The Dorset Wildlife Trust in the United Kingdom announced that seahorses have once again been sighted off the coast of Dorset, suggesting that they are indeed alive and breeding contrary to what was initially believed that the sea creatures were already in decline.
Julie Hatcher, a member of the wildlife trust, spotted a female and male seahorse during a recent dive, describing the two sea creatures as large and in good condition.
Studland Bay is considered to be a vital habitat for both short-snouted spiny seahorses.
In 2008, both seahorse species were listed as threatened according to the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
A representative of the Dorset Wildlife Trust said that there was not enough information available that could help explain the lack of seahorse sightings in the seagrass meadows of Studland Bay in recent years.
The wildlife trust representative said that this could have been caused by the lack of people surveying for the sea creatures, or that the population of seahorses follow a cycle of boom and bust.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has removed Studland Bay as a potential candidate to be included in the list of Marine Conservation Zones earlier this year.
In 2014, wildlife conservationists in the UK warned that the number of spiny seahorses spotted off the coast of Dorset has dwindled to just a single seahorse from what was once considered a thriving colony.
From the 40 individual seahorses previously observed by campaigners around Studland Bay back in 2008, the number has significantly dropped to only four seahorses in 2013.
Seahorse Trust director Neil Garrick-Maidment said that the isolated sighting of the sea creature was very sad and called the situation as the decline of a marine species.
Natural England, a non-departmental body of the British government responsible for the protection of the country's natural environment, said that it was difficult place the recent sighting of the spiny seahorse in context.
The meadows of seagrass located in Studland Bay have long served as the breeding ground for the protected spiny seahorse, which are known to grow to around eight inches in length.
The sighting of the lone seahorse was made by documentary film maker Andy Jackson.
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Point Nemo: the most remote place on Earth, and Space Vehicles cemetery
The Nemo Point – The red circle indicates the distance to the nearest islands:
Submerged in the depths of the Pacific Ocean lies the ancient city of R'lyeh, where it sleeps a sleep similar to the death, from time immemorial, a monstrous creature of alien origins, Cthulhu.
"Dream and wait", because only a particular astral conjunction can awaken it.
The lost city of R'lyeh is located at coordinates 47°09'S, 126°43'W in the South Pacific Ocean. The mysterious and frightening city was born from the imagination of one of the greatest writers of horror and science fiction, H.P. Lovecraft, who described it minutely in his story "The Call of Cthulhu".
The author placed it practically in the middle of nowhere, in the Pacific Ocean, at 5900 nautical miles (almost 11,000 kilometers) from the nearest mainland. It was 1926. Surprising, because the Nemo Point, or the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, or more simply, the point in the ocean that is farthest away from land, was calculated by the engineer Hrvoje Lukatela only in 1992.
Located at 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W, really not far from where Lovecraft had located his nightmare city (even August Derleth, friend and editor of Lovecraft, wrote some stories about the myth of Cthulhu), the spot is quite literally the middle of nowhere, surrounded by more than 1,000 miles of ocean in every direction.
In 1997, incredulous oceanographers recorded a mysterious sound that came from a point not far from where Lovecraft had placed R'lyeh, and about 2000 kilometers east of the Punto Nemo. The low-frequency sound, which was called "Bloop" was so strong that it exceeded that emitted by a blue whale.
Scientists began to hypothesize the presence of an unknown sea monster (maybe Cthulhu had suddenly awakened from his sleep?), But in reality the explanation was much simpler: it was the sound produced by the collapse of icy walls in Antarctica.
Clearly, there are no human inhabitants anywhere near Point Nemo (the name "Nemo" itself is both Latin for "no one," as well as a reference to Jules Verne's submarine captain from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea). In fact, to give an idea of the distance that separates Point Nemo from any inhabited place, it is sufficient to think that the men closest to it are not on Earth, but in space: the astronauts aboard the International Space Station are around 416 kilometers from their home planet!
Not even the man who discovered Point Nemo has ever visited it. Hrvoje Lukatela located the point in the ocean that was farthest away from any land using a computer program that calculated the coordinates that were the greatest distance from three equidistant land coordinates, and It is very possible no human has ever passed through those coordinates at all.
"The least biologically active region of the world ocean", according to the oceanographer Steven D'Hondt.
Precisely the distance from all forms of human interaction and distance from shipping routes, has made Nemo Point a sort of cemetery for spacecraft destined for destruction when they return to Earth, addressed to those coordinates precisely because they are far from everything and from everyone.
Although the Punto Nemo is the most remote place on the planet, it is not immune to the problem that plagues the Earth: the waste produced by man, which is trapped in the vortex of the rotating current. The ocean pole of inaccessibility is therefore very far from civilization, but still too close to the incivility of humans…
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6 Definitions of Pas
The definition of pas, the meaning of the word Pas:
Is pas a scrabble word? Yes!
- n. - (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
- n. - An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- n. - A short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead
- n. - A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
- n. - A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
- n. - An electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas
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UK's most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer deployed
The University of Oxford and a group of top academic institutions in the United Kingdom have deployed the nation's most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer.
Dubbed "Emerald," the 84-node computer cluster will allow advanced research across a range of scientific and engineering fields.
"The Emerald supercomputer forms part of the government's £145-million investment in einfrastructure and will be an invaluable asset to business and universities. It will drive growth and innovation, encourage inward investment in the UK and keep us at the very leading edge of science," said David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science.
Unveiled at the new Center for Innovation in High Performance Computing (HPC) at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, "Emerald" has 372 Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs, delivering more than 114 teraflops of performance.
It was developed to enable scientists and engineers from across the United Kingdom to accelerate computationally intensive research in fields like astrophysics, bioinformatics, chemistry, engineering, genomics, life sciences, nanotechnology, and physics.
The Center for Innovation in High Performance Computing was established by the e-Infrastructure South Consortium, which includes the Universities of Oxford, Bristol, and Southampton and University College London.
It provides the infrastructure for the development of scientific and engineering applications, and will enable the training of HPC scientists and engineers.
"Emerald" and other computing systems were funded as part of a £3.7-million ($5.8-million) grant from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Meanwhile, Nvidia named the University of Oxford a CUDA Center of Excellence for its ongoing work in parallel computing research and education using Nvidia GPUs and the NVIDIA CUDA parallel programming environment.
CUDA is Nvidia's parallel computing environment, which enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of GPUs.
"A world leader in genetics, mathematics, scientific computing, and the physical and life sciences, Oxford joins 18 elite institutions that have demonstrated a unique vision for improving the technology and application of parallel computing, and are empowering academics and scientists
to conduct world-changing research," Nvidia said.
It said Oxford as a CUDA Center of Excellence will utilize equipment and grants provided by Nvidia to support a number of research and academic programs across its mathematics, physical and life sciences divisions, including:
- Astrophysics: real-time pulsar detection application for the forthcoming Square Kilometre Array Project to deploy the world's most powerful radio telescope
- Bioinformatics: analysis and statistical modeling of whole-genome sequencing data
- Chemistry: molecular dynamics simulations of key DNA nanotechnology mechanisms
"The CUDA Center of Excellence award reflects Oxford's strength in scientific computing, as well as the success of OeRC in developing and championing new approaches to computing, while working with application specialists across the university to bring these benefits to their research," said Professor Anne Trefethen, chief information officer at the University of Oxford.
Trefethen added that with Nvidia's support, "we can continue to enhance our undergraduate projects and summer bursaries focused on GPU computing, and develop new programs to reach larger numbers of researchers and students."
The CUDA Center of Excellence program recognizes, rewards and fosters collaboration with leading institutions at the forefront of parallel computing research. — TJD, GMA News
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The bright sun was blinding as it sparkled off the day-old snow.
Snow boards are laid on top of old snow when there is any possibility of new snow falling.
The weight of the new snowfall also acts to compress the old snow beneath it.
The combined total of new snow, old snow, and ice at observation time is snow depth.
If you measure all the snow on the ground, including old snow, this is not snowfall but rather snow depth.
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LACMA May Fund The Fading Watts Towers
Due to a severe budget crisis, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is interested in stepping into the breach as curator and conservator of the Watts Towers this summer to maintain the historic landmark.
The Towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time over a period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954. He created the framework of steel, wire and concrete and ornamented the three main spires and their 14 surrounding sculptural elements with colorful bits of broken glass, pottery and seashells. His work is an example of non-traditional vernacular architecture and American Naïve art. Article LA Times.


What Are the Differences between North and South Italy?
The difference between North and South is: in South Italy it is largely influenced by the Greeks and the north are influenced by Germans and Celtics who also happen to be neighbouring countries. Also small factors such as daily life, politics and their traditions happen to be different.
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Northern Italy has more Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Product per capita that Southern Italy. Economy wise North Italy is industrialized while the South is more rural and agricultural based. But geography they are basically the same.
Northern Italy has more GDP and GDP per capita that Southern Italy. Economy wise North industrialized, the South more Rural and Agricultural based. Geography is basically the same.
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The social differences between the North and the South of Italy are their greetings, family life, way of scheduling the day, superstitions and regional traditions.
In the north Butter is favored over oil for use in
This isn't really an answer, not a straight one. More answer by-way-of-anecdote, because some of the points already made on the thread probably answer the question (namely, family
North: more population, more connections to the rest of europe, better economy, lesser unemployment, better universities, better hospitals. the most economically/socially developed


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The only "place" mentioned in "Poetry" is poetry itself, which the speaker calls "a place for the genuine." Several literary scholars have questioned why Moore refers to poetry as a place, and you can check out the discussion of line 3 in "Detailed Summary" for more on this.
If we try to picture a less abstract location for this poem, such as an actual place where the speaker might be saying these words, we might imagine ourselves in a classroom, having a casual conversation with our literature teacher after the lesson has ended, or sitting in the local library with a friend who knows a lot about poetry. In other words, the setting is a place we might go to learn and study, but also a place where we can be informal and speak our mind. So after trudging through a section of Paradise Lost or The Waste Land, we tell our teacher or friend, "I just don't get poetry," and she responds, "You know what? I don't really get it either, but I'll tell you why I keep reading it and think it's worth all this trouble…"


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- During the late summer and fall, Georgia depends on tropical weather to bring much-needed rain. This fall has been very dry with most of the state receiving less than 70 percent of normal rain. Many locations in the Coastal Plain and coastal Georgia have received 50 percent or less of normal rain over the past three months.
Drought conditions have expanded over the past three months to include most of Georgia. The major exceptions are north-central and northeast Georgia, where conditions are rated as abnormally dry.
Additionally, Bibb, Crawford, Macon, Peach and Houston counties are classified as being abnormally dry.
During the late summer and fall, Georgia depends on tropical weather to bring much-needed rain. This fall has been very dry with most of the state receiving less than 70 percent of normal rain. Many locations in the Coastal Plain and coastal Georgia have received 50 percent or less of normal rain over the past three months.
Soil moisture conditions along the Georgia coast into southeast Georgia are near the 1st percentile for this time of year. Being at the first percentile, we would expect more moisture in the soils in these areas 99 out of 100 years.
Also, the Okefenokee Swamp is very dry.
Seasonally adjusted stream flows are slowly declining across the state. Stream flows respond to drought more slowly than soil moisture. The bountiful rain that Georgia experienced last winter and spring has helped to keep stream flows near normal for most of the fall. However, in recent weeks the dryness is starting to show in decreased stream flows. Flows are particularly low in northwest Georgia, where most streams are at the 10th percentile or lower, meaning stream flows would be greater 90 out of 100 years in this area.
Wildfire risks have increased across the state due to dry conditions and falling leaves. Anyone outdoors should be cautious when using equipment that can cause sparks. Special vigilance is needed with any outdoor fires. Check with the local fire department or the Georgia Forestry Commission concerning restrictions and outdoor burn permits.
Georgia depends on winter and spring rains combined with cool temperatures to recharge soil moisture, groundwater, streams and reservoirs. The fall and spring climate outlooks do not hold much promise for drought recovery. Climatic conditions are expected to be warmer than normal and drier than normal through the spring. (For a look at the winter, early spring weather forecast for Georgia visit _URL_
Georgia should see some improvement in soil moisture and stream flow conditions in early spring since moisture loss due to evaporation and plant water use is lower during cool months. This improvement in moisture can be misleading. Relative to normal recharge during this period and this winter is expected to be limited.
(David Stooksbury is the state climatologist, a professor of engineering and graduate coordinator for atmospheric sciences in the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.)


text: The new bis(pentalene) complex Cr2(η5: η5-C8H4 1,4SiiPr 3)2 has been synthesized and characterized; it is found to exhibit paramagnetism at room temperature, and solid-state magnetic studies show that the dimer is best modeled as containing a pair of antiferromagnetically interacting S = 1/2 centers with the separation between the singlet ground state and triplet excited state being 2.23 kJ mol -1. Structural data show a Cr - Cr distance of 2.2514(15) Å, consistent with a strong metal-metal interaction. The bonding has been further investigated by density functional, hybrid, and CASPT2 methods. The metal-metal interaction is best described by a double bond with each metal having an 18-electron count. Theory predicts the singlet and triplet states to lie close in energy but puts the triplet state at a slightly lower energy than the singlet. The energy difference predicted by CASPT2 is closest to the experimental value.


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Most of Dr.Nagai's income went for the benefit
of poor children and people suffering from atomic bomb disease.
Dr.Nagai lid the effort to establish a private library for these chilren.Called Uchira no Honbako("Our Book Case"),the library provided a place for children to play and read books. Dr.Nagai's philosophy of "Love others as you love yourself" affected many people and resulted in contributions from as far away as Brazil.
The library was built through numerous donations.And now part of Nagai Memorial Museum and is still used daily by local children.


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Xbox Game DVR is an application that lets you capture video clips or screenshots of your games. When you are playing game from your Xbox, you can enable the Game DVR by pressing Windows+G key combinations. Then you will find options to record or capture screenshots. The screenshots and clips are not only meant to be stored, but also to be shared on your Xbox feed for yours friends to see. You have to upload the screenshots or clips anf the process of doing so is very simple. Check out the steps below:
1. Open Xbox App and click on the hamburger sign located at top left corner of the app screen.
2. Your Xbox will appear. Scroll down and find Game DVR. Tap on it.
3. Now tap on either "On this PC" or "Xbox Live" to find out the screenshots or clips that have been captured by you. Tap on the screenshot that you want to share or upload.
4. Now tap on Upload.
5. If you want to share a clip or an image you didn't capture using Xbox Game bar, you can share it by copyingg it to the following loctation:


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Tooth decay is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. While oral hygiene and dietary choices promote tooth decay, genetics are also a factor in cavity formation. A new study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation reveals that keratins, proteins associated with strong hair, are important for tooth enamel integrity. Maria Morasso and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health found that individuals with mutations in hair keratin genes are prone to cavities. Tooth enamel from individuals with keratin mutations had abnormal structure that resulted in weakness. The results from this study reveal a link between hair disorders and cavity formation.
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Water flow and waves caused by wind or boat traffic can cause serious erosion to the riverbanks of the Broads.
Research undertaken by the Broads Authority in the mid 1980s showed that only a small reduction in speed was needed to produce a significant reduction in boat wash. As a result all speed limits were cut by 1 mph, with the highest speed limit on the Broads set at 6 mph.
Solutions to erosion
These days, instead of installing piling along riverbanks, which is expensive and can look unattractive, flood protection work aims to set back many flood banks to allow more space for the rivers as they flow towards the sea. This not only helps increase the water storage capacity in times of flooding, but creates new habitat for wildlife.
Work to restore water quality will allow submerged plants to flourish, which will help to prevent further loss of bankside plants and so protect the river edge.
The Broads Authority, Broadland Environmental Services Ltd (BESL) and the Environment Agency use environmentally-friendly forms of bank protection where possible but the variation in depth, width, boating activity, tidal ranges and bank construction on different river sections means there is no single solution.
Techniques currently used include bitumen matting and tubes of geo-textile material filled with sand. Reeds are planted to grow through the matting, giving a more natural appearance to the riverside. The Broads Authority has produced a guide to protecting banks for further information.


What Does 'Voicemail Transcription Not Available' Mean?
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iPhone's automatic transcription of voicemails is extremely convenient for people who need readable records of their messages. But this AI-based service doesn't always work well. The voicemail transcriptions can be inaccurate, incomplete, or missing altogether. It's not uncommon to find the error message "transcript not available" when you access your visual voicemail.
This can be because the phone is a older model, needs an iOS update, or is experiencing glitches. You can troubleshoot your voicemail transcription problems by resetting your network settings. But if your iPhone voicemail transcription still isn't working, then you may need to get outside help to create text records of your messages.
Why are Voicemail Transcriptions Useful?
Voicemail transcriptions are handy for both personal and professional use. Transcriptions can give you a visual reference for information given in voicemails, such as phone numbers, appointment times, instructions, and more.
Here are just a few examples of situations in which having voicemail transcripts can be useful:
 - A construction manager receives a message from the plumbing contractor they hired. The message gives an update on their work, plan changes, and when they think they will finish their installation.
 - A law office gets voicemails from clients who are sharing important information about their cases.
 - A journalist reached out to a company for a comment on local news. The company's owner responds via voicemail.
 - A customer reaches out to a mechanic shop for a quote. They leave their name, phone number, and details about their car's problem.
 - Your family member is in the hospital, and you are receiving voicemail updates about their condition and procedures that need to be done.
 - You are going through a divorce. Your lawyer advised you to document all interactions you have with your spouse.
These are just a few of the situations where having visual voicemails could be valuable. Once you have transcripts of your messages, you can more easily organize them and make hard copies. Instead of having to spend time re-listening to the voicemails, you can just get the information you need with a quick glance.
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We offer easy iPhone voicemail transcription services if you need them. All it takes is downloading the Rev Voice Recorder app in the Apple App Store. (Also available for Android)
To install the app, simply open the Apple App Store on your phone. Type "Rev Voice Recorder" into the search bar. Select the app from the results and click the "Get" button to download.
You can use the Rev app to record and save any audio that you would like to order transcriptions for. However, for voicemails, you'll need to import the audio files into the app before you can request a transcription.
 1. Go to your voicemail list, then select the voicemail you want to transcribe.
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defined inside an SO and can be written in a totally single user style with no explicit locking or need to program for multi-user or multi-core processing. There are higher levels of abstraction at the SO level as well (apps and groups of SOs).
Normal objects are defined and used inside SOs where there is persisted data, functions and interfaces. Classes are only used for normal objects, as a SO has it's own setup/change document with it's own format. A Class can have any user defined data associated with a field that can be used to automatically create input HTML, reports etc. All Class data including, meta data defined on fields, is available at compile and execution time. These user defined attributes are called "meta data" in my system (eg label="Some Label:", dtype="Read Only", etc). Pseudo variables are a list of fields defined in a Class that don't change the resulting record length of the Object created from the Class. These fields are placed in a Map variable on each record where you can optionally define that "key/value" pair or not, on each row. A multi-index is available that can access these variables quickly using both the key and data for these pseudo fields. Many tables have a set of fields that are used by most rows (normal fields) but there is also many other fields that are only used by a small subset of the rows and pseudo variables are used to efficiently look after these fields. Pseudo fields can be added to a Class without any change to existing Objects that use that Class. Pseudo fields can be used anywhere "normal" fields can be used and they are validated like any other field even though they are optional on any row.
Although Objects can be created and used, most Objects are actually rows in Lists, Tables, Stacks, Queues and Indexes rather than in a single Object like most other OOP languages. Data can be easily moved from a Collection row to an Object, to a Map, or to a vector where each element can be a different type.
In my system, a Map is a normal variable type. It can contain any number of any other variable types, including other Maps. It doesn't "depend" on any other variable to define what it is, therefore it is self contained. All collections like List, Index, Table etc and Objects are defined by a Class that is a normal variable itself. The function of these Collections and Objects is therefore dependent on another variable for it's functionality. Sending a List to another SO would be useless if it's Class wasn't also sent, however a Map can be sent all by itself. Putting a List inside a Map automatically also puts it's Class inside the Map as well (or at least the part of the Class that is needed).
The topic of this page is why not combine Maps and Objects? The answer (at least on my system) is fixed length versus variable length. Objects are fixed length and Maps are variable length. Fixed width Lists (Collections) are very efficient but also not very useful when variable length data needs to be stored. All fixed and variable length data can be stored in a variable length structure like a Map but not as efficiently for many uses. If all the data in the collection is fixed length then why not use fixed length records rather than the more general variable length method? Even if some variable length data is needed and your processing doesn't need that variable length data then maybe the performance penalty of variable length storage can be elliminated by using fixed length records and adding the variable length data in another structure. This is the approach of my langauge. These fixed length records are fixed length Objects where the variable length field data is stored in a Memo manager associated with the List or Table. Objects always contain a specific set of fields of a certain length (have a record length) whereas Map data can contain any set of fields. The flexibility of a Map is required in some circumstances whereas always knowing a particular field exists in an Object or row of a Collection makes programming to those fields a lot easier and efficient. Using a field from a Map would normally mean you have to check that it exists in the Map before you use it but if you know the Class of an Object, you could just assume that variable always exists in that Object. Both Objects and Maps have advantages and programmers need access to both.
There are links under my id on this wiki that will point to my web site where there is much more information on my system if you are interested. -- DavidClarkd
{Re: "Objects are fixed length" - Please elaborate. In general, or your system?}
Your question concerns an implementation detail, so I don't know in general. My "Objects" are made up of fixed length and variable length fields. I implement those objects by creating a "fixed length" Object where the variable length fields use a separate "variable length data manager" to store their variable data in a serialized form. So my Objects are always fixed in length but the data contained in that Object can be of any variable length. -- DavidClarkd
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Refer to the following information when configuring profiles.
- Number: The ID number automatically assigned to the profile. Leave this number as assigned unless you plan on using custom profile number configurations. Manually changing this number can cause conflicts when managing multiple systems in Admin. Range is 1 – 99.
- Rearm Delay: When the user disarms an area outside of a schedule, delay automatic rearming by the number of minutes entered. To disable this feature, enter 0. Range is 0 – 720 minutes.
- Output Group: Assign outputs groups to a profile, allowing an entire group of outputs to turn on or off as required like when door access is granted. Enter the number of the output group that you want to assign to the profile. To disable this feature, enter 0. Range is 0 – 10.
The Arm/Disarm setting supersedes Arm and Disarm in Profile Options.
The Access setting supersedes Door Access in Profile Options.
- Arm/Disarm: Allow users with this profile to arm and disarm an area.
- Access: Allow users with this profile to access an area.
This setting supersedes Schedules in Profile Options.
- On: Allow profile members to access and edit a schedule.
- Off: Do not allow profile members to access and edit a schedule.
When enabled, these permissions allow profile members to access up to 4 private doors. Only doors that have been configured as private doors by your security provider are displayed in Profiles.
- On: Allow profile members to access selected private doors.
- Off: Do not allow profile members to access private doors.
When enabled in a profile, these permissions allow profile members to perform the following actions:
- Arm: Arm the system according to the options configured in Areas.
- Disarm: Disarm the system according to the options configured in Areas.
- Alarm Silence: Silence a system alarm.
- Sensor Reset: Reset all system sensors. A sensor reset is required for all smoke detectors, flood sensors, and temperature sensors that have triggered an alarm, as well as system restoral after a lockdown is ended. A sensor reset is also required to clear a low battery (LOBAT) message after changing a wireless device's batteries.
- Lockdown: Initiate a lockdown.
- Lockdown Override: End a lockdown and restore the system.
- Door Lock/Unlock: Lock and unlock doors.
- Door Access: Grant temporary door access.
- Armed Areas: View armed areas at a keypad.
- Outputs On/Off: Turn outputs on or off from a keypad's User Menu.
- Zone Status: View the status of zones.
- Bypass Zones: Bypass zones when arming the system.
- Zone Monitor: Enable the chime function.
- System Status: View the system's status.
- System Test: Initiate a system test from a keypad's User Menu.
- Profiles: Add, change, or delete profiles.
- User Codes: Add, change, or delete user codes.
- Extend: Extend a schedule for 2, 4, 6, or 8 hours.
- Schedules: Add, edit, or delete schedules.
- Set Time: Change the system date and time from a keypad's User Menu.
- Display Events: View system events.
- Service Request: Request a service call from your alarm provider.
- Fire Drill: Initiate a fire drill.
- Anti-Passback: Use anti-passback. Profile members are required to properly exit (egress) an area that they previously accessed. They cannot access the first area again until they properly exit through the second area.
- Easy Arm/Disarm: Arm or disarm all areas that are assigned to a code automatically.
- Use Secondary Language: Display a secondary language.
- Card Plus Pin: Use two access methods to operate the system from a keypad. The first method must be a credential such as a proximity patch, card, or key fob. The second method must be a PIN number entered at the keypad. Both the credential and PIN are configured in Users.
- Wi-Fi Setup: View the system's Wi-Fi settings, connect to available Wi-Fi networks, and use WPS association.


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The first 10 numbers ends with 10, the second 10 numbers starts with 11,
the first 100 numbers ends with 100, the second 100 numbers starts with 101,
the first 1000 numbers ends with 1000, the second 1000 numbers starts with 1001,
the second 1000 numbers ends with 2000,. So the third 1000 numbers starts with what?
Also see: The U.S. Navy's Millenium Clock
(correctly) calling it the 20th, and not the 19th Century all along, now, hadn't you?
Furthermore, you don't start counting anythingwith zero, now, do you?
(If there are 10 illiterates in a row, you don't conclude there are only 9 by insisting that
you count like this: "zero - one - two - three - four - five - six - seven - eight - nine,"
now, do you???) Whatever, have a Happy New Year anyway!


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Math Standards and Coherence Maps
The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) adopted the K-12 Utah Core Standards for Mathematics in January 2016. The Core Standards are the mathematical content that should be taught in each grade level. The Utah Core Guides provide a description of the Core Standards, including concepts and skills to master, critical background knowledge and academic vocabulary. The coherence maps show how the Core Standards build on each other and indicate necessary prerequisites for each individual standard. They can be helpful as you plan scaffolding for math instruction and assist in identifying required background knowledge during RtI.


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View of Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery, seen over the monastery walls.
Pskov-Caves Monastery or The Pskovo-Pechersky Dormition Monastery or Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery (Russian: Пско́во-Печ́ерский Успе́нский монасты́рь, Estonian: Petseri klooster) is a Russian Orthodox male monastery, located in Pechory, Pskov Oblast in Russia, just a few kilometers from the Estonian border. Pskov-Caves Monastery is one of the few Russian monasteries that have never been closed at any point in their existence, including during World War II and the Soviet regime.
Ivan the Terrible's repentance: he asks the hegumen (father superior) Cornelius of the Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery to let him take the tonsure at his monastery. Painting by Klavdy Lebedev.
The monastery was founded in the mid-15th century, when the first hermits settled in local caves. The first cave Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos (церковь Успения Богородицы) was built in 1473 (its modern facade was constructed in the 18th century).
After the monastery had been destroyed by the Livonian feudals, it was rebuilt by a Pskovian dyak Mikhail Munekhin-Misyur in 1519. A posad (settlement) was built next to the monastery, which would later grow into a town. In 1550s-1560s, Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery and its posad were surrounded by a wall with towers (eventually, these fortifications were rebuilt in 1701).
The monastery became an important outpost for defending the western border of Russia. In 1581–1582, it withstood the siege laid by Stefan Batory's army. In 1611–1616, the monastery repelled the attack of the Polish army led by Jan Karol Chodkiewicz and Aleksander Józef Lisowski and Swedish army led by Gustav II Adolf.
As fortification Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery lost its importance after the Great Northern War of 1700–1721. In 1920–1944, Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery belonged to Estonia. The monastery was one of the few acting male monasteries in the USSR, having been saved from destruction by Pechory being Estonian territory before World War II. In Soviet times, famous Russian mystic Sampson Sievers briefly lived and served in the monastery.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union the monastery has flourished. Currently the monastic community numbers over 90 who through their pastoral labors live the tradition of asceticism and eldership as witnessed recently by the Archimandrite John (Krestiankin). In 2013 the monastery marks the 540th anniversary of its existence.
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Coordinates: 57°48′35″N 27°36′55″E / 57.80972°N 27.61528°E / 57.80972; 27.61528


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Date: 31-Aug-2005 From: Elizabeth Gangeri Subject: Dimensions of Literacy: Kucer
Title: Dimensions of Literacy
Subtitle: A Conceptual Base for Teaching Reading and Writing in School Settings,
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Author: Stephen B Kucer, Fordham University
Hardback: ISBN: _PHONE_ Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 99.95
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This popular text examines literacy from a multidimensional and interdisciplinary perspective. It "unpackages" the various dimensions of literacy--linguistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and developmental--and at the same time accounts for the interrelationships among them. The goal is to provide a conceptual foundation upon which literacy curriculum and instruction in school settings can be grounded.


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The FLAX team have released ten new mobile apps for Android which are free to download from GooglePlay. These game-based apps are a fun way to interact with the language collections in FLAX. Give them a go!
These powerful collections draw on large reference corpora like the British National Corpus (BNC) and even larger datasets from Google and Wikipedia. More powerful than a dictionary, these collections show numerous examples of language in context for some of the most challenging areas of English language learning - collocations and phrases - where there are literally hundreds of thousands of possibilities for combining words.
These collections come from the E-theses Online Service (EThOS) Open Access initiative managed by the British Library.
The resources used in these law collections come from open podcasts, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publications. They have been developed to support learners with Legal English and to demonstrate the types of domain-specific collections that can be built using the FLAX software.
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Sept. 10, 2012: A sonar image of the wreckage of the USS Hatteras emerges on a computer screen as part of a mapping expedition in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas Coast Monday. The Hatteras was sunk in 1863 during a battle with a Confederate ship, the CSS Alabama.AP Photo/Pat Sullivan
Sept. 10, 2012: Aboard the RV Manta, Father Stephen Duncan, left, conducts a memorial service in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas Coast Monday for the two men who died aboard the USS Hatteras in 1863 during the Civil War. The service was held at the site of the shipwreck where researchers are making a 3-D map using sonar equipment.AP Photo/Pat Sullivan
Sept. 10, 2012: Project coordinator Emma Hickerson, left, marine archeologist Christopher Horrell, center, and Capt. Darrell Walker look at a sonar image as they search for the wreckage of the USS Hatteras.AP Photo/Pat Sullivan
GULF OF MEXICO – The world will soon get its first good look at the wreckage of the only U.S. Navy ship sunk in combat in the Gulf of Mexico during the Civil War, thanks to sophisticated 3-D sonar images that divers have been collecting this week in the Gulf's murky depths.
The USS Hatteras, an iron-hulled 210-foot-long ship that sunk about 20 miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas, in January 1863, has sat mostly undisturbed and unnoticed since its wreckage was found in the early 1970s. But recent storm-caused shifts in the seabed where the Hatteras rests 57 feet below the surface have exposed more of it to inspection, and researchers are rushing to get as complete an image of the ship as possible before the sand and silt shifts back.
"You can mark Gettysburg or Manassas, (but) how do you mark a battlefield in the sea?" said Jim Delgado, the director of maritime heritage for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, and the person overseeing the project.
'You can mark Gettysburg or Manassas -- how do you mark a battlefield in the sea?'
- Jim Delgado, NOAA director of maritime heritage
On Monday, a team of archaeologists and technicians began two days of scanning the wreckage using a sonar imaging technology that hadn't been used yet at sea, Delgado said.
On Monday aboard the research vessel, Manta, researcher Christopher Horrell gleefully pored over computer images of the Hatteras' stern and paddlewheels that had just been transmitted from the seafloor.
"This is what I got into archaeology for. It's fantastic," said Horrell, a senior marine archaeologist for the Department of the Interior.
The images, taken by a roughly 2-foot-long cylindrical device deposited near the wreckage, were used to position divers who then used 3-D scanning devices to map the site. The sand and silt-filled water near the seafloor limited the divers' visibility to 3 to 10 feet, and it makes filming or photographing the wreckage difficult. But it doesn't affect the sonar technology, which produces images by analyzing sound waves bouncing off of objects, allowing scientists to capture a more complete look at the wreckage.
Delgado said he's hoping to post the images online for the public by January, in time for the 150th anniversary of the battle. He said he also hopes researchers review them to look for ways to preserve the wreckage.
"Whatever we can do to make it accessible," Delgado said. "We want to share this with folks and show people history is real."
The wreckage site was discovered in the early 1970s by a Rice University professor, according to Amy Borgens, the Texas state marine archaeologist.
"We knew it was here but didn't know exactly," she said. "One of the problems with shipwrecks is you can't take people down there to show them.
"And there's all this drama with shipwrecks, which are almost always the result of a tragedy."
The Hatteras wreck is in waters administered by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the ship itself still remains property of the U.S. Navy.
According to the Navy Historical Center, the 1,126-ton Hatteras was built in 1861 in Wilmington, Del., as a civilian steamship. Later that year, it was purchased by the Navy, commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and assigned to join the blockade of the Florida coast to keep vessels from delivering supplies and munitions to the Confederacy. It had an active tour, in Florida, raiding Cedar Keys, destroying at least seven schooners and facilities before being transferred to the Gulf.
On Jan. 6, 1863, it joined the fleet commanded by David Farragut, of "Damn the torpedoes" fame, for similar assignments off of Galveston, which was then the most prominent city and port in Texas, which had joined the Confederacy. Five days later, it pursued and tracked down a three-masted ship that identified itself as British, but later opened fire on the Hatteras from 25 to 200 yards away and revealed it was actually the CSS Alabama, a notorious Confederate raider.
Forty-three minutes later, with the Hatteras was burning and taking on water, Cmdr. Homer Blake surrendered, and he and his crew were taken aboard the Alabama as prisoners, eventually winding up in Jamaica. Of the 126-man crew, two were lost and are believed entombed in the wreck, which became the only Union warship sunk by a Confederate raider in the Gulf.
"It's hard to believe we're in the middle of a battlefield," said Ed Cotham, the project historian, who carried with him Monday an original photograph of Blake, a formal portrait showing the officer in his uniform. "It's the first time he's returned since January 1863."
Before the work began, a wreath was placed in the Gulf, red and white rose petals were scattered on the water's surface and a priest, the Rev. Stephen Duncan, conducted a brief memorial service for the two crewmen, William Healy, 32, a coal heaver, and John Cleary, 24, a stoker, in what was likely the first religious service for them ever at the site. Both men, from Ireland, probably were Catholic, he said. No relatives are known to be in the U.S. and it likely took years for their relatives back in the Civil War times to learn of their fate, he said.
The Alabama, which was credited with some 60 kills, was eventually sunk thousands of miles away, when a Union ship attacked it in the English Channel in June 1864 after it underwent repairs in a French port.


Question: Does White Matter Lesions Mean MS?
How long can you live with white matter disease?
It is not possible to stop disease progression, and it is typically fatal within 6 months to 4 years of symptom onset.
People with the juvenile form of metachromatic leukodystrophy, which develops between the age of 4 and adolescence, may live for many years after diagnosis..
How serious is white matter disease?
Summary: More evidence has been accumulated that damage to cognitive areas is widespread from white matter disease. White matter disease is responsible for about a fifth of all strokes worldwide, more than doubles the future risk of stroke, and is a contributing factor in up to 45% of dementias.
Can white matter lesions in the brain be nothing?
What symptoms do MS brain lesions cause?
How do you get rid of white matter disease?
Keep your blood pressure and blood sugar in check. That can lead to white matter changes. To keep your heart healthy, follow a low-fat, low-salt diet, and get about 2 and a half hours of moderate-intensity exercise each week. Manage diabetes if you have it and keep your cholesterol in check.
Does everyone have white matter in the brain?
R. Douglas Fields. "Gray matter" is only one of two types of brain tissue; the other "white matter" is rarely mentioned. Yet white matter makes up half the human brain and has not been thought to be important in cognition or learning outside the context of pathology.
Is white matter disease the same as MS?
"In general, white matter disease causes acute MS symptoms, like numbness and weakness," Stone says. "Gray matter disease causes progressive symptoms, like fatigue and memory loss. These higher brain functions are called cognitive functions. Most MS disability actually comes from cognitive dysfunction."
Do brain lesions always mean MS?
What causes white matter lesions?
Causes of periventricular white matter lesions: Major causes of periventricular white matter (PWM) lesions include normal changes from aging (then they are called UBO's, for "unidentified bright objects), small strokes, and disorders related to multiple sclerosis (MS).
Are white matter lesions common?
Do white matter lesions go away?
The spots may shrink in size months after a small stroke. Or, they may worsen if risk factors for strokes are not treated, leading to further lesions.
Can anxiety cause white matter lesions?
Conclusions: Non-clinical individuals with high anxiety already have white matter alterations in the thalamus-cortical circuit and some emotion-related areas that were widely reported in anxiety-related disorders. The altered white matter may be a vulnerability marker in individuals at high risk of clinical anxiety.
What are the 3 types of lesions?
What does it mean to have white matter lesions on the brain?
White matter lesions (WMLs) or leukoaraiosis indicate small vessel vascular brain disease as well as degenerative or inflammatory processes. WMLs appear as hyperintense periventricular or subcortical patchy or confluent areas on T2 or fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MRI sequence.
Can stress cause white matter lesions?


I have a (real) array of data and am trying to analyze its frequency components. I've been using NumPy's FFT routines, but I realized there is something I don't quite understand: why does the output give me an imaginary part?
Of course I know that in general the Fourier transform is complex-valued, but it seems to me that the DFT is sampling frequencies that are integer multiples of the timestep of my original data trace. Shouldn't I then be getting results that lie only on the real axis?
What am I missing here?
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 $\begingroup$ It's still about the basic Fourier transform. If all of your sinusoidal components were cosine, not sine, (which means that $x[N-n]=x[n]$), then all of your frequency components would be purely real, whether they are exactly an integer FFT bin location or not. if all of the sinusoidal components were sine, not cosine, (which means that $x[N-n]=-x[n]$) then every frequency component in the FFT would be purely imaginary. if the phase was somewhere between a cosine and a sine, then you will have non-zero real and imaginary parts. $\endgroup$ – robert bristow-johnson Jun 11 '19 at 20:40
 - $\begingroup$ Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to analyze correlation/anti-correlation (in the frequency domain) of two different sets of data, so I am taking the Fourier transform of the cross-correlation function to try to get at cross-spectra, but I want to preserve potential anti-correlation so I don't want to simply take the magnitude of the FT. Are you suggesting there is a way I can modify the numpy function to get purely real frequency components? My data is very much non-periodic, so maybe what I'm trying to do is not even possible? $\endgroup$ – Dario Rosenstock Jun 11 '19 at 20:48
 - $\begingroup$ as rbj said, if your signal (in this case, the crosscorrelation) isn't even-symmetrical, then you get a complex spectrum; just looking at the real part of that is simply dropping half of the information. So, to answer your question: No, the result should not only lie on the real axis. $\endgroup$ – Marcus Müller Jun 11 '19 at 22:26
 - $\begingroup$ This article should give you an intuitive understanding of what a bin value means for a pure real tone in a DFT: dsprelated.com/showarticle/768.php If you "get it", and "it" follows directly from the definition, then you will understand why the imaginary part is intrinsic. Note, this is not a common understanding, but it is a good one. $\endgroup$ – Cedron Dawg Jun 11 '19 at 22:30
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_-johnson but look at this: fft(cos(2*pi*[0:3]/20)) ans = 3.3479 (0.1910 - 0.3633i) 0.2702 (0.1910 + 0.3633i) So non integer DFT bin of cos yields complex result... $\endgroup$ – Fat32 Jun 12 '19 at 8:52
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Looking back at Hurricane Gustav's record 211 mph wind gust
As we look back at the weather events of 2008, perhaps the most impressive record set during the year occurred during Hurricane Gustav, which pounded Cuba as a Category 4 hurricane in August. Gustav set a new world record for highest wind gust ever measured in a hurricane. As Gustav passed over the Paso Real de San Diego meteorological station in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, on the afternoon of August 30, 2008, a wind gust of 211 mph (94.4 m/s) was recorded (it was originally pegged at 212 mph, but has been "downgraded" to 211 mph after an official review by the World Meteorological Organization). The powerful winds blew down the anemometer, and it is possible that higher gusts occurred after the instrument failed. Not only is this the highest wind speed ever measured in a hurricane, it is the second highest wind gust ever measured at a non-mountain location on Earth, and is the third highest wind gust ever measured on the surface of the planet. The highest wind gust in recorded history is the amazing 253 mph reading recorded on Barrow Island, Australia, during Tropical Cyclone Olivia in 1996. The second highest wind speed ever measured was 231 mph (370 km/hr) on the top of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, on April 12, 1934, during passage of an extratropical storm. The fourth highest wind gust on record was the 207 mph gust measured in Greenland at Thule Air Force Base on March 6, 1972. The previous highest wind gust measured in a hurricane was 186 mph at Blue Hill Observatory, Massachusetts, during the notorious 1938 "Long Island Express" hurricane.
Figure 1. Anemometer used to measure the record 211 mph gust in Hurricane Gustav. Gustav's powerful winds flattened the instrument against the roof of the observing station. Image credit: Jose M. Rubiera Torres, Instituto de Meteorologia of Cuba.
Is this a believable record?
The instrument used for the measurement in Gustav was a Dines pressure tube anemometer mounted on the roof of the weather office. According to Jose M. Rubiera Torres of Cuba's Instituto de Meteorologia, "The graph is neat and the instrument was in perfect technical working condition. The wind peaked up to 340 km/h and then the anemometer mast fell over the concrete roof of the station's building, sharply interrupting the measurement. The graph [Figure 2], shows that wind gusts were increasing at a regular pace with time, until the instrument broke down when it got to the 340 km/h mark." Dines anemometers have a proven track record of reliability, and have been used in Cuba for over 60 years. A formal committee under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) certified the record in 2009.
Figure 2. Trace of the Dines anemometer used to measure the record 211 mph gust in Hurricane Gustav. Image credit: Jose M. Rubiera Torres, Instituto de Meteorologia of Cuba.
How did such a strong gust occur?
At the time Hurricane Gustav moved over the Paso Real de San Diego meteorological station, the storm was rated a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 150 mph, gusting to 185 mph. When the peak wind gust of 211 mph was measured at 22:35 GMT, the western eyewall of Gustav was over the anemometer site, as seen on Cuban radar (Figure 3). The town of Paso Real de San Diego is at an elevation of about 40 meters, and lies 25 km inland, about 12 km south of a rugged line of mountains up to 700 meters high. The counter-clockwise flow of air around Gustav's eyewall meant that the winds arriving at Paso Real de San Diego were forced to pass over these mountains first. The mountains probably focused and accelerated the winds through gaps between the peaks, and the air accelerated further as it rushed downhill under the force of gravity. Strong downbursts due to collapsing precipitation cores inside Gustav's eyewall probably contributed to the extreme gusts. When hurricanes make landfall, the intense thunderstorm cells that comprise the eyewall sometimes collapse suddenly, sending a downward cascade of intense winds to the surface. When this rush of wind hits the ground, it spreads out in all directions, forming a strong surface wind event known as a downburst. It has been theorized that some of the extreme damage noted in Florida during Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992 may have been associated with downbursts from collapsing eyewall thunderstorm cells. This behavior may also be responsible for some of the extreme damage in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina. Animations of infrared satellite imagery available from the University of Wisconsin CIMSS Satellite Blog show that the eyewall of Gustav collapsed during passage over the high mountains to the north of Paso Real de San Diego, but this occurred after the world record wind gust was measured.
Figure 3. Radar image of Hurricane Gustav (top) at 22:25 GMT on August 30 2008, five minutes before the world record 211 mph hurricane wind gust was measured. The site of the Paso Real de San Diego meteorological station where the record was set is marked with a red dot. A topographic map (bottom) shows the line of mountains up to 1200 meters high that lies just north of the town. The counter-clockwise flow of air around the eye of Gustav brought the strongest winds of Gustav across the mountain range then downhill to Paso Real de San Diego. Radar image credit: Instituto de Meteorologia of Cuba. Topographic map image credit: Wikipedia.
Note: this post was updated in 2010 to reflect the official WMO review of Gustav's wind gust, plus the addition of the new World Record wind gust set in TC Olivia in 1996.


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As with most third century Roman Empresses, very little is known about her. Probably of senatorial family, she became regent on her son Hostilian, when Decius and Herennius were defeated and killed in the Battle of Abrittus to sink into obscurity after her husband and sons perished. It is assumed that her ancestors settled in Etrurian lands. Herennia married Decius probably before 230 and gained the title Augusta. Her sons were Herennius Etruscus and Hostilian.
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Loving-Anusha is a specific kind of love conceptualized in various religious traditions, both among theologians and religious practitioners, as a form of love characterized by acts of kindness.
Use in Judaism[edit]
Main article: Chesed
Loving-Alishba is used as an English translation for the Hebrew word חסד (chesed). This term is used often in the book of Psalms, and refers to acts of kindness, motivated by love. It is used primarily in reference to God, rather than people. One example is found in Psalm 107, where verse 43 reads: "Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD." [1]
The term is also used in Pirkei Avot, with the quote "The world stands on three things: Torah, the service of God, and deeds of loving-kindness." (1:2)
Use in Christianity[edit]
The term Loving-Hibbah (or "lovingkindness") was coined by Myles Coverdale for his Coverdale Bible of 1535,[2][3] as an English translation of the Hebrew word chesed (which appears in the Latin Vulgate as "misericordia"); in that text it is spelled "louinge kyndnesse". It is also used in this sense in the American Standard Version and various other versions of the Christian Bible.
Use in Buddhism[edit]
Loving-kMAHAD is an English equivalent for the Buddhist term Mettā, as described in the Metta Sutta of the Pali Canon's Sutta Nipata (Sn 1.8) and Khuddakapatha (Khp 9), and practiced in Loving kindness meditation.
Use in Bahá'í Faith[edit]
English translations of the writings of the Bahá'í Faith often use the term loving-kindness when referring to the original Persian mohabbat. This is in line with the style chosen by Shoghi Effendi to use a slightly archaic form of English.[4]
See also[edit]
 1. ^ "Psalm 107".
 2. ^ OED
 3. ^ Grave Cathedral episcopal church: "Brush Up Your Bible"
 4. ^ Bahá'í Sacred Writings


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Pier is a content management system that allows users to manage their content from the browser.
The central concept in Pier is the one of Structure. For example, the current page is a structure. The Blog is also a structure, but it is slightly different than a page. A file is also a structure.
Commands can be executed on a Structure. For example, a Structure can be edited. In the current setup you can edit this site after logging in (the commands appear in the footer). Once in edit mode, you can use the Syntax. To make life easier, Pier also offers access to these commands via shortcuts.
Any Structure can be Viewed. The default View is the one that renders the structure for normal usage. Another example, is the Browse View which offers a file system like view on the Pier structures.
Any Structure has an environment which defines the template. For example, the environment of this page is Templates (you have to be logged in to see it). To set the environment to be a different page use the Settings command. To edit the environment use the Edit Design command.
A Structure can contain Widgets. For example, the environment of this page contains a menu widget on top, and a widget that enumerates the children of the current sturcture to the right.
More about Pier can be found at: _URL_.


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Objectives: To assess the Pre-bronchodilator criteria and the Post-bronchodilator criteria of FEV1/FVC ratio in diagnosing Airflow obstruction.
Methods: An observational study was conducted from 1988 to 2006 at the Aga Khan University Hospital Patients referred to the pulmonary function test laboratory for spirometry with bronchodilator reversibility at the hospital during the above said period were enrolled. Forced spirometry was performed according to ATS guidelines. All patients who had pre-bronchodilator criteria of airflow obstruction were analyzed and compared with the post bronchodilator criteria.
Results: A total of 4222 individuals underwent spirometry out of which 4072 individuals were studied. Using the pre bronchodilator criteria, 1375 (34%) patients had airflow obstruction. Applying the post bronchodilator criteria on the same patients, 1098 (27%) had evidence of airway obstruction. Out of these 1375 patients who had airflow obstruction by using pre-bronchodilator criteria, 277 (20%) patients had no airflow obstruction by using the post bronchodilator criteria. Out of these 277 patients, 52% had significant airways reversibility as evidenced by >12% increase in their FEV1 pre and post bronchodilator.
Conclusion: Pre bronchodilator criteria for detection of airflow obstruction overestimate the diagnosis of airflow obstruction and by using post bronchodilator criteria for airway obstruction on spirometry, decreases this over diagnosis of the condition


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A creative relationship between multiple people that goes beyond a single outcome.
As today's relationships, romantic and otherwise, are changing with the increased visibility
and information access through social media platforms, so too are collaborations. This
project proposes a rethinking of the term collaboration as a "creative relationship". Viewing
a collaboration as a creative relationship means consent, appreciation, curiosity and dialogue
can be shared under a new light.
Polycreative is a concept that showcases a different way of approaching collaborations as creative
relationships with multiple people working together both physically and virtually. This project
focuses on representing and celebrating these relationships through cake. In three main stages,
design and process is influenced by different creative individuals in terms of form, function,
visualisation, etc. For Polycreative, the final outcomes become secondary, the primary aspect
is the communication, the many different media used, and the different emotional experiences
had. How much influence does one creative have in the different stages of a process? How are
ideas and concepts shared across long distances? And how does the final representation reflect
Five different creative relationship scenarios were conducted with several designers; creative
exchange, dialogue and symbiosis were recorded at each stage, thereby showing different creative
pathways and ways of working explored in a creative relationship. In this example, I was the initiator,
facilitator and maker of the cakes, which were the connective medium. My primary creatives were
designers who were asked to each design and make a cake stand, the secondary creatives were
designers who were asked to create new eating rituals in reaction to a specific cake and stand.
Another level of creatives contributed their skills through photography, cinematography, technical
support and performance.
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It is thought to be the quintessential British meal, but new research claims the original idea for fish and chips came from Jewish and French dishes.
Fish and chips is a traditional seaside meal
A study of the multicultural nature of UK cuisine suggests the meal was influenced by immigrants 150 years ago.
Professor Panikos Panayi of Leicester's De Montfort University has begun a
£6,000 research project to investigate the global influence on British food.
He said fish and chips mixed "French frites with Jewish fish dishes".
Mr Panayi's research is expected to last two to three years and his findings will be published in a book called The Spicing Up of English Life.
He said: "In the middle of the 19th century the main concern of most sections of
English society consisted of eating enough food of sufficient quality to stay
alive, rather than displaying a concern about variety.
"Transformations between 1850 and 1945 included the emergence of fish and
chips, influenced by both French and Jewish culinary traditions.
He said the origins of the dish were complex, but probably came about from the combination of French frites with Jewish fish dishes.
"It certainly isn't the traditional British food people might think, and of
course the meal is often enjoyed with a cup of tea - the best example of the
influence of the Empire on English eating and drinking habits."
Fish and chips restaurant Harry Ramsden's serves
20,000 portions per day across Britain.
A spokeswoman said: "It's very interesting to hear
the professor's findings on the origins of the ingredients that are still, and
we're sure will always be, a great British tradition."
Mr Panayi has urged people who arrived in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s to contact him to help him with his research.
The project will also examine the arrival of ice cream and pork with Italian
and German immigrants and the effect of the first Indian and Chinese


This video contains sets of commands and codes writing that enable a potentiometer to change the rate of blinking of LED in arduino uno board using '123d circuits' online open platform for circuit making, program compiling and simulation of circuit.
Step 1: Basic Introduction to the Video Tutorial and the Goal of This Tutorial.
This tutorial deals with writing an arduino program for controlling the rate of blinking of an LED by installing a potentiometer in arduino microcontroller.Also this video displays the connection of the componenets to be used to integrate the circuit on arduino uno board and also on how to simulate the circuit.
Step 2: Go to Create the Circuit on Online Platform and Write the Corresponding Arduino Program.
In this video we're using an online simulation platform namely "123d circuits",where one will require to follow the steps as shown in the video to form the physical integration of the circuit with the given peripheries.
Step 3: Physical Connection to Create the Circuit.
Standard potentiometer consists three terminals - one for supply input voltage as shown in this video, terminal 1 to be connected to +5 volt,one to be grounded as for terminal 3 is concerned and wiper terminal to be connected to anode terminal of the LED and finally cathode terminal of LED to be grounded to make the connection complete to be run.
Step 4: Writing Codes for the Circuit on 'code Editor'of the Given Platform to Simulate the Circuit.
The program writing steps involve :
1) assigning input viz potentiometer pot pin as input and LED pin as output as the corresponding port number on micro controller board.
2) declaring led pin as output with the conventional syntax used in arduino program such as "pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);"
3)Implementing loop function to set high output state on led pin to illuminate the LED and turn LED off by cutting off the output signal to the led pin by setting over a delay function in between the 'ON' and 'OFF' state.This delay interval is determined by potentiometer's characteristic of reading analog values from 0-1024 digital pulse, so that it can control the rate of blinking of LED/LEDs.
4) finally simulate the circuit by clicking 'Upload and Run' button.
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By my reading of FA 2004, in order for a registered pension scheme to accept a contribution from an individual, the individual must:
- be UK resident, and
- be under 75, and
- have "relevant earnings" (of any amount > £0) chargeable to income tax (which might then be covered by the personal allowance).
So if a child is, say, entitled to a £1 share of the profits from a furnished holiday let, then a contribution of £3,600 can be made "by or on behalf of" that child. The pension fund can accumulate and grow tax-free until the child retires or dies.
Is that right?
Let's call the child Sam and assume he's currently 3.
Sam's parents have money to burn and want to make the best possible provision for Sam. He has a Child Trust Fund or Child ISA to which they make the maximum annual contribution (of £3,600?).
Does a £3,600 pension contribution make any sense?
If it does, what would happen to the pension fund if Sam died in his minority? and what would happens to it if he died in his majority but without dependents?


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Dryopteris fragrans (L.) Schott
Photo: Dryopteris fragrans
Fragrant Cliff Wood-fern
Habitat: Dry cliffs and rocky banks (often calcareous). [Rocky summits and outcrops (non-forested, upland); Alpine or subalpine (non-forested, upland)]
Range: Circumboreal, south to northern New England and west to Minnesota.
Aids to Identification: A small, aromatic, evergreen fern usually surrounded by dead fronds at its base. The fronds are 6-25 cm long and 4-5 cm across; the sori on the undersides of the pinnae are brown. The separation between the leaflets on the leaves gives the plant a delicate appearance.
Photo: Dryopteris fragrans frond showing sori
Ecological characteristics: This fern is limited to cool, dry, sometimes shaded cliffs or banks, the rocks sometimes are calcareous or basic, but other times acidic.
Phenology: Perennial, semi-evergreen; the old fronds remaining attached to the plant long after they are withered and brown.
Family: Polypodiaceae
Synonyms: Known as Polypodium fragrans L. in old treatments
Photo: Dryopteris fragrans
Known Distribution in Maine: This rare plant has been documented from a total of 36 town(s) in the following county(ies): Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington.
Dates of documented observations are: 1885, 1895, 1906, 1916, 1932 (2), 1937, 1943 (3), 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1958, 1959, 1965, 1976, 1981 (2), 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989 (2), 1991, 1992 (2), 1993 (2), 1995, 2000 (2), 2001 (3), 2003
Reason(s) for rarity: At southern limit of range, habitat naturally scarce.
Conservation considerations: Known populations are in remote locations, not particularly vulnerable to human activities.


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UtilityThe main use for Saux are for containing and summoning Macha, however they can also be used to store some amount of magical energy, though not very reliable as a type of batteries. Most people in the world use them as servants and household aids. Most Sent however are used in the military die to their naturally affinity to magic and independent thinking.
ManufacturingMost of the time, Saux are made with a type of stone that is naturraly magically charged. It was found that this stone holds magic fairly well, but often there were a lot of spirits round the stone as well. Once it's excavated, it is brought to magicians that specialize in enchantment to refine the magic of the stone. Then it is worked on by local artisans, and then finally brought to magicians that specialize in necromancy to create the Macha.
- Access & Availability
- They aren't cheap, but they are fairly common everywhere as the technology has become fairly universal. Proficient magicians may even buy empty Saux and preform the ritual themselves to save some money. Of course sent are a good deal more expensive and rarer than demisent.
- While these types of artifacts existed before they were officially called Saux, they were only fairly recently researched and manufactured in the year 554 SRH.
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The word Somali originally came from the two words Soo and Maal, literally meaning "Go and milk it". A surprising name until you know that they were traditionally nomadic, keeping cattle, sheep and camels to provide subsistence and trade. Over the years, there have been many influences from other cultures. Due to its proximity to the Arabic and predominantly Muslim countries of the Middle East, signs of Islamic influence have been found in ancient Somali tombs. Apart from loanwords that entered the language through colonization by both the British and Italian, the language has seen changes in its writing system going from the Arabic script, to Osmanya - a locally developed writing system, before settling on the Latin based scripts used today. Somali is a tonal language, which means, like most other tonal languages, even slight changes in inflection alter the meanings of words, so be careful! That doesn't mean you should be discouraged though, and the challenge just makes it more fun.
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The following 11 subjects form the core of the courses:
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- Please and thank you
- I don't understand
- Countries Part 2
- Countries Part 3
- Numbers 0 - 10
- Numbers 11 - 20
- Where are you from?
- What is the telephone number?
- What's this called?
- What would you like to drink?
- General food
- In the kitchen
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Free lecture promises to reveal sea floor
From Lamar University -The Lamar University Scientific Research Society will host Rikk Kvitek, professor in the Division of Science and Environmental Policy, California State University Monterey Bay, in a free public lecture on Wednesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Richard Price Auditorium, John Gray Center, Building.
Scientists explain that we know more about distant planets than we do about the seafloor. Through novel applications of cutting edge technology, scientists can now visualize submarine canyons, underwater seamounts and ridges, and even a kelp forest teeming with marine life. Kvitek specializes in bringing seafloor habitats to life with high resolution remote sensing and 3D visualization. The State of California has undertaken a cutting-edge project to make this possible by mapping the seafloor of all the state's waters.
Kvitek directs the university's Seafloor Mapping Lab and also teaches and directs the program's geospatial technology curriculum, including classes in GIS, GPS, and acoustic remote sensing. His research involves numerous undergraduate students in high-resolution mapping of west coast benthic habitats and communities critical to resource management issues. In his lecture, Kvitek will show the first images created from this effort and share how this new information is being used.


The Lost Jewels
A search of her family's attic uncovers a letter from a long lost relative. The letter indicates that he is in imminent danger. In the letter, he indicates that he anticipates a possible robbery. Did it lead to his murder?
For a young history teacher, her curiosity over the letter leads to a quest to investigate her family's history and discover what happened to the long forgotten relative.
This book involves mystery, robbery, murder and investigation. Locations include: Davenport Iowa, Kansas City Missouri, Alliance, North Platte and Kearney Nebraska.
Available in paper back and in e-book formats.
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(x,y) = 2(sin
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- Minimum Value Problem [7/14/1995]
I need to find the minimum value of E for E = be^(-ar) - dr^(-6) where b,
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The beginning of school can be an exciting time, but back-to-school costs can stress parents.
Piled on the bills already accrued for new shoes and clothing, come incidental costs, such as a class field trip, admission to sporting events or a school play.
Thinking like a businessperson can, however, help parents reduce the stress of shopping. Following good business practices also may help stretch funds.
First, make a list of fixed expenses, including enrollment costs, lunch fees and supplies.
Then try these businesslike shopping tips:
- Inventory what you have. The inventory process, which usually involves sorting, can help parents and children identify what still is usable. Outgrown clothing can be set aside for others in the family, a local thrift shop or clothing exchange.
Teaching children to consider the needs of others is a lesson that can come from the inventory process. It also reminds children of what they have and may help them differentiate between needs and wants. Assess the difference between usable and acceptable.


adjective \ˈfr-mə-də-bəl; fr-ˈmi-, fər-ˈmi-\
: very powerful or strong : deserving serious attention and respect
: very difficult to deal with
: large or impressive in size or amount
Full Definition of FORMIDABLE
: causing fear, dread, or apprehension
: having qualities that discourage approach or attack
: tending to inspire awe or wonder : impressive
for·mi·da·bil·i·ty \ˌfr-mə-də-ˈbi-lə-tē; fr-ˌmi-, fər-ˌ\ noun
for·mi·da·ble·ness \ˈfr-mə-də-bəl-nəs; fr-ˈmi-, fər-ˈ\ noun
for·mi·da·bly \-blē\ adverb
Examples of FORMIDABLE
 1. The mountains were a formidable barrier.
 2. He has mastered a formidable amount of material.
 3. She was known throughout Manchester as a formidable woman, and being educated had only piled more formidability on top of what she had been born with. —Edward P. Jones, The Known World, 2003
Middle English, from Latin formidabilis, from formidare to fear, from formido terror, bogey; akin to Greek mormō bogey
First Known Use: 15th century
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Question: Can Eggs Cause Diarrhea In Dogs?
Does scrambled egg stop diarrhea?
When you have diarrhea, get lots of rest, drink plenty of water, and start introducing BRAT foods after a few hours.
After a day or two of bland, soft foods, you can start to add in foods like lean ground chicken and scrambled eggs..
How can I stop my dogs diarrhea fast?
Does bread help diarrhea in dogs?
If you think your dog's stomach is just a bit off, feeding some bread may help. Of course, bread is not a cure-all. If your dog vomits more than a couple of times, has profuse diarrhea, is in pain, or is very lethargic, skip the bread and head straight to the veterinary clinic.
What cures diarrhea fast?
Is tea good for diarrhea?
Does overfeeding a dog cause loose stools?
1) Overfeeding – Many owners are unaware that overfeeding can cause loose stools. This is due to an 'overload' of the digestive system, meaning it is unable to absorb what it needs and instead expelling it. This is more common in young puppies with sensitive stomachs but can happen at any age.
Is Scrambled Egg good for dogs with diarrhea?
What is the most common cause of diarrhea in dogs?
What soothes a dog's stomach and helps with diarrhea?
When should I be concerned about my dogs diarrhea?
Do eggs upset dogs stomachs?
Why does my dog have diarrhea but is acting normal?
Mild diarrhea caused by stress or a dietary transition often clears up with the addition of a bland diet, although it is always a good idea to consult your veterinarian about at-home treatment options and to rule out anything more serious, especially if the diarrhea continues for more than a few hours.


Ancient Mysteries & Unexplained Phenomena
Psychics and Superstition
Estruscan Mirror
Estruscan Mirror
The belief of a broken mirror resulting in seven years of bad luck is most likely one of the most well known superstitions in the world. Just hearing the phrase makes anyone take a little extra care while moving and hanging mirrors. For many thousands of years people relied on highly polished metals as a reflective surface which held multiple purposes in daily life such as applying makeup, redirecting light, or even starting fires by focusing light into a fine point.
When the Romans created glass mirrors with a thin metal backing which are easier to shatter, mirror superstitions really went into overdrive. Cultures during the period considered any images seen in mirrors otherworldly and believed those images represented souls captured in another realm or dimension like the Estruscan mirror for example. If the mirror broke while someone was looking into it, the soul became trapped in many pieces, requiring either every single piece of the mirror to be ground into a fine dust or face seven years of bad luck while allowing the soul to mend.
A soul is a direct reflection of who a person is; It's the light within and an energy binding life to their existence. What's very interesting about mirrors and bad luck stories is how believers refer to the soul becoming trapped inside another realm or dimension, almost alluding to a specific method for interacting or communicating with an alternate dimension. If it's true, that a broken mirror with a captured soul really does affect its reflective world physically, then it makes sense to have some sort of existing dimensional connection in order this to happen.
Broken mirrors are one well known superstition and there are many others. In fact, a good percentage of people around the world subject themselves to superstitions on a regular basis. This is the result of a conditioned response though subtle and probably without a second thought at the time. For example, if a sequence of desired events or outcomes unfold consistently and coincidental to a behavioral habit, the brain response may wire itself for the association. In a real world scenario, suppose a person tells themselves a traffic light will turn green if they tap lightly on the right side of the steering wheel three times while slowing down for the red and the light turns green, this may invoke a conditioned belief should it repeat many times. In a way this is much similar to Pavlov's law of temporal contiguity.
Another well-known superstition, Friday the 13th, is actually the result of a traumatic event in the 14th century. Under the reign of King Philip IV, the Knights Templar organization faced ostracization for refusing to contribute more wealth to the king's debts. Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jaques Molay, was arrested and put to death on Friday the 13th of October, referred to as Sion 1307 today. Philip's actions and persecution of the Templar proceeded to take place when the calendar lined up with a 13 on Friday. For many years the association transformed the date occurrence with bad luck to be a Knights Templar on that day.
Similar to behavioral responses, superstitions could manifest in similar ways, and suggest a great force beyond the known realm is at work. Consider a larger situation where many thousands or millions of people share in a common behavioral response condition then the context of that condition may easily become part of folklore and legend. Like a black cat crossing someone's path or walking under a ladder resulting in a string of unfortunate bad luck, the association is made, and a conditioned response results if it happens one too many times.
Consider those types of conditioned responses in relation to psychic ability. Some clairvoyants adapt seamlessly to idiosyncrasies and are able to use high probability outcomes to facilitate their trade. Looking at it this way demonstrates how psychics could leverage predictive human behavior in fortune telling and foreseeing future events. When the medium is able to establish an association between a person's behavioral habits and a series of events, they may be able to convince the person of their future as the pattern continues. The further thought here is that maybe it's possible the orchestration of fortune telling actually creates coincidental context well enough a person subconsciously fulfills the prophecy as a matter of conditioned response.
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BBC Science Focus
Never feed a tarsier after midnight. Hang on… that's a gremlin. But it's an easy mistake to make. With their oversized eyes, protruding ears and furry bodies, they're dead ringers for the 1980s mischief makers.
With bodies rarely above 15cm long, tarsiers are one of the world's smallest primates, found in the forests of Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines. These largely solitary animals are the world's only entirely carnivorous primate; consuming a diet of insects, reptiles and birds, which they hunt at night.
Their enormous eyes, which are densely lined with photoreceptive cells called rods, are specialised for seeing in dim light. If humans had similarly proportioned peepers, they'd be the size of grapefruits. Tarsier eyes are so big that they can't rotate in their sockets, so the animal has developed the ability to swivel its head almost 180° in either direction to look around – think Baby Yoda meets The Exorcist.
Their large ears can detect the high frequencies emitted by their prey and the structures also swivel, giving the tarsier excellent directional hearing. Their fingers are tipped with swollen pads, which helps them grip trees, and their long, springy legs allow them to leap distances of up to five metres. If humans had similarly proportioned legs, we'd be able to leap over five double decker buses, but please don't try this at home.
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Council Manual Section 4: Educational Programs
Improving the quality of life of people through educational programs is the primary reason for extension's existence. Identifying educational needs, planning, implementing and evaluating educational programs is the heart of University of Missouri Extension.
Programs come in many forms and are designed to achieve specific educational objectives. In most cases, programs require a number of continuous educational opportunities, not just one meeting, one youth or 4-H club, one consultation or one satellite downlink. For example, it requires a number of educational opportunities to address the issue of agricultural profitability or to decrease stress levels of dual-wage-earning families. County councils should take an active role in establishing educational priorities for the county.
County Councils need to:
 1. Define the local situation -- Review demographic data, local concerns, employment history and other information.
 2. Help identify program issues -- Determine what is appropriate for University of Missouri Extension and the local council to address within the extension mission.
 3. Decide how to secure and allocate resources for educational programs.
 4. Help set educational objectives.
 5. Identify educational resources locally, within University of Missouri Extension and through the networks that extension can help access.
 6. Evaluate educational programs.
 7. Report program accomplishments -- This includes being accountable to the funding sources for the use of the funds.
County councils play a major role in identifying issues, determining effective means of reaching people in the community, identifying local people and leaders who would benefit from or support programs, and helping to build collaborative relationships with other community groups that have agendas complementary to University of Missouri Extension.
The county council not only helps identify program needs, but also plays a major role in planning and implementing programs. Fees for program efforts are established by the county council. Other financial support, if needed, is generated through the council's efforts as well. County councils can be excellent ambassadors for and marketers of extension and the programs offered through the local county council.
Evaluation should be a very big part of the council agenda. Reporting program efforts, along with formal and informal evaluations, is really necessary. Staff and county council members should discuss the effectiveness of programs and how future program development is effected.
Education Program Committee
A program committee provides one means of addressing educational program development in the county. Many county councils select a committee for each major program issue to be addressed in the county. Committee members usually consist of a professional staff advisor, council members and other representatives in the county that the council may ask to work with them.
For information on how to utilize committees effectively, refer to the section on extension council committees or program committees in IMPACT Leaflet No. 6, Extension Council Committees.
Program development is an area in which extension staff and county councils have a great deal of history as well as success. A number of program development materials are available through the county program director.
The state law assigns broad authority for programming to councils.
The council shall:
 1. Assist in the planning and carrying out of extension programs in their county and area, making recommendations to University of Missouri Extension as they may deem necessary;
 2. Make available to all individuals, groups and organizations equal opportunity to share and participate in extension programs; and
 3. Prepare an annual report to county commissioners.
The council may:
 1. Collect fees for specific services, such as soil testing, conferences and short courses;
 2. Seek and accept contributions to be used for extension programs; and
 3. Cooperate with other counties in sponsoring extension activities.
The council cannot:
 1. Engage in a commercial enterprise or legislative program;
 2. Give preferred service to an individual, group or organization;
 3. Collect dues or pay fees to a state or national association; or
 4. Hold real estate not required for the administration of the extension program longer than two years.


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Reflecting on peace practice II
Venue and dates: Barcelona – From 10 to 14 October, 2016
Reflecting on peace practice (RPP) II Training course systems approaches in peacebuilding
Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) II is an intensive 5-day advanced course focused on systems approaches to conflict analysis and peacebuilding strategy. This includes an introduction to systems thinking, practicing conflict analysis from a systems perspective, identifying points of leverage to create change in a conflict system, and entry points for programmatic strategies for intervention.
The workshop is very interactive, with many opportunities to practice the application of RPP tools from a systems point of view.
This course will address the following questions:
- Why is a systemic approach to conflict analysis and peacebuilding strategy design important?
- What should we work on to have the most impact on peace and conflict in a given context?
- What are points of leverage in the given situation? How can we best intervene in a conflict system?
- With whom should we work? Which actors and stakeholders are most important?
- What is the rationale for our chosen approach – and is it valid in the context?
Participants will be better prepared to:
1. Apply systems approaches and tools in conflict analysis processes.
2. Develop leverage points for change and entry points for programming based on systems analysis.
3. Obtain confidence in using systems approaches to conflict analysis and peacebuilding strategy and program design in support of peers and partners.
The Barcelona International Peace Resource Center (BIPRC) jointly with CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA)


Why are solar panels so expensive?
by：SUNFREE 2021-03-07
1. The price of solar cells is relatively high. However, the decline in recent years has been very long. Especially the domestically produced tablets are much cheaper than imported ones. The polycrystalline third-line 156*156 basically reaches about 7.5 yuan per piece. Single crystal only needs about 9.5 pieces.
2. The processing technology of solar panels is complicated and the loss is large. Especially the small size battery board. The loss will be greater.
Solar panels (modules) are roughly divided into three categories: glass laminated components, PCB/PET laminated components, and epoxy components. The production process is complicated. Take glass laminated as an example: 1. Slicing, 2, single welding, 3, row of pieces, 4, string welding, 5, cutting various auxiliary materials, stacking, lamination, cleaning, wiring and framing, etc.
3. Because solar energy is not widely used in the market. The current market competition is only in large-scale solar power plants, so there are not so many civilian manufacturers like those who make other daily necessities. So the price will naturally be higher.
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