Invitation To Health: 33 ►How Much Time For Mind?
Published: 20.04.2017
Important question
Compared to body mind is more powerful and useful but the question is how much time is devoted to body and how much to mind? Mind is more important than body but do we plan time for it? To provide nutrition to body we eat four-five times, we care for quality of food, and efforts are made to see that it is full of nutritious elements and vitamins. Care is taken that body gets oily substances, carbohydrate, and minerals. According to season, there is change in foodstuff. We want body to be healthy; do not want it to be weak. We do all these efforts for body.
Question is, do we pay attention about consciousness, mind, and vital breaths? Do we ever think whether or not mind is getting proper nutrition? In the want of nutrition, will not the power of mind be distorted or become weak? Will mind not create troubles? Do we ever think about this? Very few people think on this matter.
Mind alone is not life
Human being lives life. Body alone is not life. Life is a union of body, vital breaths and consciousness. If mere body were life then after death, also life should have been there but after death body remains but life does not remain. Vital energy is life in the body. Vital breath also is not independent. The power animating vital breaths is consciousness. When there is union of these three, there is life otherwise not. Absence of any one of these three disturbs entire life system. Today entire attention of human being is stuck to body only. It is natural also that whatever is faced attention is paid to it only. That which is not in the front is not much attended to. Gross is more attended; and subtle is less attended. Body is gross; mind is subtle. Consciousness is still more subtle. On it attention is not at all paid.
Concern is of body alone
In the science of medicine, there is much research on body. Regarding each and every cell of the body there has been minute knowledge. Even today investigations are going on, experiments are being conducted, but on vital energy there has not been sufficient research work. Science functions through instruments. There has been no such instrument, which can control vital energy, and therefore it is beyond the grasp of science. Vital breath is subtle, consciousness is still more subtle, and therefore entire attention is given to the gross, to body. Abundance of foodstuff, plenty of medicinesall these are acquired because body has to remain healthy. Everyone has concern for the body but it is a matter of surprise that no one care for the one who animates the body. Perhaps this is the reason why these days there are too much of diseases and untimely deaths.
Mere body does not work, it ends up soon. It is believed that our heart can function for three hundred years. So much is the capacity of heart. Our bones and our brain are very strong they have the capacity to work for a long period but they soon become inactive because do not care for vital energy. May be, body thinks that human being only cares for me and not for one who makes me move and therefore I should get finished soon. All concerns of today's human are body-centered. He does not care for vital breaths, mind and consciousness. In such a situation, how can the power of vital breaths, mind and consciousness be in order?
Let us peep beyond body
A human being becomes sixty, seventy, eighty years old. He becomes aged but he does not get any time to think or he does not know at all that beyond body there is something else also. We should pay attention to something beyond body. Human being is entangled in'seen' only the'seen' creates such delusion and stupor that it becomes impossible to break it and go beyond. It is necessary that we peep beyond body.
Next to body our other power is sense organs. This power of sense organs is power of consciousness. The eyeball, ear, nose etc. are forms that do not have the power of senses. However, the power of consciousness animating the senses by which human being sees, speaks, hears, and smells that power of senses is beyond the body. Beyond that is the power that controls the power of the senses. That is the power of mind. The controller of senses is mind. A thought comes to mind whether sky is clear or storm may come. Immediately eyes go upward and start seeing here and there. A question comes to the mind as to from where voice is coming? Immediately ears become attentive to that side. Like this, whatever comes to mind, it is the function of sense organs to execute that.
Three functions of mind
There are three main functions of mind -feeling of pleasure, feeling of pain, and to stimulate sense organs. To steer the senses is its chief function. Mind does not have the capacity to cognize smell or taste or touch or hear good or bad words. Sensation of these five things depends upon the power of senses, but all the senses work for the mind. They provide raw material to mind. Function of mind is to turn raw material into finished product.
The second and third functions of mind are experience of pleasure and pain. Those who are non-attentive creatures, whose mind is not developed, they will have very feeble experience of pleasure and pain. Those who have developed mind in them experience of pleasure or pain will be intense. All these are functions of mind. The question is that when mind helps in experiences of pleasure and pain, helps in stimulating the senses then why ignore mind in respect of its nutrition?
Nutrition, non-nutrition and bad nutrition
In the science of nutrition three words are in currency— nutrition, non-nutrition and bad nutrition. Not to get food, its absence, this is the situation of non-nutrition. If the food received is harmful, bad, then this is the situation of bad nutrition. Getting right type of food is nutrition. For mind, also all the three things hold good. People do not know how to provide nutrition to mind. They do not provide nutrition to mind or give bad nutrition and that is why mind makes them fool around. The plays of mind are strange. This whole world is a playground of mind. This world is a play of mind. Before these plays biggest games of the world are pale. How many plays mind is exhibiting! Human being entangled in these plays wants to defeat one another.
Play of mind
It was a case of olden times. One scholar went to a king. He was learned but poor. It is true that where there is wisdom there is no wealth and where there is wealth there is no wisdom. Wise person is not wealthy and wealthy is not wise. The scholar saluted the king. The king said, "Oh learned scholar! I have heard that your ancestor Augusta muni exhausted entire water of sea in one handful drink. If you can drink water of three jars I shall give you desired wealth." The scholar was smart. He said, "You have stated the correct thing. I have also heard that your ancestor Ramachandraji constructed a stone bridge on sea and crossed it over. If you can make one pebble float on sea water, then I shall drink water of three jars." The king became silent.
This is the play of mind. To defeat each other, to downplay, to take undue advantageby these acts mind does not get nutrition, rather gets bad nutrition. By this, the legs of human being start staggering. Had there been this belief that mind should also get nutrition just like body then such plays of mind would not have been witnessed.
Bad nutrition of mind
In Ayurveda, three guas (traits) are discussed. They are sattva, rajas and tamas. As and when mind gets larger quantity of rajogua and tamogua then it becomes victim of bad nutrition. When mind gets this poisonous food, its consequence is increase of ego. What can be the use of ego in consciousness? Consciousness is pure knowledge. Where there is knowledge how can ego be there? Where there is knowledge there is no ego and where there is ego there is no knowledge. When mind gets bad nutrition, ego is awakened in human being. If someone is said to be big or dignified whether from the point of view of wealth or power or knowledge and if ego is not awakened in him then this will be regarded as the tenth wonder of the world. All these are intimately related with ego. The moment wealth is acquired ego increases. Immediately after getting power human being walks taking airs. After getting knowledge he will regard himself to be great intellectual and to others as little knowing or foolish. His ego will start touching the sky. This is bad nutrition of mind.
Good nutrition of mind
The royal pomp and show of rajogua is synonym of ego. The main cause of human down fall is ego. It takes to hell, and it is trans-worldly thing. We may leave it. Even in present life ego leads to down fall. History is replete with such events. Whenever the ruling folk came under the grip of ego then it suffered down fall. If learned people came under the sweep of ego they fell down. Wealthy people also got destroyed under the sway of ego.
Modesty is the greatest virtue of life. It is a good food for mind. It is an excellent vitamin for mind. The tendency to denigrate others, the feeling to usurp the property of others, the feeling of aggression—all these are bad nutrition of mind. It appears that today's human being makes mind to eat a lot but all of it is working for bad nutrition of


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Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa
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The Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (Verenigende Gereformeerde Kerk in Suid-Afrika) was formed by the union of the black and coloured Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk mission churches.
Main markers in the URCSA'S history
In 1652 the Dutch formed a halfway station at the Cape and introduced slavery by whites.
Various foreign mission organisations started working in South Africa, which led to the formation of a number of denominations amongst those people who otherwise would have been excluded from the main churches.
This process motivated the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) in South Africa to start its own independent mission work.
In 1857 the NGK synod decided to have separate services for coloured members.
A separate church, the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) was formed in 1881.
For blacks, the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) was formed in 1951.
In 1974 the synod of the DRCA decided in favour of church unity. In 1978 the DRMC decided likewise.
In 1986 the Belhar Confession - with its strong emphasis on unity, reconciliation and justice - was formulated and adopted by the DRMC.
In 1994 the DRMC and the DRCA united to form the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA).
The joy which marked the formal unification of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) and the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) in 1994 to form the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), should be seen against the background of a very difficult road on which church unity often appeared as being an unattainable goal.
Shortly after the Dutch formed a halfway station at the Cape in 1652, they introduced slavery. They started a school for slaves, with the purpose of transferring the Dutch language and culture. To encourage slaves to learn the Dutch language and prayers, they were rewarded with tobacco and brandy.
The Dutch East India Company, as a matter of policy, had all their slaves baptised. The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of the time had no organised mission activity, with the result that the baptism of slaves were left to the wilfulness of their masters. Baptised slaves also did not necessarily become members of the church.
In 1737 Georg Schmidt from the Moravian Church came to Cape Town to work amongst the Khoikhoi of the Overberg. Pressurised by the Cape church, he was forced to leave for Germany again after seven years. In the course of time various mission organisations from overseas started working in South Africa, which led to the formation of a number of denominations amongst those people who else would have been excluded from the church.
This process motivated the DRC to start its own independent mission work. This new development started at the church's first synod of 1824, when it decided to allow missionaries within its own ranks. This was clearly a move to get control over the way in which mission work would be done in years to follow. "The Afrikaner abhorred the liberal views of equality, freedom and the social integration of many missionaries (from the foreign mission societies)". Although at its 1829 synod the DRC formally rejected discrimination on the basis of skin colour, it did not mean that in practice people of colour were not discriminated against, particularly at worship services and holy communion.
The DRC synod's decision of 1857 about separate services for coloured members "because of the weakness of some", has become notorious. The next logical step was the formation of a separate church. In 1881 representatives of five mission congregations assembled in Wellington near Cape Town for the first meeting of the DRMC. The DRC reserved the right to veto all decisions by this newly formed church. Also all its buildings had to be transferred on the DRC's name. The DRC decided to divide its mission work into a "home" and "foreign" mission. The first covered the Cape region, the second all the other provinces of South Africa, including Namibia. In each province separate churches for blacks and coloureds were formed. The Free State had its own mission church already in 1910.
In the Cape a separate "Dutch Reformed Bantu Church" was formed in 1951. All the coloured congregations eventually joined the DRMC, and the black congregations the DRCA. In 1974 the synod of the DRCA decided in favour of church unity. In 1978 the DRMC decided likewise.It took another 16 years for that ideal to be fulfilled. In the process, the Belhar Confession with its strong emphasis on unity, reconciliation and justice was formulated and adopted in 1986. This is still very much the motivating power by which the URCSA today lives.
The Uniting Reformed Church consists of approximately 1,230 000 members of them about 500,000 confessing members (excluding all those who are only baptised) and 683 congregations. Its name (which is in the continuous tense) and its logo (which is an incomplete circle) reflects the Church's emphasis on unity, and its hope for an even greater church unification within the family of God.
The Church is consisted of hudreds of congregations, these congregations belong to the regional presbytery and several presbyteries form a Synod. The Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa consist of seven regional synods, namely Namibia, Northern Transvaal, Southern Transvaal, Phororo (Northern Cape), Cape, Kwazulu-Natal, Free State and Lesotho. Each region has its own moderamen, and every congregation is represented at these synods. Congregations are grouped together in presbyteries. At the general synod level congregations are only represented through their presbyteries. The general synod determines the Church's policy, and the regional synods see to it that these policies are reflected in their various activities.
2006-11-06/08, 127 representatives of the Reformed Church in Africa, The Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa and Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk met at Achterbergh near Krugersdorp to discuss the reunification of the family of DRC churches and how this can be realized.
The Dutch Reformed Churches Union Act Repeal Bill [B69-2008] in the Parliament of South Africa has one of its objectives as to 'remove obstacles in the unification process of the Verenigde Gereformeerde Kerk, Reformed Church of Africa and the Dutch Reformed Churches without legislative intervention.' This is now Dutch Reformed Churches Union Act Repeal Act 46 of 2008.
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Moonrise above the Pacific
During the Earth-skimming fly-by on 4 March 2005, Rosetta's Navigation Cameras captured images looking down and ahead.
While cloud formations, coastlines and continents are clearly visible, the best photo shows the Moon rising above the Pacific, taken as the craft headed away from our home planet and out into space.
These images were recorded before and after closest approach around 22:00 UTC. During this time, the spacecraft maintained a constant orientation (Moon-facing) so that earlier views are looking almost directly down, at the east coast of the USA, while later views — and this impressive Moonrise image — were taken looking ahead over the Pacific.
The closest approach came at 22:09 UTC at an altitude of 1954.74 km when Rosetta was over the Pacific, west of Mexico.
All pictures were recorded at 1024 x 1024 pixels and cover a field of view (FoV) of 5 degrees x 5 degrees.
The first image (above) shows the Moon rising above the Pacific at 22:06 UTC, just three minutes before the point of closest approach.
The image below was taken at 21:57 UTC (before the Moonrise photo above) when Rosetta was passing over the east coast of the USA near Norfolk, VA. This view includes Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where the first heavier-than-air flight was made in December 1903.
The next image below was taken at 21:59 UTC and shows cloud formations over the southern portion of the Appalachian Mountains.
The final image (below) was taken at 22:08 UTC (two minutes after the Moon-rise photo above) and shows the Moon with several artefacts due to charged particles hitting the camera's image sensor (CCD, or charge-coupled device). This image has been artificially brightened to better show the dark Moon against the dark background of space.
Click on any image to access the original high-resolution versions. These images may be saved to your PC and opened in any common image editing program. By manually adjusting the brightness, features on the ground will become more visible.


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I love using fill-in-the-blank stories to work on parts of speech. The problem I find with most of them is that they address too many different parts of speech in a single story. Friendship Soup is fun, winter story for practicing just naming singular and plural nouns.
If you are just introducing nouns, discuss what they are and come up with a list of them together. Then have the students fill in the story with words from the list. You can also have the students come up with their own lists of singular and plural nouns if they are able to. Read the story back to them with their answers filled in and talk about what parts do and don't make sense. Have fun and remember that in this case the sillier the story is the better!

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Buddhahood in This Life is a complete translation of the earliest Tibetan commentary on the Dzogchen secret instructions.
Available for the first time in English, Buddhahood in This Life presents the Great Commentary of Vimalamitra—one of the earliest and most influential texts in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It explores the theory and practice of the Great Perfection tradition in detail, shows how Dzogchen meditation relates to the entirety of the Buddhist path, and outlines how we can understand buddhahood—and even achieve it in our lifetime.
This essential text includes topics such as
· how delusion arises
· the pathway of pristine consciousness
· how buddhahood is present in the body
· and more.
Translator Malcolm Smith includes an overview, analysis and clarification for all topics. Buddhahood in This Life covers fine details of Dzogchen meditation, including profound "secret instructions" rarely discussed in most meditation manuals. This text is essential for any serious student of the Great Perfection.


Depending on the version of Excel you are using, you can get the following message when you try to open the exported file. This message is displayed because the file is in HTML format for easy formatting of content. So there is no risk to open the file in Excel. Click on 'Yes' and Save the file in Excel format to keep a copy (File -> Save As -> File Type: Excel Workbook).


It is a question that is asked often, why cant I raise this Kangaroo or Wallaby as a pet? We are living in Australia and surely a native animal would be a better option than a cat or a dog?
The reasons are many, when you see a small joey they are indeed very cute and cuddly, it seems that they would stay that way forever, of course this is not the case, they grow up.
It has taken thousands of years of breeding cats and dogs to what they are today, happily living with humans. But even now we still have problems with our domestic pets not being looked after properly by a small percentage of the population.
Let us look at some of the realities of having a kangaroo in captivity in the average yard.
A "Domestic" Environment
Firstly you would have to construct a fence at least 6ft high to eliminate the possibility of your animal escaping, it is a dangerous animal once it is an adult. Also being a social creature it needs the interaction of others of the same species.
You would have to ensure no cats had access to your yard, as the roo or wallaby could contract toxoplasmosis from gracing on the grass the cat may have soiled.
You could not have dogs near your yard as your new "pet" could be chased by a dog running up and down your fence thus your "pet" would end up with myopathy (a situation almost always resulting in the death of the roo or wallaby). Or maybe running franticly into the fence in fright and breaking its neck when a neighbor starts the lawn mower.
The faeces would have to be removed on a daily basis to reduce the risk of coccidiosis. The spraying of any cockroach, fly or ant sprays would be out of the question.
Forget fertilising the pot plants, as most slow release fertiliser pellets contain phosphates, this can kill a wallaby. When your "pet" reaches sexual maturity, it would consider you one of its species, at this stage it is capable of seriously hurting an adult, not to mention a child.
A domesticated native animal cannot be released back into the wild, they would not know where to find food, or what to eat, where to find shelter or how to interact with their own kind. The only answer in that case is to humanely have the animal put down, when the family no longer is able to handle it, or the novelty has worn off.
When we consider the amount of cats and dogs the RSPCA has to put down every day of the week, do you really think it would be any different if not worse for our native wildlife if kept as pets?
"Wild" life
Our native wildlife is exactly what the word implies,"WILD. Let us all do what we can now and in the future to preserve their habitat, enjoy seeing them in the wild where they belong. They do not belong in our lounge rooms, watching television with the kids while they are small, only to be left to an uncertain fate once they are no longer cute and cuddly.
©Wildlife Mountain 2000 - 2017


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Alpha Writer, by Montessorium
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"It's very well-designed and smartly implemented." - Macworld - The possibilities are endless, as you learn to read, write and spell phonetically, composing words and stories, with original illustrations.
Based on the proven methodology of Montessori.
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"All of (the Montessorium apps) are perfect for toddlers to get to know letters, numbers, and start making words…" - Not Cot
"Minimalist yet engaging, the sleekly designed app makes self-directed learning what it should be: Fun, simple, yet effective." - Maria Popova
YOUR CHILD WILL LEARN:
- Basic foundations of language
- To read, write and spell phonetically
- Identify consonants and vowels
- Phonograms - writing and pronunciation
- Letter sounds, pronunciation and composition
- How to compose, identify and spell phonetic words
- To write, create and read stories
- Fine motor skills
PRACTICE WRITING AND READING
Utilizing fun and unique illustrations, your child will practice writing and reading, in a series of self-directed and engaging activities. Start with phonetics and then proceed to phonograms!
CHOOSE AN ARTIST
We offer over 100 unique, phonetic illustrations, from 3 different internationally acclaimed artists: Zeptonn, Mike Lowery and Marloes de Vries. Alpha Writer comes equipped with one batch, and you can upgrade for the other two!
CREATE YOUR OWN STORY
Let loose in this creative writer's sandbox. Learning how to write, create and ultimately read, your child has the opportunity to construct stories, through illustrations, letters and sounds.
We're very pleased to introduce and feature a special new section. It's called Alpha Spy, riffing on the famous "I-Spy with My Little Eye" adventure. Hope you enjoy!
THE TESTED AND PROVEN PHILOSOPHY BEHIND ALPHA WRITER
In Montessori, writing comes before reading. This is because writing is the expression of your own thoughts, whereas in reading, you must identify the letters placed in formation to comprise a word of someone elses choosing. For children just learning their letter sounds, this can be an extremely difficult and frustrating task. We're hoping to help alleviate that with Alpha Writer. The moveable alphabet was created for children who have the ability and interest to start writing and reading, but don't quite have the fine motor skills needed to hold a pencil and draw the letters. It's also helpful for children who would like some added practice, having the opportunity to express themselves with no external pressures. At this stage of development, Montessori believes that spelling is not essential. Thus, we place an emphasis on the phonetic sounds used to build a word.
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Collapsing dams are a staple of disaster films, but the form that these take in natural systems is also surprisingly varied. Streams and rivers can be blocked by a range of rapid and gradual inputs. One of the lesser-known causes of stream blockage is through the accumulation of large woody debris – tree trunks and large branches – to form a log jam.
The impact of these jams on river geomorphology can be varied, but in some extreme cases, when they break, large flood waves can wash out huge downstream areas. This kind of hazard is often poorly understood, so a new study exploring how logjams in Bolivia can drive downstream flooding published in Earth System Dynamics by Umberto Lombardo provides an important addition to our understanding.
To form a log-jam, tree trunks and other large woody debris needs to end up in the river through erosion and transport processes. The majority of the rivers in the assessed area meander back and forth, which encourages erosion of the river banks; this can topple trees into the river. This bank erosion provides the source of the woody debris which then gets stuck in the channel, beginning the construction of a log-jam.
Once the jam is formed there is potential for flooding, which has important consequences for the surrounding forest. Behind the dam, silt and sand accumulates, and once the river either breaks the dam or redirects around it, sediment is also distributed downstream, along with the woody debris.
Using satellite imagery, Lombardo explores a chunk of the Bolivian part of the Amazon rainforest to look for the effects of log-jam induced flooding on forest dynamics. He shows in this study that the sudden influx of mud and silt onto the forest floor characteristically results in the die-off of much of the vegetation. Where floods occur repeatedly, the dense rainforest ecosystem is replaced by a drier, more savannah-like ecosystem.
The flood-induced ecosystem change is not an isolated one, either; in the study area, the amount of forest killed by floods is nearly as great as the amount lost to deforestation for agricultural growth, and the near-annual recurrence of these events in many rivers means that it is a consistent cause of ecological shifts.
From a human perspective, these log-jams are a risk that may not be appreciated. Recent studies have shown that human driven deforestation can accelerate the rate at which river banks in tropical regions erode; so while the removal of trees may initially reduce the propensity for log-jams in extensively managed stretches of river, the faster rate of meandering may also lead to log-jam formation further down the line sooner than we might think. A clearer understanding of such river systems, where log-jam formation and coupled flooding is part of the normal evolution of the stream system, would serve us well in rapidly developing tropical countries that rely on forest ecosystems.
While the dynamics of log-jams have been studied in more temperate regions, this study represents a significant step into the unknown in tropical regions. The Amazon as a whole is a crucial component of the global carbon cycle, so a clearer understanding of the feedbacks between rivers, erosion, and the forest ecosystem will allow us to create more nuanced models of the rainforest dynamics.
The more scientists study forests, the clearer it becomes that these ecosystems regularly undergo significant disturbances simply as part of their natural cycles. Forest fires and pest outbreaks can disrupt a given stand of forest; log-jams are another example of a disturbance, this time closely associated with river dynamics. Forests renew and regenerate themselves at a range of scales, from individual trees to whole swathes of woodland, and log-jams provide an additional mechanism that can lead to die-off of mature forest and replacement by new growth.
By Robert Emberson, a science writer based in Canada
Lombardo, U.: River logjams cause frequent large-scale forest die-off events in southwestern Amazonia, Earth Syst. Dynam., 8, 565-575, _URL_ 2017


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CAMERA CALIBRATION USING MULTIPLE UNORDERED COPLANAR CHESSBOARDS
The now widely available and highly popular among non-expert users, particularly in the context of UAV photogrammetry, Structure-from-Motion (SfM) pipelines have also further renewed the interest in the issue of automatic camera calibration. The well-documented requirements for robust self-calibration cannot be always met, e.g. due to restrictions in time and cost, absence of ground control and image tilt, terrain morphology, unsuitable flight configuration etc.; hence, camera pre-calibration is frequently recommended. In this context, users often resort to flexible, user-friendly tools for camera calibration based on 2D coded patterns (primarily ordinary chessboards). Yet, the physical size of such patterns poses obvious limitations. This paper discusses the alternative of extending the size of the calibration object by using multiple unordered coplanar chessboards, which might accommodate much larger imaging distances. This is done initially by a detailed simulation to show that – in terms of geometry – this could be a viable alternative to single patterns. A first algorithmic implementation is then laid out, and results from real multi-pattern configurations, both ordered and unordered, are successfully compared. However, aspects of the proposed approach need to be further studied for its reliable practical employment.


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, Tesla Day. Some organizations celebrate Tesla Day informally on 10 July. However, The Tesla Memorial Society wrote letters to several officials asking to commemorate 10 July as international Nikola Tesla Day.
Six generation units with a combined capacity of 1650.5 MW that makes it the largest power facility in the former Yugoslavia. TPP Nikola Tesla A was first synchronised on March 27, 1970. It has two chimneys: one with a height of 220 metres and a second with a height of 150 metres.
This dynamics appears to be a derivative of what Tesla commented, and although it is not mentioned by him, it is a logical next step to explain the thermodynamics in the system.
TPP Nikola Tesla operates its own railway with over 100 km rail tracks total. The railway is used for coal transport from the mines to the power plants. It is independent from the national rail freight transport company Srbija Kargo.
Google honored Tesla on his birthday on 10 July 2009 by displaying a Google Doodle in the Google search home page, that showed the G as a Tesla coil.


What is settings.ini? Should I remove it?
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Settings.ini — a file which is related to the Windows operating system
Questions about settings.ini
Settings.ini is a system file which is used for the configuration for software or specific platforms. According to the analysis, this file is related to the Windows operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation. Even though this simple text file is not harmful to your computer, some experts recommend being cautious if you detect suspicious activity on your PC.
Name Settings.ini
Type System file
Potential dangers The name of this file might be used to disguise malware or cryptocurrency miners on the computer
Distribution If the file is potentially dangerous, it can reach your system via bundling technique
Elimination The safest method to uninstall Settings.ini file is to scan the system with ReimageIntego and let the antivirus determine whether it is malicious and should be removed
The purpose of a legitimate Settings.ini is to configure Windows operating system and other applications which are installed on your computer. Additionally, this file is used to arrange the following:
 - Fonts;
 - Device drivers;
 - Startup launchers.
People usually wonder is Settings.ini safe — experts say it cannot harm your computer if the file is legitimate and used for the purposes mentioned above. Typically,.INI file[1] appears as a basic text file which should not put your computer's security at risk. It consists of values, properties, and sections.
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Mn(I) in an extended oxide: The synthesis and characterization of La1–xCaxMnO2+∂ (0.6 ≤ x ≤ 1)
E Dixon, J Hadermann, S Ramos, A L Goodwin and M A Hayward
J Am Chem Soc 133, 18397 (2011)
Reduction of La1–xCaxMnO3 (0.6 ≤ x ≤ 1) perovskite phases with sodium hydride yields materials of composition La1–xCaxMnO2+δ. The calcium-rich phases (x = 0.9, 1) adopt (La0.9Ca0.1)0.5Mn0.5O disordered rocksalt structures. However local structure analysis using reverse Monte Carlo refinement of models against pair distribution functions obtained from neutron total scattering data reveals lanthanum-rich La1–xCaxMnO2+δ (x = 0.6, 0.67, 0.7) phases adopt disordered structures consisting of an intergrowth of sheets of MnO6 octahedra and sheets of MnO4 tetrahedra. X-ray absorption data confirm the presence of Mn(I) centers in La1–xCaxMnO2+δ phases with x < 1. Low-temperature neutron diffraction data reveal La1–xCaxMnO2+δ (x = 0.6, 0.67, 0.7) phases become antiferromagnetically ordered at low temperature.


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Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Launch date: 19/09/2019
Review status: Report published
What is the review about?
A review examining the successes and challenges faced by the Island in relation to recruiting and retaining teaching staff.
The Panel recently questioned the Minister for Education about the current vacancy rates in advance of the new academic year and found that 69 teachers had handed their noticed in as of 31 May 2019. Whilst most of these vacancies have now been filled, the Panel has agreed that it would be beneficial to examine the views of the teaching profession and the available data relating to recruitment and retention, to identify the successes and challenges for the Island. Whilst the review is not being carried out in direct response to the recent industrial action, it is hoped that it will help determine whether there are any underlying trends or issues that may have contributed to this.
Terms of reference
1. To examine the recruitment and retention figures for teaching staff over the past 5 years including, but not limited to:
- The number of staff that have left the profession;
- The number of staff that have retired and are due to retire in the next 5 years;
- The number of staff that have been recruited through any recruitment initiatives (i.e. Jersey Teacher Training Programme);
- The number of staff that have engaged in exit interviews.
2. To identify all Government of Jersey policies relating to the recruitment and retention of teaching staff and assess their effectiveness.
3. To gather and examine the views of stakeholders regarding the key challenges faced in recruiting and retaining teachers.


Empty lots cannot be considered progress
So far, 2013 has been a tough year in Buffalo for those who appreciate the unique history of our region.
We have witnessed the obliteration of the only surviving physical connection to the Wilkeson family – one of Buffalo's founding families; the needless demolition of a beautiful church in North Buffalo; and now, the destruction of the Bethlehem Steel administration building.
Some will say that these lost pieces of our history were eyesores; that saving them was too expensive; that they stood in the way of progress.
However, these structures became eyesores only after decades of neglect by owners who refused to maintain their properties and municipalities that failed to enforce their laws.
Restoring these structures would have required major investments. However, one only needs to visit the Lafayette Hotel, the Larkin District or the Darwin Martin House to appreciate the financial and cultural return on investment that these historic assets provide.
The Regional Economic Development Council has identified tourism as part of our region's economic revitalization. The exceptional architecture of our built environment draws visitors from around the nation and the world. However, no one wants to see a placard that commemorates a historic structure that is now an empty lot.
Important choices must be made as to how we invest our limited resources. Currently, our region is spending money it can ill afford to subsidize inefficient and costly sprawl development. We can no longer afford to build strip malls and cul-de-sacs on fertile, rural land.
One only has to look to Bethlehem, Pa., to see what is possible when a city values its unique industrial heritage. There, the SteelStacks redevelopment is currently paying cultural and economic dividends. That is real and beneficial progress. Our region, however, is left with more empty lots. How is that progress?
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Lick Run Tributary
Acid Mine Drainage
Most of the Peters Creek watershed is underlain with high-quality, easily-mined coal deposits that outcrop on the slopes of many of the stream valleys. The close proximity of these valuable deposits to the many Pittsburgh area coke ovens and steel mills has led to extensive mining throughout the watershed.
The Pittsburgh coal bed has been mined since the early 1900ís by underground methods and has resulted in many parts of the watershed being prone to surface subsidence. This is currently a major issue in the Pleasant Hills area.
The Redstone coal bed, which overlies the Pittsburgh coal bed, was mined subsequently by surface methods before environmental laws were enacted requiring reclamation of mined lands. The resulting spoil piles have remained largely un-reclaimed and are scattered throughout the watershed.
Today, the watershed continues to suffer from its coalmining legacy. Many of the abandoned mine workings have partially flooded with water. Pyrite (FeS2) is a common mineral that is often found in association with coal seams. When the pyrite in these mine voids comes into contact with water and oxygen; acidic mine water often results. This acidic water has a great capacity to dissolve other minerals such as aluminum and phosphorus. These acidic, mineral-laden waters often find their way into the streams of the watershed and degrade them. The same process occurs when rainwater percolates through pyrite-laden, unreclaimed overburden piles from stripmining activity.


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A ''shelf'' is a persistent, dictionary-like object. The difference
with ''dbm'' databases is that the values (not the keys!) in a shelf
can be essentially arbitrary Python objects -- anything that the
pickle module can handle. This includes most class
instances, recursive data types, and objects containing lots of shared
sub-objects. The keys are ordinary strings.
To summarize the interface (
key is a string,
data is an
d = shelve.open(filename) # open, with (g)dbm filename -- no suffix
d[key] = data # store data at key (overwrites old data if
# using an existing key)
data = d[key] # retrieve data at key (raise KeyError if no
# such key)
del d[key] # delete data stored at key (raises KeyError
# if no such key)
flag = d.has_key(key) # true if the key exists
list = d.keys() # a list of all existing keys (slow!)
d.close() # close it
- The choice of which database package will be used
(e.g. dbm or gdbm) depends on which interface
is available. Therefore it is not safe to open the database directly
using dbm. The database is also (unfortunately) subject
to the limitations of dbm, if it is used -- this means
that (the pickled representation of) the objects stored in the
database should be fairly small, and in rare cases key collisions may
cause the database to refuse updates.
- Dependent on the implementation, closing a persistent dictionary may
or may not be necessary to flush changes to disk.
- The shelve module does not support concurrent read/write
access to shelved objects. (Multiple simultaneous read accesses are
safe.) When a program has a shelf open for writing, no other program
should have it open for reading or writing. Unix file locking can
be used to solve this, but this differs across Unix versions and
requires knowledge about the database implementation used.
See About this document... for information on suggesting changes.
- Module anydbm:
- Generic interface to
- Module dbhash:
db database interface.
- Module dbm:
- Standard Unix database interface.
- Module dumbdbm:
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- GNU database interface, based on the
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24 hand grenade.
How to defuse the grenade? Carefully screw off the handle from the casing. Take out the detonator. Wrap it in paper, cotton, or a rag, and put it in your bag so it is safe from being hit or falling out. Reconnect the handle with the grenade.
Always transport the grenades unloaded. Store and transport the detonators separately.
Model 1939 Egg-shaped Hand Grenade
This is an offensive timed hand grenade. It weighs 220 grams.
To prepare this grenade for throwing, extract the fuse with the protective cap from the grenade (shown in figure 112 in the left hand) and inspect the fuse housing. Make sure that it is free from debris. Screw off the safety cap from the distance cylinder (fig 112). Replace it with a detonator. The open part of the detonator may contain wood shavings, cloth fibers, etc. In this case, turn the detonator so that they fall out. If they do not, discard the detonator, as it is unusable. Do not attempt to extract debris from the detonator with any object.
If you have a functioning detonator, slide it on the distance cylinder carefully (fig 113). Then, screw the fuse into the grenade and tighten the nut (fig 114). The grenade is ready for use.
Fig. 112. How to remove the safety cap.
Fig. 113. How to put on the detonator.
Fig. 114. How to tighten the fuse with a nut.
Screw off the safety cap, which remains attached by a cord. Take the grenade in your right hand. Grip the cap with your index and middle fingers, and throw the grenade. Remember that it will detonate 4 seconds after you throw.
Some grenades already have a detonator inserted. Know how to disarm them. Pull the fuse out of the grenade. Carefully take the detonator off and wrap it in a rag. Put the safety cap back on and screw the fuse back into the grenade.
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The True Meaning Of Faiz's Poem 'Gulon Mein Rang Bharay'
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Many people have heard the poem 'Gulon mein rang bhare' by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whom I regard the greatest Urdu poet of the 20th century. But hardly anyone has understood its real meaning. They think it is a poem dedicated to a lover. In fact it is a call for a revolution. Let me explain.
1. Urdu poetry is often written not directly, but in a round about way, by allusions, hints, indications and suggestions. It often has a superficial, literal, outer meaning, and an inner, deeper, real meaning, to understand which one has to wrack one's brains.
2. Great Urdu poets like Ghalib believed that poetry should not be written in the language of the common man, and they had a horror of the commonplace. To make it dignified and sophisticated (andaaz-e-bayaan) they often used Persian expressions and metaphors.
3. To properly understand the poem one has to see the historical context. For example, the poem in question was written by Faiz when he was in jail, accused in the Rawalpindi conspiracy case, for which he could have even be hanged. Hence he could not criticise the government directly, but had to use very guarded, indirect language while writing the poem, like Maxim Gorky's 'Song of the Stormy Petrel' which was written in 1901 when Russia was under the autocratic Czarist rule, and it was dangerous to use direct language.
Now let me explain the real meaning of the poem, sher (couplet) by sher.
1. Gulon mein rang bhare baad-e-naubahaar chale
 Chale bhi ao ki gulshan ka kaarobaar chale
Now the literal, outer, superficial meaning of the sher is this :
Come, so that the work of the garden can be done"
So, literally it seems to be a call to a lover.
But that is not what Faiz is really conveying. The word 'gulshan' (garden) is not to be understood literally. It means the country.
The first 'misra' (line) really means that the objective situation in the country is ripe for a revolution. The second misra is a call to patriots and revolutionaries to come forward and fight for the country, which is in great distress.
2. Qafas udaas hai yaaron saba se kuch to kaho
The literal meaning of this is:
"The prison is sad, friends, say something to the morning breeze
For God's sake at least somewhere there should be mention of one's beloved"
The real meaning here is that the whole country has become a qafas (prison).
The word 'yaar' (beloved) used here really means the people, not just one person.
So the poet is calling upon patriots to step forward and fight for the people, since the whole country has become a jail (which Pakistan had become under martial law).
3. Kabhi to subeh tere kunj-e-lab se ho aaghaaz
 Kabhi to shab sar-e-kaakul se mushkbaar chale
The literal meaning of this is:
"At least sometimes let the morning start from the corner of your lips
At least sometimes in the night your tresses be filled with a scent like musk"
But what the poet is really conveying is that at least sometimes the people should think of the country, not just of oneself.
4. "Jo hum pe guzri so guzri magar shab-e-hijraan
Hamaare ashk teri aaqabat sanwaar chale"
This literally literally means:
"Whatever befell me befell me, but on the night of separation
My tears adorned your future"
The real meaning here is that the poet is thinking of a patriot's death, when he will be separated from the people, his real lover. He says that though he will be no more, his struggles will have helped their cause.
5. Maqaam Faiz raah mein koi jacha hi nahi
 Jo koo-e-yaar se nikle, soo-e-daar chale
This literally means :
"I could not on my route find any place where I could settle down
When I left the street of my beloved, I went to the gallows"
But what the poet is really conveying is the difficult, formidable and Herculean journey of the revolutionary, who after serving his beloved (the people) often ends up on the gallows.
 1. Desh Raj June 25, 2021
 What a wonderful interpretation sir!
 Hats off 🙏
 2. Khalid June 26, 2021
 Truly a remarkable ghazal and some great literary analysis by Justice Katju.
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Applied Behavior Analysis MS
Applicants must meet the general graduate admission requirements of the Graduate School, described in the UMSL Bulletin. Students are considered for admission to the graduate program in Applied Behavioral Analysis only after they have formally applied for admission through the Graduate School. Applications may be completed on-line.
In addition to Graduate School admission requirements, the following requirements apply:
- An undergraduate degree with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
- Letter of Intent/Statement of Purpose (1-2 pages)
- One Letter of Reference
To earn an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis, students must complete at least 23 credit hours of graduate-level course work, 10 credit hours of practicum experience, and at least 6 credit hours of Thesis Research for which students will be required to write and defend a thesis.
Required Foundation Courses
Students are required to complete the following courses within the first 15 credit hours of study.
|SPEC ED 6641
|Basic Principles and Concepts of Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6642
|SPEC ED 6643
|Research Methods in Applied Behavior Analysis
Students are required to complete the following courses.
|SPEC ED 6644
|Behavior Interventions in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6645
|Ethics and Professionalism in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6646
|Verbal Behavior Concepts and Applications
|SPEC ED 6647
|Advanced Concepts and Principles in Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6648
|Behavior-Based Consultation and Supervision
Required Practicum Courses
Through the course of five semesters, students are required to complete practicum courses in order to accrue the minimal hours of supervised experience required by the BACB to qualify for the BCBA exam.
|SPEC ED 6651
|Practicum I in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6652
|Practicum II in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6653
|Practicum III in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6654
|Practicum IV in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6655
|Practicum V in Applied Behavior Analysis
Required Research Courses
Students take a minimum of 6 thesis credit hours (no more than 3 per semester) starting in year two of the program.
|SPEC ED 6661
|Thesis in Applied Behavior Analysis
Students are required to complete a total of 6 credit hours of thesis. The student will engage in sustained and self-motivated study through the research process, conferring with advisors, and drafting and revising a manuscript. The thesis proposal must be approved by the committee and successfully defended. A committee chair will be identified, who will consult with the student on selecting two other members for the committee.
Students will work with their committee chair to identify a thesis project such as the following but not limited to a literature review, a scholarly tutorial, or an empirical study. The thesis project should be a scholarly work related to behavior analysis.
Students are expected to follow all other general requirements of the Graduate School regarding master's degree and thesis requirements.


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agen; die geschopflich-endliche Aussage nach aussen ist eine… Fortsetzung der innergottlichen Setzung von Bild und Gleichnis." "Bild und Gleichnis" is usually also translated as 'image' and 'expression,' yet this change in vocabulary is crucial to understanding Rahner's intent in describing divine action in the world.
What is the difference between "Abbild und Aussage" and "Bild und Gleichnis"? For starters, Abbild contains other meanings beside simply 'image' – it is a created or generally figurative word, implying something "from" or "out of" a bild (original form, idea). In the second instance, Rahner has moved directly to the base idea or underlying form: Bild. Rahner's choice with the second term is similarly intriguing. Instead of merely speaking of "Aussage" – which literally means 'out speaking' or declaration, he instead chose to use Gleichnis, which means 'simile' or even a story 'parable.' Ab and Aus both carry a secondary "out of" implication, rather than emphasizing the primary essence. Rahner's intent in developing such a comprehensive theology of the symbol is to bring us ever more precisely from a base concept of God's expression in the world as only image and mere re-statement or re-expression of that illustration to Bild and Gleichnis – Form or Idea and the Metaphor/Parable of the Divine Form in the world.
Rahner thus moves from figurative language to something close to ding an sich. He is, at root, attempting to describe the manner in which the Godhead communicates to itself, and within itself as a subject/object/ground-of-being, all at once. The Logos is not merely the expression of a human being who has become divine – Logos is instead an instantiation of the godhead: it is a substantial reality of God which is mediated as the Logos. As Rahner wrote early in his ""Zur Theologie der Symbolwirklichkeit," the relationship of the self-communication of God to the incarnated Logos "sondern ein realontologisches und dauerndes Verhältnis." For it is not only by an image, illustration, spoken or written message or by any sign of himself that God has become evident in the world, but by the actual substantial form of that divinity: in the Logos' embodiment in Jesus Christ, God gave the Godhead's image itself to us. Rahner would have us realize that from the Vater, the Logos "aussagt und sein ihn der Welt mitteilendes Symbol ist." Christ constitutes the real and definitive 'statement' of God's being.
In this story, the principal character was expressed in flesh, not merely described. As Rahner later writes, "die Wirklichkeit, die als vom Symbolisierten gesetztes inneres Moment seiner selbst dieses Symbolisierte offenbart, kundmacht und als konkretes Dasein des Symbolisierten selbst von ihm erfüllt ist." Just as the Logos was not a 'story' or a 'signified reality' to God, but a present and real being, so the Logos became to us not merely a sign or as an illustration, but a 'living story-in-itself.' God's symbolic reality would participate in our reality henceforth. Thus, in his characterization of Christ as God's embodiment, Rahner is essentially demonstrating that God's symbol of Christ illustrates the inner reality of Love: the kenosis of God is revealed and proclaimed in the life of Christ. Through the symbolic reality of God, we are "redeemed" within our understanding and corporeal reality: we are not removed from this reality, but become transcendent in our understanding. Rahner's understanding of the importance of symbol as divine self-expression within God's own being and consequently God's unfolding story within our embodiment is vital to our understanding of how embodiment itself can evolve within the divine plan.
iii. Symbolic Reality
In the same manner as God's only konkretes Symbolisierten of himself is in Christ the Logos, we only come to be in and through our bodies. We are more than our bodies, but the body is our symbolic reality. The body is inherently our symbol, and thus is a threshold between our universal reality and God's universe. In this regard, it is interesting to note that Luce Irigaray writes of the body as "the threshold, the portal for the construction of... universes." The body becomes, in both Rahner and Irigaray's thought, the ursprüng site where other and self are joined, where divinity and humanity meet. It is through the body that God mediated himself/herself to humankind, for as Dubarle observed: "Practique du symbole et connaissance de Dieu." In Christian terms, for Rahner, all reality intersects here in the body.
We now understand, on a cursory level, the reality of the body as a divine symbol. Our comprehension of the completeness of symbolized and corporeal experience before God should therefore banish any vestige of the idea of the soul as a substantially separate entity from embodied reality. And the foundation on which Rahner builds this understanding is deep and historical: Aristotle was the first to understand that it is more accurate to state that the body is in the soul than it is to state that the soul is in the body. Rahner merely echoes and expands on such a classical, Thomistic understanding as he explains that the "body is informed by the soul." God mediates the divine reality to us through the symbolic and "informed" reality of our bodies. However, we have still to understand entirely what the "symbolic reality" of the body means to us in day to day life. What is the human experience of embodiment, in Rahner's conception?
Just as God is mediated to us through symbols, so it is through the body that the world is mediated to us and through the body that we mediate ourselves to the world. Yet as the Greeks realized, we have many parts to our bodies – from fingernails to hearts, from neurons to hair follicles – and not all of these parts can be equally important. The whole human person cannot be tied to the soul. Aquinas built on Aristotle by noting that "nulla pars integralis praedicatur de suo toto" – an integral part cannot be predicated of its whole, which is to say that a person's material reality is not his or her soul. When a fingernail falls off, our soul is not dimished. However, there must be something that is more than material matter, and according to Aquinas, that immortal element is the "intellective soul" because this part of the body has "an immaterial act, namely, thinking." Rahner, of course, built on this foundation in his dissertation. Published as Geist in Welt, Rahner's seminal work brought St. Thomas' Summa Theologica into the Kantian age by reflecting on the nature of human "knowing" as an ever-receding horizon. From metaphysical reflection on knowing God, Rahner drew the insight that no human thought can proceed without an image or representation. Human thoughts – even thoughts of God – depend on mental imagery. Thomas Aquinas called such images 'phantasms,' yet Rahner deduced that only through such phantasms was spirit itself expressed in the world. As Mark Fischer notes, Rahner's reliance on thought as the basis for spirit's expression "laid a systematic basis for his eventual doctrine of sacrament and symbol, through which God's Spirit becomes tangible."
The existence of thought obviously is of essence to Rahner's analysis in Geist in Welt. After all, without thought – without consciousness – we cannot apprehend the mysterious motions of Geist's communication within the world. One can, of course, argue that Rahner's analysis does not require conscious thought, for Rahner later clarified that we are "hearers" of God's word or silence, and that God is always "mysterious" – thus, perhaps skirting the edge of consciousness interaction. Rahner further expanded his explanation of man's corporeal being in his penetrating Foundations of Christian Faith, wherein the majority of his emphasis in his later work continues to be on the philosophical understanding of man's inner knowledge and ability to self-transcend. Yet Geist in Welt's principal statements that assume consciousness continue to appear in Rahner's later work in the "Theological Investigations" (including "Body as Symbol"), without much attention to the possibility of their diminishment in a post-Thomistic world.
The necessary groundwork to distinguish Rahner's idea of a "soulful" consciousness from mere animal reaction has been laid in Rahner's work itself, and further expanded in the work of a thinker who followed his footsteps. Basque philosopher Xavier Zubiri found himself in great agreement with Rahner, publishing tributes and homages to his basic thought; in his attempts at a "liberation philosophy," Zubiri also brought Rahner's focus on consciousness to its next logical conclusion. Zubiri further clarifies that human sensation and "confrontation" of self derives from our awareness that objects sensed around us are not willful extensions of our bodies or experience. This post-Kantian recognition of the "real" is the foundational act of consciousness; it is the starting and ending place of every sensation. For human beings, Zubiri believes, "there is no question about how the mind reaches what is real, no need to build a bridge between the mind and reality." Out of this realization, Zubiri builds a comprehensive conception of humankind


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Description: Translator hears distant GE protocol sensors and repeats information to control panel. Generally, sensors send 8 identical "packets" of information. The Translator ensures that a complete set of 8 packets are repeated to the control panel.
- Listens to distant GE-protocol wireless devices, and re-transmits them to control panel
- Extends range of system
- No sensor enrollment required
- Received IDs are passed on unchanged to panel. All alarm, supervisory and trouble signals are passed through
- Main device has its own unique ID for supervisories, complete reporting of main device tamper, external power supply fault and low battery
- Dual antennas for both Receive and Transmit diversity for increased range
- Back-up battery protects during loss of external power


In the 'gay sex is bad unless it's women' cultural milieu, a survey by a University of Texas at Austin psychologist determined that men are more than twice as likely to continue dating a girlfriend who has cheated on them with another woman than if she cheated with another man.
The survey used 700 college students so calibrate accordingly - men may not like their girlfriends sleeping with another guy but a girlfriend sleeping with another girl is a porn movie.
But don't start yelling about young men. While women were more likely to break off the relationship following both kinds of cheating, they really disliked a boyfriend's homosexual affair. So, in a way, college age men are more tolerant than college age women. At least about who can sleep around with whom.
The survey in Personality and Individual Differences painted the scenario of a committed romantic relationship (including sex) with someone lasting three months. They were then asked how they would respond to infidelity committed by their partner but some of both genders were told their partners had been unfaithful with a man and others with a woman. Some were told their partners had an affair with one person, others with more than one, some were told the infidelity happened only once, others twice.
Occurrences or numbers of partners aside, the study found that:
 - Men had a 50 percent likelihood of continuing to date a woman who had a homosexual affair but only a 22 percent likelihood of staying with her if she cheated with a man.
 - Women were more tolerant about a boyfriend sleeping with other women, 28 percent likelihood of continuing to date him, but a boyfriend who had a homosexual affair had a 79 percent likelihood of being kicked to the curb.
Lead author Jaime Confer, doctoral candidate in evolutionary psychology, and Professor Mark Cloud, of Lock Haven University bizarrely try to make a biology case that men are more distressed by infidelity that could threaten their paternity of offspring. College age men. Offspring. Yeah, instead of the obvious "it's a porn movie" thing that has nothing at all to do with evolution, no matter who much evolutionary psychologists want everything about sex to be biology.
They further contend that men may also view a woman's homosexual affair as an opportunity to mate with more than one girl simultaneously. Because evolutionary psychologists insist men have an inborn need to sleep with the planet.
It's true. Machismo college age men may regard gay male sex as icky but not female gay sex, as long as the women are hot. Science has no explanation for that, try as evolutionary psychology might try to make one. Because it isn't a biology issue.
They portray the female response stereotypically, stating that a boyfriend's homosexual affair might be regarded as a sign of dissatisfaction with the current relationship and a prelude to abandonment so they dump him first. Whereas if he sleeps with another girl, he is just 'being a guy'.
They did ask about the outcomes of any real-life infidelity experiences and the results matched those of the imagined ones - men were significantly more likely than women to have ended their actual relationships following a partner's presumably heterosexual affair.
'Presumably' because if any of the men had girlfriends sleeping with other girls, they weren't telling. Especially if they were allowed to'mate' with both of them.
Citation: Jaime C. Confer, Mark D. Cloud, 'Sex differences in response to imagining a partner's heterosexual or homosexual affair', Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 50, Issue 2, January 2011, Pages 129-134 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.007


Monday, February 17, 2014
Fire moon
I was puzzled at the "fire moon" reference in Hobbit two, where Kili tells Tauriel about seeing a red moon rising. I don't remember any thing about this in Tolkien.
So what causes a "fire moon", where the moon turns red as blood?
UniverseToday discusses HERE
usually it is because it is low in the sky, but it can also be caused by smoke/particles in the air such as after wildfires or volcanic eruptions etc.
ZTResearch has a great photo of a firemoon in Rapid City from the wildfires in Wyoming. LINK
 a third reason is during a full lunar eclipse.
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Munagi: Cloud now available for Android
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Martian Iron
Live electronic music song/jam called Martian Iron. All synthesized, no samples or loops.
Fang Synth, the motion modulated Android synth app now available
Fang Synth is now available. Download:
Google Play
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Fang is a synth app based on motion modulated control through accelerometer information. Each parameter can be linked to different directions of motion. Contains presets, wav recording, a stepped arpeggiator with diatonic scale locking, a multi-pattern sequencer, wave shaping oscillators, resonant filter with envelope and pitch following, and an effects rig (including formant (vowel) filter, pitched delay, reverb, down-sample, bit reduction.) Capable of strange sonic textures, complex evolving arpeggios, or classic sequenced synth sounds.
Notes are generated with a sequencer and keyboard. The sequencer works by moving a step at the rate specified. There are four patterns that can be played and edited independently.
The keyboard has a set of notes that can be played or buttons which hold notes. Held notes can be cut off by sequencer notes and play notes of the same pitch.
The arpeggiator receives notes from the sequencer and keyboard. Its rate is controlled by both synced time and ms that are added together. It has variable steps, step transpose and gate. The steps and timing can be reset periodically with the optional arp reset. There is optional diatonic scale locking as well, allowing you to select a root note and scale from major, dorian, phyrygian, lydian, mixolydian, minor, and locrian.
The synth's sounds are generated with five voices, each with two oscillators that modulate between triangle and saw. Modulation is effected by an envelope. There is a pitch envelope that effects both oscillators. The oscillators are capable of fm (osc B modifying osc A.) Both oscillators can have their signals sent to the filter or directly to the amp envelope. A white noise signal can also be added to the filter or directly to the amp envelope.
The filter is a 4 pole resonant band-pass whose frequency can follow the pitch. It is also effected by its own ADSR envelope. The filtered and unfiltered signal is sent to a per voice down sample and per voice delay under synth menu. All voices are sent to an effect rig with a formant (vowel) filter, pitched delay, reverb, and bit reduction. Presets and wav files are stored at /device root/fang/.
Save and load presets
Export audio as wav (exported to /device root/fang/)
4 pattern 8 step sequencer with adjustable rate
Stepped arpeggiator with sync and ms rate control
Diatonic scale lock
5 voice polyphony
Pitch envelope
Oscillator B to A frequency modulation (fm)
White noise generator
Per voice delay
Per voice down-sample effect
Amplitude controlled by ADSR envelope, number box, and pitch
Formant (vowel) filter
Delay with re-pitched feedback
Bit reduction


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Victoria: Missa Vidi speciosam & other sacred music
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)CDH55358
Movement 1: Kyrie
Movement 2: Gloria
Movement 3: Credo
Movement 4: Sanctus
Movement 5: Agnus Dei
The Gloria is a mixture of free homophonic writing mixed with derivations from the first half of the motet until at 'Qui tollis peccata mundi' Victoria uses the motet's second half opening 'Quae est ista'. Near the Gloria's end triple time is introduced for 'Quoniam tu solus Sanctus. Tu solus Dominus', balancing the similar triple time at 'Domine Deus, Agnus Dei' just before the ending of the first half. The Gloria ends with 'in gloria Dei Patris. Amen' to music based on the phrase 'et lilia convallium' in the motet.
The Credo is concisely written, traditionally so because of its wordiness. Like the Gloria it mixes short syllabic phrases with quotations and rewriting of motifs and sections of the motet model. At 'Crucifixus' there is a long passage for the high voices (SSAT) only. The rare repetition 'Et iterum, et iterum' is set to the motet's music for 'et lilia, et lilia'. Like the end of the Gloria, the Credo's 'Amen' makes use of the flowing phrases of 'convallium'.
The Sanctus begins with the Vidi speciosam opening music (SSA followed by TTB) and, as so often with Victoria, he breaks into triple time for 'gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis'. The Benedictus (SATT) has its own 'Hosanna in excelsis' for six voices to a rewriting of 'Et sicut dies verni'.
Finally, there is just one setting of the Agnus Dei (ending with 'dona nobis pacem' by Victoria, for seven-part choir (SSAATTB). The second alto follows the first soprano in a canon ad diapente, at the fifth below. The Agnus Dei makes only minimal use of the motet model. Despite the independence of the voices in this richly polyphonic ending, the treatment is very syllabic; one could hardly call the few flourishes melismata.
from notes by Bruno Turner © 1984


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r.mask - Creates a MASK for limiting raster operation.
raster, mask, null data, no-data
r.mask --help
r.mask [-ir] [raster=name] [maskcats=string] [vector=name] [layer=string] [cats=range] [where=sql_query] [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Create inverse mask
Remove existing mask (overrides other options)
Allow output files to overwrite existing files
Print usage summary
Verbose module output
Quiet module output
Force launching GUI dialog
Name of raster map to use as mask
Raster values to use for mask
Format: 1 2 3 thru 7 *
Default: *
Name of vector map to use as mask
Or data source for direct OGR access
Layer number or name (vector)
Default: 1
Category values (vector)
Example: 1,3,7-9,13
WHERE conditions of SQL statement without 'where' keyword (vector)
Example: income < 1000 and population >= 10000
Table of contents
r.mask - Facilitates creation of a raster "MASK" map to control raster operations.
The MASK is only applied when reading an existing GRASS raster map, for example when used in a module as an input map. The MASK will block out certain areas of a raster map from analysis and/or display, by "hiding" them from sight of other GRASS modules. Data falling within the boundaries of the MASK can be modified and operated upon by other GRASS raster modules; data falling outside the MASK is treated as if it were NULL.
Because the MASK is actually only a reclass map named "MASK", it can be copied, renamed, removed, and used in analyses, just like other GRASS raster map layers. The user should be aware that a MASK remains in place until a user renames it to something other than "MASK", or removes it using "r.mask -r" or g.remove.
Grid cells in the MASK map containing 0 or NULL will replace data with NULL, while cells containing other values will allow data to pass through unaltered.
To restore raster operations to normal (i.e., all cells of the current region), remove the MASK file by setting the -r remove MASK flag. In this case, a dummy value must also be given for the input parameter. A MASK also can be removed by using g.remove or by renaming it to any other name with g.rename.
The above method for specifying a "mask" may seem counterintuitive. Areas inside the MASK are not hidden; areas outside the MASK will be ignored until the MASK file is removed.
The MASK is read as an integer map. If MASK is actually a floating-point map, the values will be converted to integers using the map's quantisation rules (this defaults to round-to-nearest, but can be changed with r.quant).
r.mask uses r.reclass to create a reclassification of an existing raster map and name it MASK. A reclass map takes up less space, but is affected by any changes to the underlying map from which it was created. The user can select category values from the input raster to use in the MASK with the maskcats parameter; if r.mask is run from the command line, the category values listed in maskcats must be quoted (see example below).
Somewhat similar program functions to those performed by r.mask can be done using r.mapcalc, g.region, and other commands.
The examples are based on the North Carolina sample dataset.
Create a raster mask, for contraining the calculation of univariate statistics of the elevation values for "lakes":
# set computation region to lakes raster map
g.region raster=lakes -p
# use lakes as MASK
r.mask raster=lakes
# get statistics for elevation pixels of lakes:
r.univar elevation
Remove the raster mask ("MASK" map) with the -r flag:
r.mask -r
Creating a mask from selected categories in the North Carolina 'geology_30m' raster map:
g.region raster=geology_30m -p
r.category geology_30m
d.mon wx0
d.rast geology_30m
r.mask raster=geology_30m maskcats="217 thru 720"
d.mon wx0
d.rast geology_30m
g.region, r.mapcalc, r.reclass, g.remove, g.rename
Michael Barton, Arizona State University
Available at: r.mask source code (history)
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Dark Christmases for valley's miners | DrumhellerMail
Dark Christmases for valley's miners
 During the coal mining years, Christmas in Drumheller Valley was not only a time of good cheer, but also of hope.
 As the cold weather set across the prairies, the rush of winter coal orders streamed in and the miners were offered as many shifts as they could take. This greatly contrasted the long summer layoffs when no income for half the year meant stretching every dollar and every penny as far as a family could.
 By Christmas, the cheques were rolling in and a portion of that long anticipated pay was set aside to celebrate the season. It is said that when it was 40 below on the prairies, the happiest people around were the mine operators and the coal miners. A cold snap meant brisk business.
 However, coal mining was also a dangerous job. For many years it was the most dangerous occupation in Canada. Every mining season in the valley, thousands of men went into the deepest recesses to extract Drumheller coal. This is the coal that kept Canadians from western Ontario to Saskatoon to Dawson City to Vancouver warm in the winter. Every year, these men risked their lives, and unfortunately, some lost their lives.
 Between 1920 and 1961, at least twenty-six Drumheller Valley coal miners were killed in the month of December, the month of Christmas. Most of them were killed between December 5 and December 21. The week before Christmas seemed to be the deadliest.
 On December 17, 1926, pony driver Thomas Roddy was driving a loaded car at the Caledonian Collieries in Midland, when he fell under the loaded car he was hauling, receiving a broken neck. He died alone underground, in the pitch with no witnesses.
 That same day, just a half mile down the road at the Western Gem Mine in Midland, pony driver F.W. Brereton was crushed between loaded cars and coal rib, dying within minutes of the accident.
 Three years later, almost to the day, a similar tragedy unfolded again in Midland. On December 18, 1929, Thomas Campbell, a pony driver at the Western Gem in Midland was killed when his pit pony was spooked by a derailed coal car and continued to pull it, accidently crushing her driver between the coal car and a mine prop.
 Meanwhile, at the neighbouring Hy-Grade Mine, young coal miner Martin Mehalski was crushed by rock-fall.
 During these early years of Drumheller's history, the companies did not offer any recompense to the families these miners left behind. Instead, the community often banded together to help in anyway they could. Neighbours, fellow miners, the unions and even the local Madams were the ones to offer food, money, and a shoulder to lean on.
 Madam Mary Roper and her girls were known to hire a cab and fill it to the headliner with groceries, blankets, medicine, etc. and send it to a family facing terrible tragedy, an act of kindness that is still remembered to this day.
 The steady trickle of tragedy surrounding the pit heads of Drumheller Valley eventually became called the blood tax. Some years the blood tax we paid was very dear.
 In 1925 alone, at least a dozen Drumheller miners were killed and another 50 seriously, often permanently, injured. In 1926, three miners were killed mere days before Christmas Day, leaving behind young families to face their first Christmas without their father.
 Today, Drumheller is a successful and prosperous community. Luckily, our young men no longer need to risk their lives by digging the deep. Our coal is no longer required to fuel the development of a great nation. But for generations, Drumheller coal was needed to run the trains that brought immigrants out west. Drumheller coal was used to heat our homes, it cooked our meals, and turned on our lights. Drumheller Coal was vital to the development of western Canada.
 Thus it can be said, that the wealth and prosperity we take for granted today, is largely due to the blood tax paid by those coal miners and the families they left behind.
 Every Christmas, there was hope and optimism in the mining towns that populated the Drumheller Valley. But in the back of everyone's mind was the knowledge there was risk working underground.
 Not a Christmas would go by in this valley without at least one family losing a loved one in the mines. And for at least 26 Drumheller families, that tragedy occurred. The blood tax came due at a time we like to think of "as the most wonderful time of the year."


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CWUR 3-40-140 Recruitment, Retention, and Hiring
Applies to: Civil Service, Exempt, and Faculty Positions
The creation and maintenance of a diverse workforce reflects and supports the changing diversification of the larger society and is critical to our success in serving the diverse and inclusive needs of our student body.
(1) Definitions
(A) Executive Officers: President, Vice President for Academic and Student Life, Vice President for Business and Financial Affairs, Vice President for Enrollment Management, Vice President for Operations, and Chief of Staff.
(B) Appointing Authorities: As defined in CWUP 1-80-010 Appointing Authority and CWUP 2-10-170 Appointing Authority, Delegation of Authority and Contracting Authority
(C) Search Committees: Search committees are formed by the appointing authority to assist in recruitment and selection of tenure--track faculty and senior administrative positions. Senior administrative positions are defined as the president, members of the president's cabinet, deans, associate and assistant provosts, vice-presidents, directors and any other direct reports to cabinet members.
(D) Constituents: Constituents are those groups and individuals who rely on, or collaborate with, a particular university position. Constituents include co-workers, colleagues, students, and customers.
(E) Diversity: Diversity includes group, social and individual differences. Diversity for affirmative action purposes as defined by federal guidelines includes sex, race (Caucasian, Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaskan Native), ethnicity (Hispanic), status as a protected veteran, and status as a person of disability.
(F) Diversity Advocates: Diversity advocates receive university training in best practices for recruiting, hiring, retaining, and mentoring diversity faculty and staff. Diversity advocates are required as full members of all search committees and will be available to participate in events associated with on-campus visits of search finalists.
(G) Inclusivity: Inclusivity is the active, intentional, and ongoing engagement with diversity in the curriculum, in the co-curriculum, and in communities (intellectual, social, cultural, geographical) with which individuals might connect in ways that increase awareness, content knowledge, cognitive sophistication, and empathic understanding of the ways individuals interact within systems and institutions.
(H) Recruitment Area: Recruitment area is assigned by job group in the university's annual affirmative action plan. It is determined for individual positions by careful consideration of the availability of a qualified and diverse pool of applicants within a geographic area, the feasibility of relocation and/or commuting, and salary range. Recruitment area for external searches may be local, statewide, regional, national, or international. Internal searches are university-wide.
(I) Availability: Availability is an estimate of the number of qualified minorities or women available for employment in the job group. It establishes a benchmark to determine the success of a given recruitment process.
(2) Search Process Participant Composition and Responsibilities
(A) Departments
Departmental responsibilities in the search process are as follows:
1. In collaboration with Human Resources, establish written recruitment procedures that are specific to departmental needs and consistent with university policy.
2. Search Committees: Search committees will be composed of a diverse cross section (gender, race/ethnicity) representative of position constituents.
3. Search committees are responsible to fulfill expectations communicated from the appointing authority, inclusive of the following:
4. Review the position description and recruitment plan drafted by the appointing authority and provide any recommendations for additions or changes to the appointing authority.
5. Develop a robust advertising and marketing plan to ensure a diverse pool of qualified applicants.
6. Work with HR to determine the appropriate length of the recruitment period based on the organizational level of the position, advertising lead time, and needs of the department.
7. Actively seek a diverse pool of applicants as described by availability. Use availability compared to actual pool data (provided at three stages—applicants, qualified applicants, on-campus interviews) to gauge recruitment strategies and determine next steps. If the diversity pool is not maintained through each stage, notify the appointing authority, who will decide whether to move forward.
8. Screen submitted documents, check references, and conduct remote interviews if appropriate.
9. Forward to the appointing authority a list of final candidates.
(B) Appointing Authorities
Appointing Authority Responsibilities in the search process are as follows:
1. Create a template for the recruitment process that ensures a qualified and diverse pool of applicants.
2. Appoint search committees to guide the recruitment and selection process, or delegate appointment to departments.
3. Ensure that opportunities to volunteer for service on search committees is open to all qualified members of a department and that the selection process is judicious and representative.
4. Ensure that search committee members have completed implicit bias training.
5. Develop (or if delegating, review) the charge to the search committee (samples are available from HR).
6. Discuss requirements for the search process and outcome, including an emphasis on diversity and inclusivity.
7. Establish a timeline and modalities for various stages of the search.
8. Discuss interview questions, identifying those that are appropriate, those that are inappropriate, and those most likely to yield information about that candidate that is not contained in resumes or curricula vitae.
9. Emphasize the importance of maintaining confidentiality throughout the search.
10. Continually monitor the process to ensure that the charge is being carried out and to answer questions as they arise.
11. Obtain from the search committee, at each step of the search process, evidence indicating that availability criteria have been met and a rationale when availability criteria have not been met. Continue or fail the search depending upon acceptability of the availability failure rationale presented.
12. Accept and review the list of finalists presented by the search committee.
13. If the list of finalists is acceptable, prioritize the list and arrange for offers to be made in priority order.
14. If the list is not acceptable, for lack of diversity or for other reasons:
a. refer the search back to the search committee to bring forth additional candidates from the existing pool; or
b. authorize the search committee to extend the current search to acquire additional candidates; or
c. declare a failed search and work with HR to determine the next steps.
(C) Human Resources
Human Resources responsibilities in the search process are as follows::
1. Provide guidance and advice in all things related to recruitment and selection to appointing authorities, supervisors, managers, and search committees on policy, procedures, timelines, and responsibilities. Ensure that templates, samples, and drafts are updated and available on the HR website at
2. Review search committee composition and solicit approval from the vice president of inclusivity and diversity.
3. Collaborate with search participants to develop recruitment plans and advertising/marketing strategies.
4. Provide to the vice president of inclusivity and diversity, search committees, and appointing authorities a comparison of availability to diversity of applicant pool at three stages of the recruitment process: applicant pool, qualified applicants, and on-campus interviews.
5. Inform appointing authorities and executive officers of recruitment issues as they arise and as early in the process as possible so that alternative strategies can be employed.
(D) Vice President for Inclusivity and Diversity
The Vice President of Inclusivity and Diversity responsibilities in the search process are as follows:
1. Annual review of Recruitment, Retention, and Hiring Policy and Procedure documents to ensure currency and to foster discussion of the relationship between current policy/practice and desired outcomes, including progress toward meeting university diverse workforce goals.
2. Review and approve the composition of search committees as referred by Human Resources.
3. Participate in discussions about the recruitment, hiring, and retention of diverse faculty and staff with selected search committees periodically and with appointing authorities annually.
4. Monitor the progress of diverse faculty and staff and recommend changes in process or in policy when difficulties are noted.
5. Receive and review an annual report, quantitative and qualitative, on diverse faculty recruitment, hiring, and retention.
(3) Recruitment Period and Screening Statement
(A) The recruitment period is defined as the time period between the commencement of advertising and the date screening of applications will begin.
(B) Open screening dates, rather than firm deadlines, are recommended. Open screening dates allow departments to continue recruiting and accepting applications until the position is filled and are particularly useful when pools lack a sufficient number of applications or sufficient diversity.
(C) Applications received, or made complete, before the screening date will be screened. Applications received, or made complete, on or after the screening date may be screened against the existing pool at the time the application is received or made complete.
(D) The screening process must be consistently applied and documented.
[01/16/2008; 01/06/2010; 03/30/2012; 06/06/2012; 06/05/2014; 01/22/2016; Responsibility: BFA; Authority: CWUP 2-30-200; Reviewed/Endorsed by: Cabinet/UPAC; Review/Effective Date: 04/15/2020; 06/17/2020; Approved by: James L. Gaudino, President]
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Many indigenous villages and schools in Bocas del Toro do not have access to safe drinking water. Polluted water can lead to intestinal worms in humans, which cause anemia, chronic dysentery and malnutrition, all factors contributing to a high rate of absenteeism in schools. Children fall behind in their studies and often give up, perpetuating the vicious cycle of poverty among the indigenous people. This project works to stop this problem by installing rainwater catchment tanks at schools, providing safe, clean drinking water to students and their families. In 2011 STA Travel contributed US$25,000 to this project, to purchase and install 10 water tanks and buy a boat to serve as the first ambulance service for indigenous people living in this remote area.
Your participation in this project means one new rainwater catchment tank can be purchased and installed at a school - your trip pays for the full cost of a tank and installation ($1000), serving at least 400 people in urgent need of safe water. Without volunteers like you, this project could not survive. It relies on donors and volunteers to pay for the tanks and installation. You are helping to save lives, to give children and families a healthy start, and help to stop the cycle of poverty in this region.
- Learn about indigenous life by experiencing several villages in the Bocas del Toro archipelago - Visit indigenous schools and deliver school supplies by boat and land - Visit Ambulance boat base and learn about service to surrounding villages - Help install your donated water tank at a school in urgent need!