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Turbulent overturns are distinguished from salinity-compensated intrusions in high-resolution moored thermistor string observations. The buoyancy frequency N is used to make the time dimensionless, "t*." This results in a primary, visual means to easily compare the duration of overturns with N, the natural frequency that separates internal waves from turbulent overturns.
As a secondary means, the shapes of overturns are investigated. Above various sloping topography between 500 and 1,000 m water depth where the buoyancy period varies between ∼1,300 and 2,600 s, vertical overturns of ∼40 m last Δt* =0.2–0.4. This corresponds with the timescale of growth of model-stratified turbulence in the wake of a grid. Smaller-scale, weaker-turbulent, shear-induced Kelvin-Helmholtz overturns of ∼5 m are observed to last approximately Δt* = 0.03, whereas the passage of their train of multiple consecutive overturns lasts up to approximately Δt* = 0.95. Although the shape of overturns can distinguish salinity-compensated intrusions from turbulent overturns, the present observations from internal wave breaking above sloping topography show complex results of mixed features. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13767 | {
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This article originally published in The Economist's April 5th, 2014 print edition offers a candid discussion about the economic benefits of a college education.
A large part of the article comments on a study of graduates from over 900 colleges that ranks the value of their degree based on a percentage return on the student’s investment in tuition. The study also discusses the return on investment from various types of degree majors. For example, engineering degrees showed good returns from almost all colleges while people graduating with an arts degree from smaller colleges earned less than the average high school graduate.
This is a thought-provoking article recommended for both students and their parents. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13768 | {
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Coffee mills are also called coffee grinders, although there is a difference in the way each grinds the coffee. Large floor-standing or counter-model coffee mills were used in the nineteenth-century country store. Small home mills were first made about 1894. They lost favor by the 1930s. The one-wheel store model was patented in 1870 and the two-wheel model was made in 1873. The renewed interest in fresh-ground coffee has produced many modern electric mills, hand mills, and grinders. Reproductions of the old styles are being made. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13769 | {
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That's why it's so tough to save money!
Budgeting is tough, particularly when you’re trying to actually set some money aside for the future.
Like losing weight or battling any addiction, saving money resides in the realm of behaviour that sometimes seems immune to rational solutions, says one ex-banker turned blogger. But it’s often tough to get out of the gate without some help.
“My guess is that the best person to help you figure out how to save money is somebody who has suffered from living beyond their means in the past, and who has developed effective strategies for overcoming this problem,” he says.
But if that person isn’t readily available to you, you still need to figure out what’s holding you back. That means tricking that rational mind and helping it get with the programme, he suggests, including developing a better sense of just what’s going on upstairs.
1. The Hawthorne effect: Just as scientists acknowledge that observing something inevitably alters it, the longer and more closely you begin to observe your spending patterns, the more likely you are to shift them in a more positive direction. That skew that frustrates scientists will nudge you to better choices.
2. Radical transparency: Everybody like a pat on the back but not when it comes to dealing with money troubles. Don’t flash the cash and pretend that everything is ok. If you can steer your mind away from keeping your spending patterns secret, you may be able to tap into positive peer pressure from partners or friends. This could boost your determination when it comes to making difficult money-saving decisions.
3. Out of sight, out of mind: If you don’t have money in your hand, or don’t spend a lot of time checking your bank balance, it’s much easier to forget that you ever had the money in the first place. Which, naturally, means you’re more likely to save rather than spend.
Each of these techniques operates on the subconscious in a way that doesn’t make perfect sense. But because that’s often where the problem lies in saving money so perhaps the solution resides there as well.
Do you find it tough to save? How have you managed to break those poor spending habits? | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13774 | {
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Imagine you can see the tiny bugs that crawl around in liquid all the time with a simple laser pointer. It will cost you less than 20bucks to do it. Sound interesting? Try it out.
First of all you will need a green laser pointer. It does not need to be powerful. A simple laser like the ones you play with your cat is fine. At this point I am using a 30mW green laser pointer from LAZERER.
Apply few drops of filthy water on a metal wire. please make sure the water is in droplet form. The water can't be clean either. You'll have to visit a pond or grab some from a puddle in a field.
Project the laser to the rounded end of the water drop, a projection of the light should formed on the wall behind the drop.
From the projection on the wall, it shows blurry pictures of the critters inside the droplet. These distorted light waves interfere with the incoming light, and so there are areas of extreme light and extreme shadow, which shows us the contours of the microscopic organism.
are you sure that's what that is, do you have an image of the laser beam profile when it is not passing through water? or when it is passing through clean water? | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13775 | {
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The use of Virtual Reality (VR) and interactive real-time rendering in urban planning and building design is becoming more and more common. However, the integration of desktop-VR in the urban planning process suffers from complicated navigation interfaces. In particular, people unfamiliar to gaming environments and computers are less prone to interact with a VR visualization using keyboard and mouse as controlling devices. This paper addresses this issue by presenting an implementation of the XBOX 360 Kinect sensor system, which uses the human body to interact with the virtual environment. This type of interaction interface enables a more natural and user-friendly way of interacting with the virtual environment. The validation of the system was conducted with 60 participants using quantitative and qualitative methods. The result showed that participants perceived the interface as non-demanding and easy to use and the interface was perceived better in relation to mouse/keyboard interaction. The implemented interface supported users to switch between different architecture proposals of an urban plan and the switching positively affected learning, understanding and spatial reasoning of the participants. The study also shows that females perceived the system as less demanding than males. Furthermore, the users associated and related their body (human interaction interface) to VR, which could indicate that they used their body during spatial reasoning. This type of spatial reasoning has been argued to enhance the spatial-perception. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13776 | {
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What Are the Main Parts of an Air Compressor?
The primary parts of a compressor include the motor, pump, filters, cylinder heads and storage tank. Minor parts include the switch, drain and the control valve. The size and orientation of these parts depend on the compressor type.
The motor powers the pump for the air compression process, while the storage tank acts as a reservoir for the compressed air. The control valve prevents air backflow into the compressor heads. The intake filters filter out debris and contaminants that may compromise the air compression process. For efficacy, the filters should be cleaned frequently. The pressure switch is a crucial component. It powers the motor off when the compressed air reaches the preset limit and on when the pressure drops.
Proper knowledge of the compressor parts is important for the initial purchase and maintenance procedures. The right selection ensures functionality and optimum operating frequency. Crosscheck the parts with the provided instructional and parts manual. Alternatively, seek assistance from a knowledgeable colleague or technician.
Optimum performance and longevity require the best air compression operation practices. Ensure scheduled maintenance for baseline measurements, follow the instruction manuals for operation and maintenance, and operate within the set parameters. Preventative maintenance reduces chances of compressed air contamination, low production quality and unplanned breakdown. For the best results, order the replacement parts from the manufacturer and certified dealers. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13780 | {
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The forest moderates local climate, and helps in protecting Rio’s water supplies. Tijuca is the home for hundreds of species of plants and wildlife, many threatened by extinction. The Forest contains a number of attractions specific to Rio de Janeiro, most note-worthy the colossal sculpture of Christ the Redeemer on top of Corcovado mountain. Some other attractions are the Cascatinha Waterfall, the Mayrink Chapel or the giant granite picnic table called the Mesa do Imperador.
As Tijuca Forest acts a a natural boundary between west, north and south of Rio de Janeiro, visiting this park requires you get to Rio, of course. February is a great but busy period as you will find yourself in the well known Rio Carnival, where the party never stops. Rio de Janeiro has a well developed air transportation hub, so finding flights to this destination should not be an issue. Great accommodation deals can be found on TripEconomy where you can search and compare rates for Rio de Janeiro hotels. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13781 | {
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Campaign 2016 is in full swing and part of the “free media” is the appearance of a presidential candidate on the cover of a national magazine. A number of covers are offered for teachers to use with their students to engage them in an analysis/deconstruction as well as a consideration of their design.
Frank W. Baker, author of Political Campaigns & Political Advertisements: A Media Literacy Guide, has conducted hundreds of workshops for teachers and students around the United States. He helped write teaching standards for both English Language Arts and Visual/Performing Arts in his home state of South Carolina. He serves as a consultant to the Writing Improvement Network and to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He maintains The Media Literacy Clearinghouse He tweets about media and media issues @fbaker. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13782 | {
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Saṅghamittā (Saṅghamitrā in Sanskrit) was the eldest daughter of Emperor Ashoka and his first wife, Devi. Together with Mahinda, her brother, she entered an order of Buddhist monks. The two siblings later went to Sri Lanka to spread the teachings of Buddha at the request of King Devanampiya Tissa (250 BC – 210 BC) who was a contemporary of Ashoka (304 BC – 232 BC). At first she landed in 'Mathagal'. The village Mathagal is situated 16 km away from Jaffna town, in the north of Sri Lanka, along the shores of the Indian Ocean. Buddhist Emperor Samrat Ashoka sent her to Sri Lanka together with several other nuns to start the nun-lineage of Bhikkhunis (a fully ordained female Buddhist monastic) at the request of King Tissa to ordain queen Anulā and other women of Tissa's court at Anuradhapura who desired to be ordained as nuns after Mahindra converted them to Buddhism.
After Sanghamittā’s contribution to the propagation of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and her establishing the Bikhhunī Sangha or Meheini Sasna (Order of Nuns) there, her name became synonymous with "Buddhist Female Monastic Order of Theravāda Buddhism" that was established not only in Sri Lanka but also in Burma, China and Thailand, in particular. The day the most revered tree, the Bodhi tree, a sapling of which was brought by her to Sri Lanka and planted in Anuradhapura, and which still survives, is also celebrated every year on the Full Moon day of December as "Uduvapa Poya" or "Uposatha Poya" and "Sanghamittā Day" by Theravāda Buddhists in Sri Lanka.
KBC 10: Mahindra and Sanghamitra, were sent to which country to spread Buddhism in 250 BC?
Disha Patani was offered way more money than Shruti Haasan for Sanghamitra?
Is Disha Patani replacing Shruti Haasan in 'Sanghamitra'? | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13783 | {
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On Tuesday 17 June 2014 Karl Sæbjørn Kjøllesdal will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Reforms, where new cost information has been central, have in the last decades been introduced to the public sector.
Accounting researchers have pointed at the repeated contrasts between the claimed logical necessity to implement such reforms and the complex mess of unintended consequences so often generated.
Cost information has a central position in any organization. Healthcare is an important sector in a society. This motivates investigating the design and use of costing systems in hospitals.
This thesis illustrates that national prices do not reflect the local service costs of a university hospital.
The use of national average costs as prices in order to finance complex hospitals, and in particular to allocate resources to units within such hospitals, may thus introduce new dilemmas in the control of the hospital or operative unit.
This made us ask: what is the actual design and use of cost accounting systems in major Nordic hospitals.
We observed that the configuration of cost accounting models in the investigated hospitals varies. Three of four hospitals had costing systems estimating the cost per service. In two of these hospitals the focus in the internal control had been shifted from the use of resources (expense centre) to cost efficiency (standard cost centre).
These two hospitals had also been operating with small surpluses for years. The cause and effect relationship for this is unclear at best. The relationship between a hospital's mix of cost accounting models and the financial results, for example, income should thus be further investigated.
On a more speculative basis we also observed that national financing systems may influence the local design and use of costing systems in hospitals. The relationship between these national allocation models and the hospitals "package" of costing systems should be closer investigated.
The development of the financing system of the Norwegian hospital sector in perspectives of theory and international trends.
Design and use of costing systems in university hospitals: Empirical investigations. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13785 | {
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I will explain all basics of unix /linux here . Firstly basic directories of unix operating system .
** /bin --> this directory contains all essential files for correct functioning of operating system .all users have permissions of these files .
** /home in this directory all user's home directory resides . This is very commonly used directory .
** /var this directory contains all variables files like logs , db directory etc .
** /etc all system configuration files are stored here .
** /dev additional devices like cd-rom , pendrive , hard disk will found here .
** /sbin binary files , generaly super user uses these files .
** /tmp all temporary files stay here .
These locations are by default . For our ease we can change them also and we can use it .
Linux is case sensitive .
As linux is multi-user operating system . Every file and directory have permissions defined for every user . Every file and directory have their owner . owner is a user . and also a group . group is group of users .
So we have three different type of permissions .
3) permissions given to all other users .
3) execute permission -- user with this permission can execute the file .
Here following will explain this .
we can use two commands chmod and chown to change permissions and owner of the file respectively .
Now about commands of unix .
One command consists of three parts i.e command name , options , parameters .
abcds and file.txt are the parameters of the command .
Options will always start with - mark .
run some commands in your linux/unix machine then you will understand the difference .
We know output of a command is shown on the screen . i f we want to process the output then we will need some special parts .
some commands need input from another command or any file .
'>' this sign will redirect output of a command to a file .
'>>' this sign will append all output to the end of the file.
Please ask in comments if you need any more clearifications . | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13787 | {
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In front of Kamena Vourla, on the western side of Northern Evia, lies Lichadonisia, a complex of small islands which locals call the "Greek Seychelles" and are an ecologically protected area, once inhabited by a few residents, but now deserted.
The biger island of Lichadonisia island complex, has an organized sandy beach, with small rocks on the sides. It also has a beach bar, who serves coffees, drinks and fresh, grilled seafood and brochettes. The smaller islands have unorganized sandy beaches and shallow emerald waters, excellent for swimming and relaxation.
Lichadonisia are only a 15 minute boat ride from Kamena Vourla, a unique destination for daily excursions and explorations. You can reach them, by taking the daily boat tour from the marina of Kamena Vourla, or by private boat, which you can rent in Kamena Vourla. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13791 | {
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What is Money creation ?
Money creation is known as credit development. It is the procedure by which the cash availability of a country or a financial region is increased.
A main financial institution may introduce new money into the economic system by purchasing financial assets or loaning money to banks. In most countries today, most of the money provides is in the form of monetary institution remains, which is designed by the fractional source banking system. Bank loaning multiplies the quantity of broad money beyond the quantity of base money originally designed by the main financial institution. Reserve requirements, capital adequacy ratios, and other policies of the main financial institution limit this technique. Commercial financial institution loaning expands the number of monetary institution remains. Central banks monitor the sum of money in the economic system by measuring financial aggregates such as M2. The effect of economic policy on the money provides is indicated by comparing these measurements on various dates. In contemporary financial systems, most profit circulation exists not as money or coins designed by the main financial institution, but as a financial institution remains. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13794 | {
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A chemical equation is the representation of the chemical reactions. The LHS consists of the reactants and the RHS consists of the products. Balancing chemical equation is the process of equalising the number of each element in the reactants to the products. Enter the equation directly or by clicking the formula of elements, to balance the equation. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13795 | {
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We propose to integrate molecular biology, morphometry, and clinical studies to identify mechanisms leading to abnormal brain development, accelerated aging, and early onset of Alzheimer disease in people with Down syndrome (DS). We plan to conduct biochemical and morphometric studies of the memory system (hippocampus, amygdala, and entorhinal cortex) and sensory-motor system ( substantia nigra, pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus, caudal intralaminar thalamus, caudate nucleus, putamen, globus pallidus, nucleus accumbens, motor cortex, and cerebellum) in 44 people with DS. Because all people with DS develop early onset AD and some develop parkinsonian-type neurodegeneration, the mechanisms of neuronal loss in DS will be compared with temporal and topographic patterns of neuronal degeneration and loss in sporadic AD (30 cases), idiopathic PD (30 cases), and normal aging (44 cases). Our goal will be to determine: (1) the role of abnormal expression of Mnbk/DyrklA in developmental neuronal deficits in the memory and motor system of people with DS; (2) the mechanisms of synaptic abnormalities caused by excess of Mnbk/Dyrk1A protein in people with DS; (3) the role of Mnbk/Dyrk1A protein in brain accelerated aging during the fourth decade of life in people with DS; (4) the contribution of different mechanisms of neurodegeneration to dementia and motor deterioration in people with DS over 40 years of age; (5) modifications in the contribution of neurodegenerative changes to neuronal and functional loss in people with DS in comparison to normal aging, sporadic AD, and idiopathic PD. We hypothesize that in DS the extra copy of the Mnbk/Dyrk1A gene is not only a key factor in shaping structural and functional developmental abnormalities, but also affects the function of synapses in adulthood, contributes to accelerating aging of the brain, and changes the structural and functional background for development of AD and PD pathology. We hypothesize that we will be able to identify DS-specific modifications of the course of AD and PD pathology. This study will provide a foundation for identifying the mechanisms and morphological substrate of specific functional deficits, and should contribute to the improvement of diagnosis and treatment. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13796 | {
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Solar panels attract birds quite easily due to their installation on your roof. The installation of solar panels on your roof offers the perfect space for birds to roost and nest under them. The warmth emitted from the solar panels will benefit the birds all year around. Not only birds but the insects and lice inhabiting the nest will benefit from these panels. Solar energy is wasted in the process and efficiency is lost. This is the reason that solar panels need to be bird proof to prevent the loss of energy as well as wasting your money in the long run. Here are some important advantages of bird proofing your solar panels.
You can complete your energy requirements and sell back electricity to the grid when you have efficient solar panels. Bird nesting and droppings reduce the efficiency of the solar panels quite drastically. Droppings cut backs the ability of the panels to collect light to generate electricity. The panels must be kept in pristine condition at all times to maximize the performance of these panels. If the cells are half covered with bird droppings, they may lose at least 50% of their ability to generate electricity. If the whole cell is covered with droppings, it can reduce the energy conversion rate to zero Bird proofing these panels is extremely important due to this reason. It improves the productivity and efficiency of the panels.
Many solar panel manufacturers in the United Kingdom use effective techniques to bird proof their panels to improve the efficiency and productivity. This prevents unwanted damages to the panels. In fact, a mesh system is installed over the solar panels to protect them. Birds and other insects are kept away from the solar panels due to the mesh system. The mesh system is not visible from ground level. The roof is not screwed or drilled to install the mesh system. The mesh is secured with a special type of clip which will not damage the panel. This is why you need not worry about the mesh system that is in place to protect the solar panels. The mesh will not affect the conditions of the warranty on the solar panel. These are some of the major considerations when bird proofing your solar panels right now. It will help improve the energy efficiency and save your money in the long run. The aforementioned article provides an overview of the importance of bird proofing your solar panels. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13797 | {
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Female genital mutilation (FGM), also called ‘female cutting’ or ‘female circumcision’, is defined by the World Health Organisation as any procedure involving the partial or total removal of external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. FGM is illegal in the UK, with a penalty of up to 14 years in prison. Find out what we're doing to prevent FGM, and how to get help if you’ve been affected.
There are no health benefits to FGM. It involves removing and damaging healthy and normal female genital tissue, and interferes with the natural functions of women’s bodies for the rest of their lives.
For more information on the medical aspects of FGM, we strongly recommend visiting the NHS website.
FGM carries a penalty of up to 14 years in prison.
An FGM protection order (FGMPO) is a civil order used to protect those who are vulnerable to FGM, and prevent it from taking place. It gives the courts flexibility in stipulating conditions around safeguarding the welfare of the protected person. This means a court can put provisions in place to facilitate the safe return of girls who have been taken outside the UK for the purpose of FGM.
An FGMPO can be obtained through three issuing family courts. Breaching an FGMPO can carry a penalty of up to five years in prison.
Children are often unaware that FGM is going to take place. Unfortunately this means there may be few warning signs before it happens. However, sometimes children are made aware in advance, which can lead to a change in their behaviour, such as seeking advice or help from professionals and friends.
Project Azure is our coordinated drive to eradicate female genital mutilation. The project is made up of four strands: prevention, protection, partnership and prosecution.
It’s vital that those responsible for FGM are prosecuted, but this can’t be the police’s only response. We’re working in partnership with a range of agencies, including NHS England, the Home Office, the Department of Health and Children’s Social Care to protect girls who are vulnerable to FGM and eventually end the practise entirely.
We’re also working closely with faith and community leaders to empower people to come forward if they have information about FGM. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13798 | {
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Even though we’re taking pen-to-paper a lot less these days, students still need to flex those developing muscles to achieve a number of small-motor tasks such as cutting and shoe tying. And, regardless of the available technology for writing activities at school, kids still participate in crafts that are meaningful to them at church, scouts and camp. When creating a gift for a parent or a card for a missionary, it’s hard for many students with disabilities to make their paper as pretty as they’d like.
Offer step-by-step directions…step by step. This sounds so obvious, doesn’t it? Of course we explain each step of our crafts to kids! It’s important to remember, though, that some kids have difficulty sequencing directions or recalling the steps. For multi-step projects, it’s best to give directions one or two at a time.
Get spaced-out. Students with disabilities may need more room to work. This might help them focus, or provide the elbow room they need to work comfortably. If possible, provide additional workspace and allow students to choose a spot that feels right.
Provide visual support. Kids on the autism spectrum rely heavily on visual cues. If possible, have a sample of each step of your craft on the table, or do the craft along with the students so they can see what you are doing.
Consider a few products to make things easier. Some kids with hidden disabilities have a hard time sitting still for a variety of reasons. One helpful product is a slant board. This can help kids to focus and also reduce fatigue when writing or coloring. They can sometimes be a bit pricey; a large three-ring binder can provide similar support. Another product I love for seat work is a specialized cushion. These wedges or discs give students a bit more sensory input so they can fidget without floundering. They’re also a bit expensive, but can be quite helpful! (Remember, too, that some kids prefer to stand while doing crafts…and that’s okay!) Finally, stocking your craft cabinet with different sized crayons and pencils, both the “fat” and “skinny” kind, as well as offering inexpensive pencil grippers allow for more comfortable writing and drawing. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13800 | {
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IMPACT well-being is a simple, flexible approach to managing stress in all of its forms.
Do you know what causes stress? Do you understand how your body responds to stress? This well-being programme will help you to understand stress, its causes, its effects, and what you can do to help yourself in stressful situations.
IMPACT well-being can be used in the school environment in a range of situations such as during exam time when stress is high, or in behaviour support groups.
The IMPACT well-being can be used in the workplace. Some jobs are very stressful, working in the care sector is an example. With this programme, everyone will feel better: staff, patients, visitors will feel better! When people feel better, relationships become easier.
Using IMPACT well-being, people feel calmer, better focused, and more confident. Their physical, mental, and emotional health improves!
IMPACT well-being is a skill for life. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13801 | {
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As a school, we do quite a lot of thinking! But it is not important simply ‘to think’ but to consider how we think and explore different ways of thinking. With this in mind, Thinking Skills are an integral part of learning at Rossall for our youngest learners to our Sixth Formers at the top of the school.
– Intelligence can be improved – it is a potential, rather than a fixed capacity.
– The brain is like a muscle, if we don’t use it, we lose it. If we use it we can develop it.
– Thinking is how we use our brains and develop their potential.
– Most brains are underused and are capable of further development, so we can all become better thinkers.
– Learning is a consequence of thinking. We learn best when we make sense of what we are learning and relate it to what we already know.
– We can intervene to help others develop or enrich their brains through higher order thinking. These skills can be taught.
– Enhanced thinking skills will transfer across a range of subjects and learning contexts.
Our teaching staff are our most precious resource; they are key to the school's delivery of engaging, well-paced and inspirational lessons. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13802 | {
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1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. --Milton.
The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. --Motley.
2. Chem. & Physics To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
Syn: -- To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate; abridge; epitomize; reduce. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13807 | {
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The cathedral of Maracay was built on lands that belonged to the Mijarez marquis; subsequently he decided to donate them. It is located in front of the Girardot Plaza and was built between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in spite of having experimented several modifications and restorations it still preserves a colonial style.
This church has been the witness of the history and progress of the city. At present time, consists of three naves, the bell tower and 5 lateral chapels, in the early eighteenth century it had only the central nave. It was declared as a historical monument of Venezuela a few years ago. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13808 | {
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A green roof reduces the cost of our environmental footprint and benefits biodiversity, they also reduce the price we pay on heating and cooling our homes.
Rainwater Attenuation – A green roof will reduce the amount and rate of run-off of rainwater – with less water going into the storm water system. Our Green Roofs also meets SuDS requirements.
Extends the life of the underlying waterproof membrane.
A Green Roof will “soften” the impact of the structure in the urban environment.
Enhances heat protection and saves valuable heating energy by minimizing temperature fluctuations within the roof and provides cooling in the Summer.
Improves roof noise attenuation by up to 8dB in the interior.
Suitable for use with a lightweight green roof substrate. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13810 | {
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Most of us have seen halos around the sun. We know why they happen. And then there are Bottlinger's Rings. No one has figured out why they exist.
It's not unusual, when traveling by plane, to look down and see the sun reflecting off a cloud below you. This little patch of reflected brightness is called a "subsun." Sometimes you'll see a circular halo around the subsun. And sometimes, without knowing it, you'll see an atmospheric mystery.
Circular halos are fairly common — they're caused by ice crystals of a specific shape and orientation. But there is an odd phenomenon that sometimes causes these rings to stretch and go elliptical. These oval rings, called Bottlinger's Rings, appear mostly to airline travelers for only a few seconds at a time, and scientists still aren't sure why they appear at all.
You can see more pictures of the rings here. The difference from a circular halo is subtle, but unaccountable. As best as anyone can figure, Bottlinger's Rings come from hexagonal crystals with sides that slope at an angle of one to three degrees. The crystals have to be hanging almost flat in the air. One team of scientists estimated that the temperature has to be around -15 °C to make the conditions just right.
That being said, even after playing around with the slope and orientation of the crystals, many scientists can't get their models to match up perfectly with the few pictures of Bottlinger's Rings that people have managed to get. So perhaps we have to come up with a whole different theory for the optics of these rings. Any ideas? | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13811 | {
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Capturing packets with Wireshark consists of selecting the correct network interface to capture packets from, applying any capture filters that may be appropriate, and applying the correct options to accomplish the capture in the desired manner. We'll cover these three topics in the following sections.
As discussed in Chapter 1, Getting Acquainted with Wireshark, if you have multiple network interfaces on your machine, you need to determine and select the correct interface to capture packets. In Wireshark's Capture menu, click on Interface or click on the first icon on the icon bar. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13813 | {
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LOGAN – Utah State University is teaming with BAE Systems, an international innovation company, in a competition for its research to be used in a state-of-the-art weather watching system.
USU's Space Dynamics Laboratory, BAE and two other scientific organizations have joined to use $20 million from NASA to conduct research on a Hyperspectral Environmental Suite.
USU's Ron Huppi says HES will "ultimately provide a revolutionary upgrade in our national weather monitoring and forecasting system."
The team has two years to conduct the research. NASA will then select which design will be built to fly on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, which are operated by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency.
The two teams SDL is competing with -- ITT and Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation -- have also received $20 million each.
Huppi, who is the manager of SDL's Stewart Radiance Laboratory in Bedford, Mass. -- where the research will be done -- and the program's principal investigator, said HES will provide "more than 1,000 times the data about temperature and weather patterns we typically get from existing satellites."
He said this technology will help forecasters monitor hurricanes more closely and help plan flights for both commercial and government aircraft.
"They'll be able to predict unknown disasters that we've never been able to see," he said.
SDL's participation -- and its $1.3 million portion -- involves adapting the design and evaluating the performance of the technology that will ultimately enhance the instrument's resolution.
The data will be sent in real time and able to be converted to three-dimensional temperature images.
BAE Systems, which is based in the United Kingdom, has a North American headquarters in New England, Huppi said.
This project will hopefully lead to a long-term relationship with BAE, Huppi said.
"They have a lot of expertise," he said. "We're looking forward to expanding this relationship." | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13817 | {
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Sometimes called the “stomach flu,” norovirus is the most common cause of acute viral gastroenteritis around the world, and the most common cause of foodborne illness in the United States. Unlike some other infectious diseases, we can get norovirus time and again, and the average person will experience a norovirus infection five times in their life.
It is that time of year, when the spread of germs increases during the fall and winter months. Health professionals and public health organizations are encouraging the public to take preventive measures this cold and flu season to help prevent the spread of germs that can make you and your family sick. Everyday hand hygiene, both handwashing and hand sanitizing with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, is the single most important way to reduce the spread of germs that can cause infection. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13821 | {
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Forest Service Road 440.1C is a hiking, biking, and horse trail in Carbon County, Wyoming. It is within Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. It is 2.6 miles long and begins at 8,787 feet altitude. Traveling the entire trail is 5.3 miles with a total elevation gain of 957 feet. The trail ends near the Meta Mine (elevation 9,219 feet) quarry.
One of Wyoming's best trails, Forest Service Road 440.1C is located near Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, WY. Trails' printable online topo maps offer shaded and un-shaded reliefs, and aerial photos too. Use topographic maps to find elevation, print high resolution maps, save a PNG, or just learn the topography around Forest Service Road 440.1C. You can also get free latitude and longitude coordinates from the topographical map and set your GPS. Premium members can download or print any topo and cover more terrain when you map your Forest Service Road 440.1C route ahead of time. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13825 | {
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Deoxynivalenol (DON) belongs to the trichothecenes, a family of closely related compounds produced by several Fusarium species. DON is also called vomitoxin, because when ingested it causes symptoms of vomiting and nausea. DON also causes immunosuppressive effects as well. The recommended limits in Europe have been pegged at 500 ppb for food and at 750 ppb for food and food components that still have to be processed. EuroProxima developed an ELISA kit that can be applied for screening cereals, food, feed and silages. The DON ELISA kit has a 97% cross-reactivity with 3-acetyl-DON and a 10% cross-reactivity with 15-acetyl-DON. In most matrices the assay can detect down to 50 ppb. However, in beer samples a detection limit down to 10 ppb can be achieved. Detailed information of this product is given in the Product Information Sheet. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13832 | {
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Few years back, while trying to control Rocco’s allergies, we were looking for the perfect diet that would allow him to gain body mass and then help him maintain his ideal weight. I wrote about our trials and tribulations in a previous post. For a short period of time we switched to a raw diet and that’s when we first learned that Huskies tend to be zinc deficient.
After doing some research, I found out that Huskies and Malamutes have difficulties absorbing zinc, and if under stress, fed a diet high in calcium or plant sources they may develop a skin condition known as zinc responsive dermatosis. The condition manifests itself through hair loss, scaling and crusting of the skin around the face, head, and legs. As well as lesions that can encircle the mouth, chin, eyes, and ears. The foot pads may be scaly and the coat is dull and dry. This condition can also affect puppies who are on zinc-deficient diets (source).
If you are feeding a well-balanced diet your dog is most likely getting enough zinc. However, if you have a Husky or a Malamute, and especially if they are under any sort of stress, it might be a good idea to supplement. The good news is that zinc is relatively non-toxic and over-supplementation is rare. You can speak with your veterinarian to find an appropriate zinc supplement or you can try increasing your dog’s diet in zinc rich foods.
There are of course many more, but these are the ones I feed Rocco.
Mom and Dad had 3 Sibes “before me”….like a long time “before me”…their breeder, in Canada, taught them to add Zinc as a supplement to the Sibes’ diet…and they boiled eggs, froze them and then once a week added the defrosted egg, and shell, to their meal. There is a lot about Sibes’ diets that not many know nor woo about…especially how to counteract Sibe specific cateracts…through diet. Mom and Dad were able to use diet to eliminate their male Sibe’s beginning Sibe cateracts…truly. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13834 | {
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Lake Walchen (Walchensee) is a lake in southern Germany, located in the Bavarian Alps, 75 km south of Munich. It is one of the deepest and largest alpine lakes in Germany, with a maximum depth of 192.3 metres and an area of 16.4 square kilometres. It is one of the most picturesque lakes in the Bavarian Alps and an important place for water sports enthusiasts. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13836 | {
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Metformin, the most widely used medication for diabetes, has also been shown to help treat dementia and some cancers. New research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins Medicine shows smoking cessation may be added to that list.
“Although we are just beginning to characterize this new role for metformin, our study suggests that the protein it acts on could be a new target for smoking cessation treatment,” said senior author Julie Blendy, PhD, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at Penn. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13837 | {
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What Are the Causes of Vagus Nerve Damage?
Nerve damage to the intestine and colon can severely impact the function of the gastrointestinal tract. Nerve damage in the intestines can make it difficult for the body to absorb nutrients or for food to pass into the colon. Nerve damage in the colon can obstruct bowel movements and cause constipation.
Nerve damage to the intestine prevents the muscles from passing food though the gastrointestinal tract, which causes a bloated or swollen feeling in the abdomen.
The most common symptom of nerve damage to the intestine and colon is constipation. This is caused by the intestines absorbing too much water or the colon nerves needing additional stimulation to pass stools.
Nerve damage in the intestine can prevent the intestines from absorbing water from food, resulting in loose, watery stools.
Rapid weight loss may occur as a result of nerve damage to the intestines, because the body is unable to absorb nutrients and calories from food.
A serious symptom of nerve damage to the small intestine is malnutrition, which results from the intestine's inability to absorb nutrients vital to the body's function. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13842 | {
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A UK population-based study has found no link between the drug trazodone and a reduced dementia risk.
Researchers at University College London and the University of Hong Kong found that the antidepressant was not significantly statistically associated with a reduced risk of dementia in comparison to other antidepressants.
The team of researchers analysed data from the Health Improvement Network (THIN). This network hold records of over 15 million primary care patients in the UK, identifying 4,716 people over the age of 50 who received a minimum of two consecutive trazodone prescriptions between 2000 and 2017. These patients were compared with 420,280 users of other antidepressants with similar baseline characteristics.
Trazodone is an antidepressant drug that works to balance chemicals in the brain, and is used to treat depression, anxiety, or a combination of the two.The drug could help those with problems such as poor sleep, low moods and poor concentration, and comes in the form of a liquid, tablet or capsule. This drug is usually prescribed when other antidepressants have not worked, or have caused side effects, which range from being sick to more serious ones such as seizures.
Previously research studies using animal models and in cell culture have investigated the connected between this drug and the risk of dementia, highlighting a possible connection between the risk of dementia and those who take trazodone.
The median time it take to diagnose dementia for users of trazodone was around 1.8 years. The incidence of dementia among trazodone users was higher than in matched antidepressant users (1.8 vs 1.1 dementia cases per 100 person-years) with a hazard ratio of 1.80 (95 percent confidence interval).
However, the researchers mentioned that the results do not point toward a causal association; but that the study is limited by the fact that people in the prodromal stage of dementia might be preferentially prescribed trazodone.
The findings of the study were published in the journal PLOS Medicine. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13843 | {
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Skins provide support for multiple form factors in a single executable file for devices of the same OS family.
Skins are a sub-variant of an environment.
Skins are packaged together in one application.
The decision on which skin to use is made automatically at run time.
Skins are created by using the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Application Skin wizard.
The skins are placed in directories that are next to the corresponding environment directory.
Before a skin can be added, first add the environment for which you want to create the skin.
A skin folder contains the following folders: images, CSS, and js.
Create new .css and .js files in the corresponding folders.
To extend existing code and styling from the default skin, use the same filenames as those of the default skin.
To create new code and styling, use different filenames than those in of the default skin. When you choose this option, you need to copy the HTML file to the skin folder. You must also change the reference to the .js and .css files in the HEAD element of the HTML file.
It determines which skin to load.
The default skinLoader.js contains examples of code.
Skins are automatically registered in application-descriptor.xml.
Registration determines the ordering of hierarchy between the common folder, environment, and skin.
If you remove a skin from the project, application-decsriptor.xml must be manually modified. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13845 | {
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Ashraf Ghani became Afghanistan’s new president-elect on September 21, 2014. He will share power with Abdullah Abdullah in a national unity government.
Before Afghanistan's President Karzai asked him, at the end of 2001, to become his advisor and then Finance Minister, Ghani had spent years in academia studying state-building and social transformation, and a decade in executive positions at the World Bank trying to effect policy in these two fields. In just 30 months, he carried out radical and effective reforms (a new currency, new budget, new tariffs, etc) and was instrumental in preparing for the elections of October 2004. In 2006, he was a candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the United Nations, and one year later, was put in the running to head the World Bank. He served as Chancellor of Kabul University, where he ran a program on state effectiveness. His message to the world: "Afghanistan should not be approached as a charity, but as an investment."
With Clare Lockhart, he ran the Institute for State Effectiveness, which examines the relationships among citizens, the state and the market. The ISE advises countries, companies, and NGOs; once focused mainly on Afghanistan, its mission has expanded to cover the globe.
In 2009, Ghani ran against Hamid Karzai in the 2009 Afghani presidential elections, emphasizing the importance of government transparency and accountability, strong infrastructure and economic investment, and a merit-based political system. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13846 | {
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The average (arithmetic mean) of six numbers is 6. If 3 is subtracted from each of four of the numbers, what is the new average?
average (arithmetic mean) of six numbers is 6.
PS : Ideally I like Skywalker18 's method and will use the said method. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13847 | {
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Nina Flanagan is a clinical professor and director of the Adult-Gerontological Nursing Program at Binghamton University's Decker School of Nursing. She has more than 20 years of experience as a geriatric nurse practitioner in a variety of settings. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
Nina Flanagan is a clinical professor and director of the Adult-Gerontological Nursing Program at Binghamton University's Decker School of Nursing. She has more than 20 years of experience as a geriatric nurse practitioner in a variety of settings. Photography: Jonathan Cohen.
Positivity can transform the healthcare workplace, according to Nina Flanagan, clinical professor of nursing and program coordinator of the Adult-Gerontological Nursing Program at Binghamton University’s Decker School of Nursing. In researching the topic of positivity in the workplace, Flanagan discovered that a positive mindset is vital for maintaining a productive and enjoyable work environment, especially in the healthcare field.
Throughout her experiences working at various healthcare organizations, Flanagan noticed the prevalence of negativity and its harmful effects on both leaders and staff members. Since healthcare is a demanding business that constantly changes, Flanagan said it is easy for people to become frustrated and stressed, which ultimately creates a negative work environment.
However, Flanagan said it is imperative for people to alter their perspectives.
“Our workplace environment feels unstable, and instability can invoke fear and anxiety. This affects the way we respond to change, but being positive and reframing these situations can help to decrease some of the fear and anxiety,” she said.
Although it can be challenging to stay positive in such a difficult field, Flanagan said the power of positivity should emerge from leaders in the workplace, with the message being consistent and clear.
“[Negativity] can easily become a culture wherever you are working. To me, it has to be shed from the top, it has to be a leadership initiative. It has to be something that’s expected and understood,” she said.
From there, the positivity will spread to others and reinforce a better mindset. Flanagan suggests several tips to improve positivity in the workplace, such as offering positive reinforcement and transforming complaints into gratitude and solutions. These starting points can be applied to more than the healthcare field and offer ways for people to promote positivity. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13852 | {
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Vienna, September 19 – In yet another disturbing echo of Soviet times, Russian President Vladimir Putin is overseeing a massive rewrite of Russian history, one explicitly designed to portray Stalin’s crimes as less important than his contributions and to suggest that freedom and human rights now are less important than sovereignty.
This week, the Russian Federation’s Academic Educational Association of Humanitarian Knowledge approved two new textbooks to be used to retrain educators over the next several years about the country’s past and present, Moscow’s “Gazeta” newspaper reported yesterday ().
In contrast to most of the 27 Russian history textbooks now being used in teacher training institutions throughout the country, the two new ones – “Contemporary History of Russia, 1945-2006, A Book for Teachers” and “Social Studies: The Global World in the XXI Century” – contain major innovations in interpretation.
On Stalin as a Leader: “Of course, the particular features of Stalin’s personality lent drama and tension to the Soviet period. … However, the impact of his personality on the political-economic development of the country was of only secondary importance compared to objective circumstances.
On the Hierarchy of Values in Russia Now: “ In recent times, sovereign democracy has become a significant element of the conception of state security. This means that Russia does not simply recognize such values as freedom, human rights, private property, elections and the subordination of the organs of power to the people but considers them as an inalienable aspect of the Russian multi-national state.
On the one hand, as “Gazeta” properly notes, it would be a mistake to make too much of this as far as Russia’s schools are concerned. There is still a long way to go before these ideas are in fact presented to students, and both other influences and a lack of money for such new textbooks are likely to delay any massive introduction.
But on the other, as the paper also suggests, these textbooks for teachers represent one of the clearest indications of the direction the thinking of the Russian leadership under Vladimir Putin is going, a direction that those appalled by Stalin’s crimes or hopeful that Russia will institutionalize democracy cannot but regret. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13853 | {
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Postpartum depression afflicts as many as 400,000 women in the United States each year.
The FDA has just approved the first drug to treat postpartum depression, and it will be available in June.
The new treatment is the first drug specifically developed for postpartum depression; it's called called brexanolone, or Zulresso. It contains a synthetic form of the hormone allopregnanolone, a progesterone derivative, in it. A woman’s progesterone plummets after she gives birth, which contributes to postpartum depression.
The drug is delivered intravenously over the course of a 60-hour infusion. It must be supervised by a doctor or nurse in a hospital. In a trial, many women saw a major improvement in their symptoms within just 24 hours. They also still felt better 30 days after the infusion. Side effects were drowsiness and dizziness. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13856 | {
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Place a cable pulley at chest-height and attach a single handle. Stand with the legs wider than shoulder-width apart so the pulley is to the right of the body, then reach across body and grip the handle with the left hand first then the right hand, lacing the fingers together with the arms out straight to the right. Start with the body centered on the right leg, then push the right foot into the ground to shift the weight of the body to the left leg while rotating the abs and chest, keeping arms straighten directly ahead during the movement. Keep pushing off the right foot as the body shifts to the left hip and the arms and trunk twist as far to the left as possible. Then push off the left foot and slowly twist the arms across the body to return the hands to the starting position. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13859 | {
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According to a new survey published by Common Sense Media, Silicon Valley isn’t the only place where technology is booming. The survey found that children’s use of tablets, smart phones, and other mobile devices has increased dramatically over just the past two years.
Results showed that 38% of children under the age of two have used a mobile device for media, up from just 10% in 2011.
So what are kids doing on these devices? Mainly playing educational games, games that are just for fun, and using creative apps where they can draw and make music. The percentage of children reading on mobile devices has increased from 4% in 2011 to 30% today, however it remains the least popular type of activity.
One statistic that has not increased over the past two years is the number of minutes children read or are read to each day. On average, children ages 0-8 read 28 minutes each day. More specifically, children under the age of 2 are only read to for 19 minutes a day. These numbers are very similar to rates from two years ago.
Technology time for little ones always raises a large debate from both sides. Many see mobile devices as positive educational tools, while others view them as babysitters that can cause potential developmental damage.
Getting Your Family to Love Physical Activity!
The U.S. obesity rate has been rising for the past 20 years. More than one-third of American adults and approximately 17 percent of children and adolescents are obese, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While obesity rates in the United States are increasing, the good news is that physical activity is on the rise too, according to a recent study published July 10, 2013 in Population Health Metrics.
The study found that the percentage of people in the United States who get enough physical activity increased from 2001 to 2009, with counties in Kentucky, Florida, Georgia and California seeing the largest gains. Great news indeed! | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13860 | {
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Civic education in the United States seeks to impart the knowledge and skills necessary for people to take part in democracy. While civic training can be acquired through a variety of agents, among them the family, social groups, labor organizations, religious institutions, the military, and the media, schools can offer effective mechanisms for preparing young people to be engaged citizens (Carnegie Corporation and CIRCLE, 2003; Crittenden and Levine, 2013). The American public strongly believes that civic education is an important element of the precollege curriculum (Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, 2004; Owen and Soule, 2012).
However, the question of what aspects of democratic citizenship should be emphasized in civic education remains contested (Shafir, 1998; Lagemann and Lewis, 2013). Scholars have noted that citizenship training should convey specific types of knowledge, character, and competencies that are consistent with democratic principles. But democracy is not simple, and as Galston argues, striking the right balance “between representation and direct democracy; between self-interest and public spirit; between rights and responsibilities; between liberty and equality; between reasoned deliberation and passionate mobilization; between secular and faith-bases of civic discourse and action; between unity and diversity; between civic loyalty and civic dissent” (2001: 1) can be a challenge. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13862 | {
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Kristin is a mother, artist, author and photojournalist. She has served as a Public Affairs Specialist, (photojournalist), for the National Guard for 5 years, devours books, loves chocolate, her family, and a good story.
In early August bright green, newly-painted squares colored the pavement on Durbin near the corner of Durbin and 15th streets. Near the bottom, the squares contain stylized bicycle riders painted in white to indicate that the area of the street contained within the white lines to the left of the squares are for bicyclists only.
While bike lanes in Casper have been in place for some time, said Beth Andress, Coordinator for City of Casper’s Public Services Department, people were still driving in them. We wanted to use a color that hadn’t been used for anything else.
Some may consider marking existing bike lanes a step in the right direction for bicyclists in Casper. According to the Wyoming Department of Transportation’s Reports on Traffic Crashes for the State of Wyoming from 2010 to 2015, 500 total vehicle crashes involving bicyclists occurred, 1.2% of which were fatal, and 9.8% of which were incapacitating for the cyclist.
The goal regarding bike lanes for Casper, according to Andress, is to provide a combination of trails and bike lanes to make bike travel possible and safe across the city.
Currently there are bike lanes on Blackmore, 21st Street and Center streets in addition to Durbin Street, and a new project is in the works partnering the Public Services Department with Platte River Trails to build a trail from Casper College up to Rotary Park, but at this time Andress wasn’t sure if plans were in place to put the new green markings in place city wide.
What do you think? Are there enough bike lanes in Casper? Would you like to see all bike lanes painted with the new bright green blocks? Sound off by calling in to the Streets and Parks division to let them know what you think. 307-235-8283. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13863 | {
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In a wide-ranging discussion, representatives from General Motors, Nissan, Honda and Kia shared their insights with Nichols at a forum entitled, “California’s Electric Car Culture: Putting the Pedal to the Metal,” hosted in Los Angeles by Veloz, an organization whose purpose is public awareness of electric transportation.
“What automakers are saying lines up perfectly with our EV strategy,” said Katie Sloan, SCE’s director of Transportation Electrification, after the forum. “Building out charging infrastructure and market education are key components of SCE’s proposed $760 million Charge Ready program for passenger vehicles that we currently have before the California Public Utilities Commission.” If approved, the expansion of Charge Ready will add 48,000 EV chargers within SCE’s service area.
In the current pilot phase of the program, SCE is installing about 1,250 chargers at Southern California locations, and hopes to secure approval to install 1,000 more.
California is doing all the right things. The state government has accelerated the acceptance of electric cars by doing more than other states to install infrastructure, to incentivize consumers and to work with manufacturers on getting EVs to market.
If California can continue to export its knowledge, policies and best practices to the rest of the states, EV adoption will accelerate nationwide.
Word of mouth from early EV adopters is better than any other marketing. Once drivers own or lease an EV, they want to stay with an EV.
As charging infrastructure is being built out, plug-in hybrids will suit many customers before they’re ready to make the transition to full battery EVs.
Sales of battery EVs will increase as battery range increases and the cost of battery technology comes down.
Once cars get to a range of more than 200 miles per charge, customers prefer battery EVs over plug-in hybrids.
A report released during the event by EEI and the Institute for Electric Innovation forecasts that the next million EVs will be on U.S. roads by early 2021. The report also projects the number of EVs on U.S. roads will reach more than 18 million in 2030. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13865 | {
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The documentary describes the diverse manifestations of the philosophy and commemoration of martyrdom in the 20th century: from the convoluted path that the holy wind (jap: kamikaze) followed from the Far East to the Near East; from the martyr-soldiers of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Shiite self-hostage dramas; from the pompous processions with which the Catholic Church honours its founder, who not only wished to redeem his people through self-sacrifice, but further intended to save the entire world. The film also portrays those courageous and admirable people who defend their neighbours, their religion and their moral convictions, without any sense of mission, in the most adverse circumstances; people who become witnesses of what Erich Fromm described as “The height people can reach, where the truth is stronger than violence.
From 20th century, the film embarks on a gripping exploration of the history of martyrdom in monotheist religions. For on closer inspection,it is easy to detect traces of this history on the battlefields of the contemporary conflicts. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13871 | {
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What is IP Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN)?
IP Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) are network entities and interfaces that provide the underlying IP transport connectivity between the user endpoint and the IMS entities. The term is usually used in cellular context and usually refers to 3GPP access networks such as GPRS or EDGE, but can be also used to describe wireless LAN (WLAN) or DSL networks. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13879 | {
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
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Car seats help save children’s lives. However, to prevent serious injury, car seats must be the right size for your child, installed correctly and purchased in Canada. Car seats bought from other countries (including the United States) are not legal to use in Canada because they haven’t met Canada’s high standards for car seat safety.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) helps to promote car seat safety and educate the public about the do’s and don’ts.
It is estimated that up to 80% of car seats are not installed correctly. Make sure yours is as safe as possible! Check out the Ministry of Transportation's website to find out how to correctly install your car seat and find general information about car seats and child passenger safety.
In Thunder Bay, St. John Ambulance provides car seat and booster seat educational clinics. Please call (807) 345-1712 for more information.
Thinking about buying a car seat in the United States?
In short, don’t! Car seats and booster seats sold in the US and other countries have not met Canadian regulations and are illegal to use in Canada.
When purchasing a car seat for use in Canada, parents and caregivers should look for the National Safety Mark label on the seat, indicating that it complies with Canadian regulations and standards. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13880 | {
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Distinguish, differentiate, compare and explain what is the difference between Market Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Comparison and Differences.
1. Logistics management is primarily concerned with optimizing flows within and out of the organization. Supply Chain Management deals with the integration of all partners in the value chain.
2. Logistics is essentially a framework that creates a single plan for the flow of products and information through a business. Supply Chain Management builds upon this framework and seeks to achieve linkage and coordination between processes of other entities in the pipeline i.e. suppliers and customers, and the organization itself.
3. Logistics tends to focus on transportation and distribution. Supply Chain Management focuses on purchasing and procurement, production planning, demand management, from point of origin to point of consumption. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13882 | {
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One need not travel far to see where Professor of Art History and Art Elina Gertsman found inspiration for her new book, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (Cambridge University Press, 2018). All of the 50 pieces that she and her co-author, Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago), explore in the book are right in our neighborhood: in the collections at Cleveland Museum of Art.
But the book serves as more than just a guide to what you can see at the museum (after all, while each of the pieces exists in the museum’s collections, not all are on display). Rather, Gertsman and Rosenwein weave a story of the medieval period through the objects from the European, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds.
Gertsman and Rosenwein considered writing such a book even before Gertsman came to teach at Case Western Reserve University. “When I moved to Cleveland and had a chance to really study the museum collection, it became clear that to not write such a book would be a crime,” Gertsman said.
Gertsman is now in the midst of working on several other ambitious projects. Among them is a book on medieval concepts of absence and emptiness, supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, to be published by Penn State Press, and a project on pre-modern abstract art, for which she and colleague Vincent Debiais, of the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, recently won a $20,000 grant from the French-American Cultural Exchange Foundation.
Their collaborative project, titled “Abstraction Before the Age of Abstract Art,” will explore abstraction—a concept usually thought to be rooted in modern and contemporary art—as a phenomenon that was developed throughout the long Middle Ages.
Among their several collaborative activities is the development of an internet-based platform for images of abstraction in medieval and early modern art; a series of workshops in France and in the United States; and two public lectures. Ultimately, Gertsman and Debiais hope their collaboration will spark a strong and enduring connection between their respective institutions. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13883 | {
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The Nobel Prize in Literature was one of the five prizes mentioned in Alfred Nobel’s will, which instructs that his remaining estate should be used for providing prizes to people who confer the greatest benefit on mankind. This international award is one of the most appreciated literary recognitions that authors strive for. Moving away from the initial emphasis on idealism, today the Prize is being awarded both for evidence of consistent idealism and for lasting literary merit.
Throughout the years, the nominations and choices of winners have provided us with some interesting facts and statistical data. In this infographic, you will find information on the age of the winners, their genres, and presence of male vs. female winners. In addition, you will find amusing facts and info about the most famous winners.
Very informative for me. thanks. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13885 | {
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Hawke’s Bay’s annual Conservation Week’ programme for schools is underway for 2016. Pan Pac Forest Products Ltd and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council jointly sponsor this event which is now in its 24th year.
The programme funds five schools to take part in Guthrie-Smith Outdoor Education Centre’s Walk Plant Discover experience, one of a number of outdoor programmes and school camps provided by the Centre. This year Te Awa, Napier Central, Henry Hill, Porritt and Richmond school students will be bused to Tūtira for a hands on conservation experience.
“We enjoy hosting a different school each day of the Conservation Week programme so their students can experience conservation work first hand, and have fun learning about their natural world,” says Sally Chandler, HBRC’s community engagement coordinator.
Ahead of each visit Lynne Arnold, the Environmental Education Facilitator for the Guthrie-Smith Arboretum, visits each school to talk to students about what they will see and do at the arboretum.
The Conservation Week programme’s first stop is at Pan Pac Forest Products. A member of Pan Pac staff joins the group for the day and includes a guided drive around the plant. The next stop is at White Pine Bush where a guided walk gives students an opportunity to be surrounded by native forest especially the tallest tree species, Kahikatea (White Pine).
Then onto the Guthrie-Smith Trust at Tūtira where their education team takes each school group for a walk and talk around the arboretum to introduce the students to the huge variety of trees from around the world.
This year students will complete their experience alongside Orakai Lake, within the Guthrie-Smith grounds, where they will plant native trees and shrubs. It’s an opportunity to find out more about the biodiversity that is being developed at the arboretum. The day finishes with lunch over the road beside Lake Tūtira before heading back to school. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13886 | {
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A quantitative accounting program, Medinfo, developed by the programming personnel of JSC Limedika was installed in 2004. The program is used in more than 250 Lithuanian pharmacies and 200 Latvian pharmacies. The program features modules related to different activities of a pharmacy: storehouse, cash desk, prescriptions, proposals and electronic orders, loyalty programs, cost sheets, branch activity control from the centre, bookkeeping, etc. Maintenance of the Geru Vaistu card is integrated in the cash program. A staff of 12 people provide a continuous update of the Medinfo program taking into account customers’ needs and changes in the legal basis.
The Medinfo program is designed for both quantitative and total accounting; moreover, separate modules can be used, for example, prescriptions and proposals. This program can be offered for all pharmacies, small as well as large. The program is not complicated to work with and easy to learn. It is user friendly as it has a help system (“Help”) which permits to solve problems immediately.
• jars, bottles - for 900 years.
Package waste could be used as an alternative secondary raw material, sorted and processed waste yields profit for industry and preserves natural resources. Therefore, sorting of package waste plays the most important role in appropriate waste disposal and protection of environment; moreover, recycling of waste will help to preserve natural resources. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13887 | {
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The many changes in the Animal Kingdom have had no impact on the Plant Kingdom. Classification has been very stable. Linnaeus is still king. There are 44 animal clades, but only 10 divisions of living plants. The need for less text provided the opportunity to present many images of representational species, all custom prepared by a leading botanical illustrator. Both posters are great for life science classes but the non-technical presentation makes them popular with many plant lovers. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13889 | {
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Novi Fosili (English: The new fossils) was a Croatian pop band, one of the most popular music acts in former Yugoslavia. They formed in Zagreb in 1969. They found success when composer Rajko Dujmić joined the band in 1976. That same year the band played at the Split Festival, where their song 'Diridonda' became a hit throughout the country. Their next several albums sold millions of copies and delivered many hits that are still aired on radios in Croatia today. The first female singer was Đurđica Barlović, in 1984 replaced by Sanja Doležal. The group's male vocalists were Vladimir Kočiš Zec and Rajko Dujmić.
In 1987 the band represented Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest. With their song 'Ja sam za ples' they reached fourth place. The single was released all over Europe, but this didn't bring them international success. The band disbanded when the former Yugoslavia fell apart. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13890 | {
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Is film photography more art than digital?
i’m in the midst of creating the first issue of my photo-zine, and for it I need some written content. So to get some material, I thought I would write some blogs in a more think-piece style instead of my usual highly technical research oriented reviews/tests.
Reading all these books, I found that all of the authors were dealing with some self-doubt and negative emotions. It is also fascinating for how long people have been contemplating whether or not photography can be classified as art. Today, it feels like the discussion is over and has been for a couple of decades. Of course photography is art. But since digital cameras became so ubiquitous there is of now a pendulum swing. When something becomes too commonplace and too easy, it doesn’t feel like art anymore.
This is probably the main reason why a lot of young photographers who want to see themselves as artist are starting to get into film photography. They talk about how it is more real, how no editing is supposedly done even though they are shooting color negative. They leave the dust on the scans so that it makes the image feel more real.
Probably they have some sort of misconception that this is how photos looked liked before they were born. With a strong cyan cast and filled with specks of dust.
But I can understand where they are coming from. I like my mechanical cameras because they feel more real. I like vinyl records because I want to be able to hold the album and look at the cover. And since it is more difficult to change songs, I just listen to the whole album. Some times things need to be enjoyed at a slower pace. Some times the journey matters as much as the destination.
There is no point in trying to be different by using film cameras, there’s a lot of people who beat you to it. But if you feel that you create better work because the camera slows you down, and because you enjoy to use the camera itself - go ahead. I have found that different film cameras make me shoot in different ways, but I have never experienced this with digital cameras. And I have found that having limitations on myself makes me stop snapping and instead trying to shoot something meaningful.
So is film photography more art than digital photography? Of course not. It’s like arguing if oil paintings are more art than watercolors, how you got to your end result doesn’t really matter for anybody else than yourself. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13891 | {
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Here at Alexie RicRac, I want to discover how to achieve sustainability in every aspect of my life, with a vintage twist of course. I don’t profess to be an expert, rather I learn as I go, from experimenting in my home, through my studies, and through other like-minded people.
Although sustainability means loving and caring for the environment, people are often left in the dark as to how to achieve total sustainability. It’s a great start to implement environmental practises, but there are two more facets of sustainability that go hand in hand with the environment: social and economic. Together, they are the Three Pillars of Sustainability.
It could be said that the contemporary world is one based on consumption, where consumption is the desire to have whatever you like at whatever the cost: New phones, new computers, new clothing, new cars…all just to stay up to date with The Joneses. Trends and fads come and go, but is there really any need to be consistently replacing things?
What happens to all the ‘old’ things? Are they totally dead and devoid of any practical use, or are they just outdated and not cool? More often than not, they’ll sit around the house piling up and collecting dust until one day it’s decided they’ll go out to hard rubbish. Did you know, there are organisations that will take your unwanted goods off of your hands (Green PC will take your old computers and parts; Mobile Muster for your phones; local charities and op shops for household goods, clothing, and bric-a-brac, and so on and so forth). Some of them will collect, while others ask you to drop off, but in the end, getting rid of that unwanted clutter at home will help you to breathe easy and feel a sense of calm.
It’s a very basic example but it demonstrates just how easy it is to figure out if your goods are still worthy of use by you or someone else.
There are lots of different things to consider when it comes to sustainability – clothing, food, household goods, cars and transport, to name a few. Next time you’re considering that upgrade, have a think about what you can do to help with sustainability efforts. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13897 | {
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‘You can’t choose your family,’ said the eighty-nine-year-old man to his five-year-old great-grandson.
These are the very words that set me on the well-travelled family history trail; ducking and diving through swathes of digitised records, crawling in and out of rabbit holes lined with red herrings and eventually uncovering a family that you would definitely not choose for yourself.
Early twentieth century views trapped many women in a biological straightjacket, labelling maternally insane mothers as the worst kind of female, failing at the one job they had.
This painting is a portion of my grandfather’s story and is the sixth* portrait study of Charlie so far. It comprises a charcoal under-drawing on wood with oil paints applied at first with a rag, then a palette knife. The ethereal quality of Charlie’s face is deliberate, as the appearance of one who has passed away often fades from our memory. This effect is created by the faded charcoal drawing and background colours that seep through his features, creating unnatural skin tones. The white markings depict Charlie’s biography, ‘Abandoned’, that will tell his story on paper in 2018 – inspired by his own words; ‘You can’t choose your family’ (inscribed on the painting in Oleo Gel**).
‘Abandoned’ is Charlie’s story, one that resonates with many Forgotten Australians taken into care in the twentieth century. At the age of six, Charlie and his six siblings were abandoned in the Young and Jacksons Hotel on Flinders Street, Melbourne. Their mother suffered a number of mental-health issues – treatable in 2017, but in 1924, mental health and wellbeing were uncommon concepts. Early twentieth century views trapped many women in a biological straightjacket, labelling maternally insane mothers as the worst kind of female, failing at the one job they had. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13898 | {
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Defines the offset from the base address defined by DBGDRAR of the physical base address of the debug registers for the processor. See Debug ROM Address Register.
Figure 10.16 shows the DBGDSAR bit assignments as a 32-bit register.
Table 10.16 shows the DBGDSAR bit assignments.
Sign extension. Each bit must be the same as DBGDSAR.
Bits[39:32] of the two’s complement offset from the base address defined by DBGDRAR to the physical address where the debug registers are mapped. Bits[11:0] of the address are zero. See Debug ROM Address Register.
If DBGDSAR.Valid is zero, the value of this field is unknown.
Bits[31:12] of the two’s complement offset from the base address defined by DBGDRAR to the physical address where the debug registers are mapped. Bits[11:0] of the address are zero. See Debug ROM Address Register. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13902 | {
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When cooked, jicama tends to retains its nice crisp texture and to take on the flavors of whatever other ingredients it is used with. It has a sweet, bland flavor that suits everything from fruit salad to stir-fried shrimp.
The crisp, white flesh of the root is often compared to that of the water-chestnut or like a delicious cross between a water-chestnut and an apple, with a delightful crunchy texture. It is also characterized as a cross between an apple and a potato.
Jicama is usually eaten fresh and uncooked. After the brown fibrous skin is peeled off, the flesh does not discolor.
• They can be sliced, diced, cut in strips, cut in squares or shredded for use in salads, as a garnish or with dips.
• Chilled slices can be sprinkled with salt, chili powder and lime juice as a tasty side dish.
• Serve slices or wide strips with guacamole or a spicy dip.
• Use as a low calorie cracker substitute - serve slices with dip or drizzled with olive oil and paprika or other seasoning.
• Cut into squares and use in fresh fruit salad, or marinate with vegetables.
• Shredded jicama makes an excellent 'slaw' combined with cabbage and carrots.
Like potatoes, jicama can be baked, boiled, steamed, braised, fried, creamed or mashed. Like the waterchestnut, it stays crisp even when cooked.
• Saute with green beans or carrots.
• Use in stir fried chicken or shrimp dishes and in braises and stews.
Jicama is low in starch and calories with no fat or cholesterol, it is ideal for dieters.
Uncut, jicama can be stored in a plastic bag in the refrigerator for up to three weeks. Longer storage will result in conversion of starch to sugar and should be avoided.
Mature pods contain rotenone, which is poisonous and should not be eaten. However, the tuber itself is sweet, fresh tasting, and is perfectly safe to eat. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13903 | {
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Broccoli – Made popular in the 90s by the study released by Johns Hopkins University showing the cancer-preventative effects of this vegetable's sulforaphane component, it also can help boost the immune system, strengthen bones and help prevent birth defects. It is an excellent source of iron, calcium, potassium and vitamins A, B6, C, E, and K.
Guava – Celebrate your tropical side with with flavorful fruit. It’s effective in weight management and helps prevent heart disease and diabetes, and skin problems, as well as relieving constipation and diarrhea.
Kale – A good source of dietary fiber, this leafy green supports our body’s detox system and is useful in lowering cholesterol levels. Toss these tangy greens in salads or alternate with spinach in your go-to recipe.
Mint – Mint has one of the highest antioxidant capacities of any food. It contains menthol, which is a natural decongestant and helps relieve sore throats. I has been used for thousands of years to aid with upset stomachs and indigestion. (However, avoid mint if you suffer from GERD, as it may exacerbate your symptoms.) Using fresh herbs and spices like mint when cooking can help to cut down on sodium intake.
Edamame (Soy Beans) – The only complete plant-based protein, it is high in fiber, low in saturated fat and cholesterol free, which makes it an ideal swap for animal sources for meat and dairy. A study published in 2010 in The Journal of Nutrition found that eating soy daily — and adding it to your diet to replace foods high in saturated fat — can help lower LDL cholesterol by nearly 8 to 10 percent. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13904 | {
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I’ve noticed in these last days leading up to Christmas that many of us have dispensed with our manners. Whether walking down the street, driving in the car, standing in the grocery line-up, or working out at the gym, people everywhere seem to be more focused on their own agendas rather than considerate behaviour.
Manners have an interesting history, particularly if you read English literature. One of the most well-known critics of ill-used manners was Jane Austen (1775-1817). Austen’s novels were known for their satirical outlook on the customs of fashionable English society at the turn of the nineteenth century. In Persuasion, one Austen character quips, “Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I’m afraid it is not very particular.” The false pretenses that guided the manners of many of Austen’s upper class protagonists were frequently critiqued in her writings.
Later in the century, British Victorians were obsessed with manners. Books on etiquette abounded during a time when proper behaviour denoted social standing and class. Novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was a master at capturing on paper the hypocrisy of those who feigned to be mannerly but whose actions were often at the expense of others. He frequently cast the socially respectable characters in his novels as contributors to the tyranny experienced by the poor.
Today, somewhere in between hypocrisy and the absence of manners, there is probably a place for making the comfort of others a consideration in our daily lives. Exhibiting good manners can transcend the barriers that separate us. It is a simple way to connect meaningfully and respectfully with strangers, even if it is for the briefest of moments.
So, this Christmas give up that space in the mall parking lot; stand aside for someone trying to negotiate their wheelchair through the crowds; be appreciative to service workers; consider others’ space when walking down the street; drive less aggressively; buy someone who is in need a cup of coffee; hold a door open for an elderly person; and slow down, not just at Christmas but year round. Otherwise, you may miss the opportunity to make someone’s day. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13908 | {
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Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease that causes cartilage loss and potentially bone loss and/or bone spurs. Shown is an osteoarthritic knee joint, oral and topical NSAIDS to help control pain, steroid injection to reduce inflammation, and exercises to strengthen supporting muscles (shown are leg lifts and tai chi). This illustration was created for the cover of American Family Physician. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13909 | {
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It surely is a boring life to live in concrete jungle for 24 hours. The green space within the city makes life easier and meaningful. Norway’s Oslo is the most green city in Europe with 68% of public green space while Austria’s Vienna (45.5%) and Switzerland’s Zurich (41%) also pleasing its citizens. Sweden’s Stockholm (40%) and Finland’s Helsinki (40%) are also marked on the list of pleasant life. However, London (33%), Berlin (30%), Paris (9.5%) still need to improve life of citizens. – Statistics from World Cities Culture Forum. On the other hand, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy are the worst criminal countries in Europe while Switzerland and Austria are the safest in Europe.
Spain, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands are quite or relatively safer than other European countries. – Statistics from Numbeo and European Union. However, Natural environment and Safety aren’t the only factors that make people happy. Finance (employment), Immigration, Cultural assets (culinary, shopping, artistic environments, etc) and Social infrastructure (school, hospital, public service, etc) are another main players that make people happy. According to 2018 World Happiness Report, Finland is the happiest country in the world with Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Switzerland holding the next top positions. However, the Happy Planet Index (HPI) shows a little different data that marks Norway and Switzerland the happiest nations. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13912 | {
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Persell Middle School students, Ella Demorest, McKenna Schneider and Jillian Overbeck-Thompson look at Ella's family photo book she created as part of the family project with Prendergast Library Director Tina Scott.
Persell Middle School seventh and eighth graders discovered more about their ancestors through a unique project with Library Media Specialist Becky Luhman. The three-month project involved: a family tree of four generations (student, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents), two family interviews transcripts, an audio recording and a choice element (cookbook, scrapbook/photo book, military research, family stories, ancestry/family game, time capsule, family artifacts or a timeline of events in ancestor’s life).
Students discovered immigration and census records and World War I & II draft cards that listed their ancestors and also gave family information. Also, they found user-submitted family trees and photos, which helped them to grow their tree and have photos that they might not otherwise have for the project.
Mrs. Luhman invited Prendergast Library Director, Tina Scott, to come in and speak to the students about Ancestry.com and the type of information that could be found and resources at the library. She also shared the AncestryDNA and how it can open other avenues in their family research. Mrs. Scott came back to see the final project/products. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13913 | {
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CHNM has just launched a new project called The Object of History. A partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the project aims at lower cost model for “virtual” museum field trips. It also tries to open up the work of museum curators to student scrutiny. For most students, history exhibits (like history texts) are black boxes, revealing little of the long hours of work and sometimes difficult negotiations required to produce historical knowledge. History students rarely get to see how we make the proverbial sausage. The Object of History aims to show them.
Kudos to Sharon and the rest of the team that produced this incredible new resource. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13914 | {
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We've had some snow this week in Britain. Even London, always desperate to get in on the act, had a dusting, albeit one that lasted till lunchtime yesterday when it melted away.
America's Great Blizzard of 1888 was a different matter altogether, as these photos of New York show.
Between March 11-14, between 51-152cms of snow fell on North America's north-eastern coast.
Such was the sheer amount of the stuff, cities like New York and Washington were paralysed for days, with telgraph lines rendered useless by the weather. In total, 400 people along the eastern seaboard died as a result of the blizzard, with 200 perishing in New York alone.
It didn't end there. When, after a week, the snow started to melt, Brooklyn was badly affected by flooding, resulting in further damage.
To this day, it remains one of America's worst storms. And a reminder that no matter how far advanced we become as a species, Mother Nature likes to show us who's boss from time to time. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13916 | {
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Valium is in a class of drugs called benzodiazepines. The generic name for this drug is Diazepam. It is commonly used for treating anxiety, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal, but is also used for patients before having medical procedures done, as the drug relaxes and calms the patient. Valium is also used for patients who suffer from panic attacks.
Street names for Valium include candy, downers, sleeping pills, and tranks. This drug was widely prescribed in the 1960’s and 1970’s before its potential for abuse and addiction were well known. It is often prescribed to people withdrawing from Xanax addiction. The problem with long term use of this drug is that individuals build up a tolerance for it, and once the dosage has been increased, it won’t be long before it needs to be increased again. This is how individuals become addicted.
If you know of someone who has an addiction, they need to be in a drug treatment program where detox can be closely monitored by a medical professional in an inpatient substance abuse center. Here the client will receive support for psychological as well as physical symptoms. After detox, the client will have counseling and group therapy in order to learn about the dangers of addiction. They will also learn how much better life will be without an addiction, such as Valium. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13918 | {
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ESP - English for Specific Purposes: This term refers to the teaching of a specific genre of mostly technical English for students with specific goals, careers or fields of study. Examples include English for Academic Purposes (students will enter an English-speaking university), English for Business & Management, or Hotel & Catering English (for hotel and tourism professionals). | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13922 | {
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As numerous passages in the New Testament indicate, the words “elder” (presbuteros), “overseer” (episkopos), and “pastor” (poim¯en) all refer to the same office. In other words, overseers and pastors are not distinct from elders; the terms are simply different ways of identifying the same people. The qualifications for an overseer (episkopos) in 1 Timothy 3:1-7, and those for an elder (presbuteros) in Titus 1:6-9 are unmistakably parallel. In fact, in Titus 1, Paul uses both terms to refer to the same man (presbuteros in v. 5 and episkopos in v. 7). All three terms are used interchangeably in Acts 20. In verse 17, Paul assembles all the elders (presbuteros) of the church of Ephesus to give them his farewell message. In verse 28 he says, “Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers [episkopos], to shepherd [poimaino¯] the church of God.” First Peter 5:1-2 brings all three terms together as well. Peter writes, “Therefore, I exhort the elders [presbuteros] among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed, shepherd [poimaino¯] the flock of God among you, exercising oversight [episkope¯o] not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God.” The different terms, then, indicate various features of ministry, not varying levels of authority or separate offices, as some churches espouse.
As the apostolic era came to a close, the office of elder emerged as the highest level of local church leadership. Thus, it carried a great amount of responsibility. There was no higher court of appeal and no greater resource to know the mind and heart of God with regard to issues in the church. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13924 | {
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Although questions have been raised regarding reproducibility and animal welfare, the rabbit Draize eye test has remained an accepted method to evaluate skin irritation for many years. For the last decade, in vitro 3D skin models are developed to predict and classify skin irritation potential of chemicals. Several methods have been validated by ECVAM (European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods) and achieved regulatory acceptance internationally for replacement of the rabbit Draize test. Among the approved skin systems is the Epiderm™ system from Matek.
Epiderm™ is a 3D skin model derived from human epidermal keratinocytes which have been cultured to form a multilayered, highly differentiated model of the human epidermis (Figure 1). The model parallels human skin, and can provide a useful in vitro means to assess dermal irritancy and toxicology.
Epiderm™ is proposed to be used as an ISO standardized test to evaluate skin irritation potential of medical devise extracts. The endpoint of the methods is cell death measured by the MTT test. The MTT test measures the conversion of MTT to a purple formazan salt (Figure 2) which is catalyzed by the enzyme SDH in viable cells. The conversion from MTT to formazan is a measure of cell viability which in this test is used to predict the irritation potential. In addition, Interleukine-1 alpha release can be measured in the medium as a secondary endpoint.
NIOM’s personnel have completed the course in the procedure of Epiderm™ skin irritation test and are approved to perform the method. The Epiderm™ test is now a part of the biological test battery at NIOM and manufacturers are welcome to order testing of their products. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13926 | {
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Looking for a fun and easy way to boost your child's language development? Our books, toys and games do just that!
We are a Swedish publishing house specialising in children’s books, games and materials for developing children's language skills. For about ten years we have been spreading our language developing books and toys all over Sweden, and several of our characters now have a large following of toddlers and children, as well as parents, teachers and Speech-Language Therapists.
Now we are launching some of our most popular characters in English, German, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish too!
Babblarna are a colourful bunch. Their videos on YouTube are enormously popular, and every day new viewers are discovering and falling for these little speech boosters - because Babblarna are more than just entertaining and fun - they can really aid language development.
Babblarnas' names - Babba, Bibbi, Bobbo, Dadda, Diddi and Doddo - are chosen so that they boost both speech perception and production, and the books and games have been developed in collaboration with Professor Irene Johansson at Karlstad University specially for children in the early stages of language development. In playing with the sounds and syllables of Babblarna the children acquire more and more experience of the basic skills needed for speech production.
Reading and playing with Pippa & Boo is a fun way to help children acquire their first words and the use of short sentences. They are created by children’s book author and Speech-Language Pathologist Elvira Ashby and especially suitable for 0-3 year olds.
One way of boosting early language development is baby signing, to use gestures and hand signs when talking and reading. The Pippa & Boo books come with line drawings of hand signs from ASL (American Sign Language) or BSL (British Sign Language) for all key words. A fun way of learning new words and signs for both children and adults!
The Pippa & Boo books are also full of onomatopiea, words like BANG and BOINK, which are easy for children to learn and use, and the stories are built on a lot of repetition, which enables the grown-up to work as a model for the child’s speech production. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13927 | {
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Feeling dread at the thought of having a root canal? Your reaction is very common, and it may be a result of a prior negative experience, dental anxiety, or all the unfortunate misinformation about the of the procedure. But with advances in dental technology, and up-to-date sedation options, the Novato Sedation Dentist can perform the procedure efficiently, and restore your oral health.
If a tooth starts to decay and is not treated, the decay can eventually penetrate into the root canal of the tooth. This is the space inside the root of your tooth that holds pulp, nerves, and tissue. Usually the first sign of root canal infection is severe pain and discomfort. Once the root canal becomes infected by decay, a root canal is necessary to save the tooth.
Root canal therapy is necessary to completely remove the infected material from inside your tooth. We start by numbing the area to be treated so that you feel no discomfort. The dentist then makes a very tiny hole in the back of your tooth. This provides access to the inner portion of your tooth so that the infected material can be removed completely.
How can you help me relax?
If you have more severe anxiety, we can prescribe an oral medication to be taken before you arrive at our office. With sedation dentistry, many patients feel no discomfort, and have little or no memory of the procedure at all.
Our Novato Sedation Dentist understands that you may be anxious about having a root canal. But it is very important that you get immediate care or you risk losing the tooth. Please contact our office so that we can answer your questions and provide the treatment you need. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13928 | {
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Congenital heart conditions afflict about 40,000 babies— nearly one percent of births— annually. These defects can range from manageable to fatal: a valve that doesn't fully close; abnormal connections of veins and arteries; even a hole inside the heart.
However, using adult-sized products in children can be dangerous. Forcing an adult-sized valve into a baby's tiny heart may ward off immediate death and give the child a few more months of life. But complications are common. For instance, an adult-sized valve can impede the flow of blood from the baby's lungs or put pressure on the electrical circuitry of a tiny heart, resulting in the need for a pacemaker. Attempts to treat infants with adult-sized devices may be well intentioned, but the heart defect is likely to win out in the end.
As a cardiac surgeon, I've unfortunately seen that happen too often. I remember the case of an infant girl from New York City who was born with severe narrowing of her heart's mitral valve. When she was nine months old, she received a replacement adult-sized valve. But six months after her procedure, the replacement failed, causing her valve to narrow and restrict blood flow. Doctors relieved the obstruction temporarily. But eventually, her heart became too weak, and she passed away.
Thankfully, scientists and companies are developing new ways to meet the needs of our smallest, most vulnerable patients. Researchers at the University of Maryland, for example, are testing the ability of adult stem cells to repair damaged infant heart tissue. A team at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is pioneering a procedure that uses umbilical cord blood to strengthen infant heart muscles.
This valve has already helped save the lives of numerous infants. One was a baby from Chicago who was born with a hole in her heart. At six months, her mitral valve started leaking following surgery to repair the hole. She went into heart failure. She was held in the ICU but she couldn't tolerate food and wasn't gaining weight. She received the small Abbott valve just in time -- and is now thriving. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13929 | {
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Food can influence all aspects of health, including how well you sleep. Generally speaking, when you eat well, you are in a better position to sleep well. If you’re having a hard time sleeping, one of the factors you should consider is your diet, and especially what you’re eating before you go to sleep.
Foods that are rich in tryptophan, carbohydrates, calcium, magnesium, melatonin, and vitamin B6 are supportive of healthy sleep. Some of the best foods for sleep include milk, cheese, eggs, nuts, fish, beans, rice, oats, leafy greens, fruits, and vegetables.
You’re probably familiar with the sleep inducing effects of tryptophan from Thanksgiving dinner. Although the heavy meal and carbohydrate laden sides are a major factor in holiday sleepiness, the tryptophan in turkey certainly plays a part and can offer improved sleep quality. Tryptophan helps the body produce serotonin, which creates melatonin, the hormone that supports your sleep and wake cycles.
Carbohydrates can have a similar effect, as carbohydrates can support production of tryptophan. Paired with healthy fats, carbohydrates and encourage feelings of sleepiness. Complex carbohydrates are an especially good choice and can help keep your blood sugar stable as you sleep.
Melatonin supplements are a popular sleep aid, but you don’t necessarily have to take a supplement to get its benefits. You can simply eat food that’s rich in melatonin to get the benefit of this hormone that tells you when it’s time to feel sleepy and get to sleep.
It’s best to eat a healthy diet throughout the day. However, if you can’t give up coffee or junk food, make sure you’re at least limiting your consumption at night. Consuming caffeine or heavy meals late at night can be especially harmful for sleep, leaving you feeling too jittery to fall asleep, or making your body work on digestion when it should be focusing on rest. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13930 | {
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Since in addition to being the beginning of the New Year, Rosh Hashana is also the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, why dont we say Hallel on Rosh Hashana as on other days of Rosh Chodesh?
Since Rosh Hashana is the Day of Judgment, each person should feel anxiety and awe. He should guard against levity and anything that distracts him from the awe of judgment.
So great is awe of judgment among Israel on Rosh Hashana that despite its being a festival, they do not recite the Hallel song of praise recited on the New Moon or festivals. For Hallel is said only with a joy-filled heart, whereas during the days of judgment there should be more fear and trembling in Jewish hearts than rejoicing.
Thus our sages taught, "Said the angels before G-d, Lord of the Universe, why does Israel fail to utter song before you during Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur? He replied, When the King sits on the throne of judgment and the books of life and death are before him, can Israel utter song?" (Rosh Hashana 32).
Nevertheless, a person should not be saddened by fear of judgment. One should have a haircut, wash, and wear special clothes in honor of the festival. A husband should also give his wife a gift in honor of the day, and buy treats for the children. This demonstrates our faith that G-d will show us favor.
So we find that when Ezra the Scribe read the Torah before the assembly gathered on Rosh Hashana, and all the people wept on hearing the admonitions of the Torah, Ezra and Nehemiah said to them, "Do not mourn and do not weep. Go eat delicacies and drink sweet drinks and send gifts to whoever has no food, for the day is sacred to our Lord" (Nehemiah 6:10).
Similarly, our sages taught: "Usually, a person who has a judgment pending against him dresses in black and neglects his appearance in worry of the outcome. Israel however is different. They dress in white, they eat, drink and rejoice in the knowledge that G-d will perform miracles in their behalf [and forgive them]" (Yerushalmi, Rosh Hashana, ch. 1). | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13935 | {
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It is feasible that the primary title of the record Banti’s Syndrome is not the name you got.
Banti disorder is a condition of the spleen, the big, gland-like body organ in the top left side of the abdominal areas that generates red cell prior to birth as well as, in infants, eliminates and also ruins aged red cell, as well as contributes in battling infection. When it come to Banti disorder, the spleen swiftly yet too soon ruins blood cells.
This disorder is defined by irregular augmentation of the spleen (splenomegaly) because of blockage of blood circulation in some capillaries and also unusually boosted high blood pressure (high blood pressure) within the capillaries of the liver (e.g., portal or hepatic capillaries), or the spleen (splenic capillaries). The condition might be because of any kind of variety of various elements creating blockage of website, hepatic, or splenic capillaries considering irregularities existing at birth (genetic) of such capillaries, embolism, or different underlying problems triggering swelling as well as blockage of capillaries (vascular blockage) of the liver. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13936 | {
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Planning to talk to your doctor about Duopa? Bring this discussion guide to your visit. Be sure to look it over in advance—it might spur you to ask some additional questions of your own.
Before your next doctor appointment, it may be helpful to keep track of your symptoms. Also, bring a list of all the prescription and over-the-counter medications you’re taking, including vitamins and herbal supplements.
What can I expect from Duopa?
Is Duopa an option for me?
What does the daily routine involve?
What is required to start Duopa?
What is involved in the stoma procedure?
How is the Duopa dose adjusted for me?
What if Duopa doesn’t work for me?
What’s involved in taking care of the pump and tubing?
(For carers) What will I need to do as a carer for someone using Duopa? | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13937 | {
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I think school has many purposes--a place for us to learn new things, a place for us to practice new methods of learning, a place for us to ask questions and share our thoughts. A place to play and socialize with others. A place to become more literate, develop a strong number sense and get elbow deep in paint and paper mache once in a while as we test out new ways to express ourselves. A place to be creative thinkers. School has so many purposes. It is really a complicated thing--because it isn't completely clear and it isn't just one or two things. We get SO much out of school.
But if I had to zoom in on one aspect that I think is of KEY importance it would be: thinking.
what ways of thinking work best for us.
how to share our thinking.
and what we like to think about.
It is about learning and learning is about thinking. And there are so many fantastic ways to do this. And the better we plan for opportunities for our students to think & learn the more engaged they will be and the more they will love learning and thinking. And that is really what I want out of all of this whole school thing for them: for them to continue wanting to learn. wanting to think. being curious. AND being life-long learners who LOVE this.
That is what I think today anyway. What do you think? | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13943 | {
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While the German Energy policy currently is amongst the most ambitious ones worldwide, the trend towards increased renewable energy use and enhanced energy efficiency is globally evident. As India currently prepares its low-carbon strategy its main motivation lies in fostering utilization of renewables and promoting energy efficiency as energy security measures, which in this context is defined as national-wide access to reliable, affordable and environment-friendly energy. In order to meet this challenging objective, India has initiated on implementing national missions on solar, energy efficiency and is moving ahead with plans on sectoral missions for wind and biogas energy as well.
systems by accelerating the renewable pathway. This paper briefly introduces the Energiewende and the Indian energy landscape as well as it presents the result in terms of take-aways of five Roundtable Discussions held in Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad and Delhi in February and March 2014. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13946 | {
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In our individualized society we are all artists of life - whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not by our own choice. In this society we are all expected, rightly or wrongly, to give our lives purpose and form by using our own skills and resources, even if we lack the tools and materials with which artists' studios need to be equipped for the artist's work to be conceived and executed. And we are praised or censured for the results - for what we have managed or failed to accomplish and for what we have achieved and lost. In our liquid modern society we are also taught to believe that the purpose of the art of life should be and can be happiness - though it's not clear what happiness is, the images of a happy state keep changing and the state of happiness remains most of the time something yet-to-be-reached. This new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing today - is not a book of designs for the art of life nor a 'how to' book: the construction of a design for life and the way it is pursued is and cannot but be an individual responsibility and individual accomplishment. It is instead a brilliant account of conditions under which our designs-for-life are chosen, of the constraints that might be imposed on their choice and of the interplay of design, accident and character that shape their implementation. Last but not least, it is a study of the ways in which our society - the liquid modern, individualized society of consumers - influences (but does not determine) the way we construct and narrate our life trajectories. Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Warsaw and Leeds. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13950 | {
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Explore the world through art history!
The more you know about art and its history, the better artist you will be. Your participation in four or more art history classes will provide the knowledge and critical thinking necessary to be your most creative. Every semester you will have the opportunity to see original works of art in museums and galleries such as the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and Mass MoCA. Special upper level courses will take you into the studios of major contemporary artists in New York City, and study abroad opportunities could take you into the museums of Europe and beyond.
The Minor consists of 19 or 20 credits, depending on the courses taken. Students must maintain a B average or above to receive an Art History minor. Four out of five courses must be taken at The College of Saint Rose. Please see the Catalog for further details.
Art History is the link among all the programs offered in the Art Department. Combining history and literary criticism, it invites all students to step back from their areas of concentration and see themselves within a wide context...In doing so, each student comes to understand how his or her values corroborate with the rich, kaleidoscopic world of the visual arts. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13953 | {
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Two weeks ago I posted a poem Uncertain Determinism. Determinism is the universe according to Isaac Newton, where strict determinist rule governs every action, interaction and reaction. This fixes the future of the universe irrevocably in an inescapable sequence of ‘This causes that, so what happens next is inevitable’, a so-called linear future in which the falling apple meets the ground every time.
Fortunately physicists such as Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck and many others have given us the escape route of uncertainty. The world behaves as though it is a series of linear interactions like a game of snooker, but at its heart it is like the fall of the cards in poker. The problem is, how does the random behaviour at the world’s heart create a world in which dependable things can happen? How can the apple fall and hit the ground and still allow chance and freewill?
and to present, and are one.
in the chalky cue’s rebound.
smoke, not mirrors, all around.
how does it take the chosen one?
as a blazing, shining sun?
of every sub-atomic spin and swirl. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13959 | {
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Several techniques for reducing packet loss have been studied. The techniques mostly focused on congestion which is only one source of packet loss whereas packet corruption, another source of packet loss, has received little attention.
Danyang Zhuo et al. worked on the packet corruption in DCNs. They monitored around 350K switch to switch, optical links within 15 data centres of a major cloud provider over seven months.
Unlike congestion, corruption rate on a link is stable over time and is not correlated with its utilization.
Ensuring that each top-of-rack switch has a minimum number of paths to reach other switches.
Danyang Zhuo said : Our prposed system (CorrOpt) has been deployed in over Microsoft DCs and it could reduce corruption losses by three orders of magnitude.
Q1: What’s statistical percentage of link with corruption?
A:1 I can't comment on that. I just can only report the relative ratio of link with congestion.
Q:2 What are other remedies to mitigate the corruption other than bring it to links, e.g. reduce the rate or change error code, …?
A2: What we found in our data centres that loss rate is not correlated with traffic. So, I think reducing rate wouldn’t remedy those hardware failure.
We target at a deployable solution, I think for error correction code and end-to-end, I don’t think people do that. I think a 100G technology has it. 10G and 40G usually don’t have it on the switch.
Q2: How about changes on the modulation?
A2: For data centres transceivers there is no option to change the modulation.
A2: It is fixed but for long haul, I’m not sure (maybe changeable).
Q3: How often you have multiple link corruption at the same path?
A3:The details are in the paper. What we found is that for optical breakout cable (when you have dirt on the fibre) those links tend to scatter across the entire DC but for failures such as optical breakout cables or switch hardware problem , it is going to affect multiple links on the same switch. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13963 | {
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By Russ Wellen, April 8, 2015 .
This scenario uses the very real possibility of an apparent nuclear weapons accident as a catalyst to eliminate nuclear weapons. The disaster, in and of itself, would likely not be a sufficient provocation for such a substantial shift in policies around the world. The actual driver here is the overwhelming documentation of the event, from personal videos to cheap drones to data from the wearable health monitors on the victims.
He imagines the aftermath of Jammu-Kashmir’s capital Jammu, devastation by a nuclear weapon in the 10-20 kiloton range.
All of this could have been just another humanitarian nightmare, eventually pushed into the bin of forgotten catastrophes, were it not for the uniquely 21st century twist: the utterly complete documentation of the blast and its results, collected by omnipresent surveillance systems as well as tens of thousands of individuals using wearables, 3D printed micro-drones, cube satellites (either in orbit already or rushed to launch), and even phones. Wearable fitness and health monitors either marked the shape of the explosion through their sudden failure, or (further out from the blast) charted the declining life signs of trapped and injured survivors. In the minutes, days, and weeks following the blast every square meter of the region, from the western Hindu Kush to the streets of Sialkot, was photographed or recorded in some way, not only by states and international officials, but by citizens trying to make sense of the senseless.
Even more surprising, perhaps, is the end result of that documentation and impossible-to-ignore visibility: active measures by every nuclear armed nation to disassemble their nuclear weapons, as demanded by millions of people in the streets worldwide and even by political leaders feeling something unusual: shame. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13967 | {
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Unfortunately, pedestrian accidents are rising in New York City. Various factors contribute to these incidents, including speeding, inattention, failure to yield, failure to obey traffic laws, and lack of countdown signals in dangerous intersections. In addition, taxicabs and bus drivers are known to be very aggressive and do not take the necessary precautions to keep their passengers and pedestrians safe.
Being in a pedestrian accident can be stressful and traumatic. And pedestrians risk the worst kinds of injuries from broken bones to permanent brain damage.
Remain calm, do not get into an argument with the driver who hit you and call 911 to report the accident. Cooperate with the police and medical staff. If EMTs suggest you need hospital care, get in the ambulance and go to the emergency room. Answer the police officer’s questions honestly and ask how to get a copy of the police report.
Document the accident scene. If possible, take pictures of the scene, including the car that hit you, the pavement behind the car, the car’s license tag, and the location.
Gather driver and witness information. Name, address, driver’s license number and insurance information from the driver who hit you are key. Take notes of witnesses’ names and contact information.
See a health professional. Even if you feel okay visit a doctor within 24 hours of the accident as some injuries may appear later. Request a medical report that will provide evidence of your injuries.
Contact an experienced pedestrian accident lawyer who can handle all legal aspects of your case, including dealing with insurers and making sure you obtain proper settlement.
If you’ve been a victim of a pedestrian accident you should only worry about getting physically better. For the rest, you can contact an experience lawyer from our prestigious firm who can help you achieve the maximum compensation you deserve. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13969 | {
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Learn how communities around the country commemorate the day, and find resources to support your own observance.
SAMHSA’s Awareness Day shines a national spotlight on the importance of caring for every child’s mental health.
Learn about Awareness Day, and find activities and resources to support your own efforts to raise awareness about the importance of children’s mental health.
SAMHSA is proud to collaborate with federal agencies and national organizations in support of Awareness Day. Learn more about these collaborating organizations.
Awareness Day 2019: “Suicide Prevention: Strategies That Work” will take place on Monday, May 6, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, DC.
Learn about community events around the country that can inspire your own Awareness Day efforts, and submit your event details.
In 2005, Awareness Day began as a grassroots effort among SAMHSA-funded systems of care, and it has expanded to include other federal programs and national organizations. Learn more about SAMHSA’s most recent events.
Mark your calendars: SAMHSA’s Awareness Day 2019: "Suicide Prevention: Strategies That Work" event will take place on May 6, 2019.
Do you need help developing your Awareness Day plans? The TA Network social marketing team is standing by! Learn more today! | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13973 | {
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Large cardamom (Amomum subulatum Roxb.) is the main cash crop grown in Sikkim. It is the lifeline of the people since it constitutes major share of the economy of the state. A large chunk of agrarian community depends on its cultivation. The present study was conducted during 2010-12 at Dzongu areas of North Sikkim due to maximum tribal farmer’s population lives and large cardamom is a principle crop. A list of the large cardamom growing villages was prepared and 5 villages were selected randomly. After the selection of villages, a village wise list of the large cardamom tribal farmers of the selected 5 village was prepared and 25 farmers from each village were selected randomly. Thus, the total sampling consisted of 125 tribal farmers spread over five selected villages. For the purpose of present study, eleven recommended production technologies in the package of practices about large cardamom production technologies Viz., improved varieties, planting material, sucker treatment, field preparation, planting time, method of planting, recommended dose of manuring, irrigation management, method of weed control, plant protection (bioagents) and improve curing system were selected. Majority of the respondents were found in medium aware and high adoption category in practices like method of field preparation and planting method.
Key words: Adoption, Awareness, Dzongu, Large cardamom technology, Tribal farmers. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13976 | {
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Also known as Poro and Palo Santo, the Machete plant is a member of the pea family, Fabaceae. This shrub or small tree grows 3-7 meters tall, and has a short, spined trunk with multiple branches. The leaves have three heart-shaped leaflets approximately 25 cm long each. The bright red flowers give this plant its name—the flower standards are long, narrow tubes up to 9 cm long, and are shaped like the blade of a machete. The standards are arranged in an inflorescence at the end of branches. Characteristic of the family, they produce a legume (fruit) containing several bright red seeds. Each pod is 15-25 cm long, which twists and opens at maturity to expose the seeds. This tree flowers from September to October, and fruits mature in November and December, usually shedding all the seeds by March. This plant is used by many animals—the leaves are a food source for some butterflies and moths, and many birds visit the nectar-rich flowers, including larger understory hummingbirds such as the Long-billed Hermit. In Panama, it is common and widespread in the forests across the country, and can be found in the vicinity of the Canopy Tower and Canopy Lodge. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13977 | {
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On a recent trip to Kansas City, Missouri, we visited the National World War I Museum. This first-class museum provides an in-depth look at the Great War and the impact it had throughout the world.
The museum seeks to honor the telling of this event by honoring the men, women, and children who endured the atrocities of war. Not only do you gain military perspective, you gain insight into the great injustices that lead to war, the physical and emotional fortitude it took to fight in the trenches, and the impact on ordinary men and women striving for a better life.
It is a humbling journey. Lest We Forget. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13979 | {
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Now retired from Swarthmore College, Gene Klotz continues to work with the Math Forum at Drexel University, living testimony to the fact that he has done more than influence the students he has taught over the last forty-seven years. He has inspired them to bring innovation and enthusiasm to their work-and beyond his own classroom, he has changed the technology of mathematics education. He was among the first to realize the potential of technology to support mathematics learning, and over the years his projects have incorporated the newest technology while looking ahead at emerging technology and its possibilities.
One result of that commitment to innovation was a project undertaken by Nicholas Jackiw, a Swarthmore student who was not even a mathematics major at the time. The result of his work-the Geometer's Sketchpad-is now one of the most widely used software programs in school mathematics.
In the early 1980s, Klotz used Atari computer graphics for trigonometry, and in 1986 he launched the multimedia Visual Geometry Project. To get people talking about geometry teaching, Klotz took advantage of early Internet technologies to establish the Geometry Forum. With the advent of the World Wide Web, his project expanded to the Math Forum, which has become the leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication. Ask Dr. Math, an advice feature of the website, has become so popular that four books have been based on the posted interactions.
Klotz's more recent projects include Math Tools, a library of technology tools, lessons, activities, and support materials, and his current project is Math Images, a website where users can find images related to mathematics and learn about the math behind them.
One nominator described Klotz's approach: "His method seems to be to collect a combustible leaf pile of talent; to ignite it with a combination of provocative ideas, problems, and fascinating playthings; to fan it with daily stimulation, expert advice only when needed, constant humor…; and then, somehow, rather than let it consume itself or burn out, to connect it to a renewable or even expanding energy source, while he himself steps back, brushes off his hands, and begins casting his eye out for new tinder."
Klotz's accomplishments include involvement in NCTM's Electronic Resources Committee and Figure This! Advisory Panel. Klotz has also served on numerous task forces and writing groups for the Mathematical Association of America. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13980 | {
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Here’s a point about the minimum wage that hasn’t received enough attention: A rise to $10.10, from the current $7.25, raises average incomes for roughly the bottom half of all Americans — those with incomes up to $72,300 for a family of four, according to the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on such a proposal.
Annual incomes would rise by 2.8 percent — $300 — for families below the official poverty line (which is $24,100 for a family of four) and by somewhat smaller percentages for families between one and three times the poverty line ($72,300 for a family of four). Together, these two groups comprise roughly the bottom half of the population, according to Census data. Only families at or above six times the poverty line ($144,600 for a family of four) would be net losers.
With incomes rising at the bottom and shrinking very slightly at the top, income inequality would decline. That’s no surprise: two-thirds of workers who would benefit directly are in the poorest half of the population. CBO estimates that the net impact on the federal budget over the long term would be “small” and uncertain — essentially, zero.
Given what we’re learning about poverty’s large long-term effects on health, education, and economic opportunity, we shouldn’t pass up a chance to help lower-income working families and reduce poverty at no cost to the budget. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13982 | {
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The Engineering Services industry in Ontario has grown consistently over the five years to 2019, as investment heightened and demand for services thrived. This industry provides advice, design, feasibility studies and technical services for a variety of projects. Therefore, the level of economic activity has a strong influence on the industry's performance since it dictates the origination of major projects that demand engineering services. Vigorous local and provincial government expenditure in Ontario has driven revenue growth through the origination of major infrastructure projects. Investment for major projects by the private sector has been particularly important for the industry's growth since private businesses account for the majority of the industry's demand...read more.
Ontario accounts for the largest share of business locations with an estimated 32.1% of all industry establishments in Canada. This is primarily the result of the industry's economic weight in Canada, with Ontario accounting for an estimated 35.2% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). Downstream demand of the industry's services is tied to the level of economic activity that promotes projects that require engineering services, so most companies will locate close to where there is significant economic activity. Consequently, most locations are in metropolitan centres where many projects are sourced, particularly for services in the areas of infrastructure and commercial building. For example, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. has...purchase to read more.
What is the Engineering Services in Ontario Industry?
Establishments in this industry apply the physical laws and principles of engineering in the design, development and use of machines, materials, instruments, structures, processes and systems. Industry services involve providing advice; preparing plans, designs and feasibility studies; providing technical services during construction or installation activities; inspecting and evaluating engineering projects; and other related services.
Short for computer-assisted design. The use of computer technology to aid in creating, modifying, analyzing or optimizing a design.
Engineering that is focused on optimizing complex processes or systems, including labour, production methods, materials and the inventory of finished products.
A sole proprietorship that is one enterprise, one establishment and one employee.
IBISWorld’s Engineering Services in Ontario market research report offers insightful industry analysis and research into the market at the national level. IBISWorld’s in-depth industry market research is presented in a logical and consistent format. The industry report contains key industry statistics, market size, industry trends, and growth and profit forecasts for a 5-year outlook period. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13984 | {
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Many people assume that creative people—musicians, writers, poets, painters—are passionate creatives, where scientists, politicians, and business people are basically more structured. Maybe this is true, but actually all bets are off.
Creative people are remarkable in reaching their goals. The passion and excitement of the artist at the easel, or the scientist in the lab, comes close to the ideal fulfillment we all hope to get from life.
Creative people adapt to almost any situation and make do with whatever is at hand to reach their success goals. They have a great deal of passion and physical energy, but they’re also often quiet and at rest.
The important thing is that they control their energy. They rest often and sleep a lot. They consider the rhythm of activity followed by idleness or reflection very important for the success of their work.
This unique collection includes brainwave audios that create actual changes in your brain. As you listen your brain goes through neuroplasticity – actual changes to its natural structure. The implications for creativity are immense, as you are training your brain to approach life in a more creative manner.
Audio 1. A Guided Vision.
Guided relaxation session by Dr. Jill. Creates vision and guidance for creative success.
Inspiration to help you discover your creative passion.
Opens a gate between Alpha and Theta brainwaves, yielding deeper spontaneous insights.
Focuses in 7.83 Hz, the Schumann Resonance popularly known as Earth’s heat beat. Consciousness expanding.
Light Alpha audio with embedded messages by Dr. Jill. Supports and encourages creative expression. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13985 | {
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Today many people have heard about how useful it is to use the oxygen to avoid stress both aesthetically and improve many diseases. Also today the application of oxygen is much more widespread. Every beauty salon has to have to appreciate his " Oxygen Bar " for treatments, in gyms to exercise oxygen is also used with giant cameras and airport lounges and bar provide oxygen for the rest of the visitors and even in Japan, hence the name oxygen BAR, this is sold in supermarkets in cans of soda with their respiratory mouthpiece.
Another early reference to the recreational use of oxygen is found in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Around the Moon. In this work, Verne states "Do you know, my friends, that a curious establishment might be founded with rooms of oxygen, where people whose system is weakened could for a few hours live a more active life. Fancy parties where the room was saturated with this heroic fluid, theaters where it should be kept at high pressure; what passion in the souls of the actors and spectators! What fire, what enthusiasm! And if, instead of an assembly only a whole people could be saturated, what activity in its functions, what a supplement to life it would derive. From an exhausted nation, they might make a great and strong one, and I know more than one state in old Europe which ought to put itself under the regime of oxygen for the sake of its health!" | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13989 | {
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What is the practical importance and relevance?
The conservation of common ash is a primary objective for the Austrian forestry, timber industry and nature conservation. Conventional forest protection measures of direct control are not sufficient and applicable in this case. It is advisable to stimulate and to accelerate the natural adaptation process of species against the pathogen by silvicultural measures.
Within Central Europe, Austria is the first country that focuses on such a mass selection, to preserve the in existence jeopardised common ash by the production of resistant reproductive material.
A collection of a large number of locally adapted and resistant clones from all over Austria is crucial, as initially resistant clones might be vulnerable with an increasing exposure to the pathogen. On the other hand the maintenance of a high natural genetic diversity in the species is an important goal.
In the end of the project a clone collection should be available for forest managers as a direct output and as a material basis for an appropriate seed orchard. This material represents a high economic and ecological value.
In order to bridge the time period between seed orchard establishment and the first significant seed production (10-15 years), a clone mixture is assembled made up of both selected female and male ash trees, as well as the resistant offspring samples propagated by grafting and cuttings. This clone mixture should provide a significantly improved resistance to ash dieback pathogen and should make afforestation and renaturation projects with common ash again more attractive. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13991 | {
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Jan R. Luth Why do we sing at a lower pitch?
Many Dutch church musicians experience that congregations have trouble singing high tones like d2. Is this a new development? And if so, how can we explain it?
Writings of Van Blankenburg (1745), Kist (1840) and Van der Dussen (1848) indicate that congregations formerly sang both higher and lower than they do today. Chorale books in the 18th and 19th centuries have the hymns and psalms notated at the same pitch as, or at a higher one than, comparable present-day books. Important sources are: Witvogel (1730), Stechwey (1770), Michelet (1771), Potholt (1777), Van Eem (1780), Ruppe (1806), Hauff (1837), Bastiaans (1852), Worp (1892).
Organs often had a different pitch from a1= 440 Hz: Grote Kerk Alkmaar (415 Hz), Westerkerk Amsterdam (460), Oude Kerk Amsterdam (465), Pieterskerk Leiden, Stevenskerk Nijmegen, St.-Maartenskerk Zaltbommel (all three 415), Bovenkerk Kampen (g#1 = 435 Hz). But organists who played high-pitched organs did not always choose melodies notated at a lower pitch.
So indeed we sing lower than our ancestors did. An explanation might be the lack of singing education and of the urge to sing at all. In the 19th century, an average student sang as much in one day as an adult churchgoer now does in a month. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13992 | {
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The tier of tyres and the musical instrument were part of a garden development funded by Lottery West. Children, families and educators were all encouraged to have input into the garden design. The tyre apparatus promotes the principle of reuse whilst also offering play to multi-age groups and differing development levels. Children negotiate the equipment in multiple ways while older children model and support younger children to build confidence and ability. Making music is one of our passions, we enjoy creating our melodies with the chimes which where sourced from recycled materials.
The tepee; special places for one or two children for social interaction and quiet contemplation. Inspired by the curriculum and the children’s interest to learn more about homes around the world, educators and children worked together to sand, paint and construct. Initially the Tepee was dressed in cloth which was created by each room decorating a piece of material which was then sewn together, over time this decayed in the weather so the children refurbished with gathered branches from their community walks. Climbing plants have been planted and in time we are hoping this will develop into a wondrous natural play space for years to come.
The fairy garden; inspired by children’s creativity and storytelling, how they enjoyed the magical imaginary world of fairies, initially creating their own small fairy play spaces across the Unicare garden, from this a larger project was inspired. Children were involved in the design from the get go, drawing and creating models and bringing their ideas to life. Children and educators worked in collaboration, decorating stones, old plant pots and gumnuts to creating fairy housing and furniture. Children utilise the space, sharing morning and afternoon tea with the fairies, sharing stories and developing imaginations and creativity.
Open-ended natural play spaces are a key component of Unicare philosophy; the unique house front inspires and promotes creative play. This play space can be used in a range of ways from a restaurant, to a home, to a potting shed, the list is endless. Simple projects like this can be undertaken by most competent maintenance personnel.
Under the shady tree we gather each morning to sing our Unicare song and hear about the experiences that will be available to us throughout the day. As with many of the Unicare play spaces, this cost very little money, tyres and logs can be accessed for zero cost, a little hard work and careful thinking is all that is required. | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13993 | {
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Podcasting - Redlaunch Pty. Ltd.
Podcasting is a method of publishing audio programs via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely due to automatic downloading of audio onto portable players or personal computers.
Podcasting is distinct from other types of online media delivery because of its subscription model, which uses a feed (such as RSS or Atom) to deliver an enclosed file. Podcasting enables independent producers to create self-published, syndicated "radio shows," and gives broadcast radio programs a new distribution method. Listeners may subscribe to feeds using "podcatching" software (a type of aggregator), which periodically checks for and downloads new content automatically.
Most podcatching software enables the user to copy podcasts to portable music players. Any digital audio player or computer with audio-playing software can play podcasts. From the earliest RSS-enclosure tests, feeds have been used to deliver video files as well as audio. By 2005 some aggregators and mobile devices could receive and play video, but the "podcast" name remained most associated with audio.
"Podcasting" is a portmanteau word that combines the words "broadcasting" and "iPod." | gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/13994 | {
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