text: This simple rod unfolds into a number of different configurations. It can be extended from 6 inches to 30 feet, closed, and then reopened to the same length. Placed on a surface (horizontal, vertical, or other), it will indicate degree of slope or pitch, and can indicate and lock at any angle. Markings on the rod assist the user in mathematical equations, to determine volume, quantity, and etc. A portion of the rod detaches; this portion will indicate distance and change in elevation from the main section when commanded. The rod can be separated into a chain reaching 66 feet; this chain is fragile and cannot support more than 10 pounds of weight. A carpenter's rod does not use charges.


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Purpose: The use of bedside rounds in teaching hospitals has declined, despite recommendations from educational leaders to promote this effective teaching strategy. The authors sought to identify reasons for the decrease in bedside rounds, actual barriers to bedside rounds, methods to overcome trainee apprehensions, and proposed strategies to educate faculty.
Method: A qualitative inductive thematic analysis using transcripts from audio-recorded, semistructured telephone interviews with a purposive sampling of 34 inpatient attending physicians from 10 academic U.S. institutions who met specific inclusion criteria for "bedside rounds" was performed in 2010. Main outcomes were themes pertaining to barriers, methods to overcome trainee apprehensions, and strategies to educate faculty. Quotations highlighting themes are reported.
Results: Half of respondents (50%) were associate or full professors, averaging 14 years in academic medicine. Primary reasons for the perceived decline in bedside rounds were physicianand systems related, although actual barriers encountered related to systems, time, and physician-specific issues. To address resident apprehensions, six themes were identified: build partnerships, create safe learning environments, overcome with experience, make bedside rounds educationally worthwhile, respect trainee time, and highlight positive impact on patient care. Potential strategies for educating faculty were identified, most commonly faculty development initiatives, divisional/departmental culture change, and one-on-one shadowing opportunities.
Conclusions: Bedside teachers encountered primarily systemsand time-related barriers and overcame resident apprehensions by creating a learner-oriented environment. Strategies used by experienced bedside teachers can be used for faculty development aimed at promoting bedside rounds.

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Significance and Use
All X-ray systems are subject to changing efficiencies, so a practice for checking the overall operation is needed. This practice will assure the operator of an optimized image when ambient conditions are controlled and the X-ray high voltage generator is adjusted as prescribed.
The densities of some tire cord materials are very close to that of the rubber matrix in which they are enclosed, so the resolving capability of an X-ray system is critical to the detection of abnormalities. The rubber-cord pie disk provides a means for optimizing the resolving power in a particular apparatus and for comparing its performance over any period of time.
The rubber-cord pie disk can be used to compare the performances of X-ray systems in different laboratories. It can also be used in special cases to optimize system performance for a particular sector or cord-type, as may be required for examining a specific tire.
FIG. 2 Pie-Cord Disk Test Fixture
1.1 This practice describes the construction and use of a rubber-cord pie-shaped standard disk for demonstrating the discernment capability of an X-ray imaging system.
1.2 This practice is applicable to direct viewing (fluoroscopic) X-ray imaging systems and film, plate or paper (radiographic) X-ray imaging systems that are used for checking the construction consistency of pneumatic tires.
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard.
1.4 This standard does not purport to address the safety concernss associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
D1349 Practice for Rubber--Standard Temperatures for Testing
D3186 Test Methods for Rubber--Evaluation of SBR (Styrene-Butadiene Rubber) Mixed With Carbon Black or Carbon Black and Oil
F538 Terminology Relating to the Characteristics and Performance of Tires
rubber-cord pie disk; X-ray; X-ray image plane; X-ray radiograph; Construction consistency; Discernment capability; Fluorescence; Fluoroscopic X-ray imaging; Passenger cars; Pie disc; Pneumatic tires; Radiographic examination; Rubber property analysis; Tire testing; X-irradiation; X-ray monitoring/processing;
ICS Number Code 83.160.10 (Road vehicle tyres)
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Story Time
Submitted by: Rosalinda, Jacinto City
- Toddler
Kipper's book of weather by:Inkpen, Mick
Kipper the dog experiences rain, sun, snow, ice, fog, wind, hail, and finally a rainbow.
Rainbow of My Own by:Freeman, Don
It looked like spilt milk by:Shaw, Charles
Illustrations and text are used to tell about the shapes of clouds.
Wintery Wind
Sung to: "Happy Birthday"
The winter wind blows. (Blow air with mouth)
The winter wind blows. (Blow air with mouth)
It gives me the shivers (Shake body)
From my head to my toes
(point to head and toes)
5 Little weathermen
Counting Fingerplay
5 little weathermen sitting on a gate.
The first one said, "My it's getting late".
The second one said, "There are storm clouds in the sky".
The third one said, "Let's run inside".
The fourth one said, "Wait, the sun is peeking out".
The fifth one said, "That's what weather's all about".
ooooo....went the wind, and up flew their kite,
and the 5 little weathermen chased it out of sight.
Eensy weensy spider
Eensy weensy spider
Went up the water spout('Climb' up arm)
Down came the rain(Wiggle fingers down from head to waist)
And washed the spider out(Throw arms to sides)
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain(Raise hands above head, make circle for sun)
Now the eensy weensy spider
Went up the spout again.
Spread Cotton with glue on construction paper to make different cloud shapes.
Make a windsock:
roll construction paper lengthwise into a tube, staple or tape together. Have children attach different color streamers to one end of the tube using tape.


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- adj. made of or pertaining to paper, especially as opposed to a digital alternative
- n. A quantity of paper; a collection of paper such as a book or newspaper.
- n. A tree that is still standing, but no longer alive. (compare: log, stump)
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Genetic material from a 10,000-year-old skeleton suggests the oldest-known Briton had dark skin and blue eyes.
Scientists from Britain's Natural History Museum and University College London reported the finding Wednesday after studying the remains of an individual known as "Cheddar Man."
The skeleton was discovered over a century ago. It was found inside a large hole in the Cheddar Gorge area of southwest England.
The researchers cut a hole into the skull of the human remains and removed DNA from bone powder.
The letters DNA are short for the term deoxyribonucleic acid. Scientists call it the chemical of life.
DNA is made up of genes. Genes, like letters in words, carry a huge amount of information. They tell cells how to make all the materials for life.
The British scientists say their tests showed Cheddar Man had dark, wavy hair, blue eyes and "dark to black" skin color.
The researchers say the evidence suggests that Europeans' light skin coloring developed much later than experts had thought.
Cheddar Man overturns people's expectations of what kinds of genetic qualities go together, said Tom Booth, who worked on the project.
"It seems that pale eyes entered Europe long before pale skin or blond hair, which didn't come along until after the arrival of farming," he added.
Some experts believe that ancient humans who lived in extreme northern areas may have developed light colored skin. They note light skin is able to take in more sunlight than darker skin. Sunlight is required for the body to produce vitamin D.
Cheddar Man shares genetic similarities with other human remains found in Spain, Hungary and Luxembourg. All those individuals lived in the Mesolithic Period, also known as the Middle Stone Age Period. The group, known as Western Hunter-Gatherers, moved to Europe from the Middle East after the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.
The Associated Press says Cheddar Man is the oldest complete skeleton found in Britain. Human beings had lived on the island off and on for thousands of years before his time, but they disappeared during periodic ice ages.
Cheddar Man would have been one of a very small population of hunter-gatherers in Britain at the time. Scientists, who have been studying his skeleton, say he appears to have had a healthy diet but died in his 20s, possibly through violence.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
Jill Lawless reported this story for the Associated Press (AP). George Grow adapted her report for VOA Learning English. Hai Do was the editor.
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powdern. a very fine, dry substance
paleadj. lacking in color; not bright
blondadj. of light color; a golden or yellowish brown color
off and onadv. now and then
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In this blog, I have written quite a number of articles about prime numbers. In one of my posts, I have emphasized that geometrically, the dots that represent a prime number can only be arranged in a 1 x p rectangular arrangement where p is prime. Composite numbers on the other hand, can be arranged geometrically into more than 1 rectangular arrangements.
Stephen Von Worley has given a more beautiful definition of primes and composites in his Factor Dance Animation. The brilliant animation is a rearrangement of dots (circles) that represent numbers into different groups every second. Its aim is to show the "compositeness" and "primeness" of numbers from 1 up to 10,000. Worley's program used the algorithm Brent Yorgey, the writer of The Mathematics Less Traveled.


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By Martin Nanawa, ChildFund Philippines
Rice, biscuits, canned goods and bottled water sold briskly at the local supermarket in Malita, Philippines, as Typhoon Bopha approached the islands in early December. Food supplies would have to last days, possibly weeks. This, at least, is what panic-buyers reasoned as they crowded the store. Many families could not store much, however, as they would need to haul all their essentials to designated evacuation centers. But time was on their side, as authorities had called for families to evacuate two full days before the typhoon would strike on Dec. 4.
Malita is a town in Davao Oriental, on the eastern seaboard of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines. No strangers to the tempests that the Pacific Ocean would occasionally send them, the residents of Malita fully understood their vulnerability to typhoons, as well as the flooding and landslides often found in their wake. A 2011 typhoon, Washi, which wreaked considerable harm, was their most recent reminder of this danger, at least until Typhoon Pablo, the local name for Bopha.
The storm was forecast to cross right over northern Mindanao and past the western Visayas island group. Residents in Malita braced for the worst, supported by ChildFund and other humanitarian and government agencies that had helped them create emergency response plans. These efforts toward preparedness saved lives. Early warning systems, successful evacuations and storm shelters all helped ensure that as many people as possible were able to protect themselves from harm.
ChildFund has been working in Malita for 28 years now and deeply understands the local community's geographical risks. ChildFund's local partner organization is staffed almost entirely by former sponsored children who grew up there. Partner organization manager Maribel says, "The Malita River makes the community vulnerable to flooding and landslides. Malita is also vulnerable to tsunamis from the Pacific."
These risk factors are why ChildFund has been working with local authorities to improve disaster preparedness. ChildFund supports and complements government programs, directing efforts and resources toward supporting these measures. ChildFund's youth association in Malita also joined a local group associated with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. There they were trained in first aid, evacuation plans, water safety and rescue. Parents of sponsored children also signed up at the barangay (village) office to assist with distributing relief supplies.
Thelma Oros, a disaster risk reduction management (DRRM) officer for Malita, says the local disaster plan is strong. "Residents of coastal communities evacuated early enough, and there was sufficient pre-positioning of food packs and medicines," she says.
Typhoon Pablo did strike hard on Dec. 4, leaving more than 1,000 dead, 800 still missing and tens of thousands homeless, mostly in the Surigao and Compostela Valley provinces. In Malita, the conditions were not as treacherous as predicted.
"Half of ChildFund's 26 local partners stood either directly or adjacent to the path of Typhoon Pablo, but most made it through without loss, damage or injury," ChildFund program officer Erwin Galido says. "They prepared and they braced, but I suppose the least consolation we can draw, after surveying the damage Typhoon Pablo caused in northern Mindanao, is that our communities and partners have been spared.


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Mooning is the art of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by lowering the backside of one's trousers and underpants, usually bending over, whether also exposing the genitals or not. Mooning is used mostly in the English-speaking world to express protest, scorn, disrespect, or provocation but can also simply be done for shock value or fun. Some jurisdictions regard mooning to be indecent exposure, sometimes depending on the context.
Moon has been a common shape-metaphor for the buttocks in English since 1743, and the verb to moon has meant 'to expose to (moon)light' since 1601. As documented by McLaren, "'mooning', or exposing one's butt to shame an enemy [...] had a long pedigree in peasant culture" throughout the Middle Ages, and in many nations. Formerly, "mooning" was slang for "wandering idly" and "romantically pining." Although the practice of mooning was widespread by the 19th century, the Oxford English Dictionary dates the use of "moon" and "mooning" to describe the act to student slang of the 1960s, when the gesture became increasingly popular at among students at universities in the United States.
In Chilean Spanish, the act of mooning is known as cara pálida, lit. "Paleface".
Patrick Devine, 19, from County Donegal, Ireland was arrested on 27 July 2007 for allegedly dropping his trousers as a dare in Saint Louis, Senegal. Devine, a student of Queens University Belfast, spent one month in jail for his alleged actions.
In 2003 two British tourists were convicted and fined €920 each on indecent exposure charges for mooning.
In 2006, a Maryland state circuit court determined that mooning is a form of artistic expression protected by the First Amendment as a form of speech. The court ruled that indecent exposure relates only to exposure of the genitals, adding that even though mooning was a "disgusting" and "demeaning" act to engage in, and had taken place in the presence of a minor, "If exposure of half of the buttocks constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty."
Defense attorneys had cited a 1983 case of a woman who was arrested after protesting in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building wearing nothing but a cardboard sign that covered the front of her body. In that case, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals had ruled that indecent exposure is limited to a person's genitalia. No review of the case by a higher court took place since prosecutors dropped the case after the ruling.
In California, an appellate court found in 2000 that mooning does not constitute indecent exposure (and, therefore, does not subject the defendant to sex offender registration laws) unless it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt that the conduct was sexually motivated.
Notable incidents of mooning
- In 80, Flavius Josephus recorded the first known incident of mooning. Josephus recorded that in 66 AD, at around the beginning of the First Roman–Jewish War, a Roman soldier mooned Jewish pilgrims on their way to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, causing a riot, an over-response by the Roman military, and the deaths of thousands of pilgrims.
- In the Siege of Constantinople in 1204, the Greeks exposed their bare buttocks to the Crusaders after they repulsed them from the walls.
- During the Battle of Crécy in 1346, when king Edward III of England took Caen on the way to Crécy, several hundred Norman soldiers "exposed their backsides to the English archers and many of them paid a high price for doing so."
- A number of early explorers of the Atlantic coastline noted that the Etchemin tribe of Maine practiced this custom.
- Since 1979, The Annual Mooning of Amtrak has been an annual tradition in Laguna Niguel, California on the second Saturday of July, where many people spend the day mooning passing Amtrak trains; some passengers ride the trains that day to witness the event. This has inspired a chain of "train moonings" throughout the country.
- On November 22, 1987, an intruder interrupted the broadcast signal of Chicago PBS affiliate, WTTW with a strange video of himself dressed to resemble Max Headroom. He exposed his buttocks to the camera.
- Pauly Shore first mooned on film in Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) as his character, Buzz, tricks a mall guard into leaving his booth.
- In June 2000, a mass mooning event was organised outside of Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom by the Movement Against the Monarchy (M'AM). A large police presence prevented a large scale mooning, but a few individuals did so. This event is known as the Moon Against the Monarchy.
- On 7 June 2002, Macy Gray mooned the crowd during her performance at Manchester Apollo concert in Ardwick Green, Manchester, England.
- At the 2005 UK Music Hall of Fame awards ceremony, musician Ozzy Osbourne mooned the crowd after a set he played.
- In October 2006, English Premiership footballer Joey Barton was fined £2,000 for mooning Everton fans.
- A tradition of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers Mooning the Cog has developed on Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
- On January 9, 2005, Randy Moss of the Minnesota Vikings pretended to moon Green Bay Packers fans following a touchdown he scored. He was fined $10,000 by the NFL for the incident.
- At the Patch Adams Full Moon Festival three-day event to raise money for his Gesundheit Institute! and Albuquerque, 200,000 people pay $100 each to moon as a group and lend a hand with local projects.
- On 10 May 2007, Yvette Fielding pulled a moonie out a Soho restaurant window on the final episode of the reality television series Deadline.
- On 24 October 2011, economic inequality protester Liam Warriner of Sydney ran alongside the motorcade of Queen Elizabeth II and a waving Prince Phillip for 50 metres with an Australian flag clenched between his exposed buttocks, before being accosted by police.
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- Nester, Daniel (2009). How to be Inappropriate. Counterpoint Press. ISBN 978-_PHONE_.
- McLaren, Angus (1997). The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, _PHONE_. University of Chicago Press. p. 186.
- "Moon". The Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
- Forrest Wickman (June 27, 2012). "Mooning: A History". browbeat: Slate's culture blog. Slate.com. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
- "End of ordeal for Donegal Mooner". Irish Independent. August 29, 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- "British pair convicted for mooning in Greece". The Independent (London) (Bnet). August 27, 2003. Retrieved 2008-09-01.[dead link]
- Londoño, Ernesto (January 4, 2006). "Mooning Deemed 'Disgusting' but No Crime in Md.". Washington Post (The Washington Post Company). p. B01. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- "Judge rules'mooning' is not illegal in Md.". The News Journal, redistributed from the Associated Press. January 6, 2006. p. B6.
- "In re Dallas W. (2000) 85 Cal. App. 4th 937 [102 Cal.Rptr.2d 493]".
- Bloom, James J. (2010). The Jewish Revolts Against Rome, A.D. 66-135: A Military Analysis. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7864-4479-3.
- Josephus, Flavius (80); Whiston, William, translator (1737). "The Wars Of The Jews Or The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem, Book II, Chapter 12". sacred-texts.com. Evinity Publishing Inc.
- Queller, Donald E.; Thomas F. Madden, Alfred J. Andrea (2000). The Fourth Crusade. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-8122-1713-1. "As the ships pulled away from the shore the Greeks on the walls hooted and jeered at the defeated attackers. Some of them let down their clouts and showed their bare buttocks in derision to the fleeing foe."
- Tenzer Feldman, Ruth (2008). The Fall of Constantinople. Connecticut: Twenty-First Century Books. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8225-5918-4.
- "Battle of Crécy". California Archery. 2002. Retrieved February 4, 2006.
- Jarymowycz, Roman Johann (2007). Cavalry from Hoof to Track. Praeger. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-275-98726-8. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- Axtell, James (1992). Beyond 1492:Encounters in Colonial North America. USA: Oxford University Press. p. 189.


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The Children's Play Policy Forum brings together leading play agencies, government departments and other bodies to focus on play within the broader scope of national policy.
The forum aims to:
- advise government on play related policy
- advocate for play and develop coordinated policy responses
- identify research and highlight good practice
- lobby government to achieve full implementation of Article 31 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.
- Details of the role and membership of the CPPF: CPPF terms of reference [195kb PDF]
- The Play Return: a review of the wider impact of play initiatives (Tim Gill) [1,065kb PDF]
- Four asks for play [210kb PDF]


What is a SIP planner and how to use it effectively?
Wherever we are in our life stage, we all have some specific financial goals such as retirement, first car, higher education, marriage or a secured future. Financial goal planning is the first step towards achieving all the desired growth in life. We must have a worthy plan so that we don't lag behind in accomplishing our aim.
Planning is an essential part of life as it helps in achieving the set targets. But planning can be difficult for some people especially when it comes to financial planning. People that don't have a finance background would find it difficult to plan their finances and investments.
To help such people plan and make a well-informed decision, banking institutions have introduced investment tools. The simple and easy to use tools helps us create our own customized investment plan and estimate the maturity value.
What are these investment planning tools? Investment planning tools are instruments used to meet current and future financial goals through a sound financial plan.
These tools help us create an investment plan according to our goals and objectives and also helps us estimate the plan's maturity value. It helps you figure out the amount you need to invest to meet your financial goal.
A significant part of investing in mutual funds is knowing the returns that you will gain from a SIP or a Lump Sum investment. A mutual fund planner can help you calculate the amount you will have to invest to achieve your goals or how much returns you can expect from the investment you made.
It takes into account the investment routeslump sum and systematic investment plan (SIP) and finds out the returns generated from various Mutual Fund investments. Mutual fund planner or calculator is an easy to use tool for predicting returns on investment.
What is a lump sum mutual fund planner? Lumpsum investment in a mutual fund refers to a one-time investment that an investor makes. Usually people who have a large sum of disposable income in hand and are willing to take risk go for a lump sum investment. Lumpsum mutual fund planner predicts the yield on your present investment given the expected rate of return and the time period of investment.
What is a SIP planner? Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) refers to the investment of small amounts of money in a mutual fund plan at regular intervals. People who do not have a large sum of money in hand to invest opt for SIP investment. SIP planner is a tool that predicts the overall return on investment an individual would achieve on the maturity of the investment.
An investor needs to put in principal investment amount & the expected rate of return, to know the final amount payable at maturity. Vis-a-vis, investors can also put in the expected maturity amount to predict the SIP investment they need to make to reach this goal. Anyone who is planning to invest in mutual funds through SIP can use a SIP planner to determine the future value of his/her investments and choose the best SIP plan accordingly. Even if someone is already investing in mutual funds through SIPs, they can still use the calculator to determine the future value of their on-going investments.
How to use the planner/calculator –
To use the calculator, one will be required to provide the following details:
a) Investment amount (Principle amount) – How much money do they want to invest?
b) Duration of investment – How long will they be investing?
c) Frequency of investment – How often will they be investing? Monthly, Quarterly or Yearly.
d) Percentage of expected returns – How much returns do they expect from the investments made.
How does the calculator work? The SIP planner calculator uses the compounding principle to calculate the future of the SIP investments. Based on the information provided by the investor, the calculator calculates the amount they will receive from the SIP investments. If the investor links the investment to their future goals then the planner can help in deciding the principal amount that'll be needed to fulfil the goal.
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Pain is extremely complex.
A great number of factors will influence severity of pain. For example, a wounded soldier in battle may be seriously injured, but will carry on fighting and will notice the severity of the pain after the danger has passed.
Have you ever noticed how pain becomes more intense the more you think about it? Why is it that when you were little, and your mum would rub a painful area, it felt better? One way to understand this is the 'Gate Control Theory of Pain'.
Factors that open the gate
There are three main ways in which the gates to pain can be made more open, so that the pain feels worse. These are to do with how we feel about things, how we think about things, and what we are doing.
1. Stress and Tension
All sorts of emotional states can lead to the gates to pain being more open. These include being anxious, worried, angry, and depressed. Having a lot of tension in the body is a common way of opening the pain gates.
2. Mental Factors
One of the most effective ways of opening the gates and increasing your pain is to focus all your attention on it. Boredom can also lead to the pain gates opening.
3. Lack of Activity
Another factor that opens the gates to pain is lack of activity, fitness and immobility of joints.
Factors that close the gate
In the same way as above, the way we feel, the way we think and what we do can all have a part to play in helping to close the gates to pain.
1. Relaxation and Contentment
Feeling generally happy and optimistic has been found to help to close the gates to pain. Also, feeling relaxed in yourself seems to be a particularly useful way of closing the gates.
2. Mental Factors
Being involved and taking an interest in life helps to close the gates. Also if you concentrate intensely on something other than the pain (e.g. work, books, activities, being with friends), then this can distract you from pain, helping to close the gates.
Taking the right amount of exercise, so that you develop your fitness, can help to close the gates.
4. Other Physical Factors
Manual therapies including Chiropractic, Sports Massage and Acupuncture work to improve symptoms over time by improving function, but also help as types of counter-stimulation to pain. Others that can be done at home include ice, heat, massage balls etc. 'Rubbing it better' works as by touching the area you are stimulating 'touch' receptors as opposed to the pain receptors. Touch and pain have different neurological pathways and so touch can help to override the pain pathway.


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Bay Grasses in Classes Kicks Off Tenth Season with
Teacher Trainings in January
2007 - The Bay Grasses in Classes (BGIC) project is a joint partnership with
the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Chesapeake Bay
Foundation (CBF). Since 1998, over 1,404 classes and 36,050 students have been
involved with Bay Grasses in Classes. During this time students have planted
over 2.75 acres of bottom surface in the Bay with the 475,000 plants grown in
their classrooms. In 2004, for the first time, annual aerial surveys taken by
the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) have mapped healthy grass beds
planted by students in the program.
Seventy-one returning teachers as well as 33 new teachers from 83 schools across
the State of Maryland participated in training sessions in January. During
training, teachers were provided with the curriculum materials and introduced to
online resources necessary to educate their classes on the importance of bay
grasses. In addition, materials necessary to construct bay grass growth chambers
in their classrooms including: aquarium equipment, sediment, and seeds or adult
plants were distributed.
Over the course of the next few months, teachers will actively engage students
in each phase of growing bay grasses: mixing the soil, setting up the aquaria,
and planting seeds or vegetative material from adult plants. Each week, teachers
will lead students through monitoring growth of plants, collecting water quality
data, and entering data into an on-line data entry system housed on the newly
redesigned Bay Grasses in classes Website (_URL_
Later this spring, students will transport the grasses to one of
four restoration sites throughout the state to plant the grasses, as well as
take part in other educational activities including: seining and water quality
activities designed to reinforce their knowledge of bay grasses. By studying the
ecological importance of bay grasses and actively participating in restoration,
students also gained a sense of stewardship of the Bay.
grasses (also known as submerged aquatic vegetation, or SAV) are critical to a
healthy Chesapeake Bay. They provide important habitats for young fish and
crabs, serve as food for waterfowl, help protect shorelines from erosion, keep
water clear, consume excess nutrients, and add oxygen to the water. Current bay
grass populations are less than 25 percent of historic levels, mainly due to
excessive nutrient pollution (mainly nitrogen and phosphorus) and sediment
resulting from human activities clouding the water and preventing sufficient
sunlight from reaching the plants.
BGIC receives funding from the Chesapeake Bay Trust and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
For more information contact Mark Lewandowski at _PHONE_ or e-mail _EMAIL_.
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Mental functions are influenced by states of physiological arousal. Afferent neural activity from arterial baroreceptors at systole conveys the strength and timing of individual heartbeats to the brain. We presented words under limited attentional resources time-locked to different phases of the cardiac cycle, to test a hypothesis that natural baroreceptor stimulation influences detection and subsequent memory of words. We show memory for words presented around systole was decreased relative to words at diastole. The deleterious memory effect of systole was greater for words detected with low confidence and amplified in individuals with low interoceptive sensitivity, as indexed using a heartbeat counting task. Our observations highlight an important cardiovascular channel through which autonomic arousal impacts a cognitive function, an effect mitigated by metacognition (perceptual confidence) and interoceptive sensitivity.
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Campbell County, Georgia was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1828 to 1931. It was created by the state legislature on December 20, 1828 from land taken from Fayette, Coweta, and Carroll counties, and from the half of DeKalb County which became Fulton County soon afterward. Georgia's Cherokee Land Lottery of 1832 also added to the county. The county was named for Duncan G. Campbell, one of the U.S. commissioners responsible for the Treaty of Indian Springs.
The original county seat was Campbellton; however, when the Atlanta & West Point Railroad began to plan its route, the town's residents said no due to noise concerns. The tracks were laid through Fairburn instead, which flourished while Campbellton died out, and Fairburn soon became the new county seat in 1870. The Campbell County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The northwestern half of Campbell (and a bit more of Carroll) became Douglas County in 1870, divided on October 17 at the Chattahoochee River. The remainder of Campbell County was ceded to Fulton County at the end of 1931, along with Milton County, to save money. The legislation creating the merger was enacted on August 9, 1929, with Milton being added to the process in 1931.
Campbell County is a former county.
Note: Campbell was annexed to Fulton in 1932.


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Get the class attention and teach them about spring, Easter and some farm animals with this entertaining story book!
Isn't it clear? Rabbits don't lay eggs! Oh, you thought they do? Well, a lot of children also think of the same.
Rupert the main character is a little rabbit who arrives to the farmyard and creates a stir when he tries to fit in with the others and make himself useful. Unfortunately enough he can't lay eggs like the duck of the farm and also he can't cock-a-doodle-do like the rooster. Luckily, soon he finds himself something useful to do when he starts digging. He ends up with an unusual job to do.
How to start?
Introduce or revise a set of vocabulary about the farm or Easter. To introduce farm animals use flashcards then colouring pages. To revise or reinforce vocabulary put children in groups or pairs and tell them to try to think of as many farm animals as they can. Make younger children draw the animals whilst older ones can practice spelling.
Alternatively you can let them imitate and guess different farm animals or use some farm animal voices as children love guessing.
Talk about the pictures, the characters, the storyline of the book. Ask questions and make sure you listen to the kids' reflection. Let them talk about Rupert and the other characters. Ask them what they expect to happen next.
After reading the book:
Typical speaking activity is to dramatize the story. Involving role play is a great idea to practice the language. To make it more entertaining for the children let them make some masks that they can use during the play.
The most important thing is to let them enjoy the story and practice the language as much as they can.
Do your children like animal stories? What is their favourite one?
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Lossiemouth jets deployed to help NATO safeguard Baltic states
Lossiemouth Typhoons head for Baltic mission
The UK is once more taking its turn to enhance NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission with four Typhoon aircraft, which have deployed from RAF Lossiemouth to Amari airbase in Estonia (Mike Crutch reports).
The Typhoons augment four Norwegian F-16 fighters aircraft in Lithuania and will safeguard the airspace of the Baltic states through until the end of August.
The Estonian Minister for Foreign Affairs Ms Keit Pentus-Roimannus welcomed the RAF as a "demonstration of Alliance solidarity carrying a visible sign and sound, which was the whisper of freedom".
The RAF detachment, forming under the banner of No.121 Expeditionary Air Wing, is led by Wing Commander Stu Smiley and took over the NATO task from the Spanish Air Force.
Having arrived directly from RAF Lossiemouth after a journey of a little over two hours the four jets from No.6 Squadron are set to play their part in ensuring that aircraft are available on high readiness ground alert to investigate any unknown approaches to the Baltic air space, usually probing Russian Air Force aircraft.
The jets will also carry out training and practice scrambles with their NATO partners.
NATO Baltic Air Policing missions have been carried out continuously since 2004. The Royal Air Force's previous roulement was in 2014, with RAF Coningsby-based Typhoons deploying to Lithuania.


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36 Days of Type is an annual challenge that asks creatives to reimagine the alphabet and numbers 0-9 from a different perspective, sharing typographic inspiration from all around the world through social media. And this year we teamed up with our clients at KinderCare – America's leading private childhood and early education provider – to reimagine these familiar symbols from the perspective of children.
The KinderCare business is built on care and emotional connection, and has a strong prioritization for the arts within STEAM. Its playful and colorful design system, which we created with the team in 2019, uses a system of simple building blocks drawn from their distinctive bell tower logo to help build confidence for life. We took the five iconic shapes from the brand's visual identity system plus the simple marker pen doodle and duplicated, rearranged and combined them into 36 completely unique ways to bring our letterforms to life.
Each letter was specially chosen to be easily identifiable and relatable to children who are learning to read. We used a mix of animals and objects that they would be familiar with whilst also sprinkling in a little extra creative magic so that our letterforms maintained a sense of playfulness and surprise for each reveal.
Our numbers were crafted to highlight important aspects of childhood education and KinderCare's role in creating that supportive environment, and also to provide a literal quantity a child could easily connect to. Eight, for example, is represented by the eight planets of our solar system, but it also symbolizes the importance of nurturing curiosity and encouraging children to explore.
During the process, it was important for us not to become too abstracted from the original symbol to make sure that children could see the letter, identify what it is and what it represents. For example, we chose a Goose to represent G as its long winding neck celebrates the true shape of the symbol better than a Gorilla, Goldfish or Glove. Designing each character with only the brand's building blocks created restrictions that allowed for unique solutions and resulted in something a bit different to the usual animal alphabet illustrations you often see on nursery walls.
It was also important to us to bring each character to life further through animation. We mimicked a stop-motion technique with our digital assets to keep a child-like, handcrafted and joyful quality to each letterform. The additional layer of personality became something that people following along could look forward to seeing on each day of the 36-day project, which were shared from the KinderCare Instagram account.
KinderCare supports kids every day – from learning the alphabet and writing their names to setting them on a path to express themselves and begin to tell their own stories with their own words – and we're proud to have been able to contribute and support them in this pursuit.
By Jea Hyun, Senior Designer at Design Bridge New York.
Project overseen by Jemma Campbell, Creative Director at Design Bridge New York.
If you'd like to join Jea, Jemma and the team in NYC, check our Careers page for the latest opportunities.


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Employment law changes – 1st October 2015
Numerous employment law changes came into force today as a result of the Deregulation Act 2015. Key changes include:
- Sikhs will now have the right to wear a turban instead of a safety helmet across almost all workforces in Great Britain. Until now, this right was restricted to Sikhs within certain workplaces. It should be noted that there will be some limited exceptions, such as specific roles within the military and emergency services.
- The power of employment tribunals to make wider recommendations in discrimination cases will no longer be available.
In addition to the changes introduced by the Deregulation Act 2015, The National Minimum Wage Amendment Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/971) ("the NMW Regulations") came into force today. The NMW Regulations change the rates of national minimum wage in accordance with recommendations from the Low Pay Commission. The following rates will now apply:
- Standard adult rate (workers aged 21 and over) = £6.70 p/h
- Development rate (workers aged between 18-20) = £5.30 p/h
- Young workers rate (workers aged under 18 but above compulsory school age) = £3.87 p/h
- Apprentice wage = £3.30 p/h
Later in October 2015, it is expected that large businesses will be required to publish an annual slavery and human trafficking statement, setting out the action they have taken to ensure that their supply chains are free from slavery.
If your business is affected by any of the above changes or if you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our Employment Law team.Back to index


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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (23 September 1920 – 7 October 2013) was a Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, chief authority of the Shas ultraorthodox party. He is highly revered in the religious world, especially in the Sephardi and Mizrahi communities for his erudition and Torah scholarship.
- It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.
- Quoted in Jewish Chronicle, 11 Oct 2013 page 22
- Saving a life overrides territories.
- Sentence according to Jewish law, 1979
- Hebrew source
- It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. […] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.
- There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study. Where there is Torah it sustains the world. There are negros there [in New Orleans]. Negros will study Torah? Let's bring them a tsunami, drown them. Hundreds of thousands were left without a shelter. Tens of thousands died. All of this is because they have no God.
- They don't observe the Sabbath, they don't observe the Torah, they don't pray, they don't put on phylacteries every day. Is it any wonder that they're killed? It's no wonder. May the Almighty have mercy on them and bring them back to religion.
- "Israel rabbi in fallen troops row". BBC News. 27 August 2007.
About Ovadia YosefEdit
- The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.
- Obituary Jewish Chronicle, 11 Oct 2013 page 33


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allowed time from to s. The extra stops to be inserted in a route, during route construction, cannot violate the time window of mandatory stops.
The pair for a mandatory stop s basically expresses the following: "if the departure from is done at time, or after, the arrival at s must be no later than ". The addition of mandatory stops, with a reference to a previous stop and time window, allows round trips or trips with specific connection points to be planned.
Any stop, mandatory or not, is a location point that must be visited by at least one route. A pair of stops has a cost associated with it that is basically the estimated time when going from directly to.
Definition4 (Critical stop).
A stop s is considered a critical stop,, if the probability of becoming too crowded is high. Routes should be planned so that a backup vehicle can be sent to a critical stop, for more customers to be collected, whenever the vehicle at stop s gets full.
A backup for a critical stop can be supplied by any vehicle that reaches its destination stop, at some place near, and is able to get to s before a specified time threshold. That is, the backup for s, denoted by, will be a route,, whose vehicle will have to make an extra traversal from its destination stop,, to s in less than, the maximum allowed time for backup to arrive at s.
Note that every stop must be visited at least once. A stop may be visited more than once because routes will be built taking backup for critical stops into consideration. That is, it might be necessary to pass through a stop already incorporated in another route in order to ensure backup. However, this is expected to be better than increasing the scheduling and number of vehicles/drivers. A minimum number of stops per route is not imposed since it is assumed that the set of routes to be planned is adequate for the fleet and region covered. Routes with few stops can always be eliminated from the final solution.
4.2. Problem Definition
Having the previous notation and definitions in mind, our route planning problem can be defined as follows. This problem is called here vehicle routing with backup provisioning (VRwBP).
Given a set of routes, each route with a reference to a set of mandatory stops with time constraints, a set of stops that need to be visited and a set of critical stops requiring backup, inserts stops into routes while ensuring that the total travel time is the lowest possible. Time constraints cannot be violated, and backup, in less than a time threshold, must be ensured for every.
Please note that routes are to be planned without taking into consideration schedule assignment. After determining the routes, these can be adopted many times a day according to the needs, and, therefore, further schedule/fleet/drivers planning is required. These issues are determinant for the availability of a backup vehicle when overcrowding is detected, as previously stated.
4.3. Problem Mathematical Formalization
We proceed now with the mathematical formalization of the VRwBP problem. This formalization allows us to fully understand the problem, so that adequate local search procedures can be inserted into the heuristic algorithm. Due to the high complexity of the problem, optimal solutions from this formalization cannot be obtained when there is a reasonable number of stops and routes.
In the following formalization, it is assumed that if. The variables required are:
One if route selects stop to become its final destination,, zero otherwise.
One if route includes going directly from stop to, zero otherwise.
When ensuring that the time window associated with mandatory stop s, with time window info, of route r is not violated, this will be the time value at. Note that to control if a time window is not violated, is first stored in, will be decreased at nodes traversed and cannot be negative when reaching destination s.
– Objective function:
This avoids unnecessary long routes and minimizes the number of extra visits to stops.
– Building routes:
The constraints in (2) force routes to emanate from the source ; the constraints in (3) impose the flow conservation law to routes; and the constraints in (4) force the existence of a final destination stop at each route.
– Mandatory stops:
Constraints (5) force the vehicle of a route r to arrive/depart at/from every mandatory stop of that route.
– Ensuring backup:
where is a threshold for the maximum allowed time for backup to arrive to. Constraints (6) may be expanded to a set of linear expressions.
– Visited times:
Constraints (7) state that every stop must be visited at least once.
– Time windows of mandatory stops:
where K is a big time constant. These constraints ensure that the time windows associated with mandatory stops, i.e., the maximum allowed time from the previous mandatory stop, are not violated. For this purpose, considering a route r and mandatory stop s with time window, the stop is assumed to have a time in it that will vanish as the route is traversed toward s. This is what Constraints (8)–(9) do. At the mandatory stop, such time must be non-negative (Expression (10)).
– Non-negative assignments:
As previously said, this problem can be seen as a variant of the OVRP applied to the transportation of persons, considering multiple depots and having the possibility of backup provisioning to certain stops considered to be critical. Therefore, our problem is also NP-hard. For this reason, the development of an efficient heuristic approach is needful.
5. Heuristic Approach
The heuristic approach discussed in this section has three main steps:
Building route framework: Here, the concern is to build the basis framework for route construction, where all stops are visited only once while not violating time window constraints.
Extension for backup inclusion: After the basis framework, routes are extended for backup provisioning to be ensured.
Applying local search procedures: Interand intra-route exchanges of non-mandatory stops are applied for the improvement of the solution.
The first two steps of this heuristic algorithm use a greedy strategy, and therefore, local optimal solutions can be obtained. The third step uses local search procedures to overcome this issue and improve the quality of the solutions initially obtained.
5.1. Building Route Framework
To evaluate the possibility of inserting stops in specific routes, neighborhood information around stops is built. Neighborhood information is associated with consecutive pairs of mandatory stops, to evaluate the possibility of inserting a stop between them. Therefore, the following variables are required when building the route framework:
Neighborhood for the pair of consecutive mandatory stops and of route. Used to evaluate the possibility of inserting a stop between and.
Cost of inserting a specific stop between the pair of stops and of route. Used when building neighborhoods.
Specific subset of all of the neighborhoods.
Each neighborhood element in is a pair, where is a potential extra stop and the time margin left if is inserted. The output will be:
List of stops for each route.
Destination stop for each route.
Building the route framework includes inserting mandatory stops first and then non-mandatory. These two sub-steps are discussed next.
5.1.1. Inserting Mandatory Stops
Remember that a mandatory stop s, of a route, has info referring to its previous mandatory node on the route,, and maximum allowed time from to s,. The insertion of mandatory stops is done as shown in Algorithm 1.
Algorithm 1: Procedure for the insertion of mandatory stops.
Note that the initially given, included in mandatory stop info, will change when stops are permanently inserted into routes. In the procedure just discussed, is subtracted from when mandatory stop s is inserted after, so that it stores the time margin left for further insertion of stops. Figure 8 illustrates this info update considering that two routes are starting to be built, the first one having mandatory stops and and the second one having mandatory stops, and. The remaining stops, not shown in the figure, would be inserted in the routes by the next steps of the algorithm.
5.1.2. Inserting Non-Mandatory Stops
Here, the neighborhoods are built first, and then, non-mandatory stops are inserted based on this information. At the end of this procedure, the stops not inserted in any route will be attached at the end of routes.
– Neighborhood formation: Neighborhood info is built for each pair of consecutive mandatory stops. The procedure used to build neighborhoods is shown in Algorithm 2.
Algorithm 2: Procedure for neighborhood formation.
A non-mandatory stop is inserted in the neighborhood of a pair of mandatory stops, and, whenever the cost of insertion, extra route time, is lower than the time margin at. In this case, a neighborhood element, with stop and time margin left, will be inserted into the neighborhood.
– Insertion of stops using neighborhood info: The stops in less neighborhoods will be processed first. A specific stop will be inserted in the neighborhood leaving the largest time margin. The procedure used to insert stops using neighborhood info is shown in Algorithm 3.
Algorithm 3: Procedure for the insertion of stops using neighborhood info.
In Line 1, the will have the set of neighborhood elements containing, and therefore, the stops in less neighborhoods will be processed first. In Line 3 the pair of consecutive stops in where should be inserted, the one leaving the largest margin, is chosen. If insertion is possible (the time window of next mandatory stop is not violated), the stop is inserted in, and the time window of the mandatory stop is updated.
– Remaining stops: Stops not inserted at previous steps will be inserted at the end of current routes. The procedure used to insert the remaining stops is shown in Algorithm 4.
Algorithm 4: Procedure for the insertion of the remaining stops.
5.2. Extension for Backup Inclusion
When extending routes for backup provisioning, the following variables are required:
Time it takes for backup to arrive at.
List of stops resulting


"Pilchards! Whose bodies yield the fragrant oil and make the London lamps at midnight smile!" Peter Pindar 1783.
Cornwall once relied upon the sea for nearly everything: food, transport, trade, defence and contact with the outside world. Fishing was always a vital part of the Cornish way of life and in the 18th and 19th Century, pilchard fishing was a major industry. Throughout the summer months large shoals of pilchards were caught off the Cornish coast; then they were taken to pilchard cellars for processing. The pilchards were squeezed flat + oil drained out; producing 18 to 45 litres from each barrel. The oil was mostly sold as lamp oil. Pilchard fishing declined from the mid-20th Century, although small quantities of pilchards are still caught in Cornish waters today.
This home-made lamp, dating to around 1850, used oil from the fish processing to provide light.
Our Cornwall Galleries explore Cornwall's unique maritime heritage over three floors, bringing to life stories of Cornwall's maritime history.


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Christiane Taubira is an economist, politician, and writer who was born on February 2, 1952 in Cayenne, Guyana. Founding president of the Guyanese Walwari Party, she is also an author of a number of writings on the topic of slavery and political equality. In May 2012 Taubira was appointed Minister of Justice of France in the Ayrault government under President François Hollande.
Taubira, who is divorced and a mother of four, is one of six children of a single mother who worked as a nurse's aide. In 1978 she became an economics professor and from 1982 until 1985 she served as the director of Caricoop (Caribbean Confederation of Agricultural Cooperation), an organization that she founded. In 1993 Taubira was elected to the French National Assembly as the representative from Guyana and was reelected in 1997, 2002, and 2005. In 1994 she became a member of the European Parliament. In addition to her legislative work, in 2002 Taubira was the first person from the French Caribbean, as well as the first woman and the first person of color, to become a presidential candidate in France. One of the principal points of Taubira's political program is the need for government to address the concerns of people of color, women, and others who have been excluded from the mainstream political systems. She has been called a "free electron" in politics because of her sometimes independent stances apart from party politics.
In 2001 Taubira was the principal author of the Taubira Law, which recognized the slave trade as a crime against humanity. Under this legislation the French government expressly recognized the dehumanizing impact of the transatlantic and Indian Ocean black slave trade and slavery that were practiced from the 15th century in the Americas, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and Europe on African, Amerindian, Malagasy, and Indian populations. It declared the slave trade a crime against humanity. The Taubira Law requires school curricula and research projects in the fields of history and the social science to accord to the subjects of the black slave trade and slavery "the important place they deserve." The law also further calls for "sites and actions" that will guarantee the perpetuation of the memory of this crime to future generations.
Some of Taubira's most recent books address the place of blacks in French history and society. In L'Esclavage raconté à ma fille (Slavery Explained to My Daughter), Taubira discusses the history of French enslavement of Africans and their descendants and describes the moral, social, economic, and political effects of slavery that persist among the descendants of enslaved people. In Égalité pour les exclus: le politique face à l'histoire et à la mémoire colonials [Equality for the Excluded: Politics in View of Colonial History and Memory] Taubira considers the extent to which French politics takes into account French colonial history. In Mes météores: Combats politiques au long cours [My Meteors: Political Combat Over the Long Term], Taubira detailed her political journey.


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With the wide variety of sizes, shapes, and charged characteristics of proteins, no one would think there's a simple way to categorize the molecules based on their dynamic properties. But that's exactly what Colón has developed.
Adapting an everyday method that is used time and again in biology labs, Colón has fashioned an assay, a regimented laboratory procedure that effectively separates kinetically stable proteins from all others. In a paper published two years ago with then graduate student Marta Manning '03, Ph.D. '06, Colón showed that proteins that don't easily unfold in nature were also resistant to a common laboratory treatment.
When proteins are unfolded or denatured, they can be sorted by running an electric current across a length of gel. Colón developed a simple assay on a gel that involves comparing the migration of heated and not heated protein samples containing a common chemical denaturing agent known as SDS. Most proteins migrated to the same location on the gel regardless of whether or not the sample was heated. In contrast, kinetically stable proteins exhibited a slower migration when the sample was not heated.
At first, Colón used purified proteins to make his case that kinetically stable proteins were resistant to unfolding with SDS treatment. Now, with one clever quarter turn of his gel, Colón has streamlined his procedure so that proteins, even messy mixtures of thousands of proteins, can be processed via a high-throughput assay, to identify those proteins that are kinetically stable.
With this method, he can screen the protein soup of an entire organism, as he has recently done with the bacterium E. coli, for kinetically stable proteins. Identifying the proteins that were sorted involved a series of biochemical methods and the help of Qishan Lin, director of the University at Albany's proteomics facility.
Ultimately, Colón wants to use this method with human plasma where it might be used to diagnose medical conditions. "For example," Colón says, "we hope to be able to identify whether any disease may be linked to the loss or gain of protein kinetic stability. The gel becomes almost like a fingerprint of kinetically stable proteins in human plasma."
"We have now what we didn't have before, what nobody had before: a list of kinetically stable proteins with known 3-D structures," says Colón. "Chris is analyzing the structure of these, looking for common features that may be responsible for kinetic stability."
Proteins that resist unfolding are a small minority in nature. "Proteins are in the stomach, in Yellowstone geysers, harsh environments like that," says Bystroff, describing environments so harsh, it's hard to imagine any dancing molecule surviving.
As an expert in protein unfolding, Bystroff is discovering how these proteins are kept folded. "I categorized things according to the topological features these proteins had," he says. Categories include "tucked in," where ends of the chain were buried like a tab, "latches," a long piece of chain that goes around the molecule like a belt, and "blocking."
"If you have a box that can only open one way and it's packed up against another box," like a hinge that can't move, "I call that blocking," Bystroff says.
"I'm interested in being able to design proteins," Bystroff says. "Proteins are incredibly flexible molecules," for which there are lots of industrial uses. To look at a protein and be able to make that protein kinetically stable, "it's sort of natural nanotechnology."
For all his modeling and computational expertise, Bystroff is not afraid to rely on his visual sense. "He does want to picture things," says Mohammed Zaki, an associate professor of computer science, who has worked with Bystroff on modeling protein unfolding pathways projects. "It's a very hard problem, a grand challenge, so one really needs all the ingenuity that we can get."
"The good thing about Chris is he has the ability and the skills to handle both the wet lab side of things as well as the computational side of things," says Zaki. "He's pretty well diversified in his interests. It allows him to collaborate with Freddie on the dynamic side and with me on the data-mining side."


St Thomas' pharmacist develops medications app
Gayle Campbell a pharmacist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has developed a new medications app to support patients take their medications correctly.
The app called MedTap, features videos with NHS clinicians to provide answers to common medication questions such as when and how to take pills, what to do about side effects, how to re-order more pills and the cost. Users can record their medicines, appointments and test results to help improve self-management of their care.
It aims to tackle the problem of patients not taking their medicines correctly, with national research highlighting 10 days after being prescribed a medicine 55 per cent of patients do not take their medicines correctly, often without realising.
The app also aims to support patients with the most common heart rhythm disturbance atrial fibrillation and patients with high blood pressure. Both conditions increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke if medications aren't correctly taken.
The app allows user to watch videos on topics such as heart attacks and atrial fibrillation and 'favourite' the most useful ones.
Gayle Campbell, senior cardiovascular pharmacist at Guy's and St Thomas', led on the development with the support of the cardiovascular pharmacy team. She said "Understandably, people can forget what NHS clinicians tell them about their medications during a clinic visit. They may be given a lot of information about side effects, how and when they should take their pills all at once."
"We developed this app to give patients that information at their fingertips. Patients and their families can access the specific information they need whenever they need it. It's like having a recorded version of their consultation available 24 hours a day."
The app was developed following a successful Dragon's Den style competition for funding from the trust's cardiovascular research fund, with additional funding provided by the pharmacy special purpose fund. It was originally pitched as an app of patient videos on the use of anti-coagulants in atrial fibrillation, but expanded in topic during development. The team intends to add other modules in future releases.
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I have defined event handlers according to their classnames in the latest project that I'm working on.
for ex. all element with the class name "foo" should respond in a particular way on change event. and all elements with the class name "bar" should respond in some other way.
Now some of my elements fall under both classes i.e. class="foo bar" and they should respond in both ways. Right now, only one of the event handler function is being called.
How can I make both the responses execute simultaneously.
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Short answer, you can't. One will execute before the other. Simultaneous isn't possible, but, both should be executing in the order in which they were raised. Can you give us some code to look at? – The Internet Oct 2 '12 at 5:16
you can not execute both events "simultaneously". by the way what are these events, somehow it also depends on the events – diEcho Oct 2 '12 at 5:31
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It depends on how you are binding the events. If you are binding them via jQuery and not overwriting the handlers via x.onchange = function() {... } - all the bound event handlers will get executed. This is because jQuery queues the event handlers instead of overwriting the previous binding(s).
Check this fiddle to see multiple events getting fired:
Check this fiddle to see how the event handlers are overwritten causing only the last bound handler to fire
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What you want is a variation of "behaviors" pattern.
It lets you to automatically process events on elements with given classes or other attributes.
The usual implementation is to listen to events on "document", and then, by event.target, define the action.
For example:
$(document).on('click change', '.foo.bar', (function(e) {
 var classes = this.className.split(/\s+/);
 $.each(classes, function(i, cls) {
 handle(e.type, this, cls);
function handle(e.type, elem, cls) {
 // example: Event type click on elem DIV with class foo
 alert("Event type " + e.type + " on elem " + elem.tagName + " with class " + cls);
Here function handle with process all events on elements with classes of your choice. If you wish to add other events or classes, just append them into the "on" list.
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Minimally invasive (laparoscopy) surgery techniques
Most adrenal disease requiring surgery can be done using minimally invasive (laparoscopy) surgery techniques. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is the preferred technique for non-cancerous adrenal disease, including the following:
- Aldosterone-secreting adrenal tumors (Conn's syndrome)
- Cortisol-secreting adrenal tumors (Cushing's syndrome)
- Adrenalin-producing adrenal tumors (Pheochromocytoma)
- Primary adrenal hyperplasia
- Adrenal hyperplasia after failed treatment of Cushing's disease
- Large nonfunctioning adrenal tumors (<10-12cm)
- Adrenal metastasis
The operation is performed using small skin incisions and a camera called a laparoscope.
Patients are usually place on their left or right side depending on which gland is been removed. Three to five small incisions (cut) are typically made under the rib cage. Operative ports called trocars are placed. Using these ports, a camera and surgical instruments are placed into the abdomen.
The camera projects the inside of the patient's abdomen onto a television monitor. The surgeon performs the operation while looking at a television monitor. Once the adrenal gland is freed, it is placed in a bag and removed through one of the very small skin incisions.
Laparoscopic adrenal surgery has become the standard of care for most diseases of the adrenal gland. Compared to open adrenal surgery, laparoscopic adrenal surgery has several benefits, including:
- Less pain after surgery
- Less pain medication
- Smaller scars
- Less wound complications (wound infection, abscess)
- Faster return of bowel function
- Shorter hospital stay (1-2 days versus 5-7 days)
- More rapid recovery (2 weeks versus 4-8 weeks)
- Earlier return to work and other activities
- Less overall complications.


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The first known study to explore optimal outpatient exam scheduling given the flexibility of inpatient exams has resulted in shorter wait times for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patients at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Mass. A team of researchers from Dartmouth Engineering and Philips worked to identify sources of delays for MRI procedures at Lahey Hospital in order to optimize scheduling and reduce overall costs for the hospital by 23 percent.
The Dartmouth-led study, "Stochastic programming for outpatient scheduling with flexible inpatient exam accommodation," was sponsored by Philips and recently published by Health Care Management Science in collaboration with Lahey Hospital.
"Excellence in service and positive patient experiences are a primary focus for the hospital. We continuously monitor various aspects of patient experiences and one key indicator is patient wait times," said Christoph Wald, chair of the department of radiology at Lahey Hospital and professor of radiology at Tufts University Medical School. "With a goal of wanting to improve patient wait times, we worked with data science researchers at Philips and Dartmouth to help identify levers for improvement that might be achieved without impeding access."
Prior to working with the researchers, on an average weekday, outpatients at Lahey Hospital waited about 54 minutes from their arrival until the beginning of their exam. Researchers determined that one of the reasons for the routine delays was a complex scheduling system, which must cater to emergency room patients, inpatients, and outpatients; while exams for inpatients are usually flexible and can be delayed if necessary, other appointments cannot.
"Mathematical models and algorithms are crucial to improve the efficiency of healthcare systems, especially in the current crisis we are going through. By analyzing the patient data, we found that delays were prominent because the schedule was not optimal," said first author Yifei Sun, a Dartmouth Engineering Ph.D. candidate. "This research uses optimization and simulation tools to help the MRI centers of Lahey Hospital better plan their schedule to reduce overall cost, which includes patient waiting time."
First, the researchers reviewed data to analyze and identify sources of delays. They then worked on developing a mathematical model to optimize the length of each exam slot and the placement of inpatient exams within the overall schedule. Finally, the researchers developed an algorithm to minimize the wait time and cost associated with exam delays for outpatients, the idle time of equipment, employee overtime, and cancelled inpatient exams.
"This iterative improvement process did result in measurable improvements of patient wait times," said Wald. "The construction and use of a simulation model have been instrumental in educating the Lahey team about the benefits of dissecting workflow components to arrive at an optimized process outcome. We have extended this approach to identify bottlenecks in our interventional radiology workflow and to add additional capacity under the constraints of staffing schedules."
The researchers believe their solutions are broadly applicable, as the issue is common to many mid-sized hospitals throughout the country.
"We also provided suggestions for hospitals that don't have optimization tools or have different priorities, such as patient waiting times or idle machine times," said Sun, who worked on the paper with her advisor Vikrant Vaze, the Stata Family Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth.


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Wisconsin's population could grow by 800,000 people over the next three decades. A report from the state and UW-Madison Applied Population Laboratory projects a 14 percent growth rate over the next 30 years, which would bring the state population up to 6.5 million residents by 2040.
The report is based on 2010 census data and other population projection models, according to David Egan-Robertson with the UW-Madison Applied Population Laboratory. He says it's meant to help officials get an idea of the possible age distribution, mortality rates, and migrations into the state in the coming years.
Egan-Robertson says they expect the most rapid growth over the next decade or so, as the economy improves. The addition of more jobs will spark new migration into Wisconsin, which usually increases birth rates as well.
Growth could drop off around 2026, as the leading edge of the baby boomers start hitting their mid-80s. Egan-Roberts says nearly one-in-four Wisconsinites are expected to be age 65 or older by 2040, which is almost double the level of where that demographic currently rests.
Information from the report is expected to help the state project and plan what infrastructure improvements and additional services may be needed as the make-up of the population changes.
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 12, 2013
Nominated early this year for recognition on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which includes such famous cultural sites as the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu and Stonehenge, the earthen works at Poverty Point, La., have been described as one of the world's greatest feats of construction by an archaic civilization of hunters and gatherers.
Now, new research in the current issue of the journal Geoarchaeology, offers compelling evidence that one of the massive earthen mounds at Poverty Point was constructed in less than 90 days, and perhaps as quickly as 30 days - an incredible accomplishment for what was thought to be a loosely organized society consisting of small, widely scattered bands of foragers.
"What's extraordinary about these findings is that it provides some of the first evidence that early American hunter-gatherers were not as simplistic as we've tended to imagine," says study co-author T.R. Kidder, PhD, professor and chair of anthropology in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
"Our findings go against what has long been considered the academic consensus on hunter-gather societies - that they lack the political organization necessary to bring together so many people to complete a labor-intensive project in such a short period."
Co-authored by Anthony Ortmann, PhD, assistant professor of geosciences at Murray State University in Kentucky, the study offers a detailed analysis of how the massive mound was constructed some 3,200 years ago along a Mississippi River bayou in northeastern Louisiana.
Based on more than a decade of excavations, core samplings and sophisticated sedimentary analysis, the study's key assertion is that Mound A at Poverty Point had to have been built in a very short period because an exhaustive examination reveals no signs of rainfall or erosion during its construction.
"We're talking about an area of northern Louisiana that now tends to receive a great deal of rainfall," Kidder says. "Even in a very dry year, it would seem very unlikely that this location could go more than 90 days without experiencing some significant level of rainfall. Yet, the soil in these mounds shows no sign of erosion taking place during the construction period. There is no evidence from the region of an epic drought at this time, either."
Part of a much larger complex of earthen works at Poverty Point, Mound A is believed to be the final and crowning addition to the sprawling 700-acre site, which includes five smaller mounds and a series of six concentric C-shaped embankments that rise in parallel formation surrounding a small flat plaza along the river. At the time of construction, Poverty Point was the largest earthworks in North America.
Built on the western edge of the complex, Mound A covers about 538,000 square feet [roughly 50,000 square meters] at its base and rises 72 feet above the river. Its construction required an estimated 238,500 cubic meters - about eight million bushel baskets - of soil to be brought in from various locations near the site. Kidder figures it would take a modern, 10-wheel dump truck about 31,217 loads to move that much dirt today.
"The Poverty Point mounds were built by people who had no access to domesticated draft animals, no wheelbarrows, no sophisticated tools for moving earth," Kidder explains. "It's likely that these mounds were built using a simple 'bucket brigade' system, with thousands of people passing soil along from one to another using some form of crude container, such as a woven basket, a hide sack or a wooden platter."
To complete such a task within 90 days, the study estimates it would require the full attention of some 3,000 laborers. Assuming that each worker may have been accompanied by at least two other family members, say a wife and a child, the community gathered for the build must have included as many as 9,000 people, the study suggests.
"Given that a band of 25-30 people is considered quite large for most hunter-gatherer communities, it's truly amazing that this ancient society could bring together a group of nearly 10,000 people, find some way to feed them and get this mound built in a matter of months," Kidder says.
Soil testing indicates that the mound is located on top of land that was once low-lying swamp or marsh land - evidence of ancient tree roots and swamp life still exists in undisturbed soils at the base of the mound. Tests confirm that the site was first cleared for construction by burning and quickly covered with a layer of fine silt soil. A mix of other heavier soils then were brought in and dumped in small adjacent piles, gradually building the mound layer upon layer.
As Kidder notes, previous theories about the construction of most of the world's ancient earthen mounds have suggested that they were laid down slowly over a period of hundreds of years involving small contributions of material from many different people spanning generations of a society. While this may be the case for other earthen structures at Poverty Point, the evidence from Mound A offers a sharp departure from this accretional theory. Kidder's home base in St.
Louis is just across the Mississippi River from one of America's best known ancient earthen structures, the Monk Mound at Cahokia, Ill. He notes that the Monk Mound was built many centuries later than the mounds at Poverty Point by a civilization that was much more reliant on agriculture, a far cry from the hunter-gatherer group that built Poverty Point. Even so, Mound A at Poverty Point is much larger than almost any other mound found in North America; only Monk's Mound at Cahokia is larger.
"We've come to realize that the social fabric of these socieites must have been much stronger and more complex that we might previously have given them credit. These results contradict the popular notion that pre-agricultural people were socially, politically, and economically simple and unable to organize themselves into large groups that could build elaborate architecture or engage in so-called complex social behavior," Kidder says.
"The prevailing model of hunter-gatherers living a life 'nasty, brutish and short' is contradicted and our work indicates these people were practicing a sophisticated ritual/religious life that involved building these monumental mounds."
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Maui's death in set net takes species one step closer to extinction
WWF-New Zealand's Executive Director Chris Howe says: "This death of a Maui's dolphin is a tragedy for a species that is down to only about 100 individuals. Set nets in Maui's habitat continue to pose an unacceptable risk to these dolphins. Until we get set nets out of the shallow coastal waters where they live, more Maui's will needlessly get entangled and drown. The species could be extinct within our generation without urgent action."
Maui's dolphins, a subspecies of the South Island's Hector's dolphins, are found only off the west coast of the North Island. They are the world's rarest marine dolphin, classified internationally as critically endangered.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) yesterday released a statement saying they believe that the dead animal was a Maui's, not a Hector's dolphin as originally reported, because of the location of its death. The dead dolphin was returned to the sea by the fisher. MAF claimed the death "occurred outside of the current known range of Maui's dolphins, as well as outside the current restrictions."
However there have been independent verified sightings of Maui's dolphins in the coastal waters off Taranaki in recent years, and WWF-New Zealand is urging MAF and the government to extend protection measures throughout the Maui's historical range to give the species the best chance of survival and recovery.
Despite fishing restrictions announced in 2008, Maui's are not currently protected throughout their entire range. WWF is calling on the government to extend protection measures into harbours and the southern extent of their current range, along with better monitoring and policing of regulations.
WWFNew Zealand is urging all members of the public who see a Maui's dolphin – noted for their rounded dorsal fin - to report it to a special sightings hotline, 0800 4 MAUIS. Mr Howe says: "Every sighting of one of these rare and precious dolphins matters. The more we know about where Maui's range and their movements, the better we can protect them.
"WWF will continue to speak out on behalf of all those New Zealanders who want to stop the extinction of Maui's dolphins, and urge the government to extend the current protection measures before it is too late."


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Unformatted text preview: Physics 212 Problem Set One 1. Perturbed Square Well Consider a one-dimensional system consisting of a particle of mass m and charge e in the potential well V ( x ) shown (see figure). 6 6 - a 2- a 4 a 4 a 2- x 6? b = 2 h 2 8 ma 2 V ( x ) The potential energy function is V ( x ) =, x <- a 2,x > a 2,- a 2 < x <- a 4, a 4 < x < a 2 b,- a 4 < x < a 4. Suppose that b = 2 h 2 8 ma 2 and is sufficiently small that we can treat this problem by means of perturbation theory. (a) Write expressions for the unperturbed ( b =0) eigenfunctions and energy eigenvalues. (b) Obtain an expression for the first-order perturbed energy of the ground state of the system, expressing your result in terms of b and fundamental constants. (c) Write an expression for the first-order perturbed wave function of the ground state in terms of the complete set of unperturbed functions of part (a). (You need not evaluate matrix elements in your expression.) (d) What is the time-dependent stationary-state wave function for the ground state of the unperturbed system?(d) What is the time-dependent stationary-state wave function for the ground state of the unperturbed system?...
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|Title||Word-level Invariant Representations From Acoustic Waveforms|
|Publication Type||Conference Paper|
|Year of Publication||2014|
|Authors||Voinea, S, Zhang, C, Evangelopoulos, G, Rosasco, L, Poggio, T|
|Conference Name||INTERSPEECH 2014 - 15th Annual Conf. of the International Speech Communication Association|
|Keywords||Invariance, Speech Representation, Theories for Intelligence|
Extracting discriminant, transformation-invariant features from raw audio signals remains a serious challenge for speech recognition. The issue of speaker variability is central to this problem, as changes in accent, dialect, gender, and age alter the sound waveform of speech units at multiple scales (phonemes, words, or phrases). Approaches for dealing with this variability have typically focused on analyzing the spectral properties of speech at the level of frames, on par with frame-level acoustic modeling usually applied to speech recognition systems. In this paper, we propose a framework for representing speech at the whole-word level and extracting features from the acoustic, temporal domain, without the need for spectral encoding or pre-processing. Leveraging recent work on unsupervised learning of invariant sensory representations, we extract a signature for a word by first projecting its raw waveform onto a set of templates and their transformations, and then forming empirical estimates of the resulting one-dimensional distributions via histograms. The representation and relevant parameters are evaluated for word classification on a series of datasets with increasing speaker-mismatch difficulty, and the results are compared to those of an MFCC-based representation.
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In which Scrabble dictionary does RESORPTION exist?
Definitions of RESORPTION in dictionaries:
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the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation
The act or process of resorbing.
adj - the act or process of sorbing [n -S] : SORPTIVE
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