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- (obsolete) they leave the stage (a stage direction to two or more actors, the plural counterpart of exit)
Etymology: from Latin exeunt, 'they leave', the third person plural form of exÄre 'to leave'
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- :Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. (Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse.)
- Christopher Marlow, Doctor Faustus
- :Enter two Devils.
- :Wagner. How now sir, will you serve me now?
- :Robin. Ay, good Wagner, take away the devils then.
- :Wagner. Spirits, away! Exeunt Devils. Now, sirrah, follow me.
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Brains undergo a massive reorganization between the ages of 12 and 25. While the brain has already reached 90 percent of its full size by the time a person is six, the period of adolescence is a time of extensive remodeling. One analogy is that adolescents go through a network and wiring upgrade. Author and Psychologist Daniel Seigel suggests that adults need to learn about these changes to support adolescents with empathy and compassion.
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
An Inside-Out Guide to The Emerging Adolescent Mind, Ages 12 - 24 (2014)
Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important, and oftentimes maddening, ways. It's no wonder that many parents and educators approach adolescents with fear and trepidation. According to renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel, however, if parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a deeper understanding of one another.
In Brainstorm, Dr. Siegel illuminates how brain development impacts teenagers' behavior and relationships. Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, he explores exciting ways in which understanding how the teenage brain functions can help parents and educators make what is in fact an incredibly positive period of growth, change, and experimentation in their children's lives less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.
Questions & Topics for Discussion
1. What was your key takeaway?
2. During adolescence, brain changes increase the need for “ESSENCE.” Siegel argues that there are both positive and negative outcomes to these changes depending on the choices an adolescent makes. How do we, as adults, provide young people with the opportunities to express and experience this ESSENCE in a positive way?
ES - Emotional Spark
SE - Social Engagement
N - Novelty Seeking
CE - Creative Exploration
3. Adolescence can be the time when teens need adults the most but when they may also isolate themselves from adults as they connect more to peers. How can we foster positive connections with adults?
4. “Support” means finding an outlet for teens to "engage and explore ways to push at life's boundaries" in a manner that is both positive and essential to growing up. What are healthy ways of pushing boundaries?
6. Siegel lists a number of Mindsight tools that are designed to "strengthen your mind, make your brain more flexible and resilient, and improve your relationships." Which of the mindsight tools resonated with you the most? In what ways can we use these mindsight tools into homes, classrooms and neighbourhoods?
Mindsight Tool #1 - Seeing & Shaping the Sea Inside
Mindsight Tool #2 - Time In
Mindsight Tool #3 - Time Between and Reflective Conversations
Mindsight Tool #4 - The Mindsight Simple Seven
7. Siegel argues that adults have a lot to learn from adolescents.
Share a story when you learned something significant from an adolescent.
How can what we learn from young people further enrich our own lives?
Book Club Guide adapted from Marna Macmillan, Learning Support Coordinator & Pam Becker, Vice Principal SD 43 (Coquitlam), British Columbia
Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative.
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Development of a detrital garnet geochronometer and the search for Earth's oldest garnet
Maneiro, Kathryn Ann
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Due to Earth’s efficient crustal recycling through plate tectonics, the remaining physical record of Earth’s first two billion years consists of mineral fragments and heavily metamorphosed rocks in isolated Archean cratons. Characterization of Earth’s earliest tectonic processes requires investigation of all available records; the mineral garnet has been largely overlooked. The major element chemistry and samarium-neodymium (Sm-Nd) isotope ratios preserved in fragmented detrital garnet and Archean metamorphic garnet record the timing and conditions of early tectonic events. This work presents detailed methodology for a new detrital garnet geochronometer unlocking age information from previously undateable detrital garnet surviving recycling in sediment, sedimentary rocks, and metasedimentary rocks. The new method’s utility is demonstrated by dating garnet from a Scottish sedimentary rock and nineteen individual garnet grains from a tributary to the French Broad River in the southern Appalachians. In the southern Appalachians, garnet and existing monazite ages overlap (though the mean garnet age is slightly younger) to record the most recent metamorphic event and both are younger than inherited zircon ages. Proof-of-concept testing demonstrating protocol development for blank-correction and routine analysis of samples smaller than 1 ng advances small Sm-Nd analysis. Additionally, this work applies existing Sm-Nd garnet geochronology methods to search for garnet older than 2.5 Ga and provide age constraints on the complicated metamorphic histories of two Archean cratons. A search for detrital garnet in a sample from the Jack Hills metasedimentary belt of Western Australia hosting the Earth’s oldest known terrestrial materials (ca. 4.3 Ga) failed to produce garnet. Instead, two samples collected ~4 km south of the Jack Hills belt in the Narryer Terrane were dated to confirm Narryer regional metamorphism at ca. 2.6 Ga. The Acasta gneiss of northern Canada, arguably Earth’s oldest known cohesive rock outcrop (ca. 4.0 Ga), produced one of the Earth’s oldest known garnet ages. Garnet ages of ca. 2.95 Ga constrain the timing of Archean metamorphism and the data also indicate potential for preservation of even older garnet. Finally, a compilation of published garnet ages in the literature is presented to summarize the community’s progress in the search for Earth’s oldest garnet.
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The cognitive emotion theory
(Ortony, Clore, & Collins, 1988) attempts to specify emotions on the basis of different evaluative dimensions.
While Shields' perspective as a psychologist is an important reference point throughout, this text prioritizes the examination of the relationship between emotion theory
and gender studies above disciplinary orthodoxy.
In addition, the data were also examined to identify other, less obvious, relationships that may inform future research on associations between coping and appraisal components derived from emotion theory
Bandes recognizes that emotion theory
and research is immensely complex and that the role of emotions in behavior, including social judgments, is highly variable and context-dependent.
Observing that much interdisciplinary scholarship lacks an organized theoretical structure, Professor Little identifies the special challenges of laze and emotion studies resulting from disagreements within emotion theory
6) There are many other important contributions to emotion theory
in the book that build on other work by Elster in that area.
Of particular note is her use of examples, which are extraordinarily subtle and thoughtful--a quantum leap in sophistication beyond the usual "one-liners" of analytic emotion theory
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- In a serious gunfight, pretty much everybody dies.
- Don't join the army: It's a dumb idea.
- There is no such thing as too much.
- People set themselves up for failure by limiting the scope of their imagination.
- Attention is the most critical resource.
- Play the person, not the game.
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This book reviews ionising radiation quantities and the relationships between them and discusses the principles underlying their measurement. The emphasis is on the determination of absorbed dose and related dosimetric quantities.
Table of Contents
The radiation field. Interactions of ionising radiations with matter. Measurement of fluence, energy fluence and spectral distributions. Direct measurement of absorbed dose. Exposure and its measurement. The concept of kerma and its relationships. Determination of absorbed dose via exposure or air kerma. Determination of absorbed dose and exposure from cavity theory. Comparison of electron, photon and neutron dosimetry. The dosimetry of radionuclides. Methods of dosimetry. Dosimetry in radiation protection. Appendix - Physical quantities and units. References. Index.
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Conifers are an important component of Ukrainian forest ecosystems. Fusarium circinatum Nirenberg & O'Donnell is one of the invasive pathogens for conifers that have recently been introduced in Europe. It causes pine pitch canker (PPC) and may pose a serious threat to the ecological and economic sustainability of the forest ecosystem. Generally, up to 60 conifers have been reported to be vulnerable to the PPC. The disease is only established in the Iberian Peninsula, but other European countries including Ukraine are also at the risk of infection.
The aim of the research was to broaden the knowledge about a new potential invasive disease of pine species, as well as to test the pathogenicity of F. circinatum using germlings of Pinus sylvestris.
Material and Methods
All tests were carried out at the Research Centre of Quarantine, Invasive and Genetically Modified Organisms, Institute of Plant Protection – NRI (Poznan, Poland) using in vitro virulence test. For this, stratified seeds of P. sylvestris from Ukrainian ecological provenances were soaked and germinated on moistened, sterile filter paper within sterile Petri dishes and incubated at about 22°C. Fifteen-day pine seedlings were amended with a piece of fungal inoculums of Fusarium circinatum. Production of disease symptoms (root rot, damping-off, and no disease, respectively) was monitored and evaluated daily over 28 days. All seedlings were assessed for height growth, root parameters and dry weight as well as were checked for presence/absence F. circinatum using molecular methods and species specific primers. Survival analysis based on the nonparametric Kaplan–Meier estimator was performed with the “Survival” package to test the probability of mortality up to the end of the experiment.
The obtained results showed that the growth of pine germlings inoculated with Fusarium circinatum varied considerably, but in 28 days F. circinatum in this assay killed all the pine germlings. During the observation period, all inoculated germlings formed long necrotic lesions (8.4–8.7 mm) and showed typical symptoms as basal needle dieback and wilting. Moreover, F. circinatum strongly affected plant development, and the root growth resulted in 92.5–96.7 % of mortality on the 28th day.
Previous studies done in Europe, US and Asia have reported considerable differences between susceptibility of different pine species to F. circinatum indicating high or moderate level of virulence and aggressiveness of F. circinatum for seedlings and older plants. Our results are too preliminary; however, our study demonstrated that F. circinatum, if appeared in Ukraine, may become an important pathogen of P. sylvestris in nurseries within a short period. Moreover, the pine shoot beetle (Tomicus piniperda) and other bark beetles were indicated as potential vectors of the pathogen during maturation, feeding on the shoots of healthy pine trees. Since T. piniperda is one of the most common bark beetles in Ukraine, it will be able to increase the potential threat of the diseases pathogen spread within the country.
The results of the study indicate that Fusarium circinatum may become in future the most important pathogen causing damping-off of Ukrainian pine seedlings, and may pose a serious threat to the Ukrainian forestry in case it is introduced to the country.
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Caffeine gives you a jolt of energy, but sometimes that jolt can mirror the symptoms of anxiety: jittery nervousness, heart palpitations, even feelings of panic. That's your "fight or flight" response taking over. The less you take in, the less you trigger that response and the anxiety that comes with it.
Caffeine is a common choice for burning the midnight oil because it boosts alertness. So it makes sense that cutting it out makes for better ZZZs. In fact, if you throw back a caffeine drink even as many as 6 hours before bedtime, it can still bother your sleep.
Caffeine can act like a laxative. This makes you need to go more -- and more often than not, what comes out is loose stools. If you scale back on coffee especially, it can cut down on trips to the loo and take your output back to normal.
Although there aren't studies to back up a link between caffeine and breast pain, many women say they feel less soreness when they take it out of their diet.
Caffeine slows down the rate at which your body makes collagen. This is a protein that gives your skin its tightness and elasticity. Once it drops, your skin starts to sag, and wrinkles appear. You make it more slowly as you age. So if you get rid of caffeine, it can help keep that aging process from speeding up.
Just like drugs, caffeine alters the chemistry of your brain if you take it in regularly over time. You can become dependent on it, too, and need more and more after a while just to feel the effects.
Large amounts of caffeine keep your body from taking in vitamins and minerals as it should. In fact, if you take a multivitamin with your morning cup of coffee, the caffeine could keep you from getting the benefits.
Coffee, soda, and tea are three of the most common caffeine delivery vehicles. All can stain your teeth with their acidity and color. Their caffeine also dries out your mouth. Saliva is a prime defense against bacteria, so the less you have, the higher the risk of tooth decay.
Blood pressure spikes when you drink caffeine. Researchers think it might also keep your arteries from staying as wide as they should for healthy blood pressure. If you cut caffeine, you skip this blood pressure bump and potential complications along with it.
If caffeine is a big part of your daily diet, taking it away can have a host of unpleasant effects in the short term. These include headache, tiredness, sleepiness, down moods, trouble concentrating, and crankiness. You'll start to feel symptoms a day or two after you stop. They can last anywhere from 2 to 9 days.
A step-by-step approach is your best bet. To start, replace half of your morning cup of joe with decaf, for example. Switch out your caffeinated foods and drinks over time with caffeine-free options to help ease withdrawal symptoms.
Keep the water coming when you give up caffeine. That plus plenty of sleep can help you sidestep many of the worst withdrawal symptoms.
A regular dose of exercise gives you the serotonin boost your body craves so you can skip the chemical crutch. It will lift your mood and help you sleep better, too. Both can help you thrive through your withdrawal phase.
IMAGES PROVIDED BY:
- Journal of Psychopharmacology: "Caffeine consumption and self-assessed stress, anxiety, and depression in secondary school children."
- National Council on Strength and Fitness: "Caffeine Consumption Among Children and Adolescents."
- Sleep Medicine Reviews: "Caffeine: Sleep and daytime sleepiness."
- Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine: "Caffeine Effects on Sleep Taken 0, 3, or 6 Hours before Going to Bed."
- The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics: "Caffeine Withdrawal: A Parametric Analysis of Caffeine Dosing Conditions."
- European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology: "Is coffee a colonic stimulant?"
- Harvard Health: "Breast pain: Not just a premenopausal complaint."
- Drug Design, Development, and Therapy: "Influence of caffeine and hyaluronic acid on collagen biosynthesis in human skin fibroblasts."
- American Academy of Dermatology: "Caring for Your Skin in Menopause."
- Journal of Caffeine Research: "Caffeine Use Disorder: A Comprehensive Review and Research Agenda."
- Food Science and Quality Management: "Effects of caffeine on health and nutrition: A Review."
- American Dental Association: "Top 9 Foods That Damage Your Teeth," "Dry Mouth."
- Mayo Clinic: "Caffeine: How Does It Affect Blood Pressure?"
- StatPearls: "Caffeine, Withdrawal."
- Johns Hopkins Medicine: "Caffeine Withdrawal Recognized As A Disorder."
- American Psychological Association: "The exercise effect."
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Workout 8: Biceps & Triceps
This is just like doing a normal ‘skull crusher’, only you’re using dumbbells rather than an EZ bar or straight bar. With dumbbells, you sacrifice the amount of weight you can use because there’s less stability, but anytime there’s less stability, there’s more core strength involved, and the pressure on the muscle should be a little bit more dramatic.
- Get either a flat or incline bench ready, and lie on the bench holding two dumbbells. Raise your arms so they’re perpendicular to your body.
- Make sure your wrists are straight and your hand isn’t bending over your wrist towards your body. Using your triceps, only extend your elbows up towards the ceiling. Avoid allowing your upper arms to move back and forth from their position as you raise and lower the weight.
As you power the weight back up, stopjust short of full extension so that you're unable to rest in the top position, which keeps tension on the muscle throughout the range of motion.
- Keep your elbows in tight as much as possible and avoid elbow flare to ensure the triceps do the bulk of the work. Allowing your elbows to flare out reduces the triceps' workload.
- This is similar to the ordinary single arm tricep extension you’ve been doing, only here you’re extending across your body rather than straight down and back. The crossbody extension focuses on the lateral head while the ordinary tricep extension hits the long head in the back of the arm (although both exercises work the entire tricep!
- Lift a cable pulley all the way up and make sure there’s a single arm handle on it.
- Grab the handle, and stand horizontally in relation to the the cable like the picture above.
- Keeping your elbow in place and your wrist still, pull down and out until your tricep is completely flexed, hold for a moment, and slowly go back to the starting position.
- Switch sides when you’ve finished.
- Secure a rope attachment to the high pulley at its highest position. Stand in front of the pulley, hinge at your hips, and grab the rope with your palms facing each other.
- Keep your elbows close to your torso, while using your triceps to pull the rope downwards toward the outside of your thighs. At the most contracted point of the motion, your arms should be fully extended and perpendicular to the ground. Your forearms should be the only part moving.
- After reaching the contracted position, slowly bring the rope up to the starting point.
- Hold your body above the bars with your arms fully extended and nearly locked into the starting position.
- Inhale and slowly lower yourself downward. Your torso should remain upright and your elbows should stay close to your body to help to better work your triceps. Lower yourself until a 90° angle is created between your upper arms and forearms.
Exhale and push your torso back up using your triceps (feeling a slight stretch in your shoulders) to bring your body back to the starting position.
- To perform this movement, you will need a preacher bench and an EZ bar. Load your desired weight onto the bar and adjust the seat on the preacher bench so that your upper arms sit comfortably on the padding when you’re seated.
- Grab the EZ bar using an underhand grip with your palms facing upward. Lift the EZ bar to shoulder height.
- As you inhale, slowly lower the bar until your upper arms are extended and your biceps are fully stretched.
- As you exhale, curl the bar up until your biceps are fully contracted and the bar is at your shoulder height. Try to squeeze your biceps tightly and hold this position for a second if you can.
- Stand upright with your feet shoulder-width apart. Hold a dumbbell in each hand with your arms extended along your sides. Your elbows should be tucked in close to your torso and your palms should be facing your torso.
- Keep your upper arm stationary as you contract your biceps and curl the dumbbells directly upward. Continue to raise the dumbbells until your biceps are fully contracted and the dumbbell is at shoulder-level. Focus on only moving your forearm.
- After a brief pause, slowly begin to lower the dumbbells back down to the starting position.
- Sit at the end of a bench and place one dumbbell in front of you between your legs. Keep your legs spread apart, your knees bent, your back straight, and your feet on the ground.
- Use your right arm to pick up the dumbbell. Place the back of your arm against the inside of your same-sided thigh.
- Begin with the the palm of your hand facing away from your thigh. Keep your arm extended and the dumbbell slightly above the ground.
- Make sure that your upper arm remains stationary as you contract your biceps and curl the dumbbell toward your opposite-sided pec. Continue the movement until the dumbbell is at shoulder-level. Remember, only the forearms should move.
- Slowly begin to lower the dumbbell back to its starting position. Avoid swinging motions at all times.
- Perform all reps using the same arm, then repeat this movement with your other arm.
- To begin this exercise; position the bench in an incline degree. Similar to if you were performing an incline bench press movement. Also, place the barbell so that you are going to use just in front of the bench.
- Place yourself on top of the bench with your stomach and front torso pressing against. As you grip the barbell in front, ensure that both feet are firmly positioned against the floor allowing your body full stabilization and a firm base.
- Hold the bar with your palms facing the ceiling, and curl the bar upwards, making sure to keep your elbows still throughout the movement.
- Slowly release the bar back down.
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WHAT DOES VITAMIN “C” DO?🍊🌿
It strengthens and protects skin by neutralizing free radicals that can cause skin damage from UVA rays and environment.☀️
HOW DOES IT WORK?
It must be applied everyday to build deep within your cells to protect the skin overtime.💪🏼
WHAT SKIN TYPES SHOULD USE VITAMIN C?
All skin types can benefit from using this serum. Melasma, rosacea and forehead lines are one of the skin types to see the most dramatic results. Vitamin C is very active and lower percentages are suggested for acne prone skin.
WHY USE DERMAPLUS VITAMIN C?
Dermaplus Vitamin C serum is the freshest one you can buy. We don’t activate the L-Ascorbic acid powder until the day you purchase it, so it isn’t sitting on the shelf oxidizing. Most raw vitamin c products expire within 3 months. If they don’t- they may be buffered with other ingredients or have harsh preservatives.⚡️
🍊Our Vitamin C is pure and effective. It takes about 3 months to see results with any Vitamin c products so it must be applied daily under moisturizer.
This week we did the “Bad Apple Challenge” to test the true power of Vitamin C.
We applied Vitamin C to an apple slice to experiment with the effect! Because Vitamin C provides powerful antioxidant protection and protects against free radical damage, it will prevent the apple slice from oxidation and turning brown! The results are proof enough just how powerful Vitamin C is:
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A special lecture entitled " Quantum Machine Learning " by Seth Lloyd from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Quantum machine learning is an emerging interdisciplinary research area at the intersection of quantum physics and machine learning.
A special lecture entitled " Quantum Machine Learning " by Seth Lloyd from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Quantum machine learning is an emerging interdisciplinary research area at the intersection of quantum physics and machine learning. The most common use of the term refers to machine learning algorithms for the analysis of classical data executed on a quantum computer, i.e. quantum-enhanced machine learning. While machine learning algorithms are used to compute immense quantities of data, quantum machine learning increases such capabilities intelligently, by creating opportunities to conduct analysis on quantum states and systems. This includes hybrid methods that involve both classical and quantum processing, where computationally difficult subroutines are outsourced to a quantum device. These routines can be more complex in nature and executed faster with the assistance of quantum devices. Furthermore, quantum algorithms can be used to analyze quantum states instead of classical data. Beyond quantum computing, the term "quantum machine learning" is often associated with classical machine learning methods applied to data generated from quantum experiments (i.e. machine learning of quantum systems), such as learning quantum phase transitions or creating new quantum experiments. Quantum machine learning also extends to a branch of research that explores methodological and structural similarities between certain physical systems and learning systems, in particular neural networks. For example, some mathematical and numerical techniques from quantum physics are applicable to classical deep learning and vice versa. Finally, researchers investigate more abstract notions of learning theory with respect to quantum information, sometimes referred to as "quantum learning theory".
Most popular Data Science and Machine Learning courses — August 2020. This list was last updated in August 2020 — and will be updated regularly so as to keep it relevant
PyTorch for Deep Learning | Data Science | Machine Learning | Python. PyTorch is a library in Python which provides tools to build deep learning models. What python does for programming PyTorch does for deep learning. Python is a very flexible language for programming and just like python, the PyTorch library provides flexible tools for deep learning.
Data Augmentation is a technique in Deep Learning which helps in adding value to our base dataset by adding the gathered information from various sources to improve the quality of data of an organisation.
In this article, I clarify the various roles of the data scientist, and how data science compares and overlaps with related fields such as machine learning, deep learning, AI, statistics, IoT, operations research, and applied mathematics.
PyTorch is a library in Python which provides tools to build deep learning models. What python does for programming PyTorch does for deep learning.
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Design Pattern Detection is a part of many solutions to Software Engineering difficulties. The usage of design patterns leads to benefits for new and young developers by enabling them to reuse the knowledge of their experienced colleagues. Mining of design pattern instances is important for program understanding and software maintenance. Hence, a reliable design pattern mining is required. Here, the authors are using the relational view of subgraph isomorphism to detect design patterns in the source code.
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The supreme god of the Celtic pantheon appears to have been the Dagda. The name means the ‘Good God’, not good in a moral sense, but good at everything, or all-powerful. The Dagda is a father-figure, a protector of the tribe and the basic Celtic god of whom other male Celtic deities were variants. Celtic gods were largely unspecialised entities, and perhaps we should see them as a clan rather than as a formal pantheon. In a sense, all the Celtic gods and goddesses were like the Greek Apollo, who could never be described as the god of any one thing.
Because the particular character of Dagda is a figure of burlesque lampoonery in Irish mythology, some authors conclude that he was trusted to be benevolent enough (or ineffectual) to tolerate a joke at his expense.The supreme god of the Celtic pantheon appears to have been the Dagda.
Irish tales depict the Dagda as a figure of power, armed with a club and associated with a cauldron. In Dorset there is a famous outline of an ithyphallic giant known as the Cerne Abbas Giant with a club cut into the chalky soil. While this was probably produced in Roman times, it has long been thought that it represents the Dagda. This has been called into question by recent studies which show that there may have been a representation of what looks like a large drapery hanging from the horizontal arm of the figure, leading to suspicion that this figure actually represents Hercules(Herakles), with the skin of the Nemean Lion over his arm and carrying the club he used to kill it. In Gaul, it is speculated that the Dagda is associated with Sucellos, the striker, equipped with a hammer and cup.
In the Irish branch of Celtic mythology, the Dagda’s consort was known by various names. The most common of these was the Morrigan. Her name is pronounced in modern Irish as “More Ree-an”; in old Irish the ‘g’ was pronounced as a soft ‘gh’, like gamma in Greek. The name translates to ‘Great Queen’. Sometimes she is referred to in the plural as Morrigna, but she was also known variously as Nemhain (Panic), Macha, Anann, and Badhbh Catha (Scald-crow of Battles), among other names.
She was said to change into a crow or raven, also a horse, as well as she being an earth goddess, also soverignty, and a tutelary goddess – or goddess of the tribe. Macha has solar attributes, with her white horse, as a sun goddess. So, in essence, Morrigan is the “Queen of the Heavens” as well as Queen of the earth – so her powers extend to air and earth. Her battle aspect was discredited due to Victorian fallacy, as she is given the battle role for her reign over the battlefield giving the army of her favor aide, as well as military protection, and acting as the goddess of Soverignty, and not a battle goddess as so many Neopagans usually classify her. As well as her connections to the cauldron of rebirth, Daghda protects it, and it is said that those who partake of it never leave unsatisfied.
Belenus was a more regional deity, who was worshipped mostly in Northern Italy and the Gaulish Mediterranean coast. He was primarily a god of agriculture. A great festival called Beltane was associated with him.
The widespread diffusion of the god Lug (seemingly related to the mythological figure Lœgh in Irish) in Celtic religion is apparent from the number of place names in which his name appears, occurring across the Celtic world from Ireland to Gaul. The most famous of these are the cities of Lugdunum (the modern French city of Lyon) and Lugdunum Batavorum (the modern city of Leiden). Lug is described in the Celtic myths as a latecomer to the list of deities, and is usually described as having the appearance of a young man. His weapons were the throwing-spear and sling, and in Ireland a festival called the Lughnasa (Modern Irish lœnasa) was held in his honor.
The Celts also worshipped a number of deities of which we know little more than their names. Among these are the goddess Brigit (or Brigid), the Dagda’s daughter; nature goddesses like Tailtiu and Macha; and Epona, the horse goddess. Male gods included Cu Roi and Goibniu, the immortal brewer of beer.
Cernunnos (the Horned One) is evidently of great antiquity, but we know little about him. It is probably he who appears on the famous embossed silver bowl found in Gundestrup, Denmark which dates from the 1st or 2nd century BC. The Roman writer Lucan (1st century AD) mentions the gods Taranis, Teutates and Esus, but there is little Celtic evidence that these were important deities.
Some of these gods and goddesses may have been variants of each other; Epona the Gallo-Roman horse goddess, for instance, may well have developed into the goddesses Rhiannon, in Wales, and Macha, who was mostly worshipped in Ulster. Polytheistic peoples rarely care to keep their pantheons in the neat and tidy order in which scholars would like to find them.
Often it is said that the Celtic peoples built no temples, and worshipped only outside in groves of trees. Archaeology has long shown this is untrue, with various temple structures throughout the Celtic world being known. With the Roman conquest of parts of the Celtic world a distinct type of Celto-Roman temple called a fanum also was developed. This was distinguished from a Classical temple by having an ambulatory on all four sides of the central cella.
The early Celts considered some trees to be sacred. The importance of trees in Celtic religion is shown by the fact that the very name of the Eburonian tribe contains a reference to the yew tree, and that names like Mac Cuilinn (son of holly) and Mac Ibar (son of yew) appear in Irish myths.
Roman writers stated that the Celts practiced human sacrifice on a fairly large scale and there is peripheral support for this in Irish sources; however, most of this information is secondhand or hearsay. There are only very few recorded archaeological discoveries which substantiate the sacrificial process and thus most contemporary historians tend to regard human sacrifice as rare within Celtic cultures.
There was also a warrior cult that centered on the severed heads of their enemies. The Celts provided their dead with weapons and other accoutrements, which indicates that they believed in an afterlife. Before burial, they also severed the dead person’s head and shattered the skull, perhaps to prevent the ghost from wandering.
Priests from this class were in charge of a great deal of religious festivals, as well as organizing the calendar; a daunting task as the Celtic calendar is incredibly accurate, but required manual correction about every 40 years, meaning lengthy mathematic discourse.
There are many questions arising as to what calendrical practice was used by the Celtic people. Regarding this issue there are three primary schools of thought. These three theories all attempt to offer us a better understanding of the Celtic calendar. To use the term ‘Celtic calendar’ is somewhat inaccurate, as it were the Druids who were primarily concerned with calendar-keeping.
One of the most commonly accepted beliefs holds that the year was divided into thirteen months with an extra day or so the end of the year used to adjust the calendar. This theory states that the months correspond to the vowels of the Ogham or Celtic Tree Alphabet. For every of the months there was a designated tree. From this a ‘tree calendar’ wheel emerged
Most archaeologist and historians accept another calendar. This calender is represented by the surviving fragments of a great bronze plate, the Coligny Calendar, which originally measured 5 feet by 3-1/2 feet. This plate, found in eastern France, was engraved in the Gaulish language (similar to Welsh) in Roman-style letters and numerals. It depicts a system of time keeping by lunar months, showing 62 consecutive months with 2 extra months inserted to match the solar timetable. They appear to have worked with a 19-year time cycle that equaled 235 lunar months and had an error of only half a day.
The third school of thought is an amalgam of both of the others. The proponents of this last theory believe that the first calendar pre-dates the Coligny discovery.
It is from ancient writers such as Caesar that we learn that the Celts were to have counted by nights and not days and in reckoning birthdays and new moon and new year their unit of reckoning is the night followed by the day.
Ancient Celtic philosophy believed that existence arose from the interplay between darkness and light, night and day, cold and warmth, death and life, and that the passage of years was the alternation of dark periods (winter, beginning November 1) and light periods (summer, starting May 1).
The Druidic view was that the earth was in darkness at its beginning, that night preceded day and winter preceded summer a view in striking accord with the story of creation in Genesis and even with the Big Bang theory. Thus, Nov. 1 was New Year’s Day for the Celts, their year being divided into four major cycles. The onset of each cycle was observed with suitable rituals that included feasting and sacrifice. It was called The Festival of Samhain – linked with Halloween.
The Celts measured the Solar year on a wheel, circle or spiral, all of which symbolize creation and the constant movement of the universe Ð growth and development.
To the ancients, the heavens appeared to wheel overhead, turning on an axis which points to the north polar stars. At the crown of the axis, a circle of stars revolved about a fixed point, the Celestial Pole, which was believed to be the location of Heaven.
At the base of the axis was the Omphalos, the circular altar of the Goddess’ temple. The universe of stars turning on this axis formed a spiral path, or stairway, on which souls ascended to Heaven.
This Sunwise, clockwise, or deiseal (Gaelic), motion of the spirals represented the Summer Sun. The continuous spirals with seemingly no beginning or end signified that as one cycle ended another began Ð eternal life. The spiral’s never-ending, always expanding, motion also symbolized the ever- increasing nature of information and knowledge. Many of these symbols often also appeared in triplicate, a sign of the divine.
In addition, the seasons of the year were thought to be part of this cycle. In Gaelic, the names of the four seasons date back to pre-Christian times:
- 1. Earrach for “Spring”
2. Samhradh for “Summer”
3. Foghara for “Harvest” for Autumn
4. Geamhradh for “Winter”
Festivals – Law
The social structure of Iron Age Celtic society was highly developed. It was a tribal society that was bonded together by a complex system of laws and social customs. The established body of Law was known as ‘Fenechas’, the law of the Feine (Freemen), or more commonly, the Brehon Laws. This body served the People for centuries.
The most common body of Brehon Laws was codified in 438, by the order of Laighaire, a High King of Ireland. The proceedings by which this work was done by three Kings, three Brehona (Recitors of the Law), and three Christian missionaries. By this act Pagan Fil’ and Christian monks came together and worked out a set of laws that was workable for people of both religions. The body of that law has been transmitted to us in the volumes known as the Senchus Mor.
The body of Law known as Brehon Law, as contained in the Senchus Mor is a body of national law. However, national law was secondary to local law. Whether local or national it was the Brehons who acted as the recitors of the Law.
There has been some confusion about who acted as the judge. It was the nobility who acted as such. As stated the Brehons were the recitors of the Law. After the Brehon had recited the Law, only then could the King or Queen render a decision. This is why lore is replete with examples of the Kings or Queens Druid, actually the Ard-Fili, having the right to speak before the King.
If the Brehon, who was a member of the intellectual/skilled caste, recited the law incorrectly they were expected to forfeit their fee and pay damage costs. The Brehon laws were responsible for regulating how people interacted. Hospitality, etiquette and other things were set out in ways that left little room for doubt. The codes of behavior established in the Law was such that all members of a family had to adere to it.
Codes of behavior and levels of responsibility were laid down in the laws for each social group. The more responsibility a social group had, the more restrictions were placed on them. Status was determined by the ownership of cattle and a few other things. There was no concept of land ownership in early Celtic society. This stands in sharp contrast to the Roman and Anglo patterns.
Druids also carried out sacrifices of crops, animals, and during specific festivals, humans. In a Celtic society, people were not executed for crimes, except during these festivals. Such executions varied, depending on what god the execution was dedicated to. Among the most famous is the human sacrifices practiced in the course of Essus worship.
Essus was, more or less, a benevolent law god to many Celts, particularly Gauls. However, Essus worship also intoned a sense of merciless behavior toward repeated criminals, rapists, traitors, and other societal dregs. The offender, if found guilty, would be taken to the temple of Essus, where an oak would be growing through an opening in the temple roof. His stomach would be cut open, and he would be hung from an oak branch.
The Celts’ gods were often named after natural things. For example the source of rivers would often have their own goddesses, though rarely many gods. Another theme with Celt gods were triple deities; not only goddesses, but numerous gods. For example the Mothers of Britain, or Cromm Cruach’s slovenly, deific, and humanistic forms. The main deities of Celtic religion, contrary to much misconception, were usually male.
The world in some remaining myths is often depicted as having been forged by a god with a hammer, such as Dagda or Sucellos, who then poured all life from a magic cauldron or cup; a source of pre-Christian Holy Grail’ myths in Celtic societies.
While deities varied, several constant deities or demigods existed over a wide area. A great example is Lugos, a heroic sun god from Gaul and the southern, Gallic parts of Britain. He is also known as Lugh (in Ireland), Llew (in non-Gallic Britain), and Lug (among Celtiberians, who were not culturally true Celts). Early depictions of him exist as early as the Hallstatt era, suggesting him as one of the longest existing gods of Celtic religion.
Similar is the horse and fertility goddess, Epona, who was also worshipped by the Romans when they came to rule Gaul. She also seems to have existed from the early era. Finally, there is Sucellos, who is argued by some to have been the ‘creator of the universe’ in some Celtic religions. He is party to Dagda of Ireland, and was worshipped over an enormous area, including by non-Celtic peoples such as the Lusitani.
He was the patron god of the Ordovices tribe of Britain, and was built up by the Arverni and their allies to replace the druidic god Cernunnos, as the Gallic druids were allies of their enemies in the rule for Gaul; the Aedui. Other religious practices also existed; Celts seem to have universally removed body hair.
Some postulate this as religious, but was more realistically part of the Celtic propensity for cleanliness. Body hair kept dirt close to the body, and Celts were an extremely cleanly people, so this was unacceptable. However, Celts also took heads from dead enemies. This was definitely a religious practice in origin.
However, even post-Christian Gaels continued this practice into the middle ages; some Irish even took to scalping the heads that they took, so they could braid the scalp through rings on their weapons. The religious connotations by that point were slim, but it does imply that taking heads had incredible cultural importance to have persisted so long after the religious background had been removed.
Celts believed the soul resided in the head, and that capturing a head meant that one captured the soul of an opponent, and that when a Celt died, the dead whom he had collected would serve him as slaves for eternity.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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The Bamboula is the representation of a dancing black person from 1901.
Martin article number 179
The height of this figure is 20 cm (7,8 inch), after winding his body waggles from left to right and his arms moving up and down.
This “Bamboula” dance form dates back a long time
The first figure is produced by George Flersheim and the other one by Fernand Martin, recognizable by the shape of the keys
A peace of history:
The bamboula, from the Bantulanguages of central and southern Africa, is derived from kam-bumbuluand ba m’bula, meaning a drum fashioned from a section of giant bamboo with skin stretched over it, as well as the rhythmic danceaccompanied by music from these drums.
Originally from Africa and although today is said to be related to the African Bomba from Puerto Rico.
The bamboula shape appears in a Haitian song in 1757 and made its way to New Orleans even before the 1791 slave revolt.
The bamboula became a dance performed to the beat of the drums, usually during festivals, celebrations and ceremonies.
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was a slave revolt in the then French colony of Saint-Domingue and led to the free black republic of Haiti.
At the beginning of the revolution, thousands of Haitian immigrants included many free people of color, whites, and enslaved Africans had fled the colony and a large number of them settled in Louisiana and set up new plantations there. In 1803, Napoleon authorized the “Louisiana Purchase”, leaving a huge area west of the Mississippi in the hands of the United States.
The enslaved Africans gathered during festivals, celebrations and ceremonies in New Orleans at the Congo-Square on the edge of the French Quarter area to dance the bamboula together.
The American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, born in New Orleans composed in 1848 a piece for Piano entitled Bamboula “Danse des Negres”.
Sources: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and tanks to “Period Paper” that I may use the picture from 1895 print.
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A fake Pusher server for development and testing.
- pusher-fake-example - An example of using pusher-fake with Cucumber to test a Rails application.
Fully recreate the Pusher API service for development and testing.
- Using a remote API for testing is slow.
- Working offline is currently impossible.
- Wasting connections and messages in development is unreasonable.
pusher-fake uses the MIT license. See LICENSE for more details.
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Definition of mouldering
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No direct anagrams for mouldering found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after mouldering (in bold), or to degilmnoru in any order:
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Hikvision Network Column Speaker 30W is a cutting-edge audio solution that seamlessly integrates with CCTV camera systems, providing enhanced audio capabilities for comprehensive security applications. With high-speed industrial-grade dual-core chips and dual storage backup, this speaker for CCTV camera ensures stable and reliable system performance. In this article, we delve into the Hikvision Network Column Speaker 30W technology highlights, focusing on its robust system performance, network security features, and advanced audio functionalities.
Robust System Performance: Industrial-Grade Components for Reliability
The Hikvision Network Column Speaker 30W is powered by high-speed industrial-grade dual-core chips, which provide the necessary processing power for seamless audio integration with CCTV camera systems. Additionally, with built-in NOR Flash+EMMC dual storage and support for dual system backup, this speaker for CCTV camera ensures stable and reliable performance even in demanding environments. This robust system architecture guarantees uninterrupted audio output, allowing users to rely on the speaker for critical announcements and alerts.
Network Security Features: Protecting System Integrity
Hikvision understands the importance of network security in audio systems. The Network Column Speaker 30W supports secure startup, user login locking mechanisms, and password complexity prompts, enhancing system security. Furthermore, it incorporates a security audit log traceability feature, allowing administrators to monitor and track system activities for improved network security. These measures ensure that the speaker for CCTV camera remains protected against unauthorized access, safeguarding the overall integrity of the CCTV camera system.
Hikvision Network Column Speaker 30W elevates the audio capabilities of CCTV camera systems, providing a powerful and reliable audio solution for comprehensive security applications. The speaker’s high-speed industrial-grade dual-core chips and dual storage backup ensure stable and dependable system performance. Including network security features, such as secure startup, user login locking mechanisms, and password complexity prompts, adds an extra layer of protection to the system. Hikvision continues to innovate in the industry, delivering cutting-edge technologies that enhance the effectiveness and functionality of CCTV camera systems, providing users with comprehensive security solutions.
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By Rafael Yanushevsky
Книга glossy Missile information sleek Missile GuidanceКниги Наука. Техника Автор: Rafael Yanushevsky Год издания: 2007 Формат: pdf Издат.:CRC Страниц: 240 Размер: 2,7 ISBN: 1420062263 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: zero) Оценка:Written by way of a professional with greater than 30 years of expertise, smooth Missile information comprises new analytical effects, received via the writer, that may be used for research and layout of missile suggestions and keep watch over structures. This e-book covers not only new tools neither is it in simple terms a compilation of older tools, even though it contains either. The publication discusses, in a logical development, with its transparent elucidation of the information legislation, the complete box from missile dynamics to modeling and checking out missile information and keep watch over platforms. not like present books that debate extremely simple and infrequently unrealistic information process types, this publication provides missile information types that describe extra exactly the dynamics of the missile flight keep an eye on approach, making analytical effects more beneficial in perform. The research of missile assistance procedure types within the time-domain and within the frequency-domain permits the new release of alternative advice legislation that complement one another. Taking smooth, rigorous process that ends up in enhanced functionality in missile counsel functions, the e-book examines new assistance legislation, and corresponding algorithms for producing and trying out those legislation, and contains potent new software program courses constructed through the writer. the writer presents an leading edge presentation of the theoretical features of contemporary missile suggestions that rather probably can't be present in the other publication. It delineates new principles that, as soon as crystallized, will considerably enhance missile structures functionality.
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It will be used to determine the miss distance for a wide class of target maneuvers. 3 FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS First we consider the fourth-order flight control system, which is widely used in the initial stage of analysis and design. Then the obtained expressions will be generalized for the n-th order system. 34 Modern Missile Guidance Miss y(tF) Target Maneuver .. aT = yT – 1 S2 . λ λ 1 vcl t go y S G1(s) Seeker Dynamics Nvcl G2(s) .. 6 Missile guidance model. 6. Here, missile acceleration aM is subtracted from target acceleration aT , and the result is integrated to obtain the relative separation between a missile and target y, which at the end of flight tF is the miss distance y(tF).
The more rigorous formulation of the problem of nullifying the LOS rate was given earlier in this chapter, where PN was presented as a control problem. Commanded acceleration was considered as a control and the LOS and its derivative were chosen as the state variables. In a different way the PN guidance law was considered as a control action in Reference . The 1960s were marked by significant results in optimal control theory. It was shown that linear controls are optimal in the case of systems characterized by linear differential equations and a 18 Modern Missile Guidance quadratic functional as their performance index .
The goal of guidance is to reduce the miss distance to the smallest feasible amount. Target maneuvering plays a major role in determining missile system performance. The miss distance due to a step target maneuver is the miss step response, similar to the well-known time-domain characteristic in control theory. Below we obtain analytical expressions of miss distance for simple models of PN guidance systems. Unfortunately, in the time domain the closed-form solutions cannot be obtained for high-order models realistically reflecting autopilot and airframe dynamics.
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As the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men, prostate cancer is a concern for all men. Regular screening that begins around the age of 50 is a critical tool for tackling this disease before it has a chance to become lethal. Sometimes, however, the disease isn’t recognized until development is well under way. When this is the case, it’s important for men to understand the signs and symptoms of the disease so they can seek out necessary treatment.
Some of the more common signs of prostate cancer include:
- Problems related to urination – When men have problems passing urine, such as weak or slow streams, an issue with the prostate might be present. There are other causes so this shouldn’t be a panic point, but it should be investigated.
- Blood in the urine – This is also a sign of other potential problems aside from prostate cancer. Blood in the urine, however, can indicate serious conditions, so it is vital to get checked out immediately if this symptom arises.
- Erectile dysfunction – Again, there are many causes for this, but it’s a symptom that can be especially troubling for men. Getting it checked out and treated is important.
- Pain – When pain is present in the hips, chest or spine, it could indicate that cancer has spread from an origination point to the bones.
- Bladder control issues – These may also be related to prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is a serious disease, but it has a serious survival rate for those who are able to have it detected and treated early. To prevent complications from its related symptoms, it’s important to seek medical assistance if any of the signs crop up. It’s also important to undergo regular screening beginning around the age of 50 to ensure that if prostate cancer does form, it’s treated as quickly as possible.
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So "Fancy" Diamond Colors Are a Real Thing—Here's Why They're So Rare
Photo:Sophie Elgort Courtesy of Forevermark
When you think of a diamond, you think of a crystal-clear sparkly rock. Considering the fact that clarity is one of the main factors in determining a diamond’s value, settling for anything less than a perfectly colorless stone seems unusual. That is, of course, unless you’re buying a "fancy diamond." Believe it or not, fancy-colored diamonds are what you call any diamond that falls outside of the normal color range of light yellow to light brown. All diamonds are graded on a color scale ranging from D to Z. Within this range, as the color of a diamond becomes more obvious, it decreases in value, but the exact opposite happens when dealing with fancy diamonds—the more vibrant the color, the better. Any color that falls outside of the Z range is considered "fancy" and is treated as such.
The fancy diamond colors you are probably accustomed to are yellow, pink, and black, but it’s the rarer ones like red, purple, and green that we are excited to share with you today. Colored diamonds are still diamonds in composition, but they are slightly defected, if you will. Each color is the result of a different atomic deformation causing a unique color in each individual stone. Since these deformations are not the norm, fancy diamonds have become extremely rare and sought-after, usually racking up a very steep price point.
Ahead, read up on exactly what causes each fancy diamond color, and shop some stunning colored-diamond jewelry along the way.
Red diamonds are the rarest and most valuable diamond color on the market. They are caused by a deformation in the diamond crystal lattice called plastic deformation. Once the lattice gets twisted, a sort of bruise is formed. When light passes through this deformation, red wavelengths of light are transmitted, which is what we see with the naked eye.
According to my research, there still is not a ton of evidence as to exactly how purple diamonds are formed, but what we do know is that most of the time, hydrogen was found within the center of the stone, along with plastic deformation. Purple diamonds are the second-rarest color after red.
Orange diamonds are formed via the presence of nitrogen in the diamond and its formation of those nitrogen atoms within the stone. That formation absorbs blue and yellow light, resulting in the transmission of the orange hue we see.
Yellow diamonds are the second-most-common diamond color next to brown diamonds. This color is formed by the substitution of nitrogen atoms for carbon in the diamond’s crystal lattice. Similar to orange diamonds, this causes a slight absorption of blue light which is transmitted as yellow.
Pink diamonds are formed in essentially the same way as red diamonds, through plastic deformation in the diamond due to stress within the Earth. When light passes through the stone and creates a red diamond, that means the light transmission is really strong. This is extremely rare. Normally, the light transmission is rather weak, causing the diamond to look pink.
Green diamonds are primarily caused by exposure to radiation. When that radiation comes into contact with the diamond, once again, the crystal lattice becomes deformed, knocking carbon atoms out of place. Unlike pink or red diamonds, this causes the stone to absorb the reddish light and instead, transmit green hues.
By now, you've hopefully caught on to the fact that a rare diamond color is usually formed by any alteration in the crystal lattice of the stone. Blue diamonds are no exception. This time, when boron atoms (or even a boron atom) works its way into the crystal lattice and replaces one of the carbon atoms, it causes a visible blue hue. Red light is absorbed, and cool tones like blue are transmitted.
Brown diamonds are the least rare of the "fancy" colors and are formed via—you guessed it—plastic deformation, which is when carbon atoms are displaced within the diamond's atomic structure. Most diamonds colors fall within the yellow-to-brown range, but when you get one as vibrant as the below, the value naturally increases.
Black diamonds are formed by large amounts of mineral inclusions, which minimizes the amount of light that is able to pass through the stone. In case you forgot, Carrie Bradshaw's engagement ring was a black diamond. When she asked Big why he chose that stone, he replied with "because you're not like anyone else." If that doesn't make you want a black diamond, I don't know what will.
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This is an exercise I made for my advanced adult class, to improve their conversation and consolidate identifying and using the correct tense when continuing or replying to a phrase. For example, "I wanted to come but I couldn't".There are 15 sentences and they have to fill in the missing words. It uses advanced British English but could be simplified by changing the vocabulary and tenses. The answers are at the bottom so you can cut them off before giving out the sheet, or you can make it easier again by jumbling the answers up and having the students match them to the sentences. I hope you find it useful.
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5 Pointers from the Pros
Sometimes being an event planner is a bit like being a doctor. Once people find out what you do for a living they immediately say, “let me ask you something…” insert event question. While we are not diagnosing the general population’s ailments, we are helping people of all sorts avoid mishaps and pitfalls BEFORE they occur one event at a time.
Here are some novice mistakes and pointers from a planner’s perspective:
- Always, always, always order more than you need if possible. This goes for food and beverage, chairs, linens, graphic design materials, etc. Keep it to inexpensive items-there’s no need to hire an extra band! But, people spill, items get lost and things get damaged. Anything you can do to give yourself a little wiggle room will result in a better event.
- Don’t forget the spouses and significant others for social events! When creating your guest list remember to include spouses or guests of those people you are inviting. It’s polite to allow guests to bring a date so they do not have to attend alone.
- A second pair of eyes never hurts. Even the most seasoned editor misses things once in a while. Ask a colleague or friend to review a plan, strategy or printed piece before finalizing it and they may notice something you did not.
- Think ahead. Keep a list of phone numbers handy. Map out a plan B and discuss worst case scenarios so you are prepared if and when things don’t go as planned.
- Be flexible. Try to be open minded with your vendors and they will do the same in return. The result will be a team effort that shines through on event day.
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One of the first things many of us look at when buying a new phone is battery life. A low battery notification sends us into a panic. Losing your charger is a disaster. So, imagine a phone that would run without a battery. It seems like a crazy idea but it is actually being developed in a lab at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Vamsi Talla is a research associate who has been working on a prototype cell phone at the lab of Joshua Smith, a computer science and electrical engineering at UW. The aim is the develop a phone that can still make calls and texts, even when the battery runs out. To do so, a re-think of how phones operate was required and the phone would need to rely on energy that came from sources in the environment rather than the battery.
Solar panels or photodiodes can turn light into electricity and an antenna can convert radio-frequency TV and Wi-Fi broadcasts into energy. Those two sources can generate a small number of microwatts, which is nowhere near enough the 800 milliwatts required to make a simple call.
The lab had to firstly develop a technique called backscatter to communicate by reflecting incoming radio waves. Collecting enough power to convert human speech into a digital signal is problematic and analogue technology is more power-efficient. The phone can use a digital signal to dial numbers but using backscatter for voice calls means it is utilising analogue technology.
The phone with no battery is still a long way off. It has a touch-sensitive number pad and a tiny red LED. To operate as a touchscreen phone it would need over 100,000 times as much as Talla’s phone needs. It functions more like a walky-talky than a phone, with buttons being pressed in order to talk to the caller and a lot of static. They’re working on a next generation device with an E-Ink display and possibly a camera.
To read more about this, visit the story’s page on Wired.
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With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence.
From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment.
Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the 'note of doom' which runs like 'a purple thread' through its carefully crafted prose.
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As 3D artists, we are dealing with pure electrical energy. But that is the key, Energy. According to Physics, Energy is the ability to perform work. According to Spirituality -- Energy is the key to everything. Everything is energy -- a quantum wave of unimaginable possibilities.
Human beings here on Earth (and other intelligent, thinking beings elsewhere in the Universe) all possess Intelligence. They vibrate at certain frequencies and can change their vibrations at will. When a human being dies, his or her consciousness jumps to a higher energy level, while their body becomes an organic sculpture that is readily decomposed. Element are things that can be changed. To put it simply, Intelligence are things that Act, and Element are things that are acted upon. Basically, humans have the ability to collapse the Quantum Wave in an infinite number of patterns -- there is nothing a human being cannot do, cannot have, and cannot be. They can do it Consciously (and become the thing that Athiests don't believe in), or they can do it Unconsciously (and become the thing that Athiests believe in). Everything is in waves, we just change the unobserved into the observable.
Energy is infinite in the Universe, it's all around us, waiting to be used. Computer 3D Artists sculpt energy into what they want to do with it. That's all they do.
So, I don't know why there is division among 3D Artists. All 3D Artists work in the EXACT same medium and they use the EXACT same creation process. Thought -> Visualization -> Emotion -> Action -> Manifest. Some 3D Artists have a quicker workflow: their workflow from thought to Manifestation is in minutes to hours (they use models purchased from stores like DAZ 3D and Renderosity). Other 3D Artists have a slower workflow (they do everything from scratch up and work in Maya, 3D Studio, Mudbox, ZBrush, and Cinema4D). Their workflow from thought to Manifestation is in days (measured in months and years).
Other artists use Energy as their primary medium, but they also work with matter. Sculptors of Marble just take away the excess stone. Clay sculptors just shape and mold clay. Painters brush oils, acrylics, and watercolors on paper or canvas. People who make bronze statues just need to pour the molten bronze into molds. People who draw take pencil to paper, and on down the line. Computer 3D Artists work in absolute pure Energy. As long as there are electrons, and electricity (which is energy), we can create anything and have it with Artistic value.
Energy is the ultimate plastic medium. It can take any shape, any color, any shade, any value. Matter, which is spent energy, has to be coaxed to be molded. Energy can be readily molded, shaped, sculpted, cut, formed, kneaded, cooked, baked, rendered, and whatever else to take the shape you need it to be.
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Returning to Hazelwood's Core: A New Approach to Restrictions on School-Sponsored Speech
Emily Gold Waldman
Pace University - School of Law
Florida Law Review, Forthcoming
This article analyzes two major circuit splits that have developed in the wake of Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988). In Hazelwood, the Supreme Court upheld a high school principal's censorship of a student newspaper produced in a journalism class, holding that school restrictions of student speech in school-sponsored settings are permissible as long as the restrictions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns. Since then, Hazelwood has been invoked not only in a broad range of student speech contexts, but also in cases involving teachers' classroom speech, curricular and textbook selections, and the speech of outside entities in the school setting. The circuits, in turn, have divided over (1) how broadly Hazelwood should extend and (2) whether Hazelwood permits viewpoint-based speech restrictions, which are generally prohibited under the First Amendment.
Each of these splits has generated much discussion by courts and commentators. But the two splits are rarely considered in tandem. In this article, I argue that the two circuit splits are actually connected in a crucial way: Hazelwood's over-extension has unnecessarily muddled the viewpoint discrimination question. After tracing the two evolving circuit splits and the relationship between them, I discuss why Hazelwood is uniquely suited to student speech cases, and why other existing legal frameworks are better equipped to handle the remaining school speech categories to which Hazelwood has been applied. I further argue that returning to Hazelwood's origins as a student speech case helps to clarify the viewpoint discrimination issue. In this vein, I propose a new sliding-scale framework for evaluating schools' viewpoint-based restrictions of student speech.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 79
Keywords: student speech, Hazelwood, education law
Date posted: September 11, 2007
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The school has adopted Norfolk’s Policy on equal opportunities that ensures all children have access to a broad and balanced curriculum.
Nursery (FS1) and Reception (FS2) children follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum which identifies Early Learning Goals. Children will work towards achieving these goals by the end of their Reception year. The children progress towards these goals by way of a series of developmental phases, and planned learning opportunities are linked to these steps.
Play is a powerful medium for learning and forms a sound basis for later teaching and learning. Through this play based curriculum, your child will have the opportunity to develop and use intellectual, communication, social, and physical skills.
The children will have a balance between teacher directed and child initiated activities during each session. All children will be encouraged to share in all activities, and these will be tailored to suit individual needs.The children will also be given an opportunity to take part in a variety of outdoor activities on a daily basis.
The learning for Foundation Stage children is divided into seven areas, 3 prime areas and 4 specific areas.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)
The children are encouraged to establish and develop effective relationships with children and adults, to take turns and share, to develop confidence and independence, to be sensitive to the needs and feelings of others, to treat living things, property and the environment with care and concern, to express their feelings and behave in an appropriate way, and to show respect for people of other cultures and beliefs.
Childrenwill be provided with opportunities to talk and communicate in a wide range of situations. They will be encouraged topractice, extend and enrich their range of vocabulary and the communication skills they have. The children will be supported to develop their listening skills.
Physical Development (PD)
Children will be able to improve their fine manipulative and co-ordination skills by using a range of equipment, materials, and tools which encourage careful control. They will practice running, jumping, climbing, balancing, and using large and small apparatus, which will encourage them to move confidently with increasing control and awareness of space and safety.Children will begin to understand how their bodies work and what they need to do to be healthy and safe.
Children will be encouraged to use, share and enjoy books and to join in with poems and rhymes. They are taught to write and draw with increasing control, and learn to recognise and write letters, words and symbols, and to write their own names. FS1 and FS2 children are taught sound recognition through Read, Write Inc. This is continued and extended as the children enter Key Stage 1.
Children will be helped and encouraged to develop their understanding of number, measurement, pattern, shape and space and use the mathematical language that goes with this. They will experience a wide range of activities and opportunities for children to explore, enjoy, learn, practice and talk about these concepts.
Children will be encouraged to talk about where they live, their environment, their families, and about past and present events in their own lives. They will look closely at similarities and differences in natural and man-made things, and will observe, ask questions and suggest explanations for what they see. They will learn to choose materials and use tools appropriately to make things, and will develop basic ICT skills, using computers, interactive whiteboards, programs and programmable toys linked to the curriculum.
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD)
Children will be given opportunities to represent their ideas by drawing, painting, and using a wide range of material. They will explore colour, shape, texture, form, and space. They will listen to, and make music, and will be encouraged to use their imagination when playing and exploring.
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A child’s normal body temperature is about 98.6 degrees F, but can also be as low as 97 degrees or as high as 99 degrees. Although core body temps for adults and kids are the same, kids generally spike higher fevers. In addition, temperature can fluctuate throughout the day; higher readings are typical in the late afternoon and early evening, then the body temperature dips at bedtime and reaches its lowest point between midnight and early morning. A child has a fever when her body temperature rises to 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C) or higher.
Some children will tolerate a low-grade fever (under 102 F) well, remaining active and eating and sleeping normally. More typically, however, fevers cause discomfort and your child will act sick. He may be sweating, shivering, develop a headache and muscle aches, lose his appetite, and become irritable. Feverish babies may fuss more, or seem lethargic. Older children may not be as active or talkative. Depending on the cause of the fever, your child may also have an earache, sore throat, diarrhea, or feel nauseous. Feverish children may also become dehydrated easily and their heart rates and breathing may speed up (i.e. the body uses more energy and loses more fluid).
Rarely, a child with a fever will develop more serious symptoms that require immediate medical attention. These symptoms include:
Neck and back stiffness
If your feverish child is over age 2, check to see if she can bend her head downward so that her chin touches her chest, or if she can bend over and touch her toes. If she cannot, it could be a sign of bacterial meningitis, a serious, life-threatening inflammation of the meninges, the membranes (lining) that enclose the brain and spinal cord. The stiff neck and fever may also be accompanied by a severe headache, vomiting, extreme sleepiness. In babies and children under 2, the classic symptoms are difficult to detect. These children may become very irritable or sleepy, feed poorly, and vomit. As the illness worsens, seizures can occur at any age. Bacterial meningitis is rare now, thanks to the widespread use of the Hib vaccine, but it is serious and can do a lot of damage in a very short time, so all parents should be aware of the symptoms. (Viral meningitis is more common but not nearly as serious.)
Whenever a child has a fever you should keep an eye out for rashes. A variety of different rashes may accompany a fever and are relatively harmless, but one that may be more serious: petechiae, which are tiny bright red spots that do not fade (blanch) when you press on them. These rashes result when blood is leaked into the skin. While this rash mostly occurs as a result of excessive coughing or vomiting, it may, rarely, be a sign of more serious illnesses like meningitis or sepsis, which is an infection in the bloodstream, and requires prompt medical attention.
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See-Cure technology addresses the two most-often asked questions about light-curing products: How do I know I've dispensed enough adhesive? and How do I know when it is cured? Adhesives that are formulated with the See-Cure technology are bright blue in color in the uncured condition. This makes them easy to see on the surface of substrates, in deep wells, or when sandwiched between two layers of materials. The blue-colored See-Cure adhesives will not permanently stain the component surfaces that they contact. Because the blue color is extremely visible, simple vision systems can be incorporated into assembly processes prior to curing in order to easily identify adhesive coverage and profile. Then, the adhesive’s blue color becomes the visible indicator that identifies when sufficient light energy has been provided to the adhesive bond area to achieve full cure. As the adhesive cures, the blue color within the adhesive fades and ultimately turns clear upon full cure.
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Aside from skin, breast cancer is among the most notorious forms of cancer in women. According to Breastcancer.org, in the United States, roughly 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. With so many diagnoses, it’s important to remain proactive in checking for signs of breast cancer, as early detection can result in easier treatment. Here’s the “need-to-knows” of breast cancer screenings to ensure you stay on top of your health.
Though it’s important for every woman to consider breast screenings, some women may be more susceptible to the disease than others and need to take even greater precautions.
- Family History- While having a family history of breast or ovarian cancer does not mean you will automatically be diagnosed with breast cancer, having a history of cancer puts you at higher risk than the average woman. Your doctor can determine your level of risk and offer regular screenings to check for early signs.
- Age- Women who are older than 50 are at higher risk for breast cancer than younger women. According to The Telegraph, 81% of breast cancers occur in women 50 years of age and older, and the risk increases along with their age. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, or USPSTF, recommends that women between the ages of 50 and 74 seek mammograms every other year. Women between the ages of 40 and 49 should speak to their doctors to determine when they should plan to begin regular mammograms and how often they should receive the screenings.
While screenings cannot prevent breast cancer, they can detect early signs when cancer is easier to treat. If you want to get screened, your doctor will be able to help you schedule an appointment.
- Mammogram- Mammograms are breast X-rays that take two pictures of each breast. These screenings are recommended to take place regularly, as they are able to detect early signs of cancer. Currently, mammograms are the most common type of screening and the best way to detect breast cancer early.
- Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT)- DBT is another type of mammogram. Instead of a 2-D X-ray result, DBTs use a rotating X-ray arm to produce 3-D images of the breast.
- Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)- MRIs use magnets and radio waves to capture images of the breast. Often used in conjunction with mammograms, MRIs are used to screen high-risk women.
- Ultrasounds- Ultrasounds use sound waves to produce images of the breast tissue. They are often used in conjunction with mammograms as well.
Many women who see doctors annually are given clinical breast exams. During these exams, doctors search for lumps or changes in the breast with their hands. In addition to clinical breast exams, women can conduct self-exams to check for lumps or inconsistencies between doctor visits and screening appointments. While these exams can indicate concerning symptoms, they should not replace regular clinical or hospital screenings.
For more resources regarding breast cancer diagnoses and screenings, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, which provides comprehensive guides and charts.
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The award was given to Metzger for her presentation, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Life, Love, and Racism in America." Metzger presented the work alongside her husband at the 2020 SECAC Conference on the panel All in the Family: On Raising Kids Together as Artists in Academia.
As a 2020 SECAC EDI award recipient, my dedication to inspire the next generation of “underrepresented individuals in higher education and arts institutions,” will not go unnoticed. SECAC’s dedication to ensuring an equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment intersects substantially with my personal practice of using the arts to create positive change within. My participation in the 2020 SECAC Conference with my presentation, "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Life, Love, and Racism in America," furthers SECAC goals to recognize the exceptional work of those who are historically underrepresented. As a socially engaged artist, my research interests revolve around the transformative power of art and its ability to create new experiences, rebirth, and reignite the spirit of underserved communities.
Having studied at two historically Black colleges and universities and one private, traditionally white institution, my unique educational background and experience have provided me with a strong foundation built on compassion and acceptance. My commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence in higher education stems from my present and past experiences as a Black female student. Experiences of microaggressions and discrimination are commonplace for Black students in majority white institutions. The lack of inclusivity within these spaces is a source of inequity and a driving force in my quest to find solutions that will bridge gaps between communities.The 2020 SECAC EDI award makes room for me to continue incorporating social justice practices in my curriculum by exposing my colleagues and students to diverse, inclusive, and equitable environments. -Rikiesha Metzger, Cohort ’19
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Pupils have Transform lessons in Year 7 and Year 8 of Perins. During this time our aim is to develop their ‘soft skills’ and give them tools to use for life. We base our projects around the development of six key skills needed for life-long learning. These skills are judged against a grid which splits the development up into Basic, Better and Best.
- Effective Participation
- Creative Thinking
- Independent Enquiry
- Reflective Learning
- Team Work
- Self Management
Two projects are carried out per half term and each project has two key skills linked to it so that each key skill is visited twice during the course of the year.
Year 7 Example Projects
- 7Billion Ideas– Invention project
- Human Rights- public speaking project
- Connect with Respect- Cyber-bullying project
- First Aid Certificate
- Include me- Disability awareness
- Youth Justice- Felton Prison
Year 8 Example Projects
- Sensational Science
- Discover Arts Award – National Award credited by Trinity College London.
- Career Project – CV & interview project
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Select an available sequence database from this menu.
Select an available version of the sequence database from this menu.
Select an available tissue/cell-specificity from this menu.
Selecting this option will filter the sequence menu to only contain databases that have additional information that is specific to a tissue or cell line.
This option causes MEME Suite to use tissue/cell-specific information (typically from DNase I or histone modification ChIP-seq data) encoded as a position specific prior that has been created by the MEME Suite create-priors utility. You can see a description of the sequence databases for which we provide tissue/cell-specific priors here.
Note that you cannot upload or type in your own sequences when tissue/cell-specific scanning is selected.
Enter text naming or describing this analysis. The job description will be included in the notification email you receive and in the job output.
You provide one set of sequences and MEME discovers motifs enriched in this set. Enrichment is measured relative to a (higher order) random model based on frequencies of the letters in your sequences, or relative to the frequencies given in a "Custom background model" that you may provide (see Advanced options).
You provide two sets of sequences and MEME discovers motifs that
are enriched in the first (primary) set relative to the second (control) set.
In Discriminative mode, we first calculate a
from the two sets of sequences.
MEME then searches the first set of sequences for motifs using the
position-specific prior to inform the search. This approach is based on the
simple discriminative prior "D" described in Section 3.5 of
Narlikar et al.
We modify their approach to search for the "best" initial motif width, and
to handle protein sequences using
Refer to the psp-gen documentation and to our paper for more details.
You provide two sets of sequences and MEME discovers motifs that are enriched in the first (primary) set relative to the second (control) set. In Differential Enrichment mode, MEME optimizes an objective function based on the hypergeometric distribution to determine the relative enrichment of sites in the primary sequences compared to the control sequences.
Position-specific priors (PSPs) assign a probability that a motif starts at each possible location in your sequence data. MEME uses PSPs to guide its search, biasing the search towards sites that have higher values in the PSP. MEME creates a PSP when you use it in "Discriminative mode", up-weighting words in the primary dataset that occur frequently there but are infrequent in the negative dataset.
Spaced triples are sub-sequences in which only the first and last letter (residue or amino acid for protein) and one interior letter are used in matches. For example, the subsequence MTFEKI contains the following triples:
MT...I M.F..I M..E.I M...KIwhere "." matches anything. We use spaced triples for protein because the probability of exact matches is much lower than for DNA due to the much larger amino acid alphabet.
To score a word using spaced triples, we count how often each triple contained in the word occurs in the primary and control sequence sets, and use the maximum over all triples as the word count in the formula for scoring words described by Narlikar et al.
Please enter sequences that you believe share one or more motifs. When running MEME in "Discriminative" or Differential Enrichment" mode, this set of sequences is referred to as the "primary sequence set".
There may be at most 500,000 (primary) sequences in FASTA format. There is also a limit of 80,000,000 bytes for the entire contents of the input form.
Please enter sequences that you believe contain patterns you wish to avoid making motifs from. This set of sequences is referred to as the "control sequence set.
The control sequence set should contain sequences that are in some sense a contrast to likely sites for motifs (e.g. sequences rejected as unlikely to contain a transcription factor binding site), but otherwise similar to the primary sequence set.
There may be at most 500,000 control sequences in FASTA format. There is also a limit of 80,000,000 bytes for the entire contents of the input form.
You can use a background model with MEME in order to normalize for biased distribution of letters and groups of letters in your sequences. A 0-order model adjusts for single letter biases, a 1-order model adjusts for dimer biases (e.g., GC content in DNA sequences), etc.
By default MEME will use a the letter frequencies in the primary sequence set to create a 0-order background model. Alternatively, you may select 'Upload background model' and you can then specify here a file containing a background model in a simple format.
The downloadable version of the MEME Suite also contains a program named fasta-get-markov that you can use to create background model files in the correct format from FASTA sequence files.
This is where you tell MEME how you believe occurrences of the motifs are distributed among the sequences. Selecting the correct type of distribution improves the sensitivity and quality of the motif search.
MEME will keep searching until it finds this many motifs or until it exceeds one of its other thresholds (e.g., maximum run time). Note that unlike DREME, MEME does not use an E-value threshold, so you should always check the E-value of any motifs discovered by MEME.
This is the width (number of characters in the sequence pattern) of a single motif. MEME chooses the optimal width of each motif individually using a heuristic function. You can choose limits for the minimum and maximum motif widths that MEME will consider. The width of each motif that MEME reports will lie within the limits you choose.
This is the total number of sites in the primary sequence set where a single motif occurs. You can choose limits for the minimum and maximum number of occurrences that MEME will consider. If you have prior knowledge about the number of occurrences that motifs have in your primary sequence set, limiting MEME's search in this way can can increase the likelihood of MEME finding true motifs.
MEME chooses the number of occurrences to report for each motif by optimizing a heuristic function, restricting the number of occurrences to the range you give here.
If you do not select one of these fields, MEME uses the following defaults for the range of the number of motif sites, where "n" is the number of sequences in the primary sequence set:
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Checking this box instructs MEME to NOT check the reverse complement of the input sequences for motif sites when analyzing DNA or RNA sequences.
Note: When your sequences are RNA, you should select this option to ensure that only the given strand is searched for motifs.
Checking this box causes MEME to search only for DNA palindromes.
This causes MEME to average the letter frequencies in corresponding motif columns together. For instance, if the width of the motif is 10, columns 1 and 10, 2 and 9, 3 and 8, etc., are averaged together. The averaging combines the frequency of A in one column with T in the other, and the frequency of C in one column with G in the other. If this box is not checked, the columns are not averaged together.
Checking this box causes MEME to shuffle each of the primary sequences individually. The sequences will still be the same length and have the same character frequencies but any existing patterns will be obliterated.
Using this option repeatedly you can get an idea of the E-values of motifs discovered in "random" sequence datasets similar to your primary dataset. This can help you determine a reasonable E-value cutoff for motifs discovered in your unshuffled primary sequence dataset.
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Definition and epidemiology
Brain metastases are the most common form of adult brain tumour. 70% of brain metastases are multiple rather than solitary. Brain metastases is rare in paediatric cancers.
- Lung cancer
- Breast cancer
The symptoms are as for other brain tumours.
Diagnosis and evaluation
Contrast-enhanced MRi is the gold standard. Metastases are usually multifocal and have large perifocal oedema. Biopsy is performed in most cases.
Steroids can be used to reduce the oedema. Radiosurgery (gamma knife) can be used with curative intent if there are few lesions. Otherwise, whole brain radiation therapy is usually used.
If the primary tumour is chemosensitive, chemotherapy may cure the brain metastases as well.
Meningeal carcinomatosis refers to metastasis to the meninges from any carcinoid tumour. This usually results in cranial nerve symptoms. Tumour cells are present in the CSF.
Metastases to the vertebral column can compress the spinal cord and cause back pain or lumboischialgia. The primary tumour may be any thoracic or abdominal cancer, most commonly prostate, lung, or breast.
23A. Lumboischialgia and chronic back pain
24A. Paraneoplastic nervous system diseases
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A Snifaro is a floating Snifit sarcophagus found in Gritzy Caves in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. The name "Snifaro" is a portmanteau of "Snifit" and a corruption of "pharaoh," the name applied to Ancient Egyptian rulers who Snifaros are designed after (using the traditional pharaoh mummies' sarcophagus and wearing stereotypical pharaoh headdresses).
Snifaro has two main attacks. For the first, it positions itself in front of one of the Mario bros. and opens up its sarcophagus, revealing two Snifits inside, one standing on top of the other. Each Snifit then fires one bullet at the target, one after the other. If the sarcophagus lid opens to the Snifaro's right (away from the camera), the upper Snifit fires first; if it opens to the Snifaro's left, the lower one fires first. The lower one can be dodged by a jump, and the upper one is verry likely to hit the bros if he jumps. It is possible to jump over the top bullet however. Their second attack has the top Snifit jump out of the coffin and ride the sarcophagus like a rocket. The Snifaro flies high and then attempts to crash into a Mario brother. If the Snifit rides the sarcophagus normally (over the object), it attacks Mario. If the Snifit places itself under the sarcophagus, it attacks Luigi. This attack can be dodged or countered by jumping which if not, it may cause the trip status effect.
If a Bros. Flower is used against a Snifaro, the sarcophagus burns up, revealing two Snifits, one of which runs away, leaving the top Snifit (still labeled as "Snifaro") to fight on its own. This exposed Snifit attacks faster.
Names in other languages
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As you can tell from your work with Calvin Coolidge’s Cool College, once you start including lots of
if statements in a function the code becomes a little cluttered and clunky. Luckily, there are other tools we can use to build control flow.
else statements allow us to elegantly describe what we want our code to do when certain conditions are not met.
else statements always appear in conjunction with
if statements. Consider our waking-up example to see how this works:
if weekday: print("wake up at 6:30") else: print("sleep in")
In this way, we can build if statements that execute different code if conditions are or are not met. This prevents us from needing to write
if statements for each possible condition, we can instead write a blanket
else statement for all the times the condition is not met.
Let’s return to our
if statement for our movie streaming platform. Previously, all it did was check if the user’s age was over
13 and if so, print out a message. We can use an
else statement to return a message in the event the user is too young to watch the movie.
if age >= 13: print("Access granted.") else: print("Sorry, you must be 13 or older to watch this movie.")
Calvin Coolidge’s Cool College has another request for you. They want you to add an additional check to a previous
if statement. If a student is failing to meet both graduation requirements, they want it to print:
"You do not meet the requirements to graduate."
else statement to the existing
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Behavioral Health Task Force
The Behavioral Health (BH) Task Force is committed to advancing the understanding of laws impacting behavioral health, including the delivery of services to those living with mental illness, certain neurological conditions, substance use disorders or developmental disabilities, and reimbursement for such services. A complex framework of federal and state laws concerning privacy, information sharing and exchange, reimbursement, involuntary commitment, and other subjects provides unique challenges to healthcare providers and payors of behavioral health services. Scientific, legislative, and other developments, including healthcare reform, have presented new issues and opportunities in this area, including primary and behavioral healthcare integration initiatives, insurance coverage parity mandates, changes to Medicaid, and evolving public policy, to name a few. The BH Task Force will monitor and evaluate these laws and developments through written materials, webinars, and in-person educational activities so that AHLA members are better equipped to advise clients on behavioral health topics. In addition, the work of the BH Task Force will serve to raise awareness about how behavioral health laws influence health improvement efforts, and will include collaborative efforts with AHLA's Public Interest activities.
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Frankenstrike, formerly known as Benvicktor, is the Omnitrix's DNA sample of a Translyian from Anur Transyl.
Frankenstrike is based on Frankenstien's monster. He has a muscular body and grayish skin and scars/stitches on his face and body. He also has 2 green conductor coils sticking out of his back and he wears green gauntlents. He wears black pants and the Omnitrix is on the right side of his chest.
Powers and Abilities
- Frankenstrike can shoot and manipulate lightning.
- He can magnitize his feet to stick on metal places.
- He has enhanced strength and can survive in space.
- He can connect himself to machines and control them.
Opponents can absorb electricity through his generators.
- Be Afraid of the Dark
Ben 10: Omniverse
- Max's Monster
- Something Zombozo This Way Comes
- And Then There Were None (Benzarro)
- And Then There Was Ben (Benzarro)
- Cough It Up
- Color of Monkey
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Way to Grow! Gardening: Composting – Word Search (3rd-5th)
After reading Way to Grow! Gardening: Composting by Rebecca Pettiford use this printable and interactive Word Search puzzle to extend student learning. Find and circle words across, down, and diagonally.
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Primary education in Ireland, 1897-1990 : curriculum and context
- Thomas Walsh.
- Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012.
- Physical description
- xxi, 466 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Rethinking education v. 12.
Education Library (Cubberley)
|LA669.62 .W36 2012||Unknown|
- Walsh, Thomas, 1976-
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents: Societal and Educational Context for Curriculum Provision (1897-1921) - Planning and Content of the Revised Programme of Instruction (1900) - Development of the Revised Programme of Instruction (1900-21) - Societal and Educational Context for Curriculum Provision (1922-71) - Planning and Content of the Primary School Curriculum (1922-71) - Implementation of the Primary School Curriculum (1922-71) - Societal and Educational Context for Curriculum Provision (1971-90) - Planning and Content of the Primary School Curriculum (1971) - Implementation of the Primary School Curriculum (1971-90).
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783034307512 20160610
- Publisher's Summary
- This book critically examines the context, origins, development and implementation of successive primary school curricula in Ireland between 1897 and 1990. It focuses on three particular policy changes during the period: the Revised Programme of Instruction introduced in 1900, the curricular provisions implemented following the achievement of independence in the 1920s and the Primary School Curriculum of 1971. These three eras are distinctive by virtue of their philosophy of education, the content of the curriculum, the methodologies employed and the concept of the child inherent in the curriculum. The author analyses curricular changes within the complex web of wider educational and societal factors that influenced their devising and implementation. In this way, he locates curricular developments within the climate of thought from which these policies emerged. The philosophy and ideology underpinning successive curricula are examined, along with the successes and shortcomings of curriculum implementation in each period. This historical analysis of the evolution of the primary curriculum in Ireland has much to offer researchers and policymakers in the contemporary context, amid ongoing curriculum development.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9783034307512 20160610
- Publication date
- Rethinking education ; v. 12
- 9783034307512 (paper)
- 3034307519 (paper)
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Open and fair elections are paramount to modern democracy. Although some people claim that the pencil-and-paper systems used in countries such as Canada and UK are still the best method of avoiding vote rigging, recent election problems have sparked great interest in managing the election process through the use of electronic voting systems. It is a goal of this paper to describe a voting system that is secret and secure as well as verifiable and useable over an existing computer network. We have designed and implemented an electronic voting system - verifiable e-voting (VEV) - with an underlying protocol that secures the election process from malicious practices at the same time as allowing voters and candidates to verify the correctness of their votes.
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Time To Solve the Math Education Equation
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study, one of the most ambitious studies of school achievement in math and science ever undertaken, reports that American 12th graders placed last in comparison with the rest of the world. ("U.S. Seniors Near Bottom in World Test," March 4, 1998.) What kind of indifference to America's public good has allowed such a thing to happen?
On the record, the country's political leaders have been anything but indifferent. Consider the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, passed by Congress with much fanfare in 1994. The act called on our educational system to solidify American leadership of this "age of technology" by raising student achievement in science and math into first place in the world by the year 2000. The U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation were directed to target projects in the hundreds of millions of dollars in pursuit of this goal. The educational battle cry was to "Rethink! Reform!" Standards for science and math were revised; conferences disseminated information on newly developed curricula, materials, and methods of instruction; enhanced training for preservice and in-service teachers was supported. At the same time, most states were implementing their own standards for a variety of subjects and rewarding teachers for strengthening their professional training.
Thus, the 12th grade TIMSS result, placing the United States in the world cellar for math and science, comes as a rude shock. Just what has been going on here between the K and the 12? Shock is still being felt, while constructive suggestions remain largely absent.
There had already been a good deal of unhappiness at the time of the first TIMSS release, which gave results for the 8th grade. American students placed well below the world average. A spate of "perhapses" was put forward: Perhaps our inner-city and rural schools were being pitted against other countries' elite schools, their top students against our democratically diverse ones. Perhaps other countries' students did more homework, or watched less TV, or ...
But then when the 4th grade results came out and our students placed respectably above average, a lively flurry of self-congratulatory statements and op-ed pieces were aired. The reforms were said to be taking hold nicely in elementary schools, while high school reforms had not yet come into place. Despite these brave words, the performance slippage between 4th and 8th grades caused a good deal of uneasiness. Still, this was a warning, however insufficient, of the coming 12th grade meltdown.
TIMSS goes far beyond the simple fact of relative weakness of performance of American students. The results provide useful evidence about some of the sources of our problems. TIMSS refutes the earlier "perhapses" and goes on to diagnose our K-12 math and science instruction as suffering from the "mile wide and an inch deep" syndrome. Ominously, it seems that many of the reform efforts have actually added to this syndrome.
Put another way: Our school systems take our bright, normal children and turn them into dummies. Mass malpractice is perpetrated by insufficiently trained teachers, further constrained by unfocused and often incoherent curricula and textbooks.
Unable to refute TIMSS, some educators have chosen to espouse a strange new paradigm. This suggests that so long as America produces innovative, successful entrepreneurs (like Bill Gates), it does not matter that the rest of our children leave school innumerate and illiterate.
While this is not a view many can be expected to accept, the fact that it was even put forward is troubling. Mathematics and science are basic ingredients of the competence of our young people in the age of advanced technology.
Evidence of breakdown in the K-12 system, pervasive for years, has up to now been swept under the educational carpet in a variety of guises. Complaints of student inability to read, write, and do arithmetic are dismissed as "inevitably" due to a large immigrant and/or "disadvantaged," "inner city" population. Parent questions and complaints are denigrated as "uninformed" and "anecdotal." The 85 percent of community college students who must begin there with remedial courses in what are properly primary, middle, or high school subjects is not considered relevant. The decreased competency of students coming into colleges and universities, and the consequent increasing burden of instruction for those institutions, is similarly shrugged off. School shortcomings also fall heavily on growing numbers of businesses and industries, forced to pay for retraining employees in everything from the three R's to calculus.
Fortunately, Congress still holds to the vision if not the timetable of the Goals 2000 Act and sees TIMSS as a resource that can and should be examined and used to reset the act's proper implementation. The vehicle for this review, to come with recommendations, is embodied in the House and Senate bills introduced simultaneously by Rep. Constance Morella (R-Md.), HR 3411; and Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), S 1739, as the proposed Commission for American Mathematics Leadership Act. To ensure the highest degree of impartiality and competency, the commission is to act in coordination with the National Academy of Sciences.
The fundamental elements for the proposed commission to address should include the following:
- Establishing the principles and techniques of Teaching to Mastery. The basis of other countries' success is teaching a core of fundamental topics to mastery. Fewer topics are taught, but each is taught deeply. Otherwise, lack of discrimination results in the "mile wide, inch deep" syndrome.
- Aligning mathematics curricula relative to international levels. At present, American mathematics curricula drag behind international levels by as much as two years. Further, topics are presented in a totally superficial way (again, the "mile wide, inch deep" syndrome). Our curriculum for middle school years (grades 4-7) is especially in need of attention, often consisting of aimless repetition without perceptible development.
- Teacher knowledge of basic mathematical materials and enhancement of professional-development criteria. A large percentage of math teachers have studied only a small amount of mathematics at a college level. Further, the professional-development criteria they themselves have studied under tend to ignore knowledge of the subject matter taught. Accordingly, teachers often have only vague and confused understanding of the material they are teaching.
- Teacher preparation in terms of appropriate pedagogy in mathematics teaching. Math teachers in American schools, as the TIMSS analysis reveals, are given little training or practice in effective techniques of presentation of the material in a way helpful to student efforts to master the mathematics.
- The quality and structure ofmathematics textbooks. The criteria by which U.S. textbook publishers form their books are dominated by commercial rather than correct pedagogical considerations. For reasons of expediency (or simple incompetence), most textbooks cover material in a totally superficial way ("a mile wide and an inch deep").
- The development of high-quality state and national standards of mathematics education. Benchmarking is needed in order to have a broadly consistent national set of standards, with considerations of alignment with international standards. This will also be of great value as a reference for local school administrators and school boards, and is desirable in order to deal with our intensely mobile school population.
- The development of adequate administrative structures in school systems to ensure an adequate quality of mathematics teaching. Considerations of cost, or expediency, too often lead to the situation that teachers with totally inadequate preparation and skills are put in charge of mathematics classes.
The proposed commission, and its charge, are bold and hopeful steps for the country to take in setting American mathematics education toward a renewed orientation to excellence.
Madge Goldman has been a leading advocate in the private philanthropic community for the funding of basic mathematical research in the United States and abroad. She is the president of the Gabriella and Paul Rosenbaum Foundation in Chicago and lives in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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My general feeling has always been that there is a very small nugget of useful information in the USNWR rankings. I apologize for the JPG format at left, but if you click on the picture, you can see the detail. The x-axis represents peer assessment scores from 1.2 at the far left to 4.9 at the far right. Each column represents the number of schools at that score. (I have reversed the data on the x-axis in response to Nancy Rapoport's request below.)
My understanding is that the peer assessment score is derived from the result of a survey that US News sends to the "select" voters at each school (deans, associate deans, FAC chairs, etc.). So if you do as I did, and re-order the rankings solely by peer score, WYSIWYG: a distribution of law schools that accurately reflects wholly subjective and probably either visceral or uninformed impressions on the part of the select group of voters, probably more akin to consumer branding than any rigorous analysis. (My empirical basis for saying this is my one interview with such a voter who will remain nameless, but who told me in fact he had no clue how to rank most of the schools.)
My hypothesis going in was that there would be something of a bell curve, and by God, I was right. I'm not enough of a statistician to do a standard deviation analysis on this, but it's pretty clear what this is saying, as least as to that uninformed and visceral reaction:
1. There are roughly 16 schools at the top end that shouldn't even be included in the bell curve. There aren't many of them, and they are separately by a quantum from the rest of the pack. I haven't done a comparison over time, but I'll bet it changes very slowly.
2. The top 100 (or the "first tier") on this distribution ends somewhere inside of a 2.2 peer assessment. That is somewhere in the apex of the main body of the curve. (Reflecting the weight I understand US News gives to the peer assessment, I guess it's not surprising that there are only five otherwise "Tier 3" or "Tier 4" schools that work into the top 100 on this reordering.)
3. For large groups of schools, there is no perceived difference in reputation, and getting all worked up about a move up or down by a couple of digits seems misplaced.
4. Just like there probably isn't a whole lot of difference between the performance of the students who get between 3.1 and a 2.6 GPA equivalent on your exams with a mandated mean of 2.85, there really isn't a whole lot of difference between the group bunched between a 2.8 peer assessment score (the schools at that level are BYU, Florida State, Alabama, Miami, Oregon, Pittsburgh, and San Diego) and a 1.7 peer assessment score (schools at that level are California Western, Capital, New England, Northern Illinois, Roger Williams, South Texas, St. Mary's, Texas Wesleyan, and Touro). Perhaps a jump from a 1.7 to a 2.8 would be meaningful, but most of the moves inside that block are essentially meaningless.
5. I haven't done the same thing for lawyer assessments, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't come out about the same way. Assuming it came out exactly the same way, it would tell me, were I applying to law school nowadays, that in fact there is a significant brand value that attaches at the far right, but that the distinctions quickly evaporate as you move left through the main body of the curve. Indeed, as the deans keep telling us, there are myriad other reasons to select a school than where it happens to plop down between number 36 (Alabama) and "Tier 4" (see above).
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Ben Bernake spoke to graduating Harvard seniors at Class Day on Thursday, telling them things aren't as bad now as they were when he was in the audience back in 1975. True, we had rising oil and food prices, and slow economic growth then as now, but there are grounds for optimism, Bernanke insisted.
Government is economically wiser since the mid-70s, he claims. Given that government has created a debacle similar to the one in the 70s, what does that say about its ability to learn from its "mistakes"?
He brought up the subject of lessons central bankers have allegedly learned since the high inflation days of the mid-70s, the most crucial of which are (1) "high inflation can seriously destabilize the economy," and (2) "the central bank must take responsibility for achieving price stability over the medium term."
And audience members complained that Bernanke wasn't entertaining?
Let's see, government contributions to our economic well-being in recent years . . . such as the shot in arm SOX (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) gives to outsourcing?
Or the potential of SOX to "turn into a litigation time bomb"?
Or government's robust penchant for war and the horrendous costs it entails?
Yes, we don't have price ceilings on gasoline today, as he points out, but is that because of government's greater economic wisdom or political expediency? Could it be that Republicans don't relish the prospect of conducting an election with people lining up on odd or even days, as they did in the mid-70s, hoping to find gas in the pumps for the state-mandated price?
Bernanke apparently wants the world to believe that central bankers in the 1970s were unaware that high inflation is bad medicine for an economy, as if banking authorities knew nothing about post-war hyperinflations or about the persistent inflation we get when governments abandon hard money and force fiat standards and banking cartels on their economies.
Counterfeiting is one of mankind's oldest cons. Are we to believe that it took 60 years for U.S. central bankers to realize they were the government's official counterfeiters?
He also seems to believe that without a sufficently high inflation we pay a price "in terms of lost output and employment" -- which he sees as the downside of Paul Volcker's anti-inflationary policies that began in 1979. As for achieving medium-term price stability, does that means the Fed runs the presses but not too fast?
Two points to consider: Why do we need price stability over any term? The free market tends to push prices down. Why is that a bad thing?
Second, who on earth believes central bankers have behaved with restraint since the 10 percent inflation days of the mid-70s? Greenspan ran the printing presses around the clock. At the time everyone was cheering, especially Wall Street.
According to the BLS inflation calculator, which is programmed by the government, it would take $4.00 today to buy the same thing $1.00 did in 1975. Using the CPI calculator at ShadowStats.com, which uses the government's pre-Clinton method of computing the CPI, price inflation is more than double what the BLS claims. Is this what he means by maintaining stable prices over the medium term?
Is that the best performance we can expect from our money?
According to measuringworth.com, from 1875 - 1908, a period in which the Fed was noticeably absent but gold wasn't, the annualized inflation rate was negative. In 1908, it took $.84 to buy what $1.00 would in 1875. Prices dropped during a period of explosive economic growth. Investments were funded mostly by real savings instead of Monopoly money. It was a time when people could save for their old age. They didn't have to roll the dice in a Fed-inflated stock market or depend on the government's fraudulent Social Security program. The dollar was actually a store of value.
Many students were reportedly bored with Bernanke's remarks. From the Fed's perspective, that's good. Had he sung a different song, such as the one about the Fed's deliberate dollar destruction, more people would have been awake at the end.
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The vision of a joint all-domain ISR enterprise is much closer and more realistically achievable today than it was in 1983 when General Dynamics acquired the GNAT and the Drone Age was born. Since then, there have been numerous undeniable technological advances in ISR platforms and technologies, and a few near misses as well. A quick Google search will reveal timelines of past drone hardware developments and concepts of future software applications that leave little to the imagination. “Innovation”, or so it’s called.
In this paper, innovation of a different brand will be on display, highlighting the genius thoughts, decisions, and events that made it possible for the U.S. and NATO to modernize and integrate ISR within and across global defence strategy, plans and operations.
The following white paper will outline:
- The top three developments of the last thirty years in terms of ISR modernization, including policy changes enacted by General Scaparotti, data sharing and new acquisition models
- Offer predictions and recommendations for the next three big innovations in the 2020s and beyond
- The challenges associated with the popular definition of “innovation” to mean more than the sum of investment in new tools and widgets
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Pluto is small because it has a very low force of gravity, caused by its low density at 2.03 g/cm³. Its density is almost half of Mercury's, the smallest of the eight planets in the solar system. Its gravitational force is only 5 percent of Earth's.Continue Reading
Pluto has a mean radius that is 20 percent smaller than Earth's at 715 miles. Unlike many planets in the solar system, Pluto does not bulge at the center. Instead, its radius is the same at the center as it is at its poles and equator. Pluto has a diameter of 1,430 miles, making it even smaller than the moon. Pluto's surface is composed of rock and ice.
A U.S. astronomer discovered Pluto in 1930 and first classified it as a planet, making it the smallest planet in the solar system. It was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2003 when a larger object, later named Eris, was observed beyond Pluto and thought to be another new planet and a closer look was taken at Pluto's standing as a planet. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union released a set of criteria that are used to classify dwarf planets. These requirements state that a dwarf planet must have just enough mass to make it almost round, must orbit the sun, must not have a moon and must be unable to clear the orbit around it.Learn more about Planets
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If you ever wondered why your dog likes period blood or seems highly interested in your bathroom garbage, we can help you narrow down the reason.
Why do dogs like period blood anyway? A dog’s scent instinct drives them to seek new items and surroundings, and period blood omits scents related to your hormones and protein. This combination can be hard for a canine to ignore. Their scavenger intuition convinces them to seek out these odors.
However, there can be several other causes why dogs like period blood. Once you know the 10 surprising reasons for this, you will understand your pet better and possibly help eliminate any potential hazards.
Why Dogs Like Period Blood
It can be shocking the first time your dog gets into your bathroom garbage or embarrassing when he nuzzles you excessively when you are on your period. Period blood can attract dogs for many reasons, including:
- It smells different
- They are omnivores
- They miss you
- It carries your pheromones
- It resembles protein or food
- They are scavengers by nature
- They are curious
- They need boundaries
- They may have a health disorder
- The breed of dog
1. It Smells Different
Dogs have a keen sense of smell. Period blood will smell different when it is fresh, and this will change as it sits in your garbage. Likewise, items like used tampons or hygiene pads can smell more pungent as they remain for a few days.
Some dog breeds commonly have over 100 million scent receptors in their nose, while others have up to 300 million or more. For comparison, humans have only five million scent receptors.
Because of these receptors, dogs can detect odors up to 12 miles away. In addition, each day that period blood sits in the home, the scent will grow stronger and change, making it more interesting for your dog to explore.
2. They Are Omnivores
Dogs are, by nature, omnivores. This attribute means that they crave and eat both plant and animal products. Blood is a by-product of an animal, which can attract a hunting animal, like a canine.
This intuitive nature can mean that your dog will do what they can to get it, even though they do not know why they want it. For example, your dog may be hungry or inclined to eat in any situation that presents them with food or treats, including items that smell like food.
3. They Miss You
If you come home from a hard day’s work to find your dog has gotten into your used hygiene products, it might be because they miss you. Any item you use will carry your scent and be familiar to them.
Chewing up items like feminine hygiene products can give them a sense of closeness similar to what they get when they smell you. Alternatively, if your pet misses you, they may have separation anxiety and eat things that belong to you.
4. It Carries Your Pheromones
Period blood will have pheromones. Dogs are naturally curious and attracted to these hormones. While your body naturally emits pheromones every day, period blood will have a higher concentration, making it more interesting to your pet.
Dogs can sense other animals’ pheromones. This task helps them detect another animal for mating purposes. However, just because your dog is attracted to your period blood does not mean they want to mate with you. Instead, they are captivated by the scent and want to explore the details with their noses.
5. It Resembles Protein or Food
Blood will mean something different to your dog than you or me. For animals, blood can mean protein and alternative food sources. So while you may be disgusted with your dog, they may only be thinking there is a tasty treat around for them.
This element can be more intense if your dog follows a raw food diet. For example, if your pet regularly eats raw meat with blood, it will not distinguish period blood from any other mealtime snack.
6. They Are Scavengers By Nature
The first dogs were natural scavengers. They had to hunt and scrounge for food to survive. Searching for new items to eat is part of their DNA and can be one of the driving forces compelling them to root through your bathroom garbage.
Dogs are opportunistic feeders. If they have a chance to snatch a smelly or tasty treat, it can be hard for them to resist, even if it is in your garbage. They will not distinguish the garbage can as a place containing things they should not eat. Your pet may see a dish on the floor full of exciting items to smell and taste.
7. They Are Curious
Dogs are extremely curious creatures. This inquisitive nature can also heighten when they are in the puppy stage. Canines learn about their environment by using their sense of smell and taste. Therefore, if there are different smells and things to eat within their reach, it is a good possibility that they will take advantage of the situation.
Some dogs will never grow out of the curious stage. However, others can eventually settle down and not bother with things that smell as they age.
8. They Need Boundaries
Some dogs do not have good manners. Whether they have never had any clearly-set boundaries or are just learning the rules of a new home, they may be more interested in your garbage because they do not know they should not be there.
Dogs are intelligent creatures, and they can learn to leave items alone that are not safe for them. However, they are animals, and items with period blood and other highly-scented things can be enticing to them. As a responsible pet owner, it is up to you to ensure there are boundaries and hazardous items are out of their reach when you are not supervising them.
9. They Have an Eating Disorder
Some dogs cannot help themselves when eating non-food items, like feminine hygiene products. Pica is an eating disorder where dogs will eat things that are not food for various reasons, including anxiety, medications, or the environment.
If your dog is prone to eating rocks, garbage, or anything else they can get hold of, you can be confident that your scent-filled garbage will also be a target. Pica can result from other health disorders, including liver or pancreatic disease, diabetes, or even coming from an environment where food is scarce.
10. The Breed of Dog
Unfortunately, some breeds of dogs are more prone to liking period blood than others. Specific breeds are particular for hunting or scent-driven tasks, which can be a habit that is hard to break. If you own one of these breeds, they may have a higher interest in period blood:
- Basset Hound
- Coon Hound
- German Shepherd
- Golden Retriever
- Labrador Retriever
- Springer Spaniel
Although any dog can be interested in period blood, these breeds have an especially keen sense of smell and could be one of the underlying reasons they seek out period blood when they are close.
Can Period Blood Harm Dogs?
Thankfully, if your dog comes in contact with period blood, it is not harmful to them. However, if your dog eats used feminine hygiene products with period blood on them, there is a risk of danger.
Dogs get into garbage and eat tampons and hygiene pads more often than you might think. However, depending on the dog’s size and how much product they consumed, hygiene products can create intestinal blockages that may require a vet’s intervention.
The fibers and contents within tampons and hygiene pads expand with fluid. Although this attribute is beneficial for its purpose, it can be fatal when in your dog’s stomach. Swollen fibers can block the intestines and require surgery if they do not pass naturally.
What Should I Do If My Dog Ate a Used Tampon or Hygiene Pad?
Contact your veterinarian immediately if you suspect that your dog ate a used tampon or hygiene pad. Try to remember how many items you had in your garbage and determine what is missing, if you can.
Monitor your dog’s behavior closely. If your dog eats and drinks normally, walks, plays, and relieves themselves outside, these items may pass naturally. Typically, the bigger the dog is in size, the easier it could be for them to work a non-food item through the body on their own.
Exceptionally small dogs may require veterinarian intervention and may need an emergency visit. Talk to your local vet, and they can help you determine the best course of action for your pet. You should never induce your dog to vomit without talking to your veterinarian first.
Can You Train a Dog To Avoid Period Blood?
If your dog is a nuisance when you are on your period, you may want them to back off and leave you alone. Having your dog’s nose in your crotch can be embarrassing, especially if you have company.
You can use training methods to help your dog switch from this undesirable behavior to your preferred action. However, with any canine training, it will take consistency and dedication on your part, along with many treats for good behavior.
You may never be able to train your dog to avoid period blood entirely, but they may respond well to a correction the first time, making your life a bit easier.
Owning a dog obsessed with period blood can be an uncomfortable and harmful situation if it is not under control. However, sometimes knowing why your dog likes period blood can help you minimize the chances of their interest and keep them from bothering you or visitors.
If your dog is obsessed with period blood, remember to keep all items locked away in a bathroom where your pet cannot reach them. Locking garbage can lids or in a cupboard will keep these used items safely away from your dog. This way, you help minimize their interest in these items.
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Destiny or Expression number and life path number shows one’s overall path in life and where one belongs in this world. Life path number tells more about one’s goal in life and destiny number reveals more about one’s personality traits.
After calculating the expression number, one can find out about one’s or anyone’s traits, which can guide them further in many ways. To calculate the expression number use numerological chart given below
Let us work through an example to understand how the expression number is to be calculated. If we intend to calculate the expression number for Jennifer Lopez :
The first step is to add up all the numbers representing the alphabets in the name. In the case of Jennifer Lopez the number would come to 11 (1+5+5+5+9+6+5+9+3+6+7+5+8=747+4=11)
There are 9 expression number in numerology and 2 master numbers which are 11 and 22. Jennifer Lopez is represented by the master number 11
Characteristics of Numbers
They are born leader. Number 1 are very ambitious and do not need any supervision. They are self independent and self reliant. They sometimes need someone to follow them with details but they know how to handle things. They can be good leaders, businessmen, sales executives or even promoters. On the negative side they can be very aggressive sometimes and egotist.
These types of people are good team players as they like to be in a group. They are often overlooked by others due to their shy nature. They love details but on the other hand if number 2 vibration is too much in their personality, it will make them over sensitive. These kinds of people get hurt easily and can not concentrate on their work on hand.
They are very good in communication skills and marketing skills. Their style of conversation is very inspiring for others. They can be a good salesmen, teacher, legislator, singer or actor. They are very easy going, and that can be a problem for them. They might fall into petty matters, especially in gossips.
They like everything in order. They are very passionate about their work. Many doctors are of this number. They are honest, sincere and love doing things perfectly. On the negative side, to fulfill their responsibility to the perfection, can make them frustrated and put them in low mood. They need not to be dogmatic and not to lose focus from bigger picture.
People with the energy of number 5 are multi-talented. They are quick thinker and they know how to get work done from people. They are very energetic and can get success in the business of entertainment. Their adaptability is helpful in their constructive freedom but in the search of freedom they cannot stay in one kind of job or situation for long.
People represented by number 6 are driven by a sense of great responsibility. They are honest and open in all relations. The qualities of number 6 make them a very conscious parent. On the other, driving by the sense of duty, they often don’t express themselves and sacrifice their need over others.
Number 7 people are very practical individuals who like to work alone. They are logical and love study every subject very deeply whether it is science or religion. They have very less sense or understanding of emotions.
Number 8 individuals are highly ambitious and have a desire to accumulate material things. They have a great sense of judging people. Their qualities of running behind money and power can become extreme sometime and needs to be controlled.
Number 9 individuals are very sensitive of others feeling and like help. They are good in doing things if get the freedom to involve with others. But on the negative side if they don’t get involved in philanthropic activities in time, it can be left undeveloped and they tend to be insensitive towards others.
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In solids, the atoms are arranged in a systematic space lattice and each atom is influenced by neighbouring atoms. The closeness of atoms results in the intermixing of electrons of neighbouring atoms. Due to this, the number of permissible energy levels increases.
Hence in the case of a solid, instead of a single energy level associated with a single atom, there will be bands of energy levels. A set of such closely packed energy levels is called an energy band.
The concept of energy bands can be understood from Fig a and Fig b. The energy levels of a single isolated atom of silicon are shown in Fig a.
Each silicon atom has 14 electrons, two of which occupy K shell, 8 occupy the L shell and 4 occupy the M shell. The electrons in the M shell are distributed as 2 electrons in the subshell 3s and 2 electrons in the subshell 3p. This subshell 3p is partially filled because it can accommodate a total of 6 electrons. The completely filled levels are known as core levels and the electrons filling these levels are called core electrons. The electrons in the outermost level are called valence electrons. The partially filled outermost level is valence level and the permitted levels which are vacant are known as conduction levels.
In a solid, there are large numbers of atoms, which are very close to each other. The energy of s or p level is of the order of eV, therefore the levels are very closely spaced. The first orbit electrons form a band called first energy band. Similarly, second orbit electrons from second energy band and so on as shown in Fig b.
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Talking can be tricky especially if people have strong opinions and feelings. How do we talk about issues such as identity, immigration, belonging, extremisms and belief, in a way that doesn’t harm social relations?
At Talk for a Change we believe in the power of dialogue to bring about greater understanding, empathy and stronger relationships between different groups. Furthermore we believe it can strengthen the ‘social glue’, that sense of trust and understanding we all need in order to feel comfortable on our streets and in our neighbourhoods. We work across the UK and internationally supporting local people to talk about what matters, and building capacity to manage tension and change positively.
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Designed by pinecone hand-feeling florist, it is carefully matched to provide three different color styles. With an Internet connection, the teacher will synchronize with you to create beauty. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51253952252_b3ed244a1f_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50451629232_cff57d3cef_b.jpg After the order is placed, it will be sent to your designated address or convenience store, so you can experience the fun of making dried flowers without going out! 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This guide is to help players try out mercs without purchasing them or waiting for them to be on free rotation. This does not, though, allow players to play with the mercs in public matches. This can only be done SOLO.
ADDED: Guide to testing weapons and abilities (even the unreleased ones!)
Video Guide (Credits to kAndyREW)
For those who prefer visual step by step on how this is done, check out this video:
For those who prefer something written, skip and keep reading!
Trying Different Classes
This is a guide for trying mercs without making any sort of payments nor waiting for the merc to become available in the rotation.
1) Press '~' to open up the console.
2) Type in "switchlevel 'map_name'", replacing 'map_name' with one of the following:
OBJ_CanaryWharf (= Underground)
OBJ_Map_6 (= Dome)
OBJ_Victoria (= Terminal)
OBJ_Whitechapel (= Chapel)
(Note: You can also find the name of these maps, along with future maps, here: C:\Program Files
(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dirty Bomb\ShooterGame\CookedPC\Maps . The name of the maps are the name of the folders. The map you choose does NOT matter.)
Ex. switchlevel OB_Bridge
3) Once the map has loaded, type in "set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Medic_04_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Medic_04". This specific command will allow you to play as Sparks. To try out a different merc, replace "Medic_04" (both of these) with one of he following:
(Note: You can also find the name of these characters, along with future characters, here: C:\Program Files
(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dirty Bomb\ShooterGame\CookedPC\Characters . The name of the characters are the name of the folders.)
If you are still confused about changing mercs through console, then you can just copy/paste these and use them:
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes CovertOps_03_Gameplay.Pawns.A_CovertOps_03
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Engineer_01_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Engineer_01
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Engineer_02_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Engineer_02
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Engineer_03_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Engineer_03
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes FieldOps_01_Gameplay.Pawns.A_FieldOps_01
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes FieldOps_02_Gameplay.Pawns.A_FieldOps_02
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes FieldOps_04_Gameplay.Pawns.A_FieldOps_04
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Medic_01_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Medic_01
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Medic_02_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Medic_02
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Medic_04_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Medic_04
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Soldier_01_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Soldier_01
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Soldier_03_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Soldier_03
set SGPlayerReplicationInfo m_SlotArcheTypes Soldier_04_Gameplay.Pawns.A_Soldier_04
Credits to 'Gapi' and 'Blacky' :)
(Note: I will try to update this list if I can, but there will be no guarantees)
4) Press 'k' to kill yourself, choose the merc you want to play as, and respawn.
This is a guide to try out different weapons and abilities in the game, even those that have yet to be released yet.
1) Go into console by pressing '~'
2) Type in 'switchlevel EXE_Overground'
(Note: This may work for other maps, though I've had more success on this map specifically)
3.1)To set an weapon or ability to your Primary weapon key (1 by default), type in 'set SGPawn PrimaryWeapons (A_'weapon/ability')"
3.2)To set an weapon or ability to your Secondary weapon key (2 by default), type in 'set SGPawn SecondaryWeapons (A_'weapon/ability')"
3.3)To set an weapon or ability to your Melee weapon key (3 by default), type in 'set SGPawn MeleeWeapons (A_'weapon/ability')"
3.4)To set an weapon or ability to your Item key (4 by default), type in 'set SGPawn Items (A_'weapon/ability')"
4) Using a line from either 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, or 3.4, replace 'weapon/ability' with the name of the weapon or ability you want there.
Ex) set SGPawn PrimaryWeapons (A_Molotov_01) will replace your Primary weapon with Stoker's Molotov grenade ability.
(Note: Some weapons or abilities may not work, and some may even crash your game, like the Katana. To find the list of possible weapons and abilities, type in 'obj List class=Weapons'. If you are confused by the wall of text, you can also find them in the game folder.)
For Items, you can find them in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dirty Bomb\ShooterGame\CookedPC\Items
For tools, you can find them in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dirty Bomb\ShooterGame\CookedPC\Tools
For weapons, you can find them in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dirty Bomb\ShooterGame\CookedPC\Weapons
The name of the weapon/ability is the name of the folder.
Hope this helps.
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Chief of Section
Overview of the Functions of the Post
Under the general guidance and direct supervision of the Director of the Bureau of Strategic Planning (DIR/BSP), the incumbent will be responsible for the overall coordination, planning, development, and management of a fundraising strategy directed at the private sector, the European Union, Multilateral Development Banks and other UN organizations to mobilize resources and support accountability of transparent contribution management.
The incumbent will be responsible for the analysis and management of the fundraising channels and activities, ensuring long-term, flexible and unrestricted resources for the Organization. In particular, the incumbent will perform the following responsibilities:
- Provide leadership, strategic direction and implementation for UNESCO’s engagement and outreach to the private sector, the European Union (EU), Multilateral Development Banks, and UN Organizations in order to generate increased funding for UNESCO’s programme and budget;
- Grow fundraising income to support the Organization’s resources per biennium in a sustainable manner;
- Develop, implement and monitor a clear strategy, policy and systems for delivery of partnerships with private sector globally including corporate, foundations and high net worth donors as well as the development of a UNESCO strategy on individual giving, crowd funding and digital funding;
- Manage and develop funding relationships with existing and potential international donors including the EU, Multilateral Development Banks and UN Organizations;
- Ensure coordinated advocacy and outreach to private sector across the Organization;
- Oversee the preparation of and follow up on implementation of Memoranda of Understanding and other framework agreements with potential donors and partners as a basis for mobilization of resources for design and implementation of new and ongoing UNESCO-led programmes and projects;
- Lead and motivate a team of Partnership Officers, providing coaching, training and guidance to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance, providing capacity building to concerned staff.
Support to Sectors, relevant UNESCO Institutes and Field Offices:
- Provide technical support and advice on grant proposal development to UNESCO’s Sectors, Institutes and Field Offices;
- Assist the Sectors, Institutes and Field Offices in the preparation of project proposals for corporate and multilateral funding agencies;
- Deliver training and capacity on fund raising and communication skills and strategy.
Communication and Outreach:
- Plan and produce diverse communication materials in support of fundraising;
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to identify priority themes and develop advocacy and communication materials.
A successful candidate will be required to demonstrate the following competencies:
Planning and organizing
Knowledge sharing and continuous improvement
Driving and managing change
Making quality decisions
Leading and empowering others
For detailed information please consult the UNESCO Competency Framework.
- Advanced University degree in International Relations, Marketing, Business Development, Economics, Management or in other fields of competence of UNESCO.
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible relevant professional experience in fundraising and resource mobilization, of which preferably 5 years acquired at international level.
- Demonstrated experience in managing a major fundraising programme from private sector and/or foundations and engaging in Public-Private Partnerships.
- Demonstrated leadership in resource mobilization within a UN agency or an agency of similar character.
- Experience in formulating and implementing a long-term vision and strategic perspective.
- Demonstrated experience of effective communication with senior private sector executives and private donors.
- Demonstrated experience in leading and motivating teams.
Skills and competencies
- Proven track record in fundraising and resource mobilization.
- Ability to effectively manage relationships with private sector, corporate institutions and multilateral partners.
- Strong analytical, negotiating, networking and advocacy skills.
- Ability to develop and adapt innovative approaches and replicable strategies for fundraising.
- Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to build trust and work with a team in a multicultural environment, with sensitivity and respect for diversity.
- Excellent leadership skills, and skills in the management of performance and resources.
- Solid knowledge of relevant technological solutions and systems, including the use of web-based solutions, crowd-funding and digital funding solutions.
- Good understanding of the UNESCO’s mandate, vision, strategic direction and priorities.
- Excellent knowledge of English or French and a good knowledge of the other language.
Skills and competencies
- Knowledge of UN procedures, rules and regulations related to resource mobilization and partnerships.
- Excellent knowledge of English and French.
- Knowledge of other official UNESCO languages (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish).
BENEFITS AND ENTITLEMENTS
UNESCO’s salaries are calculated in US dollars. They consist of a basic salary and a post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station and exchange rates.
Other benefits include: 30 days annual leave, family allowance, home travel, education grant for dependent children, pension plan and medical insurance. More details can be found on the ICSC Website.
Please note that UNESCO is a non-smoking Organization.
A WRITTEN EXAMINATION MAY BE USED IN THE EVALUATION OF CANDIDATES.
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Due to the ongoing Covid- 19 crisis, Bond Healthcare are urgently recruiting care assistants to work with a leading healthcare provider in the Portadown area. Day and night shifts availabl
The role of a healthcare assistant is vital to meet the needs of the homes that rely on us to ensure staffing levels are adequate which ensures care is provided to elderly residents with dignity and respect.
As a healthcare assistant you will be responsible for:
- Providing personal care to residents.
- Assisting residents with bathing, washing, shaving, oral hygiene and continence requirements.
- General observations and updating patient records.
- Providing support and encouragement to residents in all areas of daily living.
- Ensuring the respect, dignity and rights to privacy of residents as far as possible
- Work as part of a team along with permanent staff in each home.
- Moving and handling of residents using hoists and slide sheets.
Bond Healthcare offer:
- Flexible shifts
- Competitive pay rates (enhanced rates for bank holidays)
- Weekly pay
- Free uniform
- Free online training
- Fasttrack registration process
If you are a Healthcare assistant with 6 months, full time, paid, experience within the last 2 years then please contact Lauren on 02890 270747 or apply on our website www.bondhealthcare.com
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Niagara Falls USA Island
In 1922, the International Board of Control suggested building an artificial island, upstream from the Falls, to divert the waters.
On June 2nd 1929, both Governments signed an agreement for the proposed recommendations made by the International Board of Control. This agreement was authorized by Canada in 1929 and by the United States of America in 1931.
In 1941, The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Basin Agreement was signed by Government representatives but it was never authorized. In this agreement, the corrective work was approved, as well as an immediate diversion of an additional 5,000 cubic feet of water per second by each country for power generation.
On October 27th 1941, as an emergency measure during World War II, the governments of USA and Canada authorized the maximum diversion of waters from the Niagara River for power generation. The Americans were to divert 32,500 cubic feet of water per second and the Canadians were to divert 50,000 cubic feet of water per second. Both governments recognized the need for recommended corrective work and agreed to share the costs.
Construction of the submerged barrier began in March 1942. When completed, the barrier was 1,455 feet long, extending within 300 feet of the Canadian shoreline to the shoal upstream from Goat Island. The width of this rock filled barrier was approximately 40 feet and the height varied according to the river from 2 – 10 feet in depth.
To place the stone in the river, a cable way was constructed. Two 155 foot tall steel towers were built: one on the Canadian shoreline and the other on a man made island just inside the American boundary.
This island is known as “Tower Island” and it still exists today as a terminus for the Hydro Control Dam. To build this island, the US Army Corps of Engineers built a 2,200 foot causeway from the eastern end of Goat Island.
Ongoing government negotiations through 1949 resulted in the signing by both the American and Canadian Governments of the Niagara Water Diversion Treaty in February 1950. The treaty allowed Canada to divert 56,500 cubic feet of water per second and the allowed the USA to divert 32,500 cubic feet of water per second. Most importantly, this treaty declared that all the water in the river could be used for hydro generation. This provided that there was sufficient water to flow over the Falls in order to maintain its beauty.
In October 1950, the International Joint Committee was authorized to study and report on remedial work required for the preservation of the Falls. Their recommendations were approved July 22nd 1953.
During the following years, a 1,550 long Hydro Control Dam was built 250 feet downstream from the submerged barrier. The dam extended from the Canadian shoreline and was needed to regulate the water level in the Chippawa – Grass Island Pool.
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Kneading dough leads to the development of gluten and helps to uniformly distribute the gases that are produced by the yeast. This creates the conditions necessary for producing porous and spongy - in other words, delicious - yeast-based bread. Read on to learn how to knead dough like a professional.
Getting the Dough Ready to Knead
1Prepare a surface for kneading. It's easiest to knead dough on a flat surface that comes up to the level of your waist. Prepare a countertop, table, or another stable surface for kneading by cleaning it with warm, soapy water, then wiping it completely dry with a towel. Sprinkle flour over the dry surface so the dough won't stick when it's time to knead.
- Some recipes call for kneading the dough inside a bowl. In these cases the dough is usually only supposed to be kneaded for a minute or two. For recipes requiring a kneading period of more than three minutes, plan to use a flat surface instead.
- If you don't want to knead the dough directly on top of your table or countertop, you can line your work surface with parchment paper sprinkled with flour. Special nonstick surfaces designed to aid in kneading dough are available for purchase at baking stores.
2Combine the ingredients for your dough. Use the ingredient amount listed in the recipe you are using. Basic dough ingredients are usually flour, yeast, salt, and water. Mix the ingredients well with a wooden spoon in preparation for kneading.
- If loose flour is still sticking to the sides of your mixing bowl, the dough is not yet ready to knead. Keep stirring it with a spoon until all the ingredients are combined.
- If you're having trouble moving the wooden spoon through the dough, it's ready to be kneaded.
3Turn the dough onto your work surface. Dump it from the bowl directly onto the flat surface you prepared. It should form a loose, sticky ball. The dough is now ready to be kneaded.
Kneading the Dough
1Wash your hands before kneading. Kneading requires working the dough between your bare hands, so wash them and dry them well before you begin. Remove your rings and other jewelry that might get caught in the dough, and roll up your sleeves so they don't get sticky. Since you're working with a floured surface, you may want to protect your clothes with an apron.
2Gather the dough into a pile. When you first plunge your hands into the dough, it will be sticky and difficult to gather. Go ahead and work the dough with your hands, forming it into a ball, pressing it down and reshaping it. Continue doing so until the dough is no longer as sticky, and it becomes possible to shape it into a ball without the dough falling apart.
- If the dough doesn't seem to be losing its stickiness, sprinkle more flour over the top and work it into the dough.
- You can lightly dust your hands with flour to keep the dough from sticking too much.
3Punch the dough. Press the heels of your hands into the dough, pushing forward slightly. This is called "punching" the dough and helps the gluten start working. Continue doing this until the dough is slightly springy.
4Knead the dough. Fold the dough in half and rock forward on the heels of your hands to press it flat. Turn the dough slightly, fold it in half, and rock into it again with the heels of your hands. Repeat for 10 minutes, or as long as the recipe tells you the dough should be kneaded.
- The kneading process should be rhythmic and steady. Don't work too slowly; handle each part of the dough quickly, never letting it rest for too long between turns.
- 10 minutes is a long time to repeat a physical task. If you get tired, have someone else step in and continue the kneading process.
Knowing When to Stop Kneading
1Consider the texture. The dough starts out sticky and lumpy, but after 10 minutes of kneading it should be shiny and smooth. It should be tacky to the touch with an elastic feel. If any lumps or sticky parts remain, continue kneading the dough.
2Test if the dough holds its shape. Shape the dough into a ball and let it drop to your work surface. Did the ball shape stay intact? If the dough is ready, it should hold its shape.
3Pinch the dough. Dough becomes firmer as you knead it, just as winding a spring makes more winding more difficult. Pinch a bit of dough between your fingers. If it's ready, it will feel like an earlobe. When the dough is poked, it should spring back into shape.
4Continue the recipe. Most recipes instruct you to let the dough rise in a warm place for a few hours after the first kneading is finished. Once it has doubled in size, you may need to punch the dough down and knead it for a few more minutes, then let it rise again before baking.
- If you kneaded the dough until it was firm, springy and shiny, your bread should have a crunchy crust with a soft, chewy interior.
- If the dough was not thoroughly kneaded, the bread will turn out tough, dense and a little flat.
Should all purpose flour be used rather than self rising flour for yeast dough?wikiHow ContributorAlthough its not "bad" to use self rising flour together with yeast, for bread it's best to use normal flour, without rising agent. Just add salt, yeast and water. The yeast does the rising for the bread.
What causes the dough to break up into little pieces?wikiHow ContributorThis usually means too much flour has been worked into the dough. Add a tablespoon of water and work it in, only one tablespoon at a time, until a soft, doughy texture is attained. If the dough is too wet/sticky, work in a little flour to return to the correct texture.
- For any pastry not using yeast, you should probably knead only enough to obtain a smooth, even consistency and fully mix the ingredients. For bread, you want to build gluten, but gluten in recipes without yeast can make them tough.
- It's very difficult to over-knead by hand. It is definitely possible to over-knead with a mixer, though.
- Distinguish between bread flour (for recipes with yeast) and pastry flour (for recipes without yeast). The former will help you build gluten. The distinction is more important for whole wheat flour than it is for white or unbleached flour.
- Time your kneading, especially if the recipe suggests a time. 20 minutes can seem like a long time doing the same repetitive activity. Don't cut it short.
- Add flour as necessary to keep the dough from sticking. Generally, if you are making bread, you have added enough flour when the dough mostly stops sticking to the board. The amount will vary somewhat according to the moisture in the loaf. If you are making something else, such as biscuits, add flour according to the recipe plus just enough on the outsides to keep it from sticking too badly.
- Try not to tear the dough, just stretch it.
- A dough scraper can make cleanup easier. Anything with a straight but fairly blunt edge will do.
- Cool, dry hands are best for kneading.
- For easier cleanup, especially with sticky dough, wear latex disposable gloves when kneading.
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In other languages:
Italiano: Impastare la pasta per Pane e Pizza, Español: amasar, Português: Sovar Massas, Deutsch: Teig kneten, Nederlands: Deeg kneden, Français: pétrir de la pâte, 中文: 做香蒜面包, Русский: месить тесто, Bahasa Indonesia: Menguleni Adonan, Čeština: Jak hníst těsto, हिन्दी: डो (Dough) को गूंधें, Tiếng Việt: Nhào Bột, 日本語: パン生地をこねる
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If you have a structure with any portions of untreated or unpainted wood in South Carolina you are going to most likely meet the carpenter bee. These robust black and yellow bees resemble bumble bees; however, bumble bees have yellow fuzz on their abdomens while the abdomen of the carpenter bee is black and shiny. Only the females of both species have stingers but the carpenter bee is less likely to sting.
Beginning in March or April you will see carpenter bees hovering around your structure or even around you. A sure way to know you are dealing with these destructive pests is when you see them boring out holes in a wood portion of your structure. Sometimes the actual hole is hard to see but you can’t miss the mess of wood shavings and excrement on the face of your siding or piled below the hole. The female carpenter bee will make a hole about ½” in diameter into the wood then turn ninety degrees making a tunnel in the wood. This is where she lays her eggs and brings nectar and pollen to feed her young. If the bees are allowed to return year after year they can cause extensive damage. You want to stop this activity before birds find the larvae. Wood peckers will tear up the wood to get to these delectable treats. The buzzing sound inside the wood from the larvae might as well be a dinner bell.
The Pest Force can treat and patch the holes and also advise you on correcting the conditions that might be attracting carpenter bees.
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Debra Lambrecht, Founder, Caulbridge Education | August 6, 2014
Learning is the foundation for a human being to act and behave in new ways. While information alone can be valuable, learning develops a capacity to translate information into knowledge, knowledge into understanding, understanding into wisdom, and any of these into action. At the same time, acting or behaving in new ways can support healthy brain development and influence learning. Children experience the world through the senses; then interpret those experiences through the intellectual and emotional body, which leads to action.
Sensory processing and learning disorders are on the rise, with a recent study suggesting that one in six children experiences sensory challenges sufficient to disrupt their academic, social and/or emotional development. Whether these challenges result from environmental influences or a child’s particular circumstances, schools have become overwhelmed with special needs students, which in recent years has led to the growth of a relatively new industry of educational therapists, sensory integration specialists or occupational therapists offering services outside of school.
Caulbridge School integrates healthy sensory practices into the regular lessons and activities to support the student’s balanced development.
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Practice Relating to Rule 139. Respect for International Humanitarian Law
The Central African Republic’s Instructor’s Manual (1999) states in Volume 1 (Basic and team leader instruction): “Even though killing the enemy is their duty, combatants are obliged at all times to respect, and ensure respect for, the laws and customs of war, also known as the law of war.”
The Central African Republic’s Interdepartmental Order on the Dissemination of IHL (2008) states:
Art. 1: A Committee for the Dissemination of International Humanitarian Law to the Defence and Security Forces is created.
Art. 2: The committee is responsible for the coordination and the efficiency of International Humanitarian Law activities within the Defence and Security Forces.
In this respect, it is responsible for:
- Defining the standard norms for the rules of engagement [and for the] structure of orders within the Defence and Security Forces during their respective missions;
- Creating International Humanitarian Law cells in the units and services of the Defence and Security Forces present in territorial communities;
- Ensuring the application of International Humanitarian Law at the strategic, tactical and operational levels during the conduct of operations.
The Central African Republic’s Instructor’s Manual (1999) states in Volume 2 (Instruction for group and patrol leaders):
Each military commander is responsible for respect for the law of war within his sphere of command. Within his unit, he is in particular responsible for the instruction of the law of war in order to induce his troops to adopt a behaviour in conformity with the law and above all vis-à-vis specifically protected persons and objects.
I. GENERAL RESPONSIBILITY IN MILITARY OPERATIONS
As a rule, the commander of the forces carrying out a military operation is responsible for ensuring respect for the law of war. This responsibility extends to the civilian domain to the extent required by the law of war, in particular regarding cooperation with the civilian authorities.
In Volume 3 (Instruction for non-commissioned officers studying for the level 1 and 2 certificates and for future officers of the criminal police), the manual states:
Controlling execution is the final step in the command process. The aim is to ensure that the orders given to subordinates are executed as intended by the commander.
Control helps strengthen order and discipline. It enables the military commander to intervene and, if necessary, to correct the way an action is carried out or to take any appropriate measures.
Control allows the military commander to ensure that his subordinates respect and ensure respect for the law of war in their sphere of responsibility.
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Customer complaints of clicking, ticking, grinding or ratcheting noises from the front hubs during 2WD mode may be due to a mechanical or a vacuum related issue. The front hubs on the following applications are equipped with actuators referred to as Integrated Wheel Ends (IWE). These actuators function via engine vacuum and spring tension. Vehicles equipped with this hub arrangement include 2006-2020 F150 4×4 (except Raptor), 2003-2020 Expedition and Navigator 4×4.
On these applications, the front hubs are engaged during periods of no vacuum to the actuators. When vacuum is applied to the actuators, the front hubs are disengaged, resulting in the vehicle operating in the 2WD or free-wheeling mode. This disengagement prevents wear and tear on components and improves fuel economy, as major components such as half shafts, components in the front differential and the front driveshaft are not turning.
The clicking, ticking, grinding or ratcheting noises from the front hubs are usually the result of a partial engagement of an IWE. While the symptoms may be the
result of mechanical damage to the IWE, loss of vacuum is usually the culprit. The absence of vacuum locks the hubs in position for 4×4 operation. A partial vacuum loss can result in a partial engagement of the hubs and the gear teeth grinding or shearing. A loss of vacuum on one IWE can result in noise or damage
to the opposite IWE. Heavy acceleration resulting in a drop in manifold vacuum can affect engagement of the hubs.
If you have driven a vehicle with vacuum-operated windshield wipers, you can appreciate how throttle application can affect engine vacuum and the speed of the wipers. Under heavy throttle application, like ascending a steep grade, the wipers slow to a snail’s pace due to a loss of manifold vacuum. The same condition can affect the IWE engagement, especially when compounded by a partial vacuum leak.
For noise symptoms, perform some quick checks prior to removing the hub components to determine if mechanical damage has occurred to the teeth on the IWE. With the front end of the vehicle supported safely on jack stands, rotate each tire/wheel while observing the half shaft on each side.
With the engine off, the half shafts should rotate while turning the tire/wheel, as the IWEs should be engaged due to the absence of vacuum.
With the engine idling, the half shafts should not rotate while turning the tire/wheel, as the presence of vacuum disengages the IWEs.
A faulty check valve, solenoid, or leaking vacuum reservoir can result in a low vacuum condition. This can result in damage to the IWE teeth, requiring replacement of the components. The solenoid and check valve are common failure items. While performing a recent repair, we had difficulty obtaining the two components, as they were on backorder with Ford. The solenoid is often damaged due to water intrusion. Its position on the cowl makes it highly susceptible to water entry. Often, the water enters the solenoid and travels through the vacuum hoses, contaminating the IWEs, causing corrosion and thereby preventing engagement/disengagement of the hubs.
When driving the vehicle in 2WD, and you suspect partial engagement of one of the IWEs as the source of the noise, place the selector switch to a 4×4 position. If this eliminates the noise, partial engagement is the culprit. With the exception of an electrical check on the vacuum control solenoid, a handheld vacuum pump and vacuum gauge will perform most tests necessary to pinpoint the problem.
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Everyone looks to green hydrogen as the new frontier of fuels. But its storage and long-distance transport are still open challenges. Ammonia is an emerging alternative as an indirect storage medium for hydrogen.
So-called “green ammonia” provides a path to decarbonize various applications that still depend on fossil fuels. Ambitious zero-carbon energy targets rely heavily on renewables. But to ensure energy security from these intermittent sources, it is necessary to resort to energy carriers, with “green” hydrogen”, synthesized using renewable energy sources, usually the first to be considered.
Green hydrogen, made from water electrolysis using renewable energy, is the ideal candidate for clean energy generation. But there are several hurdles to overcome. Two of the main challenges are related to storage and transport. The lack of adequate infrastructure for the effective transportation of hydrogen requires expensive dedicated networks.
Large-scale storage of the gas, so necessary for the progression towards a hydrogen economy, also has severe limitations — the need for specially insulated cryogenic tanks and refrigeration units greatly increases weight and cost. The chemical conversion of hydrogen into another energy carrier can provide a solution.
Ammonia has a high hydrogen content and does not contain carbon. Obtained by the reaction of atmospheric nitrogen with hydrogen, it can be easily stored as a liquid at moderate pressures (10-15 bar) or refrigerated at -33°C. It can be conveyed around the world through the existing distribution network of pipelines, tankers and ships.
Furthermore, it could offer numerous other advantages, even as a zero-carbon fuel, because it can burn in vehicle engines or in power plants to generate electricity. When ammonia is produced from green hydrogen – making it “green ammonia” – these benefits have a significant impact.
However, ammonia has its limitations too. It is a toxic gas that produces nitrogen oxides. When burned at high temperatures, ammonia produces nitrogen dioxide, contributing to air pollution which causes acid rain and can damage respiratory systems.
Combustion also produces small amounts of nitrous oxide, a more harmful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and methane. It is therefore preferable to use fuel cells rather than an internal combustion engine; a fuel cell converts chemical energy into electrical energy without burning fuel, thus preventing the release of dangerous gases or particles into the air.
Different types of fuel cells have been studied, and their performance varies according to specific applications. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) are considered the most efficient power generation method. This type of fuel cell shows high energy conversion efficiency and a high degree of fuel flexibility.
A 2-megawatt system, fueled with ammonia, is installed on the Viking Energy supply ship in Norway and will be tested in 2024. There are several challenges to address before the technology can be fully exploited, such as increasing power density and reducing costs.
Several projects for the production of electricity from green ammonia are underway. Some are on a pilot scale. The EU HiPowAR (Highly Efficient Power Production By Green Ammonia Total Oxidation In A Membrane Reactor) project is testing an innovative technology for direct energy conversion of renewable ammonia fuel into electricity through a membrane reactor.
Compared to combustion engines and steam power plants, the new membrane reactor should provide greater energy conversion efficiency. It should also enable a breakthrough in the direct conversion of ammonia as an easily storable, carbon-free hydrogen carrier into usable energy.
Leading fertilizer companies are also actively involved. Fertiberia and Iberdrola have announced their intention to produce green ammonia for emission-free fertilizers. Spain could become one of the most important producers and exporters of green ammonia in Europe.
The initial investment of 150 million euros involves constructing a 100 MW photovoltaic solar field, a lithium-ion battery system with a storage capacity of 20 MWh, and an electrolyzer capable of producing about 360 kg/hour of hydrogen (20 MWel in). The green hydrogen produced will be used in the Puertollano Fertiberia ammonia plant to produce green fertilizers.
The latest fertilizer company to announce a massive green ammonia project is the Norwegian Yara International. To electrify and decarbonize its ammonia plant in Porsgrunn, they will replace the hydrogen from hydrocarbons with water electrolysis powered by renewable energy.
In partnership with Statkraft and Aker Horizons, Yara aims to produce emission-free fuel for shipping, carbon-free fertilizers and ammonia for industrial applications.
It plans to install electrolyzer capacity for 20,000 tons of ammonia per year by 2023. The company also has two other exciting pilot projects in store: one in Pilbara, Australia, with 3,500 tons of ammonia capacity from solar energy; another in Sluiskil, the Netherlands, with 70,000 tons of green ammonia capacity from wind energy.
The futuristic city of Neom in Saudi Arabia will host the largest and most ambitious project. Developed by a joint venture between Neom Town Hall, the Saudi company ACWA Power and the US Company Air Products, the facility will produce 1.2 million tons of green ammonia per year.
Green ammonia is not only a valid alternative to hydrogen as a carbon-free fuel. It can also help hydrogen’s cause. With the correct subsidies, there is a real potential to develop a renewable energy export market to kick-start the hydrogen economy.
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1. The Illiterate.
The illiterate, as they are known, are ignorant of the power of education. The predominance of them
see years spent in school as a waste of time.
2. People With Financial Crisis.
Another category of people who often say “Education does not guarantee success” are those who can’t afford to send their children to higher institution or the victims of these parents. They say this to console themselves.
3. People who give up when seeking admission.
The indolent people have never run out of excuses. They always have something to say to defend their inabilities. After they could have applied for admission for a number of times and couldn’t make it. They end up saying “Education does not guarantee success”.
4. People with poor grades.
Students with low grades are often scare of their chances of graduating well. They mostly have the phobia that their certificates will be inoperable. A good clause they used to soothe themselves is “Education does not guarantee success”.
5. Those who succeed without education.
Let me first congratulate this category of people for their achievements. This set of people at times discourage people from going to higher institution because of their success without the effect of education. They won’t use those who make it with education as examples but only themselves. Like the first category of people I mentioned above, they also see education as a waste of time. They constantly say ” Education does not guarantee success”.
According to me, It is true that education does not guarantee success but it is one of the prerequisite of success.
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The Evolution of the Role of the Product Manager
Watch our recorded webinar to hear a panel discussion on the current state of Product Management and how market forces continue to impact the art and science of product management.
Hear Kirsten Butzow of Pragmatic Marketing and Eric Boduch of Pendo, discuss:
- Industry trends like the rise of Agile Development
- The rapid adoption of Cloud and SaaS
- The ongoing emphasis on Design and UX, and the increasing importance of product data and analytics have impacted the skills, roles, and toolsets of Product Managers
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