Since the Game Center feature is just an extension of the existing gameNetwork API, there's no need to go over every single available request you can send to Game Center—you can view the updated gameNetwork init(), request(), and show() documentation for that.
So instead, I'll give you a quick overview of what you need to do on the "Apple side" of things (iTunes Connect), the Corona "setup" info, as well as the special considerations that need to be taken to ensure everything works properly in your app.
iTunes Connect
Link: Visit the iTunes Connect Portal
The steps you're required to take on Apple's side of things are pretty straightforward, so I won't need to go too in-depth with this section. In short, you'll need to create Leaderboards (high score boards) and Achievements for the apps you want to enable Game Center features, and also make note of the individual Leaderboard and Achievement ID's you've assigned to each one.
 1. Click the 'Manage Your Applications' link.
 2. Click your app's icon.
 3. On the right, click 'Manage Game Center' button (blue).
 4. Click the 'Enable' button.
 5. Click 'Edit' under the Leaderboard and Achievements sections.
 6. Add Leaderboards and Achievements.
 7. Make note of each 'Leaderboard ID' and 'Achievement ID'.
Of course, if you don't want to have Achievements (or a Leaderboard) in your game, you can skip those sections. It's recommended you add something, or your Game Center implementation might be a little bland to say the least.
System Events and initCallback
Normally, gameNetwork.init() is called at the beginning of main.lua, and is never touched again for the lifetime of your app's runtime. With Game Center, there are two main differences in regards to gameNetwork.init().
The first difference is, because Game Center is a system-wide process in iOS, users are logged out of GameCenter (for your app) every time your app is suspended (e.g. the user presses the 'Home' button or switches to a different app). Therefore, you'll want to call gameNetwork.init() every time your app receives an "applicationStart" system event.
The second difference between other providers is that with Game Center, you can specify an initCallback function that is called once the init request has completed (which gives you a chance do something when the user logs in, declines, or if the they are offline and can't access Game Center features).
Here's an example of how you might use gameNetwork.init() when using Game Center as a network provider:
local gameNetwork = require "gameNetwork"
local loggedIntoGC = false
-- called after the "init" request has completed
local function initCallback( event )
 if then
 loggedIntoGC = true
 native.showAlert( "Success!", "User has logged into Game Center", { "OK" } )
 loggedIntoGC = false
 native.showAlert( "Fail", "User is not logged into Game Center", { "OK" } )
-- function to listen for system events
local function onSystemEvent( event )
 if event.type == "applicationStart" then
 gameNetwork.init( "gamecenter", initCallback )
 return true
Runtime:addEventListener( "system", onSystemEvent )
In your initCallback listener function, the event table includes a single property,, which is set to true upon successful Game Center login, and is nil if user was not logged in. The primary use-case for this is to avoid calling gameNetwork.request() in situations where the user is not logged in. For more information, see the updated gameNetwork.init() documentation.
Game Center Requests
When using Game Center as your provider, the following strings can be used in conjunction with gameNetwork.request():
 - setHighScore
 - loadScores
 - loadLocalPlayer
 - loadPlayers
 - loadFriends
 - loadAchievements
 - unlockAchievement
 - resetAchievements
 - loadAchievementDescriptions
 - loadFriendRequestMaxNumberOfRecipients
 - loadLeaderboardCategories
 - loadPlayerPhoto
 - loadAchievementImage
 - loadPlaceholderCompletedAchievementImage
 - loadIncompleteAchievementImage
Please see the gameNetwork.request() API documentation to see the different kinds of data that needs to be passed with each of the above requests. Most of the above requests allow you to specify a listener which is where you'll receive requested data. The most confusing aspect of Game Center requests is knowing what data is returned to your callback listener through the event table. As a reminder, this information can always be found in the gameNetwork.request() API documentation page and also on the individual class reference pages within the Official Game Kit Documentation. If all else fails, you could always encode the event table into a JSON string and display it on your device's screen through a native alert. Here's an example of how you might do that in conjunction with a "loadFriends" request:
local gameNetwork = require "gameNetwork"
local json = require "json"
-- callback listener for Game Center requests
local function requestCallback( event )
 if event.type == "loadFriends" then
 local data = json.encode( )
 -- show encoded json string via native alert
 native.showAlert( "", data, { "OK" } )
gameNetwork.request( "loadFriends", { listener=requestCallback } )
 1. I see that you said that you include
 components = { "openfeint" }
 in build.settings, but is that for both GC and OF, just GC within OF?
 2. Jonathan Beebe says:
 _USER_: You have two three options when it comes to OpenFeint and Game Center:
 1. Standalone GameCenter
 2. Standalone OpenFeint
 3. Standalone OpenFeint (with included GameCenter features)
 For the first option, you'll include the empty components table in your build.settings.
 For the second and third option, you'll include "openfeint" as the only item in build.settings (see example in article above).
 With the third option, you'll call gameNetwork.init( "openfeint" ) and all of your gameNetwork requests will be to OpenFeint. OpenFeint has integrated Game Center features that allow you to submit to both OpenFeint and Game Center when it comes to setting a new high score or unlocking an achievement (but the requests will go through OpenFeint).
 You cannot init both OpenFeint and Game Center as a *standalone* provider in your app. If you want both of them, you have to go with the third option in the list (which provides only a very limited Game Center implementation).
 3. Since Game Center is already built-in to all iOS devices, we don't make you specify it as a "component". It is always there regardless if you use it or not.
 OpenFeint is a large 3rd party framework which adds several megabytes to your build. We originally tried to be smart about whether we included it by detecting if you did "require('gameNetwork')" in your code. But this won't work anymore since we can't tell if you are using OpenFeint or Game Center from this. So we need you to tell us explicitly now in your build.settings what you really want.
 4. Kiel McDonald says:
 Thanks for the info, looking forward to adding this to my current project!
 Are there any plans to extend Game Center support to include the turn based items released in iOS 5?
 5. This is fantastic! Thanks Ansca, and thanks for the tutorial Jon! I have an implementation question and I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I'll try it:
 I originally submitted my game to Apple using a wildcard App ID. It's my understanding that I can't use GameCenter with an app using the wildcard. Will Apple allow my update to use a different App ID for the same app so that I can add Game Center?
 6. How do we show the leaderboards? I am trying to call it from a button event and the call I am using is: "leaderboards", { listener=dismissCallback } )
 This shoud work correct?
 7. Nm I think the call actually is: "leaderboards", { leaderboard = {category="com.appledts.GKTapper.aggregate", timeScope="Week"}, listener=dismissCallback } )
 8. Jonathan Beebe says:
 _USER_ / Falcon: You can build using a different provisioning profile (that doesn't use a wildcard), but in either case, your bundle ID should actually be the same. As long as the provisioning profile you created is using the same bundle ID as what you have in iTunes Connect, then everything will be fine.
 This is not working in last build: 2012.726
 I didnt include components=openfient but my app has OF bundle files in it. (~300files / 2mb)
 10. Can: If you don't put the components line in your build.settings, we revert to our old behavior which will always include OpenFeint if you have require('gameNetwork') in your code.
 11. Hey Jonathan,
 I'm currently using only game center and insured that build.settings is set correctly, as well as made sure my user is logged in before posting.
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Reducing combustion noise by flow control
The problem
Dryer oven burner
Typical A-weighted noise levels generated by a dryer oven, used in malting grain, reached up to 95 dB. A low-frequency 'boom' at a tone of 82 Hz dominated. As the boom occurred only at low firing, it was diagnosed as flame instability that developed into an oscillation at a resonant frequency of the combustion tube. The precise cause of the instability was determined to be an excessively weak ratio of fuel to air at low firing.
The solution
To overcome this problem, a motor-controlled valve, previously used for controlling weld fume extraction, was adapted and fitted to the combustion fan intake. Triggered by a micro-switch, the valve was used to reduce the air flow at low loads and so improve the combustion characteristics.
The cost
£100 per unit. (1995)
The result
An overall noise reduction of about 8 dB with the low-frequency tone being reduced by 21 dB. The bought-in units had no effect on operations, could be retrofitted and satisfied hygiene requirements.
Consultants were Industrial Noise and Vibration Centre.
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Day Two in Barcelona, Another Fossil Award for Canada
On the second day of international climate talks in Barcelona, Spain, Canada has picked up yet another Fossil of the Day Award. The notorious award goes to the country doing the most to obstruct progress at UN climate negotiations.
Canada's negotiators were awarded the first place Fossil of the Day Award for their odd views about adapting to climate change. Canada's representatives say they "would not envisage loss and damage [due to climate change impacts] being addressed as part of the objectives on adaptation." They fail to say where they think this should be addressed.
With climate change hitting the most vulnerable countries, there is an urgent need for wealthy industrialized countries such as Canada to help with adaptation.
The climate skeptics will insist that climate change is not happening, but you just have to look at the headlines. With rising levels of greenhouse gases, we'll see more extreme weather events — and Canadians have a special responsibility to help people adapt to the impacts.
The recent typhoon in the Philippines is an example of an extreme weather event. On September 26, a record 341 millimetres of rain fell on Metro Manila, causing extensive flooding that left 80 per cent of the metropolis under water. Nearly half a million people were displaced. A state of emergency was declared in Metro Manila and twenty-five provinces.
The Philippines' chief climate negotiator Heherson Alvarez said, "Ketsana is clearly a manifestation of the consequences of global inaction in addressing the immediate impacts of creeping climate change." He urged developed countries to act with urgency "to spare the whole world from the impoverishing and devastating impacts of climate change."
Thanks to our addiction to fossil fuels and our unchecked exploitation of the tar sands, Canada is one of the top 10 worst global warming polluters on the planet. You can send a strong message to the federal government by signing the KYOTOplus petition and a letter supporting the Copenhagen Climate Bill. Read our updates on the Copenhagen Climate Bill and call Members of Parliament. Canada must do its fair share to tackle the climate crisis — that means deep reductions in emissions now, and helping people adapt to the severe impacts of global warming.

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Icarus_thegame is a self-developed digital-education computergame.
You can explore the world of „artificial intelligence" and „chatbots" in combination with the communication on social media within a joyful and fun experience.
This digital-education game supports teachers on their change from analogue to digital teaching methods. Their Students can explore these important topics in a lifelike experience on an interactive level of education.
The target group is teachers who want to give their students new challenges on a digital level as well as the ambitious casual gamer.
We want to support teachers on their change from classic teaching methods to lifelike digital education. We give the opportunity to speak about a complex topic relevant for the future on a simple and easy understandable level, especially for a younger age group (10-15 years). Students can explore the topic of careful online-communication. The casual gamers will amaze the extraordinary game-mechanics and the thrilling storyline.

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Many wireless coMMunications systems must be able to measure received signal strength. To provide sufficient bandwidth to cover the Ultra Wideband (UWB) spectrum, a pair of researchers has expanded on the capabilities of a previously introduced system comprising an integrated CMOS broadband detector that uses the nonlinear behavior of a CMOS transistor in deep triode mode. The detector is now incorporated into a feedback loop for gain and filter control of an impulse-UWB receiver by Kenneth A. Townsend and James W. Haslett from the University of Calgary and TRLabs (Calgary, Canada).
The wideband RF power-detection system uses NMOS devices operating in the triode regime to generate an average current that is proportional to RF input power. Using a piecewise linear logarithmic approximation, the current is converted to voltage and then amplified. The power detector occupies an active area of 0.36 mm2 in a 0.18-m process. It consumes 10.8 mW from the power supply. When measured at discrete frequencies, error between the output and a linear-in-decibel best-fit curve is 2.4 dB for a 20-dB input range. It achieves 2.9 dB accuracy when dynamic range is defined to include all of the frequencies within the UWB spectrum.
The measured power metric is applied to an algorithm that tunes a notch filter to remove narrowband interferers from the UWB spectrum. For the algorithm to operate correctly, the power detector must produce a frequency-independent output within the band of interest. The output response varies by less than 1.8 dB for fixed input power as frequency is swept across the UWB spectrum. See "A Wideband Power Detection System Optimized for the UWB Spectrum," IEEE Journal Of SolidState Circuits, February 2009, p. 371.


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- The brothers Friedrich and Wilhelm Havemeyer, who emigrated from Schaumburg-Lippe in 1802, were the progenitors of the American Havemeyer family, the famous Sugar Kings who ran the American Sugar Refining Company. William Havemeyer (_PHONE_), the thrice-elected mayor of New York City, helped form a volunteer regiment, composed mostly of German immigrants, during the Civil War.
- Fredrick Nerge, born in Reinsdorf (Schaumburg-Hessen, actually), suggested the name of Schaumburg (Illinois, USA), which was founded in an area rich with emigrants from Schaumburg-Lippe.
- Onomastics & etymology
- Weiland, Wilhelm. Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Rätseln, Spruchweisheiten und Dohneken. (Stadthagen: Ortsgemeinschaft, 1983.)
- Moeller, Felix. Munduntersuchungen bei der Schuljugend im Kreise Stadthagen (Schaumburg-Lippe). (Lengerich i. W. 1938: Handelsdr. 24)
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- Der Online-Dienst für Schaumburg
- Schaumburger Landschaft e.V.
- Forum Schaumburg
- Grafschaft Schaumburg-Lippe offers historical, geographical, and cartographical information about Schaumburg-Lippe.
- Landes-Zeitung, newspaper in Bückeburg
- Schaumburger Nachrichten, newspaper in Stadthagen
- Schaumburger Zeitung, newspaper in Rinteln
- Schaumburg-Lippe entry in The Catholic Encyclopedia.
- Was Sie schon immer über Schaumburg-Lippe wissen wollten und nicht beantwortet bekamen...
- Fürstentum Schaumburg-Lippe: Staatswappen
- Dampfeisenbahn Weserbergland DEW
- Geologie und Bergbau des Schaumburger Landes
- Bad Eilsen
- Dorfgemeinschaft Echtorf
- Dorf Enzen
- Gelldorf OnLine
- Alter Dorfkrug in Großenheidorn
- Habichhorst genealogical resources
- Hagenburg im Naturpark Steinhuder Meer
- Helpsen, Zentrum zwischen den Städten
- Helpsen Infos
- Krebshagen Online
- Gemeinde Lauenhagen-Hülshagen
- Feuerwehr Liekwegen
- Samtgemeinde Niedernwöhren
- Meinefeld Gemeinde Nienstädt
- Obernkirchen (use for Seggebruch, Gelldorf, Vehlen)
- Rusbend Stadt Bückeburg
- Samtgemeinde Sachsenhagen (Auhagen, Hagenburg, Sachsenhagen, Wölpinghausen)
- Stadthagen, city and region
- StaedteSeiten Stadthagen
- Steinhude am Meer
- Das Steinhuder Meer
- Sülbeck in Wort und Bild
- Wiedenbrügge genealogical resources
- Wölpinghausen genealogical resources
- Wunstorf (use for Steinhude and Großenheidorn)
- Wunstorf (use for Steinhude)
- Das Steinhuder Internetverzeichnis
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Flag used with permission from FOTW Flags Of The World website at _URL_
Artists: Zeljko Heimer and Marcus Schmöger.
Coat of arms reproduced with kind permission from Alexander Erbprinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe.
© (c) 2003 by Jim Eggert _EMAIL_. All Rights Reserved.
Last update: 13-Nov-2003 (jre)
Please forward any comments and additions to this WWW-Page to the author.


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Access Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a suite of healthcare databases and related software tools developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership to build a multi-state system of healthcare databases supportive of research and decision-making. HCUP databases contain a core set of clinical and non-clinical information found in a typical patient discharge abstract: listed diagnoses and procedures, status at time of discharge, patient demographics, and charges regardless of payer (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, or uninsured.) The information is translated into a single format to facilitate both multi-state and national-to-state comparisons. HCUP is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as part of its mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of the U.S. healthcare system.
Keywords: demographics, health statistics, healthcare administration, healthcare policy, healthcare system, hospitals, Medicare/Medicaid, public health, statistical


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Louis XV and science: the most beautiful instruments
Authors: Engineer: Claude-Siméon Passemant (_PHONE_); Clockmaker: Louis Dauthiau (_PHONE_); Sculptors and bronze artists: Jean-Jacques and Philippe Caffiéri (_PHONE_)
Date: Presented to the Royal Academy of Science on 23 August 1749, presented to the king in 1750. Mechanism: 1749; bronze: 1753
Characteristics/Origins: Gilt bronze, enamel, steel, copper and glass. Versailles, musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon © château de Versailles, Christian Milet
The extraordinary astronomical clock was added to the clock cabinet in January 1754. Engineer Claude-Siméon Passemant designed the timepiece, clockmaker Louis Dauthiau crafted the mechanism and sculptors and bronze artists Jacques and Philippe II Caffiéri made the case. It shows the date, real time, average time, phases of the moon and movements of the planets according to Copernicus. A moving sphere crowns the exceptional rocaille work, which measures over two metres tall. A bronze globe features all the countries engraved with the main cities. It is amidst rocks and waterfalls serving as the universal horizon.
The Academy of Science examined and approved the clock in August 1749 before the Duc de Chaulnes presented it to Louis XV at Choisy on 7 September 1750. The king acquired it that year. It was put in the clock cabinet, attesting to Louis XV's interest in the mechanical arts and clocks; the room actually got its name because of the large astronomical clock dials in the wainscoting showing the sunrises and moonrises every day. The king's scientific interests led him to amplify that daily experience by having the Passemant clock installed in this room.
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While staying at the home of his second cousin, Amy, and her husband, Joseph Nield, Lambert painted this familiar scene on the family property. He depicted their blonde-haired, rosy-cheeked daughter, Grace, minding a herd of goats in a clearing among gum trees near a 'chock-and-log' fence. The location is within a mile of their homestead, Meryon, in the Warren District in the central west of New South Wales.
Lambert's carefree, if slightly sentimental, pastoral is sharply focused in the centre and blurred at the edges, suggestive of a misty heat haze on a summer afternoon. The background frieze of eucalypts is decorative. He used a tonalist grey-blue and brown-ochre palette, with strong purple shadows.
This painting was Lambert's first oil painting of consequence and his first public success. It was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales at the New South Wales Society of Artists exhibition in 1896, for £21. On 4 September 1896 the Sydney Morning Herald called Lambert 'a promising young artist' with 'his first recognised success', and on 12 September 1896 the Sydney Mail described the painting as 'a happy little picture'.
The painting was included in the 'Exhibition of Australian art in London', held at the Grafton Galleries, London, from 2 April to 7 May 1898.
The subject resembles those which other Australian artists painted in the 1880s and 1890s: identifiably Australian scenes. The child in the bush was a popular theme in Australian art in the 1890s; but whereas some artists presented the frightening aspects of the bush and showed a child lost in it, Lambert was comfortable in the outback and conveyed a harmonious relationship between the young girl and the surrounding bush. He visualised the freedom of childhood and the natural sensuousness of a child immersed in nature.


text: This study explored whether risk or protective nutritional factors have a role in childhood celiac disease. The effect of bottle feeding and early introduction of gluten to the diet was evaluated in a case control study. For each case, about 10 controls were recruited: sample size was determined as required for the evaluation of the study hypothesis. Patients were significantly less breast fed than were controls. Bottle-fed children had an earlier introduction of gluten to the diet than did controls, but when early gluten introduction was analyzed across strata of breast-fed or bottle-fed children, no risk was attributed to it. Bottle feeding appeared to be a significant risk factor in children who received gluten early as well as in those who received gluten later. Breast-feeding rates for patients and controls were equal at birth, but lower for patients by the age of 1 month: from then onward, there was a constant difference between patients and controls regarding the percentage still at breast. Interruption of breast feeding was a risk factor in celiac disease, but early gluten introduction did not appear to be a similar risk factor in the present study.


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Maintenance III - 1990 Folsom
San Francisco, CA 94103
Position: Maintenance III – 1990 Folsom
Location: San Francisco, CA
Mission: Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) provides affordable housing and services for low-income people in the Tenderloin and throughout San Francisco, to promote equitable access to opportunity and resources.
Established in 1981, TNDC has grown to employ more than 400 staff, to develop, own, manage and provide supportive services in 41 properties that offer deeply affordable housing for nearly 4,700 tenants, and to expand its work in community organizing and after school programming. TNDC is viewed as a trusted and well-organized community ally locally and a practice leader nationally. In San Francisco, TNDC envisions diverse communities where people with low incomes can fulfill their potential and meet their basic needs. In the Tenderloin, TNDC stands as a catalyst for advancing community interests and a force for expanding the choices that enhance livability, such as housing, employment, education, food, cultural activities, and open spaces.
TNDC values are: Integrity, Excellence, Diversity, Collaboration and Equity
Under the supervision of the General Manager or Senior General Manager, the Maintenance III is responsible for responding to daily maintenance requirements and overall upkeep of TNDC buildings and facilities and staff supervision.
- Directly hire, supervise and manage maintenance and custodial staff including preparation of employee evaluations and recommendations for discipline or promotions.
- Respond to daily work orders and maintenance requests including:
- Plumbing: Replace faucets, Snake drains (sink and tubs), Install toilet valves
- Carpentry: Hang windows and doors, Repair hinges, Repair/replace door and window locks
- Electrical: Door buzzer repairs, Low voltage electrical repairs
- Paint and patch walls.
- Sheetrock repairs.
- Report unusual occurrences or suspicious activities to supervisor.
- Keep supervisor informed of maintenance problems.
- Provide effective and courteous service to residents, guests and coworkers.
- Conduct work tasks safely in compliance with safety rules.
- Inspect units during monthly pest control; notes the condition of the unit.
- Perform and keep record of all fire and life safety, and operational equipment preventive maintenance.
- Establish and follow building preventive maintenance schedule.
- Respond to building emergencies on after hour's on-call schedule.
- Other duties as assigned.
REQUIRED SKILLSKnowledge and Skills:
- Ability, willingness and sensitivity to work with a diverse, low-income population.
- Maturity, honesty, dependability, initiative and follow-through.
- Ability to read and communicate in English sufficiently to follow directions and communicate with supervisor, coworkers and residents.
- Ability and willingness to work tactfully under pressure; cope with stress.
- Problem-solving ability.
- Ability to perform medium to heavy work involving sitting, standing, walking, lifting up to 75 pounds and climbing ladders and stairs.
- Ability to use a variety of hand and power tools necessary to perform mechanical, carpentry, electrical, plumbing and other building repairs and maintenance work.
- Ability to operate a variety of equipment including mechanic tools, carpenter tools, electrical tools, plumbing tools, shovels, rakes, etc.
- Ability to move objects, occasionally requiring exertion of considerable force.
- Ability to differentiate shades of color in performing electrical maintenance, painting and other work.
- Ability to coordinate eyes, hands and fingers in performing maintenance tasks.
- Ability to drive motor vehicles, including trucks.
- Visual acuity necessary to inspect buildings and review work orders.
- Hearing acuity sufficient to use telephone and communicate with residents and staff.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide.
Judgment and Reasoning Ability:
- Ability to judge situations where supervisor's involvement is needed.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to semi-repetitive tasks.
Language and Communication Ability:
- Ability to comprehend and correctly use maintenance logs, work orders, time sheets, etc.
- Ability to comprehend resident handbook and employee manuals.
- Ability to communicate effectively with coworkers and staff at all levels, residents, both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to adapt to changes in policy, methods, operations, etc. as they apply to property management operations and activities.
- Ability to work in an office environment and in and outside a variety of residential buildings.
- Ability to work under hot and cold conditions.
- Ability to work under conditions of moderate noise.
- Six months of consecutive experience in residential housing maintenance/property management.
- One year of supervisory experience.
- Two years of experience in the building trades plumbing, electrical, carpentry or appliance repair.)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work on a team.
- Capacity to work with a culturally diverse, low-income population.
- Ability to work independently and to follow instructions with minimal supervision.
- Ability to operate hand and power tools.
- Ability to lift 75 pounds and climb ladders.
- Ability to order supplies and maintain workable inventories.
- Excellent plumbing, electrical carpentry and painting skills.
- Knowledge of Cal/OSHA safety/code requirements.
- Certification of high rise and fire safety training.
- HVAC certification.
- Knowledge of lead paint/asbestos abatement training/certification.
- Valid California drivers' license and a motor vehicle report that matches TNDC's insurer's minimum guidelines.
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
In compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance (August 13, 2014), all qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position.


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Monday, October 10, 2011
Columbus Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Columbus Day first became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906, and became a federal holiday in 1937. However, people have celebrated Columbus's voyage since the colonial period. In 1792, New York City and other U.S. cities celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on the 400th anniversary of the event. During the four hundredth anniversary, in 1892, teachers, preachers, poets and politicians used Columbus Day rituals to teach ideals of patriotism. These patriotic rituals were framed around themes such as support for war, citizenship boundaries, the importance of loyalty to the nation, and celebrating social progress.


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In this series, I'll describe some of the techniques, command syntax, and special characters that you can use to make your Windows NT scripts more efficient and easier to write. Along with the standard commands, I'll describe the command extensions, which are powerful new constructs that were introduced with Windows NT 4.0. These command extensions are switched on by default when you install NT 4. They can be switched off, but I'm not sure why anyone would want to do so. I don't intend to review and describe all the available commands on the command line—just the ones I've found useful in writing scripts. As usual, the text will be interspersed liberally with examples.
In this Daily Drill Down, I'll cover two important aspects of scripting in Windows NT: special characters and subroutines. I'll conclude with the if statement.
There are a few characters that have special meaning and that can be used to make your code more effective. These special characters aren't widely documented. I'll list them first, with a brief description, and then I'll explain how they're used. Beware of using any of these characters on the same line after an echo command because they'll lose their special meaning and will be displayed as normal characters.
|Š||pipes the output of the command on the left to the command on the right|
|&&||equivalent to then, as used in if...then...|
|ŠŠ||equivalent to else, as used in if...else...|
|:||can be used in place of REM and looks much neater|
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The ampersand character is used to separate commands on the same line. Using this character, you can (a) reduce the number of lines in a batch file, (b) make your code look more efficient (although it won't actually be more efficient), and (c) group certain commands logically to make the code more readable.
Here's an example:
dir c:\*.bat & echo Directory list of C:\*.bat complete
This command will display all the batch files in the root of drive C and then will display the line
Directory list of C:\*.bat complete
The pipe character is used to pass the output of one command to another. This command is very useful, especially when used with the find command. Here's an example:
dir c:\*.bat Š find "autoexec.bat"
I'd like to point out a couple of things here. First, the dir command won't display anything because the output of that command is passed straight to the find command. Second, the find command may not display anything, either, because the command performs a case-sensitive search for the string that follows. Therefore, if the dir command lists files with the first character capitalized or if the filename is stored in uppercase only (or, indeed, if the file doesn't exist), then find won't find the string "autoexec.bat" in the output from dir c:\*.bat.
Unfortunately, there's no switch provided with find that will tell it to conduct a case-insensitive search.
The double ampersand is one of the lesser-known special characters that are available with Windows NT 4.0. It checks the result of the previous command (on the same line), and if the command was successful, it will execute the command that follows.
Here's an example:
find "Example" Scripting.txt && echo Found text
To make sense of this line, it can be read as If the word Example can be found in the file Scripting.txt, then display "Found text". So, it's like an if...then... statement with a silent if.
The double pipe is another of the lesser-known special characters. It's similar to the double ampersand, except that it means else rather than then. Here's an example:
find "Example" Scripting.txt && echo Text not found
So, it can be read as If the commandfind succeeds else display "Text not found". So, it's like an if...else... statement with a silent if.
If, like me, you find that the REM statement distracts rather than draws your attention to comments, you'll like the colon, which can be used to replace it. Remember that it's really a sort of side effect because the colon normally is used to identify labels in batch files. So, make sure that you put a space after the colon, or make sure that the comment lines can't be confused with a real label. I tend to combine the colon with another one or two characters (such as ::> or :->) to make it distinctive.
Just like in many programming languages, commands or statements can be grouped together with parentheses. They can be used aesthetically (if you're interested in helping a person who may have to debug or modify your scripts at some time in the future) or logically.
Here's an example:
dir c:\testdir ŠŠ (md c:\testdir & echo Something > c:\testdir\testfile)
This example checks for the existence of c:\testdir. If the dir command fails (there is no such directory), then the directory will be created and a file, testfile, will be created in that directory.
Not only do the parentheses emphatically show what this command is supposed to do, but they enforce that structure. Without the parentheses, the above example could be read as If the directory does not exist, then create it. Next, create a file in that directory (regardless of the test, because it is the next command to carry out).
There are usually orders of precedence in these things, and if it looks logical, it should work out that way. However, I prefer not to have to try to remember too much, and using parentheses ensures that it will work the way I want. In addition, you aren't forcing the next person to decipher your code in order to know the order of precedence or to attempt to work out what your code is trying to achieve.
So, there are some pretty powerful characters. If you use them properly, you may never need to use the ubiquitous if errorlevel 1... after a command to test whether it succeeded or failed; instead, you can have the command, the test, and the command carry out (depending on the result of the test) all on the same line. What you can't do, unfortunately, is run a command, do something if it failed, or do something else if it succeeded—except, of course, by using the dreaded goto.
So, you could write
dir c:\testdir && goto DirFound
md c:\testdir & echo > c:\testdir\testfile
But you could not write:
dir c:\testdir && type c:\testdir\testfile ŠŠ (md c:\testdir & echo > c:\testdir\testfile)
In such a structure, the command(s) following ŠŠ would be carried out if the type c:\testdir\testfile command failed.
If you're familiar with writing Windows batch file scripts but you're new to Windows NT 4.0 scripting, it may surprise you to know that you now have access to subroutines. This access means that you don't have to write code into a separate batch file and "call" it to create a subroutine structure. All the code can now be contained in a single batch file.
The key to this great step forward is the built-in label :EOF. As you'd expect, this little beauty means end-of-file and is always used with the goto command. No, there are no gosub, sub, subroutine, or function structures. It's a very simple facility, but it takes a little explaining. I'll begin with an example:
for %%i in (c:\temp\~*.tmp) do call :DoIt %%I
echo %1 > c:\tempdel.lst
There are a number of points to make here. The first is that, if you don't understand the syntax of the for command, we'll delve into that subject in part 2 of this series. For now, the for statement above reads For each file in c:\temp that begins with a tilde and ends with.tmp, jump (call) the code beginning with the label:DoIt, passing the name of the file. The :DoIt code gets called for each and every file beginning with tilde and ending with.tmp.
The use of %% is peculiar to batch files. If this command (or something like it) were run on the command line, single percent characters would be used in place of the double-percent characters. As you can see, it's not the case for all percent characters—only the ones used in the for statement.
The second point to make is that, unlike in a goto statement, the label following the call command begins with a colon, which differentiates the label from a filename. (A filename is what usually follows a call statement.) So, in this case, it's equivalent to a gosub statement in BASIC. However, in every other respect, the call statement works in the same way as it does when calling another batch file. Parameters can be passed as strings following the label, and they're accessed in the called code with the parameters %1, %2, etc. It also means that processing returns to the point just after the call once the end of the file has been reached. This point is where goto :EOF comes in. It means exactly what it says—at this point, go to the end of the file. In the code above, it acts just like a return statement in BASIC.
The if statement
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COLUMBUS, OH -- A comprehensive guide to planting and maintaining forest windbreaks is now available through the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).
The "Ohio Windbreak Guide" is a 46-page, full-color manual that describes the benefits of windbreaks and provides information on how to design and plant them. Graphs and charts give the reader quick reference to 16 common tree and shrub species used in windbreaks. The guide provides information on how to select the proper species for area, soil type and desired growth rate.
Windbreaks, or rows of trees and shrubs planted to protect open farmland or structures, play a conserving role in Ohio agriculture, especially in northwest Ohio where soils are highly susceptible to wind erosion. Hundreds of miles of windbreaks have been planted in northwest Ohio - including the Lake Erie watershed - to prevent soil erosion and protect wildlife, while reducing the effects of gusts on man-made structures.
Copies of the new guide are available from the ODNR Division of Forestry at 1855 Fountain Square Court, H-1, Columbus, Ohio 43224-1383; or by calling _PHONE_. Landowners in northwest Ohio can obtain copies from their local soil and water conservation district offices.
The Ohio Lake Erie Commission funded production of the guide to provide useful information for northwest Ohio property owners and conservation agencies on the benefits of windbreak buffers. The commission seeks to meet the goals of the Lake Erie Protection and Restoration Plan, one of which is to establish buffers and windbreaks on 80 percent of Lake Erie watershed ditches, streams and tributaries.


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Parts of a mummy found inside a 4,300-year-old pyramid could be Queen Seshseshet, the mother of the first pharaoh of Egypt's 6th dynasty, archaeologists have announced.
A skull, pelvis, legs, and pieces of a torso wrapped in linen lay inside a 16-foot-tall (5-meter-tall) pyramid—the third "subsidiary" tomb found next to that of the pharaoh Teti, who ruled for 22 years before he was assassinated.
Two other previously known pyramids were for his principal wives, Iput I and Khuit.
Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), noted that there are currently no plans to run DNA tests on the mummy to confirm its identity.
"We believe the [newfound] pyramid belonged to the queen, the mother of Teti, because she is the third woman that we know in the life of the king," Hawass said.
Royal moms were revered in ancient Egypt, as they were literally considered the mothers of a god. Teti's mother was an especially well-known figure in her day.
"Teti loved his mother so much that he named all of his [nine] daughters after her," said Egyptologist Naguib Kanawati of Macquarie University in Australia, who was not involved in the new find.
"All of them have nicknames, but their main names were Seshseshet."
Also, at least two funerary estates—special parcels of land that provided food for the funerary cults of high officials—were named after her, a practice Kanawati compared to naming modern cities after important historical figures.
"Washington was a famous figure in American history, and Seshseshet was an important person, certainly for the king."
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The Trobriand Islands are a group of scattered and isolated islands found in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The islands were made famous by Bronsilaw Malinowski, who was an anthropologist who published many studies about the Trobriand culture during the early 1900s. What makes the community unique is its distinct social structure that remains far different from one to be found anywhere else in the country.
The islands of Trobriand are about 90 minutes away from the capital of Port Moresby. Ferry services are also available from Alotau by use of Star Ships. The easiest way to get to the group of islands is by air as traveling by vessel may require a lot of time. The Trobriands consist of low-lying coral islands in contrast to their mountain-rich southern neighbors. Trade between the islands has remained to have a strong cultural and economic importance as the pre-European traders have crossed vast districts of open seas to exchange various items. One of the most famous of these trade routes is the Kula Ring.
Inhabitants of the Trobriand Island have both Melanesian and Polynesian features and are thought to have arrived from Polynesia by sea more than a thousand years ago. To this day, there are even scattered remains of stone temples that resemble those from Polynesia. The Trobriands are known to be the "Islands of Love" because of a local custom of encouraging young males and females to engage in romantic behavior right after puberty. This culture is widely misinterpreted by westerners as a form of promiscuity, but for the locals, it is a form of courtship and marriage instead. The purpose of the ritual is to help young men and women find a suitable partner to settle down with. Another unique tradition of the tribe is that married couples are allowed to have a fling with other partners with impunity during the annual yam harvest celebration.
These romantic customs of the islands, however, do not extend to visitors of the island. Many tourists mistake such rituals as a chance to have a bit of "nookie" but leave disappointed. The Trobriand island people are a very proud people as they value their genetic lines and disapprove of relationships between their people and outsiders.
Despite the attempt of many anthropologists, missionaries and TV crews who have followed the works of Malinowski, the Trobriands remain one of the most culturally intact places you could possibly find in the world. One example of the distinct ways of the Trobriands is that their yearly village social calendar is based on the cultivations of the island's staple food, yam. Although an understanding and use of modern medicine is being used by the locals, the island still maintains a view that in order for women to get pregnant, they must be infused with the spirit of a departed ancestor.
Today, the strong culture and ways of the Trobriand Islands still persist. Some claim that it is good manners to let the paramount chief know that you are visiting the island and explain the reason for your visit. Attesting to the local people's intact cultural ties, you can almost ask anyone of the islanders to pass the message to the chief as it will surely and eventually reach him.


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Between Heaven and Earth
Christian Perspectives on Environmental Protection
Religion and the environment have been in the news and continue to capture headlines, giving rise to many questions. Do Christians have a responsibility to address the global climate crisis? Are there any guidelines, "environmental virtues," or behaviors that should direct human behavior toward the environment? And, most basically, should we continue to try to "save the Earth," and if so, why?
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The first comprehensive survey of Christian environmental ethics and activism offers a Christian understanding of environmental conservation, protection, and stewardship that speaks directly to ongoing environmental issues.
There are many books on Christian environmental ethics, but none provides a clear and thorough analysis of the history of the church's understanding of and practices toward the care of creation. In addition to filling this important void, Between Heaven and Earth: Christian Perspectives on Environmental Protection is also unique in at least two ways. First, it frames Christian responses to ethical questions as they are understood by modern conservation ethicists. Second, it addresses issues of conservation management and policy as they really exist.
This captivating volume begins by framing the complex interaction between ethics, environment, and faith and the relation of that interaction to questions of environmental ethics. Subsequent chapters illuminate a biblical understanding of the human relationship to nature and the church's teachings and practices regarding that relationship, illustrated through the lives of scholars and saints. The book concludes with an examination of the ways in which Christian practice and teaching can shape environmental policy today and the ways in which partnerships can be built between the church and the environmental community.
- Case histories of specific faith-based organizations doing conservation work
- An extensive bibliography of theological, ethical, historical, biographical, scientific, and popular sources that address the role of Christians and the Christian church in the care of creation
- Frames the Christian environmental ethic in terms of the key questions of modern environmental ethics, not simply in terms of biblical concepts and motifs
- Surveys the teaching and practice of serving and protecting creation through the entire history of the church, not just contemporary Christian activism
- Critically examines the faults of both the church and the conservation community in achieving effective protection of nature
- Constructively develops paths and forms of interaction between the church and the conservation community to serve and protect creation
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"Each sections brings the reader to an understanding of today's ecological crisis…the chapters on comprehensive Christian environmental ethic and the future landscape are especially helpful…Each chapter is well documented, and the book is well indexed."


these will form the first things you pick up from the racks in the stores. A prune is a dried plum. Hallelujah for that! So, it turns out tinned prunes are good for you! Hereâs a list of the top 10 dry fruits â almonds, walnuts, pistachios, raisins, cashew nuts, pecans, apricots, prunes, dates and figs. Plum fruit is highly nutritious and contains an array of minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, and fiber.Plums and prunes are a rich source of energy in the form of sugars fructose and glucose. The Health Benefits of Prunes & Plums. Like in other dried fruits such as dates, raisins, and goji berry, dried plums too are concentrated sources of antioxidants, energy, minerals, vitamins, and fiber.. Prunes are an excellent source of soluble dietary fiber, sorbitol, and isatin.These compounds have been known to help â¦ Eating dried fruit can help reduce the risks of osteoporosis. Delicious and sweet prune fruits are obtained after â¦ However,... Each type of dried fruit has its benefits, thatâs why we canât pinpoint only one. It lowers the risk of colon cancer, reduces blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Prunes belong to the plum family and they are mostly sold in the form of dried fruits. Not only that, but prunes are actually quite high in calories. Especially when eaten in moderation, as part of a varied diet. Prunes are sweet, loaded with flavor, and a handful can easily stave off hunger pains until your next meal. New study says that one particular fruit can keep these in check and give you a healthy... A 28-gram serving of prunes comes with 67 calories,... prunes come with a plethora of health benefits. Here are 6 prunes health benefits you ought to know about. Prunes have such a bad rap that, in 2000, plum growers got permission from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market their fruit "dried plums" instead of "prunes." There are more ways plums can be beneficial for you. to say âyesâ to the tasty fruit. However, eating a handful of these dried plums every day could have you running to the bathroom more than you'd probably like. Women may reap the most benefits from dried fruit, especially for their bones. Prunes are the dried fruits made from plums and the health benefits of plums fruits are including the excellent source of iron. Prunes also contain magnesium, boron, riboflavin, niacin, and Vitamin B6; Next, we can zoom into the antioxidant capacity to better understand the health benefits of eating prunes. Health benefits of dried plums. 6 Prunes Health Benefits 1. Prunes are the dried result of a plum. Prune fruit is a highly nutritive fruit and has health benefits like treating diseases arthritis, osteoporosis, anemia, and macular degeneration.It also helps in maintenance of healthy heart, relieving constipation and promoting healthy hair and skin.. What Are Prunes? Other health benefits includes supporting bone health, ensuring healthy hair, and enhancing the skin. 13 Reasons to Eat Prunes (or Dried Plums) Just a serving of four âdried plums daily provides a third of your daily requirements of vitamin K, a dose of daily fiber, and over 290 milligrams of potassium.Letâs take a look at some other benefits of this fruit, as well as how it can be incorporated into your diet for optimal health and â¦ * You will receive the latest news and updates on your favorite celebrities! Assists Digestion: Prunes are highly fibrous fruits. Fruits â¦


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How Do You Use Tea Tree Oil To Kill Mites?
Does tree oil kill mites?
Natural Remedies for Scabies The principal antimicrobial in a wide range of pharmaceuticals sold in Australia, with the main active component being oxygenated terpenoids, tea tree oil is highly effective in vitro, demonstrating rapid killing times of the mites as compared to permethrin and ivermectin..
Will Lysol spray kill scabies?
Lysol is a powerful disinfectant and will kill scabies on surfaces. Ultimately permethrin spray is my top recommendation for cleaning surfaces. But I recommend Lysol as well.
What can kill mites?
Steam cleaning or washing items in hot water is a sure-fire way to kill and eliminate mites of all types. Use a steam cleaner to heat treat your carpeting, furniture and bedding. Wash the bed spreads and your clothing and other such fabrics in hot water and dry clean them at a high temperature.
What can be mistaken for scabies?
The differential diagnosis may include:Atopic dermatitis / Eczema.Contact dermatitis.Drug reaction.Impetigo.Pitaryiasis Rosea.Seborrheic dermatitis.Pediculosis.Urticaria/ Papular urticaria.
How do you use tea tree oil to kill Demodex mites?
At high concentrations, tea tree oil is a potent killer of Demodex mites. The problem is that solutions of 100% tea oil, or other high concentrations, are very irritating to the eye. So one approach is to thoroughly wipe the eyelashes and eyebrows with a diluted solution of tea tree oil, from 5% to 50%.
Does peroxide kill mites?
Borax and Peroxide Treatment Using a mixture of borax and hydrogen peroxide is a home remedy for treating mange in animals that is followed worldwide. However, mites that burrow deep into the skin are not cleansed with a simple borax treatment.
Does coconut oil kill mites?
Can hot water kill scabies on skin?
How long does it take for scabies bumps to go away?
This is to make sure the infection has fully gone away. Medicines work quickly to kill the mites, but the itchy rash may last for several weeks after treatment. Marks on the skin from scabies usually go away in 1 to 2 weeks, but sometimes take a few months to go away.
How long does it take tea tree oil to kill mites?
One study tested tea tree oil and found that, at varying concentrations, it can kill head lice within an hour and eggs within five days. While lice are different from scabies mites, the results suggest that tea tree oil may be an effective treatment for other parasitic infections, including scabies.
What essential oils kill mites?
Results. Using contact bioassays, 1% clove and palmarosa oil killed all the mites within 20 and 50min, respectively. The oils efficacy order was: clove > palmarosa > geranium > tea tree > lavender > manuka > bitter orange > eucalyptus > Japanese cedar.
Can white vinegar kill mites?
Mix equal amounts of white vinegar and water thoroughly in a bowl. Use a cotton ball to apply the solution on the affected skin and leave it on for a few minutes. … White vinegar has an acidic nature which helps to change the pH levels of skin and the changes in pH levels cause mites to die.
How do you get rid of demodex?
Can peppermint oil kill mites?
Peppermint oil killed Demodex mites less effectively compared to salvia oil. This shows that the efficacy of essential oils from different plant species is not equal. Salvia essential oil shows promising effects and requires further investigations to prove its usefulness in demodicosis treatment.
What kills mites naturally?
Does tea tree oil kill mold mites?
Tea Tree Oil. This oil is amazing! … Tea tree oil is a volatile compound, which means it even kills bacteria just when sprayed in the air! You'll want to use it all over your kitchen! I created my Bye-Bye Mites & Mold spray and I now spray it on my soft furnishing to keep dust mites away.
Does rubbing alcohol kill scabies on skin?
What can I spray on my mattress to kill scabies?
Tea tree oil is an effective topical treatment for scabies since it relieves itching and heals the rash on the skin, but it doesn't work as well on the eggs deeper in the skin. You can also add a few drops of tea tree oil to a squirt bottle, and spray it on your bedding.
Can you get scabies from someone sitting on your couch?
Because the scabies mite can live outside a human body for up to 72 hours, a person also can pick up the mite from infested bed linens, towels, clothing, furniture, and even carpeting. That's why scabies treatment includes thoroughly laundering linens and clothing in hot water, plus vacuuming rugs and furniture.


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Teaching the skills of swimming involves implementation of a common teaching language and employment of demonstration, explanation, repetition and feedback. Coaches need a big "toolbox" of ideas for teaching and each coach must find his/her own methods to best teach, organize and communicate with the swimmers.
It is crucial that the coach use age and skill appropriate vocabulary and concepts. Very young swimmers do not need long explanations of the mechanics behind the skills. Older swimmers may be more receptive to understanding the reasons why they need to make technical adjustments. Progressively advanced explanation compliments progressive skill development. Teach one skill at a time and allow swimmers to master the skill before adding additional elements.
A common teaching language of drills and key words should be employed across all levels. Developing and implementing the common teaching language is a responsibility of the head coach. Teach vocabulary, teach the initial core concepts and teach the basics. Use the same vocabulary for swimmers of all ages and stages of development. Swimmers in one group should use the same language as the swimmers in the next group. This eliminates the confusion of changing from one group to another; the swimmer does not have to learn a whole new language. Use the same terms whether instructing a novice or national swimmer.
Showing the swimmers how to do something is vitally important. Many young people are visual learners and seeing a demonstration or picture of what to do is their best method of learning.
- Use a live demonstration when possible.
- Use an older athlete or more accomplished athlete on your team.
- Demonstration by the coach, but only if the coach does the skill well.
- Use one of the swimmers in the group who has already mastered the skill
- Use videotape or DVD
- Purchase video tapes or DVDs from ASCA or USA Swimming
- DVDs can be shown on a laptop computer or TV on the pool deck
- Homemade videos of accomplished swimmers
- Use still photos
- Pictures from magazines such as Swimming World or Splash Magazine
- Photos compiled into a scrapbook
No matter what methods are used for demonstration, try to emphasize the correct way of accomplishing the skill. Show "what to do" rather than "what not to do."
People need word pictures to give them something to plant in their minds to replay when they need to remind themselves.
- Keep instruction short and to the point.
- Be consistent in your instructions and the vocabulary used.
- Use appropriate language for the audience.
- Similes and metaphors may be useful. ("Put your pinky fingers in at 11 o'clock and 1 o'clock.")
Give athletes key words (example: "fingers down, elbow up") or questions and answers to remember for each activity. Repeat the questions and answers while teaching the skill and be consistent in always using the same key words.
Example: Coach says: "Your head is…"
Swimmers respond, in unison: "…in line with the spine."


Does 'deplatforming' work to curb hate speech and calls for violence? 3 experts in online communications weigh in
15 Jan 2021
Twitter's suspension of Donald Trump's account took away his preferred means of communicating with millions of his followers. AP Photo/Tali Arbel
In the wake of the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump's personal account, and Google, Apple and Amazon shunned Parler, which at least temporarily shut down the social media platform favored by the far right.
Dubbed "deplatforming," these actions restrict the ability of individuals and communities to communicate with each other and the public. Deplatforming raises ethical and legal questions, but foremost is the question of whether it's an effective strategy to reduce hate speech and calls for violence on social media.
The Conversation U.S. asked three experts in online communications whether deplatforming works and what happens when technology companies attempt it.
Sort of, but it's not a long-term solution
Jeremy Blackburn, assistant professor of computer science, Binghamton University
The question of how effective deplatforming is can be looked at from two different angles: Does it work from a technical standpoint, and does it have an effect on worrisome communities themselves?
Does deplatforming work from a technical perspective?
Gab was the first "major" platform subject to deplatforming efforts, first with removal from app stores and, after the Tree of Life shooting, the withdrawal of cloud infrastructure providers, domain name providers and other Web-related services. Before the shooting, my colleagues and I showed in a study that Gab was an alt-right echo chamber with worrisome trends of hateful content. Although Gab was deplatformed, it managed to survive by shifting to decentralized technologies and has shown a degree of innovation – for example, developing the moderation-circumventing Dissenter browser.
From a technical perspective, deplatforming just makes things a bit harder. Amazon's cloud services make it easy to manage computing infrastructure but are ultimately built on open source technologies available to anyone. A deplatformed company or people sympathetic to it could build their own hosting infrastructure. The research community has also built censorship-resistant tools that, if all else fails, harmful online communities can use to persist.
Does deplatforming have an effect on worrisome communities themselves?
Whether or not deplatforming has a social effect is a nuanced question just now beginning to be addressed by the research community. There is evidence that a platform banning communities and content – for example, QAnon or certain politicians – can have a positive effect. Platform banning can reduce growth of new users over time, and there is less content produced overall. On the other hand, migrations do happen, and this is often a response to real world events – for example, a deplatformed personality who migrates to a new platform can trigger an influx of new users.
Another consequence of deplatforming can be users in the migrated community showing signs of becoming more radicalized over time. While Reddit or Twitter might improve with the loss of problematic users, deplatforming can have unintended consequences that can accelerate the problematic behavior that led to deplatforming in the first place.
Ultimately, it's unlikely that deplatforming, while certainly easy to implement and effective to some extent, will be a long-term solution in and of itself. Moving forward, effective approaches will need to take into account the complicated technological and social consequences of addressing the root problem of extremist and violent Web communities.
Yes, but driving people into the shadows can be risky
Ugochukwu Etudo, assistant professor of operations and information management, University of Connecticut
Does the deplatforming of prominent figures and movement leaders who command large followings online work? That depends on the criteria for the success of the policy intervention. If it means punishing the target of the deplatforming so they pay some price, then without a doubt it works. For example, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter in 2016 and Facebook in 2019, and subsequently complained about financial hardship.
If it means dampening the odds of undesirable social outcomes and unrest, then in the short term, yes. But it is not at all certain in the long term. In the short term, deplatforming serves as a shock or disorienting perturbation to a network of people who are being influenced by the target of the deplatforming. This disorientation can weaken the movement, at least initially.
However, there is a risk that deplatforming can delegitimize authoritative sources of information in the eyes of a movement's followers, and remaining adherents can become even more ardent. Movement leaders can reframe deplatforming as censorship and further proof of a mainstream bias.
There is reason to be concerned about the possibility that driving people who engage in harmful online behavior into the shadows further entrenches them in online environments that affirm their biases. Far-right groups and personalities have established a considerable presence on privacy-focused online platforms, including the messaging platform Telegram. This migration is concerning because researchers have known for some time that complete online anonymity is associated with increased harmful behavior online.
In deplatforming policymaking, among other considerations, there should be an emphasis on justice, harm reduction and rehabilitation. Policy objectives should be defined transparently and with reasonable expectations in order to avoid some of these negative unintended consequences.
Yes, but the process needs to be transparent and democratic
Robert Gehl, associate professor of communication and media studies, Louisiana Tech University
Deplatforming not only works, I believe it needs to be built into the system. Social media should have mechanisms by which racist, fascist, misogynist or transphobic speakers are removed, where misinformation is removed, and where there is no way to pay to have your messages amplified. And the decision to deplatform someone should be decided as close to democratically as is possible, rather than in some closed boardroom or opaque content moderation committee like Facebook's "Supreme Court."
In other words, the answer is alternative social media like Mastodon. As a federated system, Mastodon is specifically designed to give users and administrators the ability to mute, block or even remove not just misbehaving users but entire parts of the network.
For example, despite fears that the alt-right network Gab would somehow take over the Mastodon federation, Mastodon administrators quickly marginalized Gab. The same thing is happening as I write with new racist and misogynistic networks forming to fill the potential void left by Parler. And Mastodon nodes have also prevented spam and advertising from spreading across the network.
Moreover, the decision to block parts of the network aren't made in secret. They're done by local administrators, who announce their decisions publicly and are answerable to the members of their node in the network. I'm on, an academic-oriented Mastodon node, and if I don't like a decision the local administrator makes, I can contact the administrator directly and discuss it. There are other distributed social media systems, as well.
The danger of mainstream, corporate social media is that it was built to do exactly the opposite of what alternatives like Mastodon do: grow at all costs, including the cost of harming democratic deliberation. It's not just cute cats that draw attention but conspiracy theories, misinformation and the stoking of bigotry. Corporate social media tolerates these things as long as they're profitable – and, it turns out, that tolerance has lasted far too long.
Jeremy Blackburn has received funding from a Facebook Content Policy Research on Social Media award.
Robert W. Gehl received funding from Fulbright Canada to support his research on alternative social media. He is currently funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents Endowed Chairs for Eminent Scholars program.
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Oman's land consists of gravel desert plains, sand and mountain ranges and coastal lines. Despite its arid climate, it is an area of relatively high biodiversity, especially in the regions with a higher level of precipitations. Terrestrial biodiversity is an important component of Oman's biodiversity as rangelands and woodlands are found to harbour a diverse array of plant species (more than 1208 have been identified so far)... More »
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Oman has established four protected areas, accounting for 9.6% of the total land area of the country. Oman has also set up two marine protected areas.
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If you receive mailings that address your company by name, or you've produced a used a word-processing application to produce personalized form letters for your clients, you've seen variable data in action and put it to work. Adobe InDesign enables you to prepare layouts that can accept variable data — text or images — from a specially prepared source file. These capabilities make it possible to prepare customized product listings for specific customers, send out postcards that address their recipients by name, or prepare open-house invitations without the need to hand-address note cards or envelopes.
1. Create your data source, either in a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel, Apache OpenOffice or Apple Numbers, or in a text-editing application such as Microsoft Word, WordPad or TextEdit. Use the first row of your document to enter the names of your data fields. These fields can contain text to use for personalization, or file paths that lead to graphics or photos. Add an @ sign at the beginning of the name of any field that contains file paths.
2. Export your data in comma-delimited or tab-delimited format, using the CSV or TXT file type, respectively. If you create your data file manually in a text editor, separate the fields in each record with commas or tabs, depending on which file type you prefer, and separate records with carriage returns. In a CSV file, enclose any data field that contains commas or quotation marks inside double quotation marks so the punctuation won't be mistaken for field delimiters.
3. Create your Adobe InDesign layout, and decide which text areas you want to customize with variable data drawn from your CSV or TXT file. For example, add a thank-you or attention-getting headline in which you'll insert the first name of a person, or set up a block of body copy talking about the conditions on a city street to personalize with the document recipient's street name. Leave space for variable images in areas in which you want to display images drawn from the file paths in a data source.
4. Open the InDesign "Window" menu and choose "Data Merge" to open the panel of the same name. Click in your InDesign text at a location at which you want to feature variable data, and either click on the name of the desired field in the Data Merge panel, or drag and drop the field name onto your layout. To add a visual within text, include an empty image frame in your text frame at the point at which the merged visual should appear, and drag the image field name onto the inline placeholder.
5. Preview your merge before you combine its data with your layout. Open the flyout menu at the top right corner of the Data Merge panel and choose "Preview," or click on the unlabeled Preview button at the bottom of the panel. Use the Data Merge panel's navigation arrows to click through the individual records as they'll appear. Turn off the preview when you finish looking through it. If you see errors in your data file, edit it and re-export or resave it. Open the flyout menu at the top right corner of the Data Merge panel and choose "Update Data Source" to refresh the link to your data file.
6. Open the Data Merge panel's flyout menu and choose "Create Merged Document" to combine your target InDesign layout file with your data source. When the Create Merged Document dialog box opens, designate which data records to merge -- all, one or a range -- and type in numbers to identify specific records. Set the "Records Per Document Page" drop-down menu to "Single Record" to start a fresh document page for each record, or to "Multiple Records" if you're building labels or other items that create multiple individual copies out of a single sheet of paper. Turn on the check box for "Generate Overset Text Report With Document Creation" so InDesign creates a document that lists all the places in your merged output in which the addition of merge data forced your text to exceed the capacity of its frame. If you're merging images, activate the "Alert When Images Are Missing" check box so InDesign inserts a missing link alert where an unavailable image should appear.
7. Enter the size of your page margins and your desired data flow on the Multiple Record Layout tab of the Create Merged Document dialog box, if you plan to output multiple records per page. Data flow indicates whether your records fill the page in rows or in columns. Enter the distance between rows or columns, depending on the flow option you choose. Use the "Preview Multiple Record Layout" to scroll through a pre-merge view of your data.
8. Click on the "Options" tab of the Create Merged Document dialog box to specify content placement. These settings control how images fill or fit into the frames in which they appear, whether to remove blank lines inserted by your merge data and how many pages to create in a single merge-output file before starting a new output file.
9. Click on the "OK" button in the Create Merged Document dialog box. Adobe InDesign creates your merge file in a separate layout document, incorporating the design from your target document with the data from your delimited file.
- If you add text data fields to your InDesign document's master pages, don't add them to your document pages as well, or your merge will not proceed correctly.
- To disconnect your layout from its linked data source, open the flyout menu at the top right corner of the Data Merge panel and choose "Remove Data Source." To use an alternate data-source file, choose "Select Data Source," navigate to the location of the source file and reinsert new data fields on your layout, even if your new file contains fields with the same names as the source it replaces.
- If the application in which you create your data source displays an error message when you try to create a field label preceded by an @ sign to denote a set of file paths, type an apostrophe before the @ sign.
- You can't incorporate line breaks into text inserted into a data merge field. If you need the flexibility to break up merged data in this fashion, create your data in several fields so the break can appear between them.
- Once you insert data fields into your layout, you can format them as if they were regular layout text.
- To merge directly to PDF files instead of creating a new InDesign file that contains your merged results, open the Data Merge panel menu and "Choose Export To PDF." This choice presents you with the same settings and choices as the Create Merged Document dialog box, with the addition of the ability to set PDF-file options. Click on the "Export" button in Export to PDF dialog box, navigate to the location for your output file and click on the "Save" button to instigate the merge.
- Although the format of an InDesign merge field looks like simple text — a data-field name surrounded by angle brackets — you can't type the field information into your layout to create merge fields. Unless you use the Data Merge panel to add fields to your layout, InDesign will ignore your field markers.
- You can't choose to merge multiple records on a single output page if your target document — the layout in which your merge takes place — contains more than one page.
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If you want to show the Windows Vista version on your desktop just for the sake of fun, then you would have to do a little registry editing. The version string is shown on the bottom right of your desktop and shows the Windows Vista as well as the build number. Here is how :
- Press the keyboard combination Windows logo key + R to bring up the Run dialog.
- Type regedit in the Run dialog and press Enter to open the Registry Editor.
- Navigate to the following registry key in the Registry Editor :
- Locate a DWORD value named PaintDesktopVersion in the right side pane. Double-click on it and change its value to 1,
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What kind of salt? table salt?Table salt is NaCl (Sodium chloride); it's not a chemical symbol, but it is the molecular equation for it. Only Elements have a "symbol"
Sodium and chlorine. NaCl is the chemical symbol for table salt.
If you mean table salt, it's NaCl.
Table salt is sodium chloride (NaCl).
Sodium is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Na.Salt (table) is sodium chloride with the chemical formula NaCl.
No, but Sodium is. Its chemical symbol is Na, and it is #11 on the periodic table.
NaCl is the chemical formula of sodium chloride (table salt).
saltsodium chloride, symbol NaCl is the chemical name of table salt.......
NaCl is sodium chloride which is table salt :]
Not formula, but chemical symbol is Pu. No, he means formula (eg: Table Salt/ Halite - NaCl)
The chemical symbol on the periodic table for Chlorine is 'Cl'.
The chemical symbol for gold on a periodic table is Au.
If you are talking "table salt" - - - NaCl
K is the chemical symbol for Potassium on a periodic table.
Table salt is sodium chloride (NaCl).
There are a number of different types of chemical salts in seawater, but the most common (and the type of salt you'd find on your kitchen table) is sodium chloride (symbol: NaCl)
The chemical formula for table salt is NaCl.
The chemical symbol for potassium is K.The abbreviation on the periodic table is K.
Glass is not a chemical element but a mixture of compounds: consequently the glass has not a chemical symbol in the periodic table - a table only for elements.
Table salt is acctually considered a compound (a mixture of two of the elements). The elements are sodium, and chlorine. The symbol for sodium is Na and chlorine's is Cl. Table salt is acctually NaCl.
The chemical symbol of americium is Am.
The common name for salt is common salt or table salt.The chemical name for table salt is sodium chloride.The chemical formula for table salt is NaCl which means it contains one atom of sodium and one atom of chlorine.
The chemical name for regular table salt is Sodium Chloride.
The symbol on the periodic table means the abrevitation of the chemical element. For example, the chemical element symbol Pm stands for Promethium.
Rock salt and table salt have identical chemical formula: NaCl, sodium chloride.


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In the United States of America, individuals with spinal cord injuries and other disabilities are protected by a variety of laws that provide entitlements that safeguard and promote their health, welfare, and independence. Legislation came into being because of the work of disability advocacy groups across the country. Explore this section to learn more about programs, agencies, resource centers, and special interest groups who promote accessibility, inclusion, and equality for individuals living with a spinal cord injury.
Scroll through the resources below to identify various Disability Resource Centers that serve as clearinghouses of disability-specific information. These include sources for health and patient advocates who can help you navigate the complexities of the health care system. Learn about self-advocacy across a spectrum of needs – medical, psychological, social, emotional, recreational, and vocational. Understand how to find healthcare providers and identify additional support through community-based disability groups.
This section also includes state-wide disability action centers and alliances involved in promoting and ensuring civil rights for people with disabilities. These include state-wide Centers for Independent Living (CIL), National Spinal Cord Injury Association chapters, Family Caregiver Alliances and foundations that support spinal cord injury recovery. These groups provide transition support and counseling for housing, home-based services, personal assistants, and other legal services. Centers for Independent Living and Spinal Cord Associations also provide peer mentoring programs for youth and adults.


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Objective: The student will use estimation, calculation of percentages and subjective-reasoning skills.
Teacher: One apple per student; one scale or balance with weights per group; napkins.
Students: paper and pencil.
Teacher Preparation: Wash apples.
1. Have class discussion about percentage and what students consider to be the edible part of fruit.
2. Divide class into cooperative learning groups.
3. Hand out apples and napkins.
4. Have students estimate what part or percentage of apple is edible.
5. Instruct students to weigh apples (and napkin) and record result on paper.
6. Students eat their apples, saving all uneaten parts on their napkin.
7. Students should then weigh the napkin holding the uneaten part of the apple.
8. Students subtract weight of uneaten part from whole weight to find weight of edible part.
9. Students divide edible weight by whole weight to find percentage.
10. Have one person from each group record the data from each person.
11. One person from each group shares with the class the data and examples of uneated parts of apples, comparing the estimations with the actual results.
Variations/Options: Teacher can combine this exercise with a discussion of the subjective nature of a definition and how that influences a scientific procedure.


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The CAA and SAH Release Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art and Architectural History. The College Art Association and Society of Architectural Historians have released guidelines that include attention to process:
A work of digital scholarship often requires developing or refining a methodology. That work should be evaluated as a contribution to scholarship, just as methodological innovations in traditional scholarship are given weight in assessments of achievement. By extension, digital scholarship may need to be evaluated by the process of analysis in addition to the results of the analysis. (p. 5)
The guidelines go on how to identify the importance of the process through things like project narratives. They also talk about how the "inadequacy of existing peer review for digital scholarship is directly related to the changing nature of publications. In many cases, peer review for a digital publication is little different from that of a print publication,…" It sounds like the arts are going through the same discussions as we are.


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An Introduction to Vectors, Vector Operators and Vector Analysis – Pramod S. Joag
Conceived as s a supplementary text and reference book for undergraduate and graduate students of science and engineering, this book intends communicating the fundamental concepts of vectors and their applications. It is divided into three units. The first unit deals with basic formulation: both conceptual and theoretical. It discusses applications of algebraic operations, Levi-Civita notation and curvilinear coordinate systems like spherical polar and parabolic systems. Structures and analytical geometry of curves and surfaces is covered in detail.
The second unit discusses algebra of operators and their types. It explains the equivalence between the algebra of vector operators and the algebra of matrices. Formulation of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a linear vector operator are discussed using vector algebra. Topics including Mohr's algorithm, Hamilton's theorem and Euler's theorem are discussed in detail. The unit ends with a discussion on transformation groups, rotation group, group of isometries and the Euclidean group, with applications to rigid displacements.
The third unit deals with vector analysis. It discusses important topics including vector valued functions of a scalar variable, functions of vector argument (both scalar valued and vector valued): thus covering both the scalar and vector fields and vector integration
Pramod S. Joag is presently working as CSIR Emeritus Scientist at the Savitribai Phule University of Pune, India. For over 30 years he has been teaching classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, solid state physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics at undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include quantum information, and more specifically measures of quantum entanglement and quantum discord, production of multipartite entangled states, entangled Fermion systems, models of quantum nonlocality etc.
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O'Connor was a hard-core bird lover. Her favorite bird? Yes, the peacock. She owned dozens of them and considered herself their servant.
In her November 25, 1955 letter to her friend Betty Hester, O'Connor discussed the peacock in "The Displaced Person":
The Priest sees the peacock as standing for the Transfiguration [one of Christ's stages of transformation], for which it is most certainly a most beautiful symbol. It also stands in medieval symbology for the Church – the eyes are the eyes of the Church. (source: Collected Works, 971)
Notice that O'Connor doesn't try to tell us how to read the peacock in the story, but rather to share with us what it means to her. The quote suggests that she uses the peacock to let us know what she thinks of a character. For example Father Flynn and Astor are the only characters who seem to care about the peacocks: the priest is fixated on the bird, and Astor is upset about the fact that Mrs. McIntyre starved the peacock population from twenty plus to one peacock and two peahens. That makes Mrs. McIntyre a villain and Father Flynn and Astor likeable characters. Notice also that neither Father Flynn nor Astor are present at the murder of Mr. Guizac.
Most of the characters in "The Displaced Person" don't seem to notice the peacock at all. It seems that O'Connor uses the peacock when she wants to make a specific point about a certain character or set of characters. The other character strongly associated with the peacock is Mrs. Shortley. Her relationship with it is ambiguous. She isn't fascinated by it and doesn't appreciate it. The thing that makes the relationship ambiguous is the fact that the peacock follows her around and seems to be fascinated by her. The "fiery wheels with fierce dark eyes in them" sound suspiciously like the eyes on the peacock's tail. If these are the eyes of the Church then does that mean the Church has its eyes on Mrs. Shortley? If so, what does that mean? It depends, we suppose, on how the Church is looking at her. Disapprovingly? Lovingly? We leave it to you to decide.


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Hi, I've been working on this problem for a while now and can't seem to figure it out. I know the right answer but I'm having problems getting to it on my own.
Here's the problem: "Find the length of the shorter leg of a right triangle if the longer leg is 3cm more than the shorter leg and the hypotenuse is 6cm more than the shorter leg."
Here is the what I have so far, I know the answer is 9cm but I cannot figure out how they got to that.
Shorter leg = x, longer leg = x+3, hypotenuse = x+6. Using a2 + b2 = c2 I get x2 + (x+3)2 = (x+6)2
x2 + x2 + 9 = x2 + 36
2x2 + 9 = x2 + 36
-9 - 9
2x2 = x2 + 27
x2 = 27??????


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Touching the Spirit of the West
Monday, November 27, 2006
Thousands of people lined the streets and gathered in the Bismarck auditorium on this day in 1921 to greet the French war hero, Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Marshal Foch was credited for holding the Germans at Marne, and for devising much of the strategy that won the war. Now the great war hero was on a tour of the United States, and because he wished to see as much of the United States as possible during his 60-day visit, the tour brought him to Bismarck for one day. The Bismarck residents set to work upon the news of his visit, and were determined to give Foch a visit he'd never forget. Following the ceremony, it was evident they had succeeded.
Foch arrived in Bismarck at 11 o'clock. A short parade led him through the streets of Bismarck, then to the city auditorium where he and several of his companions spoke to the large crowd. The audience waited patiently through the other speakers to hear Foch.
In his speech, Marshal Foch spoke of the similarities between France and the United States, and of their shared sacrifice in the Great War. "Even far in the west," he said, "the people of North Dakota were united with all America and America united with France in the war…Therefore, I wish to come out to this state of North Dakota to bring the deep gratitude of the French nation and to tell you in person all this great state has done in the war." Several other organizations showed gratitude to Foch as well, and among them was the Dakota Sioux nation.
Close to the end of the ceremony, Chief Red Tomahawk presented Marshal Foch with a peace pipe. Together, the Chief and Foch smoked the pipe, which was given to Foch, along with a beaded tobacco pouch as a gift from the Sioux nation. Foch was then given the name "Charging Thunder," or Watakte Wakiya. The representatives of the French and Sioux nations then exchanged words of gratitude. "I know the record of the North American Indian in the war," said Foch, "and I have come here in part particularly to thank this nation for the splendid men they sent—and the mothers of the Indian soldiers." Foch also made a promise to Red Tomahawk that the graves of the Indians who died in Europe would never be disturbed.
Foch exited the city with as many cheers as when he arrived, and was particularly delighted when the Sioux Indians danced around him. His visit with the Sioux Indians made his stop in North Dakota particularly unique, reported the Bismarck Tribune. "Photographers, especially the movie weekly men who accompanied the train, saw a glorious opportunity for something different in the way of Foch pictures." In this visit, Foch was able to "touch the spirit of the great west for the first time."
Foch's visit left a lasting impression on the state and Foch himself. Five years after Foch's visit, the Sioux veterans sent Marshal Foch a card with holiday greetings and a note that they would turn toward France, raise their hands, and in spirit, greet the Marshal on Christmas. They asked that the Marshal do the same. The veterans later received a card from the Marshal saying he would, and in genuine Christmas spirit, wrote "Very many thanks, remembrances and best wishes (Remerciment et melleurs voeux)."
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"Charging Thunder sends greetings," Oakes Times. Feb. 4, 1926: 1.
"Foch's reception," Bismarck Tribune. Nov. 28, 1921: 2.
"Marshal of France touches spirit of the West, is delighted; smokes Indian pipe of peace," Bismarck Tribune. Nov. 28, 1921: 1.
"Marshal Foch as guest of American Leagion sets new globe trotting record," Bismarck Tribune. Nov. 26, 1921: 2.


Don't Forget to Take Out the Trim!
We all get reminded to take out the garbage (or we remind ourselves). But think about the paper situation in the bindery. That could involve LOTS of paper. You've got waste paper from the guillotine cutters, paper dust from the milling stations on the perfect binders, and three-knife trim waste from the book trimmers.
And if you're a sizable operation, with lots of machinery, that can take a lot of time and labor. It used to involve waste bins collecting all that excess, then being emptied manually every so often. I emphasize the word "often," since a high-speed saddle-stitcher or perfect binder with a three-knife trimmer can fill a large container very quickly.
So we have a "waste" problem that needs labor input. But, it can also be an opportunity. Trim extraction systems solve many problems at once. These typically consist of a series of ducts that use fans and blowers to create a strong vacuum. Connections are made to the waste pickup point of each machine. Paper trim and paper dust are "vacuumed" up into overhead ducts. They're transported into waste containers, or into a paper baling system.
Dust and solid paper are separated within the system. A screen collector or filter system picks up the dust and deposits it into the baler. These systems can be pretty large. A trim evac. system servicing a large binder can be powered by motors of up to fifty horsepower, and the main piping can be two feet in diameter. And they're not cheap, with prices that can approach a quarter of a million dollars.
So, why would an owner invest in one? Several reasons. Paper dust is the enemy of machinery. It gets into shafts and bearings and bonds with any lubrication to form a sandpaper-like grit that will steadily eat away at metal. Second, it frees up the labor that would have to be used to collect paper trim (and manual collection does not solve the dust issue).
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