problem is that the old copper telephone wires loop out from central exchanges. The further you live from the exchange, the greater the signal loss and the slower your ADSL connection becomes.
Faster internet connectivity requires a whole new infrastructure. Which is where fibre broadband comes in…
What is fibre broadband?
Fibre broadband replaces copper telephone wires with a network of fibre optic cable. Cut one of these cables open and you'll see that it's crammed with thin glass strands coated in plastic.
These strands are only slightly thicker than a human hair and they act like mirrors, enabling digital data to be pulsed along them using infrared laser light. While broadband speeds tail off as copper wire connections get longer, it doesn't matter how long a fibre optic cable is. There's no signal interference and little or no performance hit to endure.
Consequently, today's fibre broadband is capable of delivering download speeds up to 330Mbps, with speeds perhaps reaching as high as 40Gbps at some point in the future (though don't get excited just yet: that's far away. Speeds right now are lower because each fibre optic strand must share its bandwidth between many homes).
This next-generation access (NGA) depends on two factors - how much you're prepared to pay and what type of fibre optic connection you have.
What are the types of fibre broadband?
There are essentially two main types of fibre broadband - FTTH (Fibre To The Home) and FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet).
FTTH (Fibre To The Home) is the fastest form of fibre broadband available, because the fibre optic cable runs all the way from the exchange into your house. This fully optical connection is also known as FTTP (Fibre To The Premises). BT already offers an FTTP option, promising speeds of up to 330Mbps - 40 times faster than ADSL.
Unfortunately, the majority of homes in the UK aren't wired up for FTTH - it's expensive and disruptive to deploy. Which is why FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) or FTTK (Fibre To The Kerb) infrastructure is more widespread.
In this case, the fibre optic cabling only runs as far as your local junction box. Data travels the rest of the way over the old copper wiring. This means that there's some slowdown in the data speed, but the level of slowdown -depends on your home's distance from the junction box.
Who is offering fibre broadband?
There are two mass market implementations of FTTC networks in the UK - Virgin Media's HFC (Hybrid Fibre Coaxial)-based cable service and BT Infinity fibre broadband, which uses VDSL2 (Very high bitrate DSL).
BT Infinity uses an FTTC setup, with fibre connections running to a junction box that will be on, or very close to, the street where you live. The final stage, running from the junction box to your home, uses a VDSL connection over existing copper phone lines. | <urn:uuid:99336e9e-28c8-4eac-94f8-b702cdc59929> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/broadband/bt-infinity-and-more-fibre-broadband-explained-989118 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00036-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943756 | 844 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Harvard's Peter del Tredici is making waves among scientists and designers, though maybe not yet with ecologists, with his book Wild Urban Plants, briefly reviewed here. He breaks the mold by looking not at a plant's history but at the ecological services it's currently providing in developed landscapes – like cites.
And more recently, Penn State's report on the research results of biologist Tomas Carlo – titled "Invasive Plants Can Create Positive Ecological Change" – is getting lots of attention.
"Among conservation biologists, ecologists, and managers, the default approach is to try to eliminate and root out non-native, invasive shrubs — anything that seems to change an ecosystem," Carlo said. "But the problem is that most native communities already have been changed beyond recognition by humans, and many native species are now rare."
Carlo explained that his team wanted to test whether certain well-established, invasive fruiting species have negative or positive effects on bird and fruiting-plant communities.
When he compared test sites with and without an abundance of Japanese honeysuckle, the honeysuckle proved to be a boon to fruit-eating birds.
They determined that the abundance of honeysuckle predicted the numbers and diversity of birds within the region and even beyond the region. That is, the honeysuckle and bird communities had formed a relationship known as mutualism — a term that describes how two or more species interact by benefiting mutually from each other's existence.
Carlo argues that it's not only expensive to try to remove invasive plants like honeysuckle – and keep them removed – but it can actually harm the newly formed balance of an ecosystem.
His big take-away? That instead of assuming that introduced species are inherently harmful we should ask: "Are we responding to real threats to nature or to our cultural perception and scientific bias?"
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I believe all Americans have the same dream—a dream of equality and freedom to do as one pleases. This was the reason most people came to America in the first place. They came hoping that in this country, they would not be persecuted because of race, religion, or status. They wanted a place where they would fit in and be considered equal to everyone else. Now, as children and grandchildren of those same people, we wish to carry on that dream. Any time our freedom is threatened, I believe that we will go to any costs to make sure that that dream does not fade, that our dream is still the reality.
My parents immigrated and became citizens in this country soon after they were married. As their daughter, and as someone who was born and raised in the U.S, I believe that I am as American as everyone else, yet free to enjoy and explore my Indian heritage. I believe that though I may look different than from what someone might consider a “real” American to look like, there actually is no guide as to what a real American is. Americans are made up of so many different races and ethnicities, that the American culture would not be what it is today without all different backgrounds.
As an American Muslim, I believe that I should be able to practice my religion freely without any persecution and that I should not be treated differently than anyone else.
I believe that no one can look at someone else and assume that they’re bad just because of the way that they’re dressed, or look, or speak. Since 9/11, just because of their faith, American Muslims have been singled out and questioned about their loyalty and patriotism to the United States. I believe that this is wrong, since you can’t take one and use them to label everyone else like them. For example, Adolf Hitler was a Christian (or at least he said he was) but that doesn’t mean all Christians are like him. I believe that the terrorists who killed so many people September of 2001 did a horrible thing—and almost any Muslim you talked to would tell you the same. Just because one person who said they were Muslim did a terrible thing, it doesn’t mean all Muslims are terrible. I believe that killing people, especially innocent ones, is one of the worst things you can do. I believe that since all Christians aren’t said to be murderers, all Muslims shouldn’t either. It would show equality between religions if people of different faiths were treated the same.
I believe that Americans of all colors, religions, and beliefs will continue to strive for equality between all different peoples, and I believe that someday, our goal will be reached.
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Each blend-file contains a database. This database contains all scenes, objects, meshes, textures, etc. that are in the file.
A file can contain multiple Scenes and each scene can contain multiple Objects. Objects can contain multiple materials which can contain many textures. It is also possible to create links between different objects, or share data between objects. A file can link data from other Blender files.
You can easily inspect the contents of your file by using the Outliner editor, which displays all of the data in your blend-file.
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Last Updated on April 25, 2021 by Britt Ervin
Roasted Pepper Gazpacho – This Mexican-style Gazpacho with roasted bell peppers, poblano and jalapeno peppers has just the right amount of spice to make this classic chilled soup so delicious!
It’s a delicious summer recipe and a great addition to your Cinco de Mayo Menu. For more authentic Mexican Recipe and Mexican inspired recipes, check out all of my Mexican Food Recipes!
Gazpacho is a chilled soup that originated in Spain. Gazpacho is now popular in many Latin American countries, including Mexico.
What is Gazpacho?
Classic Spanish Gazpacho is a combination of onion, garlic, tomatoes, celery and cucumber with a little vinegar.
Modern gazpacho recipes can be based on a wide variety of vegetables or even fruits. Fruit Gazpacho is both sweet and savory at the same time and is so delicious.
Mexican style gazpacho’s generally start with this base but chillies are added for more spice. This Roasted Red Pepper Gazpacho recipe includes both poblano and jalapeno peppers. It’s a combo that provides good kick of heat that doesn’t overwhelm the other fresh flavors.
Styles of Gazpacho
There are two different methods of making gazpacho:
- All of the ingredients are completely pureed for a smooth soup that is easy to drink. No spoon needed! Or,
- The ingredients are just pureed until blended and chunky. Some of the vegetables are left diced and added to the rest of the soup after pureeing.
There is no right or wrong way to make gazpacho. It is simply a matter of preference how you choose to prepare.
This smooth Mexican style Gazpacho is completely pureed for a smooth soup. However, when I make the Fruit Gazpacho, referenced above, that one is chunky style!
How to Make Roasted Pepper Gazpacho
This refreshing chilled soup barely takes any time or effort to prepare. It doesn’t require any actual cooking so it’s perfect to make as a light dinner or lunch on a hot summer day.
What Ingredients You Need
Roasted Red Pepper Gazpacho uses fresh ingredients for lots of flavor. To make this recipe you need:
- Persian cucumbers
- poblano pepper
- orange bell pepper
- yellow bell pepper
- garlic cloves
- lime juice
- red wine vinegar
- olive oil
- ground cumin
Steps to Make The Best Roasted Pepper Gazpacho
- Firstly, roast the poblano pepper and bell peppers over an open flame on the stove or grill. Then place in a plastic bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap for 20 minutes. As a result of this steaming process the skins will be much easier to take off of the peppers.
- Next, remove the skins and roughly chop the peppers. Add to a blender along with the other produce ingredients. Puree until chunky.
- Then add the remaining ingredients to the blender. Puree again to reach your desired consistency. Taste, and add salt if needed.
I recommend that you chill the Gazpacho in the refrigerator for at least one hour before serving.
What to Serve With Roasted Pepper Gazpacho
In Spain, Gazpacho is generally accompanied by crusty bread with olive oil. In Mexico, tortilla chips or even warm tortillas are the usual accompaniments to Gazpacho.
I like to garnish this Roasted Pepper Gazpacho with strips of fried corn tortillas and avocado.
However, it just as delicious when enjoyed on its own!
You can also just buy a bag of your favorite tortilla chips to serve with this Roasted Pepper Gazpacho.
Its like Chips and Salsa elevated to the thousandth degree!
Frequently Asked Questions
More Delicious Soup Recipes To Try
- Tarator – Bulgarian Cucumber Soup
- Fanesca – Ecuadorian Spring Soup
- Moroccan Creamy Tomato Soup
- African Plantain Corn Soup
- Calo Verdo – Potato Kale Soup
Roasted Pepper Gazpacho
- 3 Persian cucumbers peeled and chopped
- 2 stalks celery chopped
- 1 poblano pepper
- 1 orange bell pepper
- 1 yellow bell pepper
- 1 large onion chopped
- 4 scallions chopped
- 2 cloves garlic chopped
- 2 jalapenos seeds removed and chopped
- 3 tomatoes chopped
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- salt to taste
- 2 avocados chopped
- Fried corn tortillas cut into strips or tortilla chips
- On the open flame of the stove, roast the bell peppers and the poblano until the skin is black and charred. Place in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap tightly. Leave for 20 minutes to sweat so the skin will easily be removed.
- Remove skin from peppers and chop.
- Add to blender with cucumbers, celery, jalapenos, onions, garlic, scallions and tomatoes. Puree well.
- Add lime juice, vinegar, olive oil, cumin and salt. Puree well.
- Adjust salt if necessary. Chill soup for at least an hour.
- Add optional garnishes, if desired.
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Speed limit increased to 70 mph on rural interstates
- October 20, 2010
The Virginia Department of Transportation is increasing the maximum speed limit to 70 miles per hour on interstates in Virginia’s less populated areas.
The change will result in a speed-limit increase for 61 percent of Virginia’s 1,119 miles of interstate.
“The increase in the speed limit from 65 to 70 mph in rural and less populated areas of the state will help Virginians arrive at their destinations quicker and safer and will speed the delivery of goods and services throughout the commonwealth,” Gov. Bob McDonnell said in a statement.
The speed limits will increase on rural portions of Interstates 95, 64, 85, 81, 66 and 295. VDOT reviewed crash history, speed data and physical conditions of interstates to study whether the speed limits could be safely raised.
The speed limits will be raised by the end of the year.
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DT, short for “Double Trouble,” is an 11-year resident of the Hotel Iroquois, a single-room-occupancy hotel at O'Farrell and Larkin streets in the Tenderloin. Living on disability benefits after three hip replacements, DT has found an affordable home at the Iroquois, which is owned by the nonprofit Community Housing Partnership (CHP) and provides supportive services and community to 63 individual residents and 11 families in need.
DT knows that many San Franciscans have misconceptions about SROs like the Iroquois. But "just because we live here, doesn’t mean that we don’t have nothing,” he emphasized. “We’re people too.”
That's why DT and other Iroquois residents will be inviting an audience into their homes this weekend, as part of an innovative performance art piece developed in partnership with community-based arts organization Skywatchers.
Over the past eight years, Skywatchers has worked with tenants in supportive housing sites across the Tenderloin to create innovative performances about their lives. But its newest piece, titled "Inside Hotel Iroquois," is unique, marking the first time Skywatchers’ work has been presented directly inside a supportive housing site.
A riff on historic San Francisco home tours like the Victorian Home Walk, "Inside Hotel Iroquois" offers a different perspective on living in San Francisco. The 90-minute show will take the audience on a historic tour of the surrounding neighborhood, then through five floors of the hotel, where residents will share their stories.
One resident will discuss life before supportive housing, when buying a burger at McDonald's was their only opportunity to rest their head and dry off in the rain. Another will invite the audience into her home to admire her earring collection.
The show is timely. Last year, San Francisco voters passed Proposition C, the ballot measure that levies a gross receipts tax of 0.5 percent on corporate revenue above $50 million, in order to raise $300 million per year for homeless services in the city.
Known as "Our City Our Home," the measure was written by formerly homeless people and service providers. A full 50 percent of the money it raises will go towards the purchase, development, and rehabilitation of supportive housing — including SROs like the Iroquois.
Emboldened by the support for the measure, SRO residents are eager to have a say in its implementation, in hopes of improving their standard of living.
Enetra, a Hotel Iroquois resident, is hoping the performance will bring awareness to safety issues in the building. She says that while CHP has been focused on developing new supportive housing sites, it's failed to properly maintain the Iroquois.
According to Enetra, Iroquois residents have had to cope with leaking pipes, infestations of mice, and vomit in hotel common spaces. Broken security cameras have yet to be replaced, leaving residents vulnerable to people who might wander in off the streets.
Residents of other single room occupancy hotels often come to Hotel Iroquois to ask residents for advice in dealing with their own buildings' management. Enetra hopes the show will be an opportunity to compare notes about similar issues, and organize around solutions.
But despite their concerns over maintenance and management, the people who call the Hotel Iroquois home consider their building to be a family. Working on the show with Skywatchers' artistic director Anne Bluethenthal and lead artist Deirdre Visser has been an empowering experience, they said.
“I’ve got a lot of love for Anne and Deirdre," DT said. "I’m not usually very open as a person, and this has enabled me to open up and trust more.”
Visser feels similarly. “Every day, I’m moved by the generosity of the residents.”
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Commons bathrooms OK’d
WESTBOROUGH - When Bay State Commons stores and restaurants open for business late this summer customers and visitors will have access to public bathrooms.
The much-debated issue was put to rest Tuesday when the Planning Board approved a design for a facilities building to be constructed within the $100 million Bay State Commons complex off East Main Street.
Developers Philips International of New York City and Jasco Tools of Rochester, N.Y., had proposed to use rest rooms in Forbes Community Building on East Main Street, but that idea was criticized by selectmen.
The design calls for the facilities building to have separate handicapped accessible restrooms for men and women. Fronted by a stonewall suitable for sitting, the building will have brick facing and a hip roof to blend in with other buildings in the complex.
The original special permit required the developer to construct two public rest rooms open to the public during regular business hours. In a January meeting with the board, attorney Mark Donahue, representing the developers, proposed existing rest rooms in Forbes Community Building be substituted for new construction. Rest rooms would be refurbished to accommodate additional traffic.
At that meeting, Board of Selectmen Chairman George Barrette said Forbes was used by scouts and other community groups and housed the Westborough Food Pantry. The building was not the place for a public bathroom to accommodate customers and visitors to Bay State Commons, he asserted.
“I am not interested in making the building (Forbes Community Building) a public bathroom,” Selectman Lydia Goldblatt said. Selectman Leigh Emery said existing facilities in Forbes were often inadequate at best.
The location would pose a particular problem for handicapped persons due to the steep hill leading to the building, Emery said.
At the selectmen’s meeting, Town Planner James Robbins said the developer is required to have public rest rooms open during regular business hours. The Planning Board could amend the requirement by majority vote should selectmen decide to limit rest rooms use.
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How to Create Several Separate Dimension Chains with Predefined Distance Between Them with One Click?
All designers need to add dimensions to their Autodesk® Revit® drawings. Placing dimensions is time consuming job therefore they seek to find the easiest way to do this. Extension for Revit Quick Dimensions can be their recourse, because this tool allows Revit users to simplify and speed up the Revit project documentation process.
Quick Dimensions quickly creates dimensions by applying a user defined configuration. This Revit app automatically adds dimensions to selected architectural, structural or mechanical elements, and it enables to add dimension chains in sections and elevations automatically. Quick Dimensions creates more than one dimension chain with one click. This extension can help you in case you need to join existing separate dimensions to one dimension chain.
Sometimes our clients who use Quick Dimensions are confronted with the following situation: “After adding dimensions with “Preselected Walls Dimensioning”, the dimension lines are all in the same line. What should I do to get 3 separate dimension lines?”
It is very easy to solve this problem. Dimensions are on the same line because the parameter “Dimension Line Snap Distance” is equal to 0. Please select a dimension → go to type properties → and change the values to 5 mm, for example:
Then add dimensions again. Now you will be able to create some separate dimension lines at one dash. So, as you can see, Quick Dimensions really creates dimension chains with one click.
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May and Amy
In the last decade of her life, a friend of May Gaskell described his conversations with her as “leading me back and back through manor-garden gates and servant- held doors opened upon the gilt and gaiety of the British Empire’s last throes of vastness and greatness.” May and Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne- Jones, by May Gaskell’s great-granddaughter, Josceline Dimbleby, embodies this experience for modern readers.
As Dimbleby tells May Gaskell’s story, it becomes clear that two enduring loves sustained May throughout her long life. One was the love of a mother for her mysterious daughter Amy, her eldest child. The second was May’s intense platonic love affair with the Victorian Pre-Raphaelite painter, Sir Edward Burne-Jones. May carefully preserved and re-read Burne-Jones’s letters for the rest of her life. These threads converge in a portrait of Amy that Burne-Jones painted for May, a picture that inspired Josceline Dimbleby’s quest.
This biographical portrait of May Gaskell gives the reader an excellent balance between the personal joys and sorrows of May Gaskell’s life and historical events that impacted her. While there is ample “gilt and gaiety”, for example in the pomp of Edward VII’s coronation and in travels to exotic locales from Argentina to the Orient, May and her family felt the devastation of war during the Boer War in South Africa and World War I. Josceline Dimbleby has provided a unique window into a past time as experienced by a remarkable English woman, May Gaskell. | <urn:uuid:8120a4bd-d038-43c7-83a2-6896e9a676b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.enotes.com/topics/may-amy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720238.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00189-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951966 | 384 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Head Start is now accepting applications for the 2016-2017 school year (Monday thru Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 1 p.m.) Applications can be filled out and completed on this web page under the forms' tab to the left of this website. Applications are also available at DSS, the Health Dept., School Board front desk at the Bandy Complex, Stafford's Porter Library and England Run Libraries, and at all Elementary Schools
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HEAD START PROGRAM
Kathryn Massie, Director
Gari Melchers Complex
610 Gayle Street
Fredericksburg, Virginia 22405
Phone: (540) 368-2559 - Fax: (540) 368-1978
Office Hours are: 7:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
|Meeting Students’ Needs
Parents and teachers partner together to screen the children for appropriate development in self-help, social, motor, language, and cognitive skills, as well as for health, dental, vision, hearing, behavior and emotional concerns. Parents and teachers write individual goals for each child, progress on the goals is monitored, and goals are revised with the parents mid-year. Daily lesson plans include objectives for individual students and records are kept of individual assistance provided each child. The classrooms provide active learning experiences with a variety of materials and equipment so that children have opportunities to express their feelings, explore new situations, and be successful. Children are encouraged to make choices, to solve problems, initiate activities, experiment and to question.
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Stafford Schools Head Start provides a developmental curriculum designed to provide literacy and language development, early mathematical skills, fine and gross motor physical development, begin scientific inquiry skills, and foster creativity in music, art, movement and dramatic play. The curriculum also provides direct instruction for development of social and emotional skills, nutrition, health and safety practices. Early literacy development focuses on alphabetic knowledge, print and book concepts, Vocabulary and phonemic skills are taught in the context of books, songs, and rhymes through sound matching, rhyming, alliteration, substituting sounds, and identifying beginning and ending sounds. Daily instructional objectives and activities are based on the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework and the Virginia Foundation Blocks for Early Learning. Children plan, do, and review their activities each day. Students are assessed three times each year with the Stafford Head Start Skills Assessment. Four-year-old students also are assessed in the fall and spring on pre-reading skills with the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening. Students who are fortunate to speak another language are assessed in the fall and spring on their improvement in learning English. Teachers meet at least four times a year with parents to discuss the child’s progress.
Parents serve on the Stafford Head Start Policy Council, making program planning, policy, and personnel decisions, as well as assessing the quality of each aspect of the program. Parent workshops and activities are held each month, with information on budgeting, job search training, nutrition and meal planning, CPR and first aid, safety, health, and mental health topics, child abuse prevention, substance abuse, domestic violence, and healthy relationships. Fatherhood development and male involvement activities are held each month. Family events are planned throughout the year. GED and parenting classes are held on-site. Each classroom strives to achieve 100% parent involvement with parents invited to volunteer as often as possible and to contribute activity ideas related to the curriculum. Parents contribute anecdotal notes on the progress of their child for the Skills Assessment and work with the teacher to write individual goals for the child. Teachers make at least two home visits each year.
WIDA W-APT Chart
2013-2014 Head Start Annual Report
Stafford Schools Head Start students continuously score at or above benchmarks for preschool children.
- Thanksgiving Holiday
RESOURCES & LINKS
Virginia Head Start Organization
Administration for Children and Families
National Head Start Association
Virginia Instruction for Early Childhood
Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center
Virginia Head Start Collaboration Office
Head Start Center for Inclusion
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
Virginia Child Care Resource and Referral Network
Kathryn Massie, Director
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Food Ingestion and Digestion
Animals require nutrients, including major ones such as organic carbon and nitrogen, vitamin, minerals and certain amino acids that cannot be synthesized in vivo. The nutrients are taken in the form of food. Food processing include ingestion--taking the food, digestion--breaking down the food into small unit that can be absorbed, absorption-- nutrient molecules are absorbed into body and blood stream, and elimination--undigested waste is passed out of the digestive tract. Chemical digestion (breaking down macromolecules into its smaller building units) and absorption mainly occurs in small intestine.
Respiration is a process inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. Gas exchange occurs in lung through diffusion mechanism. Capillaries in lung take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
Cardiovascular system contains heart, vein, artery and capillary. Blood Circulation is divided into two parts: pulmonary circuit and system circuit. In pulmonary circuit, Heart pumps CO2-riched blood to lung, then the blood releases CO2 and uptakes O2 in the lung, the O2-riched blood returned back to heart eventually. In systemic circuit, Heart pumps O2-riched blood to tissues, the blood releases O2 for tissue to use and uptakes CO2 generated by the tissue and send the CO2-riched blood returns back to heart. A cardiac cycle includes three steps of alternating relaxing and contraction of heart: diastole, atria systole and ventricular systole.
Blood carries nonspecific defense proteins (interferon and complete) and cells (neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, Natural killer cells). The body defense can be categorized into nonspecific defense and immune response. An inflammatory response is the major component of nonspecific response. It is initiated by tissue injury, then chemical signals such as histamine is released, histamine triggers local blood vessels dilation, and migration of phagocytes to the infected area, exhibiting swelling and redness phenotype. Phagocytes consume bacteria and cell debris and the wound is repaired. Resistance to specific invaders is called an immune response, which contains two interactive immune responses: The humoral immune response: antibodies in blood system, it involves B cells and antibodies, which recognize antigens; some antibodies are soluble proteins that travel free in blood and lymph, others are integral membrane proteins on B cells. When a pathogen invades the body, it may be detected by and bind to an antibody on B cell. This binding and other system component activates the B cell, which makes multiple soluble copies of an antibody with the same specificity. The antibody then attacks the invaders and kills them. The cellular immune response: detect antigens that reside within or on cells. Main component is T cells which destroy virus-infected or mutated cells. T cell receptors recognize and bind specific antigens on cell surface and lyse the infected cells.
Development and Reproduction
The reproductive and development process involves the following steps: sperm and ova formation via meiosis, zygote formation, embryo development, and child born process and growth stages. Once becoming an adult, one can produce more offspring by same procedure. There are three important steps for embryo development: cleavage, gastrulation and organ formation. During cleavage, cells divide rapidly and form a ball-like structure called blastula. During gastrulation, three layers are formed, ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm. Then the embryo continues to develop to form organs. From Endoderm form the following organs/tissues: digestive tract, liver, pancreas, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, lining of bladder. Ectoderm forms the skin and central nervous system. Mesoderm forms internal organs, skeletal/muscular system.
Sense and Nervous System
The sensory process is a process in which a stimuli from outside becomes a signal to the body. Briefly it involves a sensory receptor which converts the stimuli to an electrical signal, and the sensory neurons then transmit the signal to the central nerve system, which is processed and passed to a motor neuron and finally reach an effector to cause an action. There are three types of neurons playing important roles in this process: Sensory Neurons - Send impulses towards the CNS, away from the peripheral system. Interneurons - Neurons lying entirely within the CNS. Motor Neurons - These nerve cells carry signals from the CNS to the cells in the peripheral system. Neurons communicate at synapse. Action potential can regenerate itself along the neuron. The potential arrives at the synaptic cleft and release neurotransmitter; Neurotransmitter then binds to receptor on the receive neuron. The binding opens ion channel in the receive neuron and generates new action potential. | <urn:uuid:92785816-4169-4826-8432-941f3a55097b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rapidlearningcenter.com/biology/college-biology/animal-function.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00387-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905484 | 978 | 3.53125 | 4 |
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