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Definition of Bloody sputum
Bloody sputum: Coughed up blood or bloody mucus. Bloody sputum can be caused by infection in the lungs and airways, such as acute bronchitis or pneumonia, or cancer. Whenever bloody sputum is present and cannot be attributed to a curable infectious condition, a complete lung evaluation is warranted, including bronchoscopy, to be certain cancer is not present. Also known as hemoptysis.
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Otto Stern was born in Sorau, Upper Silesia, Germany, on February 17, 1888. In 1892 he moved with his parents to Breslau, where he attended high school. He began to study physical chemistry in 1906, receiving his Ph.D. degree from the University of Breslau in 1912. In the same year he joined Einstein at the University of Prague and later followed him to the University of Zurich, where he became Privatdocent of Physical Chemistry at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in 1913.
In 1914, he went to the University of Frankfurt am Main as Privatdocent of Theoretical Physics, remaining there until 1921, except for a period of military service. From 1921 to 1922, he was Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Rostock, becoming, in 1923, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the laboratory at the University of Hamburg, where he remained until 1933.
After resigning from his post at the University of Hamburg in 1933, he became professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stern was an outstanding experimental physicist; his contributions included development of the molecular-beam method, discovery of spin quantization (with Walther Gerlach, 1922; see Stern-Gerlach experiment), measurement of atomic magnetic moments, demonstration of the wave nature of atoms and molecules, and discovery of the proton's magnetic moment. He was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Stern died on August 17, 1969.
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Color in Our World
Visible light is a small segment of the electromagnetic spectrum. Duration: 2:14.
Why Sunsets are Red
Using tuning forks, Hewitt demonstrates why we see certain colors when we look skyward. Duration: 8:55.
Selective Reflection
The color of an object depends upon the light source. Duration: 2:00.
Blue Sky, Red Sunsets, White Clouds
This video describes why the sky is blue, sunsets red, and clouds white. Duration: 6:58.
Mixing Colored Lights
The rules for combining colors is related to the radiation curve for sunlight. Duration: 7:12.
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Selective Transmission
The color of a transparent material results from selective absorption. Duration: 0:57.
Hewitt demonstrates the combination of different colored lights. Duration: 1:04.
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Mixing paints causes a change in color by way of a subtraction of select frequencies of light. Duration: 1:48.


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Understanding the ecosystem-level effects of stiltgrass: does it set the stage for its own success?
Plant secondary compounds frequently play an important role in plant invasions by influencing interactions between invading plants and other components of the ecosystem including herbivores, soil microbes, and competitors. Microstegium has been documented to have effects on a number of aspects of the ecosystem that are surprising given its physiology and life history, and may point to the presence of unusual secondary chemistry. This talk brings together evidence from the published literature with data from research currently in progress to evaluate the hypothesis that the ecosystem-level effects of Microstegium may be due to its secondary chemistry. First, we show that while Microstegium shows low rates of herbivory compared to co-existing native vegetation, this level of herbivory is not significantly lower than other native grasses. Combined with recent papers showing significant herbivory and fungal pathogens on Microstegium, we conclude that if Microstegium contains secondary compounds, they are insufficient to prevent consumption by native organisms. Secondly we evaluate the effects of leaf extracts of Microstegium on the functioning of soil microbial communities. Consistent with previous studies, we find that Microstegium appears to alter the function of soil communities, but that the effects of secondary chemistry in the leaf leachate seemed to be less important than whole-plant effects. Finally, we follow-up on a recent study showing that leaf-leachate from Microstegium significantly reduces germination in radish seeds by testing the effects of Microstegium on germination rates of tree seedlings. We find that leaf-extracts do have significant effects on the germination and growth rates of some, but not all tree species. We argue that further study of Microstegium's secondary chemistry, including identifying particular chemicals present and determining what factors affect the production of secondary compounds will be a productive route for understanding some of the intriguing ecosystem-level impacts of this invasive species.

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What is this thing?
This is a program designed for windows that allows specified sub-commands to be executed in a different process tree.
For example, if you are running a process that calls regsvr32, the normal execution will look like this:
cmd.exe - process.exe | - regsvr32.exe
With command-decoupler, it will look like this
cmd.exe - command-decoupler.exe | - process.exe | - regsvr32.exe
This program, in most situations, is completely useless. My use-case for this was spurred on by a bug in HPE's Fortify which caused some sub processes be behave incorrectly when wrapped by it's sourceanalyzer command. Full blogpost is here.
For example, if I had a C++ project that was configured to register a COM or OCX object, the following would fail:
sourceanalyzer.exe -b myid msbuild myproject\myproject.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=Win32
The process tree looks something like this:
cmd.exe - sourceanalyzer.exe | - msbuild | - regsvr32.exe (Fails to load OCX)
Using the command-decoupler to move the regsvr32 command to the outside of the Fortify process tree mysteriously works fine. The process tree would instead look like this:
cmd.exe - command-decoupler.exe | - sourceanalyzer.exe | | | - msbuild.exe - regsvr32.exe
Ok... How does this work?
Command-decoupler performs the following actions:
- Creates a named pipe, and starts a goroutine to monitor it for execution requests.
- For each -cmd specified, it creates a copy of itself with that name and places it into a temp folder (overridable by -path)
- It adds the temp folder (or folder specified by -path) to the PATH env var
- It starts the specified subcommand
- Any time the subcommand calls one of the masqerading binaries, that binary will send the parameters over the named pipe for execution, and the results will be sent back
- the command masqueraders can't correctly report the exact return code, it just returns 0 or 1
- it does not properly split out STDERR and STDOUT
- there have been situations where the temp dir isn't removed, and can cause collisions on subsequent executions
- it can't be executed in parallel with itself since the named pipe path is hardcoded


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This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of unobserved (unofficial) compensation (i.e., bribes) of public sector employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector counterparts. The gap is particularly large at the top of the wage distribution. At the same time, workers in both sectors have essentially identical level of consumer expenditures and asset holdings that unambiguously indicate the presence of non-reported compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery and find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0.9-1.2% of Ukraine's GDP in 2003).
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- Classification of cultivators
- How to choose a suitable cultivator for the land?
- Examples of the creation of the cultivator with your hands
- Example # 1 – Cultivator "Smart kid"
- Example # 2 – "Tornado"
- Example 3 – Disc rotary cultivator
- Example No. 4 – a Cultivator of chainsaws
- Example No. 5 – Cultivator from the engine or grinder
Before the creation of the handwritten cultivator, you first need to familiarize yourself with the principle of, design and existing functions. Now we will try to understand all this and give some striking examples of self-made cultivators, which will surely inspire you to create this miracle of technology.
Classification of cultivators
Classification of cultivators is highly complex and diverse, give examples of the main subtypes of cultivators for winter.
- Seedbed (steam) – used for continuous surface treatment
- Tilled – they treat the soil, located between the rows of sowing
- Rasteniepitateley – for working the soil between the rows with fertilizer special minerals
- Universal – used for solid and inter-row tillage
The number of processed rows:
- Single row
The type of the working parts:
By way of attaching to the tractor:
Possible work angle:
- Cultivators, working when tilted up to 20 degrees
- Cultivators, that work with any tilt of the earth's surface
- Light – used to work on small areas
- Medium – used on clay soils
- Heavy – duty professional units, which have greater engine power and the ability to attach additional equipment
The purpose of the work:
- Amateur – budget option, which provides for simple aggregations, employees for short-term work
- Semi-professional – Amateur differ from long-life operation
- Professional – is the most valuable technique, which is equipped with a powerful engine and has high reliability, unlike their "colleagues"
How to choose a suitable cultivator for the land?
To get started is to understand the purpose of various cultivators.
Light cultivators are ideal for small land, which has many different areas (the garden, lawn, garden, flower garden, etc.).
The average cultivators are suitable for larger plots of land.
If you need to track only belong to you the earth, do not buy professional units, because. they are very expensive, and the whole set of features you won't use. Then why throw your money away? It will be enough to buy a semi-professional cultivator, which, of course, will last you one season!
Examples of the creation of the cultivator with your hands
In order, to create the cultivator with your hands, it takes very little time and the orientation already taken by someone self-made unit. Now we bring to your attention 5 striking examples cultivators, which was created by gardeners at home
Example # 1 – Cultivator "Smart kid"
The simplest option is a homemade cultivator is this option. All you need is a pipe (the optimum diameter 24 mm, length of the respective growth), wheel (no more 20 cm in diameter), wooden axle, which will all be fixed, as well as studs and nuts.
First, attach the pipe to the wooden sticks (axis), and further to this same axle fasten wheel with studs and nuts. As a result, the axle rests on the wheel (which are recommended to be cut from metal, thick 2-3 mm) and lifted to a certain height above the ground depending on the diameter of the wheels. Small cultivator completely assembled and ready to work. All just, quickly and easily!
Example # 2 – "Tornado"
Creating a homemade cultivator of the type "Tornado" is as easy and quick, as in example No. 1. We need the components of this: strip of springy steel (length -50 cm, width – 2 cm, thickness – 1,5 mm) and wooden handle.
All we need is to bend the tape into a loop, attach it to a wooden handle and sharpened the edges with a file. It is recommended to create a "tornado" in diameter, a little less, than the distance between the rows (it usually is 20 cm).
Example 3 – Disc rotary cultivator
This option of the cultivator, created by your own hands, considered more complex, but an order of magnitude more efficient than the previous. It is possible not only to cultivate the land, but to align it, harrow and break up large pieces of land. The image below shows you a General view of disk rotary cultivator, and build order now we will provide you with. As for the necessary details, conventionally indicated in figure, these include: 1 disc, 2 –axis, 3 – Bush, 4 – great clip, 5 –little loop, 6 stock, 7 tube, 8 – handle.
First weld convex disks (they serve as working bodies of the cultivator) to sleeves, which are placed on the axis. Next, fix the axial ends, and for that we'll need splints, which are fixed in a large clip. Then you need to cut the top of the large bracket hole and fasten it to the pipe with handles and a crossbar. To a small bracket welded to the stock, diameter 24 mm and a length of 25 cm, in which further screwed rod diameter 16 mm.
That would give the disks a spherical shape, need to work with a hammer – strong strikes kick the bowl in the center of the disc. Immediately it is worth noting, this work heavy and require considerable physical effort.
Example No. 4 – a Cultivator of chainsaws
That would not have to spend a lot of money for the purchase of power tillers, was circulated this example, which shows how easy it is to create a cultivator, working on the basis of the motor chainsaw. To create it need a little "make friends" with technology, and also to have or to acquire some important components, which we now talk. All we need is:
- Metal corner
- Fuel tank
- Wheel (preferably the rubber)
- Sprocket on intermediate shaft (41 tooth)
- Sprocket (approach from the moped)
So, to start with the metal area weld a frame for the cultivator in the form of a cube, size 32*32 cm. To the top of the lateral parts attach the engine, lower the fuel tank (it is recommended to weld the bracket 15*15 cm). Then install a support for the intermediate shaft (place the angled upper upright). Then the supports are attached to the longitudinal angles (this is to mount bearings suspension shaft).
The center of gravity created by the tillers will fall on the supporting surface of the wheels, what makes operating the cultivator more comfortable. To create the handles we will need metal pipe (what would the handle was hard, choose a tube diameter of 30mm).
Stars we need to create a gear ratio from the intermediate shaft to the chassis. Depending on unit and operating conditions it is necessary correctly to pick up this gear ratio.
And finally collect all the elements of the Assembly together and enjoy his work. By the way the advantage of a homemade cultivator is less demanding in relation to fuels and lubricants, what can be said about imported models.
As you can see, the creation of such a cultivator does require certain technical skills, so if your "horse" Humanities, to make this miracle of technology will itself be a good task.
Example No. 5 – Cultivator from the engine or grinder
Another slightly tricky option of creating a device for the cultivation of the earth, which will save you money on the purchase of imported relative.
The advantage of this unit that, that rapid movement of the screw will carry out the breaking of the earth into large pieces, and slow just soften the soil.
The main element of such a cultivator is a reducer. To it will need welded 2 the area (on different sides), which will serve as the mount for the handles and axles. Selection of wheels is very important: big wheels is not easy, a little will get stuck and fail, so try to choose medium wheel.
Then machined the shaft and using sledgehammers oblivaetsya attachment for cultivator. In the remainder of the sleeve houses the shaft and welded screw-grouser. It is recommended to install the handle Assembly motor switch, that will make working more comfortable.
The provided examples are only a small fraction of cultivators, create yourself, therefore, if you have the imagination and love for art, you can create a unique unit for plowing the land. Wish you luck and brilliant ideas for creating garden machinery with his own hands! Recommend, also an article on, how to choose tiller to give.


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levels, legislation is being pursued to help ensure that genetic information is not used against people. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides employment anti-discrimination protection for people with disabilities and neurological disorders. In addition, as an example of state law, the State of California prohibits insurers, to varying degrees, from requiring or requesting genetic tests or their results, from denying coverage on the basis of genetic tests, and from using tests to determine rates and benefits. California law has provisions to protect the privacy of genetic information. However, in this time of flux and changing health care systems, it is not clear to what extent consumers are protected. People considering genetic testing need to consider potential risks for discrimination.
Whom to contact
Your primary care physician may be able to make a referral to a specialist such as a neurologist and genetic counselor as appropriate. The National Society of Genetic Counselors may also be a helpful source of referrals. A trained professional can help evaluate family history, document diagnosis and discuss whether testing options are available. In addition, in California there is a Genetically Handicapped Persons Program (see Resources section of this fact sheet).
How can genetic counseling help?
Genetic counselors are specially trained health professionals who help families learn about and cope with genetic conditions. If a person is considering testing, a genetic counselor would discuss risks, benefits, and limitations and provide balanced information for the individual to make an informed decision about whether to proceed with testing. There are many issues to consider including psychological impact, family issues, and privacy. Genetic counseling can be helpful in addressing these issues. Genetic counselors support families and individuals in making decisions about genetic testing and in adjusting to test results.
How do people decide about genetic testing?
The decision about whether to have testing is a very personal one. It should also be voluntary; people should have the test only if they want the information and should not be pressured into testing by relatives or health care providers.
Because the issues are so complex and the consequences so profound, the decision to have a genetic test deserves careful preparation and thought.
As a final note, it is also important to understand that the available information is changing rapidly as genetic research continues. It is likely that more information and genetic tests will be available in the future. Please use the Resource listings below to help stay informed and up to date.
Family Caregiver Alliance
785 Market Street, Suite 750
San Francisco, CA 94103
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E-mail: [email protected]
Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) seeks to improve the quality of life for caregivers through education, services, research and advocacy.
Through its National Center on Caregiving, FCA offers information on current social, public policy and caregiving issues and provides assistance in the development of public and private programs for caregivers.
For residents of the greater San Francisco Bay Area, FCA provides direct family support services for caregivers of those with Alzheimer's disease, stroke, head injury, Parkinson's and other debilitating disorders that strike adults.
Huntington's Disease Society of America
140 West 22nd St., 6th Flr.
New York, NY 10011-2420
HDSA maintains a list of genetic testing centers across the U.S.
Genetically Handicapped Persons Program
State of California Department of Health Services
714 P St., Rm. 300
Sacramento, CA 95814
Alliance of Genetic Support Groups
35 Wisconsin Circle, Suite 440
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
National Alliance for Rare Disorders
P.O. Box 8923
New Fairfield, CT 06812
National Society of Genetic Counselors
233 Canterbury Dr.
Wallingford, PA 19086-6617
Human Genome Management Information System
Oak Ridge National Lab
1060 Commerce Park MS 6480
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Publishes a Primer on Molecular Genetics.
Prepared by Ann Bourguignon, M.S., Genetic Counselor, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, for Family Caregiver Alliance and California's Caregiver Resource Centers, a statewide system of resource centers serving families and caregivers of brain-impaired adults. Funded by the California Department of Mental Health. Printed October 1997. ©All rights reserved.
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The dream of telescopic magnification is perhaps as old as mankind itself. Already Roger Bacon (c. 1219 - c. 1292) had dreamed of a device with which "a child might appear a giant, and a man a mountain". But why then was it not until 1608 that a spectacles-maker of Middelburg applied for an exclusive patent for a device that enlarged distant objects? What laid between the dream and reality? The search for an answer to these questions passes through the stages of developing an optical theory and producing lenses in the two centuries prior to the invention of the telescope.
Optics was a well-established mathematical discipline, boasting a tradition rooted in Antiquity. In the Middle Ages it became known as "perspectiva", and the perspectivist tradition of optics served as basis for many mathematicians who tried to establish the properties of mirrors and lenses in the 16 th century. But the conceptual innovations emerging from studies in the perspectivist tradition of optics soon came up against the material limitations imposed by the artisans' crude methods of constructing lenses.
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International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2006)
Precursors of a phase transition in a simple model system
Vivian Halpern
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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Most theoretical and numerical studies of phase transitions are concerned with the statistical mechanics and critical phenomena such as correlation lengths and critical slowing down as the temperature T is lowered towards the critical temperature Tc of the phase transition. However, an understanding of the microscopic properties of the system which are precursors of the phase transition as T approaches Tc is also of interest. Our studies show that the ferromagnetic 3-spin Potts models is a simple system in which these properties can readily be studied, and we have shown that changes in the environments of the states with time and temperature are responsible for its relaxation properties. Our new calculations indicate a change in the dominant relaxation mechanism as T approaches Tc, but not a dramatic change in them at Tc. On the other hand, we found that the tendency of the spins at most sites to return to their original values after having changed (which corresponds to the disapperance of long range diffusion of molecules in liquids as they freeze) does increase dramatically at Tc, so that the increase in this tendency as the temperature is lowered is a more reliable precursor of the phase transition. The relevance of these results to the behavior of other complex systems will be discussed.
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Quality and reliability analysis of youtube videos about branched-chain amino acids supplements: a pilot study
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CitationGünalan, E., Turhan, S., Yıldırım, B., Kaya Cebioğlu, İ. & Çonak, Ö. (2022). Quality and reliability analysis of youtube videos about branched-chain amino acids supplements: a pilot study. In U. Acaröz (Eds.). International congress on biological and health sciences. (pp. 342). ICBH
Abstract: The branched-chain amino acids (i.e. leucine, isoleucine and valine) (BCAA) play role in stimulating protein synthesis, recovery processes from exercise and protection of mental health after prolonged exercise. However, unconscious intake of BCAA supplements may contribute to the progression of pathological conditions such as renal failure and cancer, especially in unhealthy people. Social media tools such as YouTube and etc. are effective platforms to promote the use of such supplements. The aim of the study was to determine quality and reliability of branched-chain amino acids supplements related English videos on YouTube. "BCAA" and "BCAA supplements" terms were searched as key words and the mostly viewed 100 videos were obtained for each term. Unrelated to BCAA, non-Turkish and duplicated videos were excluded from study. Following the exclusion criteria, 9 videos were selected from 200 videos. The duration of videos, the number of like, the number of views and job of the person in the video were recorded. The quality and reliability of information on videos were evaluated using DISCERN, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark criteria and global quality score. The job of the person in videos was mostly fitness trainer (%88). The mean of DISCERN score was 41.5 ± 13.2, the mean of JAMA score was 1.2 ± 0.4 and the mean of global quality score was 2.6 ± 1.1. There was significantly positive correlation between JAMA score and video duration (r=0.8, p<0.05). According to findings, mostly viewed Turkish videos about BCAA were mostly low and average quality. Sports supplements are products consumed globally, and large-scale studies with much more videos are needed to identify the potential risk.


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Pets are an integral part of every pet owner's life. Thus, it is only normal for ailing pets to be a cause of concern to their owners. The most common pets to have these endearing effects on the hearts of humans are dogs and cats.
Managing sick pets can be a daunting task. It is even more complicated because pets cannot tell owners how they exactly feel. That is why knowing the entire process of sick pet management is very important.
Here are a few tips on how to manage a sick pet
1. Consult A Vet
If you have noticed any symptoms in your dog that's already spanning for some days, the first thing to do is to consult a vet. You can employ several vet consultation techniques, such as virtual consultations via the web and phone calls or the traditional method – physical consultation.
During both virtual and physical consultations, it is important to divulge all changes in your pet that you have noticed. Using the information you have provided and their professional insight, a vet can make the right diagnosis of your pet. If it is a virtual consultation, the vet might ask that you bring your pet in for further examination. In physical consultation, this is easily done since the dog is present there.
Doctors will proceed to give you the treatment procedures for your pets. These treatment procedures, such as UTI treatment for dogs, include scans and surgeries. They will help you know if they would still need any further investigations. They are also able to tell if the treatment is to start at once or on a later date.
2. Stick to Regimens from the Vet
Often, vets would prescribe drugs and other things for your sick pet. Proper pet management means being able to precisely follow the prescription of the vet.
You can be apt about keeping up with your pet's health by doing the following:
- Give the pet the specific dosage for each drug to be taken
- Pay attention to the specified times your dog should have their medications
- If you find feeding them to be difficult, get your vet's help.
- Keep the Pet Clean and Away from Other Animals
Sick pets don't have the same energy to get in the shower as they used to. Thus, it might require you to carry them personally to their cleaning rooms. Properly take care of them by giving a good bath as frequently as possible. Cleaning your pet while it is sick can detect any other unhealthy signs in the body.
Pets that are temporarily immobilized should be provided with beds that are comfortable for their situation. This includes finding ways for them to excrete comfortably. This is not the time to keep strict hygiene rules for your pet.
During UTI treatment for dogs and cats, sometimes they will accidentally pee. To take care of such pets, owners should get pets indoor toilets and beddings that don't retain urine to the pet's body.
For a pet that is very sick, pet isolation might be worthy of consideration. This is because their immune systems are typically very low, which means they are at risk of contracting another illness where care is not taken. You can't be aware of the germs other pets may have; hence it is also best to keep them indoors if possible.
3. Maintain the Pet's Quality of Life
If given the same dose of care it has always received, a pet will likely rise sooner from their sickbed. This is an aspect many caregivers tend to neglect. You need to make your pet happy at all times. You can try grooming and for grooming tips, you can see _URL_
A sick pet needs all the care and support they can get from their owners, especially from all the treatment procedures it is being subjected to, and if you are a really caring pet owner you can also make them happy by buying various types of pet grooming items.
Spend some time with a sick pet as you would a healthy one. Buy them toys if you can afford them. Play the less demanding games with your pet to keep them happy and active. Don't forget to give them some days out in the park as long as it doesn't affect their health.
4. Rethink Food and Feeding
Some of the life changes pets sometimes need to make when they are sick is on feeding. Pets might have a lesser appetite when they are sick. Thus, it is important to think about creative ways to get them to eat.
You can start with their known favorite meals. Just to be clear you are not feeding them wrong, ask your veterinarian's directions on what your pet should be eating during their sickness. Just as is the case with humans, you can also consider buying them treats, too.
More personal means of feeding, such as hand-feeding, sometimes work. When your pet is rejecting meals, you should consult the vet.
5. Be Wary of a Caregiver's Burnout
This point is tailored to the pet owners themselves. It is a common occurrence for people giving care to sick persons or pets to get too committed to taking care of the sick. Then, they tend to forget about themselves, risking becoming sick. This is a phenomenon called a caregiver's burnout.
To avoid becoming unhealthy due to the care you are giving to a sick pet, ensure to give yourself some personal time. Do the least bit to take care of yourself:
- Eat healthy as always
- Get adequate sleep but stay conscious about the pet's situation.
- If time permits, you can exercise.
- Take some hours away from pet care
- Don't blame yourself
- Find support
- Don't completely neglect your work for pet care
Sick pet management calls for understanding on the part of the pet owner. Pet owners must promptly take the step to consult and visit a vet at first sight of any symptoms.
When doctors prescribe drugs for pets, they must be appropriately administered. Due to a lower immunity in sickness, keep your pet clean and away from other animals. Ensure to dot on the pet more during its sickness; don't be all about drugs and cleaning. Instead, spend some quality time with them.
Feeding during sickness must be done with a lot of attention. However, watch out for yourself, so you don't forget about yourself while caring for your sick pet.


Whether male or female, athletes want to know what nutrition habits can help them perform at their peak. Carl will discuss some of the latest findings regarding nutrition tips in the first hour.
Towards the end of the previous decade it was determined that the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) had to make some major changes if they would survive, much less thrive. They needed a leader who would help put together a plan to keep MCG alive and moving forward into the future. The man chosen? Don Snell. Listen as he shares with Carl the changes that have been made since he assumed the leadership of MCG and how they've impacted the institution and surrounding cities.


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When the English first settled Australia in the eighteenth century, they established churches under the authority of the Bishop of London. Over the next two centuries the Anglican Church of Australia gradually moved towards independence from England. In 1814, responsibility for British subjects in Australia passed from the Bishop of London to the new Bishop of Calcutta, and in 1836 Australia was recognized as a diocese with its own bishop, William Grant Broughton. With this new recognition of the diocese of Australia came a time of great religious expansion and church building. By 1847 this expansion had become so great that Australia was split into separate dioceses of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Newcastle, each with their own bishops. As Australia's population and church grew, new dioceses continued to be formed. Five provinces of the church were established, each containing several dioceses. Every five years there was a general assembly of the bishops of each diocese, presided over by a single bishop elected by the others.
These signs of growth and organization clearly demonstrated the Australian church's need for independence, but the Church of England would not grant independence so long as the Australian church lacked a constitution specifically defining the powers of the General Assembly. Although the individual dioceses and provinces enjoyed a great deal of autonomy from the Church of England, the Anglican Church of Australia was not recognized as independent until 1962, three years after a general constitution was finally agreed upon.


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What if cities have dedicated urban interfaces in public spaces that invite people to share stories and memories of public interest, and facilitate the creation of a public narration? What if people share and access these stories and memories while chatting with a public bench? Will the interaction with the bench provide a meaningful, memorable and playful experience of a place?
The Bench of Multi-sensory Memories is an urban interface whose objective is to investigate the role of urban media in placemaking. It mediates the creation of a public narration, and affords citizens a playful and engaging interface to access and generate stories and memories that form this narration.
The bench has been designed and fabricated in collaboration with the Malaysian artist Alvin Tan, which has experience with bamboo installations in public spaces. Its structure is robust and it allows to easily and safely allocate all the hardware components. The hardware and software system consists of: a) input devices, the USB Microphone and the Force Sensitive Resistor (FSR) sensors; b) Analog-Digital or Digital-Analog (AD/DA) Converter Module Board; c) Microcontroller, a Raspberry Pi 3; d) output device, a Speaker; e) the software, the Google Speech API. The components operate as following: the FSR sensors detect the presence of a person in the bench through physical pressure, weight and pressing; the AD/DA Converter Module Board read the analogue values of the FSR sensors and convert them into digital values, readable by the Microcontroller; the Microcontroller, which has advanced features, such as the Wi-fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, USB, HDMI and Audio Jack, easily connects the inputs and output devices. Currently, the system software implements speech applications, such as text-tospeech and speech-totext: Google Speech API generates the voice based on the text, records the voice and translates the speech into text, through the output and input devices. Therefore, at the moment, the system performs a scripted sequence that includes text-tospeech and speech to text translations. In the short term, we will be able to employ a custom chatbot, that is able to conduct interactive and meaningful conversations.


M.D. Coverley
M.D. Coverley is the pen name for Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink. She is an American writer, scholar, and teacher. Coverley is renowned for her hypermedia fiction, and is best known for her epic hypertext novels, Califia and Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day. Her works incorporate text, image, animation, sound, and structure to create spatial, visual story worlds. A pioneer born-digital writer, she is part of the first generation of electronic literature authors that arose in the _PHONE_ period. Her career includes novels and short stories, scholarship, curating, editing, teaching, and publishing. She is the founding board member and past president of the Electronic Literature Organization and the first winner of the Electronic Literature Organization Career Achievement Award, which was named in her honor. (Source: Wikipedia; approved by M. Luesebrink.)


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Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- About changes in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Planning for an upgrade
- Master server upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- NetBackup Deployment Management with VxUpdate
- Appendix A. Reference
- About the NetBackup web user interface
About MSDP rolling data conversion
NetBackup 8.0 introduced the AES encryption algorithm to replace the existing Blowfish algorithm. NetBackup 8.1 introduces the SHA-2 fingerprint algorithm to replace the existing MD5-like algorithm. The upgrades to both the encryption and the fingerprint algorithms are designed to enhance data security.
The environments that are upgraded to NetBackup 8.1 may include Blowfish encrypted data and the MD5-like fingerprints that need to be converted to the new format. To handle the conversion and secure the data, a new internal task converts the current data container to the AES encryption and the SHA-2 fingerprint algorithm. This new task is referred to as the rolling data conversion.
Rolling data conversion traverses all existing data containers. If the data is encrypted with the Blowfish algorithm, the data is re-encrypted with the AES algorithm. Then a new SHA-2 fingerprint is generated. After the conversion, the data container has a new file with a
.map extension, in addition to the
.bin files. The
.map file contains the mapping between the SHA-2 and the MD5-like fingerprints. The
.bhd file includes the SHA-2 fingerprints.
In a new installation of NetBackup 8.1, the rolling data conversion is marked as Finished and doesn't start in the future. For an upgrade to NetBackup 8.1, the rolling data conversion is enabled by default and works in the background after the MSDP conversion completes. Only the data that existed before upgrade is converted. All new data uses the new SHA-2 fingerprint and does not need conversion.
You can manage and monitor the rolling data conversion using the crcontrol command. More information about its use is available.
See the NetBackup Deduplication Guide and the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.


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this glass water tank there are living organisms that may look like
plants but they are animals that can be found in tide pools along
the California coast. Many of these species spend their lives stuck
to rocks or separated from potential mates, and have developed unique
strategies to reproduce. Some reproduce sexually to create genetically
different individuals. Some simply divide in two, creating genetically
identical individuals called clones. And some can do both.


3.2.6 Directors
The FCA requires all societies' rules to state how the board of directors will be appointed and removed, and similarly, how the officers of the board will be appointed and removed, and the arrangements, if any, for paying directors. Under society legislation the minimum age for directors is 16.
The good governance of a society depends on having an active board, elected by the members, to oversee the affairs of the society. In electing a board, members are delegating their sovereign powers to this body. The directors are accountable to the membership, and are responsible for supervising the managers and executive staff who run the business. Societies, except for charitable societies, can choose to have a mix of executive and non-executive directors, or opt for an exclusively non-executive board, serviced by executive staff. The directors of charitable community benefit societies have a duty to act solely in the interest of the charity and must prevent conflicts of interest from affecting their decisions. This means they cannot receive any payment or benefit without authority, so it is unusual for charities to have executive directors on the board (see _URL_ ).
Consideration needs to be given to the size of the board, its composition, and the length of service of directors. Usually the size of the board is expressed in terms of a minimum and maximum number of directors, typically between three and 12. Some multi-stakeholder societies have rules that reserve a set number of places on the board for different membership categories. Societies may also have rules that allow the board to co-opt directors with specialist or professional skills. Most societies require directors to either retire or seek re-election after a defined period, typically three years, usually on a rotational basis so that no more than a third of the board are standing for election, thus allowing for some continuity of membership.
As a matter of good practice most societies, including charitable community benefit societies, will pay directors out-of-pocket expenses. Some societies also pay directors a fee commensurate with the services they provide. Charitable community benefit societies should follow the guidance provided by their national charity regulator on this matter, and ensure that their rules are compatible with this guidance.
Societies must have rules to remove directors. Usually this is a power held by a simple majority vote of members at a general meeting. Societies will normally have rules for removing directors who have been declared bankrupt, or are deemed medically incapable of carrying out their duties. Some societies have rules to remove directors if they fail to attend a minimum consecutive number of meetings.
The rules must also address the appointment of officers. All societies are obliged by law to appoint a secretary. Other officer posts, such as treasurer, chair and vice-chair, are at the discretion of the society. Other discretionary rules include provisions for the proceedings at board meetings, focusing mainly on quora and the role of the chair and the use of electronic media to conduct remote meetings.


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Just the Facts
What is Abstinence-centered Education?
Unlike other approaches that focus on contraceptive use, abstinence-centered education promotes primary prevention and teaches vital life skills that empower teens to avoid all risk by choosing abstinence. Such skills include: identifying healthy (and unhealthy) relationships; accurately understanding STDs and contraception; setting goals; healthy decision-making; and character building.


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Architecture into the Universe of Social Networks
Since the 1990s, the relationship between architecture and media has become the object of interest of a growing community of scholars and designers. Nevertheless, the vast majority of researches on the topic tend to address traditional media such as books, magazines and fanzines. Therefore, an important question emerges: how do Internet and social media affect architecture? Gathering literature from different fields, the seminar will focus on theoretical debates regarding the influence of digital communication technologies on cultural production. Exemplary case studies in the fields of art and architecture will also be debated. The aim of the seminar is to provide a first understanding of the current "Post-Internet" condition, while exploring its potential for architectural thinking and design. Selected essays and excerpts on media, art, architecture and social theory will be read, analyzed, interpreted, and discussed. Social media-friendly ways of recording the students work will be experimented.
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Penetrating Keratoplasty (PK)
PK is a full-thickness transplant procedure, in which a trephine of an appropriate diameter is used to make a full-thickness resection of the patient's cornea, followed by placement of a full-thickness donor corneal graft. Interrupted and/or running sutures are placed in radial fashion at equal tension to minimize post-operative astigmatism (Figure 2). Later, the sutures are removed selectively to reduce the amount of astigmatism present. A transplant can last decades with proper care (Figure 3). While once the most prominent type of corneal transplant, PK has been supplanted by partial thickness techniques for endothelial dysfunction without significant stromal scarring. PKs are performed primarily for visually significant stromal scarring, opacities with an uncertain status of the endothelium or significant posterior corneal involvement, corneal ectasia (such as keratoconus and pellucid marginal degeneration, especially if there is history of hydrops), combined stromal and epithelial disease (such as Peters anomaly), and infectious or non-infectious corneal ulcerations or perforations (1, 14). A variant of the procedure, the mini-PK, can be used to treat more focal defects in the cornea (Figure 4).
PK grants the ability to treat disease in the epithelial, stromal, and endothelial layers. A full-thickness graft also eliminates optical interface related visual problems that may exist with lamellar transplants with a stroma-stroma interface.
However, postoperative recovery time is relatively long, sometimes taking years to achieve best-corrected visual acuity. Frequently, there is substantial postoperative refractive error due to high regular or irregular astigmatism of the graft, and a higher chance of requiring rigid gas permeable contact lens wear to correct astigmatic error. There is a higher risk of allograft rejection compared with other keratoplasty types. Additionally, PKs carry a higher lifetime risk of wound dehiscence due to the compromised tectonic strength that comes from a full-thickness wound.
Basic procedure steps (Video 1)
- Mark the center of the host cornea with a Sinskey hook. Use calipers to measure the corneal diameter to determine the appropriate size for donor trephine.
- Trephinate the donor tissue, typically aiming for 0.25 or 0.5 mm larger than the planned host trephination.
- Trephinate the host cornea to approximately 90% depth.
- Create a paracentesis in the trephination groove or the corneal periphery, and inject Healon into the anterior chamber to preserve anterior chamber depth and stability.
- After using a blade to enter the eye through the trephination groove, resect the host cornea tissue using curved corneal scissors.
- Secure the donor graft to the host corneal tissue using interrupted and/or running 10-0 nylon sutures.
- Rotate the sutures to bury the knots, assess the astigmatism using an intraoperative keratometer, and consider placing additional sutures to reduce astigmatic error.


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In music, the sarabande (Sp., zarabanda; It., sarabanda) is a dance in triple metre. The second and third beats of each measure are often tied, giving the dance a distinctive rhythm of quarter notes and eighth notes in alternation.[vague] The quarter notes are said to correspond with the dragging steps in the dance.
The sarabande is first mentioned in Central America: in 1539, a dance called a zarabanda is mentioned in a poem written in Panama by Fernando Guzmán Mexía. Apparently the dance became popular in the Spanish colonies before moving back across the Atlantic to Spain. While it was banned in Spain in 1583 for its obscenity, it was frequently cited in literature of the period (for instance in works by Cervantes and Lope de Vega).
In the Baroque era the suite typically included a sarabande, as the third of four movements in the standard 18th-century form: allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue. Johann Sebastian Bach sometimes gave the sarabande a privileged place in his music even outside the context of dance suites; in particular, the aria theme and climactic 25th variation from Bach's Goldberg Variations are both sarabandes.
The sarabande form was revived in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (in his Holberg Suite of 1884), French composers such as Debussy and Satie, and in England, in different styles, Vaughan Williams (in Job: A Masque for Dancing), Benjamin Britten (in the Simple Symphony) and Herbert Howells (in Six Pieces for Organ: Saraband for the Morning of Easter).
One of the best-known constant-harmony variation types is the anonymous La Folia whose harmonic sequence appears in pieces of various types (mainly dances) by dozens of composers from the time of Mudarra (1546) and Corelli through the present day. The theme of the fourth-movement Sarabande of Handel's Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) for harpsichord is a variation of this piece, and is featured prominently in the film Barry Lyndon.
Other sarabandes
The sarabande inspired the title of Ingmar Bergman's last film Saraband (2003). The film uses the sarabande from Johann Sebastian Bach's Fifth Cello Suite, which Bergman also used in Cries and Whispers (1971).
- "Richard Hudson: "Sarabande", New Grove Online (subscription access)". Retrieved 2006-11-13.
- Richard Hudson and Meredith Ellis Little, "Sarabande: 1. Early Development to c1640", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- Giuseppe Gerbino and Alexander Silbiger, "Folia", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001); Elaine Sisman, "Variations, §3: Variation Types", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- Ingmar Bergman Saraband - Sources of inspiration
Further reading
- Carvajal, Mara Lioba Juan. 2007. La zarabanda: pluralidad y controversia de un género musical. Arte y expresión. [Zacatecas, Mexico]: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Programa Integral de Fortalecimiento Institucional; México, D.F.: Plaza y Valdés. ISBN 9789707225626.
|Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Saraband.|
- Example of a reconstructed Sarabande by Kaspar Mainz, with Il Giardino Armonico
- Streetswing.com Dance History Archives
- Example of a Sarabande dance choreography "La Sarabande à deux", Feuillet (1704)


How to Tell the Age of a Palm Tree
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Some trees are carbon-dated to determine their ages. This dating method works well for trees that live in climates without great weather fluctuations. If the carbon in the middle of the tree remains in the same area from early growth to maturity, then this dating method can be valid. However, as points out, trees such as palms "do not have a single definable area of their trunk that dates to the tree's early years."
Ask a park ranger about a palm tree in a national park to learn its history.
The general rule for telling the age of a tree is to count the rings on its trunk. However, this rule doesn't work for the palm tree. Indeed, the lack of easily identifiable markings on its trunk makes the palm a challenging tree to date. The best way to determine a palm tree's age is to investigate its history. The life spans of palms are dependent on the type of palm. For example, green thatch palm's life span is about 150 years while an oil palm's life span is only about 25.
Step 1
Research the history of the palm tree you want to date. This is easier if the palm tree is on a protected site, such as a national park. A park ranger or a horticulturalist on site may be able to help you identify how old the palm tree is.
Step 2
Look up the species of the tree using resources at the library to get a general sense of the lifespan of the palm tree.
Step 3
Determine if the tree has gone through a radiocarbon dating process. A national park service representative might be able to tell you if this information is available. Radiocarbon dating is a scientific process that measures the tree's growth rate by analyzing it with chemicals. This is a contested method--and one that's used sometimes for dating palm trees--because it takes the tree's growth rate over a certain time span and infers this rate for the lifespan of the plant. This method, however, doesn't take into account factors that can inhibit growth at any given time, such as climate or disease.
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MyHDL: a Python-Based Hardware Description Language
Having introduced the concepts, we now are ready to tackle a real design example with MyHDL. I have chosen a serial peripheral interface (SPI) slave hardware module. SPI is a popular synchronous serial control interface originally designed by Motorola.
A single SPI master can control multiple slaves. There are three common I/O ports: mosi, the master-out, slave-in serial line; miso, the master-in, slave-out serial line; and sclk, the serial clock driven by the master. In addition, a slave select line, ss_n, exists for each slave. SPI communication always occurs in the two directions simultaneously. In general, the active clock edge that triggers data changes is configurable. In this example, we use the rising edge.
The MyHDL code of the SPI slave is shown in Listing 1. A classic Python function called SPISlave is used to model a hardware module. The function has all interface signals as its parameters, and it returns two generators. This code illustrates how hierarchy is modeled in MyHDL: a higher-level function calls lower-level functions and includes the returned generators in its own return value.
Listing 1. MyHDL Model of an SPI Slave
from myhdl import Signal, posedge, negedge, intbv ACTIVE_n, INACTIVE_n = bool(0), bool(1) IDLE, TRANSFER = bool(0), bool(1) def toggle(sig): sig.next = not sig def SPISlave(miso, mosi, sclk, ss_n, txdata, txrdy, rxdata, rxrdy, rst_n, n=8): """ SPI Slave model. miso -- master in, slave out serial output mosi -- master out, slave in serial input sclk -- shift clock input ss_n -- active low slave select input txdata -- n-bit input with data to be transmitted txrdy -- toggles when new txdata can be accepted rxdata -- n-bit output with data received rxrdy -- toggles when new rxdata is available rst_n -- active low reset input n -- data width parameter """ cnt = Signal(intbv(0, min=0, max=n)) def RX(): sreg = intbv(0)[n:] while 1: yield negedge(sclk) if ss_n == ACTIVE_n: sreg[n:1] = sreg[n-1:] sreg = mosi if cnt == n-1: rxdata.next = sreg toggle(rxrdy) def TX(): sreg = intbv(0)[n:] state = IDLE while 1: yield posedge(sclk), negedge(rst_n) if rst_n == ACTIVE_n: state = IDLE cnt.next = 0 else: if state == IDLE: if ss_n == ACTIVE_n: sreg[:] = txdata toggle(txrdy) state = TRANSFER cnt.next = 0 else: # TRANSFER sreg[n:1] = sreg[n-1:] if cnt == n-2: state = IDLE cnt.next = (cnt + 1) % n miso.next = sreg[n-1] return RX(), TX()
The module interface contains some additional signals and parameters. txdata is the input data word to be transmitted, and txrdy toggles when a new word can be accepted. Similarly, rxdata contains the received data word, and rxrdy toggles when a new word has been received. Finally, there is a reset input, rst_n, and a parameter n that defines the data word width.
Inside the SPI slave module, we create a signal, cnt, to keep track of the serial cycle number. It uses an intbv object as its initial value. intbv is a hardware-oriented class that works like an integer with bit-level facilities. Python's indexing and slicing interface can be used to access individual bits and slices. Also, an intbv object can have a minimum and a maximum value.
The RX generator function describes the receive behavior. Whenever the slave select line ss_n is active low, the mosi input is shifted to the shift register sreg. The yield negedge(sclk) statement indicates that the action occurs on the falling clock edge. In the last serial cycle, the shift register is transferred to the rxdata output and rxrdy toggles.
The TX generator function is slightly more complicated, because it requires a small state machine to control the protocol. The yield statement specifies two events in this case, meaning that the generator is resumed on the event that occurs first. When the reset input is active low, cnt and state are reset. In the other case, the action depends on the state. In the IDLE state, we wait until the select line goes active low before accepting the data word for transmission and going to the TRANSFER state. In the TRANSFER state, the shift register is shifted out serially. The state machine maintains the proper serial cycle count and returns to the IDLE state on the last shift.
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What is the Wine Aroma Wheel?
The Wine Aroma Wheel is an incredible tool to learn about wines and enhance one's ability to describe the complexity of flavor in red and white wines.
Initially, most people can't recognize or describe aromas so the purpose of the wheel is to provide terms to describe wine aromas.
The wheel has very general terms located in the center (e.g. fruity or spicy), going to the most specific terms in the outer tier (such as strawberry or clove). These terms are NOT the only words that can be used to describe wines, but represent ones that are most often encountered.
Easy to use and understand, it will enhance your whole wine experience.
"A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from Wine."


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During The Middle Ages, knights used a coat of arms to identify themselves, which was especially useful in battle. In a society where few people could read and write, pictures were very important.
Classroom Activity: Create Your Coat of Arms
Traditional Colors: Black, Royal Purple, Emerald Green, Royal Blue or Sky Blue, Bright Red Metals: Gold (yellow) and Silver (white)
The basic rule is "metal on color or color on metal, but not metal on metal or color on color." This means that the field (the background) on the shield can be either a metal or a color.
Animals were frequently used as a main charge. They were not drawn to look three dimensional, but were shown as if they were flat. The pictures were to represent the animal as a symbol: Lion, Bear, Boar, Eagle, Horse, Dragon, Griffin.
Use these medieval symbols and mythical creatures to create your own shield or family coat of arms and explain the reason for your choices.


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Merz Picture 32 A. The Cherry Picture
Kurt Schwitters
(German, 1887–1948)
1921. Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper, cloth, wood, metal, cork, oil, pencil, and ink on paperboard, 36 1/8 x 27 3/4" (91.8 x 70.5 cm)
Kurt Schwitters made this work from scraps and objects he collected from the streets of his hometown of Hanover, Germany. Although he scavenged the fragments, Schwitters carefully composed and affixed them with glue and nails to a painted board to make this collage. Merz Picture 32A. The Cherry Picture has many layers: light and dark paint on the board form the base of the collage and give an illusion of depth; affixed to the board are various fabrics, an image of kittens, candy wrappers, newspaper clippings, and a flashcard of cherries, onto which Schwitters penciled the ungrammatical phrase "Ich liebe dir!" ("I love she!"). Three-dimensional objects, including a broken pipe, protrude from the surface.
Merz Picture 32A belongs to the so-called Merz series, a term Schwitters made up by cutting a scrap from the second syllable of the German word "Kommerz" (commerce), which he included in one of his early collage paintings. Schwitters was trained as a painter, but as World War I came to an end he adopted collage as his preferred process, saying, "Everything had broken down in any case and new things had to be made out of the fragments."1 With his Merz project he aimed "to create connections, preferably between everything in this world."
Leah Dickerman, Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris (Landover, Maryland: The National Gallery of Art, 2005), 159
A term invented by the artist Kurt Schwitters to describe his works made from scavenged fragments and objects.
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Schwitters called his work Merz to distinguish it from Dada. His Merz collages stood out for the wide-ranging and at times personal nature of the materials they incorporated. He wrote, "I could not, in fact, see the reason why old tickets, driftwood, cloakroom tabs, wires, and parts of wheels, buttons and old rubbish found in attics and refuse dumps should not be a suitable material for painting as the paints made in factories."
AUDIO: Curators Anne Umland and Leah Dickerman discuss Schwitter's Merz works
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Merz Picture 32 A. The Cherry Picture
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I was asked by a member of staff about sorting out a way of booking student appointments using WebCT.
We could look at creating collaborative documents using Writely, but that involves students having more passwords to remember.
Using the WebCT calendar means that the students have less steps to take in order to do what they want to.
I've recorded the process in the screencasts linked to below. They are in.wmv format.
2. Changing the settings to public
3. Adding an entry
4. How the students add entries


Jazz Age Manhattan and the Making of Modern America
A scene from Harlem in the 1920s
Manhattan was transformed by jazz, night clubs, radio, skyscrapers, movies, and the tremendous energy of the 1920s. Donald Miller details the story of Manhattan's growth and transformation in the roaring twenties and the brilliant people behind it. His book Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America looks at everyone from Walter Chrysler to William Paley, Elizabeth Arden and her rival Helena Rubenstein, who all shared ambition and a drive to fulfill their dreams in New York. He explains how Manhattan became the social, cultural, and commercial hub of the country.


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Doves Versus Hawks
Mixed opinions from an overflowing nuclear cauldron
Doves Versus Hawks
It is not easy to categorise a collection of papers presented at a university seminar. In the world of nuclear arsenals, learned opinion is vertically divided between the proponents of nuclear weapons and the opponents to weaponisation. Within this bipolar universe is a range of opinions where the fulcrum varies from ethical positions to economic positions: "pragmatism" is the term used by both the camps as they differ in their assumptions and their conclusions. Nuclear India, as a collection of papers presented at Jadavpur University, has all the advantages and the disadvantages of a university seminar.
The book tries to be inclusive, thus favouring a debate, and to look beyond the immediate impact of Pokhran II. The three broad issues discussed are the bomb, deterrence and arms control; non-military variables; and diplomacy and foreign relations. Its biggest achievement is in the recognition that in India there is no consensus on any aspect of the nuclear issue. It also brings to the fore the far greater divide among the proponents of the nuclear weapons. From being a minimum...
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Acknowledge the effort of your dad with our Astronaut Hello Superhero Balloons Bouquet. As it is unable to measure and explain the amount of effort needed to raise and take care of the family, just like how we get inspired by the first Astronaut who ever walked on the moon.
The Astronaut Superhero Balloons Bouquet consists of 2 balloons in a cluster:
- 1pc 37" Adorable Astronaut Foil Balloon
- 1pc 18" Personalised Name Blue Colored Crystal Clearz Bubble Balloon
Material: Mylar Foil and Superior quality stretchy plastic/poly film; Manufactured by USA Brand
The Astronaut Superhero Balloons Bouquet is
(1) Helium Gas Filled (Floating Time: approx 24 hours);
- Floating time in air: Approximately 24 Hours for Adorable Astronaut Foil Balloon, depending on weather condition/temperature and how balloons are being handled and transported
- Floating time in air: Approximately 3days for Personalised Name Blue Colored Crystal Clearz Bubble Balloon, depending on weather condition/temperature and how balloons are being handled and transported
- Approximately 1.8 meter in total height, Balloons will be tied in cluster.
- Attached to a balloon weight (for balloon to stay grounded)
Warning: Adult supervision is required as uninflated balloons can be a choking hazard. Keep uninflated balloons out of reach from children and discard broken balloons. Do not inhale helium gas at all time, it can be a health hazard.
Disclaimer: Product photos are for illustrative purposes only. Actual colors may vary from the product photos, and may also vary from the PC/Mobile/Tablet's screen due to monitor color restrictions.


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This is a story idea from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. To arrange for an interview with a researcher, please contact the Communications and External Relations staff member identified at the end of the tip.
In the aftermath of last year's Hurricane Katrina, responders looked to the Department of Energy for information on the condition of vital infrastructural resources such as the electric power grid. In the meantime, ORNL researchers, in a partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority, have developed a visualization system that gives responders a real-time sense of the state of a hurricane-prone region's power grid before, during and after a potentially catastrophic storm or other emergency. The project sprang from the 2003 Northeast blackout, when it was realized that a wider awareness of the status of the power grid would have helped operators react to the crisis. The resulting grid visualization program has been cited as one of the ways the government has enhanced its preparedness for the 2006 hurricane season.
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Spazio, luogo, mappe (con una postilla)
 - Piero Falchetta Independent Researcher
This paper intends to provide an epistemological reflection on the problem of the representability of space. The author's core argument is that the aporia of the representation of space is mainly revealed by geographical maps. More precisely, a territory cannot be described exhaustively by a map. Nevertheless, the author argues that the process of hominization starts precisely when human beings attempt to describe their ambient in order to identify dangers and opportunities. From a philosophical viewpoint, such an original aporia of space develops throughout the different perspectives on the concepts of topos and chora.


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Want to transfer assets to your children now? Avoid these 5 costly mistakes
We've all heard the saying, "You can't take it with you." But when is the best time to pass your assets on? Transferring assets to your children while you're alive (rather than upon your death) may be an appealing prospect. After all, giving now allows you to share in the enjoyment and could ensure that a much-loved property stays in the family.
Before you turn your asset succession dreams into reality, consider the following five mistakes that you'll want to avoid making.
1. Not taking your children's wishes into consideration
You may have a strong emotional attachment to an asset such as a property, but that doesn't mean that your kids do, too. If it's a recreational property, will they actually want to spend time there, and are they prepared for the cost of its upkeep? If it's a rental property, are they prepared to take on the responsibilities of being a landlord?
Have frank conversations with your family to confirm which kids (if any) are interested in taking on the property — and how they'll cover the cost of its upkeep once it belongs to them.
2. Not equalizing their inheritance
If one or more of your children don't want to receive a specific asset such as a property, and you want your children to inherit equally, you'll need to work with your legal and tax advisors to find ways for them to do so.
Consider giving those children other assets, such as a portion of your art collection or certain investment funds. You can also purchase a life insurance policy that will pay out, on your death, a value equal to the assets you're giving to some of your children now.
3. Not confirming responsibilities among the future owners
If more than one child will inherit a specific asset from you, consider engaging a lawyer to draft a co-ownership agreement. The agreement would help to protect the investment and set guidelines for how it will be used, and who will be responsible for any necessary maintenance or administration.
The agreement should also clarify what will happen if a party wants to sell their interest in the asset.
4. Not addressing the capital gains tax issue
A capital gain refers to the difference between the cost of purchase and the fair market value of a capital asset, such as real estate.
For example, let's say you purchased a property that is not your principal residence many years ago for $150,000, and it's now worth $850,000. That means you have a capital gain of $700,000, of which 50% ($350,000) is taxable. Including that $350,000 on top of your regular income could easily push you into a very high tax bracket.
Even if you gift the property, you'll still be deemed to have received fair market value for it, and you'll have to report the disposition of the property and pay the tax liability — even though you haven't actually received any money for the asset.
There are ways to address the capital gains tax issue. Talk to your MD Advisor* about claiming the capital gains reserve, buying permanent life insurance or setting up an inter vivos trust.
5. Not accounting for the land transfer tax
Though potentially much smaller than the capital gains tax, the land transfer tax (also known as a property transfer tax) is often overlooked as part of the overall cost of purchasing real estate. It comes into play when real estate is transferred for value (so if you gift a property to your children, it may not be applicable).
The calculation of this tax is based on the purchase price of the property, but provinces and cities across Canada charge different rates. For example, in British Columbia, on the purchase price of a home that's valued at $2 million, the property transfer tax would be:
 - 1% on the first $200,000; and
 - 2% on the portion between $200,000 and $2 million.
If your child is purchasing the property from you as a first-time homebuyer, they may qualify for a land transfer tax rebate, depending on the province.
Transferring assets during your lifetime can be rewarding, but you'll need a plan that makes sense for both you and your heirs. Talk to an MD Advisor to help you make the right shortand long-term decisions for you and your family.


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Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
Students completing a degree in agriculture will:
- demonstrate competence in written, and verbal communication;
- demonstrate critical thinking skills in reasoning, analysis and decision making relevant to the practices of agricultural science, agricultural business, and natural resource management.
Assessment of agricultural knowledge will occur during the junior and senior years. The assessment will include both written and oral presentations in scientific information as well as a detailed examination of the student's scientific experiences. In order to assess student progress in the objective areas they will participate in the following activities:
- Students receiving a B.S. degree in Agriculture will participate in a taped exit interview that will be evaluated by the faculty within the emphasis area.
- Students receiving a B.S. degree in Agriculture will take the major field exit exam prior to graduation.
Several scholarships are awarded each year through the department. These include the 1890 USDA Scholars Program, Garden Club and Center of Excellence.
A minimum grade of "C" is required in ENV 103, ENV 104L, ENV 301, ENV 302, ENV 312, ENV 315, ENV 400, ENV 401, ENV 410, ENV 425, AGR 211P, GIS 316, BIO 301, CHM 301, CHM 303 and MAT 117. In addition, the student must complete 5 hours of ENV electives. A minimum of 40 upper division credit hours (those numbered 300 and above) are required for graduation.


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The ground-breaking Explorer programme takes our existing or aspiring team leaders on a 10 month journey of exploring how they can achieve results through other people.
It is built on 3 core beliefs:
- Self awareness is a pre-requisite for self development
- Real life is the best classroom
- We need others to help us reflect and learn lessons from real life
Delegates learn the fundamentals of self-management and working through others and develop an understanding of how to identify and implement business improvement initiatives.
They gain unique insights from our board of directors who share their life lessons and advice in our series of Masterclasses.
Explorers also embark on the 'Newcross Experience' – which we keep firmly under wraps until the day to take them out of their comfort zones.


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The Author Craig Mullen presented great ideas, how performance can be improved with DB2 SQL.
Read DB2 questions, if you miss it.
- Always use query with where clause.
- Always create indexes on table.
- Explicit join is performance worth than Inner join.
- Always put exact columns that you want to retrieve in SELECT statement, not more than that.
- Use FETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY. Take an example FETCH FIRST 1 ROWS ONLY, after returns 1 row, you will receive SQl CODE= +100.
- Use OPTIMIZE FOR n ROWS.
- For read only cursors always use FOR READ ONLY


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In my journeys, I have discovered a power that dwarfs your Formling abilities. An elemental power.
Ice is one of the four main elements of Creation. This element corresponds with the Shurikens of Ice, the Ice Dragon, and the Titanium Dragon, and is generally associated with the colors white or light blue.
According to Sorla, Water is connected to Ice. The power of frozen water is often used to immobilize certain enemies as a distraction and is even seen to defeat villains with the power of cryokinesis immediately. Despite this, in "Curseworld, Part I," Zane's ice stalled a ghost instead of destroying it, as ice is water in solid form.
During Zane's corruption, the ice around the Never-Realm was corrupted as well.
Users' abilities
 - Cryokinesis/Glaciokinesis - The user can create, generate, and manipulate ice (usually used to coat surfaces frictionless and trap enemies solid in a block of ice), create ice constructs (escape routes, shards, barriers, etc.), induce chills, and extinguish fires. The user can even use this to freeze designated areas underwater[1] and sometimes create ice without even using a beam, instead using their hands to magically generate ice.[2]
 - Propulsive Flight - The user can propel themselves up with ice (possibly only in an environment with low gravity).[3]
 - Cryokinetic Flight - The user is able to fly when using more power than usual.[4]
 - Ice Blast - As demonstrated by the Elemental Master of Ice, the user can release ice over a specific target area causing great damage and/or delivering great shock waves of pure force.
 - Freezing Touch - The user can freeze anything or anyone via touching the target with their hands or feet.
 - Ice Sphere Projection - The user can create balls of ice to freeze everything that will come in contact.[5]
 - Cryokinetic Surfing - The user can create a path made of ice to surf on for transportation.[6][2]
 - Ice Infusion - The user can infuse objects (usually a weapon) with ice, empowering and energizing them and allowing the user to manipulate their qualities and efficiency.
 - Elemental shield - The user can create an Ice elemental shield.
 - Cryo-Pyrokinesis - The user can create and manipulate sparkling blue-whitish ice-like flames.[7]
 - Cold Breeze Generation - The user is capable of making a cold air or wind to blow something.[8]
 - Ice Prison - The user is able to create a clear prison made of ice shaped like an igloo to trap enemies.[9]
Via the Scrolls of Forbidden Spinjitzu
 - Elemental creation - Allows the user to create things alive out of Ice and control them. Zane used this to make and control the Blizzard Sword Masters, Blizzard Archers, and Boreal.
 - Cryo-Telekinesis - The user can use ice to control, move, or manipulate objects.[10]
 - Corruption Inducement - The user can create ice that corrupts those it touches. Zane used this to control the Blizzard Warriors.
 - Corrupted/Dark Ice ManipulationAs shown by Zane and Boreal, they can shape and create corrupted ice. Whenever the ice is created, it is in control of the creator. As mentioned by Sorla, the Dark Ice served Vex and allowed him to monitor what was currently happening through his ice shard.
 - Mind ManipulationThe user's ice can manipulate other people's minds.[10] Cole and Lloyd noticed this when fighting a Blizzard Warrior and saw that the ice was controlling their actions.
 - Power Negation - When Ice is corrupted, it is shown to be like Vengestone and can cancel out the Shapeshifting abilities of the Formlings and neutralize other Elemental Powers.
 - Clairvoyance - Using the crystal shard, one can spy on someone else even if they are far away. It can even look through one's point of view. The Crystal enables its viewers to telepathically communicate with someone when they are looking through their point of view. This is evidenced by Vex when he telepathically ordered Boreal to bring Lloyd alive to the Ice Emperor.
Via the users' True Potential
 - Ice Mimicry - The user can temporarily transform their body into ice.
 - Cold Generation - The user can reduce the kinetic energy of atoms, meaning they effectively make things colder, ranging from slightly chilly levels to absolute zero. In "Corruption," with the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu in his scepter, Zane was able to generate enough cold and ice to freeze the Never-Realm in a harsh eternal winter.
 - Ice Shield Construction - The user can create shields of ice that can protect against an adversary.
 - Ice/Cold Beam Emission - The user can produce a powerful beam of ice or cold that freezes everything instantly. As the Ice Emperor, Zane was able to use the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu in his scepter to generate beams of Ice energy such as when punishing Grimfax, or when attacking Lloyd and Akita.
 - Ice Tornado Generation - The user can generate vortexes composed of ice. The vortex can be projected as a long-ranged attack or as a tornado of ice for both offensive and/or defensive purposes.
 - Ice/Cold Immunity - If the user is in a cold or icy area, the user cannot be harmed or feel cold.
 - Ice Explosion Inducement - As displayed by Zane in "Once Bitten, Twice Shy," the user can cause an explosion of ice energy to freeze everything in the area.
Notable uses
Tick Tock
 - After Zane realized who he is, he unlocked his True Potential and unleashed a huge beam of ice toward the Treehorn queen, leaving her in an incapacitated state.
The Titanium Ninja
 - As a last resort, Zane unleashes a huge burst of ice freezing the Overlord, before being killed as well.
Vengeance is Mine!
 - When Zane got to use the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu, he froze Aspheera and the Pyro Vipers.
The symbol of Ice appears to be a wolf. This likely symbolizes Zane's loyalty to his friends, as a wolf would be loyal to its pack.
Notable users
Staff of Elements
Golden Power
Djinn Blade
 - No user of Ice has ever shown the ability to manipulate ice that they didn't create.
 - In "Infamous," Nadakhan appeared to use Zane's ice power to freeze part of the Mega Monster Amusement Park roller coaster. Tommy Andreasen gave the explanation that it could be related to magic, which would mean djinn magic in this situation.[11][12]
 - In Season 10, instead of shooting ice beams from his hands, Zane's hands glowed and ice suddenly appeared, almost telekinetically.
 - When Ice is corrupted, it has the same abilities of both Dark Matter and Vengestone as Zane was able to turn Grimfax and his army into Blizzard Warriors in "Corruption," and when Lloyd and Kataru weren't able to use their powers in "A Fragile Hope."
 - Wyplash and Bonezai are affiliated with Ice in promotional material and the Ninjago Spinners game, though this is non-canon.
 - In some episodes, such as "Game of Masks", Zane uses ice to freeze the water created by Nya, although he could create the ice himself. This is probably because Nya can use water to better shape the resulting object, which Zane then freezes.
 - Ice is one of the four elements not currently known to be confined to a human host. The other three are Wind, Time, and Water.
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Using the Audio Track Mixer, you can apply changes to audio tracks as a sequence plays back. You can instantly hear the results of any changes you make. You can control the volume, pan, and mute settings of a track or its sends. You can control all effect options for track effects, including the bypass setting.
The Audio Track Mixer records the changes as track keyframes in the audio tracks. It doesn't make changes to the source clips.
It's best to make adjustments to multitrack sequences one track at a time. Ride the controls on one track while playing a sequence. Then play it again from the beginning while riding the controls on another track. The changes you made to the first track are preserved if you set the track's automation setting to Off or Read.
Each channel of the Audio track Mixer corresponds to an audio track in the Timeline. You can use the controls in each Audio Track Mixer channel to record changes to its corresponding audio track. For example, to vary the volume level of clips in the Audio 1 track, use the Volume slider in the Audio 1 channel of the Audio Track Mixer.
In the Audio Track Mixer, choose an automation mode from the Automation Mode menu at the top of each track you want to change. To record changes, choose a mode other than Off or Read. (See Audio Track Mixer automation modes)
You can preserve the settings of a property while recording an audio mix, preventing a selected property from being edited. It protects that property across all tracks in a sequence.
In the Effects And Sends panel for a track, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) an effect or send and choose Safe During Write from the menu.
Use the Audio Track Mixer to automate track properties only, not clip properties. You can edit clip keyframes by selecting the clip and using the Effect Controls panel or Timeline panel.
Automation modes are set in the menu at the top of each track. For example, drag a track's volume fader or pan control during playback. When you replay the audio with the track's automation menu set to Read, Touch, or Latch, Premiere Pro plays back the track with the adjustments you made. As you make adjustments in channels of the Audio Track Mixer, Premiere Pro applies the changes to their respective tracks by creating track keyframes in a Timeline panel. Conversely, audio track keyframes you add or edit in a Timeline panel set values (such as fader positions) in the Audio Track Mixer.
For each audio track, the selection in the automation options menu determines the track's automation state during the mixing process:
Ignores the track's stored settings during playback. Off allows real-time use of Audio Track Mixer controls without interference from existing keyframes. However, changes to the audio track aren't recorded in Off mode.
Reads the track's keyframes and uses them to control the track during playback. If a track has no keyframes, adjusting a track option (such as volume) affects the entire track uniformly. If you adjust an option for a track that's set to Read automation, the option returns to its former value (before the current automated changes were recorded) when you stop adjusting it. The rate of return is determined by the Automatch Time preference.
Records adjustments you make to any automatable track settings that aren't set to Safe During Write, and creates corresponding track keyframes in a Timeline panel. Write mode writes automation as soon as playback starts without waiting for a setting to change. You can modify this behavior by choosing the Switch To Touch After Write command from the Audio Track Mixer menu. After playback stops or a playback loop cycle is completed, the Switch To Touch After Write command switches all Write mode tracks to Touch mode.
Identical to Write, except that automation doesn't start until you begin adjusting a property. The initial property settings are from the previous adjustment.
Identical to Write, except that automation doesn't start until you begin adjusting a property. When you stop adjusting a property, its option settings return to their previous state before the current automated changes were recorded. The rate of return is determined by the Automatch Time audio preference.
When you stop adjusting an effect property in Touch mode, the property returns to its initial value. This is also the case while in Read mode if a keyframe exists for the affected parameter. The Automatch Time preference specifies the time for an effect property to return to its initial value.
Automating audio changes in the Audio Track Mixer can create more keyframes than necessary in the audio track, causing a degradation in performance. To avoid creating unnecessary keyframes, thereby ensuring both quality interpretation and minimal performance degradation, set the Automation Keyframe Optimization preference. In addition to the other benefits, you can edit individual keyframes much easier if they are assembled less densely in the track.
Automating audio changes in the Audio Track Mixer can create more keyframes than necessary in the audio track, degrading performance. To avoid creating unnecessary keyframes, thereby ensuring both quality interpretation and minimal performance degradation, set the Automation Keyframe Optimization preference. In addition to providing other benefits, this preference makes editing individual keyframes easier because they are less densely arranged on the keyframe graph. For information about the Linear Keyframe Thinning and Minimum Time Interval Thinning options, see Audio Preferences.


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Welcome to Kim Kautzer's Writing Lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com!
It's poetry time again here at SchoolhouseTeachers.com, and this month we're exploring imagery-rich poems of comparison.
Poems are dense and concentrated ways of expressing a thought, capturing an image, or evoking an emotion. To be effective in their own writing, young poets must learn to choose words carefully. Poems of comparison also incorporate figurative language—similes, metaphors, and personification. As your children learn to make unusual comparisons of everyday objects, they will grow in their ability to create imagery in their poetry.
Is the moon the North Wind's cookie?
Of course not! But these are excellent examples of imagery and comparison.
Whether you're just joining SchoolhouseTeachers.com or you've enjoyed some of my earlier writing and poetry lessons, writing imagery poems will be a challenging yet fun way of wrapping up our school year.
I hope you'll delight in writing poems of comparison with your children. I'll be back in September with a new and exciting writing lesson. Meanwhile, you can continue enjoying my daily writing prompts at SchoolhouseTeachers.com all summer long.
Do you have a question for Kim? Try our new Ask a Question page.
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Kim Kautzer loves to help parents feel more confident about teaching writing. She believes that when you combine blank paper, reluctant child, and insecure parent, you create a recipe that's doomed to fail. With a heart to inspire and equip homeschoolers, Kim encourages parents that teaching writing is much more objective than they think, and with the right tools, they can lead and motivate their struggling writers. Award-winning WriteShop, her unique and successful writing program, has been honored as one of Cathy Duffy's 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum. Kim and Jim homeschooled for 15 years, graduating their youngest in 2003. The Kautzers enjoy a passel of grandchildren and their sometimes-empty nest in Southern California. Kim enjoys writing, speaking, and drinking English breakfast tea. She blogs about writing at In Our Write Minds.


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A ceremony is an activity performed at a special time. Ceremonies may be done to celebrate an event or rite of passage.
Celebration of life[change | edit source]
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Sometimes, a ceremony may only be done by certain people. A wedding is done by a priest or a Civil Celebrant. The President of the United States is sworn in by the Chief Justice of the United States at his or her inauguration. The British monarch is usually made king or queen by the Archbishop of Canterbury at his or her coronation.
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Other ceremonies may mark yearly events like:


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|Colored Schedule Types link to scheduled sections of the course for the term at this institution. If all Schedule Types are listed in black text, the course is not scheduled for the term.|
|ED 314 - Educational Technology - University of Hawaii at Hilo|
Introduction to the theory and application of multimedia
educational technology principles in 21st century
learning environments. Course is contextualized in
project-based and place-based learning. Special
emphasis on Hawaiian and Pan Pacific history and culture.
Required for admission into the Teacher Education or DL
STEPS program. Must be taken for a grade. Pre: CS 101
or equivalent, junior standing or instructor's consent.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Schedule Types: Hybrid-Technology Intensive, Lecture
GAHP - HIL Hawaii/ Asia/Pacific
Must be enrolled in one of the following Classifications:
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FSD2552 Children's Rights 2008Detailed description (collection | citation | publications)
Ministry of Education and Culture. Policy programme for the well-being of children, youth and families
Keywords: children, decision making, human rights, student participation, student-school relationship, voting
The survey studied public knowledge and awareness of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Finland. At first, the respondents were told about the Finnish Goverment's policy programme for the well-being of children, youth and families which aims to increase the knowledge of the Convention. The respondents were asked whether they had heard of the UN Convention.
The respondents who had heard of the Convention on the Rights of the Child were presented with a number of statements and asked whether these statements were included in the Convention. The statements were: the UN Convention imposes a legal requirement for the State and municipalities to implement the rights; all children below the age of 18 years are entitled to the rights; it requires the State to inform citizens about the Convention; improves children's chances to participate in decision-making concerning themselves; when making decisions concerning a child the child's best interest shall always be primary consideration; in each country, only children born in that country are entitled to the rights; the Convention diminishes the responsibility of the parents to care for the child; guarantees the child's right to rest, play and leisure; requires that all schools inform pupils about the Convention; requires that the child shall be protected from all forms of violence and abuse.
All respondents were asked whether they agreed with a number of statements regarding to what extent children can participate in decision-making concerning themselves. The statements included, for example: adults can make better decisions if they take children's opinions into account; parents already listen to children's opinions to a sufficient degree; pre-school children are too young to have a say; children can influence matters concerning themselves sufficiently at school; children and young people are too seldom heard in decision-making concerning themselves; it is good that schools have pupil councils where pupils can influence matters; pupils should have a say when the school yard is to be improved; municipal youth councils should have more power; children and young people are too vocal as it is; voting age should not be lowered for municipal elections.
Background variables included the respondent's age, gender, education, economic activity and occupational status, type of contract, marital status, economic activity and occupational status of the person with the highest income in the household, household composition, number and age of children, number of persons in the household, gross annual income of the household, consumer durables in the household, type of accommodation, number of inhabitants and type of municipality, province, and R's use of Internet.


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What is Remind 101?
- Remind101 is a service that provides a safe way for teachers to text message or email students and parents. Using Remind101, teachers can engage their students and parents more effectively without needing to know their phone number and without having to give their phone number out. How does Remind 101 work? Great question! First, a teacher adds his/her class, which generates a unique code. The teacher then shares that code with students or parents. At that point, any student or parent who sends a text message with the code will be "subscribed" to the teacher's class. Any time a teacher sends a message from Remind101, all the students or parents subscribed will receive it. Here's a fun video a teacher recorded walking through the service.
- If you are in 6th grade, text _USER_ to 81010
- If you are in 7th grade, text _USER_ to 81010
- If you are in 8th grade, text _USER_ to 81010


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15 million LEGO components are made every year. Have you ever wondered how they are made? Business Week takes a look at the production process of how classic LEGO bricks are produced. LEGO has been named Toy of the Century twice and their popularity has been cemented ever since they were introduced back in 1958. Check out how they start from granulated acrylitrile butadine styrene, a type of shiny plastic and finished off as minted bricks. The production of LEGO bricks are extremely accurate where only 18 out of 1 million LEGO elements are considered defective.
Link: Business Week


text: This statistic shows the growth of the real gross domestic product (GDP) in Spain from 2003 to 2013. GDP refers to the total market value of all goods and services that are produced within a country per year. It is an important indicator of the economic strength of a country. Real GDP is adjusted for price changes and is therefore regarded as a key indicator for economic growth. Spain's real GDP growth in 2011 was about 0.4 percent compared to the previous year.