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After two decades of flat or declining participation, people fishing in the U.S are on the rise. In 2011 90.1 million Americans, 38 percent of the U.S. population 16 years old and older, enjoyed some form of fishing or wildlife-associated recreation. On average, each sports person spent $2,407 in 2011.
That's according to data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2011 National Survey on Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife Associated Recreation.
The data show an 11 percent increase in anglers compared to the 2006 survey. In particular, saltwater angling participation increased 15 percent. Anglers spent about 17 days fishing in 2011.
Most notable, however, is that anglers continued their strong spending habits. Outdoor recreation is a huge contributor to our nation's economy. Equipment expenditures ($6.2 billion for anglers) to special equipment ($25 billion toward boats and other such vehicles) to trip-related expenses totaled over $32 billion. Sportsmen and women continue to spend their discretionary income toward the outdoors.

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Charleston, SC Sons of Liberty
This document stresses the role played by nonelite activists who supported the initiatives of popular party leaders in the years preceding the Revolutionary war.
Questions to Consider
- Count the number of persons on the list who fall into the following classes:
- Merchants and Shopkeepers
- Miscellaneous innkeepers, seamen, etc.
- Teachers and professors
- Anglican clerics
- Other clerics
- What occupations do not appear on the list?
- What makes assigning some individuals to a particular group difficult?
- Make a table in which you note the percentage of the total number in each category. (To obtain the percentage, divide the total number (N=26) into the smaller number.) Would you characterize these men as workingor middle-class people?
- Why would the largest group in your table be more likely to support revolutionary ideology? Charleston was a noted Loyalist stronghold. Who do you think allied themselves with the Loyalist cause? Why?
- Write a paragraph in which you do the following:
- Generalize about the social and economic composition of the Sons of Liberty
- Address the significance of such organizations in the movement toward rebellion
- Discuss briefly the Sons of Liberty's relationship to urban crowds and pre-Revolutionary popular violence
Christopher Gadsden, merchant.
William Johnson, blacksmith.
Joseph Veree, carpenter.
John Fullerton, carpenter.
James Brown, carpenter.
Nath[anie]l Libby, ship carpenter.
George Flagg, painter and glazier.
Tho[ma]s Coleman, upholsterer.
John Hall, coachmaker.
W[illia]m Field, carver.
Robert Jones, sadler.
John Loughton, coachmaker.
"W." Roger, wheelwright.
John Calvert, "Clerk in some office."
H[enry] Bookless, wheelwright.
J. Barlow, sadler.
Tunis Teabout, blacksmith.
Peter Munclean, clerk.
W[illia]m Trusler, butcher.
Robert Howard, carpenter.
Alexander Alexander, schoolmaster.
Ed[ward] Weyman, clerk of St. Philip's Church, and glass grinder.
Tho[ma]s Swarle, painter.
W[illia]m Laughton, tailor.
Daniel Cannon, carpenter.
Benjamin Hawes, painter.
Charleston, South Carolina, Sons of Liberty, 1766 Charleston, S.C., Sons of Liberty Membership List, 1766, Robert W. Gibbes, ed., Documentary History of the American Revolution, South Carolina,
_PHONE_ (New York, 1855), pp. 10-11.


For example, a researcher is investigating synonyms and prepares a test. A participant undertaking the test incorrectly interprets the instructions, and understands the test to relate to antonyms rather than synonyms.
Does this then make the test results invalid?
Kelley (1927) constructed test validity as:
The problem of validity is that of whether a test really measures what it purports to measure, while the question of reliability is that of how accurately a test measures the thing which it does measure.
In the example provided, the test purports to measure some aspect of synonyms. The test actually (due to the misinterpretation) measures antonyms. Therefore, in the example provided, the test is not valid. If it were to argued that it was a valid test of synonyms, then you would also have to admit that it was not reliable and/or accurate.
Kelley's construction of validity remains in common use and adequate for the example provided. For a more complete view of validity, see Boag (2015).
Kelley, T. L. (1927). Interpretation of educational measurements. World Book. _URL_
Boag, S. (2015). Personality assessment,'construct validity', and the significance of theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 84, 36-44. _URL_
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Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah. The Valley of Elah is the site of the well-known story of David and Goliath (1 Sam 17). The valley is about 18 miles southwest of Jerusalem, the ruins of Qeiyafa are on top of a hill that borders the valley to the north. The small settlement was protected by a casement wall and two gates, but was destroyed. The site is significant for several reasons. First, it is certainly an Israelite site dating to the early Iron age, or the kingdom of David. It is along the border of Judah and Philistia, indicating that there were indeed tensions along that border during the time of David requiring a military post to guard the valley.
The most significant artifact to be found at Qeiyafa is a small ostracon (pot sherd) with some early Hebrew writing on it. William Shea offers a unique translation of the text which recognizes that some of the letters are in fact pictograms. His suggested translation of the first two lines is a command to the king to "not make two servants of the judge and the prophet" (604). He suggests that the text was "written in a time of transition" from local judges and prophets to kings. These lines would be advice to a king to not usurp the tradition roles of the judges or the prophets. As Shea puts it, the judge and the prophet may have diminished in authority when the monarchy was established, but they were to continue "independent of the king" (610).
There are other suggested readings of the text, some differing a great deal from Shea's reconstruction. For example, Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa renders the second and third line as"judge the slave and the widow and the orphan and the stranger." Despite the variety of suggested readings, they all sound like advice to the king, whether that advice sounds like the voice of a prophet or a sage. After reading 2 Sam 23:1-7 and Prov 31:1-9, I would suggest that whatever the Qeiyafa Ostracon is, it represents advice to a young king on how to rule wisely. This advice reflects a transition from the rule of Judges to Kings, exactly as 1 Samuel records.
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I'm working on project 9 of the Arduino starter kit - the motorized pinwheel.
Here is the schematic:
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My question is, why is the 10k resistor needed after the switch? Why can't it just go straight to ground? The switch's output just connects to a digital pin, it doesn't care how much voltage there is, correct?
Thank you!
EDIT**: Additional help from the arduino forums: The resistor is needed so when the switch is closed you don't short the supply to ground. Switch open the resistor pulls the signal to ground and no current flows, when the switch is closed it forms a resistive divider with the 10k (switch contacts might have 0.01 to 0.1 ohms resistance or so), thus pulling the signal to Vcc, but with only 0.5mA flowing through the 10k resistor.
Replace the 10k with a wire and you'd simply overload the supply completely and perhaps weld the switch contacts shut. Arduino Forums
It's a pull-down resistor.
A pull-up or pull-down resistor is used the make sure that the input of a digital device is confined to strict logic levels, i.e +Vdd (positive, or HIGH) or GND (Ground, or LOW).
With the switch open and no resistor present, the Arduino pin is neither high nor low. It will probably read as low if you tried digitalRead(), but there's no guarantee. The probability of the pin being one or the other changes according to the layout of the PCB and other external factors; the pin is termed 'floating' because it could be at any voltage between Vdd and GND.
However, if you apply a pull-(somewhere) resistor you force the Arduino pin to one of either Vdd (up) or GND (down) until you press the switch, at which point the Arduino pin switches state.
If you removed the resistor and joined the switch directly to ground, what happens when the switch contacts close?
Think about it...
One side of the switch connected to Vdd.
The other side is connected to the Arduino and GND.
Close the switch, I dare you.
Vdd is now connected to GND
 - Apologies - I didn't understand that. The switch controls whether or not voltage will continue to the green wire and thus, the digital input (in this case, pin 2). If switch is closed, voltage will continue to pin 2 and it will read HIGH. If switch is open, no voltage will pass through and the pin will read LOW. Is this not correct? And thank you for your time! – ZAR Jun 7 '15 at 19:39
 - _USER_: There is no situation of "no voltage" here; there is either Vdd or there is GND. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jun 7 '15 at 19:43
 - Hmm, so how is there voltage if the switch is open and thus not completing the circuit? I thought there would only be current when the switch is pressed, closing the circuit... Clearly I am missing some fundamental knowledge ;) – ZAR Jun 7 '15 at 19:45
 - _USER_ 'no voltage' and zero-volts ARE NOT THE SAME. No voltage is no connection to anything, Zero Volts is connection to ground. – CharlieHanson Jun 7 '15 at 19:53
 -...and a digital pin that is not connected to anything is called floating. Any floating digital input could be either high or low, and you can't guarantee which (unless you read it of course). Floating digital inputs are thus highly inadvised. The same doesn't apply for unused pins - they can be left unconnected. – CharlieHanson Jun 7 '15 at 19:58
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The seven-year-old bloggers
Children as young as seven in one British school are using weblogs as part of their normal routine, and are doing better than non-webloggers as a result, their teacher says.
Weblogs, easy-to-use personal journals published on the internet, get children more interested in school work they might otherwise have disliked, says junior school teacher John Mills. —Giles TurnbullThe seven-year-old bloggers (BBC)


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Creatine Ethyl Ester – Capsules
Increases muscle mass when used in conjunction with a resistance training regimen.
Improves performance in repetitive bouts of brief, highly-intense physical activity (e.g. sprints, jumping, resistance training) by increasing muscle creatine energy levels.
DURATION OF USE: Use for a minimum of 4 weeks.
RECOMMENDED DOSE: Adults. Take 6 capsules daily. Take separately from products containing caffeine (e.g. coffee, cola, etc.).
WARNINGS: Consult a health care practitioner prior to use if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if you have a kidney disorder. May result in weight gain.

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The Departments of the Official Report (Hansard) of both Houses of Parliament are responsible for producing, for their respective Chambers, publications consisting of reports and proceedings of debates, together with external material such as Written Answers and Written Ministerial Statements. Both daily parts and cumulative bound volumes are produced.
The whole production process, from reporting to production and publishing in multiple formats, is done within incredibly tight timescales. Speeches made by members up to 2.00am will be in the printed Hansard the same morning by 7.30am. In addition, every 2-3 weeks, a Bound Volume is created which takes the corrected content from every daily part into a single consolidated publication.
- Multiple authors
- Cross-media output required for print, web and data feeds
- Large volumes of content with hundreds of XML files produced every night
- Complex document requirements including indexes for both individual publications, and over multiple publications
- Collation of content components to produce bound volumes
- Mission critical system needs to be fast and reliable.
Using the Mekon solution the Hansard Production Unit (HPU) team are able to compose the documents along with front and back covers, column numbers, running headers and also create contents and index pages at the touch of a button. Once content edits and formatting changes have been applied, the system outputs print ready PDFs for sending to the printer, HTML for the Parliament website and XML for the Parliamentary Information Management System (PIMS) at the touch of a button. The improved process ensures more content from each daily debate can be included within each publication therefore reducing "over-matter" which traditionally would be printed in the next daily part.
- Enabled Hansard to bring publishing in-house for far greater than expected project Return on Investment (please click 'more info' to request details)
- Mekon Notus and XyEnterprise XPP typesetting system automates production
- Delivers output in PDF, HTML and XML at the touch of a button
- Provides fast batch pagination with manual control
- Outputs in 2, 3 and 4 column format
- Automates production of printed and electronic tables of contents and indexes
- Collates content to produce bound volumes
- Streamlines production ensures publication with tight timescales


over by a bus, or hit by a falling brick beneath a building site, or even being clobbered by a meteorite. However, the difficulty of a Chaos 4 effect is directly linked to the probability of such an event occurring - being hit by a meteorite is naturally incredibly unlikely, and will probably only work on a difficulty of about 15 (meaning copious amount of Quintessence have to be burned), while being trampled underfoot in a riot would only be a difficulty of 3 or 4. By its very nature, Chaos 4 magick is always coincidental - it cannot be used to make something happen that is not possible (i.e. a brick cannot just fly out of a wall that it is cemented in and hit the target on the head. However, a brick may fall from a pile of bricks on the 7th floor of a building site if such a pile exists) - the circumstances must previously exist to allow the effect to occur. Thus, in the previous example the bridge must be already be unstable and likely to collapse if the Mage is to actually make this happen at an opportune moment. The specifics of this is ultimately left to the Storyteller's discretion.
Level 5: Control Disorder/Chaos Theory. All systems naturally tend to a more disordered state - at Chaos 5, the Mage can override this and control the evolution of a system completely, exercising absolute control over the disorder of a system - he can therefore accelerate it, stop it, or even reverse it!
In nature, disorder is always increasing - systems are always going from an ordered state to a disordered state (where they are in equilibrium and so are stable - ink dropped in water is not stable as a drop, so it diffuses to colour the water). All systems tend towards greater disorder - gases diffuse to fill a space, temperature is conducted from a higher temperature to a lower one, material breaks down, decays, or dissolves into its component parts with time, and so on. By controlling disorder at this level, a Mage can reverse, halt or speed up the breakdown of systems - he can cause the ink spread throughout the inky water to coalesce back into a drop of ink, a gas released from a box to 'diffuse' back into the box, hot objects to retain their heat in a cold environment, or a sugarcube to reform after being dropped into a hot cup of coffee (to name but a few). However, the ordered state is rarely stable, so effects at this level can only last as long as the Mage concentrates.
Also, this level gives the Mage control over systems containing BILLIONS of variables - a good example of this is the infamous 'Butterfly effect'. In Chaos Theory, the final outcome of an event can be radically changed by the slightest alteration of its starting conditions. At this level, the Mage is aware of precisely what must be done to guide the system to a desired outcome, and can also magickally 'encourage' the system to that end. This allows him, for example, to control the weather or affect events in the future by modifying their starting conditions.
Sphere Effect
* Probability Perception.
** Control Closed Systems.
*** Control Metasystems.
**** Control Open Systems.
***** Control Disorder/Chaos Theory.
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Colourful light pillars often appear in winter when snow or ice crystals reflect light from a strong source like the sun or moon. Aided by extreme cold, light pillars appear when light bounces off the surface of flat ice crystals floating relatively close to the ground. The pillars look like feathers of light that extend vertically either above or below the light source, or both.
Diagrams showing the formation of light pillars from street lamps (left) and the reflection of light rays from plate ice crystal surfaces (right):
Images: Keith C. Heidorn
Light pillars also form from strong artificial light sources like street lamps, car headlights or the strong light sources of an ice-skating rink as in the picture above of Fairbanks, Alaska. Though they are local phenomena, light pillars can look distant like an aurora. The closer an observer is to the source of the light pillar, the larger it seems.
National Geographic has more pictures of recent light pillars in Idaho, California, Belgium, Latvia and Canada. You can also view another Environmental Graffiti article on more incredible light phenomena here.


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-based products and milk products. Regular breads and rolls provided about 10% of energy intake across all ages, as did dairy milk for children aged 2-11 years. Moderate sources of energy included: potatoes for all ages; dairy milk for adolescents and adults; and fruit and vegetable juices and drinks for children and adolescents. (Potatoes include products such as hot chips, mashed potato, potato patties and potato salad, as well as simpler versions of potato.) (Table 37.)
Protein supplies amino acids and is also a source of energy. Approximately half of protein intake came from milk products and meat products, and a further 30% came from cereal products and cereal-based products. Major sources of protein intake were: regular breads and rolls; dairy milk for children and adolescent males; and muscle meat for adolescents and adults. Moderate sources of protein intake were: dairy milk for adults and adolescent females; muscle meat for children; and, for all ages, mixed dishes where cereal is the major ingredient, poultry and other feathered game and mixed dishes where beef or veal is the major ingredient. (Table 39.)
Fat provides the most concentrated source of energy in the human diet, is a carrier for fat soluble vitamins and is a source of essential fatty acids. Fat also contributes to the palatability of foods. High intakes of fat, particularly saturated fat, are associated with elevated serum cholesterol, obesity and increased mortality from cardiovascular disease in populations where the level of physical activity is low.
Pastries, mixed dishes where cereal is the major ingredient, potatoes, cheese and margarine were all moderate sources of total fat for all ages. (The fat from potatoes comes from fat added during cooking or preparation, e.g. hot chips or mashed potato.) Muscle meat was a moderate source for adults, but its contribution was lower for younger age groups. Dairy milk was a major source for children but only a moderate source for adults. (Table 40.)
The contribution from particular foods to fat intake varied according to the type of fat. For example:
Fibre attracts and absorbs water and helps to prevent constipation. Its effects on health are still incompletely understood but some components have a role in lowering blood cholesterol, while others help in controlling blood glucose and in protecting against the development of a number of intestinal problems. Foods of animal origin do not contain dietary fibre.
Approximately 80% of dietary fibre came from cereal products, cereal-based products, fruit and vegetables. The major sources of dietary fibre were: regular breads and rolls for all ages; and potatoes for adolescents. Potatoes contributed a moderate amount to intake by children and adults. Other foods that contributed a moderate amount to dietary fibre intake were pome fruit, single source breakfast cereals, mixed source breakfast cereals and mixed dishes where cereals are the major ingredient. (Table 48.)
Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin required for cell differentiation, growth and vision. Both preformed vitamin A (retinol) and provitamin A (carotenoids) contribute to the total vitamin A content, which is expressed as retinol equivalents.
The major sources of preformed vitamin A were dairy milk and margarine for all ages, and organ meats and offal for adolescents and adults. (The contribution of organ meats and offal reflects its high level of preformed vitamin A, as only 1.6% of adults consumed these foods.) Foods contributing a moderate amount to preformed vitamin A were: cheese for all ages; frozen milk products and mixed source breakfast cereals for children and adolescents; and dairy fats (e.g. butter) for adults. (Table 51.)
Carrots and similar root vegetables provided over 40% of provitamin A intake irrespective of age or sex. Other fruiting vegetables were a major source in adolescents and adults and a moderate source in children. Other moderate contributors were fruit and vegetable juices and drinks for children and adolescents, and soup for adults. (Table 52.)
Folate is a water soluble B vitamin which plays an essential role in metabolism and in the division of all body cells including those in blood. Survey estimates of folate intake are based on the natural folate content of foods and beverages and do not include additional folate from food and beverages fortified with folate.
Cereal products, vegetables and milk products provided approximately 55% of folate intake for all ages. Adults obtained a higher proportion of folate from vegetable products and less from milk products than children and adolescents. Regular breads and rolls provided 12-14% of folate consumed. Moderate sources of folate included potatoes, dairy milk, fruit/vegetable juices and drinks and yeast extracts for all ages. In addition, tea made a moderate contribution to women's folate intake as did beer to men's intake. (Table 56.)
Calcium is a major component of bones and teeth. Approximately 50-66% of calcium intakes was provided by milk products, with 30-45% from dairy milk, about 10% from cheese and about 5% from frozen milk products. The contribution of most milk products was higher for children aged 2-11 years except for cheese. Regular breads and rolls and mixed cereal dishes also made a moderate contribution. (Table 58.)
Iron is essential because of its role in oxygen and electron transport. Animal sources of iron are better absorbed than those from plant food. The presence of vitamin C or animal protein enhances the availability of iron derived from plant foods.
Approximately 55% of iron intake was provided by cereal products and meat products, with cereal-based products and vegetable products contributing an additional 20%. Cereal products made a larger contribution to children's iron intake than to adolescents' and adults' intake, and the reverse applied to meat products. (Table 61.)
The major sources of iron intake were: regular breads and rolls for all ages; single source breakfast cereals for children and males aged 12-18 years; and mixed source breakfast cereals for all ages. Moderate sources of iron intake for all ages were mixed dishes where cereal is the major ingredient, potatoes, muscle meat and mixed dishes where beef or veal is the major ingredient. In addition, single source breakfast cereals were a moderate source of iron intake for adult males and females aged 12 years and over, as was tea for adults.
Zinc has a major role in protein and carbohydrate metabolism and is needed for many different functions, including growth, sexual maturation and wound healing. The major sources of zinc intake were: dairy milk for children and adolescent males; and muscle meat for adolescents and adults. Dairy milk made a moderate contribution for intake by adults and adolescent females, as did muscle meat for children. Moderate sources of zinc intake for all people aged two years and older were regular breads and rolls, mixed dishes where cereal is the major ingredient and mixed dishes where beef or veal is the major ingredient. (Table 61.)
Tables 1-63 contain information based on a 24-hour recall period. Tables 64-89 contain information adjusted using data for a second 24-hour recall period collected from a small sub-sample of respondents. Information on percentile distributions of nutrient intake, adjusted for within-person variation, provides a better indication of the 'usual' range of intake in the population. Adjustments were made to all nutrients except alcohol. See paragraphs 27-35 of the Explanatory Notes for more information on the adjustments.
The percentile distributions of adjusted nutrient intake describe the range of nutrient intake between the 10th and 90th percentiles. The range of intake was widely dispersed for calcium, riboflavin, vitamin C, provitamin A and total vitamin A expressed as retinol equivalents. The intake range was less dispersed for the other nutrients, that is the 10th percentile was up to 50% less than median intake and the 90th percentile was up to 70% more than median intake.
The adjusted nutrient intakes are more appropriate than the unadjusted intakes for estimating the likelihood of nutrient inadequacy or excess in the population when the data are based on only a single day's intake for each person.
Recommended Dietary Intakes (RDIs) are the levels of essential nutrients considered adequate to meet the nutritional needs of most healthy individuals (NHMRC 1991). They are based on estimates of requirements for age and sex groups and, therefore, apply to group needs. As they incorporate generous factors to allow for variations in metabolism, absorption and individual needs, RDIs exceed the actual nutrient requirements for practically all healthy people. Therefore, they are not synonymous with requirements. See Appendix 3 for the RDIs of the nutrients described in this publication.
Issues to be taken into account when comparing population intakes with RDIs include:
With participants' written consent, the blood pressure (of those aged 16 years and over), height, weight, and waist and hip circumferences were measured by trained interviewers (see paragraphs 16-18 of the Explanatory Notes). Pregnant women were excluded from this component of the survey.
Males were generally taller than females at all ages. While boys aged under 12 years had a similar mean height to girls in this age group, males aged 12 years and over were much taller than females in every age group.
Height increased rapidly during childhood. Average height increased from 96 cm for both girls and boys aged 2-3 years until the age of 19-24 for males (178 cm) and 16-18 years for females ( 164 cm). Average height then decreased with age to 170 cm for men aged 65 years and over and 157 cm for women aged 65 years and over. The decrease in average height with age in adults is largely due to two factors: a general trend over time for new generations to be taller than previous


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Definición de cupel en inglés:
A shallow, porous container in which gold or silver can be refined or assayed by melting with a blast of hot air which oxidizes lead or other base metals.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- On cooling, the prill is carefully extracted from the cupel.
- We produce several capacity crucibles and cupels and only use selected virgin materials for production.
- Absorption is facilitated by manufacture of the cupel from a porous material such as bone ash.
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Assay or refine (a metal) in a cupel: to extract the silver, the Greeks roasted the ore and then cupelled the molten metal
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- The product is then cupelled to increase the dross to the range of about 50-65% by weight bismuth.
- The lead button is cupelled to oxidize the lead leaving behind a dore bead containing the precious metals.
- Gold and silver bullion that remains in a cupelling furnace after the lead has been oxidized and skimmed off.
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- The lead alloy was then separated into its component metals by cupellation.
- In cupellation the lead button is again heated in a furnace at 960°C to 1000°C, but this time in a bone ash cup or cupel.
- No doubt the high silver content of Mendip lead was an important factor in its early exploitation, but we have no means of assessing either the total output of lead or of the amount of silver extracted from it by cupellation.
Early 17th century (as a noun): from French coupelle, diminutive of coupe 'goblet'.
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Why is there a need for CCAI?
 - There are over 40,000 registered lobbyists in Washington, DC. Not one of these lobbyists are working without a bias for children in need of families. Unlike big industries with money, orphaned children do not have a voice on the Hill or a presence in DC. This is exactly the reason CCAI exists. We represent children without families by using our relationship with Congress to ensure that the needs of orphans and foster children are heard.
Is CCAI a lobbyist organization?
 - No, CCAI does not lobby on behalf of any individual piece of legislation or government program. CCAI does not take official positions on issues related to adoption and foster care, but rather seeks to provide policymakers with the resources they need to make informed decisions.
How is CCAI unique?
 - CCAI uses five core programs to connect children and families who have personal experience with adoption and foster care with federal policymakers
- Angels in Adoption
- Foster Youth Internship
- Congressional Resource Program
- National Adoption Day
- 20/20 Vision Program
Why does CCAI focus on Congress?
 - Federal policy makers have three tools that when used to benefit children in need of families, make an immeasurable difference: 1) power to legislate to improve adoption laws, 2) power to convene influential persons and political leaders from around the world, and 3) powerful voice that garners media and public attention.
Is CCAI a government entity?
 - No, CCAI is a private not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
How is CCAI funded?
 - To maintain the integrity of the organization, CCAI does not accept any government funding. The work of the CCAI is made possible through the generous support of individuals, corporations, and foundations who share our desire to live in a world where every child has a safe, loving home and a promising future.


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Environment and Racing: Middle & High School
Examine geology and weather's impact on racing.
Weather and Racing
- Examine geology and weather's impact on racing
- Utilize weather data to predict race implications
1. Worksheet PDF
2. Photos and images
3. NASCAR background informational sheet
4. Bike or inflatable device (toy)
5. Tire gauge
6. Air pump
7. Hose with sprinkler feature
8. Surfaces like asphalt, grass, concrete and dirt/clay
9. Temperature gauge (such as the app Smart Temperature - lay your smart device down to monitor temperature reading)
Lesson Plan and Procedures
1. Read the NASCAR background informational sheet and view suggested photos and web links.
2. Complete the worksheet using these resources.
3. Conduct an experiment(s) using weather conditions, surfaces and air pressure.
a. Locate three different types of surfaces in your neighborhood such as asphalt, concrete, grass or dirt/clay.
b. Measure the temperature of each surface for at least 10 minutes at 1-hour intervals between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
c. Record the time and your readings on the worksheet for each type of surface.
d. Plot your data by time and temperature.
e. What did you observe? What impact might this have on rubber tires?
Kick It Up a Notch Experiment: Using a bike, try riding on the different surfaces at different times of the day. Make
notes of how the surfaces may change or feel different to ride on. Did any become easier (requiring less energy/less
pedaling) or harder?
Make It Rain Experiment: Using a hose with a sprinkler attachment, wet your surfaces and record the changes in
temperatures. Did the temperatures go up or down?
Riding After the Rain Experiment: Using your bike, try riding on each of the surfaces after it has rained – if possible,
within 15 minutes after its stops. What changes did you notice by the surfaces being wet and interacting with your tires?
Air Pressure Experiment:
a. Please get your parent's permission before beginning this experiment! If you have a bike, air pump and tire gauge (to
measure air pressure), you can conduct this experiment. If you have an inflatable tire or other inflatable rolling
device, you can substitute it for the bike, but you'll need a family member or friend to assist you.
b. Measure the full/recommended inflation of your tire. Recommended tire pressure is printed on the sidewall of the
tire, or you can look up the psi (pressure) online.
c. Ride on the surfaces you have been tracking. Note any observations you have about performance and handling, or
steering and control.
d. Reduce the tire pressure by 3 psi. Then, retest the surfaces by riding on them. Note your observations on the
worksheet. Do not deflate tires beyond 30 percent of the recommended pressure; you may cause permanent
damage to the tube inside the bike.
e. Re-inflation the tire to its recommended pressure, and then add 1 to 3 psi. Go for a ride and note your observations
for handling on the worksheet. Do not overinflate tires beyond 10 percent above the recommended pressure, or tire
tubes may blow/break.
f. Chart your readings and performance.
4. Wrap Up: You've had a chance to experiment with some of the environmental factors that impact racing which crew chiefs,
engineers and drivers experience. Drivers need to provide live and real-time feedback on the car's performance, which in
many cases is tied to the environmental influences on the car. Crew chiefs and engineers need to prepare before, during and
after the race to understand how the environmental factors impacted the car and what they need to do in future races. All
the data collected is retained year after year and referenced at races at the same track.


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is decided by the judges, and is said to "go the distance". The fighter with the higher score at the end of the fight is ruled the winner. With three judges, unanimous and split decisions are possible, as are draws. A boxer may win the bout before a decision is reached through a knockout; such bouts are said to have ended "inside the distance". If a fighter is knocked down during the fight, determined by whether the boxer touches the canvas floor of the ring with any part of their body other than the feet as a result of the opponent's punch and not a slip, as determined by the referee, the referee begins counting until the fighter returns to his or her feet and can continue.
Should the referee count to ten, then the knocked-down boxer is ruled "knocked out" (whether unconscious or not) and the other boxer is ruled the winner by knockout (KO). A "technical knockout" (TKO) is possible as well, and is ruled by the referee, fight doctor, or a fighter's corner if a fighter is unable to safely continue to fight, based upon injuries or being judged unable to effectively defend themselves. Many jurisdictions and sanctioning agencies also have a "three-knockdown rule", in which three knockdowns in a given round result in a TKO. A TKO is considered a knockout in a fighter's record. A "standing eight" count rule may also be in effect. This gives the referee the right to step in and administer a count of eight to a fighter that he feels may be in danger, even if no knockdown has taken place. After counting the referee will observe the fighter, and decide if he is fit to continue. For scoring purposes, a standing eight count is treated as a knockdown.
In general, boxers are prohibited from hitting below the belt, holding, tripping, pushing, biting, or spitting. The boxer's shorts are raised so the opponent is not allowed to hit to the groin area with intent to cause pain or injury. Failure to abide by the former may result in a foul. They also are prohibited from kicking, head-butting, or hitting with any part of the arm other than the knuckles of a closed fist (including hitting with the elbow, shoulder or forearm, as well as with open gloves, the wrist, the inside, back or side of the hand). They are prohibited as well from hitting the back, back of the neck or head (called a "rabbit-punch") or the kidneys. They are prohibited from holding the ropes for support when punching, holding an opponent while punching, or ducking below the belt of their opponent (dropping below the waist of your opponent, no matter the distance between).
If a "clinch" – a defensive move in which a boxer wraps his or her opponents arms and holds on to create a pause – is broken by the referee, each fighter must take a full step back before punching again (alternatively, the referee may direct the fighters to "punch out" of the clinch). When a boxer is knocked down, the other boxer must immediately cease fighting and move to the furthest neutral corner of the ring until the referee has either ruled a knockout or called for the fight to continue.
Violations of these rules may be ruled "fouls" by the referee, who may issue warnings, deduct points, or disqualify an offending boxer, causing an automatic loss, depending on the seriousness and intentionality of the foul. An intentional foul that causes injury that prevents a fight from continuing usually causes the boxer who committed it to be disqualified. A fighter who suffers an accidental low-blow may be given up to five minutes to recover, after which they may be ruled knocked out if they are unable to continue. Accidental fouls that cause injury ending a bout may lead to a "no contest" result, or else cause the fight to go to a decision if enough rounds (typically four or more, or at least three in a four-round fight) have passed.
Unheard of these days, but common during the early 20th Century in North America, a "newspaper decision (NWS)" might be made after a no decision bout had ended. A "no decision" bout occurred when, by law or by pre-arrangement of the fighters, if both boxers were still standing at the fight's conclusion and there was no knockout, no official decision was rendered and neither boxer was declared the winner. But this did not prevent the pool of ringside newspaper reporters from declaring a consensus result among themselves and printing a newspaper decision in their publications. Officially, however, a "no decision" bout resulted in neither boxer winning or losing. Boxing historians sometimes use these unofficial newspaper decisions in compiling fight records for illustrative purposes only. Often, media outlets covering a match will personally score the match, and post their scores as an independent sentence in their report.
Professional vs. amateur boxing
Throughout the 17th through 19th centuries, boxing bouts were motivated by money, as the fighters competed for prize money, promoters controlled the gate, and spectators bet on the result. The modern Olympic movement revived interest in amateur sports, and amateur boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908. In their current form, Olympic and other amateur bouts are typically limited to three or four rounds, scoring is computed by points based on the number of clean blows landed, regardless of impact, and fighters wear protective headgear, reducing the number of injuries, knockdowns, and knockouts. Currently scoring blows in amateur boxing are subjectively counted by ringside judges, but the Australian Institute for Sport has demonstrated a prototype of an Automated Boxing Scoring System, which introduces scoring objectivity, improves safety, and arguably makes the sport more interesting to spectators. Professional boxing remains by far the most popular form of the sport globally, though amateur boxing is dominant in Cuba and some former Soviet republics. For most fighters, an amateur career, especially at the Olympics, serves to develop skills and gain experience in preparation for a professional career.
Amateur boxing
Amateur boxing may be found at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, and in many other venues sanctioned by amateur boxing associations. Amateur boxing has a point scoring system that measures the number of clean blows landed rather than physical damage. Bouts consist of three rounds of three minutes in the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, and three rounds of three minutes in a national ABA (Amateur Boxing Association) bout, each with a one-minute interval between rounds.
Competitors wear protective headgear and gloves with a white strip across the knuckle. A punch is considered a scoring punch only when the boxers connect with the white portion of the gloves. Each punch that lands cleanly on the head or torso with sufficient force is awarded a point. A referee monitors the fight to ensure that competitors use only legal blows. A belt worn over the torso represents the lower limit of punches – any boxer repeatedly landing low blows below the belt is disqualified. Referees also ensure that the boxers don't use holding tactics to prevent the opponent from swinging. If this occurs, the referee separates the opponents and orders them to continue boxing. Repeated holding can result in a boxer being penalized or ultimately disqualified. Referees will stop the bout if a boxer is seriously injured, if one boxer is significantly dominating the other or if the score is severely imbalanced. Amateur bouts which end this way may be noted as "RSC" (referee stopped contest) with notations for an outclassed opponent (RSCO), outscored opponent (RSCOS), injury (RSCI) or head injury (RSCH).
Professional boxing
Professional bouts are usually much longer than amateur bouts, typically ranging from ten to twelve rounds, though four round fights are common for less experienced fighters or club fighters. There are also some twoand three-round professional bouts, especially in Australia. Through the early twentieth century, it was common for fights to have unlimited rounds, ending only when one fighter quit, benefiting high-energy fighters like Jack Dempsey. Fifteen rounds remained the internationally recognized limit for championship fights for most of the twentieth century until the early 1980s, when the death of boxer Duk Koo Kim eventually prompted the World Boxing Council and other organizations sanctioning professional boxing to reduce the limit to twelve rounds.
Headgear is not permitted in professional bouts, and boxers are generally allowed to take much more damage before a fight is halted. At any time, however, the referee may stop the contest if he believes that one participant cannot defend himself due to injury. In that case, the other participant is awarded a technical knockout win. A technical knockout would also be awarded if a fighter lands a punch that opens a cut on the opponent, and the opponent is later deemed not fit to continue by a doctor because of the cut. For this reason, fighters often employ cutmen, whose job is to treat cuts between rounds so that the boxer is able to continue despite the cut. If a boxer simply quits fighting, or if his corner stops the fight, then the winning boxer is also awarded a technical knockout victory. In contrast with amateur boxing, professional male boxers have to be bare chested.
Boxing styles
Definition of Style
"Style" is often defined as the strategic approach a fighter takes during a bout. No two fighters' styles are alike, as it is determined by that individual's physical and mental attributes. There are three main styles in boxing: Out-fighter ("Boxer"), Brawler (or slugger), and In-fighter ("Swarmer"). These styles may be divided into several special subgroups, such as counter puncher, etc. The main philosophy of the styles is, that each style has an advantage over one, but disadvantage over the other one. It follows the rock


Sikh Culture
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Sikh art and culture is synonymous with that of the Punjab region. The Punjab itself has been called "India's melting pot",[3] due to the confluence of invading cultures, such as Mughal and Persian, that mirrors the confluence of rivers from which the region gets its name. Thus, Sikh culture is to a large extent informed by this synthesis.
Sikhism has forged a unique form of architecture which Bhatti describes as being "inspired by Guru Nanak's creative mysticism" such that Sikh architecture "is a mute harbinger of holistic humanism based on pragmatic spirituality".[4] The keynote of Sikh architecture is the Gurdwara which is the personification of the "melting pot" of Punjabi cultures, showing both Islamic, Sufi and Hindu influences. The reign of the Sikh Empire was the single biggest catylst in creating a uniquely Sikh form of expression, with Maharajah Ranjit Singh patronising the building of forts, palaces, bungas (residential places), colleges, etc. that can be said to be of the Sikh Style. The "jewel in the crown" of the Sikh Style is the Harmandir Sahib.
The art and culture of the Sikh diaspora has been merged with that of other indo-immigrant groups into categories such as 'British Asian', 'Indo-Canadanian' and 'Desi-Culture'; however there has emerged a niche cultural phenomenon that can be described as 'Political Sikh'. The art of prominent diaspora Sikhs such as Amarjeet Kaur Nandhra[5] and Amrit and Rabindra Kaur Singh ('The Singh Twins'),[6] is partly informed by their Sikh heritage and the current affairs of the Punjab.


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- 1. What is a continuous sealing machine
- 2. How does a continuous band sealer work
- 3. Machine parameters
- 4. What kind of bags can the continuous band sealer be used to seal
- 5. The structure of the continuous sealing machine
- 6. The details of the continuous band sealer
- 7. Why do we need a continuous sealing machine
What is a continuous sealing machine
A continuous sealing machine is used to seal bags of powders, granules, liquids, etc. This band sealer is novel in structure, simple in operation, and complete in function, pushing and sealing at one time. It has a high degree of automation, which can significantly reduce the workload of workers.
How does a continuous band sealer work
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In fact, our machines are suitable for sealing thermoplastic materials (PP, PE, laminates) of any size and length. We offer both horizontal band sealers (where the bag is flat on the conveyor belt) and vertical band sealers (where the bag is in a standing position on the conveyor belt). Our band sealers can be used in a wide range of applications and industries, such as pharmaceutical, food, agriculture, daily chemical, etc. Besides, you also should notice the bags used for the vacuum sealer, granule packaging machine for 5-50kg.
The structure of the continuous sealing machine
The details of the continuous band sealer
Why do we need a continuous sealing machine
In Taizy Company, our continuous sealing machine has the following advantages:
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National Civil Registration and Statistics Improvement Committee
The National Civil Registration and Statistics Improvement Committee (NCR SIC) is a cross-jurisdictional body established to develop and oversee collective strategies to advance and coordinate improvements to Australia's civil registration and vital statistics system.
Civil registration is the system used to record a jurisdiction's vital statistics, which include data about the births, deaths and marriages that happen within the region.
The primary responsibility of NCR SIC is to identify and progress the policies and initiatives required to deliver a more seamless, harmonised and robust national civil registration and vital statistics system that works across Commonwealth, state and territory jurisdictions.
The committee has representatives from:
- Australian registries of births, deaths and marriages (RBDMs)
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
- New Zealand Births, Deaths and Marriages (invited to participate in an ex-officio capacity).
There are 3 key objectives of the committee:
- improve harmonisation, integration and coordination of the national civil registration and statistical system
- understand requirements of users of civil registration data and related statistics, and facilitate efficient access to appropriate information
- advocate and support NCR SIC as a cohesive body to improve the national civil registration and vital statistics system in Australia.
What we have done
The committee has achieved a number of initiatives, including:
- implementing the Australian Coordinating Registry (ACR) model for coordinating and disseminating national datasets through various inter-governmental agreements
- making 2 national death datasets available through the Queensland RBDM as the ACR
- developing harmonised national data access principles for use across the country's RBDMs and with a registry acting as the ACR
- identifying national minimum requirements to address inconsistences in birth and death datasets across jurisdictions and improve the quality of vital statistics
- sharing vitals data with New Zealand and Pacific region countries to improve data collection and systems that help address policy and cross-border law and order matters.
Use the form below to contact us if you have an enquiry about:
- the work of the committee
- the administration of civil registration nationally
- access to birth, death, marriage and other data.
- NCR SIC meeting - November 2018 (TBC)
- Australian Vital Statistics Interest Group meeting - 21 November 2018 (tentative)
- International CRVS conferences


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When you've hurt any part of your body from exercising, the first rule to follow is to discontinue doing that exercise -- at least until the pain goes away. A little ice might also help alleviate the pain, but really, time is going to be your biggest ally in recovery. The abdominal pain you're feeling after doing pushups is likely due to a strained abdominal muscle. To prevent the problem in the future, it's important to understand some basic concepts about pushups.
What the Pushup Does
The pushup is an exercise that works most of the muscles of the upper body in some way. The pectoralis major is the main muscle recruited. Additionally, the triceps of the arms and the deltoids of the shoulders assist in the movement. On top of that, the biceps of the arms, rectus abdominis and obliques of the abdominals -- and quadriceps of the legs -- help to keep your joints stable throughout the movement. It's difficult to say exactly what you've done to hurt your abdominals, but it's likely that you've put excess strain on that area while stabilizing your body during the pushup.
Do Them Right
With its myriad of upper body-strengthening benefits, don't give up on pushups. When you've been free of pain for at least a week or two, try pushups again -- this time focusing on proper form. Start out with your knees on the floor, which will force you to lift less weight against gravity and discourage you from arching your lower back, which could further strain your abdominals. Place your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart and pull your shoulders down. Straighten your arms and focus on creating a long straight line between your knees and head. Pull your navel in toward your spine to engage the abdominals, but as you do your pushups, remind yourself to use your back to help push your body back up. Don't allow your neck to fall forward as you do each repetition.
Work Up Slowly
Your injury may be the result of taking on too many pushups at once, so start slow as you begin again. Try doing one or two sets of 10 knee pushups to start -- but if you can't do that many with proper form, do as many as you can. If knee pushups are too difficult, try placing your body weight on a sturdy counter or desk and starting from there. It might help to have a friend, coach or trainer watch you and alert you when you're using improper form so you can correct it or stop the exercise. You might also try videotaping yourself to observe your own form. When you can do 10 repetitions of the basic pushup safely and effectively -- and without any more abdominal pain -- try moving up to a more difficult type. You might move from countertop pushups, then to the knees, then to knees off the floor, and then finally to a pushup in which your feet are elevated on a platform or exercise ball.
Signs of a Bigger Problem
If you see any bulging in your abdomen accompanying the pain, it could be a sign of a much more serious problem. When the muscle wall is damaged badly enough, the tear may allow other portions of the abdomen to protrude out, called a hernia, resulting in that bulge you may be seeing. It's most common in the lower abdominal or groin area, but hernias can also happen in other abdominal areas. And they're much more common in men. If you suspect this is the problem, talk to your doctor right away.


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Cows have regional accents, experts confirm
Major bovine linguistic breakthrough
In a major breakthrough in bovine linguistic research, experts have confirmed that cows moo with accents distinct to their herd, the BBC reports.
John Wells, professor of Phonetics at the University of London, examined West Country farmers' claims that their beasts were mooing with a local twang.
Lloyd Green of Glastonbury said: "I spend a lot of time with my ones and they definitely moo with a Somerset drawl. I've spoken to the other farmers in the West Country group and they have noticed a similar development in their own herds. It works the same as with dogs - the closer a farmer's bond is with his animals, the easier it is for them to pick up his accent."
Professor Wells confirmed Green's observations, explaining: "This phenomenon is well attested in birds. You find distinct chirping accents in the same species around the country. In small populations such as herds you would encounter identifiable dialectical variations which are most affected by the immediate peer group."
Linguistics expert Dr Jeanine Treffers-Daller of University of the West of England in Bristol, ruminated: "When we are learning to speak, we adopt a local variety of language spoken by our parents, so the same could be said about the variation in the West Country cow moo."
The latest findings will do much to expand our understanding of the bovine world, which has in the last couple of years been enhanced by the revelations that cows enjoy a bit of girl-on-girl and bear grudges. ®


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Joseph Francis was ordained as a priest in 1950 and became the fourth African American Roman Catholic bishop in the country, and the first ordained in the Northeast. Bishop Francis was a pioneering figure in the discussion of race and religion. The materials in this collection span the years between 1934 and 1997, and includes much of Bishop Francis' own writings for his speeches and sermons.


The Sadistic Treatment of Tennessee Walking Horses
The long-neglected, inhuman treatment of these noble animals must be brought to an end.
Courtesy of Michael Vick, most Americans have now been exposed to the sordid underground world of dogfighting. Coverage of cockfighting and state or county bans against the horrendous practice in most venues have made us aware of the sadistic treatment some sorry humans inflict on those poor birds. The deaths of Eight Belles and Barbaro highlighted dangers humans impose on thoroughbred racehorses, which, one can hope, will lead to a more humanely regulated sport. But few of us are aware of the incredible cruelty visited on Tennessee Walking Horses by a small but powerful group of owners and trainers located predominantly in a few southern states.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reported this week that the vast majority of exhibitors who convened at an Owingsville horse show grounds scattered like buckshot when officials arrived to inspect the animals for signs of cruelty and cite the trainers and owners for federal violations.
Why did they scatter rather than face inspection? Because the training practices used to force the horses to raise their front legs up high and assume a completely unnatural and painful posture are so barbarous that they violate federal law and carry serious penalties for perpetrators. Yet such practices are widely used by a small but powerful cadre of sick humans.
The most widely used technique, according to the Humane Society of the United States, is "soring" in which, according to an explanation provided to me by the group, "a variety of cruel methods are used to inflict pain on horses. They include painting caustic chemicals on the horses' pasterns (ankles), such as diesel fuel, kerosene, or mustard oil and then riding the horse with chains around its ankles. Mechanical means like pressure shoeing involve either hiding a foreign object (such as a screw or bolt) under a leather pad against the horse's front soles, or cutting a horse's hoof wall and sole so short that it starts to bleed. In either case, each time the horse steps or puts weight on that hoof, it causes pain." (The pain, in turn, forces the horse to lift up its front legs unnaturally high.)
Keith Dane, the Humane Society's director of equine protection, described several other techniques to me. Some owners pile layers of pads under the horses' hooves, held on by a metal strap that goes over the hoof and is attached with nails pounded into the hoof wall. This technique is tantamount to a young woman wearing dangerously high heels 24/7, with a metal strap across her foot to hold the contraption in place. Horses have been known to collapse in the show ring from the combination of ridiculous imbalance and intense pain.
Why, you might ask, is this allowed to go on? It is, as noted above, against federal law to show a horse thusly trained. But Congress allots only a half-million dollars each year to the Agriculture Department to enforce the law. Federal agents possess only enough resources to "bust" a small number of shows each year. The discipline is so thoroughly reviled by the rest of the horse world, it was bounced out of the United States Equestrian Federation decades ago. The practice has been publicized for decades, forcing Walking Horse devotees to operate in a shadow world of their own.
Let me restate clearly that not all Walking Horse trainers or owners engage in these cruel techniques. Keith Dane judges exhibitors on a circuit of Walking Horse shows that engage in none of these outlandish practices. But it's time for conscientious Americans to let Congress know we want it to spend the comparatively small amount of money it would take to drive these cruel operators into oblivion.
To stand idly by is to hand victory to the cruel and inhumane.


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Negative energy can have an adverse effect on your health, relationships, and success. Probably, you have been raised to believe only in the things that you can understand and confirm. Rational minds cannot understand some treatments and rituals that don't correspond to their reason.
This article dwells on positive and negative energies, something which not a lot of people believe in. Lemon is one of the things that can neutralize negative vibrations and restore harmony in your life.
Lemon possesses numerous beneficial properties, not only for the health and looks, but also for the energy.
The lemon is an irreplaceable ally in the fight against negative energies. You will need to use green lemons.
These methods can help you lower the effects of negative energy in your surroundings:
- Place 3 green lemons in different places in the house. When they become yellow or black, replace them with new green lemons.
- You can also boil its rind in rainwater to make use from its vapors.
- If the lemon is really small, you can wear it as a talisman.
- Put a basket with 9 lemons in a bed of rice and keep the basket onto your fridge. Put one lemon in the middle and eight around it.
- If you want to stay protected from envious colleagues, place 3 lemons in your desk drawer or in your purse for balance.
- A bit of lemon juice mixed with an atomizer spray water will change the negative energy in your home to a positive one. Sprinkle this mixture around your home, especially in the corners.
- If you want to attract love in your life, put a glass vase or a bowl with 3 lemons on your nightstand.
- To eliminate negative vibrations you have absorbed throughout the day, cut one lemon in 4 pieces and place them in a plate so that they form a cross. Then, make a circle from grain salt around the pieces and put the plate under your bed before you go to sleep. If you cannot put it under the bed, place it near the bed. The next morning, put the pieces of lemon in a plastic bag and make sure you don't touch them and then throw away the plastic bag. Repeat this procedure for 3 subsequent days and you will notice significant improvement in your overall mood and feelings.
- Put a green lemon in your purse, jacket, pants, etc. and then, in the evening, remove it and throw it away. The next morning, do the same and carry the lemon with you during the entire day so that it can absorb negative vibes around you, leaving you safe and calm.


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Deuterated compounds – in which a drug molecule's carbon-hydrogen bond is replaced with a carbon deuterium bond to extend the drug's half-life – continue to show promise in potentially boosting the bioavailability and safety of some drugs.
The deuterated compound market has attracted many new companies looking to develop and patent deuterated versions of various existing, non-deuterated therapeutic compounds—known as the "Deuterium Switch."
What is a Deuterated Drug?
A deuterated drug is a small molecule with medicinal activity. It is made by replacing one or more of the hydrogen atoms contained in the drug molecule with deuterium – a hydrogen isotope whose nucleus contains one neutron and one proton. As deuterium and hydrogen have nearly the same physical properties, deuterium substitution is the smallest structural change that can be made to a molecule.
To Deuterate or Not to Deuterate – That's the Regulatory Question
Developers of deuterium switch compounds must show significant clinical benefits over existing non-deuterated versions to justify why they should replace existing or less expensive therapies. However, such a switch can:
- Take advantage of the clinical knowledge concerning the non-deuterated version of the compound
- Benefit from new patent protections
- Result in improved therapies and patient outcomes.
Did you know that most large pharmaceutical companies today also claim deuterated versions of new molecules in their patent applications?
Benefits of Deuterated Versions of Drugs
Deuterated versions of existing drugs can benefit from improved pharmacokinetic or toxicological properties. Because of the kinetic isotope effect, which is the change in rate of a chemical reaction when one of the atoms in the reactants is substituted with one of the isotopes, drugs that contain deuterium may have significantly lower metabolism rates. As the C-D bond is ten times stronger than the C-H bond, it is much more resistant to chemical or enzymatic cleavage and the difficulty of breaking the bond can decrease the rate of metabolism. Lower metabolism rates give deuterated drugs a longer half-life, making them take much longer to be eliminated from the body. This reduced metabolism can extend a drug's desired effects, diminish its undesirable effects, and allow less frequent dosing. The replacement may also lower toxicity by reducing toxic metabolite formation.
A major potential advantage of deuterated compounds is the possibility of faster, more efficient, less costly clinical trials, because of the extensive testing the non-deuterated versions have previously undergone. The main reasons compounds fail during clinical trials are lack of efficacy, poor pharmacokinetics or toxicity. With deuterated drugs, efficacy is not in question – allowing the research to focus on pharmacokinetics and toxicity. Deuterated versions of drugs might also be able to obtain FDA approval via a 505(b)(2) NDA filing, a faster, less expensive route.
Manufacturing Deuterium Exchanged APIs
With our expertise in deuteration technology, Neuland Labs uses a synthetic approach where deuterium-enriched material is combined with the drug to produce deuterated drugs. Another approach, called an exchange approach, uses a catalyst to produce a deuterated molecule.
The most popular process for sourcing deuterium for drugs is extracting D2O from regular water via the Girdler sulfide (also known as the Geib-Spevack) process, which uses a temperature difference and hydrogen sulfide to enrich deuterium in water by up to 20%.
Deuterated Molecules Advance in Clinical Trials
While Deuteration has been around literally for decades, I mentioned in an article last year at PharmTech (Pharma APIs: It's Still a Small World) that most deuterium chemistry efforts are currently in the pre-formulation stage.
Those deuterated compounds that have advanced are generally performing well in clinical trials. In July, a deuterated drug reached Phase III testing for the first time, in a study to treat Huntington's disease. Known as deutetrabenazine, the drug was found to reduce the disease symptoms and the frequency of administration, and it is currently being considered for approval by the FDA.
Recently, another investigational new drug targeting nonalcoholic steatohepatitis & adrenomyeloneuropathy (a deuterium-stabilized [R]-enantiomer of pioglitazone) recently completed FDA review and appears headed towards a Phase 1 study.
Growing Opportunity for Deuterated Drugs
The current market value of companies specializing in this technology suggests that the value of "deuterium switching" could be more than a $1 billion, and that the greatest discoveries in the field have yet to occur.


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- Aggregate and Household Demand for Money: Evidence from Public Opinion Survey on Household Financial Assets and Liabilities
- Hiroshi Fujiki, Cheng Hsiao
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- We use data from Public Opinion Surveys on Household Financial Assets and Liabilities from 1991 to 2002 to investigate the issues of unobserved heterogeneity among cross-sectional units and stability of Japanese aggregate money demand function. Conditions that permit individual data and aggregate data to be modeled under one consistent format are given. Alternative definitions of money are explored through year-by-year cross-sectional estimates of Fujiki-Mulligan (1996) household money demand model. We find that using M3 appears to be broadly consistent with time series estimates using the aggregates constructed from the micro data. The results appear to support the existence of a stable money demand function for Japan. The estimated income elasticity for M3 is about 0.68 and five year bond interest rate elasticity is about -0.124.
- JEL-Codes: E41, C43
- Keywords: Demand for Money; Aggregation; Heterogeneity
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We report on the preparation of capacitive-type relative humidity sensors incorporating plasma-activated multi-wall carbon nanotube (p-MWCNT) electrodes and on their performance compared with existing commercial technology. Highly open porous conductive electrodes, which are almost impossible to obtain with conventional metal electrodes, are fabricated by spray-depositing MWCNT networks on a polyimide layer. Oxygen plasma activation of the MWCNTs is also explored to improve the water adsorption of the MWCNT films, by introducing oxygen-containing functional groups on the CNT surface. Polyimide humidity sensors with optimized p-MWCNT network electrodes exhibit exceptionally fast response times (1.5 for adsorption and 2 s for desorption) and high sensitivity (0.75 pF/% RH). These results may be partially due to their percolated pore structure being more accessible for water molecules, expending the diffusion of moisture to the polyimide sensing film, and partially due to the oxygenated surface of p-MWCNT films, allocating more locations for adsorption or attraction of water molecules to contribute to the sensitivity.
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An Interactive Electromagnetic Kinetic Sculpture (2016)
God's Eye offers a rare opportunity to notice the behavior of magnets in motion affecting one another at a distance, inviting us to trace magnetic fields which are ordinarily hidden from sight. Magnetic balls are seemingly propelled by their own creature-like desires through a sculptural design which creates a bounded but chaotic balance between the forces of gravity and electromagnetic induction. This sculpture of loosely coupled rolling magnets is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Magnets are carefully positioned to allow them to simultaneously shape, share and effect the character of each others complex behavior of motion. Through magnetic attraction and repulsion and proximal distance, this dynamic process creates an emergent field of hive-like motion.
A variable speed sine wave (2-10hz) is sent into copper coils creating a magnetic field which invisibly moves a magnetic ball placed inside each coil. Yet this magnetic response is constrained by force of gravity as each ball rolls in its own parabolic dish. One magnet's motion affects the motion of another in close proximity through the field disturbance created as the relative position of north and south poles of each magnet change with respect to one another. Users alter the frequency of the signal sent into the copper coils by placing their hand in varying proximity to the work.
Through the constraint of curved dishes, minimal friction and a yarn "tail", one can see the effect that magnets have on each other at long distances, revealing their inner character. This dynamic kinetic process provides a suggestive window into many other mysteriously complex, yet captivating systems found in nature.


Toner Gum Transfer with B.I.G. Ground
In this experiment, we aim to develop a method of transferring a toner-printed image onto a copper plate to act as a resist in the etch. The process was first tested by Andrew Baldwin, and involves wetting a toner image with gum arabic, rolling on a coating of B.I.G hard ground, and wiping off excess ground with a damp sponge. The wet ground should stick to the printer toner, and remain in all but the white areas of the paper. This treated image is then run through the press facing the copper plate in order to transfer the B.I.G. onto the copper. The plate is baked, allowed to sit and cure, and etched in ferric chloride. The B.I.G. should act as an aquatint to achieve tone, and the white areas will open-bite. We hope that with some refinement, this technique will render a printed image that is as true as possible to the tone and detail of the original image. For these tests, we printed our source images on a Brother laser printer model number HL- 2280DW. In most tests we used the printer on its default settings, but we did utilize the photocopy setting and another special setting for the Pronto Plates, as explained in the following tests.
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Temporal range: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic
Anchisaurus. Rutiodon is in the corner of the image. In another corner is Desmatosuchus.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Suborder: Phytosauria
Family: Phytosauridae
Genus: Rutiodon
Rutiodon was a type of phytosaur. Phytosaurs were crocodile-like animals that lived during the time of dinosaurs. Its nostrils were far back on the head, close to the eyes. It was shown in the movie When Dinosaurs Roamed America trying to catch a Coelophysis. It jumped out of the water. and roared without warning.


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Location: Range Management ResearchTitle: Characterizing the spatial and temporal activities of free-ranging cows from GPS data Author
|Estell, Richard - Rick|
Submitted to: The Rangeland Journal
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/19/2012
Publication Date: 6/1/2012
Publication URL: _URL_
Citation: Anderson, D.M., Winters, C.D., Estell, R.E., Fredrickson, E.L., Dominec, M., Detweiler, C., Rus, D., James, D.K. 2012. Characterizing the spatial and temporal activities of free-ranging cows from GPS data. The Rangeland Journal. 34:149-161. Interpretive Summary: This research described how animal borne GPS devices set to record 1 s fixes can be used to identify standing, foraging and walking activites among free-ranging cows. The protocol requires characterizing the rate of cow travel obtained from GPS fixes with observational data recorded simultaneously while observing animals engauged in each of the three activities and using the rates of travel determined from these concurrent data to categorize consecutive GPS fixes recorded when observers were not present. This approach provides a 24-7 spatial and temporal profile of these three important cow behaviors. The procedure was evaluated on a small herd of cows in each of two years immedately before and following the abrupt weaning of their calves. Though cow travel increased significantly following weaning the most interesting aspect of these data reveal that subtle within day changes also take place and these behaviors would be missed with a less frequent fix rate. Furthermore, by using the GPS time stamp data together with the sun's angle with respect to the horizon the three behaviors were further characterized. This information should provides resource managers unique information to proactively manage cow dominated landscapes. The key to obtaining this type of management information is to use electronics that are robust and consistently reliable.
Technical Abstract: Electronic tracking provides a unique way to document animal behavior on a continuous basis. This manuscript describes how uncorrected 1 s GPS fixes can be used to characterize the rate of cow travel (m·s-1) into stationary, foraging and walking activities. Cows instrumented with GPS devices were observed; and the beginning and ending times of the above activities were recorded. Data were collected across a number of days and among a number of cows in order to calculate a mean travel rate for each activity. GPS data were also collected when observers were absent from the paddock and these data were then characterized into the three activities based on rate of travel determined between consecutive GPS fixes. The activities were further characterized within a 24 h period based on the sun's angle with respect to the horizon. GPS data were analyzed from four cows (two in 2009 and two in 2011) and collected for four consecutive 24 h periods before weaning and seven similar time intervals following weaning. Weaning took place in March each year around mid-day when calves were between 223 and 234 days of age. These data suggest abrupt weaning caused cows to change their spatial and temporal behavior not only among but also within days. Overall cow travel increased (p = 0.0093) post-weaning with subtle within day behavioral changes. Further testing will be required to substantiate the biological implication of spatial and temporal cattle behavioral changes when developing optimum proactive husbandry practices for managing cow dominated landscapes.


Adopt, Don't Shop, on National Dog Rescue Day
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Rescuing a dog or any pet is entirely different than buying a dog from a pet store or a breeder. National Dog Rescue Day, which takes place annually on May 20th, exists in part to highlight this difference.
Most animal rights advocates (but not all) would suggest that potential pet owners adopt dogs rather than buying them — or, said in the catchiest, briefest way possible, "adopt, don't shop." Here are five reasons to follow this motto for National Dog Rescue Day:
Adopting doesn't support animal cruelty
As cute as the dogs at pet stores are, they often come from cruel backgrounds. Pet stores often buy the dogs they sell from puppy mills, which are known for abusive, unhealthy living situations. There, dogs are often forced to breed at the cost of proper hygiene, diet, and even space to roam around and enjoy themselves. Even the ways in which dogs are transported to pet stores from these sellers has led to dogs dying in transit. Buying from pet stores directly supports these practices.
Breeders drive animal overpopulation
Animal overpopulation is a serious issue. In fact, the abundance of spayed and neutered dogs is a direct result of overpopulation — measures this drastic are needed to keep dog populations (and cat populations) in check. Breeders, though unlikely to treat their dogs as cruelly as puppy mills do, contribute to overpopulation. By selling dogs of purebred pedigree, breeders distract potential pet owners from adopting from animal shelters, where nearly 6.5 million pets are newly housed each year. Nearly one-quarter of these pets are euthanized due to overcrowding.
Adopting is cheaper
It's rare for adoption to be free, but it's almost always cheaper than buying a dog from a breeder or a pet store. Adoption fees can be a couple hundred dollars depending on the shelter and where you live, but they cover a dog's first vaccinations, examinations, microchipping, spaying or neutering, and flea, tick, and worm preventatives (and sometimes even a short-term healthcare plan). In some cases, adopting a dog expected to live a shorter life or struggling with chronic illness may not require any payment.
Adopting is safer
In every state, both shelters and pet sellers are regulated to some extent. However, the strength of these regulations varies wildly by state. Thus, some would argue that buying a dog is potentially unsafe, both for the dog and the owner. Shelters, on the other hand, actively tend to dogs as the very basis of their work, making adoption safer.
Adopting is easier
Pets bought from a breeder or pet store may be brand new to a life spent around humans, in a person's home. They are thus far less likely to be housebroken, well behaved, and properly trained. Dogs in shelters, on the other hand, have frequently lived in one or more homes, meaning they're far more likely to be properly trained. This trend makes adopting, not shopping, especially vital for first-time dog owners.
If you plan to get a dog someday, will you adopt or shop? Why? If you have a dog, did you adopt it or buy it? Why? Sound off in the comments!
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text: This book teaches adhesive and sealant formulation in two steps. Each section first describes the application and chemical basis of the type of adhesive or sealant concerned. This is followed by formulation advice and – if possible – an analysis of existing recipes. This analysis includes a calculation of the important characteristic values of the formulations. All calculations based on recipes and formulations are worked through step by step and should therefore be intelligible to beginners, too.


Friday, March 4, 2011
Consuming an ASP.NET Web Service from Salesforce Apex Callouts
Salesforces wsdl2apex can be a bit basic in what is supports (see Supported WSDL Features).
Steps for consuming an ASP.NET web service from Apex.
 1. Add the Web service host to the Remote Sites.
 Adminitraction Setup > Security Controls > Remote Site Settings
 Skipping this step will result in a "System.CalloutException: IO Exception: Unauthorized endpoint, please check Setup->Security->Remote site settings. endpoint ="...
 2. Export the WSDL from the ASP.NET web service
 3. Optionally, you might like to sort the WSDL. The idea is to ensure wsdl2apex produces the same elements in the same order for future code comparisons.
 4. Import the WSDL into Salesforce
 Develop > Apex Classes > Generate from WSDL*
 5. Define a Apex class name
 6. Test the new Apex class using Execute Anonymous in Eclipse. With a ASP.NET generated web service I found the class I defined in the previous step had a nested class corresponding to the binding name from the uploaded WSDL. The nested class had a method that corresponded to the web method (the operation in the WSDL).
 7. Optionally, search the generated class for calls to WebServiceCallout.invoke(...). This will currently cause test cases to abort silently (except for a log message) and you may not notice. Sprinkle the code with a liberal amount of Test.isRunningTest().
*Common WSDL parsing errors:
 1. If the Parse WSDL button produces Error: Failed to parse wsdl: Found more than one wsdl:binding. WSDL with multiple binding not supported Deleting the second element what contains soap12 elements and the corresponding port definition under .
 2. wsdl:import
 Error: Failed to parse wsdl: Unknown element: import
 Locate the import elements in the current WSDL. E.g.. Pull that WSDL down and merge its contents into the parent WSDL.
 3. xsd:import
 Failed to parse wsdl: Found schema import from location External schema import not supported
 These will typically appear under . Copy the contents of the import under and remove the . See also: Discussion Forum: Referencing external schemas in a WSDL
 4. Error: Failed to parse wsdl: Failed to parse WSDL: Unable to find binding {}BasicHttpBinding_IWebService. Found BasicHttpBinding_IWebService instead.
 The had the attribute xmlns:i0="". i0: was being used as the namespace for the binding. Switching it to tns: resolved the issue.
 5. Error: Failed to parse wsdl: schema:targetNamespace can not be null
 In this case I needed to add a targetNamespace attribute and value to the element. E.g. becomes
 6. Apex Generation Failed:
 Unable to find schema for element; {}ArrayOfstring
 Unable to find schema for element; {}ArrayOflong
 In this case I'd initially made a mistake when pulling in the xsd for these complex types. I corrected it by putting the complex type definitions within a element in wsdl:type section.
 7. Error: wwwExampleComApi
 Error: Identifier name is reserved: long at 191:23
 This error was caused by the ArrayOflong type generating the following Apex:
 public class ArrayOflong {
 public Long[] long;
 private String[] long_type_info = new String[]{'long','','long','0','-1','false'};
 private String[] apex_schema_type_info = new String[]{'','false','false'};
 private String[] field_order_type_info = new String[]{'long'};
 Possible fix:
 public class ArrayOflong {
 public Long[] long_x; // Note the _x suffix to avoid the conflict
 // The first parameter here is what will appear in the SOAP message as the element name
 private String[] field_order_type_info = new String[]{'long_x'};
 8. Error: Failed to parse wsdl: Unsupported Schema element found At: 1866:57
 The WSDL had three "attribute" elements:
 -
 -
 -
 Commenting these out of the WSDL allowed into to be used with wsdl2apex. I'm not sure what adverse effects resulted from removing them.
 9. The use of in a complex type won't result in the base class fields appearing in generated Apex class.
 Try copying the fields from Apex class that was being extended into the sub class.
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 1. hi
 i got unable to find schema for element.
 how can i solve this problem
 2. Hello Daniel,
 I am getting the following error, let me know if you have any solution for this
 Error: Failed to parse wsdl: Unable to find schema for element; {}schema
 Thanks in advance!!
 1. Hi Arish,
 Most likely your WSDL contains a "schema" element. Have a look at the Supported WSDL Features of WSDL2Apex.
 3. Thanks for the post. Helped a lot in generating my first apex class from.net wsdl file. I have a query.
 Along with the wsdl file, I have been provided with a dll(Miscrosoft.ServiceBus.dll) file which has some bindings to be used. I haven't used this to generate the code. When I try to get the output, I get the following error:
 Cannot send message because the service endpoint hosted at the specified address uses a binding that cannot be accessed over HTTP.
 So, how do I use this dll file and bind it to the WSDL file to generate the apex class? The binding need to be included in the generated class also.
 Please let me know.
 1. Hi "Man"ish,
 You won't be able to utilise a.NET DLL directly in Salesforce apex.
 If I had to guess from the error message you will probably need to use https rather than http.
 Try changing the endpoint_x in the wsdl2apex generated class.
 Failing that, see if you can get a sample SOAP message from a valid call to the web service and compare that to what Salesforce is generating.
 4. Hi,
 I am getting this error. Can someone tell why is this happening and how to fix this?
 Apex Generation Failed
 Unsupported WSDL. Found more than one part for message setCurrentScopeById
 1. Have a look at The WSDL most likely contains multi-part messages. You may be able to manually manipulate the WSDL to still import it with wsdl2apex.
 5. hey..
 i am getting an error
 Apex Generation Failed
 Unable to find schema for element; {}double
 so cud u plz give ant solution..
 although i have gone thru ol the supported wsdl constructs..yet not able to import even a single external wsdl file...
 here is my document plz have a look
 1. It's hard to day without seeing the schema. The schema link you provided is for a binary download, which I'm not game to try because of the potential security risk. would be a good place to post the question and the problem schema details.
 6. Nice post. what will you advice for a requirement implemented using 'Outbound Messages' which ensures of retrying and delivering the message.
 However how to handle and show the error on SF GUI thats sent by external system, due to some data error (as data is not saved in external system), As this failure is data error, outbound monitor message shall not retry to send.Any advice will help.
 1. When you are processing the outbound message you can get the Salesforce Session ID and ServerURL. You can use these to write data back to Salesforce. This could include any problem records that need manual follow up.


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12 s.c.h. post-baccalaureate supplemental
- EDUC 3328 Foundations of Bilingual Education OR
- EDUC 5328 Bilingual Education: Principles & Curr.
- EDUC 3329 OR EDUC 5329 Methodology of Second Language Teaching
- EDUC 4328 Teaching Spanish Language Arts in the Bilingual Classroom OR
- EDUC 6328 Methodology in Reading/Language Arts in Bilingual Education
- EDUC 4329 Teaching Content Areas in the Bilingual Classroom OR
- EDUC 6329 Methodology in Content Area Instruction in Bilingual Education
- Hold standard or provisional Texas teaching certificate.
- Pass Texas Oral Proficiency Test (TOPT) or other specified test required in Spanish.
- One year's experience on a permit in an approved elementary Bilingual Classroom.
- Pass Bilingual TExES.
All coursework taken for certification must equal or exceed an overall grade point average of 2.5 on a 4-point scale, with no grade lower than a "C".


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At Jetart Company, many factors contribute to the creation of highest quality digital image captures of your artwork. These include:
1) The use of a medium format digital camera with:
a. high resolution - captures details in the original artwork
b. high color bit depth - supports wide color gamut and wide number of colors
c. multi-shot functionality - records the true color values of the artwork
d. large image sensor - allows for larger pixels in the image sensor, reducing digital signal noise
2) Pre-capture adjustments & artwork orientation:
a. adjust camera positioning so artwork is parallel to the sensor plane of the camera - important for edge to edge sharpness
b. adjust camera positioning so artwork is in focus - important to eliminate blurring
c. Adjust camera positioning so the artwork closely fills the camera frame
d. position of artwork relative to lighting - so 'paint shadows' fall where they should
e. adjustment of lighting - to capture shadow detail while maintaining even exposure
f. adjust camera settings and lighting power - maintain detail in both shadows and highlights in the resulting file
The steps above take time to perform and unless the artwork is of a similar size and orientation, (portrait or landscape) they are performed anew for each piece of artwork.
The resulting digital image file is opened in Photoshop, where the following takes place:
1) Evaluation of capture exposure - is there detail in the shadows and highlights
2) Are key elements of the image file sharp?
3) Are the image sides square? - if not, adjustments are made
4) Minor cleanup
5) File dimensions are adjusted to represent original artwork size
6) File saved in PSD format
Finally, one or more proofs are printed and the file is adjusted as needed. These proofs are printed on the previously chosen media and are shown to the client for approval.


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The absorption of research knowledge by public civil servants
Abstract:The aim of this study is to revisit the major theoretical perspectives on research utilisation by public civil servants, to propose a new conceptual framework of the absorption of research knowledge by these civil servants and to provide a first empirical testing of the proposed conceptual framework. Some of the empirical findings are particularly interesting as they seem to converge with the well-known 'bounded' aspect of rational action. For example, they show a significant association between civil servants' educational level, on the one hand, and, on the other, their propensity to communicate with academic researchers and to acquire research evidence.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: November 1, 2009
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WASHINGTON—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement commemorating the 70th anniversary of NATO:
"The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has served as a pillar of American security since the end of World War II and as a beacon of freedom and democracy across the globe. In 70 years, it has defeated the threat of Communism, lifted Central and Eastern Europe from behind the Iron Curtain, fought international terrorism and defended the United States after September 11, stopped a genocide in the Balkans and liberated Kosovo, and consistently defended human rights far beyond the borders of Europe. Through hardships and obstacles, NATO has made America stronger and safer. As Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I'll continue working to strengthen this critical alliance."
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GLIF: Cunning Responds To PSFK Future Of Health Report
GLIF is a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) designed to assist community health workers with medical decisions.
GLIF: Clinical Decision Support System
GLIF is a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) designed to assist community health workers with medical decisions. It would function similarly to the SMS question-answering service ChaCha. By capturing data exhaust, it may also help epidemiologists identify and contain outbreaks in the developing world.
In order to circumvent language barriers and illiteracy, GLIF uses a system of pictorial and numeric communication. Basic information about patient and symptoms ("male / age 3 / yes fever / 72 w / yes nailbed pallor / question treat for malaria / question which medication / question what dosage / question how long") is converted into hexadecimal sequence by a community health worker using a pictographic key, then automatically decoded on the receiving end. The receiver is presented with the question and a list of suggested responses. Suggestions take into consideration such factors as the location of the sender. A response is chosen, sequenced, sent, and again decoded by the community health worker using the pictographic key.
The pictographic key includes a diagram of a human body, as well as pictograms of the most common symptoms, treatments, units of measurement, and medications. The key is designed to be easily transferable and reproducible. For example, it may be painted in freehand onto a wall of a building and still remain usable.
GLIF is not designed to replace the community health worker at the point of care, but rather to supplement her first hand observation and knowledge with the power of the Internet.
A secondary benefit of GLIF is that time and location-based data collection may be used to indentify and contain disease outbreaks and to better allocate medical resources. See Google Flu for example.
PSFK's Future of Health Report shines a light on innovation occurring within the health and wellness space around the world. This document brings together both literal and lateral inspiration to provide a framework within which businesses can begin to contemplate the issues facing UNICEF and community health workers. These issues include limited resources, technological constraints, lack of health education, and limited access to timely and relevant health and wellness information.
In an effort to start this exciting conversation, PSFK challenged advertising and design agencies from around the world to react to the Future of Health report. They were tasked with developing concepts in the form of products, services or communications that addressed one or more of the needs set forth by UNICEF. The end result of this initial phase of ideation is more than 40 innovative concepts.