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PAUL SHAPIRO was born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 26,1939. He grew up in the Boston area, eventually pursing a major in biology at Northeastern University from 1957 to 1958. However, after two years at Northeastern, Paul decided to become an artist and leave the university. He enrolled in night classes at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston at the beginning of 1959, in order to study drawing. A year later he entered the Museum's day school, which he attended until 1962.
In the early 1970s and '80s, Paul made three summer trips to New Mexico. In 1982 he permanently relocated to Santa Fe because of his involvement with landscape painting. The paintings he produced during this period have been described as "volatile dramas whose colors and outlines are compressed energy held in check by the edges of the paintings." [Mary Carroll Nelson, American Artist. 1985.] Pauls body of landscape works were and remain a major influence on the look of landscape paintings in the Southwest.
In 1990, Paul abandoned the landscape focus and returned to a more abstract approach in his work. Many of the color and black-and-white paintings from that period are represented on this site. In 2004, his style again evolved, incorporating newly discovered techniques for applying acrylic paint. He named the output of this discovery The Quantumscape Series. Paul defines this body of work as a metaphorical depiction of a pre-matter state with different energy structures at work—a new kind of landscape that is very appropriate for the near future.
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It is expected that 66 percent of the world's population will live in urban centers by 2050, making it critical for governments and other stakeholders to put strategies in place to more effectively meet the needs of their growing populations. Intelligent ICT and IoT platforms have essential roles to play in the evolution of smart cities. The study concluded that many cities are already leveraging these technologies to optimize services and infrastructure, make better-informed decisions, boost economic development, encourage social interactions and make their communities safer and eco-friendly while improving the delivery of a range of public services.
Osvaldo Di Campli, head of Global Enterprise & Public Sector, Nokia, said: "The process of making a city smart is extremely complex, and there are so many different strategies being put forward in the market that choosing the right path for your city can be an enormous challenge. Our goal in commissioning this report by Machina Research was to cut through the clutter and identify strategies that are clearly working for cities. As a global leader in the technologies that connect people and things, Nokia clearly has a great interest in helping bring clarity to the market, and to identify important focus areas. We look forward to helping cities develop the shared, secure and scalable networks and platforms needed to enable the human possibilities of smart, safe and sustainable cities."
Jeremy Green, Principal Analyst at Machina Research and author of the Smart City Playbook, said: "No one said becoming a smart city would be easy. There are lots of choices to be made. The technology and the business models are evolving rapidly, so there are many degrees of uncertainty. Standards are emerging but are by no means finalised. So there is no 'royal road' to smartness. But there is a right way to travel - with your eyes open, with realistic expectations, and with a willingness to learn from others. That includes other cities that might face the same problems as you, even if in a different context. It includes the suppliers, who may have learned from their experiences elsewhere, including in other verticals. It includes start-ups, who can be great innovators; and most of all, it includes the city's own inhabitants, who are your real partners for the journey."
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235442
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A chest X-ray is an imaging test that used to look at the structures and organs in your chest. It can help your physician see how well your heart and lungs are functioning. The X-ray uses a small amount of radiation to make pictures of these areas.
If you have any questions about having a chest X-ray, please discuss with your physician.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235444
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The increasing rate of arthroplasty, revisions and resistance to antibiotics has increased the risk for fungal infections. Different treatment modalities exist: suppressive therapy, debridement with retained prosthesis, Girdlestone procedures and 2- or even 3-stage revision arthroplasty. Fungal infections after joint replacements are rare but devastating. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY : The aim was to see if there was any trend that could help with the diagnosis and management of patients with fungal infections. The literature was reviewed in order to assist with diagnosis and treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS : A retrospective study was performed and all the cases seen and treated by a tumour and sepsis orthopaedic specialist from 1999 to 2015 were evaluated. Inclusion criteria: Patients had to be diagnosed with a fungal infection in any specimen which was sent for histology or culture. Exclusions: none. RESULTS : Four patients were identified. All of them were males. Mean age 58 (35–71) years. The primary surgical indications were: vertebral osteomyelitis; post primary knee replacement; pig bite with lower limb sepsis and osteoarthritis knee, and a septic total hip replacement. Three cases cultured Candida parapsilosis and one Candida albicans of which three were tissue cultures and one a blood culture. Currently 75% have failed treatment – one passed away, one developed systemic sepsis, and one had an above-knee amputation and is still struggling with subsequent bacterial infections in the amputation stump. CONCLUSION : As long as there are higher incidences of fungal infections with devastating complications more evidence is needed. Numerous small case studies have been published, with the purpose of looking for the correct treatment: monotherapy, combination therapy, newer antifungals, higher dosages, implant retention or removal. It appears that the correct answer is unclear as yet. It is important to always have a high index of suspicion and good pre-operative planning together with a team approach: infectious diseases specialist, microbiologist and histologist. This approach will optimise the probability of making a diagnosis and to appropriately manage the fungus cultured.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235447
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Interested in obtaining your GED® certification in Rigby ID? The examination is for adults who do not have their high school diploma. The certificate that you receive upon passing the Idaho GED® test is accepted as an equivalent credential to a high school diploma by employers and colleges across the United States.
The examination tests basic subjects that students are taught in high school. Lessons taught in GED® classes include reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. These are the subject areas that make up the test in Idaho.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235451
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Exploring Aristotle's philosophical strategy and the advantages of his conclusions, Irwin right here exhibits how Aristotle defended dialectic opposed to the objection that it can't justify a metaphysical realist's claims. He focuses fairly on Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of brain, and ethics, stressing the connections among doctrines which are frequently mentioned separately.
Julie okay. Ward examines Aristotle's idea concerning how language informs our perspectives of what's actual. First she areas Aristotle's thought in its ancient and philosophical contexts in terms of Plato and Speusippus. Ward then explores Aristotle's conception of language because it is deployed in numerous works, together with Ethics, themes, Physics, and Metaphysics, that allows you to give some thought to its relation to dialectical perform and medical rationalization as Aristotle conceived it.
Christopher Gill offers a brand new translation and statement at the first 1/2 Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and a whole creation to the Meditations as a complete. The Meditations represent a distinct and noteworthy paintings, a reflective diary or computer by means of a Roman emperor, that's in keeping with Stoic philosophy yet provided in a hugely specified means.
Human lives are packed with pleasures and pains. And people are creatures which are capable of imagine: to profit, comprehend, consider and keep in mind, plan and count on. historic philosophers have been drawn to either one of those evidence and, what's extra, have been attracted to how those proof are on the topic of each other.
During this quantity, Cotton examines Plato's rules approximately schooling and studying. With a specific concentrate on the reports a learner needs to battle through in constructing philosophical realizing, the e-book argues reader's event may be parallel in variety and cost to that of the interlocutors we see talking within the dialogues, in constituting studying.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235452
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San Antonio podiatrist, Dr. Ed Davis, discusses heel pain.
Most heel pain is caused by mechanical issues such as heel pain due to plantar fasciitis. There are numerous causes of heel pain so getting a proper diagnosis is important. I see a number of patients with heel pain that they beleive is caused by plantar fasciitis but the symptoms are not relieved by common treatments for plantar fasciitis. Such cases often involve other causes of heel pain.
1) Gout Gout is a metabolic disease in which the body collects too much of a waste product, uric acid. Uric acid levels can be raised because the body makes too much uric acid or because it has difficulty excreting it.
2) Rheumatoid arthritis Rheumatoid arthritis is a form of arthritis due to antibodies formed to the bodies own tissues, most commonly tissues in joints. It is a fairly common cause of heel pain.
3) Reiter's syndrome, ankylosing spondylitits and psoriatic arthritis This group of arthritic conditions are known as HLA-B27 arthritides due to the gene involved and can cause heel pain.
4) Osteoid osteoma This is a benign tumor of the heel bone that often causes heel pain at night.
5) Stress fracture A stress fracture is a fracture, often a hairline fracture, that is caused by overuse. The best way to visualize a stress fracture is to take a paper clip and bend it several times. It may break in two by the fourth bend but consider if that paper clip is normal after it has been bent 3 times. A magnifying glass or microscope would show tiny fractures in the paperclip at that point. Unlike the paper clip, our bodies are building up tissue and breaking them down. If the breakdown process exceeds the repair then stress fractures can occur. Stress fractures are more likely to occur when bone is weakened as in osteoporosis or osteopenia.
6) Infections Infections of the heel bone can occur due to direct trauma such as puncture wounds or spread from nearby wounds. Infections in other parts of the body such as dental infections can spread by the blood to the heel.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235454
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Organic waste is anything that has been produced by or involves leftovers of biological material. This can be old food, compost, bones, wood, brush, leaves, animal waste, and similar. As long as the material came from an animal or plant or is the remains of either in some form or manner, then it counts as organic waste.
How is Orgaworld helping to preserve our environment?
Orgaworld Canada is active in the preservation of our environment by using innovative technology to process organic waste into high quality products such as soil conditioners/additives, compost, and other agricultural consumer products.
How is this an alternative to landfill?
By diverting a large amount of biological waste from landfills, Orgaworld reduces the amount of space organic waste takes up, and frees up space for non-organic waste, and it recycles biological material for re-use, often in the form of soil products which can be beneficial in creating new food products.
What are the benefits of using Orgaworld compost and soil additives?
Because Orgaworld compost and soil additives are so rich in biological material, they provides the best mix available of nutrients and proteins that plants need to thrive and grow. This is evident by simply doing a comparison. Take a plant and grow it in a pot of normal soil. Do the same in a pot of Orgaworld compost. The difference in place size, speed of growth, thickness, and color will be apparent, with sun and water and other environmental factors being equal.
Why is it important to reduce the need of chemical additives?
Chemical additives are not natural. While they can help products last longer or react differently, they leave lasting traces of the chemical substance used. In some cases, the same chemicals in greater amounts have been found to be carcinogenic, which means they have the potential to cause cancer in living things.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235455
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The premise that idioms are an important feature in second language learning and teaching is what underpinned the present study. The aim is to investigate what teaching method is the most effective for idiom retention; etymological elaboration or context elaboration. It is a small scale study run focusing on two groups of 9th grade students were approximately 80% of the students had Swedish as their mother tongue, whilst the remaining 20% had other languages. One group of 18 students where taught 15 opaque idioms. The idioms were presented with their etymology. The preference group consisted of 19 students and the same idioms were presented to this group in context. A pre-test was given to both groups in order to establish what idioms they already knew. A post-test was run immediately after the ecture, where the idioms were presented either in context or with their etymology, in order to determine the methods’ effect on immediate retention. After three weeks, a second post-test was run in order to discover the degree to which the idioms had reached the students’ longterm memory and compare the two teaching techniques accordingly. A questionnaire was also conducted in order to gauge out the students’ idiom awareness and to what degree they believed that the teaching method helped them to remember the idioms.
The results of the study show that both teaching techniques are beneficial on idiom retention. Context elaboration, however, turned out to be most effective on immediate- and long-term retention.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235457
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The cute little penguins have numbers on their bellies. Which are larger or smaller? Help the penguins sort it out on this exciting worksheet! Use this compare numbers 1-10 worksheet for kindergarten to practice comparing numbers and growing your child’s number sense in a motivational way!
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235461
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The Convair F-106 Delta Dart was equipped with this seat designed by Weber Aircraft. It was a replacement for a seat known as the Convair Rotational 'B' seat. That seat was designed specifically to address many of the high speed ejections. This one was optimized for the lower speed, and zero-zero applications. It was the first and only seat man-rated for zero-zero applications by a United States company. Although most later seats were capable of zero-zero use, they were not human tested for that.
This seat belongs to Jean Potvin, a parachute rigger and researcher who has become interested in ejection seats. He is a member of Parks College Parachute Research Group. The seat itself is from an F-106A. The parachute shown is a BA-18. Later seats were equipped with BA-24 force deployed parachutes.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235463
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Supplements or natural Vitamin C?
Definitely, eat vitamin-rich foods first and then supplement if needed.
Vitamin C is essential to our health as it is essential for the growth and repair of tissues in all parts of your body.
We can’t produce Vitamin C and we can’t store it that’s why it’s so important to make sure we provide our body with enough Vitamin C throughout a day.
Vitamin C is not just lemons. You can easily eat your healthy daily dose.
Recommended daily intake is 100-200mg but each one of us will have different needs of Vitamin C depending on the lifestyle we have.
It’s good to note that Vitamin C is very fragile and cooking, cutting even storing, bruising and light exposure is decreasing the Vitamin C levels in the fruit or vegetable.
The good thing is that there is always enough Vitamin C left for you to benefit from. It’s best to eat raw fruit and veg, or steamed to get the most of Vitamin C. Cooking in water is most harmful to Vitamin C.
Of course, there are times when supplements are needed. If you feel you need an extra boost of Vitamin C take supplements, just choose a brand you can trust.
The good news is that one orange will give you approx 71 mg of Vitamin C and bell peppers even more than that. You can eat enough Vitamin C to keep you healthy. You can start with orange and raspberry smoothie aka immune booster.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235464
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Each year during National African American History Month, as we explore the history and culture of African Americans, we discover anew a treasure of stories about the triumph of the human spirit, inspiring accounts of everyday people rising above the indignities imposed by prejudice. These stories are not only an important part of African American history, but an essential part of American history. We are awakened to such stories through the power, beauty, and unflinching witness of poets and writers like Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. We find them in the lives and voices of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and others who, rising above slavery, brutality, and bigotry, became great American champions of liberty, equality, and dignity. We see them written in the achievements of civil rights leaders like Daisy Bates, James Farmer, John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Mary Church Terrell, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young.
The theme of this year's African American History Month is "Heritage and Horizons: The African American Legacy and the Challenges of the 21st Century." It is a reminder that the new century on which we have just embarked offers us a unique opportunity to write our own chapter in the history of African Americans and of our Nation. We can use this time of extraor-dinary prosperity and peace to widen the circle ofopportunity in America, to recognize that our society's rich diversity is one of our greatest strengths, and to unite around the fundamental values that we all share as Americans. We can teach our children that America's story has been written by men and women of every race and creed and ethnic background. And we can ensure that our laws, our actions, and our words honor the rights and dignity of every human being.
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Source: In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. 1992. Proceedings of the 1991 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1991 April 7-9; Saratoga Springs, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-160. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 139-141.
A survey of holders of a 1989 New Hampshire oyster-harvesting license revealed that recreational oyster harvesting is pursued mostly by older men. The 1988 closing of some parts of Great Bay to oyster harvesting resulted in license holders' taking one fewer trip and taking about six minutes longer to harvest one bushel of oysters in 1989. The average annual harvest also decreased almost one bushel. Respondents generally believed that Great Bay oysters were safe to eat. The majority of respondents were not interested in oyster depuration but were willing to contribute toward a fund dedicated to oyster-bed management. Logit analysis revealed that the probability of willingness to contribute to an oyster-bed management fund decreases when the respondent's annual income is smaller than $20,000, and when the respondent's oyster-harvesting experience is fifteen years or fewer.
In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. 1992. Proceedings of the 1991 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1991 April 7-9; Saratoga Springs, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-160. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. p. 139-141.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235468
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Dropping temperatures force insects to start seeking shelter, which means Kentucky homeowners are already getting some unwanted visitors.
While it’s only the first part of October, entomologists with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment are receiving complaints about brown marmorated stink bugs inside and outside homes across Kentucky, said Ric Bessin, UK extension entomologist.
The native of Asia is a major nuisance along the East Coast since it was first found in packing material in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1998. The stink bug was first found in October 2010 in Kentucky and is now in more than 40 Kentucky counties.
Once inside homes, the stink bug releases an odor that smells like cilantro as a defensive mechanism.
The best thing homeowners can do to prevent stink bug problems is to pest proof their residences, Bessin said. This includes sealing off openings into the buildings where wires and pipes come in and any cracks or tears in window or door screens. Homeowners may also want to spray an insecticide around the exterior perimeter of their home. Those wanting more information about how to pest proof their home can refer to UK Entomology’s ENTFACT 641, which can be found online at .
Homeowners who find stink bugs in their residences should vacuum them rather than sweep or crush them. Sweeping or crushing them may cause them to emit an odor or leave a stain, Bessin said.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235470
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Participants must pre-register and bring their own bicycles and helmets to participate.
Sugar Land has identified a plan that includes 24 miles of bike lanes, an additional 18 miles of on-street shared lanes for bicycles and 128 miles of pedestrian and bike paths.
Pedestrian and bicycle paths not only improve fitness, recreation and mobility, but also have the potential to make a positive contribution to the environment.
“When we provide an alternative to automobiles, we create the potential to reduce carbon emissions and provide future generations with a healthy, vibrant community,” said Valenzuela.
Bike to Work day takes place during National Bicycle month. National Bicycle Month is celebrated nationwide and is an opportunity for local cyclists to spread awareness of bicycling opportunities in the community and to share the efforts being taken to make the city of Sugar Land a safe environment for bicyclists. It is also an ideal time to stress the importance of knowing and following state and local laws that apply to bicyclists, sharing the road legally with motorists and demonstrating the bicycle as a useful form of transportation. The city of Sugar Land encourages all riders to wear bright clothing, travel in the direction of traffic, stop at all stop signs and traffic lights and follow all traffic laws.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235472
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Using diphenhydrAMINE together with eslicarbazepine may increase side effects such as dizziness, drowsiness, confusion, and difficulty concentrating. Some people, especially the elderly, may also experience impairment in thinking, judgment, and motor coordination. You should avoid or limit the use of alcohol while being treated with these medications. Also avoid activities requiring mental alertness such as driving or operating hazardous machinery until you know how the medications affect you. Talk to your doctor if you have any questions or concerns. It is important to tell your doctor about all other medications you use, including vitamins and herbs. Do not stop using any medications without first talking to your doctor.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235473
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Keep this in mind, death has an assignment. This is true because God is a God of purpose who creates everything with a purpose. Nothing exists that was not created by God. Because death exists, it must have a purpose. The key, then, is understanding death and discovering its purpose.
There are two definitions of death. The first one is this: Death is the extinction of vital functions to the point where they cannot be renewed". This definition applies to the lower order of life. For man, death is either "the separation of the soul and the spirit from the physical body", or "the separation of man, as an entire entity--body, soul and spirit--from God, his Creator".
The Constitution tells us that death is the penalty of sin.
Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread through all men, because all sinned.
We know, however, that Adam lived many years after he was driven from the garden and the tree of life.
Genesis 5:5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
Death, from God's perspective, must thus be the separation of man from Himself. He isn't so concerned with the length of your years as to the state of your relationship with Him. It would seem, then, that the problem is not death, but the effect of sin on death.
Now here is something that one should always remember. Killing is death before the completion of one's purpose. Dying is death after purpose has been fulfilled. Death before the completion of purpose is murder because it stops you from doing all you came to the earth to do. This wasn't death's original purpose.
II Timothy 4:6-7 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is at hand. 7) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Constitution John 10:18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. This command I have received of My Father.
So when Jesus had finished His purpose, He stated: It is finished!
Remember this: Satan uses death for termination. The Lord intended death for transition.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235475
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A study by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team finds that neurogenesis – inducing the production of new neurons – in the brain structure in which memories are encoded can improve cognitive function in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Their investigation shows that those beneficial effects on cognition can be blocked by the hostile inflammatory environment present in the brain of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and that physical exercise can “clean up” the environment, allowing new nerve cells to survive and thrive and improving cognition in the Alzheimer’s mice. Read more.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235478
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235480
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I was watching The Project on Channel 10 tonight and yet again… there was a story about how us humans need our sleep.
I always read, watch, or listen to stories about how we need sleep with a bit of a smile. The reason I smile, is mostly because I can’t help but feel a level of smugness that every night, I am giving myself the best chance of getting the restorative rest that I need to function each day because I sleep by myself.
The Project’s story reported that 66% of people regularly have sleepless nights. Are you a %age in that statistic?
We need sleep to help our metabolism keep working over night, which is why people who don’t get enough sleep often struggle with their weight. But that’s not all. There are so many health risks associated with not getting enough sleep at night – it’s frightening.
Dr Andrew Rochford (who I think is just a bit cute), who was sitting on the panel said that “One part of health that we neglect the most often and place the least amount of importance on”.
When you continue to sleep with a partner who keeps you awake night after night, what are you achieving? I am always surprised by the number of people who prioritise projecting the image of a ‘successful’ relationship over getting a good night’s sleep.
Not only is there a loooonnnnnggggg list of physical health implications to be faced by not getting enough rest every night, sleeplessness has serious social, emotional and mental implications. It’s just not worth it.
If you are staying put in your shared bed and waking tired every day, I strongly urge you to do some research. Start with the video from The Project, let the smooth talking Dr Rochford convince you of the benefits of sleep, then hop on the internet and start researching.
Google “What happens when you don’t get enough sleep” and set aside some time to take it all in.
Sleeping 101 is very easy to pass. It might just involve an excursion to another room though as field study.
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Students will love exploring these six multimedia reference books, each on a favorite topic: The Body, Homes, Transport, Pets, The Seashore, and Plants. Each book is divided into 10 relevant sections which students can freely investigate using the straightforward navigation controls. All on-screen text is supported by full narration and highlighting. This resource features high-quality graphics and animations, a search facility to develop information retrieval skills, and stimulating interactive tasks to check understanding. The range of inclusion features (such as switch access) allow the program to be accessible to a wide range of students.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235491
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Heaping praise on pupils in the classroom for good work may not help them improve their marks, according to new research.
Pupils can be made to feel teachers had little faith in them to begin with if they are laden with compliments, a report by the Sutton Trust education charity found.
Praising students and allowing children time to reach the answer on their own are two methods frequently used by teachers which are not backed up by evidence, according to the research.
Instead, quality of teaching and the teacher's subject knowledge are the two factors that make the biggest difference in a child's academic achievement, the report said.
The study, produced by Durham University for the Sutton Trust, is based on a review of more than 200 pieces of research on how to develop good teachers.
While giving pupils praise could be effective, in some cases it could be counterproductive, the study said.
It examined a number of common teaching methods to see if any of them made a difference to results.
Great teaching cannot be achieved by following a recipe, but there are some clear pointers in the research to approaches that are most likely to be effective, and to others, sometimes quite popular, that are not.
Teachers need to understand why, when and how a particular approach is likely to enhance students' learning and be given time and support to embed it in their practice.
However, top head Susan Papas was sceptical about not praising children.
While the no-nonsense head, who banned parents from smoking at the school gate, felt the Sutton Trust's report made "some interesting points", she felt it was "important" to praise children for good schoolwork.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235492
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One Step Closer to Jurassic Park?
Amber is fossilized tree resin, hardened over time into a natural plastic. Many people know of amber from the film Jurassic Park, in which scientists extract DNA from blood of dinosaurs that had been bitten by insects that were then entombed in amber. Sadly, however, DNA of non-avian dinosaurs (i.e., all dinosaurs except their descendants, birds) has never been successfully extracted from amber or any other fossil.
Deinocroton ticks. This suggests that these ticks fed on feathered dinosaurs!
Whether the newly-described fossil tick specimens contain traces of dinosaur blood is something that future analyses might tackle. Some of these Deinocroton ticks, including the blood-engorged specimen, have been donated to Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) by one of the study’s coauthors, Pittsburgh-area geologist and amber collector Scott Anderson. The fossils have been formally incorporated into CMNH’s Invertebrate Paleontology collection and will eventually be put on public display.
Top view of the ~100 million-year-old Deinocroton tick from Myanmar that may contain remnants of blood, possibly dinosaur blood.
The same ~100 million-year-old Deinocroton tick from below.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235493
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As a learning exercise I'm crating a simple math game now I already have the basics figured out but there is one stubborn problem that I can't figure out how to solve when I hit the submit button I always get the same response my answer is incorrect even if the answer given was correct.
The first rule of debugging is to verify what's going on. In this case you want to know what $response actually is before you go assuming all kinds of things about it.
As to the problem at hand, since you're using a strict comparison I suspect the problem is simply that you're comparing a string to a number. You could either convert $responce to a number like $responce = (float)$responce or reduce the strictness by going for !=.
What is 43 + 327 ?
What is 621 + 666 ?
Now as you can see when I hit the submit button the random values change thus changing the answer, and therefore no matter what answer I input it's always wrong.
As you can see the answer value is being over written each time the submit button is pressed so when I come to retrieve it to do the check the check fails because the value has changed so I need to figure out how to store the value correctly so it wont change when the submit button is pressed.
Even though I striped this down to make it easier to track down what's causing the glitch I still have basically the same problem now granted this is all on one page but it shouldn’t really make any difference and in fact when I tried splitting it across 2 pages I still got the same issue so clearly I'm still missing something, so far the only way I have gotten this to work correctly is to use a hidden field but I though the idea of using a session was that it was supposed to eliminate the need to do that as the value is already stored on the server therefore meaning I simply need to grab the users input and then compare the two to see if they match.
//1.) the submit button has not been pressed.
//2.) or the user got the question wrong.
//3.) or the user got the question right.
so that the answer value will only be updated if submit has not been pressed if the user got the question wrong or the user got the question right.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235494
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– In Western Hudson Bay, we predict that climate warming-induced litter size declines will jeopardize population viability.
– About 28% of pregnant females failed to reproduce for energetic reasons during the early 1990s, but 40-73% could fail if spring sea ice break-up occurs one month earlier than during the 1990s, and 55-100% if break-up occurs two months earlier. Simultaneously, mean litter size would decrease by 22-67% and 44-100%, respectively.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235495
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The shoulder joint enables the motions of the head and the neck, as well as the arms. Since the arms move and rotate in many different positions, to the front, above, to the side, and behind the body, the shoulder joint has to be very flexible. As much as the shoulder’s flexibility allows for a range of movements, it is also the main reason for this joint’s vulnerability. The multiple and complex functions of the shoulder make it prone to instability and injury.
There are several different types of shoulder injuries and conditions, mostly caused by repetitive motions or traumas to the shoulder. Despite the fact that some shoulder injuries are caused by the heavy lifting or throwing typical for physically intensive jobs, other shoulder injuries are caused by everyday motions that do not require much effort.
One occupation that comes with a substantial amount of shoulder injuries is nursing. According to data, nursing assistants are injured a lot more than other high-risk jobs, and the number one reason for that is the everyday task of moving and lifting patients of various weights.
Our sweet patient and ICU nurse Roda Aguilar suffered from a painful shoulder injury at work. After a lot of stress, obstacles, and pain, Roda received several recommendations from fellow nurses to go see Dr. Armin Tehrany at Manhattan Orthopedic Care. Dr. Tehrany and the MOC team gave Roda the comfortable, safe and exemplary care she needed, and successfully enabled her to go back to her noble job at full capacity.
Receiving such a wonderful note from a medical professional is extremely rewarding for our practice, and we are more than motivated to continue providing the utmost care to the colleagues that take care of others.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235497
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Hans Schäufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945. Then, as an infantryman, he took part in the doomed defense of Danzig and made a daring escape across the Baltic in a small boat. This is his story, and it is the story of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who were caught up in the chaos and tragedy of the German retreat. His eyewitness account is one of the most revealing records we have of the experience of the collapse of the Third Reich in the east.
As well as giving a vivid insight into the German army’s tactics as they fell back before the Soviet advance, he describes the appalling conditions and the fear and panic that gripped the city. Acute shortages of men, equipment, ammunition and fuel crippled the defense, but extraordinary resilience, heroism and ingenuity still motivated the soldiers who were fighting for a lost cause and facing certain defeat.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235498
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Why Do We Hate The Sound of Our Own Voice?
Almost everybody has said or thought it: 'I just hate the sound of my own voice'. We each hear our own voice more than anyone else's, so why should this be? Turns out it's all about anatomy.
You know the feeling: you record your outgoing voicemail message, play it back to check you didn't mispronounce your own name, and UGH - is that really what I sound like?!
Since the very first voice recording in 1860, humans have had the opportunity to hear themselves as others hear them; and we frequently abhor it. Tinny, whiny, nasal - we're hyper-critical of this new perspective on a sound we thought we knew well.
To understand why we sound so different to ourselves, we need to look at the two ways in which our voice is heard - to ourselves, and to others. When others hear us speak, the sound hits their ear drum from the outside. When we hear ourselves, the sound also travels through the inside of our heads, conducted through the bones of the skull before reaching the ear drum. This second pathway amplifies the lower frequency vibrations, resulting in a deeper-sounding voice.
Listening to a recording of ourselves eliminates this second pathway for the sound waves, so we only hear the higher frequency vibrations - no wonder it sounds weird! You can experience the opposite effect by stuffing your fingers into your ears: try it now, sounds deeper right?
It is possible to get used to the 'real' sound of your voice, of course. Singers and public speakers must constantly monitor how they sound to others, using recordings and feedback to hone their voice. Getting the balance right for others will not sound 'right' inside your own head. There are even websites out there with instructions for how to fix what you think is wrong with your voice.
It may be comforting to know that you are the only one who experiences this incongruity with your voice. Unless your phone voice is dramatically different to your everyday speaking voice, your listening audience has only ever heard you one way; to them, you sound 'normal'. It's also nice to know that we all have this weirdness in common, due to our shared vocal anatomy. Rest assured, it isn't just you - we're all listening to ourselves through a resonant, echoing bone cave.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235500
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"token_count": 487
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There are probably many different small marsupials living on our farm and around our house. However, because they are nocturnal, we onyl see them occasionally.
This little fella, a Western Pygmy Possum (Cercartetus concinnus), fell into a plasic bucket in our shed, probably looking for food, and could not get out anymore. When it got cold during the night, it entered into hibernation. We found it, curled up in a thight ball, with its large, floppy ears folded down over its eyes, and its hands scrunched up into tiny fists (picture below from Australian Geographic).
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235504
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 134
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The three factors are the species of wood, the space between joists and the at each end to the rim joist to create a support structure for the decking boards.
Choose the heartwood of natural lumber, which contains these chemicals. Manufacturers Joist spacing also determines how thick your deck boards must be.
Mar 12, 2015 Spacing the deck boards is important because it allows water to flow through the When you lay down wet lumber it is possible to but them up tightly water and or wet debris accumulated on the joist between the boards.
How much will decking move throughout the year?
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235505
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"token_count": 123
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Today’s students live in a global society. But does that mean they can function effectively in that multicultural environment? That same question may be put to school librarians. Furthermore, in what ways can today’s school librarians facilitate global awareness and competence?
This Knowledge Quest issue addresses international aspects of school librarianship, as shared by U.S. and Canadian leaders. The inspiration for this issue arose from my own activities in international school librarian professional associations, particularly the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). I had the honor to plan and host the 2017 IASL international conference on my campus, where 200 librarians, educators, and vendors from 28 countries shared their expertise.
This issue draws from those experiences. To start with, what multicultural competencies are needed to be successful in today’s world? Michelle Villagran offers a four-part model that improves both personal well-being as well as interpersonal relationships.
School librarianship itself reflects both universal values and culture-sensitive ways of manifesting those values, which the IFLA School Libraries Guidelines demonstrates. Dianne Oberg shares the development and deployment of those guidelines.
To help school librarians understand how their global counterparts implement effective programs, they can read the IASL journal School Libraries Worldwide. Karen Gavigan synthesizes studies from that publication, which can be particularly useful for school librarians who work with students from different cultures. Jennifer Branch-Mueller details her own research on school librarianship from the point of view of school librarian educators from six continents.
First-hand cross-cultural experience offers an authentic, and sometimes life-changing, experience for school librarians. Barbara Schultz-Jones details years of study abroad programs, and Connie Champlin and her colleagues share library-related Peace Corps experiences. On a personal note, my own Peace Corps experience motivated me to pursue a doctorate so that I could teach school librarianship.
Finally Nancy Everhart explores the benefits of joining international school library organizations in her online exclusive.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235508
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Many online forms have demands for long lists of options, most commonly states, provinces, and countries. Validating the data entered into those forms can also mean checking against reams of information: determining if an areacode is valid, for instance.
Collated by Dave Ross: offers lists of US states, Canadian provinces and minor possessions in CSV, SQL, HTML and PHP formats.
Offers all of the official countries of the world as an HTML <select> form code chunk, in English, French and Spanish. Lots of other information sources too.
A free geographical database with over 8,000,000 placenames, including zipcodes, largest cities and highest mountains.
A Free JSON-based API that pulls postal and zip codes for over 50 countries.
Maps locations to physical coordinates (for example, given a longitude and latitude, Geocoder can provide the zip code). Currently (and rather stupidly) being sued by Canada Post over the legal ownership of postal codes.
Finally, Saša Stamenković has a list of all countries in all languages and data formats. Seperately, Kasabi was an effort to create open datasets; while the site was recently shuttered, many of the datasets are archived on S3 and the Internet Archive.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235511
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The aim of physics is to understand how nature works on all scales of distance and time and for all forms of matter and energy. The discipline requires careful observation and experimentation followed by hypotheses and eventually theories that explain the many phenomena manifested by nature and that are testable by new experiments. In short, the very definition of physics involves studies that take place over the entire world and by necessity encompasses a universe of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. An excellent academic department should continually seek to accomplish its missions of research, teaching, and service to the university, the state and the nation through the application of its discipline. It is the belief of the Physics and Astronomy Department that any person with a curiosity about the physical universe can benefit from studying the discipline and that anyone with sufficient talent, interest, and dedication can contribute to the department’s academic mission. It is important to be able to recognize and develop excellence in all people who can contribute to that mission as the problems at the leading edge of physics require the very best of human intellect for timely progress in our knowledge to occur. No science department can maintain its own excellence if it fails to attract the very best people from wherever they may have come to arrive at our doorstep. Hence, diversity across the range of human experience, ideas and ideologies is vital to the Physics and Astronomy department and we express our re-commitment to the pursuit of diversifying our faculty, post-graduate researchers, graduate students and undergraduate majors.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235521
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"token_count": 294
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Dominica is the first of eight Caribbean countries to participate in a Japan funded Climate Change Partnership.
The Government of Japan has provided financial and technical support for the Japan Caribbean Climate Change Partnership under the United Nations Development Program, (UNDP), and sub-regional office for Barbados.
The project aims to support countries in the process of inclusive low emissions risk resilient development by improving energy security and integrating medium to long term planning for adaptation to climate change.
The project was launched on Friday April 8th.
The islands of the Caribbean are some of the most beautiful places on Earth, which is why they are among the most popular tourist destinations.
But those same island nations also suffer from some of the highest electricity prices in the world, a factor that fuels poverty, helps grow their national debts and blocks their ability to plan for sustainable development. Because relatively little of that electricity comes from renewable sources, these countries spend large portion of their GDP importing fossil fuels, money that could otherwise be spent growing their economies.
And while these islands don’t contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, they suffer an outsized impact from climate change, with rising sea levels, hotter temperatures and extreme weather events such as hurricanes.
That’s why Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson’s climate group the Carbon War Room (CWR), now partnered with Amory Lovins’ think tank the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), created the Ten Island Challenge to encourage these nations to tap into their abundant supply of sun and wind. The challenge was kicked off last year at the Creating Climate Wealth Islands Summit to start collecting commitments from the islands, with CWR and RMI working with them to set ambitious renewable energy goals, develop plans to do so and build the infrastructure and resource capacity to execute those plans.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235523
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Despite the overlapping distribution of Schistosoma haematobium and Plasmodium falciparum infections, few studies have investigated early immune responses to both parasites in young children resident in areas co-endemic for the parasites. This study measures infection levels of both parasites and relates them to exposure and immune responses in young children. Levels of IgM, IgE, IgG4 directed against schistosome cercariae, egg and adult worm and IgM, IgG directed against P. falciparum schizonts and the merozoite surface proteins 1 and 2 together with the cytokines IFN-γ, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10 and TNF-α were measured by ELISA in 95 Zimbabwean children aged 1–5 years. Schistosome infection prevalence was 14·7% and that of Plasmodium infection was 0% in the children. 43. 4% of the children showed immunological evidence of exposure to schistosome parasites and 13% showed immunological evidence of exposure to Plasmodium parasites. Schistosome–specific responses, indicative of exposure to parasite antigens, were positively associated with cercariae-specific IgE responses, while Plasmodium-specific responses, indicative of exposure to parasite antigens, were negatively associated with responses associated with protective immunity against Plasmodium. There was no significant association between schistosome-specific and Plasmodium-specific responses. Systemic cytokine levels rose with age as well as with schistosome infection and exposure. Overall the results show that (1) significantly more children are exposed to schistosome and Plasmodium infection than those currently infected and; (2) the development of protective acquired immunity commences in early childhood, although its effects on infection levels and pathology may take many years to become apparent.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235527
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"token_count": 394
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Talc has been the focus of recent civil litigation based on claims that asbestos minerals exist in talc deposits and therefore have caused asbestos-related diseases in those who have regularly used talc products. Such litigation, and ensuing confusion over the petrology and asbestos content of these deposits, challenges the talc mining industry in Montana and elsewhere in the world. The talc deposits in southwest Montana were formed by hydrothermal alteration of dolomitic marbles and are still actively mined. In general, talc formed by hydrothermal alteration of preexisting carbonate rocks is known to be nearly monomineralic and lacking in amphiboles. This paper includes data from analyses of representative ore samples from this mining region in southwest Montana. The results conclude that the presence of asbestos minerals — both amphiboles and chrysotile — is unlikely and that the ores are nearly monomineralic, as expected. Samples were characterized using a suite of analytical methods, namely, powder X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and electron microprobe analyses, which allowed us to determine the minerals present and the formation process. Our data and interpretations suggest that previous identification of asbestos minerals in these deposits is not accurate.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235528
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"token_count": 250
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I recently presented on Compassion, Contemplative Practice, and Ethics in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) at the Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference at Howard University in Washington DC.
You might think compassion and STEM have very little in common! However, on our panel we explored whether a mindful practice can support ethical vision in scientific research. There were four of us on the panel from different disciplinary traditions (philosophical, psychological, engineering and Buddhist) – and we presented varying perspectives on how contemplative practice might interact with the narrowing and fragmenting of social and spiritual vision that STEM pedagogies often encourage.
We found agreement in acknowledging that compassion is the foundation of ethical action, and that underlying ethical thinking are interrelationships with other people. Ethical frameworks may help to articulate values, which in turn inform behavior. Contemplative practice may help to refine and acknowledge deeply held (and sometimes unconscious) value sets, as well as point out how contextualized relationships (with family, friends, society in general) may help or hinder in unpacking these values.
It was gratifying to hear how mindfulness and compassion practices are being utilized in these diverse settings to bring about a larger social consciousness. In addition, it affected the bodily felt sense of my own identity—as an Asian American and minority—to be mingling with so many other persons of color.
Rev. Elaine Yuen, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Naropa University. She is an interfaith hospital chaplain, and a Senior Teacher and Buddhist Minister serving Shambhala International in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa. A meditation practitioner since the early 1970’s, Dr. Yuen teaches meditation classes and workshops nationally and internationally. She has written and lectured on Buddhism, aging and meditation, contemplative approaches to chaplaincy, and religious diversity; and has been a regular columnist for the Living Religion Page of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Recent writings include articles on “Spirituality and Health Care,” “Meditation and Healthy Aging,” and “Spirituality and the Clinical Encounter.” She continues exploration of contemporary contemplative life through many activities as a parent, artist, researcher and teacher.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235529
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 460
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The celebrations for Christmas in the Philippines officially begin on December 16th with the traditional Simbang Gabi, but people start preparing for Christmas in the Philippines many months before. Simbang Gabi is a Catholic mass with singing and performances by kids in the community.... The following description is taken from Wikipedia. "A parol is an ornamental, star-shaped Christmas lantern from the Philippines. It is traditional made out of bamboo and paper and comes in various sizes and shapes, but generally the basic star pattern remains dominant.
Christmas Parol Christmas Lanterns Christmas Star Christmas Parties Christmas Ideas Christmas Crafts Christmas Decorations Diy Parol Parol Filipino Forward Making a Parol - a Filipino traditional star-shaped Christmas lantern, is something I loved doing growing up.... A traditional parol speaks to hope and good faith in the Filipino community, and the star shape is a literal reference to the light that shone on Three Kings as they walked to Bethlehem.
Make a beautiful Christmas ornament inspired by intricate, star-shaped lanterns from the Philippines. Called paról, these ornaments represent the Star of Bethlehem. Called paról, these ornaments represent the Star of Bethlehem.... Putting up parols in homes, schools, establishments, offices, and schools is a common Filipino tradition. Nowadays, Filipinos parol makers used new and recycled materials to make parols, like plastic glasses, candy wrappers, soft drink straws, recycled papers and shells.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235535
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I have some leftover vegetable seeds from last year. Will they germinate and grow this spring?
Most vegetable seeds will remain viable for several years when stored in a cool, dry location. If properly stored, cabbage, broccoli, cucumber, squash, watermelon, eggplant, and radish seeds will remain viable for 5 years. Snap bean, carrot, pea, pepper, tomato, cauliflower, and pumpkin seeds can be stored for 3 to 4 years. Seeds of sweet corn and onion remain viable for only 1 to 2 years.
I planted several grapevines last year. How should they be pruned this spring?
Should I clean and till my vegetable garden this fall or early next spring?
Which vegetables will grow in partial shade?
Rabbits heavily damaged my raspberries over winter. Will they produce a crop this year?
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235538
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 176
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Viscose is one of the oldest fibers found in the 19th century. This is the most natural of all synthetic yarn. It manages to unite irreconcilable properties due to its composition. Viscose is produced from cellulose, which in its essence is a natural product.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235541
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The mandible (lower jaw) meets the maxilla (upper jaw) at the tempromandibular joint. The two bones fit together with a small cartilagenous disc acting as a small bumper. If this unit does not work in harmony there is pain in the joint or surrounding nerves and muscles. This can often be treated with medication, exercise therapy, bite adjustments, occlusal appliances or some combination to get total pain relief.
The model above shows the jaw in alignment (left) and out of alignment (right).
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235542
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1. Slowly and mindfully eat a raisin, observing with all your senses.
Think about how this is different from how you normally eat.
2. Do a body "scan."
Focus on physical sensations in different parts of the body. Bring your attention back to your sensations when the mind drifts, as it will do, without getting frustrated.
Perform one daily activity, such as washing the dishes or brushing your teeth, in a mindful way.
Eat one meal a day in a mindful way.
Think about how our emotions are not caused by events but by our perception of events.
Focus your attention on your breathing. If your mind wanders, gently return your attention as you inhale and exhale.
7. Practice a "three-minute breathing space."
This consists of three parts: Bring your attention to the experiences of the moment, then to your breathing, and then to your body. Try using the three-minute breathing space during unpleasant events.
See and hear without judging for a few minutes.
Move slowly while focusing on your breathing. Inhale slowly during four steps, then exhale over the next four steps. Notice your surroundings.
10. Write down warning signals of emotional distress.
Be mindful of these signs when they happen.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235543
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 264
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The ability of small molecules to interact with multiple proteins is commonly referred to as polypharmacology. The now widely accepted polypharmacology of drugs is of particular interest for human health as it has implications beyond therapeutic efficacy, from anticipating adverse drug reactions to identifying potential repurposing opportunities. There have been a number of studies relating the extent of drug polypharmacology to the physicochemical properties and fragment composition of the drug itself, but also to the protein family and distant binding site similarities of the drug's primary target. Taken together, all these observations lead to speculate that the origins of drug polypharmacology may lie at the heart of protein evolution and that polypharmacology may just be a reminiscent signature of some of the mechanisms of adaptation that primitive biological systems developed to increase the chances of survival in a highly variable early chemical environment.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235545
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"token_count": 169
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What should you look for in a Python Code Editor?
A Python program, in its basic form, is simply lines of text (code) saved in a file with a .py file extension. Python code can be written in something as basic as Notepad – but there’s no reason to put yourself through such an ordeal since there are much better options available. At it’s core, a code editor should provide a number of features that help a programmer create programs (Python scripts and modules, in our case). In most cases, python code editor allow the user to customize the program itself, to suit your needs and style.
So, not only is the code easier to read in the editor (Sublime Text) on the top (due to the syntax highlighting and line numbering), but it’s also identifying three simple errors, one of which is a show-stopper. (Can you figure out which one?) Meanwhile, the editor (Notepad) at the bottom does not display the errors and is hard on the eyes since it’s black and while.
Which editor should I use?
One of the most popular code editors is Sublime Text 3 (shown above). It is powerful, cross-platform, and free to try out.
Be sure to support the project by purchasing a license if you continue to use it.
If you want something simpler, check out gedit, which is also cross-platform. Notepad++ is also a great editor, but it’s for Windows only. Both of these editors are free and although neither possesses the power of Sublime Text, they are still useful.
A third option is Vim, which is free and available for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Vim has a steep learning curve but it has a loyal user base. Steve Francia’s Vim Distribution is the best programming setup for Vim that I have ever seen.
I personally prefer Sublime Text 3. Check out the blog post Setting Up Sublime Text 3 for Full Stack Python Development to see how to customize it specifically for writing Python code.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235546
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"token_count": 430
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Learn to argue both sides of a persuasive topic, use a lead and more. Rubric 2 Another persuasive essay rubric mainly covering the structure of the essay; however, this rubric also requires that the essay is typed. PWA rubrics and anchor papers are essential tools for calibrating and scoring the Process Writing Assessment and fostering common expectations for grade level writing standards throughout the district. Delegation strategies for the nclex, Prioritization for the nclex, Infection Control for the nclex, free resources for the nclex, free nclex Quizzes for the nclex, free nclex exams for the nclex, Failed the nclex - Help is here.
See also the ncte/IRA Standards for the English Language Arts. The Debate over Downloading Music A high school lesson plan from Read-Write-Think. It could easily be adapted for other student groups. Matching with Synonyms and Antonyms A 4th-grade lesson plan. When scoring holistically the reader looks at all features of the student work equally; no one feature is more important than the other. See also Persuasive Writing, Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games, and Get Cooking With Words! Vocabulary in Context A long list of lesson plans for a variety of grade levels from ReadWoks. See tthe vocabulary worksheet to be used with this lesson. Writing to Explain: Creating How-to Scripts and Demonstrations A lesson plan from the NY Times. A high school lesson plan. See also The Iliad for a 6th-grade unit plan.
Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to prevent plagiarism, engage students in the writing process, and provide personalized feedback. Sample outlines for narrative, expository, and other essay types. These clear, simple, and useful outlines provide easy-to-follow instructions on how to organize and outline your ideas before writing an essay.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235549
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"token_count": 399
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Below are weather averages from 1971 to 2000 according to data gathered from the nearest official weather station. The nearest weather station for both precipitation and temperature measurements is SEAS which is approximately 5 miles away and has an elevation of 10 feet (3 feet lower than Canyon Creek). Because the nearest station and this geographic feature may have differences in elevation and topography, the historic weather at the two separate locations may be different as well.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235553
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3D Printing Pedia - Ceramics.
Ceramics is the first 3D printed food safe material available in the market. This 3D printing material is produced of fine ceramic powder, which is bound together with a binder, fired, and glaze with a lead-free, non-toxic finish. In addition to being food safe, the material is both recyclable and heat resistant.
Ceramics is perfect for cups, saucers, plates, models, building blocks and even statues.
When designing for Ceramics, please read through design rules. Ceramics is a thick material to design for because you need to design a model that is printable, glaze-able, and can withstand the high heat of the stove and the structural changes the oven causes to your model.
The different model parts will deform at different rates in the stove, so sharp edges to become brittle. Curved edges are better and will glaze without risking cracks in the material surface.
-is recyclable, and is food safe.
It is heatproof to 500C/932F degrees. Higher temperatures may significantly change material properties.
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Is solar power truly affordable? Yes, don't believe the myths. | West Coast Solar, Inc.
Is solar power truly affordable? Yes, don’t believe the myths.
Solar power used to be relatively new concept that existed only on a small scale or in experimental projects that had little hope of being commercialized. As such, many Californians still think of it as a quaint technology that wouldn’t be viable or affordable. But photovoltaic panels have come a long way in the last few decades, and it’s no longer the case that solar energy is cost-prohibitive. In fact, it has become affordable for millions of homeowners and businesses who want to take advantage of lower electricity bills and reduced pollution.
Environmental sustainability: Utility-scale solar power plants require very little land grading, meaning that they leave natural habitats largely undisturbed. This is to say nothing of the environmental benefits of relying on an energy source that emits no climate-changing gases.
Low cost: Solar panel technology is 50 percent cheaper now than it was just a few years ago, and costs are “expected to continue to fall as next-generation technologies… are commercialized,” the LSA states.
Price stability: If utilities switch to solar, power customers will experience only minor rate increases, which would be offset by the benefits of avoiding the price volatility of fossil fuel energy costs.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235555
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Magic squares of single-even order (n=6, 10, 14, …) are known to be difficult to construct. One reason e.g. can be recognized, if you divide the square in its four quadrants. This time, these quadrants are of odd order, so that it is impossible to fill them in a symmetrical order. You always have to balance the elements to get equal sums.
You will find more methods to create magic squares of single-even order in section Even and also in subsections n=4k+2 or n even of section Doubled Order.
All algorithms are described in detail in chapter Single-even Magic Squares (german: Einfach-gerade Ordnungen) together with some other PDF documents.
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Two highly qualified stream experts lead one of OHA’s 2013 summertime Highland Wonders field trips, offering a unique opportunity to learn about our highland waterways.
The group talked through a Riparian-Wetland Functional Checklist that drew our attention to various hydrology, vegetation and erosion/deposition characteristics of Myers Creek.
Gina explained how the term “bankfull” can be understood in an incised channel such as Myers Creek north of Chesaw. “When you have an oversized channel that doesn’t have that floodplain anymore… bankfull becomes this thing that happens inside the active channel. Basically the edge of the perennial vegetation is your indicator instead of the edge of the bank. That’s what stays scoured out and carries those medium/high flows.”Questions were answered about sediment capture, comparing the ability of reed canarygrass vs. sedges to capture sediment. Tom explained that reed canarygrass lays flat under the stream currents with very low capacity for capturing sediment, whereas sedges are fairly robust vertical plants that can capture more sediment. The group observed the bank erosion that is occurring, and Gina explained the erosion as a necessary stage that the stream needs to go through as it seeks equilibrium.
Thank you, Gina and Tom McCoy, for providing such an informative and interesting learning experience!
Gina McCoy spent her childhood as an amphibian exploring the outdoors and water bodies of New Zealand. She has resided in the Northwest since the early 80’s. She attended graduate school at Oregon State University in 1990 where she studied forest hydrology and landscape ecology with the aim of developing an understanding of the interplay between the physical and biotic components of watershed functioning and stream processes. Gina has been a habitat engineer with the Washington Department of Fish Wildlife since 2001. Specializing in stream processes, she provides technical assistance for stream-related activities such as stream and riparian restoration, bank stabilization, flood hazard mitigation and fish screening and passage. Prior to her service with WDFW she worked as a hydrologist for the Yakama Nation, initiating and managing a large scale watershed restoration project. Gina now resides in the Methow Valley with way too many animals and a patient husband.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235558
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The difficulty with the identification of dyslexia is that many of the symptoms are so broad. Sometimes parents can see one, or several traits of dyslexia in their child, but these can be temporary problems rather than the symptoms of a long-term condition.
Dyslexia can be demonstrated through early childhood behaviors such as struggling to group or sequence. Later in development, children can jumble up words and phrases or struggle to remember numbers in sequence. At school age, children with dyslexia may put letters and figures the wrong way around, struggle to learn to read and spell, or may even have slightly delayed speech development. This broad list of possible symptoms means sometimes children can be wrongly labeled or slip under the radar.
Class teachers, family, and friends may raise legitimate concerns about some of the symptoms of dyslexia, but these should not be considered a formal diagnosis. Many professionals will not test children for dyslexia until they are 7 or 8 years old. Your pediatrician and school can support you with assessing your child and developing learning strategies to help them succeed in the classroom and beyond.
Remember that dyslexia has nothing to do with a child’s intellect. Parents can sometimes feel that the label of dyslexia will hinder a child’s academic life. Research has proven that there is the same range of intelligence among children with dyslexia as those without. Noted brain boxes with dyslexia include famous scientist, Albert Einstein, internationally renowned filmmaker, Steven Speilberg, and the super successful businessman, Henry Ford!
Many children with dyslexia struggle with their self esteem, so a great way to support your child is by enjoying extra-curricular activities together such as sports, art and design, drama and dance, to take some of the focus away from academics. We know that enjoying activities as a family, and allowing them non-academic opportunities to thrive can really help boost children’s self esteem and feelings of self worth.
Supporting your child’s learning through additional classes with professionals can really help consolidate what your child has learned at school. This helps prevent them slipping behind and losing the confidence and motivation to be a successful learner. As long as this is seen as positive support rather than ‘extra work’ it can have a great benefit to their learning overall.
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"Oh! Such cannonading on all sides, such shrieks and groans, such commotion of all kinds!" wrote the teenaged Sue Chancellor, a Virginia planter's daughter, in May 1863. "We thought that we were frightened before, but this was far beyond everything. . . . Oh, the horror of that day!"
Sue's reactions to the Civil War around her was only one of myriad responses to the conflict from children—boys or girls, black or white, slave or free, rich or poor. They experienced the war differently from adults, and their experiences were by no means uniform. In Topsy-Turvy, Anya Jabour brings into sharp relief the way in which gender, race, slavery, and status shaped the lives of children in the American South before, during, and after the Civil War. She argues persuasively that the identities children developed in the antebellum era shaped their responses to the upheavals of the war years and their lives after the war's conclusion.
Even as Topsy-Turvy presents the Civil War as a major turning point in Southern children's lives, it also illuminates the interplay between continuity and change in the history of the American South. Because the war was fought largely on Southern soil, parts of the region became a "permanent landscape of war," and children in the Confederacy thus experienced the struggle in an especially profound and personal way. Deeply researched, abundantly illustrated, and engagingly written, the book is a major contribution to Southern history. With twenty-eight black-and-white illustrations.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235563
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a lot of folks don't seem to know about welders "spoons", copper plates with a handle, or a piece of copper pipe hammered flat. They are used when filling a hole in thin sheet by putting the spoon behind the hole and welding over the top. The copper supports the molten weld puddle and soaks away the heat, but the steel won't stick to the copper, so its easy to fill up a miss drilled hole, or for modding panels.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235564
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Communication Street is a film about problems deaf young people have communicating at home, with parents, brothers and sisters. In a fun and entertaining way it looks at things such as being woken up, not being told what's going on, communicating in the car, not hearing someone calling for you, and the age old arguments over subtitles. For each problem a solution is also suggested by our Communication Street voiceover pigeon.
Top 5 tips for communicating with deaf young people; made by a group of deaf young people.
A short animation made by a group of deaf teenagers giving survival tips for awkward situations that sometimes come up in everyday life. Both funny and useful, this is an invaluable guide for any deaf teenagers, their friends and family, and especially for bus drivers..!
This short animated film was made at Lime Trees in York. We helped a group of young people with anorexia to create a script to explain about the condition and their experiences, and then make animations to illustrate it. We had to learn about the condition before starting the project, and work carefully to gain the trust of the young people in order for them to feel comfortable talking with us about their experiences. The film is very honest and will be used to show to newly diagnosed patients and their parents to help them understand how they can start to get better.
The Asperger syndrome (AS) project uses animation and audio to enable young people with AS to explain what it is and express how they feel about it. They give very personal insights which could only be achieved through using these mediums and techniques. We worked very closely with staff at Lime Trees in planning and running the project, which was a key element in our success in working with the young people. This film won the Animation award at the Scottish Mental Health film festival in 2008, and has been very well received by the clinicians who use it in their practice.
The 'Top Tips for Health Professionals' film suggests ways to improve Deaf awareness and communication skills amongst Health Professionals when working with Deaf young people. This includes making an appointment; arriving at reception; receiving treatment and having things clearly explained in an easy to understand way.
A film about making friends, written and animated by young people at Lime Trees as part of a summer animation project.
Biomation is a pioneering science and arts project funded by the Wellcome Trust and run through York NHS and City of York Council.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235566
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Carbohydrates are back in vogue – and for a good [gut] reason!
What are the results of good fibre intake?
An adequate intake of a mix of dietary fibre types can provide a range of nutrients important to optimal digestive function, such as: 1) nutrients like resistant starch for prebiotic activity and good gut bacteria; 2) soluble fibre for reduced blood cholesterol and low glycaemic index for slower delivery of sugars after eating; and 3) insoluble fibre to help keep you regular.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235567
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Looking for a more exciting way to spend your weekends? Or maybe you’re considering a career change to something rather unique – say a helicopter pilot? Opportunities in this field are plentiful and could include working in the emergency medical service flying victims or life-saving organs to a hospital heliport, carrying workers or supplies to offshore oil rigs, conducting sightseeing tours, working for a television station gathering news or in law enforcement. To take advantage of these and other opportunities there are scores of pilot training schools waiting to launch you into this small fraternity of helicopter pilots. But what will this investment cost?
The time it takes a student (at least 17 years of age) to complete the flight training will vary according to his or her proficiency but usually it will take between 8 to 10 weeks. And, of course, the longer it takes the student to complete the training, the higher will be the cost. Because of these variables, the charges outlined are considered to be typical costs. The cost for obtaining a private as well as a commercial helicopter pilot license can be broken down into two parts – flight training costs and other training expenses.
Some flight schools may include the use of a flight simulator and pre-post flight briefings as part of pilot training costs. Not included is a fuel surcharge of $8 per flight-hour.
Total Cost – Private helicopter license is $12,000 to $16,000.
Now that you have your private helicopter pilot’s license you can fly to your heart’s content but the one thing you cannot do is carry passengers or cargo for hire. For that you will need a commercial helicopter pilot license. Since you already have a private helicopter license, which incidentally is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial helicopter license, this scenario may have crossed your mind. The costs, however, will be significantly higher as outlined below.
Some schools may leave a few charges off the total cost-estimate, such as the insurance waiver or the cost for the helicopter to take the FAA flight test, but include in the document that additional costs may apply. It’s important, therefore, to ask what these additional costs are, and to shop around and compare the itemized estimates to determine the exact services you’ll be receiving and paying for. Also, since quality is more important than cost, be sure to book your training with an FAA-approved school.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235573
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Aside from muscle and bones, the body is held by fascia. Fascia is like skin on a sausage, and it can get twisted like two sausage links. The tension which a muscle is held under is due to the connective tissue which binds each muscle and group of muscles together. They hold the body together in a network of compression, like elastic bands. Sometimes these bands are too tight, sometimes too loose as in a hypermobile joint, which is as dysfunctional.
As with joint capsule work, a client’s pain may be referred pain i.e. the origin or source of the problem may be in an area away from original pain e.g. knee pain due to tightness in the hip. Good assessment is imperative so that the therapist can source the origin of tension, and thereby work the area most beneficial to the client.
Myofascia continuum covers the body in a structurally integrated network providing the body with areas of tension which hold the whole structure together. By unsticking the fascia and ungluing the muscle fibres from each other, the muscle belly may be restored to its normal length and then strengthened if it was tight and weak, or just stretched if it was tight. The goal is to achieve muscle balance.
eling cheese strings apart. Tenderness lasts 4/5 days after a treatment. An area which was very tight may feel tender and/or swollen as the skin-fascia-muscle-bone relationship is restored to optimum tensegrity.
Ice is not recommended for this type of swelling.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235585
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Mercury is famously known for being a scorching hot world. On the side that is facing towards the Sun, conditions can get pretty molten, reaching temperatures of up to 700 K (427 °C; 800°F) in the equatorial region. The surface is also airless, in part because any atmosphere it could generate would be blown away by solar wind. Hardly surprising, considering it is the closest planet to our Sun.
How could we colonize Mercury?
Humanity has long dreamed of establishing itself on other worlds, even before we started going into space. We’ve talked about colonizing the Moon, Mars, and even establishing ourselves on exoplanets in distant star systems. But what about the other planets in our own backyard? When it comes to the Solar System, there is a lot of potential real estate out there that we don’t really consider.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235586
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Seattle recently closed the Alaskan Way Viaduct, but the predicted traffic chaos hasn’t ensued.
Joe Cortright takes a closer look at the effects of the closure of Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct, a roadway that handled almost 100,000 vehicle trips a day. He finds that the peak-hour traffic patterns two days in do not look that much different than typical days in the past.
It’s a corollary of induced demand: when we build new capacity in urban roadways, traffic grows quickly to fill it, resulting in more travel and continuing traffic jams. What we have here is “reduced demand” – when we cut the supply of urban road space, traffic volumes fall.
Cortright notes that the phenomenon of Carmageddon predictions that never play out has happened before in other cities with major road projects, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Minneapolis.
He adds that what happens in Seattle in coming weeks could provide important lessons about the perceived impacts of adjusting roadway capacity. "For example, this ought to be a signal that road diets, which have been shown to greatly improve safety and encourage walking and cycling, don’t have anything approaching the kinds of adverse effects on travel that highway engineers usually predict."
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235593
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Teachers guide students through the science of flight and airplane design. The curricula takes about six weeks in the classroom to complete or four weeks through an accelerated program.
Each high school then applies what its students have learned by modifying a Glasair Sportsman airplane that seats four adults.
The schools compete in a virtual fly-off, which is scored on aerodynamic and performance parameters while flying specific mission profiles and other factors.
The challenge’s purpose is to promote science, technology, engineering and match education, organizers said.
The Design Challenge is open to the first 100 schools to register and is restricted to one teacher per school. Registration is open until Feb. 13 or until the first 100 schools register.
Each school’s team must have four students to be eligible for the competition. Each team must include at least one male and one female student.
It’s the third year for the competition. The prize has not yet been announced.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235594
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From 2007 to 2009, only 15 percent of environmental grant dollars were classified as benefiting “marginalized” communities, and only 11 percent were classified as advancing “social-justice” strategies, a “proxy for policy advocacy and community organizing that works toward structural change on behalf of those who are least well off politically, economically and socially,” says Cultivating the Grassroots, a report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
In the same period, the report says, grant dollars donated by funders who committed over 25 percent of their total dollars to the environment were three times less likely to be classified as benefiting marginalized groups than were grant dollars given by environmental funders in general.
Environmental funders “are expending tremendous resources, yet spending far too little on high-impact, cost-effective grassroots organizing,” the report says.
In 2009, it says, half of all environmental grants went to environmental organizations with annual budgets over $5 million, a group that represents only 2 percent of the nearly 29,000 environment and climate public charities in the U.S.
That suggests a “predominantly ‘inside-the-beltway’ top-down fundraising strategy,” Sarah Hansen, author of the report, says in a statement.
The report calls for environment and climate funders to provide at least 20 percent of their grant dollars to community-based groups that work to address the needs of underserved people most affected by environmental harm.
It also recommends those funders invest at least 25 percent of their grant dollars in grassroots organizing, advocacy and civic participation.
Aaron Dorman, executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, says in a statement that winning big fights depends on popular support.
“Philanthropy needs to fund those groups that listen to people in communities that are most at risk from the impacts of environment and climate change, organize them and rally their support around important solutions,” he says.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235595
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Many students develop mindsets throughout their schooling. A fixed mindset is the belief that accomplishments are trait-based and tied to pure intellect and natural ability. In contrast, a growth mindset is the belief that one’s intelligence can be grown or developed with persistence, effort, and a focus on learning.
When students have a growth mindset, they take pride in their efforts and hard work instead of what the report card says; they are more willing to make mistakes, accept challenges, and grow as learners.
It’s important to help students develop a growth mindset because it can greatly impact their academic achievements and future success. To help encourage this, parents and educators can learn how to praise students using a growth mindset.
Change the way you phrase your praise.
Try to stay optimistic, yet informative and realistic in your praise.
Be specific in your praise and feedback.
Rather than just saying “good job” when a student receives a good grade, tell them exactly why they did well and where they can improve as needed.
Don’t wait to praise the student’s efforts.
Instead of waiting for the report card to give your student praise or reward for success, recognize their effort regularly and consistently. The more a student receives praise for their effort instead of their final outcome, the more they will develop a growth mindset –focusing less on awards and more on the love of learning.
Help students understand that failure is only an element of success, not it’s opposite.
Sometimes a student will make mistakes, that’s normal. Be optimistic and empathetic with their struggles, but also help them exhibit Performance Character traits such as grit and courage to try again. Just as daily practice and grit are needed when learning a musical instrument or athletic sport, they are also just as vital in the classroom and at home.
Help the student seek out challenges instead of sticking to what’s easy.
Take note on what classes or topics your student puts in less effort to succeed, and then encourage them to take on tasks that are more challenging for them. When students are praised for an accomplishment they have put in a large amount of effort to achieve, they are more likely to continue seeking ways to grow and challenge themselves –developing life skills that are often utilized in future academic and career opportunities.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235601
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Professor Ekow Yankah and I were interviewed on Detroit Today by Stephen Henderson. The subject was why the country took a different approach to the current opioid epidemic than it did to the crack cocaine epidemic.
You can listen to the show here. This is a brief summary of my own analysis of why we have had a more public health-oriented response this time around.
1. The opioid epidemic is afflicting white people and middle class people more heavily than did the crack cocaine epidemic. Historically, the country has tended to attribute addiction among oppressed groups as an indicator of moral failing worthy of punishment. That was certainly the dominant perspective on the crack cocaine epidemic in Black communities in the 1980s, which was met with a ferocious law enforcement response. But when a drug epidemic happens among white people (especially white people with economic resources, as Adam Gelb pointed out to me on Twitter, we were not particularly kind to dirt poor white meth-addicted people in the 1990s) the framing of the problem is more sympathetic and the response is much more oriented towards help than discipline.
Ekow made this point beautifully on PBS News Hour recently, and I find particularly powerful his description of how bittersweet the policy change is for Black Americans.
2. The crack cocaine epidemic had enormous associated violence. I was at ground zero on Detroit’s Cass Corridor during the epidemic and it was a frightening place. The violence came about in part from dealers shooting it out, but a lot of it was pharmacologically driven (e.g., people high on cocaine losing their temper and hurting or killing someone). Terrified by all that violence, both blacks and whites demanded tough enforcement and punishment.
The opioid epidemic has been far less violent. Much of the supply came from people who carry stethoscopes rather than guns, and pharmacologically, opioids usually have a sedating effect rather than making people aggressive. Less violence translates into less fear, increasing the likelihood of a more compassionate response.
3. An increasingly successful treatment/recovery movement has achieved major political victories supportive of public health responses to addiction (e.g., the 2008 parity law that expanded access to treatment). You can’t accuse those activists of doing their good work just with whites in mind because they’ve been at it since long before the current epidemic started. They have made a significant difference culturally and politically, and they have benefited addicted people of all races in the process. Good on them, they’ve earned their place in heaven.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235602
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Asbestos is a material that was used in many different industries and products before its inherent dangers were made known. Some of its most common uses included insulation, paint bases, construction materials, and adhesives. Buildings built before the substance was widely banned in the 1980s may still contain traces of asbestos in various locations.
After the dangers of asbestos became widely known, laws were put in place to protect the public from exposure to this deadly mineral. Because of these laws, if you are moving into a house or building that has asbestos, the landlord is required to inform you that the substance is present. You might even be required to sign a document stating that you were told of its dangers and its presence. If you are afraid of asbestos exposure, you might want to find another place to live.
You can protect yourself from inhaling asbestos by being careful in buildings that are known to contain it. If asbestos remains intact, it is less likely to release fibers into the air. As such, if you are in a building where asbestos is present, refrain from damaging the walls or floors. Additionally pulling up old carpeting might release asbestos fibers into the air, as it was sometimes used as an adhesive. Proper caution in buildings containing asbestos may decrease your exposure to this material.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235603
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On a chilly morning in December, C2’s photographer Mark Staff awoke at 2am to join Clark Fons and Chris Marra for a Lowcountry duck hunt on Bear Island, WMA (Wildlife Management Area). The 2013 waterfowl season in South Carolina is currently open and runs through January 27.
Most waterfowl fly at speeds of 40 to 60mph. The fastest duck ever recorded was a Red Breasted Merganser that attained a top speed of 100 mph.
Facemasks are an integral part of the total camouflage. Ducks generally circle several times before starting their descent and will quickly pick up on a shiny white face staring up at them from the blind.
is a owned by the SC Department of Natural Resources and is managed to provide quality habitat for wintering waterfowl and other wetland wildlife including threatened and endangered species such as wood storks and bald eagles; to provide habitat for upland game and nongame species; and to provide recreational opportunities for the hunting and non-hunting public.
The Daily limit for waterfowl in South Carolina is six total ducks per person. Each species of duck has its own limit and hunters are slapped with a hefty fine if regulations are not adhered to. For more information, visit www.dnr.sc.gov/regs/migratorybird.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235606
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(1855–1916). American astronomer Percival Lowell predicted the existence of a planet beyond the orbit of Neptune. He initiated the search that ended in the discovery of Pluto (now classified as a dwarf planet).
Lowell was born on March 13, 1855, in Boston, Massachusetts. A member of the distinguished Lowell family of Massachusetts (he was brother to Harvard University president A. Lawrence Lowell and poet Amy Lowell), he devoted himself from 1883 to 1893 to literature and travel. He spent much of the time in the Far East, which he described in Chosön (1886), The Soul of the Far East (1888), Noto (1891), and Occult Japan (1895). During part of this time Lowell was counselor and foreign secretary to the Korean Special Mission to the United States.
In the 1890s Lowell, inspired by the 1877 discovery of “canals” on Mars, decided to devote his fortune and energy to the study of that planet. He built a private observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona (the Lowell Observatory). Lowell championed the now-abandoned theory that intelligent inhabitants of a dying Mars constructed a planet-wide system of irrigation, utilizing water from the polar ice caps, which melt annually. He thought the canals were bands of cultivated vegetation dependent on this irrigation. Among his many books on this subject is Mars and Its Canals (1906). Lowell’s theory, long vigorously opposed, was officially debunked by information received from the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 when it flew past Mars in July 1965.
Early in the 20th century Lowell made an elaborate mathematical study of the orbit of Uranus. He believed that certain irregularities occurred because of the action of an unseen planet beyond Neptune; he subsequently calculated that unknown planet’s probable position. In 1905 he organized a systematic search for the planet by the staff of his observatory, and in 1915 he published his “Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet.” Lowell died on November 12, 1916, in Flagstaff. However, the search for the planet continued, and in 1930 astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh working at the Lowell Observatory discovered Pluto.
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We follow the Chris Quigley Curriculum, where meaningful links are made between subjects so that schemas can be built and connections between neural pathways strengthened.
Everything we do at Pattishall CE Primary School centres around developing the whole child, in preparation for the next step in their education.
When planning a carefully crafted curriculum, we take into account - and actively plan for - the children's spiritual, moral, social and cultural development: providing experiences that deepen their understanding, tolerance, respect, knowledge and self-awareness.
Our rules are simple: Think, Care, Seek, Build, Respect. These are reflected in our values - thoughtfulness, kindness, perseverance with courage, co-operation, respectfulness and love; and also in the identified British Values of tolerance, mutual respect, liberty, democracy and Rule of Law (see above).
As a Church School, we teach the children to respect other's through a deepening of their understanding of other's opinions.
We operate a domcratic system for electing Student Council each year across Key Stage One and Two.
We plan on a two year cycle. This means that teachers can plan exciting opportunities together.
Look at each class page for an overview of their topic this term!
Have a look at our policies on the teaching of the 2014 National Curriculum.
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The current project-oriented infrastructure planning in the Netherlands often does not run smoothly. Many projects are halted because of negative court cases. They fail to meet the dynamic (environmental) regulations in a complex environment. An important reason is the direct and strict linkage between decision-making regarding infrastructure (and spatial) projects on the one hand, and environmental permits on the other hand. The room for mitigation measures to ease negative environmental impacts is rather limited at a project level. In addition, EU-regulations tend to focus not only at impact assessments and permits of activities/projects, but also on the maintenance of the environmental quality of areas by requiring monitoring, management plans, and by taking action to remediate negative developments. Recently, a policy shift can be seen from project-oriented towards more program-oriented assessments of infrastructure and of environmental policies. A program aims to reach an overarching goal and contains different projects. Examples are the Long-range Program Infrastructure, Space and Transport (MIRT, ‘Meerjarenprogramma Infrastructuur, Ruimte en Transport’) and the National Cooperation Program on Air Quality (NSL, ‘Nationaal Samenwerkingsprogramma Luchtkwaliteit). Decision-making on a higher (programmatic) level offers opportunities to give more attention to ‘use and necessity’ discussions and gives the possibility to deal with complex issues in a more flexible way. This research theme aims to gain insight into the extent to which a programmatic approach for infrastructure planning can relieve the current problems in Dutch infrastructure planning (i.e., time and cost overruns, and low quality project plans). The effectiveness of programs is mapped out and key factors for success and failure as well as essential conditions to come to a useful program planning approach are explored. To develop sustainable planning approaches for infrastructure also insights are necessary into: relationships between program management and project development, the relevance of strategic policy planning, the cooperation between relevant actors (both public-public and public-private partnerships), and the potential institutional hindrance. Case study methods, questionnaires and interviews are used to gain such insights.
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illustrates the union of a new bishop to his faithful. The left side of the shield is taken from the coat of arms of the Diocese of Tucson. It depicts a stag, borrowed from the Territorial Seal of the state of Arizona. The black tri-mount upon which the stag is presented indicates the Native American origin of the name “Tucson,” which means “at the base of the black hill.” The Missionary Cross of the Franciscan Order pays tribute to the early missionaries who brought Christianity to Arizona. The right side of the shield, along with surrounding embellishments, are all proper to Bishop Weisenburger’s coat of arms.
The main charge or emblem is the devotional image of the Agnus Dei, or Lamb of God.
appropriate emblem for a bishop of the church. The image rests upon a field of deep blue, the color in Catholic heraldry reserved for the Blessed Virgin Mary under her titles of the Mother of God, Mother of the Redeemer, and Mater Ecclesiae.
Cathedral. The arrowhead serves as a secondary homage to Oklahoma, the bishop’s home state and home archdiocese. Upon the arrowhead sits the six-pointed star of the Blessed Virgin Mary in her title of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a secondary homage to the Diocese of Salina, which honors the Blessed Mother as their patron saint under this particular title.
Surmounting the shield of a bishop is the galero (pilgrim’s hat), always worked in deep forest green for a bishop’s arms, with six tassels suspended on either side of the hat in a pyramidal style. The cords that bind them are known as cordiere. The interior of the galero is always rendered in red, representing the clergy’s possible martyrdom for the vocation that they have accepted. The episcopal cross found behind this coat of arms is worked in gold and has three Fleur de Lys emblems emanating from it. The Fleur de Lys image represents the Blessed Virgin Mary while the particular design of the cross itself is known as the St. Edward the Confessor Cross, in honor of the Bishop’s patron saint.
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This is a special case of the Cramer coefficient for 2×2 tables (i.e. there are only two categories for each of the two variables). It is used in combination with the chi-square test as it generates a value (rφ) that ranges from 0 to 1, indicating a range from no association through to perfect association. It can be calculated directly after a chi-square test has been carried out as it is equal to the square root of the value of X2 after it has been divided by the number of observations. If each individual observation is assigned a meaningful numerical value in two variables there are several tests that may be applied to determine whether the two sets of observations are associated or correlated Authentic Andrew Luck Jersey , the strength of the correlation and whether it is significant or not.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235614
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Marvel at the neuroscientific reasons why smart teens make dumb decisions!
Behold the mind-controlling power of executive function!
Thrill to a vision of a better school for the teenage brain!
Whether you're a parent interacting with one adolescent or a teacher interacting with many, you know teens can be hard to parent and even harder to teach. The eye-rolling, the moodiness, the wandering attention, the drama. It's not you, it's them. More specifically, it's their brains.
In accessible language and with periodic references to Star Trek, motorcycle daredevils, and near-classic movies of the '80s, developmental molecular biologist John Medina, author of the New York Times best seller Brain Rules and Brain Rules for Baby, explores the neurological and evolutionary factors that drive teenage behavior and can affect both achievement and engagement. Then he proposes a research-supported counterattack: a bold redesign of educational practices and learning environments to deliberately develop teens' cognitive capacity to manage their emotions, plan, prioritize, and focus.
Attack of the Teenage Brain! is an enlightening and entertaining listen that will change the way you think about teen behavior and prompt you to consider how else parents, educators, and policymakers might collaborate to help our challenging, sometimes infuriating, often weird, and genuinely wonderful kids become more successful learners, in school and beyond.
After listening to the attack of the teenage brain I realized how important this would’ve been for me to know growing up. And for me to know as a parent of three children And numerous teenage foster children. I wish also that our educators would be informed to work with our teenagers in a way that would really help them. Great book give it to all your students teachers. Make sure they read it. Thank you John for this information.
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Almost 90% of American service men and women who die from combat wounds do so before they arrive at a medical treatment facility. This figure highlights the importance of the trauma care provided on the battlefield by combat medics, corpsmen, PJs, and even the casualties themselves and their fellow combatants. With respect to the actual care provided by combat medics on the battlefield, however, J. S Maughon noted in his paper in Military Medicine in 1970 that little had changed in the preceding 100 years. In the interval between the publication of Maughon's paper and the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, there was also little progress made. The war years, though, have seen many lifesaving advances in battlefield trauma care pioneered by the Joint Trauma System and the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care. These advances have dramatically increased casualty survival. This is especially true when all members of combat units – not just medics - are trained in Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC).
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A machine learning (ML) process must be reliable and repeatable by people with little ML background (citizen data scientists and business users) as well as by data scientists.
The most commonly used framework is the Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM). This was an initiative launched in 1996, led by five companies: SPSS, Teradata, Daimler AG, NCR Corporation, and OHRA (an insurance company). Over 300 organization contributed to the process model.
At the top level, the process is divided into six different generic phases, ranging from business understanding to deployment of project results.
The next level elaborates each of these phases, comprising several generic tasks. At this level, the description is generic enough to cover all data science scenarios.
The third level specializes these tasks for specific situations. For example, the generic task might be cleaning data, and the specialized task could be cleaning of numeric or categorical values.
The fourth level is the process—the record of actions, decisions, and results of an actual execution of a DM project.
Confirm the project objectives and requirements from the business perspective.
Define the data science approach that will answer the specific business objective.
Develop and implement a repeatable process that enables the organisation to monitor and maintain each model’s performance.
Of course, the process continues after a solution has been deployed. The lessons learned during the process can trigger new, often more focused business questions and subsequent data science processes will benefit from the experiences of previous ones. This is depicted by the circular arrow.
Since CRISP-DM was first conceived in 1996 there have been many changes, especially with Big Data, ML uses, and IT advancements. Large, rapidly changing data sets, streamed data, real-time output, and self-learning models were not part of the data mining landscape twenty years ago. Also, CRISP-DM doesn’t cover the important aspects of model deployment and monitoring in sufficient detail. Therefore, the requirements to deliver many modern ML projects don’t fit well with this old framework.
In my next blog, I’ll present a new framework that works well with modern ML projects in the Intelligent Enterprise.
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1. Cysteine Hydrochloride – An amino acid known to detoxify the liver and counter the negative effect of alcohol (such as Liver Damage and Hangover). It also helps the liver produce more Glutathione.
2. Coenzyme Q-10 – Helps fight Cancer and Heart Diseases. Can give humans a longer lifespan.
3.Green Tea EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) – Fights Cancer and Heart Diseases. Prevents Blood Clots.
29 Vitamins and Minerals/Trace Minerals The Vitamins and Minerals contained in Complete are Chelated which gives them the ability to bind and expel bacteria, viruses,heavy metals,etc. They also have a Synergistic Effect which allows the nutrients to boost each other and therefore maximize their individual effects.
Essential Fatty Acid,also known as Omega Fatty Acids, are simply the “Good Fats” that eliminate the “Bad Fats” in the body. The EFA’s in C24/7 come from plant sources,particularly Flax seed and Sunflower Seed. EFA’s are essential in preventing Heart Disease,Cancer and Mental Retardation.
Amino Acids are building blocks of Protein. Since the body is all made up of Protein,naturally it is also the building blocks of our body.
C24/7 contains all the ingredients of Complete Phyto-Energizer and therefore you get all the benefits of Complete. However, 9 more ingredients are added in C24/7 to boost it’s anti-oxidant power. The 9 ingredients (see list above) are very powerful anti-oxidants and some also contain Resveratrol, which is known to help in cell regeneration and cell repair and therefore lengthen the body’s life span.C24/7 also utilizes 2 new technologies:Phyto-Alkatech – gives C24/7 a more alkaline formulaSyner-Tech – combines natural ingredients with powerful natural anti-oxidants to boost it’s synergyOverall, C24/7 can give you not only Round the Clock nutrition,but also the promise of a long, healthy life.
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But how do you learn anything after receiving a “16” for “adequacy of content”? What does that mean to your average 20 year old? What does that student think about being told that their thesis is “wandering”?
My point is that educators often bypass the first rule of writing – any writing: know your audience. K12 is even worse (both of the examples above come from higher ed) because educators often rely on state standards. So teachers respond to students using language written by PhD’s working in a state department of education…language often intended to educate teachers to the goals for a particular grade and content area.
I got some great insight into this problem from a friend whose children attend a school district where I’ve done some consulting. She had to help her son peer review a fellow student’s essay. Again, kudos to the teacher who bravely attempted to help his or her students learn by leading them to think deeply about the rubric being used for assessing and responding. But the parent, who incidentally is a published writer and has a masters degree, struggled to figure out the abstract performance descriptors in the rubric her son had been given. The son had little interest, and together they spent a frustrating hour puzzling through the paper they were reviewing and the state composition rubric. The punchline is that my friend was convinced that the paper they were reading had been largely written by the other child’s parents…and she pretty much wrote her son’s response to the paper. So we have one parent peer reviewing another parent’s writing!
When a student is reading through ‘performance descriptors in a rubric, they need the differences to be clear and concrete – from grade school through graduate school. The hard work of rubric design has often been done by others (search the web, search RubiStar, ask your colleagues) – educators simply need to translate and edit rubrics to suit their students, who they know better than anyone.
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This involves learning which combination of things you can expect and handling each case. What if we could make our API's so that they're more clear and gave us less opportunity to mess up when we're tired or distracted?
Then when we use it later, we're forced to handle all the possible cases without needing to remember what they are.
Then if we forgot a possibility, the compiler could say "Hey woah, you have a switch and you didn't consider one of the possible cases!" so we wouldn't need to rely on our mental state to keep up. For each possible outcome, we also made it clear which objects we can expect. No optionals, no matrix of possibilities, just a clear set of variables we can expect based on the outcome. If it's considered a successful request, we can expect the data we asked for. Future developers (including yourself 6 months from now) will have a much easier time handling the response of these HTTP requests without forgetting a step or missing an important variable. Hooray!
Where processModel is a function that doesn't know or care about Result. It just knows how to turn NSDictionaries into data models. This convenience function lets us avoid writing switch statements everywhere, and still preserve the context we've built up that our value can either be successful with a useful object or a failure with some error information about why we couldn't do it. Better living through abstractions!
Congratulations, you just made a Functor. You've practically created the Voldemort of Swift development (the Monad, cough cough).
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The faces of more than 117 million American adults, typically drawn from state drivers license databases, are regularly scanned in the course of police investigations, according to a major report published on Tuesday by privacy advocates at Georgetown University.
The report, titled “Perpetual Lineup,” says the facial scanning means that half of Americans are participating in what amounts to a digital version of a police line-up without prior knowledge. And unlike a traditional line-up, most of those included in the scanning are law-abiding citizens.
The findings also describe how the technology is spreading rapidly and is almost entirely unregulated. Currently, 16 states reportedly allow the FBI to scan their driver license databases, while dozens of local law enforcement agencies are using commercial software to scan faces too.
According to the findings, only one of 52 agencies had a policy in place to prevent police from using the database to track the faces of people involved in lawful political or religious speech, and only two of them had minimum accuracy requirements.
Accuracy is a concern because facial recognition is far from perfect—one leading provider of scanning tools says its reliability rating is only 95%. Meanwhile, there are also questions about racial bias given that the technology is reportedly less accurate when it comes to identifying faces of black people.
The report comes a week after the ACLU reported that Baltimore police were using facial recognition tools to monitor Facebook, Twitter (TWTR), and Instagram feeds in real time for suspected suspects. Such tactics raise the specter of police using cameras to collect and identify people’s faces in crowds or in everyday life.
The growing use of these tools—and the absence of oversight—is likely to increase calls for new laws to regulate facial recognition software. The Center on Privacy on Technology, which published Tuesday’s report, is calling for legislation that would prevent law enforcement from scanning driver’s license database and require agencies to limit the scanning to mug shots instead. The report also calls for improved accuracy standards for the technology.
The report coincides with a debate over how and when private companies like Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOG) can scan users’ faces. Currently, the companies are fighting class action lawsuits in the state of Illinois, where consumers say the tech giants failed to obtain consent before adding their faces to a database. The companies have also pressed state lawmakers to remove the consent rules.
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For those people that make the healthy life option to train, additional vitamins and minerals could also be crucial. It is also involved in the manufacturing of collagen, the protein chargeable for the integrity of bone, cartilage, skin and tendon, and elastin, a significant element of enormous blood vessels. As a result of metabolism slows with age, it takes the liver longer to take away vitamins from the physique.
Important pores and skin vitamins are available in supplemental kind, however they’re additionally present in skincare merchandise. As vitamins are essential to your health and physique features, vitamin deficiencies could cause antagonistic effects on the skin. A mixture of zinc and antioxidants, including vitamins C and E, could slow the progression of macular degeneration.
Since vitamins C and E play such important roles in protecting your skin from the solar, deficiencies in either vitamin can increase the risk of pores and skin harm, together with skin cancer In line with the Centers for Disease Management and Prevention, skin cancer is the commonest sort of cancer within the United States.
So, vitamin E may also help you to restore as well as build tissue that is very important for hair health and progress. Other minerals akin to chromium, copper, iodine, iron, selenium, and zinc are referred to as hint minerals since you only want a really small amount of them every day.
Over consumption of vitamin A can result in jaundice, nausea, loss of urge for food, irritability, vomiting, and even hair loss. As we speak many people have numerous subclinical deficiencies and obscure complaints that clear up when additional vitamins are taken.
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When the Common Core created lists of Exemplar Texts, it means that these are great examples of great books for each grade level. But they are only examples, and are meant to point the way toward other great texts. The books here are not on the original list of Exemplar Texts. But they are in the spirit of those exemplar texts and could be considered good substitutes, especially for titles which were published decades ago. Our commitment is to contemporary, appropriate and exemplar titles for 1st grade readers.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235638
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In the 1998-1999 school year 107,200 pupils were enrolled in 422 elementary schools in Guyana. Secondary, technical, and teacher-training institutions had a total of 66,500 students. The country’s principal institution of higher education is the University of Guyana (1963), in Georgetown.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235639
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What Is a Railroad Right of Way?
U.S. railroad construction began in the 1820s with the New Jersey Railroad Company and spread rapidly. By 1850, East of the Missouri River had about 9,000 miles (14,484 kilometers) of track. In 1862, congress signed the Pacific Railroad Act and by 1869, the transcontinental railroad was completed. To encourage railroads in Western U.S., Congress granted "right of way" to run tracks across lands. Initially, the right of way granted a fee. After the Railroad Act of 1875, the right of way granted an easement only, no fee. Therefore, a railroad right of way is a right of passage through the public lands of the U.S.
In general terms, easement is the right to use another's property for a specific purpose. Specifically for railroad construction, easement refers to the right to cross or use a land for a specific purpose. A common misconception is that easement gives one ownership of the land. However, easement for railroads is simply a right of use and occupancy and does not mean that the railroad company has a right over the land itself.
Congress began granting railroad right of way to companies in 1835. In 1875, Congress adopted a general law codifying the practice. The changes produced by the railroads' grants of easement had positive effects by encouraging and directing immigration and promoting tourism. Before the age of automobiles and highway systems, such easements were necessary to create a vast transportation network.
When a railroad company ceases to use the land for the purpose for which the easement was granted, the condition reverts. This means that easement no longer applies. In cases where a railway company purchased a property for railroad construction, naturally, its rights are unaffected even if rail service is discontinued.
I know the railroad industry is still important, but not used nearly as much as it was years ago. You wonder what will happen to all of the land with so many abandoned railroads.
It is interesting to think about how the railroad industry shaped the United States so many years ago. There are still many railroads in use today, but many of them are no longer used.
I have a friend who has made a career working for the railroad and was once shown a copy of the railroad right of way maps for the particular railroad he worked for. That was a lot of right of way privileges, and this was just for a particular section of the country.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235642
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This book breaks with the conventional model of perception that views vision as a mere inference to an objective reality on the basis of "inverse optics." The authors offer the alternative view that perception is an expressive and awareness-generating process. Perception creates semantic information in such a way as to enable the observer to deal efficaciously with the chaotic and meaningless structure present at the physical boundary between the body and its surroundings. Vision is intentional by its very nature; visual qualities are essential and real, providing an aesthetic and meaningful interface to the structures of physics and the state of the brain. This view brings perception firmly in line with ethology and modern evolutionary biology and suggests new approaches in all disciplines that study, or require an understanding of, the ontology of mind.
The book is the joint effort of a multidisciplinary group of authors. Topics covered include the relationships among stimuli, neuronal processes, and visual awareness. After considering the mind-dependent growing of information, the book treats time and dynamics; color, shape, and space; language and perception; perception, art, and design.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235645
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In the Middle Agesthere are quite a couple of plant species (olive, palm, fig, vine, wheat, lily, improved ) in the Bible, which acquired numerous symbolic meanings throughout biblical tales. All of the flower of love committed to various pagan goddesses of love and fertility have been declared symbols of spiritual love and beauty.
The queen of flower is created through the world as a conventional symbol of love and beauty. Throughout history, in various periods and areas, the rose became a symbol of heroic courage, succeed, riches, excellence, sensuality, women’s attractiveness and forbidden romance. In various religions, the flower of all of the blossoms has come to be a symbol of death and eternal life, heavenly beauty, heavenly charity and love, the highest truths and spiritual perfection.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235647
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In 1993, a strange disease began to kill people in the Four Corners area of the Southwest near the Navajo Reservation. Before it was all over, 26 people were dead. The disease was traced to a group of viruses called Hanta viruses. Western interest in this group of viruses dates to the 1950s and the Korean War, where it infected UN troops. However some researchers believe it is endemic to the U.S. Producer Ann Finkbeiner travels to the region and talk with scientists, doctors and Navajo medicine men.
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Boston Architectural College, also known as The BAC, is New England's largest private college of spatial design. It offers first-professional bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, and non-professional design studies . The college offers continuing education credits and certificates and also hosts the BAC Summer Academy for high school students, as well as a variety of other ways for the general public to explore spatial design. It exhibits student and alumni work in its McCormick Gallery and frequently hosts conferences and symposia on spatial design.
The BAC is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA, formerly FIDER) and the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB). The BAC is a member of the ProArts Consortium.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235651
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The word listed above (little) is probably the correct spelling for the word that you entered (litle). This is just an educated guess based on commonly misspelled words. To double check that this is the correct word you can use the resources below to find the definition of little, antonyms for little, synonyms for little, quotes relating to little and other information about little.
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If there are doubts about someone’s ability to continue driving, family and caregivers can open the conversation with the driver.
Discussing concerns with an older driver may pose challenges because they have been driving for a long time, may have a good driving record, may not be aware of their current driving performance and most of all may have a fear of losing their driving independence. These feelings may result in a reluctance to be evaluated or tested.
identify the risks of continued driving unsafely that include injuring the driver and others, damaging the vehicle and increased insurance rates.
provide an alternative to driving, often the cost of a vehicle, insurance, gas, and maintenance can offset the use of a taxi or driving service.
Stopping at green lights or other places where they don’t need to stop.
Not yielding to traffic or not taking their turn at stop signs.
Going too fast or too slow for conditions.
Having trouble maintaining lane position and/or straddling two lanes.
Not following proper lane-changing procedures or weaving in and out of lanes.
Getting lost or disoriented, even in familiar places.
The driver’s car has new scratches and dents, or other damage.
Please make sure to save or print the rating profile and bring it with you when you come to your first appointment.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235655
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Bought a new car recently? It could have a security flaw!
Researchers have discovered a security flaw that could potentially (and probably does) affect all new vehicles. It allows an attacker to turn off safety features, such as airbags, ABS brakes, and power-steering - or any of a vehicle's computerised components connected to its controller area network or CAN bus.
Commenting on this, Art Danhert, Managing Consultant at Synopsys, said: "The problem identified by Trend Micro is related to the design and architecture of the CAN bus found in nearly all new cars today. The development of the technology goes back to the 1980’s, predating the World Wide Web. No one at that time thought that someone would deliberately try to sabotage a vehicle over the in car network.
"The attack involves creating a Denial of Service for a specific target by using the error management built into the CAN bus protocol. When an attacker causes the network to send too many error “messages” (frames) to a device, the design dictates that the target goes into a Bus Off state. This means that it will no longer respond to messages or send new ones, effectively disabling the device. In the case of an automobile it might be the ABS or airbags or even the electrically assisted power steering.
"Generally, these types of attacks will require access to the vehicle and the ability to persist beyond a restart. However, now that newer vehicles can be connected to the internet in a myriad of ways this is no longer true. Taking advantage of connected phones and telematics features, an attack could happen without direct physical access. And this isn’t necessarily isolated to a single manufacture or model of vehicle.
"Even though the problem has been identified, resolving it will be a long time coming. There are many factors involved, including the large number of vehicle and component manufacturers as well as the technical difficulties in developing a solution for this type of problem. Not to mention the requirements to allow access by the aftermarket and third party repair establishments.
"You can’t bolt on security, it has to be built in from the beginning. A simple update will not fix the cars on the road today."
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Weather steel has extra alloying elements mixed in with the iron and carbon atoms. With these elements, weathering steel gets better strength and more corrosion resistance than typical carbon steel grades. This is the reason weathering steel is often used in outdoor applications.
Typically, weathering steel has less than 0.3% carbon by weight. With this low amount of carbon, it can remain tough and ductile. Also, this kind of steel includes other alloying elements which help increase the strength and corrosion resistance. Different alloying elements are used but nickel, chromium, and copper are the major elements in weathering steel.
Unlike other corrosion resistant steels like austenitic stainless steel, weathering Houston steel is not resistant to rust formation. But, it will only rust on the outer surface. The surface layer of rust serves as a barrier and protects the steel from further corrosion. In weathering steel, the alloying elements cause the initial rust formation to adhere better to the steel, preventing the penetration of rust deeper into the steel which will weaken the steel. With this protective rust layer, weathering steel does not need to be coated.
As a family of low carbon alloy steels, weathering steel has a variety of grades. A number of its grades are proprietary like COR-TEN A or COR-TEN B and Patinax weathering steel. These proprietary grades are similar to the ASTM classifications A 242 and A 588. These steels display exceptional resistance to corrosion over regular carbon steel because of the development of a protective oxide film on the surface of the metal that slows down further corrosion. They possess 50, 000 minimum yield strength characteristics that let enable cost reduction through the ability to design lighter sections into structures.
Weathering steel is often used for exposed steel structures. This way, the metal does not have to be constantly repainted or recoated. Examples include bridge and building construction, wall panel applications, marine transportation, sculptures, and other architectural applications.
The use of weathering steel in construction is likely to present many challenges. This kind of steel isn’t rustproof in itself. This means that water can accumulate in pockets, making it possible for these areas to experience higher corrosion rates. Also, weathering steel is sensitive to humid subtropical climates and environments that are laden with sea salt. In these environments, the steel’s protective patina might continue to corrode instead of stabilizing.
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This pack includes 5 centers that reinforce the skills learned during Unit 2, Week 5 of Reading Street Common Core.
High Frequency Words: Use play dough to build the word on the mat. Color, trace, and write the words on the recording sheet.
Phonics: Sort the picture cards based on the MIDDLE a sound and MIDDLE i sound. Sort, cut, and paste pictures on the recording sheet based on their MIDDLE sounds.
Sentence Scramble: Unscramble the decodeable sentences and write them on the recording sheet.
Conventions: Match the opposite adjective picture cards and write them on the recording sheet.
These centers are built around the story "A Bed for Winter" but will work great with any Pre K, Kindergarten, or 1st grade intervention program.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235659
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Reflux and colic are similar conditions that put babies in a lot of discomfort. So how do you tell them apart? More importantly, what can you do if your baby is affected?
Signs and symptoms are upper abdominal pain, belching, nausea, vomiting, abdominal bloating, How long does indigestion (dyspepsia) last?. during pregnancy, however, most the time, the symptoms are heartburn caused by acid reflux.
Gastroesophageal reflux disease doesn't just affect old people who eat too much. the reflux of stomach acid damages the tissue lining the esophagus, causing. of acid, especially when lying down; a feeling of burping acid into the mouth. If a doctor thinks you might have GERD, he or she will do a physical examination.
Have you ever burped and experienced a foul-smelling, egg-like odor?. Sulfur burps can be caused by many conditions including stress, reflux, irritable bowel.
GER does not cause any problems in babies. In most cases. If you have ever burped and had an acid taste in your mouth, you have had reflux. Sometimes the.
Acid reflux occurs when stomach acid backs up into your esophagus, resulting in. that closes off the stomach from the esophagus – does not work properly. This allows digestive acid to enter the esophagus and can cause damage over time.
GERD, also known as acid reflux, is an acronym that stands for. Talk to your child's doctor if the problem occurs regularly and causes discomfort. Inflammation of the gums; Erosion of the enamel of the teeth; Bad breath; Belching; Chronic sore throat. Find out why pain affects sleep and what you can do to sleep better.
Aug 28, 2018. If you experience acid reflux at night, here are tips that can help mitigate. onions , and anything spicy, fatty, or fried, is one of the biggest causes. to pull acid back down into your stomach the way you do when you're sitting.
Oct 23, 2017. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a condition in which the stomach. When this ring of muscle does not close all the way, stomach contents. provider if you think one of your medicines may be causing heartburn.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235661
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Both the U.S. and Europe cite the importance of climate change mitigation in energy policy, coupled with long-standing concerns for energy security and affordability. The headline responses are, however, rather different. In the U.S., we see a focus on change within fossil-fueled electricity generation, especially the growth of domestic natural gas. Arguably, this has led to stable wholesale electricity prices and the delivery of an affordable, reliable energy system, together with reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Europe's approach is based on ambitious targets for renewable energy generation. It is posited that this will help to reduce dependence on energy imports and cut greenhouse gas emissions. By 2030, a third of Europe's energy is expected to be generated from renewables. The situation faced by E.U. natural gas–fueled power plant operators has been difficult in recent years. The U.S. has policy frameworks -- including the Climate Action Plan -- that look to shift away from dependence on fossil fuels and toward renewables. In Europe, there have also been policy measures associated with natural gas, but primarily these have been market-building. Some E.U. nations effectively prohibit the natural gas extraction innovations that have been a feature of U.S. activities of late. This session considers whether U.S. or Europe has the right approach to securing its energy supplies, and what lessons can be learned from their common and distinct experiences.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235662
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Bullying is a form of health-harming behavior (physical, verbal, written, social and/or electronic) by one or more individuals that is intentional, hurtful (physical and/or psychological) and persistent (repeated). Since there is an imbalance of power (physical or psychological – real or perceived), it is often threatening and creates a hostile workplace. The person’s safety is at risk and their job or career is jeopardized, as well as their relationships.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235668
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The text of Pasaka is based on different parts of Indian mythology – creation of the world, creation of the night, born of the death, Markandea's visions, etc. But the relationship between them, succession, presence of the speaker, evolution in the music create a new dramaturgic level – which is not less important as the basic story. The piece can only be performed in the original language: by using the text in Lithuanian composer attempts to distance the audience from the narrative so that they could use their fantasy and listen to the MUSICAL act.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235672
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"token_count": 115
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Chemical burns can occur when strong acids or alkalis come into contact with the skin and the eyes. Burns can also occur when a child inhales or eats these substances.
If the chemical your child has been exposed to is a dry or powdered chemical, gently wipe the powder from the skin. Check the package enclosure for emergency advice.
For most exposures, remove clothing and any jewelry. Rinse the exposed area right away with running water for 20 minutes. A hose is best. but you may use a shower or faucet. Tissue damage will continue as long as the chemical is in touch with the skin.
Note: Don't use water to rinse dry lime or elemental metals such as sodium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorous, lithium, cesium, or titanium. Water can react with these substances to form dangerous byproducts.
Carefully remove the contaminated clothing. Be careful not to touch the unaffected skin with the contaminated clothing. Cut the clothing away, if needed.
If the chemical has splashed into your child's eyes, start rinsing his or her eyes right away and call 911. Continue rinsing until medical help has arrived. If your child wears contact lenses, try to remove them.
Cover the exposed area loosely with a dry, clean cloth.
Seek medical attention or dial 911 for emergency medical attention. You can also call Poison Control at 800-222-1222.
Chemical burns that look mild may cause severe deep tissue injury. Always have your child examined by a healthcare provider no matter how mild the injury seems.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235673
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 321
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The Budget is a weekly newspaper written for and by members of the Amish, Amish Mennonite, Beachy Amish, and Mennonite communities from 1890 to the present. Currently, The Budget is published in two editions: a local edition and a national edition, each with different content and readership.
(Budgeted) refers to the planned level of expenditures, performance, or number of full-time equivalent positions for a particular fiscal year.
(Budgeting) the process of financial planning of income and expenditure for the firm's various activities - marketing, promotion, advertising, personal selling, etc.
Budgeting is the process of estimating revenues, expenses, and profits/ losses over a time period in order to disburse funds or plan for capital requirements.
(Budgeting) A spending-and-saving plan based on estimated income and expenses covering a specific period of time. Budgets are used by individuals and organizations to reach short and long term financial goals. See Econ4U's eight financial and budgeting tips for help getting started.
(Budgeting) Putting together a financial plan that shows the money you expect to receive, and the money you expect to pay out, over a specified time.
(Budgeting) The phase of accounting that deals with planning the activities of an enterprise and then comparing actual performance to those plans.
(Budgeting) The process of determining a person’s financial eligibility for MEPD or for calculating a co-payment.
(Budgeting) The process of forecasting and controlling expenditure. It consists of a periodic negotiation cycle to set budgets (usually annual) and the day-to-day monitoring and adjustment of current budgets based upon actual or predicted outturns.
(Budgeting) The process of managing your expenditure, so that it doesn't exceed your income.
(Budgeting) The process of translating approved expenditures into funding allocations for a specified period of time.
(Budgeting) with all that goes with budgeting in the form of planning, accounting and control.
(budgeting) Act of creating a management system used for the allocation of resources over a given period of time.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235674
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"token_count": 451
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How to backup your computer files?
Windows Operating System has a built in Backup program that you can locate via the 'Search' facility on your PC or Laptop. Follow some basic wizards in the backup program and your files will be saved locally on the hard drive of your computer. You can run the backup process manually or set up a schedule in the program so that the backup runs automatically at a set time or day. Each time you backup your computer files, it will overwrite the previous saved version.
Use Windows Backup program or purchase a recommended Backup program to process a backup of your files to an external hard drive. This may be a hard drive that is permanently plugged in to your computer but sits 'outside the box' or could be a tape drive or a usb stick drive that you plug in when you want to do the backup. You can run the backup process manually or set up a schedule in the program so that the backup runs automatically at a set time or day. If the external device you are saving your files to is not plugged in at the time of the backup, then the backup will not be able to run. Each time you backup your computer files, it will overwrite the previous saved version.
Similar to an external backup, your files are manually or automatically saved to an external device, and then physically removed from the premises so that the backup is stored in a secure offsite location of your choice.
Using a backup program provided by an online backup service provider you may run manual backups or scheduled backups that utilize the benefits of internet to automatically send your data to a secure and managed offsite location (a data center). Your data will be stored offsite and updated each time the backup runs normally saving historic versions of your backups in storage so that you can restore copies of files from previous dates. For security and privacy, most online backup programs will automatically encrypted (scramble) your files while in storage. Click here here to read more about the benefits of online backup.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235675
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2 Why changement management ?
Change management refers to management methods to plan, control and implement programs of important changes.
Most educational organizations are very conservative. An educational technologist not only has to worry about pedagogy and technology, but also about organizational issues.
This chapter should contain a short overview on various change mangament related models, frameworks, etc. and point to other pages.
Engeström's learning by expansion (expansive learning).
Structure is strategy (at least to a certain point). Therefore it is useful to understand how structure is related to function (and the other way round).
According to Bottori et al. (2007 and Willis (1995), agile design methods like rapid prototyping may be more compatible when change mangement issues are at stake, since typically these methods engage all users in the full process and are meant to adapt design to emerging needs from field testing.
Organization Strategy on Google Answers. (Scroll down, excellent list).
Fre M. Beshears' Executive summary of Tony Bates Managing Technological Change (retrieved 10:48, 26 May 2006 (MEST)).
Ideagora - An Agora for Ideas and Solutions, a professional network whereby the community can share ideas and create solutions to enhance the global educational process via technology, digital content, social media and web 2.0 tools.
Using a Futures Approach in Organizational and Instructional Development by J. Morrison. This is a workshop program with readble references; you can find others on his website.
Botturi, L., Cantoni, L., Lepori, B. & Tardini, S. (2007). Fast Prototyping as a Communication Catalyst for E-Learning Design. In M. Bullen & D. Janes (eds), Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, pp. 266-283.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235676
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 394
}
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In recent years Deep Learning based methods gained a growing recognition in many applications and became the state-of-the-art approach in various fields of Machine Learning, such as Object Recognition, Scene Understanding, Natural Language processing and others. Nevertheless, most of the applications of Deep Learning use static datasets which do not change over time. This scenario does not respond well to a big number of recent applications (such as tendency analysis on social networks, video surveillance, sensor monitoring, etc.), especially when working with data streams which require real-time adaptation to the content of the data. In this paper, we propose a model that is able to perform online data classification and can adapt to data classes, never seen by the model before, while preserving previously learned information. Our approach does not need to store and reuse previous observations, which is a big advantage for data-streams applications, since the dataset one wants to work with can potentially be of very large size. To make up for the absence of previous data, the proposed model uses a recently developed Generative Adversarial Network to drive a Deep Convolutional Network for the main classification task. More specifically, we propagate generative models instead of the data itself, to be able to regenerate the historical training data that we didn't keep. We test our proposition on the well known MNIST benchmark database, where our method achieves results close to the state of the art convolutional networks trained by using the full dataset. We also study the impact of dataset re-generation with GANs on the learning process.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/235680
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 312
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