Somali and African Youth Economic Revitalization Project (eTraining Program) is a unique idea that is designed to work with Somali and African youth and their communities to address issues of poverty, social, cultural and economic conditions.
Fundamental to the approach of the project is the vision to create a sustainable business model that will assist in poverty and delinquent behaviour waning and/or prevention among youth within Multicultural communities through strategies that bring youths to join efforts and resources to improve their well-being. Hence, building meaningful pro-active and resourceful model, partnerships and networks to improve youth's future and eventually communities' conditions
1. Intro / Brainstorming ideas
Participants are placed in groups of 2 or more to develop ideas on types of businesses to create and are given a budget allowing startup costs.
2. How to start a business
Groups learn about business registration and licensing as well as the initial steps to make ideas a reality.
3. Branding
Groups choose a name and slogan, use online tools to create a logo and decide on the brand image.
4. Product Research
Groups research products and prices, contact manufacturers using online tools, negotiate prices and deals to buy goods.
5. Strategy
Groups develop a plan of action designed to achieve an overall aim, identify the target market and advertise the business.
6. Advertising
Groups learn about strategies and messages to promote and sell products, service, ideas and advertise on different platforms.
7. Negotiate & Write Contracts
Groups learn negotiation techniques and how to write contracts for partners and clients. They also learn about ways of pricing and negotiating a price mark down for their products.
8. Social Media 1 & 2
Groups learn how to utilize Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. for marketing purposes. They use social media to advertise and promote their products and obtain customers.
9. Graphic Design & Video Editing
Groups will learn how to use online tools for graphic design and basic video editing techniques to create online content that they can use to advertise and sell their products.
10. Web Design
Groups get to create their own website. Each group gets a budget to buy a domain name and hosting and theme costs in order to create the business website.
11. Money 1 & 2
Groups will learn how to sell their products online. They will also learn about the different options customers could have to purchase from their websites and how to offer and manage payments.
12. Online Services
Groups will learn about free online services that they can use to help grow their business, generate new customers and manage their business work load.
13. Networking
Groups will learn how to network with business people, and fellow entrepreneurs to build relationships & a support system.
14. Presentation Day
A special exhibition themed event will be planned where groups get to present and advertise their company and products to their communities, businesses and potential customers/clients.
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Random Smoke Testing – What Homeowners Need to Know
In the past few weeks, we've had a surge of customers in Oakland and Berkeley who have experienced "random city smoke testing" requiring them to have their sewer lines tested for compliance. This has caused considerable angst and confusion amongst homeowners.
Here's everything you need to know about smoke tests, and what you should do if you have a random test administered on your home.
What are Smoke Tests?
The cities of Oakland and Berkeley conduct random smoke tests of residential sewer laterals—without the need for permission from homeowners. Notices are set to be delivered in the days leading up to the test but in just case you do not receive a notice or the notice arrives after the test has been performed, don't panic. The tips in the following sections should help inform what you do next.
What exactly is a smoke test? According to the City of Berkeley:
The reason cities are conducting smoke testing is to locate problem areas within the overall sewer system. The test identifies the sources of leaks and other problems in a sewer system, such as where storm water drainage is infiltrating the sewage pipes. This is done in order to avoid the environmental and property damages that occur when the city's sewage system is overwhelmed by storm water.
These tests are scheduled to occur in select areas throughout the entire sewer system, which includes not only the main line running down the street, but also the private sewer laterals that connect homes to the public sanitary sewer main.
How Does a Smoke Test Work?
A smoke test is a sewer inspection method in which a non-toxic smoke, approved by the MSDSs Public Health Agency, is blown into manholes. The smoke makes its way through all the connected pipes in the sanitary sewer, helping to locate pipe leaks, broken manholes, cracks, uncapped lines, and more. Testers will also locate unknown sections of pipe (or sections professionals may not have realized were connected to the sewer), such as cleanouts, roof downspouts, and sump pumps. Certain types of discovered connections are actually illegal.
Regarding the smoke itself, the City of Oakland explains:
"The smoke is non-toxic and non-hazardous and is manufactured specifically for this purpose. It leaves no residuals or stains, and has no effects on plants or animals. The smoke should not enter your home, but if it does, it will have a distinct odor and should only last a few minutes with proper ventilation. Please note, all plumbing fixture drain traps must be filled with water prior to smoke testing."
Homeowners are requested to pour water down all drains of plumbing fixtures that are not regularly used in order to fill the P-traps, which will help prevent smoke from entering the house.
During the smoke test, you may see smoke coming out of grass, utility boxes, cracked pavement, and more. Each test typically lasts about 15 minutes. Homeowners do not need to be home during that time, although it can be helpful to ensure the home is well-ventilated if smoke enters the home. You should also alert the testing crew if this happens.
What Happens After a Smoke Test?
All deficiencies are documented in a written report that should also include photos of the observed smoke. Smoke sources observed on private property will result in a letter from the city explaining the problems with an included deadline for correcting the issues, as these issues are the responsibility of the homeowner to fix.
From what we have seen so far, the cities tend to randomly smoke test a block of parcels on a given day and then send notices to homeowners after they have tested the lines. In some cases, the time lapse between the smoke test and the actual notice going out is large enough that homeowners are able to diagnose and address their problems by the time the notice arrives.
The challenges resulting from smoke test results will vary depending on the issues present in the system. Luckily, there are some fixes that are relatively simple to fix, including:
 - Disconnecting downspouts from sanitary lateral
 - Replacing a missing or broken lateral cleanout cap
However, more difficult corrections may also result. Issues that will usually require professional assistance include:
 - Cracked sewer laterals
 - Tree root issues
 - Re-routing damage from separating storm lines
sewer camera inspection is the next step whenever there is a more serious problem. The closed circuit TV (CCTV) will allow inspectors to discover/verify the true extent of the damage, helping to ensure a solution that truly solves your sewer problems once and for all. This is also important for the environment in our communities, as fixing these issues helps keep the Bay clean and preserve our overall local ecosystems. (Learn more about eco-friendly plumbing.)
What Should I Do?
If your neighborhood is experiencing random smoke tests, there is no need to worry. Follow the instructions given by the city in any notices they might send; and refer to paragraph three in this article, under the section "How Does a Smoke Test Work"? The paragraph instructs you to pour water down all drains of plumbing fixtures that are not regularly used in order to fill the P-traps, which will help prevent smoke from entering the house.
After your home is tested, you will receive communication regarding deficiencies in your line. (Since most homes in the Bay Area have relatively old sewer systems, most homes will have some sort of deficiency to fix.) The most important thing to do is follow the directions given and ensure you have fixed any issues by the given deadline.
Our team is happy to help translate and make sense of any issues reported in the notification you have received. We also offer video inspection, trenchless sewer repair services, and more. For individual assistance, get in touch with the experts at Pipe Spy.


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DEVELOPING OF A SETUP FOR AUTOMATED RESEARCH OF MAGNETOIMPEDANCE PROPERTIES OF
FILMS AND MICROWIRES
A. M. Gorin, M.
V. Logunov, A. V. Spirin
Research Mordovia State University, Saransk
Received November 29, 2011
The setup for research the phenomena of giant
magnetoimpedance in thin films and microwires was developed. The proceses of
measuring, processing and imaging of the results are automated. The ranges and
steps of the magnetic field, frequency and amplitude of current through the
sample, a number of other parameters are specify in the experiment. The setup
allows to research the magnetoimpedance material properties in the frequency
range up to 1 GHz in the temperature range from -70 ° C to 180 ° C.
amorphous and nanocrystalline materials, soft magnetic materials, automation of

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A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.
- Any of several marine food and game fishes of the genus Sarda, related to and resembling the tuna.
- Any of several similar fishes, such as the skipjack.


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WITH 30 years passing since the night Mount Macedon was ravaged by fire, the region is bracing to remember those who died and the emergency crews who helped prevent further tragedy.
The Ash Wednesday fires of February 16, 1983, claimed 75 lives and destroyed more than 3000 homes.
Locally, the fire spread from East Trentham to Mount Macedon, killing seven people, destroying more than 600 homes and buildings, and devastating wildlife and bushland.
Until the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, they were the deadliest in Australia's history.
Macedon Ranges Shire mayor Roger Jukes said the 30-year anniversary was a time for remembering the people who lost their lives, as well as acknowledging the enormous effort of emergency services personnel and community members who fought hard to restrict the fires spreading further.
"For our community, the legacy that Ash Wednesday and other major bushfires has left is an increased knowledge of what fire can do and acceptance of fire as a natural occurrence," he said.
"We wish to acknowledge those who were affected by these devastating fires and celebrate the community's efforts to work together to recover from this disaster."

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Despite a wealth of evidence that demonstrates Beagles are unreliable scientific models of human beings, laboratories across the United States continue the highly controversial practice of using them for research, killing thousands of dogs each year. Dogington Post launched a campaign to end the killing of Beagles for research.
Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) November 30, 2012
Medical schools and laboratories routinely use, harm, and kill dogs for research experiments. Researches use these dogs to test a wide range of subjects from cancer and transplantation to human drugs, food additives, beauty products, and even industrial chemicals.
According to the American Anti-Vivisection Society, Beagles are the breed of dog most commonly used for animal testing, and most of the beagles in labs are purposely bred for research, though many dogs are obtained from "unknown sources" such as shelters, 'free to good home' ads, and auctions.
Animals are proven to be poor models for human disease research because they are genetically different from humans. From the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS), Dr. Richard Klausner, former Director of the National Cancer Institute says, "We have cured cancer in mice for decades – and it simply didn't work in humans."
Dogington Post launched a campaign to bring awareness to the 2.5 million weekly dog lovers the site reaches.
"Testing on Beagles is immoral, the results are unreliable, and it's not regulated well at all. If it were, we wouldn't have all these videos of scientists beating up Beagles," said Dr. Kilstein, Top Dog at the Dogington Post.
The site published articles and videos about the suffering of the Beagles used in laboratory research and was flooded with comments of outrage and concern from readers who supported their efforts to stop animal testing.
"We are talking about living, breathing, feeling beings," said Dr. Kilstein. "Who are reduced to data machines, being forced to suffer disease and injury, held all their lives isolated in cages, and then killed and tossed aside when they aren't needed anymore."
Dogington Post named one of the many suppliers in the U.S. for Beagles and Beagle parts for research and suggested readers ask this company to stop killing beagles.
The site also published links to several Beagle rescue groups who work closely with some laboratories to find suitable homes for Beagles that survive research labs.
Additionally, Dogington Post urged readers to only purchase products that are certified "cruelty-free" and provided resources for consumers to find products that are not tested on animals.
For more information about Dogington Post and their efforts to stop the slaughter of Beagles in America, visit _URL_.
About Dogington Post:
DogingtonPost.com was created for the love of dogs. It promises a forum of informative articles, newsworthy dog stories, health and breed information, and heartwarming videos. The site addresses current issues affecting dogs and their human parents – from serious health concerns to lifestyle issues on feeding, grooming and the overall well-being and mental health of dogs. It is the Internet newspaper, all about dogs.
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Hand washed dishes were more likely to contain traces of both bacteria and viruses than those cleaned in a commercial dishwasher
(UPI) -- Current protocols for washing dishware in restaurants may not be enough to guard against the highly contagious norovirus, or stomach flu, U.S. researchers say.
"We know that when public food establishments follow the cleaning protocols, they do a very good job at getting rid of bacteria," Melvin Pascall, associate professor at Ohio State University, said in a statement. "Now we can see that the protocols are less effective at removing and killing viruses -- and this may help explain why there are still so many illnesses caused by cross-contaminated food."
Pascall and Jianrong Li, an assistant professor of virology at Ohio State, led a team to test the ability of the norovirus and common bacteria to survive food service cleaning.
The research team infused cream cheese and reduced fat milk -- two foods that are known for being difficult to clean off -- with murine norovirus, E. coli K-12 or Listeria. The scientists applied the dairy products to stainless steel utensils, ceramic plates and glassware and put the tableware through a variety of chlorine and quaternary ammonium -- such as Pine-Sol Cleaner or Fantastik All Purpose Cleaner -- sanitary protocols via commercial dishwasher or hand washing.
The study, published in PLoS One, found both the commercial dishwasher and manual washing reduced bacterial loads of E. coli K-12 and Listeria enough to meet safety standards, but neither technique was able to significantly reduce the presence of norovirus. Overall, hand washed dishes were more likely to contain traces of both bacteria and viruses than those cleaned in a commercial dishwasher, the study said.
"Even though the protocols were able to kill some of the virus, norovirus is highly contagious and it takes only a few viral particles to infect humans," Li said.


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Change of the proportion of the epigenetic variance over the total genetic variance (Re2) as a function of Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium (HED) coefficients formed between the original allele and epiallele in a natural population after DNA methylation. The total and epigenetic genetic variances are calculated by assuming population genetic parameters (p, q, u, D1e, D2e, D12) ≡ (0.4, 0.6, u, D1e, D2e, 0) (allowing u, D1e, and D2e to change) and quantitative genetic parameters (a1, ae, d1e, d2e, d12) ≡ (0.4, 0.05, 0.05, 0.05, 0.05).
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You wrote "Given that the risk factors for MS in humans are female gender, Vit D deficiency, infection with EBV, smoking, month of birth, how does the mouse model reflect these factors?
However let's look at the risk factors you mention
Animal studies can clearly link the differences in susceptibility to autoimmunity to the action of sex hormones. In many cases a female to male preponderance to susceptibility can be found, in some cases male mice may be more susceptible. Likewise males mice may develop worse progression when they develop disease, just as can occur in MS.
My old boss was working in New York, but when he came back to London he couldn't get the experiment to work. Turned out the answer was vitamins and so every week the animals used to get cabbage...they loved it....and the experiments started to work. Likewise we can show how vitamin D influences the immune response in mice.
"Just so you know there are no places in the United Kingdom that undertakes studies in monkeys in relation to MS".
Smoking. Fortunately animals don't smoke. However, because smoking is considered a social evil, alot is known about smoking and risks of disease. I suspect we willl soon be collecting information on booze, TV and online gambling, mobile phones and computers
"We all know that ice cream consumption goes up when it is hot outside! It is hot outside because the sun is out! The suns gives off ultraviolet radiation that induces a sun tan! Ultraviolet radiation can induce damage to DNA! DNA breaks can lead to influences on dividing cells! Uncontrolled division of cells can give rise to give cancer! Therefore ice cream causes cancer?"
Well the simple answer is there is much to learn. Some answers we can seek through using animals, other aspects are much better done in humans.
I am sure Prof. G will keep you all informed about risk factors
The point of all of the above is that we start with the examing the human disease. We only use animals to address simple questions that help us to better understand the human condition, when we can not get the information from studying the disease.


Jagged, or: Tender
'Edges and Fringes' – a d'Verse poetics prompt
(best viewed on a horizontal screen)
can you
visit us
from the unknowable beyond
to hearten us, for we miss
and grief's jagged edges cut us
even as the edges of mortal life are
to us
remaining, as we do, on this side
living; broken; aching
hear me
in dreams
I call
every night, all night
tenderly, I watch over you
With love
and reaching out to inspire you
from beyond the very fringes
of life
to believe…
The prompt
The above poem is my take on d'Verse's 'Edges and Fringes' prompt.
Our mission was to spark on one of these paths, and I primarily found my way along the 1st and 3rd paths:
 1. Write a poem using the word edge;
 2. Write a poem that keeps Millikin's question in mind:
 - What is the word, the line, that cuts, that can show that edge?
 3. Write a poem using the word fringe;
 4. Write a poem from the fringe, however you define it.
91 thoughts on "Jagged, or: Tender"
 1. David,
 Jagged edges of grief and the fringes of life and death, but beyond them the comforting reality of love known and knowable. Beautifully expressed and I liked the parallel arrangement of speakers. How fitting!
 2. Have you tried reading the two poems as one, left to right? They flow… and they create a totally different message that way. This is magical! ❤
 3. Love has no boundaries – neither time nor space. I do believe that love can transcend the grave and as long as the memories last so too can the love. Beautiful poem that clearly shows that the love goes both ways…
 4. Wow. You've created that gap between this world and the other, in the shape of a poem examining themes of grief and reconciliation. Well done!
 5. Not to repeat what's already been said, but Wow…excellent job of capturing the grief and reconciliation of life and the other side while remaining true to the prompt.
 6. This is awesome. Read it in horizontal screen and could appreciate why you suggested that. Brilliant! Beautifully done. Thanks for sharing it. Keep going.
 xoxo, selmamartin.com
 7. David, this poem is a masterpiece! ❤ Heartfelt, poignant, and very beautiful. Brilliantly composed. I love your format and the colors you used to indicate the dialogue. Amazing how it reads so well left to right as one poem, as well as two separate poems! Thank you for sharing this!
 All the best to you and your family. ❤
 8. How beautifully is loss portrayed here, and poignant and tender response is moving. Such a beautiful write.
 9. This is a very touching dialogue David! And beyond everything else, what shines out to me is the hope in the message, hope that life and relationships don't end, they just reach a different medium. And dreams and the semi conscious mind is just the right medium for that.
 10. "Papa" – that very first word introduces the raw emotion and love in this write.
 " grief's jagged edges cut us
 even as the edges of mortal life are clear"
 So very difficult to lose a loved and treasured parent.
 This is a truly beautiful write.
 1. Thank you so very much for the kind comment, Lillian. I actually did call my father "Papa" because the language of our home was Russian. And he really did call me "Boy" (in Russian).
 11. Oh I love this, very clever and beautifully written. Reminds me vaguely of Welly Boots by the band The Amazing Devil for some reason. Fantastic work anyways keep it up!
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EEG Ocular Correction ICA (based on ICA)
The Ocular Correction ICA transform allows ocular artifacts in the EEG to be corrected. This is
an ICA-based correction process using a simplified version of ICA. Compared with ICA, however,
the Ocular Correction ICA transform has the advantage that it offers more comprehensive
methods of detecting artifact-related ICA components. Alongside the automatic and
manual detection of ocular artifacts (e.g. blinks), you can also automatically detect the ICA
components that are of relevance for eye activity. Ocular artifacts could also be corrected using
the ICA transform in semiautomatic mode.


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Experimental Validation of an Elastic Registration Algorithm for Ultrasound Images
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Ultrasound is a favorable tool for intra-operative surgical guidance due to its fast imaging speed and non-invasive nature. However, deformations of the anatomy caused by breathing, heartbeat, and movement of the patient make it difficult to track the location of anatomical landmarks during intra-operative ultrasound-guided interventions. While elastic registration can be used to compensate for image misalignment, its adaptation for clinical use has only been gradual due to the lack of standardized guidelines to quantify the performance of different registration techniques. Evaluation of elastic registration algorithms is a difficult task since the point to point correspondence between images is usually unknown. This poses a major challenge in the validation of non-rigid registration techniques for performance comparisons. Current validation guidelines for non-rigid registration algorithms exist for the comparison of techniques for magnetic resonance images of the brain. These frameworks provide users with standardized brain datasets and performance measures based on brain region alignment, intensity differences between images, and inverse consistency of transformations. These metrics may not all be suitable for ultrasound registration algorithms due to the different properties of the imaging modalities. Furthermore, other metrics are required for validating the registration performance on different anatomical images with large deformations such as the liver. This work presents a validation framework dedicated for ultrasound elastic registration algorithms. Quantitative validation metrics are evaluated for ultrasound images. These include a simulation technique to measure registration accuracy, a segmentation algorithm to extract anatomical landmarks to measure feature overlap, and a technique to measure the alignment of images using similarity metrics. An extensive study of an ultrasound temporal registration algorithm is conducted using the proposed validation framework. Experiments are performed on a large database of 2D and 3D US images of the carotid artery and the liver to assess the performance of this algorithm. In addition, two graphical user interfaces which integrate the image registration and segmentation techniques have been developed to visualize the performance of these algorithms on ultrasound images captured in real time. In the future, these interfaces may be used to enhance ultrasound examination.


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North Pole (also known as the "Geographic North Pole" or "Terrestrial North Pole") – the northernmost point on Earth.
North Magnetic Pole – the shifting point on the Earth's surface where the Earth's magnetic field points directly downwards.
North Geomagnetic Pole – the point of intersection of the Earth's surface with the axis of a simple magnetic dipole (like a bar magnet) that best approximates the Earth's actual more complex magnetic field.
Originally by analogy with the Earth's magnetic field, the terms "north pole" and "south pole" are also applied to magnets in general, in order to distinguish one "end" of the magnet from the other. For this use see under Magnet and Magnetism.


radioactive Decay, chemistry homework help
The half-life of cobalt-60 is 5.27 years. How many milligrams of cobalt-60 remain after 52.7 years if you start with 15 mg?A sample contains 12.0 mg of an unknown element. After 4.46 × 109 years, the sample will contain 3.00 mg of the unknown element. What is the half-life of the unknown element?"Make sure to show your work, and your answers should be provided with the correct amount of significant figures."
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The Gummy Bear Romp
"The Gummy Bear Romp"
Levels: Low to Intermediate
Applications: Review or introduce 1.Colours.
2.Animals and/or objects vocabulary
3.Interrogatives:"Do you want...?"
"Do you have...?"
4.Responses: "Yes, I do"
"No, I don't"
"I don't have..." etc.
Supplies needed: 1.A bag of gummy bears or two.
2.A good picture dictionary or pictures of animals
or other objects.
Optimum group size: 1 - 30
Variations: Limited only by your imagination.
This particular activity can be adapted to almost any environment.
Start the activity with a bag of gummy bears. You'll probably find that each bag of candy has maybe 4 or 5 different colours. Depending on class size, you might want to form several groups.
1. Start off by making sure that everyone knows what a bear is and by showing the various colours of candy bears that you have; (usually red, yellow, green, white and orange). Begin by asking a student if he/she would like a particular colour of candy bear which you have.
ie"Do you want a red candy bear?"
Response will be either, "Yes I do" or "No, I want a (different colour) candy bear please". Of course, give them what they asked for.
Continue this process until each student has a candy bear.
2. Next, redo the questioning but this time, introduce colours which you don't actually have ie"Do you want a purple candy bear?"
Possible responses: "No, I want a red candy bear" or
"Yes I do" to which you respond
"I don't have a purple candy bear. What do
3.Continue with the questioning and alter as many variables as you wish which will stimulate an ongoing give and take dialogue.
Possible scenario: Teacher: Do you want a green elephant candy?
Student: No, I don't. I want a blue octopus candy.
Teacher: I'm sorry, I don't have a blue octopus
candy. What do you want?
Student: You don't have a blue octopus candy?
Teacher: No, I'm sorry I don't. What do you want?
Student: I want a pink worm candy.
Teacher: I'm sorry, I don't have a pink worm
candy. What do you want?
4. Once the students get the idea of the activity, they can take turns asking and answering the questions of the teacher or of other students.
You'll probably find that this activity works best with a picture dictionary which the kids can peruse while asking the various questions. This way, they encounter new words and get the chance to use them in conversation albeit in a fun and silly way. For example:
Student A: Do you want an orange gorilla candy?
Student B: No I want a purple underwear candy.
And so on.
Anyhow, have fun with it. Any ideas you may have on this one would be greatly appreciated.
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Eared dove
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Eared Dove
In Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Zenaida
Species: Z. auriculata
Binomial name
Zenaida auriculata
(Marc Athanese Parfait Oeillet Des Murs, 1847)
The Eared Dove, Zenaida auriculata, is a New World tropical dove. It is seen throughout South America from Colombia to southern Argentina and Chile, and on the offshore islands from the Grenadines southwards. It appears to be partly migratory, but it may only be when it needs more food. When it lays its eggs, it builds a small stick nest several meters up in a tree.[1]
It is a close relative of the North American Mourning Dove.
References[change | change source]
 1. Cisneros-Heredia (2006)


the job gets overwhelming, you might consider getting some assistance.
 Regular repair and maintenance
Having a regular inspection done on the hydronic baseboard will ensure it keeps running smoothly.
How do you maintain the hydronic baseboard heater?
First monitor the thermostatic pressure to make sure it measures the temperature, pressure and the height of the water in the unit. Failure to check the pressure gauge could put you in a potential risk if the pressure exceeds 30 pounds. The optimal pressure should be between 12 pounds to 15 pounds.
If the pressure is too high, drain the excess water. Locate the drain valve then turn off the power unit. Then drain off the excess water until the meter is reset.
Hydronic baseboard heaters covers
Perhaps you would want to put a cover on your hydronic baseboard heater. Either because you can't find a hydronic heater that matches interior decor or you simply want to replace the one you use for reasons which could be the cover is discolored or damaged.
Don't worry, you can find a hydronic baseboard heater cover that best suits you.
Baseboard Heat Covers, Baseboard Heater Cover With Caps
This is an elegant baseboard cover with superior quality that comes in a variety of measurements available from 2 to 8 feet. Besides having long-lasting qualities, they are also easy to clean.
1. What Is A Hydronic Baseboard Heater?
You may wonder, what is a hydronic baseboard heater?
To answer the question, let's isolate each component of the word Hydronic baseboard heater.
It's called hydronic because it uses a liquid as a medium. The liquid is typically water or mineral oil.
The use of the words baseboard heater means, that the heater is installed externally on a wall near the floor as opposed to mounting inside walls or freestanding.
So a hydronic baseboard heater is a unit that uses water to some capacity and is attached to a wall at the floor level at a central position. Heating pipes are run under the floor, which is designed to be used to transfer and emit heat across several rooms or zones. This creates an inbuilt heating system.
Hydronic baseboard heaters evolved from the old hollow cast iron radiators to today's trendy and beautiful and stylish baseboard heaters.
Hydronic baseboard heaters are long and relatively slim and provide a simple, cost-effective alternative to warm up your home.
2. How does a Hydronic baseboard heater work?
Hydronic baseboard heaters are common in many homes.
However many people do not know the technical aspect of the hydronic baseboard heater.
Basically a hydronic baseboard heater uses the same principle of radiation like the sun to warm up your home.
The baseboard heater contains a heating element surrounded by a metal tube. The metal tube is filled with water.
When the heater is switched on, the electricity heats the element in the tube which then heats the water inside.
The water turns to hot which then disperses the heat to the aluminum fins along the heater tube. This heat up the surrounding air before the air starts circulating throughout the room or heating zone.
The piping system then further channels heat into more rooms. Heat is sourced from the central baseboard heater, is maintained through flow control valves. In this way, hot water regulates the temperature according to the settings on the thermostat.
convection baseboard heaters are other baseboard heaters that typically resemble hydronic baseboard in terms of design characteristics.
They are placed under windows and are used to warm up small rooms. Unlike hydronic baseboard heaters, convection heaters aren't able to diffuse the heat produced so they require a fan.
They draw cool air in from close to the floor, through the bottom and project it up and a small fan pushes the warm air out overheated fins on top of the heating unit into the room.
3. Are hydronic baseboard heaters self-contained?
Hydronic baseboard heaters are self-contained types. You can move the baseboard heater anywhere in the room.
Nevertheless, you can opt for a central location for the baseboard heaters.
4. How many hydronic baseboard heaters do I need?
You only require one baseboard heater to warm your home with hydronic baseboard heaters. For small rooms or zones use an electric baseboard heater because they are most convenient and are quick to install.
5. Will hydronic baseboard heaters freeze?
The liquid inside hydronic baseboard heaters is made specially treated water that cannot freeze regardless of the outside temperature. The asbestos material used maintains the temperature of the liquid to continue emitting heat even when the baseboard heater has been turned off.
Technology has allowed us to bring comfort to our homes during the cold months with Hydronic baseboard heaters which give a very convenient and effective source of heat to add comfort to your home.
Whenever you go shopping for baseboard heaters, it's important to consider the proper dimensions of your room size and the baseboard heater.
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A wharf or quay (pron.: //, US also // or //) is a structure on the shore of a harbor or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. Such a structure includes one or more berths (mooring locations), and may also include piers, warehouses, or other facilities necessary for handling the ships.
A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pilings. Commercial ports may have warehouses that serve as interim storage areas, since the typical objective is to unload and reload vessels as quickly as possible. Where capacity is sufficient a single wharf with a single berth constructed along the land adjacent to the water is normally used; where there is a need for more capacity multiple wharves, or perhaps a single large wharf with multiple berths, will instead be constructed, sometimes projecting into the water. A pier, raised over the water rather than within it, is commonly used for cases where the weight or volume of cargos will be low.
Smaller and more modern wharves are sometimes built on flotation devices (pontoons) to keep them at the same level as the ship, even during changing tides.
In everyday parlance the term quay is common in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and many other Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland, whereas the term wharf is more common in the United States. In some contexts wharf and quay may be used to mean pier, berth, or jetty.
King Henry's Wharves, typical London wharves converted to apartments
Wharf by Marriott/Pacquereau Bay on St. Thomas
The word wharf comes from the Old English hwearf, meaning "bank" or "shore", and its plural is either wharfs or wharves; collectively a group of these is referred to as a wharfing or wharfage. "Wharfage" also refers to a fee charged by ports for the cargo handled there.
In the northeast and east of England the term staithe or staith (from the Norse for landing stage) is also used. For example Dunston Staiths in Gateshead and Brancaster Staithe in Norfolk. However, the term staithe may also be used to refer only to loading chutes or ramps used for bulk commodities like coal in loading ships and barges. It has been suggested that wharf actually is an acronym for ware-house at river front,but it is actually a backronym created by Thames river boat guides.
Another explanation may be that the word wharf comes from the Dutch word "werf" which means "yard", an outdoor place where work is done, like a shipyard or a lumberyard.
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|Look up wharf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.|
- "Quay - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary". Merriam-webster.com. 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- "Quay". American Heritage Dictionary/Dictionary.com. Retrieved 8 Feb 2010.
"Wharf". American Heritage Dictionary/Dictionary.com. Retrieved 8 Feb 2010.
- Craig, Charles; Diprose, Graham; Seaborne, Mike (2009). London's Changing Riverscape. London: Frances Lincoln Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7112-2941-9.
- "Chav... [page 4]". London-se1.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- "Word wharf meaning. Word wharf definition. Free crossword dictionary". Wordnavigator.com. Retrieved 2012-10-19.


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Graph the subspace spanned by the vectors $i = (3,-2,-1)^T$, $j = (-2,0,-1)^T$.
You don't have to graph it, but the answer for this problem is $z = (-3/5)x - (6/5)y$. I don't understand how to come up with that answer. I tried setting $i=-j$ but to no avail. Also, sorry for writing $i,j$ with $^T$, I do not know how to format it to make it look like a column vector.
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Are you sure that's the right answer? The points $(3,-2,-1)$ and $(-2,0,-1)$ don't seem to be on that plane. – yunone Sep 22 '12 at 7:27
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I think something is not quite right here.
Since we are in $\mathbb{R}^3$ we can find the normal to the plane spanned by $i, j$ by $i \times j = (2,5,-4)^T$, hence the equation of the plane is $\langle (x,y,z)^T, i \times j \rangle = 2x+5y-4z =0$, which gives $z = \frac{1}{2} x + \frac{5}{4} y$.
Here is another approach that does not use the cross product:
Suppose $(x,y,z) = a i + b j = (3a-2b, -2a, -(a+b))$. Then, from $y$ we have $a = -\frac{y}{2}$, and from $x$ we have $b = -\frac{3}{4} y -\frac{1}{2} x$. Then $z = -(a+b) = \frac{1}{2} x + \frac{5}{4} y$.
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How did you get z=1/2x + 5/4y and (2,5,-4)^T? We haven't been taught the cross product yet. – diimension Sep 22 '12 at 21:53
I added another approach. – copper.hat Sep 22 '12 at 22:00
I understand now because of your help, thank you very much copper!! – diimension Sep 22 '12 at 23:15
You are very welcome, glad to be of help. – copper.hat Sep 23 '12 at 0:30
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The definition of masked, the meaning of the word Masked:
Is masked a scrabble word? Yes!
- v. - Hide under a false appearance
- v. - Put a mask on or cover with a mask
- v. - Make unrecognizable
- v. - Cover with a sauce
- v. - Shield from light
- adj. - Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading
- adj. - Having markings suggestive of a mask
Masked is worth 13 points in Scrabble, and 14 points in Words with Friends
There are 6 letters in masked: A D E K M S
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Using Hotstrings in AutoHotKey to Perform Group Emails
Lots of people use online email like Gmail nowadays, but one functionality these types of email hosts lack is the ability to refer to a group of contacts and have every email in that group receive the mail.
If you want to send the same email to twenty people or 100, you need to write their addresses (or copy them and paste them) each time.
You can automate this using AutoHotkey, the scripting language described in this recent DevX article, by using the HotStrings functionality of the language.
First, download AutoHotKey, install it, and write a script called emailgroups.ahk in NotePad or another text editor.
In the script, write your groups like this:
::emailgroup1:: _EMAIL_, _EMAIL_, _EMAIL_,
And so forth. Use whatever separator your online email service uses to separate addresses from each other. For example, Gmail uses a comma, as in the example above, but others might use a semicolon.
Likewise, you would email multiple groups by defining more hotstrings:
::emailgroup1:: the string of email addresses you want to replace your hotstring with
::emailgroup2:: the string of email addresses that belong to this group.
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The Heartland Latino Leadership wishes to thank artist Linda Garcia for her design contributions. Each element of the design incorporates symbols that express the strength, hopes, and culture of the Latino community. Taken together, they relay an even more powerful message of progress toward a fulfilling destiny.
HEART is for the heartland and for the real leadership which must involve your Corazón (Heart and Spirit) as well as the mind.
HAND symbolizes hecho en Mexico or handmade in Mexico. Although all Latinos are not of Mexican heritage, this symbol was chosen because leadership needs hands on efforts to grow a strong community. Many indigenous people have a strong history of folk art.
SEED held in the palm of the Hand; the seed symbolizes growth. Leadership, like a planted seed, benefits not only the sower but a multitude of others.
FRIEZE within the Heart, the step like symbol is originally from Vera Cruz.
This ancient symbol was chosen to represent a historical perspective. You must know where you come from to know where you are going. One must perpetuate their heritage.
RIVERS the outside lines of the Heart represent the Missouri and the Platte Rivers, reinforces the heritage of the Heartland, and invokes it as a new gathering place.


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People with high-level spinal cord injuries typically lose control of their arms and legs meaning they can no longer get around without some sort of adaptive assistance device. Quadriplegics have long relied on a type of control system for electric wheelchairs called the sip-and-puff system.
This type of control system allowed the user to move forward and backwards in an electric wheelchair by sipping a straw or blowing into it. A group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) has devised a new method of controlling a power chair for those who no longer had functionality in their arms and legs. The new system uses the patient's tongue to control the chair or to control the mouse cursor on a computer screen.
Maysam Ghovanloo, an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at GIT said, "This clinical trial has validated that the Tongue Drive system is intuitive and quite simple for individuals with high-level spinal cord injuries to use. Trial participants were able to easily remember and correctly issue tongue commands to play computer games and drive a powered wheelchair around an obstacle course with very little prior training."
The clinical trial was conducted at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta and involved the attachment of a small magnet, roughly the size of a grain of rice, to the tongue of the patient with a tissue adhesive. The magnet was used as a tracer to allow the magnetic field sensors to register its movements. The users of the system wore sensors that look like headphones on the head to track the magnet.
The researchers say that the nerve that controls the tongue in patients with high-level spinal injury is typically not affected in the injury. Software translates the movement of the magnet into motion for the chair via wireless connectivity with a computer attached to the chair.
The chair motion can be controlled in a constant setting that allows the chair user to move along an arc or in a control method for new users that only allows one motion at a time. According to the researchers, the Tongue Drive system can be used to create as many movement commands as the user can comfortably remember.


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Gates Safety Measures & Equipment
In recent years a number of changes have occured in relation to automated gate systems. These changes have come about due to a number of incidents involving the automated gates. The type of safety measure that each gate requires depends on the type of gate, method of operation and location of the gate.
Below are the measures that can be installed onto existing gate systems
Photocells are installed both on the gate posts and at the end of the gate swing. If either of these devices infra red beam are broken then the operation of the gate will stop. This is to stop the gate opening or closing onto objects or people that have broken the beam
Safety edges are designed so that any sort of pressure on these devices will stop the operation of the gate. These devices are placed along the bottom on both sides of the gate so if any object is on the floor in the swing of the gate it will stop when hits this object. The safety edge is also placed on the leading edge of the gate to prevent the gate from shutting onto objects or people.


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Where did the Italian Albini family come from? What is the Italian Albini family crest and coat of arms? When did the Albini family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Albini family history?The surname Albini is an Italian patronymic surname; that is, it was a name created from the first name of the father. Albini is derived from a "pale" or "pure" person, and is a variant of the Latin personal name Albinus which was originally derived from the Latin albus, which means white.
Italian surnames come in far more variations than the names of most other nationalities. Regional traditions and dialects are a decisive factor in this characteristic. For example, northern names tend to end in "o", while southern in "i". Also important, but not unique to Italy, was the fact that before dictionaries and the printing press most scribes simply spelled words according to their sounds. The predictable result was an enormous number of spelling variations. The recorded spellings of Albini include Albigni, Albini, Albindo, Albinati, Albinelli, Albinetti, Albino, Albinoni, Albinotti and many more.
First found in the tiny town of Sestola, just south of Bologna. In 1629 the Albinelli family was registered here. This same year the family moved to Modena and were immediately made nobility. They were also made citizens of the city of Ferrara, nearby. Also in this year, Giambattista Albinelli was made a Cappuccinian monk in Modena.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Albini research. More information is included under the topic Early Albini History in all our PDF Extended History products.
Another 99 words(7 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Albini Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.
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Albini Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
Albini Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
The Albini Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Albini Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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Types for benchmarking.
The core class is Benchmarkable, which admits both pure functions
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For a pure function of type Int -> a, the benchmarking harness
calls this function repeatedly, each time with a different Int
argument, and reduces the result the function returns to weak head
normal form. If you need the result reduced to normal form, that
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Rounds a given number down towards zero
What is the ROUNDDOWN Function?
The ROUNDDOWN Function is categorized under Excel Math and Trigonometry functions. The function will round down towards zero. Basically, it does the opposite of the ROUNDUP function.
As a financial analyst, this function is useful as it helps round a number and eliminates the least significant digits, simplifying the notation but keeping close to the original value.
The ROUNDDOWN function uses the following arguments:
 1. Number (required argument) – This is a real number that we wish to round down.
 2. Num_digits (required argument) – This is the number of digits to which we want to round the number.
Now, if the num_digits argument is:
 1. A positive value that is num_digits > number, it specifies the number of digits is rounded down to the specified number of decimal places.
 2. Equal to zero, it specifies rounding to the nearest integer.
 3. A negative value that is num_digits < number, it specifies the number of digits is rounded down to the specified number of decimal places.
How to use the ROUNDDOWN Function in Excel?
To understand the uses of the ROUNDDOWN function, let's consider an example:
Suppose we are given the following data:
5.20Round down to the nearest whole number
51.421Round down to 1 decimal place
5.1422Round down to 2 decimal places
2785.23Round down to 3 decimal places
2785.2-1Round down to the nearest 10
2785.2-2Round down to the nearest 100
2785.2-3Round down to the nearest 1000
2785.2-4Round down to the nearest 10000
The results we get in Excel are shown below:
ROUNDUP Function
Things to remember
 1. The ROUNDDOWN function behaves like the ROUND function, except that it always rounds a number down.
 2. It can round either to the left or right of the decimal point.
 3. Unlike standard rounding, where numbers less than 5 are rounded down, the function always rounds numbers 1-9 down.
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text: A sample set of registered perennial ryegrass varieties was used to compare how morphological characterisation and AFLP(R)(1) and STS molecular markers described variety relationships. All the varieties were confirmed as morphologically distinct, and both the STS and AFLP markers exposed sufficient genetic diversity to differentiate these registered ryegrass varieties. Distances obtained by each of the approaches were compared, with special attention given to the coincidences and divergences between the methods. When correlations between morphological, AFLP and STS distances were calculated and the corresponding scatter-plots constructed, the variety relationships appeared to be rather inconsistent across the methods, especially between morphology and the molecular markers. However, some consistencies were found for closely related material. An implication could be that these molecular-marker techniques, while not yet suited to certain operations in the traditional registration of new varieties, could be suitable methods for investigating disputable distinctness situations or possible EDV2 relationships, subject to establishing standardised protocols and statistical techniques. Some suggestions for such a protocol, including a statistical test for distinctness, are given.


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SERIES AT A GLANCE
Harvard students faculty, administrators and staff are entering the information superhighway. They are using e-mail and the Internet-- a global data communication network--for more and increasingly complicated tasks, fundamentally changing learning and communication at Harvard.
The uses of computers and the networks have multiplied faster than Harvard's ability to regulate them. The College scrambles to develop computer policies in response to new ethical dilemmas. User demands for privacy and security are pitted against the need for access to information
A small band of technical wizard toil inside Harvard Arts and Sciences computer Services (HASCS). But the University has failed to provide the resources necessary to meet the heavy demands placed on the organization. The results: staff shortages, budget constraints and low morale.
As Harvard links its computers to the outside world via the Internet, a private University becomes significantly more public. Will the network change more than just the way students and faculty get their information? A look at the future of computers and related technology at Harvard.


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When you select Share image or Share text, you will see a list of Apps where text or images can be shared, and a list of actions such as Copy, Save Image, etc.
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The Cannabis Industry and Tax Implications of Entity Structure: Issues to Consider
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This piece is intended to provide some considerations that current and potential license holders should think about as they work with advisors to make entity selection decisions or consider potential tax elections. Please note that this article is a high-level overview and is not intended to declare the best type of entity structure for a license holding entity. Although there are numerous tax variables that should be contemplated, tax issues are not the only concerns relevant to determining entity type. In addition, some states may tax entities differently than how the entity is taxed for federal purposes.
First, let's look at the legal entity types that may be set up to hold a license, operate a business and what that may mean for how an entity is taxed. Often, entities are set up as either limited liability companies or corporations.
If a limited liability company is organized and the entity is owned by only one owner, a single member LLC, the default tax treatment would be that the entity is disregarded for tax purposes. In other words, it would not file a separate federal income tax return, except in some states including CA, TX, TN and RI. All the tax consequences of the activities within the legal entity are reported on the tax return of the owner of the entity.
If a limited liability company is set up and the entity is owned by more than one owner, a multiple member LLC, the default tax treatment would be that the entity is taxed as a partnership. An entity taxed as a partnership reflects the tax consequences of the activities within the legal entity on a partnership return. The partnership generally does not pay tax on the activity, but rather the taxable income and loss are passed through to the owners of the LLC. The owners of the LLC reflect the taxable income or loss on their tax return and are responsible for paying any resulting tax. In the rare instance of an entity being audited, there is a possibility that the entity may have to pay tax on the partners behalf, depending on the ownership structure. Either a single member LLC or a multiple member LLC may elect to treat the LLC as a C-corporation or an S-corporation for tax purposes.
The Taxation of C-Corporations & S-Corporations
The default treatment for an entity set-up as a corporation is the entity will be taxed as a C-corporation. An entity taxed as a C-corporation, including an LLC electing to be taxed as a C-corporation, pays the tax on any taxable income generated by activities within the entity. Additionally, any distributions of earnings from the C-corporation to the owners of the entity are generally considered dividends which are required to be reported as taxable income by the owners when received. In other words, the earnings of an entity taxed as a C-corporation are potentially taxed twice. Once, as they are earned within the entity, and then again upon distribution to the owners of the entity.
An entity set-up as a corporation, a single member LLC or a multiple member LLC may elect to be treated as an S-corporation. Like an entity taxed as a partnership, an S-corporation does not pay tax at the entity level, but rather passes the taxable income and loss through to the owner or owners. Additionally, like a partnership, distributions from an S-corporation are not taxable as dividends to the owner when received.
Since we covered how different entities are taxed based on how they are set-up, and what elections they may or may not make, we will explore some of the issues that should be considered when making an entity selection. We will also address potentially electing to treat an entity one way or another for tax purposes.
Advantages: The advantages of an S-corporation are limited to the avoidance of double taxation associated with C-corporations, as well as some potential benefits of lower Social Security and Medicare taxes.
Disadvantages: The primary disadvantage of an S-corporation for a license holding company is any non-deductible expenses resulting from 280E are passed through to the owner(s), which then reduces the ownership's tax basis in its investment in the entity. A reduction in tax basis is determinantal to owners of an entity because the basis is used to reduce taxable income when/if the owner liquidates ownership in the entity.
Other disadvantages of S-corporations include but are not limited to restrictions on ownership of the entity, a requirement for reasonable compensation paid to owners and a lack of flexibility in the allocations of earnings among owners.
Advantages: The advantages of a partnership include but are not limited to the avoidance of double taxation associated with C-corporations, flexibility in the allocation of earnings and losses among owners, and flexibility in the type of owners of the entity.
Disadvantages: Like S-corporations, the primary disadvantage of a partnership is any non-deductible expenses resulting from 280E are passed through to the owner(s).
Other disadvantages of partnerships include potential self-employment taxes on earnings allocated to active owners, potential complexity in the allocations of taxable income and losses among partners in entities with many owners or different classes of ownership.
Advantages: In contrast to S-corporations and partnerships, the tax basis resulting from the ownership's investment in the entity is not subject to reductions from non-deductible expenses being passed through to owners. This protection of tax basis is particularly important to owners of license holding entities.
An additional advantage of C-corporation tax treatment may be a lower tax rate applied to taxable income.
Disadvantages: The most significant disadvantage of C-corporation tax treatment is the potential double taxation of earnings that might be applicable if the entity does have earnings that are distributed.
In addition to the items address above, the advantages and disadvantages of the entity type and related tax elections, additional considerations include:
 1. How much of the 280E nondeductible expenses will the taxpayer be subject to?
 2. How much earnings will the entity be distributing to the owners?
 3. How complex is the entity's ownership?
 4. The lack of certainty regarding whether or not the qualified business income deduction (QBID) enjoyed by pass-through entity owners is allowable as a deduction by owners receiving pass-through income from an entity subject to 280E.
 5. Are there plans for selling the entity and if so, what is the time horizon for doing so?
At Bridge West, we advise taxpayers to consult with cannabis advisors who have experience in the industry, can help navigate the complexities of tax compliance and Code Section 280E and are experienced with entity structures.
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 [plural] a list of teams or players put in order according to how many points they have won in games or competitions against each other. The usual British word is table.
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 This latest scandal will undoubtedly have affected his standing with his colleagues.
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 We are delighted to be working with a company of such high standing.
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 People's jobs are an important measure of social standing.
 The owner of this house would have been a man of standing in Roman society.
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Areas of Expertiseresearch methodologies; cultural and social theories; media history; historiography; history of technology; material culture; governmentality & social regulation; publics and counterpublics; regional and mass market consumption; popular screen cultures & practices; popular print cultures & practices; ephemera; collecting; the archive and nostalgia; film industries in Canada; film exhibition and screen practices; the newspaper & its supplements
Prof. Moore studies the history of the mass market and urban modernity in North America. Overall, his work argues that amusement and leisure help constitute modern publics by providing spaces, rhetorics, and logics for collective gathering. His recent research, Circuits of Cinema, tells the history of film and media distribution from the earliest days of travelling shows to global blockbusters. His previous project was a social history of the first decade of movie-going in Toronto and the Midwest USA, tracing how the novelty of film became a mass practice through showmanship, regulation, and promotion. Collaborating with Prof. Sandra Gabriele, a forthcoming book examines the development of the weekend newspaper in the 1890s as a cultural technology, animating modernity, central to the institutionalization of mass society.


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A highly detailed animated tutorial on light microscopy, including simple and compound microscope anatomy, polarized microscopy, darkfield, and fluorescent microscopy. Appropriate for AP physics or for a course in electricity and magnetism.
An animated tutorial that describes how scanning probe microscopes work to "read" the surface of nanoscale samples and provide image data.
A link to the tutorial page of Virtual Microscope with animations on basic functions of SEM, AFM, and LM microscopy.
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The scientific name of this riverside tree is Myrciaria dubia, most of the world knows its fruits as Camu Camu or Cacari or Camocamo. It is most commonly found in the Amazon rainforest in Peru and Brazil, and the fruit is small, cherry-like drupe. Studies have shown Camu Camu powder to be a better alternative so synthetic Vitamin C because its food form is more easily digested and utilized by the body. Camu camu is rich in vitamin C, a vitamin that acts as a powerful antioxidant in your body and is vital for the health of your skin and immune system. It may have antibacterial properties and could help reduce blood pressure, weight, and blood sugar levels. However, more research is needed to support these findings.
Astaxanthin is a carotenoid, a chemical found naturally in certain plants and animals. It is one of the most powerful antioxidants found in nature. Astaxanthin is applied directly to the skin to protect against sunburn, to reduce wrinkles, and for other cosmetic benefits. It is also used for improving exercise performance, decreasing muscle damage after exercise, and decreasing muscle soreness after exercise. Astaxanthin is 550 times more effective as an antioxidant than vitamin E, nearly 6,000 times stronger than vitamin C, one of the most important vitamins when it comes to boosting the immune system, it's also 550 times richer as a source of antioxidants than green tea or other Catechins.
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The Videojet® 1610 small-character continuous ink jet printer can print up to 5 lines of high resolution at speeds up to 960 feet per minute. The printer also provides:
- Optimal uptime in high-speed applications, enabling greater productivity.
- A vapor recovery system that reduces solvent consumption and allows for longer runs before fluid change.
- A clean-flow printhead that maximizes uptime, lessens maintenance and extends runs without intervention by reducing ink buildup, which can cause traditional ink jet printers to shut down.
- The exclusive Smart Cartridge™ fluid system that reads the embedded microchip, so the printer can identify whether compatible fluid has been installed to prevent errors in ink types, or switching make-up and ink fluids.
- The capability of the Smart Cartridge fluid system to drain completely, wasting no residual fluids, while the needle-and-septum design eliminates the need for operators to pour ink, preventing fluid spillage and waste.
- An integrated core that consolidates the printer's key ink system components into 1 part and requires preventive maintenance only every 12,000 hours, or approximately 18 months, for heavy-duty applications.
- Simple, mess-free core changeout that is designed to be customer-replaceable in 30 minutes.
- A countdown meter for easy monitoring of time remaining before the core must be changed.
- Troubleshooting with the press of a button on the operator interface — a pop-up window assists the operator in assessing the issue and resolving it.
- Easy integration into existing systems with advanced connectivity, including a USB port, which allows for hot swapping print jobs and backing up messages.
- The convenience of off-site control and diagnostics via Ethernet capability through CLARiSOFT™ and CLARiNET™ software, which enables seamless real-time message changes.
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How do we know what you do as a Girl Scout make a difference? This is one of many questions the Girl Scout Research Institute (GSRI) has studied recently to document outcomes of participation in Girl Scouts. This study examined the relationship between Girl Scout experiences and success in school. Rather than a pre-test, post-test research design, it involved surveys of active Girl Scouts administered near the end of the academic year.
So what did the GSRI researchers discover in this research project?
- Girl Scout participation has a positive impact on girls'
- Most Girl Scouts in this study are academically successful -
they finish their homework, get good grades and understand their class work
- Girl Scouting influences academic success as much as, and
sometimes more than, non-Girl Scout factors known to impact academics
- Girls who gain experience solving problems and seeking
challenges in Girl Scouting are more successful in school than girls who gain
less experience in these areas
- Some Girl Scout experiences are more beneficial than others
in promoting the Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) outcomes that
influence academic success
- Lower socio-economic status (SES) girls report greater benefits from Girl Scouting than do higher-SES girls
So, please remember, what you do with girls does make a difference. For more information on this report or to read the full report, visit the Girl Scout Research Institute website, _URL_


International differences: units and ingredients aims to help English speakers around the world who are interested in Swedish food by providing reliable, easy-to-follow recipes as well as some background information about Swedish food.
The problem
We may all speak English, but we use different units and sometimes we use different names for ingredients.
Choosing units for recipes
Swedes virtually only ever use electric ovens and measure temperatures in °C and they measure ingredients in grammes and decilitres. However, we thought it was important to use units that are more familiar to readers so we have adopted two sets of units:
- Modern British units, shown first,
- 'American' units, shown afterwards in brackets.
Where possible we recommend using the British units as all recipes on this site are tested using the British units and it is not always possible to find a convenient conversion.
Alternative names are given in brackets
Where we know a different word is used for an ingredient in another part of the world then we put the British word first and then the alternative word in brackets afterwards. For instance, what we in the UK call Rice Krispies are known as Rice Bubbles in Australia (they are used in one our recipes for a Midsummer Cake). Note: we don't bother if there is only a minor spelling difference.
We don't know what we don't know!
We don't know what we don't know! If you find any of our recipes use ingredients that have another English name where you live please let us know so that we can add the alternative name to the recipe to make it easier for other readers.
Our use of italics
We normally put Swedish names in italics after the title of a recipe as many readers are curious to know the Swedish name.
If you are curious to know how a word is pronounced in Swedish we recommend using the audio facility on a translation machine such as Google. When you paste Swedish words into the box a loudspeaker icon will appear, circled in red above. Click on the icon and you can hear the words pronounced. Although not perfect, we think it is better than a written pronunciation guide.
Ovens and temperatures
A lot of British cooks use gas or fan ovens so in the UK three sets of temperatures are normally provided in recipes. We are providing four sets because many of our readers measure temperatures in °F. To help readers we have produced a full conversion chart below for reference.
Conventional Electric °CConventional Electric °FGasFan °C*
110°C 225°F ¼ 100°C
130°C 250°F ½ 120°C
140°C 275°F 1 130°C
150°C 300°F 2 140°C
170°C 325°F 3 150°C
180°C 350°F 4 160°C
190°C 375°F 5 160°C
200°C 400°F 6 170°C
220°C 425°F 7 180°C
230°C 450°F 8 190°C
250°C 475°F 9 200°C
 *For fan ovens you should check the instruction manual that came with your oven.
Weights and volumes
In Britain most ingredients are measured by weight and not volume. Where appropriate we try to give both.
In the case of bread and cake recipes we recommend weighing the ingredients in grammes if you can as it is sometimes hard to determine an equivalent volume.
Some other practical conversions are given below:
1 tsp = 5 ml
1 tbsp = 15 ml
1 cup = 236 ml
1 pint = 550 ml
1 oz = 28 g
8 oz = 225 g
1 lb = 450 g
1" = 2.5 cm
In the UK there are four main types of cream, whereas in America there are three main types. The table below shows the main differences.
Butterfat content British name American name
10.5 -18% Not usually sold but can be made by mixing whole milk and cream Half and half cream
18 - 20% Single cream Single cream but sometimes called light cream
30% Not usually sold Whipping cream
30-40% Whipping cream Heavy cream (sometimes also called heavy whipping cream)
48% Double cream Not usually sold
55 - 60% Clotted cream Devonshire cream
In most recipes it won't matter if you substitute a different cream with a similar fat content. For example, you can easily substitute heavy cream for double cream. However, anything with less than 30% fat content is hard to whip.
Unless stated otherwise, recipes in the UK that refer to flour normally mean plain (all-purpose) wheat flour. This is a fairly soft flour, suitable for making cakes and biscuits. However, it is normally too soft for bread making. As a result we normally use imported Canadian or Russian flour for bread making and this is sold as strong flour, although occasionally we grow a Canadian variety of wheat in the UK specially for bread making. In American you can use all-purpose flour in place of strong flour, although it is probably better to use bread flour.
Swedes use a wide range of flours with most breads containing at least some rye flour. The availability of rye flour is improving, but you may need to go to a health food store to buy rye flour or you can buy it online.
Potato and cornflour
What we call potato flour in the UK is called potato starch in the America. Similarly what we call cornflour in the UK is called cornstarch in America.
Caster sugar
In the UK there are two types of granulated white sugar that are readily available: granulated and a finer granulated sugar called caster sugar, often called superfine sugar in America. In most recipes you can substitute granulated sugar for caster sugar.
Confectioner's/Icing sugar
Confectioners' sugar or powdered sugar are American terms. In the UK confectioners' sugar is called icing sugar. (For more information about sugars for Swedish food please click here.)
Despite the claims in some cookery books, fresh yeast is not readily available in many parts of the UK. Instead supermarkets and delicatessens tend to stock dried yeast. This comes in two forms but our recipes normally use fast-action, sometimes called 'Easy bake' yeast or 'quick yeast'. As that is the type of yeast that most people in the UK can buy easily it is the only type used on this site. (For more information about yeast for Swedish food please click here.)
Availability of ingredients
Where we know that ingredients are hard to obtain in the UK or in America we will try and suggest alternatives. If you have any suggestions to help please do not hesitate to let us know.
Different words
Where we know that Brits and Americans and/or Australians use different words for the same thing we will try to put the British word first and then the alternative name in brackets afterwards. The main differences are:
British word American or Australian word
Aubergine Egg plant
Beetroot Beet
Bicarbonate of soda Baking soda
Biscuit Cookie
Broad beans Lima beans
Caster sugar Granulated sugar
Chips Fries
Cling film Food wrap or cling wrap
Cornflour Cornstarch
Courgette Zucchini
Crisps Chips
Dark chocolate Bittersweet chocolate
Desiccated coconut Dry unsweetened shredded
Greaseproof paper Waxed paper
Grill Broil
Hare Jackrabbit
Icing sugar Confectioners' sugar
Jacket Potato Baked potato
Kipper Smoked herring
Mature cheese Sharp cheese or aged
Minced Ground
Muslin cloth Cheesecloth
Prawns Shrimps
Purée Paste
Rashers bacon Strips bacon
Rice Krispies Rice Bubbles
Scrape potatoes Scrub potatoes
Starter Appetiser
Streaky bacon Fatty bacon
Strong flour Bread flour
Swedes Rutabagas
Sweet Candy
Treacle Molasses
Unsalted butter Sweet butter
Vanilla pod Vanilla bean
As always, if you think there is any other differences which we need to clear up please email us.
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[out-n-ou-ter, -nd-ou-] /ˌaʊt nˈaʊ tər, -ndˈaʊ-/
a person who does things with excessive thoroughness; extremist.
a thoroughgoing or perfect example of a kind.
a thorough or thoroughgoing person or thing
a person or thing that is excellent of its kind
/ˌaʊtəˈsaɪt/ adjective, interjection (slang) 1. another term for far-out Related Terms out of sight
[out-ahr-gyoo] /ˌaʊtˈɑr gyu/ verb (used with object), outargued, outarguing. 1. to outdo or defeat in : That man could outargue the devil himself.
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List and explain the various forms of Public/Mass Transit using rail as the fixed guide path.
The most common answer for this requirement is Commuter trains and Amtrak trains. They often come to mind because they use the same rails as freight services in the United States. But we have many other types of passenger transit which uses rail. The San Francisco Bay Area has many examples, but you can check all around North America, and many other countries for some of these other examples.
|Light Rail (examples are San Jose's
Valley Transit Authority,
the Sacramento Regional Transit)
- Light Rail trains usually use overhead electric power, electric motors under each
coach, and using a rail gauge slightly different from standard trains. They normally
operate away from regular train lines, and closer to metropolitan and urban population
Photo of Sacramento RT Light Rail by Peter Ehrlich, 2007
|Third-Rail Trains (examples are San Francisco's
Bay Area Rapid Transit, and
the Washington, D.C. area Metro
trains) - Each car has power pick-ups below the train body, from an Electric Third Rail,
located near the two rails that serve as the fixed guide path.
(Montreal, Canada, and Paris, France have a thrid-rail underground system very similar to Bart, and Washington D.C.'s Metro, but they use rubber tires and concrete guideways instead of rails and rail wheels.)
|Subways (examples include
San Franscisco MUNI,
Massechusetts Bay Transit)
- Subways are underground people-moving trains, and these days they are often electric
motor systems, because it's difficult to clear the exhaust from petroleum-fueled motors
from the subway tunnels. (Residue from petroleum exhaust also sticks to everything
underground.) Underground operation helps these trains run reliably during bad weather
The Massachusets Bat Transit Authority Red Line (shown at right) is a third-rail powered system.
|Street Cars, or Trolley Cars (examples are
New Orleans Streetcars,
Illinois Railway Museum trollys) -
Many trolley cars used overhead electrical pickups, and rails as a fixed path.
Photo of IRM Car 321 by Frank Hicks, 2007
Many of the trolly lines in New Orleans were damaged by the floods, but they are being restored, becaue of the rich history they have in this famous city.
When cars and trolleys have to share the road in busy metropolitan areas, the fact that the rails can't swerve around stopped traffic often cause delays. In many areas, they have been replaced by Trolley Buses, which use the overhead wires and electric motors, but the buses ride on rubber tires, so the bus can move through traffic more easily.
Francisco Cable Cars - Unlike the electric or petroleum-based power used in
the rest of the modes described on this page, the motive power for these cable cars is
NOT part of the car!
How cable cars work: There are large motors, located in Power Houses, which move cables underground. The Gripman uses a device to grab the moving cable under the street to pull the car up and down the hills, and he uses brakes on the car to slow and stop the car.
Photo of cable car by Aude
|Monorail Systems (Schweberbahn,
Wuppertal, Germany) - There are many monorails in service in amusement parks, but
they often use rubber tires instead of rails. There is also a monorail operating in
downtown Seattle, Washington, which also uses rubber tires under the cars.
There is a great Mass Transit monorail system called the Schwebebahn, in Wuppertal, Germany, which is suspended above the Wupper River, and they operate a variety of older and newer cars on the 8.3-mile line.
Photo of Schwebebahn trains by Daniel Kapanke
There are currently 120 active merit badges that can be earned by Boy Scouts today, and scouts can find information about all of these on the Internet at the Merit Badge Research Center (MBRC) website, including the Railroading merit badge requirements. The MBRC has worksheets for most of the current merit badges.


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- adulterate •
ê-dêl-têr-rayt • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Verb, transitive
Meaning: To reduce strength or purity by adding inferior ingredients.
Notes: No, this word doesn't mean "to make adult". If you adulterate writing, in fact, you make the reading of it less adult. Today's Good Word has nothing to do, historically (see Word History) or currently, with adults; even children can adulterate things. The nouns are adulteration and adulterator. The past participle may be used as an adjective, often negated: unadulterated, as in the unadulterated truth. The positive adjective is spelled the same as the verb only pronounced differently: [ê-dêl-têr-rêt]. However, be careful how you use this word; it also means "adulterous".
In Play: Today's Good Word started out meaning "to water down", as in to water down drinks: "I don't frequent that pub because I suspect the bartenders of adulterating the whiskey." But then the meaning expanded to include reducing the strength or purity of anything: "Don't adulterate your words: say what you really think."
Word History: Today's Good Word comes from adulteratus, the past participle of Latin adulterare "to falsify, corrupt (a woman)". This verb combines ad "to" + alterare "change". The stem of this word gave us alter and alternative. Obviously, the whole word served as the basis for adultery. Adult, on the other hand, is taken from the Latin word, adultus "having grown up, mature," the past participle of adolescere "grow up, mature". The present participle of this word, adolescen(t)s "growing up, maturing", was borrowed into English as adolescent.
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A new RTE radio documentary explores how Kenmare Street in lower Manhattan was named in memory of an Irish immigrant.
The RTE radio doc 'Kenmare Street' tells the story of famine, enforced emigration, New York tenements, politics, and how a kid from the slums of the 'Five Points' got to name a street in Manhattan after his mother's home town of Kenmare.
In 1849, the agent for the Lord Lansdowne landlord of the Kenmare Estate recommended the estate could cut costs if they sent a portion of the destitute population to the US and Canada.
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The cost of the trip would cost less than food and lodgings for one year in a Kenmare workhouse.
Thousands of Kenmare residents took up the offer and immigrated to New York, settling in the notorious Five Points neighborhood, made up of Baxter Street, Orange Street and Worth Street.
Living in one of the most notorious slums in NYC the Kenmare Irish found work in tanneries, taverns and selling food on the streets.
One of the residents, Tim Sullivan, was the son of Kenmare immigrants Daniel O'Sullivan and Catherine Connelly. Sullivan started off shining shoes and doing paper rounds. He soon began running the newspaper distribution, before developing bars and theatres and ending up in politics.
Known as Big Tim or Big Feller, he was one of the city's most powerful politicians in the first decade of the 20th century.
Richard F. Welch, a New York historian, who wrote "King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era" describes his legacy.
"Profoundly Irish by birth, heritage and experience, the new district leader held little in the way of ethno-religious prejudices and took people as he found them.
"Brought up in abject poverty himself his worldview was refracted through a prism of class-consciousness that owed nothing to theory or ideology and everything to experience and practicality."
Read More: How 'Typhoid Mary' infected countless and still haunts a New York island
"Sullivan was a master of mass politics in an age when personal contact was everything," he writes.
"The loyalty he engendered in the multiethnic population below 14th Street was based on his big hearted solicitude for his constituents."
Sullivan founded Kenmare street in 1911, in memory of the town his mother emigrated from.
He died aged 51, when he was killed on August 31, 1913, by a train near Pelham Parkway, New York.
As part of the radio documentary, Producer Yvonne Judge travelled to New York and spoke with Senator Mark Daly and historian Ger Lyne. She also spoke with descendants of Big Tim Sullivan among others.
Click here to listen to the 'Kenmare Street' documentary on RTE.


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Abstract Author: Han-Cheol Lim, Suhee Park, Hyun-Suk Kang, and Won-Tae Kwon
Abstract Title: A Diagnostic Case Study of the Extreme Summer Drought over East Asia in 1994
Abstract: East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is the largest, the most complex and energetic monsoon system in the world. It is basically caused by thermal contrast between land and ocean, but governed by a lot of factors due to not only the geographical uniqueness but also the nonlinear multi-scale interaction of atmospheric disturbances from mesoto planetary scales. Most countries in East Asia usually suffer from severe flood/droughts due to the interannual and/or intraseasonal variability of the EASM rainfall. During the last few decades since the late 1970s, East Asia experienced a record-breaking severe drought in 1994 summer. Previous studies demonstrated that a cause of this severe drought results from the absence of monsoon rainfall during July 1994 over the East Asia. In our study, the spatial and temporal characteristics of 1994 summer drought over East Asia were analyzed. A large-scale circulation as well as global SST anomaly pattern associated with the drought was also investigated. Furthermore, the relationship between the EASM activity and drought occurrence over East Asia for the 29-yr period of _PHONE_ will be shown. Based on our analyses, impacts of the EASM on drought over East Asia will be discussed at the workshop.


Marengo, IA
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Marengo's longitude and latitude coordinates
in decimal form are 41.797227, -92.069550.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.6 km²), of which, 2.1 square miles (5.4 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (2.78%) is water.


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A Finite Elements 3D analysis including the soil interaction has been developed. The analysis includes a modal analysis studying the soil (lowest frequencies of the system) and residual (modes resulting from perturbations at the nodes of application in the directions of the forces).
A study of the forced vibration in the frequency domain has also been performed, applying the rotating components centrifugal forces depending on their operating speed.
Peak stress results in concrete have been obtained as well as the stress increase in the reinforcement bars. Finally, the velocity amplitudes of the bearing supports have been compared to the recommended values by the original designers of the foundation and the reference standards.
Rotors masses: 180 - 166.4 kN/g (turbine & generator)
Balance grade: Gr 6.3
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Ojibwe Place Names in Wisconsin, ca. 1890
Geographical Names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, Having a Chippewa origin
The author of this list, Chrysostom Verwyst (_PHONE_), was a Catholic missionary among the Ojibwe in the Bayfield-Ashland area from 1882 to 1912. Verwyst became fluent in Ojibwe and after retiring spent his remaining years in the Franciscan monastery at Bayfield, where he wrote on the history and language of the Ojibwe and compiled a biography of his predecessor, Rev. Frederic Baraga. This list preserves the Ojibwe names in use in northern Wisconsin at the start of the 20th century; Verwyst also occasionally ascribed Ojibwe origins to place names that modern linguists now believe actually came from other lagnuages. It is one of several works in or about American Indian languages to be found at Turning Points in Wisconsin History. Readers should note that this is a historical document rather than a modern one; students wishing to study the language should rely on materials produced by the tribal language office.
Territory to Statehood|
Treaty Councils, from Prairie du Chien to Madeline Island
|Creator: ||Verwyst, Chrysostom Adrian 1841 - 1925
|Pub Data: ||Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. XII (1892): 390-398.
|Citation: ||Verwyst, Chrysostom Adrian. "Geographical Names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, Having a Chippewa origin." Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. XII (1892): 390-398.
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warfhuizenWarfhuizen is a small village in the extreme north of the Netherlands, in the so-called Hogeland of Groningen. The area is characterised by its great expanse, small winding roads and enormous farms. It is of old a religious patchwork, largely Dutch reformed with here and there Catholic and reformed enclaves.
The village is built on two wierden, the Groninger version of mounds: artificial hills which were raised to escape the floods from the Wadden Sea. The wierden of Warfhuizen were established in the early Middle Ages, before the year 800.
The hermitage, the cemetery and a few small workers' houses can be found on the larger wierde. The smaller one is called 'Burum' and was once a hamlet of its own.
Warfhuizen used to have two borgen (the down-to-earth Groninger version of castles), of which the largest (Lulema) had almost always been in Catholic hands. The lords of the borg, the stubbornly Catholic families of Van Ewsum and Van Asbeck, therefore enjoyed a great influence on the foundation and continued existence of the Catholic enclaves of Den Hoorn and Kloosterburen, north of Warfhuizen. The church of the village itself, however, fell into the hands of Protestants, who rebuilt it to such an extent that nothing recognisable remains of the medieval church. A few elements of times past remain however: the oldest bell of the northern Netherlands (thirteenth century) and two pews from the seventeenth century.
Around the start of the new millennium the church had become very dilapidated. In 2001 it was bought by Catholics, completely restored and put ito use as a hermitage and Roman Catholic chapel. The furnishings mostly come from former churches and hermitages in Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. Dioceses and religious in Switzerland and Belgium especially have made large donations to turn the sanctuary into a gem.
Whoever enters from the stark Groninger land suddenly thinks himself in the baroque glory of a hermitage in more southern parts. Baron van Asbeck would have been proud!


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NASA Releases Interactive Space Communications Mobile Game App
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Just in time for World Space Week, NASA has released a new mobile application that challenges gamers to take on the role of a space communications network manager and puts them in charge of building a communications network to support scientific missions.
The educational application, "Space Communications and Navigation: NetworKing," was developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., for the iPad and iPhone. NetworKing provides an interactive, 3-D experience with an insider's perspective into how mission controllers and scientists communicate with spacecraft and satellites using the space, deep space and near Earth networks.
"This game introduces the complex world of space communications to gamers," said Barbara Adde, policy and strategic communications director for the Space Communications and Navigation Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "It gives players the opportunity to enjoy a challenging game while absorbing the basic concepts of space communications. The game provides an engaging way to increase interest in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and opens minds to potential careers in these fields."
NetworKing allows players to build increasingly large and complex communication networks to support client satellites conducting scientific missions. Players who upgrade their communication networks can acquire more complex clients, such as the International Space Station and NASA's Hubble and Kepler space telescopes.
By providing insight into the complex world of communications between astronauts, mission controllers, scientists and satellites in real mission scenarios, the game is not only challenging, but also entertaining.
In addition to the mobile application, NetworKing also is available free on the NASA 3-D Resources website. Players can access the game on their web browsers or it can be downloaded and run on PC or Macintosh operating systems.
For links to download the app, download the game or play in a web browser, visit:
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